skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ticketmaster gave one of my email addresses to their parent company, Live Nation. They started spamming me with event stuff pretty much immediately. Their unsubscribe options don't work. I complained to their support and they told me to just not use it, and that the emails would go away? Screw that, I changed the email address I used for Ticketmaster and deleted the original one. No more spam since, thankfully, so it seems they didn't pass the new address along.

The one that puzzles me is that some recruiting database got my personal email address, the one I only give out to people I care to keep in touch with. I've never, ever given that email address to a recruiter! I asked them how they got that email, and of course they just said "some AI-powered recruiting tool we use". It's sad because that email address is super fun and I had managed to keep it private for so long...
I should curate a list. Most recently: Venmo. I expect news about a data breach soon. Before that: epik.
No problem. As displayed in the video of the dead fish, although initially well-placed and enjoying the neutral flow region/sweet spot, perturbations eventually force it forwards into the obstacle. The live fish has to be able to detect those perturbations effectively enough to avoid similar situations. If not, the fish would have to actively swim back into the sweet spot to begin enjoying the benefits again, as you say 'start from scratch'.
Does that mean their own servers run on Linux?
It's through the American Arbitration Association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Arbitration_Associati... .

> The AAA does not itself arbitrate disputes, but provides administrative support to arbitrations before a single arbitrator or a panel of three arbitrators. Under its rules, the AAA may appoint an arbitrator in some circumstances, for example, where the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator or a party fails to exercise its right to appoint an arbitrator.

The AAA has a "National Roster of Arbitrators". The AAA appoints an arbitrator from this roster. https://www.adr.org/sites/default/files/Consumer_Rules_Web_2... R-15 and R-16.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_(alternative_dispute_res... for why that alone doesn't ensure impartiality.
Not OP, but the terms state this under sec. 5:
"BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE NOT TO: [...] use any of the Zillow Companies’ trademarks as part of your screen name or email address on the Services;"
> That's simply ISPs seeing a lucrative revenue stream and wanting in on it. Let's put company size and market cap out of the picture and think of the network architecture. I set up a server in Romania. Someone from USA makes a request to it and gets a response. Can their ISP (Comcast or AT&T or whoever else) now send me a bill at the end of the month?

I think it's the reverse: the idea is that your server in Romania keeps getting a low-priority until you send each ISP (Comcast, AT&T, etc) a cheque every month.

They don't need to send you a bill, they only need to wait for your money.
The number of times I've stared at some random Python function deep inside a library wondering what does this function return? Even the docs often don't say.
This has been my experience too. I have <lastname>@gmail since 2004, and have for the last decade at least used a separate domain for all my accounts.

I haven't noticed many leaks/sales at all of my specific account addresses. I get almost all my spam on my regular gmail, and promotions for companies that my namesakes have signed up for, left my email at a store, etc.

I have identified several people from the variety of emails I get, including work/school/personal.

> But some of the companies responsible of the subscriptions, like Paypal, are assholes. They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it.

This is my absolute biggest gripe. Someone signed up for AT&T using my email. I contacted their support on facebook, and even after explaining the whole issue they asked my for my phone number, and recommended I call their support. I'm not even in the country. They stopped responding when I pointed that out.

While I want to trash AT&T (deservedly), they're unfortunately not alone in that behavior.
> that was otherwise abandoned

What are you talking about? It was never abandoned. That UI redesign took them multiple years and they released several betas over that time period. Just almost nobody bothered to chime in during any of the betas and then everyone started to complain when it got to stable.

https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/graphs/contributors
Same with me-- someone used my email to register for Airtel India, and I started getting his bills. Airtel have a complaint/abuse email and I told them about the mistake-- there was a lot of "hoo-hah" but nothing happened.

The bills are in encrypted pdf-- but the encryption is trivial to remove. I looked at the bills, its someone with a name similar to mine, just one letter different. I emailed the real person, telling him he had used my email, but got no reply.

I just press spam now, and the emails have stopped coming to my inbox. But I still get the emails 6-7 years later. Its mind boggling as how a) Airtel never confirmed the email b) Havent stopped sending even though they've been going to spam for years now
I think it might be because if you just want part-time it may looks like you are not going to take it seriously.

Being freelancer is more difficult for the not long term, but the best to achieve shorter working hours I would say is, work full time for 9-12 months, then you know how things work and also have some "power" to request part-time.

The problem of course is that after 2-3 years you will most likely change job again, so it does not last too long as long as you want higher salary
Cancer: Huge DNA analysis uncovers new clues
A more recent piece with Morris including link to his talk at Brookings from a few days ago.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/20/us_chips_tsmc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCWYcag5RE

Choice quotes:

> Chang said that costs for manufacturing in the US are simply prohibitive, and TSMC has the data to prove it thanks to 25 years of manufacturing at its plant in Oregon. Chang said the plant is profitable, but expansion plans have all but been abandoned.

