skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't just go and transfer a phone number in a matter of minutes to someone else - it is always a multiple days long process involving numerous SMS notifications prior to the actual transfer.

I was a phone store monkey working on close to minimum wage a few years back in the UK. I could absolutely swap someone's SIM with no problems what-so-ever and it typically took only a few minutes for the new one to become active and start receiving SMSes (the old one will still have signal - though no more traffic - for a few hours making detection difficult unless you actively try to place an outbound call).

While we're supposed to verify someone's identity, a dedicated fraudster could absolutely trick us and we were never given any proper identity verification solutions, nor enough training, and frankly not being paid enough to care anyway (which also exposes us to bribery/insider threats).

SMS 2FA will absolutely not be secure as long as minimum wage employees hold the keys to the kingdom, and I'm only talking about in-store employees making UK minimum wage. I'm sure the situation is much worse in offshore call centres.
You are also consuming electric power from the neighbor by keeping their wifi non-idle, which means more heat and thus load for their climatization when he comes back. Also the lifetime of the electrical components involved is therefore reduced.
The difference is that the customer pays 100% of the entire price. The industry doesn’t have a plan where you pay $0.10 for an eggs benedict brunch, or 10% a year after spending $100, and then get to charge your employer or your fellow citizens massive sums.
Thanks. Somewhat strange not to run on Saturday if that was their goal.
Surprisingly, people are made of meat. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Moon Shares were legal ownership over particular tokens that signified (but not enforce in any legal way) ownership of land on the moon. Just like NFTs are legal ownership over particular tokens that signify (but not enforce in any legal way) ownership of JPEGs.
I mean the cars have keys. I carry my Model 3 key (it’s basically a credit card) with me all the time. Rarely ever had to us it, but I just prefer to have my phone. It’s nice carrying zero fobs or metal keys with me, slim wallet and my phone.
Is this true? Not American when I was in school by 16 you would expected to know some physics, chemistry, biology and even computer science to some extent…

In physics 16 year olds have already been thought classical mechanics, optics and electro magnetism…
To be fair to the author, this lady is a Romanian and Romanian social norms are quite far from British ones. I don't really doubt that she heard some unflattering remarks from her peers, though no one probably actively hindered her from studying maths.

I studied maths in Czechia in the late 1990s and girls studying maths were still considered somewhat abnormal, especially by people who weren't able to do the same :(
That is routine for US politics; partisans always forgive their team for incompetence and its results. I think only catastrophes as egregious as Afghanistan (all the way through from Bush to Biden) have managed to pierce the partisan distortion field.
Why ground floor? Heat flows to the top, it's better to have someone behind who's heating their own apartment.
I understand where you are coming from, but I think there's room to be a little more charitable to the author. While her experience with depression may not be applicable to everyone, that does not invalidate what she had to say. Her approach was helpful to her and it might be helpful to others.

If you are suffering from depression, chronic or otherwise, first, I am sorry to hear that. It is a difficult place to be. I wish I knew of a technique that worked for everyone but unfortunately I do not.

I recently recovered from a long bout with depression myself. I'm not entirely certain what caused the difference after so many years. One potential thing is that I went through an experience that reset my gut bacteria. It sounds a little strange that that might be the thing, but it seems to be the most logical explanation.

I don't know if it will work for others, but I'm putting it out there in case it does.
> the harm is relatively small

Try working from a Third World country, you connecting to your company's bandwidth-hungry VPN means anyone sharing the wifi won't be able to do anything.
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I'm abundantly aware of sites on which to check the bands - I've also used https://www.kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker/US/fairphone-4 in the past.

I'm not claiming it's unknowable, I'm claiming it's often known to be terrible. Purism, PinePhone Pro, Fairphone, Sony Xperia, Nokia 8.3 One, and other desirable phones support maybe half of the bands I need!
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Oooo let me try! This is always fun.

New conspiracy theory:

China shoots down MH370 because U.S. forces were intercepting it and seizing electronic equipment on the way to China that China didn’t want the U.S. to intercept.

Or secret autonomous TikTac drone has gone rogue and is targeting specific airliners to bring down that may evolve and threaten its air supremacy.

Please knock off these baseless conspiracy theories. There are 0 electronics in the world that the U.S. is going to shoot down a commercial airliner over. The CIA would just actually do CIA stuff like set up fake companies to ship or receive these items, or impersonate a driver, or any number of other actual realistic things that don’t involve outright murdering lots of people. Oh and good luck keep everyone quiet about it….
Meanwhile some would argue that your neighbors are contributing to the deterioration of the environment for their own comfort, thus stealing portions of your health or future, for either you or your descendants. Maybe that cancels out the stealing.
That's my experience as well. Guix error messages can get quickly completely unreadable, as you are five layers depth into some Scheme macro expansion and wherever that code originally came from that caused the problem is long forgotten by the time the error message is created.

