skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a setting to turn the silence unknown callers feature off for x hours. As it stands, I'll manually toggle it during periods where I know I might get an unknown call I actually want to answer. Leaving it on 99% of the time has dropped my spam calls significantly.
Maybe in 2022.
Yes, I observed that also. They are are faster physically and mentally (such as operating or discovering how things/software works) and a lot more logical (but not in depth). Simple recent example, doing trail making test (for fun) they were twice as fast while I was average.

http://apps.usd.edu/coglab/schieber/psyc423/pdf/IowaTrailMak...

This is why I wish system would allow for more young politicians and leaders, lower voting age of 16, and maximum voting age of average lifetime expectancy - 16.
If we had the email and text and app equivalent of a Do Not Call list, we would have everything we need: after perhaps a first time slap on the wrist, companies that continue not to run their lead lists against that registry deserve everything that happens to them.
So which engine is this guy working on? I checked his twitter and his website but there is no mention about the actual engine (only that he is working on one).
I find it amusing that every single one of our high-speed standards (ethernet, HDMI, PCIE, displayport, USB) are basically just the same high-speed differential pairs under the hood with different framing.

I don't know exactly what we can do about this situation, but at some point it probably makes sense for all of them to converge into a multi-lane, differential-pair standard (or just support nesting each other arbitrarily).
I've never took to read Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, might as well do so
If they weren't shining shoes for money, they'd be straight begging or stealing. So what should we do with the homeless who only beg for money? Tell them to get a real job? It doesn't work like this, at least not in countries which are less developed. Here we can't create millions of entry-level jobs for people who mostly don't have any type of formal education overnight.

Seeing kids work is not right by our standards but people have to eat. Luckily I hardly ever see that here. But I see a lot of people that are willing to work, even if the job is unnecessary by your definition: Cleaning windscreens, carrying bags, singing or other artistic presentations, selling candy or water...

I give them money, they are part of this society and most of the time they did not choose this route. I would like to do more but unfortunately my time is very limited.
> Long shadows of Hitler and eugenics do certainly have a chilling effect on research of intelligence etc.

Speaking solely about eugenics: it wasn't Hitler, eugenics were largely considered progressive at the time and the Right Thing To Do. Most of the Nordic countries today that Western countries admire have eugenics programs to some degree or another, they just don't use the word eugenics.

You could argue that the US for example has one of the most "successful" eugenics programs in the world - just look up the demographics of the abortions funded by tax-payer money.

You could also argue that many of the global NGOs that are popular among Western leaders today have a strong eugenics focus, but again, nobody uses that word. It's much easier to suggest that a population shouldn't reproduce by calling it feminism, empowerment, or simply making child-raising a luxury good.
Not even close. We have Linux-libre backed distros today.
0.1% of all non crypto money stolen is not comparable to 0.1% stolen of defi locked up money. They're just too different.

I think both are "huge" news, but the "rebuttal" does not add any weight to the argument because they're not comparable.
Even twitter threads are headlined by clickbait!

Here is what this means for your health.

All those tweets and not one was about what this means for our health...
> … but the irony is that usually what's at the end of the story is the thing that should be first ("the cluster is down!").

Also know as BLUF (bottom line up front).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
That won't change while the USPS continues to give massively preferential rates to spammers.
Free range (truly) locally sourced chicken continues to be much smaller than the pumped up big-name-brand-owned factory farmed chicken. We purchase a few months supply at a time from a local poultry and pork farmer that doesn't work with the big conglomerates. They're increasingly hard to find, but if you can find them, and your income allows, do consider supporting them. I find flavor and how that meat cooks to be superior to the factory farmed stuff, but as always YMMV.
They waddle when walking now. Another 50 years and chickens will be entirely immobile. Thats good news for Tyson since a bird that gets no exercise will consume less energy and need less food.
I am not an American, and I think I can count on one hand the number of spam messages and calls I have gotten over, say, the last 10 years. Oh, all right, call it two hands. I have no filtering service of any kind. For Americans to suffer this so, there really seems to be something wrong somewhere, or possibly very right where I am.
most people reading this have never missed a meal in their lives; a good number of people reading this have never been in a grown-up out-of-money situation where you face deadlines and have no source of money; probably a few people reading this have had to work doing low-skill work, but personal computers have changed access stories. The new version of "labor camp" is a phone that costs you little to nothing but is restricted, tracked and required, and work that is low-skill or away from a center of decision making somehow. Parts of this are happening in the USA out of sight, and elsewhere, and it may be increasing under new economics regarding income and housing. Smug dismissal among those that have never really had parts of it yet, can be expected IMHO
I wondered about how they manage their exploits too. Presumably they are constantly developing new exploits. I would guess that if they have a live 0-click that is working reliably they sit on the others until the current exploit is no longer effective. I doubt NSO considers their customers fully trustworthy. So they probably check every prerelease of ios and android for patches and ship the next exploit to customers only when a current exploit is being patched.
Do all participants have iPhones?

