skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To solve 'strangers can send me email' you don't need any fancy crypto. Randomly generated long aliases work great, as they can forward to your address with an "alias[.+]" prefix or "[.+]alias" postfix, and you can kill the aliases that receive spam. Killing an alias should send all such mail to spam, or result in a bounce back. If we can push that functionality into the MTA / MDA (along with a general spam button) the mail servers can learn and respond to spam that happens across all their user accounts and either start to deliver mail into Spam folders or push back on mail deliveries with either a delay or bounce.

I am concerned that charging even a penny per email would make it harder for people in developing nations to send mail (you need to understand how insanely poor some people are), and those are the countries that spammers might take advantage of. We should be very careful in today's world not to make technology that negatively affects the most vulnerable.
Web3 makes great sense when energy is abundant [1] and we're more concerned with the "ownership problem" and who should become wealthy and who not and its socio-economic (and political) justifcation, which was largely what we had occupied ourselves in the past 100 years, but in a different lingo: eg communism/socialism vs capitalism.

[1]: when we reach Type 1 as a civilization with eg large-scale application of fusion power. (According to mass–energy equivalence, Type I implies the conversion of about 2 kg of matter to energy per second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civiliz... )

It'll never be a perfect system. But overall we shouldn't under-estimate the impacts of the wealth transfer [2] created by BTC, ETH, etc, to the hands of young and tech-believed optimists. And what this means from an evolutionary consumer-market perspective and how cultures are being shaped very differently (in US, EU, China, etc). (I’m in Hangzhou now and it's quite surreal to hear random people chatting about NFT in a cafe here despite CCP's ban of cryptos.)

[2] There were ponzi schemes for sure. But there are (a larger number of) honest people that became wealthy simply because they bought some BTC at $10 and are holding to this day too.
3D to 2D face AI for videos (AnimeGANv2)
Noise canceling headphones at a metal concert
"especially the one for foreigner,"

That was kind of fun haha :) it wasnt until I hit this sentence that it suddenly dawned on me you were writing everything in the Singlish language!
> The big play button is shuffle

This was the case until a few weeks ago. Now it plays the tracks in order and there is an extra shuffle button. (Allegedly requested by Adele.)
There's no way to create "unbacked" bitcoin. You either have the transaction outputs pointing at your wallet address on the public blockchain, or you do not. Nobody wants or will accept FedBTC.
If price isn’t a primary consideration, get a Thunderbolt 4 cable and be confident it will work everywhere, particularly if it’s an active TB4 cable:

https://chrisbergeron.com/2021/07/25/Ultra-fast-Thunderbolt-...
Is this really still an issue? Even Chromebooks, ironically, have long enough battery lives for daily use. Phones seem to work OK. Despite inefficiencies, the hardware is still miles ahead of the of average user's software needs these days.
Maybe this is as good as it gets and we are at the plateau phase.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2020/02/bloomberg-nef-batter...

I think we seem to think here that things can improve indefinitely but some constants come from physics.

https://www.briangwilliams.us/economic-growth-2/images/900_4...
Yes,

i used PC because in the parent comment PC was used as well.

Desktop is also not ideal because it runs on Laptops as well.
Sorry to say that, but it sounds like you got it backwards. The idea is not to remove the owner from the project, but to always have at least two people working on any project at the same time. Instead of 2 devs working for 2 months each on their own project, put them together on the first project for a month, then on the other project for the second month (simplified example, of course). They both work on their own tasks, but because they are familiar with the code and the project, they can review each others changes.

In my experience this works great. Context switching is a problem, but there are ways to minimize the impact (similar tech stacks, good work organization, clearly defined priorities,...).
This is great, Thank You!

"which relate to, or are reasonably capable of being used in, the business of the Company or any Group Company" sounds like a good phrasing to me, especially the "business" part of it as I interpret it to be the company simply wanting you to not build a competing product while employed there (a fair thing to have in a contract).

For reference, this is what my last contract had: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220800 (notably 13.4 (c))

How I see it, "whether or not during working hours or using Company premises or resources" is not problematic here as "or otherwise" was in my block of text since this only refers to the employer's "business" related IP, and not "everything" you create (if your personal work is a stock trading library and your employer sells a booking for dog haircuts SAAS, these won't collide).
I can’t believe the Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley appointed Wymer their CEO even though they were (and are) well aware of these incidents.

