skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I typically let them leave a voicemail and then call them back immediately if I need to.

A big difference between spam callers and normal callers is that normal callers are extremely easy for you to contact back. Spammers want to call you, but don't want you to know who they are.

It's actually a good security practice to not give out any personal information to people who call you. It's easy to spoof your doctor's office's phone number and start the conversation with "please validate the last 4 of your social so we know it's you". The only way for me to validate that it's actually my doctor's office is for them to give me some info about me that isn't public knowledge, which they won't do until I've already given them private info.

Even if I did pick up when they answer, all I'd say is "Hey, I'm not comfortable giving out information to people who call me. I'm going to go look up your number and call you back, so I know you are who you say you are."

The only time I ever have an issue with calling back is when my doctor needs to talk to me directly, but I recognize my doctor's voice. Someone could spoof my doctor's voice, but I heavily doubt that anyone would go through that much trouble to get my SSN or anything. I'm just not that interesting of a target.
Simulation theory speculation:

If the universe is a simulation, when there gets too much matter in an area to simulate all the interactions, a black hole is the way programmers fixed that - it gets turned into a singularity and isn't simulated anymore except as one point source of gravity (or in a more complex way if black holes preserve entropy - jury is still out on that one.)

Silly and untestable, but fun to think about, like the rest of simulation theory. It would be required to do something like that if you're running a simulation with finite resources. You couldn't just keep piling matter into a finite area without bound, eventually you'd overwhelm what you can compute. Same reason one might want a hard speed limit like the speed of light.

Interestingly this is a not a discrete function, time slows near large masses, which would allow the computer to keep up as matter in an area increased, much as you'd expect in a simulation.
Norman/Saxon meat/animal word pairs are interesting; the saxons were the hunters and farmers, and the normans ate the meat. This led to a bunch of word pairs:

Beef/cow
Poultry/chicken
Pork/pig
Veal/calf
Mutton/sheep

There are other areas of English vocabulary with dual Saxon/Norman words as well.

Bill Bryson has a great book that explores how English became what it is now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_Tongue It’s an easy read with lots of interesting info.
Security, privacy considerations aside, can I use ublock origin?

No? Then forget it.
What makes Mailchimp illegal? From what I can see they seem GDPR compliant
If I were to parse this comment in a lawyerly way, I'd conclude you didn't actually say whether your service does or does not sell users' financial data (or whether it plans to do so). Can you confirm for us your company's practices?
This is a bit outside the HN box, but I love our Kindling Cracker[1].

We made a little outdoor seating area with a fire pit and then realized we needed to figure out how we were going to fuel it. Plenty of downed trees around us, but we came to realize that logs didn't burn well unless they were split. I did not trust myself to start swinging an axe around and went looking for alternatives. I found this and gave it a shot.

We got the King/XL model which can accept a 9" piece of wood which is most of the pieces we would want to use in a fire pit anyway. It is an incredibly simple setup, basically a solid cast iron rig. You place the log standing vertically in it with the end on the wedge. Whack the other side with a hammer until it splits.

The thing is actually a bunch of fun to use, and they're not kidding when they show kids doing it. My little one loves to whack the log with the hammer once I get it started and stable, and she is capable of really splitting it on her own power. She won't crack a full on log, but anything smaller succumbs to her mini-might :-)

[1] https://www.kindlingcracker.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Sorted by active users:

860,000 - CS:GO
480,000 - DOTA 2
173,000 - Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer (Mostly a multiplayer GTA mod)
146,000 - Apex: Legends
130,000 - PubG
112,000 - Rust
93,500 - Destiny 2
88,400 - GTA V
76,000 - Rocket League
67,000 - R6:S
62,000 - Football Manager

I think it's pretty clear that competitive multiplayer games are the gaming zeitgeist (On the PC). Rust, Destiny 2, GTA V + mod, and Football Manager are the only titles in this list that are really played in a non-competitive manner.

Now, its true that in terms of copies sold, competitive multiplayer games are not quite as dominant.
Sucrase is what you're looking for. When converting to ES6+, it's actually almost 2x as fast as esbuild on a single thread (though slower in aggregate).

As they point out, there's a JIT warmup time. Testing against small projects that don't allow this makes JS transpilers look much worse than they actually are in real-world projects.

https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase

https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/blob/main/benchmark/b...
>he and his wife, Barbara, saw his nest egg — $210,000 in investments — vaporize in the stock market

what kind of investment literally vaporizes to $0? Not to be insensitive, but it seems like this shouldn't happen. The markets recovered to all time highs pretty darn quick
If their base is node, that implies we could start to see many electron.js app being ported to the browser
But they will be basically stoned, and won't care about working anymore, so they'll be ex-CEOs.
There are escrow services for blockchain transactions; the difference to digital fiat is that you are not forced to use a middleman.
Thanks. That makes sense. My life goals will have to wait.
Gravel bike was my favorite purchase in the last year too.

