skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your phone company knows the originator info of your calls and texts (or at least enough hops until they reach some even more untrustworthy than normal phone provider). They simply don't give you that info and instead show you an unverified caller ID that anyone can basically set to anything by whoever is contacting you.

Blame your phone company and the FCC for not solving this (and for not providing you with the data to solve it yourself).
In the US, all it takes is a run in with the legal system or emergency medical bills, and virtually anyone could find themselves in dire financial straights.
Considering gravity decreases at the same rate as brightness, that's a cure that would be significantly worse than the disease. Black holes would need to significantly outnumber stars, and we really don't see that.
Why can a SMS spoofer use any number they want, but I can't get a second phone number to create Discord accounts without being tracked?
I found it! It's this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY

"Many years ago" was right, this is from 2014, going on the better part of a decade.
Having an ecosystem of batteries + tools is great. The question is which of the endless ecosystem options (ryobi, dewalt, milwaukee, bosch, etc.) to pick
Yes and honestly, I think many people are not interested in buying and driving around in a "weird looking" electric car. Tesla, Ford, et al have been improving this and consumer acceptance. (Well unsure about the Cybertruck)
You’re tasked with making a maps app from scratch, what’s your first move?
> Suppose a passenger boards a cruise at a port in the United States. The boat then sails from one desti­na­tion to another, often among multiple coun­tries, through inter­na­tional waters. This raises two ques­tions: what law applies to the boat and people on it, and where can they bring a legal claim if needed?

> For the boat itself, there is a long and boring answer pertaining to the maritime law of the country where the ship is flagged.

> But for the passen­gers, the answer is simple: the ticket is a contract, and these provi­sions are part of the contract terms. The choice of law provi­sion deter­mines which juris­dic­tion’s laws apply; the choice of forum provi­sion deter­mines where cases can be heard.

I don't see how this can be the answer. Suppose...

(1) My mother (an American national) books a ticket on an international cruise.

(2) A stowaway on the ship (a French national) murders her.

(3) I would like to make some sort of claim against the murderer.

The obvious action open to me under American law is a suit for wrongful death. But my question here is... why would the cruise ship's ticket terms govern the legal situation? My mother was a party to the contract. But the stowaway wasn't. The ticket terms would only appear to be relevant if I want to sue the cruise line. But I want to sue the murderer.
Retribution is a thing many of us humans practice regularly, regardless of whether it's logical. It feels good.
Android and Windows do take that hit.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/05/13/solving-uninitial...
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I found it! It's this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY

"Many years ago" is an understatement, this is from 2014, the better part of a decade ago.
Voice calls and texts are ironically the worst aspects of owning a phone these days. I recently decided to just use my phone permanently on airplane mode while at home, and the overall experience has been a lot better. I wish I had the ability to block all calls and texts while on cellular data as well. All my communication can happen a lot more effectively over iMessage, Facetime, WhatsApp, Messenger and more.
> To be frank IQ research is getting less and less relevant, and I suspect it has less to do with politics, and more to do with the fact that it has failed to further our understanding of human behavior and the human mind for the past 80 years.

That's a fairly bold claim. Honest question: how did you come to that conclusion.

> Scientifically IQ is a dead end. It only makes predictions inside the field of psychometrics, it correlates only with related constructs, the only place where it is used in an unrelated field is when racists are trying to excuse ludicrous statements.

That's patently false. We already know it predicts academic ability (which is why MIT is reinstating the SAT requirement. It's an IQ test). And we also know it to be one of the best available[1] predictors of performance in cognitively complex work - like programming (Google's HR has publicly discussed this in the past).

[1]"best available" here doesn't necessarily mean great, just better than the competition. In domains like psychology that have a high degree of causal complexity, you rarely have any single factor that explains more than 50% of the variance in some subject - heck even 10% is pretty good.
Untrue! I've been monitoring you for some years now, and just last month got up enough evidence to bring to the FCC, so that they could revoke your human-impersonation license. Now I have your written confession, too!
That's the whole point of this. You can say "Hi". Just don't only say "Hi".

"Hi! Do you know about the ..." - perfectly fine. User can directly answer instead of doing message tag.

Edit: Ok, I'm a bit late to the conversation I noticed... :-)
Ask HN: What has been your single best investment?
If you can, answer with a cost estimate and what the "return" of your investment is or will be.
Using that as a metric for society is exactly why we have out of control poverty, drug abuse, and homelessness.

If you were able to get good grades in school it wasn't because of your efforts, as a child and teen your brain is largely programmed by the community and environment you grow in. There are no gifted children, only those with educated parents that started early. This is becoming an ever more common theme, especially of kids with teachers for parents whom make too little yet know the systems enough to know exactly how to get their kid past the trite systems created for class warfare.

