skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The format for autodialing with CallStop is "<number>,2,<PIN>". The commas are pauses. You can store these in Apple contacts for example if you want to try dialing a number, pausing, and then pressing a tone.

Here's what the PIN email invites look like, which use this system:

David Jackson has scheduled a call with you. To join, tap here: 11111111111,2,73827

Call start: Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 7:00:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Call end: Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 8:00:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

You will be able to call David Jackson starting 5 minutes before the scheduled time and until 5 minutes after. You can continue talking after the scheduled end time, but you can only call David Jackson during this window of time.

If you're unable to join via the link above, call 1111111111, wait for the prompt and then press 2, and enter the PIN 73827. Your call will then be forwarded to David Jackson.

Organizer notes: None.
Are you advising people to take out a loan and dump it in the stock market?
I would argue that drugs are habit-forming in general due to the cause of why people want them -- pain relief.
Right now, silently dropped.

Yeah, this is an issue I'm planning to work on. The reason I chose to release it before supporting attachments is that for my use case for receiving marketing emails (this project is primarily for my personal use, rather than as public software), there are almost never attachments.
Fear.

To consciously avoid, is to avoid conscience.
That's a good point, but I was thinking of the popup message, which could be saved for the future.
I was born in the 90s so I'm not familiar with the "dream of the 90s" haha - care to explain?
Create my own artifical-intelligence pet, how should I start, help me out
Hey guys! I just had an idea, what if we can create an artifical pet just like Tamagotchi (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi) but as a real life robot (that walks, makes sounds, "artificial poop", wants to "cuddle, etc). I know it might not be a novel idea but I would like to extend "Tamagotchi" idea into real life, project witch is basically creating a possibility to "feel" a Tamagotchi real senses like vision, sound, emotions, etc., lets take it to the next level. I have a lot of experience in RaspberryPi, ESP, ARM, etc.
The things I would like to see it to learn are:
* Get to know it's owner
* Be happy it's owner is back home
* Be "kind of sad" it's owner leaves the home
* Be ready to "cuddle" session
* Eat "artificial" food
* Take care of physiological needs (like poop, etc.)
* Have a physical interface like wheels or walking machine

I suppose, creating a moving interface like wheels or legs (like a spider) are not very technical advanced, but the "brain" part is the most import.
What do you guys think? Can you help me where to start? I would love to take as more advice I can get. I can oblige to post progress of "learning" on my blog.

I have over 10 year of experience in programming in C, Node.js, Golang. I hope you guys like my idea and I would love to see what you think.
Not sure if this meets your needs but there’s a library for parsing HTML in Go: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/html
Classical are refined Chinese used in official communication/literary record in imperial China/Korea/Japan. The grammar etc haven't really changed over 2 millenia, it is much like how Latin is to Italian/French/Spanish.

Historically, they are all obviously written in traditional Chinese characters, However, you can write it in Simplified Chinese since there's usually a 1-1 mapping between Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese characters.
Question, is there any way to design an API such that it can't just be reversed into a new client library like this? Certificate pinning makes it harder to MITM but that's trivial to disable.
Expansionism is something else.

You just read english translation of a polish article.

Vladimir Bodnik called it explosionalismus.
In polish explosionalismus is translated as eksplozjonalizm or eksplozjonizm.
It was translated from that to 'explosionism'.

http://www.artcasopis.cz/clanky/explosionalismus-vladimira-b...
Thanks for linking! I would have linked directly to the blog post but I believe it's against the rules of Show HN, so I chose to include a link in the readme instead!
Avoid toxic people and drama.

There are people who want to focus on everything wrong around them, and tend to amplify it and create drama. If you find yourself around people like this try to create some distance or cut them out of the picture entirely. If you find that you’re always surrounded by people like this take some time to try to figure out how and why that is happening.
I keep thinking of more stuff to add. Multiple monitors: Well, a typical video card has two output sockets and easily drives two monitors. So why not two users? Because multiseat only works if each session gets to own its video chip, in its own private instance of Xorg or Wayland. There are hacks to split it by overlaying nested servers onto the one that owns the chip, but they have awful video performance (I tried it).

So you do need the multiple video cards (and slots to put them into). One per user. And even more idle power consumption. But the 124W that the machine now sucks down 24/7 is sort of justifiable in that it serves the whole family's browsing/computing needs aside from a few smartphone type gadgets. And the setup is physically robust, in a household with small children, in a way that laptops just aren't.

Cheap 7m HDMI cables and active USB extension cables (from Ali Express) take care of the physical separation between stations.

