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Is robocalling mainly a US issue? I don't think I ever faced robocalls in Western Europe.

I've seen Europeans on HN complaining about robocalls. I'm pretty sure Germany is one of the countries that gets them.
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A while back, I was in this exact situation. I got into The Expanse (which, if you like hard sci-fi, you definitely need to check out, it's superbly made). I have a Netflix subscription, obviously. I devoured the first two seasons on there. Then I discovered that Season 3 onwards would be an Amazon exclusive. Then I discovered that Seasons 1 & 2 had also moved to Amazon. I don't have a Prime subscription any more because I can't justify it (and I don't want to be tempted to buy more useless junk than I already own). I managed to get another free trial long enough to watch Season 3, but not long enough to re-watch the previous two seasons. But when Season 4 comes out, I'm going to be in exactly the same situation as satellite TV - I don't want to watch anything else on Amazon Prime Video, I just want The Expanse. But I'll have to get a Prime subscription if I want to watch it before it comes out on Blu-Ray, and thus everything that comes with it, which to me is just junk.

Cord-cutting accomplished exactly nothing. Streaming services copied the exact model of the satellite companies (willingly or not; I'm willing to bet the distributors squeezed the streaming companies just like music publishers, since they're holding all the rights). There is no incentive whatsoever to make a single show available on multiple platforms.

This also explains perfectly why piracy will never die. Consumers want access to the content they are interested in. They do NOT want arbitrary complications thrown in their way.
How was farming possible prior to the cancer causing weed killer being created?
Kids' toys aside, using the lowest cost option that satisfies your customers' requirements sounds a lot like "giving a shit" to me.

The fact that lead paint is totally banned (here in the US) instead of just banned in paint marketed for use on/in inhabitable structures and allowed with warning labels required is asinine. There's tons of chemicals out there that will screw up kids and adults if they eat them and we don't ban them. We just let the civil court system assign appropriate judgements to anyone dumb enough to use them on things that will come in close enough contact with people to be harmful.

Edit: The stereotypical effect of lead exposure is that it makes people stupid. I hope you people appreciate the irony in the fact that we can't have a serious discussion about the pros and cons of lead paint.
The Mac had a brushed metal theme, used on some apps like Quicktime and iTunes, since 1999.
No, according to Mark J. Perry and FEE the percentage of households that are low income is smaller than ever, not the US Census data. This article cherry picked $35,000 as the middle to lower class threshold for a reason.

The Brookings Institute, "Our definition is a relative one, meaning that the thresholds pictured above will shift as the income distribution changes shape. If income rises across the distribution, so too will the thresholds that delimit middle-class incomes."

Long-running non-biased standard measures of middle-class do not agree with this article's definition of where the middle-class starts and ends:

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-midd...

https://www.brookings.edu/who-are-the-middle-class/
It's certainly not as secure as a VM, without a lot of safeguards.
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My wife is bombarded with fake lawsuit and IRS calls.

I get at least 3 calls a day although the volume will drop and climb here or there.
Reflective blinds aren't a bad idea, but at that point the sunlight is already on the wrong side of the glass. Much better to cover the outside of your sunny windows, whether that's with fancy powered shades, uv-blocking film, or simpler roman shades, bamboo screens, and awnings.
Solar powered AC would require a very large panel array and battery bank. ACs are quite the energy hog.
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I just got a call yesterday with the caller ID "CHASE ATM" and when I let Google screen the call it was one of those Chinese language scam calls. I get ~2-3 of these scam calls in Chinese a day, even though I'm Irish. It's fucking irritating, but the fact that they can be so brazen as to have "CHASE ATM" as the caller ID is dumbfounding. It's a goddamn shame our government can't function and scams like this are allowed to flourish.

I'm waiting for the "gotchas" to come to light that will allow the status quo to continue. Seems par for the course so far.
But what I think you're missing is that in order to have an art director who is capable of delivering on what you're talking about, Jeff would need another person. And he clearly explains why he does not want to risk hiring another person.
> The hot air flowing from outside through your windows could be compressed making it cool.

Compressing air actually makes it hotter, but that's not what's happening. Forcing air through a smaller space makes it flow faster, which ironically makes it less dense -- and hence colder.

It's the same effect that people claim holds airplanes up. (But doesn't. That's mostly the angle of attack.)
I’ve been doing the same for years and years and get more calls than ever. A fair chunk of them now leave voicemails, and at least half of those aren’t in a language I speak.
I think the nice thing about their approach is that it's built on top of the same sandboxing that underpins the very fundamental primitives of the web. If this approach is broken, the same-origin policy of the web is broken.

