skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess (pure speculation) is that more spam is auto-generated via email libraries and similar, and that is producing plaintext mail to try to simplify what it's getting through the filters.

On the other hand, most human-generated mail is HTML-based, as it's written in a web-client or desktop/mobile "app client", that is using HTML to let people do bold and put pictures into their email.

I was as surprised as you when I figured this out!
I really don't understand this viewpoint. When RSpec came out in the Ruby world, it did not need a steering committee to deprecate what people were using, nor provide an upgrade path, people flocked to it because it was better. This authoritarian cat-herding so popular in the Python world is just going to drive people away. The forced march to Tox has made me decide to start no more Python projects, for example.
Why Outlook does not work?
Most people use it because most people use it. It's what's compatible and widespread, and comfortable and known. It's the reason that people send docx files.
That's an oddly worded question. Poetry is a "mainstream" packaging, dependency and virtualenv management tool. What makes you think it's not popular?
This is exactly the problem DARPA NOMARS seeks to solve.[1] If there are any strong roboticists here on HN interested in working in this domain, PM me.

1.) https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-10-13
122 is not that hard to hit in direct sunlight. All of Texas, Florida and Arizona, plus many other areas, will hit this number on a regular basis in the summer, so this is less than one nine in terms of no of customers.
While I'm ambivalent on TDD, there seems to be an attempt at cancellation brewing for his invocation of Uncle Bob.
Code Smell 81 – Result
A total of 32 Companies hold a total of 325,013 Bitcoin in their balance sheets
You mean, a The Man in the High Castle thing.

What would we be? the main universe or the alternative universe?
I have no memory of opting in, I checked under Settings -> Google and "COVID-19 Exposure Notifications" was set to "Off", and the MassNotify app was still installed on my phone. It has no icon and the only way to find it is going to Settings -> Apps & notifications -> See all apps and it comes up under "Massachusetts Department of Public Health". Then when you go to the Google Play Store and search "MassNotify" or "mass notify" or even "Massachusetts Department of Public Health" (the exact name of the app), it doesn't come up in the search results. You have to go to "Manage apps & device" on the Google Play Store then scroll down to "MassNotify" which doesn't even match the name of the app in the other settings menu. This is pretty shady.
I'd tend to think "I could sell ads!", which can lead to that.
I use modern medicine and modern technology to expand my lifespan, but there is a difference between 20 years and 80-100 years.

Assuming some breakthrough that makes age a number, and I can stay as sharp and healthy as I am now, then I still have an issue with sustainability. The earth has a certain carrying capacity, and keeping everyone alive for an indefinite amount of time is not sustainable for long.

Each generation gets its chance to run its course and the world evolves from it. Imagine if 75% of people from 1860 were still around - what is their view? How do they keep up with the changing times? Did they allow the world to come as far as it has? Or did the people stay in power indefinitely and keep things the way they were?

Aging, retirement, and death provide a natural opportunity for change that wouldn’t be there if you had people with 90 years of investment and connections making decisions and you wanted to make a change. Things would be a lot bloodier.

I don’t romanticize the fact I’m going to die. But I do think memento mori provides clarity and focus to what I’m doing.

I see the individual appeal of living indefinitely and keeping those you love alive indefinitely. But that is “in today’s world that I enjoy as I know it, given my current socio-economic status”. So would people allow that to change? What if it made them worse off?
MS put a lot of effort in DirectX, did not loose focus with the rise of mobiles and still is ahead of all other graphics apis.
I'm not going to debate International law on HN, it's a complicated issue with a lot of details and I'm not an International law lawyer and interpreting the law at face value without going back the intent of the law when it was formed is wrong but then I'm sure you agree with every law your country pass without judgment right?

> Israel wanted the land but not its original population

It's probably true that the founders didn't want to control the Arab population (not out of racisms) but as it turns out they have 2 million Arab citizens. I do agree that a one state solution couldn't work now demographically as that would be an apartheid state.

> so you think that Jews now have a right to do the evil

Who is dehumanizing who now...

The point was the formation of Israel in 48, the parent talked about territories other than gaza and the west bank, It's just that it's disingenuous to pick on Israel at that time saying they are the baddies just because they won, they were fighting for survival and against the annihilation of the Jews in that region and that one of the reasons that this still an issue because unlike other countries Israel did not annihilate their enemies, if the Arabs won in 48 there wouldn't be a debate because all the Israeli Jews would be dead and the world would go on like it's another day and just mark it in the footnote of history as the 2nd Jewish holocaust and that's it.

I do think the west bank occupation is wrong and should be "solved" but it's far from evil because intent matters, why there is an occupation matters, they reasons behind Israel actions matter, actions Israel don't make as the occupying force matter.

