skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd have to find the book. But there was research that showed that long-term motivating factors like being healthy, weight loss etc. were not as effective as short-term motivating factors like "I like how I feel after I run/workout/..." or It is beautiful to get outside, etc.

Basically, focusing on what is good about it now rather than what will be good later is better at building the habit.
Aur went down at 20:05 GMT
> While I agree with your premise, how the hell do we know the parent is a trained physician?

We don't know, but it doesn't matter. We can go to websites like the BMJ and see trained physicians and researchers saying the same thing across a range of different articles.

We can go to research organisations like NICE, or Cochrane, or the UK National Screening Committee to see doctors and researchers saying the same thing. For mass screening, the harm often outweighs the benefits.
The looming sense of existential dread is real. I only hope that the end is swift and painless for most.

Also, the first thing folks who learn to survive in the world after “the event” will probably do will be to raid these bunkers or just pour cement down the chutes / roll a big rock in front of the door. The leaders that led us to this point should not be the leaders in the world after it.
Seems to me Transwomen didn't get deplatformed. Quite the opposite.

Seems to me that Transwomen just took the only scrutiny contrary to their own agenda temporarily off the net, putting one of the most technically competent hosting providers on the list of people who won't associate with them (people acting in opposition to Transwomen).

No comment on the hating on black people, as I learned long ago, platforms are not users of platforms, and horrible people can be found everywhere.

Despite all of this horribleness that apparently goes on with KiwiFarms, it still seems Transwomen is able to go on doing whatever it is it does.

Strictly speaking, your yardstick for empowerment measurement has a rather funny operating principle, as intuitively speaking, I'd expect the opposite result.
>In many countries politicians are forced to deploy their own email servers for security and confidentiality reasons. We only need one politician's emails not delivered due to poorly implemented or arbitrary hellbans and this will be a hot button issue.

"I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday!", as Ted Stevens would say.

Unfortunately the man said this as part of a massive, uninformed speech[0] about why big tech[1] needs less regulation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

[1] Comcast inclusive
Why do you think that because some people from latin america do that that all of them can?
What? iOS only supports content blockers as safari extensions since iOS 15, which is the latest iOS…

Please do source your claim that this has been possible for 7yrs, as that’s not my experience.

(https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/)
Yeah ... it's a collection of books with a unified theme.
It could be we have different circles of acquaintances. I have managed to get non technical friends to GPG encrypt their emails. I also talked 2 lawyers into using this and the two lawyers are not only non technical but have nearly zero patience.
Nothing beats "Hackers" (1995) imo. Since you've already seen that, I think you've already experienced the best we have to offer, unfortunately.

In terms of books, I liked Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon". It was written in 1999 and really captures the 90s startup culture, and has some cool hacker scenes. The detail is good too, where the author even explains the specific unix commands that are being executed in some scenes (such as grep).
Interesting - whatever permaban it is that my IP block got didn't affect office 365 hosted services (verified with several different domains at the time) - just literally the domains I mention. Guess I've lucked out so far.
I don't agree with the question, but take away the reason the author is asking them, and the question is far more open-ended to the one being asked. That's the problem: it's a direct question which has too many possible answers which helps neither the party answering (because what should they answer?) nor the party asking (because even the answers not 100% on the mark can be interpreted in many ways). Plus, it's a horrible premise to set the other party up for failure to begin with.

When you view it from that angle, the majority of questions in interviews are pretty similar. You can't tell whether the opposing party is expecting a perfect answer, or is lenient enough to take a chance with anything which isn't perfect.

The problem with your changes, however, is that you take away the very thing that the author puts in for a reason. Removing the directness means the opposing party is now given more of a chance to provide a complete nothingburger of an answer which is likely half-true, and half-"what the world is this place actually?" That's not necessarily an improvement when you take into account all other aspects of interviewing. The only definite benefit you gain, is not causing bad blood by appearing combative over collaborative.

Ultimately, what people want is transparency. That transparency is very hard to tell from the side of candidates. Formulating questions to allow 'best case answers' doesn't work as it allows the company to oversell itself. Formulating questions directly doesn't work because the interviewer gets a bad taste in their mouth. But the silly thing is, lots (the majority?) of interviewers certainly have their fair share of horrible practices which continue to exist today. The only reason they exist, is due to their power in the market.
I feel really sorry for these executives who have to decide whether to earn $300,000 or $1M. :))

Joking aside, a person in the US agreeing to earn $300,000 rather than $350,000 – to a very large extent off the value created by volunteer labour, and off the public's donations – is not what I would call "charity" or a "sacrifice".

I would remind you that some of this money is raised in India, South Africa and Latin America – by telling people there money is needed to "keep Wikipedia online" for them.

