skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is just one company. There are many developers. And Apple has many products. Apple only charges 30% to those developers making a million bucks a year or more. Which means that well over 95% of all developers only pay 15%. Which is a much better deal than any other major platform gives any developer. 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.
Can you point me to the part of the Canadian Human Rights Act that defines vaccination status as a protected class?
I watched with interest, and thought this might be a quicker way to do math... only to find out it's already how we do it in the computer. Well done!
It's a shame teachers are held in such low esteem in U.S. society. In Asia, the teaching profession is prestigious (if not highly paid) and the students pay teachers a lot more respect. When I lived in Taiwan, I witnessed it: from kindergarten through university, students stand and bow when the teacher enters the classroom, and the same when he or she leaves. Of course there were terrible teachers there, as well, but at least they probably enjoy higher job satisfaction than our teachers (both good and bad).
All I want is a mail provider that will dump wild cards into my Gmail box. What's the best tool for that? I don't mind the Google Borg... but I'm not willing to pony up $$$ for simple wildcard email delivery.
That wasn't really necessary?

Perhaps not. I guess what I'm trying to say is:

Yes, it's a woefully underappreciated and underpaid job. But unlike what must of us fully-hatched adults do with our lives - I do feel that (good) teachers are in fact doing something very valuable and important, and ultimately, at least some of their students will appreciate their efforts long after the fact.
I've been wondering about the "last parsec problem" ever since I read about it but this prompted me to look it up. Turns out the reason it's actually possible for black holes to actually merge instead of just orbiting each other forever is "dynamical friction" (basically as a black hole moves through a bunch of stars or other masses, its gravity pulls them inwards so that the stars it's already passed tend to be more directly behind it than the stars in front of it, so the net force on the black hole is backwards.)

The more you know.
I have used this too and found it to work well. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the name they chose for the program, though.
Yes, but only by a very tiny bit. You only have spend a short time on Google to find the stories of Tesla deactivating vehicles remotely, and then refusing to reactivate them without paying an extortion fee.

Try getting your Tesla repaired anywhere but Tesla. People have been up in arms about right to repair laws for their Apple products. Right to repair and the right to modify your own products and not void the warranty or a matter of settled law. People don't seem to be paying attention to this around Tesla for whatever reason. The Magnuson Moss warranty act was specifically around cars.

So yes indeed when you own a Tesla your ability to use it as an automobile is subject to their whims at least in their current mode of operation that's how it is.
Rockwell has been pushing out superflakey software that I have encountered going back 25+ years. Starting with "pyramid integrators" back in the early 90's, daily updates to the software from the US overnight, generally three steps backwards and one forwards, if you were lucky.

On the other hand, I did a project with Schneider Unity Pro, similar PLC prog type software and it only crashed once in a whole year, and I blame windows for that crash.

Rockwell, if you go a day wihout a crash, then you start to feel like checking your files to check it hasnt corrupted some shit on the down low.

In more recent times GE royally screwed the pooch with the prog software for their new PAC range.

I don't understand how one or two automation companies can get it so right, and others so wrong.
Don’t overreact to this. It’s really not a big deal. I have worked with data of this kind for years.

First of all, there are a bunch of datasets like this or very similar to it both public and private. Example: have you ever been to a hospital in California? There is a state agency called OSHPD which makes inpatient discharge records available to academic researchers (like me) and to others like insurers. Texas, Oklahoma, New York (iirc) and many many other states make similar data sources available.

What’s actually in the data? Generally all of the ICD-9 or -10 codes generated by a visit. There may be very limited demographic information - race, ethnicity, zip code, age. That’s about it. (That’s what de-identified means here.)

Sometimes it will tell you the source of admission (eg “arrived by ambulance”), and generally will tell you the source of the payment (eg “patient has private insurance”). Some of these datasets will let you track patients over time (TX has a version like that) within a year.

It is extremely extremely difficult to match this information to actual people, assuming anyone even cared to do so (which almost certainly no one does!).

For one thing, most zip codes are large and contain many people (generally only three digits of the zip are reported if there are very few records from that zip).

More importantly, you just don’t have that much information about anyone in the data - you would have a row which essentially says: “Hispanic male age 50-54 from zip code 78201 who was billed for a knee replacement.” Good luck figuring out who that is!

Even for very rare illnesses it doesn’t work… if you already knew someone in 78201 had X Rare Disease and went to Y hospital, you might be able to find the record in the data with some work. But what additional information would you get? Maybe how much his insurance was billed?? You already had to know the guy had a rare disease just to find him!

Also - observe the fact that this dataset keeps getting sold. That tells you something about how useful it actually is in practice. I get that some MBA at IBM thought it would be great for “generating insights” about cost drivers and saving money. It’s really not.

