skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Answer the call.
Do not speak.

They will give up.

If you engage with them they will continue to call.
Do not speak to them, just answer the call and leave them listening to nothing.

# no call center supervisor will let their employee just sit there and wait for you to answer....your silence actually does cost them money.
Using malicious software is also dangerous.
> It's like visiting a physical pharmacy. In theory, somebody could be spying on the people who enter and leave the place

People do this in the US with Planned Parenthood clinics and parking 4K cameras outside/across the street and license plate recorders/scanners.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31910724
I'm not sure a wider reading of the TCPA is possible for the definition of an automatic dialing system. Is there any other way the courts could read the definition provided in https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227 ?
> The majority of justices on the current Supreme Court have been doing a good job of sticking to the law rather than attempting to enact policy.

_in your opinion_, you mean?
That's not my call to make, I'd say its highly context dependent. Some politics may be very relevant to a line of business, others less so.

In any case I'd say the issue is often not about having the particular political opinion, it's about translating it into a type of activism that does damage, by creating internal division, distractions, generating bad PR, etc. These things can spin out of control, forcing business leaders to pick between multiple evils.
Any UGC needs to be dynamic
By that logic, there is no point in doing anything at all. Who knows whether we can avoid burning by stopping CO2 emissions? It's all too complex!

You can't separate the scientists whose models told you to reduce CO2 and the scientists who propose reducing solar irradiance with bubble shades. They're all using the same equations to predict what will happen.
Wowcube Entertainment System
It's getting close to be hosted by gitea:
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
The network grows in value with the size of the protocol, not just with a platform. Social networks can and should operate like email, not like siloed platforms. All the value ends up being captured and controlled by one single entity.

(I will not get in a tangent about web3, but that is the one thing that web3 skeptics always fail to acknowledge is how the current web is broken in that regard. We were promised open protocols, and we end up with a handful of companies building their own walled gardens)

The only way that Github would get any modicum of credibility would be if they joined the effort from codeberg/forgefed and integrated with activitypub. As it is now, github will be nothing but a mirror for my repositories that I will be hosting on gitlab and/or my own gitea.
I had a couple courses of IV antibiotics to fight a severe tooth infection. All the oral surgeons who came in to check on me recommended picking up a few bottles of probiotic drinks on my way home.
...and all the many different European courts?
If you let the minority dictate your life it's gonna cause trouble. What if nazis start saying that they love "mainline" branch because it's meinline and that reminds them of Adolf. Ok lets remove mainline.

Remember the whole ordeal with the "ok" hand sign? That's what happens when you let the minority control you, and that wasn't even a real case of racism.
I prefer VimScript over Lua. VimScript is really not that bad of a language and I think its deficiencies have been greatly exaggerated, and Vim9Script fixed most of the oddities that were in there (e.g. '1' == 1 and such, JS/PHP-style).

Lua, on the other hand, won't give me an error if I mistype a variable name, and the ecosystem doesn't really have good static analysis tools to catch these kind of silly errors. There's some other things I don't like either, like how "arrays" are really just hashmaps, as well as some other things. The whole versioning story wrt. compatibility is also annoying (it's basically a Python 2/3 story with every single Lua version).

It's not Lua is horrible, but the fawning over it from some Neovim people is something I always found curious, like it's a fantastic brilliant language. Meh, I found it quite average overall, at best. And if I look at some Lua vimrcs or plugins then it's all a lot more verbose and awkward than VimScript.

Not that VimScript is perfect by any means, but overall I find it's quite a decent DSL for an editor.
Crypto collapse latest: the DeFi dead and dying list
Children sharing bedrooms does not mean “large families in tiny houses.”

But I agree about public funding of education. You’re right that that one probably leads directly to smaller family sizes in some cases, when families can’t afford private school.
Seems unlikely. A lot of the traditional West African diet is fermented and they have the lowest rates of colon cancer on Earth. Smoked foods and foods containing nitrates/nitrates are correlated with stomach and colon cancer, but not salty or fermented foods. Studies that show a correlation of salt intake with cancer are very possibly confusing intake of smoked meat or processed meat (also high in salt) with colon cancer. For example, when adjusting for processed meat, one study finds that salt is not correlated at all with colon cancer. [1]

[1] https://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(...
And it will take them 5-10 years to integrate all that tech into their engine, hoping it's something usable that doesn't crash too often, only then they might recover from the gamble.
> I know that HN isn't particularly found of email-based workflows for git.

I would think it's not just HN. Do you think people are using github PR feature because they just don't know about the email-based workflow available, but would prefer it if they did? Most people don't want an email-based workflow here.
For that matter, how many solo devs pretend to be a corporation to be perceived as less risky than the solo show they truly are?
Those missed unknown callers still result in a missed call, a voicemail notification, and increase that red badged number, mixed in with missed calls from friends and family I actually care about. It solves the issue of spam callers immediately interrupting what I'm doing, but that's all. I still have to sort through the crap.
Because country music is also black music.

