skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With fastmail, you can do that already. I do that. I have addresses like some_random_list_I_joined@mydomain.com
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there isn't any.

But if I would have to bet on a standard which could become it right now, then it would be Matrix.

It convinces when it comes to adoption, concept, features and growth.
We're absolutely not siloed. It's a question of expertise and attention. And also we're media so we have millions of users with extremely varied habits and needs. Discovering what those are is a huge job and one best done by a dedicated expert. I can't spend my dev hours having them sit and listen to stories about business process and sales funnels when there's dev tasks to do. Unless your company only has a single job title where everyone does everything, then I don't think we're doing anything crazy.
If you own the domain, you can just point the MX records to Fastmail/whatever and register to all the different service with, say, service@mydomain.com or you@service.mydomain.com. No need to set up the addresses or aliases, you can just make them up as you go and deliver everything for mydomain to your inbox.
The author explicitly says that it "is searching for the missing link between spreadsheets and programming", so I gather form that that JonathanMEdwards actually thinks of this as fulfilling the role of spreadsheets in "build[ing] simple custom apps without learning to program". Other programming languages are not alternatives to spreadsheets in that sense.
> It's probably somewhat like classic cars - they're objectively worse in most ways (slower, less comfortable, less reliable, less safe

At least for me, there is an element of "I preserved this myself" that would make an older car a point of pride. Eg if I had owned a car for many decades and worked on it myself, it maybe objectively worse than a new one but it's something I had a part in.

I feel this way about parts of my house that I worked on , versus hiring someone.

I am not sure if this is the factor for most collectors (perhaps "I own this" is enough for them) but just throwing this out.
I’m sure we’re all very sorry that you didn’t read an email which, in retrospect, was important. It was careless of you, but we’re all careless sometimes.

I doubt stavros has the ability to force you to read your emails, though. Given that, it’s possible they aren’t at fault for your oversight.
I've never heard of setting plastic out in the Sun to reverse yellowing. UV light is overall pretty terrible for plastic, as it will become brittle and break down. It will eventually turn to dust from UV exposure alone. So if you care about the longevity of the plastic and not just its cosmetics, don't do the sunlight thing.
Strong disagree on pushing personal development out of working hours. I always tell engineers I work with that they are 100% allowed to take working time and spend it learning skills they need to do their job. I don’t see why that doesn’t apply to managers too (though if it’s cross training prep for a career move that might take you away from the company I might question you doing it on company time).
"Hell is other people" has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because … when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

As you can see, this does not mean other people are the worst and you should hide yourself in a dark, lonely room so that you don't have to put up with them. It's because of how we are unable to escape the watchful gaze of everyone around us, whether you work from home or not.

"By there mere appearance of the Other," says Sartre in Being and Nothingness, "I am put in the position of passing judgment on myself as on an object, for it is as an object that I appear to the Other."

Side note, the Economist is a rag.
CME now offers water futures for some regions of California.
Settings -> Domains -> Team Settings -> Masked email domain.

Disclosure - I work at 1Password, though I had only tangential involvement in this effort
New 159 fraud hotline launched to counter threat
Plus the total consumption of a CPU doesn't actually go down, they just do more with it. They look at thermal limits more than power consumption, like, how much work can we make it do within these temperature ranges.

Mobile chips are a bit different, but to a point it's the same story there. If you put the chips of today in the smartphones of a decade ago they would probably last a week on a battery charge.
Really? Have any news regarding this?
I use Apple's Hide My Email to sign up on websites where I previously would have used a Temp-Mail-Service such as 10MinuteMail. These are websites I want to use anonymously (Hackernews for example). It's more convenient and they give you the option to reactivate disabled aliases later (useful if you need password reset). I don't think they made it to replace your primary email, although you could use it that way.
I really wish that fastmail wasn't based in australia..

edit because of downvote: I'm referencing the new data control laws (it is even beyond surveillance at this point), which makes it impossible to anyone who cares to use any autralia based products. I should have made that more clear.
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Galvanic isolation is useful because it means that you have to touch 2 specific points on the affected unit simultaneously to die, rather than 1 point. Galvanically isolated systems can detect leaks on both the positive and negative sides by using a dual channel IMD. Any insulation issue is bad, but this method of detection can usually detect it before it's able to instantly kill someone per-se. Electric vehicles are an example of a galvanically isolated system (from earth) with dual channel IMD, hence you can have massive leaks such as 8-20mA before it becomes a safety issue.
Those +plus aliases still make it easy for people find your actual email address.

