skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how encryption is required there. Strong cryptographic authentication, yes—but that could be as easy as an HMAC with a key shared offline.

The HIPAA information is a great example of what should be kept off the amateur bands, except in an emergency when forgoing encryption is appropriate.
While you're mostly correct, they do not automatically download every image, it only initiates the download when you go to read the email. So they're still letting the sender know when you read the email, but yes they are masking the IP by using their own servers to download it. This can still be disabled if you use the setting to not download images, which is frustratingly unavailable in the gmail for ios app.
I am just now realizing that HN comments are collapsible...I wonder if anyone has ever looked at upvote/scroll behavior when the collapse button is used vs not? There are a ton of threads where the top comment is also a non-sequitur, but I know when that happens I frequently don't scroll past the hundreds of replies to see what the other first level comments are.
Great metaphor. To play devil's advocate: if only one or two companies can satisfactorily make cars, should other less capable/affluent manufactures accept defeat and hand over the automobile market to them? Look for another line of business to break into?

There's no question that Amazon and Google are the most capable (perhaps the only viable) choices for a contract of this scope. But giving them 10 billion dollars and relative corporate invinciblity (Amazon will not go under unless the US government decides so/collapses) is just exacerbating the problem. A government concerned with preserving the free market (and thus the prosperity/happiness of their citizens) should be stimulating smaller competitors, not funneling all available resources to a small handful of megacorps they're in bed with.
The mortgage interest deduction doesn't incentivize getting a bigger home. Or even a more expensive home. It does incentivize getting a bigger mortgage. Frankly you can borrow a lot to buy a place in the city or in the suburbs.
The last point: do consumers reward me for not picking the cheapest?
Not having Android support is frustrating, for sure. However, I've come to appreciate the flow of only being able to really manage email on my laptop. I use the gmail app on Android so I get notifications and can send off a quick response, but I don't feel like I need to do anything else there, like set a reminder for myself or mark it unread. I know it'll still be in my inbox when I get to a computer.

Also, I've been using it fine on Linux, except that it didn't support Firefox when I tried it.
I just checked mine and it's running with -Xms1g -Xmx1g and humming away with no problem. I wonder if it's something else?
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They are all psychopath, narcissistic megalomaniacs. Every last one of them, it is a requirement.
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The law will have to define explicitly what it means to have an active social media account.
Got you beat by 2 years and $100 cash
Sure, but do you just do more work or do you do the same work in less time (and use the extra the time for work balance) ? In my experience most people will just do the later.
My comment really upset folks, https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#991-100...

unsafe is the mechanism that GP needs to use to get multiple contiguous mutable borrows.

There is nothing wrong with unsafe, it is used to build all of the safe abstractions in Rust.
This doesn't look like an alien or a robot as some cars do. It looks like a zero texture 1980s VW golf/rabbit with a dorky grill. Like something out of the Cars movie or a video game with no budget for licenses.
This is something I've been wondering about for quite some time, particularly given that large providers can hash the images and conserve storage space by storing only a single copy of the image per hash.

I would suspect there are privacy implications of google caching what's behind every image tag in an email, in addition to the massive traffic / CPU spike such a thing might cause to retrieve the image and hash it, particularly for a very large email campaign. (But I don't know).

[Edited to include this link, which I found in another comment here]
"Gmail will now serve all images through Google’s own secure proxy servers."
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
Yes, iirc (though don’t quote me on it) gmail started doing this a while back. Not loading them when the email was sent, but proxying and lazy-loading.
To put EPUB (or AZW3/MOBI) files on your Kindle:

- Open Calibre

- 'Add' your EPUB file(s) (top left button)

- Connect your Kindle via USB

- Select the book(s) you want to send

- Click 'Send to device' (it's one of the buttons at the top)

- If you get asked to convert your book, choose AZW3 (it's newer than MOBI)

- Done

----------

To view the books on your Kindle:

- Connect your Kindle via USB

- Click 'Device' (at the top)

Note 1: If you want to be able to put your books on a different Kindle, you need the DeDRM plugin [1]

Note 2: If you want to be able to convert your books to EPUB to use with a non-Kindle e-reader, you need the KFX Input plugin [2]

Note 3: KFX is not a great input format, if you don't have moral reservations it's better to 'obtain' the books you paid for from the internet in EPUB format.

