skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So we're back to "No Blacks or Irish" on the 2022 Internet?

I think this is the inevitable result of surveillance capitalism. Once you can reliably be identified as holding certain views or meeting some arbitrary criteria pages can be dynamically altered to restrict what you have access to. A racist social platform can look completely benign to anyone who isn't part of the in-group, forums for teens can automatically lock out anyone suspected of being over a certain age, companies can show products or services only to people within a certain class, etc.

We already restrict a lot of access to content based on guesses about location. Youtube doesn't even let you see that certain content on their platform exists on their site unless you're logged in from an IP in specific counties (as opposed to showing you the videos exist and throwing up an error saying it's not available for you when you try to view it) and netflix blocks VPNs just to try to keep a bunch of their content away from the wrong kinds of people.

These are the kinds of barriers the internet should have freed us from, but instead it's being used to put up more gates and to force people into them.
https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/43809/2021-volkswagen-id-4...

>I couldn't turn the heater on countless times because the climate portion of the OS was unresponsive. Other times, it would simply say that the function couldn't be performed at the time.

>user interface was also absolutely horrific. It was glitchy, slow, and organized in a way that made zero sense. During a two-hour trip, I was not able to turn off the heated steering wheel function, which had gotten stuck on its highest setting. It got so painfully hot that I had to resort to just using my fingertips to hold the wheel. Power-cycling the car wouldn't do anything, either. Eventually, it just turned off by itself for no apparent reason.

>headlights—despite being on Auto mode—sometimes would stay on after I had exited the car, making me come out of my house minutes later to manually turn them off

>driver only has two switches to control all four windows. That's right, you must select the "Rear" setting and then use the two available switches to operate the rear windows. Want to roll down your own window? De-select Rear to be able to do that.

>After spending nearly two weeks attempting to learn the system, I realized my efforts didn't matter because the damn thing was so unpredictable and flawed that I just never felt confident that I had control over it.

You might think its been a year surely its fixed, well https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/is-infotainment-that-bad.47...

>>OK, I'm puzzled now. Are you guys saying that you have to wait for the car to boot before it's driveable?

>No, but the likelihood that you get some random error is greatly diminished. I almost always unplug, sit down, flip it in reverse and go and almost never have any issue.

its not undriveable if you just start it without waiting over a minute, it just randomly glitches!

What glitches? like this https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/id4-infotainment-inverted-a... https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/blank-screens.1546/

If you search id4 on youtube videos like "Improve Infotainment Screen Lag with these 2 things!" and "How to fix a Blank Infotainment Screen on the VW ID.4" are at the top.

WV has been selling car this broken for a year now (11 months).
Yeah that's the source of the arbitrage.
I can't believe your nationality was the reason. I know Ukrainians at Google, Amazon, Meta and Apple working as devs. These are all SDE jobs in Europe.
>probably to make it back within a few years

"probably"? Are you willing to be held criminally liable when the elderly take your advice and the S&P does not bend to your will for the next year or two due to say -- oh I don't know -- unforeseen world events?

edit: I was alluding to the possibility of c): not investing in the S&P or crypto for the duration and suffering inflation. which would have been better than a) and b) since inflation is added on top of both those losses.
And all the way up to the octave which is an interval of seven notes.

What I find interesting is that we double-count the end notes in a diatonic scale, but we don't double-count them in a chromatic scale. No one says there are 13 notes per octave in a chromatic scale, it's 12.
>When people get on at this stop, how far do they travel?

Very few systems that I've ridden on in the US track this kind of information. Most of the time you buy a one way ticket and ride for however many stops you want. There's no tracking for when people get off.
Okay, say a philosopher makes an argument for why we should switch to socialism, or become vegans. These arguments would go something like:

"Socialism is good because it's a more equitable distribution of resources, which leads to greater happiness and a society with less poverty because xyz."

"Veganism is good because it reduces the harm done to animals and the harm done to humans working in the meat industry, who have far increased rates of PTSD compared to the general population."

These arguments will only convince you if (i) you think an equitable distribution of resources is better (ii) less poverty is better (iii) xyz is a convincing reason to think there would be less poverty (iv) harm to animals should be reduced (v) harm to humans should be reduced (vi) incidence of PTSD should be reduced.

These philosophers do not say there is some law of the universe which mandates that less poverty is better, or that PTSD is bad. The reasons why you should think those things, they would say, are second-order reasons. There may be some other paper arguing why PTSD in society is a net negative. That paper would ultimately read something like "icreased PTSD rates lead to increased rate of suicide/lower economic efficiency/harm to other humans". There is no single argument why harming other humans is wrong, only axioms that we would take as our priors, just as we take it that "A != !A". They just seem right, and you don't have to subscribe to them yourself.

