skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sendgrid have a HUGE problem with spammers using their service. I've probably reported 20 SPAM campaigns using their official channels, but I think they route such e-mails to /dev/null. Never gotten a response- just more SPAM through their service. And I can't block their IPs, as a lot of legitimate sites utilize their services.
> I do run 2 to 4 times a week so I do wonder if that helps avoid problems?

I've done that for decades. I'd periodically suffer from debilitating back pain, where I couldn't even tie my shoes. I finally went to the doc, who said my problem was "weak back muscles". I pointed out the running, and the doc said "running does nothing for your back."

He gave me an illustrated guide to back exercises, aka core strength exercises. I do them 3x per week, and added some more I derived from yootoob back excercise.

Does it work? Hell yes. I wouldn't say my back never bothers me, but the pain has faded enough that it doesn't bother me anymore, and no more debilitating episodes.

It's been well over 10 years now. I don't enjoy the exercises, but I enjoy being free of the pain.
I strongly feel that it should be up to the consumer of information to decide whether to treat it as true or false. Otherwise, what's stopping you from banning all religious texts? Spiritual texts? Ads for homeopathic pills? And so on, and so forth.

If people are manipulable enough to fall for "foreign agents" stirring up controversy and hate — well, they'll just need to learn and get smarter.
This is all nice, but here is the important part you gotta remember - the more you take dependencies on AWS and its integrations, the harder it will be to actually have any flexibility and say in your own systems design. AWS is interested in taking your money first and foremost as well as having you depend on it from one side to another of your stack. Instead I’d look at containerizing my workflows and only using cloud tools on the edge (like load balancing).
Black hole 'hair' could be detected using ripples in space-time
Right, but if we go with Rust we won’t have to worry about GC issues
He is a ranking officer in the Chinese military accused of destroying a hard drive after being interviewed by agents. Suspicious considering the CCP is actively seeding U.S. universities with clandestine military scientists via the Thousand Talents plan [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
> Not if it comes paired with legislation forcing employers to get on board on penalty of punitive damages being assessed against them.

> Been done before, can be done again.

I do not recall this, so to me this sounds like dreamscape idealism. I would like to be educated otherwise. Is this real? Is this actually possible in 2020 reality?
Yeah, let me bring my desktop on road trips, it'll work so well! Ah yes, let's bring the laptop to the beach, that's gonna go as well too!
It's the structure you need to be able to throw errors.
why do we never give agency to people? is your mother an automaton that simply reacts to inputs or does she have any ability to not buy lottery tickets?
>Quantum Hair on Colliding Black Holes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01106
FYI, the correct URL for my site is https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/lunch-and-learn/incre... .
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My problem with an office chair that rotates is I inevitably spend much time spinning in place. It's not good for my image, but I can't help myself.
It seems to me people spend a whole lot more on cars when they are allowed to shop based on “monthly price” rather than “purchase price”. When the dealer is offering that comfort, convenience or sport package, it’s sure a lot easier to say yes to $20 a month than $2,000 today. Stretching the loan term makes it that much easier to overspend.

At least in the United States, one of the best things that the average middle class person could do to improve their long term financial situation would be to buy cars with a lower purchase price and keep them longer.
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> What's the rationale for allowing governments to run lotteries?

Using the profits for education, etc.
Why are the links on the right not actual links? Yuck.
The cost of switching power supplies. (your USB charger the size of a plug puts out more power than a transformer wall wart 6x8x8 cm)
I use pyinstaller to build windows executables directly from Linux using this docker image: https://github.com/cdrx/docker-pyinstaller

Between Qt and Python there is a huge amount of cross platform support. For example, I found out that Qt supports bluetooth, which currently has no other cross platform support in python (the unmaintained pybluez has all sorts of issues).
Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots
That would be amazing. And I could believe it.

Not properly setting up and configuring auth could result in long duration of auth tokens, which could be sitting around unknowingly.
20-30 years really. The introduction of chip inductors, the last really significant reduction in size for commodity discrete inductors, happened in the 90s.
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I have the Omega and love it. Comes with a lumbar pillow too, which works great.
Ok so I looked it up and it appears that this concept of very thin and light electrodes is basically taking off right now with multiple implementations. In this context, Neuralink is basically competing against other products for a share of the neuro-implant market, which will be big at some point. Why doesn’t your comment mention any of this? Or the relative merits of each competitor? It’s not clear that neuralink was the first or the last to do any of this. Why should their effort to find an electrode material that prevents loss of signal be minimized? Shouldn’t they be encouraged to find a solution like the other people trying to find a solution in academia?

