skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While all of that is great, it is irrelevant to the point Toyota's making.
You come with unduly assumptions with the contexts you throw in. «Political questions and false accusations» are still «used to torpedo careers» - just that.

In one place and time some excuses are more effective than others - if the counterpart is intentionally malicious they may just exploit that, irregardless the content.
But then you have places where some rides e.g. rides to the airport, have automatic fixed rates and you don't know if the driver is scamming you or not.

It's remarkable how bad many businesses and government regulators are at asking the question "Is this behavior indistinguishable from a scam?"
I don't think that's the answer provided by anarchists. As far as I understand it, most anarchistic ideas explicitly rely on communities being able to stop you from doing harm. Anarchism is pretty far from libertarian views on individual freedom.
"The average American received roughly 42 spam texts just in the month of March, according to new data from RoboKiller, an app that blocks spam calls and texts."

Whenever I see a study, I immediately search out for who conducted the survey / study / report and see if they are motivated by a particular response. In this case, yes, RoboKiller of course has a story to peddle. Are they right? Perhaps, but would they communicate a story that would decrease the value of their spam-blocking app?
My iPhone does that.
No patch yet, apparently. 7-zip.org is still service binaries for 21.07 as of this writing
for an article about writing, the format ís quite ironic.
txt version: https://pastebin.com/dGd75ky8
>More BS. How many people died on that rebellion? How many died in the US Black lives matter incidents? How many people die on South Africa incidents each year?

This is whataboutism, I don't see how those are relevant to the situation in spain
It's kinda the point isn't it that some people always have a way for "our kind of people" to game that kind of system. The stakes are just too high for it to be fair.
Forced scroll speed, weirdly distracting font... but the story's good.
I've lived there for a decade.
It isn't just Twilio. When I had T-Mobile, I was able to get 2FA SMS from about 1/3 of the companies that I use it with. Even financial companies like Vanguard and many others, never were let through with T-Mobile. I called T-Mobile and asked them to open it up completely. No improvement.

I switched my same phone with same phone number to another provider and I get all texts that I am hoping to get now and get literally no spam texts.
> you only become 'slower' due to avoiding challenges

This is exactly what the study disproves. It breaks out "slowness" into the multiple components. Caution is one of these.
I take your point, but it elides a significant cohort of the population that doesn't have the financial resources to make such a choice. The proposed redistricting eliminates black/brown districts from the current electoral map, and those populations won't have the representation they have today as a result. A lot of these folks don't have the financial means to go elsewhere, so they're on the losing end with nowhere to go.
iPhones do this but IIRC it works through coordination with the carrier, so not everyone sees it.
What's the conclusion though? Modern software is crap so you shouldnt use any libraries and roll your own implementations of everything?

Sounds like a recipe for lots of bugs.
Have you seen DifferentialEquations.jl? It's an incredibly fast suite of solvers that pretty consistently is faster than Sundials/CVODE/lsoda or any of the other C++ solver. (for a bunch of benchmarks vs pretty much everything else, see https://github.com/SciML/SciMLBenchmarks.jl)
Which carriers work? I'm on AT&T. Same SIM card I used with the Pixel. I'd be happy to meet Apple halfway on this one, I just want the spam gone.
I use Mint.com to track my finances. I granted it read-access to all my bank accounts (access that I can revoke at any time from the bank's side). Yeah I'm the product, but it's free, saves me a ton of time, and actually syncs with literally all my accounts, from credit cards to my 401k to utilities. That's something I can't say for the privacy-focused options I tried before it.

