skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add mecsred notes, this disaster illustrates the risks of rail, especially with hazardous cargo (which could have been carried far more safely by pipeline!) but it also illustrates an over reliance on humans. A zero-human-drivers railway would have (a) had automatically locking trains rather than relying on humans to hit the breaks, and (b) more remote monitoring to detect if anything went wrong.
Why are there still people not using ACME?
This case was obliterated on appeal. The Judge's opinion was the laughing stock of the SEP industry for a while.

Qualcomm did nothing wrong and this was all part of Apple's massive campaign against Qualcomm to force a positive settlement for themselves.
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It is astonishing. I generally enjoy Facebook and while there are ads and click bait a lot of my feed is just my friends talking nicely, but it's a strange subset of friends.

I tried clicking on a few profiles I hadn't seen in a while and a lot of them had nice posts too. I saw everything from them for about a month then it disappeared again.

I am very worried about what will become of all the very private stuff in their database as they begin to decay.

Right now I assume it would take very sophisticated effort to steal all that messenger data, but what about if/when Facebook is a zombie company with a skeleton crew or an unloved subsidiary of a conglomerate?
Building synthesizers out of discrete components was simply far more expensive than using digital technology to create and modulate various sound waveforms. The Yamaha DX was far cheaper to manufacture than the polyphonics Prophet 5, Oberheim OB-Xa, or monophonic Minimoog. The DX was lighter and more reliable, produced a wide array of sounds, and was easier to keep in tune despite being more difficult to program for useful sounds. Many DX users used the stock sound patches except for Brian Eno and a handful of others who could dive into FM synthesis.

See https://hub.yamaha.com/keyboards/synthesizers/discovering-di...
> The problem with that lottery is that it still doesn’t solve the problem of artificial scarcity.

This is assuming it's a problem that can be solved with simple tweaks or "startup disruption". It's an issue very much related to conspicuous consumption as education >in the Ivy League/cohort< is now a luxury good. Modeling a "prestige" factor helps account for the inequality [0].

Freakonomics[1] just did an episode on this, but I've come across similar data points else where. It's a stamp of not just a good education, but a social credential implying you have connections or money.

You can already get an equivalent education to one you might get at Harvard (or better in some majors) at many other public/private universities. The key here is the human connections you form, which go on to pay dividends later given the point above.

MOOCs were the golden child a decade ago, and they are working to some extent, but they're not breaking the elite walled garden of premier higher education.

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w29309

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-university-of-impossibl...
You have described my own situation rather precisely.
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Hello, backend dev here. I want to build some very specific gui stuff for linux desktop and i am confused. Let me first tell you what I want to build. Then I will explain my confusion. So I want to build something like https://github.com/ricotz/plank and https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-panel. It is not supposed to be cross platform, specifically for linux x86 64 bit. For Xorg specifically.

So I am thinking about some sort of application, that does it and is fullscreen and borderless by default. Both these apps cannot be seperate windows.
I want plank at the bottom screen to show pinned apps and apps that are currently running with their window preview on hovering over. The top panel needs to have a global menu like macos and an application tray for installed apps. Need to show icons for steam or discord running on top panel. So it needs to support systray icons.

I don't want to use vala+gtk or c+qt.

Can I use flutter, react native or tauri to do this? I don't want to use electron. I don't know dart rust or javascript right now.
Yeah seriously. I'm surprised by the other comments here. It seems like people want loosy goosey typing that magically inserts lossy casts with convoluted semantics, as if they've been brainwashed by JavaScript and C.
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> Correct, this message isn't forged, it's authentic

I personally receive a lot of emails that aren't addressed to me and aren't marked as spam and have always wondered how this works.

Can someone go into a bit more details about why this works? In what way is this message authentic?

The ARC wiki page says "Validating an ARC chain only makes sense if the receiver trusts the ARC signers."; in this case the receiver is Gmail. Why does gmail trust a random domain (robtoledoyour.com)?
I’ve certainly spent way too much time tracking down and fixing these automatic conversations to bat an eye at any extra verbosity required to make the intent clear.
Your profit came at someone else's loss, though. Gambling at a casino and winning means the casino loses money. Gambling on crypto is essentially taking money from other people, who may be gambling addicts, or suckers that have been fooled into buying crypto "because it's a good way to hedge inflation".
That dude missed the biggest benefit

When someone tries to call into a provider and impersonate you, to take over your account… they would fail because they don’t know your login even!

