skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As governmental systems go, having an unelected head of state is actually kind of smart. Their lack of democratic legitimacy means they don’t try to exercise any real power, leaving that to the parliamentary parties. But they represent the nation and the military swears loyalty to them, so they effectively have a one use “sorry, but they’ve gone too far, I’m dismissing this government” card they can play in case of absolute dire tyranny. There’s no way to fire them, it’s very hard to bribe them, they’re trained for the job from birth and there are backups in place in case they die. The system avoids many of the problems found with elected presidents (whether US or parliamentary style) while preserving all the benefits of democratic government. My only complaint is that the system for choosing the next one could be a bit more representative than “firstborn child of the current monarch”. But changing only that part of the system now without ruining it would be pretty hard.
Complain to your Congressional representatives. There's action being taken, but it's slow; a big provision kicks in at the end of this month.

https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls

> Caller ID authentication is critical for protecting consumers against spoofed robocalls where scammers mask their identity, harass consumers, and seek to defraud vulnerable communities. Caller ID authentication, based on so-called STIR/SHAKEN standards, provides a common information sharing language between networks to verify caller ID information which can be used by robocall blocking tools, FCC investigators, and by consumers trying to judge if an incoming call is likely legitimate or not. On June 30, 2021, the FCC confirmed that all the largest voice service providers had implemented these standards in the IP sections of their networks, in accordance with the FCC’s deadline. While some small carriers were afforded an extension of this deadline, Chairwoman Rosenworcel shortened the amount of time afforded to a subset of small voice service providers based on evidence that they were originating an increasing quantity of illegal robocalls. Thus, small voice service providers that are not facilities-based must implement STIR/SHAKEN in the IP portions of their networks no later than June 30, 2022.

That "small voice service providers" loophole is what's currently abused; a few of them have found being lax on spam detection means they can rake in fees for a while.

https://epic.org/documents/scam-robocalls-telecom-providers-...

> Every answered scam robocall pays money to those providers, as well as to every telephone service provider in the call path. Even when these providers are told—sometimes repeatedly—that they are transmitting fraudulent calls, they keep doing it, because they are making money from these calls.
The EDDM demographic filtering works on the postal route level. You aren't filtering by households with $X income, you're filtering by routes where the households have an average income of $X income. For what it's worth. [ED - also worth mentioning this is just using census data.]

Similarly, you can't use the tool to send mail to 40 year olds, you can just see that the route you selected is 40% over age 40, or whatever.
Can someone point me to a search term that turns up counterfeit goods? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I hear this complaint all the time, yet have never seemingly encountered it in my 20+ years of using Amazon. I'd be curious to see what they look like.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, I feel I must be buying different things?

I did once however report that a power strip I had bought, knowing ahead of time it was super cheap, was designed in such a way that you could touch the live power pins because it was rounded and that I had shocked myself. That report seems to have gone nowhere
"As of September 2019, the Tesla Model X, Model S and Model 3 have had more than 108 sudden unintended acceleration reports, as per NHTSA's Early Warning Page...

...A petition was issued for further investigation from the NHTSA, claiming Tesla's vehicles may have a structural flaw that can endanger public safety, and that the number of sudden unintended acceleration reports filed for the Tesla models were as much as 6000% higher as other brands' cars on similar class or otherwise (pages 63 through 66 on the petition report)...

...Furthermore, it also alleges Tesla knows about the "unintended acceleration" and is unresponsive to driver engagement following the incidents. It also asks for the recall of all Model 3, S and X vehicles produced by Tesla since 2013.The NHTSA has issued a statement saying they are in the process of reviewing the petition issued..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration...
Are those things because of Elon or in spite of Elon?
If she (or any future monarch) were to exercise that power unilaterally, the monarchy would be finished. So in a roundabout way, they'd be sacked.
Not saying you’re wrong but how do you know about the Russian soldiers ?

Seems like something Russia wouldn’t really talk about ?
BTW, I've only tested this on Chrome as it uses Google Speech Rec so please let me know if it doesn't work on other browsers. Thanks!
Doesn't DDR5 have a much higher clock ceiling? That should surely translates to much higher throughput?!
It was a Battlestar Galactica reference.

Characters in the show are frequently forced to confront situations in terms of either coincidence, synchronicity or divine intervention.

