skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s something I clearly don’t understand that hopefully someone can explain: If some customer of a phone company is making tens of thousands of ID-altered calls every day, shouldn’t that be glaringly obvious to said phone company that the customer is abusing their system?
But isn't the incoming number easy to spoof?
Eyewitness testimony is a lot more reliable when they've got a video to back it up.
Dogfooding your driverless car software by driving your fellow employees around in a van powered by it?

There could be some awkward moments in the cafeteria chatting with your workmate, who's in a neckbrace after a software glitch.
Solving a Rubik’s pocket cube with a graph database
Well here's one: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2013/0053/latest/D...

The Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 was introduced in NZ after its failed experiment with legalising synthetic highs. I don't necessarily agree with the act, but it basically is a "broad ban" of new recreational drugs.
The engineer(s)/tech(s) name was never mentioned or the group members who came up with this. Why no credit? I'd be nice to read about a human with a name, a history, a story. I see that a lot in stories.
Cool, I wish I had an application that needed this.
Here's the solution that works for me:

Numbers that aren't already in my contacts list or outgoing calls list get sent straight to voicemail. I use Google Voice, so when people leave legit messages, I get a transcription and don't have to waste time listening to the messages themselves.

I get about 10-12 spam calls a day but this system works well.
Why do you think a double-spend attack would be easy to figure out? It could rely on start of the art crypto attacks which aren't known to the general public, or some very obscure bug which has slipped past thousands of eyeballs.
This sounds pretty reasonable - I misjudged how bad the DPO requirement was. Thanks for explaining it to me!
Wait, property and state taxes are already deductible on federal 1040, right? So why are the states even doing this? The article is paywalled so surely I’m missing some info here.
While I agree with the sentiment, I also have to point out that some journalists covering tech seem to have little knowledge of the topic.

I'd see this as a useful tool for smaller local newspapers.
And if they can't, somehow they'd rather recruit globally and play the visa lottery instead of simply recruiting from elsewhere in their own damn country.
Or: they only make it public once the discriminator demonstrates a large margin to reduce the potential training signal.
I always thought this was VOIP calls, no phone company required.
I just leave my phone on silent and listen to my voicemail once a day. Works great. Friends and family know to text me if they need a quick response.
It is. But I'd imagine the telecom has lower level information about that connection.
All regulations are skewed against smaller companies. There's a reason the US has a vibrant startup culture, and Europe doesn't.
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Fortunately, it's still at a tolerable level on my cell. Though it does force me to use Do Not Disturb so I don't get awakened when traveling.

Landline is mostly a lost cause. I still keep one for various reasons but I mostly ignore it for inbound calls. If things get much worse I may just shut off all the ringers.
I have struggled with this too. For me, the thing that helped was figuring out how to turn the "ship it" moment into a mechanical process -- a list of bugs and a ship date. You stop creating a beautiful thing, and just need to fix X things before Y date.

Introspection and all the thinking you're doing is important and good and will help you overall find happiness so keep that up -- but it's not going to help you ship this. Just make a list of bugs and cross them off. Ship a V1.

If it's usable now just release it. Call it a beta, call it early access, whatever. You'll have a few weeks to just react and absorb feedback and that will help you decide what you want to do with it, learn what the market looks like, learn what the users want.

Especially with something like a creative or animation tool, you're not going to get people knocking down your door and throwing money at it overnight. But if a few people find it expressive and useful, find those users, support them and their work will bring others.
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This used to be a huge problem for me as well until TrueCaller came along. Spam calls have reduced to close to zero. Maybe one or two a month. The perceived downside is that one has to share their contact list with truecaller. For me personally it's a perfectly reasonable price to pay for what I'm getting in return.
Sounds like DRM. Also, it wouldn't be too hard for the people who actually want to hack it.
Co-worker shows up in a neck brace

"Hey"

oh hey.

...

" YOU FORGOT THE BLODDY SEMI-COLON BRAD!!!"
I'm not sure if that's a joke but Volkswagen generates about as much revenue as Apple and employes 700k people, it's not exactly a small business
No, I mean literal violence, as in the police coming to my house and handcuffing me so they can remove the hard drive from my server... that’s what you’re advocating isn’t it?

As for the roaming vs forgetting thing... the difference is it’s me who is doing the roaming, but I’d have to get everyone else to do the forgetting.

It’s analogous to the difference between sodomy laws and pronoun laws... sodomy is something I do with my partner. Pronouns are something that everyone else around us does.

I don’t have a strong opinion here.. I’m just asking for your help understanding this positive/negative rights thing.
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The laws changed a while ago, I hadn't gotten a single spam call in 10+ years of cell phone ownership.

