skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sprawling networks can be upgraded with gateways and bridges where wholesale replacement isn't viable. Rural services (telephony, electricity, water, gas, sewerage, postal, ...) are often noneconomical and in the US there's a long tradition of either cooperatives or government-run (often municipally-organised) services, and/or steep subsidies.

The legacy assumptions built into PSTN seem to be getting in the way. Simple dumb terminals with no logic greater than being able to generate pulses or tones, logic in centralised switches (which should make upgrading more viable). Identity presumed to be based on the device and circuit, rather than the person at the end of the line (in the increasingly rare cases where a person is in fact at either end of the line). Stronger authentication, and different levels of authentication, are both necessary. (And some preservation for anonymous communications, within the constraints of technologically mediated telecoms platforms, is also useful --- it has its place.)

I'm also fearful that such a system will become captured by a single entity and not offer interoperability --- the long line of personal messaging systems offered by a string of Internet monopolies and would-be monopolies suggest the position has some appeal, if it's difficult to attain. MCI, AoL, Microsoft Messenger, Google's litany of extirpated chat apps, Facebook, Discord, Telegram, Signal, Protonmail, etc.

In its early years telephony was exclusive, and for much of its existence, expensive. Those cost barriers to usage meant that the worst abuses of the system were avoided (though the annoyance of telephone solicitation were still remarked on).

I'm not sure how or where volume increased, though Google Ngram shows "telemarketing" and a set of related terms taking off in the 1970s and 1980s:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=telemarketing%...
I presume you mean 90Mb, if it is MB I am envious.
YouTube can be a great tool for this. Just make some videos about your niche and then post a video asking viewers to participate.
For years I got those emails all the time. If I had printed them out they would have made great fire starters. I could not ever imagine working for FB even though they paid a lot at the time.
Hopefully the canabis producers will see the low (by todays standards) THC level weed as having its own niche and market it accordingly. Like 'light beer'.
What is wrong with people? Vegans already have a PR problem, this doesn't help.
From Mozilla's objection: "The lack of restrictions on the registry are allowing methods ... which are actively globally harmful to sustainability."

That seems to me like Mozilla trying to push their social justice goals down into tech standards now.
"You ever wonder where the food you eat gets grown and how it gets delivered"

the argument is strange, they don't exactly deliver 40 tons of wheat to the bakery with a taxi. Noone is arguing against cargo and utility vehicles unless they can be substituted by railway (which could be better designed, etc)

https://www.tescoplc.com/updates/2021/how-tesco-is-turning-t...
It's worse than that. Ig is their Frankenstein Monster. Facebook is for old people (literally) since gen Z is all over TikTok and Snapchat (to a certain extent).

The fb era is starting to sunset.
> Nothing. So the only defense would be, having a good headstart, by having a working product by the time of release. Just presenting ideas and sketches does not give this edge.

Nobody is suggesting you should publicly disclose all your preliminary ideas and sketches. It's more about researching your users problems and having discussions there.

Plus you could argue doing this actually aids in your "headstart" rather than hinders it:

1. You can approach the project with a better understanding of the problem domain and thus can tweak your solution to the captive market (rather than having to repeatedly pivot your product until you chance upon that market).

2. You already have contacts of potential customers before you launch.

Anyone working in secret has to figure those two problems out after they launch.
I just came out of a embedded Linux training, and the guy basically told us that if we want to have hard real time constraints, it is easier to execute real time stuff on a dedicated microcontroller on the side.
I find it crazy that we need such a powerful MCU to run Linux, but still it is not fit for real time.
I disagree. They didn't lose focus. Their new focus is VR. They anticipate it's going to be much bigger growth engine for them in the next decades, while the current core business is slowing down. Maybe their mistake is that they are too aggressive with the VR spending. There are many examples of companies that had a great core business that was gradually slowing down and new companies came and ate their lunch. Meta is trying to prevent that by being the leader in a completely new space. It's a bet that is going to be either a huge win or fail.
I assume they mean the methods and justifications behind the visualisations, since DFS etc. are absolutely taught everywhere.
Why would lockdowns encourage crime?
> I think you're confusing Elon's honesty with Ego. I don't think he even knows how to lie.

Musk has a loose association with the truth.

He's been lying continuously about full self-driving: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

5 years ago Tesla claimed to have the "hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

Elon claimed Vernon Unsworth was a pedophile. That was a lie. Worse, Elon weakly tried to claim the term "pedo guy" doesn't mean "pedophile": https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pedo-guy-doesnt-mean-p...

Elon continues to lie about founding Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

Elon wasn't a founder of Tesla: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberha...

