skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the purpose and grade of the lumber.

I have worked an "exotic" lumber dealer that can definitely offer different species and grades of wood from all over the world -- including CITES (endangered species list) lumber with the proper certificates. But their customers are typically woodworkers that want a specific species for a specific look. So it's usually cabinet and furniture makers etc.

I have also worked at a "discount" industrial lumber distributer. They are selling wood to be made into pallets or used at a construction site for bracing. In those cases, the hardwood species are a lot less important. The customer just needs something much stronger than the standard SPF.

It's a fascinating industry. I learned a lot working that job -- even tho I was just implement their ERP systems.
I think that’s relative to your experience. To me it is spam and I would not even finish reading it, let alone grace it with a reply.
Certified mail or trash, there's no way to even know if an email was really delivered to a recipient anyway. I'm aware of read receipts but they aren't reliable.
It’s even possible that the developer tried to get the product to be compliant and was ignored.
Ah, you're right; if I look on Best Buy and Newegg I can buy new machines below 1080p but they're the very, very bottom of the barrel ($100 Chromebooks and those weird "technically a laptop" off-brand Android... things). Well, here's to a crisper future:) (That apparently arrived while I was distracted)
Because she is extremely easily stressed out
> Because cargo is a better package manager in every aspect.

It is not. For example, cargo doesn't have namespacing, which makes the issue of name squatting worse. I'd like to have every crate of the tokio-rs organization on Github (https://github.com/tokio-rs) under a @tokio/ namespace or something like that. npm allows that.

Dismissive responses like that are part of why people talk about "blind optimism and fanboy-ism".
At the beginning of the pandemic, my team worked on optimizations as priority number 1 as we got a lot of new users with terrible configurations who wanted to do a lot more that what ever intended for that same hardware.

I managed to find a crappy laptop to do some testing and work on optimizations, and it wasn't pretty. No development tool would work on it. My recommendation is thus: aim low, but not the lowest. You'll still be able to measure impact of your changes, and you'll be able to collect some data and other measurements about what is slow.
This is more about apps being able to link to each other, and I see no downside to that.
In my view the academe can't control how people treat one another in general, but they can refuse to support research based on abusing people.
Because they applied electricity to a human covered in a flammable substance. They watched him pour it on himself. Even more fun. They did it to keep him from hurting himself. Gets better and better.
It's really a mix. Usually they get mixed in as "utility" hardwood because those pieces don't make appearance grade.
I have seen cords of walnut and cherry mixed in a bundle of utility hardwood before. They just didn't look good for making a cabinetry set or a end-table.
Yes Smalltalk is verbose by design.
I wish they also inclided lmbench style microbenchmarks (time to open files, fork, ipc latency, etc). That was always an area where MacOS lagged behind pretty much everything by factors of 2 or more.

The closest thing they have are some compilation benchmarks where MacOS comes in last, but not by such a huge margin as I would expect.
Sorry, I didn't pick up on your facetiousness!

Your approach of "replacement over removal" (of bad habits) is a solid one that I've had some success with myself! Better to distract yourself from the bad thing than just leave a void there...

And, you make a really good point about people who are actually interested in the Web, as opposed to just consuming a lot of content there. I'll have to give that some thought...
Perhaps you're making an assumption that "normal citizens" receive legal threats regularly? I can count the legal threats I've received on one hand, and I can assure you the days following them were, unfortunately, quite unpleasant (fortunately nothing came of it).

Stress aside, part of the problem is the very real possibility of a subject wasting money on hiring a lawyer.
No kid I knew in elementary school was without knowledge that alcohol was flammable. Playing with this in tiny ways was considered cool. There's no believable way that adult cops didn't know this.
This was also the 80s and 90s approach (at least in Catholic schools when I was a student)
This is the same as my experience growing up in Australia - right the way from primary school up to university-level subjects, mathematics working is marked and you get almost full points if you solve the problem correctly but just make some clerical error somewhere. Even if you can show progress towards a solution but can’t quite get the last bit, you’ll often get 7 or 8 out of 10.
If you're working in finance and don't know or don't care about applicable laws. It's no wonder you employer is racking up fines.
Revengeful Monkeys Allegedly Kill 250 Dogs After Baby Monkey Killed by Pooches
Yeah, agreed. SpaceX only "feels" like a monopoly because they get the most press, and because they seem to be so far ahead of their competitors, especially when considering the new hotness of low cost and high reusability.
Even more than crappy laptop, please please test your application on bad/degraded networks. So many apps completely glitch and breakdown in bad network environments.
The problem with the reaction to Damore's paper, to my mind, that instead of people pointing at the paper's shortcomings and trying to refine the approach to see if the idea could make sense if researched with more rigor, they urgently rejected it wholesale because it was irritating to the sensitivities of the modern progress faith. Nobody wanted to be a target of a public scandal in which rational reasoning, or even being objectively right, is not a way to win.

