skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this a problem that a lot of people on Hacker news have been frustrated with. I decided to develop a solution that uses whitelisting, which is a better approach than blacklisting.

Here's some more information about CallStop. CallStop automatically creates a whitelist from your contacts, and allows people to send you whitelist requests effortlessly via text links.

You can also manage an unlimited number of temporary PINs which you can drop into Slack, your email footer or anywhere where groups of people reach you.

When an unknown caller calls your device number, they hear the following message:

"You have reached a phone number protected by CallStop. If you know this person, press 1 to send a whitelist request with a quick note. If you have a PIN to reach this person directly, press 2 and enter the PIN."

How does the app work? You forward your number to your CallStop number upon signup. Incoming calls are received via VOIP pushkit and filtered via whitelist rules.

If you want to accept all calls as most phones do currently, you can just toggle that on in the Settings page of CallStop.

You can also customize your voice message upon signup to add a personal touch.

I've also created a landing page at callstop.com for the app.

I hope this solves this problem for many of you! Thanks
Why Private Equity Should Not Exist
Only use it as an identifier, not as a part of authentication. The issues with using an SSN as a identifier (username) are:

1) Explicitly not meant as an identifier

2) Not unique

If not for 2, then the SSN could simply be repurposed to be this identifier.
I mean we're pretty much all going to want to live as close as possible to the mountain of gold that is the jobs in those areas, poor or rich. A poorer person can more easily get a replacement job in SV than anywhere else. In fact when it was still somewhat affordable (I've moved away from SV) I've had a friend that was just a terrible employee, they couldn't hold a job - but they were NEVER unemployed, they stayed with some hotel or waitress position for about a month - got fired, hired again somewhere else before you could blink. Her husband, after living there long enough eventually got a software QA position and they finally moved up - poor to middle overnight. Mountain of gold.
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
If I recall correctly ICANN didn't allow custom naked gTLDs to resolve to web pages. Just read about when people were upset that they wouldn't be able to call their local box http://dev/ because the top domain is now owned by google.
The ECS isn't particularly helpful for near-term predictions of temperature change. The transient climate response is essentially unchanged in these new models (1-2.5 degrees) immediately after a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. The ECS is the equilibrium change and could take centuries to fully be felt.
Ah, sorry mate.

I just found the first resume that google returned that was clearly yours. Not that you have to care about random google searches, but you might want to consider taking down your old resume.

What do you mean "not including current job"? This resume clearly says 2014-present.

Do feel free to ignore me, I'm not really trying to force you to explain yourself here if you don't want to.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-panhandlers-make-50-an-...
I can not hold my previously owned XS in one hand and text one person then go back to text another without moving the phone’s position in my hand. Thus I took it back ..bad UX that makes me exert effort my iPhone 8 doesn’t.

Also no Touch ID..pick phone up without looking at it and boom phone is open. Face ID forces user to do more work..swipe up and look. Two more steps I didn’t have to do previously. Those to me as a UX professional who strives to make things easiest as possible equals bad UX. Forcing the user to exert more effort they didn’t have to before.

Apple has always been about ease of use..yet the person in charge of UX (Johnny Ive) thought making things an inch harder would be no big deal, yet look at the amount of phones they aren’t selling these days.
Family income shows different tends in the marshmallow test. Kids from rich families often do much better. To my knowledge, no one thinks this is because rich kids come from better genetic stock (you'd be amazed how many experiments and studies change when you control for income levels). This supports the gp's hypothesis of the causality stack being flipped upside-down. Having more money leads to less stress, because you have less want. If you're a child of wealth you may not directly have the money, but you sure have the benefits of it.
Is there a risk that the Chinese are going to inflame the exact kind of revolt they're seeking to avoid? Isn't it just human nature to rebel against something that aims to subdue your culture?
A reasonable answer, I think. But that requires more engineering and training and cost (perhaps it'll net out as savings in the end, but not up front).
Well, if they're trying to get you to switch or to adopt something new, they're trying to sell. There's more to trading than just money for product/service; could be attention, effort, endorsement, opinion and other signalling factors, etc.
I grew up around Sacramento. One nice thing was that we actually had 4 seasons, unlike SF. 100+ degree summers were sometimes rough though.
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> If you've already put in many hours to interview someone, taking 30 minutes to explain some areas of improvement or why it wasn't a good fit is a very valuable thing to do for your business in the long-run.

Which examples demonstrate this?
Being bombarded with Hong Kong news on Bloomberg [1], I am thinking perhaps Hong Kong took the other extreme. Having one of the lowest homicide rate in the world [2], the police is apparently turning against its citizen.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/search?query=hong%20kong
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
> #3) I was /never/ offered feedback. Not once!