In a recent sycophantic interview Musk pathetically tried to redefine the term "founder" to mean someone essential to the company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmSrK238vI&t=2358s

It's sad that he can't even be honest about simple factual matters.
> Canada has made some progress since legalisation in 2018, but through a regionally varied patchwork of free-market and state-controlled supply systems that makes it hard to draw broad lessons

This strikes me as an odd claim. Each province has its own approach, and the provinces are large. Wouldn’t having varying approaches among different large regions be perfect for drawing lessons?
> This simply misses the point. Very few laws are restricted to the best science of their day: nearly all allow for administrative interpretation so that the US Government can apply the law without having to relitigate its essential qualities.
Precisely, if it was the case then arms of the second amendment wouldn’t apply to modern day firearms.
From the blog, there is a comment from a magician with a BA in Mathematics that I quote here:

"I am a magician with a BA in Math. While the math is great where is the trick? - Perhaps you could explain about the choosing of the cards and what the mystery in the way you reveal the chosen cards, because the average spectator is not going to be awed by a “memorized stacked deck routine” no matter whether you actually memorize your stack of 32 cards, or whether you are using binary to calculate the next card from the previous. Please help me understand where the drama is as a magic trick. The truth is that as you have so far discussed it, this trick will fall flat on its face - please explain how pigrnerform it so that it is not boring

-Ronald Levy"

The reply if you are interested is that you need to be able to develop your story to somewhat condition your audience. I guess the lesson is, that all this is more interesting for Mathematicians and less to Magicians :-)
well you see when the municipality is doing well, we don't call it profit, so you can't win the game by definition.
That sounds very much like one of those solutions that is so complicated that it covers everything in theory, and in practice everyone just ignores it and picks some other standard (or 3...) that is actually narrow enough to cleanly implement and gets the job done.
Agreed on the idiocy of the SPD ("wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten")... but this time, the Justice Ministry belongs to the FDP. They have alienated an awful lot of voters with their effective denial of reasonable covid measures, they'd be completely done for if they would not manage to get cannabis legal-ish enough that people can buy cannabis products in stores and smoke on the streets without fearing arrest.

We have elections in Bavaria and Hessen in 2023, the FDP will need at least something to show off, and cannabis is the easiest thing to pass, particularly as the Greens and parts of the SPD have long fought for it.
I live in Australia, I would say most people would drink tap water at home. We have a sink top filter that filters water, so we use that. I don’t think drinking tap water in this part of the world is abnormal, on the contrary. Out of curiosity, where are you from?
facebook groups work for small niche, reddit or any forums where TA comes together to solve their problems, share etc
Something tagged "VEGAN Cheese" in big characters with "This cheese is from our beloved cow Vega, not actually ugly soy stuff but is good for you, and remind that you started this war, not us" in tiny characters at the foot would receive a priceless publicity and lots of love.
It's like you're describing FB having gone from Public Broadcasting Station to Home Shopping Network.

That sounds about right. (And the internet in general is becoming more and more a string of commercials — but don't let that comment keep you from getting off my lawn!)
In politics the BATNA will be different as there are real costs (like some bad, faith, actor is going to tell you what you can or cannot do with your own body).
> From a theoretical view, why is it a bad thing? I very much want my OS/service-manager to.. manage services and upon terminating my session, nothing should continue to run under it.

Sure, agreed — and the standard way this was done for decades was by sending a HUP signal to the processes. And the standard way for decades that the user could say, 'hey, don't kill this one process; leave it running' was to use nohup. Systemd just decided to ignore nohup and kill every process, period. After all, it's just as simple for a user to learn the systemd model and how to write systemd unit files, open a text editor, actually write a unit file, install the unit file and use systemctl to start the process as it was to write 'nohup daemon,' right?

This is an example of the sheer unmitigated hubris behind the systemd project. Wayland feels very similar to me. Maybe that's not fair, but it sure feels like it. All I know is that with Wayland I cannot use Linux and Unix for over three decades. It definitely seems to do some things right, but it also seems to do some things wrong, and some things needlessly weirdly.

Among other things, it seems way too difficult to write a compositor from scratch. I am trying to minimise the amount of C/C++ in my life: one nice thing about X is that X bindings exist for many languages which do not rely on xlib or xcb.
True, the contrast here would be e.g. copyright law as usually found in EU states, where the are actual, enumerated lists of exceptions to copyright. Fair dealing as used by some former UK colonies seems more similar to the EU approach than US fair use doctrine.

"Training of ML models with data not licensed to you and then selling the output of the model" isn't on those lists, and consequently is a flagrant copyright violation in - broadly - the entire EU.

