skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have it the wrong way. Noone can make it so that gmail accepts their e-mail. It's the gmail's job after it receives the connection to process the SMTP commands and deliver the message to you.

I mean, assumming that the sender doesn't have broken SMTP client or doesn't follow standards.

It's gmail's user's problem if they don't accept mail or check their Junk folder or use an e-mail provider that they can't contact to solve issues on their side.

In the old days, if I didn't receive mail because my mail provider was rejecting it, it was me who had to talk to them. Free has a cost. And it's gmail users who should be paying it in their time and fruitless attempts at communicating with google. At least they'd realize what company they're enabling and how much it doesn't care about their e-mail.
The point is it's an investigation not a conclusion.

The author heavily focuses on pollution in the area being a possible cause, and points out inadequacy in investigation performed on and arguments against pollution being the cause. But all her evidence is anecdotal.

The point isn't to assert that she is certain of the cause, it's to provide a spotlight on evidence which she has seen which has not been given adequate examination and the resulting suffering from what could possibly be preventable.

The title is appropriate, not clickbait.
Speaking of bullshit designs...

Why does that blog have a load screen that takes about 15 seconds to disappear? If you open up debug tools and delete the overlay, the blog entry is perfectly readable underneath it. There's no network activity during those 15 seconds of "loading". It's just ... bullshit.
When London and New York were growing to their peaks of global significance, their hinterlands had a significant share of global economic activity.
I popped "file free tax returns turbotax" into Google and found the page directly listed.
The page in question is https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/free-editi...

The robots.txt for the intuit.com domain is: https://turbotax.intuit.com/robots.txt

Not listing in robots.txt to block the personal-taxes folder, which has many offerings and a sub from that is the free one.

I'm not seeing the block that the story is on about in search and in robots.txt

What am I missing?

[EDIT ADD] Thank you for all the replies, I see what they did there now.
There's a big difference, though; they're not all connected. Each team is its own separate entity. A team with 10 people might pay Slack $100/mo, and all be in the UK. Those people and that Slack team's database doesn't need to interact with anyone else in the system. There should be no big scaling constraints here, unlike your gaming company, where everyone needs to be connected from anywhere in the world, at the lowest possible latency.
Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet
Can anyone tell me what this company has done to earn this type of funding.
Old guy here who understands what you're getting at.

My thoughts on how you do it:

1. Be a genuinely good person.

2. Be a team player. Always credit the team. People will figure things out.

3. Do small, nice things for people without the expectation of reciprocation. They shouldn't require a major time or money investment from you. Just little things.

4. Show up on time. Don't be the first to leave.

5. Don't overwork. Overworking leads to negative effects on your health.
Ah, that's very useful to know. I take my statement back then, this is better calibration than I thought.
"Clubs" are not 501(c)(3) organizations. They are typically 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), or 501(c)(10) organizations--the latter two covering fraternal lodges. So, mainly 501(c)(7).

If you register your recreational club as a 501(c)(3), then congratulations, you're now a gang of tax code violators.
What Happened Inside the Markup
He forecasts elections, and his models include endorsements. This tweet discusses a group that issues endorsements, their stance on a candidate who just entered a primary, and the win rate of candidates endorsed by said group. This is essentially a perfect tweet illustrating something that a forecaster would do.
I think his point is that we've been trying _really_ hard over the past decade to make these web apps behave as much as possible like desktop apps. So if we're going to continue to do so then we need to break with the things like the giant fucking logo in the top left.
Because there was arecent legislative push for allowing the IRS to do people's taxes for them for the majority of people, since the IRS already has the info to do so. The Tax industry pushes back against that, strongly, and one of the ways they do so is to note how the provide a service to do the taxes for free for people under a certain level of income (I believe as mandated by earlier legislation?). That they purposefully make it hard for people that qualify to find the free service has some bearing on the situation.
Saying no to big customers
I wonder if originally this technically constitutes an illegal form of interception of mail in some jurisdictions.

