skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be very easy, depending on your comfort with breaking existing systems. Disable all inbound international calling and you no longer have a problem. That would remove 99% of spam and would have zero negative impact to 99% of individuals who receive calls.

Of course, businesses with a lot of money care about use cases in that last 1%.
High speed rail infrastructure would be new and modern.
> I see lots of people who are at least quite a bit less likely to use them in the future (and they are still in the middle of trying to fix it).

Meh, everybody always says that. In six months when this is a distant memory… it will be business as usual.
Wasn't there a guy who was running an IRS scam who was caught, tried and convicted and will spend the rest of his life in a US supermax prison? And his children, who lived in the US, were stripped of their citizenship and deported. The universities where his children attended were threatened with receiving stolen property and forced to pay all tuition and fees back to the IRS. And of course their degrees were revoked.
Hogmanay
Alternative link: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Hogmanay?lang=en
Is there truly freedom? This is a deep question beyond patronizing insults about primitiveness. What freedom is there truly, when humans are so prone to influences that would seem to chain them.

What freedom is there if one becomes addicted to some substance, for example? What freedom is there in being distracted from one’s purpose and higher rational aims due to being in a temptous environment?

I think you will not find “freedom” has much value if it is trapped in loops of dopamine
LiteX: Build Hardware Easily
Bully:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0242193/

For documentary:

No End in Sight

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/

This one is just a massive wtf if you don’t mind revisiting the Bush era fiasco. People keep saying the world is fucked now days, but I really think it was more fucked before.
Here are a couple of others from the repo (same comment author):

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/453

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/714
The code correctness issue is certainly a big problem -- it is simply not enough to get 90% correct. The real world problems often lie in the remaining 10% edge cases.

I have a very different take on how AI can come up with a correct by construction code, with not necessarily using a probabilistic model (Deep learning, for example). I have it written as a blogpost here[0]. The sketch of the idea is that any problem is a data problem, and an algorithm could be discovered, and new code could be generated by projecting it into topological space, finding the code there, and reducing the dimensions back in program space. It could well be a decent application of abstract algebra/algebraic topology to AI and code generation problems.

[0] https://densebit.com/posts/24
Why is naturally in quotes? Do you deny the immune system exists? I'm vaxxed, but this sort of conspiratorial writing and discourse coming from the vaccine pushers is harmful to science and flies in the face of reality. The immune system exists. The human immune system is capable of learning
Perjury is essentially not prosecuted, especially against so-called expert witnesses. Essentially every party would accuse their opposing party's expert witnesses of lying about something under oath and if anyone actually suffered for it, it would become difficult to find expert witnesses. Or that's approximately the summary I heard from Popehat (Ken White) at some point.
That is an interesting idea for product reviews, if you could have people up/downvote and that would be an alternative to Amazon reviews.
FYI - I worked as a post-sales consultant for a NoSQL vendor that did a lot of search. This is what seemed the sweet spot for data ingest. ETL was part of what we did, along with search and other applications. I would never have called myself a “data engineer,” but I got to see how customers managed data at a practical level. So take the advice as thou wilt.

If all you are talking about is being a programmer that works with ETL/databases, and no analysis of the data, then probably Spring Batch is a good foundation. Java connects to just about everything, performs well, and has good observability.

Maybe something Apache Camel/Talend for building ingest/enrichment pipelines. For example, cleaning up addresses, redacting data, etc. They have a lot of off the shelf tools for getting something in quick, but also are easily extended for weird corner cases.

Some knowledge of RDF/Ontologies for provenance issues/simple inference. This was especially helpful if we were using a service to disambiguate references to something like Washington, where it could mean George Washington, Washington State, or Washington DC.

Python, but the downside of python is it gets its performance from essentially stitching together native libraries in a friendlier way. However, like Java, Python can basically talk to anything. Although I built a python library to interact with our DB for ETL purposes, Java was my go-to.g

How to do it in the cloud is something I would also recommend. For a lot of places it makes sense to store large data sets on the cloud, but pricing can kill you. Understanding how to navigate both the options and the pricing and how your workload affects pricing is key. This includes things like if it’s cheaper to create a function to apply some transform during load or just run a batch update later. Also, some of the options today are hybrid and that can also impact pricing when you’re dealing with a lot of data. As a practical example, we had one very, very, very large customer that went from 60 bare-metal on-prem servers on their really sub-par storage array to about a dozen very large server on AWS, which had much better storage performance. For reasons that had nothing to do with engineer, but had to do with CapEx and budgeting, they weren’t going to upgrade their sub-par array.

