skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You won't find a 70F winter in Dallas... you'll be lucky for high 60s in the deep winter months. Most weeks are more in the 50s. That said, given how climate change is progressing, it tends to be warmer until January, so if you just want the nice temperatures for your holiday plans, then it's a decent option!
Years ago I worked as a software tester in the Mission Control Center. This was in simpler times, before 9-11. On lunch breaks I would wander the campus and poke my head in areas to see what was up. Many times employees would give me an impromptu tour of the area. One of these times was this full-motion shuttle simulator. They were about to take it on a test run, and asked me if I wanted to go along for the ride. It was an amazing experience, and one of many fond memories of working there.
Yep- though I'm leaving to be closer to family, Austin suburbs are a nice in pretty much every axis other than commute, which hasn't been an issue since going remote.
2021 HDMI is a disaster. I'm using a Sony flagship TV, a PC, and a popular Sony 7.1 receiver.

I had to update my graphics card to get 4k120 444 10bit and eARC.

Only eARC is totally broken - audio often doesn't work at all without restarting PC/TV/receiver a few times. And then once it "works" it will randomly cut out for 5-10 seconds at a time.

HDR on windows is also totally broken. It was a nightmare to get something that correctly rendered full 10bit HDR video (I ended up having to use MPC-HC with madvr and a ton of tweaking). You also have to turn off windows HDR support and use D3D exclusive mode. After updating my TV to get DRR, the audio for this setup stopped working.

Linux also has zero HDR support. Didn't have luck getting 5.1 or 7.1 working either.

MacOS can at least handle HDR on Apple displays - not sure if it works on normal displays. Haven't tried surround sound.
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If you're worried about freezing to death the Northeast is definitely not the place to go. Far more people die from hypothermia in the Northeast every year than in Texas, even without having a massive pretty much unprecedented storm. And yes, this storm in February was way worse than the storm a decade ago.

I do agree with you though about the priorities of the Texas government. I don't agree with and vote against a lot of those idiots.
Comprehensive?

"Deploy Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and Redis."
I wonder if this will continue to be a generational thing, I still have a smattering of eighties Valley-speak because that was pretty popular in my teen years. Maybe people who are in their early teens now will be as likely to call something they don't like "cringe" in their fifties as I am to call something "bogus".
That's not "when it's happening"; I think the new approach they've taken of a dialog popping up is far more transparent and user-friendly. I've gotten used to patch notes saying stuff like "Every week we fix bugs and add improvements!"
I love this kind of can-kicking technical debt. Why refactor the logging when you can just throw more into the mix?
Honestly. This is quite pointed satire at the current state of things.

If you showed someone from the 70s how things are today, they would view these two things as not as dissimilar as we do.
Given many of the engineers i have worked with and much more importantly the PMs and Managers that work over them, I would expect vulnerabilities like this to proliferate all over the place if people were to roll their own logging and telematry and especially authentication.

I mean SQL injection is such an easy known mitigation yet is still on the OWASP top 10 even after so many years.
You know that the "better looking" part is totally personal, don't you? Personally, I never liked NeXTSTEP looks, not even 25 years ago when I saw some reimplementation under *nix (never touched a NeXT workstation unfortunately).
Original article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/13/1041309/climate-... (unpaywalled: https://archive.today/DNSkT)
Exactly, so it doesn't have a value of 0 for these shareholders.
What are you talking about? The use cases for Mailgun and gsuite have effectively no overlap.
On the other hand, you don't know what vulnerabilities are hidden in your own code and just haven't been discovered yet, and you're one fuzzing attack away from a vulnerability being discovered/exploited.
1. I struggle not to just respond "So?" to this one as well. Society progressing is the goal, isn't it? There will always be people in poverty. Poverty caused by AI isn't worse than poverty caused by industrial or agricultural automation, and it isn't worse than poverty caused by the fact you're born in a family of serfs instead of lords.

2. It will all settle down eventually, it always does. The poorest today have access to more food, education, and (usually) healthcare than even the rich just a few centuries ago. Being knocked to steerage of a quickly rising ship isn't a death sentence.

3 (and 4). Isn't this just more of the same compared to the industrial revolution? The cotton gin certainly shifted the power struggle more toward capital but I don't think anyone today would argue we should be processing all our textiles by hand.
Amiga and NeXT people, right when you think the passion has finally died out, nope!
Look and feel can be transplanted [0] onto existing DE's. Just sayin'.

