skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gym is a bit ... different - part of a larger hospital chain/brand. Pandemic hit them hard, and I (along with many others) 'froze' our accounts. Still a member, just non-paying for X months. I froze for months during lockdown because the requirements were too onerous - must wear a mask while on treadmill, for example. Needed to schedule a swimming lane days in advance. It was too cumbersome, so I froze. Unfroze last month and am going a bit more regularly now, as they've relaxed some of the restrictions.

BUT... when I came back, I noticed a new wall in the hallway. They'd blocked off a hallway, and essentially sold (probably just long term leased?) about 20% of the building to a different entity (health related). They just had too much open space and no use for it. Was a bit of a shame, but it helped them keep their books afloat.

FWIW, I've always heard horror stories of gyms locking people in to unending payments. This place, while an extra few $ compared to some others in the area, is always month to month, and I've cancelled in the past, then came back. Never had an issue with billing/overbilling/etc, which seems... both trivial (of course that's how it should work) and impressive (seems to be in a minority of gyms) at the same time.
But then why rename 3.0 to 3.1 then 3.2? And now with USB4, everything is USB4. If I remember the upcoming standard correctly, your cheap USB-C cable only doing 420 Mb/s (USB 2 speeds) is now USB4! For free!

If a USB 3.0 cable can suddenly become USB 3.1 (or 3.2) overnight, then what's the point of versions? And what's with "Gen #" at the end? Because a consumer is easily going to be able to see that a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 is better than a USB 3.2 Gen 1 cable? Or maybe the sellers will just not advertise the "Gen #" portion? According to the Q&A section of this Samsung external drive[0], the difference between this and a USB 3.1 drive is nothing but the model number.

</rant>

The USB Consortium has been overrun by marketing that thinks that making things more confusing (read: tricking) is better for the consumer.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256GB-Extreme-Solid-State/dp/...
Right, and they've built a whopping 25,000 of them. They build 400,000+ RAV4 annually, so while the product might be good, that doesn't look like a very serious attempt.
My wife and I try to keep our meat intake very low, but we do occasionally buy whole free range chickens (yes, they are smaller) and beef that is 100% grass fed (no feed lots just before slaughter) that is noticeably different because it is incredibly lower fat than industrially raised beef. $Expensive$

People get to make their own choices. For myself, I feel better physically if I eat meat about once a week, just a small portion. I would like to be a vegan or vegetarian, but I think I do better with a tiny amount of meat in my diet.

When we buy meat, I like to cook it all and immediately freeze some portions for future use, mostly in soups. That really saves shopping and prep time.
"It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie." -- Littlefinger.
You know what I really want to see? We streamlined our firing process so we don't have to go through all these hiring shenanigans. When you have a ridiculous hiring process you can still make a bad hire. At most places I have worked bad hires stick around way too long because of HR and Legal BS. Just give the person a really nice severance to part ways. Be done with it. The departing employee can feel good about it, the team can feel good that the bad apple is gone, and you can focus on finding another person.
Plenty meaning enough to affect your day when it happens, and likely enough to happen at some point in a normal life.
It's because the US/Canada is a very large homogenous (single-language) a d relatively wealthy target. Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. not so much.
Mobile games are more popular than AAA games, and would AAA games be so popular without the millions spent on advertising?
Whatsapp does not have e2e encryption. They encrypt message traffic in transit between endpoints and their servers, but they have visibility to the data. They can and have retrieved messages for law enforcement.

End to end encryption is something fundamentally structurally different - only the two end points can decrypt the message.

Alice sends Bob a message. If only Bob can decrypt it, it's e2ee. If meta, the nsa, cia, IRS, post office, and random dudes on the internet pretending to be law enforcement all have access to the message, it's not e2ee.

Meta/Facebook sold the illusion of security to the masses. Let's not pretend they're the good guys.
When you get locked out of your Google account, what do you do? (2021)
Bypassing Door Passwords – Added New Default Passwords
Not sure how relevant that is against a nation state actor that’s willing to pull from airline passenger records.

All they’d have have to do is get a few timed hits for your location and then look for a common IMEI at nearby towers.
https://www.tiretechnologyinternational.com/news/regulations...

