skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for executive customer support care team. Some life hacks for this if the company makes it hard and Googling the company plus "executive customer support/consumer advocacy" doesn't find anything: Searched LinkedIn for employee emails for team members, guess the email format and email them. Email board members, CEOs. Just go straight to Executive customer service after your first failed try. I've had success with Amazon, Ebay, banks, my insurance company, and more using this method. A lot of people get stuck in the system by calling the normal customer service pipeline and can never solve the problem and don't know there's a back door do the executive customer support. Even I fall into that trap sometimes because I guess there's social pressure not to use it - the Amazon address is jeff@amazon so it's a bit nervewracking psychologically to use it, but in most cases the email accounts are just funneled.
"but your description of it sounds like Jesus is just a constant deus ex machina." - there is no reasonable way to infer this from the given comment. Thee 'bias' may be a bit stronger than imagined.
> Stolen by Amazon. They have no incentive to get it back. Amazon hopes that you purchase it again.

They are not the only company doing this in some ways. ISP's who provide a set top box for watching TV and downloading/streaming service to tv, do the same thing when you change you ISP. Its a form of lock in because whilst you can still get access to the purchased films, you have to jump through more hoops. Its all legal but I question the morality of it, when considering online piracy via torrent streams and then the "hacking" that companies have used to trace and prosecute the worst.

But I've learnt enough to know that everyone has their questionable practices to maximise profits/income, the lucky ones are the one's who would also be the expert witnesses in court or have been able to fly entirely the right side of the law.
It's a bit like getting struck by lightning, you deal with this when it happens if it happens. This is sufficiently unlikely for most people that it's not worth being too concerned about it when other exceedingly more dangerous and pressing matters could be dealt with using that same energy.
Love the simplicity! Congrats! What would it take to turn it into a stand-alone html file that could be "double clicked" and used as an application? It almost seems to work, but I wasn't able to add new feeds.
"or do we get the anger-issues Jesus from the Bible?"

You're thinking of Yahweh, the Israelite God, who develops into something much more abstract by the time of Jesus who was generally not 'angry'.
Ach no! It's arrays, too.
> We don’t yet know if it exceeds BB(17).

We don't know if it exceeds BB(5) either, do we?

In the functional realm [1], we know:

BB_λ(36) < 5 * G_64 + 6 <= BB_λ(114)

Note that these are measured in bits, and that it would take
18 * 2 * (2 + ceil(log(18))) = 252 bits to represent the 18-state TM computing G_64.

The 847 state TM whose halting is known to be unprovable in ZFC takes 847 * 2 * (2 + ceil(log(847)) = 20328 bits to describe.
Meanwhile, in a mere 215 bits, we can encode a Laver table program [2] whose halting is not known to be provable in ZFC [3]. I.e. it may or may not be unprovable, we don't know yet.

[1] https://oeis.org/A333479

[2] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/laver.lam

[3] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/79620/laver-tab...
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In Australia, the powers of monopolistic or near-monopolistic telcos were effectively checked by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

The TIO has teeth and almost always sides with the customer, and they make sure that the fine exceeds any benefit that the telco might be gaining through the bad behaviour that resulted in the complaint. Unofficially, I heard that the fines for any valid customer complaint start at $7500 and go up from there rapidly.

Something similar may be needed. A mega-IT-corp-ombudsman, with powers to fine corporations providing services to the public in proportion to their annual revenues or current market cap.
"Thousands of Chinese officials are sent to Singapore each year to learn from the city-state’s experience"

I hope that the anglosphere governments behave like this and I don't know about it. Good or bad, there is a lot to learn by going out and looking at how things work elsewhere.

The most obvious advantage I have seen in the Chinese model vs the Western model is they try things and pick up what works. Using Singapore as a petri dish then importing the ideas that seem to generate wealth is a step beyond any policy I've seen out of a western government in the last few decades. I doubt that is an inherently Chinese thing to do though and I'm sure they'll get lazy in the future - but this is a much better way of running policy than the usual guess-retry-guess-pivot approach that normal people seem to prefer.
> Narratives about racism in America are about the systemic, structural

What the author experienced happened in a structured institution.

> our country disadvantages black people

You need to add black to your definition of racism so that what the author experienced doesn't qualify as it.

> My point is that this isn't the sort of thing we're talking about when we talk about racism in America;

This is true, and hence the hypocrisy, only caring about a particular oppression, instead of all oppression.

> it's about the system as a whole.

