skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: I started using Proton Mail again, I find it much improved
I was a paid subscriber for years, then got tired of it and went back to alternating between Apple Mail and Gmail.

I recently bought a 1 year subscription again and there are several things I now like better:

Most images in emails are 'safe loaded' automatically. There is now a Proton Calendar app for iOS. It seemed like attaching my personal domain was easier than before. The web app seems more responsive.
I’m sure the S-Team will be in the office almost every day.
Is there any tool that can find those leftovers and remove then permanently?
Seems like propaganda from the losing side of a war.

Are we taking this too hard?
Back in the very early aughts I used to carry around to friends houses a binder full of movies also containing a bootable CD with some linux distro that existed explicitly for playing media. I don't recall the name, it's likely long dead.

When whatever movie we wanted to watch failed to play on their computer, likely due to codec problems (it used to be a hassle before VLC) I'd pop the bootable Linux CD in, reboot and bam we were watching the movie. It was great.
I'm having trouble parsing this sentence: are you saying the federal government doesn't want to pay for the line? Or that they won't pay for some version of it?
I wonder how long trace materials will remain hundred or even thousands of years into the future?
> a computer program that had probed the AI systems

Ah, they found an adversarial attack with another program. All neural nets suffer from adversarial attacks.
Ruler inflation most likely.
I don't understand why eliminating wfh would be a cost savings, isn't office real estate expensive and don't companies externalize costs into their remote employees?
It Is Happening Again: Industrial toxicity without industrial employment
My tax return was 20 pages last year, and I expect it to be longer this year because I sold/bought a home. Tax return software does make it easier, but it's still not easy, and there's a good reason that everyone dreads it, even if they just have W-2 information.
I don't want to descend into boomer-bashing, however it is worth acknowledging that the S-team and most senior managers are boomers who bought cheap property that is big enough and close enough to work to raise families. The only chance a lot of young Amazonians have to raise a family is by remote working outside the city. It is quite easy for the S-team and empty nesters to mandate an office return when they are the least impacted by it. Even if the older employees relocated out of the city, they still got to ride the property boom. In contrast this decision forces young people to live (and presumably buy) where property prices have appreciated the fastest.
Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to prevent AI from behaving oddly
Butlerian Jihad coming up?

> We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! (https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad)
I learned a long time ago that I am the worst judge of my own work, technical and artistic. So much so that if I think something I've done is great, I take that as a red flag. It's a sign that I should put it away for a while and reassess once it's grown cold.
Does transatlantic HVDC make sense? Something that connects the US/Canada with mainland Europe through Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the UK/Norway.

Transatlantic HDVC might need actively cooled superconducting transmission lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGrid_(hydrogen)
> Compatible with the language seems like a dead obvious concept to me: something you can do with the current TC39 EcmaScript language.

Most JS frameworks are written in JS. You can run React, Svelte, Vue etc. directly from the browser without a build step.

> Anything you do with JSX isnt compatible with the language. So that makes it worse & significantly different.

So, this is an artificial and absolutely arbitrary line that only looks good because you chose it to be so.

Also, JS world is probably unique among all programming languages with such aversion towards anything even remotely resembling compilation. Which is ironic, given that transpilation (aka converting from non-existent and future syntaxes to existing one) is Javascript's bread and butter.

> The optimizations might not be ahead of time, but the net is

> there's still a lot of room for reusing the same "compiled"/parsed work.

As opposed to what? To compilers/transpilers that can, and do, the same thing? And can do significantly more things like run whole-program optimisations. Or, like Solid, can just remove the need for components in the resulting code.

The world already agreed about 40-50 years ago that programming with strings is a bad idea. And now JS purists are willing to die on this hill (while inventing bizarre justifications and increasingly bizarre DSLs for anything remotely complex, see lit-html).

And of course there's nothing wrong, or "worse" with DSL, or compilation. As evidenced by compiled frameworks being blazingly fast: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table... and
I suspect not. I find that “soft toys” wind up on floors and shelves and are largely trash, but the kids get a kind of hoarder mentality about them.

Storage container facilities are a blight. I suspect many are filled with rotting toys with similar sentimental value.
Fusion 360 is free for personal use. It could probably do this
The free AppCleaner was mentioned by another reader earlier in the thread, and I've been happy with CleanMyMac X.
I did reputation scrubs for recovering alcoholics who couldn't get jobs because of pre-rehab pictures and social media posts. I was a volunteer. I still think I did the right thing.
The benefits of having a better type and form constraint is obvious. But you should remember that offloading computation to the DB, especially one that isn't fully distributed like Postgres. Might bite you later down the line.
Your site works great when permitting only first-party images/css/html. I use Firefox's tracking protection + ublock origin + umatrix. I don't allow first-party JS by default, or any third-party stuff. I spoof the referer. I see JS from plausible.io tries to load.