BEVS are very hard on tires due to battery weight, torque characteristics

https://www.fleetmaintenance.com/equipment/brakes-tire-and-w...
Google has Inactive Account Manager
https://myaccount.google.com/inactive
He's not currently working on an engine per se (at least not publicly), but he's has a streaming channel where he teaches the fundaments needed for understanding and potentially being able to build one.
"basically the same" yet uber did have a transformative effect, in some countries taxi systems were very hostile and disorganized, and uber has raised the standard significantly... they've created a certain expectation
It'd be nice if the Florida DoE actually included some examples of the objectional text
Also when I’m a big company with a budget, and I see that for the price of one EV with a 200 km of actually achievable range I can buy 2.5 diesel versions of the same model which cost less to maintain and have 600 km range, take negligible time to tank, and you need 50-100 of them, the choice becomes really obvious: unless the state subsidizes EVs really heavily, they are not the way to go for now.
I used Kismet for years and fought with its limitations on a daily basis. By far the biggest limitation of Kismet was that every graph was tied to a level. If you wanted to do any general purpose programming, such as mechanics shared across every level, you had to duplicate your graph for every single one of them. It was a very tedious and error-prone process.

Blueprint is leaps and bounds ahead of Kismet. It's built for general purpose programming out of the box. You can write your own classes, components, enums, and more. You can expose parameters to the Details panel so that designers and artists can easily tweak classes on a per-instance level. You can still write a graph tied to a level a la Kismet — this is called a Level Blueprint — but I find it's rarely necessary, if at all.

I remember trying UnrealScript because of Kismet's limitations. It was certainly more powerful and expressive, but shutting down the editor every time I wanted to compile was a real drag. These days I've gotten used to the fact that Blueprints are compiled on the fly by clicking a button in the editor, with no interruption to iteration. I can't imagine going back.
You can use this approach http://lukasz-madon.github.io/Password-management/
> an analog foundation defended by guns and tight cliques of trusted human gangs

Question: when one exchanges Bitcoin for a real-world good or service, what enforces the good or service be provided? And on the flip-side of that question: if one provides a good or service before Bitcoin payment clears, what guarantees payment?
That's fair - I've found the opposite: all this does is effectively push up the voicemail service to a layer I can interact with (as opposed to google voice voicemail) and usually important calls will attempt to interract with the robo screener or leave a message whereas spam will just ignore the robo screener entirely. This is purely my personal experience though and depending on how you use your phone (like in a business setting) and with who (like people who are legitimately busy) you may experience the complete opposite experience.
I was talking more about regular people. Any normal person is likely to be so far away from their peak athletic performance that even with age-related decline, it is probably possible for them to continue to increase their level of fitness into their 60s. Of course, it is hard work to do this. The point is just that as a regular person who’s lucky enough to maintain good health, you don’t have to accept your fitness declining precipitously with age.

I have no idea what the NFL is by the way :) So I doubt that my comment was influenced by it.
My previous employer used something very similar: either adding small features or fixing known bugs of a past build of some open source software in 1-1.5hrs. We prepared one such interview question for each supported language (C++, Python, and Java), and, to help calibration, each question consisted of a series of requirements that required progressively more complex changes.

Both interviewees and interviewers seemed to like these questions. I do hope this approach gets more adoption in the industry. It takes more time to prepare, but the high-quality signals it provides are worth the effort imo. Such questions are also harder to leak compared to typical whiteboard coding questions and thus more reusable too.
"Each separate email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act is subject to penalties of up to $46,517, so non-compliance can be costly." I'm not sure how much of that can be collected by the recipient.
I'm surprised this doesn't get mentioned higher. On the Pixel you can screen a call with text to speech and reject any spam calls. Most robo-dialers are smart enough to understand you're doing this and hang up automatically. It's win-win.
For real, I'm not sure why people haven't thrown the book at the "car's extended warranty" people yet. I mean, they should have an entity in the US no?
Can someone simply explain what is this critical race theory?
Definitely in WA state - certain counties with hydro plants sell power locally at ~$0.02 and sell outside the county at ~$0.2.

They changed the definition of local after crypto miners flooded in to limit exploitatiom and boom/bust speculation.
Huh?

> the implementations that supported SuperSpeed transfer rates were dubbed USB 3.1 Gen1, while the implementations that supported SuperSpeed+ transfer rates were dubbed USB 3.1 Gen2.

This is supposedly better than USB 3.0 (original standard), USB 3.1 (new standard, same SuperSpeed as USB 3.0), and USB 3.2 (new standard and also SuperSpeed+).
We should not just switch to EV and keep everything same. The power generation needs to switch over to more renewables or probably nuclear at the same time if we want to reach zero carbon soon. However if we don’t switch to EVs then there is no other way for us to cut the carbon from transportation. We can’t wait for the magical carbon free transport that may come in 20 years and just keep using ICEs in the meantime
I have two numbers. One personal 'always on' number that I only give out to a few family members and friends, and never put it on the net. My other number is strictly for Internet activities and I'm signed up to roughly 20 services with that number (Twitter, Facebook, Patreon etc). This is the number that gets random robocalls and sketchy SMS messages with weird links in them. I have no doubt this is because Facebook & other services leak your number through some yet undiscovered bug. I also have voicemail turned off on both numbers so I don't have to worry about voicemail spam.

