skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this and I definitely get spam to addresses associated with e-mails leaked or sold in bulk to the highest bidder. I rarely _see_ it as most of the time "unsubscribe" link works (for sold e-mail lists, as the buyers usually try to maintain some sort of decency) and for those where it is useless (shameless "enlargement" type emails, usually from stolen email databases) it is usually classified correctly as spam by an e-mail provider or e-mail client.

So, I never had to explicitly filter e-mails out by "To:" field, but using this system still gives me some sense of control.
Yeah, the bluetooth in my car is so hopelessly pathological that I always turn off the bluetooth in my phone and turn the internal phone speakers up if I want to use the maps app. If I don't, first it will immediately pick some song at random on my phone and play it at full volume without my asking. If the radio is turned off, it will still connect to the phone, which disables the phone speakers, but then it will not make any sound at all. Or it will connect up but will turn the volume all the way down which also results in no sound. Sometimes it will randomly connect to various devices in the car. Sometimes if you plug in the phone to recharge but leave the bluetooth on it will turn off the phone speakers but also not make any sound from the car speakers. It's bad. The whole system is actively hostile to the user.
I stumbled across one of Nick's Volcano lectures on Youtube about a year ago and was unexpectedly captivated to watch the entire thing, which lasted about an hour! As someone who has always held an interest in Geology and Deep History, I really appreciate his efforts to make his University content available to the public.
I'm actually taking Chinese and have been for a good while.

The grammar is almost the same as English, with it actually being easier to say some basic things.

他没有工作。
He (negation word / no) have job.

Vs

He does not have a job.

Japanese, is one of the hardest things I've ever tried to do. It's just hard.

But I'm confident in being able to hold down a conversation in Mandarin one day
Well, I don't have any data, it's enough to look around.

How many products that you buy is produced/manufactured in a country vs those made in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and so on?

Before moving production to offshore places, those had to be built in Germany, UK, France... name any 1st class country.

Once production is relocated elsewhere, so does the environment related issues.

We can talk in 3-5 years because if they do plan now to reshore back to EU, environment related issues will just raise again in our eco EU.
FCC != FTC.

Also, the government is not a monolith. In particular, note that they're targeting commercial surveillance, and the biggest surveillance companies on earth have ties to other parts of the executive branch.
I mean...people are still writing code with textbook SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities.

A startling number of developers know nothing about security.
As an additional datapoint, my main email address is publicly available (I obfuscate it when typing out of anti-spam research force-of-habit but it's all over the Internet, public records, people's inboxes, company customer lists, etc etc), in continuous use for 15+ years, and I receive less than a handful of spam per week, almost all of the "Hello owner of $DOMAIN would you like you buy our SEO/etc services" genre rather than garden-variety spam.

Possible confounding factor: I try to keep my personal and professional lives ~separate and so the retailers/etc most likely to be compromised get a personal email address (whose inbox is virtually unusable due to amount of commercial email it receives, though relatively little of that is spam per se).
Thank you for breaking this down. Headline is clearly biased.
16 years is a good run. You're well past the point of diminishing returns on repair costs and the poor mileage from that vintage is adding up.
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I've been looking a bit at solar systems, and it seems common in the US for half the price of the install to be labor. So $20K of labor on a $40K system. That seems awfully excessive for the tasks of installing rails on the roof, clipping panels into it, and the electrical work (though copper is insanely expensive right now, a panel upgrade is around $4500, so the electrical work can add up).

Am I way out of line here, or are the labor prices reasonable?
The Deno/npm incompatibility up till now means a good number of popular and semi-popular npm packages got a shoddy Deno port done by someone a year ago, then never updated again. That is to say, legacy code got even more legacy.
> but here in Germany I pay a couple of Euros every month to a well-known and respected company whose server is set up in such a way that my emails can be used in court without any issue (like claims that I altered the emails after receiving them)

That's already cryptographically built into email with DKIM. An email message is signed with a private key, and can be verified as authentic by the receiver using the public key in the sender's DNS records.

Click on "Show Original" in a Gmail mail to see the meta data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
Deno's progress on NPM compatibility may have accelerated due to how BunJS was received, but yes I believe this idea has been baking for a while in the Deno world. It was always somewhat of a concern when Deno was launched, but the team was just more focused on delivering a solid core product before they started worrying about the ancillary tasks. After all, you can always use the various Deno-friendly CDNs to use a Deno-compatible package distributed over NPM.

