skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed out some vital context from the source of that statistic:

> The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, from a peak of 150.83 billion in 2012.

> The fall in the number of SMS and MMS messages sent over mobile networks in the UK, coincides with a surge in popularity of apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Globally, WhatsApp added 1.3 billion monthly active users from April 2013 to December 2017, replacing the need for sending SMS messages for many users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/271561/number-of-sent-sm...

Trust me, yeah someone's grandparents who don't own smartphones might use SMS, but the vast majority of the population does not. The stats are right there.

Also note that number of SMS messages sent is not the same as number of people using SMS as a form of communication. Most texts are sent by bots either for legit things like 2FA codes or less legit things like phishing.
I'm not in the car industry. But I spec mixed analog/digital parts and so see a lot of ads and press releases for automotive parts. I'm seeing increasing offerings of two pair Power over Ethernet controllers, cables, and connectors.

That makes me think that as companies retire legacy gas/diesel products they'll probably switch to an automotive PoE standard. Allows you to to power the window lift regulator, door locks, and read the switches off a single 20 gauge cable. Weld a fully assembled door assembly to the body and than plug in a single cable. What's not to like?
We do try to find stuff heading our way. But a ton of objects are fully dark and wont be seen.

But yeah, uh, sleep well at night lol.
> An occupation that is actually being opposed can only be won by extermination or expulsion

I wonder this. If you think of it as memetic warfare, what weapons were brought to bear? The US had 20 years to reprogram a whole generation of Afghans. Did they supervise school curriculums? Force kids to attend? Shut down religious schools hostile to the government? Create entertaining TV programs with empowered women?

Sure, that sounds Orwellian, but this is an occupied country. Wiping out certain cultural practices sure beats wiping out the humans.
This one is most memorable to me:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/488593-four-senators-sol...

Not only is it insider trading, it's clear that the briefing indicated the amount of suffering that was coming to their constituents.
So i researched your claim, i found a twitter thread and a Greenwald post supporting you, but with no data (i did not find the 70% returns/year averages) and then i found this[0] that explain how well her husband ran during the pandemic (TBF he ran as well as i did, 40% returns, better than when i was playing online poker, with a lot less time invested).

In any case, this is distasteful and gross. Every bill should have an estimated impact on publicly traded companies, and politicians with stocks should be forbidden to discuss/mediate the bill, and only vote on it.

[1]" https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/10...
Anecdotal evidence: I only rode on the BART once. When we disembarked, my girlfriend got a few feet ahead of me. A strange man turned around and started screaming at her and physically grabbed her shoulders. I heard her scream and ran at him and violently defended her.

My experience with the BART may have been unique, but from what I've read it probably is not.
Great answer - thankfully that’s always possible right?
Seems like the sort of beloved project with solo maintainer that could go open source in the future. I wonder if there is a common approach to allow this to happen like open source foundation working with him plus community fundraising. I'd support such an effort with 10x the amount I paid for the product.
Even though my new Framework laptop supports Wayland, unfortunately I'll probably end up installing Windows on it. And largely because of the display manager.

Wayland itself works great on Ubuntu 21.04. But the screen resolution means I must run at a fractional resolution for it to be usable. And many of my apps require special flags to work directly with Wayland (Chrome and Electron apps), some exhibit bugs when running under Wayland (VS Code), and some don't directly support Wayland at all yet (IntelliJ IDEA)—meaning they have to run under X11 compatibility and suffer from blurry text at fractional scales: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/440...

I can still run Xorg of course, with the old requisite tweaks to prevent screen tearing on Intel graphics. But directly comparing the performance of Wayland and Xorg on the same machine seems night and day to me (in Wayland's favor, at least under fractional scaling), so I'll likely resort to Windows 10 until the app ecosystem catches up to Wayland.

(And that makes me sad: I actually prefer Linux for several non-ideological reasons, ranging from ZFS to not relying on unstable registry hacks to invert my mouse's scroll wheel.)
Interesting to see that when Intel stumbles, all the world is developing CPUs.
Tether Settles a $1T Lawsuit Regarding Manipulation
This somehow inspired me to type "google destroyed" into HN search.

Didn't disappoint.
Not a single stat, example, or credible reference in the story? C’mon, man
I'm always in awe of people who have such advanced knowledge of hardware down to the bare metal level. I know there's probably plenty of people on HN who think nothing of it, but for someone such as myself from a software background who just tinkers with hardware as a side-hobby, it verges on wizardry and I absolutely love it.
There's no way around the fact that we simply have to reduce our activity and convert to solar power? Color me surprised.