[0] https://github.com/B00merang-Project
Got their announcement email this morning, and I'm really disappointed. I don't particularly want to buy a full CM4 I/O board and plug in a 4-port SATA card, and have a giant bare board with no case. I want something purpose-designed and integrated, with a bit of polish.

From their email:

> In the meantime, we have fully dedicated ourselves to another project and further expanded the P2P network developed for the board. We will now continue to pursue this with full force and extend it with further functionalities to a full open-source alternative for traditional VPN.

I'm having a little trouble parsing this, but this sounds... not all that interesting to me, unfortunately.
LZW just doesn't compress that well. In LZW you only can use a dictionary built gradually from length-limited scraps of the previous data, but in LZ77 you can directly reference any of the previous data of any length (within implementation limits).
Here are two cmov's with gcc: https://godbolt.org/z/j9bcv639c
You assume that conscious experience arises "ex nihilo". You are saying that something of a different ontological category "emerges" from the mechanism. I'm afraid the onus is on you to describe the process of formation, vaguely waving your hands in the direction of strong emergence is nothing more than saying "and then there is magic".

You raise the Chinese room thought experiment, but it is orthogonal to the point at hand. I believe the machine in the Chinese room thought experiment is conscious and that says little about where I might imagine consciousness comes from.
It was being exploited in the wild at least as early as Dec 1st (based on log analysis I've seen). The rate of attempted exploits went WAY up after the 9th.
Company's called Mattereum.
If you able / willing to enroll the devices in Intune you can use Azure App Center to deploy and update Android apps without the play store.
It's being used as an adjective here. I think.
At least in the US, the gym has to be exclusive to employees and their families to qualify for a tax benefit.

> You can exclude the value of an employee's use of an on-premises gym or other athletic facility you operate from an employee's wages if substantially all use of the facility during the calendar year is by your employees, their spouses, and their dependent children. For this purpose, an employee's dependent child is a child or stepchild who is the employee's dependent or who, if both parents are deceased, hasn't attained the age of 25. The exclusion doesn't apply to any athletic facility if access to the facility is made available to the general public through the sale of memberships, the rental of the facility, or a similar arrangement.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2021_publink1000...
Counterpoint is that Mailgun likely had flagged the account (80% deliverability is bad) and wanted to open a line of communication without coming across as hostile. It wasn't a sales opportunity, it was a "you need to improve" email wrapped in a friendly opening.

Evan then replied taking a hostile footing, which resulted in the sale rep backing up his opening with a list of agenda items (list cleaning, dedicated IP address, etc).

At this point it became a purely defensive line-by-line encounter because egos got involved once the Mailgun rep listed the real reasons he was writing.

IMO this is a massive overreaction and not a good look for the blog author.
Yep. It reminds me of the striking difference between most space travel sci-fi (in which the pilot of a spacecraft is the captain of their vessel and can go wherever they please) and, say, the Space Shuttle (which required meticulous planning and a large ground support staff for every single mission). Evangelion does a great job of visually conveying how the pilot in the robot's cockpit is, in part, just a focal point for the efforts of thousands of other people.

And then, of course, it subverts that portrayal by revealing that (ROT13) gur Rinf jrer npghnyyl perngrq ol na bpphyg frperg fbpvrgl hfvat napvrag nyvraf, naq abar bs gur grpuavpvnaf be bcrengbef unir n pyhr jung gurl'er ERNYYL pncnoyr bs.
Okay, I get that "brand" means "reputation", but why should a highly useful technology be worried about it's "brand". Is the "car" brand out of vogue? What about HTML? I mean, that stuff was used in crickety old sites from the 90s! Should we throw away our hammers, because screws are all the rage?

This whole notion of RSS' "brand" being the problem just reeks of a used car salesman trying to convince me that spare tires are for chumps.
Subaru has the same thing on their new cars - subscribe annually to Starlink or no remote start for you! I live in a winter wonderland where remote start would be a dream but no way I am paying a cent for this feature. I’ll have to look in to the after market options.
What is your yt channel url/id?
IIRC Cloudflare said the earliest they had seen this being exploited in the wild was very early December, but the volume went up after Friday.
Is Apple Maps really free, or do they monetize your attention and collect fees from the (suspiciously few, outside major US metros) businesses?

Serious question, I don’t know, I only use Apple Maps for satellite since it doesn’t do transit where I live. But the quality level definitely feels like an “eat what you kill” product without much food, as opposed to a loss leader for the Apple brand.
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> Ubiquitous cell coverage means everyone knows what is happening everywhere now.

I think this assumes facts not in evidence. Just because someone is "connected" doesn't mean they're automatically informed. As we see in first world countries, there's a lot of fucking morons that only listen to comfortable lies rather than uncomfortable truths.

