skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that email obfuscation schemes such as you are using don't fool modern email harvesting 'bots. In fact, I know they don't, because there are 'bots out there that find text strings in proximity to an "@" sign and then try that text as the username against the domain that they've seen. I know that happens, because I've laid honeypots and seen it.

So your method is not proof against being harvested by 'bots, and if it hasn't yet, it's because those 'bots haven't scanned your profile. Yet.

This is no doubt then bolstered by having humans doing grunt work -- we know that happens too.

With regards real humans having problems, there's no reliable way to estimate the rate, but I run an event every year, and every year there are a handful of people who can't cope with an address that requires anything more than just clicking on a link. I'm guessing around 5 to 10 out of 200 to 300.

I use primarily plain email addresses, and then strengthen my filtering to make sure the 'bots don't get through. Mostly.

That's the failure mode I've chosen. You could decide that if someone isn't "smart enough" to decode your obfuscated address then you don't want to hear from them. That's a choice. The important thing is to know you're making it, and to evaluate the consequences.
Caching proxies and traffic controlling NAT.
Show HN: Run Firefox on Lambda
Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs. Placebo in Patients with Severe COVID19
Well I guess it depends on your threat model. Do you casually use Signal because you are mass-surveillance aware or is it really important for you to be sure who you're sending messages to? Sounds like the former, so just let it be. Bonus : You get to know when your friends has lost his phone/bought a new one. (Unless they are very careful and set up a NIP:)
I think Signal is a pretty good example of how to easily bring encrypted communication to the masses and to some individuals that may need the level of protection it provides. Is it perfect? No. Does it cover all use cases? No. Is it easier to set up than PGP? Definitely.
Picard's "wisdom" does not come from a man experienced in battle and leading men and flying a starship around the galaxy.

It comes from a person who has likely commanded nothing more than a typewriter. The real world does not work like the fantasy saccharin world of Star Trek, and wise sayings from it being applicable to the real world would just be happenstance.
Email is the only widely used decentralized communication system that most people have access to that doesn't require showing ID.

Everyone this applies to already has GPG installed.

It's fine. If you have some specific argument against it, speak up.
5nm certainly helped, but what really made M1 is the team Apple has assembled. Apple’s fat margins allowed them to attract and retain the best engineers with top of market total comp. Meanwhile Intel viewed engineering as a cost center to be optimized. So here we are.
Ask HN: What do you plan to learn in Christmas?
Hi friends, just wondering what you plan to learn during the holidays.

On my side I'm struggling between reading Spark the definitive Guide and continue learning algo in C++. Maybe I should do both as one is my hobby and one is related to my job.
Oh that's awesome, thanks for letting me know.
I get the problems with email encryption, but what do people think of email signing? It's a shame it's so hard to do, but I always thought it'd be a good protection against phishing.
I don't think it will be that hard for Intel & AMD to put little operations like the javascript float one (which is a standard ARM instruction BTW) or some special instructions to help garbage collection and retain/release counts work more effectively that all programming languages could leverage. It's something else that makes it better.
At some point environmentalism stopped being rational, and turned into nature-worship. Greens consider GMOs unclean in the same way that Jews and Muslims consider pigs unclean.
the fact that so few people actually complains probably tells you a lot about the input devices that people use.

Complain to whom? 99.9999% of technology users have zero clue how to even begin to find out how to complain.
I was trying to run Firefox on Lambda but had a really hard time finding instructions on how to do this. Everything I was finding was for Chrome, which was annoying.

