skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you don't have to be physically somewhere to read the electromagnetic signals.

Your sensors has to be somewhere, and the further from the target, the more opportunity for (intentional or coincidental) shielding, jamming/noise, or just the inverse square law (or a combination) to make the signal unreadable.
> if your life is so empty you have nothing to do but browse facebook, sure it's hard to quit, but it's not because of the strength of the addiction, it's because of the weakness of the alternative.

"Weakness of the alternative" is a large reason people get addicted to things in the first place. It goes hand in hand.
The comments beneath the apology make the point (I couldn't quite follow it all) that this wasn't really an apology at all.

The lengthy word count might tend to confirm that,as you say a genuine apology should be terse and direct.
One thing that is seldom mentioned is that the reason for high prices isn’t “evil corporations conspiring to milk consumers who have no other choice.” I’m sure it probably happens in some places but in aggregate it doesn’t track. I think people get the idea that the sketchy behavior exhibited by ISPs is due to abuse of monopoly when really it’s desperation. Companies secure in their income with good margins don’t need to pull this crap. ISPs are trying to squeeze water from a stone.

Take WOW as a case-study since they don’t really have any other business than internet and cable to mess up the numbers. In 2020 they brought in a little more than $1.1 billion in revenue but made $14 million dollars. Even Amazon wouldn’t want those margins. Delivering internet in the US really is that expensive.
KYC/audit regs aside, it's also because the account belongs to the bank. The money is held in trust on your behalf, but the amounts are a liability on the institution's balance sheet. This is also why an increase in the balance of your deposit account is referred to as a credit; the statement is written from the bank's perspective, not yours.

What you have is partial control of these funds, via instructions to your bank, electronic or otherwise, but since it is merely operated on your behalf, you can't unilaterally delete the account. What you can do, is terminate the relationship with your bank.
Context: https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/38
https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/38
I think you make a valid point. I also think boiling the middle class down to some percentile range of income leaves us without any reason for the term itself. So maybe the percentile ranges alone aren't actually saying the same thing as "middle class."

But if someone wants to stand in front of a slide deck and explain why people who think the middle class is shrinking for the worse are wrong, I think they should either explain why that definition of the middle class is wrong, or explain why that particular definition of the middle class is not shrinking for the worse. Otherwise they're just talking past each other.
It is possible - but not whilst maintaining standards-compliance and there are always/often another one where you least expect it.

At the root is taking a “assume the programmers know what they are doing” language and turning it into a “assume the programmers are drooling morons” language.
It makes total sense to me. There’s no way to really know the next person signing up is really you (even if it’s 99% unlikely it isn’t). The safest option is to create a brand new account with a different email. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s how I do my own app signups.. it seems safe to me.
if we had to pay to submit comments and wait a few days or even weeks for it to go through the company's "stringent" rules before it is approved, then yes a flagging button is counterintuitive.
According to The Economist's Big Mac Index, the Big Mac is more expensive (at market exchange rates) than in the US in Norway and Sweden by some 10%, but cheaper in Denmark by some 16% (though much cheaper (>50%) in Hong Kong, South Africa, Indonesia, Romania, Turkey, Russia).

At GDP adjusted prices, Norway and Sweden are still more expensive, and Denmark cheaper than the US.

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
Hey, don't take that too hard. I'm actually in tge midst of an LFS build centered on the raspi4, with shaded of learning to write boot code as well, and you can bet I'm scouring everything you wrote.

No one can ever learn anything if no one writes this type of stuff down. sometimes the network of knowledge and laying out the precise line of questions to answer is the best way of charting out and communicating info for learners.

So thank you for writing this!
oh gods. glad I've always turned it off, this sounds horrible.
You can also restrict to following-age, certified e-mail, and some more. That experienced mods do have little to no problems with bot speaks kinda for itself. Additionally, there are also a bunch of requested features on twitch-side which could had defused the problems even more, without opening the privacy-box.
Same here. I used TF for about 2 years and switched to CDK early 2020.

It used to have a lot of rough edges, but that's (mostly) not the case anymore.
No one's confused. Saying something is simple and very hard at the same time helps people make exactly 0 progress.

It just comes off as pedantic/dumb well-actually-ism.

Yeah, fat people know about calories in/calories out. That in itself doesn't make them slimmer.
I agree with that. I still use Facebook and Youtube, but I disable the News Feed and YouTube recommendations/home page using browser plugins.
> taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

This is just not possible for a lot of data like SSB.

How would you do this if someone asked github to delete all their commits across repos?
SSNs are issued at birth, not at first draw of credit.
Is there any point in saying sorry anymore? One commenter in the thread already described it as a non-apology.

For them, there is no '𝘴ₒᵣᵣy' or '...please, I can explain...' or 'it's not what you think it is'.

