skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To build robust systems, you ideally want heterogenous, redundant architecture, which translates to the same set of systems built on different platforms. Statistically speaking, unless there is something incestuous going on you aren't aware of with your cloud providers, it is unlikely all of your providers will go down at once.

Reconcilation and graceful fail over/propagation of state is left as an exercise to the student.
But we already do have alternatives. And people use them. And they're popular with the FOSS crowd. Might want to take another swing at this with a better argument?
The primary danger from British plugs is standing on them, barefoot.

German plugs are almost as safe electrically, and hurt less when trodden upon.
Some background https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSYeqZYgSUk
Could I interest you in a Rotring 600? Keep in mind I haven't used either of those you listed.

review: https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2012/3/5/rotring-600-drafting...

jet pens: https://www.jetpens.com/Rotring-600-Drafting-Pencils/ct/1109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objects_in_mirror_are_closer_t...
No, they don't.

Unless what you call emitting energy to be what you gain by dispersing it into the air (that we never capture, by the way), the energy cost of removing CO2 can be orders of magnitude lower than what we get by burning it. And if you are talking about the dispersion only, then it's exactly the same.
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You want to figure out the climate problem?

Think of climate rise as your body's temperature rising: when you're 1°C over normal, you're sick but that's manageable. When you're at +2°C you're really sick; 4°C over normal your life is at stake.

Or think about this: 20000 years ago, Scandinavia, Canada were under 2 or 3 km of ice (like Greenland today). The oceans were 120 meters lower than today. Most of today's temperate countries (Europe, USA, China) were a cold tundra with reindeer, wholly rhinos, bison and mammoths, cave bears and cave lions. In these harsh conditions, only a few hundred thousand humans could scrape by; and the average globe temperature was only 4 to 5°C lower than in 1850 (let that sink in).

The 4°C temperature rise that brought us the neolithic revolution, agriculture and the first population explosion, was a 4000 years affair. Now we're talking of bringing a similar change over the course of 100 years, on a crowded planet of 8 billion people. The question isn't "what could go wrong?" at this point, but can we imagine ways out of a looming catastrophe?
Places where the population is dense generally have much better public transportation, in the US. I've lived in the deep south for over 8 years and occasionally someone will mention "taking the bus" and it gets me every time. I've seen exactly three buses in those 8 years. Probably all the same bus, but three different times.

Los Angeles is an outlier, but it still has trains and buses, just less than I remember San Francisco having. If I were offered a job in Dallas/Ft Worth I'd honestly look into public transportation there beforehand. I cannot stand driving through and in those cities at all.
Am I worth preserving, except my ego?
Well this is pretty dumb if true. If someone willingly participates in a one-on-one conversation with you, and you can literally screenshot any of their messages that are so important they must be withheld, what's the point?
I wonder when they’ll finally do away with the charging port then—presumably at the same time they get rid of the SIM?
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Textual is developed by the author of Rich, the Python library for fancy formatting in the terminal. Is is a framework based on Rich for creating TUI apps. It is inspired by Vue.

The article points to a YouTube video https://youtu.be/bXgIj2cXaZ4, where Will shows how to style a 4-pane TUI with CSS-like configuration file. The styling also includes the ability to style based on whether a panel is active or not.

This looks really powerful. I expect to start seeing a lot more TUIs written in Python using Textual. It looks like it will be easy to quickly build a very nice terminal app with this.
> the people who do prefer WFH are sensitive about any suggestions that it isn’t universally superior.
yeah low level is relative. Assembly would be the place to manipulate hardware, but then developer need to have knowledge of the chip design, etc.

Depending on what you want to do. One can also go a level lower with machine code, or physics as how some quantum computers are coming on the scene now days.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212780:

Transfer an eSIM from your previous iPhone

To transfer an eSIM to your new iPhone, you can scan the QR code your network provider gave you, use your network provider's iPhone app or install an assigned mobile data plan. When your mobile data plan is activated on your new iPhone, the plan on your previous iPhone will deactivate.

There’s also https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210655: Find out how to transfer an eSIM or physical SIM from your previous iPhone to an eSIM on your new iPhone. You can also convert your physical SIM to an eSIM on your iPhone.

I think phones still can be SIM-locked, but AFAIK nothing changes there with eSIMs.
Licensing, hosting and privacy aside. IRC not having built-in chat history is actually a wonderful feature.

The Discord communities I’ve experienced are a mess of dozens of topic driven channels each with long backscroll and various pins to jump around to various points in the chat history. Conversations between the same set of people are fragmented across numerous topic channels. I find it hard to follow and cumbersome to find/search information.