> CTO wrote back and said verbatim, “I honestly wouldn’t have written you back, because the code you sent over is terrible. But my team liked some other things about your resume so I want to give you a second chance to impress me. Can you send over some different code?”

So you did get feedback, but only from the company you decided to be a jerk to.
Nobody can seem to find a specific person who died due to lack of healthcare with anything more than a tweet to back it up. Lots of "almost" cases but no definitive deaths. Why do you think that is given you claim this is happening all day every day.
Why must we continue to insist on dumbing down our presentation of technology. Instead we must insist that users rise to the occasion.

We are all inextricably linked to technology and yet I wonder if the newest users even know what a file extension is; because we hide that by default for some reason now. How many people have been the victims of phishing because an alias is more prominently displayed than the actual domain which the email originated from?

I'm ready for a return to function over form. Do not hide information from me. If I suspect that your product development is driven by the lowest common denominator then I will look for alternatives.

http and https are distinct and as such cannot be hidden; you could replace them with icons (barf) or ports (unlikely).

www.site.com is a subdomain and is again distinct from site.com with the 'www.' omitted. Just because they tend to resolve to the same server does not mean that they must.

Let's just call PI 3 because those decimals are an eyesore.
I actually wondered whether it was a reference to Matt Levine. Does literally every HN reader also read his news-letter?
Huh? The F-22 is the most capable manned fighter that exists on the planet, not even US adversaries dispute it being the master of the skies. It allows missions that would be otherwise impossible. Yes, the price of that is high.
I think the root of the technical interviewing issue is distrust. For some reason, too many programmers seem to have a inherent distrust in other programmers; a kind of "guilty until proven otherwise" mentality, where everyone else is a hack / fraud in disguise.

Whenever I see people defend the current practice, they tend to back it up with anecdotes like "I once had a technical manager who couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag","We once got this fresh CS grad that couldn't even write basic control statements, ridiculous!", "I have a co-worker that can't code".

I'm not sure why this field is more affected than any other I've been in. Other than "tech", I've been in regular business, and in electrical engineering (at big global corporations) - and the technical grilling is absolutely nothing like what you see in coding-focused tech.

I think technical interviews have their place, and are legit, but not when they're being used the wrong way.

Some guy breathing down your neck while expecting a 100% correct recital of some esoteric data-structure or algorithm, for the sake of correctness, seems like a terribly flawed way to go on about things - yet it's something you can expect to experience in this industry. Reminds me more of quizzing than interviewing.

So yeah, that's my observations on the current atmosphere. There are good companies with good practices out there, but sadly a ton of low-effort stuff that probably hurts both parties in the long run.
The Paradox of Toil (2010)
Also, the S400 and practically all ground-based long range radar systems have electronic footprints that make them stand out on sensor platforms designed to detect radars like high powered flashlights in a dark room allowing them to be easily mapped (for avoidance) and targeted (for destruction, if necessary) from over the horizon and far beyond the range of the systems themselves.

Systems like the Sx00 are very useful if there are multiple rings of them surrounding a static high-value target and you want to defeat a fleet of B-52s (or certain types of ballistic missiles) that are approaching.

They are borderline useless against any adversary that has low observability aircraft and a modern suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) capability.

Israel has demonstrated this repeatedly, but Russian marketing is very good and (mainly Middle Eastern) countries are still pumping wasted dollars into buying air defense systems.

In years of conflict Israel has launched thousands (2,000 in 2018 alone) of missiles at Syrian targets, and a grand total of one (1) F-16I has been shot down, and that was because the pilots were cocky (both survived) and they were loitering at high altitude doing battle damage assessments.

In response to the shoot-down, the launchers that fired the missile were destroyed the same day. Not only do the Russian missiles keep missing, but Israel keeps using their anti-missile missiles to shoot down the Russian missiles before they can fall on populated areas after missing their targets.
Acrobat (Pro) isn't complaining. Looks like Drive PDF is what's invalid and won't load (the valid PDF).
>There are certainly fields / problems that interest me (low level embedded type stuff, low latency programming, etc.), but they tend to not be accessible to someone with my educational background

You are absolutely wrong here. You can pick up Embedded & Electronics on your own(i have done it). Combine it with your experience writing CRUD apps, add a dash of ML in the Cloud and you can enter the End-to-End Distributed Systems market (eg. IoT etc.) You can go as deep as you want into Embedded/Electronics domain in addition to having the ability to bridge all the way to Cloud-based user-facing software. You learn Systems, HW and SW which is immensely challenging and satisfying.

