skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved on from Debian some 9-10 years ago and I haven't regretted it once. Many sysadmin acquaintances and former colleagues of mine complained that upgrading Debian is often like rolling a dice (yes, even the stable and thus fairly old variant). An innocent "apt-get upgrade" moves configuration files and/or expectations where they are, or, what's even worse, changes the config files and silently moves the previous ones to another file. This is sensible but obviously a 99% automated process run on a fleet of servers cannot detect this and those acquaintances of mine regularly had to fight with the consequences. Some even resigned when management refused to let them move to another distro. Other were more lucky and managed to move.

I am not a sysadmin and very far from an expert so my take on this is entirely anecdotal and likely partially wrong.

But ever since I moved to Manjaro (after briefly trying Arch and deciding that I don't want to build my own house brick by brick) I've only had 1-2 problems ever and they were fixed literally the day after with the next system-wide update command. The one and only exception is the last problem I had: namely an OpenSSH upgrade hard-deprecated a few signing algorithms so I was unable to SSH into my servers. And that was solved with half a minute of search on ManjaroForum. Smooth sailing.

For all the BS surrounding the "systemd vs. whatever-else-the-other-thing-was", I found the former made my life as a mid-tier Linux user and home-grown server admin much easier, too.
The billionaires' tax he mentioned is dead anyway, so that part of the discussion is moot. It was floated a couple of days ago as a possible addition to the reconciliation bill, but it's not in the framework announced this morning.
None of this is the point, though. The point is that Amazon wouldn't have achieved what it has if Bezos was forced to slowly divest control of his company over the last two decades.

Bezos does not have his cash in hand, for the most part. To the extent that he does have cash in hand, he has already paid taxes on that cash. To the extent that he has not paid taxes on his wealth, he is fully incentivized by the share price of AMZN.
> You are always in control of whether you want to read an email or not.

Demonstrably false. You cannot ignore a category of information without first without interacting with it - as you must first establish that it _is part of that category_. It's impossible to know a spam message that got thru automated filters is spam or not until I read at least the subject line.
Probably not- the faster sonicare toothbrushes vibrate at 512 Hz, while sonograms are between 2,000,000 to 18,000,000 Hz. There's probably a significant difference in power levels, too.
So what you’re saying is, now would be a good time to be a promising social AR/VR startup?
>He is truly detached from us normal people and our human experience.

From watching his mannerisms and facial expressions, I get the feeling that he is high functioning but very much on the autistic spectrum, and emulates many subtle movements/behaviors during communication that come naturally to "normies". That's why he comes off as a robot deep in the uncanny valley.

I like to think of it as partly emulating with software some of the communication hardware that neurotypical people have innately. Which is why social interactions can be taxing for those with Asperger's, the extra cycles are draining and distracting, in addition to the necessary self consciousness which also costs some amount of compute.
I've always thought of Go as C for the Cloud. Nothing else really comes close to it.
I think it's factual statement. When regulators are investigating one of your business practices, that is a business risk.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-likely-face-doj-ant...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-re...
Current supply chain model is largely based on the likes of Walmart. They are also the company that pushed to manufacture goods in China. Walmart destroyed the rust belt. Walmart destroyed small businesses across the country.

Walmart is the reason why US middle class got screwed. Walmart is the reason why we saw unabated rise in China. Walmart is boomer legacy.
Doesn't work at all. Most spam calls are from overseas using throw away voip accounts. Do not call just gets ignored.
Could you flesh out the "federation doesn't scale" argument a bit?
Sure fluorine is extremely reactive but once a F is bonded to a C, it's quite hard to dislodge. To remove that bounded F you need a really strong oxidant like ozone.

Chlorofluorocarbons were used as propellant in sprays and asthma pump because they didn't react with the active substances.

The presence of fluoride in a disproportionate number of poisons (FOOF excluded) is due to the fact that as far as biological binding site are concerned it's almost like a really heavy hydrogen but metabolically it protect that carbon from being the target of an enzyme¹. This enable a toxic molecule that would be quickly metabolized to stay active long enough to do some damage.

It's important to note that the presence of a C-F bond doesn't make a molecule inherently toxic, it just make it harder to metabolize when that bond is placed at the target of an enzyme.

1- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190305112830.h...
If an email bounces back to you, just remove the address!

I don’t see a problem here, except maybe you’re adding addresses that either didnt sign up or forgot that they signed up.
The interesting part about this idea to me is the scalability.

If you're someone looking to cold-email someone you admire, you're willing to spend a dollar to do that.

If you're a spammer who plays number games with your emails (maybe 0.01% result in a successful clickthrough), $1 per email is not even close to worth it.

I haven't thought through all the consequences yet, but this seems like a super interesting idea to me, with the potential to kill off the low-probability-of-success emails that I get hundreds of per day!
It never goes away, does it
The goods waiting in Shanghai are not in freshly minted containers. If they were, shipping from LA to Shanghai would be much more expensive than your graph suggests, because otherwise it would have been cheaper to ship one from LA than buy new one in Shanghai, and so people would do that instead of buying new containers.
Cannabis was found to be "helpful" also. There are papers on that. I suppose the mechanism is the same - reduce cortisol caused by some underlying stress by turning off the brain from time to time, and get people to sleep more.
Then it's good news they're branching out their services beyond just the App Store commission.
Slightly different issue. In my experience, the problem tends to be from robodialers operating on behalf of scammers or fly-by-night marketing agencies. As the US phone system is currently operated, it's trivial for these kinds of actors to spoof originating phone numbers and hit every valid US phone number in sequence.
No.
It is not a block list. It only applies to US based organizations who decide to honor it. It does nothing to prevent international callers from using (or forging) a US based number to very urgently talk to you about your lapsed car warranty or your Microsoft Windows error.
No, because most of the spam calls in US are actually criminal fraud, eg: extended warranty. Australia carved out enough exemptions for their DNC registry to make it less useful. Political parties can spam you via phone whenever they like.
It does not work because it is trivial to fake the source number.

A popular form of spam pretends to call from a phone number very similar to yours (they use the same leading 6 digits) to make it look like a neighbor is calling.

Hopefully the STIR/SHAKEN implementation will widen and this will be put to bed.
I'm not complaining, and I'm not claiming he is or isn't behind a given decision. I'm just trying to understand what people see as evidence of his savviness, as I don't see much besides a pile of money and an adequately-maintained natural monopoly that now looks to be in a fair bit of trouble both in the market (thus his recent announcement of a dramatic retooling) and in the public eye (e.g., the latest whistleblowers and the Congressional hearings).

And it's perfectly possible that he is more responsible for the bad choices than he is for the good ones. I've dealt with execs like that. I'd bet many others have as well.
In fact, the opposite seems like a better plan. You only pay if you waste my time, and if I respond then I'm saying you didn't.
We did a spoof ad for a psychiatry magazine when I was at Adbusters:

https://static.substack.com/p/now-available
> This is a natural solution to spam

"You'll only pay if you get a response."

How does this do anything about spam, then?
That's true, but if you're operating on-site that far away you'd need an FPV receiver.

Granted I'm coming from a position of privilege, so when I price this in my head I think "$200 for a RadioMaster TX16S, $600 for a Skyline 04X".

You could totally use a much cheaper setup and have it work just fine. For video feed, you can get COTS solutions for ~$50. You could probably build it for $30.
Does your passport state sex or gender? I have two on hand and both state sex.
Boomerang: Open-source, cloud-native projects for CI/CD and automation
No, because you can splice in the middle. Given just the iterators you simply have no other way than counting.

(The reason why it used to be constant time is that it didn't have to count because it didn't have to compute the new size).
> So increasing our natural amounts is somehow ok?

It can be OK, or it can be not. That's why we pay scientists to study how safe these things are.

> MSG is in our system too, but people who eat food with it added in, often complain of headaches.

You could have chosen a better example: MSG is a prime example of people overreacting to what is essentially a tasty placebo. Gram by gram, it's safer than salt.
As the person who wrote this rant I wish I had toned it back a bit. This is usually not my style. That is all.
This has been proposed many, many times. It's infeasible for a multitude of reasons. One of those is that it would allow any web service which sends an email to a user-specified address -- even a single email used to verify an account, which is standard practice -- to be abused to bankrupt the service operator.
> So far I don't think democracy has ever existed except at tribal scale (below Dunbar's Number). All former and current attempts are oligarchies with a degree of democratic veto power or a democratic facade.

