skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wonder how a proof of work scheme, a la hashcash, would work for call spam. it was originally designed to reduce email spam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

it could be possible to have different PoW requirements for different callers. perhaps you could require a higher PoW for an unknown caller, and no requirement for someone you know.
Principles by Ray Dalio.

I worked, somewhat briefly and largely unsuccessfully, at Bridgewater Associates several years ago and while I strongly disagree with the utopian description of BW as a bastion of egoless radical transparency and all the great things that are supposed to come out of that sort of an environment, the book and the principles behind it are really enlightening. I do honestly think if all workplaces operated in the way the book describes there would be more successful companies in the world and happier people working in them.
Basically "we don't want to be accused of not protecting people from their own stupidity"

When you talk about electric bikes and scooters the picture formed in the heads of the people who run nanny-states looks a lot like mopeds in Dehli.
I use Google Fi (for 3 years now) and _never_ get Robocalls. Am I just lucky or is Fi doing the spam filtering for me?
Working from home for 5+ years.

Getting up at 4:50 am, meditating 16 minutes, work till 9am, walk the dog and eat something, then continue working till 3pm or 4pm, lunch, work till 9.40pm, 16 minutes of meditation. On weekends, I work till noon usually. My spouse respects my work and the time required, there has never been an issue.

Setup: MacBook Pro (13 inch w/ TouchBar), MagicTrackpad 2, 34" curved screen, HHKB 2 Pro (white w/out prints plus a wooden wrist rest). Consuming music via Apple AirPods, speakers or Atomic Floyd Superdarts. Simple chair and desk (don't care about that).

I have no special system to get things done. Sometimes, I turn off the phones and close email clients to work w/out interruptions. When coding, external things get ignored unless my business partners call. When I don't write code, I sort things by priority and required time to complete.
> That they use them does not mean they derive value from them.

Yes it does, necessarily. This is basic biology, economics and self preservation. It may be temporal (i.e. good in short, bad in long) but nonetheless, people do not do things they do not value.
look it up, there are a lot of articles about it
> Competition leads inevitably to monopoly

This old marxist critique has been disproved over and over. It has been show that it does not even make sense in marxes own theoretical system. That why marx has no credibilty in economcis, his own theoretical system does not make sense.

Marx himself had known this, and that's why he never published the second and third volume of 'Das Kapital'. Engels in a attempted to save Marx bacon made a competition where he asked people if the could find a solution (rather predict what Marxes eventual solution would be) and nobody found on.

That is why Marx was obandend by economist in the first place.

Since then we have also seen complete destruction of Marxist argument because of empirce, there is no inherent invetable centralisation, rather process that goes in different direction depend on many factors.
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Found this great article a couple of days ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/one-family-under-cox/?utm_...

One thing is for sure: for a company of their size, they're definitely innovating in terms of management and dominating through their acquisition strategy.
Comparing Crypto Indices: Understanding the Bloomberg's BGCI and the RAD 30
And if WebGl no longer works, try setting (in about:config)

security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist

to

/sys/class/drm/card0/device/config,/sys/class/drm/renderD128/device/config,/sys/class/drm/controlD64/device/config
Curious: will Google Assistant’s new call-out feature also be considered a robocall by the FTC?

It technically is, right? Because it will make automated unsolicited calls at a massive scale.
Best thing to do is look on r/forhire on reddit, build up a portfolio on upwork/etc, and check all the remote job boards like remoteok, weworkremotely, etc..

