skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, I have a number on Google Voice and it is also the number I give out to businesses and post publicly (any people I don't personally know). The robocalls on that number have become so bad in the past year that I gave up and just turned it off so it won't ever ring through to my phone anymore. Which actually is fine, for how I'm using it, as I just go in and check it every now and then (and have email notifications turned on).

It seems like this is a problem that needs to be cut down at the source of the calls, not necessarily at the filtering stage on the receiving end. Aren't most of these robo-callers likely using the same providers/APIs?

I know Twilio doesn't explicitly allow robocallers on their platform, but it's hard to believe that a lot of them are not using Twilio or companies like it to automate their spam anyway. It seems this problem arose when automated / APIs connected to the telephone system were made, like Twilio, not way back when Bell was split up.
I use an imac for stationary work, and an ipad pro for everything else. I have nomuse for a laptop while travelling now.

It helps that I have to make educational videos, so I have a clear use case for the pro with the pencil. Can plug a focusrite audiobox in too, and power it from the usb c port.

Originally got an ipad as I used it for online tutoring with a whiteboard and a stylus, pre-pencil days.

Oddly enough I do a lot of email and text work on my imac. The ipad pros browser has a lot of subtle limitations compared to the desktop version.
You can already do this in iOS. Set your phone on Do Not Disturb and then in the iOS settings tell it to allow numbers in your contact list to get through even when DND is on.

I've done this for years and never get robocalls.
Im tempted to do this...but always worry...what if it is from a school (child is hurt) or from a hospital (someone is sick) or for any urgent need?
It makes sense because you didn't pay federal taxes on that amount last year. Ideally your withholding should have been perfect last year and your refund would have been $0, and then you would have paid the federal tax amount on it last year.

Relatedly, I got a ~$5k state refund last year and I'm not paying additional federal tax on it this year because the SALT deductions are now gone under Trump's tax changes, so my state tax burden doesn't affect my federal tax burden anymore.
Absolutely. It's called price discrimination, and there's a whole treasure trove of literature about it. Usually it's not the exact same product, though, but rather something like "features that enterprise users need are extraordinarily expensive, everything else is relatively cheap". IIRC, single sign-on is an extremely common feature to use for this price discrimination.

Lots of non-SaaS companies use price discrimination as well. The biggest example is airlines, who will sell the same round-trip for different prices depending on whether or not the stay includes a Saturday night. Airlines assume that price-insensitive business travelers are generally unwilling to spend a Saturday away from home, and charge higher prices accordingly.
>That also means that i never going to get it anywhere else on my body (once any one site in the body gets infected with herpes the rest of the body develops immunity)

Do you have a source for that? I have somewhat suspected that was the case based on some other things I've heard, but I have been unable to find any real sources on it.
The fact that you're asking this question indicates that you haven't yet figured out what your market will bear in terms of price. In ANY business the ideal price is one that customers will question but still pay. If they don't question, the price is too low. Keeping your pricing dark is the best way to figure out your numbers at this stage. This is a long winded explanation but the answer to your question is YES! You can set your price at whatever you think the customer will bear. Be confident. If you've got a great product, don't feel bad asking a lot of money for it.
Details about the Side-Channel Attacks on Trezor One Hardware Wallet
Yes, totally. This is common practice. A tip though. If you are attempting to connect directly with end users many folks are turned off by a "Contact Sales" only option. You should have something that is totally self serve, like try for $50/month for a single instance, but if you need more seats please "Contact Sales". This gets people in the door. Almost every large company that does any type of enterprise sales will use this model of "Contact Sales" and gets a steep discount off some list price posted publicly.
The point is that "50 dead in Christchurch" can be hard to internalize, especially when these tragedies are arriving so hot on the heels of other tragedies. Our human brain is really good at remaining distant. We tend to take our own lives for granted until we're in dire straights.

These kinds of pieces help us reify the incredible gut-wrenching gravity of human loss.
Why does it matter what sort of entity owns a piece of property? They pay property taxes, they should get to do what they want with their property.
Not having chickenpox (and not being vaccinated for it) isn't really an advantage. Chickenpox as an adult is serious business: complications like pneumonia and encephalitis are much more common, and there's a significantly higher risk of death or hospitalization (75% of deaths from chickenpox are in adults, despite < 10% of the cases being in adults). You're also at higher risk for shingles if you catch it as an adult than as a child. Chickenpox is extremely contagious; it's airborne, can be transmitted just from being in the same area as someone with the disease for 15 minutes, and over 90% of people exposed will come down with the illness.

If you didn't get it as a kid you really should get vaccinated for it as an adult. Being exposed to the attenuated form of HHV-3 in the vaccine is way safer than actually catching the disease.
Or even saturation divers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving
Replace ‘scientific authority’ and replace with any institution.

