skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The handful of companies that run virtually all the commerce/communication in the US prison systems, are some of the worst companies on the planet and should absolutely be shut down. GTL/Securus/BobBarker/etc are profiting off criminal extortion of families and loved ones of incarcerated people.
LlamaPatch? Once open source model support is added of course :)
I kind of like the article take on how to handle emergent issues, but I don't like that it still sort of silos software development into two parts -- planned and unplanned.

I hate the term "unplanned" to describe this kind of work. By using a very narrow definition of "plan", for work "organized and scheduled in advance" but only within projects and roadmaps, it sort of works. A more informal usage of unplanned, though, suggests a kind of blindness to the reality of software development and maintenance.

The reality is that the effort in software development isn't easily divided into these streams. The article fails to address an important consequence of putting effort into fighting fires: the project plans and roadmaps of the affected teams will be disrupted. This is where the term "unplanned" really fails, because if the organization never takes into account the effort taken to address issues and emergencies, the plans are worse than having no plan at all.

On a different note, one place I consulted with had its planning and tracking tool (Jira-like Azure DevOps) directly feed into its accounting system, such that different types of work were bucketed into different amortization flows. Planned work was a capital expenditure (CapEx), while anything funneled into Unplanned became an operating expenditure (OpEx). Any accountant that knows the implications of CapEx vs. OpEx can see where this is going. This company had a lot of bugs and issues that were left unaddressed.
What a filmmaker learned from taking flat earthers seriously (2018)
It's ridiculous that it requires a law to make companies dial back the pushy advertising and user-hostility on a product the user has ostensibly paid for, but here we are
I've read the complaint before. Nowhere does it say that users are penalized for not following the model.

Keep in mind that this is a document written by the prosecution and completely one-sided. Paragraph 7 says "RealPage explains that for its
services to be most effective in increasing rents, Lessors must accept the pricing at
least eighty percent of the time“

That is very different than what the poster above me claimed. Nobody has kicked out of the service for not following recommendations. The closest thing to a penalty that the document can come up with is that real page will call people and inquire why they aren't following the recommendations
From the article: "Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association."
I worked at a startup, hosted on AWS, that was deployed before EC2 IAM roles were a thing. We had the same AWS access key credentials deployed on every machine. Whenever an employee left, we had to rotate them all.. Fun times.
For more context, the author of the fork seemed to have stepped in to "answer" some of the concerns in the Reddit thread by OP, and some of it is just plain hilarious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17wujjc/my_open_sou...

Claiming that the project is "a copy of a copy" because the author forgot to switch the license from the template MIT which had "Vercel" in it - https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17wujjc/comment/k9j...

Claiming code (!) contributions to the project, while there is only a single commit by him (fixing typos) and he has an unresolved conversation in a single GH issue - https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17wujjc/comment/k9j... (the commit is https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/commit/442a3189697540e..., issue https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/issues/73)
Do you believe Osama bin Laden has the right to kill civilians, as he claims in his letter?
Here's a list of sites planned for 2024 in the US [1]. The CD Solar Project has a 2GW capacity and a 1GW storage array.

[1] https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/10-large-solar-pr...
I've heard good things about mailcow

https://mailcow.email/
I find this to be a very strange thing to study. Wouldn't the time be better spent on something else? Or were they just looking for something to do. Or was this to make better TV news headlines.
Thanks for those resources, I’m going to have fun digging into those. But still, wouldn’t the link between artistry and self destruction be more a function of depression and not psychopathy?

But even that is just surface level I think. What is it that makes depressed people artists? Or vice versa.
Yeah it sounds like p-hacking to me. Would be nice if they had preregistered the study design.

However, the article does say it was a "study of magicians", not a study of medical data from the general population.
But today Firefox, i.e., Mozilla, is wholly dependent, financially, on Google.

One could argue that Google can "kill" Mozilla easier than it can "kill" uBlock.
Not disclosing when you have an obligation to disclose is sufficient to establish intent. Businesses disclose all sorts of obscure risks because of this in their SEC filings: earthquakes, health risks, pirate attacks (real ones), terrorism, etc.