Freelancing is hard to start - -you need to be part marketer, you don't get paid for the time finding new clients, but AFTER you have a steady stream of good business, it gets a bit easier to keep filling your pipeline with jobs through word of mouth / etc.
Would be more useful if PTT calling was still a thing. As it is the kid will have to wait for their parent to answer their phone.
The Game of Everything, Part 9: Civilization and Economics
>declares jihad on anything without bicycle pedals and what can ride faster than 32km/h. Motorcycle licenses are technically/hypothetically available

This should sound very familiar to residents of at least one state in the US.
I mentioned it in another comment, but try these:

For comfort:
http://bit.do/3m-hearing-protection

For being able to hear nothing at all other than your own heartbeat:
http://bit.do/3m-silence

For silence, plus music, calls, or alerts from your computer:
http://bit.do/peltor

When you first get them, you may find they're a bit tight / uncomfortable to wear for long periods. The solution is to place them around a wide object like a helmet or a propane tank for about a week. By the time you put them on again they'll be very pleasant to wear. Note, however, that if you can't wait a week, it's helpful to place them on the object just overnight or when otherwise not in use and they'll take a while longer to adjust but you can use them daily, and they'll typically be comfortable for at least several hours at a stretch.
Fast but with very expensive fees, and the problem is also corruption, privacy, and abuse by banks and financial institution. With the blockchain beeing decentralized you wont get ripped off and you won't get tracked either (in a way) Also, imagine if Trump decides to ban or tax transfers from USA to LatinAmerica/Africa, then crypto will be the solution.
It's an interesting observation, but I would say slightly misleading because different levels of the stack change at different rates.

The low level C/Unix layer is the foundation for everything else, so it has not changed very much. That's actually a good thing! It's stable and incrementally improving.

The higher levels of the stack have wildly changed -- JS, Python/Ruby/Perl, web frameworks, R and pandas, TypeScript, etc. not to mention all this cloud stuff. JS and Python are on microcontrollers!

I think that is working as intended. But if anyone had the misconception: we don't have the bandwidth to replace the lower levels of the stack! Microsoft doesn't either, and they have billions of dollars.

Nobody rewrites stuff "just because". That's why C++ is still relevant. (It's also why I think Rust is not really a C++ "replacement". It might be used for NEW stuff, but there will still be tons of C/C++ code around for decades. Again, the rate of rewriting/replacing is slower than you think.)

Now, to argue the opposite side: writing applications (as opposed to low-level libraries) in C++ does feel like a smell. Sometimes C++ is still a justified application language.

But it does feel like its territory has been encoached about by Obj C / Swift on iOS, Java/Kotlin on Android, and JS on the web. So there are not as many new C++ applications as there used to be, but there are still some.
> enshrining that principle in a constitution makes for a liberal and minority-rights protecting component, while the democracy makes for the authority-of-the-majority component which counterbalances it

Very interesting way to think about it. Thanks.
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I ride an Urb-E to and from work 1.1 miles each way. It is an awesome last mile solution. It has supplanted my car, a boosted board, and a bike I used to have. Absolutely amazing vehicle. It will quicken the multi-modal nature of roads sooner than we think.
Why does vietnamese immigration have groups of travelers on same approval letter
The other day, I applied for vietnamese visa online, and they sent me an approval letter with a list of about 18 traveler names, their birth dates, passport numbers, and nationalities including mine. In the email it says it's a normal practice for them. I definitely didn't know about this when applying and am not happy.
Surprisingly, you have to do a lot of meatspace visits.
Ah, the return of another 1800s practice: Company Scrip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
White noise can mask relatively quiet transient sounds.

Sadly, my kids' sound spectra don't really fit that profile :)
Like everyone else, I'm building one. But I'm not hung up on distributed storage or any of that. It's just a simple way for people to host social network rooms from their always-on home computers if they want. The gist: app w/ statically compiled Tor (separate lib started at [0]), room config flexible enough to build different social network types, communicate via gRPC over Tor onion services (protos at [1]), and make it so dead simple that it just works (mobile remotes to home onion service).

I think people are worrying so much about network and storage and uptime for ephemeral machines that they are missing the forest for the trees here. Just get a decent platform and iterate from there. At first, you don't have to federate, conform to a protocol, distribute data, etc. But if you are building these things, why not at least offer anonymity?

