skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone in the USA needs to go to an elite, great or even good school. What they need is to be taught a little bit about the world, and they need to be taught the value of hard work.

These days all the poor people just want to be fed dreams of "passive income" and have "fulfilling jobs". Most jobs = trading time for money. Harder the job, more money you get. So work hard at school, you get more money at your job, maybe. Or you go into sales, marketing, leadership or business.

Why do people always try to blame someone else for their problem? The "elites". Because they don't realize that the only thing stopping them is the person they see in the mirror.
> he failed to recognize that the true application of veil of ignorance should push us towards open borders and more aid to developing nations.

I'll agree to international aid, but why open borders? Plenty of people enjoy having a national identity (no man is an island), and open borders essentially forbid that. You may as well demand parents not show favor to their own children compared to the children of others.
Satellites die from collisions today.

> You could do this hundreds of thousands of times in LEO and thousands in MEO and still barely change a single satellite’s collision odds.

I have to think that multiplying the number of debris objects by 300,000 for a few months *, and preferentially targeting that debris at a specific satellite would change its odds a bit. So, you're way off in hyperbole-land at this point.

Of course, it all depends on what we mean by "targeting". Still, one launch gets you approximately 3x the total amount of debris in orbit, and the opportunity to choose how it's distributed.

* Objects with a mass/surface area ratio of ~15 kg/m^2 decay in about a year in LEO, depending upon space weather and other factors. The tungsten balls have a ratio of 32 kg/m^2, so can be expected to last a fair bit longer.
I don’t understand the scores. “Opened” gives me -0.65, which I guess is really low. “Closed” gives me -2.11.
Like the idea, I hope it takes off, but two suggestions:

(1) the name ("getcited") comes across as a little superficial and maybe more importantly doesn't clearly directly reflect what it is. It sounds like a publication dissemination service, which I don't think it is?

(2) I wouldn't limit it to academic email addresses (unless you just mean "email addresses that people use for research"?). First, there are lots of legit researchers who don't have university affiliations. Second, there are lots of researchers at universities who prefer non-university email addresses for lots of reasons.
I'm not sure why it's relevant to mirror life before always-on internet? It's not like I refuse to read books because my distant ancestors would sit around the fire and talk instead of reading.

Though I understand (but do not share) your desire for truly real-time, ephemeral conversation and IRC is one of the last remaining experiences with that ephemerality.
I've been a shortwave listener since the 1980s and it's definitely slim pickings now. Internet radio, then podcasts, have killed shortwave.
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While the trial was about Heard, this writer decides for herself that all women are under attack by someone suing for defamation.
Essentially, she is saying that society must believe whatever a woman says but should not believe whatever a man says. If these people claim that gender equality is one of their goals, then how does a woman such as Heard (and others) immediately get the benefit of the doubt and a magical immunity cloak while any male is automatically guilty?
Many who sought a moment of fame and fortune via the MeToo vehicle have been all too happy to ruin careers by mere accusations against men with the "evidence" being someone saying so. The same persons will tell you that women should be able to use the fullest extent of the legal system to seek recourse.
However, after a trial that included all types of evidence, we are told it was misogyny and not the evidence or an entire jury.
If there is to be real gender equality that so many seek, both men and women have to be able to seek redress when they are defamed in public.
Not sure that “users are idiots” approach is better. That seems less than productive.

Pros select the tools they need to do their job very intentionally and are likely extremely aware of the alternatives. If I spend 8 hours a day correcting and manipulating photos and choose photoshop as my tool of choice instead of latest random FOSS alternative that is a favorite of some dude who occasionally touches up a photo, my decision might have some weighted reasoning behind it.

