skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having hardly anyone switch to a new standard when there are existing ones could actually be considered a good thing. The problem comes when the new standard is promoted, inevitably fails to become dominant and ends up making the problem worse.

Note that sometimes new standards are promoted specifically to destroy an existing open standard. The trick is to push hard for the new standard until it gets sort of popular and then back off. Adjust as required to keep things balanced.
That's really nice, and exactly what I've been waiting for. I've been using a third party service for a while now, but it was a pain to have to manually create the email address first. Was tempted to switch to Apple, but that would lock me in to the Apple ecosystem completely. Being able to use two services that I use anyway is the perfect solution for me.
If paid/automated social media activity is "candy theft," the only nation states that aren't doing it are the ones who can't afford to.
No, I don't think so. We work in very low-income districts. These people are not taking vacations abroad. They're not really planning outside of "it's cheaper then". No thought put into the repercussions, or the absolute lesson they're teaching their kids about the value of education.

The other poster is correct. In a vast majority of cases, k-12 education is just seen as babysitting, so missing a week or two isn't that big of a deal.

It has gotten so bad that my spouse's district now allows 9 unexcused absences before getting the truant officer (who is useless) involved, because they had too many referrals to the officer three years ago.

It's just ridiculous.
You can only install three such apps, they expire every seven days, and they cannot use important features such as push notifications (or include Network Extensions, which notably means you can't write an obfuscating VPN app to help people bypass firewalls in countries such as China).
To me this article show just how much monopolies have distorted the economy.
I do this with fastmail already. I have a domain that accepts email to *@domain.tld —- all the messages reach one inbox. All my online accounts have the form service-name@domain.tld

Makes it easy when I receive spam to see who sold my email address.

There’s also zero overhead to “create” a new one. It works for any address.
AGPL is just GPL where usage over a network requires giving users the source code of the AGPL codebase. I'll take it over a custom licence where I have to worry if I need to release the source code of everything around it (SSPL) or if I'm providing it as a managed service (EL).
As someone with more time, I prefer to maintain a massive whitelist for my router. Daily websites receive permanent privileges, incidental websites (such as peguero.xyz) receive temporary privileges (e.g. allow traffic for the next minute), everything else is dropped.

I don't have to worry about what chicanery advertising companies are up to when they can't reach me even if they tried.

"So the fourth herd of deer took up residence where the poison-grass sower & his followers couldn’t go and—having taken up residence there—ate food without venturing unwarily into the poison-grass sown by the poison-grass sower. By eating food without venturing unwarily into the poison-grass sown by the poison-grass sower, they didn’t become intoxicated. Not being intoxicated, they didn’t become heedless. When they weren’t heedless, the poison-grass sower wasn’t able to do with them as he liked on account of that poison-grass."
(Blog post author here).

> Because you understand rooms at a different conceptual level than me. And that by itself is a good thing. But the rest of us still needs more explanations/analogies.

Yep, you hit the nail on the head.

On the Matrix/spec side, we ensured Spaces are generically useful and flexible enough to organise rooms. However, in testing and research we found users have specific goals in mind when organising conversations, which the Element UX speaks to.

It's not dissimilar to where Direct Messages are today. Early thinking behind DMs in Matrix was that they're just rooms with few participants. In practise, there's a bunch of other semantics (e.g. room name/avatar exclusively informed by the other users profile, continual re-discovery of existing conversations when creating new ones, etc) which need to be met for them to be intuitively usable by more people.
I learned the FPGA ropes by making (from scratch, reinventing many wheels) a fast interface between dbus (TI calculator link port) and a standard serial port in Verilog. It is dramatically faster than every other "link cable" available.[1]

Thanks to IceStorm/yosys/nextpnr, I never had to touch a proprietary tool to do this.

There's now very cheap, OSHW development boards to get started with[2].

[1] https://github.com/rvalles/dbus_ti_link_uart_verilog

[2] https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards
Tesla's Autopilot comes to mind too.
If Adobe changes the spec, they can, simply by being the market leader (bit like Chrome is)

Not nice, but there you have it. It would be great if there was an Adobe SVG format in those cases perhaps.
I am not sure either. I have some quirky white plastic Matroshka measuring cups that I left out on the sill as a decoration for several years. They were exposed to sunlight, and have yellowed. Interestingly, if I run them through the dishwasher they become even more yellow, and fade with a bit of time.

