skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The root problem of spam is not that email is cheap to send.

I spent some time searching the web and even dug through your comment history but am failing to find where this might be; would you be willing to provide a link to help my deficient searching ability?

I will note that I did find you specifically claiming that spam is all about "speed/volume", and it seems like most of your discussion of what to do is to increase the cost of sending lots of email.

Honestly, you seem to be arguing a straw man here, which is really frustrating as, I get it: you are an expert in the field of spam... yet, your conclusion seems like it is still incorrectly analyzed :(.

> There are enormous numbers of bulk emailers that are useful to their subscribers. ... Only rich western elites could look at email and conclude that the best improvement is to charge lots of money for it.

No one credible is trying to do this: every complete and in-depth model for this that I have heard involves variable pricing, decided by the receiver per-sender, and entirely solves these use cases.

> Jameson is strongly implying here that email would somehow be better if it was frozen in time in 1991, with the same number of users - a platonic ideal of decentralisation in which the only participants are, uhm, the military, universities and corporations, who interconnect only with other similar institutions and only grant email accounts to employees.

I honestly just can't find evidence that this is the case: even the old hashcash project talks about these issues and posits solutions for them... maybe those solutions don't work, but you have to argue that.
A Japanese measuring unit for rice, kind of analogous to "one cup" in US kitchens. Measuring cups distributed with rice cookers are usually one gō in volume even in the US.
> My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get [a master's]. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing.

Interesting, would an online degree count? I was asserting "online credential -- meh" and you'd be a good example that I am wrong.

Also, are you in Europe? I haven't seen this kind of thing in the US since the 80s, but then again, who really gets exposure to lots of jobs?

Thanks for your comment.
Jup. Big structures kind of tend to impact their surroundings. I grew up next to a dam. We had fog for half of the winter due to that.
An startup with a system that users share links and get the access revenue to plant bamboo and collect CO2 from the planet, wrap it on soil and return the carbon credit to the user that shared the links.
Sam Altman's Advice to People in Their 20s [video]
Texas state law gave certain Christian schisms veto power over your doctor. That means that anyone who might possibly become pregnant has to live with the risk that they will be denied medical care even in a life-threatening emergency, and even if they leave the state they have to worry about bounty hunters being empowered by the state to find them.

https://www.texastribune.org/search/

There are some possibilities for medical exceptions but nobody can count on them being granted by the religious authorities, and substantial harm can occur simply due to the delays that incurred.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsu...
> it was very expensive compared to USB and Ethernet so Firewire never caught on

Compared to Gigabit Ethernet back in that time period? Firewire was a huge bargain.
There is a balance there. sometimes you need to sell on the next version's features to get enough now to develob that. Not everyone gets unlimited venture capital - and it isn't always a good idea to take it if you can.
Free Copilot offering will be downgraded to GPT 3.5 on "peak times"
I see the study posted above but I seriously doubt this and think there’s some statistical nuance being lost here. Looking at a list of the worlds richest people outside of the US most of it is entirely inter generational while the US citizens shot from middle class to billionaires thanks to tech and what not. The income disparity alone means it’s gonna be hard to argue against US citizens having a better chance at building wealth than Europeans and median/average wealth in the US vs the biggest European countries confirms this.
GP did say white. I'll acknowledge it.

Tbh, I don't think "white" matters in this context. Young, male, (msotly) single, affluent, all have a similar outlook, especially if their pride and drive are intact.
Is all the steam from hot wastewater? With all the things going on underground in cities, I've assumed there must be heat (i.e., from basic thermodynmics), and of course it needs a place to escape.
best i can do is more intrusive ads
What they did, though, is change Tokyo from a fu (符) to a to (都). Tokyo is the only to, and there wasn't one before, they came up with it for Tokyo. There were other fus, but there are only two left nowadays: Kyoto-fu and Ōsaka-fu.

Why do I mention this? Because Tokyo-to is written 東京都. Kyoto is written 京都. Remember that 東 means East. And yes, there are places in the east of Kyoto that carry the name 東京都 (higashi-Kyoto, higashi being another reading of the character 東). This has to be a troll.
They are not entitled to their business model. If a content creator wants money to let me watch a video, then they either make this explicitly by forcing a transaction or they make their content public with the hopes that a percentage of them will convert into ad views or sponsors. What they can not do is force me to watch the video on their terms or expect that the extensive distribution guarantees them an income.

Simply "boycotting" won't do much here. The idea is to find a way to signal to content creators that relying on Youtube is a losing proposition.
I've had way too many ATS's that require day of month. Like WTF.

My automatic response there when filling out is "start date is always first of month, end date is always last of month".
Early 2000s it was my daily driver. But man.. I used the filesystem like it was indented.. All my files had attributes. Unfortunately none of the metadata was supported on other platforms. Lots of wasted energy :) I loved BeOS
I don't think people overestimate the cultural difference between Finland and Italy for example, they are extremely different.