Now, a real sacrifice by an American is when a senior with $18 to his name promises to donate to Wikimedia as soon as his social security check clears, as this fellow did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_de...

I wish he hadn't been pressured into making that promise!

Many of the small donations funding these salaries do actually come from people for whom donating that small amount really is a sacrifice. These phrases, about how it's "awkward" to ask, how Wikipedia has "no choice but to turn to you", they speak to them most of all, because they can relate to this situation.

This is from an unpaid Wikipedia volunteer on the Volunteer Response Team: "I can't go into the specifics, but as a VRT agent I've received numerous emails from people on limited incomes who are donating money they need because they believe that Wikipedia is in trouble and that they need to give money to keep it online. I'm absolutely disgusted by this, and I think it will catch up to us in the long-run, as people won't want to give once they realize how deceptive these campaigns are."

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fundraisin...

So, please, if it's a question of brownie points for "charity" and "sacrifice", these executives are hardly at the front of the queue.

There is not even any good reason for many of these staff positions to go to people in the US. Most of these are remote jobs. They could just as easily be done by someone in India, Poland or Singapore, and at a fraction of the cost.

Let the people who are after that $1M-dollar job go to a for-profit company. Wikipedia doesn't need them.
Apologies for jumping into code - this is "Hacker" News, after all. The feedback is still appreciated. I actually meant to include pictures but forgot :/

The practical results can best be described as 36 super high-quality TIFFs (if you scan a full 35mm roll) obtained in just a couple of minutes. You can find more information by looking at other online sources - one I'd recommend reading, if you're interested, is https://www.dantestella.com/technical/f235plus.html.

I'm not surprised that it's relatively unknown - after all, digital photography has mostly taken over, and even those people who benefited from drug-store film development/scanning probably wouldn't have cared too much about what hardware was in use.
Welcome to the club. The 3a was the best phone I ever owned. Then it broke (my fault) and after going through 3 bunk replacements in a row, I realized that Google literally does zero QA and stopped trying.
We are not discussing the correctness of the argument, we are discussing the comment that the argument is being "overmade" which is blatantly false.
Another common fallacy in economic historians / "rise of the west" research is to compare the most developed parts of Europe (after 1700, typically the Low Countries and England) with 'all of China.' By doing this, they exclude the poorer parts of Europe and include the poorer parts of China to give the impression that "the great divergence" (sic) was early and foreordained
Benefiting from the large provider's reputation in regards to spam blocklists etc.
Yup. And I think that's the dichotomy: "supports everything on everything" or "cable doesn't cost $60 and goes farther than 2 meters", take your pick.

Expense was pretty much a foregone conclusion at the start of the thunderbolt "one cable for everything" experiment, and now people want to do that with usb in general. Sure, that'll be great, but it's going to be expensive, including in places that don't need those capabilities. If you allow deviations from the standard, then you are back to things being incompatible with various devices/cables/chargers. They allowed that with power profiles (in particular) and video capabilities and now it's a mess.

Framing profiles in terms of device use-cases is my attempt at turning that soup back into something comprehensible for average consumers, while keeping the benefit. People approach this as "I want to plug my phone into the charger and have it just work", "I want to plug my dock into my laptop and do everything through one cable", etc, and those are actually use-cases and not feature profiles, they don't really care that the laptop needs 40V 2.5A or 25V 3A, they just want it to work. But of course a $10 vape pen (or phone) doesn't need 40V 2.5A charging. So you have a "phone profile" and a "laptop profile" and iterate those things as groups/featuresets and not as a bunch of profiles thrown into one enormous standard.

You can retain most of the "universal standard" juice without squeezing too hard on the "$60 cable" expense side of things. You could have one cable for laptop docks and one cable for phone charging and have a lot of overlap between, but still not have to use a $60 cable to charge your phone just because that's what a laptop needs, and yet not have a confusing free-for-all of "this charger doesn't do that".

I'm just a rando though so it's not like I have any say.
do you have your own asn? The entire Hetzner network has been banned by Microsoft, so you can't send to Hotmail addresses
And if you are living in a country with reasonable workers rights like germany then "raising expectations" as a reason to firing employees will only lead to a costly appearens before the Arbeitsgericht for the employer
Insane ways Google has been invading our privacy – Salon.com (2014)
The last 1's complement machine I encountered was, never. Not in nearly 50 years of programming. I think those machines left for the gray havens before I was born.

C should also make char unsigned (D does). Optionally signed chars are an abomination.
Checked out the repository's homepage. Is it just me or do other people hate the buzzword of "virtual brain"?

