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> Mass transit, like higher density living, requires a stronger, more homogeneous, polite and less individualistic culture than the US has.

A society doesn't have to be Singapore or Beijing to have viable alternatives to cars for moving the population around.

I've been in few places that are more diverse, rude, and individualistic than New York City, London, and Paris yet they all have excellent (by American standards) mass transit systems. The Bay Area, a more "polite" region, has arguably worse transit.

Furthermore, the most homogeneous and polite parts of the United States have the worst mass transit.

I suspect it has more to do with historical suburban planning decisions (redlining, mass transit unfriendly zoning) designed to enforce homogeneity than it has to do with broad cultural generalizations.
That's similar to the Spanish government being behind the attacks... Effectively, a member of the Spanish government used (misused) their official capacity to take action against Catalan officials.

Perhaps that's not the official stance of the government, but an organization is only a monolith with a single public position to the extent that they're able to enforce proper actions. The official Spanish government being publicly neutral but actually unable to ensure that their own members act in accord with this position and instead instigating extensive attacks is not that different from the official Spanish government being behind the attacks. Will the insider be punished sufficiently to deter others from following in their footsteps?
My crappy voice mail can only hold 3 messages and is a pain to use :(
Dude, you did not say you don’t care, you said, and I directly quote, “Why do indigenous and black canadians not get vaccinated? I dont know.”

“Our PM is a blackface wearing racist.” Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

HN needs killfiles.
According to the dictionary deamon and demon are the same word with the former an archaic spelling. How do you say the latter?
Spaniard here. I reckon you are the one that needs to learn how to read a map.
I recall the signed netrek builds back when I was playing that. Sure, you could read the source - but only signed builds could run on certain servers.
Even if you triage folks and get them to the correct "professionals", that's a hell of an added value.

I believe billing it as a "Everything else not working? Give us a try!", instead of a first line of support, could also structure the liability in a fair way.

...I even have a couple killer ideas for the name of the non-profit!
"Banning books seems to be the new battle ground for politicians, sigh."

Writing textbooks for core subject areas, with material stirring controversy seems to be the new battleground for educators.

Ever notice how someone can create a hostile environment without doing anything hostile? Or someone can push right to edge, then back off, claiming "not my intent".

There is an analogous concept in physical therapy. You move a body part as far as you can, to test range of motion and limits. Then try it again, except the therapist assists you to move it farther, even supporting it while you rest a moment. Then you repeat the test, almost always going significantly farther.

You move the bar, the limit, the acceptable range of motion, or speech, or teaching social justice under the guise of core math.
At this rate (on the trend that this article also denounces), I feel like considering giving up computation altogether is on the table (like supposedly happened in the Dune fictional universe).

RMS has been right all along, although he may not be delivering his message in the most effective way possible, the core of this ideology is the understanding that when software does not encourage freedom, is all but restricting it.

(IMHO) Software is a development on par with writing itself. Writing as a technology provides the basis (the foundation) for all of what is considered "civilized", the law (in general, any and all law) is a written artifact.

Hence, I conclude that as a society we need to acknowledge what software enables for the concept of law.

However, unlike law which can (and has been) used to curtail freedom all through history, when written laws are used to this end they require a police or another kind of violent-if-necessary "enforcement". The critical point is that software does not need this kind of enforcement. Software can accomplish a comparable freedom-reduction much more softly; but not less effectively (arguably, software can be even more effective).
I wouldn't because the Linux UT2004 binary is very old and aside from glibc, X11 and perhaps a couple of other libraries, the Linux userland doesn't really have much of a culture for ABI stability preservation.

There are certainly ways to run Linux UT2004 binary in modern Linux but it'd be way more effort than running the Windows binary under Wine.
Banks have “know your customer” requirements.

Since companies must pay out to lead generators, I assume this means they have to know them with taxids and whatnot if they are paying out large sums.

By fining the companies using the leads it takes the headache away from the regulator and puts it on the company. Set up some sort of statutory damages process where I record the call and get to the point where I get transferred to someone who says “I work for FooCorp and sell warranties, please give me your credit card.” I send that recording to a regulator, fines the company $300, keeps $50 to fund itself and pays me $250 as the victim.

This seems like it will quickly make companies strictly vet their lead generations.

It seems pretty bad that any company exists based on cold calling genera consumers. All those companies should go bankrupt for sucking.
IME it rains harder in the midwest, for less time. In Portland it pizzles most of the winter. Not really raining hard, just constantly wet. But summers are excellent.

