skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They (the telcos) only have stats on their customers. Twitter has it for anyone running twitter. Further, twitters location data is likely more accurate than the telco due to positioning from stuff like wifi names, local gps, etc.
https://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d'actualit%C3%A9/ger...
This is how Walmart and other companies spread into things like India - you might even see a few Walmarts open as a "higher class American-like" store, but the vast majority will be in things like Flipkart that are directly aimed at the market.
No, it's more simple. China wants to be world hegemon by 2049. Everything China does is aimed at that.
The primary thought I have regarding pricing at grocery stores is, "Man, Safeway has these apples on sale for half the price they're selling for at QFC. I sure wish I could buy apples at Safeway and sell them to QFC."

Unfortunately, that's not how the world works. There's a bid and an ask. The bid for outside groceries is usually zero. But I still think about it.

Someday, Amazon will let us buy and sell items in their warehouses without taking delivery -- that'll be a good day.
Is there a breakdown of Android versions and devices? I’m curious to see how current/capable those devices are.
What I'm confused by is why the telco needs twitter to get that info. I work for a data warehousing/sql consultancy and our biggest client is telco's who have to track everyone in order to comply with subpoenas. They already have all the data about where every one of their users has been.
What does this have to do with COP and climate change?

Whilst this is of course an environmental issue, its a local, seasonal problem that is due to the geographic location of Delhi and farmers burning their fields among other factors.
We haven't seen this particular sort of thing just yet in packages. There was a similar attack from a few years ago called "pastejacking" that did something directionally similar to what you're suggesting though!
All of Twitter is built on hacks.

Hashtags? User created hacks. Retweeting? User created hacks. The majority of Twitter’s mechanisms involved users hacking something together and when it was successful enough, Twitter formalizing it.
Oh yeah, `slrn` is another good one, but there was also an `strn`.
> Have any journalists and/or leakers exposed exactly what these tech companies are sharing?

I think that the answer to this is "yes, multiple times, often multiple times on the same companies up and down every level of the stack".

And some of the companies brag about their abilities. There was some surveillance company which was showing how Covid spread after spring break in Florida by gleefully posting screenshots from their tool that tracks individual phone locations.
Well, if business methods are Turing complete, it transfers to that domain too :-)
Anything you can share about the actual process of getting it certified, from say (I assume much earlier) 'we think this is ok' to certified?

I assume it's not self-certification (like CE) from the phrasing, so you sent some units off somewhere? Was there much back and forth with changes required, or was it purely administrative and from a technical standpoint the earlier units are just as compliant?
"What is a billionaire gonna do once they get to Mars?"

Undergo profound physical atrophy leading to organ dysfunction and eventually cancer ...

... since Mars gravity is something like 1/3 that of Earth.
Feels like when the App Store first launched and was quickly dominated by fart apps, except this isn't being driven by devs polluting the App Store, it's being driven by Apple to an already polluted App Store.
lol. lmao even.

You even worked for a company that was not in software or IT?

"If it works, why change it?"
A lot of the replacement for Russian gas has been LNG imports. Ukraine doesn't have an LNG port as far as I'm aware, and if they did, I doubt it would be easy to get a ship safely there at the moment.
This is why I never use native apps on my phone. The experience sucks but I muddle through using the web for reading Twitter, reddit, etc.

I am constantly, constantly bombarded with "this looks better in the app! please just run our app!!" as I browse. Still I refuse--with the web I at least know they can't harvest information about everything I'm doing. There are still some privacy concerns of course but it's much better to have the web as a firewall of sorts.
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While this is true, RCS isn't here yet and when it is there likely will be APIs for it. The argument that there aren't APIs for a feature that isn't present isn't a valid one in my book.
That was exactly my reaction when this article was last on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30706326
Mexico City.... Bejing.... new dehli... Trends are something :)

Currently, new dehli is showing an AQI of 416.

The age of compute likes accurate numbers :p

Garbage in, Garbage out is already a known algorithm :)
Which is why I think it's absurd to think it's a coincidence that the rise of crypto happened at the exact same time world financial task-forces snuffed out bearer bonds and offshore anonymous accounts.
My guess is they were precious metals, but the agent's report immediately after the seizure doesn't presume to know that; they just report what they can observe, and they may have them analyzed/valued later.
If in 2022 you're seriously asking for a source for US interference in sovereign nations and their elections, you have some serious reading to do.
Python package version resolution is a Turing Complete problem and installs are not deterministic. Securing the ecosystem is going to be serious work.
> And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto.

This is something I've been repeating to some of my younger colleagues.