The language barriers makes Europe much more culturally diverse, but also makes that diversity much harder to discover since you can't fully understand a culture without learning its language.

It is more like the cultural difference between Canada and Mexico, you don't have such a wide spread within USA. You have some parts that is more like Canadians, and some parts more like Mexicans, but Mexico to Canada is still a bigger cultural leap than anything within USA.
I like array language. But I do not feel this article represents why “matmul: (+/)\:” is better than matrix matmul(matrix A, matrix b) very well.
I don’t doubt anything you’re saying, either. I was just providing another perspective.

I think one thing I have seen over the years is people making extreme assumptions based on experiences they hear via the grapevine, and seeing more perspectives seems like one way to counter that.

For example I have seen the claim here that CI systems were somehow new in the same timeframe that XP and Scrum were first written about and being adopted, and that testing was always an afterthought back then, etc.

If anything I think we were often building more reliable and higher quality systems in that timeframe, if only because there was more alignment that testing and fixing bugs mattered. Today I get responses like “quality isn’t just about bugs” if I am critical about the quality of a particular product. As if what users want is 2N as many features, none of which quite work rather than N features that are all solid.
You've never been to the country side.
Let’s pretend all of that is true. How does a background in the “hard sciences” with experiments involving materials that can’t make their own decisions prepare you for a field with experiments where you have to account for the fact that you can’t imprison your test subjects for 6 months, and that when they are on their own may not follow the experimental protocols (or even lie about that fact)?
It has also been super gross to me to watch these infant technologies be thrown at removing humans from creative tasks. The whole point was supposed to be to automate the mundane, boring bullshit so we could do more things involving higher thought, not less.
Not commenting to argue either way, as I have no idea what the truth is. But, I’m surprised that there can be such strong, confident, and basically contradictory opinions on this topic which seems to me like it ought to be a simple matter of fact.
Some companies are following a similar pattern for already approved hires using H-1B.
China is aiming to build 206 GW of additional renewables (excluding coal and nuclear) in 2024, and they reached their 2023 targets ahead of schedule.
Enable "high contrast mode" in macOS.. buttons look like buttons and some more things.. The normal mode is way too flat / low contrast.
Operations should not be R&D, but everything else certainly is. Why wouldn't it be?
Is a "modular monolyth" a contradiction in terms? Either a software is modular or monolythic, isn't it?
As the article explains, it's to save on telegraph fees, which were charged per word.
This discussion has reminded me why I stopped using LGPL and started using MPL for libs. OWN THE LIBS… I mean share them. Share the libraries.
Unfortunately no fully self-hostable options that are fleshed out besides Hypothesis as far as I know. A lot of the paid options have it though.

Let me know if you find a good option later on and I'll add it to the list.
Prehistorically, fructose without intermixed fiber was found mainly in honeycombs, i.e. rarely. Beverages are the way most people get the most concentrated blasts of fructose nowadays. With enough fiber, intestinal bacteria get first crack at it. (Keep your intestinal bacteria well-fed; hungry bacteria will eat you instead.)

Your body has processes to produce fructose, which is then processed by the liver to fat for storage, when preparing for lean times seems indicated.

It is hard to research, but it seems like mangoes have the highest proportion of fructose. Honey has more fructose than glucose, and agave syrup is mostly fructose.
Kinda an unfortunate name collision with GIO as used in another UI toolkit stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(software)
Well, moving away from "efficiency" can take you toward redundancy, but it doesn't have to. Some waste is just wasteful. It's important not to oversimplify, otherwise you wind up with counterproductive memes like "that project is justified because it will create jobs" or "the free market is the best solution for every problem" (it's a great solution for some problems, but ignores externalities).
I think you're being unfairly downvoted. People generally are terrible at using tools, especially tools that they perceive as "black boxes".

I've seen an IT professional type this into Google: "Why did my PC crash?"

I couldn't believe that after two decades of using web search technology, he still hadn't figured out how to extract value from a text index using specific and relevant key words.

Similarly, very few developers know what a database index does or whether they need one or not. My pet theory is that NoSQL databases become popular because many of them automatically index every column, making it feel like a magic black box instead of an evil black box.

LLMs are not only black boxes, but they're soooo fundamentally different and new that a lot of people are really struggling to wrap their brains around it.

