skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other side of the coin is that even if they aren't receptive to the scams, they stop answering the phone as much, which contributes to them losing even more contact with people.

I have a half-hearted Asterisk setup. When my dad was alive, I set up an Obi110 hooked up to the phone line. I created a whitelist of numbers of family and friends. Anything not on the whitelist was answered by Asterisk, the SIT tone played, and then a message "please try your call again". Its CID was then stored in a one-entry database "greylist" so that a subsequent call from the same number would ring normally. The sheer majority of telemarketers don't call twice in a row.

When I set it up I actually fat-fingered my uncle's number on the whitelist. He got the "error message" and dutifully called right back, so I felt pretty comfortable that the system wouldn't fail terribly.

In general it's a thorny problem, especially when both parents are alive as they'll generally enable each other by insisting that business as usual is fine. Knowing what I know now, I'd try to push in harder to make changes that needed to be made, but it's so much easier said than done.
Indeed, one can "change the code" to do anything... including things like increasing the bitcoin supply arbitrarily. Bitcoin's scarcity is a social construct that will be changed when the people who control the nodes want to change it.
Yes. I have tried both Friday off and Wednesday off and the latter is better. Fridays at work are more relaxed anyway, so there is less value in skipping them.
That's a nice article, and thanks for linking to it, definite upvote, though it is sloppy with words, as "creation" above refers to issuing currency, not creating it.

Here's where money is physically created, somewhat of a curious point since so much of transacted 'money' is digital, and perhaps why the article above misleadingly says "creates".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint
Oh, it's an ad.
But fingerprint unlocking didn’t work with wet fingers, like outside on a rainy day. I find that face unlocking fails less often than fingerprint unlocking ever did. (Though outside on a sunny day can be challenging.)
> I don't have voice mail either.

isn't that standard for most providers? plus, even if most of the calls are scams or pointless, some might not be, and I'd rather get a message than not.
There are already applications like https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai and https://tensorpix.ai/ -- So it doesn't seem unreasonable that some of these deep learning models could upscale all these old TV episodes to at least 4k.

I'd love to see a combo of this Google tech and AI upscaling do the same for Babylon 5. They had shot the actors in widescreen format, but the CGI spaceships were only rendered in 4:3 and the files have been lost.
Ask HN: Is anybody working on active noise cancelling of drone propellers?
> enshittification

That is not enshittification by any means. Enshittification is screwing your users over for profit or something. That was an honest attempt to curb the amount of abuse reports and threats that the maintainer was receiving.
I've conducted interviews of professed Unix devs or sysadmins, some years ago, who didn't know what the setuid bit was, or confused it with the sticky bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit
English spelling becomes a lot more rational [1] when you understand that you are spelling words largely according to Middle English. Sound changes that occur after that are largely not reflected in English spelling.

As for why English doesn't use diacritics, well, my hypothesis is that Middle English just didn't need them. Per the Wikipedia article on Middle English phonology, there's 5 short vowels + unstressed vowel + 7 long vowels + diphthonging with /j/ or /w/. With just 5 short vowels, it's possible to write every one with the 5 basic vowels of Latin script, and the long vowels and diphthongs can be written with paired vowels, using different vowels for the extra long vowel sounds (cf. ee versus ea)--no need for diacritics, even if it is a little clumsy.

The Great Vowel Shift came along and fucked up all the long vowels, and separate changes caused "a" to break into 2-3 sounds (crowding into the "o" sound, as well), leaving us with clearly multiple sounds for the same short "a" and "long" vowel spellings that bare little to no resemblance to their corresponding pronunciations. Some of the sounds (in particular, ee and ea) merged into one sound as part of the Great Vowel Shift, too.

[1] The other thing that ruins English spelling is a proclivity to borrow foreign words with foreign pronunciation and foreign spellings (even if it's not written in Latin script!), so to some extent, you have to play a guessing game as to etymology to work out spelling. But ignoring those cases, you can actually pretty reliably work out the pronunciation of most English words by effectively applying the (mostly regular) phonological changes from Middle English.
SpaceX’s defense-focused Starshield satellite internet lands first contract
I think it's pretty hard to read this as anything other than a maintainer trying to stop malicious actors from abusing their project. You might not agree with how they're doing it, but calling this enshittification and kafkaesque feels pretty hyperbolic. Posting the comment here just in case folks don't click through:

Hey everyone,
It saddens me to be forced to add yet another annoying thing to the public localtunnel server but...

As of 2 minutes ago, all tunnels now require a real user to enter the endpoint IP address (which acts like your tunnel link's password) on the consent page.
Showing and having the users click a continue button in order to access the tunnel content didn't really do too much to fight of people hosting phishing portals via localtunnel. I've also been getting an enormous amount of phishing/abuse notices from various organizations worldwide, forwarded notices from my hosting provider, and even have been put on notice that I will be responsible for costs related to removing IPs from various IP blacklists...