Sound is easy as long as you get it over HDMI - no need to configure a separate device, it comes with the video. But one of the stations owns the physical audio sockets on the motherboard, and one, for reasons too complicated to get into here, uses network audio over another Lennart special -Pulseaudio. That has its own frustrations, but the remote audio, once I got it working, has been solid.
I mean I’m not saying you should go get a high interest loan that would force you into bankruptcy and drop it into SPY and hope for the best, but sure, if you have access to cheap capital and a huge runway to recover.

For instance you can take out a mortgage and then instead of paying it off as fast as you can, investing your free cash flow. That’s the same thing, but when presented that way it seems far less offensive.
Android/google got better with this past few years...
More like a VM that shares the host machine's OS.
How do I know that this article about botnets will not add me to a botnet?
Like I said borrowing for business is a bit different, so yes you can borrow to invest.

However, a personal 30-year loan if you have nothing else but a mediocre salary may not be such a great idea. Essentially you will be tied to one place for up to 30 years or less if you are lucky.
How much do you think Apple pays the US govt in taxes? The US is held together by taxes on the working man and small businesses. Massive corporations don't pay their fair share.

How can you expect the tax situation to be better in Sierra Leone?
Amen.

deno, node, python, julia--anything but shell scripting.
AC/DC?

I remember my HS classmate talking about that bell when he saw them play in Boston or Worcester. This would have been 1983 or 84.
not sure if serious but this sounds like trying to learn english via python syntax
It's rather curious to plainly see in this decomposition how more basic words have simpler symbols, whereas proper names look like black midi. (I wonder if any of these have four or more simple characters jammed into one.)
Regret.

The older I become, the more I’ve come to terms that one day I’m going to die. I’ve watched both my parents pass and I’m fairly young (36). Since my mother’s death, I’ve focused on my own demise in a productive way: I always ask if my actions can lead to regret. Not the nonsense regret of not picking the correct job, stock, or purchase but real regret.

Is this release getting in the way of me being a better husband? Is my work trip causing me to miss family time?

Everyone is driven and I’m no exception but what can I do to minimize my regret?

In other words, on your death bed, will I regret not having X more money or will I regret not seeing my kids first steps? Rephrase that question to suit your situation and that should be your driver.

And if you will regret not making more money or doing X product, that’s fine too; that should be your focus. Just figure out what you want, regardless if it changes year to year and pursue it.

P.S. Also avoid caring what others think. They’re not going to die instead of you. Their opinion is worthless. (This includes me if you disagree)
I had a manager at Microsoft -- I called him a "practice manager" because he had little experience managing and was just given a handful of people to wrangle -- and it was absolutely miserable. He interfered with my technical decisions, undermined me in meetings, and did a really shitty job defending me in stack rankings. At one point, after he refused to supply me with a workstation that would work ("That's the computer we gave you, you'll just have to deal with it"), I spent a bunch of my own money on my own hardware so that I could do my job [in retrospect, I should have gone up the management chain long before that].

A few years later he tried to use me as a reference for a certain other large software company. Let's just say they got an earful.

Fifteen years and I'm still angry at that jerk. If you have a bad manager, fire them.
The characters are Traditional Chinese. The grammar is modeled after that of the literary classics written thousands of years ago. (And later works imitating that style.) In particular, it uses 是 to mean "this" instead of the verb "to be" and a bunch of characters that are not used for modern vernacular texts, like 曰 "say".
I am using Exchange Online, and I cannot reply using aliases that I've created. It also always defaults to the primary username. Anyone figure out a way to make this work in Exchange Online?
To me, 90% of a managers job is to act as a shit shield from above.
A seemingly pithy statement would be: Avoid Avoidance.

Most spiritual texts talk of the dangers of following desires, and avoiding something is almost the same as following one's desires. The degree of difference is in how you look, either toward what you want, or away from what you don't want.

Unfortunately, as I go thru life I realise the spiritual texts are probably right and that giving into desires leads to more selfishness, which leads to giving into more desires... a never-ending cycle.

So I would dispute the wisdom in 'filtering' out undesirables, and realise that we're all on this rock, and being selfish leads nowhere but different peoples being unable to communicate and relate.

It's better to learn acceptance, and if something comes your way that you don't like, then try and learn why it is so & why you react so. Asking "why?" Is a far more powerful concept than 'filtering'.
I've thought about this a LOT, more specifically about the implications of the fact that open source projects are treated as _both_ communities AND code as a single entity at the same time instead of independently so.

This gives the owner of the project a large amount of weight not only in the direction of the project's code, but also in the community as a whole, which can have some substantial negative impacts I believe.