And I know you won’t answer this because nobody ever answers questions that aren’t inflammatory or insulting... but how could information not be encoded in the brain? When you dream, your brain could not possibly be generating the raw sensory signals... the only way to explain lucid dreams is heavy encoding of information and a really powerful guessing system to fill in gaps where signal decoding was weak or didn’t happen.
Such as? How would it work?
Man! As a Chinese person, I really wish some companies to move their developers who works on network related components to China for a few weeks, because that will improve the stability of their products quite a bit.

You know we have a firewall that randomly disconnects connection and block traffic. A lots of apps just gets confused when that happened. And that happens a lot, once few minutes or shorter maybe.

When I work on my proxy, I had do define a new strategy to detect dead connections, such as to use separated timeout for Dial and Read. The Dial timeout will be a shorter value defaulted at 20 seconds, the Read timeout will be a rather normal one usually defaulted at 120 seconds.

I found many software just don't use any strategy. They just sends the connection and wait, assuming everything will be fine while it's actually hanging forever on user's end, until the OS kick them out. Many download system don't even have retry/resume mechanism: You downloaded 99% of a 600mb package (and it takes about 48 hours), then the connection EOF'ed, the software say "yeah you better download all of it again, hehe".

An example of good strategy can be found in `apt`. The software detects slow network, timed out connection, automatically retry downloads (not sure if it can resume download, could be great if it did). And all of that gives me a strong software that I can trust: I know when I run the command, the command will try it's best to get things done. And usually it did, causing far fewer issues than `npm`, `snap`, `git` and etc.

I suggest everybody give this mindset a try: When your software downloads data and puts it on user's computer, the copy of data is now owned by the user. You remove the data, you're looting the user from what they've got. It's like that you're making a dinner for your user: Everything been made (downloaded) is already on the table, one failed meal (packet) should not cause you to flipping the table. Instead, you retry and retry until it can't be done (For example, the source has changed or wait time is really too long).
Back in the day I lived in Massachusetts and had cousins in Arizona. Every time they visited us they would laugh about two things, and one of them was daylight savings time.

I still mislike yawning "like a hippo" every spring as my 5th grade teacher wanted to publicly describe it, and here we are. I just want a good night's sleep.
Will have to drive gate and source capacitance down a few orders a magnitude to make that a reasonable trade-off.
This will be a bigger deal when they get better effective carrier mass. It reads like intercalating more boron, or maybe a better choice or mix of elements, will yield increasingly better results. 50% is a big enough initial effect to be very encouraging. It is not clear from the article if there is any theoretical upper limit.

In the meantime, making the biggest part of a circuit
33% smaller might make the whole circuit almost that much smaller.

The value of these things is greatest manipulating signals at very high frequencies, far out of reach of digital signal processing. It is probably not notably useful for power conversion, where the exchange of energy via actual magnetic fields is what does the useful work.
Firefox really seems like it’s doing everything right in terms of application development. If it doesn’t break into the market again and start increasing its user base, I don’t know where it goes from here. Of course it doesn’t need to have 40-50% of market usage to be good, but having a browser which steadily improves doesn’t seem feasible in the long term if usage is dropping off, or at least isn’t stabilising.

Like many others I made the switch to Chrome when it came out, but then came back to Firefox some years later. It would be a very sad day for Firefox to go into maintenance mode. Mozilla has already shed a load of talented developers.
Ask HN: Does FB and Microsoft Share Account Lockout Data/IPs?
After never being locked out of the services of either company, I got locked out of a duplicate Facebook account. Tonight I attempted to reset thet password of a recently created Microsoft account password and got locked out. Coincidence, or data sharing?
> I don't know what kind of software you make

Mostly hacky stuff that does what I need, and not much more. Definitely nothing professional,at least that's relevant to this.

I agree with what you are saying. I am by no means an expert, but I have read/studied enough to know that I disagree with almost all of the philosophy behind SystemD, and have used it enough that I know it does not work properly all the time.

Everything above also applies to Windows. That doesn't change the fact that both are impressive, though flawed (more flawed than most software I use, imho) pieces of software.

Despite all of it's flaws, SystemD has been proven through use. I don't like it, but I have to acknowledge it's capabilities.
And they make every developer buy a Mac because they prohibit running macOS in VMs and in general don't allow building iOS apps without the use of Mac hardware. That's probably a bigger expense than the app store fees for most, and artificially inflates macOS market share in the important developer market.
Capitalism is strange that way, it's weird how our default state in business is to not being able to trust each other, because we assume the other party is probably trying to screw us over. I was wondering if it's always been like that since Roman times, since there's even a Latin term for "Buyer beware": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor .
Some of all. Inductors are particularly difficult to accommodate in contemporary circuits, so a general reduction in size could have an outsized impact.
A lot of it simply comes down to how much you want government to police behavior. There is only so much irrationality that can be reined in.

