skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably they mean "other than my shopping for food; things you would obviously not go to amazon for like lumber or flights or medical insurance; and purchases I don't consider shopping like gasoline and new tyres"
>"This is easy to do if you are an US citizen."

Is it? Isn't there the issue that you can't just move to the EU as a US citizen unless you get hired by a European company which means no more SV salary.
WASM!
Yes, spam classification is a solved problem. Perhaps even at the level of "this is new IP address with no reputation, is it sending 80% spam or 80% ham?" kind of questions with some defined precision at scale, but ceratinly at personal mailbox level, if you own and train your own clasification engine with thousands of samples of ham and spam you actually receive. That's very effective, and much better than my past experience with gmail.
Everybody impoverishing themselves via hyperinflation seems a bit like a counterproductive way to deal with historical inequities. Many of the white farmers bought the land (from other farmers) and didn't take it by force.
DDR5 makes no sense today at these prices. AMD is going to be in a tough position in the fall with DDR5-only support in their new chipsets/CPUs.

My next rig may be an 13th-gen Intel if DDR5 prices don't come down to DDR4 levels (given that DDR5 isn't any faster than DDR4.)
That sort of misses the important details that [i] his gambit failed a legal challenge so he ended up calling an election instead and [ii] the reason he could try had everything to do with the broad executive powers of the PM and nothing to do with the Queen.

If you scrapped the Queen and kept the PM role as it is, he'd have had the same meeting with himself!
> Sorry, what kind of bullshit is that?

This bullshit is called prorogation. According to Wikipedia [0], there are a number of countries that have provisions for the prorogation of Parliament. They do not have to be monarchies. In absence of the queen, it could have been Boris himself who suspended the Parliament if the republic gave its prime minister (or president) such power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorogation
I just signed up as well. Curious whether it will make any difference.
What made me smile is that people take notice of these. :)
You can mail the junk back to the sender at their own cost.

If you make it cost too much to send to you, they stop on their own.

It takes about 5-7 months
Checks out. Organic Tunisian olive oil in one liter glass bottles is all I buy, all the way up here in Finland, and it's both the highest quality and cheapest, oddly enough.
Same, mine was Staff level as well. I had to build a filesystem. I finished it, but I was left wondering if I was actually going to be working on an OS there.
The fact that you feel it’s a waste of time is part of the problem, dude. I’m relating things that women have told me directly. It’s not speculative. It’s exhausting when you’re part of a group and constantly mislabeled.

Being friends with a diverse range of people helps with this.

Next time you feel it’s okay to refer to a woman as a dude, just remember that you wouldn’t date a dude unless you were into dudes.

If you’d like to discuss further, I’d be willing, since it’s an important topic to me. But we have to keep it high quality and substantive.
This used to happen to me (in Montreal, so perhaps not the same as your experience) with SPCA. I emailed them and told them very politely that I donate on my own schedule, that I appreciate the work they do, and to please stop wasting their (my) money asking me for more donations. They replied thanking me for the e-mail and saying that they had removed me from their mailing list.
Didn’t this bill effectively reinstate that ability?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_and_Calling_of_P...
The grid prefers smooth, even, intertia-backed turbine-generated power to the choppy screams of a million inverters.
Any recommended country or US state specifically?

Have a couple remote operations this would be useful for
How bout when a president does it? At some point your power/value transcends the system in place.
Agree, for sure, but that's a different claim.
> However, despite all of that I do still use Amazon. Their immense investment into logistics means that many things will make it to me next-day. And their return policies allow me to order with the confidence that if I get a fraudulent item (or just something I don't like) it will be fairly painless to get a replacement or my money back.

Spot on for me too. That calculus is slowly shifting in the other direction for me though. It's becoming a pain to have to ship things back repeatedly, and I'm starting to find that the wait time of shipping from normal companies is coming out as a wash when factoring in the multiple-shipment-return-cycle Amazon factor.

At least with other companies that don't have a wild west of third party sellers I can be reasonably confident I won't get an outright counterfeit.
Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985)
> Any victory now will, at best, include absolutely massive quantities of troops perpetually kept in Ukraine at an incredible cost of resources and lives over future years.

They want the land, not the ukrainian people. Putin will gladly send them to Siberia.
> Things look different in a small high-trust country with multiple political parties.

Which country are you talking about? Surely not Norway, which is a monarchy.
Agree. I never managed to sync playlists between my iPhone and iPad.
The only way to make it work turned out to be:

1. Delete all playlists
2. Buy a MacBook
3. In the music.app, re-create the playlists.
4. Then, sync your iPhone’s music library including the just created playlists with the MacBook.

