skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bandwidth.com and TextNow have been on my shitlists for years.

What is the best way for an end user to block an entire carrier? Can it be done? Can it be done if you are a business?
When I left the military on disability, I was also helped to sign up for SSA disability. I received both VA and SSA disability, and the SSA lady that helped me told me something about how I could work for up to 1 year and still maintain eligibility for SSA. I tried to get a job to see if I could work with my condition, but then SSA reversed course, told me what she said was wrong, and I was ejected from the disability program. I was lucky that my condition was semi-temporary, the VA still supported me, and I could find work which I could do, and thus wasn't put on the street. Now I can work mostly fine, and I don't rely on any disability payment. Other people I talked to had similar stories where they were told one thing by a VA or SSA administrator and later were punished for doing something wrong. Disabled folks and veterans are put through the ringer daily for no good reason.
Wonder how much expats in retirement will increase when people realize they have no chance at living with their savings here.
True, except for this:

> Obviously I'm hand waving here as I'm out of my depth with this subject. My sense though is that there are things about the brain about its evolution that are eluding us, and which are significant.

Please go and deepen you meditations.
First:

Get to the point, where you have stripped your awareness away from your sensory input (pratyahara)

(which everyone may know, it can be done, when you are deeply concentrated, someone may have said something to you, but you didn't "hear" it)

If you are at that point, your entire "experience" will consist of your "inner world" (thoughs and emotions). So next is to "concentrate" your mind (Dharana) by bringing it back to the same object (lets say a rose for example). This takes A LOT of practice but after the years, you mind will become clear and focused so that the time where only the object (the rose) is in your mind becomes longer and longer (a few seconds up to minutes).

As you practice further episodes of undisturbed, completely one-pointed mind become longer and longer and you enter into Dhyana (meditation). You are completely focused on the object, and the object itself is all that you experience. Imagine what that means: your entire experience constist of only the rose and nothing but the rose!!!

As this goes on and on for longer and longer periods of time, the yogis and mystics say that the boundaries between "you" the subject and "the rose" the object start to dissolve more and more, until they vanish. You are the rose and the rose is. Nothing but the rose that you are!! (They call it samadhi, the dissolution of individual existence and merging of object and subject).

This is just on an object but when the object is your awareness itself and this process happens, they call it many different names depending on tradition. ("Nirvikalpa Samadhi" in the yogic tradition, "Unio-Mystica" in the christian traditions, "fana" or "Baqaa billah" in the islamic mystical tradition. It is the realization of the unity of consciousness that is and that only is and that "I" merges into...
Much of this could be addressed by antitrust enforcement as well as actually having competent lawmakers that understand the products their citizens use overwhelmingly daily. Policymakers barely understand the internet, let alone zero knowledge architecture and encryption

Sundar Pichai being asked about if someone is handpicking search results comes to mind, as an illustration
Only, the big ones have captured the government-contract market. Is there really that much difference?
That's also an excellent ad for why unions are needed.
I haven't been back there since 2007 and have no intention to ever go back there. I missed a couple of funerals of friends because of that but the typical 'welcome' (I use the term loosely) afforded by DHS to visitors to the USA has persuaded me that I have better things to do with my life.

The decision not to re-visit was made somewhere between the point where my shoes were confiscated because they might be used as weapons and the time when I spent 6 hours on a bridge trying to get into Canada because they could not imagine a person carrying a Dutch passport had a legitimate interest in crossing the border into Canada.

At one point I had a company in the US, spent a ton of money there annually and was seriously considering immigration, go figure.
I was merely objecting to people who claim that Google is lying. I have not read the ToS lately, so I don't actually know if email contents make it to your profile.

All I can do is assume that unless they say that it doesn't, then it probably does.

But if they do say that it doesn't, then I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Because especially now with GDPR they'd be completely fucked if that were not true. Max penalty 4% of global revenue per instance, or whatever it is.

Google even allows you to opt out of personalized ads. Not hard to find.
"okay, who should I use instead? Or do I go back to using one password for everything?"

Given that the "using one password for everything" is such a terrible idea that we can discount as probably worse than storing your passwords in a cloud-based vault then you land on what your family member has given you as the other option "what should I use instead".

Ultimately if* there are no password managers available that will do syncing of locally stored vaults, then there are actually multiple options here:

1. Accept that the convenience (of device sync) here trumps the security issue that storing passwords in a cloud based vault causes.

2. Should there be no options that allow for device sync /and/ local-only vaults then there is another option which is to not do automatic syncing.

Option 2. is somewhat inconvenient (how much depends on who you are and what you do), but it is still an option.