The collapse of the news (economically-classifieds, technologically-fake news from Russia, literarily-the best jobs are outside of media organizations, locality - no local news, etc.) has caused people to lose faith in every institution.

The fun is in predicting where this ends up...

Especially now that fake video news will easily be disseminated soon.
Point #3 is actually a sign of increasing authoritarianism.

You can make an argument that as older forms of authority (family, church) have weakened, we have been placed at the mercy of the remaining forms (governments, employers). But in this mixed picture how do we know whether science goes in the winners or losers column?
This is a good question to which there are a lot of good answers that are often poorly received on HN so you’re unlikely to get a solid answer.

I’ll take the hit though.

It’s not just pageview logs, but GA has great tools to analyze those logs, do reporting on some decent set of actions and to bring it all together in a simple to use interface.

You can take your server logs and then what will a non technical person do with them? Not much.

That said, you can deploy GA while opting out of behavioral data and ad network features, and even fuzz ip addresses.

Analytics has the stigma of ad networks because they historically existed to validate ad spend. We’re past that point and they are often used with strict first-party intent.

There’s nothing preventing us from imagining all the malicious things any analytics tool could do, and imaginations run wild.

Disclosure: I work for an analytics company that doesn’t want to own your data, but I understand why folks have a knee jerk reaction to analytics of any kind.
Interesting. I was not aware of ImDisk. Reading about it, it appears to be a RAMDisk only tool. Did I misunderstand?
Nvidia GTC 2019: Nvidia Isaac SDK Goes GA in April
It's not exactly what you want, but you can do parametrized plots in TikZ to plot a given function for some range: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/parameterized-plots/.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone wrote a tool that allows you to use a reference to an equation as the function to plot :).
Because capital is global and it's flowing into all major cities at the same time?
I am not a part of the apple ecosystem, so don't see myself buying an apple product anytime soon.

But, I really wish there was a solid affordable android or windows alternative to the iPad with good pen support.

The surface Go was the closest competitor, but it was too chunky (very large bezels) and Intel's mobile CPUs are just too slow.
Android on the other hand seems to have completely dropped the ball on this one.

I would kill for an updated MiPad with basic pen support.

A nice note taking and media consumption machine. Is that too much to ask for?
What the Germans did during WW2: which race is better, etc., etc.
Depends on how much unused real estate there is, and what counts as unused. There are beautiful places out there filled with cottages that are unused 80-90% of the year, while the locals struggle.

Taxes serve as a discouragement, so let’s tax the harmful things first. Then those that can afford it without any real harm to quality of life, then lastly everyone else.

An underused property tax hits the first two really well.
I suppose we could debate about if I'm paid in real or nominal dollars for my tech I sell to folks. Today I'm paid in nominal dollars, over my 10 years of history it's real ones.

The core point is I'm not paid in PPP dollars from India with a 17/1 PPP adjustment over the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_versus_nominal_value_(e...

https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...
Is this new? Was the same thing not happening in, say, any other urban boom time, like the mid 1920s?

I think there's always going to be a flux of people who aren't "keeping up" with the increase in costs as much as others are, and having to drop out of the most expensive areas as a result. and likewise, there's people from the rest of the country who are improving their situation and can move up to the "big time".
CDNs aren't required for delivering scripts. That's just a lazy crutch.
Yep, I (easily) spend less than half my time programming. The rest is writing and talking, sometimes to relate facts and sometimes to persuade. I think these skills are more important than just knowing how to write code after a relatively small number of years of experience (maybe 5 to 10). (Unfortunately we don't know how to interview for this and still give people at this level the same coding focused interviews, but that's a whole different discussion...)
As these appeared to originate from a log file it's very possibly plaintext passwords are not being stored anywhere (except the leak spot which is bad) but instead are being logged out of memory where they (generally) need to exist in plaintext for a bit for verification.
That is just a proposal, right? Did it pass? Last I heard, London Breed was looking at other avenues to tackle the problem (reducing bureaucracy, expanding multi-use space allowances, etc.)
From a cursory look at his comment history, he's located in Denmark[1] and works in the public sector[2].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19412779
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19419308
You're right, Land Value Tax (LVT) would be much better, as other European cities use.

It's hard to off-shore property in a tax haven too.

It's one of those policies that is popular with virtually everyone right until the moment they get into power and meet the wealthy landowners/donors.
So isn’t the more salient point here that tenants’ rights are apparently so strong here that the owners would rather leave the properties vacant (and lose money) than rent them out to a new tenant? Perhaps if they would remove some of the more pernicious and abused “rights” for tenants, more property owners would put their property up for rent?
Well, from a NZ perspective 50 is, as a percentage population-wise, greater than the death toll from 911 in the US - we expect our government to take equivalent level of actions to those the US took against alQuaeda/etc against white supremacists/alt-right supporters to remove future threats from our community.
That really says a lot about the industry doesn't it.
Building 4D Polytopes
> I wonder if 'fuzzy' or uncertain models like economic ones can tolerate or benefit from slightly less deterministic algorithms.

