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Ask HN: How to deal with newsletters that refuse to unsubscribe you?
I've been trying to unsubscribe from Railway's (railway.app) mailing list for over a year now with no success. Wondering if HN folks have any advice on dealing with this situation?

What I've tried: (1) clicked on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of their emails (did this numerous times on several emails), (2) logged in and changed my account's email to a fake email from temp-mail.org, (3) deleted my account, and (4) emailed a Railway support engineer who told me last month that they've deleted my account data.

I understand that I could set up a Gmail filter to automatically delete all incoming Railway emails, but I'd like to avoid this approach. I might use Railway in the future and will likely forget about this filter.
Show HN: Find your next house plan
My partner Stig Terrebonne (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stigterrebonne) and I recently launched an online house plan store.

We took a somewhat unusual path to reach this point. Originally, Stig and I partnered to acquire a house plan company, the sale of which was offered through a broker. Unfortunately, the owner wanted too much and most of it at closing, so we were not able to reach an agreement on the price. However, we learned a lot through the experience and sent out about 40 (paper) letters to various house plan companies to reach potential off-market sellers. We had serious conversations with seven of them and made offers to three. Those did not work out, so we are pursuing others.

The industry plays on a basic understanding: building your home is the American Dream and a sign of finally making it. It ties strongly into status and basic human needs. The home industry is cyclical, but the desire for your own home is evergreen. The products (architectural house plans) are digital: designed once and sold multiple times. No inventory, huge market, and competitors come from an architecture background, not technology.

Over time, we gained insights into how people think about buying house plans. We found that of all people who decide to build a custom house, there is a bell curve of customization desire. A few people (<5%) are perfectly happy with the plan they purchase, exactly as it is. On the other extreme, a few people (<5%) don’t even want to think about having a “stock” house plan–they want it completely customized (and usually hire an architect to design it for them). The rest (>90%), however, want either a little bit of customization (e.g. make their bedroom two feet wider), add a room or two (e.g. a three-car garage instead of a two-car garage), or combine aspects/features of multiple houses.

We came up with a slew of ideas around AI-assisted house plan creation to help people design their dream home, starting with

- one house plan they select to modify,

- two or more house plans whose features they want to merge, or

if the customer is one of the <5% who does want to start with a blank slate, the AI assistant would look like the customer inputting a text description of their dream house to be generated from scratch (further down the line).

We are also considering automating the process from plan to permit - banking requirements, auto-filling applications, and AI-assisted replying.

To put them into practice, we decided to first open our own online store and get it to current best practices.

We would love your feedback on:

- (Ethical!) best practices to raise our rank in the search results.

- Feedback on the structure of add-ons and customization services offered (currently spelled out in the FAQ: https://finehomeplans.com/pages/faqs).

- Any experience you have had with designing your own home plan or buying a pre-made plan online.

- Any other advice you may have for us!

With gratitude,
Andrew and Stig
Dude, you really should see a doctor.
Funny that the RTS gender seems to be dyeing again. Starcraft 2 was - is - super popular, but it has been already more than 10 years!

Homeworld 3 is promising, but is far from getting the press it should. C&C died trying to transition to mobile. Total Wars are still very alive though.
Hopefully you can find a single antenna connection and suitably terminate it (instead of just having it unpopulated).

But yeah, no guarantees that this is possible, or terminating all external antenna connectors is sufficient.
Women who have went through the menopause will do HRT for similar reasons that men with low T do TRT.
> and potential compensation

Why would there be a need for compensation. Copyright is only granted in the first place so that more things will (eventually) enter the commons. Rolling back the perversion that is the current copyright terms doesn't need anything to balance it out since the current sitation is already so unbalanced in the other direction.
In .net world, the C# "this" syntax is itself just syntactic sugar over an annotation (attribute in .net parlance): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....
If your nation's currency is so mismanaged that Btc looks like an appealing alternative that says more about your nation's monetary policy than it says about Btc.
> Unfortunately it looks like a few tik-tok kids are going to ruin it for everyone. Same as most good things in life I guess.

What an unhinged comment
K I thought about it.. the distinction definitely doesn't seem meaningless. Or even small.
I did not see a way where you can tell AI “make me a crud app for storing database of my post stamp collection” and it executes that.

It is quite a stretch to say that lay people can effortlessly write application only with AI whatever it is copilot or chatgpt.

You still have to know a lot of things to build simple crud to store data about stamp collection.

LLMs are not changing that.
Doesn't even have to be on a rail crossing. Stopping a car in the middle of an 80mph freeway (whether it's the legal or practical speed limit) would suffice.
This is such a big problem with all the paperwork and annual reapplication that I have to go through related to my housing Discount and ssi and other related things. So much of it is an absolute trial of patience when it doesn't need to be so.
I have a buddy who lives in rural south Texas who saw a couple containers with big fans on the side get dropped off near his town, connect power and set up some sort of liquid cooling lines to a pool. He assumed it was crypto mining, which was the only thing that made much sense to me as well. Interesting to see his on the ground observations as part of the larger story.
What women say they are attracted to, and what they respond positively to IRL, are not the same.

