skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on countering phone scams and robocalls at the Federal Communications Commission for over a year. This operation was a big win and an impressive international collaboration.

That said, the robocall problem is getting worse, not better. Robocall volume is at an all-time high: https://robocallindex.com/

In many respects, the problem of telephone spam today is similar to the problem of email spam in the early 2000s. Litigating against spammers had limited efficacy, so the community developed blacklists, better filtering, and stronger authentication (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC).

Until the major carriers get serious about similar steps, especially filtering and authentication (i.e. SHAKEN and STIR), these fraudulent calls won't stop. And, in the interim, vulnerable populations will continue to be disproportionately victimized.
Nevermind. I found this from 2015 once I used the right search terms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941588
What is #1 and #2?
With the exception of last year, my heater only runs 3 months a year, and not very often at that.
The fact that they have to explicitly state "effective" every time, along with a footnote that vaguely explains "Based on image sensor effective pixel specification method", strongly suggests that this isn't actually a 48MP sensor.

...and indeed, the link in the other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17597939 explains it best: "This requires processing to convert the 'Quad Bayer' data into an approximation of what a 48MP Bayer sensor would have captured."
In a previous comment on HN[1], I discussed why we use copies of ReactOS on all of our deployed Bitcoin ATMs.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17215812
100k/year is definitely well above (~2x) the median salary for someone in public service in a job like this in NYC. Police officers in the NYPD start around 42k/year.
The comment I made below:

> Many manufacturers work in solutions to prevent the auto-shutoff if the charge isn't within correct margins, but when it doesn't go according to plan it is quite frustrating.

I know it's not a massive number, but I have personally replaced about five regulators on cars that have had this exact problem now.
It's not just greed, or criminals.

I hear people all the time saying "if I made a startup and sold if for millions of dollars, I'd retire and never work again", when most people who do make millions on their startup continue to work. It's that work ethic that is what made them that multi-million dollar startup.

Whether criminal or not, there's a particular work ethic that keeps people like this making more money when they could retire happily.
What's keeping major carriers from getting serious about these steps already?
- She would place his phone calls for him, old-fashioned style. He would say, "I need to talk to Mr. X," and a in a couple of minutes she'd be on the phone: "Is this Mr. X? Please hold for bank president Y."

I would be surprised if this is still not one of the responsibilities of secretaries that work for CEO's.
Thanks for explaining, I've wondered that. By the way, smiling is OK on US passports[1]. I've taken a lot of visa and passport photos, and I have seen a requirement not to show teeth. But I've only once had a photo returned. And I really wasn't grinning in the photo.

Incidentally, that slighty-more-serious mood in Russia feels comfortable for me. Maybe because I tend to smile less than I "should" in the US.

[1] From https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/require...

"You must have a neutral facial expression or a natural smile, with both eyes open"
Yes. it is dissapointing to ses so few large digital sensors on the market. Its all focusing on mobile phone sensors right now...
Why? Seems fairly rigorous, with vested interests clearly declared.
It's pretty standard in industry to get a deadline by which you need to finish your project when you start working on it.
True enough, but is your part of India experiencing much faster growth than the country at large? Because the Indian GDP growth rate seems to be hovering fairly stably around 7%.
Boise gets down to around mid-20s (F) in the winter, which isn't that cold. Humidity is also pretty low, so it tends to feel quite crisp.
From a former neuro person: The physical world is not an abstraction- it's material. If you talk to anyone with any reasonable level of knowledge about neuroscience, you aren't going to find anyone who finds the Cartesian dualism you're effectively proposing credible anymore. The only real philosophies that hold their own in the psych/neuro world are reductionism/materialism and biological naturalism.

That and lesion studies / patients like H.M. have pretty effectively demonstrated that neurons have both processing and storage functions that aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
There is another way. Keep challenging yourself with new projects, be a life learner.
If that's true, then I was mistaken.

Edit: But, honestly, I am surprised that you can take such a sterile, detached view of these two coupled phenomena. It's hard for me to understand why you think I should see a) a compiler hack, and b) an emotional violation, but interpret your comments to carefully ignore what is, to me, the most saliently disturbing aspect of this story: the perpetrator's desire to violate.
We have that right now, do we not? You don't have to quit apps except on reboot.

Except that many apps are so buggy you have to restart them often in practice. NVM won't change that, sadly.
The author is a professor of economics at what is apparently the oldest business school in Europe, and is apparently also one of the most prestigious business schools in France.