It made me wonder what other types of sociopaths are working there. A quick internet search reveals lots and lots of pedophiles in related organizations throughout the valley:

https://www.taylorring.com/santa-clara/youth-organization/

Great. One more thing to worry about. Why can’t law enforcement just do it’s job? How is Wymer not already in jail?
> And you also have to do neither on linux.

what makes you say this ?
I am just relaying information that I've paid money for multiple lawyers to explain to me in the past. If you think they are wrong, an explanation or counterexamples would be helpful.
'The Story' here is why this hasn't had more widespread media coverage particularly on the big networks, and the answer is likely that EBay is a major corporate sponsor and advertiser.
In case readers aren't aware because the comment doesn't say, the Bitcoin proof of work algorithm was invented by the designers of Hash Cash as an e-mail anti-spam measure, more than a decade before anyone ever thought to use it for currency. They're effectively the e equivalent of postage stamps, with prices that dynamically adjust to whatever level is needed to deter spammers. Just as with stamps, someone eventually realized they could be traded for more than face value, and like with limited-edition collector's stamps, someone eventually realized you could make "non-fungible" versions and try to trade them for even more than face value.
Space Reference
And still not a single example of a good real world use case. I would love to be proven wrong, but all answers to this question I have seen so far devolve into a bunch of self-referential babble that leaves you no wiser at the end of it.

And I'm saying this as a fan of cryptocurrencies and someone who wants to see them succeed.
> Crypto fans are always hurling accusations of FOMO on those of us who just "don't get it".

That's just a cheap way to dismiss critics and has no actual basis in reality. The best thing to do is ignore it.
Speaking of leeches (investors) I've got some terrible news for you

There are some bastards out there doing something even worse. Try this, google: "hotel". They won't even let people "live" rather they charge them a steep fee for each 24 hour period spent in this sort of "shelter". It's straight back to the paleolithic era brutality.
I have Swarm clusters running in production too, and am planning on deploying dozens more this year. Swarm is great - if you already use Compose, then you can use Swarm with ease. It's so much simpler than k8s.
> their job is to maximize the company profit and security

This is a naive view imo. Legal counsel advises leadership and protects them when they eff up or otherwise go to far. Legal doesn’t run the business. I actually heard a particularly coarse, unsympathetic CEO say this in a townhall once. It is true though.
> I’m still not a huge fan of K8s, but Docker has kind of imploded and its Swarm project has been long dead, Nomad isn’t much better (or free)

Can someone elaborate on why Nomad should be avoided?

My currently known issues are smaller use base (not a big issue on its own) and being too dependant on Hashicorp (potential risk, trust issue?).

I'm currently choosing technology for our company to host all services that currently are running in their custom environments, manageable at the moment but lacks the future. Nomad (together with Consul) has most of the features I need without seeming bloat.

I played around with Swarm already, really liked its simplicity, but few use cases were not supported without workarounds. K8 is probably still too big of a gun, but also a possible candidate.
> On the other hand, 27kW is a LOT of generating capacity for one home. I consider that the average home (at least in my area) only has 200A service

Uh, a 27kW generator is 225A at 120v, it’s the model you use if you want whole-house backup generator for a 200A service…
Just State No to a Psychedelic Mind
Had exactly the same feeling: by upscaling and burning the logo into the wood (altering its brightness) it becomes way too predominant… and repetition does the rest.

Personally I have the same attitude with clothing and shoes: can’t wear something with even the tiniest logo on it (only exception: running shoes).
https://archive.md/seHTQ
Hmm are there any Climate Change strategy games?

There are games for nuclear war and pandemics that are fun and educational about the globe-spanning dynamics of those catastrophes. There are also games like Universal Paperclips that provide an intuition for the exponential dynamics of complex systems.

Seems like there should be a way to fuse these concepts around climate change.
You can’t run a mailserver from your home without significant issues.
27kW is 225A, it’s what you want for fully backing up a 200A utility service, which is what all new construction has in my area, tho some older homes still have 100A services.
Slavery comes in many forms
Facebook refuses Google Voice numbers, or at least did in my case.
Well maybe that's why it's safe and clean.
My bank just sent an email "A surprise for you!!".
Open it up ..it's a link to my app to login to see a useless budgeting report I've been suffering with for over a year.
That should cost them.
> in a way that does not prevent the poor, disadvantaged,

Yeah mining coins totally doesn't exclude poor people. If it costs less than the profit spammers make they will use it. You can't just handwave the thresold away, and pretend you are solving the problem by just asking for money(thereby excluding large swaths of people). Just use your iMessage.
The esoteric philosophical background of Jesus and early Christianity is obscure, but it’s not that complicated. Let me share a quick take—which might be interesting to people on this thread.

To start, as with esoteric Judaism, Islam and Platonism, God is conceived as an ineffable oneness. Not a person in the sky, but a divine perfect ”One god” or principle. Hard to talk about, but many books have been written on the topic. The diversity in the cosmos comes from the emanation of the One; this emanation is known as the logos. The logos is typically translated (very poorly, IMO) as “the word.” The logos, as eternal emanation of the one, is therefore metaphorically conceived as “the son of the father.” Jesus is the logos, or in some interpretations, he is the incarnation of the logos (ie, “the word” made flesh).