The problem with human societies is that they crave faith, they crave an easy mental model of the world and an easy way to tell "us" from them, but science by construction is anti-faith, it's built of questioning everything.
Doesn't matter.
Repos can be cloned and easily moved to another git service.
The attempt to take down yt-dl itself showed that.
A misguided attempt at it shutting spawned countless forks across multiple git hosting services that cannot possible all be taken down.
A techy Streisand-effect if you will.
Most of the "rewrite in rust" I've seen is for software that is in C/C++ so they aren't giving up a GC. That might just be the sorts of projects I follow though.
One issue I see in school systems is that a failure is just indicated as that - "wrong, try again" or "failed". The consequences of being wrong aren't immediately real. When they are (as at a vegetable market in chennai where I am) you learn quickly how to (for ex) calculate correctly so you don't lose money, how to use a balance to weigh things, how to talk to people well, etc.

Saying "if you get this wrong now, in the future when you do X you'll have trouble" is completely unmotivating.
This is a follow-up article, after one providing a historically-well-informed look based in Soviet experiences.

I don't know if the following is real, but I clipped it the other day from an online comment:

“Glaciers, Gender & Science, a Feminist Glaciology Framework for Global Environmental Change Research”
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“Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, & glaciers, particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1. knowledge producers 2. gendered science & knowledge 3. systems of scientific domination & 4. alternative representations of glaciers merging feminist post-colonial science studies & feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, & epistemiologies in dynamic social ecological systems, thereby leading to more just & equitable science & human / ice interactions.”

To me, what is more ominous (but related) is explicit political tests even for would-be STEM professors.
Interesting - we received the same email but requester was a resident of Roanoke, Virginia. And the request was in regard to GDPR.

It smelled like SPAM enough for me to check the email headers - SPF and DMARC passed and was sent from potomacmail.com servers.

Another odd thing was - the request was for a customer using our SAAS application - so their targeting is not exactly accurate. I wanted to ignore it but we get emails all the time meant for our clients - so we simply replied that they should direct the request to the party in question.
I don't see anything unethical about sending an email asking website operators how they comply with their obligations under various privacy laws. If you are not subject to those laws, you can reply as such. And if you are subject to those laws - it is a valid question!

If you find the prospect of receiving this email so horrifying, perhaps your real problem is with the laws themselves?
This argument amounts to "If something can happen, then it's okay for a researcher to cause it to happen in order to study the result."

I hope it's obvious why that is a poor ethical standard for what constitutes acceptable research practice.
I see the issue being the email was formulated in a way that is easily perceived as a legal threat. I don't see how it is ethical for a study to be sending out legal threats to see how someone responds. Now if the goal is to understand how websites respond to the CCPA/GDPR then it shouldn't be too difficult to ask how they would respond to a request and note that it is part of a voluntary study.
Obviously they can use WhatsApp to discuss personal matters. That's not what this is about, according to the article:

> Even the managers and senior personnel responsible for compliance used their personal devices to communicate sensitive business matters, the SEC said.
Ah, I missed that part.
I read something in the NYC subway about heart issues in some kids who get the vaccine.
> or derive 50 percent or more of its annual revenue from selling consumers' personal information

Wouldn't that cover most blogs that run ads?
I didn't see a legal threat in the original email.
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I've received plenty of voicemail from scammers who claim that I owe some agency money and that there will be penalties if I do not comply. That feels like a threat
From the pictures and by conventions of woodworking, these samples all seem to have the wood grain aligned to the major axis. They are also free of knots.

It would be interesting to see, at least for a few species, how the placement of cut affects the results.
Not only have the yt-dl maintainers had to deal with the legal issues and the stress that comes with it, it appears they have a massive spam problem on GitHub which must make it difficult to efficiently deal with bugs. I was looking through the reported Issues recently due to a bug that caused yt-dl to stop working for a few days; a PR was quickly written to address the issue but it wasn't merged for several days. That's when I saw Issues like this: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29809
> very slightly worrisome

Recommend you don’t spend “ thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer and file a response” on something that you find very slightly worrisome.

Again, I think you, too, are being suckered into spam. Plenty of people fall for spam scams. It is nothing to be ashamed of. Think of all the people who fall for the fake IRS phone calls.

But learn from it: keep your guard up when you get emails, phone calls, or text messages from strangers.

Anything legally binding in the US will come to you via snail mail.
> It’s getting really hard to extract actual useful info

The info is still there, you just need to use a different extraction technique.
North America isn't remotely oil independent of the Middle East and we will experience either the heat death of the universe or the complete banning of oil production before that is a reality.

