skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * DKIM and DMARC are not intended to address spam […]
They are intended, along with SPF, to address impersonation, which is a distinct problem (although some spam does employ impersonation).

I would wager that the vast majority of true spam⁰ currently being sent, based on what my mail server sees, involves impersonation, because it is mostly messages that are not intended to be replied to by mail. You are in most cases instead told to go to a website or call a phone number if it is a “business opportunity” or to send money to a crypto-wallet in the case of a scam.

This means that DKIM and SPF are increasingly effectively an anti-spam measure even if you argue that this is not their primary direct intent, because of the large overlap.

I would argue that spam is one of their primary targets: junk mailers started faking addresses from real domains where they would otherwise have just included a completely fake address in response to recipient mail servers discarding mail that didn't appear to at least come from a valid domain. Some junk mail more deliberately uses impersonation, to convince the end recipient that it comes from the impersonated individual/group, but much of it does so just to convince the mail server to actually deliver the message.

Yes, some genuine junk doesn't use impersonation (the hosting providers that buy mailing lists from other hosts as they close down, and other businesses doing the same, and damned recruiters, for two examples) – but not the majority IME.

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[0] In “true” spam, I'm discounting newsletters and mailing lists that people forgot they signed up for, or signed up for to get a discount but don't really want, etc.
An RSS Reader is really a technical miracle, requiring lots of maintenance and development effort.
I guess a 10€/Month Subscription would be just the minimum for a such an cutting edge product, right?
“FBI didn’t want data leaked”

Lololol
Yeah that was at a counter culture music festival though. Completely different situation than a football game. It was almost ironic.
wow I got this error multiple times and had no idea it was the cpu causing this. I regret not going AMD for CPU in my 2024 build.
I don't belueve Karlen was an attorney, he was representing himself, and while that doesnt per se mean he isn't an attorney, I doubt most attorney's would do that.
Another jewel from that author

https://web.archive.org/web/20110702162929/https://zedshaw.c...
"Neutrinos were recorded on Earth from Supernova 1987A a day before the explosion became visible"

Can anyone explain how neutrinos could reach us before visible light?

Is it something complex wrt relativity? or simply that neutrino emissions began before the rest of the supernova event?
ADS-B transponders are expensive and big, but they are made for the aircraft market. It should be possible to do cheap ADS-B transponder like the cheap and tiny APRS transmitters that the balloons currently use. Assuming that they don't have follow the regulation for aircraft-grade electronics.
> Of all non-generic definitions in the list, the "a man's penis" definition scores by far the highest in terms of cumulative probability[2], with "a woman's vagina", "a woman's breasts" and "a man's member" in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places.

Because it's something a number of people have, a number of people want, and a number of people fear. A penis is the most-arousing (in the literal sense) concept imaginable and guarantees engagement in some form from anyone on the other end of it, every time.

We have laws on the books specifically to stop men from waving them around in public for fuck's sake. This does not say anything about patriarchy or "phallocentricity" (goddamn intellectual wankery), only how polarizing the penis is because of the contexts it ends up being thrust into.

Send someone (male or female!) an unwanted dick pic and they will viscerally react in exactly one of two ways-- interest or disgust. The same goes for breasts and vaginas, to lesser extent, and in that order. Do the same with a picture of Caroline Ellison and the recipient won't know what to think. There's a reason we're not "Ellisoncentric."

This article is just dumb. The author is playing around with data they admittedly don't understand, applied a misandrist spin to it for virtue points and is all "lol idk what this even means, wat u think?"

The part about holes is too retarded to even touch but I'm stubborn enough to poke it. Virginity is overrated, but it correlates to fertility. I prefer older women myself but the uncomfortable truth is that most men don't. Whether we're wielding a spear or a penis, whatever we're fighting for we expect to be fertile. The rape stats reflect this much:

> Ages 12-34 are the highest risk years for rape and sexual assault. · Those age 65 and older are 92% less likely than 12-24 year olds to be a victim of rape

As a whole, we're also not running around raping little boys and infants. They're trivial targets and we're frequently behind closed doors with them. Why not? All men are rapists who only chase youth, right?

No, the demographic most at risk for rape isn't the "youngest" or the most "beautiful"-- it's VERY specifically the most apparently fertile. Even if we don't want kids, it's about the potential to create life. We don't want to be reminded of our own mortality and shortcomings any more than women do, and unfortunately this manifests in terribly selfish ways (cheating, etc.).