A chiseled look not enough to land someone on its own, but it absolutely will get you a conversation from women who otherwise would not have even talked to you.
Exactly - I don't have a problem with it. It's just very, very dangerous (and sleazy) to give the public and society the impression these results are obtainable with some random diet, over the counter supplement, etc.

Doubly sleazy for those that are selling something claiming it's how they achieved their results. Not unlike the Kardashians selling some juice, make up, or whatever and attributing their appearance to it. The real answer is lighting, all kinds of editing/tuning apps, surgery, extreme and regular dermatological procedures, veneers, etc. It's their job and they employ every single trick in the book possible and then some to achieve these results.

It's incredible how far the standards have moved. I was re-watching Terminator 2 the other day. Looking at Arnold Schwarzenegger in that role his physique is more-or-less the standard for "action heroes" today and needless to say he's essentially a freak of nature (and has openly discussed his steroid use). There have been advancements in sport and exercise training but not nearly enough to make up that difference.

Christian Bale went from a "should be hospitalized" gaunt physique in The Machinist to Batman in a year - that's just not possible without chemical intervention.
Netflix will develop increasingly targeted and tailor-made advertising formats
do both!
How come no one has asked our GPT/AI/LLM “overlords” for a faster FizzBuzz implementation ;-)
Russian 'troll factory' shuts down after exile of Wagner boss
I don’t get the sense that this is what the parent comment is talking about at all.

Not to mention that GPUs already execute in-order (at least any that I’m familiar with). They do have multiple execution pipelines, but instruction fetch/decode is in-order unlike something like a typical modern high performance CPU.
And buying RH by IBM was removing single serious seed of potential hi-quality hardware & software vendor. Hi-quality like in military hw - redundant (double or triple) power lines, multi-socket boards, high IO throughput, etc, etc. This is what RH could be. But few B's just before inflation did the job :>
Hopefully Java is getting value types and primitive types soon-ish.
‘Opportunity costs’–the #1 mindset shift to get out of debt
So.. by that logic we can conclude it didn’t have a built-in economic system?

No, I think think the conclusion is that spam will destroy all open systems.
are polyfills solved just with core-js ( https://vived.io/fascinating-story-of-core-js-frontend-weekl...), or is it because people don't support as many different browser engines these days?
We certainly are, but so is everyone else. To varying degrees.

My own personal opinion is that depending on your particular area of expertise, you will have various levels of resolution of knowledge. We might be in an echo chamber on AI here, but many of us aren’t even real specialists on the subject. So, we fall prey to various cognitive biases [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

Regarding your friend - a few technological revolutions occurred without the general population really knowing anything about how they work. New tools show up, people use them.
Some cars were driven on public roads from this [1] hotel to the Le Mans racetrack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_de_France_(Le_Mans_/_La_...
Didn't realize witnessing a market leader flex their strength and have it backfire so badly would be so cathartic. Wish it would happen to other businesses more often.
Central banks inflate their currencies on purpose to discourage hodling. Short term savings for emergencies are good. But by hodling fiat long term - you are just losing money.

Cryptobros thought that they are smarter than central banks and didn't bother to implement proper monetary policy in the Bitcoin protocol to prevent its volatility.
I'd think it would be hilarious if a 10 minute hack was done to politicians on the subcommittee that endorsed and/or legalized this, as a demonstration why this tech is horrific. Bonus points if every politician who voted for this had it happen for 10m.

Obviously I want nobody hurt. But the boomer and silent generation house and senate have, lets just say, tech comprehension problems. I think a 10 minute demonstration to this issue is enough to get them to reconsider that their ideas are utter shit. Especially so if something inconveniences or otherwise annoys them :)
Two parts. The government & organic size issues. Both contributing xx%.

Any high churn change is difficult to get out at that scale. Now add all corp-fear because you are under lense of all governments. You can't keep the startup mentality with that kind of environment.
Microsoft Adopts OpenInfra Kata Containers Security on Azure
at $DAYJOB we're in the (slow) process of replacing a tool written in Java with its successor tool, which is a web app. the Java tool works great and has reasonably snappy performance. the web app is terribly slow (at least 0.75 jiras), frequently hangs, and is often unusable for simple tasks. it's been miserable enough to make me miss the Java Era.
I have no idea what you are even trying to say here because the underlying idea is so far from mine. Also -- uh, black enslaver? hope I'm reading that wrong
Another place where naming matters, but for slightly different reasons, is on the command line. If you are naming a program that someone is going to spend much of their time running from the command line, it is nice if you put some thought into how the binary is named.

