skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hi, I have following question. Blah blah" is fine.

But

- Hi
- <2 min pause and typing icon appears. I wait doing nothing or get to work>
- I have a question about X.
- <4 min pause and typing icon appears, as person struggles to write it. I wait doing nothing or get to work>

And only after you get question. That was too much waiting idle, being interrupted and still not communicating.
How to make your servos awesome
Very cool! Always rooting for more search engines.

> Then we query APIs and vertical searches directly, and retrieve content in real-time, before ranking and filtering the results.

Vertical search is specialized search right? Are you building several specialized searches for various topics? Does this scale since you're offering a general purpose search in the end?
> Yes, such ships will likely have to stay away from the US territorial waters

if it turns out that such shipping via nuclear reactors is much more cost efficient (including all currently externalized costs such as emissions), then the US will have no choice but to accept it - or be uncompetitive in the global markets.
Surprised the EU hasn’t addressed this.
We absolutely do. If you know some people are fundamentally wrong, it is absolute waste of time to entertain their world view. Can they still come up with something useful in the distant future? Sure! Can they change given enough time and information? Sure! Can what you think is fundamentally wrong change given enough time and information? Sure! So, you can prune your blocks every news cycle or every 2 years or 5 years or 10 years or whatever you are willing to tolerate.

Grouthinking is necessary to build a new ideology, which may sound wrong today but may be the ideology of the future. To build your own groupthink and allow for others to have theirs, it is necessary to have several different independent ones co-exist. While companies like Facebook has helped to some degree, companies like twitter rely on keeping the debate going at all costs which is why tools like this are great.
We have that here too. Usually when you sign up your spam calls actually increase because spammers use the list of "banned numbers" as a list of "verified numbers of real humans".

With CallID spoofing its so hard to track down that violators never get enforced.

In India you have the advantage that the caller pays, which means you have a phone system that somewhat securely verifies who the caller is so they can be billed. In the US the receiver pays so there is no system in place to verify who the caller is.
https://github.com/adamb314/ServoProject
You might take comfort in, that it also puts a dampener on interstellar wars (my assumption).
Changing the laws or enforcement will take a while and software won't help directly. But extensive crowd-sourced measurement of externalities would be a big deal and software should help with that.

Actual measurement (and definition) of externalities will be very diverse, so the tracking will have to evolve and expand. Crowd-sourcing can handle that.

Once externalities can be clearly documented, public opinion will shift and companies will start to change their behavior in response. Then enforcement and laws will follow.
The comments are funny. People calling you a sociopath that needs help - lol. I think hn needs to look in the mirror - 200 points for representing some ideological point - if hn is upvoting like Twitter, maybe it's hn that needs help
Ah. No easy way to get it working on Windows, sadly.

And the official Windows Dropbox client is a no-go. I have too many files. It just never starts the sync. It thinks it has downloaded all my files, but they are always zero bytes and I am constantly going into the web UI to check it hasn't erased them all.

Back to just download multi-hundred-gig .zips from the web UI to get my data out of Dropbox.

IDrive's app is the same. No easy way to get your data back out.

The only one that sort of works, but you have to go a folder at a time, is Mega's app.

(put.io is nice because you can FTP to your files, but I don't consider them a cloud storage provider of the regular sort)

Can't any cloud storage provider make a good app? Is rsync any good?
Actually ran into something similar this past week.

FTB sent me a Notice of Proposed Assessment related to my 2017(!) return. Apparently I had taken a deduction that the FTB decided was invalid. After researching and concluding the deduction was indeed invalid, I went on their website and paid the balance including the interest.

Then a month later I got a Balance Due Notice informing me they would soon pursue collections actions against me, e.g. garnishing wages etc. Looked online, showed I still had a balance. Check bank account, sure enough, they had deducted it. Payment history on their website showed the payment, but status was "Suspense".

Called them several times, each time was told they were too busy to take my call, try the website. On my second attempt I finally got someone on their chat system to release the funds. Apparently, their practice is to release the funds only when you file your next tax return... but in our case we moved out of state, so they potentially would have started forcibly collecting money that I had already paid them.

Cool agency.
Even better: block Twitter itself.
I also think that hydrogen is going to be a big part of the future energy mix ( I've even bought stock in companies around that space).

However, today it's expensive, impractical and it would require non insignificant infrastructure investments to be brought up to "grid scale storage to cover in case of multiple days no wind and no sun" capacity. So it won't happen anytime soon ( which doesn't mean we shouldn't invest in it to being it about sooner).
Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap
Simple solution: The fine is payable, link by link, to the next person in the chain by the party that forwarded the message.

So the phone company can pay the subscriber the $10,000, and collect it from whoever they got the text from.

