skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 67 years ago in 1952. Anyone can live there now if they have the money. Unfortunately, the problem in Levittown, like the problem with the rest of Long Island (and many other areas of the country) are that housing prices are massively inflated and taxes are insanely out of proportion of the services you get back for paying them.

For the honor of living in an average small house in this economically depressed area you can look forward to shelling out ~$500,000 and paying $8,000+ a year in property taxes. That's the real obstacle for working people to come move to places like Levittown. A few decades ago young, working people looking to start a family could buy a house in a place like Levittown for 2-3x their annual income. Now its more like 8-10x of their annual income. It isn't economically sustainable, like much of the rest of our economic system, and it has absolutely nothing to do with racism.

https://www.zillow.com/levittown-ny/
As a supporting data point, I looked up the stats. My “elite” undergrad institution increased enrollment by 14% in the last 15 years.
They have to be competitive especially at the more senior levels.
What is the redacted company that might own Proton?
You’re not the only one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20187007
You also have way more people living at home into their 20s and 30s, so you get 4-5 cars per house. When cops and prison guards are making $200,000 a year someone has to pay for it.
Maybe? Someone still needs to host the data. I often see IPFS brought up in this context, but it's not a panacea.
> The average administrative staff wage is over 250k (

This is a big salary even in SF. What average admin staff is that?
My Pixel 3 has spam filtering on by default. I rarely get spam. If you still get spam you can screen calls as they come in. There's a button on the "Hey your phone is ringing" screen where you can send callers to a prompt asking them to identify themselves.

You can also configure Do Not Disturb mode to allow calls to come in from your contacts or from your favorites.
Dang: Pretty sure my submission was the first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20187007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export

'The Commission responded that it was unaware of the existence of any "Chinese Export" mark'

This legend has to stop. CE is a self declaration marking, and it's just people applying the CE marking when they have not respected the relevant standards.
Ideally, version your APIs, though for some internal APIs you definitely want to be able to make changes without bumping versions constantly.

Be backwards and forward compatible as much as possible. Rolling deployments and other factors virtually guarantee mismatched versions in both directions. Many things, like adding new fields or removing old ones, can be staged in such a way that nothing breaks. Protobuf/gRPC offers some form of backwards and forwards compatibility (at the data model layer, of course,) if you adhere to certain basic invariants.

Almost any change can be staged over time, how long you want to keep compatibility between versions is up to you.

Oh, probably most important: keep clear data model separations wherever you can. Between storage and API, and API and in-memory state management. It’s a lot of work, but it pays dividends.
Early FI adopter. I still get a fair amount of spam calls, but the number of calls does seem to have gone down recently. So maybe they are making some progress.
But that is not my choice
Better make sure there's no spaces in that <something> or that will break.

I usually use this:

<something> | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 -n1 command

The tr will convert newlines to nulls. Otherwise you need to change the IFS.

Just commenting because this was a bugbear of mine when getting started in bash.
The Tali landfill in the second link must be very old. It seems they designed it to drain directly into the river. That's definitely not how a modern landfill is designed, and not just because of plastics.

Wikipedia seems to suggest the landfill was known as "Talinhuippu" and claims it was in use 1963–1979.
But they should be limited to only allow them to spoof numbers they own.
Yes, hence the lower penetration of third party messaging apps in the US. In the US iMessage does much of what you'd want a third party app for and it's transparently integrated with SMS for approximately half the population.
What are you referring to that changed in government over the last couple decades?
They're not quite the same. Certainly if there are five vertices all connected to each other then the graph can't be four-coloured. But the converse isn't true.

https://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/07/a-graph-t...
I wouldn't mind if each call had a connection fee, such as a penny to try to connect to a number. That would (might?) align the carriers with the changes necessary.

I also find it really annoying how cellphone and smartphone companies don't give individuals the tools to redirect unknown callers to voicemail or do some sort of basic algorithmic/call screening things. On iphone the most beginning programmer could come up with something better than do not disturb.
Anecdotal, but I have Google Fi and I receive about 5 to 10 spam calls a day.
> So, when are we going to actually take away the ability to spoof your phone number?

When we burn SS7 to the ground and start over, which will never happen in an era of WhatsApp/FB messenger/telegram/signal
Stellar comment. Thanks for taking the time (and risk) to write it.
You must have used some really terrible touchscreen GPSes.
Original spoofing made a little sense in the context of a limited capacity PBX, and a limited capacity exchange providing line grouping and hunt groups. It made sense when it could only spoof to the extent of the branch or local office going out on one consistent number for all the work groups. Sales could always give the number of the local office rather than their desk. A big office might have to have a group of sales numbers. That's the world spoofing came into, and it is long dead.