Also I think HN and the technosphere in general is a little blind to the cost/benefit analysis of privacy for most consumers. People here have intimate knowledge of the technology and what can be done with information, so that's where they focus. Simple fact is there's a lot theoretical damage that could be done, but relatively little damage actually being done on an individual level for most consumers. Unless you're famous/important enough to be targeted by someone with resources, odds are even with zero privacy protections you'll get lost in the noise, or at most suffer trivial damage (having to cancel a stolen credit card or something)

I went through a phase where I tried to lock down my identity as much as possible, installed anti-fingerprinting browser extensions, forbade all cookies I didn't explicitly approve, individually selected sites to approve in NoScript, etc. It chewed up a ton of time, and when life happened and I was forced to re-prioritize my time and stopped maintaining it... nothing happened. It was the digital equivalent of installing steel shutters/doors and reinforced door frames so you can withstand a SWAT team with a no-knock warrant. Simple fact is the odds of encountering a SWAT team with a no-knock warrant are so low that it's statistically not worth the effort unless you're actually an outlaw.
> I don’t understand why some BEV fans hate hydrogen so much and some hydrogen fans hate BEV so much.

> BEVs work well for small and city vehicles, hydrogen for large transport vehicles and off-road type stuff.

They don't "hate" each other's tech. The entire conversation has up until this point has centered exclusively on light duty passenger vehicles. In that segment it's been clear for a long time that BEVs are the better technology.

If there are any resentments from BEV advocates it is due to the way hydrogen fuel cell tech has been used as a way to slow down the electrification of light duty passenger vehicles.

Only recently has the conversation started about where hydrogen makes more sense (trucking, aviation, and perhaps most importantly, long duration renewable energy storage).
Probably should focus on implementing strong labor protections and encouraging union participation (which would blunt the effect this sort of weapon has), instead of eliminating them.
Blogging on Twitter has to stop.
> all of these are things that grow WITH the EV industry as the EV industry develops.
Doesn't mean that they will grow at the same rate. The concern is that EV goals are too aggressive given the pace that these other things can grow at

> Given how much Toyota has helped the hydrogen industry develop hydrogen infrastructure over the last decade as they put all their eggs into the hydrogen bucket, they very much know all this.

Then perhaps we should take their concerns more seriously when they raise them about the rollout of electric cars.
Topics like sampling bias and adverse impact seem like they could fit that intersection between a math curriculum and "race, society, and law."
Phew, reading that site was hard. Link to full report for those who need it: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
after reading wikipedia articles about the events I have personally watched unfold and paid extremely close attention to, I have absolutely no faith in any written history. some particularly damning lies literally have video evidence that contradicts the editors' headcanon, but good luck challenging that fucking cabal
People would forget, but having a well-documented plan at a well-understood URL would not be a bad idea.
Spain supports separatist movements elsewhere though. They have no issues supporting western saharan independence, even if the separatist groups are engaged in armed conflict.
> Uber has built no lasting infrastructure

They wrote themselves into the California constitution, now that's infrastructure for any business to envy!
Here's a fun game: search "Margaret Sanger quotes" and then count how many blue-pills you need to dose yourself to remain ideologically comfortable.
I simply took my mailbox down a few years ago, and have everything sent to my work address, since USPS doesn't deliver a lot of the paper spam to business addresses. It works pretty well at reducing the crap I get in the mail, as well as protects my privacy, but holy heck do you break the system without a residential mailbox. From having the USPS tell HUD that my house lot was abandoned, to people accusing me of being a Ted Kaczynski, to not being able to get the free Covid tests the feds sent out, it's crazy how much people just can't handle you not having a residential mailbox.
> Seems clear at this point that the official Spanish government was behind these attacks, or the official registries got hacked

There is a third alternative. An insider leaked it.
> But USB 3.0 supported USB 2.0 and 1.0/1.1 speeds already without this "generation" garbage.

No, not quite. What do you think the USB3.0 SuperSpeed is? Why, a brand new transfer mode.

> If I plugged a USB 3.0 cable (9 pins) into a USB 2.0 (4 pin) hub, the device still worked at the lower speeds.

You'd be glad to know that nothing changed in that regard with USB3.0, 3.1, and 3.2.