I was already mountain-biking for the last 15 years. Things got more and more gravity oriented, where rides mostly had been one long uphill and technical trails down. While this is pretty cool it got a bit monotonic over time.

With the Gravel bike I enjoy doing far longer rides and checking out places I hadn't been before. 70km flat on an enduro mountain-bike are rather cumbersome, but fun on the faster gravel bike.
You're HN'er yourself.
Minuscle locutions are preferable, and superannuated locutions are pre-eminent
Thanks! Looks like the previous discussions (including that one) are:

Nyxt Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26509612 - March 2021 (125 comments)

Nyxt browser: mouseless cpy/paste - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956152 - Jan 2021 (56 comments)

Dashboard for Nyxt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151976 - Nov 2020 (2 comments)

Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 Pre-release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353927 - Sept 2020 (11 comments)
For anyone on Brave or Firefox with protection enabled: you have to turn it off, because canvas randomisation will just result it in it permanently drawing a mess of lines covering the entire square forever.
Absolutely agree, but this is a radically different argument than GP was making, and it is to that argument I was responding.

If you want to instead talk about unrealistic expectations baked into corporate earnings, then you'll get no disagreement from me!
I also recommend building your own power station, ISP, and power station so you’re not reliant on centralised services.
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
> Whilst we sympathise with the government’s desire to show action in this space and to do something about children’s safety (everyone’s safety really), we cannot possibly agree with the methods.

Respectfully, stop sympathising with authoritarians who want to take away your freedom. They are not good people. Good people aren't nosey. Good people don't deprive others of liberty. Neither do they class a whole group (Internet users and entrepreneurs) as responsible for the actions of a minority. Guilt by association and collective punishment are antithetical to any lover of freedom and life.

Their reasons of 'child safety' and 'online harms' (whatever on earth that means) are simply pretexts. They don't give a shit about children's safety. This bill will do nothing, nothing to improve the safety of children. The perpetrators will simply go after children in other ways. They won't change.

If you, Mr. MP, care about children then ask why are they drawn to bad online content? What's going wrong with families and upbringing? Start with questions that might actually address the problem rather than implicate everyone who uses the Internet!

The trajectory is to increase their power and control over your life. Again, they are NOT good people. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. They love dominating you. It's understandable why some imagine the government as simply well-meaning but misguided, for it makes our helpless subjection easier to accept. But we won't stop getting the boot from the state until we start calling their actions out as morally reprehensible.
Hi, CTO of LeaningTech here. Congratulations for the highly polished demo. I think you might find interesting this one we did months ago: https://repl.leaningtech.com/?nodejs
Which is how it should be, IMO - the base model is available to anyone for free. If you want extra features after using the base model, then a small donation to the developers for their time is a worthwhile tradeoff.
Catching pokemon with those should be fun.
It says try it on in-app, I tried it on and they look like those UV shades for old ppl that blocks sun from the sides. No one in their right minds would wear them in public.
Hi HN, I'm one of the founders and would love to give some context. Our aim is to make building machine learning powered applications as painless as possible. We built the product that we wish existed when we were flailing about, trying to stand up ML applications in the past.

We’ve built a product that allows users to seamlessly integrate ML models with their custom business logic, expose them as APIs, and ultimately assemble user-facing apps that utilize those APIs. Many ML practitioners find dealing with infra (e.g. docker, k8s) and front-end engineering to be daunting tasks. We want to show them that they can achieve a lot more (e.g. build full-fledged ML-enabled user-facing applications) without having to learn those skill sets.

Our aim was to build something that was 1) simple, 2) powerful, and 3) a joy to use.

This is our take on that — we’d love to hear what you think
Looking forward to increased max. connections on Azure although I would love Azure to offer an easier way to do connection pooling as well.
This looks really cool. Would be interested myself even if I am probably outside the intended age bracket.
I can't help think that the parts look really flimsy based on the videos. They look kind of 3d printed and the plastic seems cheap. Hope that's not the case.
My ebike. It’s a Specialized Turbo Vado 4.0. It’s so much more fun than sitting in traffic in my car or the bus.
Then there's a loophole right?
Create a stable coin, and never have to cashout.
"edge of the barbecue"
ELI5... why would you want to run an Electon app in the browser? Isn't that just a website at that point?

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, it looks like this is an online IDE meant to mimic a desktop environment. I don't know if there's any demand for that, but sure, why not. I'm sure someone will come up w/ a reason to run WebAssembly in a jQuery plugin, too.
Accept failure in your life, accept rejection by other people, accept the pain and over time you will master it.