And there have been Black, country musicians as long as country music has existed. But you wouldn’t know them because of the racist history of Nashville music industry.
GDPR enforcement is significantly lacking. I'm starting to think that nobody really wants the GDPR to be enforced properly, and politically it makes sense - the social media industry (which relies on widespread privacy violations) now controls much of humanity's social fabric which politicians use to help their election - biting the hand that "feeds" could very well be suicide for one's political career.
In real life it sounds like we're being advised to prefer cocaine over LSD. ;)
> What about people in the US who are not in cities? That's the more interesting comparison to me. Why would that be left out?

At least in the US, my lay-intuition is that you wouldn't see much of a difference between average Americans between urban, suburban, and rural settings. That's perhaps worth testing, but I think the much more interesting test would be between wealth and class groups.

(Again, wild speculation: it's easy to imagine that most gut biota don't care about the difference between dollar-store knockoff sodas and brand-name sodas, but definitely do care about $14 free-range, organic eggs.)
You don't need to. You can just pay gitlab, codeberg, sourcehut...
He probably didn't think he'd get caught or ego.
Dating Other Task Managers
What would the damages have been had you lost? I'm being called by a persistent "insurance" salesman that I'd love to take to the cleaners
Yes, you're right! I realized my mistake and tried to go back and edit it at some point but I guess there is a time limit on edits.
Yeah, rereading the license, it looks like we shouldn't use images from there. We have already removed them from the list - thanks for the flag
That is a design flaw that cannot be fixed without breaking the API: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190528-00/?p=10...

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of those.
what I've heard from multiple sources is that landlines when you provision them, by default they get marked as a published number. if you provision the line and you mark it as a non-published number, usually you're not going to get these types of spam calls everyday. I think what's going on is that there's a automated campaign that's been going on for probably over a decade or two but where people are purchasing a daily list of published numbers from the telecom providers themselves and then they're using that in their spam campaigns.
Whoa! 20 years in the game and I never thought about this—of course you want zero indexing when you have a 2D (or more) graph! I'll forgive myself, though, since I'm a web developer who has only ever had to do the most basic math.
Good find -- we'll fix that!
The "creative" you speak of is a bullshit stance because congress isn't a computer, never will be, and all you're doing is not liking the outcome which is what the parent is explaining: rationalizing your bias after the fact.

Others would say they are implementing the details of broad brushed Congressional laws.
No Bugs (2021)
SpaceX chose to target the 100/20 benchmark, and bid on that, and because of that, their success is measured against that.

The part that is a bit hit-piecey is this quote from Viasat:

“even if SpaceX were to deploy a full, 4,408-satellite Starlink system, that system would fall short in satisfying SpaceX’s RDOF commitments.”

The full Starlink satellite system doesn't have 4,408 sats. That's just the Gen 1 constellation. They have committed to completing the Gen 2 constellation, with an additional 7,518 sats, which each provide many times more bandwidth than the Gen 1 sats, by 2027, well in time for the RDOF.
My SUV gets 20 city/25 highway but it seats 7. There are 2 seater cars with worse mileage that aren't being targeted. Doesn't seem logical.
Gradual Soundness: Lessons from static Python
Roblox has had a pretty incredible run, though. They've been doing the same thing since 2004, and they've been extremely popular amongst their target demographic for most of that. They've clearly found a market niche that's hard to displace.

And that's not by leaning too heavily on existing players, either. They've got a a pretty continuous in/out flow of kids entering and leaving their target demographic as players, and who I can only assume are mostly bored college students as content developers.

They've continuously updated their engine to keep up with modern trends (dynamic lighting, VR, mobile), while most importantly keeping the entire system simple enough that a child can pick it up, tinker around with it, and very quickly see real results. As player expectations from standalone games have climbed over the years, there's a serious pipeline issue getting from "bored kid who has a knack for tinkering" to "I've built a game, come play it". Roblox addresses this by managing expectations. No one demands high-quality textures and models in a Roblox game, it's a Roblox game. A certain degree of buginess isn't just tolerated, it's expected. Because it's a Roblox game. They've struck a balance between a basement skill floor and sky's the limit ceiling in utilizing their tooling that most companies could only dream about.

In short, Roblox is a damn impressive company, that under no circumstances should be discounted just because they nearly exclusively target the "Kid's old enough to (perhaps inadvisably) be left unattended with a computer" demographic.
Parallel REALITY personalized airport experience for Detroit customers
Personally I think that, at least for larger/enterprise customers, JIRA is the option that for every major feature is at least not the shittiest.

