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Ask HN: I keep receiving recruiters emails on an outdated address, any advice?
There is a recruiter database somewhere that has an outdated email for me. The problem is I'm trans, and my old email outs my trans status and my deadname (because of the first-name.last-name email format).

I keep receiving many recruiter emails there lately, which means whichever contact database company they're using is outing me to dozens of company without my consent.

The problem is I can't find out which company it is. Every time I reply to one of those recruiters asking them where they got my email and/or if they can ask the database they got it from to update my info, they never reply. The best I got is someone telling me "they got it from a contact database". I have also tried mentioning GDPR to them (not sure if it has any legal value in this context?)

This is a big problem for me because being outed as trans and having such personal info revealed without my consent at the very first point of contact with a company makes me not even want to consider their job offers.

I have no idea how to fix this situation and don't know where to ask for help about it, but I figured maybe people on hackernews could have ideas as many of you have to deal with recruiters.
The guy was fucking everybody around all his life. He was crazy af and very smart. And he absolutely hated authority. It would be a beautiful last social hack to make people suspicious of the authorities in his death.
This gave me a realisation: manipulative (deceptive) artificial life and artificial intelligence are forms of parasites. But instead of manipulating/deceiving their host organisms, they deceive the humans who control the life simulation/the environment the AI exists within.

For example, if a human controller is trying to study the evolution of certain artificial lifes by filtering others out of the simulated world based on their behaviour, what happens? Life evolves to detect, if possible, when they are being observed and act differently in that situation to deceive the human observer. See this quoted passage [1] from [2]. This translates directly to an AI Safety problem (see e.g. the article that [1] is a comment on).

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ez4zZQKWgC6fE3h9G/plausibly-...

[2] Lehman et al., 2018, The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453
The US$ is a risk to financial stability, too. So this is equilibrium, really.
I'd buy toast that can't grow fungus.
> For instance, you don't see a "stand up a web app in Haskell in 10 minutes" tutorials. Historically it may have worked in Haskell's favour to slowly induct learners, but in this age where languages are fighting for mind space I don't agree that's a good approach anymore.

There's now the IHP framework that allows you to build haskell web apps in like 10 minutes. If you're curious, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDtS_mUMpI It's been called "Haskell on Rails", and for good reason.
There are electronic price tags for shelfs that don't need printing.
Get a VGA to HDMI converter.
Somewhere a web designer is thinking, this is a lot like our website. What is so wrong with it?
> 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Why is "grids" the consumer side?
What is TFRC?
Just out of curiosity, do you use toilet paper?

Or do you use a bidet? or do use textile napkins that you wash regularly?
One personal (and open source) favourite of mine is Mindustry. I also heard of shapez.io.
Up to Storage Pod 5.0 they used 45 per 4U, 6.0 was 60 indeed but it was hanging out from the rack so it is understandable no major OEM has a chassis like that. 52 serviceable drives is not bad at all.
rockets and bullets don't fly. They [free]fall.
> You can add constraints to any parametric CAD software, like FreeCAD,...

SolveSpace has a little bit different constraints solver.

There is Assembly3 worbench for FreeCAD, which is based on SolveSpace solver.[0]

[0] https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/wiki/Constr...
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25044254
It is limiting. Doing a diagram on a computer is tedious, and even math notation is slow.
Immutability Changes Everything (2016)
Or the instructor requested IFR from the ATC when they encountered bad conditions (IMC).

But I'm not sure why you are downvoted, you are right, being IFR qualified does not mean you can switch at will between VFR/IFR. You need to file a flight plan with ATC first in any case.
+∞

parse verb. resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles.

In computer science what we do is precisely syntax analysis.
Determining the meaning of operators.

Mathematicians have the exact same problem with respect to the equality operator.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/equality#DifferentKinds
The inconvenience goes further than building in the first place.

If I want to try running a Debian package with an experimental patch as a one-off, I haven't found it too hard to build my own version.

But AFAIK there's nothing that helps me manage the necessary work to rebuild with the same patch when a new distribution version comes along.

Do source-based distributions have a good solution for this?
Yes, this deployment option makes tradeoffs that are clearly more in line with the use case of pushing out long-running server applications to machines with minimal configuration, rather than for desktop user applications.
I like the aesthetics. But I use Emacs and org-mode, and don't mind using plain text for everything.
You are right. Also please note that I do not drive a car, nor do I consume meat. Also, I take great lengths to avoid single use items or use them multiple times.

None of it makes me a better/conscious person but I felt it was necessary to address some of your points
Hmm, it's been a while since I last tried it, but I remember the constraints being pretty much the same as other software. Maybe I should try again.
I take a shower immediately after a dump
Sure but why not just have ordinary TVs in the roof proclaiming sales?