Having a whole system, including the package database, build out of raw Scheme really doesn't feel like a good idea. It sure is flexible, but also really brittle and the performance is quite horrible.

I am currently in the process of switching over to Nix, which handles that all a bit more sanely.
I think that's a stronger example than the one proposed. But the outcome is similar. The neighbors are forcibly giving you heat. It just happens that you are ok with 19C. However, if you wanted your home to be cooler than that, to be the same as outside, you'd then have to pay for an AC to do that because your neighbors are making the environment around them hotter. I think stealing is not only taking something that's not yours, but taking something that's not yours without permission. As soon as they start irradiating the heat all over the place, they are effectively giving everyone permission to use it. It's not like you can somehow easily stop or give them back the heat. If they didn't want the heat to escape, then they need to invest in better insulation.
Not surprisingly, she says she faced discouragement and discrimination for being a woman early in her career, but says that things have gotten much better for women over the years, which is good to hear:

> I faced explicit discouragement in high school, whereas today there is a lot of explicit encouragement. Nevertheless, I have seen people around me experience subtle forms of discrimination. It’s definitely harder to build a research program and establish long-term relationships if others view you as different. And it’s harder to get taken seriously if you’re always having to prove yourself.

> I realize I’ve been luckier than most and have already made my name. But I still recognize that mathematics is not as inclusive as it should be — not just for women, but for other people from underrepresented groups. That is especially true in my field, the Langlands program, which requires so much specialized knowledge that there is a huge barrier to entry.

> I’m doing what I can to help others pursue this amazing field, though I feel it is not enough. I try more and more to make space for women — and those who are underrepresented in general — at conferences and within my own research group. And I’m happy that my group has a higher percentage of women than is common in the field.

Surely there's more work to do, but I find it refreshing to read about someone who is tackling the problem with a positive attitude on the front page HN!
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I don't think anyone has. My point is it's not a foregone conclusion that we're doomed, we don't know enough about climate change to conclude that.
“If the pilot’s goal was to make MH370 disappear without trace, then why waste fuel with a holding pattern and why not head directly to most remote area possible of the Indian Ocean without deviation?”

I mean I know literally nothing at all and am speculating on top of speculation. But if you were gaming out this plan, wouldn't that seem an opportune moment to execute your plan to disable the other pilot?
Is it so hard to acknowledge that stealing and externalities are not so black and white?
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Wouldn't it make sense to call this the "verti-sit"
Might try out some Unreal engine dev.
The fact that UK banks are aggressively blocking anyone interacting with crypto has in a way pursuaded me that defi is necessary.

Banks telling us what we may or may not do with OUR hard earned cash is not OK.
You missed the bigger question. How many of those jobs will be lost due to AI drivers over the next decade?
> That does not mean that most who attend mid-tier schools are afraid of math, or don't know math -- that's wildly false.

That logically does not follow from my statements. Mathematically, (A implies B) does not imply (not A implies not B).

> Yet you are pretending that research is engineering

Nope, that does not follow, either. Theory != research.

> Other schools teach you to build stuff and have less emphasis on theory

Operating a milling machine is an accurate summation for "building stuff". If you want to build stuff as an ME, you're going to have to learn how to use the machine tools.

> What's not fine is it often comes at the expense of knowing how to build or design things well.

Again, I specifically said Caltech didn't teach how to build or design. I also said that that part can be learned on the job, but that learning math on the job is something for unicorns.

> theoretically trained engineers tend to be quite condescending and arrogant, not realizing how poor their math knowledge actually is.

Yeah, well, I can vouch for the math skills of a BSME from Caltech are better than that of Masters degrees from other unis. Good enough to ace the math part of the GREs. PhD level is way beyond me, I topped out at variational calculus. I don't pretend to be a math major, that's also way beyond me. I didn't take any "math" classes beyond the required ones. I am certainly not a math whiz. I just had it beat into me in every class.
I think that when you are actively participating in the building of the weapons, being like "lol isn't it funny that we are helping to make hell on earth possible in a heartbeat?" is a bit questionable.

Last I checked Kubrick wasn't working on the bombs himself.
Have you noticed any improvement in eyesight and general eye health?

What is the propensity for addiction - can you stop whenever you want to? When last did you stop and for how long?

Sorry for so many questions but this is not a trivial matter and you graciously offered to answer.
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

— Carlin
It's the same for most of Europe. The best universities are public. High scores on the placement exams puts you in the best universities. Private unis are seen as second tier, when the student has money but not the academics to get into a great school.
"B-but what about ford!? And GM??"