But hey, if you have something you feel is better, use it.
15%+ (CA has more added on) is not favorable when it's on your principle. If your $$ go up by x10 but your purchasing power remains the same, then 90% of your principle is being taxed at 15%. The term "capital gains" is becoming antiquated, going forward. Sure, the last 50 years have been great but no one is expecting the future to look anywhere near as rosy as the last 50 yrs. and so, the pizza keeps getting sliced into more pieces but you still have the same amount. The dollars in your retirement account may increase drastically but if the purchasing power is exactly the same, then you haven't actually gained anything. It's only in terms of accounting, that it's said to have made a capital gain: it's not a real gain.
The OP discusses code complexity, bugs, API instability, and incompatibility with the rest of the Go HTTP library ecosystem as issues that it’s aiming to solve.
If you need testers in the Santa Cruz area (surf, mtb) with monthly trips to Carlsbad, LMK.
I just installed the Kittens game on my phone. That may have been a mistake. I am already hooked.
Yes I would love to know why this works as well. I've noticed over the past few months, I get emails that land in my gmail inbox that are obviously spam (various bs offers), and I've always wondered how they are able to bypass the spam filter with ease it seems. Also the To email line is to an email address that is a variation of my email address @aol.com that doesn't actually exist
Why on earth are you still there?
At least he's pleasant. Isn't most of his financial advice "buy index stocks"?
I've been using a catchall domain for 25+ years. Caught some companies leaking or selling my email addresses, too (the one I was most irritated with was Godaddy).

Including the company's name in the salted address is usually confusing to support staff, so I just use its initials or something memorable. Some places also seem to have dirty and suspicious word filters (for instance, mail to my child's school will just silently get dropped because of my domain name, and I have to use a gmail account instead).
Some judge in later instance decided that Qualcomm did nothing wrong.

In my opinion Qualcomm is at the top of evil corporations. As the original ruling said.
Sheryl Sandberg to leave Facebook after 14 years
It’s not about destruction but equity. Tax-funded student loans should not be used to grow endowments and should be sequestered. Let donors fund the endowments if they care about the research institutions. Return the people’s money to the people.
Did that change? My AliExpress account is using myname@mydomain.co.uk
Tamarind is found here: https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/tamarind/tree

It's a CGI application used with Apache.

That code you see there does evrerything, using the raw HTTPS stream and environment variables from the server. There are no libraries, no web framework, nothing.

- cookie handling / session persistence

- generating HTML responding to requests

- reading/writing e-mail aliases file

- authenticating via IMAP or SASL
You are welcome and glad you like it!

No, I did not know Kee or anyone from old Kagi.com team. They went bankrupt in unfortunate turn of events. The opportunity presented itself and I acquired the domain. I liked it because Kagi means 'key' in Japanese and at the time this idea of a 'key to the web', and replacing big-tech infrastructure for consuming the web with something "decent" was forming in my head.
Does allowing Background Refresh trick iOS into thinking the app is in use?
US road that charges electric vehicles while they drive will be ready next year
There's a Brian Eno quote from A Year with Swollen Appendices that people always pull out in these conversations:

> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.

Same reason why we see new video games that look they belong on the original PlayStation.

The real sell to me is flexibility. The synths sound cool, but I'm only going to bring one instrument. Romplers support a diversity of styles of music and roles in the band.
| Most work, especially software development requires frequent communication.

This hasn't been my experience. Long periods of deep focus are more important than constant connection.
> But the idea of freedom is quite good. And freedom to become wealthy is part of that concept.

This is precisely how they are going to keep you right where you are while they get richer. Opportunity in a progressive economy is what is going to improve your economic situation, not the freedom of the rich to avoid taxes. Vote in your personal economic interests as they are right now instead of voting for the interests of the rich for the fantasy of the day when you will be rich. You'll never get there voting against your own economic interests. Not ever.
5 years ago I would agree, however we now have.

- Technology which can extract frightening amounts of information from search history, location data, and other data sources. It's not 2012 anymore when a google or FB ui just showing the places you had been was enough to get me to give over that kind of data.

- Ad based search engines literally filling the search page with ads.

- SEO spam so severe that the non-ads are generally terrible pages anyway.

Given all of this, and a young daughter who will be browsing the internet in another year or two - I'd be willing to pay for a search engine.
Someone could go just a little bit further and build an app that generates a random, but short and easy-to-say email address on demand from your domain and links it in a database to the company you want, when you created it, etc.

Instead of jcrew@yourdomain.com it would be ec5@yourdomain.com or mz2@yourdomain.com and an email client could replace the "to address" in your inbox with some description field linked to that email like "jcrew"
While these factors can cause a quarantine or even silent disposal, empirical evidence suggests that there are custom mechanisms (ie spam filters) downstream that do the larger part of the filtering.

