skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In South King County and Pierce County, WA (south of Seattle), the basic advice is to not grow any food directly in the ground without having your soil tested first for arsenic. There was a copper smelter in Tacoma for decades, and now everything basically within a 20 mile radius is contaminated.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Spills-Cleanup/Contamination-cleanup/...

https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert/?lat=47.349229&lon=-12... (not exactly a circle due to the topography and wind patterns of the area)

The point is, there was a lot of nasty industrial activity in this country pre Clean Air Act. Everyone should be concerned and get their property tested IMO, especially if you have kids. I'm not trying to be alarmist; it doesn't affect my day to day life, it's just something to know. I still grow veggies in my garden, I just use raised beds and dirt from bags from Home Depot.
This sounds like the 1% of my experiences not served by filtering.

Naturally your experiences will be different from mine!
Should've checked properly; thank you! I edited out the last sentence.
Bad boss Get your nose out of employees' business
Is the end Goal to make the internet only accessible via Digital ID and kill of the anonymity?
While never "safe", lead pipes were relatively safer before the epa started pushing chlorine alternatives.

High concentration chlorine (and flouride, where used) were reactive to contaminants such that they were often chemically/ electrically attracted to the lead pipes (clay soil and other environmental factors played a role), and the pipes leeched contaminants from the water. Lower concentrations of chlorine and any concentration of most chlorine-alternatives not only allow water to leech from the lead pipes, but it also can reverse the previous process, such that decades of leeched chemicals and contaminants deposited in/on the lead (and other) pipes are released back into the water, at a much higher rate and concentration.

Washington DC went through this issue [0] in what was a huge public embarrassment, at least within the civil engineering community. It left the EPA with a black eye in what was supposed to be a landmark and example-setting project.

Now that it's known to happen, better precautions can be taken, but it's absolutely still an issue, especially in places like Detroit, where the surviving lead pipes were largely the service lines on the user side of the water meter. (Remediation and upgrades to water distribution systems often stops at the meter, including design considerations.)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Washingt...
Ideally, one would use me+uber@domain.tld / me+amzn@domain.tld / me+apple@domain.tld but then the identity me@domain.tld isn't masked.

If you prefer email forwarding, then: Cloudflare announced a free email-forwarding service just yesterday [0]. Not sure if they provide unlimited email forwarding rules. Other domain registrars like domains.google and namecheap.com also support email forwarding at no-cost.

If you prefer a managed mailbox, then: Zoho Mail, Fresh Mail, AWS WorkMail et al are nice if you'd also like to send emails using the address you sign up with.

Other than that, if you're technically inclined, then have SES plonk incoming emails in to S3 [1]

Be careful registering domain.tld without whois shield and/or with TLDs that require registrant to publicly reveal ownership (like .in)

See also: simplelogin.io and anonaddy.com

[0] https://archive.is/BEKi7

[1] https://archive.is/2iQCN
Threat model is the business model on this. Notable that the founders are women, and though it shouldn't be remarkable at all, and perhaps it's sexist to speculate they're going to leverage that, but it's a useful indicator because antistalker tech by/for women is an influencer channel for other products. They're a consumer app company and gender doesn't matter to the tech itself, except from a product perspective, it's really a potential advantage in this case.

The generic threat model for most security tools (which, suck) has been the individual vs. the state or various generic criminals, whereas the threat actor in a mostly feminine threat model would be the much higher likelihood/impact scenario of stalkers, who are as likely to be co-workers and IT admins as they are classmates, neighbours, or internet followers. Few want to even say this out loud because just verbalizing it is off-brand and comes with an ick factor. Hence no good products for it, yet. Stalkers get away with it because acknowledging them as part of your story at all elevates them to the level of peer or factor, and so the product discussion itself is often too gross to want to get into.

Solving for that is technically much more focused and useful from a secuirty perspective than say, taking on the universe of bad cops and spies. Plus, women are more likely to leverage recourse to law enforcement (instead of physically beating a stalker), and so security tech that has to be designed to keep out a nation state to get security influencer adoption isn't helping most of them.

Nobody in the security companies I worked for wanted to talk about these issues seriously because of the ick factor and a bunch of nerdy white knights diverting all uncomfortable discussions to blockchains, but it's also what creates the opportunity. This seems like a really smart play.
I switched to using a GATTS jar (which also helps detect Jet-A contamination, which is not much of a concern for a 172). The design of that jar is such that much less fuel (often zero) touches/splashes onto your hands and it's easy to pour the fuel back into the tank if the sample is "clean".
> Wouldn't it be great if they consolidate with time on common api?

