skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get between 3 and 15 per day. It’s often the same people over and over. There’s one guy with a voice I recognize and I tried to tell him he calls me frequently and he assured me that is not the case. So I told him our secret word will be crocodile and every time you call me, I’m going to say that word.

Later that day he called back again and I said “crocodile” and he responded “I haven’t called you before” and hung up.

Normally I keep my ringer off so I only know how many calls I get by looking at the list of missed calls but some days I need to have my ringer on.
I don't care who you are, or where you're from, or what you did, as long as you're selling things for pennies of profit in high volume to the general public, you're going to be busy and overworked.
It could absolutely happen accidentally. Any bad contact between two conductors can cause a non-linear junction that can detect an AM radio signal.

TFA refers to, presumably an FM signal (because of the 3.3 meter band and what's usually broadcast there), so I doubt this story a bit.
Thanks especially for that bonus!
A VP at Google makes about 5-10m in comp with SVPs making about 2-4x that (and CEO about 10x that (these are ranges so very unlikely will have some one with all those multipliers in the "extreme" range)

There are about (guessing and talking to people) 100-200 VPs conservatively and a dozen or so SVPs. So cutting leadership comp is reasonably feasible to save 10k jobs no? We haven't even talked about senior directors and directors.

At an average cost of 300k that comes to about $3B? At 5M average VP comp, even halving VP comp alone (not unreasonable given company direction is largely impacted by VP perf?) can save a good amount of job?
Is this materially different from the alternatives?

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Use U2F instead.
Why would inflation push people into banks? In my (EU) country, banks don’t offer anything that matches current inflation besides speculative investments.
Torn is right.

Mauna Kea is sacred to the world’s scientists too - it’s a perfect observing site; a spectacular volcano; a unique glacial environment; an isolated habitat for plant and animal life; it feels like there ought to be some way to share the gift of this improbable piece of land with the world.

But yes, the way things have been done in the past affect the relationships we can have now.
Continual advances in technology can and should result in people working less for the same productive output.
Something is not right with the general telephone system. That this can be going on without more being done about it. In the internet space, we have our email providers filtering spam for us. But nothing like this when you sign up for a phone number. I don't know why there is not fierce competition about it. It must have something to do with what is and is not allwed for a telephone operator.
HN didn't understand or appreciate the sarcasm.
It's not just about this thread. The problem is that you've been breaking the rules frequently, as well as generally using HN for ideological battle, which is not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
No, but two bus drivers could.
For non-Americans like me: apparently CVS stands for "Consumer Value Stores," and is a well-known American retail and healthcare company.
> What part of WarGames inspired you

The part where they made it play tictactoe :)

> wait a second are you really punkx

Not sure what you mean, its just a name I picked to mean 'punk for X' where X is whatever you want.
My elderly mother-in-law is pretty good about the scams but the part that I can’t understand is that she treats every land line phone call as the highest priority thing in the house. She will drop everything to answer the phone.
Our CEO later came out to our office for a tour -- something he'd never done -- , and I have a funny anecdote about these. (It's an SF headquartered company; our Atlanta office had ~200 engineering, ~500 total headcount, and we had lots of other remote offices smaller than ours.)

During his visit, our CEO made sure to take time with each team to solicit feedback from us. It was something we were looking forward to -- it was a chance to have a face to face open dialogue with him where we could make asks and air our grievances. While we all got the chance to say our piece, our CEO couldn't help but be super excited about Jamboards. He filled the my team's discussion with notes about them and made lots of excited suggestions, which cut into our time with him significantly. He ultimately spoke with every single team at the office about these things and kept asking us to let him know when, not if, we wanted more of them. He never thought to ask if we liked or wanted them.

I understand our CEO's desire to remove friction between Atlanta and SF and New York and all the other offices, but this was such a peculiar choice that none of us (even leadership) were a party to.

The Jamboards ultimately went completely unused and took up entirely too much space in the office corners. They wasted electricity, too.
> Risks of seizure

That happens with account balances in USA. Try to fight an account seizure after the fact in courts in USA, and be prepared to lose.

Tangible items including metal are diversification, and bitcoin and ethereum are incredible across borders.
I'm guessing the part about it originating overseas makes things difficult. Phone has similar auth weakness as email, another kind of federated communication. In this day and age, I can still get a fake email "from myself" in Gmail, and it can't even be sure that it's fake.
I really like the idea of using the commit ID as the bucket prefix for the associated files.
To receive AM you just need a non linearity and the x^2 term iirc will do your rectification. So any element that electrically provides some kind of nonlinear behavior (ie is not a pure R, L, or C) should give some sort of modulation.
> so you have to compare toothbrushes on raw metrics like length, with, plastic composition, angle of attack, bristle circumference, mouth feel, water retention, etc.

