skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a gmail account like this. One day, I got an email confirmation for a rental car reservation. A few months later, I got an email about repair costs for the car. A few months after that, a collection agency emailed me...

Maybe because this was all in Europe, when I said "you have the wrong email address," the agency actually replied that I was right, and I never heard from them again.

People have signed up for Skype and Instagram accounts with my email address.

I've gotten an email intended for my brother.

I get notifications from a pharmacy for a 60+ year old Dutch woman.

I got a hotel booking confirmation with enough information in it to manage the reservation. An ex-colleague works for the OTA who sent it, so I mentioned it and said they need to validate emails. He knew about the problem, and it's somewhere in their backlog.

Validate email addresses, people! There are hidden customer service and legal costs if you don't.
I remember when I was a kid I tried for days to install gentoo and it just was not working. After so many hours of banging my head against the wall, I realized the CD was corrupted. Re-burning the iso fixed it
No, manually flagged
Well, not that I want to defend German start-ups, really I don't. But WeWork is just office space, so...

Point being, a lot unicorns are just VC pushed marketing machines. And I have no idea why Auto1 even exists...

Edit: Softbank invested in Auto1 as well. I start to see a pattern here...
Hope to see some musicians creating harmony with it live too.
>promoting group think

Downvotes are particularly egregious here. An argument can be made that upvotes help to surface content of interest. That still doesn't account for these accumulated top-right-corner scores, however, which have no value WRT enhancing discourse on any individual topic. In fact, they seem to actively encourage appeals to authority and other fallacies.

But, what is the purpose of downvotes other to encourage groupthink and stifle discussion? Why are downvotes allowed to be used as stand-ins for expressing disagreement through actual refutation/discourse? Worse, this allows people to actively submarine (i.e. censor, to some degree) opinions with which they disagree. So people can care enough to submarine someone else's ideas, but they aren't required to explain why? How is this helpful?

If someone is being disruptive or otherwise in violation of terms, there's always the flag option. But, downvotes punish people who meander too far from the group.
Right that's exactly what police have been doing for a long time. Killing people unjustly. The people who started this need to stop first.
Started making videos on YouTube of topics that I lookup over and over or that I would like to learn more. I prefer not to monetize my videos with YouTube ads but I've already been contracted by several major software companies to make videos for them.

Definitely not passive income but I enjoy it as a different work from normal programming where I can explore stuff I am interested or even just practice talking through interview questions out loud.

It's interesting to see which videos get traction. My most viewed video (https://youtu.be/8eyfmp7dtYk) is one that I just made on a whim, like many of my videos, and has a bad like/dislike ratio but I've gotten constructive feedback on it in case I decide to redo it.

I've learned a ton from having this channel and have made about $2k from contracting a handful of videos so far this year.
That is a hideous color. I feel like the person who named it was trolling.
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It's fortunate that those who live in urban areas never leave those urban areas.
How to Code Unstoppable Nonviolent Revolutions
Really like the project. Thanks.
Can you do 1080p60 video on mobile with wasm ffmpeg? I'd imagine it to have severe performance issues, since WASM is pretty bad for vector and bit twiddling operations heavily used in video codecs, and writing to a canvas on every frame requires the javascript (main) thread rather than being possible to do on the compositor thread (where videos normally decode and run) which means it'll end up janky if any other javascript runs at all.

Even basic canvas animations on the main thread like the dinosaur game (chrome offline page) are pretty janky, and they aren't doing much per frame at all.
I'm not convinced real neurons are just binary summators. But regardless of that, there's also chemical transmission involved, which is an analog thing.
> I would never support female cops without firearms, for example. A grown man can easily overpower any woman, period. Especially when they are tweaked out on drugs.

Uhhhhh, damn dude. Words kinda fail me here. As a male Marine, with several years practice in BJJ, I find your comment either offensive, or just plain stupid. I've had my ass kicked many, many times by female Marines. I had several MCMAP (Marine Corps Martial Art Program) trainers who were female. For that job, you are required to win at full contact hand to hand combat with people bigger and stronger than you. Your comment is sexist for one, and ignorant for another. I have a few female friends who've read your comment, and would like to have a friendly roll with you, if you are game.
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A couple of companies dominate the indexes: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, FB etc. They will do good no matter what, and are helped by "staying at home". So theres 90% of your answer.

In another obvious blunder by government ruling, the big companies that are publicly listed have had their competition literally shut down. So imagine you're a small hardware shop, well sucks to be you, because the government deemed you "unessential". Whereas Walmart has been left open because they sell food and hey wouldn't you know it, they also sell hardware items as well! What is better than having to compete for business? Have the government mandate your competitors out of business for you.

Then by that same token, do you expect to fly somewhere in the next 3 years? Do you expect people will buy cars and drive? Do you expect them to still use banking services?

