skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that the author has seen all kinds of oddness while contracting, but I think they have seriously mis-diagnosed some or all of the problem.

I mean, sure, it would be really nice to pour concrete and wait for it to thoroughly completely and totally dry before starting to build a house on it. And any builder that did that would be run out of business by those builders that start building as soon as the surface level dries, and therefore finishes weeks earlier. So the metaphor doesn't even work as a metaphor, let alone in practice.

Because in practice, the companies that spent the time to get everything lined up perfectly before launching were beaten to market by companies that iterated. They started with a skateboard, upgraded to a bicycle, at some point added a motor, and later some seats, and so on, with revenue from customers paying for the upgrades.

The bit about lockin and high expenses with server less seemed extra-strange to me, given that my company, 22 years in, replaced VMs in a datacenter with AWS serverless stacks and cut costs dramatically. Sure, we couldn't easily migrate away from AWS if we wanted to, but... I don't know if you've noticed, but AWS seems to be growing, not shrinking. Amazon is delivering extraordinary value for a wide variety of use cases, and choosing an inferior tech stack to avoid lock-in seems really, really dumb.

Anyway, bizarre misguided rant, IMO.
Wait, Cisco already do this
This is such a bullshit argument nowadays. There are an estimated 113 million iPhone users in the United States [1]. That's ~half of the smartphone market, and ~half of the number of adults in the US. Apple sells brand new iPhones starting at $400. Samsung sells brand new Galaxy phones at base storage starting at $1800.

Apple's best selling main-line product in 2021 was not the iPhone. Not Mac. Not the Watch or iPad. It was Airpods. Normal Airpods, not even the Pros. The cheapest product to ever be graced with a top-page tab on apple.com, Apple sells tens of millions more Airpods than iPhones. And why wouldn't they? They're cheap! Because, hate to break it, but Apple isn't a premium brand; they're just a brand.

The iPhone is about as premium a smartphone as Target is a premium store, and this notion that Apple still exclusively services the premium segment probably comes from some combination of Apple users wishing they were rich & special, and even Android users looking to play the everyman victim. None of that is valid. But it gets applied to justify Apple's unprecedented control & tax over commerce on their platform; its alright because it only impacts rich people, if you want access to the rich people you gotta charge the rich people more, and make the rich gatekeeper even richer. In reality, all it serves to do is make everyone poorer; it serves to limit affordable access to goods and services; and it makes Apple rich.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/232790/forecast-of-apple...
Why do you think go is bad?
I don't understand this argument. Would it apply anywhere else? Could some company sell houses where they demand 30% of the price of every appliance you buy? You're the housing company's customer so they're bringing you their customers apparently.
Could some car company demand 30% of all gas, tires, oil, and electricity? You're the car company's customer. Could a refrigerator company demand 30% of all groceries you put in it?

There have been laws that disallow you to limit customer choice. For one example, a company can't force you to buy 1st party parts for repairs

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2018/04/...

You're position seems to be if they can prevent people from doing something with their device they don't like and people still buy it then that's ok. So if a sofa manufacture found a way to prevent people of color from sitting on it and people bought it that would be perfectly fine by your position I guess. I could certain make a fridge that complained if you put something in it that had no RFID tag and that those tags must correspond to items they've licensed.

In any case, my position is, no company should have that kind of power, period. A house company shouldn't be able to decide who my guests are who what items I put in it. A fridge company shouldn't be able to decide what items I keep cold. A cabinet company shouldn't be able to to decide what I store in my cabinets. And a computer company should not be able to decide what I can run on my computer (smartphones are computers).
crontab.guru is really amazing
Not likely. Chinese authorities will demolish whole district and build a stadium in its place if they have to to bury the truth and erase bad memories.
> differential geometry is the study of properties that are invariant under change of notation

That ought to go on a t-shirt.
Second this. I haven't tried proxychains. iptables with redsocks[1] for redirection works pretty nice.

