skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that, here is more info:

https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straigh...

> In short, unless you explicitly send data to the modem, it is never in contact with the blobs running inside it. The modem cannot send any data to the phone unless phone is willing to receive it

I guess there are some legal concerns with open source modems

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Open_GSM_modem
This is generally already possible with webpack, but many/most websites i've looked at have source maps turned off. Maybe the extra compile time is too much, or they just want to disincentivize client-side reverse engineering.
> The problem is that we don't have much choice brand-wise. We get to pick Apple or Android. From a security/privacy perspective, the various Android brands are more or less the same (or, more accurately, the best of them are still likely much worse than Apple, and the worst of them are likely backdoored by the manufacturer or the government where it's manufactured).

Completely agree. But this is always argued as it being Apple’s fault and not a market failure. Why don’t the supposedly better options ever gain enough share to be important?

> Capitalism and the mythical free market have given us two choices, each with very big negatives. I don't want either. I want a phone that respects and fights for my privacy and security, and is relatively easy and cheap to repair, and allows me control over what I run on it.

I mostly agree, but this isn’t an option we have. Again, is this Apple’s fault?

> (And I don't consider platforms like the PinePhone to be choices here. I want contactless payments on my phone, as well as Venmo/Cash App. I want my banking and airline/travel apps. I want Signal, Slack, Whatsapp. I want the app for my local gym. These things either don't run on other platforms, or provide a janky mobile web experience.)

Exactly. One doesn’t usually buy a thing based purely on one feature. All design has compromises, and we pick the most suitable from a limited set.
As a former software developer in telecom who worked a lot with SMPP, I'd just call it a special-purpose MSISDN.
This kind of software is what I lump into the category of "just give me regular expressions". There's so many interfaces that would be simplified by (hard!) standardizing textual abbreviations and providing something powerful like regular expressions.

I'm currently shopping for expansion PEX (a.k.a. F1960) fittings and it drives me up a wall when all you want is sizeA: 1", sizeB: 1", typeA: F1960, typeB: MNPT and all you can use is a free text query. Search for '1" F1960 MNPT' or equivalent and you get back all kinds of things that have nothing to do with what you searched for. That's par for the course when businesses don't have what you want and they're trying to give you anything to not have zero results -- but in this case they do have the parts, their crap search just doesn't return them. Try searching for PEX-A vs PEX-B at Home Depot and it's clear many people will accidentally buy the wrong thing.

Airline searches (for me, at least) were very similar. 99% of engines would not give you results spanning across two tickets (no codeshare agreement) or take into account human factors. More recently, search results started to show "pain factor" mostly as an amount of connection time or overall trip time. That (again, for me) is not pain -- pain is connecting in LHR or CDG when you could connect in VIE or WAW. Or worse, getting some flight pushed in your face on a single ticket that has a LHR/LGW transfer vs. two separate tickets in a much smaller airport further east. Similarly, why not offer a plane type filter on every search? Pain is flying on some 20-30 year old airframe on a big airline instead of a Dreamliner on a smaller one. (LOT, if you're interested... :))
I can’t hold a NFT. I don’t see people in 100 years talking about a rare cat meme NFT like we talk about a 100 year old antique coffee grinder.

But hey, I could be wrong.
Falling back: Why we’ll probably keep switching the clocks
What's an example of a tiny low opportunity city in the US? The median home price in the US is ~$250,000 (under 200k in 16 states), and you'd expect it to be on the lower in tiny low opportunity areas.
I sympathize with the landscape contractors, but the type of landscaping that requires small engines to maintain isn't really needed. I grew up in a rural house with no decorative landscaping, just weeds and trees. When leaves fell off the trees we left them there. It was fine.
I’m from Bulgaria and I don’t remember it 100% but I think most internet networks in the early days were built in some Gassion like that. Cables just hanging on trees and switch as well.

As for the article… there is a big part of me being extremely jealous for not being able to get that experience. :/
I bet they bill for it, on purpose, like with so many other "mystery charges". It's after all hundreds of millions of dollars per year worth.
I should've been clearer - I meant according to its advocates.
Whenever I think the Internet protocol stack is too complex, I take a glance through the (also freely available) 3GPP specifications to refresh my perspective. They are so thick and dense it's a miracle that everything works, and I remind myself that people came up with all of it and there are probably experts who know far more than I ever will about that area. Nonetheless, I'm not surprised that they are full of little-known features like this.
The proliferation of dashcams has caused me to re-evaluate the probabilities I assign to events of rank stupidity while driving.
It's not just DNS, thankfully - deno.land has a TLS certificate too, which I think means that DNS exploits wouldn't succeed in causing clients to install untrusted packages.
And look at how the CFPB is treated!
>If house prices keep going up it just makes it impossible for young people to start families. Why would anyone want that?