Yeah? So what? This article is about Tesla, not them. Whataboutism.
The vehicle to load capability is nice too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlfsRk21TU

It's a feature of Hyundai's E-GMP platform cars (Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Genesis GV60).
Yes, the healthcare system is politically powerful in the US, but also we have a culture war that has existed since the founding of the country such that half the country considers is highest political priority avenging slights and punishing the other half. Any sufficiently powerful minority can leverage this state of low level war to prevent any legislation that might harm them. Someone wants to prevent hog waste runoff from CAFOs? Inflame the culture war! Medical pricing is out of control? Inflame the culture war! People are being destroyed by payday lending and someone wants to address this? Inflame the culture war! Someone wants to reduce our profits by forcing us to internalize the costs of methane leaks? Inflame the culture war! There are a bunch of people itching to beat up their neighbors. Tell them that the people who want to fix something are their enemies and away they go. That is why the Land of the Free is such a shitshow.
> I often wonder whether this constitutes stealing.

Yes, of course it does. Their heating bills are all up because they have an exposed, and probably poorly insulated, constantly cooling wall they have to heat up.

It might not be illegal.

It is also pretty shitty to the neighborhood.

[edit] this struck a nerve, immoral behaviour getting called out really annoys people.
How did you find doing it at that age? I’d love to do the PCT but can’t see how I’ll manage the time before my 60s
But you already run a processor with the very real possibility of backdoors from that very same entity. And let’s be honest, a zero day due to a CPU bug is orders of magnitude more likely to cause real harm than the fantasy of state actors deploying some blobs to your computer and have a look at my meme collection.
100% is never achievable but I much prefer having 85% than nothing.
>When organisations talk about remote working reducing their costs, it’s worth considering which of those costs are just being passed onto to the employee, and if that is fair.

WTF.

I'm saving hundreds a month not commuting,as well as about 1.5 hrs per day. Even assuming a lower rate , like 50$ an hour for my time, that's 75$ per day.

I can pick a far cheaper city to live in. Why complain about a good thing. It's so nice I'm going to vastly prefer remote working going forward. Being remote is worth 50k or so a year to me.

When it comes to WiFi, my main concern is someone else doing something illegal with it. If I knew it was just some homeless guy reading Wikipedia I wouldn't really care.
There are plenty of foreign tests around the world where not a single white person was involved in devising them. And they are so so much harder, especially in mathematics, than the SAT.

Math tests are universally acknowledged to be neutral, even if hard. Most countries have standardized tests that have a spectrum of subjects covered.
If you apply to say engineering only your Math and Science scores matter.
If you apply to Literature only your language scores matter.

Maybe a good idea is to unbundle the English from the Math in the SAT and have two separate tests.

Language is definitely "subjective" and open to interpretation compared to Math.
Maybe the bias you are referring to is in the English part.

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I know people who still contribute to Planned Parenthood even though they know it's founder Margaret Singer was a racist and eugenist.
This reminds me of the 'power over wifi' research[1]. If a wifi signal goes through your building and you harness the power from it, at the expense of the next building from benefiting from the signal, is that stealing?

1. https://news.mit.edu/2019/converting-wi-fi-signals-electrici...
Unfortunately people like us seem to be the minority. I read the mini iPhones were like 10% of the sales or something and didn’t sell well. I’ve had the same problem of trying to find small android phones. I never found any that were really a substitute for my original iPhone SE.

I think the problem is people use their phone as a computer now so they want a big huge screen. I use a desktop computer or laptop for anything serious and just want a phone that is as unobtrusive and one handed as possible. I lament a generation that only uses a phone for “computing.”
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I know he thinks this is profound, but it's not. These kinds of questions are common law school type puzzles. It depends on the jurisdiction. In practical terms it also depends on how aggressive the government or a civil plaintiff want to be in policing this type of thing.

Often, yes, it is illegal to leech your neighbor's wifi: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/stealing-wi-fi-your-...

Generally also people tend to look for hard and fast philosophical answers to questions like this, when in reality the dispute is adjudicated in a more even handed and precise way. Questions like "was it available and unprotected," "was there a sign saying you could use the resource," "did the person using the resource have ill intent" all come into play, as would how much data you used and for what purpose you used it.

This is pseudo profound overintellectualized gibberish. It displays a mind like a Rube Goldberg machine employing the wrong tools to try to resolve a simple dilemma. It brings in all these irrelevant analogies and premises that just convolute the statements without advancing a clear argument.
Broke my DNS settings. Here's an alternative link: https://github.com/adnaan/hugo/blob/master/content/blog/deno...
No I am not ;).

