skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5xx error results in suppression list addition of an email, so future emails won't be delivered (by most ESPs), and not returning MX response would probably be just as bad, or worse (or result in millions/billions of emails being re-queued due to timeouts?)

His solution would result in exponential retry failures baked into most services, which would buy them a few hours, and result in no lost emails, and no suppression list additions.
My guess is you will struggle find a paid CAC that is < LTV. Your prices are too low given ad prices. Maybe focus on content marketing, since I’m guessing SEO and maybe some blogs are what’s boosting you now.
I’ve been driving for 20 years and never had an accident. I’ve driven both motorcycle and cars. Comparativelty I drive smoothly and on the safe side and tend to avoid risky maneuvers because I am probably not the most able driver in that sense or at least I never venture to do things that could result in a bad outcome. I don’t consider myself a good driver in the sense of racing or anything which requires a certain skill but I wonder, if I continue driving for the rest of my life without an accident, would I beat the average?
It is a common thing, so I'm guessing not many other people are experiencing it. I just tried with Netflix, and it doesn't seem to be happening for me. Do you have any unusual peripherals (that might somehow shift focus to the PIP window and send a space or something)?

It's certainly worth filing a bug over. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
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That's not the behavior in the sample screenshot here: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10894210337932369... <- Chrome rendered a replacement character rather than fall back to the emoji.
"RAW data is usually stored in the DNG file format, which stands for Digital Negative. Some camera makers have their own formats, but those companies are jerks."

I disagree with the second part of this quote. The major players (Sony, Canon, Nikon) have their own file formats which reflect the choices their engineers made in deciding how to record the raw sensor information at the time of the exposure. Theoretically you can make the case that one of them did it better than the others but since the applications photographers use to process RAW images are given the ability to read these RAW formats they aren't being jerks just for wanting to express their engineering genius in their own way. If, for example, Nikon REFUSED to give Adobe and others the ability to decode their raw NEF files, insisting you have to buy a piece of Nikon software in order to view and transform the raw images from your camera, then I would agree they are jerks. But just because a camera maker's engineers decided that (for reasons I don't know) the open DNG format won't deliver the best quality to their customers doesn't make them jerks.

Otherwise this is a pretty good article, even if it's little more than an educational promotion for Halide's camera app.
I have the ACR ResQLink 400. Can't exactly "recommend" since I haven't used mine (they're single use only), but I researched this a bit before buying.

Just make sure you get one that uses 406Mhz rather than two-way LEO satellites. The two-way stuff requires monthly payments and is far less reliable, won't get through forest canopy. The 406Mhz SARSAT beacons are single use only one-way transmitters (they receive GPS, not 406Mhz-SARSAT, although they still work without a GPS signal). Anything that advertises using it to send SMS messages is junk for emergency use.

There's an older, lower-frequency SARSAT band somewhere in the 150mhz-ish range, but it gets so many false positives (like some ATM in Kansas) that it's basically retired. The 406Mhz protocol has a lot more checksums in it.

Edit: you want this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_...
The name of the author is "Richard Awoyemi", your username is "richardawoyemi". Shouldn't you say "the stuff I'm saying"?
On the other hand, "natural language aptitude" as measured by
Modern (modern = ca. 1960s) Language Aptitude Test, which they used in that study, doesn't actually predict success in language acquisition. The test scores correlate with ability to perform well at _early_ phase of language curricula – but this is exactly the phase when the learners are still using the "general processing mechanisms" to process language, and not the mechanisms specialized for language that get engaged when they gain fluency years later.

Sadly, this is underappreciated in the general psychology and linguistics community. Some researchers in Second Language Acquisition research community are more concerned about this kind of mis-interpretation and confusion of different meanings of "language skills/aptitude".
It’s more like $10k to $20k (and ever increasing) per year for dual income professional households compared to a no income tax state like Washington. Over a career of 20 to 30 years, that adds up to a substantial amount of savings.

Basically, the families earning $100k+ would be saving 5%+ of state income tax and at least $5k+ in extra property taxes compared to a non debt burdened state and tolls and all the various other taxes that need to be collected to pay for the compounded debt of pensions and whatnot.
> I've never seen a great interstitial "hacker" interface in a game. Unless you go full Shenzhen I/O, it has to be simplified into meaninglessness.

While comical, the lore in the source material drives home that netrunners interact with 3D visualizations of the ‘net. There was a lot of fun gameplay possibilities here, but it was ultimately squandered for the poor breach mini game and quickhack system.
Inability to contact the destination would be treated as a temp-failure by the origin, and taking the service off the air could be effected instantly.
People do this with public WiFi - for example, set up at Starbucks with a duplicated SSID, wait for target to connect and route it through as if it were connected to the real Starbucks WiFi, all the while monitoring in the middle.
>Additionally, that was a flaw from a year ago. Still incredibly stupid, but not really relevant to the recent hacks at all.