Took me a while to figure this out

I even started using Spotify just because at least syncing playlists would just work in that app.
Not an Apple person but would consider getting an old iDevice if Linux could run realibly.
There's a number of things you 100% can't buy without a huge risk of scammers - things not too hard to fake, with big markups. Beauty and hair products in particular are really risky.

You know who I've really lost confidence in? Etsy. It used to be a great place to find hand-made, high quality items. A few months back I searched for a nice Turkish coffee set and was met with 40 listings of the exact same low-quality ali express item. Their revenue has soared recently, but at the cost of flooding their market with junk.
I just Google the business and email them. Usually they're able to take me off their mailing list.

Also as I recall, there was a coupon mailer that did not participate in the DMA. The flyers show up with branding from Vericast/Save/Valassis. The opt out for them is here: https://www.save.com/mailing/delivery-options

Similarly I recently moved houses and got a ton of catalogs to the former owner. It was a PITA to get sorted out, but after a couple months of diligent removal requests my mail is mostly stuff I care about.
How much of a credit boost does $0.33/month give you?
I actually thought the 100kw number sounded awfully low. A typical wind turbine generates around 2 or 3 MW of power at capacity.
Machine Learning Frameworks Interoperability P1: Memory Layouts and Memory Pools
Especially when you are trying to reach the RSS feed link in the footer, which you are desperately trying to reach since an RSS reader will allow you to avoid infinite scroll!
That's why this is a matter of trust. Either you trust the government and allow it to collect the data, or you don't trust the government and don't allow anyone to collect it.

The government has the monopoly on violence. It always has access to the data held by private parties. The government and the people serving it may choose to respect laws and other promises. They may choose to avoid accessing private data without a valid reason. But if the government chooses otherwise and requires private businesses to hand over their data, the businesses will most likely comply. If you don't want to give a government-turned-bad access to some data, that data must not be allowed to exist in the first place.
Ugh. Thanks for mentioning that. I've been getting protein powder from Amazon as well as vitamins and some other supplements. I should stop that ASAP.
There's a local company that, at least back when this article[0] was written, made insulation out of recycled paper. So some people are at least trying to do something recycle paper. Of course, in this case the collection system is so flawed that it's worthless as an input material.

This is a four year old article and Edmonton hasn't changed the recycling system at all. It's still blue bags that get tossed into a truck, compacted, and presumably nothing useful happens.

On the garbage side, we now have bins that can be emptied by an arm on a truck and we separate garbage from organics. The organic material apparently gets composted, but I'm not sure what happens after that.

[0] https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/its-not-worth-it...
> The developer of StopTheMadness is Jeff Johnson, famous for solving
the Mac OCSP appocalypse. Jeff's other software includes Link
Unshortener, a Mac app that expands shortened web links, Tweaks for
Twitter, a web browser extension for Mac and iOS that makes Twitter
better, and StopTheScript, a Safari extension for iOS that stops all
JavaScript on your selected websites.

If HCI/UX was a real thing, none of these remedial apps would be
necessary, because users would have choice about how to operate the
things they bought and paid for. Yet, all of these are solutions to
fixing someone else's idea that they've imposed upon users. "Take back
X" is slogan we're going to hear more and more of until we finally
admit that consumer computing has become a battle between developers
and users.
AUTHOR here, folks. If you have any questions that you're too lazy to email - I'll be checking on this thread for the next couple of hours.
It has not. Following the prorogation there was a general election. The Tories won a large majority and put forward the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. It, in part emphasized that relevant Royal Prerogative powers are non-justiciable. Essentially, it made it clear that the Supreme Court shouldn't interfere (In the UK, Parliament is the supreme legal authority—it can make laws that override the Supreme Court).
A partisan elected president? No thanks. Boris should be in the Tower for misleading the Queen on the prorogation of parliament. First rule of government: don't put the monarch in an awkward situation. Our fault for electing a nasty narcissistic clown. There is plenty to fix in our system of government before getting to the monarch/president question.
No E2EE protects you from the receiver (the reporter in your example), it's the same if I forward the message I receive to the world.
I get pretty much the same (maybe more?) from Krunner in Plasma. It's so convenient to convert currencies and other units.
Physical asset
Tesla is brake by wire and most of them use electric brakes (I'm not talking about regen)
That's not how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432661
> the construction rate is all time high.

Not in my area. Where I live, there are about 4 or 5 housing developments, and every time I drive by them, I never see any progress. Occasionally I may see one truck and maybe 3 or 4 people working, but most of the time, I see no one. In the year I've lived here, I have notices zero progress on all new construction that I know of.
Crypto Scams – FTC over $1B impact since 2021
They also sponsored the Miami GP and have a larger sponsorship with Formula 1 and other sporting events. Not to mention the tv commercials with Matt Damon.