Compared to "native" approaches, where every application needs to implement their own solution, this seems far more durable (and easily fixed).
Well, you move the state of A onto B. By the no-cloning theorem A can no longer have the same state once B has it. Hence the term "teleportation."
Lately, I've been getting them spoofed as the local WalMart
Dashlane's support isn't an issue IMO.

TOTP is secure, unlike SMS 2FA.
> Apple users seem far more willing to pay for small useful applications from indie developers so more indie developers put more effort into producing small useful and beautiful apps for Mac.

This rings true to me as well, but why is this the case? If we roughly assume that Mac users are 1 order of magnitude fewer than Windows users, they must be >1 OOM more likely to pay for these kinds of apps to generate this impression.

I struggled with this puzzle for quite a while when I switched from Mac to Windows. Utilities are simply not comparable, either in design, functionality, or simple quantity, for a market which is (on paper) both much larger and much older (if you restrict your view to the OS X era).

As an aside, it totally makes sense to me why Linux utilities are numerous and awesome, but have (usually) poor graphic design, because that Bauhaus-esque function over form describes how I prefer to work, too.
I live in SF, previously Chicago, and I'm annoyed everyday at:

* I have to cross large streets that have been built for cars all the time

* Public transport sucks

* The city is against other modes of transportation like kick scooters and people comolain about how much space they take when you have large cars parked everywhere

* Because people move in cars, no area is really densed. Restaurants and bars are miles apart.

* Because few people take the bus, there are all sorts of crazies there. I took the bus twice when I moved here and almost got beatten up the first time, witnessed someone getting mugged the second time. I'll never take the bus again here.

* When I'm in the shuttle, and the traffic is freaking slow, I look outside the window and see one person per car. Why don't more people take shuttles instead of taking so much space on the road? Well there is no public transport.

* Noise, noise, noise

* The roads are all broken. Shuttle rides are uber bumpy.
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I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system.

I'm just one dude running a solo business and need to build automation things like that so I don't forget to post on Hacker News.

I never manipulated votes or anything like that.
Define significant. Session musicians were definitely a thing that earned a middle-class lifestyle during the last century, at least in larger markets. Of course, samplers and sample libraries likely had a larger impact on reducing the viability of that lifestyle (no need to hire everyone necessary for the string section on these three tracks when Kontakt and the one intern who knows his way around automating expressions will do), but shrinking studio budgets due to the impact of piracy helped put the nail in the coffin.
It's an alias given to an imported module name. In Python it might be:

import really_long_name as rln
rln.foo()
I've got a quince bush in my yard... they smell amazing and taste wonderful cooked, but raw they will glue your mouth shut they are so tannic. I'm as flabbergasted as you to learn that there's a variety you can eat raw!
Population and per-capita consumption are both issues.
> Secondly, developing on Kubernetes “sucks” compared to what? Mesos? Docker Swarm?

My thoughts exactly. I feel like most people who complain about these things are just feeling grumpy about the overall experience, and aren't always quite sure where to place the blame.

It takes a lot of introspection to know exactly where a system should be better than it is... "this yaml is too complex", until you start thinking about how you'd do it better, and then you realize all the problems each of the similar approaches have, and that a lot of it was done for a reason, etc.

Or you start comparing k8s to completely different approaches like just rsyncing some files to a remote webserver and SIGHUP'ing it, which is much simpler but has its own host of reliability/testability/reproducability concerns.

I think in reality, people are overwhelmed by what it really takes to adopt best practices (declarative deployment, CI/CD, health checks, service discovery, etc). Practices that have been hard fought and discovered over many years of people trying things and failing. K8S IMO represents the state of the art in a lot of them, but too often people place blame on k8s when what they're really doing is questioning the best practices themselves. Practices that are also shared across k8s's competitors like mesos and docker swarm.
Kodi is definitely more than a player, it's a full media library. If it doesn't do what you want out of the box (and it mostly does, categorising and metadata etc.), then plugins can handle the rest.
Juries are supposed to work the same way[0], in practice judges will throw you out of court if you tell the jurors about it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
They’ll get better. They have to or someone will replace them. This kind of propaganda is a disease in a system that has not evolved to identify/combat it systematically.
Do you live in Ireland? If so, it's a bit sad for me to learn that this robocall garbage is present in other developed countries, not just the US...
Amazon may have created a more object way of measuring the same thing, but without needing to actually ask customers. They probably know at least a some of garbage products sold on their platform. If that's the case, merely tracking visits and revenues from customers who received poorly made products and comparing with customers who've received well made products over time probably produces a more accurate picture of the effects that low-quality products have on their bottom line over time.
I learned about Figma recently, in this HN-frontpage article about fast software: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

It really is delightfully fast. It's no surprise that the team behind it is producing this caliber of content.
I did some extra research because I find this sort of HN style dismissivness extremely annoying.