Because everyone wants to be a landed aristocrat sitting on a patch of land that effortlessly accumulates value.
Also, when is night for a global satellite network?
Juniors write bad code in all languages. Why is Haskell's version of this so much worse?
As mentioned in your quote there’s a special version intended for disable candidates with larger text and searchable content so as to be compatible with screen readers. The version is freely available (not publicly but indexed by search engines) on their website.
It’s the same reason an African general is a “warlord”. You can reframe anything in a few choice words.
Completely true about the UK part. We have colleague that is slacking off for last 6 months (after furlough) and management is not doing anything as process is quite complicated. We are all waiting as he has some plans to leave in mid Jan to do MBA.
But those people are speculators looking to make a quick buck.
If you hire remote, the Haskell job market has plenty of good engineers ime.
Unfortunately we are seeing a lot of hype and dubious projects, we're in an asset bubble with intense FOMO. I try to ignore that and think about the promise of crypto.

As compared to equities. Remember, equities took decades before the academic frameworks were established. _Gentlemen own bonds_ was the wisdom, all the Wall Street traders were the Brooklyn street kids, not he Ivy bankers. Present value sums up all future cash flows and gives it a price today - this is very misunderstood, you find reporters saying 'and they're not even making any money!' but we're valuing the total funds made in the total lifetime, discounted to today (I sometimes think if they'd called it financial relativity or finance-time it would have been cooler). I find it useful to try to think about where the comparison object was at this point in its development.

Early stage investments are not available to most. You must be an accredited investor - i.e. already have a certain amount of wealth, you must be connected - this favors certain schools or ethnographic groups. With tokens, you now have access. You can actually participate early along with everyone else. You can join the Discord, participate, and see it through all its stages. This is tremendously powerful, scary, and transformational.

Cryptocurrencies have the dollar figure, but the real value I'm seeing is in the organization and management structures. You are seeing transparency and participation that just isn't how business is usually done, or maybe ever was. If you join the KLIMA Discord, pop into their #policy channel, they are literally having open C-level board strategy discussions you can participate in.[0]

Tokens now are being used for governance and ownership. This is the DAO concept again, which functions something like stockholders getting a vote on certain things, but in crypto it is being pushed further to have 'only' that group run everything. The other strange thing is, to get these tokens, often you have to be a member or customer. There is employee ownership, and customer ownership. Which is unusual and valuable.

[0] https://docs.klimadao.finance/klima.fi-manifesto
More really. Secure Enclave on iOS is its own computer as well.
The streets being clean is actually fairly "recent". You wouldn't believe what Tokyo looked like before the 1964 Olympics.
At the same time, solar and wind provide 2.7% and 5.3% of the world's electricity (nuclear is 10.4%) - yet everyone is comfortable betting on them to solve our climate crisis.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
That sounds entirely reasonable.

I just wish authors would stop trying to add random (and wrong) technical information to sound cool. The topic was interesting on its own without embellishment.
Welcome to the bizarro world of software patents where prior art no longer matters.
You mean speculator confidence.
Thats not exactly what it says:

“An important factor that helps explain the difference in effects from these two substances is the amount of each that is typically smoked,” Pletcher said. “Tobacco users typically smoke ten to 20 cigarettes/day, and some smoke much more than that. Marijuana users, on average, smoke only two to three times a month, so the typical exposure to marijuana is much lower than for tobacco.”
Or it's going to pop regardless and he readily senses the insanity of being worth ~$340b on paper as so many others also sense it ($315b gain in two years), and is using a ridiculous poll as a Musk-style ridiculous cover to finally secure some tangible wealth outside of the paper bubble valuation on Tesla (and to a lesser degree, SpaceX) and the large pile of debt-as-living ($6b and climbing) he's having to maintenance. Musk went from $100b to $340b in a year. He'd be a moron to not sell some of it, secure some safety capital, clear out his debts; if Tesla implodes, he can buy the stock all back; if Tesla's stock doesn't implode that just means he'll still be worth a zillion dollars, shareholders will be happy, and the sale won't have really mattered anyway. The only serious risk is that if the stock crashes shortly after he sells, he will never hear the end of it (and he'll have $20b in new cash to cry upon).
> What happens when a fascist gets elected (again?)

The Biden administration is the most fascist government the US has ever had. Their integration with BLM and antifa rioters is the same as the Bolsheviks in WW1 and Mussolini's fascists in WW2 - in fact, our current (incompetent) VP helped bail out rioters.