BunJS does of course have a slightly different use case, packages or apps that still need to make use of Node APIs. I can see a future where we say "if you have an old Node app, you can run it on BunJS with a codemod and get an X% perf boost for free", as well as "if you are starting a new project, just go with Deno because there's less BS to think about".
To each their own! Before switching to app development, I was an English teacher. I moved several times with a ton of books and art and objects, but that shit is a bear to move with. So I gradually winnowed it all down to just a couple bookshelves and a Kindle.

These days, once I read a book, I usually divest myself of it unless it's absolutely amazing or I need to refer to it. I found out my neighbor has made a living by writing, and his house is full of books. It fits his personality as a historian. But I love my mostly bare, white walls. Keeping so many books around would feel to me like keeping a bunch of tabs permanently open in the browser -- ick!
Seriously. Donate to planned parenthood once and you basically ensure that the company spends more over the next 10 years bothering you than your donation was worth.

And I like PP but goddamn, emails coming from a swath of domains, a neverending stream of physical mail.

I won't donate to them again because the amount of contact they try to have with me is absurd.
I've been fulltime remote for a few years, and just moved to Lancaster, PA. I'm loving it here. Its enough of a city that I'm not missing the amenities or multi-cultural atmosphere. The housing prices are great, and I can get to my NYC office very easily on the train or even driving. I'm very happy to have moved.
Which, by the way, seems to be heading towards infinity, which isn't right at all.
Same. Exact. Experience. Mother-in-law has a very old one with a metal coupling. Why can’t I buy one like that?!
The president did not declassify these documents. If he had, his lawyers would have produced documentation that he did so. It doesn't happen magically when an ex-president takes the docs and stores them at his residence.
Eh, if that were really true, then they wouldn't inspect homeowner work. Their primary concern is that code was met. The municipality wants this because code is supposed to reduce the risk of destructive failures (fire, gas leak, flood, etc) that could affect the neighbors.
>"It does not, in fact, matter."

What's your basis for this? Real-world power grids don't seem to be designed around transmission loss being a non-issue so long as they just 'generate more power' at the source.
I have an alternate take. 1/4 women are on mental health meds as well.
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-and-prescription-drug-u...
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-so-many-middle-aged-women-a...

I think the modern world is alienating and isolating. We compare ourselves to each to other constantly and treat each other as commodities. The destruction of the family and various religions has been destructive to vast majority of people.
Maybe not 3rd party spam, but definitely first party spam.

I gave a custom username email to a in-person store (big chain) with a rewards program because they were offering a huge discount if you did. Since then they've sent at least 1 email a day, with an average of about two (I've redirected all their emails to a folder I never look at). Which is a particularly remarkably obnoxious rate of sending emails...

I've also split my email addresses in to a public one (displayed in my profile here, on github, on a website, etc) and a private one. The public one gets a spam email or two a week.

Incidentally, I was surprised to discover that pinterest forbids you from having the word pinterest in your email (or did when I signed up).
1. It's basically good enough, despite its problems.

2. It has brand-name recognition.

3. People who need it know that its the "wireless thing" for audio and music, often without their being able to articulate precisely what it does.

4. It's baked into enough hardware that a competing technology would struggle to enter the market.
Hyperbolica is a recent example
There is a removable, 3-layer microporous candle inside where the filtration process occurs, and is recommended to be replaced every 6 months or so. The innermost layer is also activated carbon which the water must drip through to get to the bottom layer.

I think you're right about some build up over time in the clay as it must retain some impurities. It's pretty common to clean it every once in a while to prevent that build up, at least that is what's mentioned by Brazilians that have used this filter for decades
>It's not quite spam, it's not quite illegitimate, but it's not what I signed up for.

If it's not what you signed up for, isn't that pretty much the definition of spam?
The second line tells me there’s something else going on here:

> That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education.

This tells me that the act of getting a degree in anthropology is correlated not with wanting to be an anthropologist but with either (or maybe both) blindly equating any degree with a better life, or a behavioral pattern of doing anything and everything to avoid getting shit done for as long as humanly possible. That a bullshit degree is not failing at life in its own right, but a sign that you already have been and will continue to do so.

We all knew That Guy in college. Maybe it’s just more widespread than that.
Is there a difference between "observer" and "witness"? I'm used to the witness terminology from old literature and also from the Megastore paper, in which a witness votes in the Paxos election and stores the only the WAL.
`ts-node` is my go-to. You could even `npm install -g` it.
> Dream sweet dreams of solar panels solving all your problems while you shiver and shake, suck up those blackouts while living on unemployment insurance, and maintain a positive attitude.

When you go off on a rant, you should at least know that they do most of their heating using gas and not electricity.

