skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telecom in the US makes money from spam, and the US government allows it.

The saw about "free" facebook/etc is that "you are the product".

But spam has always been allowed. The US government has unenforced laws to protect you from spam.

In the US, you pay taxes to be the product.

Corporations pay lobbying (that is, much much much less than taxes) to keep you being the product.

I'm surprised there hasn't been the mother of all class action lawsuits over this. Telecoms are so deeply ingrained in byzantine government regulation that their in-house legal teams know how to defeat anything. Municipal fiber, cooperatively shared starlink connection, or this, they know how to gum it up.

Did I only blame telecom?

Email spam: ISPs and the internet ad tracking industry, all legal and allowed.

The worst though:

US Mail. They exist on the backs of spam mail, which is an atrocity when you consider the amount of trees that must be killed for it. Again, we pay taxes to get a firehose of spam from our own government.
Because it may not test the features of the installed system. I may not have a / available for my target.
>'d be very interested in a city builder where there are meaningful social, cultural, and political dimensions.

You may be interested in CityState II:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352850/Citystate_II/
The main thing that I find wrong with this article is that it lays all the blame on social media. While it is a valid point, the mainstream media is also culpable for the public's growing lack of trust. It's disingenuous when it's not part of the conversation.
Evidence That Musk Is the Chief Engineer of SpaceX
I'd say learn Python as someone who doesn't even like it

It's becoming the next Excel, a "default language" for non-programmers to write programs in
On related note it seems there is no rooster breed that doesn't crow, I'd have expected they modified one by now.
Crypto is a technology just like Microsoft Windows is. As more people use it its value increases. Only difference is now there is no bill gates and the rewards are shared by all early adopters.
Which works perfectly when you fly to a new city and need a ride out of the airport, right?
I don't think Texas wants to secede, polls in 2016 put it about 2:1 against, but some people in Texas have wanted to secede since the Civil War. Their's nothing illegal about their movements, and them trying to expand their cause.

Presumably if a majority* of people in Texas (or Alaska, or Nebraska, or New York City) wanted to be independent from the US then they would be allowed - certainly there would be a moral right to do so.

* Definition of majority, the location of borders, etc is a different discussion, but the fundamental right to people in New York City, Barcelona, Crimea, Portugal, etc, to determine their own affairs isn't up for discussion as far as I'm concerned.
Any sex worker can tell you that 90% of debate and politics around sex work is disenfranchisement and lies.

If you deny that people with actual experience of the subject matter are better placed to resolve the issue, I am not sure our comprehention of the world is compatiable.

> complaining that other generations don't understand you

Have you seen Marz Zukerberg's senate hearing? Do tou think Senate has succesfully held him to account for the shenanigans Facebook was pulling? Do you dispute that if everyone in that chamber was a 40-year old proffeshonal who could remmber studying IT, and some of them w
Veing recent IT proffeshionals, they would be able to do a better job?

Do you feel that in that hearing anybody at all of the older senators, say over 75, has demonstrated how their wealth of life experience has enabled them to do a better job?
Certain plants love it - pine trees and blackberries are among them.
It seems that crypto and blockchain-based systems may well hurt the standing of the US if they allow US adversaries to evade financial sanctions.

I wonder if US lawmakers would step in to try to shut down these systems. It may be politically very difficult since there is so much money riding on crypto now, and many US lawmakers reflexively support crypto in order to appear pro innovation.
Get a better medium. If I have to spend more time than it takes to read it to figure out how to read your content, you are doing it wrong.
WhatsApp spam has been getting a lot worse in the past few months. I keep getting messages from foreign phone numbers using stock profile photos of attractive young women. I report them but they just come back with a different number.
Do you really? The likelihood of legislation passing in the US is totally independent of how popular it is.
So the first version of Etsy (2005) was PHP talking to Postgres
Interesting addendum on the difference between kernel-space daemons and user-space daemons:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266434/are-kernel-t...
Whatever the chances of it happening, the prospect of watching some crypto scammer get a 10 year fraud (or whatever) sentence in a relatively open prison turned into an extradition and 200 consecutive life sentences in a supermax due to national security and sanctions violations would be...something. I'm not sure even a crypto scammer deserves that, but only because I'm not really sure anyone does.
I am also sure it is all about achieving peace in Ukraine. no doubt about that..
It's fine to scrape your private information under your own control.

Many people have the problem that their life's information is sitting in a proprietary silo, without a nice way to extract it. (Truth be told, Google does offer the "takeaway" thing, kudos. FB apparently does not.)
I never cease to be amazed how much I pay in taxes and then whenever there is a government service that is necessary or desirable for me, I have to pay to use it or endure shit like this to subsidize it.
Wait until you read about old scsi standards.
> No. If your device only supports 5 Gb/sec speeds, it's USB 3.0, yes.