If you are a developer in the EU using Copilot, it is really pretty obvious that using Copilot is a commercialized copyright violation, which is e.g. in Germany (but I'm guessing many other states) a criminal offense, not a civil offense. Now, people might say, they're paying Microsoft for this service, and that's not in the EU, so something something can't prosecute. Of course, that doesn't actually work in the real world, and this corner of prosecuting copyright violations has been extremely well explored during the many, many trials of people committing IP violations of music and films over the past few decades.

In addition to that, I'm pretty sure routine copyright violations by an employed developer would be one of the more clear-cut reasons for a termination without notice and compensation for having to replace the affected code.
Not with respect to the country as a whole. 'broad' is the key term in the sentence you quoted.
I would go as far as saying that company's "mission statements" are in fact the inverse of what they do.

It always portrays the image they would like to have and by default do not, otherwise there would be no reason to communicate it so prominently.
> “If you look at the GitHub Terms of Service, no matter what license you use, you give GitHub the right to host your code and to use your code to improve their products and features,” [Kate] Downing, [an IP lawyer specializing in FOSS compliance] says. “So with respect to code that’s already on GitHub, I think the answer to the question of copyright infringement is fairly straightforward.”

This has some interesting implications – for example, it means I can't mirror somebody else's (open source) code on GitHub without their explicit agreement.
This has been true for a while - in the 1990s when effective decriminalisation wasn't on the cards, I knew the son of a judge who was caught in the middle of Edinburgh with a shopping trolley full of cannabis plants. He got arrested, but didn't get anything worse than a slap on the wrist.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31930011
They could also cache that computed menu and proactively update the cache whenever the relevant keys are changed. Either way, pretty far from "cannot be fixed without breaking the API".
If CodePilot is outputting unique enough GPL code verbatim, then a simple search can inform the user about it and he can make the decision to keep it or not. This could be a feature requirement.
Do weed shops in legal states not have "light" options? Seems weird if they didn't, but I guess that might be a side effect of recent legalization. That the heavy stuff sells better to consumers who used to take whatever they could find back in the black market days.

Anyways, I'm asking because I unfortunately live in a state where it's still illegal.
> Disabling Xwayland, if you can, makes wayland a much better experience. Not possible for everyone, as you may have software that doesn't work on Wayland, but I ran my daily driver Arch laptop with sway and no X at all for years, everything worked really well.

If I can't run suckless terminal then what's the point of having a computer on my desktop? At that point I might as well kill the GUI altogether!
Isn't BankID only used in Sweden?
At least I have not heard that it is used in Norway, Finland or Denmark.
I wonder how alcohol would look of people were so incompetent that they would drink vodka by the pint, like beer!

Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong.
Yes, but... Basically other parties aren't that different. In the end it doesn't matter which color of the rainbow, or black, is going to fuck the people.
There will still be a person committing the code that Copilot came up with in the end, wouldn't that person be in violation of copyright too then?

Just like if they would've copied it from some code base they found online under a non-permissive license.
Damn how is Elon Mušk going to send me that $69420 of bitcoin he promised me in a video comment now?
While I have no interest in weed, I never understood why people are against it, since cigarettes are also a drug and are far more damaging to heath and the economy, and in the US kills a couple hundred thousand folks a year, or alcohol, which is a drug, and kills tens of thousands of people a year. Eliminating illegality would save in so many ways, and taxes could help offset other taxes. But no, weed is somehow more terrible...
The problem I have with this blog post is that the author is conflating two things.

The author has a disability, and the author's disability means they struggle with fine tasks. Obviously absolutely nothing wrong with that part.

The author then launches into a lengthly tirade about "food snobs", some of which is not really supported by facts. Not cool.

Because the problem is that its hard fact that pre-ground spice looses its potency very quickly compared to its whole counterparts. And its a hard fact that you have to "do stuff" to garlic in order to put it in a jar or a tube in order to preserve it (you will have to suspend it in something, many processes will likely add salt to it, I suspect quite a few will add preservatives to it, others may even heat it in order to sterilise for long shelf life).

e.g. quick internet search, example product "Gia Garlic Puree 90G", its ingredients ? Garlic (55% - Origin Italy/Spain), Sunflower Oil, Salt, Preservative (Potassium Metabisulphite)

So, 55% of what is in the tube is garlic. The rest of it ? Salt, oil and preservatives.

Calling people "food snobs" for pointing out hard facts is not cool. The fact that garlic in bulb form is different to tin/tube garlic is simply an inescapable fact. Different texture, different strength, different everything. It is quite clearly not "just pre-chopped garlic".