In fact, the whole point of this submission is to showcase how M1 macs are only capable of drawing a lower data transfer speed unlike the new Mac Studio, thus proving that the M1 macs don't support USB 3.1 Gen2, aka SuperSpeed+.
I agree, Stallman is an incredibly poor leader and holds back the free software movement, FSF, and FSF projects at this point. It's not just that I disagree with his absolutist view on free software, he holds back the movement from achieving the goals that he espouses.

As a product manager he has done a poor job. For years he prevented GCC from moving to a simpler more modular architecture because he said that would make it easier to build non-free software on top of it. In the meantime Clang implemented this modular architecture and started taking market share from GCC. Years later GCC moved to a modular architecture anyway because Stallman finally blessed it. At the same time he prevented emacs from officially embracing better integration with Clang and Clang style compilers that provide a richer debugging and syntax checking experience. He did this because GCC didn't support the same experience. Eventually (after years) emacs did integrate with Clang and GCC style syntax facilities.

He made similar stalling moves preventing the adoption of git for emacs (and other FSF projects). First he pushed Arch, the he forced repositories to migrate to BZR after git had clearly won the version control battle (I'm fuzzy, but emacs moved to BZR around 2009-2011). Finally he conceded and emacs moved to git in 2014. After emacs migrated to git he used the emacs mailing list asking for simple git support that he would have understood if he hadn't remained purposefully ignorant about the VCS.

The FSF still revolves around Stallman and he hasn't done much work to find and promote a successor to himself to lead the organization. He is a poor steward of his own movement.

There were also his comments about Minsky and Epstein. He is entitled to his opinions, but as a leader of an important org with such stringent beliefs, delving into other topics was a distraction for the org. Being a leader requires focus and direction, inviting controversy with comments on unrelated current events is the opposite of focus.

In total I think that a lot of Stallman's actions have more to do with his ego and self importance than advancing the free software movement.
Texas teacher saw his students struggling with math turns to rap music
Sorry but it is bullshit. I actually _tried_ to learn Catalan (I am already pretty fluent in Spanish) while I was teaching in Barcelona out of all places and found it impossible to use it in real-life. Everyone would just speak Spanish between themselves, even other teachers.
> reminding people that black history is US history

Perhaps we should also remind people that there's plenty of black folks outside the U.S. too. U.S. history is only a tiny, even negligible fraction of history taken as a whole.
I found it really upsetting that, after an overwhelming number of Floridians voted to reinstate voting rights for some felons, DeSantis signed a law that prevented them from voting if they had any unpaid fees (Florida loves to bill convicts so most do).

Regardless of ones political stance, the ruthless drive to win at all costs is causing serious damage to our society.
I am a fan of city simulators and I found out the reason for this is all of them copy the USA style zoning system in their rules.

USA style zoning is just stupid and is a major culprit of cities needing cars.

As far as I know there is no major city simulator that simulates non-zoned cities that are full of organic growth instead of the player, like a US mayor, deciding where people are allowed and not allowed to live and work.
I'm my HOA president right now and something that infuriated me is a Texas law stating we have to notify all residents of actions by mail. Nobody reads their mail and nobody should. We're a block of 6 townhouses and my farthest neighbor is 40 feet away. I see these people everyday and can just tell them, yet we're forced to send out a bunch of useless mail destined to be thrown away. We first noticed this when we saw a category of charge from the property manager related to mail. None of us want mail, but the state of Texas forces us to receive it anyway. They also sell contact info to marketers when you apply for a driver's license, so ever since they passed the law saying you can't vote with an out of state ID, that increased my spam levels, too.
La transición was way too soft, out of fear of a coup d'etat. Decades later and we still suffer the consequences of that fear.
When I recently logged in to my T-Mobile online account, I noticed there was a feature for blocking spam on their end that was turned off. I toggled it on, and the flood of spam calls and messages I got every day suddenly stopped entirely.

