skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is happening, but slowly. It is a huge problem to get all carriers / phone operators to get this installed enough to be useful.

Research SHAKEN/STIR to see more about it.

Here's an example between AT&T and Comcast:
https://about.att.com/story/2019/anti_robocall.html
If you can't link the document, why don't you link the video he purportedly referenced? There is nothing stopping you from sharing said video, you just can't share the doc.

So I'm going to call baloney on your claim unless you can provide evidence for it.
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Huh, tldr of Physical access and already fixed makes this quite an empty read
The irony is that the technical architectures with which the Internet can defend itself existed in the early 90's already.

My generation's despair was watching them being supplanted by the social media companies who provided platforms with a fraction of the capabilities and none of the user empowerment.

It's never too late to go back to federated architectures.
Sometimes I wonder if the web designers deliberately tries to drive me away from their pages.

Or maybe it's a case of death by 100s of a/b tests?
Y tho.
Incompetence or plausible deniability? Or both?
The less negative "drunk" effects you have, the more likely you are to become an alcoholic, research suggests, because you still get addicted, and it's less quickly obvious that you need to moderate yourself
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/3683577/Scientists-...
Agree and would add that there is no reason that the algorithms need to be secret. Well, there might be some value in keeping the algorithm from the writers, but definitely none in keeping it from the editor/teacher. Also, the algorithm can report on the likelihood of it's own error, which can help teachers to interpret the result.
The case[0] started on Obama watch though.

What happens now is that after many appeals it goes to the supreme court.

[0] - https://mashable.com/2014/06/12/microsoft-u-s-government-dat...
Thanks for the honest chortle.
I'm not too concerned about the career prospects of people hired to harass and scam people for a living. In fact anything that damages their interests helps mine by making it less efficient to run such operations.

If there was a sega genesis like cheat code one could press on ones handset that would deliver an electric shock to the person on the other end of the line I would press it.
Shh...the knowledge workers that arrange bits in one format don't think the knowledge workers that arrange bits in another format deserve to be paid. They should innovate their way out of their victimization in a way that pleases their attackers.
One of the biggest issues here is that the people who would pass laws to crackdown on robocalls depend on the technology to raise re-election funds.
You got a point but I think there are solutions to be found.

Have a significant surcharge for disposable, then if people present their WIC/SNAP they get a waiver at checkout.
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> could evolution qualify as a Gödel machine as well?

I would say so. See also: Gaia Hypothesis [0], and the Big History project [1]. Arguably, biological evolution is but one layer in a self-improving information-energy complexity stack, which has now achieved sufficient stability to provide a foundation for ecosystems of technological and memetic evolution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_History#Complexity,_energy...
All ad campaigns are blatantly self-serving... so what's the point?
> Though at this point, given how many people outright refuse to answer numbers they don't recognize due to spammers, you'd think the phone companies would be feeling financial pressure to work towards restoring trust in the phone system

I imagine it's the kind of issue where there are still enough people answering the calls where if they dealt with the issue it would have a noticeable, measurable financial impact, so nobody in the company can propose it. But by not fixing the issue now it will also destroy all future business.

So short-sightedness.
Yes, if you can get your system "in the middle". I would love to have an automated system that says, "please say your name and why you're calling and I will connect you", then relays that information to me, and I can choose to accept or reject the call. After a certain phone number has been accepted they wont have to hear that message again, so family and friends can reach me directly. That system would be 98% effective, and it doesn't even use machine learning! Problem is you cannot reasonably get a system like that "in the loop", you have no way to intercept calls, the phone service providers wont let you.

You could set up some elaborate system to proxy your calls through a call forwarding service, and then only give out the proxy number to people, but that wouldn't stop anyone who randomly calls your directly number and would be a big hassle to set up.

I've considered hacking something like this together for myself, except if I'm the only one doing it I can do something even simpler and just have the system say "please press 6 to be connected". The robocalls will be to dumb to figure it out, thus no more robocalls.
Single-wire earth return (grid infrastructure)
> Perhaps you need an analogy

> Here is a video in case you are unable to follow:

This is patronizing and rude.
I believe this is less significant than the headline would imply (and some may expect).

An engineer on their Performance team pushed for this presumably to more actively contribute to the development of WebPerf APIs. https://twitter.com/fullstackjerk/status/1111299749775396864

Personally, I've seen Wikimedia as one of the most mature organizations when it comes to performance--they know and measure their RUM (real user metrics) data well, and experiment with newer standards (like priority hints) to provide feedback to the standards process.
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To add, in regard to H1B, In some instances it's a national security issue. You have highly paid foreigners who can't quit (unless they want to go home), working on sensitive, sometimes morally questionable projects.
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> "How do I quit vim?" should be the most asked question, and the most answered. There should be hundreds of these threads every day.