They have easily spent billions of dollars in marketing this year alone.
Any that you recommend or know of?
A number in a computer has NO INTRINSIC WORTH AT ALL. It's merely a promise of money. Its worth depends on the integrity of others. No integrity, no money.

If you can't hold anything in your hot little hand or touch it, it doesn't belong to you. That gold of yours in the Bank's safety deposit box? That belongs to the Bank. You want proof? Just try to get it out at midnight when the Bank is closed.
4 days ago, 177 points and 168 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31570674
'Semiconductors' is a sector and it is probably appropriate to consider them as a commodity but no certainly not it's own asset class. The asset class you are looking for is 'commodities', old sport.
It's like being a sleazeball is a requirement to get anywhere within Facebook
It's certainly a commodity right? (at least the RAM chips that get put on modules), and commodities are certainly an asset class?
well, i kinda gave up.

the problem is not exclusive to browsers at this point. it's the entire OS stack we need to take back. that said, i appreciate the energy put towards making things change. features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face.

the fight is right.
I've done this, but most of the junk mail I get is from previous residents of my home, even though I've lived at my present address for over 3 years now. I've called some of the frequent mailers and had some success. Others have impossible to find contact info.

I've talked to my letter carriers, and it will get better for a few weeks and then be back to normal.

I'd say I get 3x the mail for previous resident than I do for myself. It's frustrating. Would be great if USPS just had a form I could fill out that automatically stopped delivery for certain names (and gave that info back to the mailers so they could stop generating the waste).
This is why you'll find the "© 2022 Twitter, Inc." footer in the right column of the twitter dot com website.
From what I understand, local businesses can make an arrangement to send out mass mailers at a bulk price with their local post office. Maybe you see it as junk but I can see why being aware of whats available as far as the local economy (while helping keep the post office afloat) may make those mass mailers (assuming I’m making the right connections) “not junk.” Jmo though
There's a healthy way to raise the bar and there's lots of unhealthy ones.

A healthy way would be bringing your current talent pool up to a higher level through training, even if that's maths (if that's what your current problem is).

An unhealthy way is introducing a bunch of new talent that is tested on one niche domain of software engineering and pretending everyone needs to do that while also trying to improve fundamental skills that help them with their day to day job.
Truly amazing. Could it get any more egregious?

They have over 10,000 items listed too.
I’ve been doing it for years and it works. I get almost 0 junk mail. The 2-3 per year that slip through I contact and ask them to remove me.
Now which part of that do you think justifies a $573,000 fine?
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Has Been Carrying a ‘Pet Rock’
I wish there was some equivalent of credit card chargebacks for USPS bulk mail. If I mark the mailpiece as being to someone not at the address, the USPS would bill the company for the failed delivery. (Also the "Or Current Resident" loophole is ridiculous.)

Then this would be the organization's problem to keep their own lists up to date. I realize this is probably infeasible but it would be nice.
Oh, you're quite right. Cemented it in law, even.
Reddit used to do that. Dunno if they still. Remember trying to scroll to the bottom to click a crucial link. Quite funny. I think it was the settings-scrollmode menu.
It depends on how you see those devices. On one hand it's a block of hardware (like an appliance) on the other hand it's a CPU and RAM and storage etc. This is a weird gradient where the same could be said for routers (and we kind-of do that), but also for Smart TV's (which are left out in the cold, generally), and other devices with smarts in them (or: a CPU, memory and storage).

The general problem lies with the utility for mass-market products, even if you re-purpose it, how widely spread can you do that? How feasible are most ideas on what to do with products that are end-of-life? A lot of existing things are just dumped and forgotten about like thin clients, settopboxes (same hardware as Raspberry Pis) and entertainment systems in cars.

We like to point at manufacturers and products from well known brands but in reality it applies on a much larger scale, yet the infeasibility scales with it all the same. Some of it might be due to legitimate PKI-based lockouts, while other reasons might simply be the lack of broad interest and governmental policy.

In an ideal world the specifications on how the devices work and end-of-life disablement of lockouts would be a reasonable bar to set; it'd be hard to argue that it's bad for commerce, and implementation-wise even PKI-based systems have easy ways to facilitate this. The cost would be enablement from the manufacturer's side and for some brands the connection between their brand name and a device they cannot control the presentation of. I don't know how to solve that but it's definitely a much larger problem than people in tech might think of.
It seems to me that having the queen involved provides a false sense of separation of powers. Prorogation in most countries is a routine process that signals the end of a particular session. It seems unique to the UK that this power move could even play out.

I’m not familiar with this process, which is why it surprised me. Are there any countries where the PM can routinely and/or for political purposes just end parliament without triggering an election?