We go one step further and generate a random email address for each new service you sign up with. It'll look something like "hot.potatoes4827@mydomain.com".

You can create a new masked email anywhere you have the 1Password browser extension, including our brand new iOS Safari extension.
I'd say that's more true for Facebook, but Twitter is definitely a close second in this particular race.
From Side-Project to Full-Time: Things I've Learned in 5 Years
https://youtu.be/Dq04GpzRZ0g?t=472

Asianometry did a breakdown on water usage of chip fabs in Taiwan and Arizona, including noting Arizona's state-wide water management plan, and pointing out that land-use wise, a chip plant makes more money per acre (gross revenue, and in property taxes) than other commercial or industrial or farming zones. A gallon of water makes more money in a chip plant than in an almond tree. (Especially since it can be cleaned and reused, rather than evaporated as in a tree.)
I honestly think it's time to remove section 230!
And Adobe was the one to sink the SVG 1.2... because of Inkscape
What you’re describing sounds more like TiDB. Like a MySQL flavoured cockroach DB with its own K/V store TiKV.
When I see a nonzero value in a metric about “things that shouldn’t happen,” the very next thing I’m going to ask for is examples.

It’s generally considered too expensive to derive metrics from logs in this way, but it’d be a killer debugging experience.
I absolutely dislike when single player games introduce online elements. It completely breaks the immersion for me as I now have to keep in mind that my actions in the game can have consequences in the real world.
The loss of jobs after the AA shutdown resulted in the US govt. being very reluctant to do that again.

However, the DoJ has circulated memos to company boards to stop paying for legal defenses for individual executives since the DoJ can't win against private corporate lawyers, which boards won't do. (The DoJ and SEC only wants cases they can win, since that looks better on political runs later.

You can look at the Countrywide stalemate to see what happens when a defendant has unlimited money - they just walk away after a few years of litigation, even though Senators were bribed with below-market interest rates.)
Well, you obviously were in a somewhat-privileged position to consider they made the best choices. For most of us, the quarantine was a hardship, especially for numerous families (many poorer people live with less than 5-10m²/person), people in situation of house abuse, persons with addiction problems or even with mental health issues (among which loneliness and depression can only be worsened by quarantine).

Also worth noting, while the richer classes were in their villas ordering food delivery service, the rest of us often had to wait in line for over an hour (the supermarket only took 5-10 people at a time) sometimes only to find empty shelves without toilet paper or pasta.

Then, because the hospitals didn't have any resources for the flow of patients, they actively triaged patients before they even reached the hospitals. There are many accounts of people dying or getting close to death because the emergency services refused to give them services, because they had strict directives to only care for people with specific symptoms.

Then of course, there's the "essential workers". The indispensable tiny hands of the capitalist machines. These have been the most exposed to the Covid and have ensured that private corporations such as Amazon profited more than ever during the pandemic, yet saw exactly 0 benefits from their hard and hazardous labor.

We could talk about food security. That official State-financed food banks (such as Les resto du coeur) closed their doors, at the same time that undeclared work came to a stop due to the confinement, leading the most precarious among us to actual famine. Many city halls and local non-profits had to improvise to deliver basic food for survival to millions of people, because the government and its vassals failed their job.

Finally, the government, to my knowledge, did not requisition the many resources at its disposal. I read that story about a clothing workshop from Paris who had to insist with the prefecture to be turned into a somewhat-official mask-producing facility.

So, what did the government do? Apart from tearing down our lives and profiting (in capital) from it? Apart from their theater plays on television to let us know there is no danger (yeah, they Chernobyled us again), masks are useless, and a strong racist police is the only weapon against the virus?
Only in part: The marketing department needs numbers to report, newsletter subscription is one. So it pays at least one job.
According to CDC data, reported valley fever cases in the US increased by 32 percent between 2016 and 2018. One study determined that cases in California rose 800 percent between 2000 and 2018.

