skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't want to be unfriendly

Given my experience with robocall and stuff, I _do_ want to be unfriendly. I hate to guts that a lot of people assume that they can interrupt you at any given moment. One guy called me when I was driving and wasn't having any of that, kept on complaining that I didn't pick up.

My current plan right now is to have a landline number from my internet provider (that's SIP essentially). Whenever anybody requires a phone number give that.

Now, there will be an voice mail device on my side with message: "Hello, you've reached p2t2p and his wife. We _DO_ _NOT_ appreciate your call. If you think your message is important, leave a message and we maybe, just maybe call you back. Otherwise, use email please".

And that is not even for bloody robocalls. Every single bloody prick think they are important enough to steal my time. Hey, I wrote you an email so respond to email, dumbass, don't call me. There were one windows installation company that stopped interacting with as soon as I told them that I won't pick up the phone and asked them to use email.

I guess the ultimate solution is to have my iPhone in permanent "contacts only" mode.
My first thought as well, but my second thought was why wouldn't they own up to it? Surely they know that owning up to something like this earns them much more respect and positivity from the community than "taking it down" for no good reason, or worse trying to cover it up.
I have boxes and boxes of stereo slides shot on Kodachrome with a Stereo Realist camera. I need to scan them in for viewing on a modern 3D system, like VR goggles.
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windows 10, office365, any and all norton products
no, but it gives the host the link to share WITH the password, so people sharing the link also share the password (encoded)
I think if Apple didn't care about messaging they would just kill their investment and let SMS and 3P apps do the job. They wouldn't just throw money away to make something they didn't care about.
I ended up having to use an Apple device temporarily after my previous phone died. While there are things I really enjoy about Apple, the lack of choice is a dealbreaker for me.

I can't buy a kindle book through the app on my device, because iBooks.

Added: Ended up back on an Android device pretty quickly.
The biggest for me is the fact they're rewriting the graphics stack. The churn is enough but I also just don't like "fixed"/"simplified"/"helpful" tools that hide the underlying platform. Unity's shader language is extremely ugly but at least I can use raw GLSL if I have to. I've had to use custom pragmas to get certain acceleration features to work on Samsung hardware that doesn't seem possible in Godot. Hopefully the updates with Vulkan will have more flexibility.

That said, for a hobby project it seems fine.
In case it isn't obvious, I'm the author of the piece. Some of my writing about homelessness and similar does well here, like this piece from about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22417487

I'm genuinely baffled that people on HN persist in asserting that Write Pay is content marketing for Textbroker or that I'm a shill for them. This isn't the first time someone here has said something like that.

I've been a member of HN more than a decade. My previous handle was briefly on the leader board. I know there are people here who recognize me.

I'm trying to bring solutions to the table in the face of a pandemic. They're solutions I've field tested, so to speak.

I don't know what I need to do to get this taken as seriously as some of my other writing. If anyone has suggestions, shoot me an email.
This is a completely standard failure mode of large organizations. You have a product that works perfectly fine the way it is, but you also have an entire team of people whose job it is to do something with that product. The existing product has already been optimized for years and most changes are moves away from optimal rather than towards it, but they can't get paid to do nothing, so they change things that were better the way they were.

This is related to the thing where what customers want most is bug fixes for existing bugs but what marketing wants most is new features to sell to new customers and marketing tends to win, which causes the number of bugs to go up rather than down over time.
I'm not really sure this should be called trolling, it's more just harassing/bullying/trespassing. When I think of trolling, at least when it's done well, it's more taking on overly self serious people to get a funny reaction (even if it's obnoxious). It's like a cousin of pranking, it shouldn't be cruel. There can be cruel pranks of course, but that's not the fundamental nature. Like Ken M leaving a really oblivious comments on facebook, or Something Awful forum members joining an online game chatroom as a weird cult ("the path is grey" :D ). Weird, funny, mostly harmless. I mean things like that are obnoxious sometimes but they can be funny and work as satire or social commentary. There's no cleverness to this.

(probably the wrong thing to write on HN since this place is uh not known for its sense of humor)
> In many of the newer systems, all those physical dials and switches are just inputs to the computer system which ultimately decides to do what the user is requesting.

Even so, a program for processing a switch or dial can be really short and simple. You can print it out on a sheet and check and double check every line of code for to make sure it's correct and all possibilities are accounted for.

A program handling a touchscreen will be complicated. Millions of lines of code. Maybe even billions. The best you can hope for is empirically verifying it's mostly correct most of the time.
"Signaling" has never struck me as a particularly useful model of human behavior. It feels like just a repackaging of cynicism in more "objective" language.

