skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc realize that they're letting voice calls go the way of email and usenet? That is, a service overrun by spam, and thus rendered useless?

They could easily fix their caller ID spoofing problem, and inform customers who is really calling, but they choose not to. I assume this is because there's some short term monetary gain for them, but they've got like 2 years or less before the bottom falls out for that market. Nobody picks up calls they don't already recognize the caller of.

Verizon, AT&T etc are also letting text spam happen. They've still got time to clean that up, but I think he same 2 year deadline is approaching.
But the stimulus payments were 1 off vs increases in annual salary, which makes it a lot harder to use it towards lifestyle inflation.
>The blue badge is one of the ways we help people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest.

This is gaslighting. That's not how blue checkmarks work in practice. They are a completely synthetic credibility token that is distributed by Twitter based on whose opinions it wants to boost. That is it.

If verified accounts were about authenticity, two things would be true:

1. Anyone would be able to verify their account after completing certain steps. There would probably be a fee, but no "high public interest" requirement (because it's an obviously gameable and subjective criteria).

2. Verification would never be revoked.
The first time I heard/read "prepone" and "do the needful," it was maybe jarring because I had never heard either of those before, but in both cases it was pretty obvious what they meant.
About year ago, i started to run Firefox in memory-limited cgroup (to 4 GB), so when it eats all the memory, it just locked itself (by thrashing pages at full SSD speed) and not the whole machine. It is done by:

In /etc/rc.local:

cgcreate -t USERNAME -a USERNAME -g memory:firefox
echo 4294967296 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/firefox/memory.limit_in_bytes
echo 4294967296 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/firefox/memory.soft_limit_in_bytes

And then start it by script with:

cgexec -g memory:firefox /usr/bin/firefox
The accelerometer in most phones is accurate enough to detect individual footsteps. Phones also include a barometer that is sensitive enough to detect which floor of a building you are on. With dead reckoning based on accelerometers, calibrated by GPS, compass, WiFi, and barometric data, people can be located to within centimeters. Activity detection, mode of transport--ha, child's play!

If you run Android, turn off "high location accuracy". It uses all of these features.
Hey, here's a screenshot of the premium options in the app: https://imgur.com/oRusB3M

To summarize, it's up to 5% cashback, make multiple YSplit virtual cards and splitting rent via check. Paying & splitting recurring bills is completely free.
The Plight of the Internet
Also got an ultra-wide curved. Work bought it. HP brand, 43”. Not my first choice but it’s where I work so that’s what we get.

I can say unequivocal that when I eventually have to take it back to the office, a) my non software developer team members will drool, b) I will buy myself something because gaming (and everything else) is fantastic on it.
That's millions of people's religion you're disparaging you know.
Super fun, but it will dump you at some point.
I sold mine and bought a better esk8, but will buy again if they ever release a new, improved model.
know your strengths, and find a partner to cover your weaknesses. then just start building and do-ing
Soda water, I am addicted to it.
-Got a SodaStream and immediately decided I couldn't continue paying that much for refills. Bought a 5lb adapter hose on Ebay and a tank. One use paid off the CAPEX. Recommend strongly.
-Got a Stanley Growler for bringing it around. It is indestructible. I bring it into the mine every day and it has held up like a serious champ despite the abuse. Probably going to buy a second.

Other than that my Ikea standing desk and tall-fit shirts probably take the cake for me!
I wish there was some sort of island or safe haven country setup by cryptographers so they could safely work on crypto without legal issues or crypto being seen as a munition and a threat to government. We could call it `01` and have it in a non fourteen-eyes jurisdiction preferably as an independent nation.

We could export code containing cryptographic algorithms to countries that need it for privacy and safety reasons. Cryptography actually is needed for safety more than it is used by undesirable people to commit crimes!
What if the childless friends are planning to kill themselves once they need assistance? Then their calculations make sense.

I have kids, but I still do not want them to spend their time caring for me on a constant basis. I hope I have the ability and physical will to take myself out before that happens. I saw what my parents gave up taking care of one set of my grandparents, I do not wish that on anyone.

They “lived” into the upper 90s (over a span of 30 years since the grandparents were 15 years apart in age) and I consider my parents to have wasted many of their best years.
We had three 6k BTU units, one 12k BTU unit, and one 18k BTU unit and the total cost was ~$18k. We got $1,600 in rebates from the utility for the energy efficiency program.

I am very impressed with how little electricity they use!
my bad, I didn't realize OP was actually Doug Demuro.
Then let's replace those CMS's.

[edited with less anger]
Because static electricity is generated whenever objects touch, whenever wind touches an object, etc.

Normally some objects can dissipate the charge if they are conductive (for example a tree).

But many man made objects do not conduct at all or are isolated from ground (for example car is isolated through non-conductive tires).

