skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They often call at dispatch time to ensure you’re there to accept delivery. They don’t want to drive out, only to have to return the appliance because nobody was home.
This is one of those things that seems so made-up I don't even have emotions about it. This article claims similar things that various far-right propagandists claim about the Canadian healthcare system--if you're depressed, the government will kill you for free, but you'll have to wait until an appointment opens up.

It's such an absurd dystopian science-fiction concept that I have to assume it's false, and that every report of assisted suicide for someone other a terminally ill person is in some part fabricated.

If these stories are not fabricated, and the government really is voluntarily euthanizing depressed people, then were I a citizen I'd be seriously thinking about [redacted] the Canadian government.
Interesting insight into the life of a spam writer.

I despise SaaS companies that funnel me into some kind of 30 day email journey when I’m just registering with things my company uses.
Is there any way to coerce the Indian government to take action on this?
Looking at YouTube videos where these scammers literally run corporate offices to steal from old and financially vulnerable people is heartbreaking.
I enable all the tracking, as it gives higher quality ads. If I have to suffer from ads, I want them relevant.
What factories are they closing down?
Eh, they're not in freefall any more. Very strong is probably an overstatement since they're still down over 65% YTD and even more from ATHs. I'm a big Meta (stock) fan though. I think they're insanely undervalued at the moment (says the guy holding a bunch of their stock that's down close to 50% all together lol)
Figures :-)

I wonder if this is a rollout thing -- I had AT&T for years, and towards the end (about a year ago) I began receiving spam notices. But I was in one of their "primary" markets, so it's possible they rolled it out first here.
> Other issues that have exacerbated the airline's struggle to accommodate the holiday rush include problems with "connecting flight crews to their schedules," Perry said. That issue has made it difficult for employees to access crew scheduling services and get reassignments.

Wait, what issue? Those words didn't actually say anything.

Is this implying that it was a software failure with the scheduling software?
Might be actually, I didn't actually look at the DCF. Just eyeballing their PE and their growth didn't make it attractive enough to me. I feel like it should be abundantly clear.
Checkout Jamtara on Netflix. a great series about this.
This is so pointless. We often make fun of people who obssess over the Kardashians and yet here we are obsessing over everything Musk..
TIL! I'll have to give that a try sometime, I've an abundant amount of sandpaper in various grits.
"Anti-Indian rhetoric"? The scams literally originate in India, and are masterminded by Indians. Further, the police are often paid off and rarely do anything about it. When enough fuss is caused about one or two they stop them and then another two crop up somewhere else. If you study the history of organized crime, especially in America, this mirrors the Italian mob once they got control of the police. This is organized crime perpetrated specifically against one nation (at scale) and should be treated as such.
Which is fine. European alternatives will emerge.
These operations have to be sponsored by the state at this scale. At the bare minimum they're at least looking the other way.

My grandparents are the targets for this kind of scam, and when they call their bank they get an Indian customer service rep to discuss the situation with. Absolutely disgusting that the situation has been tolerated for so long.
Biometric devices sold on eBay reportedly contained sensitive US military data
I've been curious lately about living off grid where I'd have a reasonable amount of land. One concern I had was with battery lifetime and this seems like a way to have a long lived system, at the cost of some efficiency. So I found this article and decided to share.
After switching to a shavette after using a safety razor for a few years, I'd highly recommend a straightrazor. I actually get a better shave, in about the same time. When I nick myself, it doesn't bleed anywhere near as long, either. Blades last twice as long too, because I only use half each time.
> For the “normal peoples theft” what would you like to police to do?

- show up when called.

- if they’re not going to show up, AT LEAST call back.

- make at least a token effort to apprehend someone of whom there is a clear video.

This does not seem to be outlandish expectations of the service provided by the largest line in city budget.
Why point that out? Seems like a non sequitur.
Musk was very clearly mocking the propaganda tweet, not praising it. I wouldn't put much confidence in the predictions of someone who didn't realise that.
Not much, 2G. But enough to run the installer image, enough to build the system definition, enough to run Arch + Sway for the last few years, enough to run NixOS...

My custom system description (https://paste.debian.net/hidden/78313f40) just blinks "error in service module" when I try to log in, which doesn't seem like a OOM issue, but who knows. I can't even log in in order to debug.
how so?

A simple explanation would be that the aliens are much simpler than we are in makeup because it happened purely by evolution, and that part of our complexity came through planning.

There's just too many possibilities to so confidently claim it's kicking the can down the road.
Two questions:

1) How's it do at syncing / conflicts?

2) In the Android app, do you know if there's a way to use the fingerprint feature without storing your master password or an encrypted derivative of it to non-volatile memory?

