skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they're referencing the first ~150 some years of US history. Again, I'm just pulling from the ruling. They accused Roe of rewriting history, and Casey eschewing it as a result.

Also, this is not a "blanket ban", that would be a misinterpretation of the ruling. Instead, states now choose (aka "the people"). Not that I support it, but words matter.
I think the biggest problem with the observation is that it equates "the world" with "my world" and does not allow distinction between the two. We each individually, are the center of "my world" and expect "my world" to be organised around my wants, needs, desires and standards. And expectations like that allow us to do things like individually decide to forego commuting in favour of alternative options that vastly increase our individual quality of life, and simultaneously trickle that benefit down into being a more acceptable general option across "the world" in kind, which exactly as you say is hard to describe as any other way than a net benefit to the entire species.

But if we believe and behave that way without understanding the distinction between "my world" and "the world" that is indeed a problem, and we have a word for this old problem that is fairly used as a constant criticism of this increasingly prevalent modern affliction; Solipsism.

While it's hard to argue that solipsism is not a massive problem with the world today and something that is in dire need of being addressed, it's kind of a neat trick if you can convince people that merely optimising their own personal experience of the world by focusing on that experience and acting on their wants with personal autonomy is that exact kind of solipsism, and they should instead constantly defer to everybody else. If one person could do that for the entirety of the rest of humanity, they'd effectively be a permanent ruler by being the only agent in play with actual personal autonomy.

Not that this kind of thing happens, or anything, mind you.
Well if those companies have fraud then WalMart just shouldn't even try. Your logic is impeccable.
Me too! The lack of maildir was one of three reasons I moved to Evolution. Boring backup tools would generate a huge incremental any time I used Thunderbird.

The second is that it didn’t deal well with accounts where I might’ve had 50-100k messages in the inbox. Lots of intermittent freezing during interaction.

Finally, I used it for a decade but it never seemed to be without memory leaks. I wasn’t using any extensions, it just leaked. Had to restart it every day.

Evolution doesn’t have any of these issues. Would love to come back to it, though!
> Writing such a plausible pseudo-account and convincing so many for so long is impressive.

I find that in practice, the scary part is that it is not so impressive and that the thousand eyes are largely a lie.

All too often have I seen such things go on for a long time without anyone noticing, or perhaps many noticing, but not being motivated to investigate and call out, or perhaps many even calling out, but their calls going unanswered.
"You know, I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the f-ing mags away,"

Sorry, but Trump called for an armed insurrection, and he attempted vote fraud ordering Raffensperger to "find" votes. Demanding justice is nothing like demonization. If they did nothing wrong, then why did so many Trump loyalists ask for pardons?
Perhaps a better title would be "trade-offs between security and UX for Magic Links"? Actually agree with most of what you said (bar the first sentence ;))

2 key things highlighted in the post though:

1. The trade-offs you take are entirely dependent on the type of web app you have and there isn't really a one size fits all solution (nor should there be). If you are having a banking app vs a newsletter subscription, of course the solution would (and should) be different. You can always supplement the email magic links with 2FA based on "something you have" like SMS, TOTP authenticators or WebAuthn. Just like you can supplement traditional un/pw auth with extra factors...

2. The encryption argument is factual but completely irrelevant if the comparison is really between a magic link flow and a password reset flow, which pretty much every site has to deal with. Magic link flow would give 'at least' that amount of security without the problems of passwords being phished or brute forced. This is true whether are not the email is e2e encrypted or not. Recovery mechanisms for some reason tends to get overlooked... and email is by far the most common recovery mechanism present in the internet today.
Is there a resource you would recommend for learning about applying GM and related techniques to data like those you described (similar structures with N DoF)? As a hobbyist I've been toying with symbolic regression and this feels like a wall I've been running up against
The problem is flatpack/appimage are equally bad/opaque, they solve one problem at the expense of being better off just in windows or osx.

tar.gz is opaque in a different way - the solution would be more like an interpreter - something which has a good guess how you should install/run the file.

There is the issue also of integration with the distribution, this is a problem with distribution apis - package maintainers are invested in their formats and distribution list not solid apis with which to interact. If you could build against such a set of Apis you could bundle an interpreter which just knows what to do.

Tar.gz is a hell of a lot simpler than any other format, it's not the issue, it's the desktop distros who are underfunded/at fault.
If people are paying for the app why not spring for a dedicated vm? It’s only like $5 more a month and is way more predictable and customizable.
The book Freakonomics has a chapter that analyses the sharp fall of homicide that followed a sharp rise. It makes for an interesting read. Its topical given the recent overturning of Roe Vs Wade.

The authors present many potential explanations that were put forward at that time to explain the phenomena. These included, more cops on the ground, stringent sentences, broken-window policy and so on. In the author's assessment all these hypotheses turned out to be wrong.