>"We were extremely naive," Chang said, "in expecting comparable costs, but manufacturing chips in the US is 50 percent more expensive than in Taiwan."

...

>It's perhaps hard to square Chang's position with TSMC's $12 billion investment in an Arizona fab, and news that it raised an additional $3.5 billion in bonds for the factory. Then again, he did leave in 2018 and said that the decision to build the new US fabs wasn't his.

>"We did it at the urging of the US government, and TSMC felt we should do it," Chang said. Still, he believes that all the billions of subsidies being ring-fenced by the US for increased domestic semiconductor assembly will still fall far short of the necessary amount needed to boost homegrown chip manufacturers.
It should not be re-used, but it is definitely a thing that happens sometimes, though rarely in my (used to work on library software) experience.
No, your risk is the mortgage, but it's paid by the lesee. Most people I know do it by putting down 10%, getting a 30-year mortgage for the rest, then rent it out. Eventually the property pays for itself.
Let's take an example: a 100k fixer upper. You put down 10k, finance the rest. You spend 25k on remodeling it, so you can rent it out. The house brings in say 850 a month, making cca. 10k a year. So you make 10k a year on a 35k investment, which is a 28% ROI. Obviously before taxes, and any mainteneance etc. But this is how most retail real estate investment work.
I get a ton of spam on my Amazon email. I assume this is via some sellers getting it as part of the return process.
I just rotate the mail every six month and drop the old ones into a auto delete rule.

Another is the mail used in domain registries but it’s low volume

The worst offenders are mailing lists I subscribed that fail to respect unsubscribing.
I find the smaller they are the worse they are.
So many just re-add the mail six months later.
There I have a rather fun mail rule.

Any mail from their domain gets an auto reply with an explanation that this isn’t cool, with every support, admin, sales mail I could think of in cc. It includes a list of all the times they mailed me and all the times I asked them to unsubscribe in a list, handily auto generated my a node-red flow.

Yes, it’s pedantic,
No I feel no shame.
That's what's really chilling. To this day I wonder if the customer service person was being intentionally malicious or if the bank's verification protocol was just that bad.

I could totally imagine friends and family just typing in their credentials because they'd just think: (1) it was a bank so it must be safe (2) that they got "transferred" so they're communicating privately with the other bank, and/or (3) that a person surely could not figure out what numbers they entered into the phone.
Example: Pronouns. I’ve been subjected to Slack bots that chastise us for using gendered pronouns. Like, someone says “could you guys take a look at this?” And the bot calls the person out publicly, saying we don’t use that pronoun around here.
Why would a mouthwash be effective against a virus in your nose?

Using alcoholic mouthwash is bad for the same reason taking antibiotics is - and you may actually want to take oral probiotics for the same reason the ones you eat are healthy. Though I don't know the current state of evidence for them.
Isn't that Elon's plan? At least he claims it is, so it must be true.
Technically the list is not being modified but the comparison operator is dynamically determining the order of elements when the sorting algorithm checks them. This is done in a way so that the order of pairs that have already been checked previously remains fixed and it results in a valid totally ordered comparison operator in the end - but the order it ends up with depends on the sorting algorithm.
My "linkedin@mydomain.com" email gets a LOT of traffic at the moment - I suspect that was a breach rather than being sold on (but that's being charitable).
And this is why we need error bars on all plots. Looking at these plots there is no way to know whether people guessed uniformly or whether the self assessment is clustered around the mean.
same, started using Objects and Classes more to get type hint support
The implicit hypothesis is that if a test is full of questions you have no idea how to answer, you really ought to have strong priors that you're a below average performer. Tests are generally designed so that people familiar with the relevant material and methodologies can attempt answers; you dont need to know exactly how good other test takers are for it to be reasonable to assume you're in the bottom quartile if you can't. Same as you should have a lot less difficulty than most cyclists estimating whether your time trial was a good one relative to the rest of the field if you struggled to stay on the bike.

Of course, there are tests where the bottom quartile find the majority of it easy and have no particular reason to assume that most others found it even easier, and circumstances in which the weak undergrad who can only answer half the questions may reasonably believe that the test is being administered to a general population full of people who won't understand any of the material at all. But in general, it's reasonable to assume that if there's a lot of stuff you don't know, other people will know better.
No, I mean researchers and professors suddenly not getting any research grants anymore, suddenly getting fired from their tenured jobs, not being invited anymore to conferences, etc.

What billionaire funds “contrarian” research?
I would even dare say that all those small gadget are an environmental nightmare and unethical. I know those who build them are passionated people but when you enter something in the market you should have moral rights to not build things whose more than 80% of the items end up in a drawer or bin before at least 2 decades of use.

