skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I would pay for a feature where:

- People in my contact list (or whitelist) automatically get through

- Everyone else is forwarded to a real live human who screens my calls

(The reason why I would pay is I'd rather just have a well-paid human handle this instead of some kind of AI or heuristic.)

The human could be paired with some data, like what phone network the call came from, and additional data about how likely caller ID is spoofed. If you want to get fancy, you could do some kind of machine learning where you tell the person, "this call is xx% likely to be spam."

To keep things simple, I shouldn't be able to set many preferences. (This allows the human to react the same way every time.) But, things like choosing to allow or block "good" robocalls, like automated calls from the power company, are probably useful.

You could try to make a profit by actually asking to get on the do-not-call list, tracking it, and then aggressively suing violators. When I'm interrupted on my cell phone, I just don't have the time to track this kind of thing.

And, one more thing: If you want to get into AI, see if you can figure out how to keep the spammers on the phone as long as possible. This increases their costs dramatically.
This is kind of old. Flaws like this are in use since ever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8177755.stm
I think there's good reason to be annoyed at Medium. You know that these services need paying for - and you didn't need hundreds of millions of VC money to figure it out. So why did Medium make a load of promises they couldn't keep?

It's also worth noting that the continual introduction of companies like Medium who grab market share in the blogging space and then piss everyone off acts as a constant wrecking agent against sustainable alternatives. We constantly see this wrangling of bloggers and shitty nagware UIs because we constantly see people trying to break into this space and monetize it. Medium is making the world a worse place. They ran a loss leader to bring people on board and now they're trying to rent-seek. This is bad behaviour and people seem to just give it a pass.
Amazonians reading this: I'd like to know how often does it cause someone to rethink their proposal when you use the magic words "disagree and commit"? Does it ever happen?

I mean consider this scenario: A, B, C, D, E are in a meeting to discuss a new project that A has planned. D and E like the idea. B is not committed either way. C says they can't see the project being a good thing but uses the magic words "disagree and commit". How often does it cause A to go back and say ok maybe my idea was not good?
A Green New Deal must not sabotage climate goals
Awesome initiative, I'd love to see some classical music!
My wild guess, based on events this week:

The step zero has been partnering with MS to kill Firefox.
Re-read the proposed solution. The recipient screens the call and pushes a button to redirect the spammer.
> The $3-5K per developer "seat" is also a barrier to entry for some orgs.

Agreed. In a world where so many good developer tools are essentially free of charge, this aspect shouldn't be overlooked. Neither should the fact that it's fundamentally a proprietary language offered by a single vendor.
In case someone needs more context, write.as uses ActivityPub to federate with Mastodon and itself. It is an instance of WriteFreely:

https://writefreely.org/

So to me, knowing that write.as was getting important enough for Medium to shut them out is more interesting than whatever Medium does.
Aw, come on. I'm never going to go to business school. Let me spoil it for myself if I so choose... Just use a URL shortener so the link doesn't give away information for those who don't want it spoiled.
Once they were all out a Thai official did say they were drugged.
It's not just "morals", it is "brand equity."

If people believe in your brand, you have something. If they don't believe in your brand, you have nothing.
Not really. Apple banned the app -it clearly violated their developer terms of service so they couldn’t continue with it anyway https://www.recode.net/2019/1/30/18203231/apple-says-its-ban...
we could elect sane leaders...
Does anyone here use Write.as for blogging? This is the first time I've seen them and the simplicity look appealing to me.

For the record I was really excited when Medium came out and loved the simple, open, no-clutter style it had. But fast-forward to today and it's now very different.
In some cases, genetic variation in humans has performed a natural experiment for us. It's absolutely crucial to understand the potential impact of a proposed genetic edit in the realm of messy reality. As an example, Ccr5 delta32 is present in a small fraction of Europeans, and noted for granting HIV immunity but potentially greater risk to West Nile virus. We don't know enough about all the real life consequences of Ccr5 delta32 at the moment, but natural experiments are a rich enough source of information to get us there, at least in theory.
What a surprise: developers getting screwed by big centralized companies. Nowadays wasting time and money building anything on the shoulder of another company is crazy. It's not if but when are you getting screwed: Twitter, Facebook, Apple, this is history repeating itself plenty fold.

I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform where spending time and money building on it is just worth it for the future.

Have a look at the Steem blockchain: social network like publishing and commenting are free and even rewarded with crypto-currency payouts. And as a developer it is very elegant to develop on it.
It was worse in the past. The last batch of changes improved a lot already.
My issue is claiming moral righteousness of the struggle of shopping for your own food after using a luxury shopping app. I pointed out that the article itself asked customers to use a workaround so both sides get what they want.