Nice work (and very nice name — although know that Picasso was actually an asshole). The slides are a very nice addition to the landing pages, I think the link to them should be emphasized more: http://slides.pablojs.com/.
Unvaccinated individuals are taking up the hospital space.

According to the CDC's most recent data unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to require hospitalization. This is after the Delta variant*. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali....

Also see this data from Minnesota which is very recent. https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/stats/vb...

Anecdotal articles I read reinforce this. The worst I've heard is that 30%-40% of patients in various hospitals are vaccinated. Which sounds bad, except these numbers are in places where 80%-90% of the adult population is vaccinated, so 10% is taking up two-thirds of hospital space. Additionally, most of the people who are hospitalized and vaccinated are older individuals, and they still typically spend less time and recover better than unvaccinated younger individuals.

* There was a recent article, "Hospitalizations Rising Among Fully Vaccinated in US, Fauci says", which speculates that this data is outdated. But it publishes no statistics to back up this claim. Frankly this is kind of misleading: of course vaccine efficacy wanes, the question is whether it's enough to make a significant impact. Even then, you can bring back efficacy with a booster. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospitalizations-...
>What's the alternative?

Use the ISO 7001 symbols.
https://iss.isolutions.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:pub:PUB400006:en

Personally I think they're ugly. Not always more ugly than a given 'M' though.
While the article's logic is a bit lousy, the site is called "my misanthropic musings". Therefore, your expectation of questions being followed by answers seems misplaced. I have experienced the same myself quite a few times. You just share some thoughts or how you felt about something on the internet, and people start replying "can you sumarize what are the questions here?". It's ok for people to write on the internet without writing answers to their questions, or even without writing questions at all, just sharing thoughts.
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Same. The 16:10 we have with macs and the new xps are nice, but what I would give for a 4:3 ratio display on a modern monitor.
It would be very surprising that this represent real world experience.
Tesla supercharger are everywhere and work well across the board, that is not the same experience with most fast DC charger.

I think the the real world experience is the inverse of what the article suggest.

Kia and Hyundai will make good competition on the low end
Rethinking the matter again, the punishment seems a bit harsh.
One should also think about the rehabilitation of the delinquents.
The punishment should teach them something and make them better citizens.

So some light, maybe a little fire behind their backs may be allowed.

So they learn a bit about themselves being just a shamefull shadow on the wall...

So be it!

Salomon has spoken.
Not really accurate.

The insurer did negotiate the price down - from $20,000, so a 20% discount.

But yes, UCSF just leverages their name and the desire for insurers to have them in network. Their attitude is basically “no, I won’t go lower, and you’ll pay anyways”.

No, insurance companies don’t keep 20% as profit. They can keep 20% in reserve, the rest has to be paid out as benefits that calendar year. United Healthcare’s profit margin is like 2-4%.

And of course they fight to lower their insurance premiums, that’s how they attract new customers.
Ooh, thanks for the recommendation. Game of Death was on, and 80% of the way to the end. I feel back in the 90s already.
We're veering pretty far off-topic, but, as a mechanical engineer working in research, yes.

Develop a new ceramic material for advanced turbofan engines? Not tech.

Web front end? Oh yeah, tech.
All companies play politics to gain customer's hearts and minds ($$$). All FAANGs play this game masterfully.
The JPEG is incidental. What you own is the token. You don't need the legal system to enforce your ownership of it because it is essentially impossible for anyone else to assert ownership of it without your private keys.

But whatever, think whatever you want. Just know that you're the guy in 1995 ranting about how this silly Internet fad is just something nerds waste time with.
I couldn't disagree with this article more. We've built an entire architecture running our Series A startup on serverless technologies, and it's been fantastically successful. We have a small team, so I specifically knew I didn't have the team capacity to do a lot of server management. Here are our general components:

1. We have a bunch of services running on App Engine NodeJS Flexible version. We have extremely minimal lock-in because we basically just have a normal Express app serving GraphQL.

2. In fact, we migrated some of our services to Cloud Run for lower costs. Cloud Run is basically serverless Docker containers, and the migration was very easy. Again, our apps are for the most part platform agnostic apps on Node.

3. We also make use of Google Cloud Functions for our asynchronous event handling. This has also been a great choice.

Going with serverless tech has easily saved us ~2 FTEs in a team of fewer than 10 engineers.
I found the easiest way to answer those questions is to look at how other packages do it.

The issue here isn't just that the documentation is lacking, but that Guix wants to have everything done in Scheme, so you often run into the issue of having to translate code you already have running in Bash into whatever Scheme equivalent Guix wants.