I’m not the first person in the discussion to suggest this, but I strongly encourage you to develop an understanding of vocabulary of your users/customers. For example, in a previous life we had people that worked just with life sciences customers. I got a taste of it when I worked on a POC to ingest PDF submissions for devices at the FDA, extract information from tables and diagrams, enrich them, make them searchable, and track changes between submissions. I had the mechanical end of doing the work. I was shielded by a life-science literate team and was just a ‘hired gun.’
correct, the video is pointing out the name you call something isn't important.

I choose to call it blind faith and the other poster prefers to call it common sense. If a 3rd person wanted to call it guacamole I'd be onboard.

The other poster insists on arguing about the name rather than discussing the interesting part, which is underlying idea. They want to do this based upon the whole "science vs religion" thing that was boring even back in the 90's when it was raging.

I have no interest in it and so I've stepped out of that conversation. Let someone else take up a stupid, useless, argument.
This and Usborne Kid's Encyclopedia are forever etched into my brain.
> calling a staffing emergency saying all hell is about to break loose

That memo is specifically about ground operations at DEN, and specifically because of the arctic weather conditions and a high number of sick calls and ramp agents that outright quit. You can earn more flipping burgers in Denver than you can as a SWA gate agent with five years of experience. Failing to pay staff is also a management failure.

The scheduling software crashed due to the number of pilots and flight attendants that were out of position and the number of changes that were made to the schedule. I would imagine that there was an overflow in some situation -- i.e. "the number of changed schedules should never exceed 65535" that worked every year until this one. But this system was already known to be unstable, another Reddit comment said that "there are settings you don't change for fear the entire thing will crash." Which it has before in 2016. Not expecting that history will repeat itself and doing something about it is also a management failure.

> Also its pretty much an airport thing and not an airline thing

Absolutely incorrect. While the airport runs the automated conveyance system that gets the bag from where the rampers drop it to the baggage claim, the people that handle the baggage at every manual step in between are SWA employees. If there aren't enough of them, the bags don't make it on the plane on time.

Notice that the people doing this work for Southwest Airlines are all wearing Southwest uniforms.

Like most complicated failures, this was failure with multiple causes and contributing factors. The core of the problem seems to be that management was rent-seeking without making appropriate structural changes to keep up with system load.
> My own thesis, is because politicians, and PACs, use robocalls extensively.

I doubt it, its easy enough for them to just exempt their own calls (which, incidentally, they do from existing Do-Not-Call rules.)
> A significant chunk of current inflation is flat-out corporate greed.

This argument cannot stand until it can answer the question: why are corporations all of a sudden greedy now, and not before? If they could raise prices 20% at any time, they would. They don't, because the market won't bear it. It's nonsensical to suggest otherwise.

Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil company, made $6B in the first quarter of 2022, but lost money every single year for more than a decade before that. Why didn't they jack up prices sooner to make a profit?

Delta Airlines lost a lot of money after Covid, and has yet to neither reach pre-pandemic profitability levels nor recoup the money lost during the pandemic. Are you saying if they were only greedier, they wouldn't be in this situation?

Even the great devil Exxon Mobil itself had ever-shrinking margins leading into 2020 before losing money for four quarters in a row before coming back into the black. Again, is your explanation that they just forgot how to be greedy for a while?
That’s always there. People rely on the google a lot. Have apps in play Store, run YT channel. And other platforms similarly have power over their user base.
Cloud doesn't solve badly designed processes or poorly written software, which seem to be at play with Southwest. Yes, it can help provide more stable infrastructure and there are some (but by no means all) black swan events that can be mitigated simply by throwing more kit at the problem during a surge but it's no silver bullet.
It, um, can, but you have to kind of not pay attention and pretend that the letters are somehow important and ignore what your fingers are actually doing on the keyboard. At least n=1, my brain was willing to accept that j=down and k=up and not worry about the fact that they're not even next to each other. That said, if I could go back in time I would tell my younger self to either use vi/m or non-qwerty, but not both.
Is it also for SMS ? It's 99% spam and 1% 2FA codes to log in to stupid banks.

No way to selectively block SMS on phones (at least natively). Only reason I don't disable it completely is due to the 1 percent
when i was young, i used to dress differently to distance myself from my schoolmates. then i realized that by doing that i still allowed them to influence me because if they had started to copy me i would have changed my style. so i changed to wear what i like with complete disregard of everyone else, to feel as myself and not to feel special.

there is enough unique experience in just doing things that interest me, and that i care about. but it being a unique experience is not the goal. it being worthwhile is.
As I wrote a little fictional story about the demise of software
engineering myself, I'd love to read your story Charlie, but
unfortunately charlieharrington.com needs to review the security of my
connection before proceeding. Perhaps if we could fix this one little
bit of software engineering broken by CLoudflare it would open the
gates to us fixing many more.
>Who said they have no interest in life?