I also think this has changed a lot in recent years. I've been in Portland close to 50 years and it feels like the climate has been growing warmer and drier over time.
Canada? The federal government literally had to resort to participating in the referendum campaign in quebec, since they couldn't really do anything more than that.
It's kinda funny to see vague speculation of nefarious Russian involvement in the pro-independence side when we're discussing a very concrete case of espionage in the anti-independence side. The implication - and we see it sometimes in Scottish independence too - is that the separatist side is radical and sinister. And that the robust support the movement has is simply a mirage, artificially inflated by a foreign government who wishes to do harm.
Burst is such an interesting project. The fact that, because they know what they are trying to do more than a c++ compiler really can due to the intended use cases, they can be more aggressive with optimizations like SIMD. I remember a talk where they were discussing replacing c++ code with the Burst stuff as you mentioned, and I recall the biggest reason being they could write more succinct code that kept the speed because they weren't having to convince the compiler to do a lot of optimizations they needed to keep it fast.
The nice thing about Python is that, for the most part (see below for exceptions), old 3.x code is forward-compatible to new code. So a basic Python 3 script written in 2008 should still run fine in 2022.

Exceptions:

Asyncio has been in active development and was considered "provisional" for a long time, but is now stabilizing. Asyncio code that predates async/await syntax will not run on new versions of Python (this maybe can be converted with automated tools).

Type annotations have also been in active development and was considered "provisional" for a long time, and is also now stabilizing. In a future version (maybe 3.11?) a lot of `from typing import ___` imports will break and need to be replaced (this can mostly be converted with automated tools).

Several modules in the standard library are considered "dead batteries" and will be removed in an upcoming version. See <https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/>, and for discussion <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-take-2-removing-dead-ba...>. This is probably the worst aspect for forward-compatibility, but it seems necessary to ensure the health of the CPython project going forward (unless of course enterprises decide to start contributing back some faction of the billions upon billions that they make on the backs of the Python Software Foundation every year). Expect community members to spin off these libraries
The main problem with Twitter blogs is that it’s like the scariest infinite-scroll. On a regular blog post you can get a sense of how long it is and just about where someone should be hammering home a point. But one tweet after the other feels like an infinite lazy loaded slideshow. I get no sense if I mostly got the point of it or if I should keep scrolling.

It has a chance of becoming an insane dark pattern, especially if they jam ads in between.
Workers at Apple's NYC store have started collecting signatures to form a union
Checked the first one (kagi.com) and on the first page they make requests to both cloudflare.net and duckduckgo.com. I just don't get it - how difficult is it not to leak your users' data all over the place?

EDIT: you.com does better on the first page, but then they leak data to CloudFlare and Google via 3rd party JS on FAQ page. Come on.

EDIT2: qwant.com looks promising, thank you for the tip!
Blogging on Twitter is preferable to "not blogging at all" and "blogging on an obscure domain that almost nobody ever discovers". Consume the content with threadreaderapp if you don't like the UI or use Nitter if you don't want to log in to Twitter (maybe ignore it if neither of that sounds like an acceptable choice).
I agree with you wholeheartedly. However, there is occasionally something magical about a living room with a television that brings a group of friends together. Especially for a new movie we all get excited about. It's too bad that is so rare.
I'm so tired of this argument. It doesn't work. Nobody volunteers to willingly and knowingly sacrifice their privacy. Politicians do this even after promising the opposite.
> it's allowing the possibility that systems themselves can be racist.

It's much too weak a phrasing to say that it only "allows for the possibility." Its core doctrine is that 1) the idea of race itself is a social construct used to oppress/exploit, and 2) laws and institutions are racist and function to create and maintain inequalities.
Because at this point anyone right of privileged woke leftists is a Nazi apparently.
I agree with you on the issue with trust. The Atlantic compares the US developments from the last 10 years with what happened to the tower of Babel:

"Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...
This is a non-answer.

Carriers are old, monolithic, latent, greedy machines with no ability to innovate or 'do' that much of anything, more likely they want to sit on their control of networks, extract rent, and block anyone from doing anything else.

SMS/MMS could only be 'new' in that context.

If their existential decline was in front of them, they would not be able to adapt quickly enough.

In the 2000's Carriers tried to charge 10 cents per WAP page.

They wanted to control all app distribution with their Kafquaesue App Stores right out of 1980's Soviet Technology.

They used to dictate the terms of most of the gear on their networks.

One of the most important things that Steve Jobs ever did was told them literally to 'F OFF' and that they would never, ever have any control over anything on the iPhone.

Jobs agreed to that tiny little AT&T logo for a while, that's all they ever god.

The App Store Duopoly isn't ideal, but it's a 'competent oligarchy' - meaning that suff moves and evolves, it generally works.