If you look for the “cost drivers” in this data you will see that long visits and complicated procedures are costly. And then your next step is…??? This data does not give you anything which will help you predict or avert such episodes. Neither IBM nor anyone else has actually come remotely close to solving this problem, right? I am not aware of a single effort which has even moved the needle on spending by 1%! After holding on to it for a few years, IBM or whoever owns it next will talk up its value and sell it to another sucker. (If it were really worth that much to IBM, they wouldn’t sell it!)

If you want proof that there isn’t a privacy concern here, get exactly this data from Texas (which makes it publicly available). Open it up and let me know how easy a time you have finding anyone you can identify. Even if you have friends and family in the state who you know went to the hospital you’re going to have an extremely hard time.
All I see is:

#1 $$$ 100% Act now Action Additional income Affordable All natural/new Amazed Apply now Avoid Be amazed/your own boss Beneficiary Billing Billion Bonus Boss Buy Call!!!!!! free/now Cancel Cash Casino Certified Cheap Click here Clearance Collect Compare rates Congratulations Credit card/check/offers Cures Deal Dear friend/somebody Debt Discount!!!!!! Direct email Don't delete/hesitate Double your income/cash Earn Extra Expire Fantastic Free!!!!! access/money/gift Freedom Friend Get it now/started/paid Great Guarantee Hello Income Increase sales/traffic Instant Investment Junk Limited Lose Lowest price Luxury Make $/money???? Medicine Money Name!!!!!!! No credit check/experience Now Obligation Offer Only Open Order now Please Presently Problem Promise Purchase Quote Rates Refinance Refund Remove Request Risk-free Sales Satisfaction!!!!!! Save Score Serious Spam Success Supplies Take action Terms Traffic Trial Unlimited Urgent!!!!! Weight While supplies last Win Winner XJSC4JDBQADN1.NSBN32IDNENGTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAILC.34X

How is that invisible?
"The pixels on the edge are supposed to be halfway between white and black to indicate being half-covered by the circle, but if you pile them up on top of each other anything with a little black adds up with its duplicates to complete black."
not to mention that its probably already happened :-P
There is an alternative way. Just setup a mail server on a VPS and send a clean normal email /s
White City Shopping Center, L.P. v. PR Restaurants only made it to Massachusetts Superiour Court, so precident is limited, but it lets us know that a buritto is not a sandwich.
> make sure it has a working List-Unsubscribe header (preferably HTTP that allows someone to unsubscribe without having to contact you). Important note: If you use a mailto: unsubscribe, then I cannot unsubscribe a trap, even if I wanted to.

This is very interesting to me. Could you elaborate further?

- Some providers (IIRC outlook being the main one) only support mailto: and most prefer it. I have never seen advice that you "must" provide HTTP before.

- What do you mean by unsubscribe without contacting me? Isn't HTTP or SMTP just as much contacting me?

- Why can't you unsubscribe mailto: even if you wanted to? Earlier you hinted that it may have to do with revealing the trap, but while a HTTP url may not directly include the trap address it would be linked anyways. (Otherwise how would the unsubscribe work?)

Thanks for all the valuable insights. It does sound like you are taking a responsible approach here.
that's because Google has "labels" as their own extension to IMAP. It's non-standard and they don't care. They know it's a lock-in feature.

If you have a linux box around, the "imapsync" tool works well.
This is both evil and awesome!!!
I wonder if anybody else remembers Google Desktop?
>The more you know.

The more questions you have ;-)
Choose your SBL better; spend some time reading about it (doesn't have to be much) or testing it before blindly enabling it.
This is exactly what I did, worked a charm.

I signed up, but their product kept crashing - it never worked.

I called to cancel, they asked for 50%. I said, I don't owe it because the product didn't work - contracts require consideration by both parties. CSR said I would pay. I got his contact info and told him that not only I wouldn't pay, but that Adobe would cancel my contract for free before a year.

Anyways, I blocked the transaction. Within 2 months, they cancelled my subscription. I sent a screenshot to the CSR email. Never heard back.
It is, but there's probably more actual interesting development and design activity going on than you realize.

There's simply a real discovery problem, because of the aforementioned gold rush. Participants have too many incentives to bury accurate information that speaks against their investment, spread misinformation that embellishes it, suppress information about projects they want to invest in but didn't yet, ...
The thing that drives me up a wall with Teams is that when someone shares a screenshot with me, I can only expand the thumbnail in the chat to the full-size image maybe 5% of the time successfully. Most of the time I just go into a blank tab that never renders anything.

I think part of this is the fucked up way that Teams handles storing content, because it uses a mishmash of SharePoint sometimes for real file attachments, and some ephemeral blob storage for pasted images.