When I read such figures, I often wonder if it's because the number of cases has increased or because diagnostics / education of doctors have improved. According to the article, the first doctor didn't grasp what the boy had. He had to go and see a specialist to be correctly diagnosed.
Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more.

There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issues with Adobe products as well.

A really awesome thing about Inkscape for me is how it uses standard SVG as its default file format. It makes a lot of sense and makes the raw artwork highly exportable and flexible.
True! I've been doing wildcard.company.name@mydomain.com for a few years now with Fastmail. This makes it one step easier to generate that email address, as well as one-click blocking any alias that starts receiving spam.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
But you’re missing a crucial point: The US is not starting from a blank slate.

President Obama acknowledged this much when he proposed the Affordable Care Act. He said that he’d prefer a single payer system like other countries use, but that it’s not feasible in the US because we can’t just completely uproot the current system without a ton of unintended consequences.

“Just do it like other countries” isn’t a real plan.

So given the current state of the healthcare system, how do you propose it gets modified to mirror those other countries? Do you have a good handle on how those proposed steps (like drastic reductions in R&D spending) will affect the overall system?

When people naively think there are simple solutions to extremely complex systems, it reminds me of the quote “For every problem there is a solution that is simple, straightforward, and wrong.”
I digitally collect music (directly digitally bought from the artists).
Why is an engineering manager even attending team standup. If following scrum it is for scrum team members only. Even if they are invited then should go once a month or something to observe.
I agree, but this only helps if they're actually going after someone they charge with something. If they are merely violating your rights but don't charge you, this would have little to no impact on police wrongdoing.
In California there were lots of people walking around outside after curfew. And you were always allowed to leave your home at any time to exercise. There was often a police presence down at the beach, but they didn't enforce anything. Not even fines.
I did this with even less setup. accountname+extratext@gmail.com has worked forever and you can do the same with a custom domain. I gave up fairly quickly because unless you keep meticulous records, there's no way to figure out the exact email you used very easily and I didn't get that much out of doing it.

I actually don't accept *@domain.tld even though I have a custom domain because I got too many fishing emails that weren't caught in spam. I didn't have the patience to deal with it. That might have changed over the decade+, though.
For not much more than the annual price of your Spotify subscription, you can fit the entire contents of that box in a shard of plastic the size of your thumbnail.
Their 4 year support from phones initial release is still quite bad and the last year is apparently only quarterly not monthly updates. So buy a phone X months after release and you get 36 - X months of monthly security patches and then minimal support for 1 year.

That’s a big deal because their manufacturing last years model S20 and many people are buying not realizing it’s apparently got 1.5 years of full support remaining.
What is "MAUS"?
You don’t even need a wildcard email address to do it really, using a + delimiter in the user part of the address will accomplish the same.

For example: jdoe+netflix@example.org would be the address used on a netflix account.

However I do appreciate the additional anonymity a randomized or hashed user part provides
My nephew was busy 18 months ago, shutting down oil refineries. This is a long process (weeks) fraught with risky pressure, temperature and capacity issues - mustn't stop flow here until pressure is reduced there!

Then recently, he's back at work starting them up again.

It occurs to me that the global supply chain has more stages, controls, capacity issues and 'temperature' measures than an oil refinery. And how do we start it up again? Why, everybody twiddles the knobs they can reach randomly.

Perhaps its time for some organizing process control in this world-affecting industry.
Same here. Worked all my career on medical/biotech as software product and project manager. I‘ve even heard management telling me „this is just code, should be copy paste“ and „why is this taking so long that should be easy“… and if things of course don’t go as planned they layoff and hire Accenture.

My role (as I see it) is to keep devs motivated, translate this mystery of development for them and present some kind of roadmap. As much as I would love to only work with empowered teams, the reality is that with these big nontech companies are not ready to change anytime soon.

Maybe we worked at the same place?:)
What is often forgotten in this kind of story is that building direct lines between big cities tends to asphyxiate whatever sits in between.

Ruffec is about 2/3rds of the way between Paris and Bordeaux. The TGV that goes from Paris to Bordeaux used to have a stop in Ruffec. Not any more, because they had to build a completely new line for the last leg of the trip, that goes through the countryside.