0 - https://github.com/cretz/bine
1 - https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/master/yukup/pb/proto
The telephone system, in the US at least, could charge people extra for calling a number with the extra charge going to the person/company that was called (those famous 900 numbers, now gone, that kids would call and rack up $10000 phone bills.) It seems to me that it would be pretty easy to set up a system where, if a person is not in my contact list, they get charged some amount of money to call me. Setting it at 5 or 10 cents would be enough to kill almost all of these spam calls and not deter a real person from calling you.
The frog boils slowly.
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Cookie disclaimers at this point need to be taken to their logical conclusion: browser vendors and site operators should add a standard Yes-I-Know-What-Cookies-Are header to the next HTTP update, which can then be vomited at sites by default browser configuration to let them know it's okay to auto-hide the banner.

Hell, let's repurpose Do Not Track for it; it's not like it's being used for anything meaningful otherwise.
Oh sorry, I wasn't attacking.
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Beijing and Shenzhen are enormous.

Shanghai and Hangzhou are also fast growing and strong contenders for the next big technology startup hubs.

All of these cities are home to dozens of unicorn companies and many more startups.

If I had to bet, one of these cities will be the next global startup hub in the next five to ten years and maybe even surpass or supplant Silicon Valley.
Holy shit, why? This "decentralized social network" concept has been around literally since the beginning of Facebook. Apparently, people are failing to grasp that centralization isn't the problem and will never be a selling point to 2 billion people.

The problem is making something as engaging and entertaining and interesting as Facebook. Good luck.
It's a religion :(
>Every restaurant and bar and cafe had their own way of doing things, and wanted our system to do it that way.

This can be applied to many areas. Our first product over at DaycareIQ was a childcare waitlist management app. It would allow parents to pre-register kids, place them in a queue until the site confirmed their place etc etc. In our minds it was a good way to keep organized and ensure that the waitlist was fair and equitable.

We showed it to many childcare centres and were met with "Well our flow is XYZ, can you change it so it does that." We ended up abandoning that app as no one was willing to change their process, some of which were just a pile of few hundred forms. When filling a childcare spot, they would just grab a pile of forms and start calling, only to waste their time as many kids already found another spot. Our app would allow parents to remove their kid from the list, ensuring that the person at the top of the list actually still needed a spot... but still didn't convince operators.
> One example is using Android to prevent a monopoly on the smartphone side. If Apple had a monopoly or near monopoly, it would be able to extract larger economic profits from the other links on the value chain, including Google

In the case of Apple vs Android I'd say Apple is doing pretty good and are arguably doing substantially better than Google in spite of not having followed this strategy themselves.
Shipping, catalog production, and order processing. That sounds about right.
Firstly, the article is about much more than just the ABC speech. Read the whole thing, and don’t get hung up on that example this time.

Secondly, the ABC speech (referred to in the article) isn’t meant to be a “compass”, it’s meant to be a motivating speech. (Using threats and abuse, granted.) Note that the speech contains no actual guides, tips, or instructions on how to sell real estate. It’s essentially (paraphrasing) “Do it or you’re fired.” and “I could do it easily, so if you cant do it, you must suck.”

It may not be the best way to convey this particular message in most cases, but I could imagine situations in which it was suitable.

Your off-target criticism of the article by criticizing the ABC speech for something it isn’t reminds me of when the article much later says “So even now, some of you reading this are feeling your brain bombard you with knee-jerk reasons to reject it.”.
How are the salaries and work life balance in Berlin?
You're welcome to use the word "trilemma" however you prefer, but it is definitely not wrong to use it to mean "choose one out of three" as here. E.g., here is the OED's definition: "A situation, or (in Logic) a syllogism, of the nature of a dilemma n., but involving three alternatives instead of two." (The OED gives a number of citations, all of which appear to be pick-one-of-three rather than pick-two-of-three.)

