skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toyota isn’t even attempting to compete. They are playing it safe in a “if people only buy Toyota’s we have a truck for them” space.

Ram has always been a popular truck. It held they have UConnect and one of the better infotainment ecosystems. A lot of people
Still don’t think of trucks as luxury vehicles because the higher end brands don’t badge one, but the top fit and finish Trucks are trying to be something else.
So it’s not a “debunked conspiracy theory” after all?

Orange man was right all along.
The filesystem is super confusing to tons of users. The reason people put crap all over their desktops is because they "lose" it if they put it anywhere else, while the desktop always stays "where it is". I don't think anyone's come up with a good solution to that problem, yet (Apple's isn't very good, and Windows' similar moves with its defaults aren't any better) and we're far enough into computers being common that it doesn't look like a majority of users are ever going to get comfortable with the same abstractions and interfaces we're all comfortable with.
Not to mention various IDEs and a lot of specialized tools basically compiled from a Linux distro. Still it's far from ideal given that everything needs to be compiled against the bastardized Bionic c library using the wonky at best Android NDK. Not to mention issues the Termux project uncovered where newly introduced "security" features prevent you from running binaries that were not installed from an APK (breaking many Linux distro chrome usecases and IDEs).

In short, a proper mobile Linux distro is needed, as Android is already far from perfect and getting worse. Hopefully some of the projects spawned around and related to PinePhone can cover that over time. :)
It may not seem like it to those of us who know how to do it, but there actually is quite a barrier to entry. You or an organization needs to have the skills to utilize machine learning algorithms, test them thoroughly, package it in an easy-to-use application, then market it and compete against competitors. Just ask your every day Joe what you should do with a learning rate if your error rate suddenly spikes or how to monitor for overfitting. Then ask them how to form an LLC or how to create and audit a liability release waiver for clients.
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This is likely the truth, code blindly extracts metadata from the photos without being aware of the privacy permissions. Doesn’t excuse it but outlines that a developer can have good intent but bad outcomes.
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You say "nobody would", but that is standard procedure when a plane enters an airspace it is not allowed into. I don't see why there would be an exception in this case, and you want to argue that, I think you will need to actually justify that.
> I briefly set up a Mac mini to use Ubuntu & Mint and found Snap and other ways of installing much more cumbersome; especially when I installed something and wanted an app shortcut to appear in a specific menu (sounds simple but was inconsistent).

I personally find it infuriating how Linux manages to screw this up. I blame a lot of things, like the propensity to hardcode paths and separate files by type leading to the (in my opinion) awful .desktop file standard. In older versions of Windows, the menu was just a menuized view of a folder structure (which largely contained shortucts but could contain anything).
do you also use your own domain for sending?

i can't see how i would host my own mail server with my domain, but then send emails from that domain via someone else.

the only way i could see that working is to use the ISP/other service as a relay to forward my mails.
> Of course, everything you describe is still "circumstantial," and it's wise to remain skeptical. However, even if we somehow eventually confirm this was not a lab escape, there's absolutely no excuse for the certainty expressed by the NYT et al in their early reporting (which is true for so much of the other COVID-19 media coverage - the media did a terrible job of expressing uncertainty with very incomplete information throughout the entire affair).

In general, my trust for the media has fallen through the floor in the last decade. I used to think that the media was mostly trustworthy, but that they would cater to the establishment on certain issues (e.g., WMDs and the general Iraq/Afghanistan war effort) but apart from those obvious high-profile issues they were mostly trustworthy. Now I can't tell if I was wrong the whole time and I've just wisened up recently or if the quality of the media has plummeted (especially with respect to ideological issues) or both. I strongly suspect that the media has become considerably more ideological (abandoning aspirations for neutrality and objectivity in favor of activism and proselytizing, at least to a degree), but I've probably (and hopefully) wisened up a bit as well.
1. If you click Finder and nothing opens, it means you already have a Finder window open somewhere or your device is broken. It's dumb and I wish it just opened a Finder window. As far as I know, there's no way to do this without scripting.

2. Right-click on the folder name in a Finder window to see and go up the folder hierarchy.

3. Make sure Finder is active and go to the View menu and select Show Path Bar.

4. I'm not sure what you're talking about with Sort View here, but Windows works the same as macOS and on both platforms, you can have it both ways.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac
Best excerpt of the post:

> We really didn't expect this to work or we probably would have tried it sooner.
I've been using an own domain with wildcard emails for many years now. I'm yet to encounter a single scenario of inferred names.
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I use ProtonMail and sign up to everything with <service>@<custom-domain> so I can track what they do with my email.