But I'm closing this discussion because it leads to nowhere and the bots downvoting me within 1 minute of commenting needs a break, have a good day.
for a start, python’s package manager is pip. Poetry is the leading “pip but also more” tool, and has been for a while.
Connecting marketing with other areas of study
Unconvinced of what? Her human doesn't make any claims of any kind except that it's just something fun for them to do. Are you unconvinced that they're having fun with it?
Poetry has been usable for how long? Maybe two years? Python packaging has been a dumpster fire for that many decades. The developers who haven't left for languages with more sensible package management have been burned by the latest Python packaging fad many times. It is understandable that they would be willing to let others work out the bugs first.
Because venv/pip/requirements is good enough for most cases. Most developers are introduced early to these tools and learn them good enough to work fine for them.

If there's no real problem with the existing tools, then people will not change their tested and trusted way of working for some fancy new tool, no matter what that new tool promises!

There's an old engineering proverb about that: if it works don't mess with it.
For some reason when you search for files and folders now, this menu does not return the folder path, but some strange search path
Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
US doesn't need to spend as much as it does on military to defend its physical integrity and sovereignty. US chooses to spend, which is altogether different matter.
> Hardlocking when removing ZIL

You cannot remove the ZIL, it's an integral part of ZFS. I assume you mean a SLOG[1].

That said, do you have an issue link? I'm curious. I know people have had some issues with importing pools with a bad or missing SLOG device, though most couldn't be reproduced.

[1]: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/o-slog-not-slog-best-configur...
Poetry is a mainstream package manager. Every company I know uses it.

And more importantly, the concepts it brings will eventually become Python standards (like pyproject.toml or the lock file): https://snarky.ca/what-the-heck-is-pyproject-toml/
Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? [pdf]
AUG. 28, 2013

Study: Doctors don't wash hands properly 40% of the time

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2013/08/28/Study-Doctors-don...
> A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being.

You mean the opposite? Isn't the theme of the day how hard it is to get the entire world to not swipe the ecological credit card of future optimism?
As a Mac user, I find us (other Mac users) to be much more critical of UIs. Lots of people went crazy about the extra space in the menu bars with BS, but tbh it's not a big (pun? :D) deal.

After using BS for a year+ now (since the early betas), the biggest UI/UX issue IMO is around notifications. After making other UI elements larger and 'touch friendly', clearing notifications require hitting a tiny X or a hover over to clear all. I'm not on the Monterey beta yet, but hopefully it is addressed.

While macOS has consistency issues (why can't I resize the preference pane?!), and windowing problems (when plugging in an external monitor sometimes my windows don't go to the right spots), they are nothing compared to the inconsistencies in Windows. I'm sure Windows users would love to mainly complain about the size of a close button vs. wondering why they still see dialogs from the 3.11 days.
Immunosuppressants are part of what we give to mice to cause cancer.
North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
Tips on How to Pitch to Investors
Don’t forget the therapists who get kickbacks to recommend these programs to the parents of their patients.
I'm starting to wonder if HN should differentiate between Youtube channels the way it does twitter and github accounts, so the channels posting garbage like this can be blacklisted... We need to have quality standards for this woo-woo stuff or else we're going to degenerate into /r/conspiracy nonsense.
Missing Dollar Riddle
Why don't doctors wash their hands? A correlational study of thinking styles and hand hygiene

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01966...
They don't want to damage the international distribution arm of the BBC (used to be BBC Worldwide), which runs channels like BBC America and BBC World (not World Service radio, or world service TV), and sells programs like Doctor Who to Netflix or whatever, and does Britbox - that arm makes $200m a year

The BBC originally tried to launch britbox (or another VOD service) back in 2009 when netflix was mainly still posting dvds to people, but it was shut down by the government.
No-one is going to hard-fork Chromium. The reason you adopt Chromium is because you don't want to pay to maintain your own browser engine.
Certainly impressive. And sure, maybe in a distant future. Though I think this is like one of those things where creating a working prototype that is 75% complete is the "easy" part. The other 25% (which you need for an actual working product) will take forever. Like self driving cards, nuclear fusion, etc.
Yes, it makes total sense for the garbage collector to be tightly coupled to the memory allocation system, which is also tightly coupled to code generation (as is done in the case of various high-performance managed languages: Java, C#, Haskell, …). I remember hearing a talk a few years ago about a system of the kind you’re talking about - a kind of “managed language” micro-core that ran alongside LLVM so that it could hook into code generation, and was intended to be a kind of toolkit for making new managed languages. Can’t remember the name…
Presumably of the claim made in the comment they replied to?
The Polar Vortex has definitely become a regular (annual?) occurrence in the central US. What should scare Texans is that this year it only came 5-10% further south than “normal”. But you have to remember - it is bringing air down from the arctic circle - this air is as cold as it gets. It’s not getting colder over the next few decades.