There are also legitimate home based businesses. Government regulations tend to not be very good at telling the difference between legitimate operations and those which are sketchy, but not outright fraud.
Hack/HHVM no longer has a goal to be PHP compatible, but it looks pretty much the same. It does have a JIT: https://hhvm.com/blog/2027/faster-and-cheaper-the-evolution-...
I don’t know why Herbalife, Amway, Primerica and all the MLM pyramid schemes are technically legal and allowed to exist.
Lots of us here have wasted our youth playing games and are uncomfortable with the fact that it was, indeed, a waste.
The idea of having to defend towers by writing correct CSS reminded me of this classic XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1168/
In countries like Australia, cities like that are defacto the majority. Sydney/Melbourne are both easily 1hr+ communes unless your loaded or willing to live in a dump (I used to do 3 hour commutes from my parents place, total 6 hour a day travel).

Cities like perth are much closer to achieving less than 1hr commute without paying expensive property prices but that is by definition the minority, even Brisbane isn't that great.
> while big bets bring both big gains and big losses.

it's actually an asymmetric. The losses a capped - you cannot lose more than you own, and you cannot lose more than the time you put in (which is, of course, something you're going to lose by living any way). Technically, you also lose the "risk free reward" in opportunity cost - e.g., a minimum wage job.

The gains, however, are unlimited. For both yourself, and for society. So i think it's in the interest of society to make many of these "big bets".
Don't forget they already charge $99-$299 USD/year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQzAbKdLfW8

The 3:01 spark is the best.

Could this video could be processed (AI!) to remove the background and highlight the interesting bits.
No investigators actually say it was more than one.

Some leave it open. But that's what they do every shooting.

One drunk possible ex-employee sums up the evidence.

I like one quote of how they were a bad shot and kept missing the exact target. Some circular logic going on there. Maybe they were shooting somewhat randomly.
It is forecasted to be about the same as existing gas prices. It is law that all gas/petrol cars have to be removed by 2050 so all existing gas infrastructure will be replaced with hydrogen by then. Most likely earlier
Eh I mean we don't know what it was, but if it was something like the settings page or a screenshot with a lot of white-space I can see why it would be rejected, although it probably should be allowed at the developer's expense.
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I agree with you on the lottery, the world would be better off without it. The problem in this case is that it's also entertainment, and people will pursue it whether it's legal or not because they want to gamble. In this case if we have to have it, I'd rather have the government run it than a for-profit company.

Herbalife (and other MLM) are just straight fraud. Pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries, but companies like Herbalife manage to squeak by. My guess would be it's because of money, but really I have no idea how they get away with it.
I'm not a doctor, but running can definitely work out your back. Long trail runs with lots of elevation gain leave me with a sore lower back, mostly because "leaning into" the hill keeps my lower back muscles working to maintain posture. I've only experienced this when pushing lots of mileage on big hills, though differences in posture may result in different sorts of runs triggering this. My running buddy has complained about this on much shorter runs.

It's entirely possible this is useless for preventing back pain, or may even be bad for my back, but I wanted to share.
I've worked at a couple of places that better than average paid folks pooled some money to buy Powerball tickets. Its low grade gambling and a little bit of team building. I do remember the big one in the late 90's we won our money back which actually was much more difficult than just losing.

I was asked to buy $120 worth of tickets in 94ish and not one damn winning number showed up on any of the tickets. It was requested I never buy for the group again.
"question: is there a language that can’t be compiled?"

There is some question whether Perl could be, because parsing it without running it has some ambiguity. https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
Yes, and the softer wheels also do less damage to wood floors.
> just a little better every day is more likely to succeed than someone who works insanely hard for just a limited period of time

but someone who works insanely hard for a long time is going to beat the person who gets just a little bit better each day.

The point is, someone who works insanely hard gets to a certain required level quicker than someone who improves a tiny bit every day for a long time. Think cramming for an exam etc.
Don’t forget their initiative to capture an even bigger percentage of app advertising spend. Nerfing the IDFA is designed to make advertising anywhere other than the App Store less effective. Apple is betting that this change will force developers to shift more advertising dollars to Apple, and away from places like Facebook.
My name, yes really! I have replaced it with the number of characters for obvious reasons.
First Name : 12345678901
Last Name(three parts) : 1234567 1234567 1234567.
Obviously I am not of Anglo heritage. Its a drama with everything I need to do from dealing government departments to drivers license to medicare to online forms. Yes IT systems are biased towards a particular heritage.
Well then the horrible reality of humanity is that we seek to punish people who play a part in these atrocities in order to seek justice, till we can come up with a better alternative. Otherwise, let's not punish some newbie in a gang who was forced to murder as part of his forced initiation even though he didn't want to.
Even if email worked like that, I don't think it would solve the spam problem. Spam emails are rarely personalized and the same exact message is sent out to many different addresses.