It's not cheap from PM, and there are loads of hosting providers that will provide catch-all email for free with your hosting package (but with some usually pretty poor webmail client) or if you use a mail client it should work too.

I like having good webmail and mail app and other things so I pay, but there are plenty of good options available. Sadly self-hosting email server is not really an option for a variety of reasons, but you should easily be able to use catch-all e-mail addresses.
Russia was sanctioned as part of the annexation of Crimea, of which that crime was part.
The first thing that shocked me about it was how deep it is. You go down and down, on very steep stairs. Then you go even more down, it's very different from subways in most parts of Europe, I almost feel like descending to a coal mine, even the air seemed very different.
> The operating system, MCP, is still under development.

MCP is, by far, the most user hostile OS I've ever seen. It's no surprise Bonnie McBird, who wrote Tron's screenplay and is Kay's wife, used it as the name of the villain.
I think you misunderstood my question. I'm asking whether you think the law should let Toyota get away with it.
learning how to fall is huge. of course falling down onto asphalt/concrete always carries some risk but once you get comfortable falling safely, it's pretty unlikely you'll do any serious damage to yourself if you're not straying too far outside your limits as you learn.
Those are rules made up for the convenience of marketers and have nothing to do with the technical aspects of mail delivery as defined in the RFCs.

Edit just to clarify:

KPI's such as bounce rates etc aren't a function of how mail is delivered (RFC5321). These are KPI's collected and collated by non-SMTP applications sitting on top of SMTP infrastructure monitoring bounces.

Nowhere in RFC5321 does it mention that a mail server should or must not delivery mail in respect of bounce rates. These are operator defined metrics outside of the scope of RFC5321, that may be aided by additional software or services such as spam detection.
Show HN: Poppins App Featured as the #1 Slack App's New and Noteworthy Category
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I have been incorporating dry run flags into the tools I have been working on (typically etl like tools). Typically this flag only stops the final call to external services that would change the internal state of those services.

Its been really helpful when hacking on things, adjusting logic, or validating that input data does what I think it will.
On the cleavage site, from [0]:

> Second, what about the polybasic cleavage site and the o-linked glycan? We have seen, with other viruses, the ability to develop polybasic cleavage sites when put under just the right conditions for long periods of time. While unlikely, this piece of the virus could plausibly be developed through selection in a lab setting. However, what is near impossible is the development of the o-linked glycan addition motif. This is because the pressure to develop this glycan shield requires avoiding an intact immune system. This type of selection cannot occur using cell culture, and there is no known animal model that would allow for selection of human-like ACE2 binding and avoidance of immune recognition. This strongly implies SARS-CoV-2 could not have been developed in a lab, even by a system of simulated natural selection

This was a really informative source. I keep finding sources like this explaining that the genetics (the most trustable evidence) point to a natural evolution of this virus as the much more likely origin. Occam's razor.

I personally don't have $100k to take rootclaim up on the challenge of proving them wrong. I appreciate their presentation, which is much more thorough than other sources, but I don't think they are giving fair weight to contradictory genetic evidence and explanations (like the o-linked glycan mentioned above, which seems to invalidate their point on the cleavage site being made in a lab). For their genetic-based points (cleavage and adaptation) they admit a chance of being wrong in both cases, that nature could have done this. But this is probably what happened, there are hundreds of coronaviruses and hundreds of animals that can host them [1].

[0] https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3

[1] https://bigthink.com/coronavirus/coronavirus-animals
Bold of Vitalik to mention CryptoKitties for two reasons. Not only did CryptoKitties overload he Ethereum chain in 2017, breaking usability for everyone, the founders of CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, were forced to make their own blockchain, Flow, to actually serve customers the experience that’s become the first “mainstream” blockchain app, NBA Topshot.

That was bold, and his claim that Ethereum nodes need to be runnable on old laptops on residential internet is confused. Ethereum, worth many billions of dollars, most of which is controlled by whales and nerds with beefy gaming rigs, is deliberately sacrificing desperately needed scalability for a superficial narrative of “decentralization”.

I would almost get it if the post included a picture of some skinny African children; is “decentralization” just a euphemism for “diversity and inclusion” now?

Sometime soon, the DeFi “yield farming” free-money well is gonna run dry, and when it does, the Ethereum ecosystem will wake up in the freezing cold of a “dark forest” of their own creation.