Seems like everything is being described as that or a "second brain" these days.
You and I differ in what we consider speaking well. I'd sooner hire an ex-con over a reductionist, as I at least know the former can handle nuance.
I got a few PhotoCDs made when I first got a CD drive for my computer. PhotoCDs probably came from a place where the TV was a central fixture in many households and it probably seemed like a logical extension to how many people would have slideshows of their holiday slides. I think there was a certain baked-in assumption by Kodak and others that the digitization of photography would still look a lot like how photographs were taken and shared in the film world.
rxjs and immutablejs come to mind
> simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want

That's not necessarily a sure cure, depending on the hosting provider. RoadRunner (Spectrum / Charter) in the US and Shaw in Canada won't deliver emails from my domain hosted at Runbox.com (or sent directly from the runbox.com domain.) Spectrum's bounce message references an error code that translates to "Spectrum limits the number of concurrent connections from a sender, as well as the total number of connections allowed. Limits vary based on the reputation of the IP address. Reduce your number of connections and try again later."
> But again the whole reason this is unreadable at all is because you've created an intentionally obtuse api. [...] we can modify its API

Do you never consume APIs you have no control over? And is every sequence you use an indexable list?

And no, there was nothing intentionally obtuse in my comment. It was incredibly straightforward and readable code. We obviously disagree, but regardless, I don't enjoy the bad-faith accusations, so I'll stop here.
What if I said Gospel of John? I've probably read that single book 50x.
The problem to adding a cost to email is that it affects everyone. The amount of CPU power you need to waste to make most spam not viable is so much that it isn't worth it.
I would totally watch a Sherlock Holmes played by Benedict Cumberbatch dressed up as bald black woman!

Look, if having the blue fairy's character being reinterpreted in such a way is simply something you'd prefer not to watch, that's cool. Maybe it bothers you that a generation of new viewers will absorb a different version of a story for which the orginal has a particular place in your heart, but that's just how culture works - for most of human existence stories weren't written down and changed on each retelling anyway. It doesn't lessen their importance or impact.

Having said all that - I've yet to hear many examples of modern adaptations of music in classical tradition written 100s of years ago that I can accept as any sort of improvement. I can't quite put my finger on why there's such a difference.
I don’t know enough about the emergency service requirements but it sounds like the issue is in the data Google are trying to query before connecting the call.

They likely have a blocking function somewhere that they should be running concurrently or falling back to a cache after a timeout.

Given how widespread this is in the comments on Reddit , I’m sure they must have enough user logs to pinpoint it.
E-mail is complicated, sure. But I’ve had it up to here with people who give up running their own server and then go on to vastly exaggerate how infeasible it is, in order to placate their own conscience. It’s not that they’ve gotten tired of doing it, oh no; (they say,) it’s entirely the fault of Google, Microsoft, etc. who’ve made it literally impossible to run your own e-mail server. Except it’s not impossible – lots of us do it, still. And now there’s one fewer of us, so the rest of us have to work that much harder when the next monopolizing standard comes along (BIMI, anyone?). Sure, you don’t owe us anything, but thanks for nothing when making these public rants; you are scaring away people who might still be inclined to help!
Terrastruct engineer here. The visualization will be open source though I can't say for sure yet whether it'll be with our layout algorithm or with https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre.
> So how do you know historical events happened?

I go to the Smithsonian archives and read the source material in Latin

Anyway, back to the point. I whole heartedly believe that exposing someone like Nick Fuentes on a livestream is a net positive that turns more people away from him than gains him followers.

It's a cynical person who thinks platforming bad ideas will make them spread. Sunlight.. disinfectant...
Your argument only works in the short term - if you fail consistently in the long term you will realise the service is not working for you and they will lose you as a customer.

Failing intermittently in the short term - and losing money for it - will cause any rational actor motivated by the financial argument - as you clearly are - to try and work out why and fail less, hence proving their service is working for you.
I use a small datacentre in my country, actually not far from where I live. DKIM/SPF are independent of the provider. The easiest way to understand is to consider how receiving works. If I'm getting an email from hnemail.example, the first thing I do is consider the IP address. Oh, 257.257.257.1? Ok. So I then ask DNS "what is the SPF record for hnemail.example?" and it returns

v=spf1 mx -all

This tells me only to accept emails from 'MX' entries for that domain. So I query 'MX' against the DNS server and I get a list of A records, which I can get IPs from. If the IP is in the list, spf passes. Otherwise it fails, mark as spam.

For DKIM, when the email was sent it was signed with a key by the sending server. It is identified by a UUID in the incoming email. So the receiving server again queries DNS for TXT <UUID>._domainkey.hnemail.example and receives the public key as a response. Signature verification passes? Accept email. It fails? Mark as spam.

This doesn't have a lot to do with IP reputation. This is different. If you are a very large email provider, you might develop custom spam filters. IPs are allocated to 'autonomous systems' i.e. who actually uses them and hands them out to users, and depending on the business you might make some decisions about reputation. For example, if the IP address is part of a consumer ISP block that is handed out to users of broadband, chances are high that if they're sending email, it is probably a Windows PC compromised by malware.