Unlike religion, all philosophers can say is "it would be advantageous to generally valued goals X,Y,Z that we take these axioms for granted". It turns out that enough people share these axioms for this philosophical work to be useful for navigating difficult questions even given those axioms. Again, you don't have to share the axioms, but if you do, a logical argument can be produced from them, one which it would be to your embarrassment to ignore without any refutation, still assuming that you hold the axioms yourself. Again, you need not do so.

Similarly, the advice from a physicist about the heat tolerance of the hull of your rocket ship would need to balance both economic and other interests. If you don't care about going into debt, you can sey hell to the economic arguments, and use the best materials possible. If you don't even care about your ship launching, you can say hell to the physical arguments about tensile strength.

What I'm trying to convince you of is that philosophy is about as useful as any other field of inquiry in the sense that it attempts to argue from axioms most people hold already (therefore it is not a niche field) and it produces conclusions that such people can use in making choices day to day (therefore it is not a useless field). I think that no matter what particular axioms you hold, there is some philosophy which argues from those axioms out there somewhere. You yourself make philosophy. I'm not producing an argument from authority here.

Can you cite a philosopher arguing that the universe itself mandates that veganism is correct?
Great for Linux. Less so for Mac OS-X and Solaris (all three of which I use at work).
Psst...ignore the fact that Google (and companies like them) are practicing privacy abuse on a scale never before seen in human history.

Just focus on the bat signal and be distracted and entertained..
This is especially problematic as Twitter doesn't allow people to use numbers from Google Voice and other digital phone number services.
Try Routable.com. They don't issue debit cards as far as I know...but they do specialize in cheap batch payments. They might have a solution for you ...I know they have an API per their landing page.

Hth

Bkwlf
Stocks are assets. Ownership of an economic entity, that publishes a lot of financial data to the public, so we can establish value. Public companies are highly regulated with respect to this. Securities trading etc. are also regulated.

Crypto is magic made fantasy up numbers. At least with baseball cards, you get a baseball card.
Nope. I just run hot. I’m built for long dry winters with a lot of ice and snow.
Overnight, sure. But I like my extracts/brews super strong. After a couple of days you will get mold growth.
Of course they couldn’t imagine how computers are used for constant surveillance

surveillance by means of badges and cards

Not that far off indeed
In my late 30's, I transitioned into biostatistics and life sciences research. It took me from a purely technical background into one where I spend most of my weekends lazily reading a whitepaper about oncology or disease response to XXX new drug or regimen.

What started as a new job became a career and hobby. I love it.
This is literally the premise of this comment chain. Can you see how the standard can get dragged around by various competing needs? People want to embed strings, with null termination, some just want to embed binary data. Neither is particularly “wrong”. And in this thread everyone is presenting “obvious” solutions that are one or the other.
It's not possible.

GP was likely confused by the different types of hard drives (standard, sc1, st1), and assumed it was tape or was incorrectly told by someone else that it was tape.

If I squint hard enough, the only viable explanation I could come up with is GP said "I created the database using the st1 storage type" and someone responded "st!? As in a UNIX SCSI tape drive[0]?"

0: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/st.4.html
> If I open the hood on one of those libraries, I could spend months getting deep enough to contribute.

Really? I can understand it in case of missing features or stuff that needs deeper refactors, but in my experience digging into an external library to debug an issue with it usually ended up with a working patch at most a few days later (usually hours), which is comparable to finding workarounds but with much better outcome. Granted, a working patch doesn't necessarily mean a mergeable patch yet (though it often does for bug fixes), but with FLOSS dependencies you can simply ship a patched version before it gets accepted anyway.

Since my stack is fully FLOSS, I tend to look for fixes first before resorting to workarounds and this approach has served me pretty well so far. Even if I fail to come up with a fix in the end, I learn possible workarounds in the process.
Unfortunately the code base has had too many chefs in the kitchen, so to speak, and now we're trying to consolidate things bits at a time.
One or two smaller sections is okay to demonstrate with, but it definitely helps seeing larger projects as the "end-goal".

Appreciate the link.
Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth
Correct. Another example was "If you take the vaccine then the government will be able to track your location", which also turned out to be true, from a certain point of view.[0]

Anyway, judging by the reaction to my earlier comment, I perhaps should have phrased things differently, e.g. "I'm not sure how I feel about Deutsche Telekom being chosen by the WHO to implement their global vaccine passport app, given that this is how they treat their customers' personal data".

[0] https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/23/thousands-had-phones-unwittin...
They already tried this in Nevada and failed for political reasons [1]. Dumping nuclear waste in the desert may be a non issue to you (and to me as well), but to a lot of people - particularly people who actually live in Nevada - it is a very serious issue.