For these objects, humid air helps slowly dissipate the charge, but when humidity is below 30% this dissipation becomes very slow process and a large amounts of charge can accumulate.

I have home electronics lab and I keep a humidifier and ionizer to provide humidity and ions to dissipate any charges that can accumulate on any objects (like me).
What do you do to listen to music? I try to use some Edifier desktop speakers during the day for most things, but seem to be okay with some airpod pro use. I kind of need that for walking the cat and sometimes to distract myself doing chores.

I sometimes allow APM's but I have to keep the volume really low and the duration short. I probably shouldn't use them at all but I miss the richness of music too much.
Isn’t it generally agreed that China is actively committing genocide against its own people? If that’s not systematic abuse, I’m not sure what is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
Good points. A 737 costs about $90M and seats about 162 people. Let's say it lasts 10 years and does 4 journeys per day, that's 14600 journeys in its life. So $38 per journey is needed to pay for the plane. A train costs $15M and has about twice as many seats. So, yeah train wins.

According to https://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_121.shtml Trains are about 8.5x more energy efficient than planes. So yeah, trains win that too. For context, planes do about 80 MPG per passenger.

On the other hand, building HS2 might cost £75 billion. It might carry 100 trains per day, so 32000 passengers per day, if all the trains were full. That's 11.7M per year. If it runs for 25 years without costing anything more, that's 292M passenger journeys, so £256 per passenger journey.

I _think_ that demonstrates that the infrastructure costs are larger than the costs of extra energy requirements and airframes. But we're clearly into "it's complicated" territory, so I concede.
I don't think anyone seems to remember the slight drama under which satoshi nakamoto had disappeared where he called people out for not really seeming to realize or respect that bitcoin was pretty much just a proof of concept
Any antenna that's parabolic in shape that isn't designed/used to communicate with a satellite is just called a satellite dish is common usage, but technically really shouldn't be.
Keycloak actually has user session management. You can call an admin api to logout a user from all devices and session. There is a draft proposal of session management in OpenID Connect.
Sandboxing can do things yes. But it's fairly undocumented. Deprecated. And it's not used nor set up by default.

What I'm asking for is:
- Sandboxed applications. Perhaps something similar to containers where __I__ decide what I/O is allowed

- I don't want to rely on manual checks by Apple. It only works partially.

Sandbox and security interfaces should be simple and user friendly. I don't want to create a massive sandbox configuration file by hand.
I don't pit it as an antonym. I am simply responding to your claim that it's realism that moves things forward :)

Realists are navigators, optimists are starters, pessimists are never-starters :)

You need bias to move things forward.
Not sure what you mean by doubling the variables. Climate models have to take as input levels of all sorts of greenhouse gasses: CFCs, methane, water, and CO2. And land use change, which changes albedo and CO2 and water. And aerosol emissions, which are often point sources, which vary from light reflective particles to black carbon on snow. And also feedback mechanisms like deglaciation and sea ice change and three different cloud feedbacks. And change in aviation as a direct creator of clouds.

The amount of geoengineering we are already doing is massive and multivariate. If you don’t believe we can handle one more variable of a well known aerosol’s effect in our models, then you should consider disbelieving all climate models.
I was surprised by being able to see a tweet from a user who had blocked me after someone mentioned it in my replies.
This seems like a positive for the legitimization of cryptocurrency. Of course if you were trying to use it to avoid paying taxes you may feel otherwise. Hopefully it leads better forms and adoption by exchanges to provide useful tax documents.
> popular exchanges (coinbase in particular) generate reports that can't be directly converted to it

Isn't this really more of a Coinbase issue?

If my brokerage started sending me invalid forms at the end of the year, I would expect my brokerage to fix it. I wouldn't expect the IRS to change to match whatever the brokerage is sending out.
I appreciate this of course, but for me any stereotype is harmful beause it teaches people to be intellectually lazy. From this intellectual laziness many evils are born and racism is one of them. If the goal is to eliminate racism, we're not going to get there any faster than we will by not accepting any stereotype at all, whatsoever, regardless of who is at the receiving end.
It's not originating from romance languages, but it's the “default” (and virtually only) word in romance languages (well, at least French).
Ask HN: Completely switching careers at 28
Dear HN,

I've recently finished my law degree, and I also have a degree in business administration. I've also turned 28 now. I have work experience in those fields (finance, law), but also in journalism and PR.

Over the last year I discovered that my career path (lawyer for financial institutions) really doesn't make me happy, in fact, all of it doesn't. I've come to realise that I lied to myself quite some time now.

What truly interests me and makes me happy is science and technology, ever since I'm young. Especially maths and biology. I just love it. I was too blind, to dishonest with myself to follow up on it professionally. Now I am honestly afraid it's too late, since I'm already nearing my 30th birthday.