With many open source projects started by non-companies, you end up with community leaders who are a few people in the scene who started the project or contributed to it heavily and care about the space a lot. Most importantly, their views are affected largely by the community -- they're "one with the community" so-to-speak.

With the introduction of large companies managing OSS projects, there is a new aspect in which sub-communities grow. This allows for one side of the community (almost never the company's side) to become "a group of people to communicate our changes to" rather than a group of people to actually collaborate with.

I could list several examples of this happening, but I don't want to anger anyone from these companies against me personally and don't feel like creating a throwaway account.

Treating OSS projects as communities and code has some nice qualities, and certainly having paid engineers from companies working on these projects has nice properties, too, but we're not honest with ourselves about the downsides and risks and people regularly give _more_ weight to projects created by companies without warrant (I've seen 20% projects by Google on the front page of /r/programming without even so much as a README -- something that would never happen if it wasn't "created by a FAANG")
Anyone who is vulnerable to cults is likely vulnerable for reasons other than lacking a warning.
That is false.

Why do you think it is not a programming language?
Toxic personalities and flakes.

The former are easier to spot, the latter much harder especially if they are extroverts and radiate a sheen of confidence or capability.
"people don't leave jobs, they leave managers"
> and the fact this all only works on Linux

Docker runs on Windows. Windows containers run on Windows. Linux containers run on Linux as well as Windows. (To run Linux containers on Windows a small Linux kernel is run inside HyperV.)

You can think of Docker containers as VMs, except instead of running its own copy of the OS it runs directly on top of the host machine's OS.
Video not available in my country. There was a large discussion of a ¿similar? article last month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958976 (158 points | 27 days ago | 89 comments)

Ignoring the almost-pseudoscience comments, the most interesting is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975075 by catoc

> This is mostly nonsense.

> eg : "If you talk to most surgeons, they would think of it as ‘what you cut through'"

> Surgeons actively use fascia to ease peeling off one structure of the other. They actively use fascia as conduit from an incision to deeper parts of the body; literally, to stick a hand in.

> [...]
Not really, for 3-4 years maybe, at that point you’d break even on a resale taking into account broker fees. At that point you could always rent it out, too, yielding potentially free cash flow.
I loved learning math and physics with motivated peers and experts to guide us. I'm quite sure I would not have been able to learn the things I did on my own. I'm not sure what I would have done if I lived in a country with education as expensive as you describe.

I hope that the US can find a way to help bright and motivated young people have a similar experience without taking on crippling debt.
No worries, thanks for the feedback (I appreciate all feedback whether positive or negative).

A catch-all email address is actually less complex to build and test, but there are a couple of reasons I chose to use this approach:

1. It seems that in the workflow you described, there is some work to be done in setting up an inbox filter/black-holing the email address too. In a way, my workflow simply shifts this work to the start?

2. I don't think it's laborious because I don't really need new email addresses that often. It's also really easy to generate a new email address imo - no logins or portals required, just email generate@mydomain.com and you get a reply with an email address within seconds.

3. You're welcome to fork it and tweak it for personal use too if you want! :) I'd love that.
Creating a whitelist service for yourself literally only takes a couple hours studying Twilio docs. Hardly a huge waste of time, and when you get 2 spam calls every morning before 8 am for weeks it's completely worth it.
Nature has devised molecular machinery specific to our time on this earth. Want to freeze yourself for a deep space trip? There is a creature that can do that. Want to regrow limbs? Survive like a tardigrade? Not get cancer? Everything we need is out there. Some of it will be key to the future. In some cases it took many millions of years to evolve. Vancomycin came from soil, what else lies in wait for bio-prospectors and molecule hunters?
Nothing if its all dead. There should be a prime directive and it should be for life on this planet
Yes I did this for a Garmin Instinct watch this last week. It was 30% cheaper on Amazon (80ish dollars) and the Best Buy cashier looked at it on his phone, called over his manager and she price matched it. It was a pretty nice experience actually.
Agreed, another good work on the subject is The True Believer (https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060505912/the-true-believe...).
If these investments of yours were as much of a sure bet (or adequately sure bet) as you're suggesting, banks would simply cut out the middle-person (i.e. the borrower) and invest in these things directly.
as Chinese lives in uk, they had been my questions for a long time: why did you guys voted for david cameron, barack obama, (any politician, really) at all? had they ever struggled to pay their bills? do they really feel your pain?
I submitted this earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211654 Lots of misconceptions about student loans out there. Half of all debt out there is for graduate school, and most of those students don't have too much trouble paying it off.