What’s important to realize here is that this belief in the one (god the father) and the emanation from the one (the logos) is completely orthodox across Catholicism, eastern orthodox and most Protestant interpretations. I think most Christians and nonChristians would find that surprising.

In Acts 18:24, Paul says that Apollos of Alexandria was able to preach this philosophy without even knowing about Jesus. That’s likely because of the massive influence of Philo of Alexandria (b. 25bce) who wrote extensively about the logos as “the son of god.”

Philo also wrote prolifically about the early preChristian communities around Alexandria, the Therapeutae, which Jesus likely encountered as a child—he also wrote about the Essene sect that most resembles the Judaism of Jesus. I’ve assembled and highlighted some of those texts here. At the end, there is also a text from Pope Benedict that formalizes the connection between Jesus and the Essenes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JATMRSh4b6wlFlYWw8t1FdrG...

I hope some people enjoy this rabbithole. Happy to provide more refs.
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They typically are the same heads with another winding on it, everything else can be wired in like regular. I've had one of these for years and it suited me quite well.

Oh, and don't pay 'list', go for a 2nd hand one otherwise you'll end up negating all your gains, in the industrial world nobody pays list except suckers.
> I'm interested in read/study more about: "the broad political-economic or cultural questions: who is participating in, sponsoring, and getting rich off of web3 technologies?

This is the key question that gets overlooked in these discussions.

Web3 is a vague term, but it’s difficult to get straight answers about who’s using Web3 technologies because most of the Web3 narrative refers to hypothetical future technologies.

But even though these hypothetical future Web3 products don’t exist yet or aren’t actually useful in their current form, there are numerous ways to buy their tokens in preparation for their imagined future usefulness.

More specifically: These projects will sell you arbitrary tokens now that supposedly will become more valuable in the future when other future people actually want to use the service. As an early adopter, you will be well positioned to sell your tokens to them at a huge markup!

The obvious question is: Why does every new service need a new, unique token to pay for it? Why must these products built on chains like Ethereum go out of their way to not use Ethereum as their payment method? The reason is that they can’t generate huge speculative profits unless they introduce arbitrary new tokens, so of course they must play the new token game.

But now the profit comes not from building an actual usable service, but from selling tokens for hypothetical future services. In fact, even the developers understand this and will often jump from one new project to the next, capitalizing on token speculation instead of actually finishing anything because that’s where the money is.

If any of the web3 projects want to be taken seriously, they need to stop introducing new arbitrary tokens and just use the existing infrastructure and coins. Build an actual service, not a new currency with a grand idea of a future Web3 service attached to it.
Of course they think of him as a man. According to the doctrine, he was supposedly God in human form. He was here as a man. Artistically, he's always presented in a male physical body. What else would they think of him?

In a nation frequently obsessed with race, the racial identity of Jesus as it's presented matters. I'm not sure why that's controversial to you.

As is the identification of the oppressed and downtrodden with Jesus. That's common enough to be cliche. Maybe it's correct or incorrect, depending on how you look at the old stories, but it's done so often that it's strange to me that someone else would find it strange.

Of course, the oppressors have also frequently used Jesus. So I guess the one thing we can agree on is that the gospels are quite flexible.
I worked for a company once that had this sort of "we own everything" IP clause. They tried to get me to sign it after I had already started. I crossed out that part, initialed the change, and sent it back unsigned. Ended up going back and forth a few times, and then it got dropped behind a desk or something and we all forgot about it. Not surprisingly, I suppose, that company turned out to be a bit of a mess for other reasons. When I went to leave several months later, I got a note from the CFO's admin.

"We don't seem to have a copy of your employee agreement on file. Could you please sign the attached copy and return it?"

Haha, no. What are they going to do, fire me? I went down and explained the situation to her, and we had a good laugh. Never did sign. All of the company's own IP turned out to be worthless BTW, and they were lucky they didn't get sued for misappropriating IP from the CTO's previous employer (DEC). Companies doing this is a huge red flag not only because of its grasping nature but because it often reveals a general kind of awfulness among its principals and/or backers.
I will, already received a good example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449353 (a sibling thread in this post).
there are some significant issues about vyper that anyone using it would/should be aware of:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/01/08/update-on-the-vyper-com...

that’s not to discredit anyone using vyper, just that when putting “billions of dollars” in play on a project like this, you better have teams of folks looking into the security implications of using such a technology with known caveats that the ethereum foundation team publicised.

now things may have changed in the meanwhile between the time that notice was published and now, but if you are using or recommending vyper, it’s worth it to ask or state explicitly “which” vyper and “which version” of vyper, or “did you fork vyper in order to fix some of the issues outlined in the audit” as well as “if you are using vyper in critical applications, are you contributing your fixes back to the community?”