Perhaps there really would be a lot more spam without such filtering, but it points to the actual problem being elsewhere. Perhaps we need some kind of cheap and userriendly (uniform but decentralized) email court system, and fine / ban email accounts that misbehave?
> That's like…

No it is not. Program X may not have measured less than Program Y.

> … meaningful comparisons…

Earlier you complained there was "code that's very unidiomatic" but now you say "writing all the Lisp programs as if they were being written in Java" would be exactly right?

1) You seem to be contradicting your own argument.

2) Your desire for "rigorous" comparison is in-conflict with your desire for inter-language comparison.

> … different programs use different algorithms…

For some programs, for some definition of "algorithm".

> … the comparison tells me nothing about the relative speed of those languages.

What is the speed of a programming language?
> which mean that they are on their way to become profitable.

Never will be sure of the exact numbers but a great deal of the sales is no doubt driven by startups and cash they are spending (do they still call this runway?). When that stops what happens?
Microsoft was in the position of the Hackintoshes, though. It was IBM in Apple's position, and IBM did sue.

A software company (MS) and a hardware company (Apple) definitely make different choices!
No it doesn't. If the precheck lanes are closed you get to go through the regular line first. That's it. Add to that, there is no evidence to show that our intrusive security is any better than the former metal detectors that existed prior. Flying is needlessly impacted. It's theater as it's trivially easy to bypass most security measures in place and get weapons on board all you want. The best security measure that was implemented was locking the cockpit during flight. It's the only one that made any real improvement in security and it cost nothing.
Can somebody from Uber clarify?
Uber could've used Cadence instead of Piper / Airflow isn't it. Please correct me if I'm wrong?
I for one welcome our new overlords
It's not only that you don't exist it's that doing what worked for you would require that these people London has been marginalizing since forever are right and their current approach is wrong. That's a non-starter.
You don't know what you're talking about. A lot of the blocking is based on IP addresses alone (or worse, IP address ranges).
Whilst I applaud and appreciate the sentiment behind the various technological workarounds suggested here (killswitches, canaries, extra levels of security, etc.) do bear in mind that the legal/justice system is not an algorithm that works and operates like code. There are no clever tricks.
Seems like money well spent in the butt covering department. If their new logo flopped and someone in charge said "I paid some designer $1000 to draw up this new logo" he'd be out of a job and blackballed from the industry. If he says "we spent a million dollars building this logo and had a study done to back it up!" then who can blame him we never saw this coming.
> Not so great.

Well, resumable exceptions are not so great... We really don't want them in Java (remember that Java is a language originally designed by Lispers).

> So the totality of your opinion of the JVM being better for Lisp comes from exactly what knowledge? Oracle marketing?

I've used Racket (and PLT Scheme before it) quite a bit (I was a Schemer when Java barely even existed), and Guile, and, of course, Clojure. Also, Oracle marketing is quite terrible.

> You mean Clojure users recruited from Java? I have never seen many Scheme, Common Lisp, Javascript, Julia, ... users on the JVM.

I started using Scheme in the mid-nineties. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many Scheme and Common Lisp users anywhere. Clojure is the first in over three decades to be used on any noticeable scale in industry. There are plenty of people that run JS on the JVM (probably ten times all non-Clojure Lispers), and Julia is still new.

> Really? Looks to me that it's not particular fast.

It's very fast. Here's some benchmarks with early prototypes: http://thezhangwei.com/documents/oopsla113-zhang.pdf

Beats PyPy.
I'm thinking about differen string representations used by different libraries. Is this not true?
I wonder if they wait for the right moment (e.g. when Android gets replaced with whatever Google tries to replace it with) for a new play on mobile or if they really are "done" with it.
I can't tell if this is real or not. It feels like the Turbo Encabulator of design.
Congress is debating a bill that would bar the IRS from creating an official free filing system, and instead, mandate that the IRS have private companies fill that role. The concern has been that private companies use dark patterns to upsell users into buying unnecessary paid features:

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...
No. That's one approach, but the page has a meta tag that has the same effect:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noodp" />
The US government has promised TurboTax that the IRS will not create a free e-filing service. In exchange, TurboTax will offer its software for free to some low-income taxpayers.