I wonder if it has anything to do with sodium perchlorate in the dishwasher tabs, the heat of the dishwasher or both.
Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate
Client side developers are in need: JS, Dart, Java/Kotlin (android), Objective C/Swift (ios).
We need additional research, funding and development into the Darkmail (DMTP/DMAP) protocols.
https://darkmail.info/
EspoTek Labrador – AIO USB Scope, Signal Generator, PSU, Analyzer and Multimeter
Love the program as well, but the CSS support, while much better than in the past still makes me open the files in an editor afterwards
Burnout is from people doing tasks that bring little fulfillment for most of their one life on Earth. If you have 1 free minute in 1 year, it's irrelevant what you do on that 1 free minute. This is an exaggeration, but it's to show my point. People want to be spending time doing things they like. 40 hours a week is way too much time spent doing the opposite, regardless of what you do outside of those 40 hours.
Of course. When has it ever worked? The only hope citizens have against abuse is neutralizing law enforcement technology. Control it by making it not work anymore. They'll whine about it because it'll make their jobs harder but it doesn't matter.
We switched daily standup to a slack channel and it works great. Everyone posts before 12 and discussion is handled in the threads. That's a lot of time reclaimed.
I also had some issues with SVG exports from Inkscape not being drawn correctly when used as toolbar icons for Windows apps.

The solution was Affinity Designer. Too bad, but at least it's an easy purchase rather than a subscription.
Its factually incorrect that Facebook is an advertising company. They are a sex-app turned surveillance company started up by the CIA this has been extensively reported on by ABC news.
100% agreed, and well put. Tbh on a very quantitative level, our jobs are fantastic. The lack of that visceral satisfaction is real though, and you turn into an automaton after awhile. Do the work, get the pay, etc. You want to quit and mix it up, but you won't make 1/3rd the same in other jobs.

I think the path is to "ruthlessly compartmentalize" your life. When you are getting the job done, do it well and efficiently, and have things like a standing desk and do stretches and look away from the computer etc. Then when you did enough work for the day, completely do a 180 and go out for a run, practice a language, etc. Make the most of your time.
Ethereum (ETH) Sees Record Gas Fee of $23.5M
Ethereum (ETH) keeps attracting growth, expecting a spike to a higher price range. The network is still at risk for unpredictable high fees and payment anomalies.
It's resolved. Update to

ca-certificates-2021.2.50-72.el7_9.noarch

A quick bash command to check if you're updated and if not, update:

rpm -qa | grep ca-certificates-2021.2.50-72.el7_9.noarch || yum update -y ca-certificates
FWIW, I have 3668 tabs open in Firefox right now. Looks like it's using about 1.6GB of RAM. (Notes: most of those thousands of tabs are unloaded, I block JavaScript rather aggressively, and yes I do recognize the absurdity but I confess my sins here to illustrate my point!)

I have no experience migrating from Chrome to Firefox, but FF can certainly handle lots of tabs. Vertical tab layouts are very helpful for navigating them.

My limited experience using Chrome says that Firefox requires vastly less RAM to handle multiple tabs (anything more than a dozen!).

Re: Conspicuous tab consumption: If I pared down, I'd be more like 50-100 active tabs. I appreciate that Firefox remains completely usable even when I do not pare down. Chrome fails for me at about 20 tabs due to lack of usable vertical tabs layout, even before RAM becomes an issue on this machine.
For pure ssh, this is true, but note that fail2ban can also automatically unblock after a certain amount of time, which is nice when valid users shut themselves out by mistake over the weekend... For other services, depending on their type, the false-positive rate will often be way too high.
>> Its not.

No and that's really my point - we have this heavily regulated mix of public and private that I don't think anyone fully understands, makes it a nightmare for consumers, gives a heavy advantage to existing players, has massive amounts of overhead, etc. People who say things about wanting a free market don't seem to be pushing us in that direction, only pushing against reform.

I recently switched to an HDHP / HSA and I feel like it's much better. One of the problems is that insurance has stopped being about risk management because (almost) everyone has it and wants it to cover everything, so it's just a game of group negotiating on a group tab. I had the plan because my company negotiated it with the insurance company who had rates and networks negotiated and I was just supposed to go to the doctor and now pay whatever else was left but who knows what that was. But now my doctor's not even in-network. With an HSA, I can just pay her directly and forget the rest of it.
Far-right cryptocurrency follows ideology across borders
Can you though? For most of mass, forced WFH experiment social activities were literally forbidden by law. To venture out the house after 8pm meant risking arrest or tear gassing by the government. In America.
A couple of hours will not make a difference. After a couple hundred hours you will see uv radiation effects
We could perhaps even collect people and personalities. And, much like with physical objects, the rarest and most unusual ones tend to be the ones that we most enjoy bringing up in conversation.
I said a lie or misconception, and I was right.
Are you talking about POTUS? I don’t think Military Justice applies to him.
> Miners can't just take money out of your account without your consent. That would require a change to how the protocol works.