I guarantee you spoofing would be solved immediately if this change to the law was scheduled for 12 months from now.
And by pure chance alone, every person such people disagree with happen to be 'neo-nazis, incels etc' right? Not that those labels are ever maliciously applied to shut down a debate and gain upper hand by vilifying the opposing party...
Sending a message in a public channel is psychologically akin to walking into a room full of people and just loudly proclaiming/demanding help.

Only if that room enables people to only hear shouts that include their name, where they can pause hearing shouts, where it's acceptable to ignore shouts if you're busy, and where there's someone recording the shouts in case someone has a similar problem later.

In fact, in almost all the ways that matter it's entirely different to shouting in a room.
Well to re-state my position, I believe, based on my experience, that for most common tasks, starting with zero knowledge of both a commercial program and it's "Linux equivalent", the Linux equivalent is more work to accomplish the task. Likewise, once someone has mastered the commercial program, and also mastered the equivalent, I believe that the equivalent will still be more work to accomplish common tasks. The key connecting detail here is the common tasks, which are something someone would want to do in a general class of programs (such as lighten an image, write a book report on Moby Dick, or make a budget in a spreadsheet) before even choosing one.
This may surprise you but there is a whole industry setup around exchanging airplane seats for dollars. We call them airlines.
Climate groups say change in coding can reduce Bitcoin energy consumption by 99%
Plus, if the call comes from overseas they're not going to respect the DND from your country unless the fake caller is also from your country of origin.

I can't say definitively but the vast majority of my spam calls are from South Asia or South East Asia (I'd guess Philistines based on accent). They typically don't respect the Australian Do Not Call register so much.
Mine too. The Bath area (BANES) recycling centre booking is all GDS design elements. Looks great, intuitive and works really well.
Twitter is already a “tool that catalyzes groupthink stratification”, the problem is that you have some high-profile Twitter personalities that weaponize their fanbase against targets of opportunity on Twitter—sometimes unintentionally, other times maliciously.

The bad actors on Twitter sometimes get banned but that shouldn’t be the only solution. Blocking a tweet and everyone attached doesn’t just mean that you are removing them from your feed, it means that you are removing yourself from their feed. It means that your tweets won’t get retweeted, tagging the Twitter personality you think is a threat.

I don’t know if you’ve ever had something retweeted by a real Twitter personality that hates you. It can basically make the platform unusable for a period of time, or worse.
OpenBSD does not use PAM. Closest would be BSDauth.
I get maybe 2 calls a month that are both legitimate, and from numbers I don't recognize.

Which is frustrating! Because it might seem like that's a low enough frequency to make whitelisting a viable solution. But it's not—for the reasons you outlined.

2 calls a month are important enough to me that I must receive every spam call that comes in. I'm still pretty good at sniffing out most of them. A lot are still matching my area-code and exchange numbers on the spoofed ID—a huge red flag. Many others show rural cities that I'm certain no legit caller would call me from. But then there are the in-betweens: calls I can't make heads or tails of unless I answer.

Whenever I do get one of these legit-but-unrecognized calls, I immediately add them to my contacts in some vain attempt to reach whitelist nirvana. But I don't think I'll ever get there.
You don’t a tool for that. Just stick your index fingers in your ears, shake your head left to right and back and say “la la la la la”
So, it will be four orders of magnitude more for coal than for mega constellations. Seven minus one order of magnitude for better scrubbing and two orders of magnitude for the size of the constellations. Still a ridiculous thing to focus on.

If they would focus on reducing atmospheric mercury and direct their efforts against all offenders, I would completely agree. But singling out satellites or deliberately ignoring coal hints that they have a different agenda, and "atmospheric mercury" is their parallel construction.
no, his target can only be health insurances. esp. in Europe. they'd just need to match it with costs, and then you got a business model.
Still, you can live without cars outside NYC.

I’m currently living in the French countryside in a 3k people village. I do have a car but I barely need it on a daily basis : I WFH or take the 20 min train to my office (currently writing from my train running at 160kmh - 99MPH) and I have a grocery shop at 5 min of walk from my home.

I do have "luck" (well, it’s not really luck since I choose to live there) because even in France/Europe, it’s far from the norm.

But it’s possible and working solutions exists all over the world, just waiting to be copied.
Critiques are nice, critiques from complete strangers on the internet are rarely helpful and often unwanted.
Same im Europe (at least the parts I ever lived in). I think it's indeed the commercial incentive - once the caller/sender has to pay anything, however small the fee, it's no longer economical to spam.