Discriminated people, white or black, are all part of the system as a whole
> Most

Go ahead and prove that.
Google has the private keys for all firmware, boot ROM, and OS binaries. So they can create a far wider array of “gain access” tools than I’ve seen any thread consider yet.
I wonder how many if those alpha worlds are preserved. I started when the alpha was free and the beta was pay, and the scope of those alpha worlds was just incredible. There wasn't much in the way of nature in the alpha so all those worlds were more art project than construction.
Honestly, I don't even think the billing is that untransparent - all their services have pretty straightforward pricing guidelines, and certain services are load limited (going to point out light sail again). It's pretty fair - you pay for what you use, and that works a lot better for most cases if you know what you are doing, you just take on a bit more risk that you have to guard against.

It would be a lot preferable for there to just be multiple computing resource providers, rather than just three, but the reality is that setting yourself up as a cloud provider is quite inaccessible. Democratizing the industry of cloud services will probably require regulation.
Unbelievable, those animals! They made a system that encourages people to actually LIVE in the properties that bought instead of trying to speculate and leech from others. Terrible system.

/s
If you named a character in a story "John B Goodenough", folks would think it was a little on the nose. Names are wild
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> LKY is often called a "benevolent dictator" ... The country’s record on LGBT rights is particularly dismaying

Actually, Lee Kwan Yew spoke in favor of gay law reform in Singapore from 2007. (Which is longer ago than it sounds: Lawrence v Texas was decided in 2003.) It's about the only policy debate he lost: his successors didn't believe that the people would stand for it. And it's easy to forget how bad everywhere else was. Until 2000 or so, I doubt gay life in Singapore was much harder than in Australia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-homosexuality-i...
A provider shouldn't, because their system should be designed to prevent them from being able to so they aren't someday required to at their own expense nor at the probable violation of their customer's privacy.

As technology evolves it becomes increasingly easy to invade deeper and deeper into once private spaces. Such as someone's rooms. Someone's now electronically light and replica-table collection of externalized documents and memories; maybe within our lifetimes even within their minds.
Interesting take by one of the SDI/Brilliant Pebbles architects pitching Starlink http://highfrontier.org/january-8-2019-brilliant-pebbles-is-...
The huge and hugely expensive East Side Access project in NYC is almost finished. Test trains are running and the Governor of New York just made a visit. That involved putting an 8 track, two level railroad station underneath Grand Central Station, 140 feet below ground.

San Francisco's subway from SOMA to Union Square to Chinatown opens in 2022.
For the absolute vast majority of cases this is a quite a simple problem. Most don't care though.

A rewrite of a site does not rewrite all the content. It is still there, the database might have been migrated but all the information is still there and the conversion process has everything it needs to do the final step of preserving one ID, or one string, that trivially can map an old URL to a new one that contains the same actual content.

Sure, some intermediate pages might get lost but that is not something that is particularly valuable anyway and not something one usually links directly to. Don't let perfect get in the way of good enough.
Thanks for excellent elaboration.

I just don’t get the last phrase

> Maybe colorado is up your alley?

Could you explain it to non-american please?
Damn, that Science is always Changing lol
A bunch of bloviating nothing-speak sprinkled with accusations, name-calling, and speculation about what's in my head. Spare me.
I think a better explanation would be that the induction step missed an edge case:
To claim that H/h1 and H/h2 are the same color, we need the two sets to overlap by at least one horse. This actually works perfectly for all but n=2...
A lot of people in this thread talking about losing their store credit and app/content purchases. I'd imagine the worst case scenario could be much worse. Apple runs fairly popular cloud storage services that are strongly encouraged to you for your photo storage and files. The photo storage especially has an option to automatically delete your local media because it's already backed up on Apple's servers. Will these all be locked out without warning or recourse for a miscellaneous card whoopsie?

Even standard files on iCloud. Who knows how important the average users' cloud files are to them? (I don't use public cloud storage at all anymore because of this exact fear - what if some arbitrary billing/transaction error locks me out of everything without recourse?).

To be fair I've no idea what the person in question got their account locked for and if there was any shadiness involved but I doubt they'd write about it publicly (or get access restored) if there were, which implies that at any time your account and your data can be taken away for something entirely mundane.

It makes me really concerned in fact how Google would handle something similar to this - given that for Chromebook users everything (literally EVERYTHING you would normally do locally on a computer) is in/via your Google account.
If I remember correctly from my visits in SG then the country was not rich from "the beginning", in fact it was very underdeveloped until the late 60s and beginning of the 70s and it worked out for them because of it was a dictatorship under Lee Kuan Yew and made the right decisions... and was tolerated by the West at the same time.
BB(748) is a finite integer, and all things finite can by definition be computed (in computational theory). Uncomputable things must be of an infinite nature, such as functions from the natural numbers to a boolean, or languages of binary strings.
Sleep problems may be a symptom of depression, but they may also be the cause of depression. You could try finding a sleep physician or a CBT-I therapist.
Haven't seen the Chosen yet but the stories as written are quite a bit more nuanced.
Well it is ifs and loops and assignments.
Kind of not useful without the assignments.
The surgery analogy is great! Not only it is not something it easy to learn / manage, but in some cases it is outright not possible. How do you self host an App Store? If you bought an eBook on amazon I am not even sure if you can easily export and read it on non kindle device. Self-hosting is definitely not an answer to this.
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You can do that with volt.fm. Here's my profile: https://volt.fm/soheilpro

