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> But what mystifies me is how these people keep going for years without ever realising they aren't getting account transaction emails

The inverse happens too! Sallie Mae regularly snail mails me to tell me that the (snail mail) address they have on file for me — the same one they send this notice to — is undeliverable! I get all the normal mail (like account statements), too…
I have this problem, except it's a whole nation (seemingly) of people due to how common my last name is in a specific country.

My address is [first initial][last name]@gmail so anyone with a first name that starts with the same letter as mine and the same last name (which, there are SO MANY).

I get;

job offers
family photos (I typically respond letting these people know they're not getting through to whoever they're intending)
verizon bills (I'm also a verizon customer and they absolutely refuse to take my email off of the other two accounts - I've also texted both accounts since they're numbers have come through various times in the correspondences and they don't even acknowledge my communication let alone update their accounts - they're always late on their payments, but have the newest iPhone's all the time :D)
purchase receipts from so many retailers I don't keep track (some of these people have real silly amounts of money)
auto purchase receipts
bank emails
lease offers (just today I had to respond to a leasing agent who was trying to let someone know they got a place they were trying to rent in NYC for crazy money)

It's mind blowing to me how many people get their email address wrong and miss so many important emails, seemingly without ever realizing it.
A coworker of mine got an email once containing important scholarship information intended for a high school kid in Florida. He did a little looking online and found the kid's and his parent's actual email addresses and forwarded the email to them.

So here's where it gets weird/dumb: the kid replies to my friend and his parents and says, "hey mom, you put the wrong email address on my application, there's no dot in mine."

So my coworker, being the only tech savvy person on the thread replies. "Well, actually, [...]" and explains how dots are(n't) handled in Gmail address. Then the parents then reply and write, "but that's your old Gmail address, we had to get you a new one when we moved to Florida."

At this point my coworker gave up and the kid presumably lost his scholarship because his family didn't know you could keep your Gmail address when you moved houses.

(If you're reading this, hi Jake H.!)
"The knife was in his car and they found it afterwords"

You mean the knife was in the car he was trying to get into at the time he was shot?
So nothing but FUD and ignorance, as expected... If you wanna get angry at Google, get angry at removing URLs from Chrome, not at the good things that they do.

> QUIC is what happens when corporations define standards so their own services can be run cheaper

1) Google is not the only one who would be able to run their services cheaper. That is as plain a fact as it could be. Do you think Google is the only company who needs to serve massive amounts of content? In what way is energy and computation efficiency "harming" the internet?

> The transport layer shouldn't be "aware" of what it is transporting

2) In what way is QUIC "aware" of what it's transporting?

> It shouldn't be a gigantic heap of things

3) QUIC is not a "gigantic heap of things" any more than TLS or SCTP is. It is an L7 protocol hosted on UDP, just like TLS is an L7 protocol hosted on TCP.

> It is already impossible for anyone but Google (or another mega-corp) itself to make a browser that works with "modern" sites. This piles on to that

4) This has nothing to do with browsers, and QUIC has nothing that relates exclusively to browsers. Also, the idea that competing in the browser space is will be harder because you need to implement a new transport is laughable. Browser complexity derives from HTML/CSS/WebApps/etc, and QUIC is not only insignificant by comparison, but also a much less volatile feature that wont need to be "evolving" all of the time.

> Protocols should be generic

5) QUIC is absolutely, 100% generic? I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that it isn't from...

> Layers should be layers

6) Except when the layers are horribly misplaced of course; then you get into the situation we're in with TCP where we have hard-coded definitions for how control flow will work during a given session, what the session is, how you always need a new handshake to start a new one even if on the same host, and then you need to work around all this bullshit by starting a crapton of TCP connections to multiplex streams like HTTP/1.1 does...

7) In what way is QUIC not a layer?

8) That is a horrible argument. Nothing is keeping the IETF from standardizing QUIC at the same level as UDP/TCP/SCTP, you just have to look at IPv6 and SCTP's adoption to understand what happens when you try to change a protocol that deep in the stack.

> There's more to the web, and the internet, than fixing mobile latency issues

9) Sure... If you ignore that unlike when TCP was standardized, mobile devices represent 50% of all publicly routed internet traffic, and that all of these devices are dropping packets, triggering retransmissions, and congesting the network for everyone (including non-mobile devices), then there is no probelm at all!

That is also known as the tactic 5 year olds use when faced with a problem: closing their eyes and pretending it doesn't exist.