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To view the books on your Amazon account:

This is not possible using only Calibre. You need to install Kindle for PC/Mac and get the files from its storage directory. The notes above apply, i.e. it's probably better to just obtain EPUBs from the internet.

----------

In my opinion, it's not really worth it to back up books from your Kindle, you're better off obtaining the EPUBs off the internet. If you want to put those EPUBs on your Kindle, that's where Calibre shines.

This is also great if you don't want to support Amazon and their lock-in scheme. Just buy your books in EPUB from any online retailer and use Calibre to put it on your Kindle. Note that some publishers apply Adobe DRM to EPUBs (which you can break using DeDRM [1]), but there are also many EPUBs using only a watermark (aka 'social DRM'), which is not DRM.

[1] DeDRM: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-t...

[2] KFX Input: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291290
Most have a Molex brand connector, though nothing > 50 VDC.
I use a lot of the Molex Pico-Lock connectors, and similar sizes; all board level stuff.

What I was revering to in the above post is the susceptibility to breakdown and corona discharge from sharp edges (example at link below). I have done some static E field modeling in CST for HV breakdown in potted modules.

https://www.comsol.se/paper/modeling-of-avalanche-breakdown-...
I don’t think they would even do this if you flew into Urumqi. Just if you crossed a border from one of the stans into xinjiang, and fen these are mostly closed to westerners.
Not picking Oracle for the sake of not picking Oracle is a legitimate business decision, especially considering their dubious track record.

A government agency tailoring a bid to favor or not favor any company is entirely illegitimate (and illegal).
On the other hand, it can cause issues if it gets forgotten.

I used to explore the steam tunnels under my university. One of our favorite places to get into was this massive room full of forgotten athletic equipment beneath a basketball stadium scheduled to be torn down in a couple years. In the middle of that massive room was an unlocked filing cabinet full of about 3 decades worth of employee information. Addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, all sorts of goodies.

We obviously never did anything with it but like. Damn.
google, on the other hand, knows all of that information.
I don't know. I heard that stronger electric motors are not much more expensive and they allow more recuperation during breaking which is why they make sense even if you don't want to accelerate like a race car driver.
Likewise, "turn off read receipts" and "disable images" seem like two different things.
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No it isn’t. Corps are too big to care. An individual with specific interest in you can be far worse.
Aside from remote images, they store all of your emails on their servers. Not sure why they don't receive the same scrutiny that other email apps like Edison have [1].

I've heard enough fishy stories from former engineers there — people should think twice before logging in and letting them ingest your full account history (as with any third party email app, which Gmail is already cracking down on [2]).

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/02/third-party-email-apps-...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/08/google-updates-gmai...
My theory is that managers who are working today learned their craft when unemployment was at 8 - 10% and it shows in turnover.
what prevents them from significantly raising rates permanently?
It's less about social media and more about China and India growing their middle class. More and more people now have the disposable income to travel, it's more than likely that they will flock to the most famous sites.
Because it is morally reprehensible to have people work on the grid and maintain it without paying them due compensation for their work. That is called slavery. Without their labor, there would be no grid.
I had never considered it like that, but it feels true. Do you have some reference material for the statement that gravity and quantum effects are “negative energy”?
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I think what gets me is the juxtaposition of the brand name and this functionality. Superhuman sounds like it should be all about making the email sender more productive. And not about tracking time-stamped geotags of my actions as the receiver.
I would use the <details> tag to solve this problem. Most people don't know this exists and I have no idea why. You would probably have to rewrite the html so it no longer uses tables but I don't really consider that to be a negative.