As for email: spam is a fact of life, but can be managed by things like Simplelogin & Firefox Relay.
PretzelBox.cc (my project) does this along with a blog, a file storage area, and hosting.

Final pricing is still TBD but if you join the beta list, we are handing out huge discounts which’ll bring your effective cost between $5-15/month for everything.
Citizens of countries that become unequal as their economy grows are less happy
What's the over-under on how long it takes for this thread to devolve into mud-slinging?
Indeed, even the names of the books are not released.
That sounds like some pretty cool tech, but the problem is that spam still interrupts your day, whether you're holding the phone to your ear or looking at it in front of your face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
Talking about anyone other than White people.

In all actuality it is the idea that race doesn't exist, it's just something made up by people to exploit other people with different skin color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#Tenets
> Why the help viewer does anything as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is beyond me.

I don't get it either. From poking around in Process Explorer the help viewer window isn't its own process, it's still part of "7zFM.exe" which is running at medium integrity (not admin). Don't know where the high integrity context is coming from.

I wonder if it's silent elevation, in which case just putting UAC on "always ask" is good enough (and what I do anyway).
I never had to use gcc or git to poay hedgewars or any other free game.
> Spending the fewest resources to get the most done while forcing your enemy to waste his is one of the most basic concepts in military strategy.

Not in modern asymmetric warfare. US could and did spend several magnitudes more resources than the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose the idea was to 'convince' the opponents to surrender by using overwhelming force. This mostly worked fine against conventional forces but not against less rational opponents who don't seem to value their lives that much (due to various reasons). Similar thing happened in Vietnam (of course there was a geopolitical component which dettered US from directly invading the north) US spent way more and did disportionately much more damage but still managed to lose the war in the end.

> not gonna go around wasting bombs on people who are no threat to anyone unless they think that's how they're gonna accomplish their goal

Well they might not had intentionally went after civilians, but a case might still be made that they weren't really as concerned about collataerel damage as they should have been.
The giveaway is in the name.
It's worth remembering that being despicable spammers doesn't make people bad developers.

Someone, somewhere, is having a scrum right now on how they can tie physical location to phone numbers to spoof caller numbers more effectively. It's completely plausible to use eg social network leaks to spoof phone numbers you are likely to recognize.

If they aren't doing it now, it's probably more that they don't need the extra spam-power at the moment rather than that they're too bumbling to think of arbitrarily clever ideas for ways to combine all of the public and leaked information about us.
Tesla Autopilot Stirs U.S. Alarm as ‘Disaster Waiting to Happen
Additionally, I’ve seen ads served by being on someone else’s home wifi or the same residential wifi together. You get stuff they looked up (or said). I’ve seen it happen in proximity with shared contacts too. Meeting a friend on vacation and they start getting ads about where I live.
Fastmail.com

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I can understand rejecting them for "failed to meet curriculum standards", but what does "incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies" really mean? Are there math topics and "stategies" that are illegal in the US/Florida somehow?

I also understand that including critical race theory in math books seems wildly irrelevant (unless I miss something) and therefor not fit for the curriculum. But I'm interested to hear how that happens in the first place? Who includes education about "intersection of race, society, and law" in mathematical books, for what purpose? Shouldn't that belong to some other educational program instead, like society or history classes?
I like this feature too. Somewhat unrelated, I saw a similar "hold-for-me" frill released on my Pixel recently and used it a few times. Later read that ToS and saw that Google records the entirety of your conversation- not just the part that you have them hold- when you use this feature. Wouldn't be surprised if there were something like this on the screen-feature for the calls you end up picking up. For me it's been about 2/200.
I know nothing about cars. I was watching videos recently trying to understand hybrids because I’m considering buying one when I move back to NZ. It seems like you can save a bit of money with them (hybrids)

It seems the older models before 2017 should be avoided and after 2018 they are really good. And currently Toyota get quite a lot of extra milage.

I looked at Mazda and Honda and hybrid adds a lot of extra cost to those compared to Toyota. But bit worried about the original commenters comment that he would never buy Toyota again.

Is there something wrong with them?
I think you can imagine it :) Our culture conceives of a universal egalitarianism across all domains of human interest, but it hasn't really thought through all the implications of that, which is why a phrase like "woman and children" can still be used in an era where it's supposedly abhorrent to make those kinds of distinctions.