10) I'm not sure where you got the impression that QUIC only brings benefits to mobile latency, but that is also patently false
"The High annual death toll" is most likely not as HIGH coz the numbers your hear about FLU fatalities are Statistical estimates, unlike that of Covid fatalities.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

I'm not sure of Human societies operating 'just fine' with the risk of flu. We seem to operate just fine NOW because we make vaccines for the flu every year, and we have several years of experience in terms of Herd Immunity and Medical assistance.

We also do not have medical personnel dying in hundreds from flu every year as they catch it in line of service.

And the baseline of flu u refer to DID NOT HELP much with predicting or managing clots in almost every major organ when it comes to COVID.
Sure, we have blood thinners etc. But when u hear from frontline workers in hospitals, the situation with clots is pretty dire.
And this is a much bigger deal and the overlap with flu is very little, even in patients tht may seem to have recovered frm Covid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/health/coronavirus-stroke...
Video over IP has existed forever. Zoom is just one of many companies and services that do it.
nice story (really), makes me wonder if a special kind of group merge to give a better idea of who/why on the changes at a particular time would be interesting
Animations for an Indie App
I went through a radio phase a few years ago and got my extra. Then I had kids, then work got busy. We moved a few times.

I still have a quite a bit of gear left, mostly 2M stuff but the fact is I don't really have anyone to talk to and the biggest reason I got into radio (public service/storm spotting/emergency prep) have not been very active here. We do radios for parades, but they haven't activated storm spotters here in nearly 2 years.

If I had more people to talk to, I'd be on it more. But it's hard to get kids 3 kids 6 and under... to get interested in it.
The highest profile one is /r/piracy. The illegal sharing part of the subreddit spawned a forum for good general piracy discussion. It was at serious risk of being deleted and had to go to extreme lengths to preserve the community that formed around the actual illegal sharing part.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvygwq/reddits-piracy-sub...

/r/datahoarders and /r/opendirectories are a couple other I personally have seen similar things happen. In my opinion they're a couple of the greatest subreddits out there so the fact that they could be banned out of nowhere on a technicality is a little concerning.
Probably the professional services part.

They will probably spend this money on consolidation. Buying up people who provide complementary tools or extensions, maybe a couple that were previously agnostic.
Not all of the examples I gave were illegal content.
Good lesson for organizational engineering. Longer tenures in a job tend to increase risk aversion and technical conservatism.

So unless there's a mechanism to blunt that (and select for lifelong learners), you end up with a tyranny of outdated architects, opposed to any and all changes.
No, as per Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
This is an unexpected original application. Do you think people in a wheelchair would like to upgrade to a robot?
DRM probably.
Hi. You are are ruining bitcoin because it cannot be used for P2P transactions anymore, because you'll get tainted coins, that cannot be converted into USD, because the exchanges reject them.

Please release a tool that allows regular people to query your system, so we can reject tainted coins, just like the exchanges do. I don't mind if you charge for it, even if it's a lot.

If you have any advice on this problem, please let me know. Thanks.
Why would we ask the courts to decide what is large? What if I don't like their answer? Surely this is a legislative question.
Youtuber Marques Brownlee had a cool video on Spot last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6_azdBnAlU

His takeaway was that the big use cases currently are around LIDAR and mapping, e.g. tracking construction progress, in irregular / uneven terrain.

I'm less convinced that walking robots are useful for some of the use cases described in the Economist article, like moving boxes in a warehouse. After all, warehouses are generally built to facilitate wheeled vehicles (forklifts) already...
True, but still don't sit in the middle of the troll-hole, maybe the troll will find you in the Forrest but the chance is much smaller, and the best thing is always, make them create a new email for every troll attempt too your mail-list, and even more important ban them fast and forever. It's your health and your joy in that project otherwise both get destroyed over time, they don't pay you and with that have Zero rights to say something against your project, ban them! If they want to change something let them fork.

EDIT: If a contributor wants to help he will take that extra step or just send you the patch over mail-list, don't work with twitter-style fast-com tools, work with well thought out slow-com tools like mail.
JWT Storage in Rails and React the Right Way(2018)
There is no automatic snapshotting regime on Fedora.

There's no direct correlation between having many snapshots, and needing to balance. The once per month balance used in openSUSE is to preempt or reduce the chances of out of space error in one type of chunk (block group of extents), while there remains significant free space in another type of chunk.

Chunks are created dynamically, and are either type metadata or data (also system but it can be ignored). Different workloads have different data/metadata ratio demands, hence dynamic allocation. Snapshots are almost entirely metadata. More snapshotting means more usage of metadata.