I wonder how that skewed the requests. Do you have data on that? I'm sure there are some % of HN visitors that do the same. Less likely the case for Elon Musk followers. I don't know how you would get 'time on page' data without JS.
ISO (Independent System Operator) is a term that's been used in the energy industry for a very long time.
They basically got there with Java + some frameworks. It's not the best (I'd like NodeJS), but it works and has a huge ecosystem already, and anyone can use it. Some people complain that Golang is designed specifically for its original use case of specialized web backends and isn't great otherwise, or that its main design goal was being "not C++."
longer commitments are what entrench these patterns. the illness must be allowed to be terminal - we can plant good seeds in fresh ground sooner or wait it out as things get progressively worse and build the pressure of the ending catastrophe ever higher.

An analogue is controlled, regular burns. Look at California - we stopped allowing the dead matter to cull and now we have blazes that take out whole townships.

The only way to break an infinite recursive loop is a crash. That's where we are with money => influence => law => money
Light Field Lab raises $50M to manufacture its SolidLight holographic displays
I wish the Inflation Reduction Act had an eye towards funding TBM ops for these projects, more expensive in the short term but bypasses lease and right of way issues, as well as environmental studies. Climate events are going to be more extreme in the future and labor will only get more expensive due to structural demographics. “Dig Once” at this scale.

You’ve then got a large corridor for future infrastructure as well.
In general, the answer for all people who are ambitious is "yes".

1. Weight biases in hiring and raises.

2. Social biases in friendship formation and retention.

3. More energy when healthy and physically fit, aiding productivity.
"It's slowly being consumed by a thriving undersea ecosystem — and by what scientists suspect is sheer human greed."

I was confused by this statement, how is it being consumed by human greed?

I clicked on the link and it brought me to an article titled "Stop plundering of the Titanic, says expert who found wreck" and said "Russians are selling dives"[1]

How can anyone be diving down to the Titanic and stealing from it? It's 12,500 feet below the ocean's surface. The deepest humans can dive with scuba gear is about 350 feet. Sure, maybe they are taking robots down there, but how many such commercial under water robots exist that can go down to that depth? Aren't these very expensive robots? I doubt these are being used for tourist scavenger hunting trips to the Titanic?

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/stop-plunde...
This appears to be a link to the bill, not to the 'chapter amendment' of the bill?
That is what you would expect. An impression is merely having the tweet show up on your feed , even if you only see it briefly. Whether or not you read or click, etc is secondary.
Heh, guess I'll be picking up some folks exiting amazon at some point in the near future.

Fully remote for the last four years, now running my own company, I refuse to have a corporate office. Most business gets done at bars or in conference centers anyway, most work is done at a laptop and a wifi connection, and paying for the overhead of a space to force people to come into seems ludicrous. I can also recruit across the country, and reach talent that won't otherwise be available to $bigcos.

Seems like a win for me, thanks Andy!
I was a little confused by the article. Which Go program, specifically, was he playing?
not really a big deal for them considering they have the big bucks to buy a nice home 5 min from the office, or you know, pay for a car service to drive them.
Sure, but that doesn't equate to suffering. Presumably there's some deal that Maine would find amendable.

(Besides: Maine is has a heavily forested, virtually unpopulated interior. It's not clear to me that a HVDC line would represent a significant potential usage cost.)
This needs to be a reddit writing prompt. In 2000 years people will say "ChatGPT works in mysterious ways"... waitaminute!

And there'll be Internet-fights (on the Dark Metaverse, because on Zuckverse it's all just fluffy and nice and nothing is allowed other than viewing ads and giving thumbs ups...) because Born-Again-GPTians abused its words to deny rights to subsets of people.
I love Rails and if it was continuing to grow even so slightly it will be my go to for sure. But unfortunately it has been slowly declining for a long time… Many moving to Go, Elixir, Rust, and elsewhere. It was by far the best dev experience with a framework I ever had. The last version still looks great. But realistically unless if you plan to do a rewrite, which is never a good idea, it may not be the best option out there. Even more with having to get people onboard for the next years ahead and the ecosystem too. I am looking for a framework to use and see grow a lot for at least the next 4 years with having hiring in mind.

Spring boot is great but it does have its quirks. Config and plumbing for instance compare to Nest or Rails doesn’t makes it the best and fastest dev experience. And all the Java extra stuff and it’s ecosystem makes it solid but also old compare to what you can see happening in other languages.

