skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Insiders" are a very broad set of people, including low-level bureaucrats and motivations can include profit.

To pick one of the more likely scenarios: if a government worker sold a database on the open (criminal) market, there's no meaningful sense in which "the Spanish government is behind this".
Please see my other reply. There's no shortage of shocking accounts, you only need to want to find them.

I'm surprised that you perceived it as insulting. Your comment sounded like someone demoralised and self-loathing based on your race and heritage; it's a reminder to be conscious of attempts to manipulate your identity in this way, and suspicious of the perpetrators.
The waste is a problem, and another big issue is that it undermines the purpose of the USPS. A major reason why the USPS was created and continues to exist is because the government needs to be able to contact people. Taxes, censuses, legal proceedings, etc, there are a lot of times the government needs to be able to contact people.

Allowing bulk spam mail to use that channel of contact is contrary to its purpose. It's not a place where I get high priority messages with delivery confirmation to make sure I get them anymore. It's a place where random flyers get stuffed, and the government insists on mixing their messages into that stream of crap.

USPS should stop bulk delivery entirely and have FedEx and UPS do it. They're not allowed to put stuff in my mailbox (and literally can't, because they don't have keys). At least then we restore the line. Things in the mailbox are important. Things that get left on my doorstep might be, but probably aren't.
I am looking forward to that book, but I don't expect too much from it. After all, he basically says, I don't like abstraction. Let's see if the result is worth specialising his book to GCC.
eBay Names Eddie Garcia Chief Product Officer
The laptop story was so way out there it was only fit for tabloid publication. It wasn’t squashed so much that it was the story about a blind computer repairman who thought he recognized the former Vice President’s son in Delaware who is somehow so renowned that he attracts business all the way from Los Angeles. Even the Republicans didn’t feel comfortable seriously running with it.
The title and text is based on volume. But the chart included has both and Seattle is pretty darn rainy by days with rain.
Sounds like some of us would like to change the guidelines to be against twitter reposts to HN. Might not be agreeable to everyone but surely we can agree that should be a valid opinion to voice.
I simply believe he's being honest and sincere in this case. That doesn't mean I condone anything and everything he's done or will do.

He admits himself that he's a "mixed bag". Which is of course true of all of us.
Senior Engineer at Google Reveals-The Best Programming Language to Learn in 2022
Depends on the size of the language community you are in, too.

Chinese or English spam centers have a lot more potential marks to exploit than Slovenian or Estonian ones.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KFNPTS7

I have one of these with 4 Roku's for sports & watch parties. It works pretty well.
This is what I tell people who are surprised that you don’t see many umbrellas in seattle. Hoodies yes. Flip your hood up and go on with your day.

The past couple of months though might be a bit different. The storm water area near me is overflowing.
On the other hand, Apple is very good at reverting their mistakes and pretending they never happened. Who remembers the single button mouse, hockey puck mouse, iPod dock connector, emojibar without physical esc key, USB-C as the only connector and others?
I'd also like to recommend Knuth's lecture notes on mathematical writing [0].

[0]: https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic...
>“Put very simply, all the world’s cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years,” Mr. Scaringe said last week, while giving reporters a tour of the company’s plant in Normal, Ill. “Meaning, 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist,” he added.

>The semiconductor shortage that is disrupting the auto industry was a relatively small supply-demand imbalance that then led to aggressive overbuying and stockpiling, putting the car sector in the difficult position it is in now, Mr. Scaringe said. With batteries, it is expected to be an order of magnitude worse, he added.
Alright, if you want to be that pedantic then find+replace “income” with benefits. The point still stands. He has the basics of his life taken care of and tells others they should go without in the name of his ethics system
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I’m OK with this as long as we make 16 the age of adulthood. Otherwise it’s a bit hypocritical to say that a 16 year old is mature enough to vote but not mature enough to have a beer.
May I recommend you consider something like MetroPCS or similar MVNO-type service, which offers a pay-as-you-go no-contract plan for what I consider reasonable rates (cheap if only call/text).

There is no reason voice mail should be limited to 3 messages.
Does the master oil painter not start with charcoal pencil?
They most likely are also using their phones during loading screens and commercial breaks. I would be interested to see if someone who has a setup like this could meditate or some other activity that doesn't have sensory overload.
To me notational ambiguity is very rarely a problem, it's about as common seeing ambiguity resolved by the Oxford comma.

There are some fields where it is frequent problem, but I doubt this proposals is what will get the statisticians over this death cult where they use "p" for everything ...
Show HN: Mirror iPhone/iPad to Your Mac Wirelessly
It's a great question, and I had never heard of it either until I started working in the space.

Each carrier does have a small blurb on their website, but who would even think to look for it?[1][2][3]

1. https://www.att.com/support/pages/report-call-or-text

2. https://www.verizon.com/about/account-security/smishing-and-....

3. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/help-with-sc...
> It's illegal in the US

No. It most certainly is not. It may be illegal in your locality, but it is certainly legal in most of the US. The federal Do Not Call list would be useless if it were illegal.
>> There is not enough collisions to get nice statistical Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions. So you need to simulate the ions as individual particles.

Key language: individual particles. A while ago I had this explained to me by a KSP nerd and aerospace scientist. "They don't know why there is extra drag between the electrons and the fuel, but it likely has to due with quantum fields. The engineers building thrusters don't like talking about that stuff. It works. We don't know why it works but we know that it works and can measure how it works. Nuff said."
Pretty much this. Also, we still do not 100% understand aircraft lift and Bernoulli's principle.
My Gmail account is an early one, and several times a month, emails intended for other people with the same name end up in my inbox. Some of them are from actual people; a lot of them are from services that don't do a proper email verification step. It also seems one strategy of script kiddies is to add lists of emails they obtain to legitimate services that don't do an email verification step. I'll flag these messages as "spam" even if they're from some well-known company.

In the past few months, things appear to have changed, and emails that are obviously spam, complete with the misspelled titles and funky case and punctuation, are now appearing in my Gmail inbox. It looks like the Gmail spam filter is becoming less effective.

I would love for email to be opt-in on a per sender basis. If I haven't opted-in to receive email from someone, perhaps a request is added to a queue that I can check from time to time (with its own spam filter), and until the request has been accepted, no email will arrive from them.
You sum it up well. They win one battle at the risk of losing the entire war for public trust.
Prostitution is already illegal in most areas of the US; there are no rights to erode.

(/s, just in case)
Does anyone else always think of Socrates' Daemon?
And if you live in the east side you get to enjoy power loss. Lol
In Infraspace there's no zoning as such (you can do it yourself to some extent with their "districts" feature), it's still early access alpha though with hopefully a lot more to come. For some production you need so many of some of the buildings that it's easier to slap them in their own area.

It does have trains, but they are fairly limited use right now and it's pretty car focused.

I'm trying to just do one super long road in my current game.
Part of the reason is that our antiquated infrastructure makes it easy. The other part though is that we're a huge target to all countries. I'm speaking anecdotally, but about 90% of my SPAM calls originate from India.
“Our desire is to … confront the culture in which we all live today in ways which will continue to advance God’s kingdom, not to stay in our own safe territories,” Betsy DeVos said.

Cited from this article: https://religionnews.com/2017/02/06/5-faith-facts-betsy-devo...

Are you so far inside your bubble that you can't connect conservative values aligned to religious thinking to the conservative push to defund public education benefitting private parochial schools?
Show HN: CLIrdle – Wordle in your command line
I moved to Seattle from Southern California, with a motorcycle as my transport, and I lasted one month before I moved away. It drizzled every single day.
Clipboard Health (YC W17) raises $80M to match nurses to facilities
I was arrested for something totally unrelated. It was only later my lawyer showed me a piece of paper one day titled 'ILLINOIS STATE CRIME LAB' which detailed the analysis they had done. There were like 9 factors they analyze fake currency on (e.g. paper, ink, metal strip, holograms, hidden dots, etc) and my bill matched for 8 of the 9, which is what prompted the comment about it being such a sophisticated fake, I guess.

I'll try and get a copy. This was 8 years ago, but the lab will probably still have a copy. I felt like Dr Evil... one hundred trillion! All I could think of was this skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hTrnaa8aE
I've always had a sneaking suspicion that the best folks I've worked with just ("just") had the breadth to immediately drop into an associative mode, and as I've gotten older and realized that I so very rarely actually encounter anything remotely new that I'm doing it now, too. Having grown into being on the other side of the table, recognizing that "yes I understand, yes this is the first time I've seen this, it's fine, go on" capability in myself is neat. (I try to be as delicate with it as my own mentors were.)
1x Programming
first test end to end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw9DmxiPdhg
Why is bash getting easily confused about POSIX support? Aren't there POSIX macros?
Or the physics of lithium ions, which is why sometimes a new battery design will just spontaneously catch fire (because the time it takes it to denature into something dangerous exceeds the time the designers spent on practical testing).
Every time I wanted to write, I felt that what I'm writing about is either trivial or already done. But whenever someone asked me something, I could speak about it for hours. So now, I'm building personal wikis - one for learning and work, the other for thinking. I jot down whatever I feel somewhat relevant. Aiming for the perfect blog post stunted me, so I love writing in a more raw format and a less structured environment.
You can get a refurbished Epson Home Cinema 1080p projector on eBay for like ~$350 and have a huge screen in your living room. It has a nice immersive effect that reduces the draw to engage in other content.
Beanstalk cryptocurrency loses $182M of reserves in flash ‘attack’
> I will stop work the day I die.