Not that they are the worse offender, it is a global problem that touch both indie and big corps.
And they called it "easy listening", haha. But it's really typical of lounge to do lots of weird complex things and still make it sound like it's no big deal. I believe Girl from Ipanema has a couple of YouTube videos about its weirdness as well.
> My stack is pycharm, mypy, pydantic, sqlalchemy stub, several mypy plugins, black, isort, tabNine completion, and a bunch of custom scripts/Make to automate the common tasks.

Christ. What a mess. With a stack like that, it's a stretch to say you're "writing in Python" anymore.
> I think most people think of a missile as something without wings

Don't cruise missiles have wings?
If we would write some code in rust, compile it to, for example, x86_64. And then de-compile it to C. It would be perfectly memory-safe C code, right?
*hole

(Good comment, though ;)
Question: can you recommend any service to quickly create new accounts, but redirect them to my main one?
Whenever I have had a 'fraud detected' type call from my bank, doing the right thing (phoning back using the number on the back of my card) has resulted in sitting on hold, then being passed around until they can find the right department . It would be great if they normalized and streamlined this, by giving you a reference you could type into phone banking to get back through to the same agent/someone that is up clued up on the issue.
> Simply put, it does not belong on shared network drives at all

My home NAS file shares are used by only me, so I'd like it to be supported there. So at the very least it needs to be configurable per-share. And in that case, having the server admin add them to veto lists seems like the easiest solution.
"Brainwashing has caused people to believe in network congestion caused by high bandwidth usage."
Awesome!, It's time to test ;)
No, nulls matter a great deal. If you want to test a claim in Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing, the "significance" of the claim is in direct reference to the null. Changing a null will change the significance of the alternative. My favorite statement of this is from Gelman:

> the p-value is a strongly nonlinear transformation of data that is interpretable only under the null hypothesis, yet the usual purpose of the p-value in practice is to reject the null. My criticism here is not merely semantic or a clever tongue-twister or a “howler” (as Deborah Mayo would say); it’s real. In settings where the null hypothesis is not a live option, the p-value does not map to anything relevant.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/01/07/we-fiddle-...
Depends on the country in the US its relatively common. Other countries it can be much more difficult.
This is a bit disappointing. Apple is uniquely equipped to disrupt enterprise/datacenter, having the M1 chip in their arsenal. Among many other benefits, the M1 chip in the datacenter would result in massive PUE reduction. It would also bring about some healthy competition, as currently Intel and AMD are making money hand over fist with what they charge their enterprise customers.

Perhaps Apple felt that Linux is too advanced nowadays, and that their BSD internals would need significant work just to catch up.

It's a real shame.
Did you look at my source above? The studies show that many of these peoples would have lived on diets of about 70% roots/fruit/vegetables, and only 30% meat. So unsure how the math says that's not possible.
The prevalence of payments by card on American websites is often making me nervous. At least several websites know my card numbers, such as Amazon, Microsoft and Unity Asset Store, and they are able to make payments without my permission at any time. In Poland, paying by card is rare, and websites don't need to save your card details. Most payments are done through payment processors who send a payment request to the bank and have the bank website do the authentication part, usually through SMS or bank mobile app. So there isn't really an option to make a payment without your permission.
> My understanding is that the hypothesis is "Those who are incompetent overestimate themselves, and experts underestimate themselves".

The DK hypothesis is "double burden of the incompetent": "Because incompetent people are incompetent, they fail to comprehend their incompetence and therefore overestimate their abilities more than expertes underestimate theirs"

Arguably the hypothesis that matches the data from the DK paper best is: "Everyone thinks they're average regardless of skill level"
LinkedIn sells all your data via their sales navigator tool. The more you pay, the more data you can get.
Canadians say "work from home to eat poutine"
The windows XP era was quite long. I used it between 2001 and 2008. The laptop I mentioned, had more memory than the 32 bit version could technically allocate for a single process and most processes used far less than the maximum. So, I could run one big process like that and have all the usual stuff in the background without much issues.

The 64 bit version was released later and of course allowed for more memory. They never really addressed the swapping issues. So it continued to make sense to upgrade the memory and switch off swapping as opposed to replacing the entire laptop because it was "slow". Most instance of people complaining about their laptop performance basically were running into this and never realized the fix was a 100$ upgrade of their memory + simple configuration change. A lot of those laptops are still fine for running Linux today.
United SMEs Training advertises a large variety of Time Management Training Providers which are delivered by a range of Sales Trainings Providers.

https://unitedsmes.in/services/hop-on-hop-off-and-soft-skill...
For plenty of users "control over my filesystem" means being able to put an icon in a certain position and have it stay there when they come back to the folder.
The comparison operator is not actually mutating the list, which would not be allowed in C++ either. Instead it is dynamically generating the < comparison operator for the elements in the list based on the order for which elements it is evaluated. The order for two elements remains fixed once examined and in the end it always ends up with a valid totally ordered comparison operator. The only thing required for this to work is that the comparison operator can have mutable state and that the same shared state is used for all comparisons in the sorting algorithm (asided from thread-safety so you'd need adjustments for a parallel sort).
Inuit and Eskimos are the standard counter-example, and they are mentioned in the article, but they are a very small percentage of world-wide hunter-gatherer societies throughout history.

