skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A suggestion: your otherwise helpful reply might be more effective without upbraiding the commenter you're replying to. (Yes, irony noted that I'm upbraiding you.)
i use mailinabox on a cheap vps. 10-20 minutes install no problem.
what the poster meant was hackernews@12.familyname.xyz
here 12 is family member code and hackernews is the actual website where that person is trying to get registered.

this is pretty awesome setup because if you get spams from anyone, you can simply see which family member signed up for which website and which one is leaking data.
the next step, if required would be to delete that account/email and be done with it. no more spam, no more going back. If you do need that email in future, recreating it would be trivial, like if you need to get back into an old account or the like
The Metaverse Could Bring in $1T Annually, Says Grayscale
Tau neutrinos, yes, but electron and muon neutrinos are significantly easier to identify - the problem with tau neutrinos is that when they interact, they produce a tauon, which very, very quickly decays so it's hard to know if it was a tauon decaying to, say, a muon or electron - which look identical to their respective neutrino flavours, or one of those neutrinos to begin with.

This is not to say that it's _easy_ to detect the other kinds, you still need a large number of neutrinos and a large volume for detection. The example that always comes up is submarine communication - which has two problems - detecting a sparse and intermittent signal to get a useful bitrate out, and generating a beam of sufficient intensity to begin with, let alone a beam that is steerable!
They should start by filing a police report for identity theft, and emailing things to customer service or faxing can give a faster and better paper trail
No worries! That's probably not a bad call, although the post seems to be dying a natural death at this point.
Sounds like I need to check out bandcamp. Downloading flac is a lot more convenient than shipping media and manually ripping each item.

Edit: Just set up an account @ Bandcamp. This is looking pretty incredible. Seems like a perfect combination of direct payments to artists, discovery & ownership of purchased content. Looks like most digital downloads are very reasonably priced.
Will it reliably do this for markets other than the US though? Not long ago it definitely didn't. I'll give it another try but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Exactly. Here are my product requirements:

Unrestricted access to all movies, music and TV shows ever made. Not 90%. Not 98%. Not "all except a few we couldn't work out licensing agreements over". All.

Highest resolution/quality available at the time of release (DVD quality for 90s movies: OK. DVD quality for 2010 movies: NO)

No arbitrary device/OS limitations.

Can watch/listen/download from any location on earth with sufficient bandwidth.

No ads embedded in the middle of the content.

That's it! Piracy offers all of the above for free, but I'd be willing to pay for this. Just release this product and take my money. The best part is, technology-wise, all of the above are solved problems. You just need to get the lawyers to say yes and you have the product already.

EDIT to address now-deleted comment: I didn't mention a price I'd be willing to pay--that's up to the market to figure out. Currently nobody offers this so it's hard to come up with a comparable.
From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell (2020)
When I asked "how is the content of her post relevant here?" I meant: how is the content of the post relevant with regards to your assertion that the media's reporting has been incomplete?

I also asked you what specifically has been lacking in those media reports.

You are not just posting this information to share it. You are making a claim that the media's reporting has been incomplete, which claim you have not substantiated.

So, I ask again, what specific relevant information has been lacking from media reports?
The answer lies in your question. This is not, in fact, a significant product to Google.
> The main proposed option is frankly a fairly poor reimplementation of the logo and loses too much of the character of the original logo.

As the designer of the original Alacrity icon[0], the icon proposed in your linked #3926 is close to how I would design the icon for macOS today (although I prefer semanser's version in #4726[1]).

I respect chrisduerr and the talent and monumental effort he's put into maintaining Alacrity over the past couple years, but shutting down the macOS icon proposals—which do not increase the maintenance burden of Alacritty and are obviously strongly desired by Alacrity's macOS users—is not reasonable.

[0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/285#issuecomme...

[1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4726#issuecommen...
There's a fourth credit agency now that it's recommended to put a freeze on, but I don't remember the name off the top of my head.
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Bought 4 tickets in 2009, Bought DVD and BluRay version (that are still in my closet)

Wanted to watch it last week in the background while I worked. $3 everywhere.

You got my money, I’ll watch it when it’s on TNT, or SyFy, or whatever on dish network.

I’m not paying $3 to rent it again.