Once it has already been admitted, the road already looks like it is heading to no redemption.
Because in the states if you didn’t do that a bunch of idiots would accuse you of disproportionately taxing the poor since they can’t afford electric cars. Social justice at its finest.
current used car market is supposedly historically high vs new - probably better to do a longer or earlier comparison before making conclusions, esp. if comparing a fairly new 'used' vehicle
Is it "horrific" or comparable to gay conversion therapy to make sight-saving treatments available?
You would pay your manipulators to leave verified purchases. In the black market for manipulative reviews that comes at a premium. You can also get similar effects with unverified reviews on some product types (consumables, beauty products, etc.)

It's not non obvious if you bribe someone who uses an American shipping address to do it.
it’s actually $250k per person
The American spirit is giving people opportunities and seeing what they would do with them. That's American history; it's not a product SV culture at all.

Only the US has had a vast, rich land that you can expand freely into (ignoring the natives, cough) once cities, communities, and markets mature to the point where you have no more opportunities left for you. No other nation in its history has even come close to amount of opportunity that the US has always given to its people.
This is toothless. Without a private cause of action available to the consumer, prosecutorial discretion means offenses will go unpunished based on political winds.
The shortest horror story:

"The last man alive on Earth was alone in a room. The door was locked."
This will slowly change with AWS Cloud Control API.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-cloud-contro...
Though I agree with the article, I'd say that even acknowledging these things help to build the appeal that there may be something to them.

Pet rock, emperor's new clothes, a fool and his money are soon parted... there is not an explanation needed, if you can't see why it's valuable, it isn't, you're being tricked and you and your peers are too scared to point out how ridiculous you look
I’d say it sounds more like prosopagnosia.
I'd question if their policies benefit consumers overall.

In theory Apple sign-in is great. In reality, many apps now show several login options (Google, FB, Apple, e-mail) and I can't remember which one I used.

I've had many instances of trying to login with Apple, the app silently throws an error, and the app won't proceed. E-mail pw reset doesn't work. Did I use Apple Sign-In with my real e-mail or a forwarded (private) e-mail? Apple has made logins more complex and confusing.
Canyon.mid
I've heard people from the US use this term for too many things.

The "but we're different" narrative doesn't suffice.
I did not see any indication that she was asked to revert the PR. It seemed like it was more just about that she felt it was OK to bypass the policy.
I wrote about the economics of programming languages a while back:

https://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economic...
What have you done? Now I'm sitting here through my sprint planning and poking that balloon.
Burgers are both more affordable by a larger slice of the population (due to great equality and better low-end wages and working conditions) and people have more time to enjoy them (due to the shorter working hours and good GDP-per-hour-worked of the Nordics).
That's not 'easy cancel', they've kept difficult cancelation but outsourced the responsibility (at no cost to themselves) to your bank.
"I am an AWS administrator/architect for work so we are always trying to weigh pros and cons."

Very informal survey ... but I wonder if you are familiar with the 'rclone' tool:

https://rclone.org/

... just curious ...
I heard they're working on a remaster, so that might be a good motive.
This seems super dubious. I just watched the 2007 film Zodiac this week so it's recently on my mind. The prime suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, has so much incriminating evidence against him that it's just nuts to me that anyone considers this anything but a solved case.

Seriously, just read this:

https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Leigh_Allen#Incr...

Most importantly of the list, a guy he shot who lived picked him out of a set of photos and said he was certain that was the man who shot him.

Like....how can you go through that list and come to any other conclusion? It seems very clear that it was just procedural error by the police that let him get away with it back then. When investigators contacted him anew in 1992, he suddenly died of heart failure before they could interview him.
It has come to my mind too. It is user hostile none the less, blaming the user for writing incorrect but intuitive code. The Stackoverflow mindset?

My favourite is how "x + 1 < x" is optimized away for signed ...
First, it’s great they have so much green power generation. I didn’t realize that.

In addition to generation there is local distribution. Power lines, transformers, etc. Is there any information on that part of it? I wonder if they needed to upgrade their grid.
I agree. The law authorizes only the attorney general to crack the whip, and limits that prosecutorial discretion with an blanket affirmative defense. Who wins here?
“I’m sorry you don’t understand that I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.”
I'm with you on not wanting to send traffic to Fox, but it's worth noting that this is Fox 13/KSTU, which is a local Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City, but is not owned by Fox (it's owned by Scripps Broadcasting). I have no idea how revenue from traffic to their website relates to their relationship with Fox, but it's not a direct relationship.

(I fondly refer to them as "Let's Play News", because the quality and professionalism of their local newscasts tends to be hilariously low.)
I remember a podcast (I think it was Every Little Thing) where someone described being a police sketch artist and it very much involved a lot of question asking, a lot of experience with identifying specific traits that stand out, and refining it over time.