This repository includes a ZIP file and Brotli-compressed tarball for those that want to run Firefox on AWS Lambda.
What's wrong with using gpg to communicate securely?
Mabye it is a trait that we are predisposed to learn.
But I doubt it is part of the default neural network as it is encoded by the genes.
Bounce it off of a satellite, like on-location news broadcasts do? Those all operate out of a civilian style van with an antenna in it.
When I first got the black book, I wanted to skip over the first chapter and get to "the good stuff", but forced myself to read it. It was the most useful info in that book (even more obvious today as few use the kinds of tricks found in the remainder): you can take hours/days/longer optimizing to the nth degree some algorithm that is used in a for loop, but better still is taking a bigger picture look and finding out you can accomplish the same thing a different way without needing the for loop at all.
1. The original motivation for opposition to GMO was mainly religious I believe ("Don't mess with the creation"), but somehow turned into "GMO is dangerous".

2. While GMO by itself is not dangerous a lot of the things that are done with it are. Roundup is very evil stuff, and GMO made it possible.

3. Another problem is also the business model behind a lot of commercial GMO crops, where the farmer essentially signs away all their rights.

2 and 3 are good reasons to be opposed to a lot of GMO.
Seen so much of this bullshit while travelling around SE Asia. I swear 90% of nomads are dropshipping/life coaches running ponzi schemes, and the other 10% are geeks like me who lucked into remote-friendly coding gigs.

Sprinkled with some truly fascinating folks who genuinely discovered some new and interesting way of making this work for them.
IMHO, the biggest RTFM-Fail ever is related to ASCII. Think of all the errors made and time lost fixing issues with CSV (comma separated value) or TSV (tab separated files) or pipe-delimited fields in records, etc, etc due to having to handle the case where the delimiter character is not a delimiter character but valid data with a field.

ASCII provided characters specifically for this purpose. But no one seems to have RTFMed. ASCII 31 is a "unit separator" (or field separator as we'd call it today) and ASCII 30 is a record separator. There's even ASCII 29, a group separator, so you can have a set of records related as a group (for example, a group of records of different type but related to a single customer). And there's ASCII 28, a file separator, so you can have multiple "logical" files within one physical file.
First try! I remember playing this sort of game years ago, maybe on Solaris? Very fun thank you.

One thing that might help unfamiliar players is a list of all tiles in the deck(?). I assume better players know how many there are of each which means it is safe to remove some easier ones when there can't be any more. It could update in real time as an option to show what's left, but probably best not to by default.
This article is fantastic. I think "get rich quick" schemes are so much worse when it comes to my generation and beyond (millennials/gen-z). People have been endlessly screwed over: graduated college during the 2008 economic bust, lived with parents until their 30s, fired/laid off during the 2020 pandemic -- so I fundamentally understand the mirage of Instagram fame and endless sacks of money for doing basically nothing of value. For a classic example, just look at /r/wallstreetbets -- young people are frustrated because there's no end to this tunnel.

It also makes things harder for those of us that don't want to run Ponzi schemes: How does one break out when everyone's taking glamorous selfies in Thailand but I'm working in a dingy apartment trying to build the next big app?

It's a tough situation on all sides with no obvious solutions.
You have to plan things like registering for the school, planning where you're going to live, planning your finances for the school, planning your schedule around the school's requirements, etc. Just aimlessly going about things isn't going to result in a degree.
Hi, here's another one :-)

Happy Linux user since 2004/5.

Everything else is painful in some way or another.
It's like with any of these things that leave the hard problem of identity entirely to the user. You don't have to verify the safety number but if you don't you implicitly trust Signal not to intercept your communications. A valid choice, but these sorts of issues should be made clearer to the user. Just tell the user that if you want effective end to end communications there are certain things you have to do. A truth in advertising thing.
A Cat Is Said to Be Joining the Bidens in the White House
> If you want to stop polling from a server response you can respond with the HTTP response code 286 and the element will cancel the polling.

Oh wow, it gets a lot worse...
Unemployment isn't the figure to be looking at, it's level of wages.

It's my understanding that most of Japan's workforce is massively underpaid in comparison to many other markets for similar jobs.

