skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not all economists do! We also guess about the past and present.
Yet to be seen. You can still buy a non-Apple camera phone with a headphone jack. There will be choices, perhaps not chic choices.
I don't know IA's budget (might be just the pandemic has tolled its finances), but I have reservations about Wikimedia's use of money. (Only the main foundation, others like the German affiliate is efficient about money and except for 2020 has a surplus which obviously went to cover inevitable shortfalls.)
"Drainage channels" are far from "evidence of a sophisticated civilisation".

The term "civilization" has a technical meaning in archaeology which includes things such as permanent settlement and a hierarchical social order. Walls and drainage are absolutely treated as evidence of civilization when discussing other ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians and the Maya.

The fact that Great Zimbabwe is not as sophisticated as other civilizations of the same time-period is a moot point because the thing that is interesting about it isn't how it stacks up to contemporary Eurasian society but the fact that it apparently is an entirely home-grown civilization in southern Africa.
By limiting tv and video game time.

Although my reading time was not ever limited, at least until I was older and I had to do my math homework first.
Discord functionality is driven by market forces, which is more than I can say for FOSS. FOSS is less likely to offer a product that works for mainstream users.
Kawasaki Heavy says liquefied hydrogen carrier departs Japan for Australia
Thanks, we will address that.
Setup Your Own VPN with PPTP on Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian)
There’s still IMEI locks. A lot of prepaid carriers in Europe won’t or can’t sell you a SIM card for a US phone (one man claimed it was due to carriers trying to reduce phone theft). Note, my phone was fully paid for, and therefor unlocked.
I work at Stripe—I’m sorry for the trouble. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can dig into this?
IDK, environment variables get set all of the time, I rarely worry about them breaking programs. Their job is kinda to live in the background and be passed through programs so it doesn't feel like much danger. Especially when I use lowercase and almost all programs use uppercase.

But I guess everyone has a different risk level and what feels near-zero to me is meaningful to someone else.
That’s literally how it works… You can have as many eSIMs as you’d like, I currently have 8 on my phone and can choose which two I want to have active at any time.

I’m not sure why nextgrid is constructing this weird technological strawman.
Original texts are important but you also need to have a very good understanding of the historical language and wider context in order to not fall in similar pitfalls yourself as the ones you wanted to avoid on the first place.
A minimal, offline PHAR file viewer webapp written in Rust
None of it matters really.

We cannot get even the most basic thing done in our own country (wear a mask to protect yourself and the people around you).

Any vision of cooperation in the future must factor in some of the insanity we have seen over the last few years. And my words and views are only from inside the US. Imagine having to get everyone on the globe to agree to something. I am certain there are large groups of crazies in every country who think this is god's plan or just want everything to burn for their own reasons.

Maybe if there are some Hollywood sized extinction events that can be traced back to climate change. But even then you will get large groups of people claiming it did not happen. Or was caused by some race. Or will claim Bill Gates caused climate change.

What I am really saying is cooperation inside of a supposed group of United States is currently impossible. Now do that across the globe. If we have to act now in unison to save ourselves we are in fact doomed.
Not useful for humans directly does not mean not useful at all.

I guess the bottom of them is a big carbon sink. Also, some bacteria and archaea like weird environment. Even some animals with very slow metabolism may enjoy a slow peaceful life in them or near the borders.
He published a book containing his journal entries from the time as well:

https://jordanmechner.com/store/the-making-of-prince-of-pers...

My notes about it:

https://mtlynch.io/book-reports/making-of-prince-of-persia/
These stories have hammered home two points for me:

* You probably shouldnt use email for sensitive communications ever again.

* While it's not worth self hosting a mail server to send and receive email there's still a huge privacy value in hosting email storage and using a service that only passes on emails via POP3/SMTP (ideally with minimal logs).
I was finding it quite ok to work with French,some were even fanatic about their work. What I liked most about them was that none of them drank cool-aid and could easily spot corporate BS.
Maybe I'm biased, but I really love the AU/NZ plugs and sockets.

Out of all the different standards, they're probably the least ugly looking; switched outlets are a (literal and figurative) lifesaver; and it's incredibly useful that you can put a 10 amp plug in a 15 amp socket, but not a 15A into a 10A.
Self awareness is a good thing to have!
We know people are concerned about what happens to their families after they die as inheritance taxes are so unpopular!
Your opinion on this is akin to my parents opinion about sports: those who do sports get traumas and then regret it. Therefore don’t do sports.

This is a very weak fallacy.
You misunderstand what -f does, however you are right that it is used all over the place by default and it does add more risk than not using -f. However you're wrong that the lack of -f is risk free. Unfortunately even without including the -f flag it is still possible to delete "important" files given that "important" can mean a spectrum of things, both in terms of file system metadata and in terms of personal worth.

