skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond this particular case, it happened something similar to me and other people i know (using burner chips, mainly); after a while of not paying the bill/adding credit to your line, the companies here cut the service and repurpose the number to sell again to a new person. This process, though, does not disable WhatsApp nor its backups if you already had a session open, so when you download WhatsApp to create your account with your "brand new" number, it instead logins to the account created before.

Then, it autodownloads all the data, keep chatting with their contacts, and everything you would normally do when you migrate an existing account to a new phone.

I fathom this is responsibility of the telcos that reuse the numbers, but it seems is already an established practice and apparently there is no procedure to disclose to most common services that the number is dead.

I thought something like that was going on, and even more reasons to move on from SMS/phone auth.
There are a few important facts missing from your analysis.

1) Omicron, although less deadly than Delta, is significantly more spreadable.

2) Omicron can infect and be transmitted through vaccinated people--although they do suffer even milder symptoms.

3) The logic behind restrictions is to flatten the hospitalisations curve. Because of how infectious Omicron is, even if there is a lower likelihood that a COVID patient will need ICU, if the number of COVID patients is huge, then ICUs will still be overwhelmed.

This is why it matters if students spread Omicron unchecked to their families. To clarify, this doesn't disprove your conclusion, but if your argument doesn't take into account these facts then it's "facts losing the information war" just as much as everything else.
It'd be Times-Irony otherwise.
According to this, the valuation of stocks in a different currency like euro or chf would look differently than in dollars, since the dollar price with respect to these currencies would have deviated.

Is this the case for another more stable currency ?
Here's some more similar joy for saturday night:
https://codepen.io/pakastin/full/gvppqr
I never said Bitcoin was good or bad, I said it was an engineering achievement. Crypto discussions are so toxic.
Agreed, the 10% seems like a solid estimate, at least for today, but it seems quite likely that new tech could bring that up to 15% or more, which is a 50% in efficacy. Wikipedia says that current panels are getting a 10% capacity factor now, which is only 40% - 50% of what can be had at sites with good solar. That capacity factor seems to be slowly climbing since 2008 as well.

This paragraph has some pretty bad predictions by MacKay though:

>The solar power capacity required to deliver this 50 kWh
per day per person in the UK is more than 100 times all the photovoltaics
in the whole world.

This is a completely irrelevant and pointless thing to state.

> At the start of this book I said I
wanted to explore what the laws of physics say about the limits of sus-
tainable energy, assuming money is no object. On those grounds, I should
certainly go ahead, industrialize the countryside, and push the PV farm
onto the stack. At the same time, I want to help people figure out what
we should be doing between now and 2050. And today, electricity from
solar farms would be four times as expensive as the market rate.

Overlooking that Solar PV had already fallen precipitously in cost in 2008, and assuming that a four-fold fall was not a given, was a huge mistake.

> So I feel
a bit irresponsible as I include this estimate in the sustainable production
stack in figure 6.9 – paving 5% of the UK with solar panels seems beyond
the bounds of plausibility in so many ways. If we seriously contemplated
doing such a thing, it would quite probably be better to put the panels in
a two-fold sunnier country and send some of the energy home by power
lines.

5% of the UK is about the same percentage of the UK that is occupied by houses and gardens. Putting solar panels on all roofs could probably get to 10 kWh/d or more. Converting only a very small amount of arable land, which has already been taken out of nature, to solar panels, could get the UK to 5% easily.

The skepticism of solar and embrace of tech like clean coal and nuclear were big misses here.
> as to a layman the dictionary definition is completely inscrutable.

This isn't written for laymen, who would obviously never be reading about what SystemD is. It's written for specialists who do engineering work on or with Linux, and who actually need to know the technical details of their tools.

And anyway, I suspect plenty of laymen, and highly trained professionals in other fields like law, medicine, and philosophy among others, would have no trouble understanding what "idempotent" is. It's not inscrutable at all, but rather is one of the easiest concepts in CS and software engineering to understand.
Once again, I don't blame you at all for engaging in investment or speculation or whatever. I'm not concerned with individual action, I'm concerned with the systems that drive those actions. If bitcoin didn't exist you'd presumably be doing something else to feed your family, so the question in my mind is this:

- what real world utility is realised by the introduction of a new system?

- what real world cost is realised?

- how does it shape people's behaviour?

Note that none of these is a criticism of the individuals engaging with the system. It's about the impact of the system itself. Now from where I stand this is how bitcoin plays out:

- negative utility: high electricity and CO2 cost

- negative utility: labour does not provide material benefit (financialised)

- negative behaviour: increased cultural propagation of scamming, speculation and other results of financialisation

- mixed behaviour: cultural hub of libertarianism

- mixed utility: provides a space for unregulated financial transactions. Negative: scams, blackmail, other financial crimes. Positive: paying financially isolated and unbanked people. Mixed: purchase of contraband.