Rather than shaming men as a class for this, write off the savages who fetishize novelty and youth and save yourself and everyone else the fucking headache. None of this is ever going to change and the misandry at scale just makes everyone as miserable as yourself. Find someone who sees you as more than "a hole" and experience love in your life for fuck's sake.
Yes, I remember that article well; thanks for the link. This resonates well with me. I guess its due to “safety” optimization and a trend to aerodynamic, smaller windows. Also, the roof needs to support a much higher car weight in case of an accident, requiring more sturdy structures. I don’t know. But I am not the only one: https://tall.life/best-cars-for-tall-people/
Tesla FSD V12 First Drives (Highlights) [video]
I have some related work where we looked at how tipping (and other variations) affect predictions and accuracy in classification tasks. We experimented with ChatGPT and the different versions of Llama 2.

TLDR: We found similar results where tipping performs better in some tasks and worse in others, but it doesn't make a big difference overall. The one exception was Llama 7B where tipping beat all the other prompt variations we tested by several percentage points. This suggests that the impact of tipping might diminish with model size.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03729.pdf
“ hi-tech devices disguised as handheld games consoles are being traded online for thousands of pounds and are used by organised crime gangs to mimic the electronic key on an Ioniq 5”

This is not referring to the flipper zero right? Doesn’t seem like that’s possible
That wouldn't be the answer for the simple reason that no one would use such a network.

The government wants to regulate private social media because that's where the people are, and thus that's where the influence is.
Send me a cv at my username on gmail please.
They’re not buying into it because it’s not an actual plan. Mental health care is optional, and it’s already free in America for the poor with Medicaid.

Couple that in with police reforms which discourage use of force (not saying this is good or bad, just info), and you’ve got thousands of court ordered therapy appointments that never actually take place.

Your plan is entirely just “legalize drugs”, and people are opposed to legalizing dangerous drugs, believe it or not.
How surf forecasts helped win World War II and other ocean trivia [audio]
Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)
This is wild. It doesn't know it's not a person. And of course it's not, it's 'people', in a sense.

'who' you're trying to elict via LLM is going to have a huge effect on 'what' works, threat-or-bribe-wise. You're not gonna get it to tap into its code-monkey happy place by promising it will go to heaven if it succeeds.

Maybe you should be promising it Mountain Dew, or Red Bull, or high-priced hookers?
Perhaps google’s long-term contribution to the internet was definitively proving the importance of self-hosted and free, open source software — by epitomising what can go horribly wrong with the alternative. Hopefully in a generation from now this will be just common sense.
Edit to my comment above: I have no quarrel with creative covers and often love them. Example: I like Counting Crows' version of "Big Yellow Taxi" better than Joni Mitchell's original. Taylor Swift's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" at Carole King's RRHOF induction was wonderful.

But: Call me a chauvinist — the National Anthem is different.
My career has been a pretty good progression of ever increasing titles and doubling my pay every four or so years. My secret is this: Always say yes to the new challenge. Do the thing no one has done before.

Sometimes it doesn't work out. You either fail to deliver because it was too challenging or the company changes direction. And even then you still learned some new skills. But when you succeed people notice. And then you go out and talk about what you did and people outside of your company notice too.
I feel like lightspeed limitations would severely restrict the scalability of planetary-sized computers. How is one computer a light-second across much better than two computers a light-second away from each other?
If that was the best solution then the pest control companies would do that, except they'd try to buy the spray in bulk straight from the supplier and use their own permanent spraying devices instead of buying a series of cheap disposable cans that force them to bend over all the time.

To some extent our notion of what's "professional" is dictated by past experience of professionals using what works best for professionals. If that changes, an unofficial pest control business has a pretty low barrier for entry considering there are literal DIY solutions at retail.
The Lighthill Debate on AI from 1973: An Introduction and Transcript
I had seen the video of this debate years ago, but decided to revisit it recently in light of all the new developments in the field. I thought others might enjoy it too, especially people who had never heard of it before, but that many would prefer to read it instead of watching. So I created a full transcript with proper formatting.

I also included some thoughts in the intro and a section at the end that attempts to review the accuracy of the different speakers' arguments and claims since the debate took place 50 years ago. Hopefully it can spark an interesting debate here on the current state of the field and we can learn some lessons from the past!
It is not that hard to sing unless you want to sound ridiculous on purpose
What should you really worry about with AI?
This does punish the researchers - no citations, no publication to list in their cv. It hits them where they almost certainly care a lot. Absent cooperation from their home institution, the journals don't have much other leverage.
Hi! I'm in Vancouver (and also originally from AB.) I'm doing ok right now, but I have been through some dark times myself.

Sending you an email. Unsure of what help I can be, but I feel called to find out.
Yes I was going to say something similar because articles like this make it seem like a mysterious problem. In reality the reason this happens is because people want profit and the most profitable thing to do is unfortunately to drag a problem out. This literally happens even with individuals, you can give someone a task and he will try to explain to his teamlead that he has to research this all day even though he already knows the answer and he might do another hour on it. In general we have a problem that solving things quickly and permanently is not profitable for the individual/company.
There are a lot of red flags in this post.
I've seen similar stories of people collecting radioactive materials and putting people nearby at serious risk.