Disclosures are simply required when some criteria are met. "Having your ducks in a row" or "being able to explain what happened" is not what determines whether a public disclosure is required. If a failure to disclose results in shareholders losing money they will sue and the business will have a bad time.
Because they studied at MIT
What damage is this person causing you exactly?
It sounds like we perhaps agree on most of the important things. I'm with you on new failures at each level of focus. Again, moving between feels the value. Any specific level will have failures, and only spreading attention across all levels can helps us hit a minimum -- probably never zero, because then we'd be gods in the territory :)
The research you do in that scenario would just tell you the prices which shares had actually changed hands at. A decentralized market-based price discovery mechanism cannot be considered collusion or price fixing, since it’s exactly the opposite.
I guess the coutnerpoint is that SMS was invented in, what, the mid 90s? And MMS invented in the mid 00s (?) when things like group chats or sending a video (!) over a phone (at least > 500KB) were inconceivable. We are long overdue for a new, modern, open standard. Apple has in a way invented a pseudo-standard and a) refusing to let others in and b) refusing to also support any other open standard. I think it's reasonable to expect we have a modern standard that supports now-simple things like half decent video transfer, files, groups, locations, etc.
They announced the feature coming to desktop "shortly" seven (7) years ago [1]. It has been implemented on mobile for ages, and is generally one of the most-popular features of any modern messaging service. In the years since, things like in-app cryptocurrency were implemented. Issues on GitHub dating back to 2017 were unceremoniously locked [2]. A community feature request has been open since 2018 [3]. When more issues on GitHub were created, they were told to discuss it in the one that was already locked, and didn't respond further once that was noted to be impossible [4].

When the PR was thoughtfully created long after it was clear that they wouldn't be honoring their own announcement, they said (approximately a year ago) that they would review and implement it with credit. After 6 months of darkness and petitioning, it was dismissed as being harder to review than to implement while disingenuously counting things like SVGs and license text as LOC. When some specific concerns were finally provided, the author responded point-by-point in how they were already researched and addressed, with a polite request for evidence so that they could correct any misunderstandings. The subsequent response ignored everything in that but the suggestion to update the contribution guide to align with their previously-unstated intent.

Serially mishandled. I'm not moving off of that position.

1: https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/
2: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1862
3: https://community.signalusers.org/t/add-gif-search-giphy-to-...
4: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4841
Doing this right is easier said than done. I worked at one company that ran their own Postgres instances on EC2 instead of using RDS. Big mistake. The configuration was so screwed up they couldn't even take a backup that wasn't corrupted. They had "experts" working on this for months.
The important thing (to me) isn't the bubble color, but that conversations between Android and iOS users with RCS won't degrade media down to Game Boy Color quality. At least, that's what I hope the outcome of this move is.
That's the one I would prefer. If you're at all used to FP, this signals intent very clearly.
Because nobody is going to be a starving magician. I assume if you know sleight of hand you have the skills to feed yourself. ;)
This doesn't seem like a good way to keep their best employees, at a time when they really need them.
In contrast, I fat-fingered a URL to my work product and Lily rang me this morning, instead of ghosting me.
Right because only fiscal libertarians have any consistency.

TikTok as a communication platform should be regulated, but not censored. There should be democratic debate about communication platforms and their responsibilities but they should favor allowing communication even when it is unpopular. And they certainly shouldn’t be shutting down communication that the ruling class finds unfavorable or detrimental to their rule.

It’s not a simple yes or no answer despite what your beliefs might lead you to think.
If it’s a small company, you may notice the cost of registering the foreign corporation in your actual location.

Some people and tax authorities may draw an inference from states like Nevada with a reputation for shady companies in some industries.
> but also fastmail includes unlimited @fastmail.com email addresses

On aliases, the limit is 600. Maybe you mean the recently added masked emails. The limit on those is not documented, but rumor says it's 1,000.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/t68eiw/comment/hz...
While you're running away from that other yes or no question, I might as well try asking you this one - do you support privacy?
Usually advertising partners are pretty chill about their $320,000 branded hashtag campaigns promoting Al Qaeda content, concerning to see this.
A once in a lifetime headline and you go with the safe one?
That would be an interesting study though. For true occult practitioners I think you’re likely to see even less mental disorders since (if they are true students of the occult) they would understand that the mind (and indeed EVERY aspect of 3D reality) is simply a construct of belief systems.
Late reply. I studied physics and astronomy in high school and college. But it wasn't until I spent a year in Vancouver and my Mom got a camera for me, IIRC at a Christmas sale, that I really got started. The shore offered great sunsets, but the little fixed-focal length half-frame camera soon convinced me to get a Nikkormat with normal/macro lens, and to this day, I take lots of sunsets and flower photos. (53 years later)

Learning was mostly by reading. I got the most from Ansel Adams' books and Photographic Optics, by Neblette. Lots of other sources, as well. Main thing I found out is that all the major brands offer excellent equipment.

I was an optical engineer for quite a few years, but that only piqued my interest, and put some of my self-education to work.

Going to digital, I used, and still use, a Coolpix P510 with one lens, a zoom that is the equivalent of 24-1000 mm. It obviously handled just about everything for 10 or more years. I am spoiled for telephoto capability, so the usual wide lens on a phone is handy, but not versatile enough for me. Mountain peaks, birds and so on, are within easy and quality reach. That lens also does great close-ups, and not just within an inch of the subject.