Which is to say, the ratio of positive to negative, especially weighting the impact of increased CO2 emissions (which is a potentially existential threat in the medium term and a mere catastrophic threat in the short term), is pretty shockingly bad.
>You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal.

In New York Cuomo killed many of these people early on.
You still don't choose forging as a process to make quantity 2 (unless you absolutely need forged parts for strength). Instead, you're milling two parts from billet.

Milling 2 parts from billet is cheaper per unit than milling 1 (some shared setup and programming costs), but it's the same amount of raw material and basically the same amount of operator time.
Yeah it's interesting how 2021 became the year where big pharma became trustworthy, has all of our best interests in mind always and never shoves shady research under the rug and never ends up settling in court for shady and/or unethical practices.

Today they are perfect, they can do no wrong, it's highly immoral to question them, their motives and their products. It's crazy. It's a bit like living in an ongoing The Onion article.
Vaccines work very well. Vaccinated people have COVID hospitalization rates an order of magnitude lower than do unvaccinated people.

In the US we have about 25% of adults unvaccinated, but it varies greatly from region to region. We've got plenty of counties where over 50% of adults are unvaccinated.
I think this depends nowadays. For mainstream movies and shows at quality that would be equivalent to watching on streaming services, public is fine.
> Exactly.

> “Idempotent” is one of the key words used as a cudgel in this way. It’s great for the bullshit artist, as to a layman the dictionary definition is completely inscrutable.

Are you saying that being "idempotent" is completely inscrutable? Is it not a fairly straight-forward concept?
Where does the "100% purely functional" requirement come from? By some strict definition, this is impossible, because you'd not have any means of communicating the result of your computation.

In pure OOP speak: A "final static" method is easier to reason about than some non-static, non-final method. (But when a method is defined as "final" and "static", the providing class only serves as a namespace - where is the OOP in that?)
You can start here,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machine...

Then dive into the public documentation of each of those listed there, specially the ones that aren't plain rebranding of OpenJDK.
Just a detail, but there is no such thing as a "red dress shirt." You might have a red button-down shirt, but that would definitely not be considered a "dress shirt" nor would it be appropriate for a workplace where people where suits and ties. Not even "business casual." Such a shirt would only be ok if it's the kind of place where jeans are ok.
I highly disagree. Sure, it contains a lot of buzzwords, but it clearly describes systemd and its philosophy in a single paragraph. It's not the first thing you should throw at someone unprepared (because then it would really be intimidation), but it prevents you from reading 20 pages of documentation and not getting the gist.

Sometimes, a concise, high-level overview is what you need.
Looks like it's a tweet from Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP at Google for Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Play, Comms and Photos

https://twitter.com/lockheimer/status/1479865157753147395

See also https://twitter.com/Android/status/1479875457667448837
> I think Apple should ship iMessage for Android.

I kinda do and don't want this.

I think the ideal would be that Apple just support RCS on iPhones (and work with the people who define RCS to fix any perceived deficiencies, if any) and allow iMessage to fade away.

Second would hold their noses and work with Google to add iMessage support to the Android Messages app. I really don't want yet another chat app on my phone.

But yeah, at the absolute very least, Apple should release a version of iMessage for Android. I get why they don't, but screw that. They claim to be champions of security and privacy, but intentionally degrade the security and privacy of their own customers any time they want to converse with an Android user.
Teens? This happens well into your 20s lol. I've always had iPhones but heard experiences like these from Android-using friends.
> huge costs in subsequent runs

Often that's because they have to rebuild and reset the tooling. Within the run, though, the incremental cost should be minimal.

The huge costs may be huge, but not huge compared to the cost of the prototype.
Shameless plug, I wrote a snake tutorial for bevy that’s become pretty popular, and just updated it for 0.6. https://mbuffett.com/posts/bevy-snake-tutorial/
I don't think it's an accident.
His name is Lennart Poettering, and apparently he was tasked with reinventing the entire operating system
Small correction in case others wanted to go down this rabbit hole (which I’d recommend!): It’s Santa Fe Institute, not a university
On the contrary, I don’t think you know what those words mean. Bitcoin is neither fungible or decentralized.

Mining is completely dominated/centralized by ASIC farms run by huge mining cartels.

Also, buying Bitcoin from someone else inherits that coin’s entire history. If those coins were stolen at some point you could become liable. Bitcoins are non-fungible.
In those cases, your computer is managed by IT anyway, with remote access.
I love going into a restaurant, wearing my mask while the host walks me to my seat, surrounded by unmasked people talking loudly, then sitting down and removing my mask. And if I don't do this, I'm not allowed to enter the establishment. It's all big joke.
Given the iPhone shipped for 3 or 4 years with only green bubbles (for SMS, pre iMessage) it’s definitely not intentional.
For example in Czechia there are many diverse courses and whole programs/degrees in English with no requirement of the local language.