I remember making sending emails cost a tiny fraction of a dollar was proposed some time back in the nineties to stop email spam. That was superseded by effective bayesian spam filters. The cost of that is that it's near impossible to self host email servers these days, as all those filters will label you as a spammer. Otoh requiring some payment solution would also be a strong barrier...
How good is their wifi range?
Depends what you call a "router".

If it doesn't need WiFi built-in then the answer is simple. Buy a quality box from a decent indie e.g. Deciso[1]. Either run what it comes with (generally OPNsense), or install your own BSD-based OS and configure to your personal preferences.

If you're looking for an all-in-one with Wifi included, then maybe something from Microtik ? But I don't know really, I keep my Wifi seperate (HP Aruba make FANTASTIC WiFi boxes, not as cheap as the usual junk, but fantastically configurable to an extraordinary level of granularity and robust, you really DO get what you pay for).

I would not touch Ubiquiti with a barge pole. IMHO their day in the spotlight has passed. They have been in a spiral of decline for a while. See also the way they handled that whole security thing in recent history. Plus also Ubiquiti is "web-ui or bust", if you are a techie that likes control you might find that too limiting.

[1]https://www.deciso.com/product-catalog/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/secur...

Is a good starting point. No other big cloud provider has had vulnerabilities that allow crossing the tenant barrier, and Azure has had two of them. If you read the details, both of them are simply unacceptable - especially the second one is trivial and shouldn't have passed any sort of security review.
Think that's bad? Our kids have tablets with 5g data (they were basically free...)

I managed to lock them down, except they still get spam texts. There's no way to disable incoming texts, even though they're supposedly data only devices.
It's the job of everyone on the team, especially leads, to reply in ways that make sure everyone knows asking a dumb question is significantly better than being blocked.

I would prefer to answer dumb questions all day long than have people on my team grind to a halt for a day because they're scared of asking for help.
I'm writing something more generic to do this (for anything): https://lxagi.com
Bridges are usually massively over-engineered for safety.
I think this would help people who are looking for freelance jobs in web development and programming. Ellow is one of the best freelancing website that connects top companies with people who are continuously trying for freelance jobs. They have a set of pre-vetting process through which they select the top 4% candidates which makes it easier for recruiters to find the most talented ones as well as for the candidates to get placed in the right company.
> Government regulation is a lousy solution, as it will allocate the resource based on politics, not practicality, efficiency, or common sense. You see this as well in California - regulating showers with ineffectual results.

9 out of 10 times those kind of regulations are the result of free market money lobbying its way to oblivion. Ineffective government in combination with wealth exploitation. Removing the wealth from the equation (like you propose) requires fighting that first, far easier to fight long showers.
Hmm sure, if this is the intent one could disable or not read the comments. Blocking people seems like an emotional response.
I'm glad he didn't succeed. Because prescribing medication to patients (who might suffer from a serious illness) should be based on years of learning, carefully vetted information from medical peers, judicious thinking from the doctor and not some statistic models which can analyze dubious quality data.

What if your model has small errors? What if the data is wrong? What if the data is good but people you've payed cheaply to enter it in the database did some small mistakes? It's not like we are dealing with consumer goods, where small mistakes might not be so important. We are dealing with people lives and health, where any kind of mistake should not be tolerated.
I'd love to see a post-mortem of what went wrong here, but alas our lowly civilian eyes will probably never get to see it. We just get to sit here and hope we don't wake up one morning and blearily click on a zero-day message that gets past our mental defenses by coming from our own number. Don't click the link, citizen, if you do, it's your fault and therefore your responsibility to prove any fraud or identity theft. Fun times.
> Over the years I've found writing on HackerNews, Reddit and other online sites has given me an outlet to get creative and engage with folks in a way that will shift discourse towards something I'm more interested in.

Have you tried looking for communities for creative writing? There are places (including reddit) that post/accept writing prompts which spawn some discussion. You can do what you do, write fiction, get some engagement about the topic and be upfront about making it all up.
Redirector rule: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

Example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06709

Include pattern: https://arxiv.org/abs/\*

Redirect to: https://ar5iv.org/abs/$1
That's an incredibly sketchy website. Looking through all their about pages all I see is FREE and nothing about how they get discounts and how they make money.
There is / was a similar gmail security vulnerability, where emails "from" you went into your sent box.

This was supposedly used to forge harassing emails from work accounts, which provided proof of false accusations.
I got past worrying about sounding dumb a long time ago. It’s the #1 thing that people need to get over imo
> ... is fully and fairly notified about the existence ...

I'm not a lawyer, but recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) where the character Elle Woods on her first day of Harvard Law School was sent out of a class for being "unprepared", that is, not having read 41 pages on "jurisdiction" or some such.