Given how intrusive this one is compared to a conservative Boehm GC? No, especially not when every GC ends up inheriting design warts like finalize(). Moved my entire Java code away from finalize to the half dozen dedicated cleanup classes Java provided (that was before try with resources).

> wouldn't it be beneficial to have system (kernel) provided gc?

I can only think of giving the kernel the ability to force cleanup in low memory situations as a positive and for that you probably wouldn't have to put the entire GC into the kernel.
My experience with Qshield recovery is not recommendable due to their unclear activities. You can report with your local authority service but the issue is that they receive a thousands cases in an order of priority, and these might make you wait for long while waiting for a feedback. However, if you are to file a report with a company, make sure it’s a legitimate one. One I’ll recommend is vibrant horizon tech because they successfully helped me in getting my bitcoin when I lost it to scammers. They were very transparent in their process and they carried me along every stage of the process.
Recently saw a post about using imgur to host websites by the website code embedded in images (steganography?)
So we all get a check of 70 cents while the lawyers take millions.
SpaceX CRS-23 Dragon Returns Experiments on Brain, Muscles, Liver to Earth
Oh got it.

Thanks for clarification.

When a post gets published, it will be send to machine learning image via REST.

If bad, the post will be kept as Draft.

A new record gets created in another database table to keep track them, the accuracy rate was recorded as well.

This was made to make sure no irreversible action was done on the good content.

Blogs with more than 1 year of history would not go through moderation but no action was being taken, just recording the accuracy for future reference.

Later, someone from our team (me usually) would check them by eye and pull trigger on them, they would go into make the training better.

If something would pass the moderation but it was indeed spam, would go into another iteration.

We had to do this for over a month, through the time, the success was around 99%, no blogs would be wiped by machine classification from our database unless confirmed by someone.

That time the whole model was trained for that specific content. Later it get into other type of spams. Which we trained different models.

Overall, the the machine actions were logged, content/users/blogs would get labeled and bad marks on them.

They would be displayed in a report page, until someone make the final decision, through the whole time, the user would be shadow banned (shadow banning didn't help though) and their content would not be published.
To be clear, just following legal requirements is no simple task in most countries, and it might already require a significant moderation effort depending on how motivated your users are.

> does it have to be?

In most cases moderation is less about what users want or don’t want to see, and more about what you want your platform to be.

For instance people are OK with product suggestions when they go on Amazon, but if your job posting site becomes an endless stream of Amazon links you’ll want to curb that. And perhaps your users find interesting products in all these links, but from your perspective it will kill your business (except if you pivot into becoming a product listing site of course)
A lady named Tamara Rubin has spent years testing household products and other commonly handled objects for lead. She uses an XRF tester, which is the gold standard for high accuracy lead testing. She has thousands of items listed, from dishes to door hardware to childrens toys, and a lot of these will put a family at high risk of lead poisoning. There's some woo-y stuff on her website, but her XRF data is a gold mine:

https://tamararubin.com/

I personally have used both XRF and swabs on various objects around by home, and I found some really scary shit. The scariest were the older Lenox dishes we used for years; the decorative glaze on the eating surface tested high in lead via XRF, and the swab lit up bright red which means that lead was also coming off in our food.

I threw away all our dishes and bought new Corelle.

Other problems I found include old electrical cords and things made out of brass, including all plumbing fittings made before about 2012. These will also turn a swab red, especially if there's any corrosion, which means the lead is mobile.
I would like to also specifically respond and clarify: we killed the "team" version of product that allowed for such abuse 5 years ago. We hated that use case and were no longer interested in having it be possible to have an abuse case of the product. Since that time, we have evolved a single user model, and the organization tools were for consolidated billing purposes, not shared data. This latest version further moves away from being a measuring tool and more toward a coach. Thank you for your post.
I always read "dead" comments. I believe that many of them should not have been "killed".
> They can't, a library implements a specific API.

I'm sorry, what? That's the whole point of putting things into a library. Every library should be compatible with the common set of APIs. Any library that isn't compatible is defective.

> with multitouch the interface has changed from that to a series of events, and you have to handle gestures too. Some apps still don't support these. This isn't just for mobile devices, laptops all have these touchpads now too.

A series of events is exactly what a mouse has always reported.

Gestures? Apps don't need to support gestures. Even iOS often doesn't understand the gestures that it claims it supports. Why on earth do you think an app should support something that the OS itself can't support?

> subdivide into many fractions of a pixel

The whole point of a pixel is to be the smallest point that a program needs to understand.

> the original Win32 API only uses 16 bits for mouse coordinates

My screen resolution is 2560x1600. I have two monitors spanned, giving me 5120x1600. I can see someone having a couple dozen of them to get up beyond 65k width. But at that point the user is already reaching the limits of the hardware to render such a large number of pixels, the limits of physical space to even _have_ them.