Sounds like a sure path to being the guy who has "1 year of experience repeated 10 times" instead of "10 years of experience." Just failing over and over again doesn't ensure that you're going to learn anything. Ideally you want to also acquire new externally sourced knowledge at the same time, and constantly integrate both that external knowledge and your empirical learnings so that you maximize your overall learning experience.

Stop reading books, stop getting courses
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Some people have tendencies to never learn from other people, and they make the same mistakes other people have done again and again.

Oxymoron much?

This man was a serial entrepreneur:

He also wrote a really good book. Which you apparently would prefer the OP not read?
Awful I'm sure, but doesn't need to be, all it does it run a lot of snmp queries on an isolated network, store the data, and serve static webpages to via a proxy
Are you saying old people are not in their right minds? I’d argue the opposite with regards to fashion choices, but I don’t think old people would go for these either.
Interesting how all these example videos are outside, but I can't see that really happening: outside are other people to bump into, surfaces to pay attention to, hazards.

I don't want to learn to dance while standing distracted next to the edge of a cliff.
A fair amount of drugs inhibiting it had to be recalled after https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16554806 and subsequent regulators actions.
> I feel like you really have to be a hobbyist coffee drinker to appreciate this thing...

That's the lesson I've learned years of trying to improve my brewing skills and watching James Hoffman videos. I just want a decent espresso or regular coffee. I do not want another hobby, especially one I'd have to do before my morning coffee.

It took a long time, any many expensive espresso related products, but come to the realization that I can be happy with the kind of coffee I can make with a minimum of fuss, and that feels good.
Kings transacted gold, which can be debased, hidden, and cut up, but there is no practical, economic way to destroy it.

Bitcoin can be destroyed, cheaply. It isn't the government-proof asset you think it is.
Ankles can be tricky. Most "barefoot" style shoes have essentially zero ankle support. What ends up happening for most people is that if you ease into them, and use them regularly, you end up building up substantially more muscle in your foot and lower leg which ends up being the "thing that gives you ankle stability".

If you've got really serious ankle problems / past injuries / etc, that might not be a plausible approach for you. But if it's just a case of your ankle being a little unstable every so often, it might be worth trying the barefoot shoe approach, and treat it like building up new muscles in any other context: start slow and easy and try to be consistent about it.
Tessera Therapeutics scores $230M to ramp up 'gene writing' tech to cure disease
Oh yeah, I got prescription lenses for my Valve Index and it was an absolute game changer.

Extremely cheap, too. You can get the lenses for as little as $7 + shipping from Zenni Optical, though I opted for ones with an oleophobic coating to prevent fingerprints when I'm taking them in and pulling them out for when other people use my headset. Then, just a 3D printed lens adapter (Basically free if you already have a 3D printer, or about $4 + shipping if you use a 3D printing service).
Funny you say that. I'm usually really skeptical of the next big thing but I felt differently about this, just can't put my finger on it.
In shops near me I can buy now pretty cheap led ceiling/wall lamps that come with a remote. You can change intensity and light temperature, but there are also full RGB models. I like it that it's dumb otherwise.
A carbon tax should be levied on everything that emits carbon
The specific language in the 2020 US1040 instructions say otherwise:

"A transaction involving virtual currency does not include the holding of virtual currency in a wallet or account, or the transfer of virtual currency from one wallet or account you own or control to another that you own or control." (2020 1040 instructions, pg. 16)

So as long as you "own or control" both wallets, your described transfer would not be a reportable event under the current tax instructions.
No rent payment is made and emails go out.
Guide to building a Ground-Penetrating Radar for educational use (2017) [pdf]
Nokia latest phones offer 4g I’m not sure about LTE but they do get the job done
"I enjoy using "five dollar words" where they fit, I also enjoy inserting slang, obscure puns, deliberate misspellings, foreign words, all to add some texture and color. Wakarimasu ka?"

This reminds me of William Gibson's Sprawl slang, of Anthony Burgess' Nadsat slang from A Clockwork Orange, and of Cockney rhyming slang, thieves' cant, etc.

That sort of use can have a certain appealing charm to it in small doses (or might be annoying, depending on who you talk to and what you say), but unfortunately I don't think most users of "utilize" and the like rise to that level.
The point above is fair but also I can't help but think a lot of people who are bitcoin hardcores really overestimate historical inflation.
So is this streaming from your phone? No technical specs on compute are listed as far as I can tell.
If you want to read Dead Souls, there's a free high quality edition at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/d...