I have been running private Mail servers since the early 2000s and this last decade has certainly not been nice to folks that want to self host. I cannot even send my mother in law email because Google just plainly denies delivery with no way to circumvent. Funnily enough mass mailing from the same account 10000 other gmail addresses has delivery metrics just like doing it with mailchimp. I think it is safe to say that big email hosting has grown so complex internally that the companies themselves can’t really make sense of it any more.

Edit: to preempt possible “you are doing it wrong” comments, my Mail server setup checks out in every conceivable test suite and email content as well :-)
I’m not surprised. One of the earliest stories out of Netflix was that they paid someone to leave when their skillset wasn’t needed anymore rather than training them into a new role. I get that in lots of companies developer to PM is a common transition. But Netflix only wants to hire people who are already at the top of their game.
I like it. fun project. isn't it amazing how quickly web pages load on modest hardware when there isn't a bunch of fluff? :)
I've not had this issue with the UK Labour or Green parties, or the Canadian NDP - I still get their mail sometimes, but nothing else.
Reminds of flashpunk and flixel
It acts like a reverse Rorschach test, where they give you a nonsensical picture and ask for a forced caption from the subject. If you set the task to generate something no matter what, you get something no matter what.

It is trivial to make it reject gibberish prompts. Just use a generative model to estimate the probability of the input, it's what language models do by definition.
The incentive is also much lower, given the ratio between driver comp and freight volume.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28529807
> flexibility requirements are within these bounds. That means that power variations required can be serviced while staying within the limits of the system.

This is, indeed, central here.

It seems to me that, if nuclear can do all necessary follow-up (the fine, low-latency, the part of it which is at best not-well-planned and often absolutely not planned for), it should do so, as it is cheaper and emits less than any fossil-fuel-burning equipment.

I can only see two reasons for this:
- the price-calculation method (marginal cost...) used in Europe offers way more benefits by always producing the last kWh thanks to fossil fuel
- letting a fleet of nuclear reactors take on all necessary load-follow has some unwanted long-term effect (costs, maintenance, fuel state...)

Are those reasons sound, is there any other one?
Unfortunately the price is a function of the search cost, not our wishes. Even at $10/mo it is still unclear whether we can make it to sustainability (this is why we launched payments while still in beta, to find out).

Search cost is non-zero. It was hidden from users for 20 years, and it may come as shock, but it is real.
These days we seem to be obsessed with tearing down any successful institution.

I am skeptical that redistributing endowments will have a large net positive impact.

That said, I never attended an "elite" institution and have lamented that they are so revered in our society. The German system of higher education where schools are relatively inexpensive and similar in quality seems to incentivize students to attend in order to learn something whereas the main incentive for attending an elite institution is to open doors to high paying careers.
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I think this is a terrible argument.
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut exposes more ffmpeg params.
Freeciv-web https://www.freecivweb.org/
Agreed, without this shared basic structure from birth we would never be able to make sense of any of our sensory inputs of sight/sound/etc, let alone learn a language. Being born with a "clean slate" mind would make interacting with the universe akin to interacting with a black box.
Empty Epsilon bridge simulator: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon

The game itself is fun, but the best stuff I've seen is it being reused, modified, and adapted for LARPs and crowdplay.

Out of Orbit is a great and ongoing example, a Finnish escape room-ish experience that also has a Twitch game putting stream chat in the role of the ship's AI: https://outoforbit.fi/ and https://www.twitch.tv/outoforbitgame/about

Empty Epsilon powers the game part, with integrations using its DMX interface and HTTP API to provide hardware interfaces and things like Twitch chat commands modifying the game state.
Total Annihilation-like: [Beyond All Reason](https://www.beyondallreason.info/). There are also a few others (or supreme commander-likes) run on the [springrts engine](https://springrts.com/) including zero-k.
This is a vanity project of Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and the state has invested $19 million.
You never get graded in the real world. That may sound good except that what happens instead is that you get judged behind closed doors and you never definitely know what people thought, you just see a consequence, like, "you get fired." While great leadership can clarify what is going on, they can't fill every gap. An organization may set a lower bar than what you're capable of; do you just aim for that, or do you try to go farther? If you do farther, will you get a jealous backlash from coworkers? Everything is contextual, and office politics often rope you into the hot seat.