Whereas, for most people, they’d sweet talk the person on the other line into resetting the password. Happened to me with GoDaddy, they almost rerouted my @mydomain.com email and then it would have been really bad
The phrasing of the title flips the aggressor role oddly. The tldr is “don’t enter Russia”
Which community values do you think have degraded?
iCloud+ has something like this as well. So far I've only used it with Sign In with Apple, or whatever it's called. Your comment led me to go check out the iOS Settings and it looks one-off random emails aliases can be made in there.

Of course at this point my email is so many places it almost seems like a lost cause. What I wouldn't give to have a reset button for the entire internet. I would be much more careful with my address than I was 20 years ago.
Because his contributions are comparable in quality and impact to those of most legitimate executives
> Qualcomm did nothing wrong …

Is this a joke? Have you read the article?
"The impact of this seat scarcity has been higher prices at elite colleges, which has eventually trickled down into higher prices at other schools also. Scarcity of seats leads to systemically higher prices. As we obviously want systemically lower prices, we have to start thinking about reducing the scarcity of seats at elite colleges."

But that belies the whole point of "elite" colleges. They are selling a Veblen good and dilution of the "elite" brand is not what the consumer of higher-ed wants. They are purchasing "elite" status.
Remove the "author=dang"

Then they wouldn't be mod comments.

not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.

This is unsurprising given other people rarely if ever publicly moderate HN.
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Typing indicators are an anti pattern imo but async work doesn't seem like a desirable thing. Very few people are doing jobs where they can just go offline for a day and come back with a result.

Most work, especially software development requires frequent communication. Being able to quickly bounce ideas off people and verify your plans before committing to them is so valuable. I can't count how many times I have been right in the middle of something, had to make a questionable choice, spoken to a coworker just to verify the idea, and they tell me something that completely changes the outcome. Being able to get this done within the hour vs getting it right at the end in review is so valuable.
We see this time and again - to be clear, it will continue forever.

The goal is take meetings with those who don't probe too deep. Who doesn't ask too many questions? Personally a trend I've seen it starts with groups/investors who want to break into the space and jump at any deal because that's all they have. After you get a lead, it's relatively easy to get follow on money that almost never asks questions.

If you're willing to out right lie you can get very far. It catches up as eventually you run out of groups who are willing to believe the lies.
I just signed up for Kagi and installed the Orion browser to take it for a spin.

First search query, the third result was a particular brand of fish tank that I had forgotten, then forgot I had forgotten, months ago while planning out my home office build.

Thanks to you, I will have a great office with a cool fish tank, and a great browser/search to go with it!

In all seriousness, really great work.
The point isn't reduced drag. The point is to be able to do more horizontal acceleration with less propellant, because you're getting your oxidizer for free.
> repulsive & heartbreaking, complete neglect of civil & fair society; yeah, we know. the system continues to try hard to legitimize the legal robber barrony bullshit fucked up horseshit that regards only the very wealthy: we know. that's the problem. those at the top are against the public.

lmao. Calm down. Who knew you could get so worked up over boring niche elements of antitrust law that you most certainly don't understand.
I don't think this is why. In my experience, when this happens, it's universally because the message failed at least one of SPF, DKIM, or DMARC.
Kagi is still a tiny company (<15 people total).

We are not ready (in terms of not having enough resources) to maintain an open source project, of a size of a web browser. Much bigger companies fail at running open source projects and properly engaging community, and we'd rather not try at all, than do it in a bad way. I hope this changes in the future.
If you think ML is so trivial why don't you curve fit two pandas on the moon or a page of coherent text?
Oh. So the discontinuity is an artifact of the change in the series.

Once the discontinuity ages out (June 2021), M2 is still running 13% over a year prior. That's historically high, but not so much higher than the 10% back in 2003, 2008, and 2012.

Thank you. That makes much more sense.
Ok. So. I'm not going to say that is a bad idea, but I will share a story.

I used to work for a company that was the USPS's #1 or #2 customer (depending on the year). We spent a TON of money on spam. The biggest cost was the stamp.