Given that the Win32 API has been around for a few decades and I don't think we're actually reaching the hardware capabilities to need the upgrade... I'm going to simply say that you're being hyperbolic.

> Please report those bugs to the developer, that should be fixed.

No, fuck that. I have better things to do with my time than to be every developer's free QA.
My experience with Qshield recovery is not recommendable due to their unclear activities I was deceived by making profit which are not realistic. You can report with your local authority service but the issue is that they receive a thousands cases in an order of priority, and these might make you wait for long while waiting for a feedback. However, if you are to file a report with a company, make sure it’s a legitimate one. One I’ll recommend is vibrant horizon tech because they successfully helped me in getting my bitcoin when I lost it to scammers. They were very transparent in their process and they carried me along every stage of the process.
Clickhouse and other solutions you mentioned are for analytics while Scylla and Cassandra are for real-time. You can't compare the two types of tech
Without a legal replacement fuel (which is now in the works, but still not generally available nor legally approved for most aircraft), incentive isn't enough.
Ask HN: How do you present new tech stacks/projects in your org?
Hello Friends,

I am interested in hearing how some organizations are working on showcasing their architectural designs internally. We are working on switching from massive 100-200 person meetings presenting business need, tech design stack etc. How have you discussed a new tech stack / platform to your Solution Architects/ Enterprise Architects and management?

Thanks!
The only real argument in favor of moderation is that the platform owner is legally obligated to do so - which could and should be changed.
A custom domain with wildcard for catch all is how I have been creating logins for the past 17 years. It is fascinating to see which addresses suddenly start getting spam down the road.

It is also very easy to nuke an address this way once it is a spam trap.
This is a wonderful podcast--thorough and incredibly well-researched by a PhD astronomer. If you care about the history of astronomy it's definitely worth your attention.
My wife and I did this. We don’t watch pro baseball at all and we live in the southeast. Had a 10 minute conversation about the Cincinnati Reds and within a few minutes we were seeing MLB ads on Facebook.

I don’t know how they are doing it…but it happens.
Given their success with Minecraft it seems natural to make them the central Bureau of Child Propaganda. Its just more efficient that way, no? And we certainly don't want such a vital social function under foreign control.
Clubhouse needs creators, but creators need cash
Cup Holders. (Check)
Hot Wing Holder. (Check)
Security and Privacy. (hmmmmmmmmmm.)
When an engineer exits the team
Many registrars offer catch-all forwarding (to your free personal email), which would be your best bet if you don't expect to need to send email.

If you can afford $6/mo, Google Workspace isn't bad, there's generally better security and it grants you a lot of control over your account's settings (and will remove ads from the Gmail app on your phone, even when only looking at your @gmail account inbox).

Otherwize, Zoho works, but now costs $12/user/year (it used to be free) so ymmv. Great if you were planning on pure POP/IMAP usage anyways.
Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud’
What Programming Language Should I Learn First? (and why it doesn’t matter)
Thanks, I've fixed the typo! It was such a simple project, hardly seems worthy of a "Show HN".
Hamster's cryptocurrency portfolio is beating the market
You mean, I believe, Sassoferrato (which was actually Sentinum in roman times).

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

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

I think that all was found there comes not from Etruscan settlements, but rather from the battlefield:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sentinum
or from the umbri and sanniti, or from the later romans, etruscans were reknown and appreciated for their art, particularly ceramics, even in those times.

Etruscans cities were in central western Italy, mainly Tuscany, and Lazio with extensions to the north (Emilia Romagna and Veneto) and to the south (Campania):

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruschi#/media/File:Etruscan_...

Disclaimer:

the founder of the museum of Sassoferrato:

https://www.sassoferratoturismo.it/museo-civico-archeologico...

was my grandfather, and all I know about the matter comes from family stories.
> early reddit

Reddit is the best example of why heavy moderation is worse than lack of moderation.
Right, but the problem is marriage vows are supposed to be meaningful statements of commitment.

Imagine if a president swore "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Or that I will become a tyrannical dictator. Either way. Hard to tell at this point."
This is actually a great example of what I mean. It's not hard to see the conflict. Let's say the group most affected by lead in the US is green people, and that most green people have some level of significant lead poisoning. That would mean that it's very likely that green people in the US have negative impacts to their cognitive development because of this lead poisoning. So to address the issue green people are having would also mean acknowledging that as a group, green people are more likely to have developmental issues, which would then create fuel for discrimination against green people. That's what I mean, I'm curious to see how that kind of situation gets handled.
I’m not employed by a FAANG but we do have a similarly sized client that requires use of VDI to access their systems. I strongly dislike it, but I understand their reasons. The good news is that with the horizon client it’s pretty good framerate wise. Not native of course, but surprisingly useable. Still, it’s very limiting for my development environment needs, so I do everything I can to circumvent it.
Facebook is spending $50M to ‘responsibly’ build the metaverse
Question: how do you actually run it without getting banned?