I'm sure that humanity will pull through the energy and emissions crisis, but we are really making this more costly than it should be, just because we want to be comfortable in the short term.
I beleive it is just a Peter's principle scaled out to the entire market. Substandard performing engineers are not getting promoted on their jobs and leaving for another, less tech savvy companies where their skill level is good enough. In the end everybody are just burning the investor's money, inflating the tech bubble.
The hype is now over: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=clubhouse

They will keep rolling until the cash runs out.

"The creator program’s troubles suggest bigger potential issues for Clubhouse, which is reportedly valued at $4 billion."

This will be interesting to watch.
American police forces seem to acquire a lot of surplus military equipment.

Coming to a town near you!
There are a few similar open source projects, like Tic-80 and Liko-12. Both can be programmed with Lua, but Tic-80 can also be programmed with others like Javascript and Wren and the porting process can be fairly simple.
Why? Apple’s use of Arm IP would seem to have a minimal impact on the economy.
I suspect Microsoft paid attention to how much marketing and hype comes around every iOS/android/macOS update and wanted in on that action. Now Microsoft can release a new number every year with its own marketing page and give the tech news sites something to write about that sounds better than “windows service pack 27273-b”
03:51 to see the actual hit.
Individual stocks are surprisingly random across three month stretches even in bull markets. 75% is significantly outperforming in terms of random individual stock picks over the last 10 years.

The real issue is people wouldn’t bring it up if the number wasn’t “shocking”. Which self selects for outliers.
Science: substance X is bad.

Pesticide company: Ok, we'll modify X slightly so that it is a different molecule from a regulations perspective, but with the same effect.
Not currently, but keep an eye on our careers page in early-mid 2022 for details about our summer program!
It doesn't rain or snow where you live, then? I guess you've never had a deer jump out in front of your car, either.
Windows 8.1 was pretty decent.

Windows 10 was a clusterfuck, from forced updates bricking machines to telemetry shoveled down everyone's throat to paid-for calculator to online accounts needed for local logins and all the way to its inbred UI. Total cluster, literally zero improvements to day-to-day use vs 8.1.
Does not need a reference as ARM itself is not the whole platform that can be compatible or incompatible. Whoever tried to change CPU/microcontroller finds that not the core itself that matters the most, but the peripherals and the whole stuff as a system.
Don't forget the Honda Jet, built in Greensboro, NC.

They have some aviation experience.
We found out the hard way that you can have manganese sediment in your drinking water to the point that the water comes out brown and full of sand and it doesn't violate EPA regulations just their recommendations as it clogs all your plumbing fixtures and sets you up for a huge repair bill. And the water company is absolutely not responsible in any way.
Ad Hominem: (Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.

https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...
Some people, especially those who have more international contacts, will prefer to use Telegram over WhatsApp sure. It is rare to find anyone under the age of 60 who uses SMS as their primary method of communication in 2021 though. The number of SMS messages sent in the UK has dropped by over 100 billion in the past slightly-under-a-decade.[1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/271561/number-of-sent-sm...
There could be strategies to unhabituate driver's brain. For example, randomly swerving the car into oncoming traffic, just for a short moment. Make it seem unsafe, while keeping it safe. Make it random enough to avoid habituation.
I guess the delivery mechanism is the next step in the development of such an agent.
Why do they do this?
Yes, run, make it even easier for them to wrestle you to the ground and take you away.
> Imagine if we could largely eliminate sleep, it seems like science fiction for now, but what if?

Our employers would suddenly expect us to spend that time working for them.

More realistically: it wouldn't be sudden, but we'd still get to the same result eventually, maybe in a couple decades.
Amperage is set by the resistance of the human body. That's in the order of 2kOhm, so at 50V, you get a current of 25mA. That's in the zone where it becomes quite intense for you.

At 12V, we are just talking about 6mA, where you can feel the electricity but it should not be hurting too much.
More like collateral damage will be attributed to the machines.
And I would like to emphasize that when Apple used Intel, even then it was not commercially viable to use their platform. Bringing in ARM did change less than one would think at first.
Death of Instagram Influencer Lee MacMillan Shows Social Media Needs to Stop
This article is not only partisan and biased, but was written well before the recall.
In hindsight, it looks even dumber.
Newsom signs FreeBritney bill to reform conservatorship laws
> For unknown apps that do need TSO you'll get a crash

Sure about that? Couldn't it lead to silent data corruption?
It costs $438k to jail one person for one year at Rikers Island
US tech has plenty of capabilities to deter even modern armies. US simply lacks the will to inflict the level of casualties necessary for deterrence. In a weird twist, there are worrying signs that US is in the process of turning its deterrence will inwards.
In the US, it depends on what state you’re in.

In California, for example, non-competes are illegal. So, companies sign or verbally negotiate mutual non-poaching agreements, like Apple and Google did a while back.

