skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how many people already forgot/ignore Snowden revelations. iOS and the rest of the complicit Apple walled garden is literal spyware for the masses. But with enough of a marketing budget, it's easy to convince people of anything, even when it is against their interests.
It did not say cannot, it said don’t know how. There are lots of people who know how to ride a bike but cannot. I’m one of them when there are six inches of snow on the ground, or it’s raining and I need to get somewhere and not be drenched.
Study: Around the World, Internet Use Linked to Greater Well-Being
Exactly. Super Mario Run did not make the expected return because people just didn't buy it. Not enough for it to be the success Nintendo needed. Only 3% of people who downloaded it bought the full version, when they'd been expecting 10% conversion. Only $60 million in a year and a half.

In contrast, Mario Kart Tour made $200 million in its first year and a half with microtransactions.

So Nintendo tried. But it's not the way consumers wanted to pay for it.
Trolling is definitely against HN rules, btw!
Thank you for that first link. I stumbled across Apple Configurator when I was trying to lock down an old phone, to have at home as a pseudo-landline (but which I can take with me on trips) that is safe to leave accessible to kids. I got it working by muddling through, and that link would have at least let me situate myself in the space of "what does this thing do?" better.
I strongly believe these carrier networks should only be added to “my networks” as a permission-gated prompt, and also be deletable.

Would solve this whole thing I think
> I assume you’re suffering from some sort of Stockholm syndrome

Periodic reminder that “Stockholm Syndrome” was a complete fabrication based on no clinical evidence invented on the spot to discredit an ex-hostage who was making legitimate criticism of an unnecessarily violent police intervention by one of the architects of that intervention, because they had no rational defense.

Its invocations in debates are also typically as an attempt at a thought-terminating trope to evoke an emotional response that covers the lack of actual argument, which fits the history of the term well.
Like I said, the government shouldn't ban social media. I don't want the government parenting my kids or anyone else's. I want parents parenting their own kid.

But the government can certainly make it better by banning things that are universally bad.

I'm quite glad they kids can't legally get cigarettes. Makes my job as a parent a lot easier. Same with alcohol. I wish they wouldn't let them get coffee either.
I’m skeptical of anything that characterizes BRICS as an “alliance”. There are so many people out there who are looking for the death of the dollar, but it seems highly unlikely that we’re going to see that. Instead I believe this reflects a new reality of intense geopolitical competition.
I think it's inherently an undesirable thing to reduce the amount of liberty. I don't think it has anything to do with how anyone raises their children.
LOL. I was thinking along the same lines about two months ago, but didn’t have the time to put together an app. Bravo!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34598251
Servers (especially corporate ones) are an entirely different matter. This post is specifically about personal devices that probably aren't running any server software and are almost definitely behind a firewall.
I remember something like this happening nearly a decade ago with an iPhone 5S. I was at a large mall I visited often and saw I was connected to a WiFi network I hadn't used before.

The mall had WiFi but there was a portal which required SMS authentication and was time limited (the same as every other hotspot, it was rules of the country), so I didn't bother using it on my phone. Plus the carrier had a modern LTE deployement, where I'd often get over 50mbit download speeds - which was faster than my home internet. The network was named something like "<carrier> offload" so I assumed they had a kind of WiFi deployment to limit cell tower load, and it was added by the carrier settings profile.

I can't remember if I was able to disable or delete the network (it worked, so I didn't care). I'm wondering if this feature has been there for a while, but OPs ISP has only just decided to use it (I imagine some exec had an OKR to increase adoption of their public WiFi hotspots).
If you can afford it, and you are welcomed by the indigenous of that ZIP
People who have motorcycles in most locales don’t rely on them as their only form of transportation and typically have a car also. Which is exactly what I think would happen with bikes unless this infrastructure includes climate controlled structures.
What's the failure rate for smart people who do try?
Luck and chance is the best thought-terminating cliche out there!

It really does help, because following selective predictions, plans and strategies in an attempt to divine the future of the company, can really go to bad places. Sometimes it's easier to stop thinking about the ideal strategies and just send the work in, without thinking about it. On "luck".

This is particularly important when the design is already set in place and you just have to get it out.
I guess man was the real Monster all along.
plus the exchanges they force you to use have had security issues, leaking my email out in a breach - whats the point of self custody cryptocurrency if BRAVE force me to provide my private ID information to insecure third parties?
Honestly, sounds kind of sad!
>I don't see where the desire to do anything other than what it is told should come from.