The generalization to budgets seems to me to fit better with pick-one-of-three than with pick-two-of-three, too. You're picking p study, q social, r sleep -- and the restriction is p+q+r=1. Picking one out of three corresponds to points like (1,0,0) which are in that simplex. On the face of it, picking two out of three corresponds to points like (1,1,0) which are not. (You could take (1/2,1/2,0) if you like, but that's no longer an extremization; if that, why not (1/3,1/3,1/3)? "X, Y, Z, pick any three.")

Separately, I'm having trouble seeing how your married/single/smart/hot/nice thing actually has the structure of a simplicial complex. In a simplicial complex there are three ways (aha! a trilemma!) in which a 1-simplex can relate to a 2-simplex. They can simply be disjoint; it seems clear you don't intend that. They can share a vertex; that would mean identifying "married" (from the 1-simplex) with one of {smart,hot,nice} (from the 2-simplex), and again surely you don't want that. Or the 1-simplex can be a face of the 2-simplex, so that {single,married} correspond to two of {smart,hot,nice}. Again, surely you can't mean that. But what do you want? It seems like you want to identify one end of your 1-simplex with the whole of your 2-simplex, and the dimensions are wrong.
The ideas are more different than the analogies are. A moat would be things like patents, data, expertise, etc that a competitor would need to get to match you and which are hard to develop. That doesn't have anything to do with the profitability of nearby market niches.
Exactly. It's called "revealed preferences" in economics: the theory that what humans value (their utility function) is revealed by their behavior -- what they choose to spend time on.
Working at Bridgewater is kind of like dating a real asshole: it's better if you break it off while the going is good so you can remember the experience fondly.
Can't read this; can we get a non-facebook link please?
Bloom Programming Language
I stumbled across this yesterday and had a great time implementing all sorts of interactions for my character. If you're the kind of person who enjoys puzzles or problem solving, this is definitely the game for you.
Would be fun if there were code-golf scoring: Player.playTurn.toString().length ️
I love For Starters.
They send only 1 story every 10 days, but it's something I look forward to.

It's https://for-starters.com
> It is easy to forget how much the internet, and the WWW in particular, has changed programming.

It really hasn't. It's just that web programming gets all the attention. Those who write hardware controllers or do embedded use bit manipulation every day.

But, really, if web devs aren't familiar with this, why not? Do they not have settings to toggle in their apps?
Yeah, in the end, I guess I'm just trying to find ways to justify a budget for a coworking space. Seems like option that's not frequently discussed when researching remote work.
Is this a bid by Credit Card companies to force everyone to pay them, or so that when you step out of line they can control you by controlling your access to resources?

Either way, impeding your ability to purchase things in any manner you (and your vendor or customer) see fit isn't okay by me.
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I am particularly curious why they chose to start from scratch instead of cooperating with Dropbox on mypy.
Agreeing with your point - Apple also owns the worlds largest hedge fund.
I did this building a small agency in the marketing and ad space.

Happy to advise on specifics but in general here’s how we did it:

Build up a portfolio of content (since we develop content) that shows we know what we’re doing.

Go on speaking circuit for your niche and give lectures on your expertise.

Take whatever comes your way for first few deals. Always get a solid statement of work & contract.

Rinse and repeat. If you’re ok with going slower this works well. I manage a team of 9 now and after some serious time spent training them I mostly just approve work and put out fires with clients.
Become a contractor in London first, which I assume you aren't. That should get you started into this world!

It has world-famous daily rates even for generalistic sectors like JS/React.

Try to save some money, so you can afford the luxury of choosing clients later.
Hi community!

We've open sourced a web app that we use in production to sell our own book.

You can use it as a boilerplate for your own project.
We built it with:

- React,
- Material-UI,
- Next,
- Express,
- Mongoose and MongoDB.

You may also use this app "out of the box" if you'd like to sell your book on your own website.

Happy to answer any questions. We welcome any feedback.
https://pyre-check.org/ roughly covers it.
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There's https://pyre-check.org/
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> So while I agree with you that most people are excluded from maximizing their potential, I think the root cause is not a lack of capital, but a lack of knowledge about how to interact with capital.