In fact `rm`doesn't even try to understand what an important file is (and why should it?). All the -f flag does is ignore prompts and non-existent files:

$ man rm
...
-f, --force
ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt
...

I think it also overrides skipping the removal of files that don't have a write bit set (despite that not being explicit in the man page) but even if that's also true, you're going to have a crap load of important files that are still writable. Thus it's still quite possible to trash your host using `sudo rm -r /`

You might then say "so you shouldn't use sudo either" and that's true. But going back to my earlier point about "what is an important file?", you're still going to have lots of "important" files on your system that aren't root owned. Maybe development files. Maybe personal files. Thus it is trivially easy to remove wanted files with a careless `rm -r ~/$UNSET` (a bug in Steam's Linux installer once did this in fact).

So the benefit of -v isn't mitigated by the non-inclusion of -f. Not even slightly.
My personal favorite example right now, having three smaller children, is amazon's "expiration" of videos installed on their kindles, that we don't find out about until we're on a trip somewhere. How do I explain to a kid that they can't watch their favorite movie that worked fine last time, or that they can't download any more episodes of their favorite show because someone decided they could only have 20 videos regardless of storage capacity?
perfect example of foss accessibility issue: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

this dev refuse to consider accessibility as it means ui changes or new option. users with visual impair are unable to use app and dev just locks issue reported for it and ignores users. probably to boost number of dls/markerting.

even if user does a patch dev just closes and does his own thing that dont help. even foss projects kick contribs out for try to help
> I don't think you can term flat-earthers intelligent. That's a dangerously low bar.

Well if they aren't intelligent, wouldn't understanding their reasoning be easier to understand? I at least don't associate simpletons with convoluted logic.
How do you deal with rejection?
You've probably been there. Interview after interview after take-home test after pair-programming session to only get a vague templated email rejection without any real info on why you got turned down.

How do you deal with it?

I personally find it increasingly difficult to be polite about it - especially as I grow older.
At least for some form of mechanical clocks: There is an app for that :)

E.g., for Android, the "Watch Accuracy Meter", which can be found in the Play Store or the APK source of your choice, uses the phone's microphone to measure the frequency of mechanical watches.
From the CDC: Vaccine = "Produce immunity". Immunity = "you can be exposed to it without becoming infected" It's right there. This definition, and the most common understanding is that a vaccine means "without being infected".
If you have that issue at every company you work for it's a red flag. If you've had 3+ jobs and they all have tenures of <2 years it's a red flag.
Apologies - I was not aware you can have multiple eSIMs stored. If that's the case it lessens the impact, though switching between phones is still a problem.
Could it be that some malware were run on your machines recently (say a few weeks ago) which extracted the master passwords and then used it now? If your LastPass master password was stored on your computer then malware could have collected it and sent it off to some attacker.

Or could it be that all of you guys are using the same router, same ISP, same anything-else, which has snooped on traffic and collected the credential?
Define worthless
Sadly some people seem to give zero shits about anyone or anything that isn't them or isn't benefiting them directly.

Not sure if this is a US ideology or what, but it definitely seems to be a prevalent view in the states
If it were so simple to change FOSS to meet needs and make it easier to use, we’d have a FOSS Slack and Discord competitor that does it. But we don’t, because it’s not that easy. Matrix isn’t it. If it was, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Pomelo uses an Icelandic acquiring bank (actually the same as Stripe used to use) as it has its own payment license and E-money license (regulated by the FCA). This is not for Pomelo.
In a house where I lived long ago, one guy would pull doors closed with a wrist snap. His girlfriend did this too, so if they were shuttling in and out of bedroom and bathroom, it could sound like a toy-gun fight. But then there was the winter night when the door (wooden) bounced back a little before it could latch, and eventually came all the way open.
But at the same time "established SV companies" are already paying so much for labor costs that probably they don't want to hire anyone to run a DC for them.

(Maybe they'll really start hiring remotely. Maybe not.)
This is not a good thing. I have an old phone I put my sim in when I go fishing, boating, beach, etc.

Apple keeps making it very difficult for me to want to keep purchasing their products.
I share your concerns but at the same time I think, why would we even need a SIM? Isn't it simply a device for accessing account on someones system?

We don't have SIMs for ADSL or Fiber internet? We don't have SIMs for Reddit ot Twitter? Why would we have SIMs accessing GSM networks? There's no fundamental reason why we simply don't sign in into these networks like signing in to HN.

Surely, it adds a layer of anonymity and freedom where you simply use the system by paying it however there's an ongoing trend all over the world of de-anonymisation. In many places they are asking for ID and other documents in order to provide you with a SIM.