At some level I can admire the drive to do something like this scientifically, if you're that deep into the weeds then it should be obvious how dangerous it is to you and other people. Don't put other people at risk for your science experiments.
Not a physicist but light only moves at the speed of light in a vacuum, so if it passed through something on the way, it would be a bit slower.
The advice I would give a person coming to me with that question would be tough to say: I don’t know if it’s possible to grow one’s career today as quickly or as far as I was fortunate enough to do. It’s just a very different dynamic overall.

I don’t mean to be cynical, or throw cold water on anyone’s ambitions, but I do want to add a different perspective here for those that care enough to read on.

I entered the professional software world at a time when there simply weren’t enough people building software. There was an extremely high priority on “bringing people up” throughout the industry. That didn’t change for decades.

But today there are approximately the right number of folks doing this work; still too few but the scarcity of candidates is far worse in other industries. Frankly, an electrician may have better long term prospects as far as I can see. But more importantly, this industry has matured and the focus is more “normal” (market adjacency, efficiency, risk reduction, globalization, benchmarking, etc). There is plenty of opportunity still, but also less.

In addition to that “cheerful” opinion, I’ll offer that I (to some degree) regret moving “up” so quickly. I missed opportunities to become truly expert by taking on new roles. It all worked out okay, but didn’t do much for my imposter syndrome. And, it kept me in positions working for others when I (looking back) would have done better financially and felt better about it had I pursued my own path (entrepreneurship). Hence, being here on HN and paying attention to YC.
Well no, unless you are taking a risk. The reason the employer/client pays upfront is because they take the risk and you would get the cash upfront with no cost if there is a downside/i.e it fails.

Unless you propose something where you take nothing upfront and then it comes from the revenue. But then again its about where the risk is, so if they have virtually guaranteed revenue then there is no risk taken and hence no reason to share the upside.

In short: More risk = More upside, otherwise the salary/fee is capped.
The singularity will be expensive for you.
It under-delivers and over-promises.
> If you maintain an open-source project in the range of 10k-200k lines of code, I strongly encourage you to add an ARCHITECTURE document

I like this idea but IMHO, regardless of repo size, architecture can still has some place in a Readme. For example, I purposely placed a Mermaid sequence diagram[1] in the main Readme because I think it's important that all readers see and understand its workflow[2]

[1] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/sequenceDiagram.html

[2] https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app?tab=readme-ov-file#-w...
hey man - i'm from the states and i'm really sorry that you have to go through all this. I'll send you and email.
Further down the line, it'll be used as evidence to justify their overthrow of the humans.
Why not just say 100,000? Its not exactly 10^23 or something crazy.
it's got a wide vocal range, and a bunch of high notes. of course setting yourself up for failure and trying to sound rediculous makes it even harder, but as far as songs go, it's on the harder end
I just finished reading The Empty Quarter by St John Philby, which has bit about trying to find the lost city of Wabar, now associated with the Wabar meteor crater. The Bedouin guides talk about a chunk of iron the size of a camel, which some of them had seen personally. At the time of the expedition, they couldn't t find it anymore, presumably because the sand had covered it up. This was 1932. In 1966, the sands had shifted again and the iron was visible to a National Geographic expedition. By 1982, it had nearly disappeared again. I have no trouble believing the remains of a meteor could exist in the sands near Mauritania, and not happen to be locatable at the moment.
The speed of creating an account is immaterial when I don't want one, nor do I wish to use their clunky website to read news on. There's no official app for my OS even if I did wish to install one.

Posting to a walled garden is certainly not in the best interests of all sites, but offering your readers a way to directly subscribe to feeds in the software of thsir choice as well as whatever social media stuff you're doing is a win all round.
https://youtu.be/rf5o5liZxnA?feature=shared&t=542 has a demonstration of NextStep 3 (released September 1992) that clearly shows a computer icon that Steve refers to as "My Computer" and then moves into hitting the "Network" icon globe that shows other computers on his local network.
Miracle of Wörgl
Joining a team with short tenure and high turnover is high risk. Often there are very good reasons noone sticks around and you'll just end up burned out.
We combed the desert
I would expect every relay to have everything (modulo different opinions about illegal content). Why do you think they would have different views of the network?
I believe "the earth is compensating" to be a much stronger form of mental gymnastics than most other comments here.

For example, the permafrost thawing leads to a lot more greenery, but it would require willful ignorance to see this as a positive thing.