You should also realize that new nuclear can't help them with the troubles they have right now, it takes 15+ years to plan and build those things. What they can do is keep the current plants online a while longer and there is support for that. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Wide-public-supp...
I used to work in the orbit of a distinguished eng at AWS who was famous for saying something to the effect of, "At the bottom of any scaled distributed system is either Paxos, or a bug."
The "kanji situated in an English context" thing is the most brain-dead weeby thing I've seen since Heisig's RTK, and that was a very high bar to pass. Same with the grammar mixing English and Japanese.
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Are We at the Dawn of “Insulin Socialism”?
You have four candidates who are all the same on paper--have the same qualifications, experience, etc--and will be serving as a critical liaison between your customers and the technical team.

Which one do you hire?

(1) The candidate with a face tattoo and ear gauges (holes) who was observed to "roll coal" when he left the interview in a lifted truck with entirely too many skulls and anarchist emblems.

(2) The one with an extremely thick accent that is near unintelligible. [HR says he has a top TOEFL score and satisfies the "speaks English" requirement.]

(3) The candidate who showed up a little late, a little underdressed, a little distracted--maybe demure--, and who just generally didn't seem to want the job.

(4) The candidate who is enthusiastic, pleasant, good at small talk, and who uses the "do you have any questions for us?" part of the interview to ask surprisingly pertinent/proactive questions about the challenges your team is facing instead of focusing on benefits/pay etc.

You might argue that many of the attributes I've mentioned are valid "professional qualifications". But remember, that term--under OPs law--will not be your notion of qualifications: it'll be a contorted mess of statue plus case law plus HR policies plus things you can clearly articulate in advance in the job criteria and prove to some jury against a plantiff with a sob story.
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as long as you are not russian[0], today. Maybe tomorrow they will discriminate your country.

[0] https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
I am not 100% happy with it but it is the best prosumer option I can find without making managing home network a full time job for myself.

Security wise it is not great, but I don't think it is worse than other consumer products (tplink, netgear...etc). At least ubiquiti patches vulnerabilities reasonably fast.

Their cloud infra sucks and the whole data breach / lawsuit drama people constantly bring up was all because (I think?) a former employee had a static AWS access key with admin level access. Small companies are usually not good at dealing with internal threats. I don't use the cloud service anyways and self-host the network controller.

Now my biggest complain is that I have to manage a mongodb 3.x cluster for the controller...
The code is not redistribution. The csv is not redistribution.

graham.epub and graham.mobi in the root of the project is very much redistribution.

https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays/blob/main/graham.epub

https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays/blob/main/graham.mobi
High speed rail can take the same grades as regular rail, so far as I know. And on the Water Level Route, there is no grade that gives any kind of problem to regular rail. So, it may not be flat, but it's not non-flat enough to be any kind of an obstacle.

Now, if you wanted to say that going up the Hudson clear to Albany before turning west - essentially, taking two sides of a right triangle instead of the hypotenuse - added too much distance for a serious high speed rail line, I could maybe listen to that. If you said that following the Hudson forced you into too many curves, which limited the speed, I could maybe listen to that. But the grades? No way. Not a problem.
But you ain't the customer
> I even have an extra long network cable I can throw across the living room for the laptop

This seems unnecessary unless you have high latency requirements, like for FPS or fighter gaming, but even then WiFi (and network coding for these games) has gotten so good that lag is barely noticeable anyway.

I say this as someone who has my desk hardwired with an unmanaged switch because it seems silly to not take the time to hardwire a stationary PC and the place where I spend the majority of my time working: if I go downstairs with my work laptop then I'm going going to drape an ethernet cable across my living room just so my connection is 1 Gbps still instead of 400+ Mbps.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard
The differences between Fortran, Lisp, C, Prolog, Smalltalk, APL and ML are wildly more extreme than Python, Java, C++, JavaScript and Rust. Languages like Haskell and OCaml are natural evolutions of ML work done in the 70s, just like Clojure is for Lisp.

That list of languages that existed prior to 1980s is still considered a must learn set of languages for any serious programming aficionado. All of the more recent languages tend to exist in the "learn one and learn it well" category provided you already have experience in the pre-1980s languages. The major exception to this would be Haskell, but that's more so because it has basically taken the throne and the modern heir the the ML kingdom.

