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> 1. How do they ensure high, non-spam delivery rates to the main email services like Gmail, Fastmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft?

I run mail servers. I believe the idea that mail delivery is a problem for small mail providers is largely a myth. If you act somewhat reasonable (that is: if someone complains to you don't ignore it, don't send spam, check your logs for indications someone might put you on a blocklist) it's no big problem.

I think the myth comes largely from people who are actually spammers, but don't see themselves as that.
I've noticed that when a fly lands on a horse's front area, the horse will twitch its muscles in that area (sort of like if a fly lands on your are and you jerk your arm to get it off), but in the back area it will swish it's tail. Maybe it can't twitch its muscles in the back area like it can in the front area.
I really liked that podcast as well. If I remember correctly, one take away from the podcast that is relevant to a lot of comments below was that the U.S. used to get a net benefit from the weird international mail system. It was more recently that the import/export by direct mail balance shifted to make it a net loss to the U.S. Though it didn't sound like who the net winners and losers would be was strongly considered when the system was designed.
And even then it wasn't really that innovative, I holded off to Symbian until Nokia lost it.
Is it a unicorn? Atom is the second best “IDE” I’ve used. :p

I also think slack and simple note work really well, and I already mentioned Discord.

So I’m not really sure where it got it’s bad rep. Maybe because it’s JavaScript and people hate that?
> Most of what you describe has little meaning or use at a few months old. Sure you might want to collect detailed awareness of individual drivers over say a month, generic traffic patterns over six months, and little or nothing beyond.

The really invasive pattern-matches happen best retroactively at that scale.

Age of the data does not typically impact many such analyses.
Freewrite creator here, nice project!
Generally speaking, continuing to kick the crutches out from under the lower classes is a bad idea especially when there are no better solutions being implemented.

You need to keep in mind that the postal treaty wasn't JUST for China either, almost every single nation was part of the postal treaty. Withdrawing from this treaty would likely result in increased postage for all international shipments.
Well, you will have them sooner or later. Aging changes you dramatically.

But I agree with you, if you get less sleep than generally recommended and you feel fine, then there is little point in sleeping more.
Developed countries have a moral duty to support developing nations, that includes China.
Well we do have more full-time researchers now than we’ve had in total since 0 B.C.
Likely China won't be the only country that gets reclassified.

Still, if the US leaves the treaty it won't matter to Americans in a year.
No I won't.

Valve has been pushing for Linux support in case they need it as fallback (see: Proton, Steam Machines, etc.)

Atleast at Valve there is a certain amount of fear this might happen.
How would you bill the sender for this? The item is already in your local postal system by the time you know it is non-compliant. It’s a choice between not delivering the packages, having the rest of the postal system subsidise them or ask the recipient to make up the difference.
Actually, as far as I get it, black holes just don't exist: it's a journalist term coined for a mathematical concept.
In short a black hole is how we call the possible existence of a place in the universe where there is no time nor energy, but it's no more than a mathematical possibility in the end as these are common variables in astrophysics.
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Is a double edged sword - I've not updated my resume since 2005 and continually get approached about junior roles, as per my 13 year old CV.

If I had been in industry for >10 years and was still looking for junior roles I sure as heck wouldn't be trying to hire me!
Don't feel old.

My first Basic experience was on a VIC-20, and I later got my own C64 in 85.

Great computer to learn on but I don't think I would have got far without the Programmers Reference Guide.
Ah, bit rot. Both of the links to "interesting articles" at the bottom of the page are gone ("Designing an Alpha Microprocessor" 404s and the video appears to be gone from "Things CPU Architects Need To Think About"). Anyone know where these might have moved to?

(Anyway, great post!)
This looks interesting, but curious what sort of ball park the price is in for final production, and what sort of minimum runs?

I'm not clear what 'fabless' means - is it like 'serverless', whereby it really just means 'not your server'. I.e. 'not your fab'.
Thanks. You use the word 'field' 54 times and 'risk' 33 times in the article but never explain what you mean by them. I found this confusing. E.g. at one point you say that 'reducing extinction risk' is a field, but then later say that not every risk is pressing in every field. Is 'reducing extinction risk' both a field and a risk?
Agreed. I make it a point to never discuss work related stuff during lunch time.
Ever so slight word of caution, my reading this book coincided with a period where I wasn’t sleeping very well for various reasons, and I think the book actually made it worse as I was more worried about the detrimental effects of my poor night’s sleep due to what I’d read, so I stopped reading it! I’ve heard the same anecdotally from a couple of other people too.