This article is spot on. We pay for Prime (can’t peel out the movies), We get HBOMax with our cellphone package(?), can’t peel it out if we need tethering…pay for netflix and Disney+

So I’m ALREADY paying, easily $135 a month. I’m done. You want me to go back to NOT paying that much, we can do without, because it doesn’t feel like I’m getting nearly $5 a day in value out of it…
What's interesting: There doesn't seem to be toxicity associated with Vitamin D produced by sunlight. The body seems to have mechanisms that prevent overdose, even if you're constantly in the sun.
Is that an attempt to appeal to authority?
Tesla forced to turn down €1.1B in EU support for German battery plant
I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”
There's no actual argument in this article. His whole argument is "The title and subheading say it all, really."

tl;dr: man with straw man argument knocks down straw man
Amazon commingling inventory will probably mean that quality varies quite a lot.
Is there any particular reason it's better for Canadian jets to be sitting in Germany than for Germany to just have more jets if they feel they need them for defence? This is a thing that makes sense for European countries to do with each other, or north american countries likewise, but it's just downright silly to buy billion+ dollar jets ostensibly for the defense of Canada and then stick them in Germany.

Like, other than symbolic ones where we try to pretend we're contributing in a way similar to the US with its little plots of american land in half the countries of the world even though we have neither the means nor the stomach to do so.
Very cool to see more platforms which are unbundling various db components.
How long is the article? Is it just four paragraphs of misconceptions about blockchain?

This is amazing. I mean is it sufficient to talk shit about blockchain to get onto the HN front page?

Proof of Stake is real. "Proof of Burn" is bizarre. I don't even understand what he is talking about here (but again I'm not even sure I'm seeing the whole article).

Sharding and Zero Knowledge Proofs means you won't have to keep a ledger of everything ever. Sharding in particular. Sharding is just the delegation of parts of the blockchain to different nodes so not all nodes have to keep the entire blockchain.

There are chains (ALGO in particular) where virtually all of these solutions are already implemented. Ethereum is right now already seeing Layer2 solutions that implement Zero Knowledge Proofs as a way to dramatically decrease needed data.

Are we really rehashing criticisms of Bitcoin as a way to criticize CURRENT BLOCKCHAIN tech? This like trying to criticize iOS dev by talking about limitations of Obj-C 10 years ago. This is insanity. HN deserves better than this.
Also check Andy Matuschak's "Evergreen Notes" project https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

It's not a software per se, but the way he organizes his notes is the holy grail IMHO.
Url changed from https://walledculture.org/the-film-industry-effectively-solv..., which points to this.
Yes, they said is to conserve it, but everybody knows that very poor people is not thinking about environment, but thinking how they can survive the next day, they will cut centenary trees to sell wood, they will extract precious metals using poisonous substancies, etc.
Apart from the fact that they should care about their forests or what's left there(if any), they developed theirselves using their resources and lobby to Brazil not use his own resources because it will "hurt the entire world".
I understand that in one sense, digital products can be infinitely reproduced, so it's not like someone is deprived of the product when it's pirated. What I can't reconcile is the entitlement that one deserves to be able to view a specific movie or TV show. I've often heard the argument that there's no harm done, because the pirate wouldn't pay to watch it anyway. Yet the only reason the show is there to pirate is because others are willing to pay for the privilege of viewing it. If everyone took the "pirate" attitude, then there simply wouldn't be any shows to pirate. Now in reality that seems unlikely to actually transpire, so there likely is no harm done. But why does the pirate deserve to watch for free?

We're not talking about access to food or clean water. If I had no legal way to obtain food, I'd steal it in a heartbeat. If I can't find a legal way to watch the latest uninspired Star Wars spin-off, I'm just not going to watch it and do something else. I'm all for civil disobedience when warranted, but I have a hard time justifying it for watching a TV show.
Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks
It is not specific to Rust of course, and it happens all time with open or closed source software, but it get interesting when people start to rant in public.

It is like marriage. Everything is fine in the honeymoon, even when it is not, but after that, things start to get a little messy.
Very light reading with large, unsubstantiated leaps and derivative opinions. The fact that work of this quality is getting traction just makes the HN anti-crypto bias evident. Do they even click through?
The PLT position on this is that loops are too expressive. We'd like to use the least powerful tool that can do the job. Loops can express all sorts of incorrect versions of the intended algorithm. It's preferable to try to identify the reusable structure in the algorithm (it might be a "scan" or a "fold", for example) and implement that once and for all. We then provide a simple interface to that algorithm, without any footguns.
Consumers should switch to low carbon goods and services to avoid paying the carbon tax.
> constant hassle

> something that doesn't bother me

Yeah you've never been unlucky enough to get a bad flu.