Most of the responses I see so far don't seem to realise that world ever existed.

The bank/doctor/employer used to call from the local visible office. You'd know if it was the local bank branch, the nearby business office, the card, loan or mortgage centre as they'd all have different PBX spoofed numbers as it was constrained by the line groups. You wouldn't get to know from caller ID whose desk it was.

Let small businesses spoof the least significant digit - yes just ONE, and large businesses two digits. Then it can work like it was meant to, and we can have customer service again.
What in heck is wrong with the pinch to zoom out on an iPhone on that website?
Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (2008)
I don't feel safe on some of the marked cycling lanes I use regularly, but you're right that it's still a good step toward education and acceptance.

There's a marked lane on my commute that I now ride much more carefully than the roads I use, because pedestrians are more likely to step out, and cars open doors without looking, because the lane seems to give them a false sense of safety. But with time they can learn that it should be the opposite.

I'm mostly grateful for clearly marked lanes when there's an incident and I can simply point out that yes, I do actually have a right to be riding there and they should have been looking where they're going.
Gitkraken no longer free for self hosted repos
I've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast, or preferably, a laptop hooked up to a TV.

And I've lost a lot. My TV is slow. When I try to control the volume, sometimes I have to wait multiple seconds.

And things stop working all the time and require a reboot.

I hate the damn thing. It even comes with bloatware for some reason, games I'll never play that it insists on updating forever.

And with the privacy concerns on top of all that, I wish I had a dumb TV.

My shit cube TV from the 90s was better!
OTOH, they do - frequently. If you can bank half your take home which is totally doable you get to move out and buy whatever home you like nearly wherever you like and retire.
They can be lined in a way to be easily compostable
JS on, block pretty much everything else. You can read it all 4 free. I'm sure you are being tracked via js though.
The four color theorem is notoriously difficult to prove. However for intuitive understanding, you can look at the proof that five colors suffice to color any map. That proof should be understandable by anyone with an undergraduate level understanding of graph theory.
You have another option for people of your ideological inclination: ban any software product that is made outside of the us. Inevitable, consumers will have to turn to the domestic market which will inflate the salaries you are so interested in protecting.

Once that works, you can advance further and ban free open-source, including platforms like Github. Free labor is the enemy of high wages. You can increase salaries even more by regulating licenses and limiting how many people can be software engineers or write code at all.

And then you can keep going, and ban high use of computing power: you will need more labor to compensate the inefficiencies of wasteful, environment harming, computer processing.

Success is guaranteed!
There's a reason white Americans (speaking generally) have generational wealth from home ownership, and black Americans don't. It's policies like the ones that created whites-only Levittowns. It's not that long ago! It's within a couple generations of everyone.

> the Federal Housing Administration, which was established in 1934, furthered the segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near African-American neighborhoods — a policy known as "redlining." At the same time, the FHA was subsidizing builders who were mass-producing entire subdivisions for whites — with the requirement that none of the homes be sold to African-Americans.

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...
I'm not sure why they singled out hospitals (and particularly patients) for this article. This is a problem for any business and indeed anyone with a phone. I get the calls constantly. While a hospital emergency line getting one of these calls is annoying, and perhaps more detrimental than another business getting calls, it still doesn't stand out enough to warrant any specific focus like this. Police, fire, and ambulance services are all affected as well. Aside from the hospital's emergency number, they're just a big business, and the disruption to their administrative staff is no more harmful to society than the disruption of any office's administrative staff. And the patients are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

The FCC just last week started tackling this. They're working on allowing telco providers to implement blocking and also whitelisting. I haven't read all the details, but it seems like there were regulations preventing them from acting, and they're trying to remove those regulations.

In the end, this is a technical problem. It simply shouldn't be possible to spoof phone numbers this way. Surely the major telcos know where these calls are originating, at least on a network level. If they're all coming from China, clearly they're not going to block all of China, but they could ensure that calls coming from China's telco(s) are not routed if their source caller ID info is spoofed to indicate a US network. That might not stop the calls, but at least they wouldn't show up as coming from US numbers.

If you've never been a recipient of one of these calls, one of the hallmarks is that the caller ID will show it coming from the same area code and exchange as your number. So if your phone number is 917-555-1212, the calls will usually appear to come from 917-555-XXXX. Surely the phone company has a way to identify and handle this situation, at least better than they do now. Mobile phones probably complicate this. Maybe someone who knows how the networks operate can speak about the technical barriers?

[1]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-19-51A1.pdf
No, in fact there are graphs of arbitrary chromatic number that don’t even contain a triangle. It’s true, and quite easy to prove, that a planar graph can’t contain a complete subgraph on 5 vertices. But this isn’t sufficient to prove the four-color theorem.