Disclaimer: I've built this.
I see that Rapamyacin is a mTor inhibitor. From my years of lurking r/fitness my understanding is that is the “growth pathway” that you want to activate for muscle building (with whey for example). But it doesn’t look like people with more muscular mass die early, even the opposite. Am I missing something?
In China you were fined when you had more than one child. In Singapore, you were not. It was just a publicity campaign, basically.

> I'd guess the lack of space and longer working hours would be more of a contributor.

Yup.

Also, Singaporeans of Indian and Malay descent have more children than Singaporeans of Chinese descent. Over time this would lead to the ethnic composition of Singapore changing. However, the government has decided the ethnic balance as it was upon independence is sacrosanct, so they hand out permanent residence status to anyone of ethnic Chinese descent that wants it - people from mainland China, mostly.
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The new terrain is great, but I have mostly exhausted my patience with Minecraft survival. I hope future releases will put some effort into reducing the grindyness. I know many things can be automated but they tend to rely on extremely arcane game mechanics rather than feeling like an intentional part of the game.

Some elements of Factorio were inspired by Minecraft. I think Minecraft could now use some inspiration from Factorio.
Gastronomy is just fat, sugar and protein.
Really nice. Didn’t expect that to be the case.
You can model borrow semantics relatively easily in both LISP and C++ (and likely countless other contemporary languages) with varying static/dynamic components, it just takes a bit of infrastructure and perhaps some static or dynamic indirection. It’s not “built in” like it is in Rust. The Chromium team did this in C++ as a proof of concept (with notable caveats) somewhat recently: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSt2VB1zQAJ6JDMa...

Additionally even though this system uses Rust, there is quite a bit of custom support code to coax the system into building for a particular memory-mapping. While you are doing that I don’t see why it wouldn’t be roughly the same amount of infrastructure work in another language. Again, may just require the user to interact with the protected resources through an indirect API instead of language-native constructs but that is more of an ergonomics issue than a feasibility one.
I also recently (today in fact) encountered the Terralith datapack, it's rather impressive and I'm tempted to try it out. From what I know it doesn't add any new blocks, instead it just reuses existing vanilla ones.

There's a trailer they made for a recent update that shows off some of the terrain results:

https://youtu.be/zmIvURR_-eg
I don't think that would work well, because most feeds block CORS requests (or rather, they don't explicitly allow CORS requests) and you would have to wait for the last request to finish every time.
For some arbitrary definition of "successful," strictly enforced by said authoritarian regime. Singapore has money, but it's not a shining example of human achievement.

It's an example of brutality and rigid rules wielded effectively to manage a population. Their social ills can't be criticized - Hanging people for drug use or possession, indefinite detention and torture for political speech, and the money, corruption, and sex trafficking amongst the elite for starters.

If they evolve to a more free, liberty and democracy focused society, they'll likely lose much of their wealth generating advantage. A non trivial portion of the money flowing through Singapore depends on groups and individuals involved in global cartels, and anti corruption laws effectively enforced would unveil a lot of shady dealings.
I use a little usb-c to micro USB adapter for my only remaining devices, though I plan on converting them to usb-c.
Sounds like a movie script.
Sorry :) I choose the name dfeed because d and f are right next to each other on the keyboard, so it's easy to type.
One thing I always hoped, but that never happened: get people’s creations into the game. Randomly get vetted buildings as biomes. People have created insane things and it’s a shame they couldn’t have been integrated directly into the game. Even a few would have been cool. I guess one thing is that structures without life feels empty, so you’d have to generate random monsters or NPCs for each of them.
China had a very hard line, up to and including forced abortion and sterilization. Singapore employed a more nuanced system of incentives and disincentives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapo...
Performance reviews are how managers provide positive or negative reinforcement for employees who do or don’t further the organization’s goals. Does a really cool 20% time project count toward that if it isn’t related to my work? Does the manager have any incentive to value it (since they get evaluated on progress on the larger team’s goals)?

Every sane boss I’ve had has been happy if I do things that are good for the org, doubly so if they were ideas that I came up with myself for efforts that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Is 20% time different from this somehow?
Amusingly, they used A.I. to simulate human behavior in response to faulty A.I. behavior.

Another funny part:

“The researchers also explored scenarios where two humans with different preferences were in the smart home environment at the same time. In such instances, the humans actually changed the order of their tasks to minimize their time spent changing temperature.“

The horror!
The article suggests that "more realistic" is correlated with "boring".

