skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I _love_ playing around with (and sometimes actually) self-hosting stuff. But email is something that I will HAPPILY pay someone like FastMail or ProtonMail ~$5/mo to handle and avoid myself the hassle. It just works. I can add whatever subdomains/addresses/sending profiles/etc., and I don't ever have to think about data backups, blacklists, spam reputation, or any of the dozen other issues I've heard about since I became aware of how email hosting works in ~2006.

Kudos to those of you in this thread who live the dream, though (really).
> Employers are overwhelmed with large numbers of applicants, most of whom don't meet the requested minimum requirements.

1) I wonder if the problem of being overwhelmed by applicants can be solved in the same way that dating sites work, because they somewhat have a similar issue. Perhaps restrict job seekers from applying to more than X jobs per day or week, like some dating sites do. At the least, this ensures that effort is put into individual applications and people are more selective about applying to jobs they think they have a reasonable chance to get rather than applying to anything they're remotely qualified for and playing a numbers game. Everybody will be applying to fewer jobs and can be more conscientious about the process, improving it for all.

2) And speaking of minimum requirements, in most cases they're not strict absolutes for performing the job. If you're going for some hard-core game developer job and you don't know C++, yeah that might be a big problem. But if you're going for a web-developer job and you haven't used one of 6 Ruby gems they listed in their ad, who gives a fuck? You should still apply because you're experienced enough to know that your general knowledge is in the ballpark of what they're really looking for.
That she was prepared to eloquently argue her case and demonstrate how much metacognition she has is a demonstration she'll probably be resilient to a lot of potentially negative influences in life. I'm less interested in the actual arguments than her thinking process and I would be impressed if my kids showed this level of self awareness.
TBH I'm not a fan of comparing scores on different physical machines. Every pin is different. It is still fun to see scoreboards on local machines or to find the really out-there scores some people put up, but it's not like a video game where everyone is on equal footing.

To me that is part of the appeal of pinball. It is a local, physical, tangible thing.
The answer of why is quite obvious to many people but no longer politically acceptable.

There is a large external pressure for studies to show that there are no differences between men and women while there is also demand for studies that show negative outcomes of women in comparison to men. The same problem happens again and again with these studies in that nothing explains the negative outcomes of women. Except one explanation that is instantly discarded for being socially untenable.

The intersectionalist looks at the studies and declares, "It must be something - let's keep looking!" while the sexist takes a look and nods.

Nobody is going to risk their careers or their funding when they can continue being paid to investigate other avenues of explanation. The suffering of people will continue until a more acceptable explanation is found.

And because I don't wish to speak between the lines: There are psychological and emotional differences between men and women. And, from all the humans I've known at least, women tend to give more of a shit about the opinions of other people than men give a shit about the opinions of other people. While the toxic negativity of social media impacts both genders I would honestly be shocked if it didn't impact women more if for no reason other than because they care more.
If a child is conceived, it is not a usurper, it is the most innocent party involved. When people have sex, they risk conceiving a child. This new human being is created in the woman's body, the place designed to host it. So unlike my hooking up to your bloodstream, the baby's dependence on you is perfectly natural. The two things aren't equivalent. I have no claim to you (plus you probably aren't responsible for my condition - not that the child is dying, nota bene). Besides, can you kill an infant in your home so that you don't have to feed them before foster care can take them?

I support your choice to abstain from sex. I do not support your choice to end the life of your child just so that you don't have to provide for them. To deliberately cause death of an innocent human being is not a right. Unless the child acts with an intention to kill the parent, the parent may not use deadly means against them (Disclaimer: Even in self defense, one must not act with the intention to kill - see the principle of double effect)
Defenestration, what was once medieval is hip again.
If you’re blacklisted, the mail usually doesn’t even reach the spam folder.
People are chunking text, summarizing that, compiling summaries, and then summarizing those.

basically... map reducing.

Currently doing that to summarize ~4k pages of public comments that comprise of ~22 questions.
Nah, it's still like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. You have people turning into blueberries with unknown fate, kids getting stuck in pipes with no way out and now 12,000 going down the garbage chute.

The Oompa Loompas are the sycophants that are still drinking the Kool-Aid.
> I wish they'd just confiscate them and only return them to the parents, or have some sort of phone not allowed without good reason (and revoke it if someone breaks the rules), but they seem averse to that kind of thing.

