skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that comes in from an address I have never seen before is handled specially. But it's not hard to filter out the obvious spam. Just a handful of heuristics on the from and subject lines (e.g. if the sender's name contains common English words it's probably spam) takes care of >90% of the cold calls. The rest I just look through manually once a day or so.

I was planning to institute a system where my contact page included a special keyword to include in the subject line to get past the spam filter, but that has turned out not to be necessary so I haven't implemented that yet.

The only remaining case is things like confirmation emails for new accounts, but those just get lumped in with the other cold calls. They are super-easy to spot because I'm almost always expecting them, so they are always at the top of the list.
> Unprepared plain raw organic produce is delicious

Yeah, although I doubt it was as delicious before modern farming. Or even if it was, we didn't have most of it.

But an animal roasted over a fire is equally as delicious; just ask an Alone contestant. One woman ate the gut contents of a rabbit and said it was one of the best things she'd ever eaten.

Hunger is the best condiment, as the saying goes.
https://debeste.de/upload/fbe0e08ce37286b7ab60ebdeaf43c33029... :)
What's the alternative, ibuprofen? I think children are already discouraged from taking aspirin because it can cause deadly side effects.
nuclear is not scaling fast enough because it's been subject to 40 years of negative mediopolitical narrative reinforced by poor market and technical regulation. nuclear easily gets to cost parity with renewables when you consider the needed storage for baseload usage and the more advanced grid control variable generation requires.

in the US, had we continued to build nuclear at the rate we were between the 70s and 90s, we'd be at over 50% nuclear for electricity generation, which would have knocked coal completely out of the equation, leaving only nuclear (baseload), gas (variable demand), and renewables (opportunistic generation). over 70 years, fission-based nuclear has caused 99+% fewer human deaths than fossil fuels have.

and yes, there's no need to pin any hopes on fusion right now, which is decades away at best.
Keep in mind anything a company like Google knows about you, a government official (including law enforcement) also can know about you just by asking.

You don't own the information they have on you, and you have no constitutional protections against unreasonable search/seizure.

Consider what would happen if your state just decided to issue traffic tickets based on info Google collects from your phone as you're driving along. They probably wouldn't do a blanket "fine every infraction everyone has committed this year" - instead, they could go after people they want to supress.

Or maybe they would fine everyone. Some politician wants to fund something, and they get some geofenced data and fine everyone who exceeded the speed limit this year.
Privacy vs coverage in crowded places seems like a valid (though uncomfortable) choice.

In crowded places like trains or planes, where it matters most for me personally, you already don't have a location privacy once you've boarded: your seat is known.
Causal Inference: Connecting Data and Reality
The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. I love the humour and social commentary in them, and how the characters develop throughout.

I also really enjoy how the writing changed - raw and somewhat hard to read but so much chaotic energy with the first books. Each following novel had increasing refinement. Then they went downhill in my opinion, with too much polish and a lack of that original energy. (I don't think that was a reflection of the author's health, just how the books were planned and written)
If looking at it from a company perspective, I'm not sure I would see much benefit for them in doing so. If a company is based in the US/EU and pays the same wage to workers in someplace like Asia, they would not gain much(financially) by hiring in Asia in the first place (companies that have no need to hire in Asia). Why bother dealing with the grumbling at home about exporting jobs to outside locations if they are just going to pay the same anyway. Might as well be the hero providing jobs to local workers at home and keep the money circulating there. As for the other, age, gender, race etc. All of that is also at home, so not discriminating against it is beneficial. What is not at home are foreign located workers.
* Live by the Golden Rule

* Don’t spend money you don’t have
> If someone is new to .NET, all they need to care about is .NET 6 and later, so it doesn't matter much.

That is an optimistic viewpoint in some ways; Lots of shops still have FW projects around, possibly ones older than they should be, but the workflows have enough differences that I'd say you should know NET6 and the gotchas between that and FW.
Charging is one thing, but getting display out or Ethernet is at another level. After reading the link, I am still none the wiser on a situation I experienced recently. I have a Moto G6 phone. I bought a USB C dock for it, a "Kapok 11-in-1-USB-C Laptop Dockingstation Dual HDMI Hub" on Amazon. It would charge, but the video out didn't work, and the Ethernet didn't work either. Both did work for my Steam Deck, though. How come? I understand some USB C hubs work for Android phones, some don't, and I don't know how that works. How does one find a dock that will work with Android? That specific dock does mention compatibility with a bunch of Android devices; but not specifically Moto. But I know that the Moto G6 does support external display outputs and Ethernet connectivity - I just haven't found a device which allows those, yet.
Wikipedia isn't trustworthy for anything political or controversial: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/ <-written by one of the founders of it
How ‘Trustless’ is Bitcoin really? [pdf]
OK, I must have misread some comments. Thanks for the update.
It reminds me of the random/algorithmically generated riffs from Ballblazers. Looks like they use a pentatonic scale so the result always sounds good, no matter how wildly you scribble.
If the $1m "solves your financial problems" or is otherwise life-changing, you should almost certainly take the sure thing. As other discussions suggest, once you get into maybe the $3m-$5m net worth range, you presumably already don't have financial problems and another $1m is nice but not really transformative whereas $50m would be even though not a sure thing.