Personally, Option 1. is a line I'm not willing to cross. I see single repositories of 10s to 100s of thousands of peoples passwords as a "password piñata", a massive target for attack and so I'd take the inconvenience over the compromise. That said I'm lucky to have a 1Password 7 still so do have local vaults and sync, but there's not a chance in hell I'm uploading this stuff to a central repo.

* Enpass might do what you want. It was a suggestion in the comment thread here.
> So... you want to spend six months waiting for a US visa?

Whoever said I wanted to visit the US?

Not just "no", but "hell no".
I'd love to see this as well
It's not a sensical statement but is akin to saying that the fundamental properties of the Universe are Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. It's clearly a wrong statement to say that "Consciousness is an emergent property of your whole body". A person who has their legs and arms removed suffers no difference in their actual consciousness. They suffer a lack of motility.

A person who has had their heart replaced with a pig's heart does not suddenly lack consciousness or have the consciousness of a pig. Extremely short people, such as Afshin Ghaderzadeh 2'1", don't have less consciousness than extremely tall people, such as Robert Pershing Wadlow 8'11".

Stating that consciousness is not an emergent property of the whole body should be a starting point, after which further research and discussion can occur.
Copyright in Canada for films is 75 years. So, Disney works before 1948 are public domain here. I can't seem to actually find any of them, though. I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure I'd be within my legal rights to take e.g. an original print of Bambi as released in 1942, scan it, and make it available online for Canadians. I'm also pretty sure I'd get sued anyway.

Getting a copy of the original is also something of a challenge for this practically. (VHS and DVD releases are probably subject to a new copyright, remastering is often copyrightable.) If all extant accessible versions of a work are under copyright, then the work being in the public domain is only theoretical.
Maybe have travellers sign away their biometric data as part of the visa waiver? Then the
EU can claim not to be beholden to the US (the travellers are) and the US still gets data of travellers.

The demand is for travellers only according the pdf, not for all EU citizens.

This does not seem too onerous - people working in the US from EU already have to submit to much fingerprinting, AIDS tests and what not, and you don't hear much complaining about it.
A Dutch newspaper wrote a depressing article¹ two years ago in a similar vain about plastic from the Netherlands ending up in Türkiye for 'recycling'. The same story, just different countries.

There are a lot of actors pushing for municipalities to collect plastic separately (like paper and glass), but stories like these make you wonder if that even makes sense at this point.

1: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/10/16/plastic-afval-hoe-een-n...
The article linked in the comment I’m responding to is based not on a handful of anecdotes but new standards from the courts and Parliament. “ Last year, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that doctors who have moral objections to providing health services like abortion or assisted death must provide patients with an ‘effective referral’ to another doctor.”
My fifth grade teacher had a condition that caused her to have seizures.

I remember it being very foreign and new to me. I had no first-hand experience with seizures before. But she just calmly explained what seizures were, what would happen, and what we should do. She designated a few students to call the nurse if she had a seizure and the nurse cared for her after that.

She did have a seizure a few times during the school year, but it didn't affect her ability to effectively teach us. She was one of the best teachers and one of the most positive people I have ever met.

She was a fantastic teacher and friend. Rest in peace, Ms. Osinski.
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
Hydrochloric acid is more complicated than you think
Are you referring to Social Security benefits counselors? They are notoriously difficult to get ahold of (in NM); you have to go in person and wait in a large room for (usually) hours with several hundred people. And then what you’re told varies depending on the person.
In what is about to become the year 2023, the most effective way of recycling is to limit your purchases altogether. Some day go through your Amazon purchase history for the last decade and see how much absolute garbage purchases you made.

Resist buying stuff you don't really need.
Can you repurpose an item?
Then turn to the recycling industry and maybe it will find a way back.

Resist > Reuse > Recycle
> What is the US going to offer in return.

Nothing, it's a hostage situation.
The typical counter argument goes something like China installs a webcam in your bathroom and broadcasts the stream on purely national TV. How does that affect you? It’s just some personal video that’s never going impinge on your life.

Another way of putting it: all personal information should by default be kept private, until there’s a specific need from you for that information to be processed by known people.
Looks fun! I made a small JavasScript snippet to solve it by pressing "Enter" at whatever speed you want ;)

const observer = new MutationObserver(() => {
document.querySelector("#answer").value = eval(document.querySelector("#question").innerText.replace("=","").replace ('x',"*").replace("÷","/"));
});
observer.observe(document.querySelector("#question"), { attributes: true, childList: true, subtree: true });

> You beat 100% of people.