A lot of parents will throw a fit if schools try to take them away or ban them, and, contrary to public perception in some circles, public schools really hate upsetting parents. It's part of why private schools tend to have a lot more success enforcing phone-related rules or restrictions, since they can just tell a family to pound sand if they don't like it (they all have waiting lists anyway, if you're not some huge donor they don't need to give a shit what you think if it's not in-line with their approach and mission)
Scala doesn't feel "ML" enough imo
I also see a lot more older folks walking around outside not staring at their phones. So while having built up habits without phones isn't a cure all for later ills, I think it can help.
I used to agree, but how do you square that with articles like this: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mayor-eric-adams-nypd-r...

>"In New York City, we've identified 716 individuals, 716 individuals, who are responsible for approximately 30 percent of the shooting incidents since 2021," NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri said.

>10 men have been arrested 485 times since the change in bail law.

Are you sure we're locking up too many people? Or is it that we live in a country with a lot of crime? I don't really know anymore.
If you want to host email on your raspberry at home, your main issue is usually that your IP will be in a known „dial-up“ IP range, that is blocked by all major email providers. And most home internet providers block port 25 too. And you need a fixed IP, it’s a nightmare if your mail server‘s ip ever changes.
That's because you're not thinking of the future when the @ symbol might change.
A safety reflector or other high-visibility clothing is a passive method for sending light back at the driver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_reflector
Well youngsters, let me tell you. When I was your age gravity was faster. Now I don't mean stuff fell faster. Not a bit. It was just that everybody got on with the business at hand. Something pulled on you and you fell down. None of this shilly-shallying we got nowadays. Back then, a whole solar system would collapse down in a week, 10 days tops. But then all the baryons decided we needed "organization" and "processes". Every few billion years some bright spark would come up with a sure-fire way to "avoid all the chaos". So everybody would spend a million years arguing about what was now the best way to fall down. Meanwhile all the dark matter would mill around in confusion, going to meeting after meeting and not getting anything done, before finally giving up and just stop any interaction. 'Cept for gravity, of course. There's always gravity. It's just slower now.
I put a quad-lock on my dashboard and just stick my phone on it. It's right next to my steering wheel. I set the stereo to bluetooth link and everything's actually great.

I think CarPlay and Auto are too much. Outside of navigation and music, what overlap do we have in a car and phone? Just enable bluetooth sending of locations or full-on directions. Bluetooth music already works great.

Eventually we'll have voice agent integration so that stuff nearby (e.g., bluetooth range) gets integrated into the available status/command set of one primary one.

Leave all the fast-moving, upgradable stuff on the phone. Make the car platform stable and you've got the best of both worlds.
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Solana Stores Are Closing
Today we're vertically scaling builders, so multiple builds run on the same large EC2 instance. The instances support processing multiple Docker builds at once, and thanks to BuildKit can even deduplicate work between multiple parallel builds, so like if two simultaneous builds share some steps, it can handle coordinating so those steps run just once.

We have plans to expand to more horizontal scaling with tiered caching, so we can keep the speedups we see today but further increase potential parallelism.
> All passwords are by default stored as salted SHA512 hash (5000 rounds). Attackers will have hard time to crack your passwords.

SHA512 isn't a good choice for this, because it's optimized for fast low-memory computation. Why not use bcrypt or argon2, which are industry-accepted best practices for password hashing?
Borges also followed this point of view. He was allegedly so fussy about rewriting and fixing his writings, he sometimes thought of corrections for second editions, if it was too late because the text was already in print.
For now.

Fundamental setup is worse than the 2000s bubble in many ways (for different reasons). But even a 30% drop would only take us back a few years this time, so there is a nice cushion, yes.

Many still believe the various news pieces about a housing shortage, just as most people in 2005 were totally complacent. Only time will tell, but worth revisiting in 3-4 years
People love self-study materials, but do you really have the time to absorb it? Yeah you could do this stuff every day after work, but then you may not go to the gym, go on that date, etc... Not enough time in the world to go through even a single learning resource people promote.
Probably no one, but plenty of people run services on SBCs
Agreed, except the last bit. My phone should have nothing to do with the UI showing speed or RPM.
Holy shit I didn't expect an answer but yup... There he is.
WU, Fei, 2009. Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-86911-6.
That is not evidence of what GP is talking about.
I think this is right. We see similar phenomenon in Russia and Ukraine. There are flashes of democracy sometimes but then they revert back to what they've always known. In the case of Russia/Ukraine it's the legacy of feudalism + strong ruler syndrome which was coopted by communism and which they still have not emerged from.
> according to a new report from the American Bar Association

Not attacking or defending plea bargains, but it is only natural than an association of lawyers would prefer the lengthiest procedures that give the most billable work to lawyers.
To be fair, you're bringing in the element of physical addiction.
It was very common in Eastern Europe during the Soviet time. For instance it is still referred to as "kompot" (original meaning: a popular type of fruit drink) in Poland. The phenomenon is also generally known as "Polish Heroin"[0].