All that's being pointed out here is that it can't both be the case that there are no relevant differences between men and women and also that a phrase like "women and children" is useful. You have to pick one.
The Hilarious, but True Story of How One Word Can Ruin a YouTuber
That sucks, in Bosnia in most gyms you pay up-front for the month you are intending to use the gym.
If you give people specifics, they can argue about those specifics. Handwavy "crt" claims are all most people need to support this decision. Digging in to actual facts and specifics gets too messy, and might cause people to have to think too much.
I feel like there's an analogy with fake news and deliberate disinformation campaigns. Universally blocking access to information is difficult or impossible, but it's relatively easy to generate lies and nonsense in such quantities that people don't know who to believe.
Email had similarly wide-open protocols to phone systems so it can be interesting to ask how spam was tackled. One thing with email is that big webmail providers got to be gatekeepers so could e.g.

- require signatures/other things to prove which hostname the email came from

- do wide-scale analysis of senders/email contents to filter out spam

There are still issues (eg people typically will be more mad if they see spam emails than if unexpected legitimate emails get marked as spam because they won’t know if the latter is happening unless they frequently check their spam folder), and the popularity of some webmail systems means that it can be hard to tick all the boxes to not have your own legitimate emails binned. Similarly the ‘marked as spam’ signal is very strong so if you send out a newsletter that people mostly read and want and can easily unsubscribe to, you can still end up being sent to spam for all users because some people use ‘mark as spam’ to mean ‘please unsubscribe me from this newsletter’.

It seems the phone system is still at the stage where they don’t know who phone calls are actually coming from (except somehow they manage to bill these people).
Any "democratic" framework that forbids advocating for regional independence is in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Spain, such advocacy is called "secessionism", and is illegal, and sanctioned with long prison sentences.
I think it's partly the phrase "Security experts declare" which is likely to be what's rubbing people up the wrong way.

The security auditors themselves would never actually word it like that in their reports, because the statement implies a degree of certainty that cannot really exist.

Here's an example of what the auditor's actually said:

"Auditors identified two low-severity vulnerabilities. Additionally, five general recommendations were reported. At the same time, we confirm that no important security issues were identified during the pentest."

There's a reason that audit reports will never say outright that something is "secure". They may say something like "strong and effective security measures are in place", but that's a very different kind of statement.

I think the article itself is great but the headline just falls on the wrong side of being a bit hyperbolic and seems to be optimised for marketing impact over accuracy.
I don't want to put myself at the mercy of some asshole who is trying to dicker with me over the price of a ride. I do not want to argue about the price at all; I certainly do not want to argue about it with the person who is shortly going to drive me around. Better for them to direct whatever feelings of greed or disappointment they may have toward the operator of the service than toward me.
One of the most in-depth articles I’ve seen https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no...
After giving up on Nokia and friends complaining about Moto and Pixel, its brothers in stock Android, I switched to Samsung and felt it was a massive improvement. If I'm refusing to buy Chinese brands and iPhone and stuck to models available in India, what are my choices?
Resources on Modern Prolog
instructions are on my blog :)
The wikipedia definition seems to match with my own understanding of what it is:

> cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race, society, and law

In the country where I was brought up that was just part of history/society classes instead of a separate thing, but racial tensions in the US seems more extreme than anywhere else so maybe that's why it exists as a separate thing?
Same in Norway. But that's not the problem here. It's scam calls from abroad, using spoofed phone numbers. So basically how you in your emails can set an arbitrary from field.

However, I feel operators should start verifying these somehow. Or allow me to block all calls from a Norwegian number originating from India for instance if not in my contacts or something.
I'm saying it's a weird spot for them to draw a line.
The article is lacking in substance because it does not actually tell you what material in the math books was so egregious that the book deserved to be banned or may be state of Florida did not publish this information. Banning books seems to be the new battle ground for politicians, sigh.
Interesting. What's your daily caloric intake (estimate/ballpark)?
What sort of system would produce that outcome?
> In fact, the whole point of the article is that there's a population of people who got lied to and manipulated in order to kill people whose culpability was questionable at best

I'm pretty sure that's basically standard operating procedure in the military though?

Harder to get soldiers to kill people if they think of them as people and not as the enemy.
You'd need to average 65 hours of work every week to get $325,000 in a year at $100 per hour. That's not healthy.

50 weeks per year at 40 hours each is normal, so rule of thumb: hourly rate * 2000 hours per year = yearly earnings.
Since some loser flagged my previous comment:

https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1515373039923388420
So long as you don’t expect the drive to be there when you retrieve it, sure. You should probably also encrypt any sensitive document on it. Here’s one example. Just one:

https://abc7news.com/archive/8973198/

Note the police are not classifying this as a criminal case (theft), but a civil case.
Exactly, if this is really news worthy, they should be posting examples along with the agenda
In my opinion the title is not correct, it's not a hilarious story at all. It's a very unsettling story about algorithm overreach. If this youtuber had less than 100k subscribers he would have absolutely no recourse.

The golden age of youtube is in its twilight.