skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing anti consumer about a monthly payment plan for a phone.

You are probably thinking of years ago where they would lock the phone, even if you paid for it. That's not the case with T-Mobile - as soon as the phone was paid off your monthly bill goes down (since you have finished the monthly payments), and they unlock it.
Sincere question: is this a suggestion that locking phones to networks ensures users pay off their devices? In my mind, you could still allow people to purchase and pay off hardware while allowing them to be on a separate phone plan. I.E. buy my phone with a hardware payment plan from T-Mobile but use Verizon -- but incentivize users to be on T-Mobile's network because you get better payment options/perks.

But even in asking that it kind of highlights that their money probably comes from locking people into their network rather than selling hardware...

EDIT: T-Mobile is also probably the perfect example because their network coverage sucks in comparison to Verizon -- at least where I have lived. They probably lock their phones because nobody would use their network (again, at least where I live).
What’s the difference between PFOF and actual front running in the Flash Boys sense? Why is PFOF considered legally legit?
> Next thing you know, recruiters are cold-calling you with your private email address

This already happens.
We probably shouldn't worry until Biden redefines a recession to two quarters of negative growth.
Had to deal with this in the past, where junior engs made choices on the initial architecture and by the time I joined they were in management/high roles. They refused any change that was too complicated for them to understand and never tried to improve their knowledge. Meantime our team was suffering under the load of technical debt vs non technical POs wanting to dish out features experiments fast.

> this is how we do things around here

resonates so much
Oh c'mon, have some imagination. Have you not seen Black Mirror?

S3E1, specifically.
I agree it was a weak legislation, but I think governments failed at the time to realize just how blatantly crooked the tech industry is, and is willing to be. I think it's taken a while but more aggressive actions are starting to be taken. Though ultimately I don't think we'll have straightened out Big Tech until we have laws on the books that let us put Pichai and Zuckerberg in prison. As long as their actions can be aspired to instead of a cautionary tale, more will follow in their footsteps.
Yeah the 1st point is a "conspiracy" in that it's simply not true and what people who dislike Robinhood share amongst themselves as truth.

Robinhood has lots of problems, this is not one of them.

[edit]
Forgot about fractionals where this statement is true, but that's well known/accepted?
If infosec won't give you the +1 on sharing, it's best you and they find some shared ground. I suspect app/othersec would actually agree here.

Sending a wave of money into a group of historically underemployed seems like it'd result in normal expenditures, modulo some slush.

Maybe it's the contemporaneous injection of many, many trabillions into 501c3s, individual funds, small businesses, and other groups who could show they had done a small amount of due diligence to get a gazillion bazillion dollars for no reason that might draw your interest here?

Edit: alternatively, feel free to abstain from conversations where your allegiances lie contrary to complete honesty. I suspect many HNers do this regularly, and you can, too.
See my other posts - that is basically what T-Mobile does!

The take the price of the phone, divide it into 12, add that to your monthly bill until you pay it off, and unlock it when you are done with the payments.
T-Mobile is probably saying they lost $25m in revenue due to his services.

Oh nevermind

>Khudaverdyan obtained more than $25 million for these criminal activities. He used these illegal proceeds to pay for, among other things, real estate in Burbank and Northridge.

I bet a lot of those phones would have ended up in a landfill anyway.
I wish it had the recipe for the Ribwich.
Ouch that is the worst. Called in to a great big mess. I hope by the time you get called in they realize they need to invest in some clean up time.
> Only consent is needed for cookies that aren't strictly necessary.

Do you mean “Consent is only needed...”, because while the existing word order is grammatically viable, it doesn't communicate anything that makes sense with the rest of the post.
This is a great piece on finding a job with purpose:
https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee...

"2 years ago, I made the career pivot I’d thought about for years, from my Silicon Valley enterprise software job, to finally working on solving climate change full-time. Since then, my friends and their friends would often ask how they, too, can make purpose-driven impact work their day job. In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, these requests now come up weekly. It’s a crazy 2020: with a pandemic, fast-approaching climate disaster, and continuing systemic racism towards Black people front and center, it seems that for many, it feels harder every day to continue life as normal, and go back to just “a job”.
"

Podcast version here: https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/S2E32-Cha...
Chrome 77 came out three years ago?
No, the article says he obtained $25 million and bought real estate with it:

> Khudaverdyan obtained more than $25 million for these criminal activities. He used these illegal proceeds to pay for, among other things, real estate in Burbank and Northridge.
dumb question: why as the material is stretched apart, are the apparent colors shifted towards smaller wavelengths (blues and purples)?
Time value of money. The most optimal use of money and time would be getting the ML to iterate until you have the finished product, then get a designer to vectorise it and fix it up. That way you pay the designer for one iteration and spend all the time you would have spent iterating with the designer iterating with the ML model instead.
> Not sure what your professional experience or knowledge of politics or technology is

I’m not sure how far back in time your experience or knowledge of politics or technology goes, but there are plenty of examples of the US government using technology of all levels to target and control individuals deemed “troublesome”.
I made the transition from fintech to working at the intersection of web3 and climate. There’s an emerging movement around “Regenerative Finance” and it’s quite exciting. There’s very real potential for impact here. A good starting spot to get the pulse on these trends is the “My Climate Journey” podcast.
We’re witnessing a reversion to the mean. A lot of companies are facing a tough reality - especially those with poor cash flow.
Fair enough. I guess I'll just have to ublock
I don't think the problem is only with smoke particles; I think gaseous fluorocarbons produced are sufficiently toxic to birds. (In humans they cause polymer fume fever, but the humans recover after a day or two.)
China concluded that it was impossible to practice war with the US at the time, so they resorted to completely ineffective threats.

Mao said that you advance with the point of the bayonet. If you meet resistance, you back off. China under Mao wasn't peaceful; they just met resistance that they knew they couldn't overcome.

I guess you could say that China had an accurate perception of reality, and Russia had an inaccurate one, which is... something. That perception led China to not shoot, and Russia to shoot, but they both wanted to run over anybody who got in their way if they could.
I agree that laughing at China isn't a wise action, but I don't see how Russia's actions in Ukraine were hinged on diplomacy with the US. It seemed like the European NATO countries in particular were a key factor in failing to deter further aggression from Russia in Ukraine.

I hope that the global support from the "free world" that Ukraine is experiencing now will reach Taiwan if it comes to that.
FYI, in the United States carriers are required to unlock phones after contract periods are up, or after 1-year for subsidized prepaid phones: https://www.fcc.gov/general/cell-phone-unlocking

It's been like this since 2014. I actually wonder how many of the people using this guy's service simply didn't know that they could get their phones unlocked for free from the carrier (assuming they were actually paying their bills for their postpaid subsidized locked phone).
In other words, a literalization of human resources?
What’s your favorite tool for this? Just starting to get my feet wet in this world.
Sure, you'll get to m6g.16xlarge; but how many companies actually have oltp requirements that exceed the limits of single servers on AWS, eg u-12tb1.112xlarge or u-24tb1.metal (that's 12-24tb memory)?
I think these days the issues with high availability, cost/autoscaling/commitment, "tragedy of the commons", bureaucracy, and inter-team boundaries are much more likely to be the drawback than lack of raw power.
Sorry honey, but if you behave we’ll come back to the Haskell flavored post-modern C++ arcade next weekend
The low data transfer bit is probably mostly irrelevant these days, though I would imagine that it would be useful for people with minimal mobile data plans.

As for chat backlogs, your client can log communications while you are online. Some people find that more desirable since they always know who they are speaking to. That is especially important since anyone can join an open channel at any time. If something that you found interesting came up on a channel you frequented, but while you were not in the channel, someone would copy it from their scrollback buffer for you (often without your even asking).

That being said, I doubt those two criteria define the target audience. As the author notes, IRC is great because its simplicity offers a great deal of flexibility. Anyone could make an IRC client or bot with minimal effort. Even for those who do not write software, it is advantagous. There were many IRC clients because of that, meaning one could choose a client that reflects their needs and tastes. The problem is that most people want something that is easier to use, and for most people that means they don't want to deal with choosing a client nor do they want to deal with setting up their client (notably, selecting a server).
If one believes the current market is bogus, then it is quite possible to move money into hard/sticky assets. Real estate is the prime example of this, as it’s in everyone’s interest that real estate not crash too hard. Similarly bonds

Big question to ask if you are betting the market is bogus is whether the market will stay bogus while your “safe” asset stays flat.
I am willing to bet $100, through any escrow mechanism of your choosing, that we are not getting locked down again. There’s no appetite for it, and no reason to do so.
Vaccine requirements are not a “lockdown” though by any common understanding of the term.
> I noticed being stateless made it difficult to scale for any complex app. It’s been 7-10 years since I used it but Drupal used 60-128MB+ plus per request. As it was stateless it had to do a full bootstrap for every request coming in, set up a new database connection, module discovery etc, all which was heavy to do for every request.