Millionaire's cabbage seems to refer to Millionaire's salad which seems to be specific to the use of Deckenia nobilis, which are a protected species due to illegal over-harvesting. So the assertion that the term "millionaires cabbage" is funny because heart of palm is common in brazil seems disingenuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deckenia_nobilis
Most of the daily spam calls I get connect from my area code (which is a secondary area code that I haven’t lived in for 15 years). Just yesterday I installed an app that lets me block the whole area code, minus my contacts!
So what happened to Bitbucket? Don't got any opinion either way, just wondering about the "refugee" part
That's absolutely benign compared to everything else going on in Venezuela right now.

If you get a surgery, you have to bring your own basic supplies, like, say, sutures, or they don't have them. Expect regular power outages too.
Thank you for this. I’ve been looking for something that does this exact thing. I don’t like any of the other HTML archiving formats .
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I recently took a course on how cgroups and namespaces work, and can be combined to create containers, and my impression is security is a huge kludge. For example, the capabilities are just a seeming random assortment of different permissions, with a big dumping ground in the admin capability. It's hard to see how such a system can be reliably secured. Plus, it's all open source with a couple core contributors. What's to stop some state agency inserting its code into the core? No way to review everything, and a suitably clever developer can place a backdoor somewhere in all of the millions of lines of code. So, I must agree that security is not really at the forefront of Linux or container technology.
Really interesting wikipedia article on them too (the article borrows from it a bit).

This is really amusing to me:

> The Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) suspects that the M-Cubed CubeSat, a joint project run by MXL and JPL, became magnetically conjoined to Explorer-1 Prime, a second CubeSat released at the same time, via strong onboard magnets used for passive attitude control, after deploying on October 28, 2011.[5] This is the first non-destructive latching of two satellites.[6]
I'm pretty sure that's basically lawyer-speak for "you can't sue us if a robocall gets through; we never committed to anything". Don't worry about it, if they follow through and it works it won't have meant much if they said that.
Test it yourself, you can try all the different combinations of journalling mode and synchonous modes. I'm not here to proscribe anything to anyone. Every use case is different.
Do you have any renders by chance (assuming you used CAD to design it)? I want to build a house optimized for natural light as well (not sure about ventilation since the place it would be built is cold most of the year).
The interface does not seem fast and simple to me, it's more like primitive and unfinished. Using minimalistic SPA library, like, for example, Preact, adding some feedback for stuff like form validating and data loading would make ux more smooth. I dont want to say that SPAs are best for everybody, but I can't agree that they are always evil.
>but what exactly did they think they were signing up for?

The last 15 years of big "tech" have been a giant collective rationalization that building mass surveillance is innocuous.

They think they're singing up to enable palatable use cases of collecting and analyzing that data, and nothing bad will ever happen. Just the same as anyone singing up to work at google/facebook/etc...
I've heared this too, but as far as I know it's only because there are potential bugs in the container software that allow the malware to escape.

To me, this is kind of like saying you should just run stuff as root, because there might be a privelege escalation vulnerability which lets the code run as root anyway.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

My goal was to make things more secure, not completely secure.

Previously, dodgy libs could read (and add) ssh keys into ~/.ssh/, take over my NPM account by fetching ~/.npmrc, grab a copy of my ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat, and add a keylogger into my ~/.bashrc

Now, at least it has to break out of docker first.
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It depends a lot on where you go to. The cities of the NEC (Boston-Washington axis), along with Chicago and (to a lesser degree) San Francisco are generally pretty hostile to cars and have dense and compact cores. There's a tranche of cities that are trying to develop more towards that transit-heavy/car-lite scenario, which includes Seattle and Portland (and surprisingly, Los Angeles, but they have a long way to go). Then there's the cities that embraced the automobile and have blocks of nothing but parking in their downtown--Kansas City is one of the worst offenders here. And of course the suburbs tend to lean heavily into the space-wasting, automobile-centric design.