It's be really nice to move to an all digital standard for calls, messaging etc.. and then force Network Neutrality (i.e. they can only bill for 'Quality of Service') and keep them moving bits.

That, and separation of ownership of 'content' and bits as well. Having Verizon and A&T own major networks is just bad, there's no advantage.

Finally, due to the limited access and the issues of 'public domain' with respect to airwaves, there needs to be regulation around pricing.

If there were 100 carriers to chose from in every town, that wouldn't be a problem of course.
> Group 2 really just doesn't see the problems

I think that this is precisely what's going on. More-or-less everyone filters spam. It's just that some people make their computers to it, while others do it with their brains. Not entirely unlike how most people who live in noisy cities learn to just tune out the noise.
Was it this common before about 2016? It seems like society only recently pulled into this trend.
> so maybe that's why it exists as a separate thing?

In the same way that number theory is its own thing, and algebra is its own thing, and you might take separate classes on each; algebraic number theory is its own thing and you probably wouldn't take a class on it before grad school.
I barely get any phone spam anymore and when I do they spoof the area code to my area code but since my area code is from somewhere I never lived, I know that I can ignore those calls.
The big one though is the Do Not Call Registry. Over 240 million Americans are on it and it is severely inforced.

The problem is chasing companies not in US jurisdiction.
Please just follow the site guidelines. Thanks.
Note that in my experience MacOS (M1) is pretty bad with USB devices, I have a lot of things that just don't work properly on the Mac but work on Windows and Linux (ebook reader and phones for example).
> Had to do a forced power down of iPhone to escape this.

You can flick apps off the top of the screen while in the app switcher to close them. Not advised for normal use, but when apps misbehave it's very useful.
> It is one of the least powerful and most irrelevant institutions on the planet.

And how do you come to that conclusion?
"No one knows why this device works" --> "There are still some small gaps in our understanding of the details of this device's performance"
Sure, it rains/snows half of the year, but it rains the mostly in the winter-spring half of the year. So there's some reprieve in the summer and fall months. Seattle sees the sun, in what, July-August?

That makes a big difference, I think. Grey, gloomy, rainy days are more impactful when they occur during the times you want to be outside. Generally speaking, you can make outdoor plans on Lake Erie during the summer and be pretty confident it won't rain.

Right now though? It's going to be raining/snowing basically most days for the next few weeks.
I don't understand the technicalities behind how they do it, but SPAM calls in the US can spoof their phone numbers. I'm not sure if it's pre or post carrier connection.
Ugh, I wish.

OPSEC-wise I have a dedicated account for a certain kind of account. But what does the institution that uses that email address do? Send me 10X the email load with upsell nonsense, despite having opted out of all marketing emails.

No. Just, no. Stop. I am sick of this noise, and manually taking time to opt-out raises my switching cost. "Drowning" is a fantastic way to describe this.
This works also. https://www.dmachoice.org
Ownership would require that users actually invest their capital. I and most other Twitter users have zero interest in doing that. We have better things to do with our money.
If we wanted to discuss that topic, is this article the right place to start?

What is Florida's process? How does it differ from other states? What is the role of human discretion? What are some other examples of how this process plays out?

We are left to guess. Or maybe some comments here will offer the information. Either way, a bad, clickbait article.
My wife has ended up as the de facto tech trainer for a group of senior individuals she's met through a hobby of hers. While most of them are pretty technically illiterate, it's interesting nevertheless to see the differences. They'll all come to her with a goal they want to achieve on their computer, which she'll help walk them through. Some of them just want her to do it for them. Others want to be walked through exactly what they need, over and over, until they can do exactly this one task themselves (but any deviation later, due to a difference in need, software update, etc, will have them reaching back out to my wife). And a few, a very few, will ask questions along the way, seeking to abstract out the broader patterns and affordances so that they can figure out a whole swathe of similar problems on their own.

I assume there may still be others who never ask my wife (or anyone) for help, who learn on their own, but it's interesting to see the differences for those who do seek out help. I hope I'm in one of the latter group(s) when I get into my 60s+.
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From Rep. Anna V. Eskamani / Florida elected representative.

Books accepted https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5574/urlt/2122MathA...

Books rejected https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5574/urlt/2021-22-S...

https://twitter.com/AnnaForFlorida/status/151603980914330009...
Uh, the list right there in the article puts Seattle as the 4th rainiest cities by days with rain. That sounds pretty rainy to me. :shrug:

Seattle is also more rainy (by volume) that London UK. And more rainy (by days of sunshine) than Scotland.
It might be worth recalling Richard Feynman's old story about being part of the California textbook selection process - a process so profoundly dysfunctional and corrupt that Dr. Feynman may have been the only member of the evaluation committee who actually read a meaningful percentage of the textbooks which they were passing judgement on.