In the last 6 months, it's gotten apocalyptic. Mostly from calls from from the first 6 digits of my current phone number, and most of them calling to extend my car warranty.

8-15 calls each day.

I've tried ignoring them, I've answered them, I've spoken to the calling humans (English speakers, the minute you ask for a manager or to be removed, they hang-up... often, the next call comes within 10 minutes, same people, robodialing engaged).

I called AT&T to see what options I had to minimize teh pain. Can I turn off calling entirely? No. Can I have ringing go straight through to voicemail? No, but I can make it happen after 5 seconds.

I've installed robonomo, AT&T's anti-spam calling app, Hiya, TrueCaller, etc.

They don't work well enough.

I'm on an iPhone 7. I like the 8, but not enough to upgrade. I don't like FaceID, and I don't like the notch, and I have an iPad Pro, and so I leave my iPhone on silent all the time, automatically deny any incoming calls that I notice, and have a voicemail greeting that says I don't check voicemail nor accept calls on this line.

It's that bad and annoying. I do have a Google Voice number that I give out, and which gets almost no spam calls for now. I changed that setting to announce that it's a Google Voice number, so I take the occasional business call.

But if the new iPhones continue to be engineered around FaceID, and if FaceID isn't better (and work with sunglasses and goggles and helmets) and if the notch persists, when this contract is up, I'm pretty sure I'll nix the iPhone contract and live with Google Voice on my desktop, and the iPad for mobile texting/connecting.
That's fine, and I do the same thing for the most part, but I don't want the call interrupting my music or popping up an "incoming call" screen over top of what I'm doing at the moment.
This is a cool feature. However, for me it is helpful to know how often GCE tends to have a zone fail, but not the whole region. Personally, I've been using GCP to run cocalc.com since 2014. In the last year I remember two significant outages to our site, which were 100% the fault of Google:

(1) Last week, the GCE network went down completely for over an hour -- this killed the entire region (not just zone!) where cocalc is deployed -- see
://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18010

(2) Last year, the GCE network went down completely for the entire world (!), and again this made cocalc not work.

In both cases, when the outage happened, having cocalc be hosted in multiple zones (but one regions, or in (2) one cloud), would not have been enough. I haven't had to deal with any other significant GCE outages that I can remember that weren't at least partly my fault. For what it is worth, I used to host cocalc both on premise and on GCE, but can no longer afford to do that.
You can sometimes enroll in spam detection from your cell phone provider. For some, but not all, calls T-Mobile will tag the call "Scam Likely". The call still goes through. It's not much at all really, because I already don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. Still it might be useful for some marks^H^H^H^H^H folks.
I don't think DMC is in Debian main yet, is it?
Just a heads up, those are likely these: http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/zytz/t1554022.htm

I've been getting them as well in California. My workplace even sent out an email regarding these since they've been happening more frequently.
The deduction is capped at $10k starting in 2018.
Ah yes, how did i forget...
Given the sort of value judgements on this list, one might expect that a boom town will be over-represented with a mix of people who have no fear, nothing to lose, or no strong attachments (a superset of “people who don’t give a shit about anybody else”).

Some of those traits are maladaptive for long term stability of the town and its industries. Now I wonder how this feeds into the boom/bust trope...
From the article:

> The I.R.S. warning comes in response to states, like New York, that have looked for ways to blunt the impact of a new $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT. The cap, which was included in last year’s $1.5 trillion Republican tax overhaul, hit predominantly Democratic, high-tax states hardest since it limits the amount of state and local sales, income and property taxes that residents can deduct from their federal taxes.
It's a completely different issue. I was never allowed a Game Boy and was crazy about them when I visited someone who had one. But I would have noticed if my parents were playing Game Boy and not giving me attention all the time.
Even ignoring unknown numbers got too distracting. My phone never comes out of Do not Disturb mode unless I'm expecting an important call.

I don't know why we have such crappy cell phone audio quality and such an outdated convention. Why not have an opt-in protocol similar to a friend request on social networks before you can call someone?
Last year's tax reform put a cap on that, which is highly inconvenient to people living in high tax, high income or high property value states like California, New York, etc.
You really just don't like forensic science or what
I appreciate the US has 10x the population, but Australia’s Do Not Call Register (https://www.donotcall.gov.au) has been fairly effective at reducing these calls (with a domestic origin at least).

It works as a central government register with a threat and imposition of large penalties for companies who disregard it.
Is this a feature built into Android? I also have a Google Voice number, but can't send calls that come to my cell phone number straight to voicemail (iOS).
Profits in this case are one-time gains from exiting some of the largest markets in the world.