It depends on what sort of fuzziness or uncertainty you're talking about. If you're referring to a model's sensitivity to initial conditions / measurement noise, then a common solution is to use Monte Carlo simulation, in which case you get an estimate of a probability distribution function as an output (which is often collapsed to an expected value, but that's not necessary). I'm not aware of any analog computers that give probability distribution functions as outputs rather than single values.
If the tax %age on the empty buildings is high enough, voters will like it.

I fear it won’t be big enough so they didn’t say it, but I don’t know Spanish culture.
> So far as I can tell, there is no such authority for facts.

Huh? You just described it: reality is the authority.

> I think this situation is simpler if these all count as separate facts.

No, they are different theoretical descriptions of the facts. The facts are the particular experimental apparatus Michelson and Morley used and the particular numbers they recorded when they made their measurements.

> Do "the facts of gravity" include the predictions made by the theory of gravity?

Of course not. Predictions aren't facts. They're things that you compare with facts in order to test theoretical models.

> Speaking of Einstein, before he pubished his paper on special relativity, wasn't it a fact that the velocity of a bullet fired from a train (relative to the track) is the sum of the train's velocity and the bullet's velocity?

No. As far as I know nobody at that time had made accurate enough measurements of the velocity of anything to be able to test the Newtonian prediction vs. the relativity prediction. But that doesn't mean the Newtonian prediction was correct before relativity was discovered. It certainly doesn't mean that something changed about the world described by physical models when physicists switched from using the Newtonian model to using the relativity model. All that changed was the model: the world the model was describing didn't change.

> Given that we can't know which facts might later need to be relativized

Facts never need to be relativized. Relativizing is something that happens when you switch theoretical models. You seem to be consistently confusing facts with models.
There is no part of this (except the possibility of shutting it down) that I don't love. Elsevier is just such a wonderful company to detest, they're like the final boss of free-market driven anti-intellectualism.
Anyone know about the binary blob / firmware situation on this one? Will it run mainline Linux?
Oh noes an old school media publisher prefers people like them with an English lit degree from an Ivy or Oxbridge.

I am shocked shocked to find C P Snows two nation divide in effect at the NYT
> and the option to allow a second call to come through from an unknown number if it’s within 2min of the first.

They have (had? still on 10.3 which it claims is up to date) that option under the "Repeated Calls" clicky box -- allow calls if they call back within 3 minutes.

Had to turn even that off since the spammers got smart and were getting through.
‘Randomness’ with perfectly defined statistics and distributions is fascinating...
My take on it is that there aren't enough desirable cities available to employ and house all the people who want to live in them. This can be addressed by either increasing the capacity of those cities, by making existing undesirable cities more desirable, or just creating new desirable cities where no city currently exists.
Sorry for the second reply, but I read a bit about ImDisk.

I think the main difference is that WinSpd is a general tool for creating disks as user mode processes, whereas ImDisk is a tool for mounting image files only.

It looks like WinSpd is a more generic tool. But I know very little about ImDisk so I may be mis-representing it.
I need to say this about ten times a day to myself.
How the National Enquirer Got Bezos’ Texts: It Paid $200K to His Lover’s Brother
Most likely would be a VPS or VLAN bug at a place like Digital Ocean, Linode, etc, that let you spy on neighbor VPS traffic. Not that it happens often, but there are historical bugs to escape VMs and/or containers. Once out, you could sniff traffic for the whole physical box.

Or a router/switch exploit. Create a monitor port and dump the traffic wherever you want.
That's not true in the modern world and never has been. There's plenty of things you can't do with your property, and indeed the total universe of what you can do is much smaller than the universe of what you cannot do.

Cities are (necessarily) very tightly regulated, because when people and property are packed in so tightly together the possibilities for negative externalities are severe. It's important to optimize the very limited space in a way that maximizes its good for as many people as possible.

You have a lot more leeway to do whatever you want way out in the country if that's what you're looking for, but you should never expect that in a dense city, because you won't find it anywhere.
They are also usually the hardest to convince that coal plants release more radioactivity than nuclear plants.
Astral Projection [pdf]
Can Nomachine/X2go run a server on a windows machine?
So for personal projects or for small apps I think that’s great. But when I think about projects that need to live on well after I’m around, then they shouldn’t work the way I work, they should be in standard way that anyone can come into and know what’s going on. That jumping applications between teams feels simple.

