skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious to know what the natural rate of docx corruption is, and what the sources are. What are the odds of cosmic rays flipping a meaningful bit right as the docx is written to disk but not before, and in a way that doesn't cause a crash? What are the actual error modes with both spinning and solid state disks, across a variety of filesystem types and usage patterns? Is the damage normally like one bit, or a would it normally flip a few in some (physically) localized region?

(It's just not something I think about very often, and only now do I realize how useless my knowledge is! I could speculate based on the flux of high-energy particles and the layout and energies involved in various storage media. I would expect the energies on non-volatile storage to be much higher than volatile storage, and so for bit flips to be rare. I would expect flips to be singular, and not come in groups - but if they did it would be temporal, not spatial - something like a solar flare. The interesting flips would be the least likely ones, where the serialization code is running. The threat-model here is the relatively large memory region consisting of the union of something like [cpu, kernel, jvm, thread, bytecode]. That's quite a surface area, and while it's fun to speculate about what a bit flip could do at various interesting points, but I assume for simplicity they all just crash your code. (I wonder how often random bit flips are why restarting software is unreasonably effective at fixing problems - or is it just an epidemic of thoughtless race conditions as I've always assumed?)
Teams is a shim on top on Outlook Groups and SharePoint. It’s kind of a brilliant approach, as it allowed them to ship without needing to reinvent the security model, ediscovery, etc.

The downside is that it is clunky. But even then, it’s exponentially better than native SharePoint, WebEx, etc.

Over time, I’m sure they’ll do what they did with “OneDrive for Business” and build services over time to replace or augment that underlying stuff. OneDrive was a turd a 6–8 years ago
but got much better about 2 years ago and seems to get incrementally better.
So I made the switch from G Suite Legacy to iCloud+ (99 cents seemed like a bargain to try out) and it has a few kinks to work out.

Their documentation put double-quotes around the SPF records, and when I added them they didn't work -- had to remove the quotes completely.

And yeah, 3 email address limit and a weak icloud.com interface (compared to gmail) is also annoying.

But honestly I'll probably use it for a while, their IMAP support is good so I could always transfer emails out and point the domain records somewhere else. 99 cents a month is a bargain, the only other provider in that price range is Zoho Mail (which I also like and probably would have used if my contacts/calendar wasn't already on iCloud).

> @privaterelay.appleid.com

The @privaterelay.appleid.com is for email addresses that were created by using "Sign in with Apple", you don't have to pay for iCloud+ for that. If you create disposable emails with iCloud+ they come in the form: Coconut-Apple.0b@icloud.com (the words, numbers, and separators are random)
Someone gets a Blockfi loan for a mortgage, loses over $300K
As much as I hate Electron, Teams is an insult to Electron. There are Electron apps that are tolerable - Teams is not even that.
It just might be the case that you’re focusing on the straw that broke the camels back while ignoring the bale of straw in its entirety.
I've been buying these Driscoll's 'Limited Edition' sweet blueberries at whole foods and they are to die for. They are humongous and I wonder if they came out of a breeding program like you're talking about.
After reading this article, it sounds like another group of researchers are throwing shade saying there's some jumping to conclusions based on very little observational data.

It's funny to see the competitive nature between groups.

The one thing I took from this article though was that the instrument we have built specifcally to detect gravitational waves won't even be effective for this level of event as it is "tuned" for different type of events.
From the paper you linked, in the Conclusions:

> We argue that the attention schema theory provides a possible answer to the puzzle of subjective experience. The core claim of the theory is that the brain computes a simplified model of the process and current state of attention, and that the content of this model is the basis of subjective reports.

Sure, that's all fine. Subjective reports are interesting. But they are not the same as subjective experience. What we say about what we experience is no doubt complex, and has a complex relationship with actual brain behavior. But consciousness, at its heart, is not about what we report, it's about the experience of being something.
I would say it depends on whether or not the bun is still connected on one side. I base this on nothing other than the fact that to me it feels correct.
If you can submit a docx file why not embed an image with an external URL?
There are only two problems with that idea:

1. HIPAA can't be easily pronounced; it is obviously incompatible with the normal rules of English spelling.

2. People pronounce CIA letter by letter.
I use namecheap for my domains. Their mail forwarding service does exactly this. I used to use joker which was also the same
This dark pattern smacks of an IBM esque legacy co that will be vanquished by better competitors in due time. But as a user that keeps his process monitor open, Adobe’s greatest sin is their multiple mandatory Creative Cloud processes that soak up memory and CPU whether an Adobe product is open or not. Rotten at the core.
Unless I missed something, they lost a couple of artists that weren't exactly chart toppers, and a few episodes of a podcast. I don't see the fuss.
Nobody ever said politicians were smart
Paying for their services doesn't seem to make the customer service any better.
Huh it’ll start showing empty mails that’s full of text in other mail clients and web mail.