Just in this thread, today, there are people that are complaining about the direct equivalent of "my poorly thought out Google search didn't work, so Google is bad."
Get a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 dongle and a Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire dongle?
> If the AI was anything more than a word-mashing stochastic parrot, it could have come with a representation that piked Pr. Murugesan’s interest or it could be that he had an idea while looking at gibberish ellucubrations

A lazy critique of llms but that is not what was used here. The paper is linked in the comments, if you're actually interested.
The other day I found myself logged out of iMessage for Mac and had to reboot to get it to work; wonder if it was related to this. (Never used Beeper)
It boots really fast. And the UI on some linux DEs feels laggy at times. This shouldn’t have the decades of cruft making the GUI lag.
No, not gabit, but 100 Ethernet was more than enough for what average consumers had to transfer back then, and it was significantly cheaper and more available than firewire. It was more likely your HDD to be a bottleneck for faster network transfers.
And it was indeed written by someone real! Astounding!
> Well one thing that is sort of notable about Japan/Onigiri but left off this blog is that they will all contain fish.

They don't. There are onigiris containing beef or chicken. Also shrimp, except if you count that as fish.

Edit: of course, I reacted to this before reading the next sentence about vegetarianism... There are also rice balls with nothing else than salt, usually called shio-musubi. And as others have pointed out, there's also umeboshi.
> I don't think we've switched out of the Moses model yet, or we only did in the last twenty years or so

We did. Most large cities stopped building new roads, and are instead sabotaging existing ones ("road diets").

The inflection point was some time in 1990-s. October 1992 is the date of the completion of the last Interstate freeway.

> And frankly the urbanist model probably still won't be sufficient without public housing—I'm guessing a popular push for that is still about 10-20 years out.

The thing is, we don't have a housing crisis. We have around 20% more units per capita than in 1980-s, and way more square footage per capita. What we have is an over-centralization crisis.

No amount of band-aid fixes will make it better. By forcing (via economic forces) more people into misery centrals (now with housing projects to generate generational poverty!), you'll only make centralization even worse.

> Public transit works well enough for most folks!

It really doesn't. Transit is a result of city growth, you simply _have_ to build transit once the city becomes dense enough.

And I get it, in the 1970-s and 1980-s people were still worried about overpopulation. So, urbanism was born as a way to make it more bearable to live in dense cities. Now we have an opposite problem, the native US population is peaking right now and whatever growth we're going to have will be only from immigration. We don't _need_ dense cities.
Yeah sorry this is on my list of things to fix, just haven't gotten around to it.

It's annoying because the site is autogenerated from the README markdown and it's tricky to add custom CSS without increasing build process complexity a bunch. PRs welcome!
I’m not seeing how you are simulating iOS apps without running the actual OS
What's the byproduct? Is it all accounted for or just being released into the atmosphere?
Could you give us some examples?
There’s a pretty entertaining genre of the worst possible loglines. E.g.: “Farm boy joins terrorists, bombs father’s workplace.” “Businessmen nap on airplane.”
IMO Kyren (the game dev who created a large portion of the Starbound game) covers this well in her Rust 2018 keynote.
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

She is of the opinion Rust is well suited to game dev, and ECS is an excellent choice for a game design. She works off an example from the Starbound code.

Her thesis.

"Rust, by design, makes certain programming patterns more painful than others. This is a GOOD thing! It turns out that, for game development, the patterns that end up being the easiest to deal with in Rust closely mirror the patterns that are easiest for game development in any language.

I unfortunately had to learn this the HARD way!

Rust highly rewards data-oriented design with simple, understandable ownership semantics, and this is great news because this is a really good fit for game development. I suspect this is also true generally, not just for game development! (but what do I know?)"
Why not ask an AI that's specifically done for that reason?! Like: roast my landingpage, roast my saas, roast my website type of checks. I think they are in the chatgpt-marketplace for example.

Your website performance is bad (framerate and scrolling-speed is down). The lighthouse check gives a poor perfomace indicator, but the rest ist fine. i'd look into that, it feels so bad to scroll it on desktop, i can't imagine it on mobile. make it feel light and fun. This really feels heavy. You should really lazyload the elements, that are not visible on pageload and only load them, wehen brought in the viewport.
make a lighthouse-test and try yourself.
Doesn't F-Droid sign with their key instead of the developers key? (More like the Linux distribution model)

At least I thought that was the reason Signal doesn't like F-Droid, but now we see how this can actually be better. It's a matter of who you trust more.
To succeed takes 3,650 days. To give up only takes 1. Practice, practice, and practice some more.
That seems reasonable. The D does stand for Development.
Reducing consumption as a response to increased prices doesn’t mean the difference in consumption was originally “wasted”; it only means it was not worth the higher cost.
>> Isn't the whole point of immediate UIs to get rid of the "event loop" though?

No, not at all. It's to take explicit control of the event loop. It's right there, you have a loop and the buttons still fire events, you just have to check for them on every iteration of the loop.
Also I get to be mad. I get to show that frustration. Other people who feel as I do see me get mad and maybe they get mad too. Maybe I flutter my wings and some storm clouds appear over Redmond down the line.
Are they known for that? They deleted a perfectly respectable comment of mine yesterday and I’m a bit wary.
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Why is it weird?