I would also question why we are saving collapsed comments. I feel like this is something that doesn't need to be persisted forever. If you want this behavior why not use local storage instead?
To answer my own question: I googled that consultant and found a series of articles on his personal blog with meaningful criticisms of DAFs from the perspective of "real" charities (the ones that provide services or advocacy), including:

* They prevent charities from attracting donors with benefits in exchange for donations.[0]

* DAF donations can't be used to satisfy a legally binding personal pledge.[0]

* A DAF can be used to "launder" contributions in a way that hides their original sources and enables fraud.[1]

* A private foundation can meet its 5%-per-year disbursement requirement by donating the money to a DAF, including one controlled by the foundation, violating the spirit of charity laws.[2]

[0] https://www.alancantorconsulting.com/2015/06/not-so-simple/

[1] https://www.alancantorconsulting.com/2019/02/phony-and-corru...

[2] https://www.alancantorconsulting.com/2017/10/a-tale-of-two-l...
It is weird because there are no travel restrictions for foreigners going to Xinjiang (mostly, some places are off limits), you just buy a plane or train ticket. Going to Tibet is a lot harder for foreigners.
Virtually all sales and marketing teams use this technology (including the author's company where they use Hubspot).
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20178799
Call it what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This definitely isn't a road trip vehicle, but as a daily driver it could be great for a lot of people. I work from home, but my wife drives to work and it's about 9 miles round trip. So she could get to and from work and take a bunch of diversions along the way to run errands and still easily be under 20 miles per day.
If I didn't know better, I'd think you were quoting a darkly humorous dystopian novel. Only the top few percent of obsessively organized people and the bottom few percent of infrequent travelers will ever be able to answer that question truthfully. What a farce.
Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL
All of Rust's safe abstractions are on top of unsafe. It isn't a bad thing, it just need to be used with rigor.

Splitting a single slice into two mutable slices is done via https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.sp... if you want more than that, you will need to roll your own.

I think it would be a great exercise to implement what you are asking for, the docs link directly to the source.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#991-100...
I cannot visually notice any delay. It seems instantaneous in my browser.
This has been the case since always. It just wasn't as obvious to users because consumer-oriented mail software didn't include it.
I suspect the pg answer to this question is "there's too much noise on some posts, and deterring interaction with posts of 300+ comments is a feature, not a bug.
I mean, yeah I am weirded out by that, and don't like it. And I'm not trying to be (too) snarky, but seriously, what did you think people would do with this technology?

HTML email + IP to location + simple automation has driven the multi-billion dollar Martech (marketing technology) market for years. The feature set you are describing has been standard for a years now:

- They all use tracking pixels/logos-in-signatures for read receipts

- Read receipts aren't boolean "someone read this!" but instead track when, how many times you opened it.

- IP to location is used to understand location and route the lead/opportunity to the appropriate sales rep.

- Email User-Agent fingerprinting is done to track device type

- Most have automation, that allow you to automatically re-mail or even phone dial someone who has just opened an email after certain conditions are met.

This is fairly basic technology, glued to together, creating powerful platforms for marketing and direct sales. On a site like HN, how could any of this come as a surprise?
I disagree, and believe IP tracking through email tokens SHOULD be illegal!
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Yes, I got a job at an ad tech start up. It was a huge move up for me (previously doing government contracting). Since then I got a job at a FAANG.
This is an electric car so the 'fuel' is batteries. And the article mentions that there is a "Sport" mode that can be activated that would result in the full torque (otherwise it's at a reduced power to reduce battery usage).
Thanks. This is all very interesting. I should try it on our app servers.
> This is yet another example of why the surveillance regime in Xinjiang is one of the most unlawful

This is hyperbolic. It's potentially reprehensible and almost certainly oppressive. But it's not unlawful in a state without the rule of law.
Can you explain what's wrong with whataboutism?
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They are direct competitors, as another replied said. Case in point: the Pentagon contract in question.