I've not read the book, but according to this interview [0] something closer to half of all pre-modern societies had something resembling democracies (the rest being the autocrats we tend to expect from history).

Some were a bit different - for instance, in many cases elected representatives would have a fixed mandate on issues that they had the authority to make decisions on. Anything broader meant going back to the constituents to ask for an extension of power.

I'm hopeful that human society has already solved some of the problems of democracy - modern society has just glossed over those solutions with not-invented-here syndrome.

I'm also hopeful that technologies built top of cryptocurrencies (like smart contracts and DAOs) will enable new ways for humans to coordinate.

Mechanisms like quadratic voting and funding appear genuinely new to me - and particularly promising!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGkhWUureVg
I just described the world how it is. I did not create it, I did not made the browser. I do not understand your point. You want to complain about what exactly?
Americans would liberate puppies before they liberate people.
Good documentation and the killer feature is the PIO. (Programmable I/O unit)
I think you're forgetting about Russia. They sell or resell a lot of oil.
Cryptocurrency could be a convenient way to do the micropayments, without any rent-seeking if the project doesn't mint its own token. They'd need to solve scaling first though.
The mess we're in (Joe Armstrong): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
It's enough evidence of one success. But "Zuck is pretty successful at things he wants to do" sounds like he has more than one success. I'm just asking what those other things are.
They just scan it and and see what computer says. It's no harder than a cashier at a supermarket.

Does TSA check your docs at all or is it up to immigration clarks?
Unrelated question: does every single reading time estimate lie to us in attempt to entice us to stay or am I just slow?

There is no way I can read this in 10 minutes.
Which is kind of to the point, they have more money on hand than a small country’s budget and even if they lose it all it almost doesn’t make a dent in their net worth.

In this situation it is almost reasonable to want a small crisis to shake out your upcoming competitors and buy some more land or other things of real value at a discount.
This seemed so idealistic and a bit silly when I was a kid, but now (especially now) ...

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
adding more fonts including hack is definitely something we plan for the next release! stay tuned!
Yeah, if you want the good stuff, you'll spend a lot of money, but a TX16S is way overkill for what they're doing. Plus, if you're going to spend $600 on goggles, might as well get digital ones :P
I was very grateful to see this disclaimer:

> I've spent months working on this program
which is probably an improvement if they're kept totally separate from facebook
Indeed. Actually I think the impact will be less than many expect - it’s definitely not going to zero!
From what I read, the P2P method isn't new.
"Preisler, who works at an electroplating factory and has been arrested twice in the U.S. for his work with methamphetamine, says he isn't surprised traffickers have turned to P2P.

"P2P is old school," he said. "Hell, I used to cook by that route circa 1980."

The fight has come full circle. In the 1980s, the U.S. government severely restricted access to P2P seeking to curtail methamphetamine production. Meth makers shifted to ephedrine, which could be found in common cold remedies. When authorities cracked down on ephedrine, they switched to pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in Sudafed and other decongestants."
https://www.cleveland.com/world/2009/12/old_school_meth_meth...
> Phones were also open. Now no one answers calls from strangers because of the proliferation of spam calls.

I used to get at least a couple of spam calls each year, but I don’t think I’ve gotten any this past year. I have no filtering or app. Of course, I don’t live in the USA.
Certainly, one of the problems with email is that it is free for the sender. If sending an email required even a small amount of "postage", even a thousandth of a cent, it would solve a lot of problems. (Perhaps, the receiver would get the bulk of this "postage", with the service provider creating the infrastructure getting a commission.)

The problem with it is that there is no easy way for anyone who is willing to pay a thousandth of a cent to send an email to someone to pay it. Despite how much the internet has boomed in the last thirty years, there is still no good way for individual consumers to send and receive micropayments worldwide.
Probably because of COVID. Or was it the measures? I always confuse the harm caused by the two.
There is also fire and earthquake risk.
Many are still useful. Darwin was a great writer as well as a great scientist and Origin is still really worth reading, IMO.
you realize of course, eventually the tanker will be fueled with hydrogen..?
The millions of people who lost their jobs and had to rely on emergency cash payments from the government to pay for food and rent?
I'm a software engineer. I choose music or silence tactically. If I need to power myself through a task, I use music to do it. If I'm trying to solve a difficult problem or master a complex body of unfamiliar code, I need silence.