Physical SIM now means, it's yet another obsolete tech that costs money and takes space inside the devices only to sustain anonymity that is no longer desired.

SIM is just another causality on the way towards the tightly controlled world.

IMHO, it needs to happen at some point but we also need to rethink our rights in a world that is run by these huge networks.

Wouldn't be nice if our phones could have simply scanned for the networks, receive the offers from the available networks, pay and start using it?
move on and prepare for next one.
Anyone knows about the internal communication of the probe? What protocol does it use to talk between components, and what's the topology? Where and how do they locate sensors such as temperature probes, etc. It'd be cool to have more details about the "build" of the probe.
many advantages, If your phone dies, you just move sim card and the new phone works has your old phone number.

You buy a new phone, say you have an android and buy an iphone or reverse... you can easily move the sim card as you want. I'm not even sure how you would do that with eSIM.
> but I am struggling to see transformers larger than about 5 mva being replaced with power electronics.

We already see these at the substations at each end of a HVDC link, China is operating well over a dozen of them with capacities of up to 12 GW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...).
https://thelounge.chat/ seems a pretty good solution, but of course the average person would still need to know someone running an instance and trust them with their chat history.
It's a very artistic approach to development.
Because Alexa will give a single answer, vetted by its neural network. If i'm presented with several links and related context, i'm responsible for interpreting them and weighing the pros and cons. If the "search engine" gives me only one authoritative answer, of course it's responsible for whatever bullshit comes up.

The same situation could occur between friends:

- I'm bored, what should i do?

- You could bake cookies, or you could jump from a cliff.

In this case, irony/context is preserved. If my friend calls a "I'm bored" phone line service, and they tell them straight ahead to jump off a cliff, i'll certainly hold that phone service responsible for what happens next.
One of the nice things about the internet is that IP addresses can't be (legally) tied to the person using it.

Smartphones are personal devices, and without SIM cards a network connection can be tied to the person using it. This is a fundamental change and we should think hard if we want that to happen.
>> (3) economic side effects of laws are incidental.

Not with intellectual property. This isn't ten-commandments stuff, protections against evil. Intellectual property law is an openly commercial law meant to increase the profitability of innovations.

I remember an article from way back about what the Bible would think of copyright "piracy". It is such modern set of laws that anyone mentioned in the bible would probably stare in bewilderment at the concept. It would be like asking about the morality of air traffic control regulations.
Not any more than with regular physical SIMs, if your carrier wants to be shit they can lock a physical SIM to a specific device too.
All of them ofc. Instead of a few companies controlling an essential service, what's stopping a government from offering every citizen an address at yourid@govmail.country?
> Especially those without children, taking the long view of society seems to be very difficult.

Hey, that's me! But more importantly, I'm not super worried about it in general. I consider it mostly a number of engineering problems (making things more efficient, consuming less energy while doing the same, dealing with climate change).

At the same time, I see plenty of people who say they're super concerned about it hopping from one plane to the next. When questioned, they say that talking about their individual contributions would just deflect from talking about "the system". If you want me to get behind those ideas (and that's a pretty easy sell, tbh, I'd barely have to change my lifestyle), you (not you specifically, I don't know you) need to act as if you mean it.

So far it feels like the upper class saying the lower classes shouldn't travel, eat exotic food or meat, drive cars or heat their homes, while they obviously do all of those things. From my limited circle of friends, that's a pretty common perception, even among those with children.
There are still jobs that require physical presence. Find an IoT/Electronics company or any hardware company which provides that.

Also, try to join the local library and start working from there. You will meet a lot of people and you will not feel alone or anything like that.
Fire safety has tremendous value, but it should mandate results not specific methods.
>Well, it isn't the only thing that's required. What is also required is the alternative energy products to be available to consumers at attractive prices.

And before any wise ass says the solution is "just" to tax dirty energy I would like to remind everyone to stop projecting stupidity and apathy onto the general public. A couple percent here and there to incentive things at the margin may fly but if their energy bills double they're not gonna just roll over and take it. At the next opportunity they'll vote you out of office because that is the more direct and more effective way of solving their immediate problem of financial hardship.
>So, with all due respect, don't try to pretend that instant messengers should not be held to a higher standard than our developer tools; where the output is more important than the tool itself.

What are those standards?

Look -
Discord/Slack/Teams at the end of the day can be accessed via web browser
just like normal page.

I just checked and Microsoft Chrome with just Discord takes me 300MB of RAM

Is it a lot (in general)? no

Is it small amount? no.

Firefox with 13 opened pages (some of them are just static pages like HN) takes above 1GB.