Something's deeply broken, there, and it's not reflected in unemployment rates.
May not necessarily have much of an effect, as in this classic example where children who had recently received education on the use of fake sources were unable to spot that an article on the "tree octopus" was made up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_octopus
The archive dvds thank goodness have been preserved which will cover you up until 2008.

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6
Being good at many disparate things when you are young is a very rare combo in general. It takes time to become very good at anything. Someone who has had enough time to be both a technical genius's and learnt how to relate to the many and varied personalities out there would be a remarkable find indeed. It's not at all surprising a young person would look around their peers, and decide such a thing is very rare.

But the gift of time comes with age. Coincidently so does the gift of wisdom. Maybe wisdom is merely a word for having had the time to gain a good understanding of many aspects of the human condition.
Many blog posts pontificating some advice read like:

"How to double your money gambling everything on a coin toss"

Sure, you can win a coin toss, but unless you can reproduce that experiment consistently it's not a viable advice.

And that pretty much to everything... if a process is not better than random chance then it's worthless.
> However, this is how I would also raise a child, letting them sleep as much and whenever they want.

With small kids, the problem is usually not you trying to force a schedule on the kid, but the kid forcing a schedule on you.
> I was lucky

You put yourself in a position where luck could find you.

> This is the luck of winning genetic, social, and geographical lotteries.

It's the luck that 99% of Americans share.
You may just have Orthodoxy privilege:

http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html

or in other words, if you've never had and issues with moderation, you might not ever take risks or challenges with your opinions.
That's a cool website, are you a student?

In regards to the topic, the future has NEVER been brighter, even pandemic and all (do you know how terrible pandemics used to be?). Yes there's always corruption and there's always economic bubbles bursting all the time, but no the world is definitely not crumbling.

The actual problem is that kids nowadays are insulated by parents and school from facing real hard problems. So when you face a real problem, your picture of a perfect world that only exists in your bubble crumbles. But the world is not crumbling, and actually the kind of challenges you're facing are absolutely nothing in comparison to what people had to face 20, 50 or 100 years ago.
Brilliant :) And don't forget to look at the signup link for the "How to Run a Ponzi Scheme" Master course.

That said, don't all the cool kids call it "Mastermind" these days?
Databases with Jennifer Widom. I think the original course I took on Stanford's platform has now been split into 3 on edx. Amazing hands-on introduction to Database concepts https://www.edx.org/course/databases-5-sql

I quite liked the Web Development course taught by Steve Huffman (the founder of Reddit) on Udacity. It's possibly a bit dated right now.
It is sleep paralysis. It is completely normal when it happens from time to time. Your brain inhibits muscle movements during certain phases of sleep so that you do not hurt your self. Sometimes this can get out of sync though.
It’s just another tool in the toolbox. For instance, sometimes high priced consultants aren’t brought in to gather info and make the best recommendations. Sometimes they’re brought in to give the boss some kind of backup and deflection if things go wrong. But often they would recommend exactly what the boss wants: they know where their bread is buttered.
Interesting. Does it have momentum behind it?
And the government debt is 300 percent of GDP and growing. Maybe they are on to something here?
Bullshit. This kind of propaganda cheeses me off. What's unscientific is treating the only known biosphere in the entire universe as a petri dish for applications we barely understand and can't contain.

GMO's are all about the money. We can grow all the food and other crops we need without them. Whatever the glowing promises, in practice genetic modifications are used to lock-in farmers to corporate control and profits.

Check out "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A for a scientifically-grounded real-world example of a profitable farm (in North Dakota) using no GMOs or other artificial inputs.
A testament to the quality and simplicity of the engine there are a number of QuakeWorld powered games still actively played today. I've been working on a Team Fortress continuation for the last decade or so, and I'm always surprised that our community continues to grow, both players and developers: https://www.fortressone.org/
DomainProtect – protect domains from malicious browser extensions
I'd have to check how it does/did it, but in the past I used the NHC (node health check) system for monitoring HPC cluster nodes. In this context the relevant check was for DIMMs dropping out. What it read needed a fudge factor, because the value changed at least once with a BIOS update. You couldn't just check the number was the same as when you initially set it up.