Frankly I don't care about this company but equating this to slavery just comes across as more of the same virtue signaling.
Yeah I'm somewhat familiar with getting rust bootstrapped, I still have the 15/16/17 rust toolchains built for mipsel kicking around. Worst part of that was targeting wheezy though.

It just seems odd that these architectures seem to have official rust support but are being problematic on Alpine. Self-hosting might be a sticking point, but seems a bit of a silly one given how slow some of those architectures are.
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>It’s easy to spot because anti tax lobbyists have been making this intentional “mistake” in their argument for decades.

Look this smaller number of people pay more in total taxation than this larger number of people, and I'm going to use this "fact" to malign all taxation even though it's the intended effect of progressive taxation.
Chart shows price of education, healthcare and childcare SKYROCKETED
That's because nobody knows what FLAC is. Why does nobody knows what FLAC is ? Because 192kbps MP3 quality is acceptable enough to most. If people don't have a problem, they don't expect a fix.

I'm not saying you're technically or auditively wrong, I'm saying that's not how the market has ever worked.
> I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform

What about decentaralized platforms that are not blockchain-based? The Fediverse (a part of which is write.as) achieves this goal of being decentralized without using any kind of blockchain technology.
Social media alternatives to protect your privacy
It's not ML, according to an update to the article at the very end:

> Correction January 29, 10:30pm: This story originally stated that TrickURI uses machine learning to parse URL samples and test warnings for suspicious URLs. It has been updated to reflect that the tool instead assess whether software displays URLs accurately and consistently.
To any HN readers who work at Facebook: your company is morally decrepit and you are complicit. If you go to LinkedIn and indicate that you're looking, you'll have 20 leads in your inbox by lunch. You don't have to work there.
No ethical one at least.
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know

Can you repeat the question?
Yes I'm sure routinely cycling for 24-32 hours in a row is great for long term health.
> Needless to say, their actions outside the work environment matched their actions inside.

It's a given assumption that anyone who once worked for a shady company is also shady?
Disclaimer, I'm a bottom upper that became a top downwer.

The top down folks in math disciplines have Matlab Julia and R. Visually they often use simulink or labview. These last are more library than language.

Because of their math background the Matlab usually gets done in a functional style which Matlab supports really well. No spaghetti.
Worse than plastic waste: the burning tyres choking India
Yes. I don’t even want to see the number come up or hear the phone ring unless they are on my contacts list.
I think a lot of Google people hang out on HN, so there's a downvote brigade for Google criticism. Same with Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, and other large or cult following tech companies.
I don't quite understand what you're getting at here.

There are several kinds of taxes. Some are due at the time of something is sold, typically called VAT. Are you suggesting that Apple pays 4% tax in Ireland instead of paying the usual US VAT? I think not.

Some taxes are due later, when a company decides to have a profit. That can be the same year, but it doesn't have to be. It's entirely legal to save some or all of this year's income to spend on a planned investment in three years' time. If you want to build a new factory, or acquire some startups, you can put aside money from this years's income, and that happens with before-tax money. (The general principle is that if the owners are willing to defer their dividends, then the taxman defers the tax.) I know Apple has been doing that, keeping enormous sum of money in case it wants to acquire companies.

Are you suggesting that US companies shouldn't be permitted to save money for future investments? Or are you suggesting that foreign daughters of US holding companies shouldn't be permitted to save money for future investments? Or that the sums they save should have some sort of limit, e.g. "no more than x months' turnover"?
You've made my point... All languages compile to assembly so every visual editor is just an IDE for a text-based language -- the one actually run by the computer.
"We regret to inform you the duck is spyware."

(inspired by https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/milkshake-duck)
It is debatable of course.

But the current consensus is that property is not fundamental to the existence of a human. The term property doesn't appear once on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human....

Following your tomato example, you grew the tomato on some land and the plant absorbed nutrients from the land. Who gave your the right to do that? Do you own the nutrients?

How did humans come to own land? Was everybody born with their piece which they chose to trade? Of course not.

What we call property came about over thousands of years due to complex interactions between people. There is a concept of fairness to getting to keep what you made. But, there is nothing simple or fundamental about it.
Hmmm, is the Pale Blue Dot single-pixel sample of Earth really "full disc" in the sense that the face of the Earth is fully illuminated, not a crescent?

Anyway, this text is clear:
"Alternately known as Triana, Goresat, or by its current name, DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory), it’s the first earth science mission distant enough from our planet to capture its entire sunlit surface in a single photograph (only one such photograph, shot from Apollo 17, was previously in existence). And it does so multiple times a day, every day—with the results posted online by NASA, ready for public consumption within 12 to 36 hours."