For this Poppy straws - the whole dried plant with everything but the seeds - are used which are far more richer in opiate alkaloids.

In 1927, a Hungarian successfully chemically extracted opiate alkaloids from just using the crushed capsules [1]. Today 90% of all legally derived morphine is through poppy straw concentrate (PCS) [2].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_heroin

[1]https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bu...

[2]https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_100year...
Most likely there is in nicer schools. There are social groups around swim competitive clubs, ski race teams, hockey teams, ball hockey, summer long duration live in camps etc.

In many ways hanging out with kids who are banned from social media is hanging out with kids from a pretty exclusive club. This is why unless you homeschool it is REALLY worth it to put your kids into school where parents are from a similar group as you are.
That's not at all the same thing. Banks loan you money with the expectation of return (interest). Governments build a country that is conducive to economic activity and take some of that economic activity in taxes to fund its activities.

In one situation a party has taken on risk for the expectation of future profit for itself. In the other a party has invested to stimulate activity beneficial to a larger group.

They might seem superficially similar but I don't think you can compare them that easily.
Yeah, almost all of those prices are lower than in the US....

I think a gallon of milk is about $4.99 or $5.99 (usually ~$1+ higher if we are picking 'organic' (which is a shady subject in-&-of itself)
There's a roguelike cyberpunk game I like to play called Neon Chrome. You play a hacker who can take over the body of an "asset" in a cyberpunk arcology, with the goal of overthrowing the Overseer who rules the arcology.

The plot twist being that with the Overseer disposed of, your character takes his place, and the second playthrough features a NEW "hacker" player character who etc. And so the cycle continues.

Parallels to the history of Google are left as an exercise.
I recently got into astronomy with my kids and it has been particularly eye-opening how severe light pollution is.

It's very strange to be in a relatively dim city (Victoria, BC) and not being able to see things it seems like I should be able to see. I know their apparent size in the sky and that my scope can magnify them enough to physically see them, but not enough light is coming through to out-shine the atmosphere above me.

It's a bit unsettling to imagine how bad it is in large cities. There must be so many things in the sky that people can't see with the naked eye that I take for granted. And yet, there are so many things I can't see either.

The more I learn to appreciate the night sky, the more it saddens me. I'm both eager and a bit anxious to see a truly dark night sky; I'll both become more aware of how bad the pollution really is, yet I'll get to see space even better than before.

I had the same experience with the ocean. Visiting places rich with life, such as protected area which have had plenty of time to recover, reveals just how barren and burdened the ocean is right outside my home. Fewer plants and animals, less diversity, more sediments from industry/runoff/sewage treatment, etc. What a crazy thing to do to such crucial and beautiful things we depend on.
> and despite what Google has become, it absolutely defined tech culture.

I don't think that was a good thing.
That sw does not come from Mercedes, they just buy different devices for what they need from suppliers. The salary offered by one such supplier for a graduate engineer was less than what a construction company was offering to hang dry wall (qualified worker). The construction company was raising a new building for the supplier.
This is my favorite type of humour.
There are very few companies I would trust less with health care data than Amazon.
Ask HN: Redis Queue Hacks and Questions
I have 2 situations I want to ask about. I am currently using redis to process 10's of thousands of jobs a day now. I have been enjoying it and seems to be the right tool for the job for when I started. I have some interesting characteristics though.
Question 1) My jobs are smaller jobs that are part of bigger job. Each job takes 30 seconds and when all related jobs are done, the "master job" is considered complete. I have multiple people who are submitting to the queue. Since they each have 10k jobs each. Its the first 10k jobs from user A that get processed ,then the next 10k jobs from user B get processed. How could I mix the jobs so so that jobs from User A and User B are intermingled so that they both make progress and can review the results in realtime.

Question 2) Sometimes I inspect the smaller job results, and if they are bad, I delete the rest of the jobs. In redis I would need to select all jobs and filter them based off some criteria and then remove them. Im not sure how practical this is.

I have an accompanying database in postgresql. I was thinking about moving the queue to postgresql, but I think not giving the workers db access is safer/easier, but maybe I'm wrong? Another alternative I was thinking is to make a db/redis hybrid where postgresql is watching the redis queue and when the queue gets to under X items, it keeps filling up the queue. That seems like overkill.
I looked it over. If I were starting out today I might try it. I disagree with the usual horde of "ohh there be dragons in there" since I generally do not have blocking issues with deliverability.