Experience with several hundred-node clusters is that the hardware doesn't obey the conservation law many people assume. It's not that uncommon to find cores and DIMMs disappearing from "sight" -- or being absent initially and not spotted by the vendor. (I've yet to see an HPC cluster vendor that understands real system management.)
Wayland runs fine on my Ryzen 2500U (kernel 5.4, Debian 10) and on the Radeon RX 470 (kernel 4.19, Debian 10), both using AMDGPU.
> People need healthcare to remain healthy instead of not dead; that doesn't mean medical licensing is bad.

In the US, you can legally go see a chiropractor (100% nonsense quackery), but getting $2 of antibiotics generally costs upward of $100 just for the office visit.

I wouldn't personally be using this model of an example of a working system.

Licensing systems frequently (usually?) do more harm than good. Look at optometry licensing and prescription control in the US, for example: it's 100% price fixing and protectionism. Same with hairdressers.
Interesting, $6300/mo currently committed. That's not insignificant.
For which filesystems is that case?
For me Command-click doesn't work, but Option-click does.
Ya it's crazy how syntax can impact popularity like that. ReasonML is the same compiler, sample semantics, just a different coat of paint and it's already gaining more popularity than OCaml in the same timespan.
Huh, I had a similar experience during my adolescent years, yet right after high school I have had zero troubles with the sleep.

Starting from the age of 13 and till 18 I would go to bed at 1-2 AM, occasionally at 3-4 only to wake up at 7-8 AM almost every day. Double espresso every morning, 10-15 minute naps in the classroom/subway/literally anywhere/nights without sleep at all - I had it all. The only exception were Sundays, where I would get solid 11+ hours sleep.

I think during these times I learned the value of high-quality sleep and I am simply afraid to miss on it now.

Also no alarm clocks, coffee/energetics only when it's really necessary (once a few months at most), regular exercise (does not matter what exactly, as long as I move any parts of my body, even plain walking around is amazing) - all of it goes a long way to help with the sleep.
I had an account rate limited with this, though maybe I was using it wrong. It ended up forcing me to give it a mobile number to confirm which I didn't want to do.

Not sure why they'd do this when a spammer (not me) would just create a new account. I was just archiving twice a day with a random sleep time between accounts
It doesn't have to be Apple. Apple is the company that is most interested in complete lock in.

The Pinewood Pro, an ARM based Linux laptop, is currently pretty poor but it costs $US 200. For $US 400-600 perhaps someone could make a good Linux based ARM laptop.

Amazon's Graviton 2 processors are meant to be pretty good. Perhaps they could do it. Or someone else.

Ars has a review or the Pinebook Pro : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/pinebook-pro-review-...
In my opinion, it's still too early to make the jump from ICE to EV. Wait till the infrastructure is there, courtesy of the early-adopters.

I can still remember being an early-adopter in the early days of personal computers, when computer retailers were very few and very far between. It took a special trip of 300km (180 miles) to buy a box of floppy disks for $60. If the machine needed anything serviced it was another 300 km trip.

Give it another 10 years and maybe it might be convenient enough to lash out on an EV. But until then, I will rely on petrol as my fuel.
That's a fair take. I was mostly reacting to the other top level comments I saw here.
It takes considerable effort to "allow yourself to sleep until you are "fully slept"" if you are woken up by a 2 year old sitting on your head and trying to get you to look at a book with him.
My partner and I have been working on a few courses for beginners with the focus on explaining the general ideas of programming and computing in general: https://codexpanse.com/courses
Actually, the main and most used mechanism of cross-site user tracking and "fingerprinting" are cookies, which do not require any JS to work.
I hope it works better than the Your Phone app does.
What's the point of having karma other than to let it burn?
Something I've used similarly in these situations is LevelDB or RocksDB if you just need a really small key value store. It's a really tiny library that gets you really fast write performance and some light atomic operations.
Another theory:

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/political-lying-as-tribal-...
I'm saying TSMC makes non-Apple chips as well, so Apple isn't enjoying as defensible of a moat when it comes to silicon as their marketing wants you to believe.