Apple could have an almost complete social graph. If Y Smith is the common acquaintance between you and your friend, then it would be the best second suggestion if you want to share something in that part of your social graph.
Every single family home in Texas has at least one A/C unit pulling 10-60 amps of power from May - August and the grid is mostly just fine due to the availability of peaker plants. I think grid problems for people charging at home is overstated.
>> Alex Jones, founder of InfoWars, was found liable for damages in a trio of lawsuits last year filed after he falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax
> Doesn't sounds like a crime?

My understanding of the judgement [1] is that he didn't follow the law at all w.r.t. court proceedings and so lost on that route. Which is not to say that he would've won the actual lawsuit but just he lost on technical grounds before it got to the emotional grounds.

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21074090-pozner-judg...
We need an led for microphone on.
It could happen offline, it could also happen async.
Progressive disclosure isn't what's keeping me hooked on the meaning of the registers of your chip. People asking about the status of my open bug is doing that. Give me a table.
I think there's some of the well-known "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow) thing going on as well. As we age, we gain knowledge and insights that we try to reconcile with as we learn new things, and that takes longer. E.g., if you're learning the theory of music scales, those with a math background will tend to think of the math behind the notes as they learn, which is the "Think Slow" way (with active analysis) and takes longer but results in a deeper understanding.
Everyone probably told him that he was “stressed”, “just be less stressed”, “my friend of a friend got an autoimmune condition from being stressed”, “fix your diet (remove chocolate)”

lol people have no clue
> In patients with Achilles’ tendon rupture, surgery (open repair or minimally invasive surgery) was not associated with better outcomes than nonoperative treatment at 12 months.

I tore my achilles in 3 years ago, I had surgery to repair. I can't say 12 months is really all that important. At 12 months I could walk with a limp and just barely jog a 1/4 mile. But KD was making jump shots and practicing for NBA at 9 months.

I've been getting stronger and getting more range of motion and strength continually. Just yesterday some stuff in my ankle clicked a bunch and once again I've got a little bit more motion.

All the research I read said something like, the first 6 months is the most crucial and you get limited gains out to 2 years. But I'm still improving beyond that.

If I had to do it all over again, I would get the surgery and do the PT even harder than I did. I think the good outcome I had was due to not being obese and walking hundreds of miles in the last two years. Anecdata from the FB achilles rupture support group makes me think its just lazy people who think 1 hour of lazy resistance band work 3 times a week is going to get them back to where they were.
I believe that’s called Bader Meinhoff Phenomenon aka “Frequency Illusion”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Google have switched off blurring for Russian military sites in Google Maps
They could also queue the data then piggy back it on a “legit” network transaction and since it’s encrypted you’ll never be the wiser.
This happens to me as well. At first I thought maybe they are trying to contact my number’s previous owner. But I also regrettably replied to one message which ended the conversation. I think it’s spammers trying to see if a real, responsive person is behind the number. Recently I’ve been receiving phishing links based around another scenario
Due to the buyer demographics Toyota has spent 15+yr courting and the brand image they have been cultivating they have really stagnated themselves into a corner.

The cheap enough and nice enough EVs other brands are bringing to the table are going to cost them a lot of sedan and hatch buyers.

And the Tacoma/4Runner/highlander money printer is going to get run over by the EV F150 and other big electric family haulers that the other OEMs have in the works.

Vehicle platforms take time to develop and bring to production. Toyota is gonna be late to the game. And being late to the game can be the same as not being in it when you're chasing the fickle high end consumers they are.

Their credibility is worth something if they sell it now. It might not be worth anything down the line. So selling their credibility while telling themselves it'll be ok might simply be the best they can do.
Perhaps I wasn’t being clear. Following the principle that your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, the thing about free speech and an undiscerning audience is that there are often consequences that cross that line even when the speech itself doesn’t. Anyway, I’m pretty confident that I’m not going to cut the Gordian knot here.

For myself I’m happy for you to have all the freedom of speech you like. What I’d like enshrined is the right to freedom from speech. In my country we are in the midst of an election campaign and it is impossible for me (both legally and technically) to stop political parties from spamming my phone. I would rather they didn’t spam my phone. I don’t have an opinion about your phone.
It must be to have posted the same comment twice.