For those scratching their heads at #2, it's motivated by my lukewarm trust of vendor-implemented components of Android Keystore. Some competing apps address it by making you authenticate with the full password the first time after boot (or after the app is closed by the user / memory management system / configurable timeout) and just tie your fingerprint to an "unlock" pin of sorts that only works when the database is "hot".
- 10 years on LinkedIn, benefit: none

- 15 years on Reddit, there are some obscure reddits that are quite informative, but the last 5 years I saw a huge deterioration of the content, benefit: some

- 2 years on TeamBlind, good to know that layoffs are comming, otherwise no benefit

- 4chan, /diy/ made me laugh a few times, overall just waste of time

- FaceBook, never really got it, benefit: negative (annoying emails)

- HN: I would like to write something else, but the sad true is I don't see any benefit from lurking on HN for 10 years.

On the other hand time invested in reading books paid out:

- Reading investing books gave me a better financial security

- Improving my software skills by reading books about architecture etc. resulted in handsome salary increases

- Reading fitness (calisthenics) books - now I can do 10 pushups, when I started I cannot do even a single one.

- Reading in English, now my English skills are enough to get a better paying, english-only job.

Of course I also read a ton of books for pure enjoyment, that did not result in any objective gain. Of course I could watch YT to get into fitness movement, but overall there are too many distractions on YT, that make it hard to dedicate 1h of time to a single subject.

Recently I prefer to join closed, curated and non-googlable communities e.g. a slack channel/FB group for people from the same university/school or a group for people interested in investing (paid) or a club of people interested in retro computing. After seeing toxic/trolling/or just _notice me at any cost_ behaviours I no longer believe in total anonymity. Now I prefer to interact with people that I at least recognize e.g. there is a meetup and associated discord group, you can get invite only by showing up in the meeting.
First of all, they don't want to be out of the ID business. They like identifying their citizens to their own standards.

Second of all, the most common state ID is a drivers license. A federal ID would not replace the state's need to license drivers.
"Tesla has plummeted 56.5% over the past three months through Friday, while the S&P 500 has gained 5.4%"

Much of Tesla's value was propped up by the personal brand of Elon Musk. And he has done significant damage to that brand, over the last few months, as he's courted a far-right extremist following. That has changed how most people look at him. Certainly many of the people who buy Tesla's are a bit left-of-center, and don't want to buy from a guy who they perceive as being far-right. The question is why Musk felt the need to be so public with his views. Every single CEO of a car company is a Republican, but they are not so loud about it. Why didn't Musk simply act like other CEOs and keep his conservative politics quiet and somewhat hidden? For a CEO, keeping one's politics hidden is the norm for a good reason. That Musk prioritizes self-expression over good business practices suggests he is currently in a mental space that would be appropriate for an artist but not a CEO. If he wants to engage in self-expression, he has the money that he can retire from his jobs and devote the rest of his life to advocacy. But it's a mistake to combine advocacy with being a CEO.
I have refused working on projects I deemed unethical, explaining my reasoning. You can too.
GDPR is not the EU regulation on cookies. GDPR only has a single direct mention of cookies. The ePrivacy Directive is what's known as the "cookie law" (https://gdpr.eu/cookies/)
There are a lot of limits on government powers! You can find them in the Constitution and the last 200 years of case law, and of course you're free to challenge any of those powers even today.

"The government has the ability to seize most anything" == there are not classes of items the government cannot seize. Rather there are circumstances under which they can and circumstances under which they cannot. I suspect the reason you're not seeing much adjudication about these circumstances (medical supplies during a pandemic) is that it's not that controversial an application in legal circles.

Ah yes the vague "that thing I remember that I cannot point to."
Our phone provider has a free service, Call Control, that’s completely eliminated scam calls. Callers get an automated message asking them to enter a random number. If they enter it correctly, my phone rings as usual. This system foils automated calling services, at least for now.
From personal experience: I used to preferentially use SWA because they were great. Over the years, it seems to have become that every single flight is significantly delayed. Now I preferentially don't use them.
This is going to be a bigger problems when pipelines span across multiple teams within multiple organizations.

The only way is to 1) consolidate pipeline design into fewer teams, 2) build monitoring tools to monitor upstream tasks, 3) build gate keeper tools to double check outputs of tasks owned by my team.
Incredible to see that 14 months ago there was an almost duplicate outage. Clearly the operations teams are running too lean and don't have enough slack to handle predictable weather/sickness events. Seems like something you'd plan for. Even at the 98%+ uptime range

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28823774
But consider that most fundamental advances in computer science, other than maybe graphics, happened by the 1970s. What we have had since have been largely incremental improvements.
(a) isn't even remotely true. They paused production in Shanghai on a few lines to upgrade them to the new Model 3 and Y.

