skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a civilization is capable of simulating universes, most likely it know if FTL is actually possible or not in their own universe.

But it could also be that even the original universe has too many free/independent parameters and the original civilization is as scientifically agnostic as us if FTL is actually technologically possible, so they could say "we thought of everything we could and still cannot prove or disprove FTL, let's create a totally different species and let them have a go, maybe they come up with radically different ideas, but it's better not to create them in our own Universe or they might be smarter than us and turn against us, let's sandbox them in their own simulated universe".

They could probably use "A.I." like AlphaGo to try and build structures within their own universe limitations that create Alcubierre drives, but it could also be that that also failed and after searching for aeons, they just raised their tentacles and said "that's it, we're stuck, the only thing left is to try the simulated universe approach".
But even then, the + is not a separator but a placeholer for the international call prefix in your area.
It's a Google issue no matter what. No matter what Microsoft did in their Teams app, the fact that it was (and still is!) possible is a critical flaw in Google code which Google has the duty to fix ASAP. The problem is not fixed until it is impossible for 911 calling to break even if the old Microsoft Teams app is used, and until emergency calling is certain to work even if someone else intentionally made a malicious app trying to hijack 911 in a similar manner.

I mean, that's literally a top priority without compromise - if it turns out that for some reason they can't implement third party dialing in a way that ensures proper handling of emergency calls even in the presence of buggy or even actively malicious third party apps, then an acceptable solution would be to kill all third party dialing; there is no permissible tradeoff whatsoever between features and emergency calling.
You can't self-host them. They're not even options. It's like saying "why is your car better than Amtrak." Maybe it's not better -- it's certainly worth less money -- but you're not shopping for a railroad. The only way to self-host Discord is to buy the entire company, valued $15B.
They may sell off other assets to cover the loss, which leads to price decline on other assets. This cascade across the market.
Yes its an increasing trend. Much of it is way less well known outside China. But lots of code from Alibaba, Tencent and smaller companies etc. many new CNCF projects are from China.
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9+11 specifically. Yes, a plus sign. 0 is also supposed to be mapped to plus or passed on when dialing external for compatibility reasons.
Disagree. They provided context allowing people to understand the reason for what would otherwise seem a bizarre set of steps that seem to cure the problem in the meantime. It's clear and direct.
I don't think you're grasping the power issue here.

China could give a s*t what American laws are.

They are pressuring Apple to take some actions, if Apple doesn't want to take those actions, for whatever reason including 'American law forbids them' - then they're out of the market.

Those are the terms presented to them, and the CCP is not bluffing.

As far as 'censoring people outside China' that is actually a line that Apple can probably actually hold.
Incoming calls or manually dialling a number directly through the respective app is a different matter, but when you click a stored number in your contacts list, or a phone link in your browser or another app, or anything like that, that app just hands the number to the OS and basically says "please call this number for me".

If you want to allow alternative VOIP apps and things like that to exist, at that point the OS must allow routing that number to any app that claims it can handle (outgoing) phone calls.
Some questions that come to mind.

Is the price for land supposed to be the same in the entire country or should the government calculate a cost per region. A square meter inside a city would be more expensive to own than a square meter in the countryside?

What are you thoughts on implementing this tax system gradually? Could it work to assign certain parts of land that can be bought and taxed and then except the person from paying other taxes. IE: Buy this land, build a house and don't pay income tax while you live there.
Tim Cook is an uncool beancounter whose only interests are money and appearing virtuous.
Seems like an example of the AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

although I think when autopilot was invented, the concept of "AI" didn't exist, so maybe not a perfect example
you will probably love perl. Perl encourages this programming style :

unlink ('file.txt') or die "Can't remove file.txt: $!";
there is also https://www.drivedroid.io/ which emulates this behavior on a (rooted) android device
Normally 0 or + are supposed to be used for external lines. Then you would call 00 for an international call.
Let’s stop telling people about drugs and the problem will solve itself.
He did it all for the nookie <yeah>
Planned obsolescence. Ford did exact same thing with their cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE
There's always this technique perhaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQeHHYJYWXo
The better is gets - more time for career manoeuvring
> Country codes can start with 1. There doesn't seem to be a +11~, but is it forbidden?

No country code (or phone number) can be a prefix of another. There cannot be a +11 country code, since after the first 1 you are already within the NANP "country" (and it seems the NANP rules disallow area codes starting with 0 or 1, so the next digit can only be on the 2-9 range).
You cannot self-host those.