For instance. I've never been able to understand why something like `systemctl` could be so clumsily named. If you have to do sysadmin work, sometimes you will be using the command a lot. If we ignore the fact that I see more and more people typing out entire commands without the use of completion, `systemctl` lacks a short, unique prefix and ends up being quite awkward to type.

On my system `sys` is the prefix for 26 commands, and `system` is the prefix for 24 commands. So I end up having to type 7 keystrokes to type systemctl on my system with completion. Sure, I could alias it, but then I'd have to replicate it everywhere, plus I'd be forming habits that just cause more frustration later.

Another way to fail is to choose a prefix that has bad typing flow. For instance I wrote a program that has the prefix "aq". Try to type it. Awkward, isn't it?

(If you don't think any of this matters, perhaps you shouldn't be the one to pick names for programs that are run on the command line).
I’d be careful with H100 on clouds right now — we ran Onnx & PyTorch payloads an ran into issues that haven’t been addressed yet.

For instance, onnx & PyTorch just died randomly and a few thousand dollars later we figured it was directly caused by incorrect assumptions made in the underlying implementations where the developers almost definitely did not have access to an H100 yet.
How about a different politician talking about steroids: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/arnold-schwarzenegg...
The CGI module is no longer shipped with Perl (as of 5.22)

https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Alternatives
Both, then. Or all?
Sketchy online websites, sketchy online forums, sketchy people in real life who bought there in bulk.

...or you just find an open minded andrologist who gives you TRT.
I can imagine SVN, but I cannot remember it. I erased the memories.
https://www.itrilon.com/ (mentioned in the article, truly a thing of beauty)
Maybe I do not understand this fully, but this sounds like effectively bypassing the licence to do something which wasn't originally intended, or what the contributors or authors didn't agree to.

Does this put other licences at risk? What if someone releases something under a licence, and there is a new version that is less or more permissive, allowing the original author's intention to 'vetoed'?
Same here. It's anecdotal but I have a decent number of colleagues who ended up at Red Hat over the years. For the first year after the acquisition they were excited and saying things like "IBM is going to change its culture to be more like Red Hat". A year or two after, they stopped saying that. And now a lot of them are actively looking to move on because they don't want to work in IBM's culture.
A spiritual successor to the Cluetrain was Hugh McLeod's Hughtrain:

https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-hughtrain-mki...

If you read it in the most cynical possible way, it actually came to fruition in a way the Cluetrain didn't.
you get bad service from these companies for the same reason the government generally provides bad service, they are monopolies with no reason to spend more money to improve
I'm also a bit pissed that in the past 10 (or more) years we still haven't gotten good established components in the browser that do even half of what ExtJS could do (and still does).

We may have some by 2050 thanks to https://open-ui.org

Browsers did pour billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours into a lot of bullshit though :(
Do the emails always come from a generic email address or a specific newsletter email address?
Government rationing restricts us to one spoken "awesome" per year, using "amazing" twice and "exciting" five times, though children get double until their 13th birthday.

Local government officials, BBC Radio 4 presenters and the nobility often sell or donate their ration to youth workers and minor celebrities.
I have talked about it with non it people and they knew about it.

Plenty of them.

And I showed it to a few and they were immediately impressed by it.

I also overheard people talking about it on the street.

So in my opinion: no.

And chatgpt has over 100 million users. People can use it in bing every day.

Adobe added it to their products too.

People already benefit from ai.

My company is also working on introducing more features it's just the time required to do it.
> high-performance code was “work on structs of arrays, not arrays of structs”

Wikipedia's article "Array of Structure (AoS) and Structure of Arrays (SoA)" explains the trade off between performance (SoA) and intuitiveness/lang support (AoS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA

They also get into software support for SoA, including data frames as implemented by R, Python's Panda's package, and Julia's DataFrames.jl package which allows you to access SoA like AoS.
Testosterone supplementation is very unlikely to be causative for what you're running into. Test is incredibly mild in psychological effect (unless you're deficient). This kind of stereotype comes from trenbolone, but I think you shouldn't under-estimate the intersection of steroid users and cocaine users. It's bigger than you might intuitively guess.
> It's just very, very dangerous (and sleazy) to give the public and society the impression these results are obtainable with some random diet, over the counter supplement, etc.

Unfortunately it's also risky for them to tell the truth ("I achieved this with some sketchy prescriptions of otherwise-illegal drugs")
Self driving cars have been only a few years out for how long now? So much money has been dumped into them and it’s not unreasonable to imagine that they may never be “good enough”.

Frankly with higher interest rates and reduced investment, it’s easier to imagine research being scaled back than true self driving cars becoming generally available.
Sorry, how does flossing impact?
Daily Software Experiments with GPT-4
> It turned around and then kept coming back to the road block, basically looping forever. Had to have an engineer intervene.