From a better article (1):

“But there’s a big caveat with that figure. Uber gained $2.9 billion after it merged its businesses in Russia and Southeast Asia with local competitors.

... Excluding gains from Uber’s deals with Yandex in Russia and Grab in Southeast Asia, the company lost about $480 million, down from $1.1 billion in losses in the previous quarter”

So, the losses have narrowed, but that is expected as the markets Uber is competing in has been reduced. Didi is interestingly going to go after South America one of Uber’s best markets.

(1) https://www.recode.net/2018/5/23/17380952/uber-2018-financia...
Yeah it’s getting worse too. I’ve had the same number for about 18 years and I definitely get about 5-12 calls per day. Usually weekdays and during work hours. Our business line is awful. Constant calls all day long. About 25% robocalls
What are you using for blocking?
What's interesting to me is that the bit game theory that is supposed to make such an attack unprofitable seems not to be holding here. Supposedly the idea that the blockchain was insecure would devalue the coin to such a degree as to disincentive people from attempting these sorts of attacks. I see virtually no movement in the price of BTG and relatively little in XVG (also attacked this week). If anything, the fact that the chain's integrity can be compromised and nothing happens appears to undermine a core assumption of Nakamoto consensus.
Block lists don't work when they can just spoof arbitrary numbers.
Isn't the problem the FCC regulation prohibits carriers from taking serious action like blocking robocallers?

How can this not be taken care of with gmail style spam rules?
Part of it stems from the meaning of the term, "city." While they may be incorporated as cities, three names that jumped out at me from your list are Lawrence (KS?), Santa Fe, NM, and Bend, OR, each of which has a population of < 100,000.

By comparison, Sunnyvale, CA, which feels distinctly like a suburb, has a population of close to 150,000.

One downside of moving to a small town for an opportunity is that, if that opportunity flops, it may be much harder to find the next one without having to move again. Whereas in the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, etc., the next opportunity is likely in the office park next door, where they want you to start "yesterday"...
> So there was a 5 petabyte learning set we trained a 20 layer deep neural net and a value came out the other end. Here's all the math we did to figure that out (several gigs of float computations). We don't even know what it's doing exactly. What does GDPR say about that?

That depends completely on what you are using the value for. Recommending five funny articles - GDPR does not apply. Denying an insurance claim - GDPR most certainly applies, and you have to be able to explain what factors went into the decision. You can't have unaccountable oracle boxes.

Note that a perfectly valid answer could be something like "We've analyzed your posts on social media and we've categorized you as having severe anger issues, which is why we're denying this auto collision insurance claim, because you are most likely at fault given situations like this". The GDPR says you have to be able to explain your decision like that. It doesn't forbid you from making these decisions.

> If you took someone's picture and ran it through neural style, would that be illegal because you couldn't tell them exactly why it painted their nose blue

This is not a business decision, don't be ridiculous.
> If they consider their taxes a charitable contribution I should be able to decide to not pay it

You still owe regular property taxes, with all the standard penalties for non-payments. What these laws do is give "municipal and county governments and school districts the legal authority to create special charitable accounts" and then let "local governments offer residents who contribute to the new accounts a nearly dollar-for-dollar property-tax credit, effectively turning their property tax bill, at least on paper, into a charitable contribution" [1].

Your contribution to the charitable account is voluntary. Your property-tax obligation is not.

[1] http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/18/05/06/new-law-lets-loc...
Gotta give yourself cancer and premature wrinkly skin if you want to boost your immune system. No pain no gain.
Sure you can. Just wouldn’t be usable as factual proof of an event.
If you want other people to use it, it does apply. You don't know what you don't know until you have user feedback. No matter how much is right about your vision, you need that.

This is WHY the idea of having an MVP and iterating has won so thoroughly.
> We as an industry focus a lot on race and gender (and not in that order)

As an aside, I've noticed that the American women in tech to be much more diverse in terms of background (including economic or social class) than the American men. Based on what I've learned through casual conversation I think that the various efforts to increase gender diversity have the positive side effect of catching a more diverse cross section of the population.
Interesting.

TL;DR: We can thing of programming languages as "languages" or as "systems". A "system" is a mechanism for making things happen; a "language" is a formal grammar with defined meaning. Around 1990, we shifted from an even mix of thinking of "systems" and "languages", to an environment where "language" dominated the thinking.