Years ago when I asked them if they could do essentially this, they said they couldn't and that the only alternative was blocking on the phone. This would have sufficed if it weren't for Android's bizarre reluctance to make blocking spam straight forward and feasible. First of all, why no wildcard matching?

I resorted to setting my phone to permanently be on "Do Not Disturb", making all text messages silent while still allowing numbers in my contact list to ring through.

That approach mostly worked for me until this last year when spam calls became horrendous. Shouldn't DND take care of those? Well, for some reason beyond me, Android thinks that even if you have DND turned on that the calls should still block the screen and stop apps like Spotify from playing music until the call is dismissed. There is no way for the phone to completely ignore numbers that are not in your contacts. Even numbers that the phone knows are spam still do this. I mean, why the flip would I answer a call that the carrier and the phone itself agrees are spam?

I don't know if it's STIR/SHAKEN, but whatever that T-Mobile is doing, it seems to have adequately addressed the spam problem for me. I encourage any fellow T-Mobile users to go turn this on in the account settings.
I guess I am on outlier in this regard. I get pretty much no spam calls or texts accept from recruiters. The only thing I can realistically fathom being the cause for this is that I never give out my phone number or zip code at stores when buying things. Also I rarely buy things online anymore preferring to go to the big box stores around me. This doesn't mean I don't do it but on average probably no more than 5-6 times a year.
Isn't the Mac M1 mini $699?
Imagine someone you think is homeless comes up to you and says, hey you left your child on top of your car. You say, thanks but did you fill out form K7804 to inform me responsibly about the issue.

They say, form K7804? But your child, and that sounds like a lot of work to help you.. will you pay me to waste my time to help you?

You say, no guarantees that I'll pay you but if you don't inform me responsibly, I'll tell everyone you are the bad person here.
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Google tells me the help viewer uses IE7 with ActiveX to display help pages (https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/malici...)

Given that, I think this is better removed from any system.

If you have to access .chm files, I would first try other tools for displaying html help (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/articles/chm-reader-viewer-for-w... has a list)
Giving me a billion dollars is preferred over terrorist tactics. The argument makes no sense here.

What if that town votes for independence and then votes to be part of, lets say, China? They would have enough resources then. But anyway, nobody is using the resource argument here in the Catalonian independence issue.
The FBI has tied the recent Axie Infinity Ronin sidechain hack to North Korea
>The 2017 referendum vote ended up with 90% of votes for independence. However, only 43% of the census participated.

That is not true. Those are the numbers given by the independentist people themselves, with some people voting 5 times as there were no the required warrantees(as it was an illegal referendum).

The real numbers are those that supported an independentist party for the local elections, over 50% of the electorate.
I love rain, and was actually looking forward to having as much as people said when moving to Seattle. But as I discovered, the thing about Seattle rain is that, while frequent, it's more of an annoying mist that just kind of gets in your face, rather than actual pleasant pitter patter. The 3 months of summer though have pretty constant perfect weather that's hard to beat.
I opted out of "pre-screened" offers years ago, and I think that has helped a lot. I did the "permanent" version, but there is a 10-year one IIRC (at least when I did it).

https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
You seem to be implying that increased EV usage will dramatically decrease the need for oil refinement. Do you have any evidence of this?

In just the US, EV purchases have grown nearly exponentially over the past decade [0]. However total petroleum consumption in the US has slowly but steadily risen [1] during the same period (excluding, of course, the pandemic). Gasoline consumption has remained roughly flat.

There's a common and understandable assumption that "more green technology usage means lower GHG emissions" but in reality there is little evidence to support this. Globally, green energy usage has only served to supplement energy demands.

Since the industrial revolution we, as a species, have never reduced our usage of an energy source [3] Surprisingly we still burn as much wood as we did when every home was heated by wood burning.

The only dips we ever see in GHG emissions are during periods of economic disruption, but that's a path people are very unwilling to even discuss so it's not worth bringing up.

Point being, people dramatically over estimate the certainty that an increase in EVs will someone also mean a decrease in overall oil consumption.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...

1. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
What's untraceable about it? The carriers know the original phone number and know when it doesn't match the caller ID field.

There is no technical limitation. It is allowed behavior and that must change.
> No, it's not.

Yes, it is.

> If instead you implement it to comply with the USB3.1 spec then you have two separate transfer modes specified in the 3.1 standard: the legacy Gen1 and the newly-added Gen2.

No. If your device only supports 5 Gb/sec speeds, it's USB 3.0, yes. "SuperSpeed" and all that jazz. But with USB 3.2, it's now (magically) USB 3.2 Gen 1[0]:

> Under this rebranding, the standard previously known as USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 Gen 1 will now be called USB 3.2 Gen 1. Furthermore, the standard previously known as USB 3.1 Gen 2 will now be renamed to USB 3.2 Gen 2.

Yes, there's different transfer speeds, but if you only support 5 Gb/sec, you're a "Gen 1" device. If you're arguing that implementing USB 3.1 mandates support of the 10 Gb/sec mode, you're wrong. If that was the case, there'd be no point of this "Gen" nonsense because a 20 Gb/sec device would just be "USB 3.2" and a 5 Gb/sec device would be "USB 3.0".

Remember the whole debacle a few weeks ago about HDMI 2.1 essentially just being HDMI 2.0? Why would they do that other than to confuse? The only reason for this (USB) stupid naming is to confuse consumers into thinking that their 5 Gb/sec device is "top of the line" because it supports "USB 3.2" or "USB4".

For example, here's a "USB 3.2 Gen 1" flash drive.[1] It's a 5 Gb/sec flash drive, but it's 3.2 instead of the more appropriate 3.0. Why? To confuse.

> Who exactly do you think the USB consortium is? I mean, how do you think a standard is put together?

I think it's a consortium of companies. Many of which have marketing teams. And I'm right.[2]

[0]: https://www.msi.com/blog/new-usb-standard-usb-3-2-gen-1-gen2...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-128GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B0...

[2]: https://www.usb.org/members
Is there space for privacy engineering?
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Yeah. I went in swinging with a chip on my shoulder but I couldn't find fault with the article. Solid as heck for the internet. (IMO)

The one major problem I see with all this is mass adoption: it feels like most folks just don't care, and most of the folks who do care wind up using the "bad stuff" anyway (mostly out of convenience, but also due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).)

Even the right-to-repair and "comcom" mandates rest on popular support, eh?

To me that seems like the "800 lb gorilla": how do you get the average user to care about this stuff?
I would say the public trust is not so much dying as actively being killed.

Also the word mainstream has lost its meaning. If that term is to apply based on audience size, sites like InfoWars were bigger than some of the traditional outlets.

The idea of leaving "mainstream" outlets to seek truth on sites like InfoWars is more about people just wanting to hear their biases and not really interested in news per se.
I like the idea! Let's start with v1.0, and then just let our PR team decide on the next versions
This is how I feel coming from Illinois. It’s basically always spring in Seattle
I absolutely agree that hiring folks who are aware of the basics is important -- essentially, you want engineers who are aware of the space of possibilities.

In my view, what makes folks dislike typical coding interviews is that in the real world, what you need is a solid understanding of what algorithms exist and when to use them/what to look for, rather than the knowledge of how to build one on-the-fly.

To solve the issue you described, you don't need to know offhand how to implement a binary search tree on a whiteboard. You do need to know how to identify indexing as a bottleneck, and how to broadly think about a solution. You could then search for indexing strategies and, having studied them at some point in the past, you'd be able to pretty quickly refresh your memory and find the one that's a good fit for the problem at hand.

For this reason, I've always thought these exercises would be much better off as essentially "open book" rather than real-time whiteboarding problems -- because that reflects how engineers actually work. That's also what I've pushed for in my own workplaces, and we've had good success finding talented folks, and heard positive feedback about this aspect of the process.