skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr. Number on Android is a free app with crowd-sourced data. It blocks spam callers.

This is only one example, but smart phones and apps like Mr. Number are going to kill the phone-spam industry.

And apps like "Record My Calls" are going to put more nails into the phone scam industry because now these criminals won't be able to escape the sound of their own voices.
FWIW, my brand-name SF employer believes that essentially all feasible Bay Area candidates have already been through its pipeline, and that future headcount growth will have to be elsewhere. Unfortunately it’s still not willing to consider remote, or to look anywhere between the top 3 most expensive US cities and the third world. At least the worldwide offices are first-party and have essentially the same people as work in the US, minus visa-related stress.

You could say “pay more” but housing is a positional good - that strategy doesn’t scale.
Going through this myself at the moment. Would love to move from the small city I work in remotely now to a larger city for more tech opportunities. But even within the same large multinational I work for if there isnt a sufficient salary bump compared to cost of living with no relocation leaving my small suburb I come out worse off then I started.
Also there was at least one Home Mini giveaway in SF.

The line literally wrapped around the block in Hayes Valley.
It does but not where it matters. You want places that are willing to fork out big money for flagship phones. An example of this would be China vs India.

China is a better market to be in to maximise profitability as the Chinese are more likely to fork out USD 799 for a phone than the Indians. It's almost mind-boggling how one company can capture so much share of profits.
I use it on and off. I've only primarily used the focus mode, and it's a decent way to help get "in the zone" if there's a really deep task I need to do.
I have deep respect for this entrepreneur because it is so damn easy to theorize impact/success in one’s brain and masturbate over pure thoughtstuff. It’s a whole different story when the rubber hits the road and so I really appreciate the author sharing their story. The parables to one’s personal life are impeccable.

The “Hippo” irony comes from a story from the incredible Ernesto Sirolli:

“SIROLLI: It was a project where we Italians decided to teach Zambian people how to grow food. So we arrived there with Italian seeds in southern Zambia in this absolutely magnificent valley going down to the Zambezi River. And we taught the local people how to grow Italian tomatoes and zucchini. And of course, the local people had absolutely no interest in doing that so we paid them to come and work, and sometimes they would show up. And we were amazed that the local people in such fertile valley, would not have any agriculture. But instead of asking them how come they were not growing anything, we simply said, thank God we're here. Just in the nick of time to save the Zambian people from starvation.

And of course, everything in Africa grew beautifully and we had these magnificent tomatoes. In Italy, a tomato would grow to this size. In Zambia, to this size. And we were telling the Zambians, look how easy agriculture is. When the tomatoes were nice and ripe and red, overnight, some 200 hippos came up from the river and they ate everything. And we said to the Zambians, my God, the hippos. And the Zambians said, yes, that's why we have no agriculture here. Why didn't you tell us? You never asked. I thought it was only us Italian's blundering around Africa, but then I saw what the Americans were doing, what the English were doing, what the French were doing. And after seeing what they were doing, I became quite proud of our project in Zambia because, you see, at least we fed the hippos.”
You think android and waymo is built by the people who came with acqusitions?
I'm not so sure that this trope needs to die; it has a grain of truth to it, at least for home users. Consider this situation: I'm browsing the web on my laptop at home. Meanwhile, someone wants to hack into my laptop. Suppose they want to start with a simple port scan. If my ISP only gave me an IPv4 address, the attacker is out of luck: my laptop HAS NO NAME. They can send IP packets to my router, but unless the router itself has unusually serious security holes (such as remote code execution), the router will not send packets to arbitrary ports on my laptop, because there is no way to even ask it to do so. The best they can try to do is inject content into web pages I'm browsing, and https prevents even that.

Now I get IPv6. The attacker now has a perfectly reasonable way to send packets to my laptop. The router's job is to look at these packets and drop some of these packets while not dropping those that I rely on to browse the web, or whatever. Result: I am one bad config away from having my laptop be accessible from the internet.

You mention large enterprises. Sure, they can afford good sys admins. But the average computer user is their own sys admin. Are they ready for this job?

And if you say "yes", then here's the follow-up question: are they ready to administer the use-cases in sliken's comment, and still remain secure?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140187
With options, buying deep OTM puts won't result in an immediate impact on the underlying market because they have such low delta and market makers aren't going to move a lot of spot to hedge it.
Show HN: Ask the Caterpillar – A chatbot that answers questions about drugs
Do people still think VW was the only one doing it?
I try to sell them a compiler.
That's not what I'm saying. I agree that they should not be able to block people from seeing official communications, but I also argue that they should be able to ignore people who are harassing them.

Separating the 2 would solve this conflict.