I have Quarkus in my mind though. It looks amazing in dev experience with lib like panache, resteasy etc… and performance are amazing too which comes as a bonus. But there is no dev out there. And I feel that in Java people want to work on Spring Boot because spending X years working on Spring Boot are more valuable in their career than X years on something else that is not really the de facto standard of the industry. So ya not great for hiring talented people…

But NestJS with the JS/TS ecosystem start to be very close to what Rails was in the past. Stuff like Prisma for instance makes everything a breeze. There is almost always a package for the thing you want. Great at websocket too. Can do GraphQL if it’s your thing. Same language as the front end, Nextjs, etc. One of the most performant dynamic languages. And interesting things happening like Deno or using Rust with it. So there are quite some perks to it.

Can’t speak about Django though. But I am wondering how is the dev experience like when we use it for real projects.

I am starting a new project/startup and wondering which one to start it with between all these technologies. And after looking for a long time I can see that they really all comes with their pros and cons.
But when you've made something, you see every flaw, every wart, and every little thing that wasn't quite what you were aiming for.

Nobody else sees any of that, because nobody else knows what you were aiming for. It's the curse of creating things.
This is a mini-Chernobyl...these people need help.
There is also Fedora IoT which contrary to the name is kinda like Silverblue server or really an easy CoreOS. Works very well for containers.
I cannot understand the usage of combat planes nowdays: unless in a unbalanced conflict, all combat planes are sitting ducks with modern air-ground missiles. No to mention cruise missiles should be able to do the same if it is the "delivery" some payload somewhere.

It is the same for tanks.

Maybe that's where AI could be "usefull", way more efficient autonomous guidance systems for all those missiles, actually scary efficient.
I'm pretty sure burger buns were being made with sesame seeds 100 years ago, in the same production facility as plain bread. Or at your local bakery. Where did you get the idea that production was "merged" as an optimization?
> Cheaper, more reliable, more efficient, and they have way more features today.

Everything else yes, but more reliable remains to be seen. Cars are way more complex today with tons of more fragile electronics.

That 1998 Corolla I mention above is still going strong, just drove it today. It's a very simple car, so it might well outlast the 2023 model, perhaps.
I can go further in justifying my position if you’d like, but I’d rather not unless you ask me to. I have no interest in explaining why I believe men have a lower life expectancy as a direct result of the system if you’re just going to tell me my points are meaningless again.

To be clear, I never said that men’s issues are in competition with women’s issues. Both genders have their own, unique issues which deserve attention. I only advocated for attention to be drawn to a men’s issue, and noted how (in my opinion) society typically places more weight on women’s issues than men’s issues. I engaged in this “competition” after you said “that the healthcare system prioritises women over men doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny”. And nowhere that I am aware of have I minimized any of the issues that others face.
https://medium.com/@alex.denton.dev/redneck-microservices-44...
isn't the point (of the pile) that you tug on this thing - and it's attached to that, you tug on that... etc - ie: brain associations are more complex than a mesh. I remember tidying up my daughter's room and destroying her ability to find her clothes - she had no place to start...
AppZapper isn't free, but it's much more thorough.
This is a very fun fact because it describes why we see the wavelengths that we do!

Visible light is pretty much just the portion of the EM spectrum that is poorly absorbed by water [0] (and that is also produced by the sun and also poorly absorbed by atmosphere)

If radio worked well in water (where eyes first evolved), then we would just "see" radio waves (except in practice the Sun doesn't make enough of them that reach Earth).

[0] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Chemical/watabs.h...
That's not what social capital is.

A message or email works differently when you have an established relationship with the other party. It's one thing when I have to do something "because the company needs it" but totally different when I'm helping a flesh-and-blood coworker. You don't build relationships and trust through jira tickets and emails, you build them through unstructured messy human interactions. They pay off later.
It's funny, because I am not a religious person, but I still strongly believe in the power of symbols. Recently, at a concert my brother handed me a container of Tic tacs, which he told me were given to him by our mom.

Mom always has gum or mints around, just one of her little things.

I was, shall we say, chemically inclined towards spiritual moments at the time, and so got a pretty big kick out of the "power" of being handed one of Mom's little magic mints.

But there really is _something_ very real to that feeling (despite the fact that it doesn't come through as strongly on the usual blend of neurotransmitters).

It connects to a deep vein of experience between my brother, mom, and me. I can't count the number of times mom handed out a tic tac or a piece of gum during a car ride when I was growing up. It triggers memories, it puts one in a certain state of mind, to have that little talisman that represents in abstract some huge, irreducible set of experiences.

Symbols have power, and it can be a sort of fun and pleasing experience to contemplate the states of mind that a simple tic tac can induce.