That said, I think it is a very important book, and now I’ve hopefully resolved my sleep issue (with thanks to some of the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944 - primarily the advice about having a regular “sleep schedule”) I look forward to finishing it!
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Congrats Stas and David. They are lucky to have you and Karmabot. It's going to be a great experience. Enjoy every bit of it. Congrats!
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Fixed it for you:

This change will likely disproportionately affect the poor and middle-class (who will see a sharp rise in manufacturing jobs) as well as smaller businesses who rely on manufacturing to survive.

Given the state of the economy, "burdened" is not a reasonable description.
Nobody forbids /r/entrepreneur denizens to go to China and open his own dropship outfit there. And in fact, many of them did. You will be surprised that all those aliexpress stores that have product description in perfect Russian, German, and French are shops ran by Russian citizens in China, mostly elderly women.
That way you don’t have to picture your team dead.

But it’s a reminder that they wouldn’t help if they had financial security.
First off, the "single engineer" was Levandowski, the person who basically started Google's self-driving team and was the lead for the project, not any random person.

So what? That does not dicount the fact that a single engineer rigged the software in a way which allowed a deadly machine to be used on public roads. If anything it makes the issue much worse that the lead engineer performed such an, arguably, criminal hack.

Actually I appreciate your answer. It illustrates perfectly why the SV croud cannot be trusted with policy decisions regarding autonomous vehicles.
Interesting. Is the improvement in performance mostly due to improvement in size, number, and speed, did finetuning the cache parameters (number of caches, cache size, cache line size) help, or are there more fundamental architectural improvements? Do you have links to more information?
score-boarding to me represents an in-between, because:

1. they stall on the first RAW conflict.
2. they initiate execution in-order, although they may complete execution out-of-order.

I wish there was better nomenclature so people don't get confused, because clearly it doesn't fit into the dichotomy of in-order vs. out-of-order execution.
No cows in zoos. So the biologists didn't study them.

Because of cow patties, there are always lots of flies in cow pastures.

Anyone who has been in a cow pasture in summer would easily notice that cows use their tails the same way as horses do: to chase away flies.
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> This is why sometime this year people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees increasing slowly over the next few years.

Interesting, got a source for that?
Isn't interference just another way to describe sensitivity? From the classic Salon article, The Myth of Interference: "'Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature.' So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet." https://www.salon.com/2003/03/12/spectrum/
Those airlines don't provide a better product for a lower cost, they are selling you a higher-end product and billing part of it to their own citizens. That's what government subsidy means.
it's a old project. I've been upload all the tools I ever made to git.
Incorrect. The TSA is a US based [government] agency; GDPR doesn't apply.

In Europe, even governments are subject to the rules of GDPR.
This triggers some thoughts that I haven't quite joined up yet.

Likewise, some reds and some greens are interchangeable to me.

I imagine the different colouring of intervals that you hear in different keys is due to tempering. I don't have anything close to AP, but I tell chord progression in C# from the same in C. But purple is pretty much just a shade of blue to me.

I studied Indian classical music for quite a few years, which involved a lot of listening to and repeating phrases. I was fine with the longer stuff, but eventually found out I had some sort of deficit with interval recognition and struggled with replicating standalone 2 note phrases.

I have good harmony and rhythm instincts in practice, but am almost 'dyslexic' when trying to describe them formally.

I'm slightly wondering if this collection of deficits and compensatory mechanisms is what has led me to a fascination with flamenco. (Albeit with a little frustration at some of the more puritanical traditionalism.)

Also, Miles rules.
To add to that: basic needs were also either free or heavily subsidized. Child care was completely free even for the smallest ones, free food in child care and school. Clothing for children was cheap, as were books etc. for kids. Apartments were subsidized (renting a modern apartment did cost less than 10% of montly income etc.). Health care was completely free, everything, including dentists etc.

OTOH "luxuries" like color TV, computers etc. were pretty expensive.

Despite ethics (equal rights of men and women was a big reason) one factor was macro economic ties to Russia; East Germany (as other countries) had to produce stuff for exporting into Russia, partly without the agreed-upon imports in return. Over time this created major imbalances and thus the need to import from Western Europe, which in turn meant a high need for foreign currency. To obtain foreign currency, domestic production had to be exported in higher amounts than anticipated, thus less output was there for local consumption and investments.
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Let's see how long Trump's economical orgasm last.
> I don’t like discord, the company

I'm curious, can you expand on that? I hear a lot about how much people love Discord, but haven't heard much (good or bad) about the company itself. They seem to be in the best position to compete with Steam though, which is hard to say the least.
I think only if you have steel caps in Australia as they trigger the metal detectors. I've flown into and out of every major airport in Australia (including OOL) and have only had to remove my shoes when I'm wearing work boots.
That's what "fabless" about means. I think using it as an attribute to the chip it's a misapplication of the term. Many companies today don't own chip fabrication plants, so that's kind of the norm, apart from IBM, Samsung and Intel. For instance the new Ampere ARM processor is manufactured by TSMC.
While not quite infinite, what you want sounds awfully close to a belt machine;

Each instruction reads data from positions on the belt and then puts a few values at the start of the belt. This causes values on the end to "fall off".