The reason for Biden's Open Border policy is to pack enough new potential Democratic voters so that the US will have a one-party political system. Asking for voter ID pales in comparison to allowing 2 million illegal aliens into the country (and funding them) in 2021 alone.
Unsolicited Advice (2020) [video]
I worked at McDonald’s 25 years ago, for a year during college. It’s still one of the hardest jobs I’ve ever had. The work is unrelenting; customers treat you like a machine; the pay sucks; the hours are constantly changing; there are no meaningful benefits.

All of this is done to reduce the cost and increase the homogeneity of the final product. The product itself has been engineered for decades to be as palate-pleasing and inexpensive as possible. The humans preparing and serving the food are the only weak link in the chain, and they’re treated as such.

All of this so we can eat cheap, predictable burgers. It’s the worst kind of poison — that which kills slowly, and sucks the joy from your life as it does so.
I'm already paying 2x what you pay for an android phone by buying an iphone.
Most universities already punish you for attaching anything to their network that isn't an end user device. I know a switch or router in my old dorm will result in a near instant switchport disable, even with DHCP off.
A SIM card generally holds somewhere along 32 to 128 kb, most of which empty and used to store user contacts.
But then they didn't use the first minute to ask clarifying questions, such as what the file format of those files are. I agree that asking clarifying questions is necessary, I don't think the other steps are necessary.
What Philosophers Believe: Results from the 2020 PhilPapers Survey
Every single buzzword uttered in the video has a cloud equivalent except for PCR. These days people just give up on regional (even zonal) outages and just take downtime and blame their cloud provider in the rca so doesn’t matter. The big thing that i think is missing in this thread is just how enormous google infra was even at 2010 so these problems were and still are sort of unique
Back in 1993 I spent six weeks in Japan, four of the in Kyoto where I was working on a contract. Because I was a foreigner they said I didn't have to work Saturday, giving me time to visit many castles and tourist spots. The other two weeks were spent traveling to Nagoya and Tokyo.

Anyway, on one of those days a Japanese coworker chaperoned me. He told me when he was a kid he was astonished at how huge houses were in the US. How did he know? When he watched Tom and Jerry cartoons, the cat chased the mouse through so many rooms, far more than a Japanese house had.
I double-checked for you. Ultimately I think I was right not to submit this to Show HN since it links to a blog post. According to the HN guidelines, it wouldn't meet the criteria for Show HN based on that fact. But I got a chance to refamiliarize myself with the guidelines so thanks for mentioning this!
Defcon talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY
Would this mean that hypothetically, your SIM could send SMS messages even if your phone is in airplane mode?
I never said the first part wasn't an issue, I was addressing the second part. We all know Apple isn't going to sell their processors directly. The only way that changes maybe is if a bunch of data centers go begging them to, and they might be special chips priced out of normal desktop usage. I wish that wasn't that case, but unfortunately it is. Especially with outside of Raspberry Pis (and like SBCs) and Pinebooks, right now the M1 is the only viable desktop ARM processor. Wouldn't be such a big deal if we begin to see more laptop and desktop manufacturers dive into the ARM space (I hope so).
That doesn’t seem right. It’s mostly the bus drivers, police and firefighter unions and the like who came out against vaccine mandates in large numbers. Your typical tech worker is happy with office-mandated vaccine and masks.
While I enjoy jazz, I can at least agree that this particular example is not very listenable for the uninitiated.

The pace is quick, and the backing under Pat's solo is very sparse - just some drums and a quick walking bass, the keyboardist is barely audible for half the piece. Easy to lose track of where they are in the changes unless you know the piece well. If you know a jazz standard well though, it becomes easier to appreciate where the soloist subverts or plays around the changes.
We aren't talking about public schools or federally funded universities. This isn't an issue of linking the use of public facilities or federal funds to conditions issued by the government - that's entirely different. We're talking about a unilateral executive action that mandates private citizens to undergo medical procedures to conduct their own private affairs. The fact is that there is no legal or Constitutional authority for the President to unilaterally issue laws or mandates. Whether vaccines are beneficial or not is entirely irrelevant. We either have a system of laws that we all live by, or we don't.
I was referring to https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/base/i...
In this regard Reddit is no different than traditional forums where a mod would ban you for liking the wrong flavor of ice cream. And why should it be? If you want your non-crappy version of a subreddit, then go create it. The truth is that people who want to volunteer their time to mod a subreddit are mainly doing it to power trip, with some rare exceptions.
Korea makes up for it by having their drivers ignore signs and signals all the time. (There are some pretty good stuff I can say about Korea... "traffic safety" is not one of them.)
So, why do you care what I pay for a phone or even what Apple is offering?

Makes no sense. You’ve made a decision based on what’s important to you. I’ve done the same. Why do you think you’re more right than me?!
> If you have the tools, you'd be better off doing a guitar pedal in a very old technology.

