skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had someone make a robocall to everyone in my area code using my number... and then everyone called _me_ back all day long asking me "whats up?" and things like that. It was incredible and when I called my provider they told me there was nothing they can do to stop it because robo-callers can spoof the numbers they appear to be calling from and they have no audit trail for it.

I feel like this is a completely solvable technical problem, I can't accept that it has to be this way.
“Making it clear” doesn’t do anything to mitigate the danger. The danger is in doing the thing.

The way to win the game is to not play.
I said "much easier", specifically in comparison to creating a
profitable high-end national grocery chain.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year.

Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon.

The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in.

I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became cheaper to just get a new unit rather than fill up an old unit with freon."

I would imagine that as the price of IPv4 addresses crosses some threshold, people will just start going to IPv6.

As Michael Crichton once said in one of his books: "There was no subsidy that caused people to switch from horses to cars". They were just cheaper and easier to operate.
So i looked it up and from what i see Mygalomorphae (which is tarantulas, trap-door spiders and others) are an infraorder of spiders. I don't know why I remember the difference to be more distinct.

In any case, the way i mentioned it is as a technicality (like tomato is a fruit). mygalomorphs are slightly different than other spiders, a bit like ""ancient"" spiders. They have two pairs of book lungs (breathing organs), and their fangs are parallel and face down (in spiders the fangs face eachother i think)

Glad i could share ^_^
What constitutes ‘extremism’? It’s a term so vague as to be practically meaninglessness.
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Because the people appointed are essentially placed there by companies that profit more by having the system the way it is right now.
You might want to start thinking about a new job, because you are working for people who want you to be an indentured servant.
I did not want to spoil it all :)
https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/transfers/stls/regis...

This looks like a blip compared to demand so I wouldn't expect prices to drop.
The large piles of firewood before it had been stacked were great fun. The hayloft is of course a classic playground. And a gravel pit (the site where gravel is mined) is quite exciting...
Thanks for the response! I'll definitely dig into it some more.
I think it's a common misunderstanding worth bringing up here that probably affects more people than the falsehoods listed in the article. On roughly 3 out of the 4 times I've had a coworker run into a timezone issue (different person each time), their first impulse was to do something like what I described. (I stopped them early most of the times, so maybe they would have figured out it was the wrong way to go about it.)

Unix times show up in a lot of APIs and aren't always explicitly called "Unix times". People just see that at some point there's an integer value representing a timestamp, and the time string displayed to the user is some number of hours off, so they think they need to change that integer.
Extremism seemt to match up closely with an opinion that is opposite those in power.
In my experience as a contractor, the client doesn't care about the money until they do. The contractors that I have seen thrive and the times that I have thrived as a contractor is when I showed that I was there to provide value and not just "coast". Most businesses don't have time to deal with coasters until they need to cut their burn rate. If you are providing more than what you're asked you can usually stay or be first in line to return when help is required.
This feels like a really unconvincing argument. A few thousand is a lot of lives. A few lives would feel like a few too many.
> Lexical scoping

Yes.

> Coroutines

No.

> Generators

Yes.

> Decorators

No.

> Generic type containers

In progress. But also PHP has dynamic/weak typing and static/strong typing so this isn't strictly necessary.

> A functional API (e.g. something like Java 8 streams)

Available as a 3rd party library.

> An extensive selection of data structures (collections) included in the standard lib

https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php
What are EY kids?
This is a very hard problem that YouTube and Facebook made for themselves by becoming the world’s largest advertising platforms. They depend on engagement for ad revenue, they designed world-class algorithms to promote this engagement, and it turned out that extremist content happens to be very engaging.

And so the problem is, building an algorithm that blindly promotes whatever keeps users on the site, for all its complexity, is a far more tractable problem compared to building a system that can avoid promoting content that promotes violence. In the meantime, they throw armies of people at the problem, to moderate content and respond to user reports, but it’s a losing battle.

They had the technology to create a monster, but don’t have the technology to stop it.
What a conundrum. If you ask for permission, follow the spirit of the existing regulatory environments, but arent actually breaking any laws then what incentive do you have? You’d just be the foolish one while other companies who don’t jump through all those hoops capture market and mindshare and the regulatory bodies catch up.
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Do you have a link or a name? I'm interested in hearing more.
probably my favorite childhood memory: my grandfather ordered a large dumptruck of sand for our tiny hand dug pond in our backyard, in an attempt to make a beach.

needless to say, as a younger boy, seeing a towering (maybe 8-10ft. height) pile of sand was amazing, I put on my swimming trunks, sunscreen and grabbed a bucket and shovel.

i spent hours just digging holes and making sand castles in the hot sun of a kansas summer, I think my parents were relieved that I was off the computer for a significant portion of time.
https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS
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> they're paying for butts in seats

There's also the case, which IMO is the standard case, that the company is trying to pay for output but it's a long and winding road from the butt in the seat to the output to the sale.