At the same time though, if you think opening an incognito window is too much of a workaround for viewing public communications, what do you call just about every interaction with the government that is much more painful.

I wish every interaction with the government was as painless as opening an incognito window.

Especially the convoluted system we are required to use to file taxes. It's 1000x more convoluted and time consuming, and that is a requirement just to not be illegal.
Me neither :/
How can we conclude this if we don't know whether the video is accurate or falsified?

Ordinary photo/video evidence can no longer be trusted as either support or impeachment of an eyewitness' report.
What do you use for tops of your deli cups?

And I honestly don't believe plastic recycling works. If I have plastic in the kitchen, it's plastic that can be used again and again for years, at least.
Like in all things in life, moderation is key.
House / Tropical House when typing away, no music when designing
Fine the telcos per call that gets through, and ramp the fine up in a predictable way, so that it becomes an existential threat after a few years.

This would immediately put an end to caller id spoofing.
I'm firmly in the "hell nah" camp:

1. Google and Amazon are pushing these with stupendous discounts, certainly below cost. That tells me that the revenue model is not the hardware. They hope to make money by manipulating me after I buy it. Nope.

2. Google injecting ads into the "My Day" information. Nope.

3. Google Home was found to be listening all the time due to a "hardware flaw." Nope.

4. Amazon devices doing the creepy laugh for no reason? Nope. I mean, come ON.

They couldn't pay me to incorporate one of these things into my living space. It's below-cost hardware running bigcorp-controlled, remotely updatable software intended to extract my info and dollars. Get lost!
> Who the hell is going to fall for a robocall from the IRS?

Old folks.
Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users, Judge Says
doesnt have to be a cellphone. they are connecting to the rest of the telephone lines somehow and do have get account to do it. Im pretty sure technicality of implementation is not that hard. Its the enforcement of something like this that people desperately need is close to impossible with the dysfunctional shit show called the government we have.
https://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/bill_russell_once_le...

Charles Barkley:

"Bill Russell called me one time… He says, “Charles Barkley.” I said, “Yes, sir, Mr. Russell.”
“You grew up in Alabama. Right?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He says, “Did you go to public school?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He says, “Did the cops ever come to your neighborhood?” I said, “Yes sir.”
He said, “Any of the houses ever on fire and the firemen come?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “I don’t want to see your black ass on TV complaining about your taxes anymore.” I says, “What do you mean?”
He says, “So now that you got money you don’t want to help other people out, but when you were poor, other people took care of you.” And I says, “You know what, Mr. Russell, you will never hear me complain about my taxes again.”

And it was a very interesting lesson for me, because I do think rich people should pay more taxes. I’m blessed to be one of them, and we should pay more in taxes. I learned my lesson. I never complain about taxes.

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"I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization"
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am betting Apple buys Tesla when tesla has capital issues next year and the stock drops.
I dont think it has?
You don’t want, like, five of them. You want a box of hundreds.

I'll ring the landfill and let them know to expect them. Seriously though, Ive worked in food service before...deli cups? try resealing them after a week or two of use. Get ready for cracked lids and containers that cant be microwaved safely. they arent meant for repeat use. they stain frequently and cant be cleaned easily due to the grade of plastic used.

You want steam table pans with lids for refrigerator storage, and a decent set of microwaveable plasticware to decant the contents into for meal prep.

pro tip: if you want good bargains on grains or legumes, buy them 20+lbs at a time dry and pick up a few 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot. The buckets are automatically food-grade, and anything over 15lbs generally gets a managers override discount, especially at restaurant supply stores like cosco/smart and final.
I like a comment like this. It's free of fear, and knee-jerk response.

I actually see your point. Some people may feel a sense of peace by being tightly constricted by behavior that they're taught is OK to do, and what is not. In such a system, there's actually security in there. Some people love not having to decide how to live.

But this is what trumps your thought: people in China wouldn't even be able to HAVE the conversation you and I are having right now (about this very meta topic, about how to organize ourselves) - and therein lies the problem.

We objectively need certain individual civil freedoms, to even grow and develop as a society.

So for humanity's future, China sucks. Its ideas are archaic, and its totalitarianism ISN'T the way to go.
The Opioid/Opiate epidemic is the direct result of highly available, high quality, legal opioids. For the majority of places (i.e. anywhere that isn't a a top 10 city or former, now desitute, trade capital with a port like Baltimore) currently in the grasp of this crisis, it all began with the introduction of pharma-industry darlings like oxycontin and other branded opioids.

Not only were opioids massively overprescribed for otherwise legitimate purposes, once hooked, anyone could walk into one of several "Pain Clinics" located within a few miles of any population center and get a scrip for a pharma quality fix covered almost entirely by their insurance. Even without insurance, the scrip for a 3 month supply of Lortab I received after an emergency appendectomy was just $100 back in 2009 (thanks to manifacturer rebates!). That's a week's fix for any burgeoning pill junkie willing to do cold water extraction (to remove the acetaminophen) and all for a relative pittance.