Despite this, you have concluded that in fact the author has failed to understand the nuance of the situation rather than yourself.
As it‘s only relevant a very small fraction of stops, but has clear benefits, I don‘t see the problem.
I feel like that is a bit different.

The dude who sold their startup doesn't have much to lose at that point to take another shot.

The criminal though who goes for that extra million can lose it all.

Very different risks and stuff to weigh.
All single-sensors cameras are like this.

Each of the R-G-B sensitive photoreceptors in single-chip sensors are arranged using a Bayer filter pattern which looks like a mosaic. The filter pattern is 50% green, 25% red and 25% blue.

The "pixels" of the final image needs to be calculated from this pattern (called de-mosaicing or de-bayering). There is not a 1-to-1 correlation between RGB pixels in the sensor and RBG pixels in the final image, and the final image size may depend on different algorithms to remove artefacts caused by the filter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
They indirectly make money from the fraud, so incentives are not aligned for them to stop it.
Well one guy was at least sort of prepared.
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It's not a bubble until it is. Supply and demand must be considered besides money supply.

For those who think "real estate" is a sure bet to high returns, we've been there and done that before, even for emerging economies. If you really want to know, look at home rents vs. home purchase prices, those will never lie.
Panasonic CM1 Android smartphone also has the same 1" inch sensor from Sony along with f/2.8 28mm lens.
Web does cut it apparently. Not for the users but enough for management to not expense a separate product for the entire company.
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All kinds of text classificaiton models and more with deep learning
Just imagine how may U.S. companies they have back doored in India.
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My wife gets a call every day about how she is being sued..... every day a new nasty VM.

I'm talking to random scammers more now because I'm looking for a job and I feel like I have to answer the phone even if I don't recognize the number. Man it is annoying.
Perhaps it’s referring to human malice rather than mathematical error: that we’d want some sort of certification that the operation performed off-site was actually the one requested?
I think you're right. My family doesn't stay in one place for more than 7-8 years. We always move to wherever there are better jobs, etc. So my "part" of India is wherever there is most growth.
Isn't Boise going to be similar to SLC in climate? I mean, no huge lake, but it seems like everything else is very similar.
>Home of corporate and financial crime.

Man I didn't know corporate and financal crime put up a home office. That's pretty brazen.
I completely agree with this. I had a dash mount for my phone but I quit using it because it was so distracting to have the phone up there.

I rented a new Mustang last month and the UI was almost all touchscreen, even for climate control. After a week with that car, I decided I don't want a new car, at least until they can figure out how to give me some of that tactile control back again.

The insights on voice control are good. It seems like a winner but in practice I never like it.
A pickup or SUV isn’t needed to stay safe - especially not when all other cars are compact.

This reasoning reminds me of the tragedy of the commons.
My experience was that the major carriers had little economic incentive to invest in improving telephone service, which they viewed as a legacy line of business. They were focused on selling data plans, building their networks, and entering new markets (especially online services and advertising).
SUVs are top heavy with high rollover rates and generally worse crash test performance then smaller, better engineered vehicles.
You can't evaluate the correctness/trust the result without performing the computation yourself or receiving a proof of correctness, e.g. a SNARK.
Diffing C header files has way more false negatives than just "adding a function".
She has a great YouTube channel as well! I got turned onto her channel when Dave Jones of the EEVBlog and a group of other EE youtubers were passing around a circuit from one of the Apollo missions. https://youtu.be/J0ggqY7vnAw
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Mainframes have always led the way in computer architecture.
You should look into building elements with micro encapsulated phase change materials. They're becoming popular nowadays, and you can find ceiling panels and wall panels from commericals suppliers. The pcm melts during the day cooling down the room, you recharge it at night by using a whole house fan to continuously pass cool air throughout the house.
The way netbsd does GCC updates gives a really wide margin for figuring out compiler issues:

- Copy existing compiler into gcc.old

- Add new compiler as "gcc"

- Switch architectures one by one

If one architecture is left behind it's not a big pressing issue, you have until the next GCC update. They're done once 2-3 years hopefully so the GCC VAX issue taking 6 months to resolve wasn't close to being a problem.

As for removing architecture support, as long as it builds without extreme intervention, the non-VAX crowd is going to leave it alone. The VAX code is mostly separate in its own directory so doesn't get in the way.

The people who care about VAX within NetBSD are very knowledgeable and it would be a shame to alienate them without a good reason. They've contributed a lot of non-VAX stuff too.
There’s a lot that’s missing on the thesis that needs to be explored.