Within that, if you're say a dev manager, and it's really hard to get head count allocated, then it can be totally rational to keep an idle butt in a paid-for seat so you don't lose the seat.

Even if the Mr Idlebutt is terrible at his job you have at least some possibility of replacing him later on, when you have a need for some work to be done and probably wouldn't easily get a new seat allocated for it.

Not only is it nearly impossible to establish a direct relationship between any particular butt-in-seat and your budget, in principle it's probably a good thing to operate with a little excess capacity.

Until the dream of the Fully Fungible Knowledge Worker is achieved, which it won't be, this is a lot more rational than the implied waste would lead you to believe. Of course this doesn't factor in morale impact...
The approach seems fairly reasonable, it sounds like it's limited to explicitly violent extremist content, and it's being done using pension funds of various governments in a activist investment manner to try to bring about changes
There is more than a grain of truth to this; a couple of years ago it's was brought to my attention that since the 1950s, children being killed in traffic in Norway was down by a couple of orders of magnitude, even though traffic had increased by a couple of orders of magnitude in the same time.

Drowning? Also down by a similar ratio. Generic accidents? Same, same.

Sure, there has never been as safe a time to be a kid as today. Big question is, does being wrapped in cotton throughout your formative years make for a safer life as an adult, or did you miss some lessons in risk assessment which makes you more prone to getting it good and hard later in life?
I failed my amazon whiteboard interview, I couldn't write a flawless binary search and as a result the guy said my entire CV must be a lie. There was a bug in the code somewhere, couldn't figure it out without a compile and a debug run. I've been coding for 38 years and I've built a world class product but hey, whiteboards don't lie right? Personally I think it was the fact that I was dealing with a lot at the time, personal stuff, plus I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my socket server wasn't scaling properly to serve a large network, and I was nervous as heck.

If you want a developer who can rattle of a computer science algorithm, then whiteboard interviews are the way to go. I would rather ask the developer how she would create a password authentication scheme, and in doing so potential avoid a data breach down the line when they fail to apply proper security principles. Or I would challenge them on how they normally approach a problem, so that I could see how teachable they are. People who are not teachable are bad for business. I would also ask them to share a technique with me to see how willing to share information they are because IT people who don't like to share information are equally bad for business.

Lastly 'culture fit' is about finding more drinking buddies, if that's what you're hiring manager is doing you should fire him asap.
don't stand in the road while I have the legal right of way is all I can think of when I read posts like this.
> I can't fathom what would drive someone to be so angry about a company as to spend more time researching it than even the most rabid fanboy

I can. And it's not random. It doesn't have a lot to do with Tesla, it has to do with worlds changing.

A lot of people grew up in a culture where men were respected, beef was the best food except maybe bacon, oil was a respectable professional and cars were a respectable hobby. Hitching up to someone you can have kids with would at least put you in position to have status in your community. And all the best people are mostly white, except in ethnic activities like cooking and basketball.

Then the world said:

- Men are the #1 threat to women's safety, even the men who are close to them

- Men are taking advantage of women financially, and interfering with their work

- Cars and gas are destroying the earth

- Beef and bacon are toxic and toxic for the environment

- Straight people are boring if not oppressive, fluid sexuality and queerness is the new symbol of vibrancy and virility

- White people cheated their way to the top

- Black people make the best art, Japanese people are the best engineers, women are the best CEOs, and gay people have the best parties

It's a lot to deal with if you grew up in the first world and find yourself in the second. Especially if you're a meat eating straight man with a nice car.

And yet, pretty much all of those bullet points are scientifically accurate. And the population overwhelmingly is accepting those ideas.

So you have a group of people with status and power who is feeling it slipping from their fingers. So they look for any and all opportunities to chip away at the bullet points. Electric cars are a sham. Queer people are snowflakes who don't understand that gender is a thing. Etc.

Frankly, I think the blame lies in the progressive world, which has left behind anyone considered regressive, trying to lionize marginalized identities rather than developing a true radically inclusive politics.