I'd argue that it's very relevant; if they were making such terrible decisions a year ago, what else did they do wrong between then and the hack? I am reluctant to assume that they didn't make other mistakes, given how obvious this password flub was.
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That would probably be best.
One of my favorite features of Cloud Shell on GCP is that for pretty much any action in the UI, it will provide the equivalent fully populated cloud shell command. I hope AWS does something similar.
> the collaboration and shareability of music is unparalleled;

Music has been around since the dawn of mankind. Video games has been around 20-30 years?

I will not be surprised when 100 years from now, video games will be the acceptable hobby while playing instruments would be seem as quaint when one can just tweak some params in some AI models to generate good music.
CloudFormation is... fine until you realize it's missing that resource that you need. CF is notorious for lagging behind products in terms of support. It's incredibly painful.
This reasoning presumes that consumers will see no advantage at all in staying in the Apple Appstore. If true, this would simply prove that the Apple Appstore is effectively uncompetitive in the market, and can only profit in a situation of monopoly.

But it doesn’t matter, because all this is effectively false in practice. The overwhelming majority of people can barely be bothered to change their desktop browser, and even then they mostly do it only when directed (by their IT or their power-user of reference). This idea that they will all suddenly go tweak-crazy and install every appstore under the sun is simply an exaggeration, a strawman propped up to defend Apple’s utterly anticompetitive practices.
Safari renders an emoji for me in the tweet right above that one.
It tramples curiosity when no one questions why the Russians are blamed for everything which is intellectually dishonest. A few hackers isn’t indicative of the entire country. It’s almost starting to border on bigotry
> try to learn zone system. Learn to evaluate highlights and shadows and adjust your exposure without any meter. Use it to make pictures you want in lighting with extremely high dynamic range

This is pretty hard to do with the stock iphone camera app.
This is a confusing sentiment to me. GCP APIs also come first. I don’t even think the UI is possible without them. Can you name a product where this is not the case?
Almost anyone who publishes something wants people to read it. The ones who don’t care how many people read their ideas don’t publish — they keep it to themselves or just discuss it with friends.
Over his rather milquetoast opinions?

YouTube's collapse is rather spectacular to watch.
What kind of app did you make?
> Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...

Yeah, the initial launch was pretty bad. However, this has improved quite a bit from the initial launch if you haven't tried it in a while.
Show HN: I built CovidInvaders in honor of the vaccine (and my 16th birthday)
Use something like Postgraphile to create your graphql endpoint and it will issue a single query then massage the results into what it needs them to be.

I don't see this as a major problem.
Oblivion was released way earlier than 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion
The above is factually correct.
There is nothing inherently better between playing video games or a musical instrument in your free time if both helps you relax.

As usual, it's society that determines which one is a more "acceptable" hobby.
Pretty much, yes. Sometimes it will have the opposite curvature.
Why are people so afraid of lies and falsehoods? It’s accidentally shutting down things you thought were false but arent that is really terrifying
REST endpoints typically return data I don't need. For example, the twitter REST API `/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=twitterdev` it will show me the last tweet for the user. Presumably this involves perhaps waiting for tweet service when the client may not even want the tweet. A GraphQL client can be more explicit about what edges to select.
Closed-source like Oracle I meant. They've been big boosters of all kinds of open-source stuff like linux, llvm, mysql, ...
public demonstrations coming soon: https://brilliantlightpower.com/station-6a-december-10-2020/
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Hi there, its a demo and it is stated on the page, that the cookie popup is just for the demo purposes, the page itself doesn't use any cookies.
Since I do currently earn money from my programming tutorials, let me tell you about my blog in the late aughts.

I wrote hundreds of pieces about language learning, teaching and elementary school-aged education. One benefit from that work was that it helped me grow as a teacher and later as a curriculum designer. But that wasn't the whole thing. I made friends from that blog.

I also got emails from teachers living all over the world, asking questions and thanking me for the topic. Cambridge University Press contacted me and purchased rights to some of my writing and distributed it far further than I ever could have.

Given the assumption that the content really was useful, more people seeing it meant better educational outcomes for many, many young students that I'll never meet.

The reach of media is a multiplier for its impact.
> Yes, by definition market value is the amount that must be paid to achieve a voluntary transaction on the market. Eminent domain forces a person out under threat of violence and pays an amount that the forcing party deems to be acceptable. If they were offering fair market value, by definition, they wouldn't have to threaten violence.