It doesn't make scaling hard, it makes scaling very easy because you can just horizontally scale out as many instances as you need. The constant factor is pretty awful, but that's the tradeoff you make for statelessness.
yeah. living indoors and eating are for spoiled brats.
Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools
I agree. It's absolutely silly that there's nothing to make statements like

something['nested']['blah']['bloop']
some.namespace.with['stuff']

safe with None. Your options are using jmespath, your own similar function, or wrap it in a try block. Otherwise the whole syntax is essentially unusable. And because of the quirks of how __getitem__ is evaluated you can't even hack an infinite defaultdict to do the right thing because you can't detect the "last" access to return None so it's only good for when you want to assign to it.
> I know, it may sound ridiculous but what about charging customers the _actual_ price of the phone?

You can! Nothing stopping you from buying, say, the latest iPhone at retail price without the postpaid subsidies.

The law also requires that carriers unlock any locked phones after the postpaid contract period is up (if customer actually paid it off): https://www.fcc.gov/general/cell-phone-unlocking

If you're suggesting that we restrict rights to optionally buy/sell subsidized phones and pay them off over a 12-month period, I can't get behind that. Let the people choose which financial model they want. No need to restrict postpaid programs just because people don't like the idea of locking during payback periods.
It already exists in the US. Every person is scored by data brokers based on their address and income.
Isn’t it similar to linear types in haskell?
There are good salience-based reasons to think the effect is important too. The trip is what makes these drugs work, at least. It seems implausible to me that the trip is merely some threshhold side effect that gets triggered with higher likelihood at the therapeutic doses. At therapeutic doses you’d expect to see a lot more effective non-mystical trips if the trip was an ancillary addon. But, they’ve modified ibogaine in such a fasion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33299186/. So we will see!
> Hate to go there on HN but there _is_ a moral side to this.

No there isn’t. Wasting money to keep employing people isn’t good for anyone. The labor market is still tight right now so the employees are better off going to a company that actually wants them.
Unicode Technical Note #39: Bidi brackets for dummies
It might be much less efficient per request than other popular languages, but it's stateless design, does at least prevent developers from using local memory caches, which can prevent a number of problems from cropping up when scaling horizontally.

With that said, I think the stateless nature of php is talked up too much.

While not enforced by the nature of the language like php, writing stateless apps in other languages comes quite naturally.

Scaling difficulties are almost always to do with the database solution rather than the app, and overcoming those problems has little to do with the choice of language.
I love other devs shitting on PHP in my area.

The more PHP work they forgo, the better for me. Less guys doing it, always in demand. Making good bank and am quite good at using it.
There is a fantasy themed candle company that emails me daily. My god it annoys me, but I also I buy so many candles.

At my day job, we did a test around sending more emails and longer emails. Initially the more we sent, the more our core metrics and NPS went up. Then as we sent even more, our NPS starting dropping but our core metrics kept going up. It was rather interesting. There is definitely a balance to be had but my takeaway is that annoying your users a bit might be ok for business.
Not for nothing, and this is a cool use of technology and the internet, but was I supposed to be under the impression that car dealers aren't greedy? Greed is the central axis around which capitalist economic activity is oriented. It works very, very well. I'll take greed over feigned compassion and breadlines any day of the week.

Recently I bought a Toyota SUV for a $7000 markup. But I was able to sell my lease (which I had no idea was even possible) for $5000.
PHP is pretty batteries-included, sometimes to a fault (it comes with things like 3 different MySQL drivers in the standard library). I'm sure there are cases where you'd want to install a C extension that depended on some system library, but I can't actually think of any right now.
From the linked article,

A program known as convergence bidding, in particular, is meant to help keep electricity prices steady but instead “masked tight supply conditions” during the August heat wave, the analysis concluded.

and

Energy providers collectively under-scheduled the amount of electricity they expected to need.

This was definitely a lack of capacity.
That's a credit score, not a social credit score.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It's not that a company like Google is going to release a Google Gulag product after years of working on it in secret.

What people are worried about is that the various pieces of technology that Google is developing can be used to make a horrible dystopian future and that one day, even if Google as a corporation, or the individuals who make up Google as employees decide to fight against it, they will be unable to stop a fascist government from using that technology to do exactly as is described by OP, or even worse.

There are unintended consequences to everything, and you may think that America is the freest nation on Earth, and that Google is the greatest company ever, but that could quickly change.

It could happen here, and we must be eternally vigilant.
>"They also make money using PFOF just like Robinhood."

What is "PFOF" here?
You absolutely can and should. The language is responsible for the programming practices it promotes.
Yes for legal and practical reasons: you can be compelled to unlock biometrically and cannot change biometrics when the server side leaks.
> You can still use cash if you want.