I just went mirrorless, part of the equation is that all my ancient Nikon lenses work great, albeit manually, of course.

My Dad was an artist, so to me, technique is on top of composition and artistic merit. It is REALLY important for me to have a bright and sharp viewfinder. The P510 doesn't. I took some photos of hummingbirds darting around wildflowers and could barely see them in the glare of the screen. The camera did amazingly well for my shooting nearly blind.

While I still have it (with its ancient and unusable viewfinder) all my cameras now have bright viewfinders, and I can comfortably take photos in bright light.

YMMV, but learning by keeping an eye open for nature, and by taking walks everywhere you can, photo opportunities will open up. Bees land on flowers, birds show up to highlight sunsets, and so on.

Photography is all about seeing, and having versatile equipment on hand really helps.

The exception to my viewfinder rule is a little 8X zoom pocket camera I carry everywhere. It's smaller than a phone and the zoom helps me grab fleeting events like a phone but with some "pull"

P.S. I usually use "A" mode and let the camera set the shutter speed.
Interesting, thanks!

I guess that specific metric would make heavy water infinitely radioactive?
Neither is RCS without Google’s proprietary additions.
"Collusion as a service."

The clients have plausible deniability because how can they know if everybody else is using it, and the service provider is "just a recommendation", so they're not guilty either.

If it's not ruled illegal (and it should be) then it seems like a great business model to copy in other markets.
I am not sure if I should read your sentence as sarcasm. Because of its context i will interpret it straight.

Acting requires a deep understanding of human psychology. If i would have to bet who can pretend to be anything better, an actor or a magician I would bet on the actor every time.
This is a good example of why most people don’t belong in politics or management.

You’re basically saying that because this violates your code of ethics, it should be punished by the legal system wherever or not they’ve actually broken a law. So the system of laws is meaningless, what’s important is how you feel, and your moral code.

And I get it, we probably all feel this way on some level. But I’m glad society doesn’t operate that way.
Reparations is an ugly box nationally and globally.

Remember, every major group had injustices committed against them at one point and by them at one point.
It costs money to extract those reserves. It even costs money to maintain existing wells that have already been dug. If prices drop below a certain level, those reserves won't ever be accessed.
>Hydro damns don’t need millennia long storage plans for their waste.

Damn ;), but they "waste" the lakes downstream by making them shallower by siltation over decades, not millenia, and "waste" the ecology and biology upstream by flooding the valleys they dam.
Publish or perish?

Though for this specific study: understanding mental health might help us find ways to help people with mental health. Or at least might help us do less of the harmful kind of 'help' we might currently practice.

It's hard to do controlled experiments on people, so we often resort to observational data and, if we are lucky, natural experiments.

> The study suggests that mental health profiles for magicians are akin to those of mathematicians and scientists. Crasson said precision was an important part of magic.

Which reminds me of Raymond Smullyan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan
I agree it's doable by some rich and Niche individuals, but it's not socially scalable, let alone efficient.

Of course with enough money you can put in three times the panels you need on average to account for winter days. Similarly, you could put in a week's storage battery in case a nasty storm comes through.
> But regardless of how you interpret HN sentiment towards uncontrolled AI access, it doesn't change the fact that "what about the government" is a profoundly weird thing to ask in the middle of a conversation about people doing erotic roleplays with a text bot.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the government is not producing AI-generated David Attenborough pornography, right? And if it's not, then... I don't know what to tell you, the thread is still open, I just checked. You can still post there and tell everyone that they're wrong.
Just copy whatever train operators use as a deadman's switch, so the light turns off if you don't squeeze a handle very minute or something lol
> I don't even know what it costs ... maybe a penny per lookup ? I forget ...

$0.01/lookup: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/trusted-activation/pricing/look...
Well, IBM is known for doing whatever is popular at the time...
I agree that contemporary rhetoric on reparations is quite poor. But, scholars today agree that reparations are a way of understanding our government's position on change and not on giving money to people (Reconsidering Reparations by Olufemi Taiwo is about this). You give some good stuff to think about with the historical point, but I still believe it must be tried again, and better this time.

So I don't discount the legal processes, I am saying they must be changed. That is how we can actually solve issues like this, instead of simply putting a band-aid on each time we have systemic issues like this.

I find myself to be an anti-nihilist as a matter of fact. Reparations is not an _ideal_ for which I have grounded in nothingness (nihilism). Reparations must be a state of being for our government, whose material being should be solving injustice and not propagating it.
Yep. Also, this is what I specialize in if anyone wants a senior engineer that knows operating systems and databases! ^_^
I believe it, and I don’t think it’s been significantly tested.