And that's not even mentioning that every time we pull that crap out of the ground, we virtually guarantee we will be poisoning said ground for centuries afterward because nobody wants to be on the hook for securing and maintaining those wells after they've dried up.
Completely agree here. There was no reason the people running this couldn't have been clear about what they were doing and why up front. I've dealt with GDPR requests before and it is a hassle. Especially when someone does it for the purposes of causing that hassle.
Kids take pains to get their robux and other in-game points calculations correct for example because theyfeel real for them. Otherwise it is just a matter of following your teacher's rules.
Does this qualify as a legal threat? It just seems like a reminder of existing laws, like one sees in all manner of contracts or Terms of Service. Like the "you are obligated to pay within X days" you see on your credit card statements.

Or even if there is a legal threat, do you take it seriously unless you know the source? People regularly get calls saying they are in violation of tax law and must pay.
Ask HN: Tool for dashboards / alerting on operational health metrics?
I'm looking for the right tool to use to track "operational" health, which in my context mostly the size of various queues (eg, how many pending withdrawals are there, and then this is split by type of withdrawal).

Maybe some other business KPIs, but the emphasis is on building "graphs that the operational team should be looking at on ~hourly basis to prioritize fixes and spot systemic regressions."

Ideally it would integrate with Pagerduty, in that it'd be easy to express "page me if if X is above Y."

My preference is that I have my own cron job that captures the metrics from our queues/databases and pushes them to the tool via a ~REST API but I could be convinced of a different method.

So far the only thing I can think of is Datadog, specifically https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/real-time-business-intelligence/

Anything else I should be looking at? Or any other tips?
(6) A clean factory is not susceptible to fire, but a dirty one is. Workers Should be careless with
refuse and janitors should be inefficient in cleaning. If enough dirt and trash can be accumulated
an otherwise fireproof building will become inflammable.

you could apply this principle to information security/network security practices as well... just neglect to patch things, use out of date methods, leave cruft and half-finished projects laying around, etc.
> Still just a cringey excuse to attach a trademark to a common practice, only sans the "Microsoft".

I don't understand any of this sentence. Of course it's "sans Microsoft". It predated the acquisition by years.

But also I don't see the "cringe" here. "GitHub flow" was introduced as "this is what we do at GitHub". It is (or at least was?) the GitHib flow. https://githubflow.github.io/

> OK, "git flow" was in a way even worse; that was Atlassian trying to usurp the generic "git" name for their own particular flow.

Atlassian didn't even create GitFlow. https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

I don't understand this mindset that starts with assuming everyone is essentially a bad actor.
The first ethical problem is that it is lying and deceitful. Is the bar so low that this is considered acceptable behavior for a moral and reputable person or institution?
> Anything legally binding in the US will come to you via snail mail.

yes it will, but a really determined person with an axe to grind will very often make known their intentions well in advance of that.

and no, it won't always come by snail mail, DMCA notices and similar with actual legal threats will arrive regularly via SMTP.
Both of the two blogs are very convincible. The only question to me is which one I should share with my friends?
> What things?

Let me quote that for you:

--- start quote ---

building a fully-functional DB-enabled app in under 15 minutes with introspection [etc].

--- end quote ---
In my experience, kids (and adults) are not receptive to learning until after they've failed. Sometimes it takes repeated failure :-/
A lot of people mocking the author or others for being scared and worried are basically blaming the victim here, and I would like them to stop.

The nature of legal practices in the USA is such that the answers to "Are you totally in the clear legally?" and "Will you lose significant amounts of money proving in random courts that you are in the clear legally?" are often both yes.

As a result, any researchers who send out thinly veiled legal threats as a "research experiment" are firmly in the wrong ethically, and should be called out by all the people to whom they have issued these veiled threats. Review boards that approved this experiment should be themselves subjected to an audit and potentially dissolved.
> If i received such an email, I would mark it as spam and move on with my life. Why did this blogger take it seriously?

Because "I'm stupid and fell for a phishing email" doesn't grab eyeballs on Patreon/Twitter like "without my consent" does among the circles they run in.

> I also have to question her mental ability to filter noise. Life must be quite stressful for her overall.

We're talking about someone who is a furry and writes in multiple personalities on their blog.

I love how they brag about how their blog is seen on "the orange site" when most of their submissions are in the single digits.
Going back to study homepage here https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/ there is another update, now from the lead investigator, that includes the following paragraph:

"Second, our team is prioritizing a possible one-time follow-up email to recipients, identifying the academic study and recommending that they disregard the prior email. If that is feasible, and if experts in the email operator community agree with the proposal, we will send the follow-up emails as expeditiously as possible."

Did this study send automated emails in such volume that they can't work out how to send an apology without triggering spam protections? Or did they send email and not record it? What is he saying here?
No one has the requisite hubris to seize a letter.
It absolutely looked like a legal treat of some sort. The study is now suspended and the investigator is even admitting they errored [0].