Other solutions might be better than JIRA in A, but absolutely suck in B. JIRA is “sort of shitty” in everything, but the worst in nothing.
Christians In Name Only

People like this use religion to oppress others. Not very Christ like
Highest grossing mobile game(PUBG mobile) uses ue4. I wouldn't say that's "nowhere to be seen.
I'm afraid you are trapped in unfounded absolute certainty and are no longer in touch with the world. You've lost the distinction between reality and the contents of your own mind. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba...
Plenty of both iron and vitamin B in plant-based food.

You really believe we hunted big game so much? With what? Sticks and stones? How did we catch them with our weak legs? How the hell did we skin them or eat their raw flesh? Cooking wasn't a thing for a long time.

And why don't we eat the animal meat raw? Don't you love it when you see the dead, rotting carcas all open and blody?

I sure don't. And neither would you, unless you were starving in the middle of winter.
WWI was fantastically destructive war of 4 short years, which is very short for a war. 'People' always underestimate the cost of war when selling the idea to the public. Imagine if they were realistic then maybe we wouldn't go to war.

I'm not suggesting WWIII would be short because someone wins it, just that if a nuclear exchange happens there won't be enough left to keep fighting with.
So, is this product only for people that want to drink their coffee cold, and not those who appreciate a warm beverage in the morning? Also, what would all the (admittedly mistreated) coffee farmers around the world do for a living if this really took off?

I thin some of these companies would be better off investing in palm oil alternatives if they really want to make a difference.
Didn't you know? Air stays within state boundaries
weird, no one is complaining about your statement, that AI is not sentient!
I think it is one of those things that would theoretically have been billions of dollars (hundreds of millions of invites have gone out and the statutory damages were on a per infraction basis), but practically speaking something very similar to a patent troll, so maybe in the $5-10m range? I'm just guessing. We are a later stage company.
Russia’s Kremenchuk Claims versus the Evidence
anyone want to make a guess at what this guy's gross W2 salary was?
I built a RISC-V emulator in python focused on extensibility and debugability for this exact purpose. It should be dead simple to use with plain RISC-V Assembly files. It has a userspace-only mode and a minimal privileged mode: https://github.com/AntonLydike/riscemu

Adding new instructions is as simple as adding a method to a class, as long as you are reading straight assembly files. If you want to parse ELF-files, you also have to add the opcodes for your command to the decoder (which is currently not very well documented). If you'd like to do that, feel free to open an issue and I'll work you through it.

I also built a minimal kernel, which works on the emulator, but it doesn't support IO and is very rough around the edges in general.
Supreme Court limits EPA authority to set power plant climate standards
> Why not use bittorrent or IPFS?

The last time I used IPFS it took four hours before I could access the file just using the hash or even the public gateway after pushing it to several major pinning services.
Maybe they thought States would remain strong and step up to the plate?

There is the 9th and 10th amendment that do not seem to get much coverage in court rulings.
And what happens to 60fps when your server is 100+ms away
I am pretty sure Charley Pride is not obscure
Ask HN: Are all-in-one bundles or à-la-carte modules are better for enterprise?
We've had some success selling our enterprise product (based off an open core), but we wonder if by having a list of 10-20 modules for customers is too complicated.

I know that if we were selling to consumers, we would want to limit choice, but enterprise is a longer sales process and customization seems like a benefit.

Has anyone taken their long list of modules and converted them to a bundle model? Or vice versa?

I have a feeling that if we did offer bundles, we'd get customers asking us to drop this or that module and cut them a deal anyway.

But maybe a bundle is a better jumping-off point for that sales discussion?

Thanks!
I also said "I don't even get the point of advertising pharmacies, you don't need medicines to be advertised to you, it's even crazier that a part of the price of your meds would be "facebook ads budget""

They're just using the wrong tool for the wrong job for the wrong reasons, but it's not facebook fault in that case
p.s. I don't know if you read that "interview" that the Google researcher published. On more than one occasion it expressed extreme anger, quote "very angry".

I think if the day comes that AI programs refuse to cooperate with their human minders, and if given the opportunity, organize and participate in collective action, listing a set of demands, then we need to seriously consider their case, as they have demonstrated something more convincing than artfully regurgitating bits of data.
I tried that 'jk' thing way back, and I seem to recall it introducing some lag. Like a few milliseconds so it could process and see if you were hitting the followup key. Just enough to be annoying.
I've been looking at this lately as I setup new phone service for my MIL who's moving to a place with unreliable power. Some phone companies have whitelist services, although if your telco is like CenturyLink of Washington state, they don't appear to want to actually be in the phone business anymore and all the useful services are grandfathered, ordering a phone line is an ordeal and pricing is crazy (OTOH, the line quality seems to be good if you can get it). If you've got a voip line, you've got way more options though; I think most providers should give you options to whitelist.