I'm currently building an abuse reporting tool for these orgs to use that'll automate banning users hosting phishing portals but until that's built & tested this new password-protection way of abuse fighting will have to do.

Sorry for any inconvenience...

PS. If localtunnel doesn't work for your use case for whatever reason, feel free to checkout other alternatives like https://ngrok.io

If anyone has any other suggestions on easy ways to fight phishing/malware portals from using this service, i'm all ears!
Nah dog, I'm good. I'm not young, eager and naive anymore. "Growing the team's skills" and "working towards company goals" are siren calls. I know how to swim in my own lane.
NES Wolverine source code being assembled
Ngrok wasn't always an actual company, I miss the days when their service was affordable.
> enshittification

And yet the link you shared explains precisely why it is we can't have nice things
> AKA they'll get the actual timestamp.

No, they'll be 7 hours ahead. In my example, the actual data stored in the table is approx 1696004800, which it translated to 2023-09-29 09:26:40.277-07 for timestamptz output, and for timestamp it outputted 2023-09-29 09:26:40.277 which the client would incorrectly assume is 2023-09-29 09:26:40.277Z, or 1696030000. [Edited with Unix timestamps to be clearer.]

> Adjusting randomly based on the locale machine's configuration or a piece of connection state is definitely a thing I have no interest in.

Right, and timestamp is the one that causes this random adjustment. timestamptz avoids this by being explicit about the time zone.
Organizing Notes in 3D with AI
Scissors and a Pritt stick.
> I would be interested to see a Zillow link for a "good starter home" that's listing for $5,000.

I just went to zillow and set up a filter for houses between 5K to 10K in all of the USA.

(edit: fixed my filter)

While I see some houses in that price range, they are in need of significant rebuild (fire damage, foundation problems, etc). A far stretch from a good started home. If you only have <$10K to buy a house you are unlikely to have money to rebuild it.
Data/account hunger is how you get money.
Interesting. Reminds me of how if you had a Nokia phone of the time next to computer speakers you could tell when you were about to get a call because the speakers would make a bup-bupbup bup-bupbup sound before the phone itself woke up and rang.

But OP has to be AM, no? Somewhat curious.
If a company makes a product that involves a code generator, and publishes the generated code, but not the code generator itself, it’s still open source.
a candidate's political campaign is not an official government communication. that goes for even if they're currently in office.
Ye I happened to visit Reddit during the mod drama, and I noticed how all the bigger subs had this bot feeling to it. It was nothing like it used to feel when I used Reddit 10 years ago. It was like, as if 95% of the comments were from bots. Not the top voted ones, but the tail on those comments. And the bots seemed to just agree to whatever they were answering to with vague context feedback. The mix I anticipate is like every other user raging at every other user for being wrong, sorta.
"everything works fine" might be overstating a bit, but what happens to packets you weren't expecting when you don't have a connection open for them to go into? They probably get ignored by the network stack.

Worst case scenario, the router/service endpoint sees your connection responses and the other party's strange NACK responses, but I honestly don't know enough about how it works to say "everything works fine"

I'd guess that connectionless protocols will work fine and connected protocols will also work fine. The truth is probably YMMV by protocol, but there is truly no way for the wifi router to detect this is happening or isolate the redundant stations - it's an unencrypted broadcast. The only way this goes sideways is if a connection protocol is engineered to make it go sideways when you try to do that.

I'm pretty sure that any such protocol which succumbs to any unencrypted (or incorrectly keyed) traffic that isn't from the designated counterparty is insecure to begin with. It should be resilient against DoS, so most protocols aren't going to have that vulnerability. Again, I'm guessing, but I'd hope.
You are correct; this gets brought up whenever I bring up the point. :)

I'm mostly putting it out there to make people realize that their pursuit of isolated library code is potentially missing out on obscurely documented reasons as to why one should consider the built-in APIs. I would say anything that might exist to cover this in Rust should not use `curl` under the hood either, though in practice I think that's unlikely to happen since Rust (IMO) has a stronger networking story.
> …your response is that paying for things makes you feel safe.

That's an interesting interpretation, but what I actually did was point out the elephant in the room — that Apple's business model is completely different than Google's, and so painting them both with the same reductive label doesn't make sense.

Given two business models — one based on monetizing your data and behavior, the other based on accepting money for goods and services — which would you say is more pro-privacy?
Luna was a very different situation, it was nothing to do with difficulty adjustments.
Raising the management cost by a few thousands of a percent of AUM for a few percent chance of having a few percent better yield seems like it might make sense
The majority of fatalities involve drugs or alcohol, they often involve youth and speed, and occur at night. Many insurance claims involve single vehicle accidents and weather or other wear related damage. The most common two vehicle claim is rear ending into a stationary vehicle, where it's not particularly difficult to determine fault.