[1] https://github.com/darkk/redsocks
Who is Tom Lane?
Essential enough to work during a pandemic, but inessential enough to be given health care to survive the pandemic. How fucking disgusting.

I try to advocate for pacifism as much as possible, but it's miracle and a blessing more acts of domestic terrorism/conflict aren't committed, and I wouldn't be surprised if starting see more (in the US). I strongly believe Covid is nothing more than a "Test" -- not by some divine entity, but if we, as humanity, do not take climate change more seriously, then we haven't seen shit yet.

We'll have even more displaced, disgruntled, and broken people.

People can only take so much before they break e.g. 1917 Russia

Like Voltaire said, "When the poor have nothing left to eat, then they will eat the rich."

I hope all these selfish "knowledge" workers can disassemble, clean, and reassemble an AR-15 because if shit hits the fan, knowing the ins and outs of dependency injection in next month's Bullshit.js and your salary + total compensation won't save you.
we can't accurately predict tomorrows weather or even trajectories of hurricanes, but lets go with this idea that the modeled weather forecast that's a decade out is realistic

What will you do to drive change?
I live on Earth, you're ignoring my questions, and I'm flagging your post. Try to do better.
> They even support a hit counter pixel instead of adding a script

Or putting the pixel in a noscript tag lets you have some stats when JS is disabled.
CO2, or CO₂ ?
My experience with the USPS stamp vending machines since long before the pandemic is that they are out of stock about half the time.
I have one and it's working perfectly. I use it to store bags of bird seed in my shed, where there are most definitely mice present. So far this winter there's been no sign of them getting in and having a feast.
You don't need VPNs to bypass censorship blocks in India. Well, at least in my experience.

Apps that manipulate TCP packets locally to break fingerprinting [0] like GoodbyeDPI (Windows) [1], GreenTunnel (cross platform CLI) [2], Intra (Android) [3] have been adequate.

[0] https://nitter.net/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992 (https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992)

[1] https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

[2] https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel

[3] https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/intra
Great pull quote.

For people new to the Tully-Fisher relation, the essence of it is that at galactic scale, gravity is not like v^2/r = GM/r^2.

It's more like v^2/r ~ sqrt(GM/r^2), so v^4 ~ M
Owning property means one has property rights. The right to sell it is one of those rights.
I wasn't aware you could block email-based messages. I did a quick online search, but didn't find any T-mobile documentation for this. Do you when're I can learn more about it?
They did sue Epic over Fortnite Battle Royale, but they ended up dropping the suit. Game mechanics are not subject to copyright in the US, and Fortnite probably doesn't borrow anything copyrightable from PUBG.

This lawsuit does include some things that Epic took from PUBG (like a fixed island map that you airdrop into), but its claims that those particular things are copyrightable creative expressions are questionable. Hell, they include "a grid map with a two-letter coordinate system", "health packs taking a while to apply", "needing to scavenge equipment", "realistic weapons", and "damage based on hit location" in the lawsuit. It also makes some claims that just obviously aren't true ("unlike other shooter games, Battlegrounds does not display designators above opposing game characters"). But it also includes some aspects which are more obviously unique to PUBG, like the frying pan being usable as invulnerable butt armor.

Free Fire looks much, much closer to PUBG than Fortnite BR. The screenshots in the complaint are pretty convincing. As someone who hasn't played PUBG for a few years, you could easily trick me into thinking this was a new version with updated textures. It even has a frying pan that can be used as a weapon or as invulnerable butt armor, and a "chicken dinner" victory screen!
That is a SOCKS5 proxy (as you said), however SSH can pass IP packets or Ethernet frames:

https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/ssh-ip-tunnel.txt.htm
The mice aren't getting in unless they figure out how to use an angle grinder :-)