The solution is to defund universities and stop this elitist nonsense. Just like COVID has shown we don't need to show up to the office, we don't need universities either. We are a better society without their control and political agendas. There is little of value that isn't better done by a YouTube video today.
How do you cover, for example, the behavior of the spouse of a US SCOTUS justice? You indicate that you think it can be done with "almost no bias" and "raw and short". Maybe. But this provides absolutely no context, which whether you feel that Ms. Thomas' actions are fine or reprihensible and disqualifying towards her spouse, you absolutely need in order to understand what is actually going on.
> With 10 years of dealership experience, I can promise this is not at all common. First off, very few dealerships finance your vehicle, instead they simply facilitate the paperwork through any bank thats competitive.

Well kinda. I've helped investigate high end auto theft rings, and I can tell you almost all luxury cars have tracking built directly into the infotainment system. Only manufacturers and a handful of people at the largest auto groups can activate it remotely.
Expansion does fix this problem, as does a "young" universe. We actually have both, which would be nice if it wasn't terrible. There was a time that the universe was saturated with light, which we now see as the cosmic background radiation, but it wasn't from stars. The universe was basically very hot, and thus glowed brightly (it's more complicated than that, physics was weird before things cooled down, but still).
Side anecdote, I was taking to some sales people and they mentioned this concept of "ringless voicemails" ugh idk why people have no shame.
Funnily enough, lawns are not very eco friendly. The uniform green looks of them are water intensive and a food desert for local insects. Putting a mix of local flora might be even better if environment is what you are concerned for.
in rv's they call it "the basement"
two stroke mower? Where do you live? In the US, the only major brand selling two stroke motors was lawn boy, and I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. They were always a bit odd.

Just about any mower you see is 4 stoke, which is far cleaner.
I don't get why this is called rare in the article. It's not called that in the actual study, so the article seems to do some editorializing:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4389

Looks like of the kids taken from dads taking metformin, .9% had a genital defect, which seems pretty high to me (defect in control is 0.24%). Granted, not as high as Thalidomide, but still, 9 in 1000 are not great odds.
It's endorsement as much RT is, as Twitter puts tweets liked by people you follow on your timeline. It serves as an amplification tool, not just personal interaction.
You can look at a Smart car to see what a minimally viable passenger compartment looks like. VW made Beetles and buses with rear engines. A lot of modern cars don't have very big engine compartments, you need crumple zones, and aerodynamics are probably better with modern shapes, so yeah, I don't see cars looking all that different.

To your point, they're not even that different from stagecoaches--two people across, similar size.
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I feel the same. Starcraft used to be what I would consider a 'light' game. As a teen I got big into the grognard strategy wargames, the kind with over 1000 units and >300 page rule books and very detailed simulation of everything. That and 4X games like Civilization and Alpha Centauri. So much planning and managing and problem-solving through epically long and large games.

Nowadays, in my 40s, it's things like Fortnite (my current favorite), Subnautica, and European/American Truck Simulator. Games where I can just relax and play and not have to do much thinking.
> I've asked similar questions to people who hold this view of "standardized testing is racist"

The most defensible explanation that folks who claim standardized tests are racist is that the range of scores are not approximately equal across races. In theory, a “fair” non-racist test would have similar ranges of scores for all races.

There are a lot of assumptions baked into the argument, many with which I disagree, but it’s an interesting idea.

Much of the data supports the idea that most of the differences in test scores are due to socio-economic status. When SES is controlled for, everything else (like race) just has a minor impact on scores

Iirc, race is the largest contributor to variance when SES is controlled for, but folks within the same SES perform much more similarly than same race folks in different SESes.
> This exact same argument could be used to dismiss human suffering as well.

True. But we don't value human suffering above everything.

This is why all known human cultures have had some form of soldiers who are ready to die to protect the tribe, the religion, the culture, the nation or what not... otherwise they wouldn't exist.

Not just that, we allow for risky occupations like mining, fishing etc. i.e. things we need for sustenance. We even allow for risky hobbies or sports i.e. just for entertainment.

These are clearly more important than "human suffering".

You wouldn't choose to die to prolong the lives of the few cells in your infected tooth. You'd remove the tooth instead. Similarly, you'd sacrifice yourself to protect the tribe, family, country etc. And the ecosystem would try to sacrifice you to protect the ecosystem if it comes to that.
Judge Burroughs was wrong. The Supreme Court will overturn, especially given the explicit promise by (likely to be confirmed) Justice Jackson to abstain.
Our leaders have been calling for a population decrease since around the time of the civil rights era, so maybe future-humanity gets a coincidental-but-desired outcome after all?