It’s ludicrous to expect that there will be a region in the world that will be unaffected by climate change over the next 5 decades. There are going to be negative effects everywhere. But some places are going to be worse than others, and the southern half of the US is going to be worse off than the northern half of the US.

I personally think that we are 10-20 years away from the point at which climate migration makes sense for the smart money, with ready buyers of the property you want to leave behind. Put a reminder in your calendar and go about your life.
How do you link Verifiable Credentials to a human?
All these permissions are granted without ever being shown to the user, due to being in the "other" category. If you install this app normally, Android will never ask you for permission, but just silently grant these permissions.
Paragraph, probably.
Time Machine is the only backup software I've ever used where it seems to routinely tell me that my entire backup is corrupted and I need to start again. This has happened on multiple Macs, multiple macOS versions and multiple backup storage devices, for many many years.

It seems that fundamentally, backing up over the network is not reliable. If I'm forced to connect a local drive to my laptop to backup (which is not very convenient) then I'd much rather use something like Carbon Copy Cloner where I can feel a lot more confident that I've got an actual usable backup at the end of the process. Or use something optimised for network backup like BackBlaze (or, my preference, Arq, which admittedly still has its own problems).

I guess what I mean by obscure though is there is very little in the way of UI for Time Machine. There are no easily accessible logs. No simple list of backup versions. Almost no configuration options. I get that it's very much a "black box" backup solution designed to be simple to use for everyone, but the lack of transparency about what it's doing, for me at least, just adds stress as I'm never quite convinced it's working correctly. This would be more forgivable if it was rock solid and reliable but my experience is that it has never been those things.

My most recent issue was with TM's use of APFS snapshots and somewhere between TM and macOS, vast portions of my SSD storage being "tied up" and not released properly back to the OS as free space. This caused all sorts of issues with eg. trying to run VMs and VMWare complaining that there is no space left on the disk.

The overwhelming feeling I get when using iCloud backups and Time Machine is a vague feeling of "uncertainty". Time Machine (for me) is flaky and iCloud backups are not backups in the truest form, in my mind anyway.
It’s not that it’s completely different, it’s that we have an extremely limited understanding of the brain and how things operate.

Things like CTE can only be diagnosed post-mortem, so research on those things would slow significantly (unless people who got it killed themselves like others have).

I am specifically speaking to head trauma, mental disorders, and issues with the brain. Things we don’t know how to treat or fight, that a 30 year old body would only serve to prolong the pain and decline caused by the illness.
Back before things like home video was a dot on the horizon, shows were shown once, and tapes cost a fortune
Related question I'm not wrapping my head around:

How does the thing know you're a Massachusetts resident?

People who have the contact tracing setting disabled are reporting they still got the app, so the obvious answer seems not to apply.

Is it just getting installed on any device that enters MA? New England states are pretty small, and there's a lot of crossover, especially with states like Maine and New Hampshire, which wouldn't take this very well.

Or, if you have a layover at Boston's Logan airport, do you now end up with its contact tracing app?
> I look back on it as one of the most valuable experiences in my life, not because there was any validity to the program but because it just confronted me with a lot of intense challenges at a young age that really developed my critical thinking and mindset at a young age.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Problem is, it does “kill”* some people.

(*) Sometimes literally, but probably more often figuratively.
Give it time. It's easily the best ome of the bunch, but python has tons of legacy.
Having trouble wording this in a way that doesn't sound belligerent, so please understand that it isn't meant that way, just a genuine question.

In what way were you being forced to use tox?
I think 他 is still gender neural, I put down "he" out of laziness, since the feminine-only form is 她... but you make good points.
MicroG implements the same contact tracing functionality. If you install MicroG, you can avoid all the tracking Google Play Services does usually.
I don't think it's completely random, not some of the time, anyway. That's not to say that it's deliberate, though, either. There's a number of videos in which she'll barely touch or just hover her paw over a button, pause for a while, take it away, and then proceed to push a different button.
Everything is a node
I for one am happy with pip/requirements.txt and venvs, I guess if I wanted to publish packages I would look at a more comprehensive system, but for internal apps and scripts I don't see the benefit. I'd love to know why others prefer Poetry, though.
Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
Nothing is holding it back. It is making progress but Python is a big community and poetry is still new. A new way of managing dependencies does not take off overnight (and nor should it! go slow, and break nothing!).
The concept of what a pointer "is" is somewhat language-dependent, particularly as people finally attempt to mitigate the waste of moving to 64-bit by using tagged pointers (which maybe could try to be modelled in LLVM also, but I think you will rapidly realize that LLVM just isn't modeling a lot of things that affect scanning).
> recording let alone pilots but anyone continuously at work will receive big pushback

I think we can say that when you have hundreds of people's lives in your hands you are accepting a higher level of oversight and invasion of privacy.