It's quite striking just how compact things are in the first set of cities compared to the automobile-centered places elsewhere in the US. Apple's spaceship campus is about the size of downtown Providence. Or, if you impose it on Midtown Manhattan, it would cover the entire area between Penn Station, Grand Central, Broadway, and the Empire State Building (which incidentally houses more employees by itself than Apple's campus does).
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I never said non western countries don't care about the planet. My point is this: Brazil has a natural resource in the form of the Amazon. They can exploit this resource in 2 ways: either burn it down and use that land for agriculture/mining/whatever or ,because so many other countries are asking Brazil not to burn it down, ask others to pay for them to preserve it since the amazon affects so many people behind their borders. I prefer the second option
I guess this boils down to the classic: No approach is universally better.

You can write a client-side application and distribute it through some CDN (like Netlify) and have no administration duties or server cost. However, your app will end up not working without JS (and your tech stack could possibly be a mess, depending on your choices). Or you can generate pages on the server which requires you to have, well, a server.

Both approaches have benefits and drawbacks.
I tried following that twitter thread but I just got bored with all the details. Why should I care? The obsession with Hillary is like some weird social disease. For example nobody talks about John Kerry. I don't get it.
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It was supported by the largest state at the time, so the idea that it was created to "help small states" makes no sense. It served that purpose but that is not why it was made.

You provide no evidence and when I site sources you say they are biased. If you believe the sources are biased please note that they site books, experts etc. If you just reject every piece of evidence you will always be right.
I just took 640+129/3

Anyway, few hundred dollars added or subtracted doesn't really change the point. This is a fairly cheap operation given what it provides.
You can install the AdNauseam browser extension - it's a fork of uBlock Origin that can automatically click links for you. The idea is that you click on every single ad link while you browse the web, and completely muck up all of the data that trackers have on you.

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I was doing that for a while and stopped when I never got a duplicate.
I wouldn't be so sure, a cancer that doesn't express classical MHC but still manages to suppress NK cells has a chance. It would probably have to master a few other immunosuppressive pathways but it's not beyond imagination.

Transplanted HeLa cells were shown to engraft in unrelated human "subjects" (in some truly evil experiments by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_M._Southam), other cell lines probably have the same capacity.
Just got back from Rhodes in Greece and their architecture is interesting (given that day time temps where 32-35C and night time temps 27-29C) - everything was built thick and massive with overhangs on any windows that get sun, shutters on every window during the day (and AC but often off) and everything was painted white (or very pale shades of blue, yellow or pink).

It was interesting to see how they've built to adapt to their environment.

We had a north face hotel room and with the massively thick walls and double glazing (plus no direct sun) the room was just about bearable at night even without the AC (which was actually outputting much less cold air than the AC I had in a hotel in Manchester this year).
I actually agree with that and think that's something I need to mix in. But I will say it's hard to bullshit your way through every one of those questions. I've had people BS through 3-4 but pretty much inevitably they fell apart on the others.
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> Would you like a warning every time the compiler made your loops faster by relying on this UB?

Yes, because then I know to convert the loop counter to unsigned, which it ought to be anyway so that there isn't problematic behavior if the signed value actually did overflow when using a compiler or compiler flags that don't take that optimization.

> Every time a pointer is dereferenced?

Every time a pointer is dereferenced and the compiler uses that fact to cause some other statement to have no effect? I want to see that warning, yes.

> You put "optimization" in quotes but that's exactly what this is about - in practice it would make tons of code (in particular loops) significantly slower to eliminate this UB.

That's an argument for why it shouldn't be two's complement, not for why it has to be fully undefined behavior. If you're going to make signed integers never overflow when used as a loop counter, what's wrong with documenting that and offering a warning in -Wall or -Wextra when it happens?

And it's nothing specifically to do with signed integer overflow. If you're removing code the programmer wrote or making conditional statements unconditional because it can only happen in the presence of UB, that's a huge red flag that there is a bug in that program and the compiler should not be silent about it.
I can second the recommendation of Herculaneum, it is an incredible site and I really enjoyed my visit.

There was a collection of papyrus scrolls in the Villa dei Papiri there, which were carbonized by the ash. They were damaged and preserved at the same time by the eruption, so we still have many of them today but the intact scrolls fall apart if you try to open them by hand (similar to trying to unroll a piece of charcoal).

I have been working for a while on a research team that is attempting to read these scrolls noninvasively using micro-CT. The materials of this particular collection are the perfect storm of challenges for this approach, but we are chipping away at the problem. It has been quite a lot of fun to work on. Should anyone find it interesting, here[1] is some of our work from earlier this year, showing a proof of concept on how we can distinguish carbon ink from carbonized papyrus in X-ray even though they appear identical at first.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...