How does one tell the robot car to pull over, I'm done and getting out here? Can you open the door and jump out if need be?
if Europe finally teeters over into full far-right populism

I don't think the USA is in any position to throw stones about far-right populism.
Thanks. I admit I haven't often used Moose et al., or any Perl OO system, except in a project that was set up by someone else in which I only occasionally added a method.
Would your question change if the tutor was a person? How do you know if anything anyone teaches you is correct?
Humans are not generally intelligent.
That's not bikeshedding. Bikeshedding is focusing on an unimportant but familiar aspect of a complex project specifically because one lacks the technical knowledge to discuss the important parts. Bikeshedding might involve nitpicking, but it doesn't have to, and one can nitpick without bikeshedding. Maybe a code reviewer is genuinely so inept they can't understand anything more complex than naming standards, but far more likely they're just a bit neurotic with regards to following standards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LInDo1A0J4I
Edit: deleted. This topic is too muddled.
I'd argue this is a Wallet usability fail, not related to the OV Chipkaart system. The Wallet app should be smart enough to not present a payment card when a QR code is shown on screen. I think it actually doesn't do that when you add the QR code to the Wallet and use it from there instead, but if you end up using it from a different app, then, eh...
I feel like most content generation has been going toward lowest common denominator for a while.
Douglas McGregor, the creator of these theories, had an interesting biography.

> He chose instead to pursue a psychology degree at what is now Wayne State University in Detroit. After two years, he married, dropped out of college, and worked as a gas station attendant in Buffalo, New York. By 1930 he had risen to the rank of regional gas station manager.

> McGregor decided to resume his studies while also working part-time. He completed a B.A. in 1932 from Wayne State University.

> Soon after graduation, he entered Harvard University where he studied for three years, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology.
>Unlike solar or wind, hygroelectric generators could work day and night, indoors and out, and in many places.
See https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madnes...
>>It’s unethical to use a person’s name to publish a study or charge for co-authorship.

Maybe I am alone on this, but is "collaborating" on topics one has little to no in-depth knowledge in and essentially just checking the language/graphics significantly less unethical?

Being a co-author in-itself can be viewed as a thing of value, even if one does not receive monetary compensation.
Same situation.

Had to choose a test for an interview. Some UI required.

Ended up using Blazor Server, got it done..
nah, this isn't correct. The NHS very very rarely prescribes TRT, certainly not as a matter of course.
If they kept it at some point it would have been worth more than Xerox.
Oh I get the aging part but it just seems so much easier to fix/maintain compared to aging in other tissues. It's like evolution should have gotten that right.
there's a "Pull Over" button on the front seat and back seat screens
If the applicant pipeline does not match such an idealized distribution and you attempt to fix it at this stage, would "the smartest and most capable Americans" still apply to the admitted cohort?
> It's clearly a reaction to the civil war in the RedHat world.

The date of the announcement is January 2022 so it can't be that.
Completely ignoring that they they also mentioned SF?
I feel like it's hard to get how important fast acceleration is until you have it. Kind of like people who insist that their 60Hz screen "looks just as good", or how their 10 year old laptop is "still super fast and why would I upgrade it?".

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not necessarily talking about Plaid levels of acceleration. But just going from a Suburu Crosstrek (One of my cars) to a Tesla in "chill" mode (which I usually keep my Tesla in for tire longevity and not making my wife car sick) feels so much safer.
Apple scales back Vision Pro production plans on design challenges
I'm merely asking, would it be possible
Yeah, absolutely

E.g. doordash drivers are clearly X, and engineering teams are usually Y
Sadly, I think Matrix's bridge onto Libera might soon be curtailed - they've not been good neighbors for some time and it's eroding the usability of IRC for IRC natives. https://libera.chat/news/matrix-irc-bridge-updates
for anyone else not able to get past the paywall:

from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little".

for thinking increasing DE&I at work is a good thing, only 47% of white people agreed while 78%, 72%, 65% (Black, Asian, Hispanic) thought so.
Only if you think that comparing a trans man who wants to take testosterone to feel more like a man to a biological male who wants to take testosterone to feel more like a man is silly or deceptive.
> "it's crucial to remember"

> "I'm a language model, so I can't..."

You won't catch the clever students who programmically remove these (e.g. using Langchain).
> actually, a middleman wholesaler of power that they purchase from the actual generators, due to our deregulated electrical market structure

Every state and most (all?) of the EU uses the same "deregulated electrical market structure" that separates electrical utilities from power generators.
Many specs of the Permaweb are built around tags, they allow annotations of any upload.

https://specs.arweave.dev

Since code is also just an asset on the Permaweb, you can even define renderers, so every file comes with a web app that can open it.