That's not to say there hasn't been some really interesting work in programming languages since the 1980s, but it's very similar to OS world (we never really moved past the age of UNIX). We've largely established the major paradigms of programming and refined them rather than really breaking new ground.
This happened to me, I paid their high grace period fee, but then for some reason they cancelled the transaction and now my domain is owned by some third party domain hoarder. So I'm never getting it back :(
Immutable, versioned, diffable map implementation of the Merkle Search Tree
What sucks is when "quick chat" is a 2 hour meeting about how to do something that's impossible.
For microscopy images, have you tried ashlar?

https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar

It may help to have the microscope stage positions available in the OME metadata.
Can someone explain what this is?

It seems to be authentication and a graphql alternative for web devs? Why not just say that and have a side by side comparison of graphql and this on the front page? Words like 'scaling world wide applications' strike me as empty.
It needs to be opt-in, and honor automatic opt-in / opt-out signals.

In particular, they should be forced to honor the HTTP "do not track" header.
Worthy project, thank you.

I re-opened several Google SERPs from my history and compared to Brave.

I often find NO results relevant to my query on the first three pages of search Google results, often seemingly because there is a "more common/popular" aspect of the topic I am searching about, and everything is about the common and related aspects and none about my use case.
That's because they are using macbooks. And only turn their couple year old PC once a year to play a game.
I've always just run it as a docker command. Here's what's listed on the github page [1]:

docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/mnt" koalaman/shellcheck:stable myscript

[1] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
How much profit is there in the healthcare system as a percentage of the federal deficit?
when the first instant messengers came out (ICQ and i don't remember what else) i was arguing that they could have used SMTP as a protocol, and people got on my case that email and chat would be fundamentally different and should not be mixed.

today i am happly using deltachat, which effectively proves my point.

the primary difference between email and chat is threading. and even that can be handled.
I was thinking of this one:
https://xkcd.com/2055/
No error correcting codes currently. Just checksums and redundant copies. Currently the supported checksum algorithms are crc32, md5, and sha1.
Have you tried any of these tasks yourself?
I started using hover after they sponsored a podcast I like. They've been pretty pleasant to work with but I only use it for my podcast. Not sure what they're like to deal with as a business hosting a production website.
It definitely exists, but there are so many small towns across the country, we could not possibly list them all. You need to narrow it down - do some road trips, explore regions and states, and pick a target area. Maybe choose a big city you might want to be within a few hours of. Then get a realtor from that city to educate you on the towns in the area and help you narrow down to a few actual potential locations. Then you can start looking at homes.
they are on battery backup

Is this useful?

My understanding is that when there is a power failure in the neighborhood, the broadband provider's equipment is usually offline as well.

Of course, the answer is probably: "it depends on your broadband provider's local hardware setup." But I would be interested to hear peoples' thoughts.
The thing about an actual index is it's reversible, and transparent. You've digested a bunch of information, and if I want to see the least relevant result by some query, that should be doable.

I would not be surprised if the folks at Google Search have forgotten that pne of the first tenants of organizing information is not to omit it.

Either that, or they implemented their delist functionality as "force relevance zero, and truncate results before you get there".
The two major funders for small towns are military bases and colleges. Small college towns are stabilized by a steady stream of federal money from student loans and subsidies. They will often have better services and healthier businesses. The same goes for military towns that get a ton of money from soldiers spending cash and buying/renting housing.

Small towns that are supported by companies and agriculture have been drained dry by corporate greed. Jobs have been off-shored and taxes have been almost completely avoided. Sometimes a town is supported by a major military contractor, but they aren't terribly dependable. Some places are supported by retirees, but they aren't nearly as affordable.

So if you want to look for a stable small town, look for towns near universities, colleges, or military bases.
I learned C in a college class where we built a simulated computer from transistors up through assemble before moving to C. From that perspective the K&R C book is fantastically elegant: you can really see why C is sometimes described as a "portable assembly" because it maps closely to assembly instructions and conventions. As a first language above assembly, it's a fantastic language for doing work on limited systems. As a modern application language in the current world of high level abstractions like Unicode and the Internet, it's simply too simple. It was designed for and works relatively well for systems thst you understand completely all the way down to the metal
The whole idea is that you can do that, but we still have a bit more work to clean up internal package dependencies to make that nice.

The goal for beta was to reach Next.js production feature parity with legacy Blitz. Now we can turn to cleaning it up for other uses.
Hijack Libs: DLL Hijacking
Climate change will exacerbate two-third diseases known to man
It's not just companies selling your email address to third parties, it's also companies that keep your email on file and then get compromised.

Most of the spam/phishing I get is from companies that stored my personal details and then got hacked.

I would say it's likely you just got lucky.
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Does this basically mean that the only real piece of equipment that needs to be rock solid is the transfer switch, and not necessarily the whole system consisting of panels, batteries and inverters (for grid tied systems)?