skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got done switching from gmail to fastmail, and it solves this problem beautifully with a nifty feature allowing me to create a new proxy (“masked”) email address for every website but have the mail show up in my mail address. There’s a limit, but it’s like 600+ or something. So when the email gets sold and I start getting spammed, I can easy kill it, and also know who the culprit was.

This one is paid, but I’m at the point where $140 for 3 years “standard” package is fine by me. Not to mention I can actually call someone if I have a problem, instead of getting blocked by google for no particular reason without any recourse. I don’t have a huge social media following that can get me special treatment.

There may possibly be free options that allow you to proxy/mask emails, but I’ve not explored that.

Another useful service is privacy.com, which in a similar manner let’s me create proxy virtual payment cards, setting limits and redacting cards. This kills the possibility of a malicious business like a telecom still charging me for something and having the bank still allow it to go through when they shouldn’t. Now my credit union is pretty good so far, but there are a lot of banks that will happily fuck someone over without a care.

It’s nice having no mean _No_
Is this somehow incorrect?

Getting "stuck" in a magnetic field is called "Flux pinning", which is what we're seeing here, from what I understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning

Magnetic material can't do this. They're attracted. As some of the videos have shown, with large magnets placed next to the samples, they are not attracted.
I did that, and I got a display on my PC, but... then what? It's just a black window with nothing else.
Not sure what example you are referring to. I see meshes and some built-in geometries.

On closer inspection they do support subdivision surfaces! Just not the usual NURBs. So you could probably use this for professional modelling it just won’t be compatible with the industry standard software.
Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) Abuse in Azure Ad
Unfortunately most of the websites willing to engage in this are already aware that this is a user-hostile pattern.
Having a command line option to enable metrics for that run (with the default being off, of course) is a good solution.
> Basically I think this is the right approach. Drug use at low levels in endemic. I don't think it makes sense for huge swathes of otherwise law abiding citizens to be technically criminals.

While I do agree that prohibition is probably not the answer, calling the Portuguese policy a "success" kind of misses the forest for the trees[1]. The most obvious problem is funding (which Porto is running out of): life-long support for a drug addict is going to be significantly more expensive than throwing them in jail for a few years. Not to mention that the latter is also more popular with voters.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/once-hailed-for-decrimi...
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Ask HN: Experiences with Flashcards and Learning?
I've been experimenting with Anki and others tools for learning. I wonder how others might be using a flashcard system.

Do you use them as part of your learning strategy?
What subjects or skills are you using them to learn?
> @Cloudflare Registrar just quietly rolled out support for the following TLDs:

.app
.boo
.channel
.dad
.day
.dev
.esq
.foo
.how
.mov
.new
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Well, exactly. While there is a way of getting some of the stored energy as an controlled power, most of the failure modes of such a thing leads to uncontrolled release of the stored energy, manifested by the whole thing just somewhat instantaneously turning into very hot gas.
Be willing to take a pay cut.
I think it's more that the compile was unconstrained, so no floorplanning or handholding synthesis anything (aside from the usual bullshit to e.g. make sure DSPs map correctly). Which is pretty good; yeah, the architecture is also good and you'd expect that at minimum from a team like this, but they also didn't have to beat the tool into submission either which seems nice.

IME, until fairly recently at least, Quartus loved to get fiddly on even the most basic designs when using Stratix class parts where you wanted to rely on, say, hyper-registers or retiming. Like a thing that should clearly be pipelined just... doesn't, and falls over from a gust of wind. It seems to have gotten quite a bit better in the last few versions, though, so seeing an unconstrained compile go this high is pretty good I think. Too bad they don't seem to have released their code, though.
The US has long had permissive immigration policy relative to Europe and that is absolutely one of the largest factors in America's dominance in industry and that immigration policy is a product of attitude towards immigrants. This is true historically - explaining dominance in the 20th century - and in modern tech, capital flows to where it can most effectively leverage high-skilled technical labor and that was the almost exclusively the United States until very recently.
This was a great read, I really enjoyed it.

And I tried to use the ETW API in the past and had a similar kind of wtf, I am not touching this feeling and decided to just not profile what I was profiling.

At that time no MSDN documentation made sense and there weren't any blog posts explaining the proper usage.

