skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocking spam calls is not very helpful because the numbers are inevitably spoofed and can be spoofed differently for the next call with near zero effort on behalf of the spammer. The problem is the phone system has inherent poor design that causes all sorts of issues and the major players aren't really interested in fixing it but at best are willing to apply mediocre patches.
Supporting independence is not illegal in Spain.
In Brazil an interesting law was recently passed: calls from call centers must start with a 033 number. It is now much easier to block or know when you are being called, likely, by a robot.
They have assistants to filter that for them.
IIRC, USB 3.1 was an update to the spec to allow USB Type C connectors. USB 3.0 specified the old type-a connector on one end and one of the weird oversized type-b connectors on the other end.

Maybe not relevant as a consumer to have a difference in the spec version for that, but if you’re a manufacturer trying to implement it, it’s worth a bump to the minor version number.
We are still drowning in paper spam. This is yet another area that is ripe for *reducing emissions and impact on our environment* that can only help everyone involved _except_ for companies that spam(scam in many cases), yet it is allowed to just continue.
Treat this as a cautionary tale for what happens when you have industry insiders regulating themselves.
>Anyone doing illegal activities must face consequences.

While I'm not familiar with Spain's legal system, it is normally the case in legal systems that there is not a 'must' at play. Consequences can be given by the state, but the law does not demand they must be given. The state is not in violation of the law when it chooses to not attempt enforcement of the law. Be this a cop not choosing to give a speeding ticket to someone who wasn't speeding too dangerously, a prosecutor not enforcing a case they aren't sure they'll win, or for other reasons.

This is relevant because given that the law lacks a 'must' directive ensuring it is always enforced, we need to determine when should the law be enforced. Even if one really does support enforcing the law whenever it is broken with no exceptions, support for such a stance is as warranted as support for any other stance would be.
A document stating what the policy is does not address a complaint about a bad or loophole-filled policy.
First off, I love these kinds of discussions, debates. Thank you.

IIRC, RMS rejected forfeiting rights, eg public domain, to better protect users of software. Maybe the thinking was that the absence of copyright would lead to seizure (capture) and exploitation of the works.

I'd love to know how that's actually worked out, empirically. Like comparing outcomes of similar projects which used different licenses.
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Very useful. Just built and installed with the Go tooling.

Friendly reminder: you can name the binary WHATEVER YOU WANT in your system. There's absolutely no need to nitpick on the name.
I just don't care that much really. The current systems work fine IMO.
> Yeah, Uber never got a foothold in Germany, but they brought us apps and card payment.

Germany also worked hard to cripple Uber. Even its per-existing rules are hostile towards much of the innovation Uber brought to market.

One particularly egregious example is forcing each Uber to "return to garage" between each trip, even if another customer is on its path and requesting a ride. This makes the service considerably more expensive, increases wait times and needlessly burns gas to send cars with no passengers back to their "garage".

To my point of view, it's insane protectionism. In recent weeks, the policy can even be seen as indirectly subsidizing an invasion.

(see: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uber-ride-hailing-future)
I love how a product owner for a job board I used to work at insisted that we keep the 'I am not interested' button super hidden. He thought that would make people click 'I am interested' more as if that's what career choices are pushed by.

Ultimately, I think it might work as he says, but the metrics just showed a drop in 'engagement' cause people would close the page without clicking, so we had to add the button back up because the higher-ups thought 'engagement' was more important.
Would this actually be such a bad idea if all parties were still part of some supranational entity like the EU with some level of free movement and common regulation?
I read that lens muscle atrophy is negatively correlated with time outdoors. Stands to reason.
we also need a better way to report spam, anti spam should be builtin by operators
There’s also a huge segment of professional vehicles (specialized, delivery vans, ambulances) which are going to stay firmly in the diesel land for the foreseeable future.
It appears from at least one complaint that Alex Jones is named personally as well as InfoWars corporate entities. This should shield the corporate entities but not Alex Jones from personal liability.

In at least one way this could help the plaintiffs in that if InfoWars remains on air Alex had a steady source of income from which to pay his damages. Unless the plaintiffs goal is Infowars shut down (that’s a heavy lift however).

One complaint:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12mHNXnFQo2nH555yJxC5JIEEeAo...
Exactly. Like all these other "gee-whiz" filter questions.
Same for me. I’ve missed some important calls from random numbers and it’s frustrating.

There’s even a group of spammers that call twice back to back, I think to get around the setting that allows double calls to come through.

My iPhone helps a bit in that it will ring if I’ve ever called that number before.

It’s funny because I think having a setting where only apple accounts are allowed would be welcome, but I think that only works on iMessages since calls can be easily falsified. I’m looking forward to the day that Apple will know if a device is actually originating the call and pass that info to me.