Further, none of this matters all that much if you have a straight liability only policy, since that's based on liability of damages and not replacement property values.

These devices make very little sense to me and I'd be curious to know if anyone has any data that the presence of these devices is having any impact whatsoever.
I assume it uses a Intel PTC heater internally. For very cold days I recommend the gaming heating pads with an additional Nvidia PTC heater for extra heat.
If you think of english spelling as highly conservative (it is) and only casually connected to pronunciation (an overstatement, but true) the spelling isn't so bad. The conservatism preserves meaning which is lost in languages like German where spelling is periodically "reformed", severing spelling from a word's historical semantics.

You could just as well consider words like "debt", "lead" or "Wycombe" to be kanjis, and nobody complains about their disconnect from pronunciation.
From the most biblically-named government department comes a biblical amount of data:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs for in-browser viewing).
There's a weird place between "preppers" and "homesteaders" that's pretty much this.

I'd say I'm "prepper" enough that I'm heavily armed and have enough shelf-stable food to feed by family for a few months in an emergency - but I'm also "homesteader" enough that our garden seems to get bigger each year, I know all of my neighbors, and we regularly share skills and information.

I don't think anything catastrophic is likely to happen, but it's had an overall very positive impact on my day-to-day life. If something does happen, I have far more tools to deal with it than either approach alone would give me.
I disagree, Proton simply ports the most popular desktop application API to Linux.

If this trend continues, perhaps one day win32 will outlive Windows itself...
Is the vim/terminfo issue mentioned in the article what caused the UI glitching during the merge steam last week?
And then, sentence all the criminals who've been long dead. Justice: served.
I get the Trader Joes' "Dry Roasted and Unsalted" peanuts. Crows just gobble them up. I've seen them stuff 3-4 peanuts into their beaks and take off.
Machine learning models force us to reconsider the definitions or introduce new ones. A published model has characteristics of open source and closed source software, given the extent to which it can be fundamentally modified, inspected, and used to generate derivative works in a way executable binaries cannot.
What a weird complaint, all I can see there is that we can't have nice things because as soon as you put something online (image hoster, tunnel hosting,...) bad actors are going to abuse it and ruin it for everyone.
I've been thinking about doing it more basic: "Please enter the extension"

I'd make '7777' be the only "extension" that gets through. Callers that are in my contacts wouldn't even get the prompt. The doctor's office, school administrators, or any other not-a-contact-but-still-wanted caller would know what my "extension" is.
:raises-hand: - I was certainly writing unit tests in JS in 2012. Jasmine came out in 2010 and was already widely adopted.

Also, Jasmine wasn't the first test runner by a long shot (John Resig wrote one for jQuery before Jasmine was a thing and there were earlier ones too).
One challenge with running PostgreSQL in production on Kubernetes is that it does not behave nicely under high memory pressure. PostgreSQL likes to get NULL back from malloc such that it can gracefully abort transactions (overcommit_memory = 2 in Linux). However, this model of tracking and dealing with memory pressure is still not available at the cgroup level. Instead, processes will be OOM killed. In PostgreSQL, that triggers potentially lengthy crash recovery and therefore downtime. On the flip side, the cost of deploying a hot standby is often lower on Kubernetes, but failing over due to high memory pressure can also lead to pathological behaviour.

A good discussion of this issue by Joe Conway:
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/deep-postgresql-thoughts-th...

Hence, not completely the same as running on a VM.
me: Facebook AI, please post a tender moment between me and my father when I was a boy. Include some photos.

Facebook: I'd be happy to. Are there any more details you'd like to include?

me: Please show how he didn't understand me at first, but then he looks at me and starts crying with love and regret.

Facebook: Done. Your relationship with your father must have been deeply fulfilling.
I saw they mentioned Git Sync as alternative. Do they do something to prevent that from working locally? Git itself does not need any remotes to be configured or you could set the remote to be another local git repository.
Mobile phones & modern notification systems are strictly better in terms of flexibility. As you said, you can silence all notifications for arbitrary periods of time and schedule quiet times, but if you need you can still access them any time you want. Landlines' async notification channel is limited to a voicemail, which... well, it sucks.
I recently looked into investing/trying to find a partner to open an independent pharmacy. The idea has always fascinated me and I think there are some cool things you could potentially do.

But even if you ignore all the crazy regulation and compliance stuff (a huge thing!) - you don't even get past the "this business is simply not viable" stage. Independents are being squeezed out - you can't even reliably expect to be paid your cost for a given medication.

It seems like it could be such a nice, low-key, lifestyle sort of business if you find the right area - but I found no effective way to make it even pay for itself, much less turn a profit or be able to attract any investors even looking to find community projects vs. maximizing returns.