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED050960.pdf#page=10

"The time has come to ask what level of population growth is good for the United States. There was a period when rapid growth made better sense ks we sought to settle a continent and build a modern industrial Nation. And there was a period, in the 1930's, when a low birth rate was cause for concern. But these are new times and we have to question old assumptions and make new choices based on what population growth means for the Nation today."
> With design system I meant that designers create a spec how the UI should look like and behave

This is the core of misunderstanding. Once you define your goal as "the app should look the same across platforms", you inevitably set yourself up for these shenanigans. In order to keep consistent look and feel across platforms you either implement (and maintain!) a complex abstraction layer over platforms or reduce the design to "common denominator elements". Web (both remote and electron) seems to be an attractive solution, because it offers the more pleasing abstraction option and a lot of heavy lifting is handled by browser and framework developers.

You base your argument on consistent look being the ultimate goal and desktops being somewhat moving targets. Well, the web is a target moving even faster and I see no reason to regard consistent look as the ultimate goal. It could be easily argued that platform native look is an even better option.

Essentially, it boils down to two fuzzy metrics: fraction of users regularly moving between platforms and preferring consistent look (a windows-y app on mac will look off, webby app will look off on both platforms) and long-term cost of maintaining the consistent look versus maintaining separate fully native interfaces. Somehow I tend to believe that in the long run native interfaces are the better option.

Web only makes it easier to build cross platform MVP and forces one to release features in tandem across platforms.
Do you really not know anything about these topics or is this post a lie? :)

In case what you're saying is true, props to you for realizing yourself that you're doing something wrong. People stretch the truth sometimes and exaggerate to sound smarter, but in your case it seems to be more than that. You are making up facts (like living in South Africa) that are outright lies. I believe you may need help and should talk to a therapist about this. I may be a sign of something bigger that should be addressed.
I have already given up on LinkedIn as a social network. My profile only exists as a public resume for recruiters and peers to see, I never interact with anything on the site except to update my profile and check my privacy settings.
> Standardized testing is a joke. There are other, better forms of tests. See: Europe

Europe isn't a country.

France has BAC and BEPC and plenty of other forms of standardized tests at every step of its education system, as a requirement to integrate highschool or college. Same in Spain or Germany. If anything most countries in Europe have a more conservative approach when it comes to candidate selection: strict standardized tests.
Alternatively get a robot mower - does the job better, takes even less space and effectively requires no work/maintenance, aside replacing the blades every few months.
if it was good enough to get the idea across in order to be corrected, it succeeded.

grammar is fake. language is made up, didn't you know?

pithy response aside, i work with a lot of ESL international folks, caring about grammar comes _way_ after being gracious in communication.

edit: also, period goes inside quote, even with ellipses. https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/ellipses. secondly, the extra comma before "as well" is unecessary. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/231256/can-i-put...
Call ID spoofing is annoying yet plenty of people don't understand it.

I get called at least once per month from (a different each time) someone in the same exchange as me saying they had a missed call from me. Presumably they got a spam call from my number, as I get about 5 spam calls per day with caller-id spoofed to a random number in my exchange.
I bet you can make adaptors for those different batteries.
Ayy, that's fair. The prior owners set things up very nicely, so between that and other things, most of my gardening is "optional", which makes it very very nice; and many of the plants are forgiving / masochists (vines and roses).

Step 1: Learn how to trim new plant (holy crap they're algorithmic fractals!). Step 2: Start trimming new plant. Step 3: Go stare at newly-prior plant a few minutes a day, see how it's doing. 10/10 would recommend.
Some of us are important and think we don't need unimportant information in our brains. Some of us are unimportant and think we need important information in our brains and everyone else's too.
Bingo. I came from an economically challenged background with a very chaotic family life. Grades were impossible to keep up let alone extra curricular activities. Tests were how I was able to demonstrate my academic potential.

I gamed the SAT by "studying". It took an SAT book checked out from the library and a few hours of practice. The SAT is not particularly hard for a bright student of any background that puts some effort into it. And these days there are more free resources available than ever before.

I get the feeling policies to remove standardized tests are set by those who have no idea what real intelligence and achievement is.
There is always at least one that haven't used chat. Most people are used to communicating in person and then it's rude to not start with "Hello". You directly get a feeling of the stress level of the other, if you should scram or if it's a good time for a question. It doesn't work in remote chat and it needs to be explained for them to understand the problem.