Infrastructure works such as roads and railroads require a continuous right of way to be able to function. Anyone constructing such a work is compelled to purchase all of the land necessary for that work; if they fail to obtain just one parcel, then the value of the result is often worthless. Not only is the seller compelled to sell the parcel, but the buyer is also compelled to buy it.

Fair market value is the price that the parcel would have been bought for if the buyer were not compelled to buy it at almost any price, and it can generally be imputed by looking at the history of real estate transactions for similar parcels. It's a pretty usual practice, since it's relevant for pricing real estate, insurance claims and estimates, and even property taxes.
This is an interesting proposal, thanks for sharing.
I was asking a genuine question, I imagine very few people outside of India know anything about the situation there, to actually have a honest discussion would require discussing that. Without the background on the relative strengths of these organizations mentioned by the poster, we cannot assess what the poster wrote.
This is indefensible. However, Solarwinds isn't a security company. They build network monitoring/management tools and have a very telco feel. I'm honestly not surprised by this level of incompetence.
Maybe, but if you have RSUs in a FAANG those are your property and pretty safe. They can (must) also be sold when paying tax so pretty liquid asset.
Hi Hackernews :)

In celebration of the recent announcements of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, I decided to build my first game, CovidInvaders!

CovidInvaders is built with vanilla javascript (along with some Jquery), as well as some handy game-engine inspiration I found on GitHub.

I thought this would be a fun project to help people celebrate the coronavirus vaccine and help take some stress off.

Tips and suggestions to improve the game are welcome! I've noticed that it stutters on older browsers and devices, so I'm hoping some JS pro here can help ;)
I've had friends tell me NieR: Automata is one of the best 'artistic' games you can buy for PS4. Though the combat and dialogue is pretty, uhm, Square-Enix-ish, it is one of my favorite games/stories of all time.
I’ve noticed this rhetorical device a few times on HN. A reasonable argument suddenly make a turn for the extreme at the very end. I think it is a desensitizing technique...you’ve bought everything else, let’s see if I can push you into a more extreme position at the end...the hook at the end, as it were. It’s annoying, and leads instead to a questioning of the argument at the beginning.

This whole discussion of this topic is veering into the “paper v. plastic” overthinking/overtalking discussions of the 1990s. It’s a non-trivial analysis to figure out the basic issues and their relative importance. Won’t be done here...
I saw someone post a synopsis on Reddit (forgot the sub) of the actual recorded phone call and these were the points mentioned:

- QA was limited and done in-house, thus remotely by people working on the game

- Overestimated their ability to fix the problems before launch

- Reviewers didn't have access to last-gen console versions because they were still working on the last-gen versions through the certification process up until launch day

Of course, I don't put much weight on any of these. However, I'm sure there was a fair bit of pressure from investors to release during the holidays considering some of the questions asked during the call, like how "sticky" the game was despite the problems and whether they would still receive their full cut regardless of the refunds.
It doesn't cost thousands. It's at most $200 or so to publish in two newspapers. Where I'm from people always pick the Jewish Ledger because it's something like $79 for an ad publishing a LLC.

It's a dumb rule regardless, but please don't blow the costs out of proportion.
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> And a cow being 'in Brazil' means it's standing where the rainforest used to be.

That's not answering my question.

Any atom of carbon emitted by a cow was almost certainly removed from the atmosphere by a plant quite recently, yes?

So how is that not a carbon-neutral cycle?

We're talking about the specific claim that cow digestion, in and of itself, leads to increased carbon levels in the atmosphere. Clearly it does not, and cannot.

Talking about the rain forest is shifting the goalposts.

Note that North America has more forest land than it did a hundred years ago, largely because modern mechanized agriculture has dramatically increased the crop yield per acre, leading to marginal agricultural land being returned to forest cover.

The "slash-and-burn" agricultural methods that destroy the rain forest are largely a feature of the "low tech" "traditional" "organic" farming techniques that are beloved by environmentalists.
What you're saying makes sense but I don't think it really applies to anything the OP said. The "non-confidential" qualifier indicates to me that they only want people to share what they can responsibly.
science isn't when you just decide that things are obvious and leave it at that lol. They probably have data and an experimental methodology and stuff now that future authors can build on to try to answer more complex questions.
Nothing makes my eyes feel as good as getting outdoor time does, really. Just make sure to mix in walks during the day.
I'm curious how this could be happening, like do we think there is some 'job subsystem' bug that just causes game-tasks (whether its loading an image, or processing a message, ...) just randomly gets dropped and not processed?

It sounds like such a systemic issue its not like a particular component (eg AI or rendering) is the issue.
Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed.

Please, don’t listen to this person.

You’ll lose all of the ground you have gained, in the hopes of attaining something that does not exist.
Your understanding is not correct.