Dear god, please save us from having clear, concise, and honest product information to inform our purchasing decisions. In this hellish existence, I might not even be able to know by default which toothbrush will make people think highly of me.
I lived next to an AM station before and could hear their broadcasts it in my headphones sometimes.
The 28% rule is a well-known metric in financial planning, they did not come up with this.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/mortgage-to-income-...

https://www.cnbc.com/select/what-is-the-28-36-rule-for-buyin...

https://money.com/what-is-the-28-36-rule/

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/twenty-eight-thirty-six...

A better study would certainly include multi-income households, but I think it's worth considering that multi-income households present serious opportunity cost. It is not "free" to have both partners work - assuming you have a partner at all. In previous generations, you had the "breadwinner" and "homemaker" - two clearly defined roles that fulfilled real needs.

When both partners are working, who is taking care of the kids? Who is cleaning? Who is meal planning, shopping, cooking, and doing laundry? One or both partners need to then take on all of this in addition to their full-time jobs. This is exhausting, and I'm convinced is the mechanism behind the proliferation of managed services in the household. The monetary cost of these, and other necessary services like daycare, are not insignificant.

Assuming that people should have dual income to afford a home is an insidious theft of quality of life. If both partners' time needs to be spent working to earn money, there is less time for traditional homemaking and hands-on parenting. What are the consequences of this, not just to the individual but to society?
I think you should make clear that you are talking about syntactic validation and not any kind of semantic one.
> both are under much closer scrutiny than anyone else, and have bigger reputational risks than anyone else.

People say this a lot, but why does nobody care so far?

I'd posit the simple answer is "it's easier not to", but also that governments are happy to reinforce a duopoly they control. We already know both Google and Apple are PRISM members as well as involved in the international FIVE-EYES network. That never really stained their reputation, despite being a universal backdoor. Google has exploited and broken YouTube several times over, but nobody stopped using it in objection. Apple moved their servers into government-owned Chinese datacenters, and nobody protested it financially.

The threat to their actual reputations is almost non-existent, from what I've seen. If people cared, we wouldn't be fixing FAANG's problems 10 years after-the-fact.
There is some more info other places, e.g. https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intention-to-issue-...

> In 2020, the Norwegian Consumer Council filed a complaint against Grindr claiming unlawful sharing of personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. The data shared include GPS location, user profile data, and the fact that the user in question is on Grindr.

> Our preliminary conclusion is that Grindr needs consent to share these personal data and that Grindr’s consents were not valid. Additionally, we believe that the fact that someone is a Grindr user speaks to their sexual orientation, and therefore this constitutes special category data that merit particular protection.

> - The Norwegian Data Protection Authority considers that this is a serious case. Users were not able to exercise real and effective control over the sharing of their data. Business models where users are pressured into giving consent, and where they are not properly informed about what they are consenting to, are not compliant with the law, said Bjørn Erik Thon, Director-General of the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.

> Users were forced to accept the privacy policy in its entirety to use the app, and they were not asked specifically if they wanted to consent to the sharing of their data with third parties. Furthermore, the information about the sharing of personal data was not properly communicated to users. We consider that this was contrary to the GDPR requirements for valid consent.
Microsoft adds a PC setup option and tools just for coders in Win 11 23H2
> 3. Have to figure things out yourself (usually read from docs or source code)

If you're all alone, there are still tons of guides, books, blog posts, et al. Documentation is a first class citizen in Elixir, and theresIf you're on a good team, they'll get you resources. If you're on a bad team? {shrug}
We need a new word: authentish.
I was hoping STIR/SHAKEN would fix the problem but it doesn’t seem to have made any difference at all.
TOTP can be phished. The parent is recommending FIDO/WebAuthn
Sure you can, just as you can change people's memories and implant false ones. Hell, in this dystopia we're headed towards, it'll probably be a subscription service where you can rewrite 5 bad memories a month for $29/mo
In fairness, some of those pull precipitation, heat and transpiration info from weather reports.

It still shouldn’t require it though. At least on iOS, requiring it should get them banned from the app store.

I want side loading to exist for iOS, but I also want bans like the above to apply at my discretion to anything I pay money for.
We've seen in just recent years so very clearly that if the government wants to get you, they will spend nearly unlimited resources to do so. It doesn't matter how big or small the individual prosecutor's salaries might be - they can outlast you and outspend you every single time.

