skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once companies reach a certain size, they become actively evil.

> Governments have forgotten their antitrust responsibilities.

Is it possible that these are two sides of the same thing? That is, what's the real difference between a corporation versus a government? I'd imagine a lot of similarity in terms of organizational dynamics. If we see a problem from corporations when they grow too large, shouldn't we also expect problems from governments when they get big?
Or maybe use VS Code for free until it gets too annoying, and then switch to another editor or fork. It's not so hard. Not suffering.
If consumers could actually buy that version that would be a really useful tip :)
what's the highest resolution satelite data that is commercially available actually?
A cat as an “appreciating asset”. Did people really buy into that??

I guess there really is no correlation between money and intelligence.
> there would be some really huge upsides.

You can live in Mackinak and try out the no car lifestyle. Watch out for the crap and piss in the gutters.
https://www.michigan.org/city/mackinac-island
Yes. Financial articles do the same with “as”.

“Tech stocks down as trade talks stall with China”

They’re rarely related. Two things happened, and they put “as” between them.
Like genetic modifications, or as they did hundreds of years ago with hybridisation.

I am all for it (even though it needs to be watched and not used for any sort of chemical increase only decrease) why not?
The CO2 level has increased by 50% since preindustrial times. You don't need a super-complicated model to figure out what that does to the global average temperature. It was predicted with decent accuracy in 1896, based on simple thermodynamics, and better accuracy several decades later with just slightly more complicated physics. No fancy computer modeling at all, just a calculation that a physicist can work out on paper, and we've been right on target since then.

For details see the recent little book The Physics of Climate Change.
It's the same as the one I have in another service, but cut short because HN has (had?) a 16 character limit.

To be fair it still is a single word with no numbers or special characters, just not a short one.
Yeah I don't think the "but you can opt out!!" Is a valid excuse anymore. They keep adding so much crap and reactivating ones during updates.
Why not? That’s what a country is.
I am sorry but I thought that heavy metal poisoning is due to eating fish that eats other fish, thus distilling the heavy metals in their own body. i.e. eating shark is worse that eating salmon.

Is that not correct? I feel like the post above is completely misunderstanding the issue
Wholesale stores requiring a membership subscription
Why did VSCode need Twitter intergration in the first place?
Yes. But the political force is “the farmers.”

Guess who is behind “the children?” Yes, the shareholders as well.
Completly agree that this popup is bs trying to get me change privacy settings with misleading verbiage. There is a way to stop this...

https://winaero.com/how-to-disable-personalize-your-web-expe...
As the other comments have noted, it's the "control plane" that tells all the Voice-over-IP parts how to set up and tear down a call.

As for the complications... Yeah.

The folks who invented VoIP had a dream. They saw the existing extremely centralized, extremely locked-down phone carriers as The Enemy. Instead, they envisioned a loose decentralized federation of peers who directly contacted one another over the Internet to make calls.

Since there weren't supposed to be any all-knowing, all-powerful, all-standard-enforcing choke points, everything had to be negotiated and a consensus built up across the interconnected parts as to the call state and control. Worse, intermediate services (proxies) were allowed to be stateless. So the consensus has to be continually reinforced during and after the call.

Another design choice was to split functionality into lots of optional tiny pieces. "SIP" has a bazillion RFCs (standards specs), and some pretty byzantine control flows to implement all the interconnections. (To be fair, The Enemy is just as bad or worse. Both camps were dealing with extremely limited computing power and bandwidth in the distant past, plus incremental feature enhancement.)

My poster child is "call parking". This allows you to "park" a call from one phone by putting it on hold, and then picking it on another. The suggested SIP call from (don't remember which RFC it's part of) involves specialized "parking services"; all these do is receive a call and then later forward it. The minimal flow diagram has dozens of distinct steps involving half-a-dozen players.

SIP was a standard, not proprietary, and "good enough", so became the overwhelming standard for interconnecton of VoIP players. In reality, the vast majority of conrol flows are:

1. Phone says "hey central server, here's a phone number. Call them."

2. Central server says "Hey phone, here's an incoming call."

3. Phone says: "OK, I'll answer".

4. Phone to server: "Hang up".

5. Server to phone: "Hang up".

6. Phone: "Here's some random buttons my user pushed mid-call." (This includes digits for IVR menu trees, and on/off hold).

Audio almost always uses one of three or four popular encoding choices: 1) "Dead stupid" (G.711), 2) "Bad compression" (G.729), 3) "Oooh! Hifi!" (G.722), 4) "Something open, decent, and from the current century" (Opus). Video is usually H.263 or one of its relatives.
The original comment is noise
'picked right year not to go' - cool story bro
Also, don't forget about air travel, especially private airplanes, something that is on the rise (e.g Netjets). Often the virtues of world travel are extolled as a way to learn about the world and bring people together etc. Except, it's extraordinarily carbon intensive and honestly doesn't do any of that IMO. Sure, seeing the Patagonia in person would be cool and all, but if I actually cared about it, I wouldn't go. I would admire it from afar to help preserve it. It's time to start travel shaming and discourage people from flying around just to get a selfie.
> Once companies reach a certain size, they become actively evil.