This is different than "forced to continue to live a life they have no interest in".

>Later down thread you switch to a "there is no interest in funding them" argument.

I didn't switch to anything. It was a premise of a specific argument in response to a specific claim.

>That's just saying regardless of whether you find life living, we don't find your life worth living, so expect you to end it.

This just has no relation whatsoever to anything I said.

>I don't have any particular generalized moral objection to suicide per se. I believe people should be able to meet the end of their life on their own terms with dignity and agency.

Great, we agree on that point. My further point is that those currently suffering should not bear the burden of our inability to collectively decide to fund further improvements to their quality of life.
My god. This is terrible but also riveting. I wish there was a website devoted to collecting stories of how these internal systems really work. Airlines. IRS. credit agencies. Etc.
its actually a tough connection. even if you don't have wire issues like you did, its a high current joint that's subject to regular vibration, rather large heat swings, condensation and high humidity, etc. and they usually put it in this little box thats hard to get to and easy to subject to damage when installing or pulling the unit out for troubleshooting.
I don't think Southwest was ever on Sabre. Their scheduling used to be in-house, now on Amadeus. Computerized operations started with Braniff's software and have ... ah, grown since then. Name almost any technology and it's probably running somewhere in their stack.
Also relevant, Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
I think you need to read back over what I said and consider that you've _completely_ misunderstood it.
Get out the curling rocks, eh!
Replacing an airline scheduling system sounds insanely complex. So many moving pieces, tens of millions of physical entities to track per day: crew, passengers, planes, spare parts, luggage, crew maximum allowed shift schedules, open gates, interacting with domestic+international terminals, seat assignments, and so on. Edge cases on edge cases on edge cases developed over years, probably in some god awful language running on a mainframe somewhere before “best practices” were a thing.

Modernizing such a system would take enormous political + real capital. The new system would undoubtedly have many growing pains as formerly resolved problems were not covered in the new system. It’s no surprise nobody would want to touch such a system.
What makes you think you know what role he has played?
Yes and uhh.

At some point, the way to fight crime is to fight crime. It's not that hard to find and prosecute most call centre scammers.

A lot of these scammers would not do it if there was risk. They're not often hardened criminals.
Here is an interview with director Alex Proyas where he explicitly discusses the removal of the opening narration [1]:

BLAKE: What is the biggest difference between it and the original?

ALEX PROYAS: The general pace of the movie is quite different. The director’s cut more or less is the version I had originally sent out when I was first testing the movie. We had problems in testing and it’s why the studio had us add in the voice overs, which I thought was rubbish really! My instinct then was when something wasn’t playing right to speed it up and I’ve never been happy with that, so this version is back to a more leisurely and thoughtful pace it was meant to be. The voice over from the beginning is gone of course. There is also a few scenes added back that were ditched that I think are perfectly good scenes and I have no idea why we dropped them then.

[1] https://screenanarchy.com/2008/06/alex-proyas-interview-dark...
How does "valuing human life" help people who would be deaths of despair under a program like this? That just sounds like idealism.
If it can be used to reach you and the cost of sending messages is low or zero, it will be destroyed by spam. I'm not sure anything can stop it, even serious dedicated police action and regulation.
Cold showers are about opening ourselves to more of life, including the parts we normally resist or think of as bad. It’s about embracing a wider spectrum of life’s experiences.
This is actually almost exactly what Snapchat stories - now also on Instagram and Facebook - achieve. You can click through your friend’s updates, reply as you want, and when you’ve seen everyone you’re out of content until someone posts again. I kinda like using these apps in this way, because it’s still cool to see what people are up to, usually more genuine, and harder to get sucked down the scroll.
Indeed, with the gift card system... how does $10 billion get laundered through gift cards like that?
No, because Jonathan Swift wasn't actually eating people in the service of satire. "Goat fuckers" actually fuck goats even when they do so "ironically." If you spread Russian propaganda for the lulz you're still spreading Russian propaganda.
It is too easy to fake the originating number. The actual line number where the phone call comes from is probably in the protocol already. A lot could be solved if the phones started to display that as well. Even better, allow the users to block on both official and actual numbers. Could probably be done without involving the telcos, only a change in the handset software.
It seems to be more a case of companies not actually wanting to follow the the law and do the straightforward thing - not collect personally identifiable information unless absolutely necessary for the functionality of the product / service. Instead they want to continue business as usual, trying to work around the law with as many dark patterns as they can possibly fit into a cookie popup.
Yes, theoretically it is NP, if you approach it naively. In practice it is easier to optimize for sub-problems

In practice, crews have their home base, their corresponding qualifications (though for WN they probably only have one or two types)

And you can bet you can start cancelling flights once you don't have enough crew. Problem is, your crew might have gone over their allowed time and them (and your plane) are in Smallville, OH and there are passengers in Chicago waiting to fly.
> If the will was really there I'm pretty sure this problem could be tackled.