This has to be the saddest thing I've ever read. Modern culture/capitalism/whatever has replaced an individual's family, friends, purpose, identity, etc with their job. Truly, "arbeit macht frei".

> Be curious.

"I will stop work the day I die. I don't think I will ever retire. It is just simply not for me."

Sounds like the most "non curious" life possible. But people should lead the life they want.

> I don't think I am any slower today than I was at the start of my career.

You are. Not only are you mentally slower, you are physically slower. But it's okay since your decline in one aspect is offset by accrued wisdom and experience. At least hopefully.

To deny you are slower today is as silly as denying you are wiser and more experienced. It's part of life and aging.
Crypto Stablecoin Collapses After $182M Hack
Not sure why this sensible comment is being downvoted. The living room used to be a place for a family to congregate and spend time together doing shared activities. If everyone is on their own device… there is no opportunity for quality time and shared connection.
Oh no, we all get what analogies are. This is just a shitty one.
Because they only made the lists available a few hours ago instead of days ago when they released the notice.
Echoing others here, quitting Twitter has given me a lot of time back that I now try to redirect to writing.
Relatedly, downloading Obsidian on the phone means I now journal quite a bit, which is therapeutic in its own way. Each time I pick the phone up, something ends up in Obsidian.
Yeah. Companies can purchase information from the credit bureaus and use it to target direct mail. Providing your SSN helps them match you, because it would be SO SO BAD if they accidentally opted out someone against their will.
I worked on the long term forecasting team as engineering support. Uber is laughably unprofitable. They spend thousands of dollars per rider signup and way, way more per driver signup due to all of the perks.

I worked there for a year and vowed never to work for a big tech company again. Sold my shares right as it was announced they got stung in the UK. It's a dying company.

Won't say much more than that. I've been harassed a few times now for talking about it.
Americans’ taxes used to be public – until the rich revolted
The story of the etymology is one thing, but the common understanding of what "daemon" is, outside of computing, speaks to the inherent volatility and evolution of meanings in the English language. If you check Webster's dictionary[1] you'll see that (1) it's merely an alternative spelling of "demon" and (2) it's primary definition is that of 'an evil spirit.' It's not until the 5th option that a reference to computing is mentioned: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daemon

[1] Noah Webster created his first dictionary as a resource to use alongside the King James Bible because he had observed, in his lifetime, the drift of the meanings of words to the point that what the words meant when the KJV was written were being understood differently. His goal was for Bible scholars to have a fixed point of reference to what the meaning of words should be when reading and interpreting the Bible. We can see this in the US Constitution where the common understanding of the word "regulate" in the late 1700s means to "to make regular" -- which in modern language would be rendered as un-regulated. Reading the Interstate Commerce Clause with the understanding of the words as they were used at the time gives almost an opposite understanding to what was meant at the time.
If you'd like that to happen please bring it up with dang. Don't complain about it in the comments. But don't hold your breath, it's not likely to happen.
>vulnerability was caused by hh.exe, but they were told that if there was a command injection from hh.exe, a child process should be created under hh.exe, so especially the heap-overflow side of this vulnerability will not be shared with the community.

"Due to community security, it will not be published until the update is passed. Maybe it will never be published :)"

would hardly call this publishing
They didn't give it back. I'll have to give them a call. This was 8 years ago, but I know they still have it. I didn't know they'd gone up so much in value. I don't think I'd want to sell it though. I remember paying about $10 + shipping for it.
It's possible to archive a GitHub repo so that no changes can be made, although it can still be downloaded. I think that's better than just removing people's repos, which looks like vandalism to me.

What Russia is doing in Ukraine is hideous, and if someone could disable all the computers in the Russian military, I would welcome that. But just working for a Russian company does not make someone a combatant.
Pretty much. The fact that we can read about these things is what implies that the government is less corrupt. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
@dang: here's a better version without scroll lag

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
Paul Graham put this out on Twitter earlier today, and I came here to talk about it. I think YC News discussion is usually better than Twitter.

I think the article is pretty good, but she does paint with a broad brush. One example is this, which I’m not sure is well-balanced:

It is unserious to prioritize the old over the young, to shut down public schools for two years in the name of safety, sacrificing the needs of children for the neuroses of adults. Twenty years of educational gains and investment in schooling were “wiped out” by Covid policies, according to the United Nations[1]. This is the real, lasting effect of long Covid.

I don’t see school shutdowns, especially pre-vaccine, as simply the result of neuroses of adults. The schedule could be debated, but I think it’s unserious to make simplistic statements about a complex, and dangerous, situation.