Because they can't just be steady earners. Everyone has to show quarter after quarter after quarter increases. It's madness and it really needs to stop.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37362151

:)
from https://github.com/microsoft/VCSamples/tree/master/VC2010Sam...

"The WordPad sample demonstrates how to implement an application that imitates the functionality of WordPad, including the user interface elements and some of the capabilities."

I should have known it wasn't the real Win95 WordPad source code since this version is written using MFC and C++.

C++ was not an approved programming language for Win95 components in its quest to run on Brad Silverberg's (Win95 manager) mom's 4MB RAM PC.
I’d be happy if coffee shops were required to have mugs for use within the shop. Most of the shops near me offer paper cups regardless of whether you plan to stay in.
Unbelieveable that you buy that. If Cruise wants to clear this up they can post the video. I'm gonna believe the first responders here who do this for a living over a corporate PR mouthpiece.

That journalist could have signed a non disparagement contract to see the video or just been paid off. Cruise has the video, there is no body. Post it. Anything else is bullshit.
> As software engineers swearing to a set of 'do no harm' ethical codes could well be a first step

Just like "don't be evil"? Which was actually enshrined in Google's corporate code of conduct for some time, and could even believed if you squinted the right way...
I am probably in the minority here, but I think GMOs are an amazing advancement. We’ve been “genetically modifying” crops for years with selective breeding, we have now just been able to speed up the process.

Genetic engineering has enabled us to grow potatoes, corn, and cotton that contain some DNA from bacteria that encodes (I.e contains the recipe for) a protein, referred to as Bt Crystal Toxin, that disrupts the metabolism of some major pests. They are regarded as safe for humans because it requires both a higher pH (alkaline) and specific receptors that humans lack in order to do damage to an organism.
My cat gets more valuable (to me) every day.

A car, not so much.
I think that this time around it's not actually something that falls under US antitrust law. At the time of the 2001 IE antitrust suit, Internet Explorer had 90% browser marketshare and was using it to prop up the dominance of Windows as well. Many websites relied on IE-only features such as ActiveX controls, so you could get shut out of things if you didn't use IE, which in turn meant you'd be shut out of them if you didn't use Windows.

Nowadays, Microsoft's behavior is undeniably shitty. But Edge's 10% or 15% marketshare is hardly a monopoly, so I don't think it falls under the jurisdiction of antitrust laws. Though I certainly wouldn't cry to find out that it falls under some other kind of consumer protection law.
I think that a good dietary solution would be for us to get more culinarily creative with algae in food dishes. Most of the important nutrients such as omega-3s (DHA), micronutrients, and and apparently one of the most effective antioxidants that is Astaxanthin, are all picked by fish directly or indirectly (via other fish) from eating algae.

While algae may not have the same taste-profile or texture as fish, at least we would be able to make a difference (particularly with climate change and better preserving our environment from toxins as described by the article) by making socially-normal algae-based options for people who currently choose to eat fish on a more regular basis for nutritional reasons.
...Now that, is a well conceived viewpoint, but I still argue policy-wise, that no penalties can conscionably be assessed for failure to engage in said activity without spreading the taint of deputization, which de-facto unmakes your stance. As a government deputy, you don't have that privacy. If you are not compelled to act as a deputy of the State, I can accept you escalating to NCMEC, but we also have to accept there is no recourse for providers who turn a blind eye to the whole thing.

Failure to recognize this perpetuates the fundamental inconsistency.
> “evidence-based medicine,” ... is now being criticized because the “best evidence” is often in the eye of the beholder.
>
> A new approach seems to be arriving — so-called science-based medicine.

Sorry to have to break it to you, but science too is often in the eye of the beholder. As the history of science shows.
It was clear from day 1 that Chromium Edge is a Trojan horse from Microsoft.

But then, many of my colleagues use it, put up with tabloid-style New Tab pages and don’t use an ad blocker, so there’s that.
> "I think it succeeded wildly beyond anything anybody imagined at the time..."

Somebody needs their memory refreshed. What was imagined at the time is that nearly all proprietary software companies, particularly Microsoft, would have gone bankrupt or bowed to the inevitable necessity to release all their source code to the community under capital-F Free licenses and nearly all businesses that use software would be voluntarily contributing any code developed for their own use to the community also under Free licenses so that their code would help others and others' code would help them.