The city supplies me with a garbage toter (that fits their garbage truck mechanism). The squirrels bore a hole through it and raid it constantly. Replace the toter, and another hole in it a day or two later. I'd open the lid to throw in more trash and they'd hide inside, but I could usually see their twitching whiskers. I didn't really mind it so much, until the raccoons started in on the fun and would strew the garbage all over the driveway. I finally resorted to storing the garbage in a steel can, and dump it in the toter only on trash pickup day.
I always assumed they were just a vestige. I imagine the top brass at most carriers don't even know this exists.
They are both islands, duh! Nobody came up with this concept before!!7! other than all the things PUBG copied when its creator pivoted from copying Zombie games (in DayZ).
The pro-IP crowd has officially become self-parody if you guys are passing that around as a "copy."
I have an eneloop bundled that charged individually... BQ-CC55
But buying stock means you don’t own it (otherwise you wouldn’t need to buy it), so your property rights aren’t being violated.
Spent few months there at one of the biggest companies. Left due to personal preference.

Try Samsung/etc (ie the big ones) you won’t even have to worry about visa etc. It was as if the local (in my country) Samsung office issued visas.

(I don’t know how much important it’d be for you - especially given the situation - but you might want to check about work life balance situation in that country esp at big ones.)
I understand there are probably a lot of startups trying to solve this from the supplier side but are there any startups working at solving this from the customer side?
Same here. Have had many of them leak before the due by date :(
Many SMS pay-per-use plans charge per message received.
I think it's an interesting topic. Rather than lumping the author in with criminals and scammers, who would of course love nothing better than to take money from naive people (anonymously or not), try to identify what it would take to make you trust a pseudonymous organization or identity. For example it needs a track record you can validate. Valuable real-world holdings or a business or something else you could take legal recourse against. One certainly wouldn't give anons with nothing but an idea a million bucks quite so readily as people with real identities. But then part of the reason for that investment is the verifiable resume showing skills and experience in the right things. So you'd need some alternative that is similarly confidence-building in some other way.
:) Brings back memories of doing this in 2002 to blast out Student Government campaign messages to students on campus. Back then email servers were very forgiving. I just had a loop that generated all combinations of <phone-number@carrier-x> and send out an email from a campus IP address via sendmail. It was a very effective way to send notifications at almost zero cost.
Incorrect. In places where there is a policing mechanism they moderate their behavior, and so do less harmful things.

Where there is not, they do not have to.

> into a benign technology

It’s not benign. It’s unpoliced, so sociopaths have no disincentives.
If anyone wants to play around with this old-school, here's a text based Python script that drops various things simultaneously and prints a table of position and velocity over time relative to the starting point. https://pastebin.com/q1NGv71W

Predefined things you can drop are basketball, bowling_ball, massive_sphere, dense_sphere, lead_sphere, pine_sphere, pingpong_ball, ant, rat, cat, person, and phone. You can add other things if you know their mass, cross sectional area, and coefficient of drag.
There are GET A COPY buttons for both bookstores and libraries under the summary at the top of the page.
I agree that Eric's blog is great for getting updates on what's going on, and I've been following it for years. But he is very one-sided in his opinions about decisions, particularly on controversial issues like section 230. I have to remind myself he's an academic (though at a law school) and I'm not just reading some defense firm's memos.
strange, since the pubg map is itself a copy of chernarus from dayz, which apes off of real places.
> But once the news cycle was over it was quietly, rapidly, and largely repealed:

The substance of that article only says that the online public disclosure requirements were narrowed from encompassing all Federal and Congressional employees to only elected officials and key appointees. If you read the Whitehouse signing statement (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...) linked by the article, this is more clear. Employees' disclosures were taken offline out of privacy concerns, apparently. The article is somewhat ambiguous on this point, and hints at more significant changes, but I take it as rhetoric, otherwise it would have been relatively easy to be crystal clear on these points. (Shame on the reporter, but at least such unquestioned political cynicism is non-partisan.)