I suspect this post has just become the definitive documentation for ETW.
Simple Logger Written in C++11
2001, when websites actually had design.
>You're delusional if you think the homeless problem is a bunch of software engineers who tried heroin once, and left FAANG to get high every day.

Replace heroin with meth and FAANG with MS and I can definitely state it’s happened in Portland at least
I have two minds on this:

1) I'm kind of against nanny state stuff.

2) From looking around, and seeing the state of things - a lot of people are going to turn to drugs. So people passing these laws... kindof have blood on their hands?

All that said, I'm getting older and realizing something that I don't think young people like to admit or thing about: not everyone is fit to live on this planet. There is only so much resource you can pass out but at a certain point there's not much to do for people just screaming into the wind 19 hours of the day.

We have a society, we can't just turn that off so everyone feels special.
> Problem is that the devtools are not available due to the repeated abuse of the debugger and console clear commands.

What methods do they use to detect debugging tools and how do we defeat them?
I don’t think this is the physically-based rendering thing from Flutter.
"based on the successful policy in Portugal"

How are you defining successful? The linked article links to a recent wapo article from last week "Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts". I don't know one way or the other, I'm just trying to collect more data points. Didn't Vancouver BC try something similar?

(Seems a little odd that this Atlantic article, the Wapo article questioning Portugal's policy, and yesterday's Times article about weed addiction have all appeared in a week's span. Since none of them seems triggered by an external reporting event.)
"I'm rubber and you're glue, it's harder to make an argument that saying it's just about you."
This looks like a great editor. Just a heads up over the name of the project. I've released a browser extension for navigating browser tabs named Tip Tab about 5 years ago [1]. Unfortunately its name is only one letter part from the Tip Tap document editor. Just a clarification to avoid the confusion between the two. Cheers.

[1] https://github.com/williamw520/tiptab
Two large monitors or projectors with Mac mini.
I dislike this as well. If I really want to see whatever the sign-up is blocking, I try temp-mail.org. Haven't had any issues with temp-mail yet but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
>The ramifications of the inflection point we are currently at is mind boggling.

No joshing, I just got done posting this on facebook: "If this is practical it will change the world like the transistor; maybe more."
> The US has had a heavy hand in this situation for a decade. You can argue that it's the right thing to do, but it's not like the US just got involved once Russia invaded.

It’s worth remembering that this war actually started close to a decade ago and not in 2022.

Based on that it does sound like the US got involved around the time Russia invaded.
Tinypng consistently creates better looking jpg and ping files than the Photoshop’s exporting algorithm- at the same filesize.

I have optimage and imageoptim on MacOS too and they are good enough at this point.
Alcohol has been with us for millennia, with cultural references going back to Homer. It is deeply embedded in our social fabric. Perhaps at some point it would be banished like tobacco is now. But it makes little sense introducing the prohibition when the bulk of society isn't on board with it.
Game of Thrones was written in word perfect.

I wrote about 2/3 of a children's book with Micro and that was a fine experience. Markdown for formatting, so the content is portable to other editors if I really needed the escape hatch I guess.
oops yup, I copy pasted code from another project including meta tags :/
It's hostile to the people who don't want to sign up. In other words, it drives away the "free loaders" and increases conversions. I have to agree, I hate to say this but they are probably doing this because it works.
Did you shift that "energy" elsewhere?

I've found that my routines are like seasons: the time and place for a routine just passes eventually.

This used to frustrated me. It's hard to build routines, and the initiation energy to resume the activity—and the effort to sustain the same routine—was higher than before.

Somewhere along the line, though, I realized that while past routines were hard to resume … others that were previously hard to start had become more natural … so I began paying more attention to where the "current was flowing," so to speak, and would use that to my advantage.
We need to decriminalize drugs but this doesn’t mean we need to tolerate public intoxication. It’s a big confounder because we also saw a big increase in homelessness over the last few years due to Covid-related economic impacts; a housing-first anti-homelessness policy would complement drug decriminalization by moving drug use off the streets where it is maximally dangerous, in addition to being maximally unsightly.

I think it’s also really important to carefully weigh the cost/benefit; maybe a 60% increase in OD rate is actually preferable to jailing people in terms of harm inflicted? This is alluded to in the article but not actually analyzed. Repealing (rather than tweaking the implementation as they are doing) might do more harm, even though “think of the children” leads voters to want to roll back the change.