It’s been happening since 2016 (first time I noticed) and last reporter to them in January 2021. Then I gave up. It still happens.

Anyway that’s just one immortal Mail.app bug.

I am just in the process of finding another mail client (preferably native, paid, and open source that doesn’t read my mails)
> If we both agree that "subjective experience" is a phenomenon that can in principle be captured by a third person objective description,

Now we get to the heart of it (and the reason why consciousness is and has been such a difficult problem): I do not agree that this is true.
From our perspective, we don't link IP and domains at all at the moment, they are totally independent.

Because spam traps get very different traffic to a real mail server, you can make a lot of assumptions that would be impossible to do on a real mail stream.

So generally speaking, if your domain name isn't in the top million domains (and there are still some exceptions to this - but I'm not going to list them all here) and you hit one of our pristine traps (see my post about the different trap types) with a message containing your domain, that will usually cause the domain to be listed.

Other lists and spam filters will have their own methods for this.

My belief is that Google and Microsoft only use AI for this (which is a bit of a nightmare if it gets it wrong).
If you're a trucker, this is the bale of straw. Other restrictions don't matter nearly as much even if you put all of them together.
Grafana. Most of our dashboards are parameterized and half the time, using the dropdown to select a different value for a variable doesn’t work. The menu just closes and the variable doesn’t update.

The “stacked” option when displaying multiple series is a super dangerous footgun; it will show you numbers that aren’t actually occurring.

If you accidentally make a too-heavy metrics query the entire page becomes sluggish and crashes, and you have to refresh and start from scratch. There’s no way to simply abort the last mistaken change.

If you accidentally make in invalid metrics query (like wrong combination of variables) then the entire dashboard gets into a corrupted state where even if you return to a valid combination of variables, all you get is red. Again, refresh and start over.

I don’t think there’s anything better out there. Perhaps we are a few versions behind, but the last major upgrade we did only made it buggier.
Am I an uncaptured photon?
The new "Music" app that replaced iTunes is a complete pile of shit, inline with all the "modern" iOS apps such as Music/TV/Podcasts/News/Home - while their predecessors may have had functional issues, their new incarnation has similar functional issues but has also been gutted of most features, replaced with lots of whitespace.

Yes, it turns out you can do worse than iTunes.
What apparently happened is that the user took a Blockfi loan against his BTC holdings.

When the bank subsequently learned the bitcoins were tainted from a BTC tumbler, they recalled the loan.

He took the loan at when BTC was $65k. They recalled the loan at $37k.
Although not fully related, this reminds me of another paper I recently found on astro-ph: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08997
And then the government stopped it and now it will go back up.
> If those developers choose not to share that reduction in cost to their customers, then that just shows that the developers in question never had the best interests of the users in mind anyway.

That argument is a catch-22. If Apple doesn't pass on the insane profit margin they earn off their App Store to their developers, then it just shows that Apple never had the best interests of the developers in mind anyways.
From the reddit thread:

Thats because the entire modern financial system has been hijacked by the scam known as KYC/AML. It's an incredibly expensive tax on the financial system's good faith participants while it brings very little benefits.

That's a pretty silly comment IMHO both in context (he got taken to the cleaners doing P2P, AML and KYC could have helped there) and out (AML exists for good reasons and it's not a scam)
> we don't know for sure

To emphasize, we have a pretty good idea, but evidence is a bit limited.

> the 'Cambrian explosion' was really an explosion or if it was not much different in terms of diversity than the previous period

It was certainly an explosion, regardless of what happened before: The first: hard structures (as you note: bones, shells, etc.), vision, legs, metazoa (multicellular animals) - including the ancestors of almost all current species, chordata (phylum containing vertebrates), etc. etc.

In the land of the blind, the trilobite was royalty.
I would look at the methods of Jean Baudrillard, particularly his book Simulacra and Simulation which is a collection of parables each of which could be the plot of a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and each of which attacks the reality principle in one way or another.

These are all small micro-master narratives which each have a totalizing perspective and collectively reduce the ‘truth’ to the ‘truth that is out there’ in the intro sequence to the X Files.

Furthermore I would point to his book On Seduction which is is even more accelerationist than Simulacra in that he tells you exactly how to tear the roof down.
FYI, you can just ask them in a support chat to remove the ads and they'll do it for free.
This is insane!

Between 100 days and 3 years we will record what will be the single largest energy release we have ever recorded.

To give an idea of our records so far: our detection of black hole mergers around the 100-150 solar masses scale are just behind a couple gamma ray bursts as the single largest energy release ever.

How big are the black hole mergers around 150 solar masses and the two largest gamma ray bursts?

The energy release converted the mass of between 1-6 solar masses into energy.

With black hole mergers this energy release/conversion is in the form of gravitational waves that we then detect!