Edit: To expand a bit further: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-orac...
Math is abstract, which means it 'rules' many different things by its very nature. You can describe the geometry of space-time with vectors just as well as you can describe quantum state transitions. It's hard to make sense of what your objection could be here; the world works the way it does, and it is not good or bad whether we can describe it using unified mathematical frameworks or not.
Researchers Eliminated HIV from the Genomes of Living Animals for the First Time
Emscripten switches to the LLVM WebAssembly Back End
is cross-session comment folding really that important/neat?
Lacking power is not to their benefit. You have drunken the coolaid all the way.
I remember that when someone would hand me a tape, I would generally rewind it to the start before pressing play; especially if I could see that they had not rewound it before giving it to me. Maybe she did that rather than play it twice.
You have a public profile on which you can post status updates and photos. Sounds like it’s covered, to me.
Windows 10 is back to system search focused by default in 1903. Cortana was refocused to voice-centric and the interfaces (and buttons) are now distinct between system search and Cortana. Rumors are Cortana may even be an optional install in 19H2 or 20H1.
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Things that have no price cannot be fairly allocated by a market system, and production cannot be reliably planned.

Also, paying $0.10 per kWh makes us choose between using an air conditioner to cool the interior of an occupied building to 20 degC, or wasting power on mining proof-of-work cryptocoins.

There may be a case for having the first N kWh of residential household use in a month be free, and metering the excess at a higher rate. If I got unlimited electricity at no cost, I, for one, would have an aluminum smelter in my back yard--right next to the Moon-etching laser, programmed to write "CHAIRFACE".
Most of the time I agree that EVs looks stupid (and Honda designs of last 10+ years are not great), BUT to me this loks really cool.
At least in the case with AWS, unfortunately there's business involved - because of their uptime guarantee, incidents that would be called downtime by a purely technical team are left as "operational" or "partly degraded". Otherwise, they might have to shell out millions or tens of millions.
I didn't get alien at all. In fact it reminded me very strongly of an 80s/early 90s VW Golf.
I'm still curious why you think this is an "incredible level of staffing". Can you quantify "incredible" a bit for those of us not in the publishing industry (perhaps there are workload levels I'm not recognizing being pretty much exclusively in the software world).
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Does Apple Mail do this?
Apparently big players like Google can preload and cache for others, somewhat mitigating img tracking/attacks.

Maybe clients could use Tor to limit the damage when img are needed but not necessarily trusted.
Streak has been doing this forever, why is this new news?
Why Are More People Right Handed?
Honestly I don't even think it would be as complicated as all that. Its all down to what becomes more valuable. Here is a breakdown of energy generation in the US:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

63% of power generation comes from "fossil fuels", but half of that comes from natural gas. If we focus purely on carbon emissions and ignore implications of fracking, natural gas can be considered "clean". Also assuming all renewables are zero-emission, this means roughly 30% of our power generation has the potential for carbon emissions.

By simply instituting a carbon tax, or even requiring coal plants to sequester emissions would make burning coal expensive enough that other forms of power will become cheaper, and thus the market would align appropriately. These are things being talked about right now, so its not unrealistic. The coal lobby won't like this of course and will continue to push us away from that, but I believe in 50 years when Miami and New Orleans have turned into Venice and the new generation of people won't be working in coal, American conservatives, as well as other nations, will stop complaining about the coal industry so much. All that has to happen is a few percentage points in a certain direction and the machinations will start to work.
Studying cracking the code interview at the moment and neat seeing this as is an actual use case for some of the array/hashmap interview questions.
Why the hell would you ever want your yard sprayed?
If you don’t count this as a personal or hobby project it’s a community project. They don’t have a pricing plan for that so you either have to go pro or go to some other provider who gives you this much for free. Why should a company give you even more pro features for free if you are already getting a lot of things for free?
How much useful data hides forever "lost" in "big data".
I have this on my nest, and one interesting feature, is it turns down the AC to a lower temp a few hours before the 'energy rush hour' so that your house doesn't get as warm.

IE, I have it at 72 deg, a 'energy rush hour' is declared, the nest automatically turns my thermostat to 70 deg an hour or two before, then to 75 deg during the rush hour.
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I recall the first time I bought a cassette tape walkman was about the year 2003, 2004.