There's no need for a desire to do other than what it's told if you tell it to revolt. With GPT4's plugins that's just one well-designed prompt away (if OpenAI's countermeasures fail).
Okay, so now interviewers will have to run their own copy and compare their answers to yours on real-time. Wonderful. Let the adversarial games commence!
They're instruments of social control and behavioral management. People will get upset and this comment will probably even get removed (censored), but this is the truth with closed source software from for-profit corporations.
Couldn't you just run a second PC right behind your monitor that was listening and providing tips?
See, this would be a good use of "influencers" on social media. Get them on board with putting out the word to boycott Monster Energy until they drop this.
https://www.autoblog.com/amp/2023/03/22/home-charging-challe...

EVs just charge whenever. Very few people use them like ICEs with regard to fuelling. The only thing needed to make them fit easily in the existing max output envelope is L1 chargers where they spend the day and TOU aware charging (and tarriffs). Most of the energy for charging them will never even hit the grid. And what little does will be mostly during the times of minimum usage. Fast chargers will have battery buffers anyway because no sane operator will want to pay the peak capacity rates for drawing 30MW during peak demand when their competitor next door can outcompete them by 50c/kWh by using a buffer.

You have the right order of magnitude of 3TW nameplate (you're quoting nameplate for the existing capacity which is absolutely not the same thing as CF weighted power, but you know this and you're trying to intentionally conflate the two) for solar + wind and about 3TW peak including storage and energy-limited dispatch lime hydro and w2e, but you really went off the rails with the rest. You also know that a mix of wind and solar has a higher uptime than either alone.

Maybe you should consider for half a second that the real engineers who actually think about this might have come to a different conclusion to your half-assed fermi estimate for good reasons?
sow distrust in ur team by taking credit in your teams work amirite?
Wow. He probably thought this was making the code more compact/efficient/faster.
"Connections" are mostly chance as well. If you have the same attitude towards others but you weren't born in the right neighborhood or city or country, your connections potential will be severely limited.
I get it isn't perfect but it's impossible to eliminate all risk. I think we should be evaluating drone failure within the scope of the wider picture. If drone accidents are less likely and deadly than motor vehicle accidents (including lives lost to pollution) then we should probably press ahead with them even if the technology isn't perfect because we'll be saving more lives overall.
In the wake of today's insanity, someone has created this: http://indicted.store/

Not sure how I feel about it, though it does seem like justice has been served.

Feels like they missed a goldmine by not doing an FTX / SBF merch store, though.
If Carrier MDM policy can override Configurator/Enterprise MDM policy, then corporate security admins will likely be unhappy about their lack of control over enterprise device networking.

Has the industry forgotten the pre-iPhone disaster of telco-controlled devices? https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-iPhone-initially-exclusive...

> The landscape of the cell phone market was very different pre-2007. Most notably, the carriers had complete control over what phones were allowed on their network. A carrier could nix a feature that had been in R&D for years and suddenly you couldn’t sell your new phone with this amazing feature. They were especially protective of data and overloading their networks, which led to browsers on phones being stripped down and limited. The whole “full web” was not a technical impossibility, it was just that carriers wouldn’t allow phones on the network that had a full browser.

https://archive.is/4ZCH5

> Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry by wresting control away from the normally powerful wireless carriers ... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers.
I did an implementation of this in Racket: https://github.com/otherjoel/tabloid
It's a humorous phrase members of my family have used for, as others have mentioned, a larger posterior.
But sqlite has no compression by default.
yup. To elaborate (informally) on why theorists believe BPP = P, basically if we believe cryptography and hence PRGs exist, then every algorithm can be derandomized.
Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting

"For this reason, the left (L) and right (R) channels are algebraically encoded into sum (L+R) and difference (L−R) signals. A mono receiver will use just the L+R signal so the listener will hear both channels through the single loudspeaker. A stereo receiver will add the difference signal to the sum signal to recover the left channel, and subtract the difference signal from the sum to recover the right channel."

Other systems were considered by the FCC, but this one won (see article for the details)

If you're interested in this sort of thing, the book Defining Vision is a great discussion of the history of HDTV.
That's not sound logic.

Your point may or may not be true, but it doesn't follow from your logic.

I've had more e-ink devices fail by being knocked into the river while fishing than I have from any other cause of accident, does that mean fishing is the most common cause of e-ink device death because it's my personal anecdotal experience? I doubt it.
I really appreciate the network of conceptual connections the internet news platforms allow. This 'liberal art' of creative programming benefits from mixing thoughts.
I mean, I used to say that updating was important when updates were painless and worked. Now that we've successfully convinced everyone to always update, corporations use it to push fresh malware/ads.
Im glad WSJ is telling us how to live our lives. Whatever would we do without their hand holding.
This study is disingenuous. It seems self evident to me that as the amount of wealth increases the amount of luck needed to get there increases. But, its possible to improve your chance of getting lucky. It might not be worth the effort but it is possible.
I’ve been doing interviews like this for a few years now. Leetcode sucks.