If people have to start paying for emails- it will eliminate a lot of the spam -but it won't eliminate all of the spam- and companies like the one I used to work for will start to shine.
I have a similar take.

I believe FB management saw the writing on the wall, multiple world governments were no longer going to allow them to sway elections/perception + kids never want to use what the 30/40 year olds use, it was a matter of time before FB became uncool.

Staring at this reality, instead of going down with the ship, the logical decision was to take their still enormous resources and pivot to the next big thing. Meta isnt it, and they probably know it, but its their best idea.

Im old enough where Ive seen HUGE things everyone on the Internet was using, die quickly; IRC(as the main internet chat), ICQ, MS Messenger, AOL, Napster, MySpace, Yahoo, Geocities.

Its FBs turn, IMO.
Why "Turkish Magician", why not "Magician"?
If you're dropping in a VPN in private mode to avoid active adversarial tracking on a search despite the claims of the search provider then it's probably best to also avoid your primary search engine anyways.
This is such a violation of trust and user expectations IMO. Users have built up an expectation that the result can not be seen until you send. I understand that it likely speeds up support, but there should be some message at the start warning you of this like they have when your call is recorded.
I don't - I've never actually used flatbuffers. There are two pieces of code you'll want (if possible):

1. A `connect.Codec` implementation. I think it'd look almost the same as our Protobuf codec [0], but you'd use `FlatbuffersCodec.Marshal` and `FlatbuffersCodec.Unmarshal` (from github.com/google/flatbuffers/go). You _must_ have a `Codec`, but it looks like it should be pretty quick.

2. Ideally, you'd have a standalone program to parse your Flatbuffer schema and produce Connect code. The output would probably be very similar to `protoc-gen-connect-go`'s [1]. This isn't required, but it's a nice quality of life improvement (check out [1] to see the kind of conveniences it adds). With Protobuf, you'd do this via a `protoc` plugin and you wouldn't need to parse the schema yourself. From a quick look, I don't think `flatc` supports plugins at all - so maybe you'd either skip this step or put in the effort to parse the schema yourself?

[0]: https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-go/blob/main/codec.go#L5...

[1]: https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-go/blob/main/internal/ge...

Also, thank you for making me stop and think about this in detail. I just pulled Flatbuffers out of a hat when I was writing that part of the docs and assumed that `flatc` supported plugins like `protoc`. Turns out that when you assume... I'm updating that portion of the documentation now :)
Great question! Mostly paid APIs we use (probably 80%), rest is infrastructure.

But I will counter with this. It costs $0.0125 to run a web search over the entire web, producing meaningful, relevant and rich results, and all that in less than 500ms, any time of day, from anywhere. That is 1.25 cents to do all of the above. And the value you can get from that one search can often be 1,000,000x more.

That has to be one of the best deals in the universe.

(and mind you, with other search engines that cost is still there, it is only paid by their customers - the advertisers)
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(4) Resourcefulness / Creativity
I suspect Reacts adoption is more along the lines of "nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM" than because it was genuinely novel. The space of JS frameworks was very well explored by the time React was created.

PyTorch is based on Caffe which was created by Yangqing Jia at UC Berkeley.
Finally uBlock origin on iOS, not just that, chromium AND firefox extensions? The only other browser that does this is Waterfox on desktop, none on Android.

I havent actually tested uBlock because whatever the built-in is, it works well enough that I didnt get ads on youtube. Other extensions I tried (eg workona) didn't work but that's a good start. This was on an iPad.
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Actually, centralized databases like DNS are a symptom of a larger problem: society is so used to the idea that you can centralize power, votes, money etc. in one place. It is why we have celebrities and state governments, and privately owned social networks. It is also why smart contracts are still based around blockchains and they allow weird things like flash loans, because only one transactiom can run at a time for the whole world.

So the problem is that bill.gates@gmail.com or bill@microsoft.com is accessible to anyone who can use the SMTP protocol. And a phone number is accessible to anyone who texts it. That’s crazy.

Instead, we shouldn’t have DNS or centralized domains at all. DNS is just a glorified search engine that only really helps you find the root resource at a site, the /index.html thing. The vast majority of URLs on the Web aren’t going to be verbally shared anyway so you may as well store them as non-human-readable strings and let people save some local or hosted index. The titles and other metadata can be taken just like google does.