But what about sharding? Sharding, like roll-ups, sidechains, and layer 2s including any of the forms of “Plasma”, are fundamentally less valuable than a high-scalability main chain. Reason being that transactions on the main chain are arbitrarily composable, while cross-shard communication with reasonable latency is an open problem.

And composability is important. Composability is an intrinsic aspect of DeFi, and the part that will remain even when the yields are brought down to parity with traditional finance.
This is really low effort to look up from reputable sources if you don’t believe it. Electronics have far higher sales prices than clothing, I can’t even begin to fathom why that is a relevant benchmark.
> trying and failing to go up

Cmd-click on the folder in the Finder window title, and go up as far as you want?
The night mode especially is beyond anything seen in a full-size camera. It can take fairly sharp three-second exposures free-handed.
I've been using this strategy for years and have not encountered that issue before. That would mean the part before the @ would have to be unique across all domains. That doesn't make any sense. You couldn't have webmaster@domain1.com and webmaster@domain2.com registered for example.
I don't know about bulldozing stadiums, but I agree about moving on from old-fashioned binary thinking. People are just people and the labels and categories that we assign to them are changing. Sports should reflect this too.
This is terrific, thank you! Have you considered offering the cards as an Anki deck?
Fastmail supports it. The best part about fastmail is that you can reply from the same address you got the email for. This is useful in customer service scenarios that identify your account based on email address.
I managed to buy firstname.dev a while ago and this was one of my fears of using it as my email address. I ended up switching to a .com one just to avoid any issues. I certainly don't want government services emails not to work just because maybe they didn't account for .dev TLD
And that is actually as old as Mac itself, only it used to be even more intuitive because the application was a single file on an actual disk instead of a disk image. "Installation" didn't even really have much meaning, you had applications and you had disks and applications were just another thing that could be on a disk.

I miss this.
I've updated the site, no need to sign up in order to lurk
But it doesn't really make sense for them to scale independently, right? E.g., you would never want the FE to scale higher than the BE, because that would 'starve' the FE. And you wouldn't really want the BE to scale higher than the FE, because why waste the resources? If they scale together, that solves both problems.
A better search functionality would help.
> But what’s the rush, asks Peter Doshi, and is just six months of data from now unblinded trials acceptable?

> Unblinded and without a control group—what about safety?

There shouldn't be a rush. Now that such a large number of people who wanted it has gotten it, we might as well do the full 10-years-plus process of seeing all the effects and going through the normal process. It shouldn't be used as a reason to say "no more studies needed, since it got approval", or "emergency authorisation seems to have worked, so let's just skip to full approval".
The best are sites that let you sign up with a ‘+’ but not log in. Zappos used to be the most prominent example.
You absolutely can not do the kinds of things the iPhone does off-camera.

The iPhone can do three-second exposures free-handed, and have them come out pretty sharp without even trying to hold the phone still. That is not something you do in postprocessing.
It would be interesting to know if this were to continue about $500k, but it's so hard to gather data at that scale.

Even so, the fact that it's logarithmic rather than a cutoff says much the same thing: beyond a certain point it takes a lot more money to produce a little additional happiness. Tradeoffs for other factors (hobbies, finding a partner, social connections, doing public good) might produce more additional happiness than trying to increase your salary 10x.
GGGP here.

I probably could have skipped my 5th startup, but psychologically, I couldn't see myself as retired. Startup #4 was, for a time, the most stressful job I've ever had. My part was distributed, and I was dealing with all the gotchas that entails, and these gotchas were being uncovered at a high rate, thanks to a stellar system testing guy.

And then, suddenly, the last serious distribution bug was solved, and the system was working, rock solid. And I glided, through the acquisition, and then for a couple of years with our new corporate parent. Interesting new development stopped, and it was all about maintaining a working system. They knew they couldn't keep people there with interesting work, so they threw money at us. And it worked for a lot of people. Me too, for a while, until startup #5 came along, and it was really interesting. So I left.

But #5 was poorly conceived, and had other difficulties, and it burned me out after a few years. A really deep burnout -- I was angry all the time, and couldn't get myself to focus on work. I figured that 25 years of startups was enough, I was able to retire, so I did.

I do sometimes struggle to keep myself occupied. I've done a couple of minor software projects, but it is difficult to motivate myself to do something that has already been done, and that nobody really needs. I have also found it difficult to motivate myself to get into new (to me) areas, e.g. machine learning. There is some amount of depression going on, for sure.