Not that I am criticizing... I think it is somewhat intentional, the centering of marginal identities. It has powerful benefits for the people who are centered, which maybe outweigh the cost of marginalizing men, white people, straight people, etc.

I guess I'm not saying those decisions were bad, so much as I'm saying someone does need to start a platform of radical inclusivity if they want to bring the incels and Tesla haters and Trump voters and all them back into the fold of liberal society.
Great idea, but a much shorter time-frame would be in order, especially for something that really is unconstitutional.
Power response is a really fascinating metric, and people don't bring it up very often.

The interesting thing about power response is that it's one of those things that you can't fix with an EQ.

IE, if I have a speaker that's too "hot" or it's too rolled off, I can address that via EQ. But if your power response is bad, there is very little you can do about it.

It IS possible to improve the power response by tweaking the crossover, but that is one of those things that separates the good engineers from the great ones: nearly anyone can make a speaker that measures flat on axis. The hard part is getting it to behave on axis AND off.

If you look at brands like KEF and Genelec, they've paid a lot of attention to this.
Reasonable is relative to the situation.

No, I learned how to manage my work load (potential and actual) from clients for my physical/mental health.

The motivation is what determines the actions.

I know a guy who founded a software company and started contracting work overseas. He became too confident and over-committed to clients without managing expectations. For a couple of months he looked terrible. Thankfully, he found an escape path and closed the company. He's now employed full time in a dev role.

This path isn't for everyone.
I subscribe to HBO, ShowTime, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, have an antenna. I pay less then half the amount I was paying to DirectTv. So it's not even close to dead.
I was lucky growing up in Kentucky, behind my parents house was roughly 20 acres of woods that couldnt be developed due to flooding. Was a great place to play at all ages growing up - playing cowboys and indians, paintball, setting up a ‘bmx’ course. We got hurt a lot of course falling out of trees breaking arms and legs or landing in rocks and needing stitches. But it was a ton of fun!
Why? I'm honestly surprised by the brevity of your comment and by how strong your opinion apparently is in one direction.
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And yet those in power are the ones who get to decide what the term means.
That's one of the falsehoods. Unix time is not equal to the number of elapsed seconds since the epoch, it is equal to N x 86400 + s, where N is the number of days that have elapsed since the epoch, and s is the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight.
It's worth asking if most of what society is doing is prestige-seeking?

Conspicuous consumption is undeniable when looking at some goods and services, but what about the ordinary, say university?
This reminds me one of my favorite comments of patio11 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477088

>> Frew, who apprenticed with a Savile Row tailor, can — all by himself, and almost all by hand — create a pattern, cut fabric and expertly construct a suit that, for about $4,000, perfectly molds to its owner’s body. In a city filled with very rich people, he quickly had all the orders he could handle.

> You don't have to be Wall Street to figure out the bleedingly obvious solution to being a starving artist who has so much work they have to turn work away. Raise the prices. Then raise the prices. Then when you're done with that, raise the prices.

> At some point you'll be too expensive for the typical businessman, which will make you absolutely crack for a certain type of person common in New York, thus defeating all efforts at being less busy. So it goes. I guess you will have to raise prices.
I'm certain that in at least some cases, speed limits are kept artificially low so officers have an easy reason to pull someone over. This is done to give officers an opportunity to inspect you for other violations.

I'm also certain that if one day every driver made nothing but legal driving maneuvers, the world would shut down before lunch.
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IDC forecasts over 7% global decline in 2019 semiconductor revenue
I rather live with the remote threat of extremism rather than live in a censored world.

Would you rather live in North Korea with no extremism?

You have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than dying from extremism and yet you'd give up your right to free speech for some remote threat?

That kind of thinking is the cause of north korea and nazi germany. Authoritarians always use remote threats to justify taking your rights away.
Ha. Now you just reminded me of my other favorite playground. The rock quarry by our house. It was private land full of ravines and (in the winter/spring) small streams. In wetter seasons, one of the pits would flood with muddy water.

When we were younger we'd climb the fence and go adventuring. As we got older, it was bolt cutters to get the gate open and ride our ATCs out there. If you saw a truck in the distance, it was time to scatter.

I'm pretty sure the cops/security back then were content with us running away.
My introduction to gVisor was the talk by Emma Haruka Iwao at InfoQ NY 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0hbW_K66s

I learned of the talk because Brian Cantrill referenced it during his very deep dive into operating systems, C, and Rust given later at the some event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtRAbE1nBM
I certainly have no love list for the big rental car companies, but I don't see any logical reason why I should have to pay additional taxes and fees when renting from Hertz but not GetAround or Turo.