Did you do any research in to it before buying it? Apple was never misleading about how many monitors it could support. The "Tech Specs" product page says it can power its internal display and one extra external one. Just because you want it to do something doesn't make it a travesty when it can't.
Far too many based on what? Consider how many chances there are for stories like this: just about everyone owns a phone, and people share things all time.
“I'm Feeling Lucky”
Unreal uses GC (refcounting) too, no?
I've never seen them before, but during the last couple of months have gotten multiple, from international numbers.
Having existed pre and post Uber, in my country (Australia), here are my thoughts:

Ordering an Uber is far, far quicker and easier than getting a taxi.

Getting an Uber is still far cheaper. In the old days, if you were traveling after 10pm, you’d very often be charged up to $10 from before you’d even closed the door.

That lead to taxis feeling like luxury vehicles. Catching an Uber seems so mundane by comparison.
Vitamins are a supplement but a lot of areas are low on vitamin d so what do you do?
I have in mind a YouTube original tv series hosted by cold reading psychics ("Crossing Over With John Edward") except instead of guessing your grandma's maiden name they just talk about mesothelioma then have the audience open their phones and look for spooky targeted ads.
Can confirm, my phone is essentially DDoSed by spam.
Yes it did, at first. It was one of the first times we presented the question, so we didn't have a great signal on its efficacy just yet. However, other red flags emerged during the interview process, and we decided to try the question out a few more times, with a lot more success. And the rest is history.
It is also possible that the device does not send the data instantly, but rather at a time intervall or bundled with other legit requests.
Im glad to hear Uber/Lyft/Ride Sharing App pricing has matched that of cabs in London. In New York it was close (at least pre-COVID). I took would always opt for a yellow cab at those crazy prices (making sure that the meter was on, unless I negotiated a price). I'm not sure what cabbies in New York must pass but Definitely in places like London where cabbies must pass but hearing a little about "the knowledge" [1] for London cab licensing, and experiencing their true professionalism, I only wish that a similar test could be administered to anyone professionally driving any vehicle in the city must take.

[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3307245/the-knowledge-taxi-tes...
Google phones have a great system of filtering out spam calls and texts (for free). Not sure why iPhone doesn't have something similar
TIL HN doesn't know what stablecoins are.

Stablecoins are basically on-chain gift cards, with each token priced at about a dollar. Some (USDC, PAX, etc) have businesses you can directly redeem the stablecoins in order to get $1 sent to a bank account, and others (DAI, FRAX, UST) have more complex mechanisms to stay at or ~$1.

If you're using a chain that isn't BTC (technically you can use USDT on Omni but almost no one uses it for this), you can probably send the person a stablecoin that is priced at $1 USD.

And yes, people in Nigeria and other EMs do this every day, either for remittances, FX trading, or other reasons (reasons can be legal or illegal, i'm not supporting harm or illegal use cases but at some point we gotta recognize the 'freest' countries either still support race-based class discrimination or legalized slavery, so it's insufficient for the purposes of good faith discourse to throw pseudo mic drop rebuttals that assert legal institutions are infallible).

EDIT: and to pre-empt the "what if the stablecoin goes up to $2 or down to $0.50???" questions:
- Centralized stablecoins like USDC, PAX, etc have licensed businesses that use actual banks to store the reserves, so if anyone wants to sell me their USDC for $0.75, please do and jog on
- Decentralized stablecoins like DAI have more complex checks nad balances, and with those, unless you're a market maker or doing something that requires a non-top 3 decentralized stablecoin, it's often better to go with the ones that have been audited and/or battle tested, provided it suits your use case.
Twilio is often a source of the spam texts and calls, so it would make sense for a cellular service provider to block them.
That story is very one sided.

The truth is that independence is near 50/50 overall, and always less in Barcelona.

Both sides provoke each other, the independence parties also sabotage actual dialogue and continuously create conflict out of thin air.
Migadu mail is very cheap, been using them for almost a year now with zero interruption or issues. Unlimited custom domains, unlimited aliases, etc for $20/yr
In 1894 The Times said "In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure". What they missed in their prediction was how cars would replace horses.

If lithium really does become such a scarce resource we can change laws if we have to. Or maybe we’ll just get better at recycling and mining it.
Yeah, this is the most aggravating part of it. I've had people call me and ask why I called them (I didn't my number was spoofed). I tell them I didn't call, and invariably they don't believe me. Side note, I do not recommend trying to explain spoofing to random strangers. It doesn't help
It does keep a log… of caller IDs. The problem isn’t the volume of data, it is that the system isn’t setup to authenticate callers so you can’t tie a spam call to any persistent identity to block
WTF! ? How does anyone sign up for a service that asks for that, especially anyone here on HN? Are banks OK with this?
You can set the focus modes to do exactly that, but for all calls
Quirky “0day.” Really makes you appreciate fuzzers.
Ugh honestly it's been awhile. I remember the brand was pretty well known and one you could buy in stores, but the lock itself was a model that could only be purchased by professional locksmiths and other people with certain qualifications (why this is I'm not sure; maybe because of warranties that require certified installation?). It was beefier and more solid than anything I had seen in home improvement or hardware stores.
I don't know the rest of the process, but 3 hours for an interview seems 100% fine. And practical tests are so much better than random abstract questions IMO. I think your solution is to watch and plan on firing many people within 30 days, which seems worse for everyone.
> I think it comes from an excess of "passion", which is like permanent exageration. I am prone to it, that's why I know, and I try to keep it under control.