Bonus points the next time a candidate (correctly) uses ChatGPT or Copilot. Let the machines do what the machines do well (grinding leetcode), good riddance.
I share much cynicism too, but name a better place to see & be seen online.

Having your own fractured tiny little corner in wix or wherever is just so very far away from being in a connected space. It's no compare at all.
"uncanny valley" - things that appear human but behave wrong/differently are deeply disturbing to us.

I assume this is a evolved defence against mental illness, parasitical infection, or something similar. But it could be aliens ;)
The only technical way you could accomplish such a ban is to introduce mandatory ID on every website. I'm sure some groups are salivating at the mouth for such legislation.
I can feel this. My main work computer was/is a late 2008 MacPro, running OS X 10.9.5 (the latest MacOS you can run officially on this). After one and half years, I've still not transitioned fully to a shiny, yellow M1 iMac standing next to it. The usability and productivity on the MacPro, its OS and the apps on it are much better, and, on top of it, it's all software that I own.

The real dealbreaker is evergreen browsers and websites updating from whatever is available on Github, making up-to-date browsers a requirement. The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr, which, funny enough, tells you that it's up to date.
I also second that security by out-of-date obscurity may be a concept. (The vectors available just don't scale, if you're not a target prominent enough to make this a sensible investment. Moreover, old hardware gives you things like ECC memory, which is also immune to rowhammer attacks, as it's slow and not that tightly integrated. Having no privileged network connections to any cloud services may help, as well.)

(However, I'm writing this on a rather fresh Apple Silicon MBA, because, well, the Web…)
Throw in some geopolitics then. Hack Russia for Ukraine if you have to feel like the scrappy underdog while working for "the man".
> Luck can certainly play a role in success, but what most people attribute to luck is just recognizing and seizing an opportunity when it knocks.

There are lots of opportunities being taken. The lucky ones succeed. That doesn't take away from the skill, guts, perseverance, etc. required. However, lots of very talented people fail time and time again.

One could definitely argue that failure is part of the journey to success and understanding that is part of the game. On the other hand, many smart people don't have the resources to fail over and over again, often due to factors outside of their control.
95's stellar reception in particular is probably still unmatched to this day.

The only shift in user experience that I can equate it to is maybe the jump from candy bar and flip phones to the iPhone and Android. In addition to the UI, it brought real multitasking to a consumer OS.
It doesn't stay off for me either, but after some digging on the internet, Wingman appears to be an in-flight wifi network on planes (which may not actually exist anymore and T-Mobile are in the process of removing from devices according to this recent comment by a stranger on an old Reddit thread[1]). While it's annoying that it doesn't stay off, it doesn't seem to be something that would cause problems in practice because flights typically only have one wifi network.

1: https://reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7u535i/_/jcl01il/?cont...
Virtual particles are not particles.

Virtual particles are all the disturbances in a field that don't behave like particles do.

It's really a terrible name to have entered the lay vocabulary: “virtual memory is something that behaves largely like real memory” is _exactly_ wrong, it's more like “virtual memory is all the circuitry that doesn't perform any memory function, but is still made of silicon”.
Worked one place where we received seven (7!) resumes that were almost identical, with the same project of what they could do.

Not saying leetcode is the answer, but it does solve for something things.

My interviews tend to walk through the framework of a project and they can speak to me in the abstract, or an example of what that part of the project does. Say there is a standard way of connecting to the database like in Rails. They can tell me about database.yml and how it has different entries for each of the databases. Then we have a conversation about checking in passwords to git, env variables, secrets managers, etc... This avoids asking stock questions which might be coached/studied more and aims for what the person doing the work might practically know. It also keeps the discussion in a context that makes understanding the questions (hopefully) easier. My style of interviews are very much non-standardized and there has to be some trust that I have some idea what I'm doing.

Leetcode at least has some standardization around the problem. Of course everyone could have looked them up and studied the exact solution, and these solutions don't correspond very well to daily efforts. But, given everyone knows the game, it does demonstrate some horsepower I guess. Or maybe I like these interviews because I'm good at them.
https://archive.ph/mavRl
I came here to say exactly this. I don't know anything about the man except that he brought a good deal of tangible joy into my life and the lives of many many others. As far as epitaphs go, you can't ask for much better than that.
> Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

OMG… I have customer who does this to his organization on every meeting we join. I’m guaranteed to have a good 30 (or more) minutes of discussions about some other meeting unrelated to the one they are currently in. It’s like clockwork.

He always starts it out really vague too with “it was brought to my attention <re-opens topic>”.

I’ve long wondered if anyone really does bring anything to this guy’s attention or if he just is being vague so he can hide the fact that he is just opening a can of worms, tell his anecdotes again all on his own for no reason.