This article doesn't seem to have a lot of real insight, other than to loosely (and half incorrectly) justify various beliefs and misunderstandings the author has about selected social interactions. I guess that's fine, but doesn't seem particularly useful.
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Been working 12+ hrs. almost every day for the past 2 years. I don't feel that I have learned anything new last year. The Organisation that I work for is using very old tech stack. I have to admit that I am getting good appraisals. I kind of feel that they are trying to trap me here. I have tried to stop working after office hours, but after 2/3 days I lose steam and go back to working from home.
Oh man, compiz-fusion is what got me interested in Linux. I remember seeing videos circa 2007-8 of people's desktops with all sorts of crazy stuff. Cube desktops, wobbly windows, fire trails, etc. I spent forever figuring out how to dual boot Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows and learned a ton so I could setup these effects. Fast forward 12 years and now I only use Linux on servers without a desktop interface at all.

While this stuff may seem silly and pointless, you'll never know who it'll inspire to dive in to a whole new world. I'm glad it's being maintained still
You've reached the limit of my knowledge here regarding implementation details :)

Asterisk is an open-source PBX system.

I think the original call will come in with the correct STIR/SHAKEN-validated SIP headers and the PBX can forward them as is, see some discussion here: https://community.freepbx.org/t/stop-robocalls-act/60921/5

I previously worked at a telecom software company, and I know everyone with their shit together has been preparing for this for a long time, which is why I'm not concerned that these common cases should continue working. These softwares are often built on top of or on a branch of Freeswitch/Asterisk.
A quick google search says preponderance of the evidence is the standard of proof for most civil cases, so your assertion that it is only used in arbitration seems to be incorrect.

And arbitrators are always required to be agreed on by both parties.
I'm surprised they're even allowed to use Zoom for a national cabinet meeting. Wouldn't the Gov have its own video chatting software that is self hosted?
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This is great, especially the Q & A.
I hope you're wearing a hard hat at all times; if not - then it's your fault when complete stranger smashes you with a brick. Who you will be mad at after that ?
Good point, if they're calling from a specific number. I see of lot of complaints about companies like FedEx though, where the calls come from random numbers.
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And of all the ones that aren't anonymous, many many of them are only known to the recipient and the giver. If I give $30 to someone, just because I haven't anonymized it doesn't mean I think the world at large will know. I'm not sharing a list of my charitable giving with my friends, and I don't know many people who do trumpet their small-dollar donations.
Funny thing is, I think this is just about as useful as every attempt I've ever seen (real or Hollywood) to add value to GUI by adding 3D gfx...
> Hacker News can be great for complex discussions, but it's not free of filter bubbles and echo chambers.

Nothing on or off the internet is. That is why it is important to keep an open mind and read widely and voraciously.
The issues are great, but especially https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed/issues/1
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But how much taxes does it pay? I very skeptical of any company that claims to pay its fair share.
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Hosing everybody -- your company, your coworkers, your customers, yourself -- with a strike isn't the way to address that issue.

We have these things called "courts" that are well-suited to addressing complaints like this one.
which are some interesting search engines, do ya folks recommend. I recently ran into dogpile.com. really relevant results. please don't recommend ddg | bing as ddg simply mirrors bing.
I doubt the rumblings of our transportation activity has much impact on earthquakes. The energy put out by a jetliner landing or the heaviest of trucks rolling by is minuscule, and typically earthquakes occur at depths measured in kilometers. Our seismic sensors are only several meters in depth, or at the surface, making them more susceptible to the seismic noise of our small man-made sources.
I'm with you 100% here. I'm very, very disappointed.
The passport card is no longer valid for international flights, only entry by land or sea.
It's all perspective.

Google didn't ruined the internet. In fact, the internet isn't in ruin. Perhaps the author should reconsider treating Google, or any search engine, as sources of truth.

And if Google ruined the internet, then why give them more power by using Gmail?
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You could have a second access code included in the invite but not printed right on the window in screenshots.

It would be similar to how a credit card number and CCV code are functionally the same as one longer number, except that you don’t go writing the CCV code alongside the credit card number, and that keeps it more secret.

Still not as frictionless as “anyone with the number can join,” but if this continues to be a problem it might be worth doing.
I wonder if signaling is really something our brains deliberately hide from ourselves, as the article describes, or if it's visible to beyond just the people in this article's target audience. I'd prefer to think people are aware of what they're doing and just don't like to talk about it. I haven't read the book he's referencing, so I'm not sure what the evidence is in regards to the extent to which people are actually deluding themselves vs just being private about their underlying motivations.
Instead you get a phone that can get wet, that the charging port doesn’t break after a year, and that has enough memory to not need to use an sdcard (I bought a good brand sdcard from a reliable retailer, and it fucked out in the phone: I would never make that mistake again).