Personally I love the "Hi! Do you have a moment?". "Well, now I have...". Usually the following question will take the rest of my day at least. :-)
Imagine if there was an announcement of a new product that removes a small subset of all the unhealthy substances that are present in cigarettes. Wouldn't your first reaction be "maybe just quit smoking instead"?

And yet we almost never say that about social media, despite the fact that, like cigarettes, social media services are engineered to be addictive, while disregarding any health impact they may cause.
A minor correction. Much of the design of cars is about projecting the concept of safety - people buy escalades and other big cars because they feel safer in them - that fear is driven by the 30k deaths per year and many more serious injuries. I believe that safer designed roads and slower speeds would lead to very different vehicles.

Personally I think a 30-40kph speed cap within the city would save thousands of lives, make cars cheaper and smaller, make everyone less stressed out, allow more people to be comfortable using alternate modes of transportation (bikes, scooters, etc) and would probably add well under 5min to most journeys (traffic being the limiting factor 90% of the time)
I thought 'The Slap' was one of the better books I have read in the last 10 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/08/the-slap-chris...

Oh, you mean that Slap. Definitely well-deserved.
> It is easier to have your own way as an Indian middle-class student in India than as second generation Indians in the US.

Being an Indian middle-class student in India myself, I'm not sure you understand the level of privilege from which you're making that statement.
Almonds pale in comparison to meat use of water. Your plan would work but CA milk/beef production would collapse - almonds would just get costlier (CA makes most of all almonds in the world).
Networking for Cloud Native Virtualization
What's this Western education system of which you speak? Among Western nations the US is unique in how much emphasis it puts on extracurriculars and character. We know why that is too. The system arose as a smoke screen around Jewish quotas. The overwhelming majority of universities admit students on the basis of results of blind marked exams and nothing else. I'm by no means an expert but the usual examples given of exceptions, Oxford, Cambridge and ENA are looking for academic brilliance, not aristocratic polish ("well roundedness").

Western systems vary a lot in their degree of specialisation too. By 16, after the GCSEs the UK is done with being a generalist. Pick 3 or 4 A-Levels of your choice and if you feel like doing Math, Further Math and Physics or three sciences and Maths no one will stop you in the name of "well roundedness".
Plants? Plants means animals, food, oxigen... No ground water -> desert, is that where you want to live?
You are trying to argue that the people who claim standardized test is systematic racism is meritocracy and against affirmative action. Then following your logic, the people who aren't claiming standardized test is systematic racism is anti-meritocracy and pro affirmative action.

Yet the standard test does not differentiate the race of the test taker. If race was factored into the test scores somehow then what you are claiming makes sense, but the SAT/LSAT/MCAT/PCAT do not, cannot know the race or socioeconomic status of the test taker because as society we benefit from placing people of merit, who have the aptitude.

Are you comfortable with a lawyer/doctor who is responsible for you because they fit a certain affirmative action profile but scored low on their aptitude test and low gpa to meet a certain quota for that demographic group vs someone who were hired because of their high score on standardized aptitude test and consequently high gpa (that does not discriminate the test taker based on their race or socioeconomic class)?

Would you trust the latter or former if it meant your life/bank account depended on it and is it racism if you do not choose the former?
> Which is why nobody runs Java, C#, Python, Elixir in WASM for anything other than a mockup experime

Enjoy modern life,

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

https://platform.uno/uno-platform-for-web-webassembly

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

https://teavm.org/
Then the problem is with your client, not with Twitter, because Twitter offers a way to save tweets.
Sounds like an excellent plan, and you should have enough material to last dozens of episodes.

Another interesting subject to cover might be prehistoric or even preagricultural astronomy. By definition, we know very little about the prehistoric but we have many hints, such as the significance of the name Kohab. And we know just a smidgen of preagricultural astronomy from stories such as the famed "seven sisters" stories common to several diverse cultures, even though the Pleiades has had only six visible stars for tens of thousands of years.

I might suggest an episode dedicated to the things that you can't find research as well. I'm sure as you compile your episodes you have some questions that you cannot find the answers for. Even discussing those questions would be very interesting.
My approach was to block the tweet, the author, everyone who liked it and the whole platform on top of it, as it was a huge timesink with net negative, for me.
But my viewpoint might be too extreme.
I feel like the people who always use these features spend all day talking about how awful the divide in the world is growing and how there's not enough love, while in another tweet dehumanizing people for petty disagreements.

When (not if) the Black Mirror feature of blocking people irl becomes reality, I'm very sure people will be eagerly lining up to block people for having opinions that were somehow wrong, and they'll have no way to ever redeem themselves.