Finally, there is a market composition issue - fentanyl is increasingly common because it’s much easier to smuggle (more doses per gram) than heroin. But the potency also makes it extremely dangerous as it is easier to accidentally OD, even assuming you have known quality / evenly diluted concentration. Heroin on the other hand is much safer, especially if it’s regulated to be consistent and known quality. If we had decriminalized supply of safer versions of drugs, we’d probably see a dramatic reduction of usage in the more dangerous ones (and therefore a reduction in harm). Most drug ODs are accidental due to unknown potency, but simply decriminalizing possession doesn’t resolve this problem. My summary here would be “cheap, quality heroin would displace fentanyl and reduce ODs”.
I hate those too.

On the other hand, I've been adjacent to the decision to add them before. You're under a lot of pressure to increase conversion in your onboarding funnel, so you test out moving your email capture up a bit in your conversion flow (ie to before you deliver results) and it works! Conversion increases throughout the funnel! So you keep it.

Dark patterns like this persist because they measurably work. Some people (you and me) get extra pissed off, but we're in the small minority relative to the people who sign up at an elevated rate. :(
Any reputation system is prone to manipulation, with its uselessness correlated to popularity.
Every carrier in canada and the USA sells this info for insultingly low prices.
Isn't it just the fact that every moment is somehow compared to our experience of the sum total of all our moments. As you get older, a day becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of time out of your total lived days.
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I think you might have missed the point.

The complaint isn't that an email address was asked for, it's that the ask didn't happen up front. Having someone spend time doing something and then asking for an email address before giving the results is the Bad Thing here.

I don't think the author would have complained if the email address was asked for prior to him starting to actually use the service.
We simply need to find a way to open a communication channel. I'll ping you through your website.

Our projects are open source under a viral license, one which does not preclude you from using them, but with care.

Edit: pinged in the feedback message.
> Isn't the opposite also true?

Not PP, but the onus is always on the person or group making the affirmative claim. It _might_ be that the policy is sound but the execution is in error, but we should not _assume_ that the policy is sound.
https://culdesac.com/
From the abstract: "The eGPU architecture is a streaming multiprocessor (SM) machine with 512 threads. Each SM contains 16 scalar processors (SP)."
Ask HN: Why aren't more UK companies offering WFH friendly jobs?
I'm a software developer in London and am looking to change jobs for the sole reason that my employer forces me to be in the office 3 days a week. However, looking at the job market, there are still many jobs advertising roles with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office. I'm very surprised by this.

I had naively assumed that in a capitalist economy (where the thing that businesses/employers apparently care the most about is making more money) that WFH would be popular with employers.

If I were an employer, I'd be thinking that the following things would help me make more money:

1. Some employees may be more productive WFH. This is based on my own personal view and skimming through the top results on Google for statistics wfh employee productivity - https://www.google.com/search?q=statistics+wfh+employee+productivity.

2. Increase employee retention.

3. Attract job seekers/steal good employees from other companies.

4. Office space is expensive and if employees are WFH more then we could cut down on office space (albeit after the current contract runs out).

WFH is also good for the environment, but that may not be a priority for an employer who only cares about money and for whose business Public Relations (PR) isn't a key factor. So, I have left that out of the list above.

The only plausible counter argument I have heard is that employers may lose tax breaks from the government if they don't force employees into the city where they might spend some money. But, I have not seen any evidence for this line of argument. Then again, wouldn't the government then be afraid of losing voters for this kind of policy.

I know my personal biases may be preventing me from seeing the facts. So, I'd particularly love to hear from people in leadership roles/recruiters or people otherwise in the know about why making employees go to the office is so important for employers.

It can't just be blind belief that the next big idea is going to come from water cooler talk, could it?
For the very FIRST time about 2-3 days ago I got my first answer that felt like all the baggage that would come from a human or someone telling you “no”

I asked for a fairly simple regression in R for some simple data and it gave me quite literally the lowest quality answer and then told me I need to seek out a data scientist for the answer. I couldn’t believe that.

One of the best parts about AI is not hearing pedantic or bullshit reasons why the thing you’re asking is wrong, isn’t possible, isn’t ideal, blah blah blah

I can’t wait for something way better I’m tired of this watered down nonsense
Some years ago I was part of the group that joked that public transportation systems in our city were no longer needed since uber / lyft were so cheap.