According to the author's analysis the likely cause was the ratification of the Roe-Wade judgement.

The causal chain is as follows, legalized abortion resulted in the reduction of the number of people who were likely to get very little parental support and social support while growing up. Arguably, this population is more predisposed towards crime and its relative reduction led to a fall that aligned with the timeline -- around the time the newborns would have hit the late teens.

Attributing an irrefutable cause is hard.
Sounds very cool! I think there is some overlap in our projects. Maybe we can do something with that. https://parture.org
AMF in GA seating.
100% agree with this post. I also co-authored a book about Meteor[1] and, to me, it's really the "framework that got away." Modern React/Redux/JSX/Next/etc. completely sucks compared to how awesome and seamless Meteor felt when it first came out. Surprised you didn't mention anything about RPCs. Having methods that can run on either the front end or the back end with basically zero boilerplate was an incredible idea which unfortunately never really got traction. A few comments:

I think that HTML over the wire is still pretty context-specific. There's even modern cases where I think it makes sense to just render whatever blob you get over the wire.

I don't think that "Database Everywhere" deserves a thumbs down. It's an insanely useful prototyping tool, genuinely useful when trying to replicate reactivity, not to mention extremely performant for all that work it actually did (it sort of "hacked" this by hooking into Mongo's oplog). Meteor's mistake was, imo, mainly deciding to do this with MongoDB instead of a SQL variant.

I think I'd probably give "Embrace the Ecosystem" a shrug. The modern-day "Ecosystem" is a mess. To start a project, you need tsc, but wait not that version of tsc, and you also need React, but now you need Webpack. And also a CSS plugin, but also a SASS plugin. Oh, an SVG plugin too. But now you have a conflict. Have fun. I actually prefered using Meteor's more limited ecosystem where everything just worked out of the box.

Also no mention of CoffeeScript (which was heavily pushed); that deserves at least two thumbs down.

Anyway, I miss Meteor :)

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/introducing-meteor/9781...
The difference between Cat5e and Cat5 is very little.
The future will probably be every online account being tied to some government issues ID. It could even be done in a reasonably privacy protecting way so you don’t know _who_ the person is but you do know it is associated with a real person and they only have one account.

This is sort of how phone numbers are getting used now.
That sounds like a good feature for a chat client, not Thunderbird.
If you wanted satellites hidden at orbits nobody knew, then having this as a delivery platform seems ideal. Who knows at what point in its orbit payloads get detached?
>It's like you think that there are no mechanisms in place to ensure that elections are run honestly.

The "mechanisms" in place to ensure that elections are run honestly are lacking and/or non-existent in many municipalities and states around the country (something any informed, unbiased election expert will tell you regardless of their political affiliation).

The overwhelming majority of voting in the US takes places on electronic voting machines that run proprietary, black-box software. Further, US electronic voting machines have been proven vulnerable to hacking and manipulation over and over again.

https://www.inverse.com/article/48038-here-s-how-a-voting-ma...

These issues have not been recognized, much less addressed. The fact is that our system of recording and tallying votes on these vulnerable electronic machines that cannot be audited renders our elections insecure. This isn't a partisan issue (for the record I voted 3rd party in the last two elections and voted for neither Republicans or Democrats). You are correct when you say my doubts are "unsubstantiated". Also unsubstantiated is any confidence that votes were accurately cast and recorded. We - all Americans - deserve a reliable, transparent, auditable voting system that everyone can be confident in.
This. For the parent, please don’t hold Thunderbird accountable for services like Discord being hostile towards users.
all history is narrative, with a greater or lesser degree of fidelity to reality. This example should be preserved in some way to remind us of this important fact
How do you fund your lifestyle, if you don't mind me asking?
Yeah the big providers will not be encrypting at rest for sure. Even if so, the encryption keys would lie with the provider and not the end user, which kind of defeats the purpose.
I am a minority, but every time a minority comes in, i tell them take their business elsewhere. After 30 years, you just know by how they walk. If some woke person analyzed this, they will definitely be correct.
Kurds, thrown under another bus, as usual
Now it should be called MAMGA
Maybe they have friends or like parts of their current job? They’d leave for more compensation if they have to, but would prefer not to have to. Seems reasonable.

Leaving any time you are dissatisfied about something without first asking if it could be improved doesn’t seem like the best strategy.
site gives 404 error when I try reloading it. firefox on windows
Me.

This took place in 2007. It was about midnight or 1AM and we were watching Clone High when there was a knock at the door. This being Canada and such I just opened the door, and the three guys pushed their way in with what I believe to be a Beretta 92 pointed at my face. Two of them guarded me while the other retrieved my then-girlfriend, now wife.

They proceeded to steal basically all of my father's firearms. They had significant difficulty in opening the safes and at one point brought me down to the basement (where my father's workshop was) to try to help them out.