Brianna Wu is a permabear who pretends to be a journalist and spreads disinfo without verifying.
Anyone under 40, who have no kids, don’t run a business, have no presence in the community, and socialize only with people under 40.
Oh how I would love to see my job automated away. :)
You don't understand how pointing out the names of things isn't the important property of a thing would be relevant in a discussion with someone who is arguing it should be called X instead of Y?

That's on you, brother.
Should have had them text you.
This.

Snail mail is so overloaded with spam it might as well be the same.

The fact two fundamental and official mass communication channels are functionally useless is a sign of the rot in our country.

Email is teetering on the void. Chat is balkanized and siloed, same with social media, unlike telephony there is no source monopoly or tradition of cross standards.

Txt is the last bastion. It'll die in the next decade I'd guess.
> Indeed, in some Canadian provinces nearly 5 percent of deaths are MAiD deaths. In 2021, the province of Quebec reported that 4.7 percent of deaths in the province were due to MAiD; in British Columbia, the number was 4.8 percent.

That's about in line with the Netherlands, to put things in perspective.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
years ago i interviewed for, and was given an offer, to work on this very system. glad i didn't take it. I feel bad for the devs trying to figure out what's going on.
> Left wing types see it as a way to disenfranchise voters and deny resources to marginalized people.

If this is provided free of charge wouldn't it actively enfranchise people who don't presently have ID?
Is that the case?

When I worked in telefony abuse, like this, was pretty hard to track because of all the middlemen involved. They'd have phone banks with multiple phone numbers that they'd lease from providers in India who worked with them to rotate through outbound numbers. India doesn't allow Americans telefony companies, much less voip (in order to provide these telefony companies business), so looking at India from a telefony perspective is much like looking at several black boxes.

Tldr; because of India's policies the country of India has to do something about it. Much like Chinese knockoffs and IP theft.
All this works in British English just the same as it works in Spanish etc.

When are we back at work? On the second. Then go-live is on the fifth of March. (Normally 5 March or 5th March when written.)
> To be fair, the person who made that statement is the FBI's legal attaché in New Delhi. One would expect a person in such a position to say something like that, to smooth relations with the host country.

“It may not be a national security concern yet,” is actually a fairly ominous statement from an FBI official of any kind.
Technology is inherently harmful. We'd do much better as a society with a blacklist first approach rather than a 'chase the cat' after it's out of the bag.
they have the freedom to do so. not all women have a choice
Compromise solution --- send unknown callers directly to voice mail.

Or better yet, ask them to press a random number to connect the call --- before the phone will even ring or go to voice mail. This effectively weeds out most auto-dialers.

I have a Panasonic phone (connected to VOIP) that has this feature built in. It also has text to speech that reads the caller ID out loud. It's amazing how creative these hardware vendors have gotten now that their market is shrinking.

Mobile phones have some catching up to do.
Technically, a `session_id` in query parameters is just like a cookie (can be used to track you), except that it doesn't persist.

I'd consider it a basic feature that if I reload a website, or open it in a new tab, I'm still logged in, the shopping cart is still full, and I see past messages in the chat window.

While technically all of the above can be implemented without cookies (in a very user-unfriendly way), it's so below the expected user experience that I'd argue that cookies are strictly necessary for these purposes.
The deeper truth behind “Just Do It” – changing physical reality is easier
We're getting “helpful” ChatGPT generated comments on the Svix GitHub repo
I wonder how many of the "my kids and I are masking forever" crowd is due to the Twitter echo chamber. If anything contradicting the most dire of COVID effects is stifled then it's no surprise that some of the population became extreme. Their beliefs are even now reinforced by the Twitter/ social media echo chamber of the people they follow. It's sad and I feel for these people and especially for their kids
It'd make more sense to compare cash flow. Stock price doesn't necessarily say much about companies' survival prospects.
On Giving Better Advice
The top web search results for "best day for layoffs" say Tuesday, then Wednesday, Thursday.

But 1 result from "Jobmonkey" says "Friday is the least conspicuous day to fire someone. It also allows the weekend for things to settle down and provides a few days so that everyone can gain some perspective. If you worry about an angry employee who might cause problems, this might be ideal."
Wait, you guys know that was a joke, right? Is it okay to not do due diligence on claims because we don’t like a guy?

(Which isn’t to say it makes the market feel better, but come on…)
Can you acknowledge that a paraphrase is not the same as attributing a verbatim quote? You're free to object to one just as much as the other but this was not an instance of the latter.
Personally lost interest as soon as I saw the awful AI "art" at the linked page. Not expecting everyone else to have the same opinion, but mine is mine.
I believe she's referring to Shanghai, which is apparently being shut down for a week.
Something to be aware of regarding safe deposit boxes: possession of the key does not automatically grant access to the box.