Allowing mass quantities of high quality opioids onto the market is what caused this issue in the first place. Removing even more barriers to access isn't going to make things any better. In fact, it's guaranteed to make things worse based on the results so far.
spectacle provides these features. But I agree, it should be part of the OS's UX
speak for yourself, only thing I cant pay is my mortgage.

I have a shift card, bought tacobell with bitcoin.
I'll save you the search: https://smile.amazon.com/Pactiv-YSD2516-Squat-Combo-Containe...

And yes, they're very useful and cheap (though we've always just reused ones from take out until they don't hold up anymore), my sons lunch often goes to school in them.
That’s great! What you recommend as a source to learn more about this?
Additionally, the CBO recently recalculated the long-term cost of the tax cuts to be $440 billion due to the changes in economic growth after the tax cuts came into effect. The NYT article is ignoring the more recent $440b April estimate in favor of citing the trillion dollar December estimate.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53651

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-tax-cuts...
The US has the lite version of this where the poor pay disproportionally more for everything and face harsher penalties for when stuff goes wrong.
The measure of usefulness is determined by how much money people are willing to allocate towards it. Given that the money is allocated there, it indicates that for those actors, they see some utility regardless of what other people think. Hence, the only way to modify the unwanted behaviour is to correctly account for those producing the externalities, such that this market signal reverberates all the way through the economic chain.
and apparently highly unlikely :D

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-i...
Does this give google all metadata on the calls you get? Do they already have this anyway if you use android?
Screw yo' environment. I know that - at least where I live - plastic recycling is a "meh" proposition at best: some attempt will be made but chances are it's going to the landfill.
Yes of course. The parts of Android and Waymo that matter most were already built, or are being built, by folks from the acquired company.
> public addresses

That is part of the problem. Just as "private addresses".

They are globally unique and globally ambiguous addresses. There is nothing "public" or "private" about them.
they were not the last time.

Again, if you look at things with a long enough timespan, nothing is permanent.
Well there are certainly folks who still don't have smartphones today because they think like you. Good luck!
It should have analytics on how many times they were correct or incorrect in their facts presented in there articles and stats on how likely their predictions came true. I started writing a basic program along these lines that would try to identify smart Twitter users from less intelligent ones based on the accuracy of their predictions on a stock.

EDIT: I guess some people prefer the bliss of ignorance as evidence by downvotes.
They can have it, they just can't have it in a public forum where it can spread. Participate in no communicable memes!
The judge in this case stated that one of the crucial questions was, and I quote:

to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, ‘block’ a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed

The judge reached an answer of "no" to that question.

You appear to be arguing either that the judge did not reach such an answer, or that the judge was answering a different question. Since I see no way for such an argument to be based on the available facts, I'm not sure what to do with you.
Enough of a push for some states to grow a backbone, stand up for their citizens, and work towards expelling this ever-consuming totalitarian USG? Nah, probably not.
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you"
At the time... yes. That's the point of an acquisition - to buy talent/skills/tech when you don't have that talent in-house (or to augment existing talent).

Now, many years later and with normal amounts of turn over? That's a different question all together.
There Is Power in a Union
No, it doesn't. NAT alone does not prevent inbound connections. You need a stateful firewall in addition to the NAT for that. And if you have that, well, yeah, you obviously don't need NAT.
> 1 sale is made for every 5,000 calls they've made their money

To stop this, the phone company should charge 10 cents to place a call. That would destroy the economics of spamming.

The same goes for email. Charge a penny to the originator to receive an email.
I don't think there is much benefit for the ML models when you have 10m vs say, 15m devices.

The real reason is the land-grab. People are unlikely to have multiple vendors devices.
Is Jane user ready for the job? Of course not.

Good thing she doesn’t have to be. Fortunately nearly all consumer-grade routers ship with sane defaults, and make it difficult (if possible at all) to change the settings such that the security of the network is severely compromised.
Having fun with your idea:

How do you adjust the algorithm for the communication time between opposite nodes. Let's say earth distance, 16 minutes at speed of light direct.
Spark is going to try and ingest all the data, and it won’t fit in RAM. Wrong tool for the job basically.
"A day's worth of work" is a chunk of results - not physically spending 8h in those results.

It's well-known (and documented) that remote workers are more productive, so on a good day you can call it a day at hour 4. YMMV

Working more hours would pay a toll on one's ability to keep delivering tasks with the same focus and quality.
My local recycling program no longer accepts almost all plastic recycling due to China blocking shipments because what they were getting from plastic container loads were too contaminated. No thanks!
How Stack Overflow for Teams Fits into the Community
You bring up valid points. I wasn't aware there was block and mute as separate functions.