PS: Do NOT quit your job. Just do what is needed, collect your paycheck and focus on studying new things. Once you do this, you will find that the same "boring" job can be looked at through a new perspective and becomes interesting once more.
Economics is pseudo-science at best. There are no perfect markets, and thus no ability to test theories.
It's no surprise that "studies" continue to prove how much better the wealthy are, or how the middle class worked hard, and people with money deserve it. Economists have to get paid too.
Hebrew seems to be an interesting example as it's claimed to be the only succesful revival. I don't know much about it but it sounds like the community dispersed to later re-unite and also that the revived language exhibits some discontinuities (which have or will fade with time).

The difference between natural and artificial (or constructed) languages is well-defined in linguistics although there may be borderline cases.

Again, I don't want to claim that e.g. Hebrew would be somehow tainted as a language now, just that it has endured something very atypical.
Or create a nursery so that others can buy trees from you and you help speed up the growing process and success rate.
I used PyQt and PySlide only on small projects but I don't understand why they would have terrible performance? The occasional call into Python code shouldn't bring down the speed from the Qt baseline.
Sure you can. Forego the $100, and then sacrifice booze/cigarettes/lotto for a few weeks to make up for it.

Drugs and lotto are not a "basic need" yet a surprisingly high percentage of impoverished people prioritize them over said basic needs. It's a coping mechanism, yes, but 20 days of fasting cigarettes could easily yield the foregone $100
simply not true, you are confusing different issues
I'm convinced it's not a problem with the guidelines or source. I would assume it was killed because it was flagged by users. Maybe someone is brigading this topic?

I guess you can only wait and see if the mods reverse the decision.
A Solari Split-Flap Display? I love that they're making new ones! Starbucks has been putting them in their Reserve Roasteries.

I'm also sort of happy with the 'modern' ones that are actually LCD screens with speakers making the noises. It's cheating, but it's a nice tribute.
Facebook Backs Research into AI Mind Reading Technology
Ha ha story is blocked.
If the tree is harvested for lumber or buried then the CO2 is not released back into the atmosphere
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You should add a screenshot in the readme.
Kafka exactly-once semantics is just that, they are "semantics".

What Kafka supports is exactly-once processing which has been supported in other stream processing frameworks such as Apache Storm years before Confluent's marketing. Duplicates are possible in Kafka with the current implementation of exactly-once, if one uses Kafka's consumer api it will de-dedupe on the processing side.

So no, there is no such thing as exactly-once in distributed systems.
I think you're right. The front-line workers often have a certain level of ground-truth about how processes actually work in practice. They may not have all the same information as the higher-ups, but they have a very unique and valuable perspective that can be used to improve strategic decisions.

IMO, this is one of the reasons why distributed command (as opposed to centralized command) models often work better, particularly in a fast moving environment.
I'm an EE who has worked with and interviewed a lot of SWEs. Software is a uniquely "fake it till you make it"-compatible career path. There is an oversupply of people who look pretty good on paper but execute poorly.
Most people don't have acres of land to plant trees in.
The most common example I see of missed opportunities to improve safety over increase revenue is with traffic cops. They often hide, wait for a person to speed by, then pull out and give them a ticket. 10 minutes at least from the time they're pulled over, and who knows how long lying in wait. And it gets one car to drive safely for a day to a month after the incident.

Compare that to a situation I just saw on a major highway. One state trooper driving exactly the speed limit in the passing lane. For at least 20 miles, he kept a dozen cars at a safe speed. Not to mention preventing any other unsafe driving. Sure, it only lasted 20 minutes from my point of view, but if he just drove around for a few hours in plain sight, that's a lot of cars driving safely. Sadly, it doesn't generate revenue.
By your definition, technically, any piece of content on the Web should be considered a sales page—including your comment, where you'se selling your opinion or attention. If that's the case, does it really make sense to label something a "sales page" in a negative way?

Is there any other way to present a new FOSS project besides telling about the upsides? Trashtalk it from the start, maybe? I don't really get it.
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> Husky + lint-staged add roughly fifteen hundred dependencies to your node_modules

What on earth?

I used to work on a backend and sometimes had to test the front-end. The webpack dev server required 2 gb of ram to boot. Sure we all have the latest MBP amiright, but if you have a backend stack to up as well, the OOM killer is right around the corner..
Jetbrains was terribly slow, terribly memory hoggy — far worse than VSCode (which is insanely fast I will note).

I think instead you should hope they do remember those.
Visualizing MTA Subway trips with stringline graphs
That's a handsome car, from what is visible in the photo. I would drive it.
love your site man
Jeff Bezos Eating Baby Orca (Illustrated)
They are trying to sell you on using their product, regardless of price (or lack thereof).
JWZ created a splitflap hack for xscreensaver. It includes broken flaps and missing flaps, and you can pipe text into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOL2jyDey0
Thank you for the perspective! Pivotal does sound like an exciting place to work.