Fast forward a bit, not long ago I checked lyft for a ride to the library for the youngster, it's 1.8 miles - that was $14 at the time (rates have risen since then apparently) -

so $28 (without tips) to and from the library for under 4 miles, not quite what the wired reported paid, but that was already too rich imho.
https://archive.is/TqfyY
Either you are lying or the mainstream media is lying. I am not having ANY luck with mainstream media, but I can't just trust you either. Show me your data.
Do you think the person pops out of jail completely cured of their addiction? Or would they consume more societal resources afterwards.
They lost me at "beautiful". "Full stack components" is such a better description.
That's not how projectors work, you can't just beam from an LED screen onto a surface for two main reasons:

1) an LED screen emits light in all directions (which is why you can see it from the side), it would need to emit light only at the screen. Making this work would require putting a microlens over every single individual pixel.

2) Even if you achieved the first step, the amount of light you have will be the same. Spreading the light from a phone screen over an area of several square meters is going to be extremely dim, even if your surface was magically 100% reflective and your room was very dark.

Most projectors use lasers, and in the process of generating enough light also generate an absolute ton of heat. It's one of the main reasons even portable projectors are the size they are, it's just about impossible to cool them if they're any smaller.

The Samsung beam had dedicated hardware, was quite chunky to fit said hardware, and the projector could only be used in a pitch black room.
No it just reads as kinda paranoid because li-ion cells typically become spicy pillows long after the device becomes obsolete. It's also trivial to avoid by limiting cell voltage. Many devices, most notably iPhones, automatically go into kiosk mode after charging for a few days for exactly this reason: https://support.apple.com/en-gu/HT208710
And my 6-year-old Consumer GPU (Vega64) has 4096 32-bit multipliers at 1500 MHz clock. (And I bought it a year or two late, so it was only $400). With 8GB HBM2 RAM at 512GBps (yes, Gigabytes per second) throughput. You absolutely are not getting anything close to a consumer GPU in terms of performance or cost on any other platform.

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FPGAs advantage is that systolic array arrangement. I'm pretty sure GPUs will win in a "hardware multiplier" war, but it might be harder to get all the data into a typical GPU

There's a fair number of programs that will never utilize a GPU with any level of efficiency. That's where FPGAs come in, utilization will be better because of LUTs and Routers and all that magic.

But if people are looking for a TFLOP fight with raw numbers of multipliers? My bet is on the GPU and SIMD-processing in general. Those architectures are just crazy.

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BTW: That top end DSP slice is documented here: https://docs.xilinx.com/v/u/en-US/ug579-ultrascale-dsp

That's a 27-bit x 18-bit multiplier per dsp.

In contrast, a 32-bit floating point operation is 24-bit x 24-bit multiplier plus a bit of extra stuff for the exponent bits. I'm pretty sure that the 4096-shader Vega64 actually had 32-bit multipliers but I'm not 100% sure on that.

But the float 24-bit x 24-bit multiplier would need more than one dsp to replicate, maybe two of them. AMD's newest consumer 7900 xt GPUs are 6144-shader... but those shaders can execute _TWO_ multiplies per clock tick for a total of 12288 hardware multipliers operating at 2500 MHz clock.
> Teflon is not a PFAS anyway, so that's not really the issue.

No but PFASsen are used (and typically discarded poorly) in the production of Teflon.
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I have been developing HATEOAS clients and servers for a while. The key to understanding of HATEOAS is that it is not about browsers or arbitrary clients, it is about abstraction. Client and server share the knowledge of the protocol, the data formats, logical names of links and semantics of operations with those links. Client does not need to maintain the complete state and complex business logic for that state, because it can derive the complete state and possible transitions from each server response. If some link is present in response, operation is possible, otherwise it is not. If link with given name exists and semantics imply GET, PATCH or POST, then make this request to this link. No constraint checks, no access management on client, just follow what server tells you. If server allows to cache resource, do it, but don’t forget to do HEAD.
Most people don't realize the huge transient voltages in wires of any significant length that can be induced by nearby electrical storms.

Granted, CAT 5-8 cables are supposed to be twisted pairs and sometimes shielded, but it's imperfect.

PS TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litz_wire
the '+' is valid according to RFC822 from 1982. It's not purely per service provider.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html