So my question to you is: is it ok to start completely new? Pursue a degree in maths or biology, all the way? I'll be around 35 until I have a PhD realistically, because that's what I want to do, I want to do research and work on sometimes abstract and sometimes applied problems.

Or to put it another way? Am I too old? Am I still employable afterwards, with little work experience in that area so far?

Thank you very much, I feel lost.
Good article, I will say that there's a massive amount of variance depending on the individual.

There's no real way to calculate opportunity cost if you decide to drive an older car and it randomly breaks down on you. Many car owners just decide that they're going to buy a new car when they're current one starts giving them too much trouble. This may even include a car they're making payments on, so you have an entire segment of the population spending $700 to $1,000 a month on driving, even if they're only making like 80k a year.

Buying a nice car is the easiest way to stay poor.
I use just esbuild for prod compilation. For dev we still use webpack (with webpack-esbuild since it’s much faster than babel).
This particular incarnation of Newsweek relaunched in 2014 with an “exclusive” falsely identifying an elderly engineer named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Keep that in mind as you judge the credibility of Newsweek’s “exclusive” reports.
Cookie notifications? You have to be actively tracking your users for those to even be relevant. You could literally do less work and avoid the need for them altogether.
This is like reading about the political intrigue of an ant colony. (jk ant colonies are fascinating)
Indeed, this is one of the ways in which what he says doesn't make much sense.
We must have played HoN at different parts of its lifecycle.

When I played it at launch, the heroes were just reskins of the DOTA heroes. The art style was less cartoony than LoL, but the graphical fidelity also meant that it was more difficult to pick out the HoN heroes from the background than it was in LoL, and the graphical clutter was a fundamental part of why HoN failed.
I always say "the best compact pickup truck these days is a Grand Caravan"
I’m enjoying it.

As a VIM user I use Blink Shell connected to EC2 instance running Ubuntu. If you’re used to macOS/Linux environments you‘ll not miss anything, and with Mosh support you will be always connected. Users that don’t use VIM or want to use different approach also have an option to do so with code-server, Coder or by using native editors(Textastic, Pythonista or play.js).

In addition to Blink Shell I also use Inspect Browser, Rest, Jayson, TLS Inspector, and native GitHub client.

I recommend this podcast: https://www.workbeyondmac.com/1637893/8226779-luis-alcaraz-a... to learn more about developing on iPad. :-)
I'm trying to get my head around how the networking of it works. Is local.webcontainer.io being overridden somehow on the browser like a hosts file might do? Trying to figure out how I'm hitting that URL from another tab
I Denied Him (At Least) Three Times
The idea of a professional social network that doesn't monetize your data is awesome.. And it's being served from blockchain which is incredible.
That isn't a blog post. That's an ad.

Can you link to the blog post where you actually discuss literally any of the technical stack in any depth further than one sentence of wow more pizzaz much fast.
Fluctuations in video pixels to measure energy use of developing embryos
> we're still waiting for Chrome

Dear God no. Wake me when the "Firefox" of crypto is available.
My thoughts exactly, it would embiggen our vocabulary.
I am not a huge Bitcoin fan, and don't really have a strong opinion on it. It has some real problems, such as its energy usage, and slow transactions. All the technical complaints aside, which are legitimate, these news outlets write some of the worst pieces on Bitcoin. They are hopelessly biased in many cases and there are a lot of Bitcoin bears that eagerly celebrate its demise or anything negative around it. Sort of like all the folks that get giddy when Tesla stumbles. I think much more unbiased commentary I read recently was Bridgewater / Dalio's analysis: https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/our-though...

It is a very balanced take and Ray lays out the risks very clearly without all the breathlessness around volatility, etc.
for (int i=param; i < param + 16; i++)

does not have a guaranteed loop count with the current rules. The loop body will execute 16 times if param <= INT_MAX-16, but if the expression "param + 16" can overflow, the behavior is undefined. (I'm assuming param is of type int.)
"Στην άκρη" I'd say.
> If it was a real insurrection

What's a "real" insurrection? An insurrection is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Jan 6 fits the bill perfectly.

> it would have been significantly better armed, more violent and more effective.

Your goalpost-moving is ridiculous. You've made up your own definition for words which are already clearly defined.

> A far more logical explanation is that an unexpectedly large group of demonstrators showed up and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them. After that they just took advantage with no thought -- Hey lets proudly get on camera committing a crime. What could go wrong.

Were we watching the same event? I'm honestly confused how you could come out of the Jan 6 events with that take. "Far more logical" explanation that totally denies the reality of the raw video footage from that day.

> unexpectedly large group

Can you cite that it was unexpectedly large? I thought it was smaller than they expected?

> and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them

Why was there a tiny police force at the capitol? The reason is that the insurrectionists had insiders working with them that specifically held back the National Guard for hours while the insurrectionists took over the Capitol.