Even for a one time event, at some point it makes more sense to place the bet depending on a number of factors.

If it's hard to conceive of in this scenario, pick numbers about which it's easier to have intuition. What if you could take $10 for certain vs. a 50% chance of getting $500? Or pick some other values with the same ratio. 50% in this case just means a coin flip. You're right that no one gets the expected value. They get zero or they get $50m. But that may be a good bet depending on circumstances.
Goodness that’s scary stuff.
It works on stadiums and other similar hugely crowded open venues, which is the point of it, AFAICT.
OP said:
> I've raised this issue with my manager and they've told me that I can transfer if i want those pay scales but that's not a possibility for me.

Looks like location is a constraint to them.
I've worked in a similar environment.

The motivation to batch releases was largely driven by a desire to do full end-to-end integration testing of changes between a number of entangled backend and frontend systems. It often took days to stabilise all the components in the single pre-production staging environment used for end to end integration testing, then run through the test plan. Perform batched end-to-end testing of system was the process bottleneck.

Monthly releases created similar crunch dynamics of changes being delayed by a month if they weren't stable enough to enter the monthly test cycle. Since end to end testing is the bottleneck, you don't want to feed in low quality inputs (rushed changes that are likely to cause issues and then trigger re-tests of the entire slow end to end test process).

I'm not saying this is the best way to do this, it definitely isn't, but there can be some reasoning behind it.
Does this team or any of the related teams have a person who actively rejects proposals to improve the code base?

On the basis that no one should have unilateral power to reject features, regardless of whether it improves anything or not, it seems quite of that the straightforward answer is a simple "No". If the candidate withdraws their application on the basis of that then both sides have won.
I like the "about the author" box. I specifically applaud the "with a passion for" phrase. It's charming!
>I'm sure it's because Hacker News has a contrarian streak, but people are so willing to buy into this idea that free speech is being persecuted online that they are willing to defend KiwiFarms.

As you sit here trying to convince people that no, really, that's not free speech. Pragmatists ruin everything, and I've been around long enough to understand "boiling the frog", "not one inch", and that love of liberty creates at times very strange bedfellows.

If you want to make progress dealing with horrible people, stop trying to turn me/everyone else against them, and deal with them. Like an adult. Either avoid, or work with authorities, within the rails of due process, to resolve the issue. If there is no unsavoryness to the non-KF side, there should be no reluctance with regards to letting the authorities deal with it. If there is, then that suggests someone is seeking to leverage the justice system who wants to avoid the inevitable consequences of doing so when one doesn't have clean hands, which I see no reason to offer myself as a conduit to deliver. Investigation and truth cuts both ways.

I will not tell you that taking the easy way out is okay. I will not let you convince me through equivocation to give up a value I cherish deeply, that everyone is entitled to be heard, and to be free to pursue the ends of what they believe in short of actually engaging in violence. In time, it may be my own undoing, but I accept that. Too much has been sacrificed on the altar of the hypothetical in my life
Clean hands and evidence, or it's just more "tit-for-tat" playing out at large.
I've been self-hosting my mail for 17 or 18 years now, by purchasing just some managed webhosting package from somebody who cares about their services not being used for shady stuff (any reputable managed hosting provider) and I think I've never "lost" an outgoing mail for personal use.

I don't understand what the author thinks it's so hard here and why he's painting it so black and white. There's lots of more to "my own e-mail" than choosing between some old notebook running and collecting dust in your garage and using GMail.

Some people just want to find a hair in the soup.
Seeing that rule based content blocking has been built into iOS for 6 years and web extension support has been built in for two…
I own a bar. I don't know any customers who drink 3 only drinks per week.

We definitely have some that don't drink, or only a couple times per year. They come in and play pool, etc.

But I would guess 95% of our customers drink close to 5 drinks per DAY, averaged. (It's a local regulars bar, so we see the same faces every day).
No. To beat up the metaphor, I'm saying if we support the restaurants that aren't McDonalds and that are more "mom and pop" (and get others on board) then we can beat McDonalds or at least live in harmony with them.
If you continually mark those emails as read without opening them, then gmail will learn that they are junk for your account.
"double-dare"? :-)
Fftw?
I understand that 30 years of experience has to count for something, and maybe some people are fortunate enough to be able to work in an environment that is devoid of all the politics that "Agile" leaves in its wake.