I trust Apple more than any other org to actually care about eliminating spam calls. Sad state of affairs.
If he can prove that he was saying what he did as an employee of IW then IW, the company, is responsible. The US doesn't necessarily hold that the company and the owner (even a sole owner) are the same. The phrase "corporate veil" is used here. However if it can be shown that AJ was using IW as a he, the person, wants then he can be held liable "piercing the corporate veil"

Keeping the owner and the company separate is a necessity under US law, even for one person companies
Just like apple: your other car comes with a charger so use it to prevent waste. /s
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The reason for Alex Jones’ rise and arguably the rise of Trump, AOC, Sanders, and other non-mainstream candidates like Majorie T Greene (to put it lightly) is the continued dying trust in public institutions like mainstream media. Why? The masses on both sides of the spectrum aren’t happy with revelations such as “catch and kill” or lying by omission or delay with the most recent example being stories on Hunter’s laptop. It doesn’t help that the only mainstream media outlet to look at the ties between the Wuhan Virology Institute, the EcoHealth Alliance, and NIAID is Newsweek; while others like The Intercept or Vanity Faire & Rolling Stone are either not mainstream or are primarily entertainment industry periodicals, or just straight up tabloids like the NY Post.

Occupy Wall Street and their successors, the meme stock clans, are other symptoms of diving public trust in public institutions, and so is the #EpsteinDidntKillHimself meme. It will only continue to get worse unless something changes, which is highly unlikely when various entities can just pay to kill or influence stories.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-...

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(I'm just the messenger.)
Honour in this case is being imposed by the state, but Slavic cultures and national pride are 100% driving this too.

Some nations just won’t tolerate their men fleeing a crisis leaving women and kids behind, state or no state. Western Anglo/EU culture skews towards this, but not as hard.

Hence the broad support for them.
A good answer would be "no, but when I was working on <game title> which is a game that has to run on many different consoles including <console>, we had an interesting but where <weird stuff happened> and the stack cookie I inserted to test if it's a buffer overflow remained pristine. After a lot of debugging, at the stage where I started suspecting it's a compiler bug and inspecting raw opcodes, I was looking at my debugger and noticed the stack pointer was lower than the stack cookie address and understood this CPU has a stack that grows the other way than I'm used to".

Instant hire if I was interviewing you.
Not sure this is fair to the consumer. Apple was advertising usb-c as one port to rule then all. When the device has two of these ports, why should the user expect not to connect two displays?

Especially since this restriction didn’t apply to the previous models that looked exactly the same and are now advertised as less powerful.

It would be natural to not explicitly look for how many displays it can handle.
And it has barely limped along over the years in comparison to other developer supported FGC games.

This is more of an "exception that proves the rule" since Smash is pretty much the only competitive game with zero centralized support that has broken out of a tiny niche to compete with big names.
>How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?

Glad to see someone else asking themselves this question, I've found myself in exactly this situation a number of times in recent years.
I don't understand how that's any more perverse than small landlords doing the same thing. What is the perversity argument around rentals? Is it that is a single family home being rented? Is it that it's a private equity company doing the renting? Is it the unique combination?

Having had many many bad landlords of single family homes in the past, I'd prefer somebody like Blackrock as a land lord as they are less slokey and more likely to follow the law then a lot of landlords I've been forced to deal with.
The person probably meant they didn't really get to coast and just do the same thing over and over again. Many kinds of mundane-looking corporate work are often hard work.
I've had this experience several times as well. Last time was on a date. We were talking a little bit about board games and tarot cards, and some other third thing . I have never purchased any of the three things or even browsed them on Amazon. Never get ads/recs for those on Amazon, just books. Next day, however, my Amazon recs were all for board games, tarot cards, and whatever the third thing was.
Technically, the scenario described could happen entirely offline: voice recognition, transcription, then match for autocomplete (not that I am claiming this is what happened).
I knew a guy who had saved his way to millionaire status when he retired. His salary was in the high 5 figures. He never bought anything, lived like a hermit, and just socked it all away in a savings account (back when savings accounts earned decent interest).

Kind of an extreme way to live but it used to be possible.
Is anyone aware of any kind of spam campaign that involves creating a character with your phone number? I get calls and texts about florida real estate probably every day. I don't answer any calls from numbers I don't recognize, but the texts from "potential buyers" about "my listings" just keep coming. Every so often I will look up my number to see if it matches an agent, or look up the properties I'm asked about, but nothing ever makes sense. The listings are always off market, and I haven't found my number yet. I'm sure this is a big no-no, but I have responded to a couple of these messages, trying to tease out some more information, but I have never received a reply.