A lot of people are going to disagree with you, including SO itself[1]:

> Please look around to see if your question has been asked before

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic
Won't somebody please think of the shareholders? How will they be able to make insane profits if people aren't replacing??
I experienced something similar at a prior job. But, IMO it's not about foreign workers, but about cheap workers. A cheap worker is a cheap worker no matter where you find them. A very capable person on the other side of the world is not going to be working in a cheap sweatshop. They will be moving on as quickly as possible to better paying jobs.
Ask any Graying Tech Worker, whether (s)he wants to recommend the same career path to his/her kids. Ask why they don't recommend the path.

Basically, the Industry has made it hard for Americans to seek tech a career path--for the following reasons.

(a) get rid of older workers
(b) offshoring
(c) use H1-B to suppress wages, even though Google/Facebook will pay $200K to junior developers. The industry is not just Google/Facebook

When it comes to India, where offshore companies operate, you see the same:
(a) get rid of expensive workers, as delivery managers to show profit by hiring cheaper warm bodies
(b) Tech Industry, just like any other industry, has lots of 'bullshit' jobs. Instead of getting rid of bs jobs, replace them with cheaper warm bodies, and capture the profit.
(c) For average Indians, unlike Average American Kids, there are no better alternatives to seeking a job in tech sector. So, there is more competition for 'billable hour' jobs at offshoring companies.
I really hope this doesn't have auto-playing content while browsing.
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Day trading will teach a very similar lesson, in no time flat :)
Questionsgems
This looks awesome. I can't believe I am just discovering it (looks like it has been around for a long time). <a href="https://questionsgems.com/intel-interview-questions/">awesome</a>
I think there are things about it that still work, like the scene where the narrator breaks down how recalls work. And, especially, the meet-cute where the narrator makes the "single-serving friend" joke, and Durden replies "That's very clever. How's that working out for you, being clever?" I think that's one of the best lines in a movie ever.
Simple, suicides or drownings.

People die in the water wearing running shoes.

Then most of the body decomposes, but the feet stay in the shoes, which float on the surface due to the buoyant cushy soles (often containing air bladder cushions).
AI brings facial recognition smarter than your brain
Chinese here. Can't help but amused by the assumed antagonism.

Me and my friends who also work in this field are generally excited about ML/AI getting more recognition from the CS community at large btw.
You mean VC spending here I think
What stops me from renting the software and running my own paper through it to see what it says?
I wonder if cutlery actually needs more cleaning than wiping thoroughly with a napkin after use, at least if it is cutlery that isn't shared?

There is a tendency nowadays to be more concerned with dirt and germs than is biologically justified (possibly to our detriment in some cases--some researchers think that the rise in prevalence of allergies and asthma in children is due to insufficient exposure to things that can help train their immune systems since we are stopping those things before they get that far).
I've seen these reusable cups at festivals:
https://www.ecocupshop.co.uk/en/

There's a 1€ deposit but some people keep the cup as a memento. Another side effect is thieves breaking into the festival tent at night to steal the plastic pipes containing dirty cups (so they can get the deposit for them).
5G and AR Collide for Buzzword Glory
MotusJs v2 – Animation library that mimics CSS keyframes when scrolling
Isn't it a PI's job to know what's going on in his/her lab?
1) It has link to "Oblate spheroid".

2) On Google Maps and almost all other popular maps on the web, Earth is a sphere, see EPSG:3857
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This problem does not take heroic leaps outside of boundaries and risk to careers... it's so obviously wrong that simply pointing it out should suffice, this isn't another challenger problem, this is staring anyone in the face blinding fucking obvious.

My point is that this _would_ have happened, people will have pointed it out, because it takes so little effort and because it's such an obviously wrong flaw. But some exec will have overruled them multiple times because money > safety.
Denise Minger thoroughly critiques T. Colin Campbell's (seemingly incompetent) interpretation of the data in this study.

https://deniseminger.com/the-china-study/

EDIT: TCC's reply:
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/china-study-author-col...
The Problem with Trigger Warnings
> .@what3words is bad technical idea

> ethically terrible too.

I don't understand how someone would hold this tweet up as anything but an echo of their own opinion. There's nothing technically or ethically wrong with the product, despite a few pages of rambling about what they think is right or wrong, morally.
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Google Pixel phones have exactly that: call screening.

When you receive a call you can let the phone ask what the call is about and it will locally transcribe what they say back so you can decide whether or not to pick up.
FWIW it goes boomers, generation X, Millenials (with a capital M). The names except for Millenial (which is pejorating) aren't that good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
Woah.

Calm down guy.