It’s hard to see how mixing (copying!) a bunch of books into a computer algorithm to produce (commercially!) content that might itself easily be incorporated into a book in the same market could possibly be fair use.
Tskr – The Human-Focused Freelance Marketplace in a World of Bots
If it's causation one way, maybe teaching people magic could be a low-risk treatment for mental disorders.

If it's causation the other way, we might wonder why more ordered people choose some careers or hobbies over others.
If i remember correctly, it was some of the same people who are involved in both cases.
Direct link to study: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

I skimmed through the paper, and I wish there was a nicer way of saying it, but this is the kind of bullshit non-replicable study that got kicked off the replication crisis in psychology. It really reminds me of the significant xkcd (https://xkcd.com/882/, if you test every colour of jellybeans/creative profession for p<0.05, eventually you'll find a jellybean colour/profession that's associated with acne/disorders).

Select quotes:

> A sample of 195 magicians and 233 people from the general
population completed measures of schizotypal traits (Oxford–
Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences) and autism
(Abridged Version of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient), as well as
the Short Scale of Creative Self. Magicians were also compared
with other creative groups with respect to schizotypal traits,
based on previously published data.

One of the co-authors is a magician:

> All magicians’ contacts were made by the third author, who served at the
time as the Resourceress of the Society of American Magicians

I couldn't find where they found the same statistics for other creative professions. Did they pull it out of another study? I can't tell.

> Our study demonstrates that not all creative people are created equal.
Magicians scored significantly lower than the general population and
other vocational creative groups on most psychopathological traits,
particularly those related to schizotypy
It's not easy because it would never work. Landlords would be incentivised to lower their rent below the cartel level to achieve 100% occupancy. Cartels need an enforcement mechanism to work.
I believe that in a free democratic society people should be allowed to read a letter written by an Islamic fundamentalist who orchestrated the largest terrorist attack against the United States.

I believe people should be allowed to form their own opinions about his motives beyond what US government propagandists want the US public to believe.

Contrary to public belief, I don’t think they did it because they hate our freedom. And I think if you do believe that and you also see no problem with platform after platform trying to scrub the document from public view then you’ve got your head on backwards.
The point is to reduce carbon emissions, even if it's more expensive.
"RealPage has undertaken this conduct with full and complete knowledge
of its illegality. One of RealPage’s pricing software’s main architects, Jeffery Roper,
is acutely familiar with the anticompetitive nature of coordinated algorithmic pricing
within an industry. Before pioneering RealPage’s software, Roper was Alaska
Airlines’ Director of Revenue Management when it and other airlines began using
common software to share nonpublic planned routes and prices with each other, with
the aim of heading off price wars. The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division
(“DOJ”) reached settlements or consent decrees for price fixing violations with eight
airlines, including Alaska Airlines. Roper—who had his computer and documents
seized by federal agents—relayed about that experience that, “We all got called up
before the Department of Justice in the early 1980s because we were colluding.” He
adds that at the time, “We had no idea” that conduct was unlawful. Having now

brought analogous coordinated algorithmic pricing to multifamily residential real
estate leasing after the DOJ’s airline settlements, however, Roper can no longer claim
ignorance of the unlawful nature of this conduct"

Case 3:22-cv-01611-WQH-MDD Document 1 Filed 10/18/22 PageID.17 Page 17 of 26
In 2018, transparency was moving in the opposite direction, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/secr...

> The new [accounting] guidance allowed federal agencies to “modify” public financial statements, with essentially a two-book system. Public statements would at best be unreliable, while the real books would be audited in “classified environment[s]” ... The Treasury Department’s definition of a “component reporting entity” includes 154 different agencies and bodies ... The notion that any of these agencies could now submit altered public financial reports under the rubric of national security is mind-boggling.
Based on what I’ve read on reddit/lemmy lately, some people still have the impression iPhones have an air of exclusivity from being more expensive. I agree that of course this isn’t true, though perhaps it was 12 years ago.

As far as your second point, well… I guess that’s precisely the attitude I was addressing. I definitely don’t agree that a phone brand is as strong an indicator of personality traits as the example you offer. If I was say, hiring a UI designer, I’d perhaps care about their choice of OS. For relationships, I don’t really care if they’re passionate about mobile phones. I understand that most of us on HN are keyed in to tech and UI. The average person, though, sees a phone as a utilitarian item, and owns one as a means to accomplish specific tasks. That way of thinking is like, if someone was a mechanic and thought poorly of a someone they met because they drove a Ford instead of a Mazda and the mechanic believed Mazda had more elegant engine designs.