[1]www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/world/americas/covid-19-education-unicef.html
The CIA wants the GRU to know that we know.
I wonder what it would take to create private sort centers:

- slap “refused — return to sender” stickers on all the junk and drop it in bins for USPS

- bundle your actual mail and deliver it
About 15% of the page is available for the actual content. The rest is distracting clutter (eg. the share bar thing repeated over and over again after every sentence almost) or just void.

You have to scroll like crazy to read a very small amount of text

The text overall is extremely long and skinny, like a receipt, thats a highly suboptimal aspect ratio.

Comments are formatted exactly the same as the article, the article doesnt seem to end properly just morphs directly into comments.

Single sentences floating alone in a sea of crap is not a good way to read.
To each their own I guess. But I'm with you, I got rid of my TV in the living room and put some house plants on the table instead. Now I just sit there in chill, no entertainment necessary. Sounds boring, but idk, I can just drink tea and daydream and be lazy for hours.
I'd argue AGI would not seek war because violence is the dumbest solution to any given problem. It is not likely that a machine of high intelligence would give you valuable information for free. It might lock away its memory using an encryption scheme it developed itself. So the singularity might just result in the world's most expensive randsomware bot.
Look into the Google Voice app. You can get a free US number that works with both SMS and calls. It routes calls through Google's VOIP I believe.

I use it as a burner for any website that requires a phone number. I figure it will be easy enough to change my burner phone number if it gets leaked to some shady DB.
> This is supposedly better than USB 3.0 (original standard), USB 3.1 (new standard (...)

Not quite.

* USB 3.0 specifies SuperSpeed. No need to go on about GenX given it's the first one introduced by USB3 is there?

* USB 3.1 specifies two data transfer modes: Gen1 (the one introduced in USB 3.0) and Gen2 (the fancy new mode just introduced).

* USB 3.2 specifies the Gen1 and Gen2 modes from USB3.1, and adds two additional modes.
Fastmail allows you to crate unlimited email aliases that forward to your main domain.

I'm a happy customer.
> Our culture conceives of a universal egalitarianism across all domains of human interest, but it hasn't really thought through all the implications of that, which is why a phrase like "woman and children" can still be used in an era where it's supposedly abhorrent to make those kinds of distinctions.

I think most people even in America embrace a pragmatic egalitarianism where they think it's okay for women or men to be lawyers or politicians, but men continue to have a unique role when it comes to fighting wars or fixing power lines in the middle of a storm, while women continue to have a unique role when it comes to reproducing the species.

I think it's a small minority who think the difference between 1930 and today is solely due to us being more enlightened about gender roles, and nothing to do with the fact that the primary achievements of that age had to do with things like building thousands of miles of highways, while the primary achievements of this age are quite different.
According to Wikipedia it can be either dee-mun (demon) or day-mun

I've heard both in my personal life from different people

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)
A couple years ago, I got people returning calls I never made for about a month. They were all elderly, and my phone number was being spoofed by people claiming to be Aetna (a health insurance company).

None of them knew it was possible to spoof your phone number. Some thought I was lying and that I had been leaving voicemails as a prank. I'm sure most of them would have fallen for whatever scams these people were peddling.

It's fun to imagine old cranks replying to Viagra spam and forwarding chain emails, but the reality is far darker.
Explainer-How to Prove Genocide, the Most Serious War Crime?
The question isn't 'will they decline' it's will they be better than they would otherwise be, and that is unequivocally yes.
> Surely the kindergartener attitude is the attitude that a group of people should be denied self-determination and forced to be part of a larger political body against their will

HN lately doesn't fail to disappoint. I don't know what else to do other than quote what you are replying to. Turn your auto pilot off.

> I am neither for nor against Catalan independence

The reasoning China and Russia give for their actions is facile. You're rather making my point.

"Catalonia should be independent! And Barcelona should be an independent city-state within it! Why not!"

"I am neither for nor against independence but this is an overly simplistic attitude, you clearly haven't thought about what you're saying seriously at all"

"You're just like China!"
Sample size of 1 here but I recently (a month ago) moved from the USA to the UK. I got a UK number and I have not received one spam call or text since. In the USA I used to get at least 4/5 calls a week and it rendered the phone portion of my phone completely useless, to the point where I would miss important phone calls. I would also never make "real" phone calls and opt to call via Signal/Whatsapp instead.

What is it about the US telecoms system that makes it so susceptible to spam? Is it just the size of the market that makes it attractive to robocallers anywhere in the world?

99% of the time when I'd answer a spam call (typically whilst expecting an important phone call) it would just be a dead line anyway - are they just verifying if the phone number is valid, potentially to resell it later?
But USPS is underfunded and according to the source below they made $13.9B from marketing mail in 2020. As long as USPS is underfunded it is a necessary evil.

https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/2062562/
It depends on whether you have access to the second factor. I have Authy installed on two phones for that reason.
If a parent finds something goes against their beliefs should they be able to stop their kids from learning about it in school?