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste - in a manner that is satisfying to the residents of the state where it is being disposed - remains an unsolved issue in the US. And the current policy is to basically just ignore the waste. It’s being stored for the time being at reactor sites in steel and concrete casks - which I don’t think anyone would argue is a sufficient solution.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste...
I guess that usage of grid is essentially a better way to express a coarser position absolute
Oh, you again! It's like I mention "Cadillac Desert" and you pop out of the bathroom mirror like Bloody Mary.

I'm glad you're working on finding a more polite way to talk about things you disagree with... Your new comment is an improvement, but it's still hella low-key argumentive, and needlessly insulting to the people around you.

You need to learn how to disagree with people without making other people out to be jerks.

I'd've thought that all the downvotes on your last comment would've helped drive the point home, but I guess not. Maybe it just takes time to learn this stuff.

But as for me... Until you take some responsibility for the words you're choosing, and start making better comments, I'm still not interested in trying to have any kind of conversation with you. LMK when you want to try again.
Not exactly true.

If eat a whole orange, the fiber in the orange slows down sugar uptake whereas if I drink juice the sugar hits bloodstream much faster.

And generally Phenylalanaline is better than some of the others. Why? Well because it's one step away from L-DOPA which is one step away from dopamine
Sane governments regularly pedestrianise roads and city centres, at least in Europe.
> People talented enough to work at a FAANG absolutely can have significant financial issues, outstanding debts, etc. that may make them prioritize finances above ethics.

You can not use the exceptions to morally justify the general case.

Let's say that 2% of the people took a white-collar job there because of some absurd hardship. What is the excuse of the other 98%?

Make it higher. Let's say that we are living in a bizarro world where 10% of the people that are well educated, talented, energetic and able to go through such a grueling interview process, yet they are facing some type of hardship. What is the excuse of the other 90%?

Also, how long do they need to continue working there until they can resolve their situation? If they took a job just because of the pressure of their hardships, presumably they could settle the score after 2-4 years and then move on to something else? Are these people doing that?
This could be done with Bluetooth or wifi sensors if you just need aggregate data
This is incredibly pedantic, even for Hacker News. I suspect you do not wish to be responded to like this in general, so I struggle to see why it is appropriate here.
Glucose index effect can play a large role in weight gain and retention. A lot of the NSS products have a worse GI effect than straight cane sugar, especially the sugar alcohols.
Open rights group sound ‘Red Alert’ as UK announces bonfire of data rights
In 1998, Krugman wrote that the internets impact on the economy will be no greater than the fax machines.

In 2021, he completely misunderstood inflation and its impact on America. It is my belief that this is going to be a long, deep, reminder that stocks are risk assets once the fed has done the needful.

He is just a human like us, trying his best, but sometimes I find it hard to take people seriously if they have been this wrong.
Ignore the headline and just remember the two cardinal rules of modern dating:

Rule #1: Be attractive

Rule #2: Don't be unattractive

Everything else is noise.
What is CTA? It's Lightfoot Lori Lightfoot?
How would such a platform without file systems handle #include?

Reading further, I don't think this was ever addressed when someone else brought it up. I cannot for the life of me imagine a system where #include works but #embed doesn't. Again, it's fine if some systems have non-standard subsets of the C standard....why hobble the actual standard for code which can be compiled on systems where you have a filesystem (that will handle #include by the way) for the systems without filesystems?
There are solar panels in use on svalbard island, Norway. Far north of Alaska

Solar needs more space in such locations but space is abundant and also nobody lives there so you dont need much power anyway.

The sun shines 24 hrs a day during summer, so you can generate lots of hydrogen for use during winter.
One of my favorite places where imaginary numbers pop up is in solving recurrence relations[0]. For instance, the Fibonacci numbers are an example of a recurrence relation and you can obtain the closed form solution by solving the characteristic polynomial. However, you can also get a closed form solution involving imaginary numbers when the roots of the polynomial are imaginary, even though the sequence only contains real numbers! From that you can express the result completely with real numbers if you use the Euler transformation of complex numbers.

[0] https://math.unm.edu/~jvassil/Recurrence%20Relations.pdf
For people with "enthusiast level" cooling needs for rack gear I highly recommend AC Infinity's line of products.

You can get them off the shelf from Amazon, they saved my life after moving from foggy SF to often (too) warm São Paulo — https://acinfinity.com.
> If all mobile carriers start enforcing predatory contracts then I don’t know if GDPR will be very effective here.

I thought the GDPR didn't allow signing away of privacy? Because if it does, then it's utterly useless - every webpage comes with a 100-page terms of service these days.

> As it stands right now some European countries have started forcing ISPs to save logs, that’s actually worse.

In fact the European Court of Justice declared that illegal [1], yet many countries simply ignored that ruling. You would think this would result in a large media assault about "subverting the rule of law", but I guess that's only a concern when they dislike the one doing the subverting.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-court-privacy-idUSKBN1...
Gruber is smoking something. Comparing Apple to PC laptops has never been common in these "best laptop" articles.
As I recall, gamma rays cannot be generated by thermal processes such as electron orbit decay - so we would need a nuclear radiator which converted waste heat into atoms which would rapidly decay into gamma rays.