The deck is already stacked against most defendants.
FWIW, my brother-in-law is too. I and do guarantee that he is reading slides every working hour.
I get 3-5 marketing calls on my cell everyday, including weekends, and sometimes starting at 6:30am

Some I’ve been able to block by using an app to block all calls from Texas

But a lot of the calls are from area codes which I don’t want to block the whole range for

The only good alternative is to keep my phone on Do not Disturb
Finally got a build, at least on my machine the features are still there except you can't right click on the list items any more, you have to click the little ▼ next to the item.
The difference is pharmacists have more leverage. Replacing a cashier is trivial. Replacing a licensed pharmacist isn’t.
In this case some actual conspiracies have been ousted. Like when Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to influence elections. There's a track record here.

Not saying this is true but sadly sometimes it is.
Wouldn’t that still be a beneficial thing? It’s like how I don’t need a plumber but if I did need a plumber I’d go reach for the last one I remember.
Silent comedies hold up exceptionally well. I’ve enjoyed nearly everything of Keaton’s and Chaplin’s I’ve watched, which is quite a bit. Haven’t dug into Lloyd yet, but I’m expecting that to go well, too.

Dramas are more hit-or-miss and benefit more from some effort at acclimatization, I think—that is, I think the average viewer is likely to bounce off even the very-good ones without putting some time & work into getting used to the medium.
This is true, mostly. I suspect SF and NYC NIMBYs know full well the legal limits of building in their respective cities.
> That would basically ban normal cell phones. You can't do calls without access to the network.

Cell phones use globally standardized, government regulated network protocols with many providers. Not a private, locked down, super-duper encrypted, single provider SAAS.

I think the legislation should be that if you shut down a device's backend you must open up the protocol so someone else can implement it.
That is just great. Converted an old phone to a clock (just a web page) recently which I have in the bedroom. The images which appeal to me, like medieval, might be a little creepy at 3am! 24x60 static images would do it ...
>>Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American

>where the hell is the money for them coming from?

No problem, the 1% can afford to pick up the slack better than ever.
I don't think some petty criminal is going to say "Hey, that Nerdbert, he sure has expensive-looking elbows, I want to break into his house and see what else I can find there, so I'm going to spend the next two years learning how to custom-craft an exploit for his smart lock."

What I think is that there's going to be a fundamental flaw in the device's security, and before there's any update from the manufacturer, word will get out in the criminal underworld that you just need to install such-and-such app on your phone and load a data file and then you can make all locks from Company X pop open just by walking down the street.
Remember the saying “it the government was in charge of sand in the desert, there’d be a sand shortage within a year”.
Also note that to a first approximation zero Americans will be able to tell you what "CVS" stands for; I'm not even sure it stands for anything anymore.
Speaking of CVS, they have one very cool feature I haven't seen replicated anywhere else: the price printer machine. Many places have scanners that will show you the price of an item on a screen, but in my experience only CVS has one that actually prints out a physical paper showing the price of the item.

Accordingly, I make a point to print the price of at least one of my items each time I buy from CVS (for morale).
Nvidia's offices raided by antitrust enforcers in France
Yes, so I get 80% of the normal salary for my role, but the same benefits package (insurance, 401(k) match, etc.).
Fifth-wheel trailers typically sell for more $10k.

I searched all of Texas, and here's an actual house for sale for less than $10k .... that has fire damage.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/204-E-Wharton-Ave-Electra...
I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. I'm weak-willed in this area and the best I've managed is to choose a non-meat option where the choice is easily available and comparably appetising. I want to do better, but am not in a position to moralise.

Nevertheless I'd recommend reading "The Extended Circle: An Anthology of Humane Thought" (Jon Wynne Tyson). It's one of only a handful of books I've kept a copy of for a very many years and peruse regularly, taking the form of quotes from famous people, not so famous people, historical personages, and founding texts, all concerning the human relationship to animals. A very moving and wounding book.
Does Google ban apps that break if location information is denied?

The last time I checked, Apple did and Google did not.
Honest question, is there any important UWP software? I mostly see it as a gimmick that very few people outside of Microsoft take seriously.
Elixir doesn't offer an easily benchmarkable performance boost the way Rust does.

It does offer a boost, but in the form of system reliability in a concurrent environment. This kind of advantage is seldom properly evaluated until AFTER you have a disaster ... by which time you are typically committed to different stack.
Era is commonly used to refer to much shorter periods than that. The “post-War era” was a few decades, not millions of years
Aren’t cigarettes a more stable currency?
I dont know if you have it in the USA but this device is pretty good:

https://www.truecall.co.uk/shop/truecall-call-blocker

You connect it to the phone line and it answers the calls and asks people who they are. At that point it lets the actual phone ring and then it tells you who is calling and do you want to accept the call or block?

Most spammers will not say who they are and just hang up.

Over time it builds up a whitelist of who to just let straight through

Its very simple
1. I use words for variable names instead of single letters like the textbooks do. I use "priority" instead of "F", "cost_so_far" instead of "G", "heuristic" instead of "H", "cost" instead of "w", "frontier" instead of "OPEN" or "O", "visited" instead of "CLOSED" or "C", "current" instead of "u", "next" or "neighbor" instead of "v".