Perhaps there have been subsequent amendments as well. Nonetheless, according to this April 2020 research paper, https://www.nber.org/papers/w26975, Senators have underperformed the market since 2012.

EDIT: And most obvious, if trading disclosures of elected officials weren't still available online, then websites like https://senatestockwatcher.com/ wouldn't exist.
Yep and if the IP-warriors had their way there would be no Halo, no Everquest/Wow, etc. Its just incredible how these people back the most corrupt corporation's laziest IP theft claims and jump to defend them and mock everyone else as a "rip off."

Heck, even your example of Warfcraft wouldn't have happened because by the pro-IP crowd's standards, it would have been a "rip-off" of Dune II.

I remember when the tech community fought overly broad IP claims and patents, now its just pro-IP shills left and right. Its incredible how far we've fallen.
If you know nothing about Crystal, and seem unable to provide any evidence that you have anything of note to add about Ruby, then you have no way of knowing if Crystal can be a drop-in replacement for Ruby, and why you’re using quotes around “drop-in” when you’re the only person on the entire page to have used that word is telling.

Mendacious to the last. If you find a way to make a substantive or informed observation then do let me know, otherwise, please save it for your friends on Reddit.
For your photos to be always available from anywhere an ipfs pinning service would need to be used. Either one provided as part of the service (in which case "They" would have your photos) or others the service integrates with. In either case you are depending upon specific ipfs nodes for the permanence of your photos. Something happens to those nodes and it could be goodbye photos.
Doctors and scientists call on Spotify to create misinformation policy
Concerning Commonwealth Colleges: Money-Losing Degrees Abound
So, how do you lookup a phone number's provider for free?
Because eff the deep ocean and whatever lives there, right?
Configure the enforcement only for `main` and other release/production branches, let people push whatever they want to their dev/feature branches.

When those branches are attempted to be merged they'll fail due to having bad commits and require fixing.
Yup. I actually was successful in negotiating lower rent increases for many years in the same building. About 3 years ago they stopped budging.
Too much money chasing too few good causes inflation.
Cool, it's like an AI-generated picrew
the implication that open source/contract makes this inherently more fair than say the US SEC regulated markets due to complexity seems questionable to me.

As a platform trends towards complexity the expertise to audit and validate similarly rises.

Code being published does not necessarily equal code being audited.
Sigh. As I've said in other posts, if any experiment of this sort were the source of sars-cov-2, it would be -blindingly- obvious. The synthetic metagenomic experiments looking into spike, etc. leave completely obvious traces, number one being the use of known, characterized viral vectors. Using some random isolates as experimental vectors is not only methodologically pointless and counterproductive, it's vastly more difficult to do.
A protocol / organization called Kleros is one attempt to solve this problem. A group of addresses that they attempt to verify as real people look at “evidence” and arbitrate disputes - those who vote in the minority lose money. Like most of these solutions (including escrow contracts) there’s a lot of uncertainty whether they will work in the long run. There was already a pretty bad case where Kleros ran some competition to “prove” their arbitration system worked and it arguably failed [1].

Your first scenario is definitely worrisome. I’m pretty sure it also happens all the time in the real world, just with the definition of “entity” being family or friend group.

[1] https://blog.kleros.io/kleros-vs-cat-in-the-snow-the-escrow-... - this is the Kleros side of the story, couldn’t find the claimant’s. But the reasoning shows that the jurors and Kleros have little to no training in legal interpretation
It's the manager who's strange for promoting an unconscious person to cashier.
Well, those come together, don't they. Postulating dark matter without any coherent behavior is easy, but useless. It has to behave like something.
I believe you are referring to the gov.uk Verify service [1]. It's still in existence, but on it's way out due to poor uptake.

It was pushed agressively at one point by GDS, but despite what it claims about being easy to use, it provided a poor user experience, with very high failure rates for certain demographics.

Universal login, which was the vision for this product for UK government services, is a seemingly appealing proposition but if a high percentage of people can't use it, it's pretty much doomed.