Assuming we’ve done all of that… you would still need to deal with the rocket engine you’ve created. Sending out a tight beam of a suns worth of energy is equivalent to a rocket engine with 1x10^18 newtons, creating challenges of its own - including an appreciable acceleration of the planet earth.

A more plausible escape hatch for the energy may be a black hole heat sink. In theory, such a device could perfectly “recycle” waste heat into usable energy.
Easy to say but hard to do since there are pretty much just 3 mobile providers in Germany. Those two and one with a shitty network (Telefonica-O2).
What I'm missing here is why send it to Egypt and not use it locally to improve agriculture in South Sudan?
This is common practice, as a mobile number can be a good signal for determining whether or not an account is a bot; blocking virtual numbers means any would-be fake accounts need to find a dealer for good non-voip numbers, likely increasing the cost of creating these accounts.
C++ got auto because C++11 introduced types that could not be named, and this had to be inferred using auto.
Not nursing the drink forever and rinsing your mouth afterwards with water should return the pH to normal relatively quickly, according to my dentist.
The local Pepsi bottler has been distributing Crystal Pepsi (!) in our market the last few weeks. I thought I would have never seen the day.

I would be drinking it more regularly to avoid caramel colour (possible link to microvascular damage that leads to increased likelihood for atherosclerosis, no citation at hand), but also to be ironic.
You can learn by studying or learn by doing.

I've found that for some, myself included, immersing yourself in a new domain as part of a job (and maybe a career) is the best way for me to grow quickly.

My hobby is economics and I study that every day.
My career is life sciences research, and I practice that every workday and study almost every day.

The level of competence I have in my career domain is vastly higher than my hobby domain, even if I like my hobby a bit more perhaps.
Tilt Five Augmented Reality AR Glasses – First Reaction
They’re pretty vague about it:

> Vodafone Group is currently conducting a test involving other European telecommunication providers including Deutsche Telekom and a few advertisers and publishers to investigate the benefits of a new technical solution to facilitate digital advertising and marketing.

https://www.trustpid.com/findoutmore
You need -500 calories every day for a week in order to lose 1 pound.
Cocaine makes you the BEST person, way better than everybody else.
> not need any security checks

That's basically true for now, but if rail travel became much more popular I am sure that would change.
Can you support your claim by any evidence?
Stevia for example has 0 GI, while sugar has 80 GI: https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/docs/Understanding-Swe...
Couldn't the overall cost be lower if the government has to spend less on car infrastructure?
Sounds like the Tech Ingredients guy’s desiccant-based DIY AC system:

https://youtu.be/R_g4nT4a28U
> Exactly the same for telecoms

The UK would have a nationwide fibre network if the government didn't step in to tear down public telecoms in favour of privatisation. Now it's 2022 and other major European cities have 25 Gbit fibre, yet there are parts of London still limited to ADSL2 and copper wires.
It's a chat room. The conversations are disposable, it is part of the medium. Having a record of discussion is not really what interests me about instant messaging.
Why don’t we just leave the fusion where it works best, i.e. the sun?

Put the same amount of spending into building a robotic solar collection factory on the moon and beam the power where we need it. No crazy particles to deal with and zero nuclear weapons byproducts.
Seems like a subset of the prisoners dilemma.
I think the blog post provides some insight into the challenges of implementing this.
New-terrain high speed rail lines would be a tremendous expense.
and fossil fuels, stored for a while.
> doesn't it also take resources to create baseball cards, art, books etc.

Baseball cards are generally valued more than an equivalent-size rectangle of cardstock. Books are priced higher than a ream of paper; saying the value of a piece of art comes from its frame is usually an insult.

I would argue that those things are also not in any way a store of value: the only thing you can do with them is sell them to someone else. If no one else wants them, they're worthless. By your logic a big pile of beanie babies is a store of value, since someone spent a lot of money in the 90s to get them, and they took cloth and plastic pellets to make.

The way I've usually heard it explained is that doing some sort of productive work (growing wheat, clearing land, mining things, whatever) can store the value of that work because you create something useful with it. The resources it took to grow the wheat are stored in the wheat, and can be retrieved by not having to grow wheat next year.

My point, whether we agree on the terminology or not, is that Bitcoins are not anything useful: they take massive amounts of resources to create, just like farming or mining, but all you get out is a proof-of-work receipt that says "yes, he lit that pile of money on fire to create this."
Which I'm sure that the EU will firmly step in to prevent, much like they target Apple
Oh yes, BMCs can certainly be patched but I had the security issue long after the last patch for the motherboard was released so it really comes down to the manufacturer support level as usual. HP likely does better than Supermicro which likely does better than ASRock