It's most likely that people are just mistaking my number for some real estate agent's number, but you never know. Has anyone else experienced something like this?
Ya gotta stretch yer brain !
I’ve been doing this for a few years and find that the per website emails aren’t so bad and it’s whenever I use my old “legacy” emails that I’ve had with gmail for ages that gets the spam directed to it.
Telemetry is the catch-all phrase used to describe data captured about a device.
Telemetry servers combine this information to build profiles on users. Network models of relationships between devices and user behaviours are used in recommendation engines including autocomplete results.

If you are in the same room as a cohort of people, if one or more people had been searching or messaging the X & Y Smiths, then by geolocation since you all attend the same church, you're associated as potentially interested, especially considering you already had their details saved.

There are also fuzzy logic factors, like maybe those three letters weren't in their name but were in their phone number (each number corresponds to several alphabet characters), or might have been in a message you've long since deleted but is still in your autocomplete index which combined with the geolocation weighting could have caused it to pop up as an option.

In these instances it might appear your phone is listening, but you were in the same room as some people who were probably also interested in that family, had their data in your history, and being a new connection could have boosted its relevance too. (I just saw someone else also answered that you probably only noticed this event because of the conversation, or the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, which is also plausible)

Not saying definitively that your phone was not covertly listening but our devices are capturing and correlating a massive amount of dimensions related to our behaviours at all times, so it's not beyond reason that enough of these factors lined up to cause the autocomplete engine to suggest it as a reasonable option.
Be careful using the silence unknown callers setting in iOS. I had an interview set up and the call silently went to voicemail. They had called through some Google service so calling back didn’t work.
Considering chickens are basically small dinosaurs, I wonder what will happen if we continue to make them bigger.
I have great respect for that. By all accounts Leetcode sounds absolutely tedious at best and more often an insulting, demeaning waste of time.
I don't really get spam calls any more. Pixel 6 Pro on Google Fi, living in New York. Not sure which of these aspects has fixed it, or if it's something else. I get far more legitimate calls now than spam. At least in terms of what makes my phone ring.
These are great points, let's go a bit further.

Trying to regulate crypto is like trying to regulate the internet. There are some good attempts, but by using different routes we can circumvent (even in china). Blocked by firewall, use cell, blocked cell towers, use satellite, block satellite??? With crypto, regulate one, fork it, change the network, make another... change the route... use a different crypto/fiat vendor. Good luck.

Right on anonymity, but users doen't care... they just need the "perception of anonymity" or good enough. If you watch teenage trends, it's a great predictor of the near future.

Consider the teen buying weed with the choice of fiat or crypto. On their child bank account under their parent, even if they use cash, those withdrawals raise questions. But that same teen who tells their parent, yeah I just put $300 on coinbase for crypto. Now that teen can use funds without their parents knowing. Sure the trail can be traced back with some work, but it's really hard for the parent. And by trading crypto for cash outside regulated exchanges, it becomes increasingly difficult to unwind anonymity. Now reread this paragraph swapping out teen for average citizen, parent for government, and buying weed for sending money to support mom.

It's ok to not see the use case personally if you don't need it. In 1993 people thought mobile carphones were a pointless trend, and they kindof were -- nobody today uses phones mounted in a leather case in their car to call people. But with some design iteration the most profitable companies on the planet emerged. I think we're at 1993-carphone of blockchain. The use case is kindof there, but as you said the "mainstream" use case hasn't really emerged yet. However that doesn't mean it won't.
You could assassinate companies by doing this.
Modern foods actually makes variety simpler, since you can lump them all into one food category - modern food is often slight seasoning and proportion variations on the same processed ingredients, so you don't want to eat it frequently. An occasional pizza or birthday cake or soda is ok, but they're not great for daily food sources, especially with hfcs or lots of sugar.
You need to drag the malicious .7z-file onto the 7Zip Help window. I don't know who is at fault, but that's a pretty weird intrusion vector.
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I don't think the delivery question is about how to get electricity to a few early adopters. It's about how the grid takes on the increased load of millions of electric cars.
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> It's a one time charge and also can be resold if needed.

It's a hefty one-time charge that is not required to operate a Uber and thus can baloon the initial investment between 2x and 3x, and at best is capex that you have to tie down. Therefore, how is that an advantage?
I think you are confusing undefined behaviour with implementation-defined behaviour.

The compiler is within its rights to optimise your program under the assumption that undefined behaviour is never invoked; this holds irrespective of the particular libc implementation you happen to be using.

You cannot assume that the specific libc implementation makes it "safe" to invoke UB in general.