Instead, how is it better than Jitsi and Mumble, given that they are already well tested and widespread?
> It's not possible to do that on Facebook without accountability.

Sure it is. Our local town Facebook groups have a wide variety of clear sockpuppet accounts. Facebook's detection and processes for this are laughably bad; quite a few people have reported the "Count von Brokenhymen" style ones to no avail.
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I used the autodiff in Ceres in the past (http://ceres-solver.org/automatic_derivatives.html), but Autodiff (https://autodiff.github.io/) also looks pretty good.
It seems to miss the mark in other regions, but here in Denmark that is considered a bullseye joke :)
IIRC you can self-host Teamspeak and Ventrillo.
Bad data is worse than no data. I would suggest using those data points make ones decisions less reliable.
But we do classify others who wrote a few blog articles as “journalist” when they were/are much more obviously engaged in other activities.
They need to get that phone to the FCC so the FCC can get take a look and put Google's feet over the fire to get them to figure out what the heck happened.

Edit: I just read through some of the Reddit comments and see that Teams was the culprit, which is an insane bug: There is no way that a user space app should be able to do this.

I also still think the FCC should do their own work on it too. They need to make sure Google isn't downplaying this, and is actually taking steps at the highest priority to make sure an app can't do this.
The link between "groups never admit failure" and "non-profit organizations are not sustainable by design" is a little bit too direct and non relevant.

Lots of non-profits make revenues, selling stuff with customers, they just don't pay dividends by design and re-invest everything. So what he says does not apply.

And again, even foundations are at least oriented to hear feedbacks from donators who are their "customers". So it does not apply here.

The only valid point is that yes, group never admit failure as a whole, but the post should have stopped after this
Someone died in Philly years ago due to a 911 system error that sent emergency responders to the wrong location. The father was a local COBOL developer and was somehow able to fix the bug (no idea if source was available or if he rewrote the system). The city didn't want to implement his fix, so he had to sue them to have them use the fix. I wish I could find the article to provide more details.
Ask HN: How to make best use of Intel iMac going forward?
I have an intel iMac 2017 3.8GHZ 5K Retina with 64GB RAM, 2TB Hybrid drive and it works great.

However once the Intel chips EOL occurs, I would expect the OS, software support etc to fade away.

I usually don’t upgrade machines unless it is needed, so do you have any ideas on repurposing the Intel Macs going forward if they are in good shape?

Thanks!
How about using them in reasonable amounts? They mostly only add visual clutter without conveying any meaningful information.
Because they feel entitled to more and special treatment.
First: I used "Calling apps" because that's how it's displayed on my Android 8 phone. The actual naming isn't consistent across Android versions, so yours is probably named "Phone apps". That's located in the settings, and again the exact way to access it varies according Android versions, manufacturer and whatnot (which is an endless source of pain to guide end-users by the way).

To appear there, apps have to declare they are phone apps and handle the proper calls (an "Intent" in Android jargon) when the system receive a request to make a phone call. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram do not do that: you are only able to initiate a call when already inside the app.
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I have also heard that proton therapy is very effective in treating cancer.
I truly have thought that Xi would keep his ability to shake US market for longer.
It creates useful Go knowledge. What else could be asked of it?
It's things like this that make me yearn for the government of yore that just fucking did it, no questions asked i.e. the federal government laying out the interstate highway system. They didn't care it tore apart neighborhoods, they did it because if they didn't, the evil Soviets would eventually build a better highway system and the US couldn't have that embarrassment. A shitty motivator? Sure, but it was a motivator. Now in the 3 decades since the end of the Cold War, what accomplishments has any government done that rivals what happened during the Cold War era? None.
That's ridiculous law; you can discriminate by age, because this only applies to transient population groups, but you cannot discriminate by year-of-birth. I doubt this will hold up in court.
I've only just upgraded to android 11, and every single new feature, without exception, is a usability nightmare in some sense. I wouldn't mind so much if they redesigned often and the result wasn't so awful
It is always difficult to try to understand and implement the theory explained in papers which seem fine on the surface, but when you look more closely, you find a bunch of mistakes, there are giant holes in the details, and you end up trying to redo the whole paper.

There should be journals/websites/blogs dedicated to trying to reexplain / implement papers.
Whatever, thought police. Have a wonderful day.
Of course not!
We first world states would never do something so, so unseemly.

Think about it, we would never do what Russia did and invade another country for self-serving reasons. No, we manufacture a humanitarian crisis and do our solemn duty and protect the weak. Or we bomb the bad guys from 100s of miles away and install a puppet government. So much more dignified, so much more polite.