There is a slight modification of the statement that may be correct; if you replace the condition of having a complete subgraph with that of having a complete minor, this is a very famous open problem called the Hadwiger conjecture. (It’s known to be true for the case n=5, i.e. every 5-chromatic graph has a K_5 minor.)
I hope privacy becomes a core thing people care about, as much as having a right to free speech.

It already is a bit but it isn't quite mainstream enough.

It's more like a nerds concern, but it should be everyone's.

Maybe because free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution but not privacy.
True, but there is recent evidence that is pretty much the gold standard for a perfect randomized experiment where they tracked children with high blood levels who did and did not receive interventions to lower it. Those receiving treatment committed violent crimes at a far lower rate than those who were exposed but had no intervention. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/app.20160056
Note your own phrasing: "the Bush torture program". The torture program, if you oppose it, wasn't CIA oversight failure, it was a policy failure originating in the executive branch. There was plenty of awareness and oversight. Also, there was an indictment and conviction - David Passaro. He was sentenced to 8 years for the death in custody of Abdul Wali.
You need $8-10k/mo for mortgage and property tax payments on a median home, so yes, the "barely" part is your entire discretionary budget.
According to archive.org this piece has been around since at least 2017. Not sure if it was written before then though.
Maybe I don't know exactly what cliff vesting is, but while Microsoft doesn't backload vesting, it does do vesting in chunks (like once a year iirc). And as another commenter pointed out it doesn't kick in until 6 months. But at places like google the vesting is monthly and starts after the first month.

Also one quirk of microsoft is since they have a half-title promotion system, as I understand it, it's normal to get refreshers on years 1-3 through a 4 year vest after a half-title/one-level promotion.
Yeah same. Tons of spam calls on my fi number.
Cheaper to hire by the design of people that agree with you: if you want them to be just as pricey as an american you have to eliminate all restrictions of negotiation.

You also have to eliminate all tax-benefits that americans receive that foreigners don't. And then you have to make public all wages of american citizens, to equal the information asymetry
The open software / standards would need to cover every aspect of a given product, such that external people / enthusiasts / (etc) would be able to generate fixed firmware and upload it after the manufacturer ends support.

That might work for _some_ devices with extremely large user bases.

Devices with specialist properties or a low number of users sound like they'd be very tricky to have that approach work reliably.

That being said, if there's wide adoption of "known good" base level firmware (eg powering on, init device capabilities) then maybe the specialist stuff could be add on's or something. eg modularising things might be a way to get closer to the goal
I don't think that really counts as living with minimal waste then.
Not sure either. In fact, I didn't realise there was a popup until after you pointed out.
"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it."

As true today as it was in 1978
I don't think anything about Bowie or PG county is notable given its location. The entire DC area is propped up by the defense industry.

Everywhere else in the country is really different. DC didn't even experience the 2008 great recession
iOS 13 does have this. You can silence unknown callers or callers not in your contacts. This is independent of Do Not Disturb.
And yet we get constantly told that there’s no space for homes and that it’s too expensive to live anywhere. There are plenty of opportunities out there but when everyone wants to live in only the most desirable areas it creates local shortages.
If you want to stay independent and go(?) open source then going on patreon might work. At least it works modestly for others[1].

[1] https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk
White people got loan guarantees from the government in 1967 to move there. The whole thing was directly subsidized. People moving in today are not subsidized.

This amounted to a big transfer of wealth to white Americans, that black Americans couldn't participate in. They were stuck paying rent for 67 years while their white "peers" were able to build equity, as they had access to cheap credit.

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...
The murky business of crystal mining
Legitimate use for spoofing:
A call from outside the office comes into the company phone system and my extension is set to ring multiple phones simultaneously, some external to the phone system (e.g. mobile phone). I want the caller ID info coming into my mobile to be that of the original caller, not that of my phone system. If I couldn't spoof the caller's number, I would see the phone number of my office.
But it has not been only top-tier universities whose tuition has increased so dramatically, it has been nearly every university. The only ones that haven't skyrocketed in price have been community colleges.
Well, as deprecation track of niche services show, it's not safe even when backed by multibillion corporations :)
> I think current fashions are very much to blame in a lot of cases. A sleek touchscreen operated car in the showroom is a sexier buy than your more traditional button festooned dashboard. Buyer's only get a chance to regret it after they've spent a lot of time with the vehicle.

Exactly. Touch screens are pure tech fad in about 50% of use cases at least, with the decision to use them not based on any kind of practical considerations.