When you buy the house your tax rate is 1% (+ local fees) of your purchase price. Every year thereafter, it goes up by at least 2%.

The assessed value will go up by 2% (that's prop13) so the base tax will go up by 2%. However, local city and county can add their own fees on top of that (so they do), therefore in many years the actual dollar amount increase will be more than 2%.

(Source: my property tax bill over the last 23 years.)
I'm either too old or too young to understand anything of what you've just said.
It wasn’t about views, it was about feeling that you’re part of a community. If nobody can get to your pages then no comunity.

There used to be a time when websites were linking eachother and the information sharing formed a wonderful community. At first, search engines were indexing these webpages but those times
are unfortunately over. Now the community turned into walled gardens.
How long do doctor visits last?
It doesn’t need to tell them apart individually, just high level demographics or geography are already useful. If your website suddenly got 99% of traffic from Tibet (random example), you would probably discount those impressions/clicks.
> Instead, you need to make separate parallel requests for those datapoints and let the dataloader be in charge of merging them into larger batches of requests for the db to fullfill.
> This can result in some additional latency on a request, but ultimately provides the best way to be able to scale things out.

I promise you, this is not the best way to scale things out.
Surprising they added complexity with 123 I stead of just incrementing to 13.

Or maybe a few years ago some security genius mandated a weekly password change and they had just made it to week 123.
It would be impossible for this to be the attack vector used.

While these credentials let you push things to the download servers, the actual malware was inserted much earlier during the build process before the code was signed.
Less of a “handwriting on the wall” and more of a “following an eternally prudent small farm management strategy”. ‘Twas ever thus.
It sounds like you made something beneficial for the web in which your peers agreed.

How about in 2020, would you agree that the amount of visibility your site gets is dependent on FB and G algos? Even if the content is evergreen? Of course that disregards other sites making new things but I'd say your value is not diminished either way.
Once you accept a RSU grant they are your property once vested. Regardless of where you work.
I made a quick little userscript that allows you to attach tags to users on HN. There's pretty much no documentation, I didn't really expect to release it, but it puts a little [t] next to usernames on HN and you can click it to add tags that persist in localstorage and show up next to that user wherever they post on HN. Feel free to use it and adapt it however you like. Only tested on Firefox and I'm sure it's full of bugs and unintended side effects!

https://gist.github.com/errantspark/7000c8a5192eb0b8ee64ba21...
> However, we are now offered another tempting way to cede control over our computing: Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS).

Don't agree with this bit. You are ceding control of your data for sure, but this isn't quite the same as running a proprietary piece of software on your machine which you have no idea what it's doing.

Ceding control of data is also worrisome I agree, but giving control of your data to a custodian you trust in exchange for said custodian promising its careful curation is a trade-off that most people would find acceptable. Some won't, and I respect that, but the advocacy above might be counterproductive to most people who take it and try hosting their own email servers.
That difference will soon be wiped out if the state legacy budget bailout rider ends up being passed.
I've had the same experience in trying to use a web framework that had a dependency of a dependency of a dependency that used a yanked version of Ring. No more web framework.

I'm appreciative of all the work that has gone into Ring, its certainly not something I could have done or have any expertise in, but it is a landmine to depend on.
It’s was already drawn in 1789. It’s far worse to accidentally suppress the truth than to share a lie. Falsehoods will reveal themselves in time because of the very fact that they are not true. The opposite is not the case. There are infinite lies but only one truth
> The major players (Sony, Canon, Nikon) have their own file formats which reflect the choices their engineers made in deciding how to record the raw sensor information at the time of the exposure.

Reflect how, and why couldn't that data be stored in a DNG?
What are the two methods?

I have received quite a few visitors from a Reddit post on the right subreddit. Hackernews posts generate a lot of traffic. You can also advertise on a number of platforms.
Wow. You make excellent points, I never realized it was intentional how the usernames blend in on the page on HN and Reddit. This is fascinating! Is it that usernames distract from the content?
Your insurance company could raise your rates because you've been "liking" posts about extreme sports, for example, among many. And the more hands your data passes through, the more likely it ends up leaking when someone is inevitably hacked, because security is expensive and your data is cheap.
Highly depends on the specifics of a particular farm’s operations. Not a great generalization to make about dairy without supporting facts (that have got to be out there, so cite them).
The original headline is misleading, and the Hacker News headline uses different words but is misleading in exactly the same way.

It seems it should be: YouTube removes single Scott Adams video. Yawn.
Out of all the API implementations I've created in my career I've had the most success implementing BFF (Backends for Frontends) with simple RPC'ish endpoints. Everything else never quite fit right and wasted so many hours.

https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/