They also weren't around in the Paleolithic.
> I was getting some dude's email for about 7 years. Started with newsletters and discussion threads for a journalism guild and a teacher's union. I found that amusing and left it, but one day emailed whoever was in charge and let them know I'm not the intended recipient. Stopped for a while and then it started again and I ignored it.

I had a similar experience, funnily enough golf course memberships too. Doing minimal OSI work on the numerous emails I found the guy on facebook and friended him (accepted due to same surname I assume). I remember saying something like:

"Hi, I noticed you just signed up for an Epic Games account, and you happened to use my email address <lastname>@gmail. Would you mind not doing that, please?"

He responded that I was a creep and that it was his email, and proceeded to block me. I mean he might've been right on the former, but patently wrong on the latter.
I agree, but I don't think this is limited to science. I think a great deal of everything is in fact trash. This is why we need education and good faith discussion.
Make it viral on TikTok
I would say you are a hero – finally imposing a “cost“ on people who are not prioritizing unsubscribe functionality. As someone who just quietly blocks, I am happy to free ride on your crusade :-)
You don’t get a lot of spam when you give a different email address to different companies. They can’t correlate with other data to tie your accounts together. The value of spam marketing is being able to cross sell taking advantage of the one unconsented email they can send.

Scammers on the other hand contact me on all my emails that have leaked/compromised. Latest being xfinity.
A couple of years ago, I had a fraudulent transaction on my credit card. I told my bank who cancelled my card and issued a new one.

A week later, I get a call from my bank, the person, who spoke with a strong indian accent I had trouble understanding, wanted to follow up on the fraudulent transaction to ensure the chargeback was done properly. He refused to give me any details until I had proven my identity by giving my name and passport number. I was immediately concerned so I refused to give those details. The CS on the phone seemed annoyed at that. I then contacted my bank relationship manager who had no idea if the call came from the bank or not so I decided then that it most likely was a scam.

Turns out a week later, my relationship manager told me that the call was actually legitimate. They really didn't understand why having someone from the bank call and ask me for my passport number was a problem in term of security.
It may be something of a specialised tool now, but in the 90s it’s hard to express how far ahead of the curve the TCL ecosystem was from anyone else. I remember people looking offended at how fast you could slap together a UI compared to the C/C++ nonsense they were used to. Expect redefined the game for all sorts of scripting.
> In my personal metaverse, I'm really into falconry (I've ordered several leather falcon hoods), I have a commercial truckers license, I'm part of a pushy childrens' soccer league, and am eagerly planning a trip to the holy land. I did get an invite from one of them to play golf together in Wales.

Your targetted ads must be really interesting :-)

The silver lining is, of course, that no one has yet built an accurate profile of you ...
Science itself is the best method we have for exploring and making sense of the world around us. The method is rock solid.

In between us (gen pop) and The Method are scientists, and scientists are just as fallible as any other group of people - lawyers, politicians, coders, shop assistants.
Trivago fined $45M for misleading customers on hotel pricing claims
Yikes, I use service@domain quite often. I didn't give thought to this possibility.

I'm quite sure the reason will be that this service emails others on "your behalf" and probably does something like placing your email address in the "From" field or in the body of correspondence. I assume they are concerned about phishing or catfishing emails purporting to be from the service.

This doesn't appear to be an adequate solution to the problem.
i thought so too, but is it actually the case? it's a bit more js code but if pack all your js files there's one less http header. then it's cached. for the image you got the initial size + header (roughly 500 bytes), then it's cached all the same. so, if the additional js gz'd is smaller than 100 bytes of png + gz(400 bytes for the header) it might pay off.
Inverting a Binary Tree in C
> Why can't we have cool things like this? Fuel?

Gravity. This thing is going to be huge, weigh many, many thousands of tons. Having it fly on vertical thrust is probably going to take more fuel than it can realistically carry, and certainly more than you can realistically supply it with. If you're going to do something like this, I think you need to look at lighter-than-air airships. Or maybe something hybrid?
Glad to hear that. In that case text console in OpenBSD is not ASCII since I can pretty much both type and see those characters, right?! I mean, why say that it is ASCII-only if extended ASCII does not exist, yet those characters are displayed properly?