I love equipment I can hack and fix myself, but I love reliable equipment more.
Privacy is an interesting argument. Apple theoretically respects privacy more, but you have to take their word. You don't have control of your device.

Android phones on the other hand at least have the option of installing a variant that is more privacy focused, such as Copperhead[1].

I can install F-Droid and follow some of the other recommendations on the Free Software Foundation website to "Free my Android"[2]. All without having to jailbreak my device.

Now, granted this is an expert action, but it allows people that care about it to accomplish it. Do you lose a lot of functionality? Sure, but all Security and Privacy is about trade-offs.

[1]: https://copperhead.co/android/
[2]: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
Right. I think Hacker News does pretty well for itself, and it shows: the users that accumulate karma the fastest usually have insightful comments, which is rarely true elsewhere.
I think that was the Whole Foods CEO, not Bezos himself.
At least it's good that honda has been thinking about this kinda stuff. Some of their UI's have been pretty atrocious in the past.
Ah, you see, it's supposed to be largely unconscious. So it can explain nearly anything, by saying that you didn't realize you were signalling, but actually, deep down, that's why you did it. Like Freudian theories, or evo-psych theories, or whatever. It's all deep somewhere in your brain cells, you just don't know about it. Allegedly.

It sure seems to be able to prove way too much. Once a theory is flexible enough to explain nearly anything that happens, then maybe it's not actually a useful theory.

It can explain things you buy, but it can explain things you don't buy (you're signalling that you're not the sort of person who would spend $X for Y), it can even "explain" things you do that nobody ever sees- because your brain still considers what signals you might be sending even when nobody's watching. Marvelous.
I'm realising I look at this differently to the article writer + u. I would say, the ecliptic is a great disc. But when your on a disc, from your perspective that disc looks like a straight line, not a circle...
it just works and works so well. especially for our use cases as virtual college classrooms.
Maybe with US unions.

It very much depends on the legal framework that organized workers and organized employers interact in.
Whatever man, compiz-fusion was the best productivity tool around when I was a kid.
> But this entire thread of comments and even the topic of the post is proof that it really just doesn't work.

Yeah, there may actually be close to a dozen people commenting here!

>I would argue that any major Linux distro at this point "just work" just as well as MacOS

Given my perennial attempts to switch to Linux which are inevitably thwarted by aggravating driver bugs and incompatibility issues with X Windows and Wayland (both), I'm inclined to disagree.
There's a transcript of an interview with the book author here [1].

Personally, I'm impressed. There's depth and insight here. I plan to buy and read the book.

[1] https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/robin-hanson-tyl...
I too am much happier when Chinese/Russian/French spies quietly infiltrate a presentation on power grid weak points from a mid sized private firm with no security to speak of.

Trolling is gods way of teaching basic opsec to idiots.
Also, spamming/scamming in general is a numbers game. It's generally more profitable to move onto the next number on the list than to keep retrying.
Amazon treats workers as good if not better than most of the equivalent positions at any other company. The issue is that unacceptably low and will continue to be low as long as people hope to badger Amazon into changing itself rather than enforcing a minimum with laws.

Your statement is 100% incorrect they could treat them even worse and still do fine. It need to be done within the legal system cause people just don't care enough or don't have the time to research every company.
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Every complaint in the article is about the behavior of the website named google dot com. Google dot com is not the internet. If the complaints were about how Google is changing the behavior of other websites I could maybe somewhat get behind that. But in light of the content of the article the title makes no sense whatsoever.

"Google sometimes gets things wrong" would be a more accurate title. It wouldn't get any upvotes, nor deserve any (surely it's obvious that a website trying to be as many things as Google does will sometimes be inaccurate). But it would be more truthful.
> I'm interested if you know more about this absurd-sounding Aso/wagyu beef tokens story? It's not reported at all in the western media.

This sounds strange enough for me to want to know more, and I tried looking it up, but only found weird porn when searching without quotes, and weird blockchain stuff from China when searching with quotes. Do you have any links I can run through a translator?
I’m worried this might make it worse. What I’ve seen is people have a harder time getting the floor, so they speak even longer (making it harder for everyone else). Soon it’s just a series of speeches instead of a conversation. Seems like people would have an even harder time giving it up with holding a key. Maybe if you paired it with a “seconds spoken” timer.
From the Q&A:

How do i stop the cube from spinning

no
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absolutely agree. I think this explains a large narcissistic segment of society (and the narcissistic parts that everyone has, to an extent). But to say that's "all" there is is, for lack of a better word, insane
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"Mr. Smalls was retaliated against for his labor organizing actions"

This is actually quite unclear
Until voice control (or fully autonomous vehicles) is 100% awesome, nothing beats tactile, physical controls. If designed right, you never have to leave your eyes from the road (good luck doing that with a Tesla, for example) and you know 100% what you're controlling.

What also nobody discusses (except for maybe Doug DeMuro): digital screens and controls age POORLY. Any car that's 10-ish years old with tons of tech looks ancient, where an even older one with mostly-analog controls can still look sharp. This obviously mostly matters for high-end cars.
I live in a blue state and the pendulum is swinging the other way unfortunately. Unions are an easy scapegoat and openly demonized in media, academics, and on social media. They took away everybody's pensions.
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I didn't get the same negative reaction as many readers have, maybe because I felt this is how humans do behave, not how they should behave.

It would be interesting to see a dataset of people's t-shirt collections mapped against their consumer preferences. My two cents.
My parents have a Subaru with a touch screen for the radio, and I guess some apps.

For the radio, it's crap. For anything else, why would I want something built into the dashboard that'll cost 10x what it's worth to repair?

I don't understand what's so appealing about an in-dash touch screen.
Yep me too. I just don't pick ANY unknown number, period. If it is important, they will leave a voicemail.
> Your estimates are based on what, grain production?

1 acre/person is roughly what a pre-mechanization, pre-chemical-fertilizer, pre-pesticide subsistence peasant needs to keep himself alive.
It's definitely a good read. I rec it.
A primary consumer of signaling is the signaller. We do things to convince ourselves of our qualities, which isn't necessarily bad.
Why is it a bad thing if a company has loss carryforwards and R&D credits?
Why is this surprising? It's pretty standard for India.
Ah, I suspected it was something like that.
User controls should never change. It leads to people getting confused and making mistakes.
So in due time we can be almost certain to hear about a crash due to a bad touch or a wonky screen.

New isn't always better.
DMOZ, really? Yes, at the beginning, yes. But 5-6 years later I know plenty of companies and even bloggers who would locate a "volunteer" and ply him with hundreds or thousands of dollars to get them in, get free traffic, and that beast of a PageRank 7 link.
Not to mention that airplaines usually have TWO pilots onboard, so one can use touch screens while the other watches the sky ahead. Cars, on the other hand, have just one person in driver's seat.
Back in 93/94 you could quickly scan what's new on the internet on mosaic
Sorry to harsh your mellow in these trying times dude
It's extremely easy to understand why.

They won't be able to treat the employees like trash anymore, and profits will go down as a result.

Think about it logically, if the outcome was the opposite (profits go up) Amazon, etc. would love unions.

So it's just a question of whether you want more corporate power and profits, or you want employees to be treated well.
On the other hand i have the suspicion that Amazon just offers the better deal. And on balance, most people would prefer to spend less and get more than perform what's essentially charity because they like the other CEO less.
Even with banks I do not trust incoming calls and always return the call using an official phone number from the bank’s HTTPS secured website.
Using any propitiatory/corporate systems feels more and more like living on a volcano.
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If those quality hours could be spent playing volleyball or something, why not mechanize?
That is exactly what I did. I have friends and family in Italy (they're doing ok so far). I saw what was happening and that there was no reason to think "it can't happen here".
I was thinking paper not because it's not cost effective in itself, I just kind of assumed wet or soiled paper was a source of contamination for other things.

I think plastic should be a priority because it seems to be the most disasterous of recyclables when it comes to environmental contamination. Taxing plastic packaging to include externalities would probably fix this.
I see it that way: people tried to get exposure with Google finding ways to do it. For example by exchanging links. Was it bad people Exchanged links? No. Was it used by spammers? Yes, also. Did Google decide to punish it? Yes. Who is hurt? Normal website users. Spammers found new ways. But the truth is with each Google update normal website owners was punished. And for spammers it just got a little bit more complicated to find a new hack.

Now we are at a point where normal website users have very little ways to be high in search results. And people with money can buy it either with very expensive SEO or with expensive Ads.

Sometimes i wonder why the heck should normal website user even try to please Google. As a normal website owner i dont feel Google gives me as much as it expects me to do.

Dont link to this, use AMP, God forbid to Exchange links. There are books about how to please Google. But what is the point? It all comes to who has more money. I dont, so i will never win a good position.

I think we should just forget all these Google rules because they destroyed the Internet how it used to be. Autodiscoverable.
I like that the Press HQ is not there... Makes perfect sense...