We are in agreement.
I own an Ubuntu laptop with an NVIDIA card since 2014 (HP ZBook 15 with Quadro K1100M). Not perfect but not garbage. Hours of debugging / workarounds cumulated in 6 years yes, days not.

The remaining problems on Ubuntu 20.04:

1. The brightness control keys don't work. They generate the event they are supposed to generate then I see an error in syslog. Workaround: two hotkeys bound to windows+fn+brightness up/down to run a bash script that increases / reduces the backlight level.

2. The screen works at 40 Hz since Ubuntu 18.04. I expected to be unusable but actually I can't notice the difference with 60 Hz. Noveau works at 60 Hz but it's unusable for other reasons (I don't remember the details, I checked months ago)

Problems I had because of the NVIDIA driver: the laptop didn't shutdown, only restart. Workaround: I press the power button right after the restart, when the BIOS shows up. Not a big deal because I shutdown a couple of times per year.
The genetic changes are largely to breed a stronger resistance to roundup so that farmers can coat the plants in more plant poison. Some of that poison does stick around through food processing, though I don't know how it affects people

When it's in the fields, it at least seems to be a carcinogen
s/ask/request/g
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Mac apps still aren't distributed on the App Store. The Mac App Store almost certainly isn't a big money-maker.
> Amiga E. Anyone remember that?

I do, and still miss it although today we have really powerful computer languages;
kudos to Wouter van Oortmerssen for creating it.
But on that little 8MHz machine (mine actually was 7.16 MHz for being a PAL machine), that wonderful little language did wonders. I recall being amazed at how it would compile a several hundred lines program I wrote back then in a few seconds without caching. I miss those years so much!
The journalists should implement appropriate OpSec, including learning to encrypt confidential information properly; be it using PGP or a more involved system:

https://securedrop.org/

or otherwise seek professional help.

Sending a message via WhatsApp or Signal may hide it from the Chinese government, but hands it over to Apple, Google, and intelligence agencies with whom they collaborate, who control mobile platforms.
You have a village / extended family that helps you raise your children.

Also have your kids younger so you don't need sleep as much. Just accept that the first 5 years wont be as sleepful ;) Also small kids tend to sleep a lot, just not on your schedule :D
Let me approach from a different direction, then. I suppose you could try to come up with a critique of someone that could not possibly be construed as one of the elements on that list. But I think doing so would be very difficult.

For example, "I wish you wouldn't be so loud at night when everyone's trying to sleep."

Possibly 1 and 2. Playing on the emotion of guilt, and making it seem like everyone is against the noise making. But, it's a legitimate request, and, in reality, not poorly delivered.

And that's about as mundane and simple an example critique I could come up with off the top of my head. Most critiques are going to be much more nuanced than that. You may think that my interpretation is ridiculous, and no one would believe the requester was actually narcissistic, but in my experience many people will find any justification not to correct their own misbehavior, and if there's an easy way to rationalize someone else as a narcissist they'll do so.

Which is why I think this sort of thing simply requires discernment.
Who? Name names please!
One-Nation Conservatism is pretty big in the UK, the analog to Chrsitian Democracy on the European continent. While it's pretty unlikely for American Conservatives to ever reign tech in, there's actually a pretty good chance that this has broad bipartisan appeal in the UK, in particular because this is where the Tories have been moving for the last few years anyway. Some people characterised Cameron as a one-nation Tory, May explicitly identified as one and even Boris has made efforts to try to regain ordinary voters.
Who? This is objectively incorrect.

(Well, Firefox adding more Rust is correct, but the rest is not.)