The MILL CPU is an example of this architecture.
> For the past 17 years there was immense fear-mongering of what kind of slippery slope these measures would lead to and yet none have really materialized.

In the context of OP's link, this is just funny. I find it hard to see how a person could legitimately be so ignorant and oblivious.
There's a bunch of businesses arbitraging the differential between warehousing Chinese goods in the US vs shipping them directly with very cheap postage. Wish, DHGate, AliExpress, a bunch of sellers on Amazon, etc., but I don't think this will kill them. At least not all of them; there will likely be consolidation to bigger players and players that already have US-based warehousing and distribution in place.

There's already a number of sellers that compete on shipment speed, rather than just on price. Likewise, there are Fulfilled By Amazon sellers that import from China in bulk and warehouse it with Amazon. So, they can charge an extra 5% or whatever because it will arrive in 2-5 days from a warehouse in California rather than in 2 weeks for goods coming from China. I suspect this will push more business their way rather than completely destroy this market, but it's going to be a big hit.

I don't think it's entirely a terrible thing to put a realistic price on individually importing goods. I've been buying a lot of import stuff for electronics and guitar projects lately, and I'm astonished at how cheaply a bag of electronics parts can be shipped from China. It's a tiny bag of parts coming from the other side of the world, and it's still cheaper than buying locally. That doesn't seem like it should be so, compared to bulk importers that bring the goods over in container-sized quantities so they can ship it to individuals from the same continent.
One of these days I’m just going to give up and wear this T-shirt I have that says “I made it to second base with the TSA screener“
The article link gives a 403 error. Any other link?

Edit: http://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm this seems to be the same article.
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Jessica worked with Paul in tandem. Their isolated work is less impactful.
Can’t have real free trade with central-banking and fiat, must have hard global money.
Perhaps people are wondering how your UNet is going to see the bristles on the other side of the dandelion seed.
I don't understand your very low college enrollment figures.

Also, if you look at Germany, there are "Universität", "Hochschule" - but also "Fachhochschule".

Enrollment is at almost 60% - according to the text on the right that's the share of those who begin a study on the entire population born in the respective year: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/72005/umfrage...
> In terms of women's participation in the workforce the communist states were far ahead of the West.

Equal rights were implemented by law since inception of East Germany in 1949. In West Germany, the husband could legally forbid his wife to work until 1977(!).

Being gay was also legalized earlier than in West Germany.
Do people in this thread realize the USPS is almost entirely self funded? I see a lot of talk about tax dollars etc. The USPS doesn't work that way.
I don't believe that would fall afoul under this particular section, but I know there are specific sections that deal with anything regarding gender, ethnicity, sexual preference, religious affiliation, etc. that you might have to worry about. I'm pretty sure you could still do it without any kind of consent (which is what the case here was related to), but the gender data you collect from it might have restrictions on use or other caveats you'd have to deal with.

Honestly I'd have to do some specific research and then probably contact a lawyer to have them do some research just to CYA (or rather, mine).
Here you go : https://archive.fo/9kz4u
The problem of how to gradually implement a pervasive surveillance state without at any one time arousing people's suspicions to the point where they will actually do something meaningful about it?

Seriously, though, I would love to know the actual motivation for this. Somehow these days I have trouble attributing changes like this to simple bureaucratic momentum.
Well, maybe there was some cause and effect relation here?

"Someone opposed the thing and it never happened."

We don't have an alternative reality to actually verify why it never happened.
Globalization is a hegemonic project of the West, best understood as a means to transfer capital from the economic peripheries to the imperial core, and has tended to wreak havoc on developing countries that have exposed themselves to it. China has been very sensible to ignore the dogma about free trade and to exploit weaknesses and loopholes in trade treaties when they find them.
> I'm not sure if you've lived in low-density rural areas that are dependent on many roads, but when you do you see traffic isn't always the dominant factor.

I've worked in low density rural areas, though I've only lived in urban and low-density suburban areas, mostly the latter.

And, yes, if you have very little traffic and very little of that is heavy vehicle traffic, weathering becomes the dominant factor.

If you have signficant traffic, it becomes the dominant wear factor, even though you still have the full impact of weathering. High population density doesn't eliminate the freeze/thaw cycle.

> Basically dealing with infrastructure in rural areas you can't pretend that the earth is stable & inactive and no rural place can afford the most durable materials.