If the pattern dramatically changes, the ratio also changes, and the dynamic allocation can alter course. Except when the disk is fully allocated. In that case, heavy metadata writes will completely fill metadata chunks, and ENOSPC even though there's still unused space in data chunks.

A filtered balance can move extents from one chunk to another, and once a chunk is empty, it can be deallocated. That unallocated space can now be allocated into a different type of chunk, thus avoiding ENOSPC. Or at least when ENOSPC happens, there's essentially no free space in either chunk type, at the same time. A "true" ENOSPC.

There are all kinds of mitigations for the problem in newer kernels. And in my opinion it's better to not paper over problems, but fixing the remaining edge cases.
We do not track weight (at this point), but do have charts (not trend charts) but these are all good ideas, i will mark them. Still, give Gadgetbridge a shot, you might like it. Check out our wiki, many things of the MiBand are similar with the Bip: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Amazfi... , which i think has most comprehensive article from the whole Huami (MiBand/Amazfit) family.
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated when fear takes over?
I recently gave up on my high paying job to chase my dreams of running my own company. I have always worked in startups and hence its been a dream for years to start my own company and work on products that I am passionate about.

While our MVP is under development, I am taking time to network with other founders and VCs. I am not wanting funding yet but I just want to get my product and my name out there.

Yesterday while talking to another founder, I felt so manipulated. I felt like he was demotivating me to give up on my business concept and even told me things like user validation and market research is useless coz users will say a lot of things but wont do it. I was like .. wut?!?!?! I was thinking to myself how can you even get something under development without first identifying if its a PMF.
Later in the conversation I realized he was trying to stall me from approaching a certain segment of users coz he had a challenge with them. I am a very resilient human and I believe that our business concept will work coz I have talked to users and they want what we are building.
But just to hear someone go negative nancy on you was very disappointing. I didnt get any words of encouragement or motivation to research further as a person who has founded companies in the past.

Has anyone faced this? how do y'all deal with this? How do you not let fear set in?
Honestly, this one is so strange to me. UK government services somehow generally tend to be total rubbish but one of them is actually top-tier: gov.uk

They have accessibility and access and all these baked into the design AFAIK. I don't understand why American govs have such a hard time on this. Some are larger than the UK and have problems!
Accelerated video decoding really wants to decode into a hardware texture and then render directly from that texture, and copy/move the data around as little as possible; ideally, any further processing happens entirely on the GPU.

Most video players have a defined pipeline from video decode to display; they may have some things they can do to the video before displaying it, but they can handle accelerated video.

Among other things, HTML5 video allows JavaScript/WASM code to get at individual frames and do further processing prior to display. It's not as simple as "decode video and render it".
Starting a business is easy. I've personally done it in the early 2000s, and it's easier today. However, it's structured for traditional businesses which produce returns relatively early.

It is not structured to support "startup"-type companies like those in the US. Yes, Silicon Valley is the focus on HN, but the range of options beyond what you find in the UK is available in many more places than just SV.

In the UK and Europe you can potentially find an angel investor. Once you go to the next levels of finance then it gets tougher. In the US, you have access to the next level of VC finance which comes from a relatively large pool. Most financiers in Europe tend to be conservative, although there are efforts to change that. Hence, companies flipping to being US-based.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I suppose these are the results of the gap between technology and legislation.
UAE implicated in lethal drone strike in Libya
That attitude/capability is closely related to a job interview question I tend to use. "Could you tell me about a time you delved into the source code of some software product or library to fix a problem you faced?"

(My pet theory: I think often it's just the attitude that is missing. So much can be accompished with the right attitude.)
You're right, thanks for the link! $424k is the cutoff for a jumbo loan in Texas.
I've tried to use Emacs a few times before. It just never clicked for me.

And honestly... I enjoy writing LaTeX. The structure just feels really comfortable to me.
> Not sure why this comment was dead

The amount of Google employees here on HN who enjoy surveillance capitalism salaries and bonuses might be the reason.
Unusual Map Projections
Wrt note taking for setting up software: I gave up on that in favor of a shell script for initial setup, and pretty much everything else is in Ansible. Works for almost everything, does take some work and sometimes needs updating. But also serves as notes by itself. Anyway the main advantage over notes for me is that I don't have to copy-paste a bunch of commands from notes anymore, and that large parts of it are common to multiple computers I use.
openbox is more usable than OSX. Heck anything besides twm is more usable than osx.

and osx keeps getting worse and worse. What's up with the maximized windows now?!

