skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DND does not direct calls to voicemail, it just keeps your phone silent and doesn't ring/vibrate while the incoming call screen is showing. I've still accidentally answered calls while in DND mode. Sometimes I just want to turn phone calls off entirely and use my phone like it's an iPod touch with a data SIM card.
Publisher paywalls are also starting to experiment with this -- the price will raise or lower based on the user's income or propensity to subscribe.
It’s really anti-authoritarianism.

When people have lost faith in every institution, it is hard to trust the govt. to work nicely with massive corporations to inject needles in their children, especially in an environment where half the kids aren’t living in iron lungs.
Hi, creator of the Superbook format and founder of Bubblin here!

Reflow is bad for books. It kills referential accessibility [1] which is a critical feature of codex-style format that follows from the most common definition of a book [2].

[1] https://bubblin.io/blog/referential-accessibility

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

> It sounds like a nightmare to handle when editing.

This book was programmatically generated using standard markdown manuscript and a paginator library called m2s [1]. I'd say it was pure bliss for me to edit David's book page-by-page!

[1] https://github.com/bookiza/m2s
To clarify your statement about Wayland, it doesn't support remote desktop access in itself [1]. A remote desktop server would sit on top of Wayland.

[1] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8
This is sad but quite true. Whenever you can, when seeing news about an attack big or small try and push your mind to empathize with them more, it's important to realize what cost terrorist attacks and mass shootings have on our society.
The earth is not flat. The science is settled.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> The house owned by the LLC does not have to be in the same state as where the LLC is filed.

It doesn't, but in many states to own real property, just as to transactions business, you'll have to register your foreign LLC as a foreign LLC, which often involves paying a foreign LLC fee equivalent to the franchise fee you'd have to pay for a local LLC in the same state.

Also, bankruptcy (which a judgement you can't satisfy without the “protected” asset could force you into) will bypass he protection, so basically this doesn't do much protect your assets if you actually need it to (that is, if you can't satisfy the judgement without the “protected” assets.)
> By default, we bill by the minute, not the second, to deter short duration calls and impair the economics of robocalls.

Do they really expect us to believe the reason they bill by the minute is to fight against robocalls?
As some of the commenters on this reddit thread mentioned, any electronic musician who has a Eurorack rig containing, for instance, a Make Noise Maths, technically uses an analog computer regularly at work.
I haven't gotten a single spam call since enabling the blocking.
That's certainly one view.

I'm sure there will be many books and case studies on this as time passes and more facts are revealed. Tangible evidence (e.g., taped conversations) would be interesting. I'd want to hear what people like George Shultz were saying, and how they were reasoning these things in the timeline. I think this is a historic case worth learning from.
The rich got richer after the financial crisis and have nowhere else to invest.

Classic example of massive misallocation of resources.
OT: Does anyone know why NYT makes the images not visible to noJS users? The page is otherwise laid out OK, and the image placeholders seem to be a reasonable size, but blank... What is the idea behind this architecture? Optimization of some kind? Bot lockout? Just ignorance/incompetence?
It really says more that most people don't assume the EU to enforce GDPR in good faith and to just opportunistically use it as a way to take money out of the tech-company piggy bank. Everyone I know takes GDPR seriously. Of course at a big organization it potentially only takes one dumbass out of tens of thousands to screw up catastrophically
Odroid H2 has 2 X SATA 3.0 - https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/

A number of others have mini PCIE that you can add a PCIE SATA board to - https://www.amazon.com/Port-Controller-AsMedia-ASM1061-Chips...
Robocalls Cash Shows You How to Turn Robocalls into Cash
"The worse a product is for you, the better the marketing has to be."

Sugar and nicotine hardly need ads at all! But yes, the combination of natural addictivity + marketing can be rugged.

What's missing from the equation is caffeine + taurine combinations, i.e. energy drinks. The ill effects are subversive because it's not at all obvious but I think elevated, consistent consumption can wear on one's endocrine system. I'll admit this is not entirely scientifically backed but it's also a hard thing to suss out of data, and hard to prove, and of course in limited quantities there's no problem.
There are other methods.

Utility bills for example. Is the electricity utilization random enough or a little too constant? What about water? Natural gas? Pay the garbage collectors to rat out homes that never leave anything out.

Are the windows always left open even on the hottest days and no A/C?

Is the keyfob for entry never used?

Ultimately, every tax can be evaded. Income, sales, corporate. This one won’t be any different.

I do wonder who might rat out their completely quiet neighbour though.
Q1: What is your understanding of Thomas Lippert's motivations in doing what he did?