Many areas in the US are like this these days. What should be thousands of small little competing shops being eaten up by the oligopoly. Same thing happened/is happening to pretty much all independent physician groups, and is also now happening to dentists. Every single bit of professional autonomy is being slowly eaten away.

At this point you can't even do one as a passion project it seems, unless you are independently wealthy of the sort to be able to operate at a loss indefinitely as some form of charity.
It's "authentic" in the same way that when you see something labeled authentic it makes you more likely to question if it's actually what it says it is because authentic thing don't need such labels plastered on them.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure "reconstructed" it the honest word to use.
Yeah there’s tons of demand for offshore dollars. It’s a great product.
Unfortunately, that is a big if and is frequently an issue on Bandcamp where stuff you get in flac has been passed through some lossy format. 7digital often sells flac for more money so hopefully that makes them more likely to verify that they are actually lossless (I haven't found an issue from them but only have a few albums there since the negative of them is the distributer model that is heavily geographically restricted).
Recover those precious memories of things that never happened, only with Google!
Agree but "import fees to latin america, I might not like the switches and there is no market to resell, I don't have that much pain, gym also helps, I think going back and forth between Kinesis and MBP keyboard would be hard, etc" and it stays in that range of "should I".

Also I recently spent a similar value on a sit-stand table and totally regret that purchase - I mostly sit and could always walk outside instead of standing..
So, where I am: (Sweden)

- Online prescriptions are very cost-effective compared to retail. Typically free next-day delivery. I don't have any hard stats, but my estimate is that at least 50% of prescriptions are filled online.

- Deliveries are typically shipped to the house's/apartment's mailbox or when chosen so or if the package doesn't fit, to the closest pickup place, typically inside a grocery store. When that happens you need to show an ID to pick it up.

- Retail drug stores, particularly in small villages have been forced to raise prices dramatically. Essentially an old-people tax. :( It's not unusual for them to have 2x prices in retail compared to online.

- There is some debate about shipping hard drugs directly to mailboxes. Some want to require those things going to a pickup-place with ID verification. That makes a lot of sense, I think.
I'm definitely not a sniper.

But anti-reflective devices have been designed, sold, and presumably used. These devices are designed to mitigate against human eyes.

Modern cameras are way more powerful than the human eye. Even if you only get a glint without an exact location, that in and of itself is invaluable because:

1) You know there's a sniper in the area (or, well, there's something with optics in the area at least)

2) Maybe (?) an array of these could triangulate the position from a brief series of glints collected by multiple detectors; every datapoint becomes significant

At the very least, the officers would know to keep their heads a little lower for a few days.
> Germany, it feels like some individuals prefer to work as little as possible, maximize their earnings, and are resistant to fixed deadlines or essential tasks and meetings. This trend is concerning, and I'm genuinely worried about what the future holds for our industry here.

You should rest easy because all of those things lead to more relaxed and happy employees which leads to less turnover, better output and higher quality software. Software development is a creative field and companies that treat it at as such are rewarded.
It's certainly gone more "Enterprise", but it also paved the way for many other similar services to take hold.
It sounds like they wanted to avoid programming at the level of loops, if statements, functions, blocks, etc which many visual node editors do employ. I do agree though that his solution is similar to various shader graph editors.
Reddit has been not Reddit for a long time now. I still remember when the death of Fup, the store cat from Powell's Technical Books in Portland, OR, made the front page of Reddit.

But both Reddit and Portland have long since been enshittified from how I remember them.
A team of hepatologists explore the effects of caffeine on liver health (2021)
C++ comes with a runtime which, among many other things, allows you to detect the microarchitecture and featureset of the environment you're running on using `__builtin_cpu_init()` which calls a dynamically linked function `__cpu_indicator_init()`. Then using the `cpu_dispatch`, `target`, or `target_clones` attributes you can compile multiple variations of an algorithm in your program and dynamically select the one to execute. This is referred to as a "fat binary", and the feature is "multifunctions" or "multiversioned functions".

Zig intends to support a similar feature but doesn't yet, at least not built into the language (you could certainly express this if you tried hard enough). I don't know about Rust, but I would be very surprised if it can't do this.

edit: I think I replied to the wrong comment >.<
Somewhat covertly I deep down wish that human's desire for pretty looking pictures will fade away over time, due to the ubiquity of pretty looking pictures produced by auto post processing. And at ultima their liking of pretty people and shiny new stuff in general. I don't want to sound negative or pedantic, I just would like that people prefer inner beauty in the broader sense.
local thieves in the big Canadian city where I live often set off fireworks, which, if timed well, sound quite similar to gun shots, as a way of causing distractions.

set off a few "gun battles" on the other side of a suburb and then boost the cars or break into the stores.

there was speculation there actual shootings happening, but the stats don't back that up -- lots of calls and disturbances, but few actual attacks.
Related discussion about CNPG from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616033