The same reason some people in some careers have to go through deeply invasive background checks.
what? people are going to switch to linux for a more consistent UI?

UI consistency just isn't that important to most people.

See: electron applications.
I don't see anything bad with people not trusting their local government... Exhibit A
I've seen this mentioned before and I think I'll finally give this a try.
Pyreports: Python Reports Library
http://cs.ioc.ee/~tarmo/papers/essence.pdf also it needs to be updated for cofree comonad
Full disclosure - I worked for MapBox for about 18 months and left as it was a miserable and fucked up place to be because of the internal politics and lack of competence in the geo domain.

The Washington DC team are a bunch of social warriors who spend more time preaching politics and activism versus doing their jobs. During the 2020 election campaigns several of the more conservative staff were actively retaliated on - code review comments like "This is the sort of code a Trumper would write..."

The SF team is a bit better as further from ground-zero, but not much.

The Belarus people get shit done without drama or complaints. They are the top performers in the company. They also avoid all the politics.

The union is nothing more than an attempt to stall the offshoring of all dev to Belarus and other locations due to the performance of the DC/SF teams. We have the social warriors protecting their nice do-nothing but get paid well jobs.

The company is on a path to a SPAC with Softbank so this was well planned timing to prevent that, or force some nice severance plans to allow the company to move forward.
Any host, just check that the IP they provide you with is not blacklisted on spamlists, otherwise you're going to have a hard time
Recursion Theory and Joy
Watermarking PDF Files in Go
I honestly don't know anything about the big.LITTLE approach beyond the name and the basic idea.

As I understand it, it makes sense in battery-powered devices. But does it advantages in desktop or server machines?

I vaguely recall reading a blog post - many years ago, though - by a laptop-battery-lifetime-nerd who claimed that running the CPU at a higher clock speed actually saved energy, because it got done faster and could go back to a low-power sleep mode which consumed a lot less energy than the "awake" CPU running at a lower clock speed.

Was this ever accurate? Is it still? I do not know, so I'd appreciate it very much if someone who does know something about this topic could shed some light on this.
Was that the point of the tests, or just a coincidence?

Now that they've failed once they've become regression tests (one of the most useful kind of test), but if you set out wanting to test the platform under you I think you'd want to do a lot more work than that.
Interesting. I started getting the COVID exposure opt-in message a few days ago. I've declined both times it's popped up (it's already too late to be contact tracing, no need). This app is already installed on my phone apparently despite declining to opt-in.
Embed – a scannable, tooling-friendly binary resource inclusion mechanism
Can one use pinephones to collect these blobs, and then try to run them on Android simulator or whatever for more specific knowledge about operators' practices?
This app is silently installed even for users enrolled in Google's Advanced Protection Program.

https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
It is complicated I think.

For one, I think competition, there is Kenneth Reitz' pipenv and then of course conda's environment.yml. I think pipenv lost the popularity contest but somehow lead to a situation where people wondered on which horse to bet.

Conda also takes a lot of market share esp. in the machine-learning deployments while also being not a 'perfect' tool.

Pretty sure we will see more poetry in the coming years.

Last but not least Poetry sometimes also feels like a weird tool. For example, when its dumping colourful stack traces on you in case of (invalid) inputs, etc.

If pip-compile would support dev and production requirements it would still be my way to go I think.
If it makes you feel better (or worse) I specifically opted out and this app is installed
Development Containers and CLI Tools
All this, plus the fact that Win10 has become increasingly unstable for me in the last 6 months (random restarts, nasty performance problems with WSL2 etc.) that it simply isn't worth the money anymore, unless you have some apps that only run on widows (e.g. games :))
That seems to a common thread. Homes for young mothers, and their children, in Ireland. Orphanages in Germany. All the same all run by Christians ignoring love and care for the sake of some higher moral purpose.
That’s exactly what the vendor who owns it wants you to think…
That's odd. I know that Spamassassin actually penalizes HTML and HTML only email.

Are you sure there is not some sort of parasitic Bayes filtering happening here?
> One guy, who I think was genuinely evil, took psychology as a minor subject. As an experiment, he decided to drive another, younger, vulnerable pupil mad. Gaslighting him, messing with his head, that kind of stuff. And he succeeded!

I’ve seen grownups engage in this kind of abuse too. It’s incredibly disturbing, almost a legal (or very hard to prove) kind of homicide...

But what can you do about it, other than try to encourage the victim to distance themselves from the abuser? There’s a lot of room for plausible deniability, and any attempt to prove it will look a lot like the ramblings of a mad man...
I don't think it will happen or that we particularly need to do it, but at this point, contact tracing (I'm talking about in the US) would be cheap and effective.

Especially if it traced back to likely exposure events.