> Time per question: 0.25s

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The reliability is a huge factor. That's why my sister (bipolar disorder) and I (MS) have some employment issues. She can work consistently, but bipolar meds stop working sometimes and don't fully level her out. I can work, but my health fluctuates based on things like the weather and my stress level. Luckily I'm educated enough and my skill sets are rare enough put together that I can demand some concessions but my sister doesn't have that since bipolar also prevented her from finishing her degree.
Coming from the far right, are you in favor of assisted suicide for people who cannot support themselves but are not terminally ill?
> IMO they really messed up by tracking and using time spent on page per day (or something like this) as a metric

FWIW, in my time at FB from 2019-2021, we were explicitly disallowed from using time on app as a success metric for the products my team worked on. Instead, we focused on the utility of the experience as the goal, i.e. people finding the product useful was more important than simply using it.

I wasn't working on the newsfeed though, so I'm not sure if that applied to that part of the app.
Thank you!

I was planning to try using DataFusion to query large parquet files without retrieving them from s3 with https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-objectstore.... I guess I should expect that that won't be necessary :)
United proactively rebooks you on a new flight if you will misconnect, gives you options in the app, and issues waivers that let you avoid weather by rebooking your own flight (often waiving fare differences as well). Haven't flown Delta or American as much, but at least United's tech is a bit more modern.
How do you get to that job?
SMS spammers could be tackled with a couple of regexps if the will was there. The fact that these scams still work is a sign to me that there simply is no will to tackle any of this at the telco level. They know exactly what is going on.
> Now it's risk free, he could clear his schedule for the holidays and face no recriminations.

Can you cite this happening?

> Or, can a hospital administrator reward the nurses' pod with the most patient suicides with a bonus?

Can you cite this happening?

> Yeah, that's not how it works. They're supposed to ask that sort of stuff, and you aren't supposed to want to die for lack of some food, but in fact it's not helping the people you think and not saving those you'd wish.

Can you cite statistics on a population? There are multiple MAiD online communities. Surely someone has surveyed them?
>you subscribe to heavy 20yo over-engineering legacy

Maybe the key word here is "over-engineering" but given the age of Python, Ruby, Javascript (IE: other languages in popular use, all of which are of a similar age) I'm curious how you see Java as being different in this regard. Seems like you've done some thinking on this point so I'm genuinely curious to hear your perspective.
Chapter 17 (fearless conspiracy)

That sounds like a very different kind of book.

OT: I quite like the concept of the borrow checker saving me from shooting myself in the foot, it's just a shame that Rust has traits, without those it might have been a nice language to use.
They were offering a service that people have a need for, at a price point that makes it affordable to people, who previously could not have afforded it (the alternative being hiring a personal assistant).

It's simple enough to argue that's not enough to make it "great". I would say just about as simple as it is to argue that it is.
I was only observing that while the model of a thing is not always that thing, sometimes it is.
I could see it for major holidays. I spent too much money to fly home this year because I am bad at scheduling. I would consider booking next year's flight during this year's trip just so I know it's knocked out and I don't have to worry about it.
Just wrote a longer answer to the question below, hope that covers your question as well.
Don't they have facebook already?
Would you ever expect a legitimate call from your bank / government / business to be in English? Particularly English with a strong Indian accent?

I think the US gets targeted mostly because of language. Indians learn English in school and it's not uncommon for a legitimate call in the US to come from someone with a strong accent.
When I was delayed and flying delta they continually rescheduled me until I boarded one of the flights.

It was super convenient even if I was fuming over the multiple hours delay.
If those two options are the only available choices, then yes.
There is plenty of work to do in my opinion regarding rigid body simulation. You just need to consider harder problems!

An example: https://youtu.be/z12UdMbELdc

The whole Siggraph channel is quite cool. It's just demo videos.
To me, this article reads like it was written by an inexperienced blogger who probably checked off 'stoicism' of their list of popular topics to write about, despite the fact they don't know much about stoicism.

That being said, I feel like the article fails to drive anything meaningful. Thats not to say stoicism is pointless. There are many people in the discussion here that bring up great points about stoicism.

As for myself, I don't know much more than the pop culture basics of stoicism so I can really give any further guidance.
> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message.

I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!
Yandex used to run datacenter loss training every week, where they will nullroute one DC and see what breaks all while handling live taffic.
Not at all, genuinely curious at what would be a safe job. Not something I have ever had to think about, not saying that people who have seizures can't work.

Office is the safest I guess but still has risks.
For example, if someone is in the office in a cubicle and has a seizure they could hit the desk corner or go unnoticed for a while depending on how many people are in the office that day.
I mean it sounds like you’d be giving up all the same data just through a slower process.

From the presentation:

For all travellers (and asylum seekers) before entry into USA

Hit/ No hit query of the foreign databases

On hit: retrieval of existing data record in pull procedure

A part of visa issuance by a U.S. Embassy is a background check against both US databases and those of the local country. I believe all visa appointments perform digital capture of fingerprints, face, along with anything on an e-Passport.