It's certainly not a US only problem. My city tore up all it's rail and now there are houses in the way so we can't put it back. On top of that, labour and materials are so expensive we probably couldn't afford it anyway.

Thanks for showing me that project, I had not heard of it. I am also excited to watch what Bright Rail are doing and if that translates into a country wide approach to high speed rail.
The Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
These two things are linked.
Why are you not freelancing in the interim?
its not completely binary, but the comment was specific to MIT, which is known for having strong academic extra curriculars, which is instilled as a core value into all incoming classes of students. It matters and people care what you do outside of class at MIT.

but even state schools, you get out of it, proportional to what you put in. I'm not sure your exact association with the word "value" , but even basics like resume building are directly impacted by clubs you are a part of. I know many that received job offers explicitly because of their involvement in a robotics F1 or nasa affiliated competition
Christ that escalated quickly…
Yeah, uncontrolled chemical reactions to get rid of waste aren't the best answer, imo
People who live paycheck-to-paycheck not getting paid at all is potentially a much bigger issue, particularly when you have laws and unions involved. The conditions for that issue are also far less stringent, you don't need an extremely unusual operator error and an unplanned federal holiday happening at the same time, all you need is a single person forgetting to click "approve".
1. They are the maintainers of htmx, not the maintainers of your code. There is no contract with them.

2. The joke made by the maintainer gives absolutely no insight into how they will behave if there were a contract. If anything, that might mean the maintainer actually is a human that is agreeable to talk and work with, because they don't take it so seriously as to forbid any jokes.

Professionalism doesn't mean "no jokes allowed", it means "do your best".
Uber shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly
This is exactly what it's like for us iMessage users.

iMessage just works:

• It works beautifully on watchOS, iPadOS, macOS, in addition to iOS

• there's no ads

• E2EE by default

• You can send media at full quality and the recipient receives it as as you intended

• No bullshit whatsoever

My Android friends though are never able to standardize on any one app, some of them want you to use WhatsApp, some want Telegram, some want Signal. None of them have watchOS clients, they either can't be bothered with iPadOS at all or their desktop "client" is really just an lazy Electron disaster that they expect you to put up with. And when you try to explain how all of these third party alternatives are inferior, Android people look at you like you're an alien and don't understand.

It's frustrating and I wish they would just get iMessage already.
Have you considered freelancing in the interim?
Extensions do work in headless chrome! It's tricky but it should work by adding these to the default CHROME_ARGS:

`--disable-extensions-except=/path/to/your/extension/`
`--load-extension=/path/to/your/extension/`
100% this. Had a class using Microsoft’s MakeCode last year, which pushes Github integration for sharing code - which seemed like a really cool concept for a group project they were working on. So I have the class follow the link from Microsoft MakeCode - to Microsoft Github. But Github doesn’t use the accounts that they were using for MakeCode, so it prompted them to create new accounts. Guess which class of kids immediately had 90% of their Github accounts inexplicably locked on creation? Spent a chunk of time wrestling with that issue.

I think we wound up merging their stuff by hand. Probably carried on floppy disks. Like savages.
It’s the Japanese equivalent of “cup” as a measurement unit, and at 180 ml is about 76% of a US cup. Japanese rice cookers are marked and filled in units of gō. You put n gō of uncooked rice in it, and then fill water up to the n mark. One gō is roughly 150 grams of uncooked rice, which amounts to around 530 kcal. Traditionally, a wooden box was used to measure one gō: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masu,_One-Gō_measure...
So what? I mean... after a few dozen people are sent to prison for a few years, there should be at least a few people willing to say 'no' to the lobbyists.
Wow, that system is ingenious. I've always struggled with dates, gonna steal your idea from now on!
AAMOF FWIW YMMV but SSDD
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Is family ever in the store next to Costco (which is a null pointer exception), such that meeting on foot with clear bags holding presents is no longer secret?

I think that’s the challenge he described.
In some places, India for example, hot water is sometimes supplied by a smallish reservoir at the showerhead. The reservoir's normal state is full of tap-temperature water. For a hot shower, you turn on the reservoir's electric heater; it warms up (pretty quickly - think of electric kettles, and I don't want to shower in 100 deg C water) and you turn on the shower.

I've always wanted something like it at home; it seems much more efficient than a central hot water heater that's always warming the water. (I've also read about at-the-spigot devices that heat water like a coffee maker, with water running past something hot.)

I wonder how the heat capture of wastewater could work with it. It becomes a sort of closed loop hot water device, with heat exchanged with showering humans, the capture device, and the electrical device to top it off.