Well, Ms. Woods might have responded to the professor that she did nothing wrong and, thus, should not be sent out of class and all that because she was not "fully and fairly notified" of the existence of the assignment.

I thought of that while watching the movie (likely the movie audience was not supposed to think of such things!), but it is nice now to see none other than Justice Stevens make clear the importance of "fully and fairly". Might have been cute in the movie for the character Ms. Woods to raise such an objection that she was not notified!
I had the same progression with sudoku. It's supposed to be fun. I stopped after writing a trivial solver.
I think the emperors joke was that he himself impregnated the peasants mother not his father. because if it was his father, that would make the peasant his brother and would make the matter serious with regards to the claim for the trone. My understanding is at that time peasants would marry and have children at age 13 and emperors having sex with thousands of women was not morally inadequate
>I would argue that: yes, it is immoral.

>Is it likely for you to get caught for insider trading? Probably not.

Overhearing something in a restaurant and trading on it is not illegal insider trading.

For the purposes of this conversation it would be useful for you to have the most basic understanding of what constitutes illegal insider trading.
The problem isn't that we don't understand what you're saying.

It's that it's parroted a thousand times every week.
Wait ... 86 million scrips for Metformin? Roughly 1 IN 3 people in the US?

That can't possibly be right. What am I missing?
Honestly, I love retro computers and loved the era, because you had almost full control over your stuff. Not like today, where, at least if you're in web dev, you are constantly messed up by other people's poor choices or business goals somewhere in your stack.
I say haptic because a keyboard is operated by touch.
If these things connect to the OBD port, aren't they basically trivial to find and uninstall yourself?
That may be true but gas cooking isn't available everywhere. So if electricity-based cooking is necessary, induction is likely more efficient than conventional resistance coils.

In our kitchen we have both. Items heat faster with less heating of nonessential surrounding areas vs. standard burners.

My guess is cooking aside solar generation is probably not going to be by itself a sufficient source of household power for the foreseeable future. In any case optimizing use of electric energy requires taking advantage of the best available technologies.
I don't know, I've yet to see someone called an incel or neo-Nazi where they didn't tick at least the majority of boxes to be qualified as such.

It's not like some sort of magic card you can pull out in the majority of discussions.
Most of the scam calls and texts these days come from outside of the US, and unfortunately India is a huge source of those calls - wages are low and English language proficiency is high. And it's not just the US that has this problem. Here in Norway a common scam telemarketing call are "investment opportunities" that show up as coming from a UK number, and if you answer, it's very clear that the person is calling from a call center in India.
That sounds like the road to complacency. The reality is that there are many backup systems that work much of the time. Have complacency in all of them and forget society.

The bridge has engineers and architects who know material stats and add tolerances. The restaurant has patrons with immune systems that survived worse times in human history, usually, unless the patron is undergoing serious medical treatment or something.
Sounds like telling someone how a magic trick works before you perform it.
>I think it is debatable that they had a sizable impact on the end of slavery itself. They definitely did have a big impact in the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which, keep in mind, they helped create and massively expand for over a century (at least) prior. Can you really give someone credit for ending a horrific practice they promoted/expanded on such a large, intentional scale? This seems like less than the bare minimum to me.

I'd say yes, I would give them credit. As slavery was a baseline then, then you'd expect slavery quantity to go up with any expansion. The slavery increase would be incidental to the expansion, not the objective itself. If they did then implement policies that then reduced the proportion of slavery, and I won't repeat /u/Andaith's point that they did, then they deserve credit.

Our history rife with things horrific to our modern sensibilities, but to cast away individual steps along the way for their imperfections feels like revisionism.
Costs aren't always direct "pay this much to participate in this thing" costs.

Having to arrange separate transportation home because you stayed after school past when the buses leave is also a cost.
This is what Route2 is building.

It's not a pure-play software solution or an external policing force; it depends on large amounts of work done by analysts and cooperation from the companies themselves.

However, the motivation to drive internal actors in companies to care about tracking externalities has always been the hardest part of this problem, and that's starting to be solved for us by society and the market.

Disclaimer: I'm the CTO and we're hiring
> Usually when you sign up your spam calls actually increase because spammers use the list

Why is that information public? Shouldn't only the "middleware" equivalent be aware of who has signed up?

> In the US the receiver pays so there is no system in place to verify who the caller is.

What?! Why?!
If you like MacOS, that is the most affordable performace too. I minimize the Apple premium cost by buying an Macbook Air, then have custom build PC at home. Add all the CPU, GPU and storage space at home. Also allows gaming when I want.
While you may be right that Twitter is not an appropriate platform to receive critique, consider that it might be unhealthy if we build a major avenue of society-level communication that is not an appropriate place for critique.