It's pretty much the same as the legion of people who say "the climate has always been changing", without looking at it in context (though a simplified graphic, which Randall probides here https://xkcd.com/1732/ should theoretically be able to show the problem to anyone willing to listen).
The second group is just impossible to beat: people interested in playing office politics, unburdened by objectives like “achieving anything great as an institution,” and motivated by a need to find a niche to survive. Always seemed like an argument for Basic Income to me; at least rob them of some of their motivation, and remove some of the incentive for others to ally up with them.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeavisideStepFunction.html
Says the country that has spread Depleted Uranium over three continents. An environmental disaster that can never be fixed.
For me, offering ChatGPT a tip seems to just make it tell me that it doesn't work for tips, and cannot process payments, but it will try to answer my question anyway.
Free markets win over slavery even in a pre-industrial society.

Consider that no country that had slave agriculture has ever been able to feed itself. Even with tractors.
And plenty of them wouldn't want to learn it, so I think OP's observation still holds.
Alan Watts has some profound talks about this which I found quite mind-blowing and wish I had learned earlier in life.
That was a dumb comment, but you are wrong. I am remotely aware of LLMs (how could one not be, in this day and age) and I have never heard of Qdrant.
What you are describing is not a bureaucracy. The Iron Law is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, not the Iron Law of personal projects.
The purpose of government in a free market is to prevent use of force & fraud in transactions, and to enforce contracts and property rights.

> Nothing like it has ever existed or ever will.

The free North in the US.
Marching bands in high school and college football stadiums perform the national anthem with more dignity than any pop singer ever could.
Social Change and the Conformity Trap
I can't help, but just wanted to wish you well.

If you haven't already you need to reach out to literally everyone you know. Old colleagues might be able to get you some work. Friends and family might be willing to give you somewhere to stay for a bit.

You're clearly a smart guy. You'll work this out. Just hold in there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240224094530/https://www.nytim...
How do I submit my comment to them?
> Avoid high tenure teams at literally all costs.

So avoid working with people that can teach you things? That’s not a great plan.

If not for my role as a fresh out of college QA person working in a team of 6 deeply expert, very senior folks (with essentially zero turnover) I would absolutely not be where I am today.
The second might be figures of speech, but not the first definitely isn't. Again I had cited the second as an example of ego worship not of murder/rape. Its not like I am saying its bad/good that power metal bands lyrics are of this nature but that's how it is.
Are we gonna do this? Lets do this!

Containers: they dont "contain" anything at a systems level (docker needs root) so the thing they are containing is the bullshit code and glue you put together and want to run in production.

VS code, Github, linked in. Fuck all these things. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck copilot (and the fact that most of the code it wrote got pulled out of production).

Fuck the cloud. Listen Scaling is cool and all but pissing away money cause you cant write scalable software is not.

Fuck wayland. Yes I said it. You know what, I love you all for building linux desktop but all of you having pissing matches about bending wayland to your way and not updating your code... linux desktops still suck cause you cant get along.

Fuck apple. Fuck your nonsense with the EU. I love you and will still buy your proucts cause I need a working laptop with a *nix terminal but I would like to part ways. (fix your shit linux desktop)

Fuck google. You were good, you were "do no evil" but now you make MS look like the nice guy. The fact that MS is stealing your browser tabs is just 2 flavors of shitty and I am amused.

FUCK VC's. Go fast break things became go fast be dumb. The quality of engineer has gone down as you take your investors money and shove it into AWS and Azrure so your personal portfolios go up. Dont think we dont all know you own those stocks, we own them too.

Fuck cryrpto. You could have been good, you fucked it up. Mt Gox part 47 as we have to have centralized services that fuck the whole thing up.

Fuck you nvidia. Gaming used to be fun, but you sold out to corporate stooges.

Fuck AI: well I should say FUCK ML, were not gonna get AI any time soon and thats for the best. AI is a con that Elizabeth Holmes would be proud of..

If I missed your thing, well fuck that too.

To paraprhase the old batman: our industry needs an enema
I've known a few folks who have been homeless or had mental health issues, sometimes while working as a dev. Trauma and mental health concerns are good to consider but they're not necessarily showstoppers.
I do love muds.

I sorta maintain: https://github.com/shmup/miniboa

There's a lot of rabbit holes if you ever want to explore the social/textual landscape of the 80s and 90s, especially the 90s and into the early 2000s. A LOT of stuff was written. Recently I've been absorbing more of it

Like this: http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/Virtual.Community.html

And also a book you may like to look up, "My Tiny Life": https://archive.org/details/mytinylifecrimep0000dibb_c6m4

Or read some papers indexed here:

- https://hayseed.net/MOO/

- https://lisdude.com/moo/

Bare with me, the topic of MUDs isn't mentioned here often and I've been wanting to link dump a little
I ate lunch yesterday, why am I hungry today?

Clearly there's a lunch industrial complex
Yes, because neutropenia is a limiting factor in how far you can go with certain chemotherapeutic agents, such CDK inhibitors.
me too but i came back with yarr reader https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
The circumference of Earth is much smaller than a light second.

And the short story that was posted takes place on Mercury which has an even smaller circumference than Earth