However, I'm a little skeptical that the average buyer is going to regret using one. A lot of people seem to get hung up on newer tech == better tech, so they never really seem to look at the newer technology with a critical eye. I often prefer older tech in some cases (e.g. buttons and knows), but my fiancee often doesn't get it and advises me to stop fighting it and go with the trend.
A Norwegian City Wants to Abolish Time
>You can spend $5k/mo on a rental

This is the key to happiness in the Bay Area, honestly. The rentals are just fine if you're willing to shell out. Sure you're not building wealth but you have plenty left over to invest, even in a kickass high-rise apartment. It's specifically a desire to own that will screw you over, no matter your compensation.
Give a Break
So those businesses can redo how they handle their outbound calls. When a business emails me, they don’t use a different domain each time.
if it's done with the express consent of the user and the data is not sold, i don't see the problem. it's only a matter of who i trust with my usage data. if it's not the vpn, then it's my isp.

but, wouldn't a local 'fake' vpn be enough to capture all that locally on the phone? there is no need to send traffic to a remote server for this purpose. or does apple not allow that? it works fine on android.
Soil composition, fertilizers, vegetable strains, and weather conditions all impact taste. Tomatoes from my garden made from heirloom seeds taste significantly better than best boy, beefsteak, or even tomatoes on the vine. I've had tomatoes from Italy, in Romania if all places, and can concur that even the produce exported tastes worlds better than what you can buy in the average US supermarket. I'd wager that the type of produce grown in the US is the culprit as it tends to be more important to have shelf stable and attractive produce than tasty produce. Stuff from my garden or the farmer's market is comparable to produce I've had in Europe.
95% of everyone would agree with you. It's the car manufacturers and the business people behind the terrible tech in the car industry that disagree and want us to have touchscreens.
Smuggling guns from Benghazi to Syria, using the embassy in Benghazi as a means of cover, was the lastest I heard. Sey Hersh did a whole investigation and report on it
Not in contacts.
The official base Ubuntu image is really not particularly large, I'm assuming you were using an image with additional things installed? But regardless, once pulled, it is cached locally. Be sure to reference the image by specific tag/sha rather than latest to ensure you're not doing excessive pulls.

Overlayfs 1 had many issues. Overlay 2 was buggy for a long time and we needed to patch in aufs in production for stability and lock around image pulls to prevent kernel deadlocks. But at this point, overlay2 is extremely stable in the 4.x kernel series in production. Though, there is still the copy-up quirk with hard links but that affects very few applications in the wild.

If you don't like overlay filesystems, you can use the devicemapper storage driver, and if you set it to direct-lvm mode it should be pretty equivalent to VM based volumes. When it comes to mounting in shared directories from the host though, I trust docker's bind mounts much more than VM based filesystem solutions.

Anyway, if you work alone or on a small team, VMs certainly suffice and the appeal of docker may be limited, but much of the convenience of docker comes from the ecosystem and immutability of images. I've always found it frustrating that such an ecosystem was built around docker when it could have been done with VMs all along. If your company is building docker image artifacts of your software as part of the CI system and that software has many dependencies, executing a production build becomes as easy as "docker run X" and reduces the need for developers to standardize their workstations on one linux distribution. That said, while I find this incredibly useful, it's rare that I do proper development with local docker images unless I'm briefly touching something with painful dependencies (like getting the frontend stack working to make a quick UI change as a backend developer)
Icloudin V_3.0 iCloud Bypass Software [iOS 13 – iOS 12.4 – iOS 12.3.2]
I don't think US population increased 14% in the last 15 years (even the world is barely 16%).
I worked at ~6 startups for about 10 years before google.
What do I have to show for it?
A slight beer belly and less motivation to build something from the ground up yet again only to see it burn down. Yeah, I had a ton of fun too.

Would I trade all those years at startups for going straight to google? eeh, maybe 4 of them.
On the other hand though, I don't think I would have made it through the interview without knowing a lot of random shit I learned at startups.

Also being a dad and working at a startup does not mix well.
Which is all relevant to when this happened 60 years ago and not to working people today who were born generations after that happened. Talking about, "white America" like its some sort of monolith is idiotically reductionist. The generational disparity in wealth is magnitudes of order greater than the racial disparity. Start crying about the old people if you want a group to blame.
You Need to Know Edge Relaxation for Shortest Paths Problem
and you won't have a large network traffic bill, making your app more profitable.
Or if the practice was simply banned. In Germany companies cold calling private individuals carries a heavy fine (up to several hundred k), and I haven't had a robocall in 20 years.
Partially true. The proper type of paint was never available. For that reason, alkyd and oil based paint was used for everything, including over metal.