That's not how things work.

Devices are implemented while targeting a standard.

If you implement a USB 3.0 device then you do not support any data transfer mode capable of doing more than 5Gb/s. If you're a customer looking for more than 5Gb/s and you see that a device is only USB3.0 then you already know that it won't cut it.

That's the whole point of this submission. M1 macs don't support USB 3.1, only USB 3.0. Why? because they patently don't support the transfer speeds made possible by the new data transfer mode introduced in USB 3.1.
The right question to ask is "was it ever real?"

I suspect we'll discover it was all wash trades and money laundering in short order.
Wow, just.. wow!.. Dude, if you're okay with mspaint, how about at least LodePaint? It's free and opensource...
I checked that interface (if you mean the "Stats for nerds"), hence I asked you if you were not by chance reading the "connection speed", which could be the closest to the values you reported and may be misleading to a glance.
Union Pacific Cuts Fertilizer Shipments, Delaying Deliveries, Preventis Orders
> It seems that this ad infinitum gibberish posting deflecting from the topic at hand is somewhat of a pattern for you, which would explain why you felt the need to deny you engage in "gish gallop" and other such dissembling off the bat -- because you'd been informed so many times that you do.

This style of thinking seems to have become quite the cultural norm - if someone challenges the narrative, rather than address their words they're declared by fiat to be "gibberish". If a person writes too little, their explanation is insufficient, but if they write more, they're "gish galloping", "JAQing off", etc. Thinking in memes is standard and expected behavior in places like /r/politics, but I'd expect a bit more from HN. What a world it would be if HN'ers could apply the same attention to correctness that they do in threads on technical topics to non-technical topics...and if we could find a way to do it here, perhaps we could teach it to others.

But of course, this sort of thinking "is" surely gibberish.

> Since you've been unable to articulate any substantive issues with the original post

The success of communication is a function of both the sender and receiver. It is certainly possible that what I've written here is useless, but the notion that the opinion of one side in an internet argument is necessarily completely correct seems a bit foolish to me. I am more than happy to consider that my words and ideas contain at least some flaws, perhaps even substantial ones....might yours be of a similar nature? Is it possible?

> we can assume you agree with it, and are arguing for the sake of arguing, rather than for the sake of personal learning.

You can indeed - in fact, it is entirely possible to go through your entire life assuming that how things seem to you are how they are. In fact, I'd say that this is by far the most popular approach, and humanity is reaping what they sow.

If you think I'm "deflecting from the topic at hand", ask me a question about the topic, and I will answer it. And as a benefit: I do not expect the same in return - you are free to ignore every question I pose to you, and I will at most point out your behavior, but I will not engage in childish name calling or stating pejorative opinions in the form of facts.
Which is even more amusing because the Ukrainian activists using crypto to bypass a Russian freeze may very well be trading on-chain with Russian oligarchs evading sanctions.
It's open information that has been released in the past by many states, including Florida. They released a list of the books this morning but not the reasons why they got rejected so it was a choice to not give the information out at the same time as the notice.
Telcos spend billions on marketing every year. It's shocking they can't divert a sliver of this to PSAs and promos highlighting this feature.

This is one of the biggest pain points for customers, and potentially a huge source of data the telcos (and regulators) could use to stop specific scams and scammers.
I'm seriously thinking about doing the same thing. Seems really dumb financially though... did you save up a ton? I actually just got promoted and get paid well but somehow not engaged mentally at all. Everything big is done and it's just fixing smaller issues and implementing tedious things. And support.
Doctorow is arguing for adversarial interop but also observes that companies shut down APIs due to them becoming data leak vectors and then use that concern to make circumvention illegal. The dilemma is real. You end up with a sense that fair access and security are meaningfully in conflict. Perhaps a bit like the anti-cheating DRM conversation in the RMS state of FOSS thread. I’m also reminded of the free speech vs moderation debate, where the common retort to decentralization by Twitter employees is “you don’t know how impossible moderation will become.”

Im inclined to think the system has to be rearchitected to solve the dilemma such that interop is the default easier option. (And, ideally, makes data security default easier.) Nobody has succeeded at it yet but it’s always the theory I’ve chosen to pursue.
Wait. I refinanced a mortgage and naively filed my taxes with TurboTax this year. What's the bug?
I YOLO'd my Google interview. I didn't even expect to make it to the on site. But I did, then I bombed.
>> do not 100% understand aircraft lift

Do you mean turbulence? There are some blank spots there but we have very good equations to approximate the behavior, equations good enough for practical aviation.
OpenTTD is not at all Sim City. You can't build stuff, you focus on building transport infrastructure between existing cities and resources.
Actually, the central problem with crypto advocates is that they start from the position of assuming everyone around them is an idiot and then set about building replacements for all sorts of things (banks, currencies, exchanges, legal dispute resolution mechanisms, supply chain management, databases, etc.) that they themselves do not understand and end up with fragile, inferior substitutes that never get any traction for good reason.
Last I checked, they'd finally narrowed down the main cause of near-sightedness (not far-sightedness, though) to insufficient very bright light (sunlight) exposure during certain formative years (I wanna say like 3-6?). Seems to play a role in getting the lens to stop changing at the correct time.