Engineers aren't really fungible resources, to the extent that these projects require. Ask any manager how easy it is to swap "allocated resources", and they'll probably sigh heavily.

People are afraid that if they don't follow their manager's every request, they will be fired. But remember that hiring is hard, and managers are loath to fire someone they've already spent so much effort finding, hiring, and onboarding. Finding someone else to do it can take weeks, months, or longer! Which in many cases risks killing the project altogether.

Even if you're at the bottom of the chain, as the person who does the actual implementation, you have a lot of power on what gets prioritized.

See also the oft-circulated OSS "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabota...
Yes I know the difference, the point is that the original poster said CSS is faster because JS is interpreted. There is no way to intrepret that statement in a way that makes sense.
I didn't read that comment as picking on normal people. It's using their experience to pick on Mastodon by illustrating how its UX is more flawed than many "tech users" are able to realize from their own frame of reference.
I'm not Musk fanboy, but the leap in the end to put the dirt on him is outrageous ("I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.").

Let me try to summarize what author actually said in the end: "I left, I sent email to then CEO of twitter and PER MY KNOWLEDGE the project was canned, I don't know if it actually was. But new guy still could do worse things".

If you're so moral, why not blow whistle to public when you left previously, and not write unsubstantiated claims about new owner now.
Usenet worked until the demographic changed.
I don't think that's accurate.

Pretty sure both work the same way regarding metadata. Think about it: if Signal didn't know that A was messaging B, how would they route that message to B's phone? A has to be able to find B's ip address someway. B can't broadcast its ip address to all the Signal users -- that would be a huge security hole.

It probably works like this:
1) A sends encrypted message + B's phone number to the server
2) server looks up the ip address for B's phone number
3) server routes the message there.

Also, both WhatsApp and Signal hash the contacts data the same way. Signal does seem to go a bit further, however.

WhatsApp's implementation: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/information-for-people-who-do...
Signal's implementation: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
Great to hear, just purchased a second one for my brother who plans to use it with an eGPU. What an opportune time to announce this :)
Some are still going..

https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/sci.electronics.design

https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/comp.arch

https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/rec.arts.sf.written

https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/rec.radio.amateur.misc

https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/comp.compilers
Not really an option with M1, no?

I'll let you know when I buy one. :-) Nothing but Intel Macs at the moment.
And yet his first move after purchase is to charge for the blue check service. Bringing non-data mined revenue to Twitter is one of the keys for aligning the company with respecting privacy. Either way, stories like this are one reason you should avoid social media apps altogether and never allow an app to access location data, especially not while in use.
https://getsession.org/

* Doesn't require users to provide a phone number.

* Doesn't use centralized servers.

Hopefully Session will stay legit for a while. Just when I get most of my contacts to use Signal, Signal moves to embed a cryptocurrency in the app and starts pushing Storytime.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
No, it most certainly does not.

A N bit checksum can at most distinguish 2^n different bitstreams as "100% accurate", and that is assuming there are no transmission errors in transmitting the checksum itself. This is proven trivially by the pigenhole priinciple.

And for most media, the checksum is itself transmitted over a noisy channel like the rest of the data.

Read your link carefully.
It's approaching a reasonable p/e. If it hits 40 I am in.
This is likely a big part of it; take a trip to any traffic court in a medium sized town early in the day and you're almost certain to see some exceptionally chummy lawyers and judges hanging out.
I think in general we can say "BAD advertising is not wanted".

Good advertising (like, for example, catalogues from the companies you love and buy from) is, in general, desirable.
That's silly be bought a 22-billion dollar company for 44-billion dollars and he's well on his way to doubling that value
What I am kinda waiting ( and it is coming ) is for someone to find out that Excel actually gathers all interesting data under guise of automatic analysis ( ala copilot ). The financial sector will tremble as almost the entire human population existing in the spreadsheets in one form or another ( as long as they are on o365_v2 ) will have their data harvested daily and banks will be unlikely do anything about it.

Oh, look. We don't need enter Jenkins account. Everything auto populates. And we did not even map it yet...
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Somewhat ironically, the article won't even show up unless I allow content from a 3rd party website : unpkg.com
I can tell my personal story if that matters.

Background: I come from a non-UC, rural yeoman farmers family. I grew up in rural India and used to spend my summer and winter vacations working on our family farm along with my cousins. I was the first Engineer in my family and studied in a Government college, and most of my batchmates were from a similar background, with over 50% of them being lower classes.