Draw a nose, was the bridge wider or thiner? With a lot of experience they seem to be able to get the "right" details close-enough that it can identify say, a large handful of people for whom those that might report them can feel more confident in say, calling the FBI before reporting their uncle.

This casts a wider net than say, directly identifying them, but it helps isolate the possible suspects well enough to be worth doing when you've got nothing else.
To me this doesn't mean much demographically without information on what proportion of that 40% were ever married at any point, and whether they reproduced in that time. Otherwise you could just get a nation of single parents who split shortly after having children (leaving aside what we know about actual TFR rates in the West).
Julia Evans pointed this out as a common problem in explanatory writing https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/#pattern-2-havin...
IMO the most recent spike of Apple pressure came from the Epic lawsuit, but these App store changes were communicated about 6 months ago, which is slightly before the Epic lawsuit came to light. I would also imagine that Apple discussed these changes internally for at least a month before announcing it.
You’re very welcome :) I owe the Internet’s vast array of content creators a debt of gratitude for teaching me so much. Even those that sent me down the wrong path - it was invariably a data point that helped me to move on…
Maaaan I wish I could get in on something like this. I’m a noob web dev and I’d love to work on a substantial project with a skilled dev. This sounds like a really cool idea.
Take the state of the project as a market fit test of the idea?
This is rather offtopic, but what's with your documentation "code" fields being uncopiable? Those are the exact fields I need to copy!

E.g. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...
More the fact that many states fund road work with a gasoline tax, this makes sense since it's got a decent correlation on how much use somebody gets from the roads. Electrics don't do this so states will come up short as more electrics get adopted otherwise.
great, thorough, and excellent journalism from a writer Thiel & his scumbag colleagues tried to destroy at gawker
They are if you want your founder (s) to become billionaires.
Nice graphic, but the ideal scenario would be to find a method that strips the carbon out of the CO2. We're putting about 50 Billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.

However, the Atomic weight of carbon is 12 whereas the Atomic weight of Oxygen is 16, and there are 2 oxygen atoms in every CO2 molecule, so 1 ton of pure sequestered carbon is 12+16+16 = 44/12 = 3 & 2/3 tons of CO2 removed from the atmosphere.

2.27 tons of carbon compacted together makes an approximately 1 meter cube.

Of course, that would mean we would have to sequester ~6 billion cubic meters (13.6 billion tons or the equivalent of 4,079 hoover dams in size, probably enough to resurface every highway and road in America 2-3 inches deep) of pure carbon every year to reach carbon neutral, and then we would need to go beyond that to begin to reverse the effects.

It would literally be the largest human undertaking in the history of the planet.
It's absolutely an earthquake thing. You're not even allowed to use bricks for construction in California (or even own an existing brick building in some cases) unless you pay tons of money to reinforce it with steel.

See https://blog.jumpstartinsurance.com/charming-brick-buildings...
There are many manifestations of this phenomenon:

- [Because all attempts have so far failed, or no attempts have been made] <X> "is impossible".

- [Based on my personal model of reality] If you do <X>, <Y> "will happen" [therefore it's not even worth trying].

- "The" reason for <X> "is" <Y> [because this is what my model tells me].

- etc
Apparently my spelling and ability to proofread did not improve, however :)
This falls astray of the new Apple requirement though, as I understand it.
Can you stop anyone keeping a copy of everything that someone tries to tombstone, though?
> We will support candidates for office who align with our core principles so that we can reform the system and make it more responsive to the American people. This means that we will support Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members.

Yang definitely hates Trump. He's not about to put him into power any time soon.

Yang is more about wielding influence on political discussion and trying to move the country away from incumbency than anything else. I really don't foresee anyone building a campaign on the forward party, but I can see a democrat or republican leveraging the forward party's ideas in the right environment to get endorsements from it to win in tight elections.
This looks easily exploitable

>> Sec. 1355.01.(J) [...] "Personal data" does not include [...]
(2) Pseudonymized, deidentified, or aggregate data. [...]

Because ad-tech at large doesn't care about actually identifying an individual as long as they can engage with it. Example: Facebook provides access to large amounts of "pseudonymized" data to the SCL group, who runs their own analysis resulting in a map of pseudonym->propaganda. They then pay FB to engage the users based on that.

I am not a lawyer, but this case seems to not fall under OPPA, because everyone can argue that they did not share personal data. So the user has no right to be informed about their "pseudonymized data" being processed by the SCL group for the purpose of feeding them propaganda.