We would never jail a journalist, that's simply not done by freedom loving, democratic, first world nations. China does that, we don't do that! We simply have an abundance of traitors and terrorists masquerading as journalists and it's not just okay to jail or kill these ne'er-do-wells, it must be done to protect all lovers of freedom.

No country has outlawed journalism, and I doubt any of the journalists on this list have been killed or jailed for the act of journalism, but instead for sedition, advocating for violence, supporting a terrorist organization, etc. etc. etc.

I smell the whataboutism in this, but at the same time, everyone sees themselves as the hero of their own story, and I'm sure the governments of places like China and Burma see their actions as justified, as necessary to protect their people and their way of life.

It's why we as states, and individuals, that proclaim the sanctity of a free press, must not simply call out the 'others' for their obvious attacks, but must also look inwards and hold ourselves to a higher standard than we hold others as a beacon to a better way.

The problem with being a beacon is that each Julian Assange, each Bilal Adbul Kareem, dims the light. It proves that press freedom is relative and helps justify future attacks on press freedom.
A sale of assets will affect the prices and many of their competitors in real estate development are similarly indebted and on thin ice. Also, their contractors and suppliers will be stiffed and they probably don't have the same diversification opportunities.
Software industry has become fashion industry.
I say you remember incorrectly. Some map projections (see <https://explainxkcd.com/977> for an overview) make objects appear proportionally larger when we move from the equator to the poles, Greenland and Antarctica are greatly exaggerated. But this is motivated by stereometric reasons – everything on the same latitude is equally distorted – and not because the King wanted a huge Mappy McMapface.
> Android has grown too big for google to maintain

My theory is Google was never setup to maintain such a thing.

I think an operating system running on customers hardware requires quite a bit different, more stringent, responsible approach to development and release process.
Microsoft seems to have it (albeit with their own flaws and in recent years they went rogue - when they fired their testers, shoot it was almost 10 years go).

Google is not setup in same way and internal incentives are not like that, judging by hoard of messaging apps. They are simply setup to make very short projects that do not require long-term commitment. When people move on, projects get abandoned, neglected and killed. Their incentives structure is like that. It is one thing to change a webapp willy-nilly and another thing to change and support code that you ship to millions of devices you know nothing about.

During 90th Windows had a lot of growth problem that Microsoft was figuring out, now Google's doing the same with Android but I don't think that they will succeed unless they change their incentive structure.

Now having said that about Google, one has to admit that it is _vast_ and there are a lot of different teams and I suppose there are plenty of teams that work in different way. But still, they can't be shielded from corporate overall culture.
A clearer article is at https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-stellantis-foxconn-chips...

> [Stellantis] will partner ... Foxconn Technology Group to design purpose-built semiconductors to support Stellantis NV and other customers ... Stellantis aims to create four new families of chips that will cover more than 80% of its semiconductor needs and modernize its components, reduce complexity and simplify the supply chain, CEO Carlos Tavares said in a statement

Still in the realm of the dubious and potentially regressive:

> It mapped out how it will deploy three artificial intelligence-powered platforms in 2024 and build on existing vehicles connected to satellites and the internet to transform how customers interact with their vehicles. An open software-defined platform integrated with smartphones and other electronics seeks to expand available services with over-the-air updates

> STLA Brain, an electrical/electronic and software architecture, is at the heart of the transformation. It will offer 30 updateable modules compared with 10 today. Integrated with the cloud, it connects electronic control units within the vehicle with the vehicle's central high-performing computer via a high-speed data bus. It enables software developers to create and update features and services quickly without waiting for a new model-year launch, reducing costs and simplifying maintenance for the automaker and customer

Little surprise that somebody wants to capitalize on, large part of the public accomplice, ideas like "connected", "OTA updates", "cloud integrated", "smartphone controlled" - meaning, product unreliability and lack of security by design.

On the one hand, it is suggested that modules will be for sale (as in, optionals). It is not clear whether the whole "connection and related" will be optional. It is not mentioned if further ways of capitalizing, e.g. those relevant to privacy concerns, are involved.
IQ in particular is a measure of very specific trainable skills. Particularly the harder part of IQ tests are extremely prone to cognitive bias by the authors though, where they start measuring neurotypicality rather than problem solving ability.

The problem is that these tests do not sell themselves as "just one data point", and even if they did, you'd have to do so many other things to compensate for the shortcomings of standardized IQ tests, they're really not worth doing in the first place.