The original comment was saying that, in Virginia, ...CRAIGSLIST... would not openly mention the desired or unacceptable races for rentals. My only point was that, again, CRAIGSLIST ads certainly did have desired or unacceptable races listed in Houston.

The fact is it's happened in Houston Craigslist, just as it's happened in Craigslist in lots of other places in the nation. There was a class action, as well as several individual lawsuits, filed. My memory is hazy, but I believe Craigslist prevailed in all of this on the fact that they were acting only as a provider of publishing services and not a publisher themselves??? (Not really sure about Craigslist winning, but I seem to remember that they did. In any case, it's easily Google-able if you're really that curious as to whether or not all of this really happened.)

In other words, the comment is about Craigslist. Houston and Virginia are incidental to the story of what was happening, all across the nation, on Craigslist at the time.

Also, come on man, I lived in Houston. For a long time. A time period that, coincidentally, saw me doing a lot of renting. (And using Craigslist to do so, because that's what you did in those days.) Houston Craigslist was certainly not magically immune to this issue. I was there. I saw it. Further, the fact that there were lawsuits all around the nation makes me feel confident in saying that this was very likely not a problem limited to Houston.

I'll take at face value your assertion that YOUR parents didn't post discriminatory ads. That said, the point of fact that discriminatory ads were placed on Craigslist on a systemic and nationwide scale was not in question in any of these lawsuits. The only question was, "Was Craigslist responsible?" Put another way, even the government, courts, and lawyers all across the US agree that racist ads were placed in Craigslist all across the nation. All parties accepted that as fact based on the evidence. They simply disagree on who was responsible.

So I'm not really sure why you're trying to say that racist ads never appeared in Houston like they did everyplace else? My sense is that you believe what you're saying, so my head is telling me that you must not have lived in the social strata of people who had to check Craigslist for cheap apartments or new roommates.
> If you give your time for free to a company. The company will assume that your time is worth nothing. And once the expectation is created, there is no gratefulness for doing it. The only thing that you will get is a bad looks if you stop giving your time for free because now it is expected.

This happens in charity-sector voluntary organisations too.

Having worked extensively for free (both in open source and community charity work), I found it becomes extremely draining when you really get to appreciate how people take your free time for granted, get angry if you don't give more and more to fulfil their unrealistic expectations, you can't find a way off the treadmill that doesn't get you into difficulties somehow, and there's not much support or meaningful help if you're having a rough time of it.

It's one of those things that sounds theoretically obvious from a distance, but actually being in the thick of it is such a different and unexpected experience.

It does lead to burnout as well as lasting trauma.

Also, to what I call "weaponisation" of language making it harder to talk about such things. For example, "you seem like you're heading for burnout", from people saying it for office politics reasons (self promotion) rather than empathy, and who are often the chief causes of said burnout and trauma.

I have seen people work 70 hour weeks in that situation for free, in addition to their day job they have to do to be paid, feeling more obligated to do the free work than the paid work when they clash, because of the pressures of expectations, and a bit of a "100 bosses 5 workers" problem in co-operative type social organisations.
Even if it doesn't end up in the ocean, there's less street and countryside litter. I noticed a change in the local environment when they banned plastic bags in my town, I'm in favor of this change as well. Single-use plastics are gross!

Can we do something about cigarette butts next?
Well i've wasted my morning building a paper clip empire.
> 2) More important than 1, I don't think the law/government has any business deciding this.

Why?

> The market can decide

Does that mean that it should decide?

> (spoiler: it already has).

Has it? How did you determine that?
But you choose the restaurant, it doesn't automatically call every restaurant nearby. The product is the automated voice, not the automated calling of numbers.
Doesn't this assume that the interviews even get to the offer stage? How does paying more remedy 80% of your applicants failing fizzbuzz on the phone interview?
If you don't have the name recognition of the FAANG you're probably getting subpar applicants regardless.
If journalism is dying, it's precisely because of the lack of paywalls.

Quality journalism costs money. The un-paywalled, ad-centric business models rewards click-bait articles, not in-depth longform pieces.
It's just like the from field in the email header. It's not there to verify the sender, it's there to tell the recipient where to send the reply to.

Sometimes you want someone else to call on your behalf. But if they need to call back, you want them to reach you.
I do; it's fantastic. Robocallers hang up every time.
"Hi, we're calling to ensure you're 100% satisfied with the box of toothpicks your ordered from our Amazon store..."
First, comments like yours is how nothing ever gets done.