What would be the amount that would satisfy you? 100MB? 50MB? 30MB?
Stop this ride, I want to get off.
Yes.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOhUCvqV7o
Still haven't seen evidence of "a better life."
It depends on what you mean by "works". Humanities thinking is very effective at convincing other people of some claim, or otherwise exercising power and influence. If that's the goal, it works well.
No, it’s not really fan art. It just happened one of the largest art patrons was the church. They wanted art to “educate” (i.e. evangelize) a largely illiterate population. And there was no internet back then, so every religious site would need art illustrating the same themes.
I've been working remotely for nearly two years now. Working form a caffe is the equivalent of passively reading emails whilst drinking coffee, anything beyond that requires proper work environment whether it's a room at home or the office.
perhaps he/she meant 3rd generation language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_l...
Every job I’ve had didn’t involve a recruiter, or the recruiter was a CTO or whatnot.
This is the best answer. In the U.S., something over 2/3 of the populations works non-remote, and always has. The "everything is remote now" perspective is a very professional-class one. So, if you work for a place where most of the jobs by their nature cannot be remote, it will not be weird to want to be at work, it will be standard.

One bonus is that a lot of these places need IT help, and you may be appreciated more. Plus, a greater diversity of backgrounds among the people you work with.
Ask HN: Best Printable Calendars for 2022?
This doesn’t make any sense. The basic assumption of your comment doesn’t correlate with the real world.
I think you constructed and bravely defeated a weak strawman. My opinion is not akin to your parents' opinion at all. Everything comes with risk and reward, I was simply pointing out the risks. I never said "the reward isn't worth it". Diving into actions without understanding the risks is indeed a cognitive fallacy/blind spot.
Shhh I'm Sleeping
> Matrix isn’t it.

Why isn't it?

> If it was, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

Are you suggesting things don't take time and luck (i.e. initial conditions) don't play a role, especially with phenomena such as market consolidation?
I never thought about this scenario but now I am kind of scared. I guess that they would need a lot of data from my own voice to train a model like that. I am a kind of happy now that my podcast was taken down due to copyright infringment :)
Thanks. I never knew, plus I haven't troubled in 2 years :). What is a good recommendation?
You cannot send gold securely to anyone with an address. Even in advanced, stable countries, mail theft is common. In countries with high corruption, you are very likely to have your gold stolen. Sure, you need the internet to send BTC, but that’s not that big of an ask in this day and age.

Regarding smart contracts, yes they only work for on chain stuff. What do programmatic contracts using gold work on? Answer: nothing. Even if you used tradition contracts, you would need to hire a lawyer and still worry about how they’re written. You’d also need a strong legal system to enforce them.

Your criticisms are weird. You’re like “yes btc enables new things, but they aren’t 100% perfect so we should keep using this old thing despite its limitations.”
I was worried that people would take my comment literally. I consider it a sad sign of the times that anyone could think I was serious.
Inheritance taxes only apply to rich people. So, at best, that tells you rich people care about what happens to their descendents. Do you have any evidence rich people care about the descendents of poor people?
Because SIMs require the physical card. You cannot forge a SIM without the SIM itself. There's a physical second factor. Usernames and passwords get leaked all the time, and since Reddit et al are meant to be accessed by multiple devices, device-locking them would be antithetical and anti-consumer.

A phone service is implicitly device-locked (well, doesn't have to be, but it doesn't make sense to allow multiple devices per number anyway). Just using device credentials could allow anyone to log in with that information and use your subscription or pose as you.

As for ADSL or other forms of internet, there is already a second factor - ISPs generally know from which vicinity you are connecting from, and when you log in with your account information in your modem, they can match what's on your account to your physical "drop" and assert that it is at least within the same neighborhood - again, creating a physical second factor. This is also why your internet service generally needs to be "moved" whenever you change your residence.

A SIM card allows the freedom as the GP mentioned, without requiring someone from the centralized authority to process the request somehow.

There is a huge difference if you think about it for a bit.
I'd be real surprised if the neurons in our brains have ADC-equivalents better than ~4 bits.
Trees and algae don’t (by themselves) permanently sequester atmospheric carbon.
Malware is not impossible, but in my case, the password is stored in an encrypted keepass file. Did the malware wait for me to open my keepass vault and snoop the password then? Possibly. But it presumably could/would have done much worse things.

Other people in this thread are also confirming that their password was unused anywhere else.

And as more independent people are reporting the same story happening to them, the less probable it is that we were all hit with the same malware. It's looking more and more like this is something happening on the LastPass side.

A router/ISP should not be able to snoop the traffic between us and LastPass as presumably it's encrypted.
It could be written in a less snarky tone but afaik it is at least factually accurate.
If you are using a Debit Card, the amount will be held. It looks like it’s charged (and maybe your bank doesn’t show that) but there is a difference from the seller side.