Gmail from my gmail to my personal email account the past couple of months can take anywhere from a minute to over an hour, that's been odd. Gmail from my gmail to one of my other gmail's or from Hotmail to my personal or from Yahoo to my personal are all fine.

Delivering from my personal to my gmail has been fast and consistent. It's odd that from my own gmail to my own personal can sometimes be slow the past couple of months.

Other than that though, I've found running my own server to be liberating to have the option. Probably doesn't mean anything any more but I feel good to be able to do it.
The CEO is answerable to the shareholders, who do get paid when the company makes money.
It’s up to us as engineers to maintain relevant skills (I say this as I’m pushing 40 and still spending 5-10 hours a week reading outside of work and picking jobs based on opportunities for new tech stacks).
Totally valid. What's a quad-lock? is that some sort of phone mount?
Thanks for doing that. I suspected those answers were very different than the 8.3, which I'm guessing must have been around the 50th percentile. The way the initial question was asked, it seemed to suggest you had a pretty high probability of all four after 8.3, which isn't true.
> While it may signal some cooling, housing is still substantially less affordable than it was pre-pandemic.

Yes, and in addition, interest rates are higher, so the monthly payment is dramatically higher.
I think you were downvoted (not by me) because your questions, except for the one about strange attractors, are about basic topics in probability theory. So you should probably read a book or take a class. The one about strange attractors is more interesting and maybe not studied enough, but you could look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem for a related example.
I was often told (though I have no idea if it was entirely made up) that the drug tests that WADA/UKAD/whoever were administering to athletes would pick up poppy seeds as heroin. I expect those panels are considerably more comprehensive than an employment drug test though.

This is either true or an incredibly pervasive misconception.
Most hardware companies are not known for good software. They treat software like it's just another line item on the BOM: Like a bolt or a screw. Procure it as cheaply as possible, scoop it into the product on the assembly line, and make sure it passes a few checkboxes and you're done. Unless they see software as a core differentiating product feature that drives purchases, their quality bar is going to be "barely good enough to not cause a product recall".
Exactly. Crashes are just sale season for the very rich.
Cool service!
>I think this only becomes a problem if technology evolves faster than people change.

This is the key distinction. Bandwidth. Humans only have so much of it, and if the rate at which they need to change their careers / find a new line of work exceeds their ramp-up time to become productive in that career / line of work then we can start to expect non-linear behavior from those humans. Maybe that means some sort of mental breakdown.
Indeed, I ought to have mentioned the cost of cache misses post-context switch too. It too is working set size dependent, but the relationship looks different from the cost of TLB misses. However, my understanding is that an inter-task thread switch would also not cause cache invalidation (there's no need; the address space remains the same).
Yep. People seem to forget the pearl clutching in the 90s over boys playing violent video games.

If the media was to be believed, video games were inevitably going to raise a generation of men ready to shoot up schools at the slightest provocation.
Lots of research later, we started finding the men who grew up playing multiplayer video games were more strategic and often made better leaders. The fact that overwatch has guns doesn’t actually matter much in practice. However, the experience of getting a bunch of random people to cooperate is a lifelong skill that carries over into lots of other areas of life.

Most of what I learned about working in teams, I learned from playing world of Warcraft in my early 20s. If you can run a successful raid every week with 40 strangers, working with a team in an office is easy.
Does not seem to allow for domains with AAAA but neither A nor MX. Tut!
Holy shit that's ballsy. In 2 years? There are quite a few of tough courses there. Respect.
You can't use True Scotsman sort of fallacy push back in an adult discussion. It's obvious Stalin's Russia was not proper communism. Lenin was nothing like Stalin. Stalin was still at least a communist, but he was not a good person and was not good for communism. Besides the capitalists in America and all the right wing govts America put in power in its cruel crusade against Communism.

Your argument is a typical one. See this 18 min video for why that isn't necessarily true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkMDb1jJCw
I don't see how this crude remark is responsive to my comment.
I tried reproducing the error and I think I know what happened. There's an instruction to run "go mod tidy" in Go's "go mod init" command but that could be more clear in the instructions on our site. I'll update that. Thanks for letting me know.
Selfie image shows US pilot flying over Chinese 'spy balloon'
Off topic: but [SERIOS QUESTION]

What is the risk of StarLink (SkyNet) being shot down by mefarious terrestrial entities with agendas, and how dow StarLink's "BGP" hadle loss of nodes?

How easy or hard is it to actually shoot any of these things down given they are in LEO -- whats the distance btwn nodes in that orbit, and their speed on period etc...

ASKing for a non military state....