I've got banned pretty hard by both my local home ISP and using Linode servers, when tried such scanners. Mass port scanning is easy to track, and it usually forbidden all ISP ToC.
There's absolutely funding to do this in some areas. Cleveland's had a major remediation going on for years now because approximately everyone who lives in the city is too poor to pay for it. At the same time, most houses are much older than 1979, so nearly every house has some.

https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2020/08/cleveland-city-co...
You lose the entire progression system, the ability to acquire new equipment, and achievements.

There is no requirement for any of that to require online mode.
I agree with this, my schedule was always more the same working from an office than at home:
1) same 5 restaurants to reasonably eat at, or packed lunch options that reheat well
2) same work location
3) same limited number of places to take outdoor breaks (assuming there was any at all).

I find my working hours infinitely more varied from home
Apple isn't lobbying against the legislation, they are lobbying to change the funding mechanism.

Apple has already largely decarbonised their own energy supplies at their own expense. The current legislation is funded by an increase in corporation tax, which they would pay. I can see why they don't want to have to fund everyone else's decarbonisation as well as their own.
So the gray area comes from an exception being granted from R2 not specified in that linked page. R2, like B2 is part of Cloudflare's bandwidth alliance, so is the unwritten exception for R2 or for the bandwidth alliance?
We did.

We banned, shadow banned, deleted, recorded and many other things to them to make sure they're not reaching their goal.

The problem was, it wasn't a single user to deal with. thousands and thousands with no stop.

Flooding the platform like zombie apocalypse.
LyX https://www.lyx.org/ Have been using this for all my projects private and commercial for the last 5 years.

- writes a file so you can store it in Git, use the same workflow with branching etc. as the code the documentation documents

- has a GUI so you can just use it like Word etc.

- Free (monetarily) so if I'm using outsourced developers they can all afford it

- Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, so no matter what my developers are using they can use it.

- Can generate PDFs but I don't find that feature (which in a way is its main advertised feature) that useful. Looking at them in LyX on the screen is good enough for me.
> Apparently this guy doesnt know much ... but enough to waste some peoples time with useless FOIA requests.

I think this is really useful.

Apple and Microsoft have some of the most sophisticated BD/partnership teams in the world.

Many companies who partner with Apple use an internal codeword and don't let others within the company know the client, terms of the deal, or the scope of the work.

Being able to see how Apple is approaching these deals is really interesting and valuable. They are going into 50 states and dealing with the DMV. The DMV has a reputation of being disorganized and not very technical. Apple has the opposite reputation. We are getting a front-row seat into how "disruption" happens.

Even if partnership deals don't get you excited, having transparency into how private companies do business with the government is almost always a good thing.
Could you say more about your set up? I'm looking for something similar.
‘The Big Delete:’ Inside Facebook’s Crackdown in Germany
>especially google, which already infests governments & schools

Working in schools, I can assure you, google classroom and all the accompanying apps are not some cabal from the schools. They're free. That's the incentive.

Also, I would ask, what is the other option? That the government builds and maintains specific programs for every function? How okay are you with taxes going up quite a bit? Because they will need to in order for the public sector to compete for talent with the private sector.

My opinion is that these sorts of things don't need to be electronic, as paper is more secure anyway. But maybe I'm a Luddite. At the very least, I am privileged enough to have a career that allows me the flexibility to interact with government agencies if I need to. If I was still working retail, I could see how online services would definitely be a plus in time saved.
This (icepanel.io) is just a graphical editor (with some very nice functionality) for C4 Model diagrams: https://c4model.com

The actual standard is quite light weight, which is its main selling point. The whole premise is that many teams find rigorous standards like UML and Archimate too heavy and thus resort to basic boxes-and-lines diagrams. C4 essentially says "take your boxes-and-lines and put full sentence descriptions on everything". Combine that will successive levels of detail, and you have the C4 standard.

You don't have to give up diagrams-as-code because you can create C4 diagrams with PlantUML [0] or using the C4 specific DSL [1].

[0] - https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML

[1] - https://github.com/structurizr/dsl
I'm pretty happy using most languages, even C is fun... There's something about it which pushes my buttons.

PHP, however, needs to be dropped kicked out of the window.
Show HN: O's URL Lengthener
Adding more stuff isn't necessarily defense in depth.

It's also an opportunity to make mistakes, which in worst case could provide free root shells to people with funny host names.