The quote underlines a recurring theme in the show and how people adapt to it (though later on gets rather heavy handed).
Only lasts a year, though.
The former colonies/dominions/outposts of the British Empire have increasingly abandoned the monarchy, with Barbados being the latest to the best of my knowledge without looking it up. Public opinion in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand tends to swing very tightly between monarchy and abolition in recent times.
I am unsure, a long term conflict would lead to both rising food and energy prices, both China and India still trade with Russia. It might further motivate technological independence from the west of those countries. Overall it could just accelerate the decline of the West and Europe in particular and a final shift of power to Asia.
All that nuance is important lest the point be misunderstood or misconstrued.
Wait until you get a monarch that you don't like. I guess then you'll ask for a way of choosing one that you do. Or perhaps you're an obedient servant of the royals, no matter who they are?
I think these hardware manufacturers figured out that they can just keep prices high. Memories and SSD manufacturers especially.
That raises the question of what happens with used cars?

Suppose Alice the Accountant buys a car and it comes with a CD containing the full source for all the GPL software used in the car. Alice is not a programmer and loses the CD or throws it away.

Then Alice sells the car to Peter the Programmer. Peter sees that the car is using GPL software and wants the source. Is there anyone who has to provide the source to him?

The car company does not because they fully satisfied their GPL obligations with respect to the particular binaries in that car when they included the source CD.

I expect that Alice would also be off the hook. It is true that in passing the car to Peter she has distributed copyrighted GPL code (the binaries in the car), but she just passed on a copy that was lawfully made and received by her. That should be covered under the first sale doctrine [1].

We thus seem to end up with a GPL binary in the wild with no one obligated to provide the source for that binary.

I wonder if anyone has seriously considered a license that prohibits binary distributions? Processors are fast enough now and storage is cheap enough that in a lot of embedded applications it would probably be feasible to have the software stored in source form and compile it each time the system started.

[1] What the first sale doctrine says is that it is not a violation of the copyright owner's exclusive distribution right for someone who has received a lawfully made copy to pass that particular copy on to someone else.
True. And I'd go further: once the campaign stops becoming "get rid of the monarchy" and becomes "set up exactly this system X", support will go down even further. It's a very useful fiction that the monarch isn't political.
Probably not with the Toyota given the model, but this can often be both a human error and bad design.

In some cases, "human error" is at least partly attributable to poor human factors engineering. It sometimes happens with SUVs and large trucks with large transmission wells that effectively move the pedals towards the driver side door. When in a panic situation, people will sometimes mistake the location of accelerator for the brake out of sheer muscle memory.
The vertical component of the force exerted by the sea would be down instead of up. So I guess it's good if pushing the front of the boat down is OK. Sounds like go faster => sink to me, but as they seem to work I guess buoyancy overcomes it.
The standard explanation for almost everything right now is everyone in the supply chain ordered more than they needed, it caused a supply crunch, but now warehouses are full, and suppliers either caught up in production, or people don't want to be stuck with too much old product in their warehouses.
Except in this case we have the light bulb already in nuclear reactors.

It's like if Edison threw out the first light bulb that worked because it felt hot to the touch.
All marketplaces quickly turn to garbage.
Oh, but they do exercise real power
The thing that your chassis is connected to is ground, not neutral.

The hot/neutral being swapped thing matters because some stuff only has a switch on the hot leg. (Not your computer; it could just as easily be used with a Schuko plug on the end of that C13 cable - which isn't "polarized" at all!)
To be clear, Elon's companies are not Elon, no matter how much Elon's PR machine insists that's the case.
The Queen has the power, but she has no choice than to do what the PM says? This is autocracy with extra steps.

End the monarchy, end the bullshit ceremonies, and write up some rules for when you’re allowed to trash the government.
I kind of dont believe this (norway becoming authoritarian), but every power given to the government is like additional leverage in a stock market. With big leverage, if your unlucky, you feel it so much more.
I work in crisis management, sometimes on tense, hours-long outage calls. Very often, engineers or others on the call will say things like "It would be nice to run test $x before we move forward."

It basically always pays to ask a counter-question like "Will we want to change our action in some way based on the result of this test?"

Often the answer is no, so we can skip doing the test and get to remediation faster.

Once you notice this pattern (it's clearer in outage situations where moments matter), you frequently catch people (including yourself, if you're honest) seeking information that they don't even /plan/ to use as an input to some decision or action. In other words, there is no conceivable future where the answer to some proposed question would have an effect on their actions. If you find such a situation, you can at minimum remove answering that question from the critical path, and possibly just never bother finding the answer at all.

That doesn't mean that having such information is bad, just that we should think of the cost of gathering suit against its likelihood of mattering in terms of our actions. In fact, possibly one of the central purposes of IT broadly is to lower the cost of answering such questions, so that we can afford to ask more of them.
How do you mail it back to sender at their cost?
Don't assume there is even a housing crisis. Not everyone can live in NYC, that is a simple fact. Or LA, or SF. It's physically impossible. If you think building more housing lowers rent, then you've never been to a big city before.
I heard that like 2 years ago. Still “soon”. Knowing linux community they will spend another 2 making different “organisations” and then claim “success linux run on ipad!” when it boots with zero devices supported and 90% loss of performance and battery life. Then it will die.
After just reading most of the first half of the docs (skimming some parts, because in occasions it delves too much into fine details, I feel it lacks a bit of conciseness), I'm still not sure I understood well why this tool needs to use specifically built images, instead of just grabbing whatever is the current `ubuntu:20.04` image and install stuff on top of it.