Now that I think about it, I have not seen those TVs since the 90s. Maybe they drove the retail workers mad.
Experimenting on the general public is unethical, particularly when your experiment is framed as a consumer-ready product.
How would you test this?
Blender is an abomination. I uninstalled it year ago and swore to never use it again (for mental health reasons). I'm hobbyist 3d modeler, I can afford not to have blender installed. I use mm3d daily and occasionally wings3d. Both are in Ubuntu repo. Using blender made me angry, even starting blender made me angry. Using mm3d makes me happy, it would be nice if it had more features and supported more formats but it's good enough for what I do.
Secret 1:1 & group chat by default like signal, well labeled non-secret large chat rooms, open source clients and using standardized encryption and they'd do pretty well amongst the privacy crowd too.
The Remarkable looks very useful.

But of course the Remarkable has an ecological footprint too, just like paper has.

A non-zero amount of energy and resources went into manufacturing the device. Extracting and shipping metals/oil/silicone, refining those materials, then constructing the display/CPU/motherboard/other components, then shipping all the components to the assembly site, then shipping the device to the store/warehouse, etc. It’s a lot more complicated than making paper.

Then multiple times per week the device has to be charged, using electricity that might come from a coal power plant in worst case.

I’m not saying one shouldn’t buy a Remarkable. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that the Remarkable is less wasteful than paper before doing a life cycle assessment.
If chemical space is so big, how does mass-spec accurately determine compounds?
Xboxes and PlayStations are closer to PCs than iPhones or Macs (x86 vs ARM)

Stop that hypocritical cherry picking bullshit.

Thank you.
I wasn't referencing E2EE, I was specifically talking about their regular 'cloud' chats. I am speaking of features like deleting old messages from prior chats or even going as far as removing your account. These are not possible to do on many other more secure chat systems, I cannot tell you how many new Matrix users are frustrated that this is not possible there but it's simply not in a federated system, cannot force other servers to scrub your server's messages. It is practical to have this ability to tear down comms and scrub a shareh/synched history but it is nor perfect.

You are correct about their secret chats. The secret chats limitations (inability to sync) actually encourage destroying and recreating sessions when needed vs Signal that is intended for longer synched sessions. Not having to worry about those sessions syncing to a system you may not be in front of is also a benefit.
Rockets fly, although they use thrust rather than lift.
In that case the virus can further evolve to get around vaccine indiced immunity, as Delta already has. Letting a virus spread among a vaccinated population is not exactly wise.
So you are this guy? https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-houle-5654871a9/?originalSu...
Race is a very important component on Paletinians hating Jews.

You are uninformed in this matter.

You can find rampant anti-Jewish sentiment in Quran and Hadith, and they are widely circulated in social media.

You maybe living in the West where such posts are not circulated, but they exist outside of your sphere.

There are two narratives. One in English- where they are the victims, and they need saving. Another one in Arabic, where they call for genocide of the Jewish people regularly.

And these were brought into my attention by my friends speaking Arabic.

Just because this narrative exists outside your focus and periphery, does not mean it does not exist.
I applaud you for this!
You're making the assumption that retailers want solutions for their customers. They don't. They want customers to buy their stock.

This is about selling more stock. It's also about selling the attention of their customers to manufacturers of their stock. A customer at the store is two things, one is a buyer of the store's stock, the other is inventory to be sold to manufacturers.

Grocery stores are self-service warehouses that sell access to their shelves to manufacturers.

That's why manufacturers pay the stores for shelf access (eg middle vs upper/lower) and why staples like milk are at the back of the store, while good looking fruit and vegetables are at the front.
I sometimes wonder if something like this has happened with money.
This hasn't actually been the case since dotnet Core 2.

Since dotnet Core 3, you can use assembly trimming to remove unused assemblies. That results in a package of around 10MB for a Hello World app, or more like 40-70MB for large, real-world apps.

From dotnet 5 there is also member trimming, which will trim unused parts of assemblies, which will further reduce the size. I haven't used this yet, but Microsoft claim it can result in packages 5x smaller than with assembly trimming, e.g. only 2MB for a Hello World app.

There is also AOT compilation, but I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing that become production-ready any time soon (Microsoft have been hyping it and saying it's "coming soon" for 10 years or so).
If my understanding is correct. VC users at a time in a room in clubhouse is limited.
Radicalized (2019). Four novellas, including the bread one. I just happened to have read it last week; it's a solid collection of stories. Model Minority from that collection is a good story as well.
I don't think Qu says that Huawei isn't a major contributor.