The bank I use maintains a list of people I allow to access my box along with their physical signature. When I needed to access my box, I had to sign in with a pen, on paper and show my ID. They compared that signature with the one I gave when I first obtained the box. I was granted access if they matched. If someone else came in with the key but their name wasn't on the bank's list or the signature didn't match, they wouldn't allow access to the box.

So make sure people you want to be able to access the box are on that list (which means they will have to go to the bank to provide a signature ahead of time.)
There have been plently of reporting about the bag issue, including a Chicago local reporter posting a video of 100's or maybe even 1000's of bags in chicago most of southwest tags on them

It appears there was a MASSIVE disconnect between baggage and people, bags are ending up all over the place even though the people never left.
one thing I wish Bitwarden did is conditional username for URI

I have some internal tools at work where you need to specify the domain, and some where you don't. Having two separate entries for these scenario is annoying, as I gotta update the password on both when I change it.
Their market cap today isn't what matters - if people forget about this and continue to fly Southwest (which, let's be honest, many will), their share price will recover when they announce earnings.

The reality is they save a lot of money by keeping virtually no slack in their system and not doing things like scaling up customer service during the holidays. If they lose some money in flight cancellations, it's still rational for them to operate like this. Plus the reality is they probably won't actually lose much - most people whose flights were cancelled will still end up taking Southwest because it's too expensive (or not possible) to book last minute tickets on other airlines. That means they just push them into the very end of Dec/early Jan when they have open capacity anyway.
I can vouch for the veracity of bumblebees. I disturbed a nest and was chased by a couple of bees. I took 6 hits from one bee. 1st one felt like a rock hit me. Each after was similarly unpleasant. And after the 2nd each one was while I was in full sprint. I eventually escaped by jumping in a car.
Yah, but heat pumps have compressors too. I'm not sure what failure modes are the most concerning. The pressure vessels probably have some max number of load/unload cycles in them for instance.
Keepass and syncthing.
I know a bit about this with airlines - there's a lot of thinking that goes in to making the system appropriately robust but just as much, if not more investment, in optimizing recovery for minimal damage as well. They have optimizers that figure out the minimal damage from a plane being taken out of schedule, and airport halting flights due to weather, or whatever the issue may be. What's cool is the math that goes into "minimal damage" with regards to passengers, crews, bags, etc.

You can poke around at the website for SlickOR (https://www.slickor.com/) to get an idea of the surface level work that goes into this.
The latest news seems to suggest that companies like CATL are, and will continue to be, the battery leaders. I imagine that CATL will gladly sell to anyone who wants to buy.
Oh, I'm sure Vaultwarden is much more resource-friendly, but even then:

a user's password list is arguably the most important thing on the device.

And I'm not sure you need a "web interface" to something that in the end is nothing more than an encrypted text file, which is why I always recommend pass[0] or using the browser's built-in pw manager for people that don't know ssh and git.

[0] passwordstore.org
Why do you think they are “insanely” undervalued?
Yes, if the LLVM toolchain has Z3 support then `--z3-refutation` will be the default. It's only useful if you want an error in case the LLVM toolchain may not have this support.

I've read somewhere that the "full Z3" mode with `--z3` is very experimental and not well maintained. It didn't crash when I tried it but was no better and way too slow: typically 15 times slower on average, but a few files took over 24 hours to check.
Just get a job where you have to pick up every call you get and some of them won’t be spam!
I've see this without Gsuite vector. Could be employees logged in to personal device and leaking through those interactions. Or email to external investors, consultants, or contractors? Send something out to your external translation or localization team, ad agency, or copy editor? Difficult not to have some leakage.
Musk "praised" that insane Russian tweet by saying:

> Those are definitely the most absurd predictions I’ve ever heard, while also showing astonishing lack of awareness of the progress of artificial intelligence and sustainable energy.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607565268150091778
Basically blaming the victim, ain't it? The fault is squarely with the carriers.
How big is the overall dataset?
It wasn't just the Americans, the French also supported the indian rebels against the British. It was the French connection that made popular the tales of indian resistance in America, and how Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan (father and son, rulers of then Mysore state in colonial India) became inspirational heroes for the American revolutionaries. (Why American revolutionaries admired the rebels of Mysore - https://aeon.co/essays/why-american-revolutionaries-admired-... ). Indeed, some speculate that if the French had not weakened, the Mysore rulers might have been successful in chasing away the British from large parts of India too.

But ofcourse, as soon as America got its independence, it chose to follow the British and become an imperialist too. The defeat in America also made the British obsessed about holding on to India, and change their strategy - a few decades later, they took over the direct administration of India.
Of course they haven't bought 'all the mining rights'.
I think Semi is underestimated at this point.

E needs to quit Twitter and get back to his real job. There’s massive value in the Semi line, but it probably needs a big push (like with Model 3) to get it ramped up (including battery capacity).

This IS a bad time for ramping production, though, as interest rates are higher.