Seemed like they were pretty certain it was that, specifically, and not the list of other things people've blamed it on over the years.

No-one's responded to this by totally re-thinking how we do early childhood education (there's little sun in the Winter, schools have been cutting back recess time and getting much more timid about sending kids out in non-perfect weather, so I'd bet that's when most of the harm is being done) so maybe that turned out to be BS? Or maybe we just don't care about preventing a very high percentage of near-sightedness cases.
Activision Blizzard Surveys Players' Interest in NFTs and Crypto
Isn't it possible that someone else messaged the Smith's about the conversation, and mentioned OP's name, and then some algorithm made the connection?
>And in small cities/towns, getting a taxi was nearly impossible a lot of the times.

My experience has been the opposite. In small towns you cannot get use rideshare apps, but you can dial a taxi service. This has been the case in every town of less than 1,000 I've needed a ride in.
It still boggles my mind that input sanitization/validation hasn't gotten a formal discipline around it.

It's boring and tedious, yet crucial.
> they used public resources to hold a referendum that they legally couldn't hold is undeniable

If the constitution says that calling for secession is a criminal offence, it follows that holding an indendence referendum is also criminal. I'd argue that a constitution that criminalises campaigning for secession is a bad constitution, and that the central government should have (a) staged the referendum and (b) campaigned in it.
Would I click this website? Yep (catchy title). Would I share this website? Nope. What a waste of engineering time building this crap. Here is a more readable version https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
Yeah, this is a perfect example of overriding the will of the people in the interest of continuing to hold political power. It's ironic given the "stop the steal" narrative of recent, but here we are.
Kevin Rose just raised $60M+ this weekend[1], so unlikely that the NFT market is "crumbling."

[1] https://cryptobriefing.com/moonbirds-set-to-bring-in-66m-as-...
Looks like LinkedIn is in the mix. Hat-Trick!
1. Send broken archive to victim

2. "You have to update 7zip to open this archive, you don't need to open any executables, just drag 7zipv0.99.7z to help window"

3. ????

4. Profit
I'd also be surprised if Jones kept a strictly disciplined financial operation running at InfoWars over all these years, such that there is no opportunity for the courts to pierce corporate veil.
> If i feed my chickens non-medicated feed, I'm able to enjoy their eggs. If i get them the feed with amoxicillin in it, headaches.

wow, i also get headaches when eating eggs... if its not amoxicillin itself, then what could it be?
hi SimplyLiz, on Linux it seems that it's not possible to run your itch.io executables because it requires a libnoise version that's completely outdated. Any idea on how to fix it?
sign up with a one time generated credit card?
I'm skeptical of this project. Existing unambiguous notations for mathematics do not start from the chaos of human conventions and then try to impose order. They start from rigorous unambiguous syntactical and semantic foundations; from programming languages basically.

For example, when writing y = |x|^2 - 1, the fact that |x| is a function application of "abs" is the least of your worries. Even given that fact, you can disambiguate into a rather large variety of mathematica expressions. Perhaps you're defining a parametric curve, perhaps you're computing a boolean value for the comparison, etc, etc, etc.
> they're not comparable.

Yes, they are. Things don’t have to be the same to be comparable. People compare them all the time and very reasonably so. “Should I put my money into traditional finance or defi? What are the pros/cons?”

An axis that should be compared when choosing a finance system is “how likely is my money to disappear?”. A single event where an amount of money that’s this fraction of the overall system and this much value is a newsworthy, meaningful, relevant, comparable event.
Try guessing the author's appearance based on his attitude. Then click on his name to see a photo of him.

Did you get it right? I did.
The 9 and 0 keys are next to each other on my phone, meaning ...
I think you shared the wrong link, that's just the link to the article.
When do you think cancel culture started?
Exactly! Just look at what happened to Brendan Eich after someone discovered his political contributions.

But don't kid yourself. With digital currencies, this is coming. Remember what happened to the truckers of Canada? The government backed off of freezing bank accounts, but they showed that they could cut off anyone with "unacceptable views"

It's coming. Be ready.
Your post was like an epiphany. I suddenly realised that the content has shifted over the years. it used to be heavily tech based with a smattering of startup and business stuff. Now...it's half marketing dribble, weird single posts, and political commentary
> What is it about the US telecoms system that makes it so susceptible to spam?