They loaded everything into my mother's Dodge Neon. This process took them about two hours, during which time they rotated who was guarding us. Once they were finished, they bound us at ankles, wrists and hands with duct tape, flipped the main breaker, and drove off.

I gave them a count of approximately five minutes, and then worked to free us. When our hands were bound I moved my hands a bit apart to be able to get the tape off easier. I could then reach into my pocket for my knife (a Kershaw Leek) and cut the rest of the tape off both of us. I then called 911.

Over the next few weeks, I was the main suspect in the police investigation. I was interviewed repeatedly and polygraphed (the results of which were inconclusive, apparently). At one point one of the detectives basically asked my wife to "flip" on me, which she thought was pretty hilarious.

These guys are basically still at large, I guess you could say. Two of the guns have since been recovered but the rest have never been seen again.

Throughout this incident I remained quite calm. In fact, they played for me the recording of the 911 call, and suggested I must have orchestrated the incident because of how calm I sounded. Funny stuff.

I sounded too calm on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, I used "big words" ("affirmative", etc.) when giving my statement, and, and this one is my favorite, I didn't get super angry when they asked me what should happen to the bad guys. Yeah, like from that episode of The Office. I said something like "well, whatever the law says... do that" and apparently I should have said something more like "TEAR THEIR FUCKIN HEADS OFF AND SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS AND THEN RIP THEIR DICKS OFF AND SHOVE THEM UP THEIR ASSES".
The Outrage Dividend
The more complicated the modulation is, the more processing power is required. DSL modems use very complex modulation to push their data across the wire and burn a few Watts doing so (there's also a fairly powerful line driver, but that's not the main power consumer, the DSP/modem itself is).

Of course, SNR is another big one. You have to actually be able to distinguish the voltage levels within a symbol period from each other.

Another thing: PCIe is meant to be low-latency, which just rules out a lot of the modulation and error-correction techniques that are traditionally used to enhance channel utilization, like having multiple levels of FEC and then interleaving FEC symbols temporally. That's done basically always where latency allows, e.g. in storage media, digital TV and so on.
> She could have taken money then gotten cold feet and made up story

Not saying anything about your daughter (don't know her), but there's an easy way to tell: get the phone records and verify the "conversation" took place. It should have lasted longer than 30 seconds.

One simple trick unravels 90% of the "someone else made me do it" clusterfucks.
What is the issue with the "crane & block thing" ? It certainly seems to be a plausible method for energy storage and recovery.
another country divided by super powers, Ukraine looks like it might end up like a European Korea, divided into West vs East, with the Dnipro river as the DMZ. It's a tragic fate
Any halfway competent social media management team has enough bots on standby to be able to sweep anything but an absolute stone cold dead-body-in-the-trunk scandal under the rug in seconds.

Step 1 of managing any celeb's social media profile is to add 15k of bots to their followers so you can 'forum slide' any criticism away at will.
At first glance, the bill doesn't seem to say what this article says it does. I'm not sure to what passages they refer.
The beast is back...
On the other side there won't be any reason to cancel any show ever, we'll have infinite runs of our favorite show. And at some point you'll be able to set the protagonist and the mod to get personalized entertainment on demand.

Future hasn't to be all bad, we have to make sure tho that it isn't built around brainwashing, advertisement or gambling
Yes exactly. If the email itself doesn't require MFA, you can always add MFA on top of email magic links.
For anyone interested, this is the Pact of Umar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of_Umar#Content

Very clearly establishing non-Muslims as second class people, with all kinds of onerous limitations on their everyday life.

Calling this pact "protection" is technically correct, but then, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in WWII was a Protectorate as well.

I would call this document "subjugation of unbelievers who serve as your tax base, so it doesn't make much sense to kill them outright".
Linus Torvalds is cautiously optimistic about bringing Rust into Linux kernel
Stronglifts 5x5 is really nice for simplicity. Its pattern of continuous, small progression is great for feedback and that feeling of reward.

If you can, get someone to help teach you proper form when you start. It’s much easier to learn once, without needing to break bad habits.
Read Ray Dalio's Essays on the Long Term Debt Cycle. No one knows how this will end for sure, but it is a unique time in history.
Rapid advances in AI are forcing us to look beyond the question we often stop at: "what will happen to human intelligence/creativity?" AI will soon have us ask the next inevitable one. What does it mean to be human? What is the "Self", the I that feels, experiences and creates. How is that put together? Right now, the dominant mode of thinking is Artificial Intelligence versus the Human Self; the bot vs. me. The most likely, and probably desirable, outcome is a new version of our selfhood whose possibilities are enormously increased by AI. In the same manner that writing and books first did, but multiplied many times over.
I’ve never worked on a project that was scaled out that didn’t require at least moderate DB maintenance, such as a large migration or sharding.