Second, you use citation-free statistics that are misleading. How much plastic waste from Asia is from "recycled" US and European ("first world", to use your dog whistle) plastics?

edit: to repeat myself, How much plastic waste from Asia is from "recycled" US and European ("first world", to use your dog whistle) plastics? - the research that 90% of the plastic waste in the oceans comes from 10 rivers is such common knowledge that the NY Post is one of the top hits if you search for this. Plastic from those rivers comes from ostensibly "recycled" western plastics, so this is actually very meaningful policy from the EU.
What's the pun? I only see the one meaning.
How does this work? If the food costs 80% less on the app than at the register, either the restaurant is losing the lion share of its massive margins (unrealistic) or they’re just subsidizing it with investor money. But that would seem to be impossibly high subsidizing. Is it simply that in China you can quadruple down on Amazons strategy of promising profitability later? The article doesn’t explain this well and even goes to say that this guy is the conservative spender with founding money. If it is the latter... this feels like a terrible strategy.
No discussions about how we smile at the costs?
Voting machines are not a good idea until theey are as safe as a piece of paper overwatched by members of all political parties.
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Seriously. I managed to talk to a Googler during a recent phone interviewer and I mentioned the fact that I was upset about Inbox going away and he confirmed that it was a controversial decision within the company as well.

I hope with all the Inbox users/developers likely going back to gmail now, it will transition into the Inbox we all know and love.

Gmail categories are not the same thing as bundles. I love how Inbox condenses multiple emails in a single line showing you who the senders are. I think it makes more sense to show the senders before showing the subject of emails, and it's allowed for me to more easily digest the large number of emails I receive daily.
Apple - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/apple-fil...

Twitter - https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/twitter-is-reviewing-wheth...

Netflix doesn't operate in Russia.
Google, Facebook, Twitter will eventually comply, as they do in China.
In the future we'll just walk around with silverware and a cup at all times.
Yes, but the pipe can go down and pollute the ocean for thousands of years until it's dissolved.
The FCC has fined robocallers $208M. It's collected $6,790
A lot of homeless people do not have WIC/SNAP. Plus, you just agreed that all homeless people need to be registered in some way to qualify.

That's how they currently handle the bag ban: People with SNAP can get free bags. I had lost my food stamps due to bureaucratic error by the time the ban was instituted. I tried to reapply and someone dropped the ball again. Meanwhile, the process of applying was such a hardship that I decided to not bother to try again.

I probably still qualify for food stamps and still don't have them.

There are lots of people who fall through the cracks for various reasons. I also don't qualify for disability. Simply having a genetic disorder does not automatically qualify you for disability. You have to prove you are impaired to a certain degree.

I can't prove that. I'm too good at taking care of myself, though it takes all my time and requires substantial accommodation, a thing that absolutely does not result in the world going "Awwww. She totes should get a break of some kind. Let's cut the poor girl some slack and give her an exception/do a fundraiser/ support her goddamned Patreon."

No, it's fuck me all the way down. And I'm hardly some rare exception. That seems to be par for the course for homeless people.

Anyway, the reality is that privileged people tend to get exceptions to all the rules because they are the right color, the right gender, have enough money, etc. You will notice that the bag ban in no way impedes rich people from having all the bags they want. They just need to pay 10 cents apiece, which isn't remotely a hardship for them. There is no cap on how many they can use (for example).

Similarly, during water rationing during the drought in California, I saw articles that indicated that very rich people, like Oprah Winfrey, simply trucked in however much water they wanted for their swimming pools, landscaping and what not.

It's always the poor people who are hurt the most by all such rules. Other people have myriad ways they can get around them, usually without being stigmatized, penalized, prosecuted, etc.
> paying for digital content

mfw

never subbed, never donated, adblock, stolen laptop, neighbours wifi
I would have told him to call the cops honestly. What are they going to do? You've done nothing wrong, in fact, you're the victim of harassment. In a just world they would ream out the idiot security guard for wasting police resources.
$200k in Silicon Valley != $200k in a small east coast market. Hell, it doesn't even compare to the DC Metro area.

From talking to friends and family that live out there, plus a few folks who used to live in the Bay Area, someone earning $120k here would have to earn at least $200k out there to get the same standard of living.
I agree. That and the resulting sales impacts would seem to be the key motives to these decisions.
Not feeling pain can have some really disabiliting effect on one's life. A rather famous player in the Counter-Strike community suffers from a rare genetic disease that make him feel much less pain than normal. He started to scratch his nose out of habit when he was a kid, and eventually it came off over the course of years of scratching. His name is lo0p__ : https://www.twitch.tv/lo0p__

Edit: You can see him explain the effects of not feeling pain in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XalQkahQbpE
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Based on how bad firewall filters work I wouldn't trust a bit any statistics like this one.

Also, I feel like there are reasonable motives for visiting porn or porn-related sites in this case. It may sound like a joke but if work at legislative body responsible for creating new laws you should be able to do research.