(No, I see nothing in NPR's story to suggest that they compared Florida's stated reasons for rejecting various textbooks with the actual contents of the textbooks.)
> deamon

Is that a typo? If not then I see how those would be pronounced the same, but daemon in American English would usually be pronounced "Day-mon". This also helps to distinguish between the long running process and an evil entity, which is good when talking to less technically minded folks.
Yes, but a room with two TVs on which two family members can play their own games is, to me, a step in the wrong direction :(.
Teach me. I just switched to iPhone from Google and I get way more spam now (especially texts).
Have you heard of Purism or Fairphone? Not sure if they work in India though. Maybe this is an angle for India to enter the market.
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that seems amazing but it should never have to exist.

Robo callers talking to Robo callers is not the future we want to live in.
No, you're right. How can local police go find someone calling from outside the country. It's impossible.
This is bad IMO, why should individuals have to rectify something a company did? All it does is encourage bad behavior because I'm sure that the still comes out ahead if even 10% (being generous) did the above.

Society would be way better if we made a collective action to lobby our Congress to change the laws and make it illegal. Tech has been unregulated for far too long and there's too many bad actors taking advantage of this.
I started realizing that I wasn't picking up that much of the tv/movies that I'd have on in the background. I tend to do one thing at a time for the most part. Sometimes with background music but mostly not.
Great question, I can only give a qualified answer regarding text messages, as that's where my expertise lies.

In 2018 the FCC moved away from regulating sms/mms messages as they classified them as "information services" vs. "telecommunications services", meaning that the carriers have been left to create their own rules and enforce them. Without the FCC legal backing, it's much more difficult to stop illegitimate businesses from scaling out their practices.

Meanwhile legitimate businesses in this space have fallen back to the guidelines from the TCPA[1] when answering questions such as:

"When should we send messages?"

"What content is allowed?"

"How should we handle users opting-out of our messages?"

meaning that each business handles them differently, and pushes the envelope however they see fit. Some states have been passing their own mini-TCPAs[2], but these too are limited in their capacity and mostly focus on "telecommunications services".

I'd say that if we want to get serious about stopping spam texts, the best solution would be to talk to your representatives and potentially try to convince the FCC to reclassify text messages as part of "telecommunications services". However, political sends are very large in this space, so I'm sure that large pushback would be expected.

1. https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tcpa-rules.pdf

2. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/BillText/er/...
PIP stopped being cheap when everything started getting high bandwidth. I've never been a fan of the concept, but some of my screens can do it but only with some inputs, depends on the screen. Some screens can do side-by-side as well (usually messes up the aspect ratio), and I'd guess you can find some that will do a 2x2 grid, but you might need a video processor for that.
mumblemumble's reply is accurate, and the SSN is also optional. I'm not sure what in your opinion would make it any better.
You have a bootstrap problem though: how do you lobby for the erosion of worker's rights in the lobby gig economy without first creating the uber for lobbying app?
It's fun to pause and reflect how much of engineering is like this.

I mentor a high-school team that built a high-arc ball shooter this year. They committed to driving the function from distance to flywheel velocity using a theoretical approach: they pulled in all the Newtonian mathematics for shot angle, arc path, and the ratio of linear to angular velocity the flywheel would impart the ball leaving the chute. Put it all in one equation. I recommended it'd be simpler to do some practice shots at different distances and build a look-up table from distance to flywheel velocity (with linear interpolation for distances between the measured ones).

To their credit, their approach worked great at all but long ranges; my guess is their angle was slightly off, or they didn't account for air resistance or how back-spin on the ball might torque the path in flight. But the teams that nailed the challenge this year all did the dumb thing (took several shots at several distances and built a black-box lookup table).

And that's just for Newtonian physics over small distances and speeds with relatively mundane objects.

Theoretical modeling is vital to engineering... It's the thing that lets us extrapolate and scale. It gives us any hope at guessing at what a new design will do without having to commit the resources to just building it and seeing if it explodes. But a lot of practical engineering is coming up with clever ways to build large things out of small things that are actually, not theoretically, stress-tested.
In AZ, both uber/lyft are short of drivers. The gas price meant a lot of drivers couldn't make any money.

Also, god help you if you want a ride more then 10-15 miles...Phoenix is huge, but for some reason, drivers don't seem to like long rides.
Lets not pretend UNIX doesn't have enough of their own, specially with setuid exploits.
Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value
The ultimate goal is to entrench white christian conservative power in the face of impending demographic minority and progressive political inter-generational drift. Demonizing and suppressing black scholarship and whitewashing historical and cultural narratives through education is one means to that end.