> [Stories often] get written up with gherkin-like Given/When/Then sets of acceptance criteria with additional details/considerations noted down

Very interesting to hear, especially in contrast with the "verbal only" approach mentioned along with XP.

For my personality type, I work best when there are requirements/acceptance criteria clearly specified in writing. Even better if the logic is written in a DSL that all stake-holders can create together.

> I also don't really mind interruptions

Yeah, I see that software engineers come in all colors, and some are able to multi-task while fielding questions and interactions all the while. And others, like me, need more isolation / insulation to maintain silence and solitude to be able to focus and be productive.

I suppose that's a challenge for methodologies like XP. In order to be effective, it needs to take into account the different working styles and personality types that exist in a team of any size.
I'd totally buy one of these pre-made for $50. Love it!
To echo this:

According to: The University of Michigan and NC state:

The average American's footprint is 21 metric tons a year while the average tree absorbs 21 kg a year.

That makes it a ball park of 1000 trees.
Yes, it's true that some people misunderstand them, but it's a good thing that these terms have clear and widely understood meanings (compared to something completely vague like, say, "agile") and so we should promote correct usage rather than letting them drift.

Who benefits from watering them down? People who want to take advantage of confusion to release their software under weaker licenses while taking advantage of the "open source" or "free software" names.
You don't have to make $50/hr to make $100/day. $10/hr for 10 hours is $100 as well.
Greater Manchester has a population of 2.8M, and a police force of 6237, meaning the number of police is 223 per 100000, which is higher than the UK average.

I think the real problem here is that the citizens of Japan police themselves, and the citizens of most western countries like the UK don't.
Why is there no mention of IR (heat) radar? As far as I know, its impossible to hide a jet engine heat signature. Thermodynamics 101. This is especially true when you are looking up and the thermal background is pretty much black space.
I'm envisioning a cut scene from idiocracy - Lightning, it's got Electron!
Woah. This is awesome! I travel for work and keeping my plants happy has been vicious trial and error with passive auto watering stakes. I've been looking for a convenient sensor package so I don't have to muck around with wires. Jackpot!

There are many raspberry pi projects on reddit for the "microgrowery" community... I recommend having a search. I plan to set up an indoor tomato and herb garden using these methods.

For solenoids, I advise some methods like [1] so that you can connect a cheap and daisy-chainable relay board like [2] via SPI. Then you can control anything.

If you don't want to get down into the 5v to 3.3v mumbo jumbo, it may be easiest to connect an arduino or clone via USB to the raspberry pi. There are bazillions of documented ways to drive relays with an arduino.

[1]: https://www.tansi.org/rp/interfacing5v.html

[2]: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SPI-breakout-board-with-6-relays-fo...
Patients are usually an inconvenience to the good running of a healthcare system.

In other words, incentives aren't aligned. The people with the power to make decisions have little or no forces making things better for healthcare consumers, outside of boutique private healthcare.
West LA. Tough place to be getting remote pay unless they pay more for cost of living unfortunately.
The substance of this comment is terrible. There's even a misunderstanding of the point of the original article.
a) you're confusing addressing something with presenting the address; b) you're completely (possibly intentionally) ignoring the context, which is all about specifically "www" part, the trivial non informative part that is just a historical artifact.

i'll let you sort out the rest.
I will overlook bad physics in the article.

The title should really read "Humans Will Never Colonize Mars (using current technology, that is)"

Just imagine what happens if, finally, we are able to set off a bunch self replicating drones that will collect materials and fuel from across solar system and set it off to deliver raw materials in the direction of Mars. We might not even need Mars, we would just build platforms in space.

It is not really that inconceivable. The solution isn't outside the realm of physics. It really is just a bit of programming (not even AI) and kind of technological moonshot program (ie create a system of space factories that can gather and process raw materials up to the point where they can replicate themselves, creating also a bunch of drones that can scour solar system for raw materials and deliver variety of them to the factories).
What a shame. Google maps is a great product, and one that I can't replace (not for my lack of trying). If it has been years though, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for change. Sucks that they are head and shoulders above their competition.
I did save. I had a significant savings beyond what most Americans do. My life was still ruined. I am sorry for your experience and deeply understand how pain and medical issues can affect you, but what you are doing in my case is victim blaming. None of this was in any way my fault. It wasn't because I didn't prepare. I was more prepared than most. You cannot reasonably prepare fully for this. The costs are immense and you have less means and more needs. I didn't ever say Europe was a utopia. I said the system in most places it far better than the US. Even paying the private system in most places is FAR cheaper. You are rightly upset you suffered...suffering sucks. That suffering would have been worse in the USA and it's not fair to say "just prepare".
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a lot of plants can be propagated from twigs, you don't need to buy more