See:

> > My contributions to the kernel in the past have mainly been on optimizing the performance of the ARM64 SMMU driver,
> > including the iova optimization, strict mode optimization, and the lazy mode optimization. Also working on the
> > development of some ARM SoC drivers.

> You indeed have done solid contribution to the kernel in the past, thus
> better could have been done.

Also:

> Even without checking the git log, I can easily think of some big
> contributions from your employer, like EROFS and F2FS.
> Thus I don't have any doubt about that.
Anyone invested in crypto should read Bennett Tomlins blog about tether https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/21/a-non-exhaustive-list-...

I think there's a 90 percent chance that this will blow up and a movie like the Big Short will be made about the story behind it.

Tl;Dr
Tether is ran by very dubious people, don't trust anything they do or say
I think you are not thinking through all the possibilities here, but you would be surprised how far you can get with this approach
Good points thanks for clarification.
My general approach is to treat libraries as black boxes untill they I need more from them or they behave weirdly... Then I try to understand them.
I've been lucky that the area that I am working on has well documented and up to date libraries.

Working this way allows me to be faster than most of my coworkers who try to understand every piece to the fullest.
What I find annoying in OCaml and functors is that it makes code really hard to follow. You’re wondering how that function is defined or what exactly is that type? Now you have to try to jump through many functors, their implementation and their instantiations. If IDEs could facilitate that process it’d be fine, but they can’t atm.
I’ve been learning OCaml recently and have been really frustrated with the same issues. I’ve been writing this page for people like me who want to learn through examples: https://o1-labs.github.io/ocamlbyexample/ (still a work in progress).
Same for Microsoft, I think they intend to be carbon negative by 2025. And still there's people in the Netherlands complaining that datacentres use up too much of the green energy available in the Netherlands. Truly backwards way of thinking
I apologize for nitpicking, but shouldn't that say "NT on Alpha"?
Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?
> But it does take a lot of learning and unlearning to become a fluent functional programmer.

Just no.

The reason Haskell is so complicated to become fluent in has nothing to do with the inherent complexity of functional programming. The Haskell community is just in love with complexe abstraction for the sake of abstraction, extremely terse and hard to understand syntax (see for example the obsession with introducing convoluted operators) and generally favour hard to understand style like point free where pipes are a lot easier to follow. The Haskell community is full of people who are here to geek out rather than produce software. Haskell is what happen when you let one upmanship leads your language design.

Meanwhile, you can learn SML, F# and Ocaml in a couple days, gradually enjoy the functionality they have to offer and benefit for a nice community. I really don't understand why anyone would choose Haskell.
I encountered plenty of vending machines where the stock is completely out of sight, and your only choice is buttons. The friendlier of these would display "out of stock" when you press a button and the item is out of stock, the less friendly would just make your coffee without sugar if it's out of sugar, or even sugary creamer water if it's out of coffee.
I am not a fan of Tether. I'm an open critic of it in my circles and I get a lot of flak for it.

But this...

> A discussion paper outlining the Fed’s thinking on digital payments, including the risks and benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), will come out this summer, Powell said last month in the same speech where he referred briefly to stablecoins without mentioning any by name.

This sounds more to me like the fed is prepping the onslaught of hit pieces by mass media on crypto, and then solves this by introducing their own stablecoin. They've been vying control of the crypto markets for a long time because decentralized currency is the bane of every central bank. A stable FedCoin would give them the necessary foot in the door to control crypto at large. I don't think they are as concerned about USDT as they say, and rather they are jealous of it's control over the crypto market. They want that control.
Quoth Wikipedia [0]:

"Nevertheless, Tether Limited states that owners of tethers have no contractual right, other legal claims, or guarantee that tethers will be redeemed or exchanged for dollars. On 30 April 2019 Tether Limited's lawyer claimed that each tether was backed by only $0.74 in cash and cash equivalents."

It seems that it is unlikely that Tether poses any risks, on the basis that anyone who cares can find out the whole thing is shady with even the flimsiest investigation. A risk that large and obvious can't in itself be systemic, because the system will insulate itself from the risk. Everyone knows.

The systemic part is when people start being able to buy Tethers without realising it. Eg, if the banks start selling them to retirement funds or something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
>>The train has already left the station on that. It is not now and never will be backed by revenues.

The $6 trillion in tax obligations created each year create massive fundamental demand for USD.

>>It’s backed by all the protections and encumbrances of legal tender.

What protections and encumberances are you referring to?

>>I think you mean that it is justified and necessary. All aggressors believe this about their own actions.

Not all violence is aggression. If the land belongs to the collective, then the collective has a right to access it, and a person asserting individual ownership over a parcel is the aggressor, who is violating the rights of the collective.