We can get pedantic about this, but the message of the second article is that the occasion when the Blue Marble was taken was a rare opportunity, with the consequence that there wasn't really a choice or supply of up-to-date full-disc images until DSCOVR.

(https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-one-photograph...)

None of us here actually knows everything about these complex space exploration missions, let alone participated in them. It looks pretty silly and pretentious to try playing "know it all" about an endeavour that is way above our pay grade.
Provisioning each device with a unique certificate signed by a vendor CA is what I would call absolute best practice.

It's possible this certificate isn't that and is instead reused across all bulbs. We don't know that. And even if that is the case, there are no details on what this certificate is even used for that would allow us to determine if this is any sort of security problem.
At the moment, the percentage of spam calls that bother to leave a message is low enough that it seems to work out. I also don't have to worry about the impoliteness of hanging up when it's a live human on the other end, and can time-shift the annoyance to when I'm not in the middle of something.
Maybe crowdfund API development for some of the 'power user' features, like live bookmarks or tree style tabs?
The problem with this definition is that it'd invariably result in a swapping of nomenclatures once one side became dominant. And while we do tend to swap between dominant ideologies on about 20 year spans (roaring 20s, warring 40s, hippy 60s, big business 80s, identity politics 00s, ?? 20s) the nomenclature remains attached to broad ideologies rather than whichever side happens to be dominant.

In practice I think it comes down more to the desired direction of change. Conservatives tend to value pragmatism and liberals optimism. 'If everybody was kind to one another, we could have a utopia so let's work in this direction!' 'People will never all be kind to one another, so let's focus on systems that work even when people engage in bad behavior.' It even has direct parallels in game theory. Do you focus on achieving the max possible (exploitative) system where possible gains are maximized, but so are possible losses? Or do you focus on systems that minimize the worst possible outcome (game theory optimal) but, in practice, also tend to reduce the general case best possible outcome as well?
You don't have to outright restrict. Just adding a little bit of friction will keep 90% of users away and will completely destroy adoption for any independent business.

I really think it's time to drop Chrome and to campaign for others to drop Chrome. I'm sticking with either Safari (on my Mac) or Firefox.
There's also an extension called "chrome store firefoxified" that lets you install chrome extensions in firefox. Might be worth a try.
The real power in that 19k is over a long period of time. I have no idea what the rates you get in standard savings, but assuming 2-3% interest on that you're looking at ~$450,000 over about 20 years. VS ~800,000 over 20 years at 7% interest (that's a pretty conservative investment interest rate).

But as you mention, you're not in the US, so you may not be limited to that 19k (That's simply a different tax strategy, no one says you can only save that much).
I wonder how many other times an engineer advised NASA to delay a flight.
Panasonic Lumix FZ80/FZ82 with a DJI Ronin – Super Zoom Stabilized – 2019 Review
Similar question two weeks ago with 60 comments "Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18948427
Does it disable other notifications on android though?
Apple to ban Facebook’s research app that collects users’ personal information
Vhdl and verilog are non linear languages and many of the semantics from functional programming languages are nonlinear as well.
awesome, love it, africasiaeuro
> At the end of the day, the "content" we're talking about here is purely entertainment. You can live without it.

You can live without a lot of things, including drinkable tap water and flushable toilets, however that is not necessarily a reasonable standard to judge things by.

I use music not just to 'entertain' myself, but to focus as well. Besides, why is entertainment and relaxation always treated as somehow secondary/not necessary? I realize many people find purpose in being work bees, but some strive for a healthy work-life balance.
Battery saving features in Android
might actually be a bug, if you can save the model and send me the URL I will check it out
Global Blockchain Council Names a New Co-Chair
Android (not familiar with iPhone at all) has solved the problem of blocking unwanted calls, but has it intertwined with "do not disturb", which also affects notifications. I think we'd all enjoy having the feature separated out so that phone calls can be filtered as desired without assuming a silent/lesser mode needs enabling.

On an unrelated note, I've many times wished the phone protocol was upgraded to send metadata of your choosing along with the caller ID. Not even asking for a standard, because it'd probably suck. Just provide the means to send some optional data along with the call (which could ultimately put the nail in the coffin of land lines). The primary use case I had in mind would be to authenticate identity (since caller ID can be spoofed), but I'm sure a bunch of new uses would be utilized.
In this example, humans would have to willingly propagate whatever crops have been altered to include the gene drive and have reduced yield. It would be trivially easy to just plan a different cultivar of whatever transgenic crop was affected or just use the same CRISPR-Cas9 technology to remove the gene drive from the genome. I think that the point missed in this and many of the other comments is that gene drives don't follow typical mendelian inheritance patterns - they propagate in all progeny but can't 'infect' other individuals in a population.
I would be interested in ideas for this as well.
I've been getting a lot of spam calls where they call, immediately hang up, and then call back from the same number. I assume it's to get around do not disturb.
Transfer learning trains NN to recognize new classes, w/o original training data
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I've hacked around this issue in a contended hashmap by doing a Vec<RwLock<HashMap>> where you index into the Vec with the first bits of the key hash and then use the HashMap within it:

https://github.com/pedrocr/syncer/blob/master/src/rwhashes.r...