The majority of universities (public and private) offer them to foreign students - and for a very low fee ($2000/year or so).
I doubt South America particularly wants it back - I worked on quite a few of the South America rallies and it was quite clear that many countries didn't want it and couldn't afford it towards the end.

It was particularly interesting driving through Bolivia one year with some of the locals in some towns literally hurling whatever they could at the service vehicles....
I guess dang and ycombinator are abusing me for making me read your comment with light gray text color.
> Yes, but the data has diminishing returns as well.

I find that hard to believe considering there's literally a universe of things to look at. We find surprising things everywhere we look.
Found my mistake, too late to edit my previous comment: the plant I know as “Spitzwegerich” is not what you and other English speakers call Queen Anne’s Lace at all! I have no idea where I got that as the English name for Spitzwegerich.

“Spitzwegerich” (has several names in English, none of which are Queen Anne’s Lace) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_lanceolata

The leaves are the most interesting part, but I’ve eaten the heads and roots, too.

Do NOT attempt to make cough syrup from Queen Anne’s Lace greens.
Agreed. I tried to implement a simple bot that would notify me about home security stuff but it ended in a rabbit hole that all points to a git comment of one of the devs stating possible account bans if an account is used for automated messages or even person to person messages using anything other than the official app.
Apple could easily end this by adopting RCS support into iMessage. Android's RCS implementation is very good and the default these days, at least for Google and Samsung phones. It's an open standard. As the article points out, Apple executives know it's not in their business interest to allow this kind of interoperability so they won't do it.

All of this reminds me, exhausted, of the long sad story of AOL Instant Messenger and Microsoft's attempts to integrate with it. AIM was at one point even compelled to support interop as part of the anti-trust review for the Time Warner merger. But it never actually happened.
Anyone and his dog can use WhatsApp. You don't have to buy a specific phone to use it.
Every bit of data in the US, from hospital reports to anecdotal stories told by nurses and doctors, tells the exact opposite. Hospitalized and ICU'd COVID patients are unvaccinated.
I asked my kids about this. Both of them have cheap Android phones on a cheap plan, as do I. My phone is a $25 refurb. They know that they can get jobs and buy whatever they want, but it's apparently not that important to them.

I asked: "Have you heard of the green bubble?" Both of them said it was basically a non issue, kids figure out how to get in touch with the people they want to get in touch with.

The only exception was, my daughter said her violin teacher was puzzled why her texts were a different color than everybody else's.

From talking to people, I had formed the impression that people buy iPhones because they are the default, like IBM. Parents get the same thing for their kids, that they're using themselves.
Brother printers are also a good "family printer" (the one you buy so you dont have to fix the printer every N months through the phone).
For one thing make is imperative and doesn't actually know what it's doing. Systemd is declarative. You'd need to replace all the options service files give you.

Make doesn't do dependencies between unrelated projects. A makefile can't say "I want to run if X runs, but I should run before them".

Make doesn't have supervision, you'd need some kind of declaratively configured poller.

Systemd is also parallel, there's probably some complexity there that make might or might not handle well.

I think the most important problems would only be obvious once you started using a replacement system though. Systemd almost totally replaces the need for any imperative code whatsoever for process autostart, configuration, and supervision, and that might be hard to do in a more modular setup.

You don't need extra stuff besides the service file. Everything is extremely consistent and done the same way for every service.
It’s tolerated because it was forced upon people by distros. I don’t know anybody who likes it, and I would happily rip it out if it wasn’t so much work to do so.
Rehypothecation, Leverage, Derivatives and Debt. Absolute Numbers are meaningless, kind of a fantasy really, and only impact most economic players locally and within the respective market. Occasionally the thing falls apart because there was too much of those 4 things at play.

Hmmm.. We can put point in time estimates of how much everything on the planet costs -- what are the desirable assets, that people will want to store wealth in, I think the three main ones in the 21st century are:

* Real Estate -- every place you can live or work, provide shelter and a place to store other physical stuff.

* Equities, Financial Derivatives, Securities, Funds, weird financial instruments that someone convinced someone else to list on a market

* Cryptocurrencies -- distributed ledgers run by computers around the world

Everything else is stuff, and is bound by the real estate. Most stuff can be made to a limit bound to the other stuff (resources, minerals). The important stuff like rocks and minerals are tracked by the financial instruments section. We do need to factor in the cost of the stuff, but often this is contingent on the labor that can harness it. Supply chain disruptions in the last 2 years have their cause from people getting sick and unable to work, or transport the stuff.