A migration is all but expected. Might as well make things easy on yourself for the first year and start with SQLite.
I vote for strength training in general. I don't follow a specific goal-oriented program, but I work out with weights every day and definitely notice the mental benefits--as well as the mood drop if I miss a couple of days.
> Powerful groups will mass populate the internet with fake content to skew public perception.

You're naive if you think this hasn't been happening for at least 8-10 years now. All of Reddit and Twitter are heavily targeted by nation states to foment various anti-America and disunity agendas. The power of the United States is its unity, so they will take any and every opportunity to strike at that. The most obvious being Russia attempting to influence election outcomes.

There are certainly organic humans caught in the mix, but all that antiwork, LateStageCapitalism, "America is so divisive", Marxist BS you hear repeated constantly across Reddit and Twitter is broadly manufactured far more than it is truly organic.

What's unfortunate is you scatter enough seed and eventually it will find roots somewhere. The earlier the better when it comes to influencing middle school kids, etc. Capture the undiscerning early who don't consider their sources or motives behind information and they just gargle it as truth and start regurgitating it because it feels right or confirmation bias takes over.

If people truly knew how many of their aggressive political "views" were primarily driven by manufactured echo chambers it'd be embarrassing.
Despite having the largest army in the world, Americans still speak English.
Noooooo...

The reason I switched to thunderbird is that it displays each email on a single line, which is sooooo much more information dense, and thus efficient! There's no better way to manage a large amount of email than displaying a large amount on screen!
Oh, of course we make such jokes... my grandfather who spend a real good time in france sure did...
Startups Can Take Advantage of Big Tech Layoffs
He already said it. Noise.

With 2 levels you have low and high. I have no idea if PCIe is 1.8V but let’s be really gracious here and pretend it’s 5V.

Ok; so at 5V and 4 levels you have Sig Al’s between 0V, 1.25V, 2.50V, and 3.75V. And are encoding 2 bits per clock.

At 64 levels you have a signal every 0.078125V. It’s going to be really hard to capture that signal at a moment in time and at these speeds be certain if it’s definitely A or B.

At some point you get into modems (modulation, demodulation) but the add much more cost, latency, and complexity.

So before getting into radio and analog tech, here is a simple way to double the bandwidth for little cost. A driver only needs 0,1,2,3 levels and a receiver can make fairly confident guesses quickly.

I’m pretty sure PCIe isn’t 5V. Probably more like 1.8V, so already starting with a much smaller range.
Its orbit payloads are seen to have been detached at the point where two satellites are found where one was. The only short-term uncertainty will be which was the X-37B, but that will quickly become evident.
Have you spoken up against any other kinds?
What are ‘normal humans’? If I take 5 humans at random from a non university town, I am willing to bet up to $1 they cannot distinguish this now when generated with gpt3.
> the Battle of Verdun was one of the worst and bloodiest battles of a horrific war that arguably ruined Europe

Even more reasons to remember it. It’s also a law of nature: anything that can be remade in Lego bricks eventually will be. Resistance is futile.

(Besides the fact that this is how someone uses their free time without hurting anyone, so I have a really hard time getting outraged about it)
Try looking at it this way: One CO2 capture is operational at scale, the price of its capture becomes a known quantity, and this can be used as a price point for determining a general carbon tax.
Email hosting is of two types – hosted and self-hosted. If you go for the hosted option, you’ll only have to pay the subscription fee. The company offering the service will take care of the technical issues. If you host your own mail server, you’ll have to take care of the server by yourself.
Ask HN: Selling SaaS Internationally
Hi,
I am building a SaaS product(B2B) and now looking to build billing related functionality. My company is a Delaware corporation.

I am planning to use Stripe billing with Stripe Taxes which removes a lot of complexity and help monitor the tax compliance in US. Most states in the US seem to have certain threshold before I require to register for taxes to be compliant. However I am confused about selling internationally (esp. Europe) and my obligations for collecting VAT.

The documentation pretty much says "consult with a tax expert". I don't know if I should spend the money and time dealing with all the complexity before I launch the product. I am thinking there must be a simpler way to navigate this.

If you previously launched a startup, how did you handle the billing and tax complexity?
A recent poster in that thread claims that multiline email list view is now implemented:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945#c214
(not to beat a dead horse, but I just finished some interviews I was involved in as an advisor and the term DevOps was used a lot in all of them. And in every single case the term was used exactly the way I've understood to mean - i.e., DevOps engineers are those who primarily look after the CI/CD pipeline, generally don't write application-level code or develop features, but do very much spend the majority of their time developing scripts and tools to enable CI/CD).
Yes, it's possible that is an outcome. In that case, what what will the USA, EU and NATO do? Will sanctions remain? Or will the naked aggression of one dictator be forgotten, until next time?