In the end, IMHO the author should have focused more on the quality of life aspect and less on the ranting.

I have a lot of respect for the author in finding ways to adapt in order to maintain their quality of life and their love for cooking. I think that would have made for a far more interesting blog post than an unsubstantiated rant about "food snobs".

P.S. I'm not saying "food snobs" don't exist, they certainly do. But the author picked the wrong example here !
Winamp is coming back out!

But also maybe create a Plex server and store everything there?
Buying Github? Microsoft has owned Github for a while now, yes?
I'm very happy to see bitcode die. It was a massive pain for SDK developers, even more so if you wanted to use another native language like Rust in any way.
church! today is the first day of freshness here
This YouTube video contains its own ID
It is like rental space where I live. The land lords don't decrease the rent since they would have to write down the value of the house and write a loss in the books. So some apartments are empty for artificial profit in the end of the year.

I guess the problem with the lorry drivers is that each company wants their competition to also increase wages, and don't want to go first?
> But most software can be compiled (and even obfuscated), making it unpractical to further modify and redistribute a copy.

Tell that to people who remove DRM restrictions, fix bugs and then distribute the result. The only reason there aren't companies and university courses dedicated for such modifications is that it's illegal.
The devil is in the detail and clearly I need to read more. Thanks for giving the direction
It's not a dupe. This submission was falsely mass reported and removed from the front page within minutes.

After emailing HN mods, the flags were removed 18 hours later, but it was gone of course.

I've asked HN mods for a permission to re-submit this.
> The only way for either of these things to get better is through real-world experience

if you are going to make that argument, you have to explain
why we are socialising losses and privatising profits (again)

so some number of people will be injured of killed while self driving cars gain experience, and then private corporations will extract profit from it?
I can't fathom the amount of copyright infringement the Ctrl, C and V keys have caused.
> Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here

He's probably not wrong though. People are routinely amazed just how many people these large companies employ. Big company culture often slips into not what is delivered, but how many people does a manager have under them.

In the past, successful companies have used economic downturns as a way to reset this culture.
I really hope so as well. Black market weed in UK sucks. I've moved here recently and all the stuff I was able to get was dry deodorized skunk grown on chemicals - really sad state. It stinks a mile away, it's not fresh, you literally can feel there's something added to it that shouldn't be there. I stopped using cannabis completely at this point.
changes your view doesn't it? I think it is a very good test
Outdated APIs don't have to affect the shell and built in programs or anything else that is kept up to date. My linux programs are no more buggy due to having Wine installed for similar compat with legacy Windows executables.
VR isn't like digital cameras destroying film, it's a completely different business. It'd be like Netflix deciding their video streaming business has peaked so they're going to hire 10,000 new engineers to work on a new wind turbine business.

I agree with you they are focused on VR, but where I disagree is that they are a social media company. They're not focused on what their company actually does. It's kind of an obvious point that maybe the reason their core business is slowing down is because the head of the company decided to stop working on it. At some point it's going to become obvious that if you spun off the Facebook part of Meta it would have a significantly larger market cap than Meta has.
I would suggest because the sentiment is a trite misrepresentation of people's experiences across multiple facets. Throughout the summer you'll smell weed constantly if you're out and about and never see anyone so much as approached by any nearby police, regardless of who they are.

Edit: UK, I can't speak for the US
Well, be fair, grandparent argued that a cheat sheet would help "for the first few months", not that it is a "complete solution", so I don't see how my suggestion "proves" anything.

Also, without knowing which issues you're having with git it's impossible to know if it's lack of baseline knowledge or if you're running into real complicated problems.

If you have a GUI with "Pull" "Stage" "Commit" "Push" buttons, I strongly suspect you're not in the complicated end.
Reducing op's post to your own summary, then attacking that summary, is not making a point in good faith.

Besides, it's not pure speculation, it's sitting on very solid foundations of reasoning that were outlined in the earlier post - Current cutting-edge tech for regular contact lenses has resulted in something (silicone hydro-gel) that lasts at best a month before it breaks down, but allows airflow through to the eye which is very important for long-term use and comfort. It's fair to be skeptical about overcoming this issue, which reasonably you would have to do if you're going to layer in some expensive tech and give a user a reasonable lifetime from the product.
[dupe] from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31935626
Cigarettes are stimulating in a way similar to coffee - weed is not, so the lutheran morals dominated cultures (admittedly a quite outdated generalization) look very disapprovingly upon it.
Are you telling me all these fleet of vehicles can be defeated with a GPS Jammer?

https://www.jammer-store.com/gj6-all-civil-gps-signal-jammer...