In other states, nothing prevents non-competes, and if an employer can get you to sign the paper, then that is enforceable against you with legal action. You can hope that the National Labor Review Board would be on your side and help defend you against such legal action, but there’s no guarantee that they would do so.

IMO, non-competes should be reserved for situations where you’re touching deep secrets within the company, and then only for short periods of time. Like CxO or Director type company officers, or Principal Software Developers or something like that. No one else should be subject to them.
> Every bill should have an estimated impact on publicly traded companies

I don't think this is feasible.

> and politicians with stocks should be forbidden to discuss/mediate the bill, and only vote on it.

But I'll go one further on this. No person holding public office above a certain level should be allowed to trade individual stocks. Either buy broad-market indices or have a third-party invest for you without your knowledge on specifics.
I think it's an optical problem since the emissions of private aviation are so massive and there is an easy alternative (just fly commercial first class). There is little sympathy for this.

Heating my small apartment is not an optical problem: If I don't heat it in the winter, I might actually die, there is no alternative for me, and the emissions are not that big. Everyone can have sympathy for that.
Texas man who wanted to blow up Amazon data center sentenced to 10 years
They use ACPI. Not using UEFI was a perfectly reasonable choice. The bootloader is fully open source, led to improvements in boot speed and security. Booting non-chromeos images is possible and reasonably well documented. A standard bootloader may seem nice from an interoperability standpoint, but I'm not sure UEFI is a great place to land.
Only if it costs lots of money so that defense contractors can upgrade their McMansions by selling it. It's not like America is any good at war. They're just good at spending money on war.
Apple is one of the founders of ARM with very different licensing pricing and rights. Apple using ARM is very different from Google or Samsung using ARM.
I did hit a deer in Wyoming once as well, although I did brake hard. Still $5K in repair costs, but at least I didn't total the car. The situation is not easy even for human driver TBH - deer is not something you routinely encounter on the roads, so for a split second your brain simply doesn't know what to do. Then you realize you have to brake but still think it might run the other way, which it could show the intention of doing, so you don't brake as hard as you should. But the dumb animal seems to be startled by the headlights, so it will run right in front of your car at the last moment, which is what it did in my case.

Knowing what I know about computer vision (which is quite a bit), this is actually one of the simpler problems they have to solve, which is why I think it'll be solved and what you're seeing here is just a data bug. Not enough animals in the training set.
We don't. :) https://hubguitar.com/music-theory/why-the-guitar-is-tuned-i...
I'm not sure what's being insinuated here, but if it's insider trading, that's probably the worst trade ever.

Just days before the market cratered 40%, this individual sold out of bonds and bought into equities.
I think the word "hacking" has been used to describe computer crime for a while now. Too bad for the other kinds of hackers I guess!
I just see excuses to Google's dominance in the web browser space in all the responses. There are many threads on HN that discusses this in greater detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chrome
Rosetta 2 also emulates 32-bit x86 code, you can try it out with CrossOver (CodeWeavers’ commercial version of Wine)
Automated replies should not be a thing.

Refusing to disclose the reason why someone gets banned should not be a thing.

Imagine a land lord doing this?
IIRC ~Y2K+ Wired's content tanked hard.
Those ISPs mentioned are mobile phone service providers, not fixed-line home/biz ISPs, and different (but still dumb) regs apply to those. The situation needs improvement, but it isn’t as bad as I think you’re making it sound.
I believe all of our current SWE positions are remote-friendly for the right candidates.
Of course it does, and that's why I was taught that if the condition of the road would make slowing your vehicle unsafe at the speed you are moving, then you were going too fast. The speed limit is not a "safe in all conditions" speed; you are expected to drive substantially slower than the speed limit if road conditions are poor. Didn't they teach you that? Do you even have a drivers license?

I grew up in rural PA, learned to drive there and lived there for several years afterwards. I've seen rain and snow. I've seen more deer than you can shake a stick at. I've never driven into one, though once one slammed into the side of my car. It isn't rocket science; if the road or visibility conditions are poor, slow the fuck down. Poor visibility includes brush or tall grass by the side of the road, because deer hide in that shit. If you see it, particularly at night, slow the fuck down.

Edit:

Did you even watch the video Jacques? The deer did not jump into the side of the vehicle, the deer jumped well in front of the car, with plenty of time to stop. I swear people on this site will pretend to be complete retards to defend Tesla. "Use your brakes to avoid a collision? I had no idea that was considered a best practice!" No. Fuck off.
LA health care provider to charge fee for employees with unvaccinated partners
MyBrain gang accused of colluding with food providers to induce dementia and alzheimers
For reference, Tesla's marketing[1] is clear about what they mean when they say "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving":

> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
1. it puts into question their recommendations.

2. it creates an incentive to put these spam articles all over the place which creates noise.