1) How repeatable is a market-network that the workflow can be standardized?

2) For repeat providers, how can you provide more value to stay than to disintermediate? Note by the nature of the examples these are all high value situations.

3) An argument why these work flows and discovery tools are any better than Google + email + a document suite

I like where it’s headed but we need to drill down a few more levels to understand value and pain points.
"Revenue: sales recorded."

Small clarification, this is sales recognized. For example, if your customer signs a 2 year service agreement at the start of a quarter, the revenue reported that quarter should be 1/8th of the total contract amount (assuming you are recognizing revenue at a flat rate).
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This is a great product, unfortunately it’s quite expensive.
If you are leaving browser history in public libraries, you have bigger problems than Dropbox Paper.
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Who will win an election with that platform? Foreigners and renters do not have the political clout.
Is this really what passes for statistical analysis in the investment community? From a biomedical statistics background, this analysis so atrocious that I don't know where to start.
> You should be punished for your crimes, not for "how you handle your guiltiness", not for going to trial, not for other things but for your crimes.

The way my friend explains it is that many people -- DA, judge, and defense attorney (my friend) -- try to make it so obvious that a plea is in their best interest. It would defy logic not to take it.

Again, the way he explains it, some of these folks are extremely unintelligent. They lack critical thinking skills. They don't trust anyone in a suit or with an education. Trying to explain how good a deal is can apparently be very difficult. As such, the big sentence isn't actually one anyone wants to give unless the defendant basically gives the middle finger to the system.

Some hedges:

- I'm not talking about marginal edge cases or cases where there is substantial doubt about what happened -- those tend to be much more subtle on all sides.

- I'm not talking about cooked up charges. Some DAs may threaten a case for a big charge, but they will plea down to whatever the evidence will make obvious.

- I'm not talking about smart criminals. There are not a small number of them. They typically take the plea if they are guilty.

- I'm not talking about rigged systems (they exist). The victims in those systems are fucked no matter what.

If you believe what you say, then talk to your local, state, and federal representatives and ask them to fund the legal system better. This will alleviate the clogged dockets and will (theoretically) discourage excessively punitive sentences for someone who wants a trial in their slam dunk case. I get the sense that some folks here on HN seem to think that trying a case comes at no expense, and that's simply not the case -- there needs to be some efficiency and some encouragement to be efficient when the outcome is obvious.

Look, I totally agree that a lot of the legal system can be incredibly unfair. That doesn't mean that incentivizing reasonable behavior by various actors in the system is wrong.

> Tell me again why this is just and reasonable.

Another way to say this is why can a criminal whose guilt is not in doubt by any party delay justice for someone else later in the queue just because he wants to make a scene in court.

Please go have a coffee with a public defense lawyer and talk to him/her about how efficient or inefficient the plea/trail sentences are. Other than in corrupt systems, all the ones I have spoken to think it's fairly reasonable (not the laws necessarily, but the sentencing).
Persistent dara structures? Well yes, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There other scenarios like powerful real-time analytics that could benefit from 100TB of RAM immediately.

100TB systems at RAM speeds are theoretically possible without this new memory. For,example 64-bit systems could easily provide enough address space.

The problem is practically speaking, server systems limit address bit capabilities quite often. And other problems still remain, not the least of which is the crazy price for 100TB of DDR4,physical slots, etc. The price would be crazy even for most enterprise projects.

So yes this new generation of memory will be disruptive, but also keep in mind even though it’s faster than SSDs, that’s not nearly enough. I’m not positive, but IIRC correctly it’s still 2 or 3 orders of magnitude slower than conventional memory.

Does that mean this new wave od persistent RAM it’s not useful and awesome? Not at all, I’ve already started using it.

But it does mean it’s still at the stage where you have to analyze your scenarios carefully, see if it’s a good for your architecture and environment, and benchmark your particular stack to verify assumptions and make sure it’s help you the best way it can.
>> It's hard to believe that USA needs 2.25 million people extra every year.

Just look at the numbers:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/immigration-...