My own years of experience have taught me that estimates will always be sought by the customer.
They may even shop around for a better price with a different software vendor/low code solution etc.

If the development team doesn't know the estimate, how is management expected to know? Simply put, management will be held to whatever number (of person hours) they provide, and are also expected to keep it low enough to close the deal. Deadlines are part of doing business, no matter how much we try to dance around that fact. This is why management will immediately turn around and convert story points into hours. These guesstimates will then become deadlines. I hate having deadlines for creative work, and would rather not be bothered by them, but they exist nonetheless.

Until you convince your customers to accept "NFC" and still do business with you, Agile will remain a quixotic idea for the corporate world

Can we please not fool the next generation of software developers into believing all this bs?
The presumption of guilt for using a VPN had me already doing this.
MRI uses electromagnetic radiation. MRI uses a magnetic field with a radio-frequency pulse and then the protons emit a radio-frequency response - that response location is used to synthetically generate the image. MRI does not use ionising radiation. Nice overview here: https://www.nibib.nih.gov/science-education/science-topics/m...
I came to say the same thing. wondering how he counted it as six.
At the beginning I though I was just going to stay silent but now actually I feel to deeply about that to even respect the rule. Let me clear: pretending until you are skewered in the press that leaving videos of rapes up for a decade, not caring about revenge porn or video of underage girls being posted by their idiotic teenager boyfriends and ruining their life is just a problem of moderation makes you a terrible, disgusting, awful human being. Seriously if that what you believe I hope you will change someday because gosh that’s sad.
Out of curiosity, do you have some preferred language in mind for the extensible part? Guile? Something else?
signup confirm emails are like that.

similarly, any "hello pls add me to your allow-list" emails could be made auto-disappear to the "will be deleted in 30 days" folder in ~10-15 minutes, so even if you get a 100 spam messages per day you only see the last of those, you can easily pick what you are looking for, and don't worry about the rest, they'll just disappear.

(and you still have 30 days to look for messages that might be interesting/important/etc.)

...

the real missing piece is the feedback mechanism. DMARC is meh. of course large senders have implemented FBL, but they are not available for mere mortals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback_loop_(email)
This hasn’t been true for two years Safari on iOS has supported web extensions for that long.
> There’s also the fact that Hangul is phonetic

Hangul is not phonetic, it's a morphophonemic script. The Korean language has a lot of rules that applies at different boundaries, which make the pronunciation of words different from what is written. The best example of this is the "Korean wave" /han/ + /lyu/ => [hallyu], written has "hanlyu" (한류) which is conforming to the phonemic decomposition but certainly not to how the word is pronounced.
Judge Dismisses Suit over Naked Baby Image on Nirvana Album Cover
I have had to answer a lot of these questions before, but not for a potential hire. These are the kinds of questions auditors tend to ask during due diligence of a software org (especially the “give me time estimates” type questions). Usually in an audit type setting these answers aren’t readily available because there are limitless ways to ask these questions and supporting data to request. An organization isn’t typically going to spend that level of effort to satisfy one obviously pretentious candidate.
iOS supports web extensions and has since iOS 12/13
Spammers are also equal peers, and are a huge problem. The concept of every computer being an equal peer is in fact part of the problem with email.
Meet Cereal Killer... as in Froot Loops. But he does know things.

I wonder how much of these benefits are conferred by consumption of the cereal, and how much are due to the kind of person who eats breakfast cereal, especially as an adult, just preferring a low fat, high fiber diet.
The people censoring/deplatforming/cancelling others.
"the company would be foolish to let me leave"

Fundamentally, if they can find a replacement at a lower cost, they will. Businesses are about the bottom line. No matter what their size is. Fighting that truism will only lead you to frustration.
“ This issue was initially discovered in 2016 by a RedHat kernel developer and disclosed in a public email thread, but the Linux kernel community did not patch the issue until it was re-reported in 2021.”