I'll absolutely choose the "constant hassle" of getting a flu shot (i.e. a 5 minute pit stop at the drug store once per year).

The flu sucks.
Wait till they make that loophole unpractical.
Most supplements are overrated (and this is coming from someone who has taken quite a few in the past for various issues, then stopped when the issues were resolved).

Most of the time you're better off just eating more bioavailable foods. The risks are more well-known.

The only exception is magnesium. It really does seem like everybody should supplement or get a blood test, since deficiency is so common.

It can also be the source of random panic attacks, especially if you're particularly stressed.

My sister had this issue for a while until she started taking epsom salt baths and discovered it basically made her random panic attacks disappear.
Yeah, you're right. We should just give up.
I think part of this is just because of how much there is to learn on youtube. "youtube university", as i like to call it. with so much to learn, it brings good discussion.
Really, folks have to start confronting reality here: the vast majority of people are simply not at risk, and treating this like an ongoing emergency is having some serious side effects that exceed the underlying disease.
I went with multiple small birds. I found < 14lbs easier to manage and the meat isn't as tough.

Some observations over the years:

1. Keep the humidity high in the oven. Add liquid to the roasting pan. I also added a tray of water to the BBQ when I used a rotisserie this year

2. Don't stuff the bird, or if you do, only use aromatics like orange/onion/bay leaf, and do it loosely

3. Add a fat to the skin

4. Brine your bird for 24 hours, dry it completely

5. Don't go directly from fridge to oven. Add some time outside of the fridge to come up in temperature
1) family have had it drummed into them to never click links in emails or open attachments unless it's something they explicitly requested moments before

2) no Windows
Syndicated at ArsTechnica, no paywall:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/11/tesla-forced-to-turn-do...
Thank you for encouraging me to install an ad blocker for iOS. Now I can read that article ;)
I think we all know how editorialising can create inference. The targeted pedantry is actually counter productive to the genral discussion of an article and its merits.
> While I disagree with your conclusion due to the measurable increases in human development through our aid

From 1960 to 2020, real GDP per capita in subsaharan Africa has grown by 0.6% per annum.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDSSF

Whereas real global GDP per capita has increased by 1.7%, or three times the rate of growth as subsaharan Africa.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDWLD

So yes, there has been some measurable human development. But Africa continues to fall farther behind the rest of the world -- e.g. the difference in global development between the rest of the world and Africa in 1960 was much lower than the difference today. We see divergence, not convergence.

I can't see that as a success story.
Communication via EM waves travel around the earth, not through it. (eg radio waves, fibre optic cables, satellite...)
What is "dunking"?
Exactly.

You are now conceding there is no straightforward answer to this question — That maybe, just maybe, it's a very hard problem to solve given the criteria and constraints?

Perhaps your earlier observations would have been better served to acknowledge this fact, instead of chalking things up to "Anti-Americanism" and other garbage.
So for I while I've been fascinated with sorting networks because some of them are SIMD-friendly, and also how'd they perform against "traditional" sorting algorithms. The code linked to is an experiment in both evaluating performance of sorting networks and in writing high-performance code in C# (pointers, AVX2 intrinsics). The results are promising: sorting networks sort integer and float arrays 3-6X faster than the built-in `Array.Sort` method for arrays of up to 1M elements.
Always disappointed when I see titles like this and realise they are talking about Apache Kafka.
Two years and 300K downloads since The Program audio series' launch on HN
https://www.metafilter.com/ (and https://ask.metafilter.com/ ) has successfully maintained a high-quality community for decades through active, strong, and consistent moderation.
He’s saying that if you pool enough people together, you will get some bad actors. He’s right, although I don’t know if it applies to the EA situation.

A company I worked at, when we got nicer offices that had actual showers, had someone take a dump in the shower within the first month of moving in. I think we were around 1500 employees at the time. It would never occur to me that this would happen, but now I know to expect anything once you get enough people together.
I have the Kindle version of The Seleucid Royal Economy which for obvious reasons includes Greek text.