Worked fine but a full ConcurrentHashMap would be much nicer.
I wrote, designed and sold a book with WordPress and it went pretty well
The actual work doesn't seem to be at all — it's about a tool called TrickURI that identifies names that are visually confusing such as "G00gle.com". The headline is clickbaity.

So if I go register a name "neolefty" that nobody has ever heard of, TrickURI isn't going to object unless there's a fantastic service out there already called "ne0lefty". Which sounds legitimate to me. Kind of trademark-law-y, but consensus is how language works.
Thunderbird has a calendar and to-dos as well (though I never used them personally, so I can't speak to their quality). Does Outlook do any special integration between them (outside of just having them in the same app)?
I tried that. But redirecting my phone number to a different service made me concerned.
Your data is from 2015.

There are plenty of sources illustrating that things have changed in that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay#Green_energy_supply
If I remember correctly, those UK divers were asked to help here but refused. The only time they did so.
On Citation Fundamentals – Definition, Roles, and Traits of Citation
I don't mind paying 90% on a top portion of my income.

But before we start collecting more money, I'd like to see existing money used wisely.

New York City spends about 30k per homeless. And it's still not possible to walk a couple of blocks in Midtown without stumbling upon a homeless person sleeping rough.

New York subway has a budget of 8+ billion. London tube is about 2 billion.

I can keep going, but from the above I'm sure if we tax everyone at 101% the government will still manage to run a deficit...
I think this is a product of how humans think in general. A topic may remind someone of a related topic and then that gets brought up. Someone may say something that isn’t quite right and it gets pointed out that’s wrong. But then there will be some nuance to that point and now you’re discussing the nuance.

A great example of this is the fact that when I read your post I was reminded of my biggest complaint about HN and was about to write what that is. It’s very hard to stay on point. Here’s an example of a type of interaction that illustrates this.

There are a number of times that I’ve responded to someone to point out what I think is an error. People will then assume what my opinion on the topic is and comment. My comment, logically speaking, didn’t imply any beliefs on my part. I just pointed out something that is wrong. But we sometimes tend to make assumptions on what someone says about that person based on past interactions or media influence. And then things start to deviate.

I don’t think anything can be done about this. I think it would make HN too sterile if something were done about it. This phenomenon is part of us being social beings.
I really like the style you have there (achievements and then tech used). All nicely laid out. One thing:

> Created a user interface in XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) using Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio (version).

"version" seems like something you meant to come back to? And I'd ditch the explanation of XAML.

I really hope you find something.
I love the idea, but really wonder who the spy agency would submit that request to.

Would they ask the CEO for a bit of extra time? I security manager? How many assets would they need to be running in an organization of that size to get their way?
My solution for Android is to do the following

1. Set system ringtone to "nothing"
2. Set ringtones for people I want to not miss
3. Suppress annoying notifications

Takes care of most problems.
That's useful, but it's not what this article is about.

This article is about a tool called "TrickURI" which detects misleading names like "G00gle.com"
> If they take my stuff away, I'll just switch to media that isn't barred from public use.

That's if you treat your media/services as substitutable goods. I don't understand this view. For me, the vast majority of books, songs, movies and games I peruse are not substitutable. SaaS services maybe - but then, they do their damnest to be not substitutable - that's called "having a competitive advantage".

So when a company decides to stop serving some media I used (or paid for directly), I see something of value being lost.
Totally. The UI is positively atrocious -- especially for posting stuff, but also for viewing -- and the overall quality of content has taken a serious nosedive. Most of the Medium links I've clicked in the past six months have ended up being been regurgitated swill, or else simply claptrap.

I was a paid Medium member for a good while, but discontinued my membership late last year for those reasons.
Did you know that that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour?
I don't think simply and identicons belong to the same sentence.
Disappointed to not see Apple putting their foot down more forcefully on this. It's possible they spoke to them, but there should be repercussions beyond just "shut down this one app".

EDIT: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3427520-apple-banning-facebook...
Why would I go develop for Android because they are needing it? Android is not a charity. I don't care what they need.

All I want to do is find out what the underlying trends really are. You're trying to create some sort of controversy that I don't really understand.