Before WFH become the norm in early 2020, there were days when I made no progress at all until everyone else had gone home. The precious hour between 5pm and 6pm -- when the cleaners came and talked to me and broke my concentration again -- was sometimes more productive than the entire day that led up to it.

What also helps, working alone, is the ability to talk out loud to yourself. For me, it's a superpower. I dread losing it if Management decides to pull us all back into the office when the pandemic is over. (Or, even worse, continually talking to myself without realising it. :-))
This is also why streaming like twitch is so effective as background noise. I can put on a streamer in the background and unlike a podcast, not feel the need to pay attention to what's going on at all.
When your reputation gets really bad, change your name. I guess that works well enough to make it worth doing.

I recall several scummy companies doing that over the recent decades.
Because we are being domesticated. Domesticated animals are all dumber than their wild counterparts. Every wild animal that ends up being domesticated ends up with a smaller brain. I should rephrase and maybe say that this doesn't necessarily mean the animals get dumber but they definitely change in the process of domestication and a smaller brain is one of those adaptations. [1]

> The reduced amount of white matter suggests that domestic rabbits have a compromised information processing possibly explaining why they are more slow reacting and phlegmatic than their wild counterparts.

1: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-differences-brain-morphology-w...
What makes these people experts?

It looks like some of this is that they are professors, or they cite each other, which is rather circular.

Are there testable predictions, or some utility to those who aren't political scientists?
My somewhat large reading about this and some real life knowledge says this is a very true POV.
Have you heard of wordnik? It came up a lot while I was trying to fish out examples of how painful it is to query wiktionary.
Only in an accounting sense is their money stored "around the world". It's all managed by their Nevada investment company Braeburn Capital. They can freely move it to banks in the US or to anywhere else they need it, it's only "overseas" in the sense that they recognized the revenue elsewhere.

Cash and cash equivalents is the line on the balance sheet and includes things like T-Bills and other low-risk investments. Apple almost certainly does better than inflation and regardless, it's completely normal treasury management to return ~0% since if your shareholders wanted exposure to riskier assets, they'd buy those assets with their own money.
Why is Flexport lately popular on HN?
Though both are probably apocryphal:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers,"

and:

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

We're really bad at predicting how things will change. Who would have thought that Tim Berners-Lee would be a link in a chain to Donald Trump's election?
From the article it indicates this shrinkage began 70K years ago, or 65K years before writing. In addition, vast majority of the population didn't know how to read or write until 100-150 years ago.
Methamphetamine synthesized from pseudoephedrine gives enantiomerically pure Dextro-methamphetamine.

Phenylacetone synthesis yields racemic methamphetamine.

You can actually use a laptop screen, and polarized sunglass lenses to check the optical rotation at home, cheap polarimeter.

As far as purifying enantiomer with amphetamine and methamphetamine goes:

It can be done relatively easily with just D-tartaric Acid.

Look up "Procedures for the Resolution of Racemic Amphetamines"

https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/amphetamine.res...

I do not believe this practice is in use in illicit drug manufacture. There's no economic incentive and it requires some braincells.

From "Selective Crystallization of Methamphetamine with d-Tartaric Acid:"

Phenylisopropylmethylamine was resolved by treatment with 0.4-6 moles of dextro tartaric acid in water or aqueous ethanol containing 0.4-6 moles hydrogen chloride.

A mixture of phenylisopropylmethylamine 150, d-tartaric acid 82.5, and H2O 330 g was treated with HCl to pH 4 to deposit 120 g L-phenylisopropylmethylamine-d-tartrate salt, which gave 88 g L-phenylisopropylmethylamine. The D-enantiomer (58 g as the HCl salt) was isolated from the filtrate.
Can we just build private space, lunar, and martian colonies? They could be financed by Tesla shareholders.

The colonisation of the world by Europeans started with government investment, but eventually became self-sustaining.

If these offworld colonies are free of political correctness, crime, taxes, welfare systems, and disease, and contain only beautiful, healthy, and intelligent people (via careful selection, including genetic screening and IQ tests, of permitted colonists), they could draw the best of humanity to them.