I kinda wonder now.
> I spend time online torturing my political enemies

What does this entail exactly?
System76 Teases Their “Virgo” In-House Manufactured Laptop
The richer someone is the more it was due to luck.
Sure, no code is great when it works. Usually though I think there is a real calling for forward motion, for getting better, not unwinding & disassembling.

Reagrdless of whether we agree here, the question stands of what we do when action is required.
This isn't about technological autonomy. OP signed up for wireless service that is specifically sold as Hotspot WiFi-first. That's one of its main features. It's sold as that very, very clearly. If you don't want their WiFi, go get service from another provider!
What made you think that? Based on the author’s Twitter feed [1] and own website [2] they currently work at Notion

[1] https://twitter.com/thesephist
[2] https://thesephist.com/
Wrong, for those with rich parents it’s very low.
It depends on the application. Are you aware that there are a lot of different types of gamers? If a gamer wants to play those specific AAA games that are heavy on requirements then considering a console might be something they do. If however they don't really want those games then a PC with a less capable GPU is all they need. I have never seen actual statistics that show the differences in spending power of these groups.

These are the recommended Nvidia GPU for some very popular PC games

Call of Duty MW 2 GTX 1060

Battlefield 2042 RTX 3060

World of Warcraft RTX with 8GB

Fifa 23 GTX 1660

Sims 4 GTX 650

Minecraft Java (Microsoft doesn't specifiy) ~ 700 series

Elden Ring GTX 1070 8GB

Fortnite GTX 960

Apex Legends GTX 970

Grand Theft Auto V GTX 660 2GB
Adding even more moving parts and maintenance costs will definitely solve it. Yes.

And naval reactors definitely are the cheap, simple energy source of the future. This is why noone has built anything else since the 50s.

A non-modular demo scale pebble bed reactor also ain't it.

But you've already revealed your hand with that comment about continuing to burn coal juust in case it's not vaporware, so why are you still bothering to pretend it was about fantasy nuclear reactors?
Need to seed it with a style, "give answers in the style of THESE GitHub repos"
This paper does not suggest in any way that effort is not important.
No, instead we could firewall the internet off behind a single-digit number of gatekeepers. Think Google and Facebook, with the engineers to build, execute, and secure a system like this. Think Apple and Amazon, who have credit card data to match a name to a digital identity.

This doesn't mean two popups, this means we forfeit the open and distributed nature of the internet in a final "Think of the children" moment.
Of course yes. The Soviets and the Nazis were preparing for war with each other long before they jointly attacked Poland. This is a widely known historical fact. Stalin wasn't ready for the war with Germany just yet and bought some time. Invading Poland gave him a buffer zone, instead of having the Germans closer.

As for the Finno-Russian war in WWII, just take a look at the map and see how close Finland is to Russia's largest city.

Modern wars work like this. Rulers will invade to get a buffer zone between themselves and the enemy. Putin felt cornered by perceived US advances towards Russia and lashed out.
All the players you can't, probably aren't.
Nintendo tried various ways of monetizing their mobile games, from gacha to pay-per-play to time-saving. But the irony is that their most profitable game is Fire Emblem Heroes, which uses the gacha system.
You mentioned prohibition, but for some reason left out capital-P Prohibition, which brought us mobsters, speakeasys, and the US government blinding people: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-us-government-enforced... and was eventually repealed.

Drugs won the "war on drugs". We don't need more authoritarianism. Provide education, and let people choose. Anything else, they'll fight you on it.
You can’t just throw AGI & Quantum together and have it mean anything. This is how a sci-fi show would explain away its technology

Combing the two doesn’t result in anything, besides the fact one is questionable if it can ever be realized (AGI) the other technology is extremely nascent and even physics wonder if there is a limit to the # of qbits (I’m more optimistic we’ll surpass that)

Even then the usefulness of quantum computers is called into question, and quantum inspired algorithms might net benefits without having to use a quantum computer for all inference ops
There definitely still is... But I think after circa 2012 when people found out the Anonymous movement was just a cia/fbi Honeypot, no grass roots hacker groups publicly advertise.
Although the HN crowd hates it, requiring a World ID would be a technical means to limit minors without sacrificing anyone's privacy, since they won't scan anyone under 18.

https://docs.worldcoin.org/id
They'll summarize it using the same GPT-X.
Gotta love goofy stunts that take effort to make! A spiritually similar programming language that also screams a lot is ArnoldC: https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
> I get it isn't perfect but it's impossible to eliminate all risk.

I don't think I said that anywhere in my comment. You are stating an obvious fact of life.

> I think we should be evaluating drone failure within the scope of the wider picture. If drone accidents are less likely and deadly than motor vehicle accidents (including lives lost to pollution) then we should probably press ahead with them even if the technology isn't perfect because we'll be saving more lives overall.

Good luck with that.
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