Similar case is google analytics. A webapp sets 'anonymize_ip: true' and avoids pushing the consumers name and postal address in the data layer and can then argue the collection of tracking data by the third party affiliate google is pseudonymized. Nevermind that google doesn't actually care about the consumers address as long as they can create a profile for the pseudonym.

The european unions GDPR has a chapter on profiling, which OPPA has not.
Yes. But this thread isn't a legal document and is mostly written by people that aren't lawyers.

A lot of words have specific meanings, yet we don't complain and cite dictionary definitions when people use the word "or" as exclusive-or.
> UK has the highest tech salaries in Europe

Is that actually true?

I always heard that Switzerland had the highest tech compensation in Europe.
Ask HN: Why digital wallets failed to disrupt how we pay despite Covid-19?
I am saying that we end "being insulated from consequences" by choosing to reduce it down to those two options.

Think of it similar to handling explosives. Are they useful and important in society? Definitely. Are they subtle and complicated, such that working with them can easily harm somebody in ways that are not foreseeable to the naive? You bet.

But when somebody decides to create and apply explosives and hurts somebody, we don't just say, "Gosh, that's very complicated. Who could have known how it would work out?" We say, "You intentionally chose to work with something powerful and dangerous, so you're responsible for the harm you caused."

Is it more complicated? Sure. And I'm saying that when it comes to highly paid executives who seek out positions that put them in control of dangerous complexity, they become responsible for the outcomes.

They are already seen as responsible when it comes to anything good that happens on their watch, which is why they get paid such fast sums. I'm saying they should be seen as equally responsible when it comes to the harms. No more of this, "Oops we crashed the economy/poisoned a bunch of people/actively enabled genocide" stuff. All of that "more complex" reality becomes their problem if they are in control of it.
The top comment on the apology is also an accusation of insufficient prostration.

I agree that internet culture seems antithetical to forgiveness, and have no idea what can be done about it.
I did not really dive into the details of the legalese that was shared in the comments, but on the surface none of what the .NET Foundation doing seems that odd. How is it any different really from how Apache or Eclipse or many other foundations operate? I think it is less about the Foundation trying to seize the projects from the founders then it is the Foundation doing what it needs to do to apply its legal value to the projects ... which is seemingly why these projects decide to move to the foundation.

Maybe I just missed some nuance that was discussed in more depth elsewhere.
Small suggestion that I’ve found works great: rather than rewrite the content (which I somewhat agree is tedious to skim over, but wouldn’t have commented like GP, when you know it already), link to the sources you used when learning yourself. Not only does it save you and the reader time, it also works as a handy log of the sources when you need to go back and look up a detail.
If a warning is issued in that case I'm tempted to say it's fair game. If you are sure it'd safe the compiler has extremely well established ways of telling it (i.e. assume or unreachable)
Assuming good intentions is a good way to get abused by people exploiting the fact that you assume good intentions. The person in question did a PR, someone informed her that she should follow the rules, she didn't, merged her PR, more people complained. Right now the PR is still merged. She wrote that whole text, and the PR is still merged.

Since I can't read people's mind, a good trick that I learned is to derive intent from actions. Removing a merged PR is easy, especially when you can force merge one in the first place. Yet she didn't do it, but wrote a lot of text that is apparently an apology. If it's an apology, why is there no show of regret by retracting her PR? Maybe because it's not actually an apology.

Edit: the PR was removed by the current maintainer.
Horses aren't actually more mature than Ponies.

Ponies mature more quickly than horses, they are merely smaller.

https://www.thesprucepets.com/the-difference-between-horses-...
And, regardless of whether this particular PR Is reverted or not, whether there's anything to prevent her or any other board member from doing this again.
What? Again? But I must admit, it is 50 years since the last time.
Not that unlikely. E.g. in my university curriculum assembly programming came a bit before make, and way before needing a cross compiler.
Depends where you are: In the recent California governor recall, there were two Green Party candidates and one Libertarian.
Do you think government could actually keep up with technology to regulate it? And if they did regulate it would it actually help people or the companies that are buying them?
Of course. But a key difference is that the electric grid seems to be drastically more decentralized than fuel pipelines.

Pipelines for liquid or gaseous fuel have a huge upfront cost and maintenance requirements compared to running power lines, so the incentives are to build them as big as possible.

Taking down a power station is certainly a viable attack vector, but the damage caused by losing a single station is drastically more manageable than losing a key pipeline that a massive region of the continent needs to feed continuously from to keep civilization running.

This is not even accounting for the further decentralizing and ruggedizing effect that comes when every rooftop subsidizes their own energy needs with solar and batteries.
> […] politely stonewalling in a chat box saying “No Thanks, please cancel my subscription.” a couple of times.

> I live in California and would have tried cancelling online but actually couldn’t find the option

The chatbox is the online option.