My take: This fits into something that I've been thinking recently, that there is a split between computer science and software engineering. Computer scientists think about the formal properties of languages; software engineers use languages to try to do something else. I think that those two ways of viewing programming languages are becoming increasingly irrelevant to each other.
If a large miner comes to you asks for a multi billion dollar short position, you should be suspicious.
Biggest one right now is probably migrant program. France, Sweden, Germany, all suffering as a result. The problems with Trade Agreements, or lack of.
Having all your stuff in the cloud means you MUST have cheap, fast, reliable, secure, private internet service providers and huge quotas.

Without any of those criteria, you are better off keeping all your stuff in-house.

I was an early believer in the wonderfulness of the cloud. But bitter experience has made me think otherwise.
Google Voice itself does pretty good spam filtering.
I get top sleep in till 8 both days, after that its all systems go.

the wife doesn't sleep heavily so she wakes earlier and just leaves me alone :-P
gah, if only I had enough spare time to troll spammers for a quarter of an hour
It is a feature of Google Voice. On Android you can block individual numbers though, or there are apps to filter calls through a ratings database.
You are not wrong to argue that state level actors are a serious threat.

But fortunately, these state actors seem to have no interest in attacking crypto.

It seems like the governments that matters IE the 1st world, are perfectly happy to allow people to have access to a censorship resistant method of financial transactions.

This makes a certain amount of sense. The governments of the 1st world claim to care a lot about freedom. And it seems that they are getting us have it.
Probably not yet, but the license means that it can be.
Voice interfaces are likely to be a big part of our future, and in order to have the best voice ML tech, you need a ton of real-world data. I wouldn’t be overly surprised to see them pay people to have/use these things.
They're not saying it's "something to complain about". You're arguing against something they didn't say -- the two points,

- The tax changes were a net benefit, and

- The tax changes make people less likely to move (because the net benefit is lower)

are perfectly compatible.
It also seems she is used to the sort of place where it is normal for one income to support a family. There, she'd have neighbors to visit with during the day.
Unfortunately once you're on the network there isn't much security to prevent spoofing. It's pretty easy to get access as well. I had a personal VoIP gateway and was able to just set the caller ID to whatever I wanted.

It's so bad that you can get into someone else's voicemail just by calling a number and spoofing the caller id to be that same number. No security whatsoever. It's pathetic.

I think the old telephone network is beyond saving and we just need to abandon it and move to VoIP services that provide better controls.
So I'll comment on this using an anonymous account.

The reason I do so is because the general atmosphere (not just in HN) seems to be very anti-China. I'm afraid if I say anything that defends China, that I will be harmed in my professional life.

In the company of others, I've learned to keep my opinions to myself.
Segment isn't a web analytics tool, so much as a data dispatching service. Send data to Segment, which in turn sends it to the services you have configured.

Think of it as a central data store for your business that has built-in integrations to move that data to other providers such as Google Analytics, Salesforce, Mailchimp etc.
Google needs to build their training set...
Moving is now more expensive relative to not moving, so we should expect more people to stay put. The absolute tax burden is irrelevant.
The powers that be are not properly incentivized to battle against robocalls and in many cases are simply looking the other way.
This is like saying anti-PRC shilling is a pervasive phenomenon - see Operation Earnest Voice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice
The cpu on that computer must be running quite hot. That would definitely be a way to do a computer burn in test. Plus it’s more fun ;)
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> All of those are the same thing: defenses. Abstractly, they are fears of finality. Not finishing means anything can still happen, your identity remains intact: "I'm a writer."

> More concretely, they are a form of self doubt not about the success of executing the act which is in your control-- the writing of the book, the asking the girl out-- but of being able to manage the consequences which are not-- the publishing of the novel, sustaining a relationship/finding a burn unit.

Brilliant article. Hits home. Thanks.
> There is however a real problem with GDPR and ML [...]

You are pretty much just repeating the questions and issues from the original article now. It addresses them better than I can.
This is doable on iOS.

Settings > Do Not Disturb with the following settings:

- Do Not Disturb: On

- Scheduled: Off

- Silence: Always

- Allow Calls From: All Contacts

You'd lose the ability to use Do Not Disturb to silence your phone, say, overnight, but this would do what you're describing.

Personally, I've opted in to T-Mobile's spam block feature. I don't get any robocalls.
True. Rural areas though? Try suburbs. People are moving just far enough away from the downtown core so they can afford a modest house. Let's not give anyone the impression that Canadians are abandoning the cities to reconnect with mother nature.
That's exactly it though: PTSN will be dead soon. You barely need it except to talk to the older generation.
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
We only let her play educational games that build math and language skills, and watch curated videos that do the same (like Sesame Street).
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"There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and there is no Izvestiya in Pravda" -- Pravda being truth and Izvestiya being news.