If so wouldn't you want to buy the stocks now ? What does this forced shutdown and not-so-deadly-virus-that-we-were-scared-of have to do in 5 years from now?
Turn any water meter in a smart one
I was pretty disappointed that the article didn't have an explanation.
I had an affiliate marketing website when I was a kid, mostly for fun and learning with some friends, that made some money off backpack recommendations and Amazon links. We didn't feel too good about it after a while so we shut it down. I now hate SEO powered advice blogs.

More recently, I've started making adult videogames, one of which being an interactive fiction that had a lot of traction, but is now on hiatus due to Covid related reasons. One unintended effect of this, is that I learned personally how much both Apple and credit card providers have a chilling effect on freedom of nudity in entertainment - it's appalling.
Per the login page:

“Not a user yet? Signup is by invitation only to combat spam and increase accountability. If you know a current user of the site [1], ask them for an invitation or request one in chat [2].”

[1] https://lobste.rs/u/

[2] https://lobste.rs/chat

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Related comment on the history of lobste.rs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441470
Which stations? Nantwich has a fairly decent service aside from Sundays, Wrenbury isn't too bad either, and both have a fairly decent connection

The problem in south west cheshire is many places not only aren't on a rail line, they aren't dense enough to keep a bus service running, even with subsidies
You should have a look at Signato[1] font. It looks quite real. However, it is not open source.

[1] http://signato.lt/en/
I'll bite - can you post a link?
Zalyobokskaya NP, 1977. Biological effect of millimeter radiowaves. Vrachebnoye Delo 3: 116-119. Declassified and Approved for release 2012/05/10: CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120005-6 Levedeva NN, Reactions of the central nervous system to peripheral effects of low-intensity EHF emissions. Approved for release 2000/08/10: CIA-RDP96-00792R000100070001-9 Potekhina IL, Akoyev GN, Yenin LD, Oleyner 1992 Effects of low-intensity electromagnetic radiation in the millimeter range on the cardiovascular system of the white rat. Fiziol Zh 78:35-41Numerous other citations showing penetrating effects of millimeter waves are cited in: Betskii OY &Lebedeva NN. Low-intensity millimeter waves in biology and medicine. In: Clinical Application of Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, Marcel Decker, New York, pp. 30-61. A very recent paper came to the same conclusion that millimeter waves produce highly penetrating effects for the same reason, extensive empirical evidence: Kostoff et al (Toxicol Lett 2020:323;35-40).
Naturally. You don't think they actually got hold of (and tried) the products in between seeing the infomercial on TV and posting the "review"?
This is an open secret when Chinese government started heavily pushing for digital currency on top of blockchain. But everyone is smart enough to not talk about that...

Edit: Interestingly enough, the sensitivity surrounding block-chain (and AI, in the context of mass surveillance) is showing the effect of significantly slow down the mass adoption of the technology.

AI mass surveillance has already become an mass market in China. It however is still "a solution looking for problem" in US.

How this can play out in the longer term? For example, what would happen if the relinquish of privacy in the short term, allowed China to secure its strategic upper hand in economy size and technologies, through the value unlocked through Blockchain and AI?

From the perspective of US economy and technology development, it's a very challenging problem to figure out how to apply these technologies quickly. As there is literally zero resistance in China.

This issue is more urgent for AI. In addition to the fact that AI surveillance is already used everywhere in China, it's also super effective in the near term. For example, I can imagine AI can easily enhance the effectiveness of war machines to an entirely higher level.

Disclaimer: Intentionally putting moral judgement aside.
Humor me for applying some heuristics here. You're bringing up 43 year old studies and two decade out CIA reports as justification for the health risks of _extremely-widely used_ technology. Should I assume that this is the best we have on offer in studies of a systemic risk, or just cherry picking?

Also, why create a throwaway to post this stuff if you're stating an earnest and sincere belief? Surely credible views like these deserve to be held openly.
I believe "hatred of GPLv3" here is editorializing. "Aversion" seems a better fit.

This HN submission links to a chat session complaining that OpenBSD doesn't support gcc with the GPLv3 bits. I didn't see the word "hate" in the chat session.

A DDG search shows the title comes from Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/gxw3m1/openbsd_is_more... .

For context, the OpenBSD page at https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html says the GPL has a ...:

> ... condition that is typically unacceptable for commercial use of software. So in practice, it usually ends up hindering free sharing and reuse of code and ideas rather than encouraging it. As a consequence, no additional software bound by the GPL terms will be considered for inclusion into the OpenBSD base system.