So imagine the sun, times 6, every atom, converted into that energy. That’s what we have already recorded.

This predicted one is not even in the same ballpark. Those 1-6 sun matter into energy conversions are ants compared to what’s coming.

These supermassive black holes are thousands to tens of thousands of times the mass of our sun. (Not sure if the ones in this paper are in the billion solar masses class. Yes they do exist)

This event will convert the mass of perhaps a hundred or a thousand suns worth of matter into energy in an instant. (Not sure if the paper gives any accurate predictions I’m lazy!)
I don't disagree that AgileBits feel like they're going to go user-hostile anytime soon, but so far I haven't noticed a significant downgrade using their hosted service with iOS & macOS clients so I'm curious to know what's your issue. I'm sure it'll come at some point though.
I put oranges and apples in my vegetable salad.
A philosophy of software design by John Ousterhout https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1732102201/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_...

The entire focus of the book is reducing complexity.
science will happen
Some people hate the taste of chocolate, for crissakes. No need to insult them. Just eat their chocolate!
Do you happen to know any serious science sources that discuss the Avalon Explosion?
I don't know about apps but I access my local NOAA weather[1] daily on the web...

[1] https://www.weather.gov/ewx/
Depending how much your time is worth you could probably get the same media on third-party services via a computer or Apple TV, or even go "sailing" if you don't mind breaking the law (if you see what I'm talking about!).
a bunch of my remaining junk accounts have broken pw reset, or even after taking control there's no way to delete the account and/or the "optout of everything" option doesn't actually stop them from sending me junk regularly (ie they just dont honor their own optouts)
I enjoyed "A philosophy of software design" by John K Ousterhout https://www.worldcat.org/title/philosophy-of-software-design... just be forewarned that at 180 pages, it's a lot more aspirational than instructive. It depends on what kind of organizational problem you're having: lack of experience, lack of interest, lack of discipline, lack of buy-in, or $other
That was almost a century ago. Get over it, US is not a country of warring heroes
I agree with you although it has basic markdown support which can be used for short notes and TODOs, but note taking is not its essential feature.
For the most part my experience is the same as yours, but Instagram is legitimately great at targeting me with stuff I might actually be interested in. I've bought 2 or 3 things as a result of ads on their site, probably the only times ads have led to purchases for me.
Exactly this for me, too. I make lattes and cappuccinos pretty often at home. I don't drink dairy milk, so I'm constantly on the lookout for decent alternative milk brands. I've tried pretty much every brand I can find at local stores, and some that I have to order online...

Except Oatly.

Because when I lived in NYC, their subway advertising was so aggressive, in your face, and annoying, I swore I'd never buy the product. Because no brand that spends that much on advertising can possibly be price-efficient for their actual product.

I've actually tried it at a friend's house recently, and really enjoyed it. But I still refuse to support a brand that advertises so heavily.
Well then just blame Canvas. Blame anything but yourself!
That's like saying you took the first step up a ladder so there's no point in continuing to the next step. That just doesn't follow. Now, you just know you need to know more. The unknown unknowns become the known unknowns so you can learn to make the unknowns known.
The fact that you would automatically react in this way is itself a reason to send it to the lawyers and have it go through a different department and chain of command.

Make it a legal and business decision instead of a technical one. And find an audience that knows the practical benefits of quick resolutions to reasonable requests.

And I say this as a person that would likely respond in a similar punitive and/or principled way to what you described upthread. Which is exactly why I leave it to the lawyers.
Actively developed open source projects are a moving target, thus it'd be good to indicate which versions were reviewed or tested.

If a vulnerability were later found in a version that was checked then it would be good for the OpenSSF to review how it was missed. Hopefully that'll let them be better in the future.

I also like the idea of them documenting their methodology. Open source the process of finding vulnerabilities in open source projects!
what if this gets my email shadow banned on gmail networks? very risky
3 million children lifted out poverty but chicken wings are now more expensive. Impossible to say if it was a good policy.

Seriously, how do weigh the consequences of actions like this? On the one hand you have a certainty: many children plunged into deprivation by an unavoidable pandemic. On the other hand you have an almost unknowable risk of influencing worldwide macroeconomic trends. Is the second worth more to you than the first?
Wow, I totally forgot about doing this. It was a great trick in a pinch. Dropbox offered me a much better solution to do the same thing in college, which was to submit my assignment on time, via a Dropbox link in email, but to a blank word file. It always gave me several hours to finish my papers.

Now, I'm on the other side of it. My spouse is a teacher and I get to see the base tactics that some students try to pull off and the hair-pulling toll that hundreds of these paper cuts inflict on teachers when they have to chase down students.
Probably a lot less impact on the economy than child poverty, especially for those children.
I think to rephrase the parent comment, the issue is that you're making an argument from hipocrisy. You're saying that free-market people should be ok with this but (it sounds like) you also don't subscribe to the free-market view, which means that what you said isn't enough to justify it according to your values.