So the only way you can definitely "know how you're doing" and not become an anxious mess is to work towards developing your own grading system, with your own rules, principles, and standards. You don't have to rush it - you have your whole career to perfect that system, but it's actually the basis of how you operate, and not whatever specific thing you've been hired for or assigned to.
It's a valid issue and dismissing it as 'conspiracy' only weakens your argument. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/covid-vaccine-...
Dang, you could trade stocks with information like that.
Indeed, 300:1 is pretty common in large lecture courses, even ones at relatively high ranked schools in fairly important topics (algorithms, for instance). And that's with the teacher having to give a different lecture to every single section every year, instead of just recording one lecture for everyone for the next several years.

Even more time is saved if we unbundled university education in general, so that the various paths and credentials are their own thing. IE, Intro to Poetry 101 isn't necessary for someone who's pursuing finance credentials.
The latest thing that started happening a week or two ago was an endless stream of unsolicited mailing list messages addressed to "Prunella" trying to get me to click on links. Ended up just setting up an autodelete when that name is in the Send field (because I discovered Gmail doesn't let you auto-spam folder things).
Maybe it's a demographic thing, and I don't think I'm a fuddy-duddy (though, just this morning, I was horrified by the lyrics of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" while dropping the kids off at school), but the bleeped-expletive made think "They're trying to be edgy. Why not spend an extra few minutes finding the mot juste rather than the lazy f-bomb? Everything else seems really thought out and put together."
Phone numbers too. Can you imagine if you could give out a different phone number to each company and you could put a call limit, allowed call times, as well as a date expiration on the phone number you gave out. It could all be linked to specific companies, where if you got a spam call, you could report it and the company you entrusted it with would get a fine, or possibly the call would simply not go through.
Why verify if you want to make money with it by increasing the worth and then selling?
I would think that this cost metric will change to their benefit with scale. Lots of constant factors go into these calculations that are significant when you are small-ish but become insignificant when you scale enough
And if the typing goes on for more than 5 minutes, you know you're going to need to get a drink and sit down for a while. yeah - typing indicators are handy.

Personally I want something that does opt-in. I'll happily share my indicators with people I communicate with regularly, it can be extremely useful to know if a message that's time-sensitive but doesn't require a response was seen ("grab milk too"). I sure as heck don't want to for most public-ish comms though. And I am entirely fine telling people that "I enable it for ~5 people and you are not one of them".
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Hi, I'm a full-stack web developer of 10+ years with a communications degree and a heavy emphasis on UX. The browser is my target OS, and it's most exciting to push its capabilities. I also design and build user-friendly OSS apps, with parts spun off to their own library/repo. I don't do social media (including LinkedIn) but am fun at parties.
I’ve been using a catchall, same as in the article for ~20 years. I’ve had some support people confused. All I have to say is “I have a system that helps sort my emails”. People get it after that. I’ve caught 10’s of email leakers. I don’t fear signing up for a sales led webcast (or other unsavory types) that I know will sell my info. Interesting how the author didn’t have a similar experience. I must say that modern spam filter have made the utility of this less critical. I’d never go back to the old way.
Why did you mention Andrei Jikh?
I think it’s because YouTube.com is the original sender and it’s considered ok if the receiver trusts the signers. The problem IMO is that the receiver’s mail provider (ex: ms365) doesn’t know if the receiver trusts the signers when deciding to deliver messages.

I’ve seen bad actors flood mailboxes with forwarded mail to obfuscate malicious activity. For example, they send a forged message asking for banking info updates and flood the real address that’ll get the “ok done” reply which I assume is an attempt to delay discovery of the attack.
How does someone live like this for years and not burnout?
Kubernetes isn't a solution. It just pushes the problem down the line. Fundamental problem is most software developed these days aren't packaged properly. The devs just ship the code to production. The hacks that they used to get the development going stays in production.

For example, you don't need a docker container to deploy Mysql, although you can deploy Mysql inside one. But most development processors are so badly managed that one product has many conflicting libraries and dependencies. Eventual requiring each component to be isolated within its own container. Finally leading to an unmanageable number of containers requiring Kubernetes to manage the mess.
I suspect that your estimate of google search infrastructure costs may be high by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Have you considered what the cost would be if the external APIs were in-housed? As an early-stage startup, you likewise are paying extra for compute, and expedient but often inefficient systems.

Is there a path to a <$5/mo unlimited plan? IIRC Google made less than $10 per year per user up until the mid 2010s.