Needless to say, this has not happened. Instead, FOSS turned out to be an enormous free handout to businesses with very little contribution back to the community compared to the value received. (Yes, even the Linux kernel. If there were contributions to Linux by all businesses that use it that were even a tenth of what Microsoft charges for Windows, there would be a thousand full time kernel developers.) That is failure and developers are recognizing that by turning away from Free licenses to fake FOSS licenses like open core or shared source.
'No' in lots of places has been replaced with 'Maybe later'. Really annoying.
I've seen authors describe their ideological opponents as being self-hating, but till now have never seen anyone own it.

There are many things in a person's emotional life that a person does not have any control over (at least not in the short term and without spending lots of time and money on, e.g., psychotherapy). I think it is commendable that you understand your own emotions well enough to perceive this self-hatred, and I do not think any less of you because of it.

If there are many people who share your emotional reaction to inequality, that would have explain a lot of things that so far have been puzzling to me.

What is your opinion of those who have things that others lack, but do not hate themselves for it? Is there something wrong with such non-self-hating lucky one in your eyes?
Weiiiiiird story. I always instantly associated it with the magstripe on cards. Very weird that that association isn't even mentioned.
> CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere and humanity is only responsible for 3% of its creation

What explains the remaining percent points then?

Atmospheric CO2 at the first measurement in ~1958 was ~318, latest in 2022 was ~419 (reading a plot on wikipedia[1]). Note that in 1958, the industrial revolution was already in history books, idk what pre-fossil-fuel values were. Going from 318 in 1958 to 419 in 2022 is +32%, you said 3%, so there's a few missing there

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

Edit: just noticed the article lede says +50% since mid-18th century, I don't need to be interpreting graphs here lol. Either way, you missed an order of magnitude somewhere. But it also doesn't matter, because if 3% would have changed our habitat then it still would have been too much right?
I mention Niger both because of your apparent belief that the things we're talking about only happened in the past, and because they're a perfect example of the goal of BRICS. Right now most countries in the world have limited sovereignty. They can do whatever they feel like, right up to the point that it runs contrary to Western interests. But as soon as they cross that line it's time for the old tired playbook of death and destruction: coups, color revolutions, weaponizing "international" organizations, sanctions, outright invasion, funding/training 'moderate radicals', and so on.

BRICS is not about cooperation, but rather about allowing each independent country to fully pursue their own self interest. Right now that's not really possible when relying on economic systems controlled by the US. So we're seeing a gradual shift on the currencies countries hold, US debt holdings, the development of e.g. SWIFT alternatives like SPFS, and so on. The development of a common currency will be the next logical step.
It's really no different than people who pay more than they need to for a car or a home.

It's some combination of it being a status symbol and an "I can afford it and it's fun" kind of a deal.

There is a variety of attitudes, as with fancy cars, McMansions, or other "premium" goods. Some people wax their car every week, some people let it rust.

Watch theft isn't particularly common. I have a nice watch, I wear it daily, and I don't think about it much.
Naively this just seems like a tiny fraction of the problem? Say less than 1%? Haven’t looked up the numbers though, I might be way off.
Does the Timex m878 have the same core cpu?

Because the m878 has GPS and ANT+ support which makes it exponentially more powerful.
Ah yes the old make a fortune with fraud routine. Works every time.
You do realize that you just said that Mario games have voices done by random internal staff, right?

When everybody and their mothers know that Charles Martinet, professional voice actor, is the now-retired voice of Mario?
It's been a while since I've done this, and I realise this is fruitless.

> Likewise, once you find the truth it doesn’t require falsifying every other claim to truth for it to remain true.

The world is not like maths.

A scientific approach to the world doesn't really work like this. It deals not with truth but with hypotheses and (un)certainties. Claiming truth is fundamentally flawed, and really only reserved for fanatics, religious or not. A "truth" is only ever temporary, waiting to be rejected by evidence and replaced by the new "truth". This is why we never speak of truths but only of hypotheses, theories, etc. Falsification is at the core of science, and at the margins of religion, in both cases by design. This is why science has evolved over the centuries: theories held as truth once have been rejected and replaced by better theories. Meanwhile religion has not evolved in the slightest, except in a moral sense where original scripture is rightfully rejected as being archaic. However, it should be clear that this is not religious progress but moral progress, and is still challenged for religious reasons, by religious people.

Its easy to see when somebody is uninterested in reasoning in general, they use words like truth. It's a word you can use and build on without challenge, because its perfectly in the middle between reality and personal experience: the truth, my truth. It's flexible, can be used to your advantage to mean what you please, to imply what you desire it to imply (the truth), and most importantly to evade what you must evade to make a coherent point when challenged (my truth).

It is overwhelmingly unlikely that a human conceived description of a deity is correct.