"Real" is an interesting concept. Any such simulation couldn't really be based on Earth geophysics. Who wants to spend months crossing the steppes? Real magma isn't something you find by accident. Real tunnels can collapse. And so on. So these intelligent developers will need to create a new system of geophysics.

I've read that Dwarf Fortress uses a process more like what you describe.
I've had NSO like activity on my phone, I've had hacking on my phone since the 90's. So what I have learnt with the law is, firstly it generally needs evidence although there are some rare situations where accusations are enough. Even when you have evidence, this can still generally be removed or the police prevented from seeing it.

Another problem with phones is you cant control when they drop from 3G or 4G back to 2G which then makes it easy to capture the conversation from the air and do a replay attack.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-phone-vulnerable-...

External influences, control when your phone drops down to 2G and I have not seen any phone manufacturer put in an option to terminate calls and prevent calls being made on 2G. Things like the PinePhone and Librem are missing a trick.

The other problem with technology is the sheer number of options or inability to access and modify in order to make secure. Whether we like it or not, our lives are in the hands of others.

I gave up a long time ago when I realised how many legal ways there are to kill people. Its quite clever really but some institutions have had hundreds of years to perfect their dark arts.
If it's acting as a STUN service, to just enable peering around NAT, you'd struggle to hit a limit.

If you need to pass data between clients via a TURN server, bandwidth is your limiting factor, well before CPU.
i have a question. i could "never" understand guacamole. i mean i currently use zerotier for clients/server and rdpwrap to get a bulletproof setup.

is there some sort of foss "server" implementation of rdp so as to avoid using rdpwrap? i know vnc but i need multiple users connected at the same time...
These norms are written in capitals and city states, and they always get them in the form where their lifestyle = most sustainable, the people who actually grow their food and extract fuel = least sustainable.

Incentives matter.
So what if it's suspicious? People pay hard earned money for content via services such as Amazon's. That these companies think they're justified in locking people out of the content they paid for because of some random suspicion is just insulting.

There'll come a day even the people who defend copyright won't be able to justify supporting this industry due to how badly it mistreats and abuses them. It's simply appalling how it's almost 2022 and paying consumers still get infeiror products and services compared to "pirates".
Did the owners of thus Instagram account create the orginial artwork? What’s the origin story?
If macOS is Unix, and Linux was inspired Unix, then what is Windows based on?
RetroArch and other emulators also work.
Hydrothermal Venture: Day 5: Advent of Code – Python Solution
Reading through the linked article on "real world uses for Web3", most of them seem to consist of things that public key cryptography has been able to solve for decades (persistent identity, multiple persistent identities) or things you could do anyway ("right now, people can only go to facebook or Google. With Web3, everyone can have their own space!!") because the writer has apparently never heard of a web server.

Another HNer made a good point recently: Compute power is nearing post scarcity. Web3 is people trying to make it scarce again.
> In China you were fined when you had more than one child. In Singapore, you were not. It was just a publicity campaign, basically.

Well it would appear in Singapore, you were effectively fined anyways, just in a roundabout way, so I'm not sure how then that translates into less coercive.

> To help convince parents that fewer were better, the government legalized abortion and encouraged voluntary sterilization. Hospital fees went up as a woman had more babies, working mothers were allowed only two paid maternity leaves and a family’s third, fourth and subsequent children were given a lower priority in the choice of and admission to schools. [1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-21-mn-8983-s...
The jargon is contextual. In telecommunications the "wire rope" is called "strand".
Looks like a really cool open source project, will definitely check it out.
With the current launcher, you can actually pick which version/update to play, including old versions. For Java Edition, it lists versions all the way back to alpha as options.
Which is pretty close to some christian extremists.
A big step for Lenovo is to make Microsoft Windows one of many choices for operating system and not the monopoly by locked in default. It is a terrible waste to pay for that and not use it at all.
Don't disagree. It's a problem. As the parent poster and others have mentioned, you can use something like pipx, or bare virtualenv. At least once I've deployed via dh-virtualenv and rpmvenv, pyinstaller, cx_freeze, or tested for compatibility with the system Python if I could control for the client machines.

It's never fun. It's never pleasant. But to be fair, if I have a CLI tool that needs a deployed SSH client, or Tensorflow, or SDL or Qt or something else, I'm not convinced packaging gets much easier no matter what language we're talking about. If your use case is simple, Python is easy enough to deploy, and Go is even easier. If you can't disable CGO or need a third party component, I imagine the fun is just getting started anyway.

As a counterpoint, awhile back, discovered that Golang had a minimum kernel version requirement. That pretty much eliminated it as a possibility for writing tools for legacy systems. Python was viable though, Bash moreso. :) Couldn't tell you if that was still a requirement for Go today.
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