Maybe it would be different if you said "as a supporter of the free market, I believe that Spotify was correct and in their rights to do this".
OP's joke is to maintain that JRE is Java Runtime Environment. In that context, a tech support complaint about missing that dependency is something you would not expect to see on hacker news.
I just assume at this point that a new python script from a coworker won’t run without an hour of tinkering and yelling obscenities at my screen. Or resorting to running in docker, which seems asinine. Python’s everywhere and does everything though, so I don’t have a good alternative. Shell scripts definitely aren’t it, but they generally hold up better when sharing in my experience.
Ok but what about after uhh 1945
"People should have every right to unsubscribe themselves from that, and thus should have some sort of feedback loop attached to the email being sent (to the detriment of your bottom line I fully understand and sympathize with)."

I agree.

We have a flag for such a thing and set that flag when people ask us to. They ask us in a nice email exchange between human beings. We're very responsive to this since they are our paying customers.

That's the big disconnect here: it's inconceivable to many people (including abusix, et. al) that healthy, straightforward interactions like this occur in 2022.

In their mind there are nothing but robots and newsletter subscribers forever locked in an arms race.

I'm sorry that is the case.
Yes, infrastructure level services should be forced to accept all customers, including the KKK. The power company can't shut off someone's power because they are in the KKK. Verizon can't shut off your phone if you say racist things into it.
In practice it's quite different. For example if you send money to a suspected terror group your bank will block the transaction and freeze the funds (that is, they don't even get you your money back), even in the absence of any crime.

They won't do this for regular criminals. Even if they know that a transaction is probably related to criminal activity, the bank will just file a report and complete the transaction. Except for terrorism financing and sanctions evasion, it is entirely the job of Law Enforcement to act on reports.
The manual workarounds are to do things like disabling SPF, which is a very bad idea.
Why not just use simplelogin? Buy your own email domain and you can create random emails on the fly. Like if you're prompted to input your email you can use the name of the prompter companyxyz@yourdomain.com and it'll forward it to your regular mailbox. It's fantastic.
With greater surveillance power and the precedence of passing this bill the government gains the ability to push a stronger one, including one that targets general encryption.

Your intended effect is uncertain at best, I'm not even sure it's going to be a net benefit in the most ideal scenario (losing encryption in commercial setting is at the very least extremely inefficient), and there would certainly be high costs to the society until that materializes. At worst it would never materialize.

You're effectively advocating to take a very high risk to liberty and privacy for some very wishful thinking.
I don't recall Netflix doing this.
Way to strawman!!
I won't buy a car brand if they add monthly fees, but how do I convey this to the manufacturer? The Toyota car start fee is enough to make me not buy a Toyota anymore but it's not like they know or care.
Actually it sounds brilliant. Certainly Facebook is a lousy way to actually have social connections. But using it as a coupon book is something it would be good at.

Reminds me of the now-periodic posts on HN grousing about how bad Google has become. The complainers expect too much. Google is the modern Yellow Pages, or Computer Shopper. You use it for the ads (and SEO stuff). It’s good to look for the highest bidder - that indicates a powerful bidder who can afford it. In the old days this was picking the plumber with the big Yellow Pages ad. At least they’re more likely to be in business with someone answering the phone. You’ll have much worse average luck calling the business with no ad that just has a one-line phone number listing.
In those local markets you had reporters who were friends with those in power and very little got reported.
Jews were allowed to move around without their stars of David - in the ghettos, literally the origination of the term. Jews were not allowed to take part in wider public life without them.
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" is a classic essay, and absolutely worth reading. This transcription [1] (with some extra remarks at the end by the transcriptor?) is pretty accessible.

[1] https://pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985programming.pdf
Thanks, I've felt the same thing.

I've even seen therapists who claimed that I could completely 'heal'. But that's a perfectionist attitude itself, which had me banging my head against the wall for too long.

I think the truth is far closer to 'able to live a satisfying life in spite of'
How did you come to the conclusion that the money was printed...?
UCEPROTECT is just horrible, full stop. Stuff like [1] read like it's written by a 13 year old. Lots more where that came from; as near as I can tell UCEPROTECT is run by a single person who is consistently vitriolic like this to anyone offering even the mildest of criticisms (supposedly multiple people have involved over the years, but their, ehm, distinct colourful personalities are so alike that I'm inclined to think it's just the same person using different aliases).

People have been complaining about this for a very long time; as long as I can remember. In the past they've also just permanently added people's IPs after complaining their IPs were wrongfully listed (not sure if they still do that).

The UCEPROTECT blacklist should be blacklisted by everyone. Yes, we need a blacklist of blacklists.

[1]: http://www.uceprotect.org/cart00neys/2021-001.html