These things need to be bought with 'money', and most people earn money through employment or receive an allowance from the State.
Probably needs a big ‘American’ caveat because iMessage (and SMS) seems to be much less popular outside the US. WhatsApp (or other fb messengers) tend to be the most popular choice where I live. I’d never heard of a ‘greentexter’ until I went to the US but on the other hand Android phones allow 10-finger multitouch which is pretty useful for Chwazi.
Well the last part of my original comment was that most people just don't interact with crypto in the first place, which is what you seem to mean by retail exposure.

As for the rest, I disagree. If a million people lose 10% of their savings it matters more than if a thousand people lose 10% of their savings, and that's why market caps matter for anything publicly traded. The amount of money is what matters, and that's measured by market cap. Sure, we can get down into more granular details like how much of that market cap is the float, are people investing into certain stocks using their Roth IRA, or whatever other details - but the amount of money drowns out these factors in the aggregate.

Agree to disagree. Cheers.
> The beast part was more for how contagious it is.

A beast compared to what? Common colds in previous years? Previous influenza strains?

> As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best.

You got 3 shots, wear a mask (it sounds like outside), lord knows what else. And you’re still worried about long term side effects from a cold? Can you quantify your risk of serious side effects from this illness?
This is an important document and the best piece of writing I've ever seen on the topic of systemd.
Yes, this. The problem with systemd isn't systemd. It's that it never really replaced the other "legacy" parts effectively. Networking is a fantastic example. I'd be OK if there was one-definitive-place to configure networking, but when I read an article or follow a stack-overflow post, I'm not sure if what I'm changing is the most correct change or if its deprecated in favor of something newer. Systemd, I thought, would help settle this problem, but instead has only contributed to it.
An "astounding" achievement, you called it.

We get the achievement part. But the astounding part, no.
Currency you use to pay for the execution of programs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Whenever you use a smart contract, you pay for it using these coins. For example, swapping ETH for some random scamcoin is a smart contract function call that costs ETH to run. Binance coin works the same way, except it uses BNB instead and is a lot cheaper due to the centralized validators.
So google made you a premium user.
I wish there were a FAQ. This comes up every single time there's a thread about Webb on HN. Search previous posts. You'll see a hundred answers to your question, some of them well researched.
".... and found that someone was about to release TCP/IP for Linux" (Fred van Kempen, linked interview 1992)

Wow. I had forgotten how ropey early Linux was. I mean, I rip on Windows folk about early versions of Windows prior to 98SE or NT4 (and can recall having to install Winsock on a home Win95 install and thinking why the hell????) but finding out 30 years later that my early struggles with Linux were not entirely down to my own incompetence is ... refreshing. I mean how do you Google (ok in those days Altavista!) a "how to" if the network stack is borked? How do you even download the drivers or updates if the interface fails to come up?

It sounds silly but I'm so glad to know it wasn't something I was doing wrong on my end. 30 years later and dayamn!
Unfortunately, you only have to compete with real users using that specific feature, and there aren't that many when measured against the power of even cheap attacks.
I just realised an interesting symmetry - The right is more successful at loading the left's own terminology with negative connotations, while the left is more successful at adjusting definitions of shared language. I wonder whether this has something to do with the implicit communication styles of the respective tribes... Any theories?
What does a non-binary threshold look like, and how is it different from just fine-tuning a regular binary threshold to err more or less on the side of caution?
JWST versus LUVOIR-A... just wow! Imagine difference in quality of pictures!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Ultraviolet_Optical_Infr...
It affects the runtime of the hashing.
That's true, but we also shouldn't characterize this as a defacto one. Insane quarantine regulations basically prevent teachers from coming to school at all if they have even been in contact with anyone who later tested positive, whether or not they are sick, test negative, or have 3 shots. If we saw this same situation sans government regulations then we could conclude it was organically spawned, but that isn't the case here.
To be fair ESA contributed only with ~10% of total budget, and I guess much of that was the rocket.
There are plenty of universities in non-English-speaking countries around the world that offer degree programs taught mostly or entirely in English, where students still need to prove proficiency, but in English instead of in the local language.

And as the article points out, Japan does have different admission criteria for international students, it's just that foreign-born children don't usually qualify for "international" treatment if they graduate from a Japanese high school.
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was it https? makes it a bit trickier if it is as you would have to self sign the cert.
guy is use ida pro. i assume they know how dns works
How lucky you are not having to worry about co-morbidity.

I'm sick and tired of people generalizing their own conditions to the entire population. You are not like everyone else. Stop telling other people they don't need to worry.
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Part of it was political, but it was also just practical. Poettering's designs are some of the worst for usability I've ever seen. They technically work, but you need a million StackOverflow Q&As to figure out how to get anything done or solve the many common problems.

It's like somebody decided that the problem with Linux was it wasn't complicated enough. And then everbody just went with it.