As such, the spammer would only have to store each unique message and the list of recipients associated with each unique message.
Doesn’t that just create a Byzantine generals problem?

My understanding is that real payment systems solve the problem by just taking a day to finalize transactions…
Something that people don’t realize is that standard deviation in framerate trumps frame rate in perception of smoothness of animation. It’s something that NaughtyDog has blogged about, and something really well known in the Amiga demo scene.

I’ve seen 8 fps marquees that looked smooth as silk the frame rate SD was so low. It’s amazing what the brain and eye tracking will do to make things look right.
Design tip: don't listen to designers who talk in absolutes.
What if all apps did this? Isn't it just transparency?
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> Virtue signaling implies, to me at least, a person that is trying to make himself/herself look better to others.

Is there a term for virtue signaling to one's self?
Because Herbalife is not a legitimate business, it's a pyramid scheme with just enough details tweaked to not quite count as one under existing legislation.

Do you think people should be able to buy in to Ponzi schemes, or give money to people running three card monte games on the roadside too?
What we need is propulsion systems like the Tic Tac spotted by the Nimitz.
from the docs [1]:

"A common misunderstanding is to mistake immediate mode gui for immediate mode rendering, which usually implies hammering your driver/GPU with a bunch of inefficient draw calls and state changes as the gui functions are called. This is NOT what Dear ImGui does. Dear ImGui outputs vertex buffers and a small list of draw calls batches. It never touches your GPU directly. The draw call batches are decently optimal and you can render them later, in your app or even remotely."

This is cool, I had that misunderstanding myself (immediate mode vs immediate rendering)

1: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui#how-it-works
You might like hinc, it's haskell but with C style syntax: https://github.com/serras/hinc/blob/master/why.md
I call it "one thing at a time, all the time".

Not because I want to take it slowly, but because I have a lot on my plate and my natural tendency is to "unflatten time", fast-forwarding in my head all the different plays and things to do. Some of these will only apply in a year, but here I am thinking about them and worrying about them now. Worse still, I sometime make decisions related to these future things and as you all surely know, decisions are paid for with a mental toll.

So I dial back, focus on the immediate thing in front of me and remember that nearly any progress is made of trivial, tiny chunks.

Having an effective system of writing stuff down is key to that approach - your future ideas and various pending tasks need to spill into writing instead of lingering around your head. When you have a good writing system you can trust, then you can free your mind to focus on the now.
Something that's worked well for me is trying to prolong the time each day before I get in front of a screen. Right now it's 1.30 on a Sunday and I've had a productive morning because I didn't plonk down in front of the computer after I go up and showered.

As I've become more conscious of the benefits of making that effort, it's also become a bit easier to 'break' the day's first internet surfing time. Immediately after this post I'm getting back off my ass to do some yard work.

YMMV, but it worked well for me as a focus to reduce pointless browsing hours.
The comments here are why we don’t have flying cars.

Everyone thinks of every possible negative. Instead of asking why not we should we asking what if. Maybe think of solutions along with the problems you find.
>IMHO, the type of place you visit to do things, then leave. Not the type of place you live.

But then people pay very high rents to live. $1600 or so for a studio.
Or until they hear how loud they are. People underestimate how loud these flying cars are and how much noise pollution can ruin their quality of life. I can't imagine a suburban neighborhood full of these loud flying cars.
dWeb will grow faster
Morality is subjective, maybe its wrong to you but may not wrong for me.
> “ I guess you are you saying that I and others should pay more money for our prescriptions?”

Yes, I am saying that. If you are interested in saving money and not being beholden to corporate interests and regulatory capture that cause you big costs and restrict you from medical care you may need, you should pay more money today and avoid helping GoodRX to have lobbying power.

From a purely self-interest / money saving perspective, you should spend more and be happy that your extra spending today is buying you valuable units of GoodRX-goes-away.
Tesla and hackers play cat and mouse in patching performance boost unlock
These are all already car issues. Terrorism seems to be over sold anyway.
Add rule 2 (fixed upper bounds on loops), and you see that you're restricted to a certain type of algorithm. You can't build something that, say, walks an arbitrary-sized binary tree - not and be within the rules. But then, you can't create an arbitrary-sized binary tree, because you can't allocate memory after startup.

These rules are for guaranteed-response-time algorithms that take data from a fixed number of places, do computations on it using fixed-size buffers, and write the data to a fixed number of places. They aren't for writing general Turing-complete computations in all their variety.
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