This is why I like angular quite a bit, it’s not whatever the dev decided to do. It doesn’t include a whole bunch of small libraries of questionable support.
On the other hand, you hardly every have to worry about weird locking problems.

It's nearly impossible to avoid deadlock in any reasonable complex use of MySQL.
I hope to put it into a pi-top

https://accounts.pi-top.com/products/pi-top/

not sure if this fits
This is a great example of Goodhart's Law, though. If nobody studied for the SAT, it might (arguably) work fine as a measurement of collegiate potential. But because it became the metric for collegiate success, and because the "practice effect" means that practicing makes you do better on the test, many people study hard for it and greatly increase their likely score. The folks who don't study as much or as effectively for it for whatever reason will not do as well, as so you're left with a measurement of whether people studied for the SAT and not whether the test taker would be likely to succeed at college. So a good metric becomes a bad metric because it's chosen as the metric.
Very interesting article. However, as the article points out, in late September 1985 Phillip Morris buys General Foods owner of Kool-Aid and starts marketing it to children using cartoon characters and bright colors?

Contradicts the 50s, 60s and 70s before that when General Foods marketed Kool-Aid to children using the same cartoon characters and bright colors, some of which are actually shown and dated in the article.

They do mention a shift in the language used buy this after 1985, from 'for your family' directed at moms (with brightly colored cartoon characters though) to direct appeals to teens. But the 1940s ad example shows a boy perhaps 8 years old buying Kool-Aid for his girlfriend and notes that this is possible because it is so inexpensive even children can afford it. This 1940s ad thus is directed at child initiated purchases. Furthermore, the shift from mom-to-child definitely started before the acquisition as General Foods produced numerous commercials targeted at children which ran in frequent rotation during Saturday morning cartoons.

The case with RJ Reynolds and Hawaiian Punch seems significantly more compelling. Before they buy the company it is said to be a drink mix for cocktails marketed to adults. Reynolds then upon acquisition redesigns the drink and markets it to children, and uses the same flavor R&D to develop new additives to be added both to new exotic cigarette flavors and to Hawaiian Punch whose advertising targets children.
And English is one of the national Languages of India any way
You Have to Pay the Right Person
They might be able to get away with requiring additional training in the meantime, as well.

There are big PR risks in that approach, though.
If you look at it this way, there is no real measure to see which is a better place to live.

The only thing one can agree from this article is that some countries are expected to grow at a higher rate than others only due to a larger population. I think this only makes sense if everyone is educated and the unemployment rate is low.
So? EU laws are a suite of national laws.
Induction charging pad + receiver.
you can just colocate that server
At work (Pivotal) there's a "Drumbeats" mailing list which I subscribe to. Various teams post there to describe what they're doing.

The company has grown so much larger since I joined that I have found the Drumbeats to be a godsend. It helps me feel connected to the breadth of what's going on, which would be physically impossible otherwise.

I guess a time will come when there are too many Drumbeat emails to keep up with (it sometimes feels that way -- I've gotten better at skimming). I don't know what I'll do then.

We also have a What We Learned This Week list. It's gone a bit quiet lately, which is a shame, because there were some amazing war stories posted.
Are those CTO/VP Eng level roles?
Much like Oracle or IBM; they're a company that had some very interesting products and ideas in their day, and eventually just decided (or was forced, for internal reasons) to rest of their laurels. Today, they produce products that are purchased by people who don't actually use them, because the people who use them hate it. And, well, they pursue growth by acquisition. It's honestly a sad story, because they could have been so much more. Maybe they still can, but my faith dwindles every year that goes by.

I have more and more respect for Microsoft, who had every opportunity to go this route (and, really, did for quite a while), but was able to right the ship and continue to produce products that people actually want to buy. Sometimes they're buggy, and bloated, and strange to use, but they listen to their customers and continue to push improvements. That's why they ate IBM's lunch back in the day and have become the world's most valuable enterprise software company.
Of course, laws are for the serfs and vassals, not the kings.
That meme never registered as problematic to me (at least by meme standards) but you’re correct.

I always felt it outed its creators as lacking theory of mind; why does a large group of people have different shared beliefs than me? They must lack the ability to think independently like everyone else in my cliquey subculture!
Thanks for the detail, it seems like you and your mother were able to "home school" yourself inside the school system.
You mean we're not going after Confluence or JIRA?

Wikis are certainly not a priority for us. I think if you don't separate the proposer from the person who accepts the proposal the wiki tends to grow stale. So we're betting on static websites with GitLab Pages.

There is a large market for wikis but you would have to use something easier than markdown, which is hard for us to get away from.

We're going after JIRA. In GitLab you can have a service desk on a project with an issue tracker. Do we solve the work-log issue too?
I recommend How to Change Your Mind. https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transc...

The author has a great Joe Rogan interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4CrWE_P0g