Insane.
50 years ago, the Munich Olympics massacre changed how we think about terrorism
Working out with a PT also really helped me a lot. We work out outside, twice a week. Someone's waiting for me, which completely fixes the motivation problem for me. I'm still not someone who's naturally good at sports, but I've missed maybe 5 workouts in 3 years max (excepting vacations, sickness). I couldn't keep a routine before.
Would for Wall St that this be their big hit button issue, the crisis of the times.
What happens when a star dies?
Times above 10 minutes are very common and really unavoidable for some kinds of systems. You can mitigate the impact on the practical develop loop with effort (caching parts of the build, splitting off slower tests), but if you're building something like a database 10 minutes just isn't enough time to validate your change hasn't broken anything.
Ukraine nuclear plant: what happens if it releases a radioactive plume?
Very slightly more info:

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/CoSy

https://github.com/CoSyBob/CoSy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLYcI_fOZu4
NASA unsure next Moon rocket launch attempt possible this month
> Employees have all the job market information too

Employees absolutely do not have the information that there are people in the same role earning 5x what they do. When they find out, it tends to get really messy, too.

> Each side has different information, but not asymmetric.

This is a definition of asymmetry that I am not familiar with.

> This law will remove an aspect of the employee's secret information - what they're currently on

Actually, the law explicitly prohibits employers seeking this information about employees-- their specific comp. In the past, employers would pay data brokers for this information.

In turn, the playing field was very tilted: you could see the person's current comp and know the entire set of comp you pay in that position and the total history of offers you've made and their acceptance rates... whereas employees know just what they've gathered through informal, unreliable means (glassdoor, friends, etc).
Cool as butts, dang.
Tell others that you are particularly insterested in growing in this area before they review your code when you submit it, or ask someone to review code you have already written with this in mind.
That's a preview of the first word of the next page. I guess it helps to switch between pages more smoothly.
This is overly suspicious. The guy made a nice effort and open sources it. Would you prefer he had it closed source or sold it?
Yes and a good, educated trainer might be more expensive than you might think (or feel comfortable with initially).
I think that's outdated information in many regards. Most apps seem to have turned off the SafetyNet requirement; I suspect that may be due to a larger amount of Chinese Android phones that don't have it.

I'm using a Play-Store-less microG LineageOS on a Google Pixel 1, and all my banking apps work (Revolut UK, German Post Bank authenticator), as well as a Swiss online health care app.

I haven't found an application yet that I couldn't use on LineageOS due to lack of SafetyNet.
The issue I have with program synthesis is the same issue as I have with no-code tools; writing code is the easy part of software development. The hard part is understanding precisely what the stakeholders really want. It sounds trivial, yet it's obviously not since nobody seems to know what the heck they want these days.

I've worked on so many software projects where the company director wanted things to be implemented a certain way, but once it's implemented that way, they suddenly realize that it (necessarily) affects some other functionality in a way that they did not anticipate... Then they decide they want it done another way; this kind of back-and-forth thinking process also happens when coding except it's more granular (and usually you try to foresee the tradeoffs before you start to implement the solution; since the tradeoffs should affect your choice of solution). Every decision counts and relates back to the requirements; AI could not generate good code unless it had a human-level understanding of the problem and requirements.

Coding is about precise decision-making. It would be easier for AI to replace managers and executives since these roles involve far less precise decision-making and they don't require as thorough of an understanding of the domain.
That's because T-Mobile has been slow to deploy 5g in the PNW. Still one of the slowest markets to deploy, but it is getting better over time.
Any application that saves files using the standard file selector allows you to choose any installed storage solution.
Life came before intelligence and intelligence emerged as a tool for advancing life or in another words intelligence helps you to increase your survival rate and it helps you to evolve. Those two things are interconnected.

I was researching Artificial Life a little bit and I came across this paper: Philosophical Aspects of Artificial Life, Mark A. Bedau.

The paper states[0] that processes characteristic of living systems are:

self-organization, spontaneous generation of order, and cooperation

self-reproduction and metabolization

learning, adaptation, purposiveness, and evolution

So artificial general intelligence would need to exhibit some of these characteristics if not all in order to be called "general". What I'm trying to say is that AGI would need to self-organize, cooperate, reproduce, learn, adapt and evolve either in digital or physical environment in order to be called Artificial General Intelligence and then it would sort of became Artificial Life capable of surviving on its own without anyone telling it what to do next.

[0] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.138...
"This review was commissioned and paid for by the Australian Breakfast Cereal Manufacturers Forum of the Australian Food and Grocery Council."
This is what i've been searching for, for ages
- Lightweight
- Has necessary features
- Has a nice UI
- Actively maintained
- Small learning curve
- Not much config required

It only supports 3 languages :(
that seems new, or maybe a different beast from the MS zoo of madness.

gmail on the other hand does what others said, report smtp 250 and silently discard some emails. (mostly those that lack DKIM)
> Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.

Do you not see how concerning (not to mention arrogant) it is when a corporation decides to act because it believes the law is inadequate. When individuals do this, we call it vigilantism.
YavaScript for the language, Yira for issue tracking. YetBrains for IDEs.
Gazan Officials Execute 5 accused of spying by Hanging and Firing Squad