> For historical reasons, the OpenBSD base system still includes the following GPL-licensed components: the GNU compiler collection (GCC) with supporting binutils and libraries, GNU CVS, GNU texinfo, the mkhybrid file system creation tool, and the readline library. Replacement by equivalent, more freely licensed tools is a long-term desideratum.
IMEI Spartacus?
Sounds like one of those "pranks" that's actually just reducing someone's quality of life.
Did we just make the golden gate bridge more epic?
This is great, congrats on the savings. Do you have any opinions on the ethics of web scraping? I have some projects I want to pursue that involve web scraping but I'm worried about

1) any illegal technicalities
2) is it a dick move to the website owner
Is that a recent change? I'm pretty sure some of my less popular remarks earned double digit negative points.
I run a send free text app that lets users watch ads to send sms, I rarely need to update and provide customer support and it makes 60$/month from ads+iap.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pseudozach...

And then another app that converts play store balance to 1/2 bitcoin but I actually like to talk about this one, if I can find anyone interested
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pseudozach...
Wow, I had no idea NetNewsWire had become free and open source. I stopped using it after v3 (because v4 removed some AppleScript functionality I depended on, although I now can't even remember what it was) and completely missed the news that a free v5 had been released, and open source to boot. This is fantastic!
I would prefer to be able to listen to podcasts while driving in the vast, empty wastelands outside urban areas.
It's only a small part of it, the ones that were too old to put in the queue directly, so we emailed repost invites for them instead. It's on my list to publish a more complete page. The types of stories are much the same on the larger list though.
AMA from SpaceX software team on Reddit (To start at 19:00 UTC)
Most people who have coronavirus do not spread it to others – study
Who's "they" in this context? It's unclear to me if this refers to eBay or browser vendors.
It seems the next Nebula convention will be like the BET awards.
IMO, a lot of open-source enthusiasts just don't understand the level of hostile/manipulative attention that get directed at sites with lots of high-value traffic, such as HN. There are quite a few users and companies actively trying to get their pages on the front page by any means necessary. It's dangerous to assume that they're not technically sophisticated.

Sites of this size generally need fairly sophisticated rules to withstand these attempts and keep to the original purpose of the site. And they need to be hidden, because if they are known, they will be successfully gamed. There is much more brainpower aimed at manipulating the site than there is in support of keeping it dedicated to its original purpose.
This problem can be mitigated to an extent with a vim setting to change the cursor from a block to a vertical line when you enter insert mode. After using it for a bit your brain will learn to look for the vertical line before typing.
Wow interesting video. Thank you.
However the line itself runs through expensive Buckinghamshire villages, this line won't relieve the Chiltern main line much.

While those in Milton Keynes, Northmapton, Hemel Hempstead etc will love the extra services and space to London, and the increased services and reliability on the Rugby->Wolverhampton and Bimingham-Nottingham corridors will be great, those somewhere like Wendover won't see any benefit.
> No surprise racism is as strong and prevalent as ever

Funny, I feel the same way about your comment. The regressive, dehumanizing impulse most people have to squash everyone into "black guy" or "Asian woman" instead of "full human being whose life can't be reductively captured by their skin color or genitals" is at the root of both old-fashioned racism and the newfangled form you're so enthusiastic about.

> the idea that white nationalists separatists do not view white people as superior is nonsensical on its face.

I'd imagine the overlap is significant with white supremacists, yes. But racial-/ethnonationalists of every race and ethnicity exist, and they're not all supremacists. There's a memeplex out there that races shouldn't mix that's decoupled from any notion of superiority: for anyone not rightly ensconced in their bubble it's not very difficult to come across this in the wild in, eg, the black community. I'm assuming you don't think that every African-American or Japanese or Indian or Arab or Burundian racial essentialist also thinks that they happen to be the master race? If not, it seems absurd to conclude that whites are the one race for whom this belief exists but _never_ among people who doesn't also believe in racial supremacy.

(For what it's worth, I'm pretty opposed to racial separatism, but I'm not ignorant enough to think that it's the same thing as white supremacy. There's a difference between modern Japan and the Third Reich's views on race)
Thank so much for taking the time to reply, very useful info.
Thankfully there is not going to be any US trade deal until after the election and most likely not until several months after the Biden administration gets down to work. The UK will get hosed by the deal no matter how it goes, but the US House is not going to pass any sort of deal that might, even for a single second, make Trump look good (and screwing Boris is just the cherry on top) so I am not quite sure why the UK even bothers to try. The release of information like this does nothing but hurt the Tories, shows everyone how desperate they are now that the winds of no-deal are starting to blow across the channel, and even a casual observer knows what a fools errand it it. If anything this shows the Tory negotiators to be incompetent for even trying...
The text color is lighter, as if the post had been downvoted.
First off, how would Walmart and every single grocery store know my voting record? Beyond that though, a monopolistic collusion to manipulate voting would likely be investigated as anti-trust actions.