But that's exactly what we were talking about: hard forks that change how the protocol works. The parent comment that you responded to is correct in that theoretically a majority of miners could fork Ethereum to steal $100M from a single person.
Idk it sounds nice for some people but I think he handwaves away real motion sickness concerns. I can't spend more than 10 minutes in VR without being dizzy. Maybe it gets there some day but Ive yet to try a headset without getting sick
You ain't getting a Nobel in CS no matter how good you are.
The software is on GH: https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador

(edit) Not affiliated
The trouble with *@domain.tld is that you get that many times as much spam. Unless your spam filter is 100% accurate, that increases the amount of spam that gets through.
Mozilla does plan to support the old request-blocking APIs indefinitely, though, even after the Manifest v3 switch, until an alternative that meets the needs of extension developers is developed.
Firefox mobile did the same kind of stuff... They disabled most extensions, there is only about 15 left... I still have Firefox Mobile v68 installed for this reason.
Exactly.

For people who want to do this and care about retaining ownership, would be probably wise to run their own email servers and using different patterns of catch all addresses.
Long time Fastmail and 1Pass user here. While I agree that it would be best to not be locked in to particular providers, these are two of the providers who have a lot of my trust and to whom I’m paid up years in advance (at least in Fastmails case). Very excited to use this feature.
The only reason I don't share my fastmail email id except for very specific cases is the fear of it getting circulated for spam.

With this feature, I can stop using my gmail account for general junk.
So one business / structure will use 1/200th of all water? That does sound like a lot.
Depends on the grid - some countries get almost 10% of their power from single reactors. Of course, bigger countries have this less
Examples of people being tear gassed for being out past curfew?
I do this too. My only issue I am having right now is I am "locked" to my current registrar because of how it is set up. Do you have a mail server you are using or just having your registrar do it? I am looking for alternate solutions that dont cost much.
This all got sacrificed when the mbas and bean counters took charge of GOOG..
Not for much longer, it's moving to Edge Webview2 instead.

https://twitter.com/rishmsft/status/1408085784016539653
I think you oversimplify the situation, it is actually important to look at things on a case-by-case basis, reciprocity is very complicated. Facebook was banned in China following the Urumqi Riots in 2009, which led to 200 deaths and many more injured. The protests that turned violent were largely organized via Facebook, and the company denied giving out details about the organizers. Not cooperating with law enforcement got them banned.

Similarly, Google did not want to enforce Chinese censorship in their search engine, so their services were slowly banned, too.

Both companies do follow censorship laws in other countries, like Germany, albeit much more reasonable ones. These are laws that chinese companies must follow, too, but western companies couldn't justify it to their employees, investors and governments, so they pulled out. TikTok would probably be fine with handing over protester data to the FBI if asked.

A larger point to press the Chinese on when it comes to economic access are forced joint ventures, which have for example been largely abolished for the EU and are generally receding in importance.

Another issue is IP theft, and a court system that (according to some) favors Chinese companies over foreign ones. However, instead of trying to change how China treats our companies, the new way seems to be to just trying to reduce access of chinese companies. The bans of Huawei for example are actually discriminatory, and the idea that TikTok must be sold to be allowed to continue to operate was pretty outrageous. Biden seems to continue with Trumps policies in that regard, but with a much softer touch.
> Seems to more closely follow tax breaks and tax income

It follows feasibility, AFAIK. All new manufacturing is in Southern US states because they're the ones that allow new plants to be built. The others tie projects down in long, expensive, non-successful environmental studies.

At this point, it's easier to bring water to the desert (Arizona) than get approval for a manufacturing facility in a non-desert.
That's not what the article is saying.

The report finds that Google has used its position to preference its own services and shield them from competition. For example, Google prevents rival ad tech services from accessing ads on YouTube, providing its own ad tech services with an important advantage.

It's hardly news that Google does that stuff, but unlike showing ads it's actually illegal, and therefore reasonable grounds for regulatory action.
I would imagine the scaling characteristics might also play some role here? For workloads that can be easily partitioned manually the efficiency might be a consideration?
What do you do if you want to change email provider or your email provider decides to stop their email service.

I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity. Unless you're using your own domain it's a wash anyways right?

I think this is an acceptable trust. I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail (apple hide my email).
They actually seem to have thought about this.

> New Masked Email addresses will be created @fastmail.com. You can change this in Settings → Domains

I agree with you, and I'm looking forward to be trying this out.
Exact same for me. So far the only addresses (in probably around 200) that have been sold/leaked/spammed have been the one on my public site and Facebook, where it was public for a time.
Good point, i'll keep that in mind. It seems then, this feature is best for throwaway type accounts, where one could just create another new accoint if they want to migrate.
Exactly, it's a search engine. It probably doesn't make sense to use it as a storage engine for logs unless you need to search all of them efficiently.
I is funny how few words (more proper nouns though) survived into (or were absorbed into) Latin. One of my favorite Latin words, Uxor, is an Etruscan loan word.