Probably, but not with any of your proposed methods. I have talked with some SMS spammers and none of what you proposed would affect them. And for SMS spammers these inconveniences are a much bigger part of the cost of doing operations than for a company which needs to have employees in a call center. They have to spend a lot of money on buying new SIM cards as old ones get blocked.
In my case, I agree, but when I asked about this key combo once elsewhere, a number of folk pointed out that this is true for the standard US QWERTY layout, but not necessarily so for various EU or other layouts.
Yeah, but there are so few legitimate applications that I think it should have been left as an extension for browsers rather than a built in feature.
Lol at the "time is money" screenshot from Mickey's Christmas Carol, kudos to the graphics folks who found that gem for this article
I was born in the mid-70's, and my social media is fairly limited. I don't appreciate "short form" things, so Twitter and TikTok are more annoyances that I ignore. Facebook is for mostly passive consumption of my real life friends' lives, though my ability to do that depends on whether Facebook decides to go in to "suggestion mode" and fill my feed with 75% suggested content vs. things I follow. Messaging apps are where I'm active with friends and HN and Reddit are where I'm most active with strangers. Beyond that, I really don't see the need.
It's right in the article, at the bottom, that romance scams only account for 1/10th of the total money taken in 2022.
How I Made Programming Flashcards a Thing
There’s a common scam on FaceBook Marketplace for sellers. They contact you and are interested in buying what you have. Once they have your phone number they send a google verification code and ask you to send it back to verify each other.

The goal is to setup a US google voice number to abuse later.
> I think that databases need to have the concept of NaN for dates and time stamps, except that this should be configurable to something like a poop emoji or something like ⁉

How about just NULL?
Yes, that's exactly what STIR/SHAKEN does - in theory. In practice, like most complex systems, mandating a change like this requires software and hardware upgrades and compatibility testing, all of which takes time. The FCC tracks >10k telcos and providers. Last time I checked, only a quarter of the companies had fully implemented STIR/SHAKEN since the deadline and the FCC has recently started enforcement action on telcos that have ignored it. There is some evidence it has reduced spoofed calls, but just like email, the scammers have also moved to adapt their techniques.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-remove-companies-robocall-d...
I made no claims other than conversations I have had with conservatives that I know personally and am not arguing the merits of the policies for or against.
How many people in India have lost money to crypto scams based in the US or US-aligned places? The US has sports arenas named after crypto Ponzi schemes.

This is a global problem. It boils down to the Internet and modern telco networks opening up cheap ways to address many millions of people, allowing scammers to troll for marks at scale. Gift cards, easy wire transfers, in-app purchases, easy card charges, and crypto have made it easy to get money from people with low friction too.
How the KGB convinced the world that AIDS was a Pentagon invention
Problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. (2020)
I feel this way but this is wishful thinking. It's more likely that they will transition even more into a gray privacy territory by marketing LastPass to less and less tech-savvy users, eventually bundling it for free with some spammy ad-supported service and/or preinstalled on a phone or laptop (basically, Norton and McAfee territory). The parent company is already not trustworthy, and this breach is the last nail into LastPass as a trustworthy service.
Ironically, India have solved the problem domestically via regulation

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/how-it-works-india-anti-spam-...
Poster here--I consider myself "far-right" already, I just have a habit of not softening language when it's describing my own in-group. There are far-right thinkers and far-right propagandists, and I tend to listen to the first group and merely observe the second group. It's insane to see the ramblings and ravings of people who I considered sheer grifters come apparently come true.
Tesla isn't only a car company. They also have a lot of technology related to clean energy, along with the self driving technology they are creating.

The bull case isn't "Tesla becomes a monopoly in automobiles." The bull case is "Tesla becomes a car monopoly, monopolizes self driving, creates a great semi truck, has solar panels on half of the buildings in the US, and supplies battery technology to every clean energy producer globally."

Now, does that justify the valuation? Probably not. But it certainly raises the ceiling on Tesla's valuation. I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison between Tesla and other auto manufacturers.

The discount on Twitter stock is related to the likelihood of a deal closing, compared to the market's perceived value of Twitter stock were the deal to fall through. If you think there is a less than 100% chance of the deal closing, the only sensible thing to do would be to price that in.