It's a surprisingly funny and brisk read.
An interesting corollary is that I can sort of "channel" French more easily by thinking about it as "fancy" English with respect to grammar and vocabulary (and of course, a French accent). I similarly experienced French people praising my mastery of the language even though I can only understand like 40-60% of what a French speaker is saying to me (although I'm not sure if this is because of my "fancy English" approach or if I'm just inordinately good at the French accent or if the French are just pitying me by telling me my French is very good).
I'm planning a web app to help people with this. If you're interested in getting updates follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonfi
I guess it's an instance of legislative #TODO comments.
I might be missing something, but isn't part of the allure of it all being a blockchain the ledger that will, for ever after show that such and such wallet received 30k on a particular date & time - potentially requiring some stitching that would probably be trivial to do if the actual transfer was broken up into a series of smaller transfers?

And if you're using a shared wallet that obscures internal money movements then the feds can still see any entry/exit point activity - they might just be uncertain about what happened to the money in the middle.

I guess if you created a private coin for your nefarious dealings you could keep it really hidden (maybe one tied as a stable coin to a more major coin) - but only so long as you managed to keep the feds from getting a ledger view of the private coin - which would require limiting the spending power of that coin to only parties you strongly trusted which, again, would strongly devalue the coin.

The real world equivalent might be deciding, as a criminal ring, to use gems as a currency to avoid handling USD directly too often - but those gems become worthless apart from their inherent value as soon as trust collapses.
> And yet the world doesn't end and the sun will still rise tomorrow...

No, you just get much slower, non-vectorized code because the compiler is forced to forgo an optimization if you use unsigned int as the loop bound (EDIT: tom_mellior's reply illustrates this extremely well: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/cje6naYP4)

Which is precisely the point: forcing a bunch of existing code with int loop bounds, which currently enjoys optimization, to take on the unsigned int semantics and get slower, is just going to piss off a different (and probably larger) set of people than the "compilers shouldn't assume that unsigned behaviour can't happen" set of people.

It's a tradeoff with some big downsides; this isn't the obvious win the anti-optimization crowd pretends it is.
It's not as bad as it used to be. The "drawers full of devices", all terrible and broken in unique ways, gave me flashbacks to the Android 2.x days.
WASM cannot magically load from disk, there is browser protection, right?
Most exciting thing for me is that they might actually be bright enough to use outside. The dim displays of most other headsets is one of the worst things about them.

We're still a long way from consumer AR headsets, but I am excited for the future of them, and I think these experimental devices are still great.
Knowing only the name Eris Free Net, and none of the history, this doesn't mean anything to me. I have no idea if this is a network that's free of Eris, or a free network named after Eris. While I have a vague memory of a server named Eris having existed in the past, I don't know if said server is the same Eris in the name, or a different Eris that may have a direct (ownership)/indirect (named in honor of)/no link with the server. Eris is the Greek goddess of discord and strife, not something you'd want in your community.
One thing you might encounter is some C-binding building correctly on your machine but not in production (or vice-versa). Sure 99% of what you deploy is Python, Ruby, or JS... but that 1% in C/C++? Well.. you need that 1%.
> They're a for-profit business, so again, why do you expect your content to be hosted at a complete loss while you monetize on external channels?

This is begging the question that hosting non-monetized content is actually a net loss for YT. I'm saying it's actually not, instead the aggregate volume of free content keeps viewers on the site longer, and the higher viewership numbers result in a significant net profit.

More likely, YT decided that this arrangement, while profitable, wasn't making enough money for them, and because they must show their investors ever-increasing profit margins they decided to mildly poison their user experience in exchange for higher profits.
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I do appreciate the methods section:

> I found an offensive words list from the fine people at this project and considered a tweet offensive if it contained any of the highest-offense words from the English list. (Note: I didn't read the license on that github project, if it doesn't permit my usage as described, then this paragraph is a joke and I really did something else.)
My public facing servers (well https with client certificates that access them) are constantly upgraded, there's two of them, occasionally one goes down for a reboot overnight to get a new kernel, but clients will point to the other one.

Radius does vrrp, not instant, but acceptable

For true high availability (when downtime of milliseconds being unacceptable), we have A and B systems (sometimes more). E.g. syslog - router sends the messages out of two interfaces to two different servers which don't go down at the same time.

For local staff wanting access to internal webpages, we can cope with 20 second downtimes at an appropiate time.

I don't run a local irc server, but I'd be very surprised if it was any less stable than any other standard linux box -- do an apt or yum upgrade occasionally, any service outages you plan during a team meeting (thus we don't care if the chat system is down as we're talking via another method).

Stability is far easier when

1) Your server isn't open to the whole world

2) Your server isn't scaling to millions of users

Hell I've got a tcpdump session on one box that's been running since before the last slack outage 3 months ago.
Why do they need to look so rectangular and retro (and not in a good way)? Is it due to the hardware & circuitry inside?

Hope the eventual goal is to make these more appealing. I'd rather not everyone around me know these are what they really are.