Another little connection to Mom recently was the two Valentine's day cards she sent to my kids - which each had a little smiley face drawn inside. And again, I was kinda struck by the depth of that association, because I've seen the little smilies she draws on countless notes and cards throughout my life.

So instead of just tossing those cards after the week is over as per usual, this time I'm going to cut out that little smile and put it on my bulletin board. A little token of Mom's love, worth way more than the ink and paper it's made of.

Also, while I'm in this state of mind, guess I better go give the old lady a call, so I'll stop rambling here.
Correction: "Well-founded fear of opiates"
they would have been
Its not just that its a sunk cost, they need some headquarters, and selling the old one and downsizing is a massive endeavor.
This checks out in my life. Much of my favorite art, especially music, is stuff I flat out disliked when I was first exposed to it. It was only after repeated exposure that I learned what was awesome about it.
Gandi are great, also recommend nearlyfreespeech.net
It doesn't significantly reduce emissions. The numbers often touted for it are rather misleading as they miss how little it can change overall emissions

> What’s more, feeding cattle algae is really only practical where it’s least needed: on feedlots. This is where most cattle are crowded in the final months of their 1.5- to 2-year lives to rapidly put on weight before slaughter. There, algae feed additives can be churned into the cows’ grain and soy feed. But on feedlots, cattle already belch less methane—only 11 percent of their lifetime output

> Unfortunately, adding the algae to diets on the pasture, where it’s most needed, isn’t a feasible option either. Out on grazing lands, it’s difficult to get cows to eat additives because they don’t like the taste of red algae unless it’s diluted into feed. And even if we did find ways to sneak algae in somehow, there’s a good chance their gut microbes would adapt and adjust, bringing their belches’ methane right back to high levels.

> All told, if we accept the most promising claims of the algae boosters, we’re talking about an 80 percent reduction of methane among only 11 percent of all burps—roughly an 8.8 percent reduction total

https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-neutral-cows-algae/
You're not alone. I've even tried to dream up ways to "humanely" vaporize them so they wouldn't suffer being at the bottom of a trash heap with old food and what not dripping on them, their innards squeezed out, which is sure to be their fate if I donate them. And now I see the same illogical attachment tendencies in a couple of my kids. It's a burden.
The flaw worked against both KataGo and LeelaZero.
Maybe they're still negotiating. Article says the UK initially rejected it, then got it cheaper.
there is a vast debris field with objects strewn about from where the ship broke apart in two piece.

the things are laying on the ocean floor, and yes it's costly, but ROV tech to go down there and pick things up does exist.

this place apparently has a bunch of pieces of stuff.

https://www.arnabontempsmuseum.com/the-titanic-museum-in-can...
Bing is like iPhone 1.0 at the first press demo.
Google is Blackberry.
FWIW, AWS is expensive... but mostly for networking and then second to that storage, with the cost for actual computation usually being a pretty small percentage of my overall spend. The only time I have seen computation itself be an interesting expense is when I am looking for some complicated hardware, such as their GPU or FPGA instances. That said, money is money... but it is much easier to figure out fun ways to save storage or bandwidth when the code is a bit more nimble, so I'm not sure I could justify larger teams or slower iteration times just to save on CPU.
I think most web developers just do not understand SQL well enough to take advantage of these types of features (and if they do, they still may be sticking closer to "standard" ANSI SQL, or may just not be up to date on newer features). Unfortunately, lots of web developers don't get past their ORM abstraction into what is occurring behind the scenes and how to make use of the full range of their database's features.
> I like your definition of woke

My kids are grown adults (no grand kids) so I can look at it more objectively perhaps from a conservative parent's point of view. We've been dealing with what to teach our kids for a long time and the issue will never go away. I can remember adults complaining that their kids had to pledge allegiance to God every morning when in elementary schools in the 60's. Then there were battles over sex education when I was in junior high. I was given a failing grade on a paper in High School by a teacher who told me my paper on plate tectonics (a new discovery at the time) was contradicted by The Bible. The conflict will never end as long as we have public schools in America.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

"Woke" is just a shorthand for education in public schools that are liberal interpretations of religious (esp creationism vs evolution), sex and civil rights matters.
I think there’s immediate gratification in this. You feel like you’re making progress towards your goals by planning them out, even if you don’t actually progress. You just add a superfluous step of documentation and complete it. A small industry has formed around this feeling.

I think one can achieve a lot in life with much more rudimentary planning tools, like pen and paper. I am yet to find a situation where that doesn’t get the job done for me personally.
you may /s, but you can be sure thats what the federal government actually think
this has major john henry vibes