We thank you.

I suffer from the opposite problem—extremely deadpan personality. I insert exclamation points randomly in emails to seem human.
It's considered a huge success because it returned a ton of money to shareholders
Maybe TMobile is doing you a favor is showing just how insecure 2FA via SMS really is.
Why would no one regulate it? Right, because both political parties are spamming as well. At the height of the presidential campaign I got 52 emails from republicans and 47 from democrats and they are full of dark patterns and manipulative language on both sides. It’s insane.
Probably a double irony because twilio is used for sending a lot of spam SMS.
Doesn’t Toyota make the best hybrid cars right now?
Most likely it would be software based which means how could you trust it? Even if you mandated hardware based they can still conceivably access it after the led via a hardware side channel.
This seems to me like one of the only ways to "level" the playing field, because it now slows their moving on and takes up human resources.
I would like to see this. Mostly to see what kind of an absolute beast of an oscilloscope can keep up with the data rate.

Also I don't understand why people are disagreeing with you. If a cable is not within spec it's absolutely possible for it to work in one circumstance because for example the port is more lenient and completely fail with a port that is more strict.
Pentagon to build nuclear microreactors to power far-flung bases
The obvious approach would be to copy the code for an existing function, I think.
Ask HN: What Is the SQL Interface Equivalent for Large Unstructured Text Data?
For better or worse, there has been consolidation around SQL as the lingua franca of big data. Are people seeing the same type of consolidation for unstructured text data?
There was going to be an online Smash tournament using emulation + a mod to improve the netcode but Nintendo shut it down:

https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/19/21578200/super-smash-bros...
Lithium-Iron-Phosphate chemistries appear likely to be the choice for less flashy vehicles, and don't require cobalt or nickel. It's slightly less energy dense, though has some other benefits.

Lithium mining can be increased, though perhaps not at current price points (unsure about this).

I'll agree that 2 EVs per suburb house is a bit absurd, but it was absurd before EVs too.
So you feel that the points raised by Toyota have no merit?
The only way I've found to get around this is to either temporarily disable the setting if I am expecting a particular call or make sure that I have contact info for every single person I interact with during these exchanges.

Even if I know where the call is coming from, your experience shows it is still possible to mess up because you can't possibly account for all the kinds of weird phone systems people might be using.
I find paper spam much less problematic because it doesn’t interrupt me repeatedly throughout the day.

And the senders are much less likely to be able to get away with sending malware
It was a lot harder (even at MemSQL) to repeat the success of this question. At Impira, it took us about a month of trial and error over 5-6 similar codebases to find a good (and appropriately relevant) question.
Requiring answering the same question multiple times (refusing discounted renewals when cancelling, for example) to complete the stated/indicated action.

Good examples include subscription cancellation call center scripts, Reddit's "please use the app" popup, and Twitter's auto-revert to algo timeline after you explicitly selected the revchron one.
Just your phone? Practically every means of contact I have is flooded with useless crap messages. My phone, email, and physical mail are all nearly useless. I barely bother to check them anymore, because for every 1 legitimate message I get, there are dozens of spam ones.

> I honestly wish I could deny-all by default. Hey email solved this problem for me for email and I want an equivalent type of service for phone and text, now.

I would love an information-lock based system. Basically those "What's your mother's maiden name?" security questions, but repurpose them so other people have to answer them before they contact me.

I'm pretty sure even a basic "What is my name?" security question would eliminate most spam. For those more infuriated by spam, you could set it to something random and effectively have a password to contact you.
It's more about the discovery on search engines than in my own system.
My provider has 'Call Control'. If you call, it has a short prompt that says "This user has call control enabled, please enter <<some random digit>> to be connected." It ensures that only humans get through. However I have noticed some calls get through so I wonder if bots have already developed tech to listen to the message and enter the number. Wouldn't be hard I suspect.
I nearly missed a "next steps" call from a recruiter recently because of this.

The solution to me seems clear: use video/voip apps for everything and ditch the phone number. I don't know how to reach that critical mass. It feels like we should already be there with zoom and teams, but apparently not.
Do you have a citation for this? Not that I don't believe you (it's actually a very plausible statement), but I have so many questions on the technical details here.