I did consider going back to BigCo, but: I really enjoy having the freedom to travel where and when I want, the lack of stress, and all the other obvious benefits of not working. But the major reason is this: If I am bored and don't know how to fill my time, that is a fundamental problem. Doing some random task for BigCo doesn't fix that problem, it masks it. I need to figure out what it is I want to do.

I did find one fun project: I decided that I really needed something that didn't involve sitting in front of a keyboard. So I decided to build a sailboat. Having no experience with woodworking, I opted for a kit that includes pre-cut wooden pieces, and it's up to me to glue, and sand, and varnish, and paint. Sort of like building a model, like when I was a kid, but on a bigger scale. Surprisingly difficult, for me at least.
Plenty of hosted solutions support wildcard - including GSuite and Fastmail.
I empathise. I began skateboarding 2 years ago and the more I fall, the more I tend to adopt the pancake strategy. First i learnt to not protude my knees and they my hands. Pancake.

I think the importance of pain in skateboarding is underrated. A member of the braille skateboarding crew just quit because of the pain.

There's a video where Tony Hawk go through a vertical spiral ramp. He's very anxious, couldn't sleep the night before. Because of the pain. But he manages to do it in a few tries but has turn his left flank into meat for that.

They never perform new tricks the first time. They fall and fall again until they nail it and you only see that part.
I think you mean “experienced Windows user using macOS”. What you describe are consistent design choices on the Mac. If you flipped things around and only knew Macs and went to Windows, you might be surprised that closing a window there exits an app! There’s no reason one behavior is more correct than the other.
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What is that development going to achieve now, that it hasn't managed in twelve whole years?
Even further back and you find that so many things we take for granted were just one of many options. Things I can think of offhand:

1. 8-bit bytes (7,6,9 were common)
2. Byte-level addressing (word addressing was common)
3. One's complement
Can't you use "." Anywhere in your email to use the same multiple times in Gmail?
Exactly. Many Americans, for example, seem perfectly content to overlook or ignore the war crime atrocities committed by the United States during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11. Reminds me when Jesus asked who do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?

As a Cold War kid I've come to despise this whole WE are the good guys, THEY are the bad guys narrative. It ignores the fact everybody has good traits and everybody has bad traits - that is it ignores the fact we're all human. None of us have the market cornered on doing good. Or doing bad.
Marketing is probably more important than the product itself
I agree. This seemed obvious even a year ago, and it seemed like the media and certain public officials were doing everything they could to avoid acknowledging it. And yet now they are starting to acknowledge it.

What changed? Mostly the party in power. At the time it was politically expedient to say that Trump was being racist or xenophobic against China, so it was deemed necessary to paint comments by him or his supporters as xenophobic conspiracy theories. Then when he states something reasonable like the lab leak hypothesis they can portray him and his supporters as conspiracy nuts. And if it could influence the election even 0.1%, that would be bonus points for some people, although I would call that a dishonest influence.

Now that he isn’t in power, they’ve decided it’s no longer necessary to avoid telling the truth.
yes especially in situation like this
sorry, I was unaware of that, although I was actually unaware of the newer meanings of the word anyway and thought of it as someone who made saddles.
That's not pedantic. Farm minks aren't wild animals, period. They're domesticated.
Look around in the various threads, this has been discussed and also in the past. The plane had barely enough range to make it back home with one refuelling stop on the way. NATO countries were closing airspace while it was in the air, even going back to Russia would have been a challenge having to fly back over the likes of Hungary - which by then could well have been closed too.
Content of the cards would probably be easy to convert to other formats, but the cards are formatted with (a little bit of) HTML, so it might take some work to get the cards to look nice in Anki.
Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox
Ever since introduction of potato to China large scale famines disappeared in China except for those caused by war, and by army and government seizing foods. Those modern famines are notable for their scale, duration, and entirely man-made political causes. CCP absolutely insists on calling them "natural disasters," precisely because they are unnatural. That is what!
The majority of configuration files should not be edited directly, but changed by changing settings in the app preferences. So that seems consistent with the philosophy on the Mac - don't work with files and the file system directly, but let the appropriate app take care of it as far as possible. Same with music and photos.
> Oh, and Linux seems to be by far the least stable. I have apps freezing the whole damn computer way more often there than the other two.

How often is that? What hardware do you run it on? What distro do you use?