But it's infuriating because there is no error message, or any way to force reload; you just have to keep trying and hope it works, or go into your AppData folder, nuke the cache, and restart Teams.
Just start your message with

Dear friend, …

They will stop reading and delete it on the spot right there.
> If my understanding of the law is correct, spamming is legal, albeit immoral. If I were the hosting company, and I had a paying customer that is conducting legal business on my network, on what grounds can I evict them?

Hosting companies can kick customers off for basically any reason they want to. High-end hosting companies will absolutely kick a customer off if the customer’s activities result in spam blacklisting.

When I first signed with Rackspace, it took almost a week to negotiate their AUP (acceptable use policy). They were basically unwilling to give us any solid assurances about account suspension. They gave themselves enormous room to determine what was acceptable behavior on our part.

If you haven’t carefully read your host’s AUP, it might be enlightening. If your host doesn’t have an AUP, or doesn’t enforce it, then yeah maybe that is not the best neighborhood.
Mmm, wasn't aware of the timeline. My presumption was that the grow operation was only a problem because it was too close to a school, which is generally verboten even in legal states. My presumption being they reallocated the equipment and left the justice at that. I will retain my amusement at the reallocation but agree there may be a tragic or dystopian story we are not party to.
Expanded Child Tax Policy Slashed Child Poverty
The international standards do just fine for enabling spying.
Take Call Line Identification (CLI) aka Caller ID.

Any device plugged into the ptsn phone system which can display caller id has to have v23 dial up modem protocol facilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID#Regional_differences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_V.23

This means _anyone_ with access to the ptsn can upload malicious firmware to a telephone, ATA gataway or dialup modem if the hardware is designed to allow it, & firmware space permitting!

I do find govt legislation somewhat lacking though, for example porn sites now have to have "are you 18 or over", but social media like reddit or twitter does not and regularly on reddit illegal porn (child & animal) is making the front page of reddit before moderators take it down.

Social media sites like reddit or twitter are exempt from the 18year old porn checks because the porn content is not the bulk of their content, it covers many things like jokes, darwin awards, Karens having a psychotic episode and other things like that.

So would parents want their kids seeing illegal porn or mental health breakdowns on social media sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp groups because the current legislation allows the "are you 18 or over" checks to not be applied to facebook, reddit, twitter, whatsapp and other social media platforms?

I know the flip side argument for illegal content is its supposedly stopping an adult from doing it to a child, but I'm not convinced on that point considering how many parents and siblings are behind child abuse and dont post online, but use fraternal networks like the masons and religious organisations to abuse under the pretence of teaching people life lessons!

The religious stance, at least new testament, is to prevent the spread of STD's and to avoid mental health issue when cognitive dissonance sets in during middle age, but Govt's and education needs to tackle this problem to avoid people being exploited through lack of knowledge of the law, because the whole population doesnt even get taught a TLDR of law for life which makes it possible for clever people to exploit less knowledgeable people, which isnt on in my books either.
I just don’t reply to emails unless I absolutely have no other option. Works the same way, my whole inbox is a spam filter. I very seldom receive email that warrants response anyway.
The entire email, message, and phone model is upside down for me.

Rather than defaulting to allow-all, it should default to deny-all. Content is let in on a case by case basis.

I found an email service the operates this way, Hey.com. Unfortunately, it’s pretty sparse in mostly every way but this. However, it’s practically impossible for me to receive spam. You can’t get into my inbox unless I’ve approved you.

It doesn’t make any sense (to me) to maintain these hilariously complex deny lists that results in infinite cat and mouse. Just deny everything and only allow in known good actors. Voila.
The author redefined coding to something very narrow, and then pretended that when people speak of "teaching kids coding", they also meant that narrow definition (which is clearly not true), all to claim that it’s a waste of time.
This is not anything. “Soon: Fully extentible”?
Take this with a grain of salt, but I’ve heard that there are stupid legal reasons (lobbied for by the private sector) why government agencies such as the NOAA are prohibited from offering their own apps or services. If that’s true then I think it might be worth directing your anger there first and foremost.
The paper reads as more conjecture than fact. There are a few interesting threads that they are pulling on, but they seem to make a giant leap that

1. There is well established evidence of extraterrestrial microbes in meteorites

2. Earth is constantly bombarded with life bearing rocks, to the point that it is likely that “red rain” is non terrestrial.

3. Evolution events such as the octopus evolving from squid are from injection of genes by extraterrestrial retroviruses

I stopped reading at this point as the conjecture didn’t seem to lead to something substantive. If 1 and 2 are true we should have immediate access to an entire interstellar ecosystem. The space of possible mechanisms for abiogenesis grows exponentially. A distinct set of questions arise like does evolution occur in in asteroids? Do ecosystems on isolated rocks interact every few million years? Are the rocks coming into contact with earth from other life bearing worlds?