I have witnessed India's progress from the front row and it is something my parents or grandparents could never have imagined. Many of my friends went on to achieve great prosperity, some being C-level at Unicorns, others helping build Indias nuclear submarines etc. There is substantial wealth in the hands of my 4th tier town folks and I can see the signs of (relative) prosperity. Most households have people working in the private sectors and the wealth does trickle down.

I visited a Govt. hospital recently and I was surprised to see that it is not an ugly damp place it used to be. Granted, it is not on par with NHS or US hospitals but neither is it a god forsaken place.

The infrastructure is also much better than it was in the 90s. My grandfather would be shocked to see the Nagpur Metro and would think Aliens built it.

I am also proud of the fact that India does take special care of wild life and is actively working to preserve the amazing biodiversity it has. Of course there will always be pressure from humans, but the heart is at the right place.
https://archive.ph/VFp4P

Only passing mention of filing taxes jointly (which isn't always a plus, but certainly can be), joint accounts and greater ease of getting a mortgage, etc. Clearly there are already economies of scale from living with roommates, but it doesn't seem too shocking that being married gives a lot of people a leg up. The better question to ask would be "does it continue to be in the interest of society to incentivize marriage by offering these benefits" - which may or may not be true.
Using Gooey as a Universal Front end for any Language or CLI App, e.g., FFmpeg
Aren't "likes" and "shares" and their ilk already "user voting"? I actually think some of what is wrong with "social media" is "user voting".
The proposed settlement is absolutely insulting too. A coffee and donut:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-app-1.6536175
Opposite experience here! Requested $100, got back $60 with two of them folded over on the corners. $100 debited from bank account, filed a complaint with the bank. The temporary refunded the money, did an investigation, then said that the ATM actually settled at the correct number, and took the money back from me. Not cool
> on a cost-benefit assessment for the spammer, there are probably more viable options for spreading a message.

True, it is hilarious to consider that $8 will disincentive spammers.
>C isn't a programming language anymore

It's a perfectly fine programming language. Some of us like working with sharp tools (and sub 1 second compile times for 100kloc programs, and close enough to optimal performance, and actually knowing what's really going on).

I do sympathise about the API abstractions; some of them have definitely not weathered well. As for ABI's, I've been constantly amazed how well they've been preserved (kernel folks will understand, e.g. 32-bit userspace with 64-bit kernels just works).

What will the API/ABI's look like 40 years down the road? (will any modern language endure like C?).
I'm curious what prices you are seeing and considering no big deal; because I'm not sure if you're seeing different prices than I've seen, or just have a different threshold for what would be a huge problem for most people?

I've seen like $600/month for an individual, and this is just kind of ok probably good enough insurance (with a non-trivial deductible). For a family, even more, $1800 or more a month. Again for not great insurance. For me that'd already be a significant problem, but maybe not for an ex twitter engineer? Or maybe if you are a single person in your 20s (or I forget, do they still charge different for different ages post obamacare?), or in a different state than me, it's a lot cheaper?
Former examiner here. Largely agree, however, you and I both know you can string together some hand-wavey 6-reference 103 if you have a gut feeling you shouldn't grant something but you haven't found any better prior art ;-)
Well, the first thing I should say upfront is it's very possible those were just better years for me, and that colors my memories of CC with happy nostalgia. I think it was how much simpler everything felt, from the administration to the classes. The atmosphere just seemed less pretentious, while the actual education wasn't really any better or worse than the same undergrad studies I got elsewhere. Not really great, but they weren't pretending it was. It was "highschool part 2, except attendance is strictly voluntary, admission is cheap but not effortlessly free, and the faculty has greater authority/autonomy to teach".

A few things that stick out in my memory are the greater number of non-traditional students, several of whom I made acquaintances with. They had more stories and life experience than the average 18/19/20 y/old and I thought were more interesting to talk to. Also, my CC had some vocational/non-academic tracks with accredited classes available as general electives, and I enjoyed stuff like some aviation classes, where again I got to hang around a totally different group of students.

It feels like it all was more developmentally important than the by-the-books liberal arts education I got at a private university, full of self-important pep-talks by upper level college administration, and professors who were only paid marginally better than the instructors at my CC...

(I want to emphasize this is about cookie cutter undergrad studies, and leaves out the other functions of universities, which a CC obviously couldn't compete with)
>CSS has become like a scripting language now. You can do things like nested CSS[0], keyframe animations…

The WebKit team first proposed keyframe animation in 2009 [1], so that’s been here for a while.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/
> India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

At what costs?

I've heard this narrative before as it has happened in many Western countries and it is continuing to happen in China. I don't have the answer, but I always wonder about the costs of lifting so many people out of poverty, for example, there could be costs related to: environment, quality of life, traditions and values, mental health, etc.