[0] https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu
> ... as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.
I don't notice it when using it for work. I barely notice it when using it for console games. Probably wouldn't want to use it for competitive shooters, but non-issue for most other games.

Few more notes:

- I use PCIE rather than USB for the capture card

- Can be costly if you need 4k + multiple inputs (for multiple "monitors" as different OBS windows)

- I had issues getting the capture card to recognize scaled HiDPI resolutions from my work Mac
It looks like multiple people consulted lawyers because of the implied legal threat. OP isn't the only one who took this somewhat seriously.

Attorney: "is this Princeton privacy study email that one of my clients received legitimate?"

https://twitter.com/jdigiacomo/status/1470756584435249152

"Wow. I actually contacted my attorney over this email inquiry to see if I actually needed to respond and if so, how."

https://twitter.com/NerdPress/status/1472340768933113859

"our clients have spent around $10k aggregate trying to understand what these requests related to, and whether this was a coordinated mass phishing attempt"

https://twitter.com/FDTaisce/status/1471970527132618757

An attorney in Switzerland: "Wir wurden von Mandantinnen und Mandanten gefragt, wie sie auf diese E-Mails mit Fragen nach ihrem Umgang mit datenschutzrechtlichen Anfragen reagieren sollen." ("We have been asked by clients how they should respond to these emails with questions about how they handle privacy-related inquiries." (DeepL))

https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/12/16/datenschutz-gefaelschte-a...

Three *different* attorneys in this thread report having clients reach out to them:

(1) "As outside privacy counsel, these are so frustrating. First one I saw cited being a CA resident so more alarming. Now for those interested\able to learn it's more time and education as they think any request must be scams now. Plus how many clients won't reach out next time?"

(2) "As in-house counsel, my initial gut instinct was that it was someone who was trying to entrap us - hoping we would make a mistake so they could sue. (I don't have much faith in human nature, I suppose.) So I sent it to outside counsel to be safe. Waste of time and resources."

(3) "Same here. We deal with a lot of professional litigants and I was looking for the angle (it was GDPR not CCPA, so was worried about a private right of action being brought)"

https://twitter.com/JFuchsKC/status/1471921893758443526

https://twitter.com/DanielleVEsq/status/1472105731474137094

https://twitter.com/SOliverLaw/status/1472288392889073665

(Sorry for the spaghetti comment: I got a bit carried away).
Absolutely agreed. In the present USA legal system, even if you win a resounding "victory" against an absolutely frivolous civil litigant, you are often left with significant legal costs and wasted days of your own time that you could have spent doing something else with your life.
I remember a physics midterm where more than half the class got an F. (Including me.)
On sr.ht at least the issues would stay distributed in contributor's email inboxes in the event of a takedown. Maybe they'd even keep it up despite questionable takedown notices, like youtube-dl.org's host did (not surprisingly unlike the MS-owned repo host, given it's an RIAA member).

Another solution to issue loss would be embedding the issues in the repo, as some already extant tools do.
Because they're impossible to search for.

Tried researching a tool called 'a' once. Good tool, but hard to find docs.
The short answer is that Lets Encrypt and other Certificate authorities distribute server certificates / private key pairs that are signed by a Certificate Authority who has a certificate in your web browser / operating system that can be used to verify that signature.

Google “chain of trust”.

You can effectively do what you suggested by generating a self-signed certificate for your web server, but visitors either won’t be able to access your site or will need to accept the risk of connecting depending on the browser they use.
> Nest and django

I clean forgot about Django. I haven't used it in over 10 years.

No idea what Nest is.

> name ONE thing Rails can do that these cant

No-no-no. Lets start from "here's a demo that build an actual functioning db-enabled app in 15 minutes that doesn't require 100 lines of code to just display a static page"
>permanent → permnnt

Horrific.
HN is so full of rich silicon valley assholes, they've never even had to make do with a cheap laptop. They need an article like this to remind them how the proles live.
Agreed. I use single letter aliases, for ex:

h='history | tail -n20'
l='ls -ltrhG'
d='dict -d wn'
s='du -sh * | sort -h'
https://theinfosphere.org/Transcript:Crimes_of_the_Hot

[Scene: Outside Conference Centre. Scientists from all over the world arrive. Photographers take photos of them and fans in the crowd wave papers for them to sign.]

Woman #1: [shouting] Oh, God, I can't believe it!

Woman #2: [shouting] I love you!

[Farnsworth steps out of a limo. Joan Rivers' Head is commentating at the star-studded event.]

Rivers: Oh, oh, oh! It's Professor Hubert Farnsworth! He's looking sharp in a standard white lab coat and dark slacks! His wristwatch is a Casio.