Finally, as far as I'm concerned, they are welcome to ban me for my voting pattern. Within a couple weeks I would open up a new grocery store, marketed as not caring what your political beliefs are. The thing is, in a free market (or pseudo-free market like we have) you only succeed with buy in. Once you alienate your customers, you fail.
> cloning HN really would not be that hard

Isn't that basically what lobste.rs did?
Flatpak ticks all of those boxes: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Tips-&-Tricks
We're all just Hamsters: our role in the modern economy
Why do companies care if their driver is in the main kernel repository or not? All that matters is if distributions ship it, which they have to if people want their computers to work. Why don't they just say 'take it or leave it.'
Just out of curiosity, may I ask how you apologized to him?
I imagine there was a sticky-note somewhere that said "Use this IMEA when provisioning phones"
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For what it's worth, I thought your comment was reasonable given the discussion and upvoted it.

You're allowed to hate Crystal's syntax. I'd be curious to hear why, though.
Oh that’s cool, thanks for sharing. I’ll post it when I’ve got a moment.

There’s a form on the site, but if you’ve got anything else you want to share just send it to uxlift@kevan.tv.

I’m really interested in self-hosted, privacy-respecting alternatives to the big tracking platforms so this is right up my street. (Having said that, I do use GA, but I’m not happy about it.)
The cost per mile also includes major station works at Euston and Manchester, more work at places like Crewe and I assume on the east side of the pennines, and new stations at Old Oak Common, Birmingham Airport, Birmingham Curzon Street, Manchester Airport and Toton, as well as including new rolling stock

Most comparisons are with "track only" schemes.
At first I read "Fully Homophobic Encryption".
That was weird.
> The bottom line is, short of swallowing or embedding a 5G mmWave transmitter into your body and letting it run for a long time, you’re safe.

But isn't the cellphone, which will have a 5G transmitter, be effectively next to your body all the time? In all of these discussions why do we always ignore the 5G mobile devices?

And, what about when you're outside, standing below a 5G small cell, as you're taking a walk or kids are playing in the neighborhood, is it safe then? There is no wall between you and the antenna, just a few meters of air.
This is the original inspiration for Philly handstyle
Yeah so much this

I wonder how many people think that if they're called "John Smith" that Google will a) just make the email for them and b) that they're the only John Smith around the town/state/country

And even if you validate, what'll most likely happen is that people will still type the wrong email then get angry the system didn't guess their correct email

sigh

At least my name is pretty rare, but I've occasionally gotten emails to some with the same first name (think company LDAP email completion)
I've setup a few applications to which people say "I'd pay for this", but when I've added all the payment integration(s) those users disappear.

So congratulations for finding a niche which did actually result in paying users.
The lyrebird can imitate a chainsaw -- among many other things. This is from the BBC's Life on Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
The Black Lives Matter protest is marching over the bridge today starting at Noon. I'm sure it'll be an eerie experience.
Its just a name, and an interesting project.
Phony bulshit. Younger generation are much more aware, generally savy, And actively engaged than mine was 20years ago. Internet has not lobotomized us, it has changed the scale and speed at wich the narrative change, and it has levelled the field of knowledge in many direct and indirect ways.
Ditto Helsinki, Finland:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/235368102105

I listed my rental flat a bunch of places before using the group, since I started using it I'd not look elsewhere.
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Ask HN: How to find research on a certain topic
For example, I would like to find research (academic or otherwise) on static analysis and structural editing of computer programs.

I have been having trouble finding a direct approach to surface pertinent publications or researchers currently focused on the topic.

So far, my best search strategies have been

(1) starting at a random university‘s computer science department site, finding groups in adjacent topics like Programming Language (PL) and/or Program Verification, and scouring for relevant publications.

(2) finding conferences where there’s a chance such topics could come up and looking at historical entries. For the topics above, I often come back to venues such as the European Lisp Symposium and Strange Loop.

I haven’t had much success searching ieee. And following a paper’s citations generally leads to past works, whereas I’m interested in what’s recent.

Is there a better way? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Related link:

https://lobste.rs/about

And history:

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
No, that's been around forever.

Back when comment scores were public via the API, I retrieved the lowest-rating comments for each month. which was always -4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IfbSDYVBXiHZCuMdHXgp...

Bonus histogram of comment scores calculated in 2014: https://minimaxir.com/img/hn-comments/distribution_comment_p...
I want to see a math font for LaTeX based on handwriting.
thwy didn't name it, its the color with r,g,b = 0xba, 0xda, 0x55.
Reminds me of the Honda commercial a few years back with the musical road:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5Cejq2uyc
iOS 14 features: What we know ahead of WWDC 2020
I really wish they'd make RSS feeds for all the different views.
If you like those, I'd take a look at Grafana's Tanka [0]. It also uses jsonnet but has some additional features such as showing a diff of your changes before you apply, easy vendored libraries using jsonnet-bundler, and the concept of "environments" which prevents you from accidentally applying changes to the wrong namespace/cluster.

[0] https://github.com/grafana/tanka