You can't pretend that in urban areas, either, which (among other factors) tend to be next to major waterways which have substantial impacts on stability.

> and no rural place can afford the most durable materials.

What you mean is “no rural place finds it cost effective to pay for the most expensive materials that are needed for heavily trafficked urban roads, because the maintenance cost with cheaper materials to keep roads in conditions suitable for the actual demands placed on them in those areas is lower than if the more expensive materials were used.”

Which gets back to my point that, sure, low-density areas have more linear distance of road per person, but also lower build and maintenance costs per unit of linear distance of road.
I completed my undergraduate degree from IIT Madras. It is not free, there is a tuition fee. I think the tuition fees for a foreign national would come around 4k to 5k USD. You can find eligibility criteria for foreign nationals over here[1].
1. https://www.iitm.ac.in/sites/default/files/uploads/adm._pro....
I always wondered how Chinese sellers on Ebay could sell small toys and trinkets for less than a dollar with free shipping that took several weeks to arrive. It would cost more than that to send a small empty box between two addresses in the US.
Purchase history for two years and classification of what I buy. Yes, loyalty scheme.
Replace it with the twitch chat language.
BILLA Austria, part of REWE.
The more it does things like that, the more the rest of the world moves on without it.
The “illusion of safety”. There is no legitimate safety guarantee from TSA. If someone wanted to do harm in an American airport or airplane, they could. We need to stop kidding ourselves. If a terrorist was serious about death and destruction at an American airport, they could do it. It is absolutely possible to bring down an airplane right now, with all the safeguards and TSA crap. We’ve all just fooled ourselves into thinking more security and less civil rights equals more safety.
I was quite surprised it let me verify from the device I was actively using.. Is it really 2FA if it pops up the code on top of Chrome?
BILLA in Austria, part of REWE.
But that isn't democratic anymore. Whereas one person equals one vote in the case of the public receiving the profits, participation in the stock market means more profit the more you wealth you already have (for buying shares).
I can't speak for outside the UK, but here the ISPs hand out non-static[1] IP addresses to residential customers. These IP ranges are in the spam-block lists that a lot of the other mail providers use. As such sending any email directly from your ISP given IP address is hit-and-miss affair. You don't even get any bounce notifications, the emails just disappear and never arrive at their destination, so you have no idea that something is wrong.

Some ISPs allow you to pay for a proper static IP to get around this problem, but again some of the ranges are still in the block lists. The only way I could guarantee that my IP wasn't blacklisted was to switch to a business account with my ISP and thus have IPs from a different range.

If you are stuck on a non-static IP, the easiest way around the problem is to send via the SMTP smarthost that your ISP hosts.

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[1] They are technically dynamic IPs, but are sticky in that you keep the same IP unless your router goes offline for more than a couple of hours.
Seen that talk before :) really is a great talk too!
> And several people died in human-caused wrecks while you were typing that sentence.

According to [0] 1.24 million people die in automobile related accidents annually. This works out to 0.04 per second. Unless parent is a very slow typist your number overstates the real toll several times.

[0] http://www.progressive-economy.org/trade_facts/traffic-accid...

Seems to be a mix of 2010 and 2014 data, but broadly speaking close enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

It's kind of the paleolithic sistine chapel. It's used as a sort of type example of early sapien "behavioral modernity," proof their minds were like ours. If you go back in time from that point, sapiens existed for a long time but the artifacts they left behind were not that different from other species' artifacts.

If current dates are good, there're almost 1,000 generations between the Chavet art and the art in the picture you liked, most of the upper paleolithic. They look similar to me, but idk anything.
Most imported goods are not shipped as parcels, they come as ocean or air freight.
Same experience. Mostly fine to run your own server. I check the blocklist status of the IP before moving/setting up a new server.

We end up on Hotmail/Outlook's blocklist about once a year. They remove it within 1-2 hours after opening a ticket.
Doesn't that mean in the end you have to check 127 values for if they are 0?

Or 64, if you store numbers as 32-bit integers and compare them as 64-bit using a union type.
>Whoever thought it would be advantageous [...]

Well its a 144 year old treaty so probably Ulysses S. Grant and the 43rd Congress.
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Could it work at higher speeds, like a craft in re-entry from space? Like a dandelion pre-chute.
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No, Canada negotiated changes within the treaty framework.

The US could do that (and some of the coverage have indicated that the withdrawal is a negotiating tactic to provide more leverage for that, with the plan being to leverage the time it takes to go into effect to negotiate changes and then cancel the withdrawal before it is effective; Canada didn't have to do that to negotiate changes, though.)
There have been several proposals to install breathalyzers in cars. Had the public education and law enforcement campaign (MADD etc) failed to improve the situation these might well have been the next step.