Q2: What physical & behavioral similarities do you observe between you and your half-siblings? Do you have any insight on the nature vs. nurture debate?
True, however making an offer is typically a legally binding action so the Buyers making those offers were agreeing to perform if they were accepted. It's exposing a shift in buyers openness to make large purchases purely from the information they're presented digitally and not necessarily from an in-person experience. For Sale signs and open houses be damned. - Tosh
A cursory search yields that actually mental health is correlated with academic achievement (and thus mental health problems must be anticorrelated):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443903/

Of course, this is "academic achievement" as in getting a 4.0 at Stanford, not creating a new field of mathematics...

I imagine your question would be hard to investigate as many of these high achieving mathematicians are rare outliers and would defy statistics on population averages...
California Joins the Global Fight for the Right to Repair Our Things
Scientist Gave Alligators Ketamine and Headphones to Understand Dinosaur Hearing
Banning unpopular opinions and fostering echo chambers?
It is just a perl script (in this case), just one that needs 45MB of baggage.
Feedback at last!! - thanks who-knows you're awesome
It’s actually just the cable you need. Should work with your current adaptor. Lightning cables are also everywhere, so if you ever lose it you can borrow one or replace in about 10 min. There will surely be at least a half dozen right around you on a flight.

Usb c would obviously be more convenient for your use case, but I wouldn’t make this into a big deal.
Saying "the Nazis had doctors, therefore the lawn signs today are actually worse than religious atrocities of the past" is an equally unconvincing argument.
Thanks for writing this - it's an awesome read about a fantastic guy. Atta worked for me for 7 years in Christchurch (the last 3-4 years he was doing these apps on the side, then setting up his business).
He was a lovely positive guy and I had total respect for him. Our two companies would catchup occasionally and we all enjoyed his company. He was a real role model to anyone who wanted to be the best they can. It's such a great shame this has happened and I feel so sad for his family (his father was also shot but is in Hospital). Unbelievable that this has happened.
I personally find Computer Modern quite pleasant to read and work with.

Apart from personal preference, why avoid Computer Modern?
What are the negative externalities associated with me leaving my house empty vs. me living in it? Bear in mind that any perceived shortage of housing in the local area is most likely artificial in nature because of NIMBY policies that I did not vote for.
File this blog post under "Humble Brag"
For those curious about catastrophic vs. hazardous, the standard being used is DO-178B[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
Exactly this. They had to at least say they TRIED knocking goats out by staring at them.
Meteor More Powerful Than 10 Atomic Bombs Exploded over the Bering Sea
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richsalz-httpbis-https-dow...
Tragic, even more so when there are names to the otherwise unknown faces.
On the other hand, in the United States the Eighth Amendment forbids imposing excessive fines, and a very good argument could be made that some of these fines could be classified as “excessive”.
A lot of news websites seem to be lazy-loading images when they are scrolled into view. This is presumably to save bandwidth, but it may also encourage people to execute unwanted JavaScript.
Vilifying "big" whatever is an addictive activity by itself. Humans are predisposed to believing in and fighting against a conspiring enemy in the same was a children are predisposed to want sugar and to find cartoon characters selling things appealing.

People have weaknesses and people try to exploit weaknesses. Philosophically you have to decide how your society manages these two things pitting personal responsibility against business regulation. Pieces like this do not do enough to keep that balance, instead blaming problems on big bad X.
"I really think that she thought she could make the machines work. I think Holmes and Balwani thought that, given enough time and enough smart people they would eventually get a working version. "

What I got from the book was that they gave up pretty early on making real progress and instead decided to lie. By not allowing their people even to talk to each other they pretty much made it impossible to make progress. If you have a big, hairy, unsolved problem the first thing you have to do is to make sure that as many people as possible understand the extent of the problem.

They are just soulless liars and bullies and deserve no excuses.
What's the word?
Should I be able to dump toxic waste in a river that runs through my property?
Only if it folds into a 3.5” smartphone.
Nothing guarantees the image in docker hub has anything to do with the Dockerfile or this repo. This is a valid concern.
Joel Spolsky wrote a pretty in-depth article about pricing which also covers the "How Much Money Do You Have? Pricing." case which he feels is a bad strategy: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
Yep, precisely that.
While people say the CIA invested in woo woo, I believe science progresses this way. Reported edge cases of established theories need to be checked, validated and proved/disproved before moving on to modifying the theory or dumping the case as woo.