Similarly, you might decide some ASNs are better than others. Some hosters are more liberal in what they will accept, such as VPN endpoints, tor nodes and such and as a consequence of this more spam comes from these ranges.

Rightly or wrongly, larger email providers try to add these extra filters to the process to protect their users from spam. This obviously sucks if you are genuinely trying to run an email server on your symmetric home fibre connection with a dedicated IP, but that's the world we live in.

I can't make any general statement on which providers might be best, and some people will have no issue whereas others will find themselves unable to send anything. I don't work for Outlook/Microsoft or Google and never have, so I don't know exactly what rules they use, and in all likeliness they shift constantly depending on spammer patterns. I can only say I've found running from a small DC to work pretty well.
Read the preface to the 1st edition of this thing, and prepare for your mind to be blown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay%E2%80%93Rheims_Bible

Keep clicking "next" on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1609_Doway_Old_Testament....

In summary, they (the authors of Douay-Rheims) based their bible translation on Jerome's 4th century Latin translation because they believed that the extant Greek and Hebrew versions had been corrupted by "Iewes and Heretikes".
Disclaimer: I don't have one of these and don't particularly want one. The privacy concerns kinda creep me out. That said, I've been to friends homes and seen them use it.

As far as I can tell the primary use case for these things is to be <random place in your home> and then just say out loud "Alexa, set a timer for ....". I've heard that you can order stuff from Amazon also using your voice. I think a third use case starts with "Alexa, tell me a joke".

I'm assuming that there's other things you can do with these (and would love to know, if anyone's willing to share).

So - if the solution to the privacy concern is to walk over to the device and push a button then that seems to remove most of the usefulness of the device.
Speaking as someone who doesn't want one / doesn't have one of these things I can totally see how eliminating the "voice control from anywhere" feature leads to opting out of it.

(When I'm walking around my home I've always got my phone on me (which, to be fair, has a bunch of privacy concerns too) so I can more easily set a timer / buy something on Amazon / Google for jokes by fishing my phone out of my pocket and then using that, rather than walking over to push a button.)

(The "what else can you do with these" is a genuine question - if people are comfortable sharing I'd love to hear what you can do with these)
Tremendous fun!
This is factual and I can prove it is that way from the very beginning of the formation of the economy, when compound interest behaves nearly linearly. But not linearly. From the very beginning. There are arrangements and something feels off but it's mostly (it really is mostly) a very good arrangement for all parties.

Then the aptly termed late-stage capitalism, which is not a bullshit thing it's a mathematical concept too. Worked it out in detail, without adjectives, connotations, plain.

So early game, capitalism is better, late game, communism is better. Really the best is nature the entire time.
>gold

What good is gold when money is worthless? What intrinsic value does gold have in a society that isn’t manufacturing electronics?

It depends on the exact circumstances if crypto, fiat currencies, gold, bullets, or potable water will be the most valuable.
See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695552 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230704.
I LOVE Ender’s Game but my favorite is Ender’s Shadow. Bean is such an interesting character who always intrigued me so much.
I'm basically locked into Pixels because of GrapheneOS/CalyxOS, the best experience you can get for a privacy friendly phone.

The software is great, the camera is amazing, and the battery is good too, the only problem is the display on my Pixel 4XL.

IOS is a hot garbage prison, to the point its users dream of something like newpipe, and the FOSS scene is basically nonexistent, also Apple doesn't care about your privacy, I will never switch.

All other phones are either filled with gimicky things, have crappy designs(one ui isn't great compared to stock android) and nothing is private like CalyxOS/GrapheneOS.

And yes payment apps/SafetyNet works on Calyx!

Since Pixel 6 doesn't seem to be great, I will probably upgrade to PXL7/8, though there are some enticing deals on the normal Pixel 6.
Wow mention of Walter oney’s book brings back memories of learning to write NT drivers back in the day. A classic book of the time
The author, for better or worse, was using the Brooklyn Bridge imaging (with several other examples) as a signal that Apple Maps wasn't suitable for daily use. As you note, that imagery is mostly irrelevant.

> I knew a road I wanted was a few blocks away, but Maps could only route me to a similar (not same) named road 150 kilometres away…

Fair enough, but I'd guess that I've reported 50+ map/routing issues with Google Maps/Waze over the years in southern California. Apple makes it pretty easy to report problems: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/report-errors-in-apple-maps...
Both Windows and macOS are good, the Linux desktop in 2022 however is just woeful.
Almost all modern thing is "from hundreds of years of human effort" and "only possible because of the prior human work", even humans themselves.