As far as I'm aware, the specific example you give (signed integer overflow) has nothing to do with the libc implementation; it doesn't even have anything to do with the underlying architecture, since the compiler is still allowed to optimise under the assumption it never happens, even if it has well defined semantics on an x86.

On the other hand it's perfectly valid to rely on implementation-defined behaviour, assuming you can determine the implementation, but signed integer overflow doesn't fall into this category.
> The point is not to compare proprietary software to slavery.

You did exactly that.

> The point is that Stallman does not find proprietary software bad for the user, he finds it morally wrong.

I truly hope that you are wrong and Stallman does not believe proprietary software to be an evil on par with slavery.
I assume the reporting on the case is really bad, because if that is literally the reason he is being sued it would be outrageous. Being a conspiracy theorist may be in poor taste but it is not a crime.

But realistically the situation is probably quite complicated with actual harms that can be demonstrated.
Only on Windows, apparently.
Any good email services that offer unlimited aliases on custom domains at a reasonable price, or are you running that yourself?
The first time I busted a company doing this was very satisfying writing to their privacy officer requesting they remove every trace of my data from their systems with an attachment of the spam email with their domain on it so it there could no doubt where it leaked from. Hopefully it was worth the few cents they got selling my address.
In other words your life is a cast.
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Tell the story if the conclusion is unimportant, but there is a story to be told that is cool. Otherwise skip the story.

If the story and the conclusion are important, give the conclusion and then hey, if anyone is interested, here is a story related to the conclusion.
I never thought about this, but it's true. The value of iteration is woefully undersold.
Answer call - mute is my go-to for all non-contact calls. Let them pay in time.
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This has been working well for me but I notice the spam calls are starting to come from random area codes instead of always being from "my" area code. Eventually they'll hit on the correct one I suppose.
As a hobbiest, even if visual fidelity isn't a concern I would use unreal over unity. Unity optimizes for making a block move around the screen, but becomes increasingly convoluted in design. Unreal doesn't feel like you are just hammering random different unrelated systems together as much. If I were to do a 2d game I would use godot though.
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... or what if you are traveling and your phone and laptop are lost or stolen?
Sometimes a friend comments on how ugly some car model is in its yellow variant. Then onwards you start realizing that the streets are full of that ugly yellow car
!!! How come?

Right after bringing some trivial detail into consciousness, there is a period of time where we are more aware about this arbitrary piece of data. Our brain is a pattern-matching machine, so it does the rest.

Want to know if it was the iPhone spying on you? Follow the somewhat scientific (ish) method and take note of absolutely all autocomplete suggestions and make a conscious effort to realize how much relevance they had every time. That way you'll learn to differentiate "coincidence" from coincidence.
> If speaking automatically triggers some request you'd see it immediately (and see the URL and payload)

That's one possible way to implement a feature like this. Ruling out this mechanism doesn't rule out any others.
I cook whole chickens very frequently, 1-2 times a week for the past few years, and the sizes of the birds described is not something I have ever even seen on the market. The average whole chicken I see is about 3 1/2 lbs, or 1.6 kg. Some are under 3 lbs and the largest I see in stores is about 5 lbs/2.2 kg. Certainly not over 4 kg - a 9 lb chicken would be massive, more like a small turkey. It could be that I buy organic/free-range chickens, but I haven't ever seen a 9 lb chicken for sale or any parts that would appear to come from a 9 lb chicken.
I think you have to be a quick thinker even if you run a shift at a fast food joint. The stakes are a bit higher here.
This is the main problem with spam: it is reducing the effectiveness of our communications systems. It doesn't matter whether we disregard a legitimate call/text since we do not know its source or whether legitimate calls/texts are blocked so we never see them (or even if we miss a call/text since it is buried in illegitimate ones).
We had a lady calling our company (the hallway phone specifically) for a week demanding answers/threatening lawsuits about why we keep trying to sell her pills. We make commercial and government electronics. She refused to understand that the phone number on her screen is not the number calling her.
Pretty much this. At the moment, I am trying to sort this out for my parents who bought a MacBook Air to replace a 12" MacBook and want to know if it is still possible to use a pair of 23" 1080p HP displays with it.

They don't care about resolution so much, nor does my brother who tested this setup with his 2017 MacBook - bad keyboard and all.

(On that front, last I heard, there was a hidden preference for non-HiDPI displays which has been completely removed, causing some issues.)

So far as I can tell, it is possible to run more than 1 display on the M1 - but it requires using a version of the DisplayLink driver with some extra [hardware][1], which is not exactly straightforward and I question how well this works in practice.

Sonnett is not the only one doing this, but it's the first one I found.

[1]: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/m1-mac-dual-displayport-a...
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