IRC forces chat to be transient, and any information that should persist or reach a wider audience must be handled intentionally.
> how to think - how to deconstruct, compare, contrast, and reconstruct

That is not "how to think" in my opinion. That is how to split hairs. And the results of such education - or better said lack of results - are quite telling.

If we only talk about formal education math does a way better job of teaching you how to think.
Yes: https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/

> nearly 17% of the global road network was last edited by a corporate data-team member.
The standard operating procedure for turning this kind of problem into news is writing about it indignantly on one's blog, on Twitter, etc. and then linking to the newsworthy episode of shameful corporate insensitivity inspiring public outrage.

But this time it isn't mere indignation, the OP is desperate. How much money is involved matters.
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I think the problem is also the loss of control. I talked to someone today about this issue (for me its an issue) and this person did not even know what DRM is. If you do not know about something you can not build an opinion for or against it. Also you do not know if there is an alternative or another way. Therefore the dictation of hard- and software without the user really knowing whats going on is an actual issue. Content provider also do not want to inform their customer because perhapts they are no customers in the future if they know about their actual business process and monetizing.
Well they do say that they need rosetta just to compile, that once compiled it "works", though I agree it's still too shallow of an article.
I am not disagreeing with you on the what, just on the why.

> But what you're teaching her is to do things for your convenience in future.

God, I really hope not. There are a thousand different ways where one can "avoid any inconvenience". You can hire help. You can just shove all their things in their rooms and simply not worry about what they do with it.

The reason we teach the kids is because we love them and we want to instill important values in them. To repeat: convenience is the last of my concerns.

>"For your convenience" sounds terrible, like you're using the child as a slave

Not just that. It sounds like relationships are based on some sort of transactional nature. I don't go making around some kind of calculus about cost/benefit of each act or what I am getting from it. Love is selfless.
That's strange, because what I've seen all the time is companies don't prefer remote. Both big ones and startups. I thought I am the minority to want forever remote.
To be fair, the exposed pin problem is specifically a North American one - no EU product features all-metal pins. Only the the very tip is metal and half-inserted plugs cannot expose metal parts (you only have plastic exposed in that case).
I dread when construction starts near where I live, especially in the winter the beeping travels so far, makes me hate having the windows open.
I don't get how the DRM prevents a DVD player manufacturer from making a player that skips the "unskippable" ads. How does the content provider enforce that legally?
> There is no way to adjust individual consumption fast enough to fully decarbonize industrial economies so as to avoid 2C+ increases. Hence the systems problem.

I think there is, and it's trivial: don't use products from industries that are large contributors.

The problem is that everybody wants to keep using them (understandable) and somehow also make them produce less (also understandable, but wishful thinking). Feels like they're asking other people to stop in order to achieve that goal.

Sure, each person can drive half as much, or we can ask half of the population to stop driving (or travel half as much, or buy half as much x, or use half as much y). Maybe not the top 0.1% (they don't seem to care at all), but these demands reliably come from the top 1-5%, who are also reliably unwilling to make substantial changes personally, with their much larger contributions to the problem. And yet, "the system" is a lot of individuals making decisions. If you won't make them, how do you expect everyone else to?

It's like someone promoting veganism but continuing to eat meat themselves. I wouldn't believe that person is actually worried about meat consumption.

Again, you don't need to sell me on the whole idea, I already have a much lighter footprint than you (barely any traveling, no air-travel, no car, very well-insulated flat and all that jazz). Yet if you want to convince me that you're serious and I should do more, you'll have to do more. If you're racking up 40k miles in a plane every other year, I have trouble believing you. And from looking at the average person, they're not reaching those numbers either, so I find it very understandable if they have doubts as well.
See this article [1] for more detail on the problem. You will learn that the current beeps are poorly designed, do not do their job well as is, and are frequently so loud that they can damage worker’s hearing. As someone who got beeped on for months on end, I can confirm they routinely violate both OSHA worksite noise regs and municipal noise ordinances.

Unfortunately it will take decades for any change to happen to the 100000s of pieces of equipment out there, even in the best case. Under current regs operators can not update the beepers without approval from the manufacturer. It will take a lot of pressure from multiple sources for any change at all.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018517/
So Java, Groovy, Scala, Kotlin and Clojure aren't running on x86, nor ARM, nor Apple Silicon?
I believe you're halfway right.

The way I see the tech space today is that everybody likes pizza. Except back in the days, you'd have to go to the grocery store, buy your ingredients then cook it at home.

Today you have to drive for a 1-2 hours to find those ingredients, as people are simply not interested anymore in cooking, stores started just selling ready made pizzas.