2. The textbooks use an "open" and "closed" set. But in code, these aren't explicitly stored in set data structures. Instead, they're implicit. The cost_so_far dict(map) contains as keys both the open and closed sets, and the frontier (priority queue) contains the open set. So in my explanation of A* I focus on these data structures (priority queue and dict) instead of the open/closed sets. And when I do talk about the sets, I talk about the combined open and closed sets, calling it "visited" or "reached", because it's the combined set that is actually in the data structures.

3. The textbooks use a priority queue with reprioritization. When you visit a node that has a lower cost than the previously found cost, you go into the priority queue and adjust the cost. In my presentation I don't use reprioritization. Instead, I insert another entry into the priority queue with the lower cost. This makes the priority queue simpler (reprioritization is complicated). And in practice, I think it's faster too.
And that's the big barrier.

Rails/python are immediately productive and you need minimal knowledge to start reaping benefits.

Of course once you start doing complex things you need to obtain that knowledge but it can be a gradual process
That's my impression of Quora today too.

It was such a special place in the early years. Sad to see what they let happen to it. The saddest part is that it's surely deliberate. They have some really, really smart people working there. And they decided this is what they want.
>I found out that the radio station's wavelength she was listening to was about 3.3 meters

That's 90MHz, which is in the FM band (at least in the USA). I understand (and have experienced) how this works with AM, but how does this work with FM? Does some circuitry in the headphone act as an FM decoder?
Yes. But his party has changed a little in the last few years and I feel he would not be voting for them now if he could understand that.
That looks great but it needs to not cost $1300. Seems like their use case is conference rooms but I’d love for remote folks with their own whiteboards to have this.
60 being more common than 40 is not obvious (it's not even true), and if it were it should not be treated as okay. The downvotes are because OP is trying to normalize workaholism.
> There are good starter homes on my street that sell for 5-10,000 dollars.

While that's a ridiculously low number (something tells me our definitions for "good starter homes" don't align), it's not THAT far off from similar properties in my wife's hometown in the midwest.

But let's _also_ talk about aspects of locality that affect quality of life (and along with it, real estate value):

- Neighborhood schools: absolute crap. 1/10 on the GreatSchools rating system.
- Civic resources (parks, libraries, etc.): none within a short driving distance. Parks not maintained. Libraries closed, partially due to the books they made available (this is one of those areas where books are being banned).
- Local employers: forget about it. The local industries and companies that setup shop there left town long ago. Nearest town where you might have a career of some type is about 70 miles away.
- Healthcare: some kind of urgent care, but it's of middling-low quality. If you have a semi-serious condition, you've got 100+ miles to anything resembling a hospital.
- Crime: exactly what you would expect. There is no opportunity, and people get desperate. Heavy, rural drug addiction.
- Population: trending older, as most people are retiring. People of means fled the area due to lack of opportunity.
- Transportation: there's a new highway bypass going way outside of town! Oh, but local transportation is entirely unreliable. No buses, taxis, uber, etc.

In case you want to just stay inside and not interact with the world, you won't be running with very fast internet access (DSL speeds.) If it's not clear....it's a dying town.

It's not part of an overpopulated metro, but that's what you get in this particular neck of the woods.
> You are correct in lampooning the word "force" but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. The point is still valid.

I have yet to see one, client, customer, friend, acquaintance, relative (or rando who happened to know I'm an IT guy) sideload an app without knowing what they were doing & having a good reason to do so.

The list of those who sideloaded is small. However, my list of technically hapless folks is much, much larger - and zero of them seem to have sideloaded anything ever. There's a fair chance I'd wind up knowing if they did.

Even my often homeless ex who's down with plugging any connector into any port at any time of day (shapes need not match) doesn't seem to have sideloaded. Certainly her devices are always in a Sideloading=Off state when I check (she is not now a developer!).

From an IT view, unintended sideloading looks like a low priority concern.
Another detail for my Wife who works in insurance billing for some providers is that you have to use a whole stack of tools and processes, often by each insurance company, to make claims and process them. If anything is denied there are a billion weird and wild edge cases that you need to just hunt down and contact companies for.

I'm fascinated by CostPlusDrugs. I can't figure out why they started taking insurance.
What’s that saying?

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it”

This issue could have been solved a long time ago if the companies (and regulators) actually cared about solving it
“Developers, developers, developers…”
Samsung’s LPCAMM puts speedy, low-power LPDDR memory onto a removable module
The free upgrade from win 7 keys was used for years as a way to permanently activate any copy of windows using a tool called MAS[1]

[1] https://massgrave.dev/index.html