So this gets the U.S. nearer to equivalence in VWP with what they can already do with the visa processes?

If you don’t want the U.S. to hold your biometric information it sounds like you just won’t be traveling to that country any longer.
I initially assumed I would be safe because of 2FA. Sadly it looks like this is not the case, the second factor is used to access the encrypted data, not decrypt the data. As the attacker already has the encrypted data, they have bypassed the stage where 2FA is providing protection.
This appears to also be the case for 1password and bitwarden, so not specifically a lastpass failure.
+1 for remapping Caps Lock to Esc.
It is easily done in GUI settings in both MacOs and most Linuxes and it is quite useful to have it there OS-WIDE.
In the rare cases I need to Caps Lock it is still available by pressing both shift together (there are various Linux options around that)
I never bothered to have it map to Ctrl on holding the key in addition of Escape on pressing but it is easily done. There's at least on blog post about that if you search HN
Ask HN: How to Deal with Rejections?
Hello HN,

Sorry, I am not here to rant but to discuss something.

I am Open Source Developer who also happens to study Computer Science Engineering in One Engineering College of India(I am at Final Year).

I have programmed few Open Source softwares from my own will, and they are quite popular and widely used. I have also learnt programming this way mostly programming them myself with my own interest.

But, I want to get a programming job by next year to sustain myself. I have applied to many places, many startups, many companies and so on. I have avoided top companies which ask leetcode problems because i am not so good at leetcoding.

I approached one company and gave me take away home problem. I spent hours on that problem trying to make it very good. Even though i did it well, they rejected me abruptly telling that I am not good. Ironically, they hired another person to whom I had told about the company and they had asked him same problem which they solved in exact way i had solved before (also,i had told them about problem).

Another company calls for the interview, then when interview is over tells me that No suitable roles are available.

Another company gives me Take away home problem and doesn't reply after i submitted my solution.

And there are many other companies to which I have applied. Some responded, some didn't but I didn't even get any success.

I am hopeless right now because My Job Search is yielding no results and also because I have received lot of rejections. I have invested hours building the project they ask and they reject me and now I feel that I have wasted my time too. I don't think I am skill-less too. I am totally confused, HNers, and I feel hopeless.

Regarding the skills, I know Backend Development in Java,Go , Frontend Development in React, Svelte(this is my fave), also Vue.I also know few other tech like Postgres, Redis. Plus, I have also developed Open Source Android App in the past and know basic Kotlin. Now, I am studying Rust too, having done few personal projects(axum is my favourite web framework).

Anyway, If you have any suggestions, please tell me.
Then we should decouple a little bit.
But is it really? The EU can just respond with: "no". And while that would hurt the economy of the EU it would also hurt the economy of the US. I do not really see any reason for the EU to say yes to this unless the EU gets something in return.
Well, if you don't want your website to be annoying there's a straightforward solution.
Both can be true. Some people will swear them off. Some won't. Some SWA will win back with steep discounting.

For me (I am affected), this is actually another in a series of recent events that are making me reconsider my preference for SWA. They are no longer a "cheap" airline, routinely more expensive than the other major carriers. Their planes are not nice anymore. I've flown on a few other airlines over the past few years and found their planes to be nicer with more features (like chargers and phone/tablet holders). And now this. The cancellations are one thing, but they totally botched the communication of it, and their practice of delaying flights throughout the day only to cancel half of them after several hours left people stranded.

Will I stop using them? We'll see how they respond, but they may not be my first choice anymore.
It is a wise idea to not visit countries where rule of law does not exist.
Anyone claiming “deregulation” for the names sake is speaking rhetoric without knowledge. Both conservative and liberal economists agree with regulation. The most conservative of economists understand the concept of externalities. Call centers bear a clear externality. The business transaction between the telecom
Company and the caller bears a negative externality on the callee who is not a member of that transaction. Conservative economists would also agree with regulation to at least impose a cost on the transaction to reflect that externality. The problem is with policy and lobbying as you stated - write your member of congress.

To comment on a now deleted post to this comment: I’m not arguing that bad regulation doesn’t exist which can perpetuate and help continue market failures. I’m arguing that good regulation is the fix to known market failures and economists on both sides recognize that.
Wouldn’t you expect that the use of this option would increase dramatically in a massively aging population like most western countries, particularly where people across the whole spectrum of ages are unhealthier than in past generations?

I suppose this doesn’t negate your comment but it does offer that there needs to be some adjustment for population aging and health overall, to give proper context.
Seconded. This is a great starting point.
Pilots literally having to call an 800 number to get their schedule, not enough capacity on the 800 number.