Yes, you can make a lot of money without a degree, but not for every profession. And not everyone can teach themselves do to the thing they want to do. You're not going to be able to become a veterinarian, or a psychologist, or an economist without going to college and probably incurring some debt.

Edit: I personally never had any student loans, and while I am a developer now, I didn't study that seriously in school (I took one CS course that I did poorly in). I still think college has made me a better engineer.
Apparently we are all supposed to become lawyers. ;)
It's amazing seeing a band with an enormous stage act -- most notably Rammstein -- packing up after a show.

The last time I saw them, it looked like half of the stage was already packed into cases within half an hour of the end of the show. News reports say they had 60 trucks of stuff, and 200 people to set it up and take it down again.

I'd assume they don't have anything as fragile or intrinsically valuable as an orchestra, but with each show bringing in €3-6M (sometimes more) the value to the tour is greater.
Sounds quite poetic actually.
Ask HN: Is contracting full time a good career path?
Hi HN,

I've been a contract web developer for a full year now after two years of salaried work.

I work in the Atlanta area, and am making $77/hr at a great company here. I always get 40 hours of work a week, so I should come out somewhere around $160k at the end of the year. This sort of money is unheard of here, the absolute best money I've seen for a full time developer role here is probably $120k.

It seems to me like I'm getting an extremely good deal, but I have a sinking feeling that I am missing something. Most guys my age are doing regular salary work for half the pay. I can't see what justification there is for doing this.

Am I missing something by not committing to a company? I don't think I necessarily have the interpersonal/ office politics skill to get into some executive role at this time, and I don't see why I can't do that down the road.

Can anyone here argue for a salaried job in my situation? I feel like I'm missing something.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!
Fixed the blog :p
High risk (as in life-changing) situations that can be avoided: driving drunk, unsafe sex etc. Most other bad stuff can be handled with money and/or time.
"What you're really saying is that 80% of your customers no longer feel the need to phone you."

No, they're saying call volume went down by 80%. We know nothing about how many callers generated the calls before and after. Maybe each and every customer used to call them 5 times per month, and now each customer calls them only once per month. That would be an 80% reduction in calls, but a 0% reduction in # customers who feel the need to call.
That sounds like the (NC)DMV.. Of course, there are no risk of perjury (that I know of), but if something goes wrong you'll be invited to stay in line for another 4 hours.
Agreed. I worked on biodefense stuff for awhile, and my usual argument was that bioweapons are at best panic and disruption.

But this was mostly to address the terminal version of this particular rumor, which I've also encountered on social media.
Lots of good tips here. I've been speaking and teaching for several years (software development) and it's a process of continual improvement. Here are my thoughts on a few of the items:

- Involving the audience: People often ask questions and this can be the best part of the presentation because I learn about what I might not know, I understand what other people care about, and it often introduces fun interactions. Sometimes, giving away swag is fun by asking questions at the end of the presentation and giving a prize to the first answer.

- Give them a book: I always include a slide at the end of the presentation so people can contact me, find related material for more info, and the URL to any code used in the presentation.

- Making it sound like you: Non ego driven sharing for the benefit of the audience. Sometimes, I'll go listen to a speaker because of who they are, regardless of the topic.
That's probably true, unless you are the kind of person who has trouble finding motivation. I had a great manager who worked with me to overcome motivation and procrastination problems early on in my career, and it's had a very positive effect on my life.
> But the truth might be something closer to this: “It’s only because of race that we have any part of the working class turning out for us at all.”

I’ve thought a lot about this, and wondered if we’ll see a major flip post-Trump (perhaps a few more presidencies past), where the republicans somehow manage to shed their racial baggage and suddenly are the party of the entire working class while the Democrats are left with only the “coastal elites.” Five Thirty Eight ran an article on those lines a while back... can’t find the link, but that was also a good read.
Comparing yourself with others.
Classical means the writing style long time ago, like 2000 years ago. The characters are definitely traditional. Classical style is noted for its brevity. In the time before paper, the writing was on bamboo slips where the real estate for words was small so the writing had to be concise and brief. A few words described a whole event, a bit like APL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_and_wooden_slips
Many thanks. So the characters shown in the IEEE Spectrum article, are they in Traditional Chinese? I wonder whether the implementation of the programming language covers both characters or not.
Notice how you said a group of concerned citizens is a lobby, not a lobbyist. The line gets crossed when you go from a group of actual human constituents collectively asking a representative for something to either a corporation asking a representative for something or a group retaining the services of a professional individual whose job it is to convince politicians of something. Lobbies are mostly ok. Lobbyists and corporations have no defensible place in politics.