In fact there are now ZERO direct trains from Paris to Ruffec; to get there you need to change trains at Poitiers, which can be complicated if you're old or you have lots of luggage. The train from Poitiers to Ruffec is a regional one that stops everywhere. Going from Paris to Ruffec used to take less than 2 hours and now takes at least 3.

So high speed train isn't about helping transform urbanites into country people; it's about moving urbanites around.
Not really. Tests with two lines generally have one "control" line and one "test" line. If the control line fails to appear, then the result is invalid and you should try a new kit, regardless of what the other line said. If the control line appears, then the result is valid and the test line shows a negative (no line) or positive (line) result. So "pregnant" should only appear if both lines show up. It's a very simply boolean AND condition, but that's something that would be challenging to have done purely by chemical reaction. Probably a lot more complex than having a simple check by a circuit. Using a microprocessor, you can have "pregnant", "not pregnant" or "invalid" show up to give an unambiguous single result. Trying to achieve the same through chemical means only is likely also more prone to failure. Even if the outcome is clear, there are still false positives and negatives. Of course you should expect users to read the manual and be capable of interpreting a very simple system with only 4 combinations and 3 outcomes, but apparently that's beyond many people. Which is exactly why some test producers go to this length.
It is well-known that UK doctoral scholarships (as well as postdocs) are pretty low, especially considering the cost of life there.

In the rest of Europe, grandparent's remark mostly holds. In France, for instance, students get bout 1.7kEUR/month [0], and life is cheaper (unless you're in Paris). Maybe you'd get a slightly higher salary in a company, but the difference is not that big.

[0]: https://academicpositions.com/career-advice/professor-salari...
Yes, but if you goal is to hide your identity, this really wouldn't work. Everything is still tagged to your identity, i.e. @mydomain.com.
Monthly active users
We wrote our own linters that hooked into the `sql.active_record` event emitted by ActiveRecord when a query gets executed.

See https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Notificati... for the API to subscribe to these notifications.
There's a few alternatives to this:

https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-b... (beta only)

https://simplelogin.io/

https://anonaddy.com/

I know there are plenty of others, but I use all the above and found them reliable and intuitive.
> Water shortage shouldn't be a thing, but greed and short sightedness is.

Yup. We'll never ever run out of water. Whatever problems arise, there are solutions for them. People just don't want to pay. They want it cheap and convenient.
If you already have a custom email domain (which is a good idea for the usual portability reasons) _and_ you pick an email provider that supports 'catch-all mailboxes', you can make it entirely frictionless.

When I sign up for a new service, I register on the spot as e.g. amazon@mydomain.com, the mails they send are considered as a 'mistaken sender' and are sent to the catch-all mailbox (which is just my regular mailbox!)
Thank you for sharing this! It brings to my mind the tension and conflict between Robin Williams and the Fields' medal mathematician in Good Will Hunting.

It sounds like you still do get to do science. I suspect that you may be having a bigger impact on the world now than you would have had as another science professor. Can you offer any comment on this? Am I off base?
I suppose, if they were willing to wait a long time for that miner to mine a block.
When we have our generation's dust bowl, this will make it worse.

https://www.agriculture.com/weather/news/dust-bowl-coming-in...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/weather/hottest-summer-on-rec...

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/01/avoiding-a-second...
The sleeper cars on Amtrak long-distance routes sell out almost immediately - many months in advance.

There is a market, if only they could figure out how to serve it.

PS - if they added the ability to take your car along with you it would open up an even larger market.
Can I generate masked emails without fast mail? I already have a domain setup
"The first thing to note when discussing the business secrets of the Pharaohs is an acknowledgement that their era was so completely different from our own that almost all cultural, political and, particularly, business parallels we draw between the two eras are bound, by their very nature, to be wrong."

- Marko Corrigan, Business Secrets of the Pharaohs
Real autopilot is much dumber than Tesla's Autopilot, because it doesn't include autothrottle or autobraking mechanisms, it cannot avoid obstacles or change course to avoid collision with another plane (it's separate system). You will have hard time in a court trying to defend your position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot