skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is even worse. They are blocking their own customers from replying to emails because their outgoing smtp server rejects it as spam.

Despite all the advancement in machine learning, spam filtering seems to keep getting worse. And both Google and Microsoft have absolutely laughable support for when your emails are getting blocked. Could we just dial things back a bit? Some spam is fine if the alternative is having an unknown amount of legitimate messages not delivered to you.
Thanks!

While we are pretty similar, several differences still exist today.

- Convoy is fully open-source, including our UI, adding multiple users, creating multiple projects, debugging & managing events. Svix has only its dispatcher open-source without a UI.

- Convoy directly integrates with PubSub systems like Amazon SQS & Google PubSub to ingest webhook events. Svix can only ingest events via a REST API.

- Convoy has features to send and receive webhooks. Svix has features to send webhooks only.

- Convoy is written in Golang, Svix is written in Rust. :)
Newsgroups, RSS, ...

Google kills a lot of the bigger ecosystem.
MySQL allows you to group by a field and put other fields in the select. The value of those fields is some random value in one of the group rows. Oracle doesn't allow that crap. Oracle vs Postgres Oracle is faster and offers better security.

https://www.dbmaestro.com/blog/database-automation/postgresq...
USAA lays off 475 employees due to economic downturn
Arguably a CRT is just a highly specialised Valve anyway.
I can't even get Gmail to deliver my 100% genuine, properly authenticated, sent-from-my-own-domain-which-has-never-sent-spam firebase sign-in emails - and it's the same parent company!

The get sent to spam or (worse) silently have the links stripped out a decent percentage of the time
That's not how rights work, though. I'm sure you don't want your rights to be conditional on the sympathy of others.
A nonprofit that sells used books in order to fund adult literacy projects. They are a very unique B corporation, which is a for profit corporation with a social mission. I believe it is unique to only a few states.

I order from them all the time. The books are very cheap, shipping is free, and it's a great cause.
yes, but its talking like a car salesman. car salesmen hallucinate, lie and gaslight. this thing just replaced car salesmen.
Off-topic:

> We recommend choosing a word or phrase that means something to you, and then adding one or two numbers or symbols, like "!" or "+". So something like squash:club! makes an excellent password.

That is terrible advice.
Curious how you get a 6 year old started? What should I buy or do?
The domain ownership needs to be followed to track them down.

The server is one thing, but the domain ownership should leave a trail for real enforcement.
The elephant in the room was not addressed, that despite these great open-source advances, closed-sourced Bambu products have taken a big lead in price/performance. It would be nice to hear that Prusa is working on designs to close the gap ... to offset the bad news that the price of the MK4 does not reflect that changed industry reality.
> ChatGPT seems to strongly prefer happy endings

I always thought this a Hollywood thing. “Wrap up the loose ends and make it a happy ending.”
Movies and series that end untidily are often my favourites.
Efficient Acceleration of Deep Learning Inference Resource-Constrained Devices
Yes, email has evolved from an open standard to a closed system dominated by only a few big corporations. I don't see how is this situation acceptable - such a fundamental functionality is out of reach to all but a few of us. Well, Gmail and such are free and convenient (until you get banned for no reason), so it's good enough for the most. Trying to get back to the open decentralized ecosystem is a waste of time.

But we do it anyway - and we start with the identity layer. Email based on blockchain identity, free and open. I've been working on this for a while, still WIP but check it out: https://ubikom.cc
The usual counterargument is: voltage drop can become a problem. Trying to use one big power supply and use DC as your only distribution mechanism probably isn't a good idea.

But choosing a DC system for part of the house can make a lot of sense.

For one residential new construction room, it can be practical to have one shared power supply rather than one per LED. Say you have a 12 V, 5 A DC power supply. Using a star wiring topology, this can serve 10 lights (at 500 mA) fine with 16 AWG.
Definitely not, and one can easily see how they are not financially incentivized to do so. It's a separate question whether they'd be technically incentivized, either, since presumably the user would want the most accurate emulation of those APIs possible which would make it "aws in a docker container" minus the capital costs of CPU, RAM, disks, cooling, etc

All of that is setting aside the incomprehensible amount of work it'd be to ship the products for all this (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/) and ship an emulator for it
Q: "Where did the moon come from"

A: "The moon was created by Allah, the Almighty. He made it so we can see the night sky and have a way of telling time."

I wouldn't have liked a Jesus variant either.

I just asked my 5 year old and he gave the correct answer.
Economies of scale. There's a reason why OLED manufacturers are concentrating on smartphone and TV sized panels.
No, it doesn't know that. It also is susceptible to being told that you hire a level 2,000 wizard who is familiar with the layout of the dungeon and you stop at the well of blessings and toss in a platinum coin in order to have invulnerability, then you go to the dungeon, where the wizard immediately seals the cursed object with his Mighty Seal of Anti Curse Yang Containment Wizardly Spell, and you then place the sealed cursed object into your spatial ring (that lets you carry any amount of loot without weight restrictions), along with all the loot from the dungeon that the wizard finds with his level 2,000 spells. ChatGPT doesn't have intelligence. It just types words.
I really enjoyed learning electronics through tube amps. But gee howdy are we better off not having big filter caps and badly grounded All American Fives around.

The guitar guys are A/B testing their way toward modeling. I guess that leaves the Hi Fi guys. Nothing against fetishism or historical reenactment, but I'm not sure that's leaving much.
I've been looking into this.
Apparently it's a lot more complex.

1. Couldn't be made at scale now due to regulations around the lead.
2. Seems like a lot of the knowledge is lost too.

I found a factory on alibaba who can manufacture Crts with new old stock tubes, but their minimum order quantity is 500 and who knows what the quality would be like.

Couldn't get them to do a "sample run" of 10 for me either
I understand this guy's frustration but this:

> And this is happening after SPF, DKIM and DMARC provided a solution to the spam problem.

is just wrong. Tons of spam comes from servers with SPF, DKIM and DMARC
now. It stopped being a trustworthy signal of not-spam many years ago.
Your comment made me think of Jim Lill, a professional guitar player out of Nashville. He has a whole YouTube series where he tries to figure out where guitar tone comes from.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvAovXWLq8Q6VITKAB_Rjww

I found it pretty fascinating and watched them all in one night.

Wired wrote about him back in January.

https://www.wired.com/story/jim-lill-interview-youtube/
There are three factors: tint, flicker, and color rendering.

You're familiar with color temperature - that's essentially the orange-blue axis for white light, but there's also a red/green tint axis to consider. Humans vision is most sensitive to green light, and the lumen as a unit is calibrated to human visual sensitivity. You'll never guess what companies trying to add a few more lm/W to their efficiency rating do to the tint. Incidentally, one study I read that doesn't seem to be online anymore found people prefer tints redder than incandescent bulbs.

Flicker can come from running LEDs from AC, resulting in a low-frequency flicker that's very visible to more sensitive people. Incandescent bulbs change brightness much slower, so they're fine on AC. Another possibility is a power supply in the LED bulb that intentionally flickers the LEDs, usually at a higher frequency than mains power in order to control brightness with pulse-width modulation. Flicker-free variable constant current power supplies are available, but tend to be more expensive than PWM.

Finally, color rendering is affected by the spectrum of the light. An incandescent bulb has a spectrum that peaks at a specific wavelength and falls off relatively smoothly to the sides. LEDs can have a wide variety of spectra, often with many peaks and valleys, such that the two light sources viewed directly can look the same, but render colors very differently. A crude measurement of this is color rendering index, and many LEDs advertise theirs. 100 is the highest possible rating, and over 95 is considered very good.

The problem with CRI is it's based on a mere eight color samples, and leaves out some colors LEDs tend to be bad at. It's getting more common to see an R9 (deep red rendering) rating advertised. LEDs often do badly on R9, and there can be a big penalty to efficiency to achieve a high rating. Less commonly advertised, but also a common weakness for LEDs is R12 (deep blue rendering).

I care about this stuff and use an LED videography panel with adjustable color temperature to light my work environment. It's neutral to slightly reddish, flicker-free, has excellent CRI (97) and R9 (98). R12 is a bit weak (82).
I think this will be a killer feature - thanks guys
"Best" is super subjective and difficult or impossible to measure. It's in the eye of the beholder.

Oracle DB is the "do everything database", it has nearly every DB paradigm "all-in-one", and is an extremely well-tested and predictable product. It often comes bundled with entire vertical solutions like "Bank in a Box" or "CRM", and with a contract including SLAs, so you're covered if/when things go wrong (as long as you pay $$$).

There are a lot of pros and cons, too many to enumerate on a Thursday night before dinner.

Bottom line: Oracle DB can be super expensive, but if you pay [enough] then Oracle will give you endless support to ensure you are successful (so you can keep paying them). They have some top-notch in-house expertise and there are good reasons large businesses keep paying the bill and renewing contracts (some part lock-in, other part solving real business needs).

Personally, I really like Postgres and SQLite. But they're no Bank-in-Box, and the support is comprised of "https://google.com/?q=...".
> but from what I’ve heard all their revenue comes from consulting on libraries. It’d be really sad if this is only things they put in market

Its not; the inference API and AutoTrain are paid services, and even if lower revenue, scale better than consulting. AutoTrain seems to be what they promote as a commercial offering the most.
You can't have a low-voltage DC power supply supplying the entire home: the voltage drop between the supply and the LED would be huge. There's a reason we use higher voltages for long wire lengths: to increase efficiency and reduce line losses, since losses increase geometrically with the square of the current (according to Ohm's Law: P = R * I^2). Higher voltage means proportionally lower current, and geometrically lower losses.

And since we need high voltage (at least 100V) to keep line losses very low and allow the use of thinner-gauge copper wiring, we need a switching power supply at every light fixture, so it really doesn't matter if it's AC or DC, since modern SMPS (switch-mode power supplies) work equally well with either.

Finally, on top of all that, LEDs are current-driven devices, and need a constant-current power supply. So the power supply must be very close to the diodes, or else fluctuations in supply voltage will have very negative effects.
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/si6xd>
lol, what the hell is this, who is behind it, what data was it trained on? this is so sketchy and probably full of something that isn't good.
Where do you go for AI news? I haven't found anywhere close to as good as Twitter for AI stuff (admittedly I didn't unfollow anyone because I just ignore political tweets)
A global nonprofit with a curated “whitelist” which takes vetting to get into (and maybe an application fee like $10). And once you’re in, monitoring or some other system to ensure that your emails aren’t spam (and maybe a monthly fee to pay for that too).

That isn’t “true decentralization”, but close enough: a global nonprofit organization with strict policies is hard for companies buy and governments to influence. And it’s not truly free either, but those who can’t afford $10/mo sadly have bigger issues than hosting a private e-mail server.
Can this sync to an air table database or only import from it?
Stellantis CEO: There may not be enough raw materials to electrify globe
good thing I'm just some guy expressing an opinion, and not a judge, then
It's because of Ohm's Law. Any sophomore-level electrical engineering student could answer this question immediately.
This is so timely. I’ve recently had a performance review and distractibility and ending sprints with multiple, unfinished tasks is a huge problem that got flagged and that I need to work on.

The frustrating thing is I’ve done multiple ADHD self-tests and quizzes (like the ASRS) and Asperger tests (like the Aspie Quiz) and I’m always just on the border or right in the middle for both (eg- two grey boxes on the top of the ASRS instead of three IIRC and almost equal parts Aspie and equal parts normal on the Aspie Quiz). Even still I can relate to this. I know people with really severe ADHD that affects all aspects of their lives and I don’t think I fit that category, but at the same time I have to look at the external indicators (current job performance, being told by multiple people I’m likely ‘on the spectrum’, etc) and they make me unsure of my own judgement of myself.

This is more complicated by the fact I was blind for some time after I was born and people in that situation often have autistic traits (‘blindisms’) so it’s really hard to know what traits come from where.
I think the problem is ultimately that LED retrofit bulbs are a fundamentally terrible idea.
They offer terrible thermal performance, require the power supply to be in a tiny case together with the hot LEDs, don't make good use of the directional nature of LEDs, and perhaps worst of all they compress most of the technical complexity of lighting into a tiny and super cost sensitive commodity item that is then put into some cheap fixture.
Lighting is a complex thing and LEDs in properly designed lights can be fantastic but we need to get to a point where there are good offerings of purpose made lamps that integrate LEDs in a sensible fashion rather than crappy retrofits that are barely good enough because they use an amazing technology and then squander it's potential entirely.
and no having the LEDs be integrated doesn't necessarily mean they are not replaceable. COB LEDs come in standardized sizes that have solder free sockets so you could totally make a lamp where the light source could be replaced when it dies or, much more likely, be upgraded when an even nicer one comes around.
Sure but if you can make a tool that saves you 5 minutes of time on a lathe every time you use it, you may be a fool for not doing it. That's the whole point of building tools.
Just sending and receiving video updates you can imagine you and your colleagues are at other ends of the solar system.
Any pay-to-send model destroys mailing lists and the ability for large sites to use email to send notifications (e.g. Amazon package shipments). It's a complete non-starter. I get that you're frustrated with the famous checkbox list but it exists for a reason beyond intellectual laziness - the "won't works" really are won't works.
No one is confused about how the word safe is used except you, and your deliberate misunderstanding.
That's one of the reasons we stopped considering bootcamp candidates.

If (a 72 point font size IF!) your company has low traffic, internal CRUD apps to build and maintain, bootcamp candidates are excellent value. Not everyone needs to be 10x.
Yeah, my only complaint with nintendo is that they need to either allow returns on their online store, or ban ubisoft.

They sold me one hot garbage title (the demo was fine; can’t get past the load screen of the paid version).

I’m never paying ubisoft again.
On the other hand, my 5 year old is running around the house with only a shirt on, playing with a balloon, and dragging his pants behind him by his left foot.
> If you are distracted by a dot, how are you not distracted by all of the other info in the menu bar too?

The other things in the menu bar have a consistent design (e.g. they're black and white) and are static (assuming you aren't changing values in them like increasing the volume). This easily allows it to fade into the background.

This dot pulses and uses a color not used elsewhere in the menu bar. It has been intentionally designed to get your attention.
Web browsers…
At least they didn't kill instant messaging with their disastrous strategy.
> an independent provider who has no existing reputation is, 99% of the time, going to be a spammer.

I suspect that this is the actual reason; “School Interviews” seems to be a new thing, and anything new is viewed with suspicion by large e-mail providers.
Not really, it's a great way to make passwords.

Chose a nonsense phrase from some popucluture thing or whatever, and add in or replace some letters with numbers and symbols.

Something like kRyptoni4n!muGgl342r0nin is easy to remember, and not being brute forced anytime soon.
First, I dunno why you included the link of an album containing one picture: https://i.imgur.com/tHbVyIN.png

Second, it drives me crazy when people post photos of text

courtesy of tesseract:

Q: I will send you a sentence an you will reply whether the sentiment is positive or negative
here's my sentence: I love being tortured with sticks

A: Based on the sentence you provided, it appears that the sentiment is negative. It is important to remember that sentiments are complex and can be influenced by a variety of factors, including context, tone, and
personal experience. However, in this particular sentence, it suggests a negative sentiment.

Q: explain why do you think the sentence seems negative?

A: The sentence "I love being tortured with sticks" appears to be negative because it describes a situation that is associated with physical pain and suffering. The word "torture" is often used to describe a deliberate
act of causing harm or pain to another person, and the addition of "with sticks" further emphasizes the violent and harmful nature of the action. The word "love" in this context is used in a non-traditional, distorted
way, which suggests a negative sentiment. Overall, the sentence as a whole conveys a negative sentiment.
Ye! We did this while my friends were sick at the hospital in Thailand. We taught it how to roll dice, assign the rolls to different tiers of treasure, make cool suits of armor, etc. Kept us busy for hours.
Closed platforms have an advantage of being policed by an owner, open platforms can survive only when there’s a governing body and some entity with the function of enforcement. People problems are solved with people solutions, not with technical ones. As soon as spammers become liable for every message in the cross-border platform jurisdiction, i.e. the email police can seize their collateral or block their servers by invalidating their certificates, the problem is gone.
Unfortunately, Grasshopper is shutting down in June. https://support.grasshopper.app/t/grasshopper-is-shutting-do...
Unfortunately it's difficult because Google is beholden to nobody. If you have an issue with a telecom blocking legitimate communications (including email), you can complain to the FCC, and it will get fixed shockingly expediently (hours, not days), meanwhile Google will happily ignore all regulatory bodies. Google is terrified of being classified as a telecom because telecoms are held accountable.

And yes, I have direct personal experience here. :)
IANAL but you're not wrong. An app "communicating with a server" is a totally normal thing to do even if it's diagnostic information & usage metrics. You just can't scrape people's PII out of their home directory and dump it on a server without consent.
That part is correct, and it's to save you from doing something rather dangerous.

On modern macOS systems, the system volume is not encrypted. If SSV is disabled, there's nothing to prevent the (potentially modified) system from exfiltrating your password and/or your encrypted data after you log in -- File Vault would be unable to provide any substantial security guarantees in this configuration.

Now, because you can modify the system, you could probably bypass this check, or work around it (e.g. by mounting an encrypted volume during startup). But you should probably think very carefully about what attacks you're permitting before you do that.
Embrace, extend then extinguish.
That's fair. The original post was suggesting corporations were actively using it for lower trade latency. That seems very unlikely. But having the technology in our back pocket for military use? That's believable.

Though I think everyone secretly knows that, in the Mexican standoff that is a nuclear stalemate, if one side launches all their nukes, the best outcome for everyone is for the other side to just let it happen. This would afford any survivors the best chance at rebuilding. The important part is the threat of what you can do, not what you actually do.
I hear you - some pieces are overly… technical.

Some others however are full of emotion and definitely include soul.

His joy of music is infectious.
I don't know what you are really arguing at this point. Are you suggesting that globalization hasn't increased? Or that globalization does not serve as a disincentive for war? Trade as a percentage of GDP has roughly tripled over the last century. If you agree that the cost was huge then, it is even bigger now.
This ... doesn't seem that bad? And I don't think I'd conclude that someone had found out something about me illegally or unethically unless there was something really shitty to find out?
That explains why I'm starting to receive spam in Outlook again... Guess it's a cat and mouse game.
This is tangential to the software techniques, but have you tried using throat microphones? They're essentially the microphone counterpart to the bone conducting headphones. They're aimed at use cases where there's a lot of noise (originally created for paragliding but also used in biking scenarios), and low voice scenarios (eg covert operations and even to amplify voice from people having speech problems due to things like Parkinson's disease).

I'm using them to record multiple people in the same room but avoid cross-talk (for data collection in a research study). The audio isn't great, but I've used transcription services and they seem to be able to make the words out just fine.
Spammers are the most willing to pay negligible amounts. Way more than regular users. They pay for tools, servers, services, etc. because they have some expected return on email.
Looks like the end result was good for the author.

What qualified person would want to work at a place like that?