The page didn't achieve conveying this clearly to me. I might be a bit obtuse today but as I went on and on reading, the question remained about why exactly this tool is not just starting from well known (and trusted) Docker images. The "trusted" part is important: I kind of trust that official Ubuntu images are not tampered with anything fishy.

Could you expand on this?
What do you mean? It is small in terms of population size, it is a high-trust country (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-who-trust-governmen...), it has had the highest democracy index in the world every year since 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index), it has many political parties and there have been coalition governments for many years?

Yes, it is a constitutional monarchy which was introduced by vote, and given its support in the population, removing the monarchy would be quite undemocratic. One of the more radical parties in parliament has raised the issue many times; in 2019 their suggestion to abolish the monarchy got a record of 36 votes in parliament (against 130)
>features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face.

This is what we get now when we had developers band together with those who want to protect their "content" that is not valuable enough to be published directly, nor is it original; yet they want to make sure that no one takes their amateur work and makes money from it before they do.
This is what we get for wanting to create artist protections without needing formal frameworks or policies: the creatives find a way to do something, and then the replicators find ways to use it en masse.

Protecting content was not an issue after SEO, or before online payments for reading articles online, nor was it ever really necessary. All they do is make sure that those who are motivated to copy their content find ways to do so, with a hassle.
I'm sort of surprised Intel is still an option. since they never revamped the fundamentals of their hyperthreading technology their spectre/meltdown/etc mitigations still send every new chip they make to the barber for a 15-30% haircut in performance. last hn metrics focused exclusively on comparing their performance against...another Intel chip.

just because players like f5 chose to ignore the patches and their Linux kernel patch shipped disabled by default doesn't mean they're out of the woods
Suppose I move and have a new address. Is there any way to stop new mail? Catalogs are easy enough to stop. I'm thinking things like political mailers. It's almost like you need to keep your name out of public records (DMV, voter registration, property title) to avoid them.
First, thank you. I’m free riding in the positive pressure you’ve exerted.

Does it work for you? Do they stop, and is it worth the time?

Also, do you go through all four steps at the “first offense”? Rightly or not it’s considered business as usual to blanket a geographical area on occasion, so there are only a few places which are constant enough I’d actually consider myself vengeful instead of annoyed.
However, in practice: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
An all out war would mean full
mobilisation of the 2-4 million soldiers Russia has, strategic bombardment on a much larger scale, a war economy. Russia is fighting with a full-strength expeditionary force, Ukraine has conscripted every man of fighting age they could find and has forbidden men from leaving the country.
They recently-ish lifted the restriction on only replying/voting in threads 6 months and younger - I'm not sure if that also applies to editing, though, nor how far back it goes
The process of dissolving the monarchy is certainly more arduous than a routine election, though.
Do not open it, and write "return to sender".
Indeed, you got the vibe just right. I wanted this tool-set to be time-proof. Been working "on my machine" for 1,5 years. I had to do some serious clean-up and re-writing so that it started working on other people's machines, but once you get it running - it does not break. I've long noticed that things that are simple
- such as tiny scripts or libraries I'd write - would outlive larger projects I would work on. So these days I only try and write software that can last. Bash isn't perfectly portable, to be honest (FreeBSD doesn't even have it by default, and MacOSX has an outdated version of it), but what else? I've recently refreshed my memories of Perl, wrote a few scripts with it and, somehow, it felt harder to deal with than Bash...

Thank you, typo fixed. I think there are more. I usually do try and proof-read, but there's never enough time.
>Policing? Lots of private security around.

private security is very limited in their ability to inflict violence.

>Money supply? Nope, nearly all dollars are created and manager by private entities.

They might be the people "creating" the money, but the monetary policy (which affects how much your dollars are actually worth) is set by the fed.

>Military? Also plenty of options here, none in any sense "well-regulated".

I mean, if all you're looking for are men with guns, PMCs would indeed meet your needs. However, if you need to face off against another developed country you only have one option.
This seems to breach the HN guidelines - it's deeply political.
As someone who works in the recycling industry (toilet paper & wet wipes). That's just not true for paper. It it plastic that is hardly recycled...

Wood pulp and recycled pulp are both in incredibly high demand at the moment and both incredibly cheap to use.