IMO the best way to assess fit is to ask someone to handle a hypothetical, or to ask for previous experiences fitting a problem or situation.
What I really would like to have would be to collapse comment threads via a column that runs the length of the comment thread and is indented like its respective comment.

This way I don't have to scroll to find the comment to collapse its thread, and clicking the column is easier.

This is used in some subreddits in the old Reddit style, e.g. /r/de as can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/rcc9us/experten_finden_...
Non American here, can someone explain to me what is unique about USA society that creates this situations? I mean, most of the world has unions, most countries to a much greater extant than USA, and yet we don't see those horror stories of loss of work efficiency from anywhere else. What is unique about USA unions that drive those?
That’s not quite what I mean - I mean the code to handle cases that depend on the value only needs to be included based on the observed values. That’s different to the code always being there and the control flow depending on the value.
> IQ test (which as a former hiring manager, I find very valuable because it allows you to balance the team […])

Have you tried measuring their skulls as well?
It's not as hard as it might seem. If you are actually held to the contract and you have underbid, you either have a plan to continue the fraud (using substandard materials or illegal labor to save costs) or you will be forced to take a loss or go out of business. If your investors, employees (or their union), or client(s) are unhappy with that, and there is any evidence of intentionally underbidding to be found (and there generally will be, these are decisions made by teams. There are emails. There are notes) those people will have incentive to find it.
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I can kinda respect a personality test. It doesn't really mean anything, but they do stress that there's no "good" personality. IQ tests are different, because a higher number means better. That leads to superiority complexes.
It's hard for me to even comprehend how this could be true, but it does sound familiar enough from credible sources that maybe it's right regardless of what makes sense to me.
What is prev next and parent for? am I missing out, not using them?
All I want to know is: Why are there so many fucking potholes in ATX and Palo Alto CA?
Surprised at how much leadership Paul showed. I had heard this previously was watching the sessions really displayed how he was the de facto band leader at this point.
With built-in GPS, there should be an even better option to call directly the most relevant emergency office instead of being passed around.
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When I was in grad school, I joined a startup incubator and build a prototype which combined two of the tools mentioned in the article: "a query builder (by demonstration)" and "A paper recommender system", a simple companion which would help scientist to not miss relevant research to them. This was 10 years ago, before Google Scholar has similar features.

The incubator introduced me to advisors with business experience in this field. And I got told in no uncertain terms what is the gist of this article: The value lies in the molecular and clinical data. In 2021 I would add digital pathology / imaging data.
Insightful, thanks for the data and thoughtful discussion. I'm now convinced this is just a piss in the ocean for Amazon.
Hey can you please explain more on "FBSD is like Arch for grownups". I'd love to move to FBSD from Arch if it is actually a better system.
UAP?? Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon?

Regardless, the FLIR video makes it harder to ascertain what is happening other than there is a release of energy on impact. It could just be a drone with explosives attached. The use of FLIR ensures that you cannot see what the thing was. I am sure that non FLIR camera would report something mundane (ish, as mundane as an explosive laden drone can be) rather than some really weird thing we could not identify.
> The priority here should have been to explain and disseminate the workaround, not to start with several sentences of establishing that the blame must be shared.

Below is one of the comments on the original reddit thread that gives more context of how this could happen. u/rbrome on reddit thread[0]:

Teams is a wide-ranging service that includes VoIP phone service. I believe it is designed to replace your company's phone system if you want it to. So it makes sense that it registers with Android as a VoIP service.

There are situations where someone might want/need Teams to handle a 911 call. Perhaps you have an Android device with Teams that's designed to be a campus-only phone, without cellular service. Any device that presents as a phone and can make calls, is required by the FCC to be able to complete a 911 call.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/r4xz1f/comment...
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It literally does not matter what Teams does - even if Teams maliciously did every wrong thing they possibly can, it's the duty of the phone manufacturer to ensure that 911 still works, it's Google's duty to ensure that Teams or any other app can't break emergency calls no matter how they try; the law literally requires the phone to recognize that a 911 is being made and override any programming (e.g. Teams) that may interfere with that. If Google can't do that with an over-the-air update, they can issue a full recall for all the affected Pixel phones.
You can run Linux or Windows on them for one thing.
In Italy specifically it's not about the fine, but the rules Amazon will have to abide in the future.

One of the main points is that Amazon cannot have private deals, de facto monopolizing the business of logistic.