In a few years you'd probably need to build a farm and start raising cattle. Or you could chose one of the five most popular pizzas from the supermarket. That's it, only five. It was deemed, by popular vote, or maybe "data shows", that those five pizzas are good, every other recipe is cancerous so it's outlawed.
Do you have any conception of how many rocks that you turn up plowing a field in New England? And that's in the places where somebody has been plowing the field for 300 or more years, picking rocks out of it every spring. I don't know where they come from, but there is a never-ending supply...

You've got to do something with them.
> probably because there's a waiting period (usually 48 hours) enforced where the current holder of the SIM card gets warnings about the impeding deactivation in other countries

Not sure what's going on in other countries, but back when I was a phone store monkey in the UK this was not the case. A SIM swap could be done immediately and the previous SIM doesn't get any notification. If I remember right we needed to check ID, but we had no way nor proper training to tell a potential fake ID, nor what counts as an acceptable ID (the UK doesn't have mandatory ID cards, so a lot of people don't have ID) - I would defer to my manager in this case but I'm pretty sure the whole process was really at their discretion and whether the whole thing "feels" legit. Making it look like we'd get a sale is an easy way to sway the odds in your favour (we'd need to access the account anyway to make the sale, so you can play along and buy a new plan, and once we pulled up the account you can mention "oh BTW I need a new SIM" and we would oblige).

Fun fact: to access someone's account in-store we had to either text them a code and enter it in the web UI (good!) or provide knowledge-based answers such as amount of last bill, some digits of the ID/driver's license number or a security question answer. There was bruteforce protection, but here's the fun part - it was presumably implemented on the frontend only because you could reload the page on the last attempt and reset the counter of attempts! There were no consequences that I know of (neither from the company nor a notification/follow-up with the customer) to locking out an account either.

At least part of the system was Java-based (it blew up occasionally displaying a full stack trace full of PII) and was available over the Internet (there was a site-to-site VPN for the store, but the URL nevertheless loaded on a standard internet connection when I tried it probably due to misconfiguration, so it's very likely all of that was exposed during the Apache Struts or Log4J vulnerabilities).

I think the reason SIM Swap fraud isn't as common in the UK is either because getting the money out is more difficult or because other scams (authorized push payment fraud, scammers pretending to be tech support or tax authorities, etc) are just more profitable.
> “We have been trying to resolve this issue ... we want to take it down,” the group said in an email to The Verge. “OpenSea involvement would make the job easy at this stage.”

OpenSea most likely doesn’t want to take them off of their platform. Doing so would be trivial, but it would shatter the illusion that NFTs and their linked off-chain content and metadata are “owned” by the purchaser.
Even farther back in history there have been massive anoxic ocean events in the fossil records. Based on what we've discovered they tend to correlate with other mass extinctions.
My teenager plays a game called Celeste (among other pretty difficult games). I grew with 80s and 90s games and Celeste looks like I would not bother (or possibly even be capable) to learn it, but he did over several painful and repetitive hours.

So it could be that the children are both ok and broken in new ways, like our generation was.
Interesting query. I wonder if anyone ever realized this had happened and came to the conclusion that the ceremony around it all, now that it's not on the "right" holy day, is completely man-made.
Note that I didn't mention GDPR or any regulation. Data export is for me a feature that makes it easier to walk away from a service (and, as a side effect, makes it easier to use the service by performing the export periodically and keeping an indexed copy of that data in your favourite database). What Discord offers doesn't help me walk away from it at all, so from my POV it's missing this feature.

Do you know why Google Hangouts and FB Messenger provide a data export that includes others' messages? Do they base it on a different interpretation of the law, or is there some other reason for them to do so?
Not GP, but in a cold winter month in New England, I can easily be over $700 for combined electric and natural gas (not all of which is fossil fuel, of course; some is distribution, taxes, salaries of workers, capital recovery, etc).

It’s a 1920s structural brick house with limited insulation, 1950s boiler converted to gas. My year-round average is just under $500/mo for the house and around $80/mo for our 25mpg Honda CR-V (other car is a LEAF).

Retrofitting the house to modern insulation is not remotely cost-effective. (We’ve already done the low-hanging fruit.) Modern boiler conversion is on the schedule for next summer, but driven in large part by wanting to reclaim space in the basement. Economically, that project probably won’t pay for itself either (absent the value of the space reclaimed). Buying a 40 mpg car to replace our perfectly functional 25 mpg 2005 CR-V to save $30/mo in fuel is economically nonsensical as well.

Fossil fuels are incredibly cheap and their cheapness makes them attractive to continue burning. As long as they stay cheap, people will continue to extract the surplus value from them.
The post is still up on the author’s self-hosted blog, no archive needed: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1363672582&count=1
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Indeed. If you buy a European 100hp quad bike in Europe you don't have to start by removing 20 stickers with silly obvious advice on it.