Along with that thought experiment, I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining.
Thank you for the correction. I agree with everything you wrote, and should have known better and added a caveat regarding the difficulty of correctly divining the behavior of a C program, instead of assuming compiler writers are flawless omniscient beings.
Sounds like a job for Georgism (if you are up for radical economic transformation) or a vacancy tax
I get you but it feels like a weird hill to die on. Questionable why SMS support was added to Signal in the first place but removing it makes sense in the context of where they want to take Signal (e.g. usernames).
Speech realist is someone who believe in the tenants of free speech within the confines of laws.
> They are saying that their workflow is superior to the Vim workflow

Yes, for our specific tastes. We're well aware that people have different tastes and might prefer Vim's or Helix's workflow; you can spare us the lecture.
not asking for that though. The only thing I'd like to see is for content management systems to adopt the protocol for federation since it's a W3C recommendation. smart media and institutional players will do this
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> our biggest client is telco's who have to track everyone in order to comply with subpoenas.

Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't understand the intersection of why telco's are involved in serving subpoenas and the need to know the physical location of users. Are you referring to a log of networks / DHCP leases their customers were using at any given time?
Good one. Care to elaborate on your thoughts though? I work in security, I see problems caused by people trying to be edgy in architecture design all the time. You don’t need k8s, or bsd, or rust if you’re a pizza shop website.
I think these statistics are all BS. If you took away all of the game playing involved in defining poverty and then measured the total number of people in the world living in poverty after our massive population growth over the last decades, you will find that the sum of human misery due to poverty is by far the highest it has ever been and is only increasing.

But this way a bunch of self righteous people like Gates and Pinkerton can play statistical games and say everything is great. No, it's great for them.
Cards on the table, I don’t think federated Twitter will be a thing. Or at least it’s not a replacement for Twitter, in the forms I’ve seen it so far.

However, in general, just because something didn’t take off initially doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. Often it just goes to show that inertia is an extremely powerful force. People are often willing to continue with a substandard solution if it’s the one they’re used to or have been using for a while.

And so often a newer, superior, competitor requires the incumbent to make a misstep before they stand a chance at shining.
LiFe is much more reliable, but just relatively new technology, but number of "old" LiPo devices is really huge, and they still sell.

So I think, we will have at least few years pike of incidents, and I believe, then life will become safer.
The world and internet have changed significantly in 22 years. Microsoft were too early to the party in 2013 for a "digital only console" and 7 years later both MS and Sony shipped a digital only console.
If you have f.lux on a Windows machine and have Hue white/color ambient lights, you can already do this:

https://justgetflux.com/lighting/

I have this in my office setup, and it works well. Very nice, especially this time of year when it gets dark while I'm still working.
I suppose sales or mergers/acquisitions can be like that; a lot of planning, strategizing, ultimately resulting in a deal or not.
There are also scenarios with airlines where the only way for a flight to turn a profit is to price discriminate. It's possible to have a demand curve such that if you choose any point on the demand curve as the price for everyone, total revenue is less than total cost. But if you price discriminate you can capture the full area under the curve and have revenue exceed cost.
Just wait until he starts putting twitter front and center in the infotanment system
Maybe they were getting this from some ad networks like Taboola or Outbrain - but then those networks don't usually have enough info to really identify you.

Sure, if they were giving your IP to a telCo who can map your IP to a name if you're a customer - that's identifying you.

It's HIGHLY unlikely this happened at the usual suspects (FAANG).
Is this why the default fonts in my office randomly changed the other week?
+1 on the update harassment. Are these critical security bugs or random updates!? You never know.
Stealing an asset and keeping it is considered “income” in that tax year, I believe. You would only be correct if he stole Bitcoin when it was worth 0, but it wasn’t.
Also point out that there is nothing that can be done to fix asbestos. But C can be made safer. The three things that block that are

1 A culture that thinks API's need to always have a gotcha. See the inability to to field a safe string copy.

2 ISO commitee that thinks it's in charge of maintaining a historical artifact. Suggestions to change the language like Brights suggestions about passing arrays fail because the ISO committee thinks that's Heresy.

3 People that think C is hopeless. Usually these are people that had a bad time with it in school.

4 Idiots that think the only reason to use C is speed. Therefor any improved way of doing things that might be 10-20% slower than raw unsafe code is pointless.
no. lemme flip the burden of proof: the CCP is a known hostile actor against our nation. i want proof that they're not doing something shady before we let them play with the minds of kids.

> I want an actual source, an actual study.
slrn: from John Davis, author of JED editor..