As scientists we should not be pre-disposed to shutdown things we do not understand without putting said phenomena through a testing phase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbgAD1oehQ

> FCC Chairman Ajit Pai explains the importance of the FCC's proposed new rules banning illegal spoofed text messages and international calls. The proposed rules would enable the agency to address consumer concerns about unwanted text messages and scam calls from overseas.
Completely agreed. One analyzable example of this faith in 'the truths' of science can be found in the editing of Wikipedia. In my experience, there's low tolerance or regard for alternative hypotheses in its articles. That approach has long been highly costly for science.

Even Sagan, now and then, recognized the necessity for caution ... and he put it on videotape.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows clear that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources. - Cosmos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MlN7iVIuhk#t=4m09s)
The European Union is not its member states.

Let me put it another way: the European Union is not like the federal government in the US; it's mainly an economic union.

Or another way: European countries are independent, not states in a federation, and the European Union is a separate entity.
This is something that can be difficult to learn even if you've been working in the industry (lord knows we've all seen awful practices at various companies in our career).

This is probably not popular advice, but of all the places I've worked, Google seemed to have the highest standards for best practices I've seen. I recommend paying attention to Google's best practices, in their blogs, certification programs (like the google cloud developer cert), Coursera courses, product docs, codelabs, style guides, git code, etc. Obviously everything they do won't be a right fit for your company, but it's something to aim for.

Enforce code style (be specific and use a linter), and write tests as you go. Try to keep bad code out of your repo before PRs can even be merged. I use Jenkins and git hooks to enforce this for the whole team.

Draw up design docs and understand business needs before diving into projects and features.

Understanding good architecture and operational principles will make you much more valuable as a developer than your peers. Read the Google SRE book, it's free. Also read http://highscalability.com/ articles and learn from other companies' triumphs and mistakes.

Books about architecture include the micro services book by Sam Newman. You may not ultimately be responsible for making these decisions, but demonstrate your value by being able to understand and provide quality feedback to your tech leads and architects.

Study and learn about project management techniques and craft/enforce your process. Not everything boils down to good code and architecture, if your development process sucks, everything else will definitely fall apart.

Be able to spot the flaws in your organization and offer ways to improve their process and quality. By doing so, you will also improve your own.

If you have a cloud provider and a support package, use it often. Most of what I know about best practices came from supporting Google Cloud customers, seeing what they were doing poorly, and working together to find better solutions.

Be sure you're not just abstracting your API libraries, but your use of 3rd party libraries and services as well. You don't want to have to refactor all of your code just because you need to swap out one technology for another.

If you're actually better than the rest of your team, you should be mentoring them. Teaching others is incredibly helpful at solidifying our own understanding of topics, and exposing the gaps in our knowledge.

Read "The Phoenix Project". It probably applies more for the DevOps/SRE/Management side of things, but I think there are VERY important lessons to be learned for everyone in there. Highly recommended.
> a Chrome plugin

Right, better not support any other browser.
Innalillahi wa innaillaihi roji'un.
May God forgives all his sins, and reward him in the Hereafter for his virtues. I pray that his martyrdom and accomplishments have and will lead to a better world here in mortal life.

Also, I used to use MetroTube intensely when I have a Lumia phone back in 2013 or so. Thank you, Mr. Elayyan!
And Toronto got rid of their vacant commercial & industrial property rebate.

I think they didn’t go far enough.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/property-taxes-util...
It's all made possible because of the protocol which is a kind of message passing. If a node somewhere on the Internet doesn't receive a packet for whatever reason, the whole network doesn't come crashing down.
What are your feelings towards Lippert?

How has the knowledge affected your life?
Vacation Break: Week of March 18th
Nope.

I went from my old phone to the new S10e and the smaller size is much appreciated.

I suspect that in 3 years or so, I might buy a folding phone that goes from say 5.5" to 9", so I can use it as a full tablet.
Price to income ratios have indeed gotten worse in many places. I don't know how widespread that effect is, though.

I put it down to a combination of consistently low interest rates (both in the short term and in the long-term trend), coupled with cumulatively worsening construction deficits. Wouldn't be surprised if not all of that withstood comparison with actual data, though.
Looks like WSJ's paywall now effectively blocks archive.org/archive.is

tl;dr: the leaked photos/texts came from old-fashioned theft, not from government-assisted intrusion or fanciful hacking. Though the story never states how Michael Sanchez exfiltrated the data from his sister's phone.

The lede:

> Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and his allies have publicly speculated about how the National Enquirer acquired racy texts he sent his girlfriend, including at one point hinting Saudi Arabia or the White House may have been involved.