The paper answers none of these questions and doesn’t seem to grasp the implications it’s laying out.
I'm sure you've considered it already but a Steam Deck might be up your alley.
Yes, generally you pay third parties for their consulting services which is exactly what RDX Works did here. Are you familiar with the history of Jepsen tests? Because this report is a pretty standard analysis of his. I think if you read some of the other distributed systems analyses he has done this would be quite clear. Your take away that this was some sort of a "shade throwing" event is pretty bizarre.
That's a non-sequitur. If they were rapists they wouldn't be celibate anymore, they'd be criminals.

You can propagandize them that rape is wrong, most of them believe that anyway. It's not going to make any difference in how they relate to women, hate them or not.

Many young men are growing up completely alienated. It starts out with broken homes and absent fathers and then the exclusion of men from early childhood education, which teaches young boys that education is a girl thing. Even if a boy gets good role models most of them believe social change is happening so rapidly that they've got nothing to learn from those role models.

This lady talks about how bad online dating is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqldQzGV-lY

100% of guys who are doing online dating are interested in meeting either for a hookup or a relationship. A large fraction of women know they can get hundreds of matches with little effort and feel so much validation from that they ghost them all. 20% of the guys get 80% of the matches, many guys get absolutely nothing.

Many people seem to think that men are invulnerable and only women get hurt by these negative social trends, but when "pornography hurts women" it's because a man was watching pornography, was hurt by pornography and passed on the damage. My son lost his best friend, Scientology disconnection style, because his friend fell under the spell of this loser

https://www.youtube.com/c/WheatWaffles

and his friend doesn't want to be "mogged" because my son is taller than him.
What staggers me is that everyone knows (in Australia) that the ACCC can be quite the toothless tiger in many aspects, yet the mere mention of those 4 letters can make Adobe fold over instantly.

It's so telling that Adobe reacts in this way, when they present their terms of conditions in such a dark-pattern manner. It's like they know what they're doing is super dodgy, but want to toss whatever reputation they have left out of the window, for the sum of just a few bucks a month. It's revolting.
> It have been you taking the weird authoritarian take of “we must ban a tech because some bad people may use it”. Which is literally true in every technology ever invented.

If you're calling me an authoritarian for espousing views on why a particular technology that allows easy money laundering is bad, then I guess by a variation of Godwin's law, I win by default.
One other question. How do you manage domain based reputation vs IP reputation. I'm trying to get by running a service off of Cloud provider IPs and they may rotate from time to time as VPSs rotate. Part of me feels that once my domain has enough reputation it should be fine. It does seem like some of the big providers work like this (Google seems to trust me now from any IP) but it seems that a lot of smaller providers rely on blacklists more as they don't see as much traffic to build reputation. How do blacklists handle domain reputation?
Tomatoes have original sin, and I will only eat them after they have been purified by fire (or cooking anyway), or by sitting in the sun for quite some time.
Unspendable with who?

Seems if you can't go to exchanges, going to private corps or individuals who don't follow the ban lists would likely work, makes it their problem.

Of course, scale matters. Buying a couple of rigs off random sellers willing to take BTC should be trivial, but if you need a warehouse full of them...
> To be fair, all of these are American oddities. In Europe where people mostly use debit cards and neither chargebacks nor returns for functional goods bought in store exist, all of these are true for card transactions. Only the privacy point remains.

Are they? I can't speak for Europe, but in Australia we have a chargeback system. If I don't recognise a transaction on my credit or debit card, I can request a chargeback via the bank.

It would surprise me if none of the 40+ countries in Europe offered this. What do you do if there's a transaction you don't recognise?
Alaska has had a crazy history with marijuana legalization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Alaska
Do you really think Google or Qualcomm are going to try and root kit servers you ssh into? Google's privacy model is awful for many reasons but this doesn't seem like one if them.
My only issue with slides is that indention is super strange. You can be editing a list of nice tightly indented bullets, and then bam - one of them is suddenly an inch away from the rest. And that little bullet is contagious, it will eat and infect all the other nicely formatted list bullets like an out of control zombie movie. Internally, I assume the feature is named "We're all already indented 3 inches".
The language in this comment may be hyperbolic but the sentiment is on point. Phrases like “responsible encryption recovery” are Orwellian indeed, since it can only be code for “government mandated backdoor”. This is not a paranoid hypothetical; such mandates already exist in our world. Visit any dictatorship to discover the consequences. So the fascist epithet sticks as well. Mealy-mouthed calls for “compromise” in this regard deserve a robust reply.
Windows, Linux, Android - I hate them all.

None give me capability based security. All are the equivalent of a fortification build out of crates of nitroglycerine. Any inbound inject of control that works turns them into a devastating resource for the enemy.
The biggest problem with the web version of Outlook is that it doesn't have a global Unread Messages filter like the desktop version does.

I have a plethora of folders and rules set up for each customer, and it is impossible to keep up with incoming items without that Unread filter.