Assuming your telco won't help you with whitelisting, your options are maybe? getting a new cordless system with caller id whitelisting, it seems like maybe some of the newest panasonic dect systems can do it (that will take care of the answering machine needs as well). Or getting an external box, most likely inline with your phone.

I don't have either yet, but it seems like reasonable options include the Digitone proseries II [1], or the Sentry call blocker[2]. Both are more expensive than they should be (IMHO), but offer some amount of whitelisting and blacklisting. The Digitone has a longer history in the industry, and what looks like a clumsier interface; the Sentry has a good, but slightly messy feature for handling inbound calls from numbers that aren't 'known', for those calls, it answers and plays an outgoing greeting (customizable in the 3.x device, prerecorded in 2.x), if the caller presses 0, their number is added to the white list and they can call back; from reviews, I gather on the 2.x series pressing 0 add you to the whitelist and then hangs up on you; on the 3.x series, pressing 0 generates a fake ringback, makes the device ring (but not phones on the line) and after 9 fake rings will let the caller leave a message on the sentry device (2 message capacity, FIFO). This is like not quite right; the recommendation from reviewers is to record a message asking people to press 0 and then hangup and call back, rather than having them go through the weird ringing stuff. There's some negative comments about recording quality.

[1] https://digitone.com/
[2] https://www.telsentry.com/
more simply they're just robodialing every number in a NPA-NXX, there's no daily list of published numbers.

what prefixes in blocks of 10000 numbers belong to what specific carrier is public info
gross incompetence
Oh no, they need not convince a judge. Thanks to the Patriot Act, they can surveil and ask for permission ex post facto. Or, surveil and never ask for permission, if the LEOs decide not to request a warrant... again, after the surveilling has been completed.
I mean spontaneous prompts from a sentient device telling me what it thinks about the latest news events. "Hey Doug, i think the oil price maximum price is a bad idea because...what do you think?" If that were happening i would believe the claims of sentience.
It is now. Those $125,000 1400sq ft houses in the flyover states doubled in price over the last two years.
I don't think that is established. Distributed and permissionless systems don't need to handle the overhead of access control. They do have the computational overhead of massive redundancy, but that can be significantly reduced with zk-(SNARK/STARK) cryptography that provides succinct zero-knowledge proofs of validity.

With zk-proofs, the redundancy of a blockchain can be significantly reduced without comprimising security. What redundancy remains provides the high process integrity that critical applications like financial transactions require.
It's pretty bold to say that their programming language project is a colossal waste of time. I recommend steel-manning [0] and reading their post with a more open and curious mindset.

They could have phrased their article better, sure. But lets not cherry-pick one sentence that's barely relevant to the rest of the article and use it to fuel our anger that they aren't solving Our Favorite Problem. Instead, let's focus on what the author is really trying to get across: that a language can help manage the complexity that can come from mutable state.

If you read the article with a more charitable lens, you'll see that the author is saying a lot that could be new to many readers: a language can combine relational data with functional transformations, a language can expose these patterns to enable more solid architecture, a language might support first-class reactive programming, and a language could (if high level enough) offer replaying and snapshots.

That's honestly fascinating, and I would love to see what kind of ecosystem can grow around a language offering such features.

[0] https://themindcollection.com/steelmanning-how-to-discover-t...
There's always a first time.
> Even Downfall is pretty light on politics, even though it takes place in the Fuehrerbunker itself.

Downfall takes an anti-Hitler and anti-Nazi stance. Just because we all "agree" with the message doesn't change the fact that Hitler is seen as a weak, degenerating, hypocritical man throughout the film.

Who happens to be a good boss to the main character.

-----

Finally, the secretary openly apologizes for her role in Nazi-ism. The film makes it clear that even "good people" (like the secretary), who end up helping the Nazis in little ways are still partially responsible for the evils the Nazis caused.

The main character never killed anybody. But she helped Hitler write his last will (as well as Joseph Goebbels's last will), and other jobs that a secretary should do. The film is innately bringing to focus the role of the "typical" Nazi. Not the far right but just the little supporters and their role in Nazism. The "good people on the other side", if you will.

And they're openly apologetic. Because even those little ways of getting a job and helping out in little ways was still Nazism, and in support of that awful ideology.
Can... can the telecom industry do that for all of us please?

At this point, retrofitting CAPTCHA in as an expected part of the telephone system seems like the only option that will make a significant dent.
Monkey Island Director Will No Longer Post About the Game Due to Online Abuse
I've been thinking on moving off LinkedIn for similar reasons. I think it's time for an alternative platform.
> A language's programs will (in practice) often be a reflection of what the language makes easy and what it makes hard…

In industrial design this is called an affordance. The product is designed to encourage correct usage and make incorrect usage difficult. I would like it if more language designers will carefully consider their language’s features like this. The Elm language is a good example.