There's also industrial production of bullshit peddled by disingenuous actors taking advantage of that fact. Fleecing rubes can be very profitable.

The very problem being discussed is Facebook trying to absolve themselves of bullshit peddling by blaming everyone else. They're blaming people for believing shit Facebook put in front of them under the guise of news. They're also fine taking money to promote bullshit as "news". Yet it's society's fault that they believed everything labeled news Facebook put in front of them.
I’m sorry, you don’t get to retroactively remove features like this :-/
Your comment can be loosely translated to the following:

"Authoritarianism can work. It's just the wrong people were in charge. If me and other people like me had the same power as Stalin/Hitler/Mao/Mussolini/Putin, everything would be better because they were dumb, but we know better. We can create Utopia when nobody else could. We are uniquely prescient and intelligent."

The amount of arrogance and utter lack of humility is shocking.
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...and not just "the most controversial", in a lot of cases on both the content creators' as well as the sockpuppets' sides, we're not even talking about "village idiot" type real humans anymore, but — in contrast to Meta CTO's words — about extremely skillful mass manipulators sitting somewhere in Russia and hiding behind international proxies.

Not only was that tolerated in the name of profit, these individuals were able to create official looking, completely unverified "pages" with bogus attribution to create their "engagement" campaigns meant to poison and destruct western society (and arguably being successful in that).

How this is legally anything different than complicity in treason is hard to comprehend for me.
Thank you! I was mulling Inverness and looking a bit closer, it does seem like a bit of both.
I recently upgraded the NVME SSD in my machine. The motherboard only has a single NVME compatable M.2 port, so I bought a USB 3.1 enclosure [0] to put the old drive in while I cloned it to the new drive. The enclosure has a USB type-C connector so I also had to use a USB 3.1 A-to-C adapter [1] to connect it to my motherboard's [2] USB 3.1 type-A port. Anyway something somewhere went wrong and it took over 5 hours to copy 750 GB instead of the expected 10 minutes. Absolute shitshow.

[0] https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rhub-20001-enclosure/p/N82E1...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L92KPBB

[2] https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z97AUSB_31/
Most kids don't even know what it's like to play a game that's not riddled with ads and designed around microtransactions.

There are a lot of things that require a generation (of people) to change. For example, the latency of game streaming services is awful if you're used to a local experience, but if you ask a 12 year old that's never experienced low latency, local gaming, they don't even realize it could be different. They'll happily play high latency streamed games.

So when you see things like the investment that's going into things like game streaming and it seems stupid, you have to consider there may not be any expectation of capturing the current market. They're after the market that's in elementary school right now.
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Thanks for your straightforward reply.

The comments could have been seen as odd, but your openness suggests it was just a coincidence.

Also, congrats on writing a full book!
I think some of the reasoning behind the fee is that there's a simcard in the car that needs to be payed for and if you opt out then they don't have to pay for it. I have the same service and I can't live without the remotly started heating so for me it's worth every krona.
It seems as though missing a payment and losing one's life would make them unable to make any future payments as well. Not great.

If the vest did save one's life, they'd probably be eager to catch up on payments as a symbolic gesture.

Short-sighted business thinking AND completely unsympathetic.
Is it possible that you're also a wrong idiot but are unaware of it?
Technically, it's possible. There are both active and passive antennas you could use to boost your signal a bit.

But I think the biggest reason your cellphone doesn't have an external antenna jack is that it would directly conflict with the goals and design of a cellular network.

In particular, you do not want handsets with very high transmit power. A transmitter on full power with an oversized antenna and clear line of sight in every direction -- is a major no-no from the network's perspective. In the worst case, it would be visible out to like 50+ miles. Including to transceivers that might be using the same frequencies. It will bleed over into adjacent cells, increasing the SNR of the entire system, which reduces performance and the total number of effective channels available.
> 1. It's a bit different if it's a 'customer success' type person from a product that you're already using- that's different from totally cold outreach

It's really not, but I agree completely with your second point. I've managed interactions with vendors for only ~5 years and this is for a small startup, with not a lot of them, and still over 5 years they switch up your account managers left and right (people keep moving companies) and you never know what you're going to get. And each of them thinks your whole job is to just wait for their random emails to have calls without agendas scheduled where they'll go over whatever playbook they were given to see if you'll commit some more spend this quarter before their earnings.