> What if your local DMV tells a black citizen to go to some other DMV and get a driving manual ?

Not sure the relevance to this discussion. What you are describing is racism, not denying access to problematic individuals.

I think the point here is there is no black and white answer, it falls on a spectrum. The "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" is fine if you are a small mom and pop shop but not as you get bigger. Especially if you provide critical infrastructure or government function. Not sure it can be codified in an absolute law though.
why is this here what is happening
In my experience, Google Home is way better than Alexa. The voice recognition ability on Google Home (like my Android phone) is top notch and its integration with YouTube Music is awesome. I can ask it to play regional language songs and because it knows my YouTube History, it simply works. Also, I use Android Auto and am able to take Google Assistant seamlessly there too including the ability to play any music on demand by just instructing Google Assistant. It really is magical. I don't know how Amazon can even compete in this.
>We'll probably only find out after the double spending is discovered but this type of outcome seems almost inevitable

attacks like this is harder to pull off than you think. miners constantly submit "shares" to the pool, which are then validated to credit them a share in the block reward[1]. depending on the difficulty threshold of the shares are, these could be submitted a few times a minute to every few minutes. if you hacked and gained control of the miners, sure you can redirect all the hashing power to you, but this will be detected quite quickly. with thousands of dollars on the line per minute, you can bet that everybody has monitoring in place to detect a dip in shares submission. also keep in mind that you have to keep this going for about 1 hour (for your initial transaction to confirm) without people noticing. moreover, the core problem stealing hash power to do a 50% attack is that block times will skyrocket on the main chain, which will let everybody (and not just the pool operator) know that something's up. plus after this attack, you can bet that exchanges will start requiring additional confirmations for large deposits, and instituting withholding times for cryptocurrency withdraws.

[1] I don't know whether large mining operators do this. Strictly speaking, they don't but I'd imagine they do this because it lets them know that their rigs are up and producing valid hashes (ie. not malfunctioning). It's almost certain that small mining operators use pools.
NAT does not prevent inbound connections, and noone is giving devices "publicly reachable IP address". The only thing a sensible IPv6 setup does is that it gives every device a unique address. And the stateful firewall that you also need with IPv4 to prevent inbound connections works just as well with IPv6, so no need to add a pile of NAT crap.
On the contrary, I've seen and heard of a lot of companies that will not hire if you're not in the same city. They specifically say that you need to be in the city for interviews. They get too many applicants fishing for positions when there is no guarantee that the applicant is actually committed to moving.
Couldn't you just as easily spin it the other way? Moving is now feasible because of more total spendable dollars in my pocket, the relative tax savings are irrelevant?

I can't speak for everyone, but that maps much more closely to my personal decision-making, which is in terms of absolute dollars, than your formulation.
What about upgrading to a newer version of PostgreSQL ? Does that still require upgrading the whole databases ?

I evaluated PostgreSQL several times in the past, and cancelled once I found out that upgrading to a new version requires upgrading the whole databases - our databases are too big and our uptime requirement are too strict, we can not afford it
Be careful, you have to use Tether as a currency, which by their own terms of service is worthless.

In addition to this you have to do it on margin, and most exchanges have a history of dubious liquidation of margin positions.
How is the price https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/bitcoin-gold/usd
still good when this is all over the news?
The tax reform hit many places hard. You can only deduct the first $10,000. Every suburb of NYC has an average property tax of over $10k, plus most people pay state income tax. These people are doubly impacted by the higher standard deduction, which makes it difficult for all but the wealthy to deduct.
two kinds of indexes, for different purposes ...

a) basically a preprocessed static inverted index on keywords [ using GIN / tsv_ etc ]

b) geo location index on GIS geometry field - relying on postGIS to be performant over geo queries

The data changes infrequently, so these are computed at time of import / regular update.

We do have a fair amount of ram set aside for postgres [ circa 20GB ]
>Instead, they continue prohibition practices even further, forcing manufacturers to use other (much more dangerous) substances

The inherent danger in iterative research chemicals is a lesson I had to learn firsthand. I had tried the initial formulations for "spice" a few times and found it to be a pleasant analogue to marijuana. I decided to pick some up several years later, and well, the effects were closer to that of a hardcore disassociative than anything resembling THC. Don't fuck around with products you can't be 100% confident in.
I wonder if I sent out 3.4 billion robo-emails how quickly the law would come knocking on my door.

From what I've read, the issue lies in the amount of money telco is making from all these calls and, if their income would drop to zero from them, robocalls would stop immediately.