It strikes me as a situation where , absent the monarchy, such a situation would have been so quickly abused that the constitution would have been patched to preclude it.

In any case, and on base principle, no unelected head of state should be able to dissolve parliament. Like, full stop.
'of which few actually work' could also have been phrased as 'several are already working' - how many do you need?

Even if the current offering isn't enough for your needs, how can 'there's not enough of it yet' be an argument against building more of it?
I see no reason not to trust a company that advertised "Free TurboTax" that you actually had to pay for.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/...
Acceleration pedal sensors are ASIL D and by ISO 26262 should have a probability of failure per operational hour of <10^-8. So yes, but it should be incredibly unlikely for sensor failures to occur and there's a very thick document somewhere inside Tesla detailing all the considered failure modes and how they've addressed them.
Luckily the exchange worked. Last time I had a fake on ebay they took my money, asked me to ship the product back and never refunded me. Ebay plays innocent and incapable to do anything.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/May_35th
Considering the average quality of software, I'd say people in the tech industry are quite low in the pecking order of who can criticize whose professional competence...
Given the popularity of 2 year cellphone contracts and Netflix over owning DVDs, yes people do tend to favour convenience over ownership.
Job and Wage Growth Moderating, and That's Good News
> outside of crypto assets, 20% downwards in a month is a crash in every asset class

When a product in demand moves from prototype into mass production, the price drops rapidly. That isn't a crash. The expected price is to get close to DDR4.
I have bought dozens of products on Amazon in the past 12 months, including a standing desk, health supplements,computer equipment, coffee-making equipment, coffee (itself), clothing, an anti-snoring device (MAD), and home exercise equipment -- among many other products.

I have only had one bad experience and that was because the item wasn't packed properly. Two things I do, however, to put the odds in my favor: I stay away from any product with tons of 5-star reviews with little relevant text content (fake astroturfing) and I do most of my product research elsewhere on the web.
Yeah it seems crazy to buy these. What is the benefit? I sometimes feel FOMO for the new Apple M1 Pro/Max/Ultra whatever and then realize "my MBP with an i9 and 16 GB of RAM literally has 6 hours of battery life" and then realize that if I'm ever sitting down for that long I should get up and touch some grass.
Is there any speculation as to what is causing the drop?
Getting rid of the monarchy would imply establishing a written constitution as the current one strongly requires the presence of a monarch. It seems unlikely that a new UK written constitution would include a power for the prime minister or head of state to shut down parliament for an extended period of time in peace time (although with these idiots in charge everything is possible). So a republic is sufficient, but not necessary - you could just have a constitutional monarchy with a written constitution instead.
I don’t doubt that in the future, Teslas and Apple cars won’t have a steering wheel. Level 3 autonomy is already being tested by some manufacturers. However I can’t imagine not being able to buy a car with a steering wheel. Even if the car was super good at self driving, better than most humans, there will always be a market for low tech drive it yourself cars.
Or California law. I posted some info on that above.
Yes, just as reasons made an orgy of the age of reason.

Novelty and mass apatite are only eclipsed by the panicked reflex for survival.

Curation is the new art. Find outlets which themselves refine and distill, without disappointing.
Two of the companies were featured on HN, I think I'd probably out my account if I said their names.
“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.” -- Carl Sagan
In the "full story" link downthread, it looks like Discord was just a vector for phishing links.
Gotta use the ol' turn off wifi to hit the bottom trick.
Then you need more PR bullshit to control the damage from the first PR bullshit.
I think a large part of the resistance British people have to the idea of abolishing the monarchy is that they don't know what they would replace it with, and they think that having a royal family is a harmless fairy tale that makes Britain special.

Fortunately that still leaves room for compromise with those who prefer a more egalitarian constitutional system, and I think this is something that organisations like Republic should consider (at the risk of shrinking the Overton window).

As a transitional step, then, towards one day abandoning the monarchy, Britain should introduce the role of a Governor General for the country, who would be given a democratic mandate to exercise the powers that people assume the Queen can still wield but which are in practice held by the Prime Minister (depriving the country of the checks and balances that republics generally have).

Specifically, the Governor General would be able to veto laws, treaties, and wars, but would be kept accountable to parliament through the possibility of impeachment, which would trigger a new election for their replacement. Eligibility for the role should be limited to citizens who are nominated by at least 20% of MPs, and I would propose that the Supplementary Vote system be used for these elections.
Other way around, sadly:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States

Convicted felons are exempt from the portion of the National Firearms Act that requires that machine guns (and other NFA items like short barreled shotguns) be registered as it would violate their 5th Amendment rights.
Yes it amazes me you haven't won multiple noble prizes yet