The various UK government departments adopted it sparingly or developed alternatives, which further undermined it.

1 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk...
Well they do catch droplets, but only enormous ones that would fall almost immediately to the floor.

We really need to be honest with people about masks and stop pretending like they do anything if they aren’t at least surgical, clean, and fitted correctly on the face.
Isn’t that material for a good song right there
It's actually a simpler concern. Literally, what is that account?

Like what is it? Something that has no activity on HackerNews for 15 months, then first thing it says is rude and false.
Adblockers block all of those services, right?
Could it be something as simple as ignoring that we're all touching our masks, our clothing, our eyes. Basically, did we optimize one part of the problem while ignoring all others and the net effect is basically zero?
the footnote says that sometimes identities are revealed to stakeholders.
Actually, I did decide to move.
Oh man, I looked up hantavirus, scary stuff. Sorry you had to go through that.

Thankfully there's only been 4 known cases in my state since at least as far back as 1996, but still.

Now I'm starting to rethink the live traps. Also I'm going to be extra careful in the basement, and might throw out more stuff than I was going to before. Great.

Also not going to do what I was planning to do and clean everything up slowly over weeks, even while recently capturing the mice.
Remember the fight for net neutrality? Well a lot of the infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by private companies. e.g. Comcast, Verizon.

If Comcast (Google) and Verizon (Apple) both charged 30% markup on anything you bought on Amazon, would you think that's reasonable? Without them, you wouldn't be able to purchase anything at all, of course!

Electric, water utilities are private companies.

There will likely be a legal framework that develops to define a threshold and definition for when something constitutes a "platform" with sufficient market size such that competition within the platform be allowed.
Sorry, but stocks are clearly property.

> But buying stock means you don’t own it (otherwise you wouldn’t need to buy it)

That doesn't even make any sense.
Here's a fun story from back in the decade-ago-ish days: My wife couldn't stand cellphones, so I got her hooked on Google Voice for texting, which was great -- texts would show up in the gmail inbox, and you could just reply to them like emails. Calls were forwarded to the landline, voicemails showed up as attachments. Elegant, and free.

She was also hooked on the brand new "Kindle Keyboard 3G", which came with unlimited cellular data so you'd be able to buy ebooks at any time, without wifi. It also had a primative web browser that was capable (just barely) of running the gmail web interface... so voila, it's actually an e-ink tablet, with email and SMS capability! She'd have to manually load the kindle browser to check for messages -- great, really, because who wants to be interrupted with a notification while reading a book?

But after a few semi-urgent texts went unnoticed, I dreamed up a solution: change the Kindle's name based on the number of unread texts. This wouldn't interrupt reading, but it would be visible on the kindle's home screen, a good compromise.

So I hacked up a python/applescript/firefox script running on my mac mini home server. every 5 minutes it would log into her gmail account, check for unread text messages in the gmail inbox, and then log into her amazon account and update the kindle's name from "Wife's Kindle" to "Wife's Kindle (x)". It was beautiful. It worked!

It didn't work forever. Eventually the gmail web app was updated with too much javascript for the kindle browser to handle. Eventually that kindle broke. Eventually the mac mini died too. But for a while I had a full 3/5ths of FAANG cooperating for my little kindle hack. Fun times.
use Postgres instead of MySQL
Really? I can't. Why would pizza dough be made of plastic when it appears so bread-like? It's called dough.
The primary limitation here is inability to receive responses back from users. From a business revenue generation angle, that's probably not enough of a feature set to monetize for the carriers.
Yup, I did decide to move.
Exactly. Parent poster is spewing a line without evidence. Please cite discoveries of respiratory viruses with “weird features” on par with SARS-cov2.
Not the most scientific approach, but you could send a message to every provider using the same number. If you get a "message not received" bounce back, then that's a good indication of which carriers are not the correct carrier.