You should instead examine the US political system. Corruption.
This assumes every task will get done better/faster if you give it 100% of your attention and therefore "it is good enough to give it 100% of your attention" must be equal to "you are going to give it 100% of your attention".

A matchmaking screen, loading screen, unskippable cutscene you've already seen multiple times, orbital maneuver you have to wait for, game event you're waiting for like enough currency or materials to start your next project, and so on do not follow this assumption. In many cases these parts of the game actually get worse if you give them 100% of your attention.
I think you mean $75M.

10,000 moonbirds * 2.5 ETH * $3,000

https://moonbirds.xyz/

(EDIT: Saw the post; that's only PROOF and only half of them. There's 10,000 total and all will be minted for 2.5ETH)
99.9999% to be precise

At least it's a tax writeoff for the person selling it, I guess?
One of my biggest gripes in most city builders is a lack of mixed zoning, and realistic dense zoning. Most CBDs are dense mixed zone and that is really the heart of what makes a dense inner city area operate. There usually is no "dense commercial" zone in most cities, it's low to medium density specific use and then dense mixed use. Exceptions abound of course.
Google's response… «We are disappointed that […] experienced […] difficulties […]»… ah stfu, you are lying, you are not at all disappointed. They also show no intention at all to find out what happened so they can improve their internal processes. Working as intended…
> Umbrellas are for people in cities without real weather. They only work for vertical rain. The pacific northwest often gets rain+wind, which defeats umbrellas.

No. Everyone uses umbrellas in nyc and the surrounding metro area. You'll see a bunch of wind damaged umbrellas in garbage cans. A windy day in seattle is like a nice breeze compared to the wind in nyc, especially in winter. Yes, umbrellas are a nightmare when its windy. But people still use umbrellas because it's better to have your pants soaked than to have everything soaked.
Pretty sure he means cost efficient—as in the cab companies had optimized the cost structure of their business by negotiating large orders for fleet vehicles, insurance, etc., which should be more efficient than asking the same number of Uber drivers to do it independently.
they can only send you to collections if they have your ssn though right?

never sign up for a gym that needs your ssn. red flag.
The dead line happens because telemarketers place several calls at once and then start talking to the first one that answers. They dont bother with terminating the other calls.
> Seems clear at this point that the official Spanish government was behind these attacks, or the official registries got hacked (together with various delivery companies). Both are bad, but that signs are pointing to the earlier makes it even worse.

Not arguing again't your claim either way, but SMS sender can be set to anything, it's a feature of the system for it to work. The "DNI" (Spanish identification number) can't be considered private information and isn't difficult to find.
Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive
If I get spam in the UK it's often just a one-off tax scam doing the rounds (which stops once you forward it to, say, HMRC), but mainly recruiters. Once one recruiter has your email and phone number you can bet that every other recruiter in the country also has it.
China is. It started with their air force pilots. They, like many air forces, have had to drop their 20-20 vision requirements for pilots as the VAST majority of well-educated potential pilots now wear glasses. In china/japan it can be upwards of 90% of young men, that a huge loss of potential recruits. (fyi, most air forces now require only that new pilots have vision "correctable" to 20-20 via glasses.)

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007440/to-protect-kids-eyesi...

>> China’s top education authority has asked all schools to give students more sports-related assignments and less text-based work during summer and winter breaks this year to curb climbing myopia rates among minors.

>> The Ministry of Education announced the new rule as part of its Bright Action project, a five-year plan to better protect students’ eyesight by increasing outdoor activities and minimizing screen time, which have been blamed for deteriorating vision among children and adolescents.
The story here is actually that NK is now targeting crypto exchanges in their panoply of hacking targets.
Same can be said of Donald Knuth. He even made a shorter proof than the proof that was considered to be a proof from the book years ago, moments after the original proof was published.

I mean, they all might be outliers for as long as they live and the general conclusion (of decline) applies to us regular folks.
You can build whole cities without cars in Cities Skyline. With mods like TPME banning private cars is easy. You can still allow services (police, fire engines, ambulances, etc), good trucks, buses and taxis but can also disable any of these on a per-road basis.

I like to create areas that have no cars in my cities. Add lots of pedestrian and cycling paths, lots of trains, metro, ferries, etc and just watch oodles of people using public transport or cycling everywhere.

It's such a satisfying game.
I think the people in power are doing the bare minimum. China is often the most stubborn in these things and they have a carbon control target (though not necessarily a plan). I believe it will prevent the worst, but it won't stop a lot of bad stuff from happening.

I'd say you have to take action and move away from affected areas, or prepare for it. That's what my family is doing.

You wouldn't rely on the government to save your home from a hurricane. You wouldn't expect them to plug an active volcano. At least with climate change, you have advance warning. Even in Indonesia, they're migrating the capital away from Jakarta, while taking action to keep it from sinking.