The article didn't go into it that much, is the current issue that Turo is arguing that, as just a "platform", that hosts are the ones responsible for taxes and fees and they're just not collecting or paying them? Similar to what AirBnB said in the early days? Because I don't understand why existing laws would apply only for traditional rentals but not peer-to-peer rentals.
Good luck routing anything more specific than a /24 (256 addresses) globally.
Never knew about this... interesting article!
>Analysts predict the global market will double in value by 2022 to more than $120 billion.

Double in 3 years? That seems excessive.
Preventing viral spreading of the videos I think is unquestionably ideal, but there's also a section in this "Call" stating another goal, to "Counter the drivers of terrorism ... to resist ideology and narratives... through education and building media literacy..." [some words removed so the message is less hidden]. It's hard not to suspect political motivation, given that Internet platforms are turf wars for politics these days.
Light text also tends to disappear into the background when an ‘evening light’ red filter is enabled―which are becoming more popular these days.
As a European I wonder how much this whole discussion translates to Europe (and its countries more specifically). American professionals seem to be dealing in ridiculously, obscenely high payments, seen from my personal vantage point. But that's also because money has an enormous role in life there. If you have money you are someone. You are someone to the extent of how much money you have.
More generally I wonder how much my perception gets distorted by reading HN regularly.
Hurts your long term prospects a lot more if you sue your employer for not giving you the sort of work or access to the celebrity boss you wanted...

(nobody else said anything about the roles they'd been given being a non-job, although everybody else found something better to do elsewhere after a couple of years. Looking like a smart businessperson on TV is actually incredibly good for career prospects)
> The funny part was the owner constantly talking about how much better a $25K pair of speakers sounded than a $15K pair of speakers.

The funny thing is that it's actually the complete opposite. Due to the law of vanishing returns, the difference between a $25K unit and a $15K unit can be subtle.

It is astonishing how good speakers are these days. I'm running a set of Behringers that cost $300 and they exceed anything you could buy for a $1000 in Y2K.

Of course, this assumes that you buy new. If you buy used, there's a lot of great stuff under $1000.
Yes, everything you said is true, but none of it contradicts my point.

"You could hypothetically be giving up all your privacy if there are bugs, and in some cases there are known bugs causing you to give up a limited amount of privacy" is a very different level of threat from "you are giving up all your privacy to Amazon who will use it for ad targeting".

I'm willing to accept the former, in return for the amount of convenience I get from the device.

However, others in this thread are arguing that nobody should accept the latter, which is irrelevant because it's not the real situation.
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I agree with that assessment. My experience has been reading a good bit into it. I considered learning it a few months ago, but wanted to focus on things that people were currently hiring for. Maybe at some point I will learn more, but I am a bit too broke right now to spend that much time on something that doesn't pay. I don't say that to be disparaging, it goes back to my point about it being immature and not having many engineers or companies using it.
Okay, I'll bite. Here is an alternative. Make it illegal for any "news" agency to publicly name the group or individual that commits any "terrorist" act. Make it a multi-million dollar fine per instance. We need to stop giving these people their 15 minutes of fame or infamy. All coverage must be about the victims only.

We also need to collectively care about stopping extremism with other approaches. One thing that is that most people who commit these heinous acts have reached a point where their lives have to perceived value. They are then easily radicalized. (See blue collar America blaming all their jobs lost to automation on Mexicans) People who have money for their family and are generally happy don't go around killing for some cause. Addressing wealth inequality can help.

The challenge of supporting this kind of "good censorship" is always who will watch the watchers? What passes for terrorism in the US is different than in a country like Russia or North Korea or .... A lot of people (even in the US) are very careful about what they post on socials. What happens if people who attack a certain viewpoint or organization are suddenly declared "evil" and the cause of all our ills? Is someone on a bowling team with a closet Nazi or KKK member also guilty? You only need to look back at McCarthyism to see how easily "good" people can be weaponized into something terrible.
> The first step is always converting from UTC to TAI

I believe you are actually converting to Terrestrial Time.
If there is a correction of TAI+32.184 seconds in your calculation, that would indicate TT.
That site is the reason I no longer maintain a regular profile, or attempt to garner karma.

It's the point at which I realized HN doesn't permit any active control over prior activity. Based on that, you have 60 minutes to give each post some thought. If your user name is associated with your real name, and you might have any reason to regret your statement, past, present or future, think fast!

This shit will ruin your life.
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