> The reality is simpler: Michael Sanchez, the brother of Mr. Bezos’ lover, sold the billionaire’s secrets for $200,000 to the Enquirer’s publisher, said people familiar with the matter.

Interestingly, The Enquirer apparently doesn't pay its sources until actual publication. But Mr. Sanchez had negotiated to be paid upfront "regardless of whether any story was published." And the Enquirer's general counsel (Cameron Stracher) agreed to it without the publisher (David Pecker) knowing about it, and Pecker ended up firing Stracher:

> The Wall Street Journal couldn’t determine whether anyone at American Media briefed Mr. Pecker on the contract’s specifics before it completed the deal with Mr. Sanchez. People close to Mr. Pecker said he wasn’t aware the payment was made upfront and felt as if was being forced to run the story.
> Humans are predisposed to believing in and fighting against a conspiring enemy

And in the case of tobacco, sugary drinks, and many other products and shady business practices, that belief is absolutely correct.
it runs nvidia's l4t, it is based on ubuntu 18.04

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra
To which I think we land on the recommendation: seek good examples and mimic them. Trouble is finding them.
Discovering a zero day and getting code execution on Mozilla's AWS Network
Just to restate what I said---you cannot use this in its current state in production (or industry), ever. And by the time it becomes useful, it becomes a natural solution because the infrastructure supports it.

Every person that works on kernel knows the overhead that comes with abstractions. Everybody that has worked with DPDK knows that you can get 20Mpps+ on a single core.

All they have done is to "frame" the usage and the term RPC differently ... i.e., it's all story telling and no real meat :)

Look at the previous set of publications by the same author: e.g., Achieve a Billion Requests Per Second Throughput on a Single Key-Value Store Server Platform, etc. they are all based on a single assumption that if you don't implement X and Y in your stack you can get better performance. Of course, you can. If you use your calculator to only compute 2+2 you might as well hardcode 4 as the output of your calculator.

They are not setting a lower bound. They are hardcoding and bypassing the parts they don't find useful.
I believe it because Windows comes on all kinds of devices and supports all kinds of hardware mixes and SKUs. It effectively encompasses the entire price range in a way that Apple doesn't care to.
Rather than "report spam," a whitelist would be the best solution.
In my opinion (a bit tangential to the article I know)

The privacy thing is a symptom to the massive marketing budgets companies have available to them today. We're covering up the cost of living by redirecting them via advertising agencies who then get to direct the money however they want. I say, block ads. Steal from advertising companies, falsify data as much as possible. This is not the way people should be being paid. While this is a viable mechanism of subsiding the cost of living, no change will occur.
Please elaborate on this. How are they using it? What do they do to expand on it?
I find it useful to work with plots in Jupyter notebooks. Use the "%matplotlib notebook" cell magic to get interactive plots inline.

Then you can use savefig when it looks good. Then save the code you used into some file near the Latex sources.
Tim Harford's Undercover Economist has examples of how to get people to self select:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70420.The_Undercover_Eco...
Also airline crews? They get to do their high-pressure job in lower-than-normal air pressure, they get shaken around in a tin can and their sleep schedules are shot to hell.
No, they shouldn't. There are externalities that effect others, and the free market.

For example, you don't want people doing things that poison groundwater for the neighbors, right?

Anyway, letting property sit idle benefits the landowner but causes issues for neighbors, local government and the free market. It means businesses in those locations get less customers, and local governments less sales tax. If the property is not cared for, there can be additional issues that lower the value of other's homes.

It causes rental prices and home prices for buyers to inflate because of the market distortion, leading to boom bust real estate problems.

Boom and bust effects homesellers and homebuyers, but also, given how often property tax plays a role in government budgets, dramatically affects local and state revenue, (and federal revenue in countries with a federal property tax).
Join a programming Slack group.
I think you really touch on the core problem. All the negative externalities are eaten up by the community. The obvious solution is to stop subsidizing cars and instead start teaching the negative externalities. Ready first steps:
1. massively increase gasoline tax.
2. Get rid of all street parking.

I personally would prefer to just ban all combustion engines, but people seem to think I'm insane when I propose this.
different prices to different users are foundational to the wedding industry and airlines/hotel, just off the top of my head. When I worked in travel a long time ago, there was a saying that if any 2 people paid the same price, somebody did their job wrong (paraphrasing - it was a very long time ago)

In both of those cases however it's very easy for the vendor to cover their tracks. I imagine it would behoove you to do the same if you're taking a similar tack.
(however we probably wont be invading Australia to root out the white supremacist threat there, nor Antarctica because someone in the PM's family has a beef with penguins)