>>Land tax is ill-defined, inefficient, and fails dramatically to capture the sum of scarce resources and externalities. We know this because it already exists.

I have no idea what you mean by ill-defined and inefficient. And of course, we shouldn't just be limited to land when taxing scarce natural resources. Land is just the most valuable resource in this category.
Subbed that pod. Thanks for the rec!

And thanks to the OP for posting the article. This will stay with me.
> Renderers need to deallocate memory all the time. For example, they often need to store per-frame data that gets dropped when the frame is over

Zero the buff and reuse this same frame as the new frame.
> most of the large cloud providers are committed to 100% renewables

I’m very skeptical of this. Until now this narrative has often turned out to be nothing more than corporate greenwashing, without tackling the root causes of the problem or helping shift the underlying systems. Take the example of Microsoft buying up renewable energy in Holland: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OiPoR9OvD0Y (Nederland als harde schijf | Zondag met [Arjen] Lubach)
> For starters there isn't even an objectively established definition of value.

That's doesn't mean that one cannot come up with a definition . I believe that for a long time there wasn't a proper definition for energy.

> You can't objectively measure something that only has subjective definitions.

But it's your claim that it can only be subjective. Somehow you don't seem able to demonstrate it, nor even show an example of a patch - or a patch set - for which no meaningful objective quality measurement could be done.

Anyway, this might very well be a red herring: it doesn't matter if it's objective or not, as long as those involved agree with it. Apparently, the current measure is this KPI thing (which by the way, is very objective, since it doesn't involve the judgement of anyone), and this mail we're discussing seems to indicate its inadequacy (because it doesn't measure the right thing).

Now, whether having such measure is a good thing or not is of course a different matter, and perhaps it should be discussed first.
They were on top for a while, but they've had a massive decline in market share in recent centuries. It's gotten to the point that they've had to resort to building artificial caves!
Tether is bound to collapse soon and will likely take the whole crypto market with it.
There is no doubt in my mind that Tether is as scam, they blatantly lied that they had USD cash backing of 100% of Tethers, their recent amateurish pie chart reveal of assets was a farce, no doubt these bond assets were created out of thin air, just like the Billions of Tethers they regularly print whenever they feel like it.
Wonderful piece, it has really opened my eyes on foreign data ingestion.
If you want to just get things done, and then learn the concepts of fp, I always suggest using elm.
In elm I had been using andThen functions without even knowing they were related to monads.
Apps can request access to more RAM with iOS 15
Is it possible to regulate a stablecoin to a zero-risk point?

Many central banks themselves failed to perpetuate fixed exchange systems. How is it different at a smaller scale?

That a stablecoin could blow up is, IMO, unavoidable. The important question is what's at risk. What happens if USDT fails to maintain parity? Is USD affected? Seems far fetched, in this sense, considering current scale.

Regulation might make it more likely that these will be "attacked" with a Soros/GBP strategy. Explicit rules mean more certainty about what Tether's "central bank" will do in extreme circumstances, and how much liquidity that have to target.

I wish regulators had more of a "fail gracefully" approach than a "never fail" one.
This technique of ancient soil DNA extraction seems quite a game changer. I wonder if it has to be a cave environment / permafrost or simply any layer of undisturbed soil / sediment. Imagine if you can go around the planet collecting soil cores creating a completely new window into prehistory...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/no-bones-needed-anci...

[2] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a361770...

[3] https://scitechdaily.com/extracting-ancient-dna-of-long-exti...
Why does the air move faster on the upper side of the wing?

It's not because there's a magic force that requires air particles parted be the leading edge to rejoin thier partner at the trailing edge.

The air particles on the upper surface reach the trailing edge much sooner than the ones under the wing.
Are there actively managed ETFs with target dates? That way when you are still working you are purchasing shares of the ETF that are investing in a more risky strategy. However, by a certain date the ETF shifts to a much more conservative focus, allowing for you to borrow against said ETF without the risk of a margin call.

Not an investment professional or even an amateur investor, just an idea I had so wouldn't be surprised if there is an issue in this.
I think you mean below for awhile...
When I think of validation I think of receiving a data file and checking that all rows and columns are correct and generating a report about all the problems.

Does my thing have a different name? Where can I read up on how to do that best?
Did not expect to hear wustl in this thread.
There isn't one unique elevated world, as he goes on to say. Two he lists we are familiar with - options and lists. If you've ever used Option(Some|None) and pulled out a value from Some - the Option is the elevated world, the Some|None is the elevated value.
Clever one :-)

I love these kind of tips that seem so obvious but that I’d never thought of.