The people who have bad credit scores are the exact same people who cannot, in fact, use cash if they want.
pretty sure authorities have plenty of visibility into Bitcoin. It's pretty hard to turn it into fiat after you steal it, and turn it into fiat you must if you wish to spend it
>I know, it may sound ridiculous but what about charging customers the _actual_ price of the phone?

It does not sound ridiculous, because unlocked phones have been available for purchase at full price for over a decade in the US, and longer in most other countries.

No one has been forced to enter into a contract with a mobile network that stipulates their phone be locked to the network for a long, long time.
Notion switches to native components to make their mobile apps faster
I didn't see any commentary on this so just throwing out there that the official GitHub CLI supports checking out PRs, basic commenting on them, etc. [1]

It doesn't, however, have anything similar to the experience offered by PRR (kudos!). There's an open issue requesting something similar though [2].

[1] https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_pr_review

[2] https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/359
We share the same record types (primitives?) across the stack - but because of that sharing, those types are hard to evolve, especially when it comes to their semantics. Too much code interprets then directly, which ossifies those primitives. How to enforce separation of concern when such data structure is shared liberally?

> the business logic is split across three layers of service calls

we are thankfully very far from this world.
PHP has never been simple or understandable though.
Can you think of another way to implement it that wouldn't be just as obnoxious though? I feel like anything that could be perceived as unobtrusive could just as likely be seen as trying to hide or minimize the presence of the banner which might be construed as a violation of the law.

I feel like EU regulators should have worked with web standards committees to add a technical means and requirement to classify cookies. Then browser vendors could allow users to choose which types of cookies they are willing to accept from which websites.
> The truth is that a majority of tech companies don't need 50%+ of their employees.

Then why are they hired? It can’t be image alone
Starting Up in a Downturn
I removed the reference to synthetics, because it is indeed a conspiracy/speculation (there can't really be evidence for it even if it's true). Though it has happened in the past and has been documented. Source: "Naked short and greedy" book.

There are some more hints though for the whole synthetics conspiracy ongoing. The most recent one, going on right now, being the GameStop stock split through stock dividend failing in Germany, because of DTC/DTCC issues.

These types of splits are not uncommon (Google did one a couple of weeks ago without any issues: https://capital.com/google-stock-split) and I've never heard of a stock split failing due to clearing issues before.

So there's that.
New Zealand releases national plan to prepare for climate-driven disasters
visa and Mastercard can unilaterally reverse transactions whereas the entire point of crypto is that there's no centralized authority that can rewrite history
He's sold ~$55M worth: https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/insider/TENEV%20VLADIMIR
IMO you cannot even compare PHP and the ecosystem what it was a couple years ago to what it is now. It has come a long way.
is Netflix actually such a big company to include it with those tech giants?
>Recently a group of scientists flagged the concerns regarding the inability of scientific analyses to keep pace with the amount of chemicals produced and released into the environment

The top PhDs from the biggest chemical companies can not even keep pace with the analytical needs of their own production units.

And relatively speaking they have a virtually unlimited budget.

There's technical debt in natural science still hanging for decades awaiting progress.
It breaks some sites, notably German sites.
Yes counterfeit stock trading by RH is a conspiracy. But the fact that it happens in the US is not really a conspiracy as it has been documented quite thoroughly. A source/book about it is "Naked short and greedy".

Internalizing trades however is less of a conspiracy. Almost all US brokers do this or offer this trade routing option.

Here's the head of the SEC stating that almost all retail market orders on any broker never hit a lit exchange and are internalized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8onYvJW3Q
Which is the same way it works in the US.
$150,000 for an F-150?

https://sunrise-ford.com/inventory/new-2022-ford-f-150-light...
There have been a few DEF CON talks about the security of biometrics but the most recent probably gives the best demos IMO.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ35ApLKpN4
The hardest part of this to me to deal with is that it’s the truth. For decades, the conservative line was if you give people money they’ll just blow it on gambling and booze. Turns out it’s true.
That’s just it. I have to code with the PHP docs open like some kind of arcane recipe book.
SpaceX's involvement in those missions ends when the payload separates from the second stage. You'd be very disappointed if you went there hoping to feel like you were making a meaningful impact on climate.
Also, unlike git-bug, this tool doesn't choke on the github.com/nixos/nixpkgs repository.
or just, you know, make it illegal, immediately shutting down Coinbase and cutting off the law abiding 99% of the population from using it. What is the value of a Bitcoin after it's banned by one or more major countries?
Why would I want to take the time to upload to your service a recipe I already know?