Not to mention you still can't command+tab between two terminal windows.
The original problem that Tomasulo's algorithm (register renaming) solved was that the IBM 360 Model 91 floating point unit only had 4 FP registers. Register renaming is also important on x86 (starting with Pentium Pro) which only has 8 GPRs and x86_64 which only has 16 GPRs.

These (8 and 16) are still small numbers. I wonder how important renaming is on ARMv8 or RISC-V with 32 GPRs. I really wonder if compiler register allocators help/hurt/know about renaming which in fact would require microarchitectural knowledge.

The example that Agner found is a form of register renaming. So is this AMD trying to make its legacy code base go faster (AMD+Intel do a TON of that) or is it something a compiler can actually target? I think the former.
As someone that has endured a significant amount of bad luck, is there any advice on improving luck?
A previous attempt (dynamically balancing wheelchairs) was the progenitor to the Segway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
Isn't this just an issue of having types, versus not?

Although I do remember trying racket, where they solved the same problem by naming functions dict-remove set-remove hash-remove vector-drop etc, which does the job but never have I been more offended thinking I was going in for its abstraction capabilities
I am using vscodium instead of vscode so the "Install" link on the marketplace page doesn't work and searching for the extension doesn't show it. Any ideas on how I can install this?
As the lucky early adopter of gmail I got my last name only @gmail.com. It has been a blessing and a curse.

I have a boilerplate "you have the wrong address" email in multiple languages that I use to reply to the first email from real people. If they persist they then get added to my auto-reply "you have the wrong address" and delete rule.

For automated emails, I don't even bother trying to unsubscribe. They all get added to the delete blacklist rule.

Some of the more fun mistakes I have gotten have been multiple years worth of tax documents from New South Wales, Wine Tastings in South Africa, Church Choir concerts in Germany, and resumes for a receptionist in Colorado at a Gym.
> I wonder what the point of supporting local is for.

It's arguably comparable to paying extra for fair trade products.
Read it on the basis of recommendation here (along with Skunk Works), would highly second.

The fascinating thing about successful, lean, scrappy defense projects is there are almost no incentives for them to be such. Consequently, if they are, it's because wilful and powerful decisions were made by engineering / management team.

Decisions we could probably all stand to learn from (and do our best to repeat!).
Have any of the Fediverse apps that were banned from the app store done anything to prevent the issues that you say Facebook and Twitter have? I'll take the simple banning of a harmful server on their app as a way to change my mind on this issue.
Exactly. It requires a change in mindset wrt Jupyter, but it is totally worth it!
Yew – A modern Rust framework for creating multi-threaded front-ends with WASM
That's a factor but I don't think it's limited to attention deficit ingrates spamming new issues.

I've seen tons of perfectly reasonable comments along the lines of "This old issue got closed as a duplicate, but after searching the tracker, I cannot find the open issue, and the problem is still present. Can you tell me where it is?" that seem to get a flat 0% response rate.

I wouldn't blame them for being burned-out though. Presumably they aren't being financially compensated for maintaining it, and relative to the amount of use the project gets, there's probably not that much prestige either, because it's very "utilitarian".
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I am anarcho-capitalist, and I have no trouble being absolutist about freedom of speech inside one's own property.

So there's that.
We buy a lot more than what we need, and typically disposable versions of that stuff.
This is the kind of more controversial comment Id like to see upvoted to spur good discussion.

The Second Amendment says well regulated militia. Should a group of people be able to organize, with guns, to protect businesses from riots and looters?

This one is looking like a very complicated situation as it unfolds. Someone underage, carrying an illegal gun, probably doesn't fall into well regulated. (Furthermore, what happens if someone underage, carrying an illegal gun, crossed a boarder, is attacked and defends themself? It's food for thought. Is every party, protester, militia, police, simultaneously victim and perpetrator?) That in and of itself doesn't negate the constitutional right of others to do the same thing legally. Just like everything else, a small group of people breaking the law, shouldn't take away everyone elses rights. That goes for rioters not destroying peoples rights to protest. That goes for kids/murderers destroying peoples rights to a militia. If you want to say "protesters arent rioters" thats fine, then protesters and militia shouldnt clash, should both be free to exercise their rights, and if they do, that illegal clash should be prosecuted.

The other comments here are saying "cops should stop..." but that is irrelevant to the fact that it is legal (and the cops were encouraging it at the scene) for people to stand outside a building and protect it. Taking that a step further, and back to the point of the initial article, where does Facebook draw the line in allowing people to self organize to protect their property? Is defensive violence different than offensive violence? And then theres the idea that a militia is designed as a check and balance against an oppressive police/military force. Does suppressing the formation of militia play into the strengthening of unchecked government power?