Basically, we do need millions of immigrants per year to keep the working-age population high enough so as to support retiring Baby Boomers.
Not sure why this post is being downvoted but I agree with this.
It’s not entirely unique to India but its frequency/speed of wobble is distinct from others.
Perhaps it has to do with their languages. Most of the languages have up and down tone that goes along with the wobble.
We should build a huge robot first, and use that to build these megaprojects. If worse becomes worst, we could all upload our consciousnesses into the robot, let it weather the apocalypse, then have a tortured yet spineless teenage boy trigger our literal post-apocalyptic reincarnation.
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Digital residency, not passports. Very different than citizenship.
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Pretty much. No kids, no mortgage, no debt. When I burn out, I quit and spend all my money traveling. Sometimes I just move and work somewhere else for a while. So I have no assets either, but that’s ok. Jobs are easy to find.

I’ll probably go full-time remote soon, live in an RV, bounce around North America for a while, winter in Hawaii/the Caribbean/anywhere warm. That’s the current dream, anyway.
And you entered your legal name and birth to your email provider? You provided your email company that you know is selling this data with all this? Why?
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The "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy (Three Body Problem) pretty much ruined all other sci-fi for me. The original text is in Chinese, and I think that's occasionally apparent in the translation, but that hardly detracts from the incredible story.
The right question is "what's the difference between a bug-fix and a breaking change?"
> Despite this, you have concluded that in fact the author has failed to understand the nuance of the situation rather than yourself.

And thus, illustrates the current state of affairs on HN.
While I agree that innocent people do go to jail sometimes, I think this is much rarer than you make it out to be. The instances I have heard of it, either the system was (or one or more actors in that system were) corrupt, or the defendant had incompetent counsel.
It's statistically illiterate on multiple levels
Rigorous? lol. I'm usually slightly critical of tesla.. but this article is terrible.

It's so long because the author needs to jump through too many hoops to end up where he wants to go. Audi A6 has 0 causalities? Cool. Tesla has 0 in one year? Extremely suspicious. Not enough Tesla accidents in the database? Include China. Should he include China for the other cars? Nah.

This article is a joke.
Gujarat indeed is the home office for corporate and financial crime. Denying it will be a travesty. Gujarat is where biggest bitcoin swindling happened in India, to the tune of $1 Billion. With active police involvement too.
Or just use a secondary address. But yeah, you have to make a decision, either you really do care about your data, or you don't, just like the people who don't use FB today.

You shouldn't put the burden of your decision on others, others might not care about things you care as is apparent from GDPR. Anecdote: People on sites where I can see the numbers don't care about their data, they want the GDPR thingy away ASAP and will click on anything that makes it disappear, selling even more data than before in the process.

Including me. I despise the popups, it's extremely annoying. I protect myself technologically and with common sense, like my parents teached me to - I don't put personal information in places where I don't believe it's safe. It's that easy.
I am in the same boat (when I close my eyes), so I would like to hear correct answer too.

As I see it now, you should at least research existing trademarks and patents then file for a trademark and maybe a provisional patent, which should be relatively affordable ($1k-$5k).

Once your app gets good traction and you can demonstrate sustainable growth, you should be able to get seed round enough for robust IP protection and further development.
Such a legend. I hope he gets some sort of "Good guy of the year" award. It inspires me to make sure my own abilities contribute to the greater good.
I've never actually used a supermarket loyalty card connected to my real persona. Either the information has all been fake, or I've used somebody else's.

At the end of the day, I use the same credit card every time I shop, so I'm sure that they can harvest all their data from that. But I feel like it's a bit of a "fuck you" to the system that my loyalty card says I'm a 40 year old woman.
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I think if you have the title "I build X kernel operating systems for fun" as a resume headline, you are in high demand regardless of X.
SS7 is so broken that there's little telco could do even if they put effort into it.
So what am I doing that I've never once had a telemarketer call me, other than my car dealership or phone company. Canada can't be special. Is it because I use a cell phone for everything?
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Irrelevant. If fixing a bug is a breaking change then it is a breaking change. This is the importance of pre-releases/"nightly" branches so that you don't have a mistake of addNumbers(5,5) returning 25 instead of 10 and not being caught and then needing to increment a major number to fix a typo of × to +.

A bug fix is a change. A breaking change is a change that breaks the API. Doesn't matter if the previous status was the intended one or not.

SemVer not working is almost entirely people simply not following it correctly. The projects that follow it as best as they can have very few mistakes were "woops that was a major change" occurs while projects that use it as a guideline may as well not be using it at all.
Because many elected officials and many voters aggressively try to cut the budget for the judiciary.

As I said elsewhere, if you don't like the system, please call your local, state, and federal representatives and request that they support more funding for the judiciary.

Every case going to trial would cost an incredibly unreal amount of money -- there needs to be some streamlining somewhere, and the question is where and how.