It's been OCRed, and the Greek has been mangled beyond belief. Sometimes the OCR will split a single character.

No real point to the story, but it feels relevant here. I see Rescribe has already encountered the problem: "In the second step we run the OCR on the preprocessed files, using our specifically trained packages and adapting language and character settings to the document at hand."

(I'm only complaining to a very small degree. Having a low-quality OCRed ebook available is much better than having no ebook available. And what is normally displayed is the image of the text, not the OCRed nonsense, so it doesn't matter that the Greek has been transformed into gibberish until you encounter the odd mid-character word break.)
I can tell you from recent experience, merging something only to have it reverted later is a net confidence loss.
I can buy a DRM-less lossless music file that will play as many times as I like, on any device I own, for a reasonable price, without having to deal with a crappy and/or buggy distributor-specific app, or being dependent on the distributor's infrastructure being available, the distributor still being licensed to distribute the music, or the distributor still being in business at all. If this works for music, it can work for TV and film as well.
This feels like a very early post-WWII way of looking at conflict to me. If a conflict is in desperate need of help from countries across the ocean with no projection power themselves (ie. not the US), it's likely "a trip across the ocean with 2 refuelling stops" is going to be too little two late. If we want to contribute to ongoing conflicts then we need more than the ability to fly a jet out and maybe back.

The main thing that kind of capability is useful for is a first strike, I'm pretty sure. And I'd argue that's not the kind of thing Canada should be involving itself in.
So frustrating. You got like 80% of the way there, and then went "nope, too much work" and diverted to add more complexity.

The answer is to write the SQL yourself, and the scan methods yourself. Code generation is better than ORM, but still a wrapper, still adds complexity, and still brings problems.

Yes it's a pain in the arse to write all that boilerplate in one go (pun intended). But if you'd started without an ORM you'd have written them one at a time as you needed them and barely noticed it.

Keeping your code aligned with your database schema is very little effort - database schema changes are usually rare and significant.

I write a view for each access method (so I can change the schema without worrying about changing every access method), and a function for each update/insert/delete (for the same reasons). It takes maybe 20 mins to write the whole set each time I have to add a feature with new data, which is a rounding error in the time it takes to write all the rest of it.

The point is that the database schema is optimised to storing data in the best way possible. The middle layer is optimised for processing data in the best way possible, and the front end is optimised for displaying data in the best way possible. None of these three things are equal. Use an interface between each of them. The interface is important and needs to be carefully considered.
Can he get cable TV? Do any of his neighbors have it? That would at least be a starting point if you wanted cable internet.
Difference Between Cache and Read Model
which attitude? The only way to visit your grandma safe is testing. PCR.
Can you please make your substantive points without fulminating? We all know how provocative the annoying bits can be, but if you translate that into venting in the threads, it compounds into the sort of culture we really don't want here. Since that outcome is unfortunately the default, we have to make some effort to avoid it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Massive respect to the Alacritty team for holding true to keeping it the most reliable and performant terminal emulator. It is my daily driver and I am grateful for the high degree of care held within its community.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Pocket Guide
it's pure insanity. I've shared multiple articles about interesting things happening in the crypto world. They get no traction.

This guy writes 4 paragraphs of nonsense, but it's anti-crypto. Straight to front page! Jeebus. Makes HN look like boomer tech talk. Just completely detached from reality.

Doesn't matter how exciting tech innovation is - if it's on the blockchain nobody cares about it. Not here.
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The author of this book has led the implementation of numerous RPA projects from idea to production. The suggestions in this book will help everyone working on RPA projects overcome practical and daily problems they face while improving business processes using RPA technology.

This book covers practical recommendations for successful RPA projects implementations and is a reference guide when:
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The mammalian liver stores vitamin A and vitamin D (polar bears store so much of the former that polar bear liver will give you vitamin A poisoning, even in small quantities).

If you are deficient that usually means low reserves, so some or most of what you take will go into your liver instead of your blood. Over time your serum levels climb on the same dose, which is why you have to keep testing. It’s also why therapies for vitamin D deficiency can include prescription ultra high dose pills taken once a month for a few months, rather than (or in addition to) daily supplementation.
thats what the gravy, cranberry, and stuffing are for
Speaking of speech patterns, the one where someone responds to being schooled in multiple ways with “nah…” is an Internet staple. It’s not convincing, but it must be fun to write? :)