The parent poster probably refers to BBD delay lines such as the MN3007 and similar devices, whose awful fidelity and noise characteristics made them famous and very recognizable in old music, especially from the 70s. Emulating them in digital is doable, but that requires more complex circuitry.
If one could fit a BBD delay line and its clock generator, plus a LFO and a few low noise opamps on the same die, it would be possible to create delay based (echo/flanger/phaser/chorus etc.) pedals at extremely low costs.
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a Data Engineer
> Just because something is cost prohibitive at your scale doesn't mean it is for everyone.

So I can use Ethereum to pay for my groceries then? Everyone needs to eat. It's creator painfully admitted that gas fees should not be at those prices in the first place.

Good to know that you can't even send a test transaction these days.
No one who understands monoids can even explain what they are
Just looking at the IMEI would require AT&T to look stuff up in a database, this way the SIM itself can report the phone change instead
Follow-up article by same researcher, including Verizon and T-Mobile SIMs, https://medium.com/telecom-expert/more-proactive-sims-f8da2e...

> Of the five tier-1 SIMs I just have “laying around”, four of them proactively send messages or initiate connections through the cellular modem. Since these operations are happening between the SIM and the baseband processor, they are probably completely undetectable from the application processor and its Android/iOS/whatever software.

> I hope this is the start of a much larger exploration of proactive SIMs from around the world.
I’ve had consistently the polar opposite experience. Tokyo people treat me fairly normal, but in Kyoto, people will absolutely insist upon broken English and ignoring what I’m saying despite speaking to them in Japanese. They’ll also look to others near me when I’m talking, waiting for them to translate my Japanese to…their Japanese?

I don’t have this experience elsewhere. I think Kyoto folks are just burnt out on tourists and many shut down when they see a foreign face. Not all people in Kyoto have this problem, but I’ve encountered this consistently each time I’ve been there but nowhere else in the country.
>I don't expect a service to seemingly-magically detect my poor code, increase my bill by a couple orders-of-magnitude

When you put it like that, it sounds like an awfully good business to be in.
Some experiments to be performed :-)
That first app violates Microsoft's ban on mining cryptocurrency on device: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/store-p...

"Apps that enable the mining of crypto-currency on device are not allowed."
This is flagged now--I assume because there's no "Show HN"?

But, just wanted to add that if you read that blog post, it's extraordinarily good at relating to its audience and the problems they face. The problem statement is clear and concise. The example email excerpts are well chosen and highly relatable, giving the reader a chance to connect his/her own experience in an almost first-person voice.

The itemized dead-end alternative paths are also relatable, and she does an excellent job of differentiating her offering from others the reader may have considered or with which the reader may have been disappointed.

In all, it demonstrates considerable proficiency in precisely what she's offering: conversion.

While the points about copyediting have some validity and some tightening could help solidify the offering, they are largely pedantic in the main.

The only suggestion I would offer is that, this being a new product, it may be difficult to grasp exactly what you're getting and where it leaves you (i.e. how it's actionable). A before/after-style case study or example deliverable could go a long way there.
> CORRECTION

> A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the percentage difference between a $15-an-hour wage and a $9.25-an-hour wage as a more than a 60 percent difference. It is about 40 percent. The article has been corrected.

What? 9.25 * 1.6 = 14.8
Is that actually due to moderation?
If you earn 20M in Japan, you're doing very well. The national average is around 5M, and you would be considered well-off if you can hit 10M.

I agree that Japan isn't low tax, particularly if you're a high earner, but for most people the taxation is not as extreme as this thread is making it sound.
Every layoff I've been subject to (four of them) involved a large number of people, and were related to declining business or transfer of business activity to another division. And my last layoff resulted in a significant severance package. Not sure the claim of "usually" can be substantiated.
It doesn't have a radio, so no.
My memories of the Good Old Days is that there are substantial economies of scale and economies of data in the search engine business. Frequently a site couldn't even provide search results for their own pages as effectively as Google did. So while a curator approach sounds interesting, the situation that is likely to emerge is for specific instances the best search engine is the most popular one. And for general instance, the best search engine is the most popular one because it has a bigger index.

Specific interests are better targeted by websites - like Hacker News in fact - which work really well for turning up interesting content to consider.

If we see market disruption, it is likely to come from the web browser space cutting off the air supply somehow (looking at Brave; the ideas there are interesting). It is notable that Google has been treating the web browser space as strategic for at least a decade; their money is everywhere and they've bought up a lot of influence. Indeed, the entire mobile play could be seen as securing a platform for their web browser, which in turn secures a platform for their search engine.