I tend to reply after only several days and try to not get baited into looking an asshole like this Evan person did - but sometimes it's hard. I can imagine this person gets way more email than I do and my advice would be to just not reply if what you're going to write is to "teach them a lesson". There's no point in telling someone they lied to you in a sales email, get over yourself.
Stopped reading at "That happens to ... women of color [sic] ... all the time,"

This has nothing to do with race. Stop playing that f*king card every time something goes wrong in your life!
Yeah, unfortunately Google reverse image search doesn't work properly any more as well :(
> it’s very tempting for a payments geek to wax laconic about…

That’s a novel use of laconic to me. Maybe he meant lyrical?
Looks like HN strips the start point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPHI6cCL7E&t=9748s
This is an interpretation that is not so black & white in reality and probably depends on jurisdiction to a great extent. In the US, the courts disagree with you. Your statement resembles how things worked prior to the CDA in 1996.

Now, even moderated outlets have safe harbor protections under the DMCA and similar protections under Section 230 and Section 509 of the CDA which determined that internet services were not (automatically) publishers. Courts have held that outlets are in the clear if they make a reasonable effort to identify illegal content and also take action when something is brought to their attention.
The two glass liter bottles of fresh milk min my fridge beg to differ - though they are proudly branded “Frankenmilch”… which just means that it’s produced in Franken (Franconia), the region I live in.
Thanks for the info.

Realizing that the two sides of the "if" statement are effectively stored as a 1-bit of information, and then using instructions to store that 1-bit into the carry flag, and then using cmovcc / sbbl instructions to manipulate that 1-bit of information is pretty advanced.

I could imagine a compiler making use of all that information, but only maybe with some programmer assistance (IE: code in the right format for easier optimizing). Or you know... an assembly programmer who just outright explicitly writes that kind of assembly language.
...at least you can get a copy of your data through a GDPR request...
Relatedly, in a different country, 'Mustie1' on YouTube may also be to your liking.
Should be able to supercharge. It communicates with the charger over the charging cable to tell it what account to charge.

You might lose access once you're on old enough software though.
From the comments it seems like there's a bit of an information gap in terms of how email service providers (ESPs) like Mailgun operate, what data they must have routine access to, and how the space evolved to make money (this last part of my info is dated as I left the space about a decade ago).

First, ESPs send email on a client's behalf. One of the primary benefits of using an ESP is co-opting their email reputation and their contacts with real time blacklist (RBL) operators, postmaster organizations at major email providers and third party email reputation groups. A good reputation keeps a sender's email out of the junk folder (or worse refused/dropped on the floor) and is really all most folks care about (especially at an API driven company like Mailgun).

In order to do all of the above, an ESP needs access to the details of the email that's being sent, including recipient email addresses and the contents of the message being sent. This is because both of those things can potentially be dangerous and the ESP is the ultimate responsible party in the eyes of the receiving email provider (i.e. Google holds Mailgun as the responsible party for what Phabricator sends).

Now, as to this sales call, sometime ago (circa ~2004 I guess) it became apparent that ESPs could work with their problematic clients to improve their sending habits, thereby improving their reputation and collect more money from the client in the process (via either direct consulting fees or increased sending volume). This kind of win-win made a lot of sense, but as the price-per-email sent was dropping ESPs were looking for ways to reliably generate more revenue and, well, "deliverability consulting" became a thing. My guess is that this is what this email exchange was about, and like any consulting effort, it's only as good as the last interaction and here I agree with Evan that "Joe" fumbled the ball fairly badly.

Personally, I would have just reached out to Mailgun support and asked what's up with the incorrect billing and Joe's problematic responses, but that doesn't appear to have been Evan's first choice.

Source for the industry insider info is that I used to run the technical side of a small ESP from about 2003 to 2009, was an active participant in MAAWG and generally had to work with my peers across orgs to navigate deliverability problems regularly.
Ask HN: Have anyone of you dealt with seemingly unreasonable anxiety?
For the past year or so I have felt anxiety/nervousness every day. Some background: I have always worked out (right now I'm going to the gym 5 times a week and doing martial arts 2 times a week). I eat fairly healthy have a good relationships with friends, everything is going good in my career. The funny thing about my anxiety, is the more i do "right" the worse i feel. An example: when I'm on Social Media the whole day, I don't feel any anxiety or nervousness. On days where I workout, work alot, meditate and do the right things, it somtimes happens that i feel so much nervousness/anxiety that i can't think straight. I think that it maybe because I'm scared i will fail (if i don't do anything i can always say that i would have been successfull if i had tried), but that would be a really stupid way of thought. Has any one of you experienced something similar?
Then they can do their job with professionalism and courtesy for those they contact.