Are there exemptions from this in the US? I mean, are there things that are soo obviously dangerous and well-known, that stickers aren't needed because corporate lawyers feel safe? E.g. if you go buy a chef's knife, will there be stickers saying you shouldn't operate it drunk, and you have to read the instructions? If not, why?
I just had this happen to me as well. I don't use the password anywhere else and I also have it stored in keepass-x
The main difference is that, with OSM, a third party can make direct commercial profit from my edits, but so can anyone else including me.
I believe you just laid out the basic argument of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

At the risk of supporting your point, not all philosophy is based on this perspective :)
I can run a reverse-engineered client that just logs all the messages I ever receive, if I don't care about TOS.
Oh you think the cookie bs right now is bad for your privacy, can't wait for this eSIM shit show to come to light in a few year, it will be absolute privacy nightmare.
Would it? Unless the sound is produced from inside their body in the same manner as natural, no it will sound weird just like playing back your own voice.
Relocating people (whether intentionally or not) will be what destroys humanity first.

There is no scenario where billions of people leave the tropics and integrate conflict free into northern society. It's not even just down to cultural or racial issues, an agrarian population doesn't have many places to fit in an industrial economy and has no places to fit in a service economy.
It's cheaper from the point of view of entire societies, or the planet. But it's much more expensive from the point of view of a company to stop emitting now, compared to having someone else in the future pay to pull carbon from the air.
No and that is IMO the point of using OSM in the first place. The data is public and free for everyone and if you contribute there's the possibility of other services adopting your change. I know that mapbox integrates osm data, Google and Apple might too.
I sense sarcasm, but in case my sense is off, there is a webapp which allows you to log into your apple account and webapps are known to sometimes have security issues.
Yeah reality is weird. I often find myself thinking copyright and DRM should obviously be advantageous to the authors only to subsequently recall that before the printing press predictably made copyright a thing there was a much greater demand for new manuscripts as they would quickly lose their value once in circulation [1].

[1]: https://virginica.substack.com/p/the-printing-press-nfts-and... (it also talks about NFTs but that part is not relevant for this discussion)
Although a wonderfully pithy platitude this doesn't tell the whole story. Assholes often congregate in groups because they reinforce and enable each others' negative tendencies, so if you consistently meet a lot of them then it can also mean that you're at least an OK person that's bad at selecting friends, coworkers, or places to live.

People that exhibit bad behavior in peer groups that tolerate it love trotting this line out because it lets them invalidate others' valid criticisms of them.
It's interesting to point out that your answer does not defend the ethical aspect of Amazon and consequently your own choice. And you don't think that you can do anything to counter the bad side of it? Don't you think there is no externality that you should be paying for?
Yes, it is mentioned many times in the article itself; several paragraphs in fact.

Here is a few:

> Apple uses OSM data in parts of the world where their commercial partners don’t provide data. They are reasonably good at fixing and contributing data to OSM in those regions. They employ nobody in the OSM community.

> Microsoft Bing uses OSM in several regions, and is slowly moving from it’s traditional providers to OSM globally. They provide machine-learning (ML) datasets that they have computed from areal imagery. They employ nobody in the OSM community.
Seems like circular reasoning:

Being a part of the OSM community means they aren’t employed by OSM as employees. If they employ the person, they’re no longer a community member but an employee.

I don’t actually see the issue.
No taxes ever apply to rich people.

It’s only ever something that holds the working and middle class down.
Because of the new people who were born <25 years ago and never even used IRC.

They have the habit to use a web service for everything, or at most a phone native "app" that they expect to be distributed by and integrated with some centralized service that exercises total control.
Do you have a sample comparison between an expression/statement in math syntax versus in pseudocode syntax?
Maybe you didn't look? You can't see the shutters from the outside unless you look straight into them and they're painted red (mine aren't for example, so cannot tell until you plug something in).
There are probably some candidates in this other thread (making > $500/month): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

Calling @czue lol
> The fact that Great Zimbabwe is not as sophisticated as other civilizations of the same time-period

Then why call it "sophisticated"? Nobody would have had a problem with the article if it just stuck to proof of civilization. Even an extremely small enclosed area like this (not even a village) is still proof of people working together, ornaments speak for themselves, etc. That is clearly a civilization. They clearly had some engineering skill. But "sophisticated" and "triumph" are pathetic exaggerations which result in the exact opposite effect than what was intended.
I also just had this happen as well and have the same setup. Unique password stored in keepass-x and I use the chrome extension. I have very few installed though, so hopefully not a malicious one there.

installed extensions:
ublock origin,
OneTab,
Lastpass,
metamask,
cisco webex,
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In fact, that big players also use it supports your reasons: everyone contributing back data helps make OSM more useful.
have you ever considered working on other startups on the side, while $LARGE_CORPORATION decides when you should start doing actual work?