If some of the answers are

"the ethereum foundation team are too conservative"

"the audit doesn't mean anything"

"we don't have anyone looking into the security aspects of vyper"

then you have your answer: they're going to get hacked.
The npr "article" is less than helpful.

I second this. Thankyou for the links! I will read up on this. For some time I've been using a TENS7000 for tVNS but the results are weak for me. This looks like a potential alternative.
I've been playing since the release of beta and once it was understood in what layers diamond spawned more frequently it became very common. I've seen some people refuse to do it just because it kinda kills the wandering exploration vibes.
nitpicking: the average bus factor cannot be 1 unless there are as many projects without maintainer as projects with two or more maintainers

…

On second thought, the average bus factor might be less than one
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.

I need to optimize the images more. There is a background color etc., but the main image is much too heavy.

Many people have noted the horizontal scrollbar issue — it's from a problem with Windows years ago and I will make a note to take care of it.

It's not really possible to serve the document as a pure SVG, because the browser automatically resizes the content to fit vertically. The user would just see the whole page, shrunkent to fit in the middle of the screen.

There will be text flow in the future, but our immediate plans are to concentrate on using the system of exact coordinates with both HTML and SVG — it has the potential to radically simplify the code necessary and to allow for much easier design.

Once we have that down, we'll add in reflow.

I loved styluslabs.com - instant bookmark. I'll have to spend more time with it, but I'm curioushow it will work with search engines.

Thanks again!
Recent discussion about this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28046491 (4 months ago/495 points/139 comments)

And other posts linked from that thread by Dang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049706
Hhhhhh? You might want to look up a bit about the literal patch of dirt that Singapore was in 1960 before sharing your Grand unifying theory sir
For institutional senders, this is what DKIM already does. Your bank has an e-mail domain registered with a CA somewhere that other e-mail domains, such as wherever you receive mail, trust.
Yes he makes this case in the blog, supported by some recent discoveries. It also has a good overview of population flows in the region up to that time. Really a great blog with lots of references.
If the sender is on the recipient's allow-list then it goes straight through. Otherwise the recipient has to solve a captcha. This allows humans to send small numbers of emails easily, but makes it harder for spammers.

Also, recipients could have deny-lists and automatically share them with others they trust. The deny-lists might be a list of senders' cryptographically generated IDs, in which case it should be reasonably hard to generate new ones (e.g. 10 minutes on an X86 cpu using an algorithm not conducive to parallelisation or special hardware).
I would say those are all very much the things that make linux bad for new users.

This article feels like it was written in 2015.
Because of the purported interoperability explicitly implied by the U in USB, and what people have come to expect that stands for, AND the fact that the specs spell out charging protocols, voltage restrictions/limiting, etc, backwards and upside down. It's a bit like a sort of "good" inverse of DRM: that specific charger's failure doesn't fall into a grey area, it squarely calls it out as bad, because "you get a certification" is gated on a manufacturer's word that they've implemented the spec, and correctly. (DRM, by comparison, implements a "thou shall not pass" that is sufficiently complex that passage incontrovertibly equates to breakage. Here, the "thou shall pass" is tied to some complexity that the manufacturer clearly promised they implemented, but didn't.)

I expect the GP could reasonably report where they got the charger to the USB-IF, and theoretically cause the manufacturer in question to receive a bit of heat for what occurred. Practically speaking the state of things suggests that the USB-IF is probably dealing with enough of a firehose of such reports it probably takes sufficiently long for action to be taken that manufacturers practically get away with this sort of thing :'(

Obviously if the charger was purchased from somewhere like Amazon it'd probably never get taken down without reasonable expense (purchasing additional units to prove danger) and media fanfare. Hahah.
It is not that difficult if you apply yourself.

Just yesterday I watched this fantastic explanation of how to generate realistically looking ocean surface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEqaX4Y4bQ

The fantastic part about this video is just how little of actual physics you need to know to create convincing, complex waves. You can skip entire fluid dynamics and condense it to "water molecules move in circles when subjected to a wave".

Forget about Perlin noise, it is useful to getting something but it is IMO dead end if you are for realistic looking world. There isn't a way to fix it because, fundamentally, it is completely disconnected from how land features are created in real life. To get asymptotically to realism you have to start taking into account more and more of physics and passage of time and Perlin noise just completely ignores this.

To get realistic representation you need to build a little model that knows a little bit about how the features are created.

You can even go Dwarf Fortress direction and model processes that create various features of the world over time.
I'm not a programmer, but anytime I see something other than Java mention it usually bodes well for performance.
It is the same with other software. Why bother thinking and testing ?
You can host a server in your bedroom and share photos with grandma by sending her a hyperlink. That vision is not “dead”; there are many companies that provide hardware + software solutions to do this with a few clicks (e.g. Synology, QNAP, others).