3. they could have disclosed it and then it would have been at least transparent.
My personal understanding of this...... Show is that they never share my actual data but rather allow advertisers to target me based on these parameters, and if the advertiser is specific enough and get me to click I could potentially be identified by the ad.

Please prove me right.
Yes, maybe the machines can tell USA that creating and funding the Taliban is illogical, so next time they won't do it
>> the poster had a fanciful theory about Namecheap using Godaddy as a proxy to steal the domain name he searched for the previous day.

So what's your theory? Coincidence?

Why is it so fanciful that they would not use their own registrar? Seems the inverse to me - if you're doing something shady why would you explicitly identify yourself?
"Smash into a large animal, dying is good" ?

No. You should brake. The intended and authorised safety regime for automobiles assumes you will maintain a situation where you can reasonably brake before foreseeable impacts.

This is quite different from say, an airliner or a railway train which couldn't possibly brake, and so those need completely different safety environments. "Absolute block" is an example for railways, there is intended to be no possible way for two trains to be in the same section of track, so, you always have at least an entire section (it will often be more on fast trains) to brake even if you can't see far at all.

In a car you don't have that environment, you should always be prepared to stop in the distance you can see. If you're thinking, "But nobody drives like that" then you're part way to understanding why so remarkably many people die on roads.
"...as high levels of Covid infections persist 18 months into the pandemic," seems to be a pretty key point that no one seems to be noting.
> There could be strategies to unhabituate driver's brain. For example, randomly swerving the car into oncoming traffic, just for a short moment. Make it seem unsafe, while keeping it safe. Make it random enough to avoid habituation.

Then what's the point of self driving? Thrills? No one would want it.

My Honda does something similar with its lane-centering feature (it will disengage after maybe 15 seconds of no driver input), but that feature is so limited it's not annoying.
This seems a bit of a non-sequitur. Falling from a bike is enough to cause head trauma. The claim here is that a helmet is useful and effective, not just from a moving bike, but from a stationary one. Adding to that, merely mounting a bike is already a greater risk of falling than most folks do.

Is it a certainty? Of course not. But, by that same argument, seatbelts are useless the vast majority of the time. Indeed, on most moving vehicles I'm on (busses/trains), I don't wear them. Not even offered in many cases. I still support and recommend them where they are available. Same for helmets.
The literacy rate in Afghanistan is below 50% there was always a stark contrast between Kabul and a few other large cities to the rest of the country this was going back centuries over multiple iterations of what we call Afghanistan today.

The level of support that the Taliban has in places like Kabul is pretty darn low, the problem was always that none of their opposition was ever strong enough to effectively oppose them mainly because of just how much external support the Taliban gets from Pakistan and many other regional actors.

The Northern Alliance successfully opposed the Taliban for nearly a decade, its quite likely that some new iteration of it would also successfully oppose them today. (Tho in the past and most likely present that opposition would more likely to be some mutually agreed on stalemate with some periodic skirmishes than a live opposition).

But until you deal with Pakistan the Taliban will always be there to stay.

No form of social engineering would solve this, the tribal areas didn’t had night clubs or girls robotic teams under the US occupation either. And other than in Pakistan that’s where Afghanistan was lost.
We’re talking about licences for Arm cores.
Apple didn’t decide to design their own chips because they sold a lot of phones, it was a differentiation play not a volume play. Designing their own chips means they can offer unique features it’s hard for their competition to replicate, like the machine learning acceleration stuff and hardware enabled security features.

The Android OEMs are trapped in a perpetual race to the bottom, so they can’t afford to invest in premium hardware features. Google has realised the only way for them to compete head on with Apple on hardware enabled features is to design their own hardware because nobody else is going to do it.
That's interesting. I hate Java and actually like JS. I used to make the same assumption too, that everyone just hated Java and it was easy to hate on.

I used to apply for JS jobs, and the interview would have questions like "What do you dislike about JS?" I couldn't find much to dislike and never got those jobs. Maybe it's a sign of proficiency when you're good enough at a language to hit its limits.

I'd say the other effect is when you join projects built by experienced but non-senior people, it tends to be overengineered. Overengineering shows the ugly side of a language. Everyone assumes that this is normal behaviour for the language, when it's frequently not.
My experience installing several tools that are built on nodejs has led me to the conclusion that I will simply not use something if it's made with nodejs. I'm not installing 127 dependencies just to get some tiny CLI tool to run. Give me any Linux tool written in Rust, Go, C, C++, Python, it always goes well and without fuss. But nodejs and ruby based software has given me nothing but headaches.
The saddest part is that, if presented with this information (cost), a substantial portion of the U.S. populace would declare that we are treating prisoners too well and that we need to find new ways to charge people for being incarcerated.

What it won't do: Convince people that we need to reform prisons and jail fewer people.
It saves BMW money. You still have to pay more.