In this case, sending an email would require the recipient to have given out a capability that was received by you. And if some capability was compromised, they’d just deactivate it. It’s like this dude’s email aliases, but far better
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This solution is missing the chance at connections made by attending a school teeming with the useless scions of the rich, who will be handed plum jobs upon graduations. You're not going to have a chance to hook up with something like Skull & Bones sitting there doing remote learning the way you will by coughing up the fees to attend one of the Ivy League schools.
Catacylsm: Dark Days Ahead is fantastic.
How to detect and visualize fraudulent activities using knowledge graph
Prolonged sleep deprivation causes cognitive decline.
The Rules of Attraction: Greek homosexuality and its influence on ancient Rome
When I found out that computers are just doing elementary logical operations on 0 and 1 I lost interest. Nothing else to it. /s
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Easily the best:

Dungeon Crawl
https://crawl.develz.org/

OpenRA
https://www.openra.net/

Battle for Wesnoth
http://www.wesnoth.org/

FreeCiv
http://freeciv.org/

Endless Sky
https://endless-sky.github.io/
It aggravates me too, however, considering that the definition of a tensor according to mathematicians is an element of the tensor product of two vector spaces (or whatever other objects you can tensor together), and according to physicists would be an object which transforms like a tensor, I’m somewhat sympathetic. Neither definition sheds any light on what a tensor is to anyone who doesn’t already understand what a tensor is, and I’m convinced that the moment one understands what tensors are they lose the ability to explain what tensors are.
A link for people who might be interested: https://www.widelands.org
No, I'm not that old, and my standards aren't super high. But by my dad's recollection, back when smoking in public buildings was acceptable, all the doughnuts tended to taste like cigarette smoke after sitting out for a few hours.
I won’t go into too much detail, but the magic and endless wonder I’m describing was caught on tape. Where it starts to get strange, and this is difficult to describe, is that in the course of playing live music, it turns out, the /music created its own music/. This could only be caught live. You could conceivably attribute this to stochastic sound waves bouncing around and interacting with each other, overtones, distortion, echoes, etc. And what I’m describing isn’t all that unknown. But it was caught on tape. And the music we were hearing wasn’t created by any one of us in an intentional manner. It had taken on a life of its own and became a living entity of some kind. Again, it’s hard to explain, but anyone who goes to concerts or is familiar with a live aural environment knows that shit happens and it’s often weird and unexplained.

A similar phenomenon has been reported by writers, known as writer’s trance. Often times an author will claim that they didn’t actually write the book, it wrote itself. On one level, there’s the question of where ideas come from, but on another, there’s a way these ideas are expressed and manifested that becomes more than just the person creating them. In the example of the music, it felt like the music had taken on a life of its own when the different parts all came into contact with each other. One wonders if the same thing happens after a writer creates the characters and starts having them interact in the story. On the one hand, these ideas only exist in the mind of the writer, but once on the page, they begin to enter other minds, including the minds of the characters themselves. It’s often been said in this regard that fictional literature is the original form of simulation modeling.
id Software open sourcing the Doom* and Quake 1..3 engines was very generous and all engines have since seen improvements through public contributions. Unfortunately game data is proprietary, however there are many open games using these engines.

FreeDoom, Nexiuz, Xonotic, Warsow, Urban Terror, World of Padman, Tremulous, OpenArena are popular examples of wholly free games based on id's engines, though some of them may be more actively maintained than others.

Quake3e is my favorite, despite requiring a copy of the game.
It does work, as long as you’re not deleting anything. :) That might be good enough for a “very small kube cluster for my hobby project”

I only use ‘kubectl apply’ for small stuff where I only have a couple resources. Anything more complicated and a tool like helm is much more useful.
I keep wondering when the systemd folks will come up with an orchestration layer over systemd-nspawn/systemd-machined to replace Kubernetes.
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At first I thought I could be very bored for $450k a year, then I thought he didn't try hard enough to move but reading on he really did. So at the end, Netflix gave him almost 2 million bucks which is a pretty nice buffer to seek a more fulfilling job (assuming it wasn't all spent).