I can't speak for global stats, but here in England, as of 2018, we were importing over $600 million of just recycled paper to use from abroad! [ https://www.statista.com/statistics/490038/eu27-import-value... ]
It really depends, but 5 years salary for wrongful termination isn't far fetched. The fact that they sent an email saying this wouldn't happen and then it did does indicate breach of contract. They could be held responsible for compensatory damages to make up lost wages and punitive damages.
> Their immense investment into logistics means that many things will make it to me next-day.

This is what really turned me off from Amazon. They say it'll get to you next day... and then it shows up several days later (or it gets marked delivered or never shows up, and you have to take the time to call them up and complain to get another sent).

And worse yet, there's always the knowledge in the back of your mind that if you complain too often, they'll simply ban you from purchasing from them [https://www.wsj.com/articles/banned-from-amazon-the-shoppers... etc]
How can you MMT people exist when there are already thousands of business/credit cycles throughout history that disprove your beliefs?

To be clear, raising interest rates to appropriate levels curbs inflation as evidenced by all of financial history. Turkey kept rates low exactly as you suggest, and this massive inflation is the result
Not sure which language you need, but I worked on a tool called Codemap that visualizes any Javascript/Python codebase. I also made a Hacker News post which may be interesting to you.
- Codemap https://codemap.app
- HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241998

Let me know if that works in your scenario :)
… a few years ago maybe
So he didn't give money to support Prop 8 and only gave it to the mormon church?
https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage

I'm not super familiar but it looked cool when I read about it a few years ago

Also, differentiable programming is interesting and getting lots of attention (jax, zygote, enzyme, kornia etc). I don't know if there is a "killer app" outside just training neural networks yet, but it's worth watching and e.g. kornia is doing some cools stuff
Do they even understand how difficult it is to be AWS? They had to write off over €500m on a botched implementation of SAP. Are they trying to apply their no frills low cost philosophy to cloud services, do they think thats going to be enough?

Whatever it is I wouldnt really want to trust my infrastructure and data to a food retailer on their first attempt at providing IT services. That sentance should be enough warning.
> commentary on price trends are always hyperbolic

for example, many financial publications will write the exact same thing for a 2% intraday price movement

there is nothing to explain or rationalize or correct, its hyperbole

I think its interesting, to know about prototyping to mass production, but is or isn't a crash? okay. shrug. its a waste of time to split hairs over that, its hyperbole.
> How is this - or similar - done in other languages?

In the sense of just generating a QR code and outputting to PNG, or building it as a CGI script?

This is what I came up with in Python and Go for the former: https://pastebin.com/NemaaCzF
Nope! It’s awesome. I have never had any issues and have had great luck just going with whatever comes up listed as “Amazon’s Choice.”
B - Memory is a 'class of product', DDRx is just the model.

A few people will buy the 2022 Ford-Model-X for a premium at launch, but once they've bought it, Ford are just selling to the people with a 2010 Ford who just want to upgrade to what's in the new catalogue.

I'm sure some of those upgraders will pick up a bargain on that onsold 2020 stock - but Ford aren't devoting resources to keep making those old models.
Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere (2020)
I guess that’s the reasoning, but sending it to work seems pretty dumb compared to creating a separate, cheater account.

Although sending it to work is probably the most secure from a spouse.
Bleeding edge tech usually starts off very expensive and tends to get cheaper as the manufacturing capacity increases, hardly news worthy.
> I wonder why so many free-speech advocates are hell-bent on enabling fascists to spread their propaganda.

Do you also wonder why so many cryptography advocates are hell-bent on enabling not just fascists but also pedophiles and terrorists to plan and commit their crimes or are your difficulties of comprehension more selective?

> To compare this kind of law to fundamentalist religious law is a special kind of ignorant.

Pakistan (unlike, say, Saudi Arabia) has constitutionally enshrined freedom of expression. Can you point to some fundamental difference that makes the restrictions Pakistan places on this right incomparable to those Germany places on it?
> Does it work for you? Do they stop, and is it worth the time?

Actually, surprisingly yes! After doing the above for several years, I now get virtually zero junk mail (according to my spreadsheet, I've only received three pieces of junk mail so far this year).

And yes, I do it on the 'first offense' to nip it in the bud as soon as it starts.
Probably everyone anticipating a recession and holding off on ordering anymore until they get a clearer idea of whats going happen.
I am guessing but I bet there are less than 5 worldwide. "Pay well" to me means $200k+ for mid level.
and that's exactly why we need to "take things back". for them. for those that don't know how it was and how it should be.
Do you use DexieDB for that app? I think I saw this app there. Cool stuff.
The majority of the products I review are between 1 star and 3 stars. It's rare I'm so happy with something I would bother to review it.

I can only recall ever having one review rejected, and I've reviewed probably hundreds of things.

I wonder if they have an internal system that marked your reviews in particular for more scrutiny.