And do you not think that this is a function of how much capital one has access to in the first place? Leaving aside the research showing how poverty affects development, those born to families with wealth will have both more knowledge of how to interact with capital and more access to capital in general.

You seem to be both acknowledging that there is a stacked deck and claiming that there is a level playing field where everyone can achieve their true potential.
Standing Desk: Just a desktop from IKEA and some pipe from Home Depot

I get memory foam bath mats and replace them approx 1-2 times per year. I also have a yoga block and lacrosse ball at my feet so I can change my stance.

I've a 48" monitor on a stand that sits perpendicular to a window so I can look out the window and change focal length while thinking

Headphones are super important to me Massdrop x HiFiMAN HE4XX I wear them even if I'm not listening to anything.

Keyboard is an ErgoDoxEZ with a mousing mode so I never have to take my hands off the keyboard

I use the Mission Control Productivity system and sometimes the Pomodoro Technique if I'm having a hard time getting into flow

in my experience residential internet isn't any less reliable than the commercial internet I had when I went into an office

A nicer microphone is a must have for remote work so that people can hear you clearly in meetings. I use a Blue Snowball

I don't have kids but, if I need to ensure my dog will be quiet for meetings I just give her a kong. My wife is just great about not interrupting me.
It depends on what use of the word blockchain we are discussing. Blockchain is the name of an algorithm (or more accurately a class of algorithms) in addition to being the name of instances of using that class of algorithm. See for example the word “average.”
> I'm guessing my opinion isn't going to be popular, but you can train your children not to bother you. This requires participation from your spouse/partner.

This approach actually worked quite well for me. For the first month or so there were some hurt feelings, but once everyone adjusted to the new "normal", everyone was fine.
Website: https://pyre-check.org/

Github: https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check
ElevatorJS – Scroll to top the old-fashion way
Also work entirely remote. Maybe 15% of my time is spent in the same city as cofounder. 85% is spent in others. Slack works best for communication.

8 employees are spread across world.
Banks should notice a new IP/browser and then force 2 factor authentication before showing the image. ex: Sending a text. Which would make Users far more suspicious as rather than a normal login they see one of those "we don't recognize your browser" screens. The bank can also track the 3rd party connection to their servers making this more tricky to get away with. So, while not fool proof done correctly it is actually very useful.

However, a website would not have access to the browsers image unless the machine was already compromised.
The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* as it retains the Roman Republic's setup: - Sovereign / House of Lords (Senate) / Lower house.

The US Founding Fathers copied England, and Rome's model but replaced the sovereign with a President.

Representative democracies are necessarily republics - although some, like my country, skip the upper house. Rome introduced consuls / republican model because the population was too large, unlike the Greek polis, to be politically manageable. Rome of course was not a democracy.

*or monarchic. I am away from my books so cannot confirm exactly the term. Sorry.
Two great books.
Well that's not confusing at all. Why would C# change the definition of a common operator character?
Jobs for devs are everywhere that's not what makes a city "startup hub imho.

The only "real" startup hubs are the ones where venture capital is available and these would traditionally be the cities in North America, China, Singapore etc.
Agreed. We (Nomorobo) stopped seeing calls from them around the same time.

They were also known as 33 wireless and a few related companies. Here's an old discussion about them [0]

Not sure what happened but their telephone number blocks were all reassigned to other companies

[0] https://800notes.com/forum/ta-705926565a74ba5/callerid4u-inc...
Does anyone honor Do Not Track requests?
Do any folks here know which companies actually have adequate security measures in place as an example? I have heard of a couple that went all out on security, but who has an amount you would consider reasonable for their size and situation?
What happens when those privileged are able to control the primary source of information for the population? It seems likely they would be able to convince the vulnerable to give up their freedom by convincing them it was in their interest.
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