I have always loved it for its alien sound, and then later for its meaning.
Ah, I thought "OP" as in the comment I was replying to! Good article by the way, I'll have to give it a try.
I almost never get spam (see reply above), and if I do, then those addresses can be filtered easily. That is one of the purposes of using this setup.
Interesting read, I wouldn't think such approach would work for the systems I maintain because my data is not as patitionable as theirs. But when addressing access across domains then they mentioned:

> Joining data in the application instead of in the database is another common solution. [...] In some cases, this leads to surprising performance improvements.

So, maybe such approach is not impossible for a more heavily connected dataset, although probably prohibitively expensive if you have to re-write most queries into separate-queries+in-app-join.
Farmers tend to have more than one grade of fuel. dyed diesel is the most common grade because there is no road tax. Farmers that aren't close to town (most of them) are likely to have undyed diesel for their trucks as well. Gasoline is somewhat common - though gasoline tractors went out of style around 1960, sometimes there is a car that never goes to town, lawnmowers, ATVs... It depends on the farm what they keep on hand.
I would love to block their autonomous systems entirely this way, but I fear that for Google it would be impossible without significant impact to my life. Frustratingly, Google is also the hosting provider for a massive number of critical services.

Consider that for many households today, you cannot block Google without also blocking your kid's homework, as Google Classroom has been made a mandatory part of a large portion of schools.
DDG is also doing heavy radio advertising. I don't normally listen to commercial radio, but my kids like these morning DJs for the ride to school, so I get to hear it.
Hydrogen peroxide is a very aggressive oxidizer compared to molecular oxygen and will break down molecules instead of just adding to them.
My worry was this required both FastMail and 1Password, to my delight you only need FastMail. Masked Email is an option under settings.
Author here; no hand waving was intended, and I do make note of it in the FAQ.

There's a lot of VR content I still can't handle, even though I've built a tolerance to many others. But for a stationary experience like productivity, where I at most walk in a very small area while at the standing desk, it's not applicable - I'm running 100fps+, and the 6DoF tracking does an excellent job.
I have my own domain
The paperwork isn't the problem, it is all the adapters needed.
You use the index to identify a subset of records and scan those for unindexed criteria.

It's ok to fail if the indexed criteria are not selective enough. In fact it's usually preferable to a long timeout.
> I had 4 terrible managers

I've fallen back in to "I've had bad managers" but do wonder how often I was the "bad managee". I know it was true in a couple of cases that were obvious to me. And... I can usually point the finger to "bad manager" when multiple folks in a group all had similar (bad) experiences. In other cases, it's not always so clear.
As someone with a box of DVD-Rs filled with terabytes of carefully tagged MP3s that is collecting dust and probably slowly dying of disc rot, I’m much happier just paying my Spotify subscription.
It’s not greed and shortsightedness.

It’s logistics. Logistics is expensive af
> I know that in my experience (having seen more than 100 PhDs graduate) almost everyone graduated (I know of one who didn't, and he ended up with a very good job anyway)

I know that's probably not what you meant, but saying 100% of PHD graduates graduated is the text book definition of survivorship bias. Obviously, if you look at a group made of only people who got a PHD, 100% will have a PHD.

I imagine you meant you knew 100 people who started a phd and not phd graduates?
ya. At 26-70 accounts you don't even need a VPS, there are free VPNs, free temporary emails, and temporary phone numbers you can buy. this could be any angry chinese person or a teenager.

Being anti-china gets people riled up. I'm guessing it's the same in China when they want to divert the attention.

50 western accounts on <chinese-social-media-site> said 'China Bad' at the same time.
Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs?
Searching for "Show HN" posts (using hn.algolia.com) reveals a sad story: Many of them are gone. I wonder what happens to Shown HNs, esp. the ones that are featured on HN, but then end up not existing anymore. Is it the server costs? Do they sell to other companies? Did the developer pass away and so did the link?
The author claims its open source but then explicitly omits a license to the repo, so they are misusing the term.
I do this too, have for 15 years. It works really well. I run a well configured postfix mail server for inbound and outbound mail. Incoming mail gets delivered to my fastmail acct. I get very little SPAM, a few messages per week, but I have spent a lot of time over the years getting it that way.
Agreed!

> Ubers Clickhouse as a Log Storage thing

We built hosted ClickHouse-based logging as a service https://logtail.com, just launched with Show HN last week.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder, happy to answer any questions