You are citing examples of why this wasn't a "real" insurrection but your examples are direct results of the "successes" in the planning an execution of their failed insurrection.

> After that they just took advantage with no thought

What do you mean, "no thought"? These people clearly had this planned out. There were secret underground-tunnel tours of the Capitol given to the insurrectionists the day before, by Republican members of congress. There was significant forethought and planning that went into the event.

> Hey lets proudly get on camera committing a crime

They didn't think they were committing a crime. They have been very vocal about this. They consider the crime to be our democracy and they were there to stop it. Presumably at the end, they expected to win, and therefore not be criminals, because they'd be in charge of the government and rewarded.

The insurrection failed (so far) but that doesn't mean it was fake.
You're welcome. But I have to say that I think one of the other replies to my post makes a better case than I.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223555
Garbage collection was invented for Lisp, which initially ran on a machine with 18,432 bytes of RAM.
> The only "good" social network site (and really the only good forum in general) is one where real names are banned.

How would you ever prove that someone's user name isn't their real name without knowing who they are?
Curious what fundamentals CCs bring to the table over traditional fiat, digital or physical. Because the downsides look brutal: difficult to understand, fragile, non-reversible (sometimes a pro but often a con), expensive to operate, volatile, incompatible with KYC (sometimes a pro but often a con), etc
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (By Manual Blum)
Quanta magazine is not a journal and is meant for general public divulgation; it is written in a very accessible style, starting from the title.
The most urgent regulation in crypto needs to deal with Tether. Exchanges are practically faking a market with fake printed dollars.

I'm not touching cryptocurrencies until after Tether is banned and the scheme collapses.

Imagine if you could just open an "exchange" and show your customers transactions with your monopoly dollars, and say, don't worry, my monopoly dollars are backed by real dollars, pinky promise!

I see a future for crypto just not while the exchanges are unregulated and show me practically fake transactions.
This only opens an empty white modal for me.
"constitutional amendments proposed by Republican lawmakers angry over Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak."

So it's not the voters per se, but rather the Republican legislature. What's the point of this, other than to provide proof of servile Trump worship?
The /s at the end means that the previous statement is sarcasm.
Makes sense. Can’t allow hackers to hold up everything for Bitcoin
I think the reciprocal is also true. I’m a native speaker, who speaks Spanish as
A second language. It’s sort of amazing how using “fancy”English words often results in correctly guessing correct Spanish cognates. I guess one downside though is that people don’t perceive me as having said anything remarkable because it’s all quite normal to them.
> Nyxt is web engine agnostic. We utilize a minimal API to interface to any web engine. This makes us flexible and resilient to changes in the web landscape. Currently, we support WebKit and WebEngine (Blink).
> So native speakers mostly learn through memorization and internalizing grammar over a long period, instead of explicitly learning the rules of a language.

Based on this, I could be considered native English speaker even though I've been speaking English only for the past 1/3 of my life. But that's exactly what I did. There were times when I sat down and read about the grammar in books, but to this day, I have no idea what a second or third conditional is, I just use them "naturally". It was two years ago that I realized what the difference was between an adjective and an adverb.

So, I don't really think this is a good explanation of what a native speaker is.
Even in Python, OS differences and architecture differences pop up between testing, staging, and prod. It's annoying and can definitely cause user-facing problems.

With Python, some of the really useful libraries are written in C so you really need consistency between your environments if you don't want gotchas in your deployment pipelines.
It's not so much about cleverness, but knowledge and vigilance. You first have to be aware of all the footguns, and then be careful not to let any of them slip through...
Funny how people talk about the problem of Bitcoin using a lot of energy but then they live in a big house, drive an SUV, and fly to far away places on vacation.

Your life style is the problem, not crypto.
PCPanel. It's a little physical programmable audio output mixer for windows. I was tired of having to go to the windows mixer to turn down the volume of a game, turn up discord, get plexamp/Spotify just right, etc. Now I have a few physical knobs in front of me that always control a predictable set of apps. It's been great over the last year of digital hangouts with people.
How much of their research occurs naturally versus through man-made experimentation? Which is to say, do their collisions they cause occur without any man-made instrumentation?
Why not just verify everyone?

Gatekeeping of this kind always feels super slimy (Twitter Spaces has the same problem, too).
Future of seed stage investing: Party Rounds
This is what I feel; becoming more normal. Sure a lot of people don't want to report it; don't think those people will start now anyway.
IRC is a protocol

Slack is a product

There is a really big difference
I’m sad to see HN become a place where people pat each other on the back for “burns”.

(And I think GP makes a good point.)

edit for context: parent originally started with “BURN!” before edit
... in chrome.
The first code isn't necessarily buggy.
My wife's mom constantly told her growing up that she would have to take care of her mom when she was old. And yet she abused her horribly. Poor investment decision!