> Jesus was the only person whose words and deeds claim deity and with which there is zero evidence to contradict his claims

One does not need evidence to contradict claims, one needs evidence to prove claims. This is how things work. If you disagree, I posit you the following claim without proof and challenge you to accept it and thereby follow your own logic: I claim that Jesus was lying about being the son of god but wants you to feel that he wasn't to manipulate you into following his personal views on ethics.
It’s the same in Denmark. It’s really annoying because companies will not commit to top tier salary, but are happy to pay for a freelancer. I guess it’s hard for middle managers to hire engineers that should paid a lot more than them. The result is that all the FTEs are mediocre, and freelancers are where the talent are.
How does UPI handle payment disputes? My impression is that the direct payment systems do not have chargebacks and are risky for anything that isn't immediate. What do you do if store won't give you return/refund for something broken? What do you if online store never ships? What if food stall doesn't give you your food?

With credit card, it isn't my money for a month until I have to make the payment. If there is a problem, I can chargeback. The possibility of chargeback makes the vendor's support more helpful
So what will happen is that the games using SAG-AFTRA voice actors will be delayed/dropped from production, while the games using non-US union voice actors or not needing voices will be produced. Therefore, the SAG-AFTRA games and the associated companies will suffer but the industry will not.

The situation is different for films and TV where no US-based TV show or film can be produced without the actors or writers. There are interim agreements that allow some TV shows and films to be produced. Even there, there are a lot of older or foreign TV shows and films that are slowly taking over.
These days you have to make an extension to package up a single empty HTML file and set it as NTP. WTF.
The earliest suburbs were along rail lines but they really exploded with cars.
postmarketOS and waydroid are almost there, though I still went back to lineage. No answers for iOS.
Loved your thought process and walk through linguistics.

I’d have to take exception to the medical examples however -

I’m not sure if the translation is ‘a liquid swelling in the lung’ or ‘liquid swelling in the lung’ both of which are technically incorrect, one more than the other.

In actual fact the English is highly descriptive, just not in layman’s terms, and you need to learn another whole vocabulary in order to understand it.

This is beneficial because medicine is a highly technical. We were told in our first day of med school that we would learn around 5000 words by the time we were done.
You can be come conversant in most languages with much less than that.

The Chinese example you’re providing (I have no idea if that’s the term Chinese doctors would use in their notes) seems more akin to how I would describe pulmonary oedema to a patient or family member - ‘you have water on your lungs’
> it's about having higher density housing construction

Umm, how would one go about selling that policy? Do enough (any?) people want that?

FWIW, my wife and I have spoken at length over the last year about what it would take for us to move, leaving our house and garden and safe streets and clean parks, our open countryside being only a short walk in pretty much every direction, and that our 7 year-old is able to walk the half mile to her primary school on her own every morning...

...and as it stands, there is no job offer _at all_ that would persuade us to move to the city.

Especially after what we saw during the pandemic.
Companies are not forced to ship to the whole EU. An Irish e-shop can provide shipping only to Ireland. As an EU citizen, you can go to Ireland and buy it for the Irish price, you won't be discriminated based on your citizenship or country of residence.
Spinosad is supposed to be beneficial for apple maggot treatment and is relatively safe for the local environment.
I think it's a perfectly valid choice but I don't think it's quite as binary as the author puts it.

I've been in agencies, in bloated product companies and they were all terrible experiences.

I did some freelancing and enjoyed it, but I could make significantly more money with less effort contracting.
I liked my solo contracting days albeit they quickly resembled little employments.

But when I run my own company or when I worked in some startups with enlightened leadership, it was great.

I think you can absolutely create an agency (or a product company) where a work pattern like yours is acceptable and where people can work flexibly and be happy about it. I used to work in one of the few remote first company before COVID and everyone loved working there because of it. Async as much as possible is crucial.

If you're worried about people not putting their 100% because they're employed and not making more money the more value gets created, you can setup a structure with low base pay + amazing bonus on success and you can get the same incentive (and risk) you have in your solo work - but with friends and scaling up your business into something that can make more money.

It's easier to have large margin as an agency than as a solo grifter.
Jalopnik is owned by Gizmodo, who are notoriously anti worker and have been locked in mortal combat with the writer's guild for ages.
> you do choose your location

So being born in a particular place, having your history, your inheritance and most of your social connections in it, it's all just an arbitrary choice?

> occupation

Again, having an option to work in a certain career that brings you enough money to live and feed off your family, that's just an arbitrary choice, too?

What about STDs? They may make you more prone to illnesses. You may say "well, the person has voluntarily chosen to have unprotected sex", but then what about rape victims? Should insurance companies be informed of such private details of people's lives in order to weight out whether the condition is "chosen" or not? And who the hell decides what's "chosen" and what's not?

All I'm trying to say, it's not black and white. You can't just decide to count the "things you choose" and discard "things you don't choose" as most things don't fall cleanly in those two categories, location and occupation being just one of many examples of the gray area in that continuum. And once you go down the path of price discrimination based on anything, you're on a slippery slope towards thought police.