The US legislature is considering extending this deal.

In light of that, various organizations are exploring how well the current deal is working. In sum: not very well, because TurboTax uses a variety of dark patterns to make it hard for people who are eligible for free services to discover it.
That is not the free file page, and the fact that it tricks you into thinking it is is exactly the point: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you...
That's not their freefile page, that is their more limited free edition page. That's part of the confusion. The /taxfreedom/ page, which is linked to from the IRS website, is blocked in robots.txt

https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom/
As the article mentions, it's set in the metatags of the page https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom/:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noodp" />
When it comes to groups like the IRA one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. You necessarily need to act in a way that makes you a terrorist in the eyes of the government if you want to get your freedom.
I just skimmed through the PDF (not that it has much content). I can't believe someone paid for that. Clearly I'm in the wrong business.
Workplace Stress, Burnout and PTSD
Could Email Deliver the “Internet of the Future?”
Some years ago I would had strongly disagreed with you. But now that I’ve lived in a city where the organized crime has been “disorganized” I can confirm it becomes hell, too many small gangs with no big bosses, making small and big crimes daily under the eyes of everyone, this is worst for the overall quality of life than having a big mafia that follows certain rules and obeys a big boss, making their crimes less visible.
Consumer confidence in the DC-10 disappeared after its closely-spaced and related fatal crashes. This led to the plane being relegated to cargo duties and, eventually, to McDonnell Douglas's financial failure and sale to Boeing.

The TL;DR? If people don't want to fly the MAX, there's nothing Boeing can do to fix it. They're better off abandoning the design and doing the clean sheet plane they should have done from the beginning.
C O C A I N E
I didn't say I don't like them, but I think it's fair to say computer science is a case study in ivory tower academia that rarely offers practical solutions to real world problems. But we sure have a lot of lisp variants to thank them for.

And yeah I'm not sure "procurement" gives you the best perspective on how solutions are developed. You might not engage your users much but I can guarantee you the problem solving engineers building guns and planes have soldiers and pilots deeply involved in the process from conception to sustainment.
The article has sections detailing how blocking works and literally provides pictures of highlighted sections of the websites source code covering this question.
The page you found is a different page, not related to the IRS' "free file"/FFA program for those who make under a certain amount. See previous coverage here: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you...
Most of the answers start with 'We don't know'
Can someone explain the following,

The author says: instead of seeking a solution, the technician had decided that my body was somehow unsuitable for the stage"

But the technician said: "We have a problem. Your jacket is lighter than your face, That’s going to be a problem for lighting"

In what sense did the technician decide the author should be removed from the stage, and seek no other solution?
I'm assuming you mean you try to give people honest feedback, but people object to it because it's too harsh?

It's completely possible to honest, assertive and kind at the same time. I see this false dichotomy all the time: "be honest and make enemies" or "be silent and watch a project tank." There's a third option: be frank and kind. (And yes, there are environments where no form of honesty, gentle or harsh, is welcome -- smile, put in your 40 hours and try to find employment elsewhere.)

If you're constantly angering people with your honesty, the problem is not with your honesty but with your people skills. You need to cut the pity party and take a hard look at your communication habits.
Same - we used Teams for 2-3 weeks before switching back. The syncing was horrendous, the mobile apps were terrible, and a litany of other things I've forgotten.
Your link is from 2016 before the presidential election but after the primaries. Nate is admitting that he underestimated Trump in the primaries and talks about what happened. This does not seem particularly relevant to the subject of election night predictions.
Fastmail

[EDIT: Sorry, missed the 'free' in there. Guess you get what you pay for]
>It was annoying, but didn't feel like it was as big of a deal.

Perhaps because email itself wasn't as big of deal back then? Phone calls and snail mail were used with a lot more regularity back then.
The startup behind that deep-fake David Beckham video just raised $3.1M
I would, and it's based on a pretty simple philosophical/moral/spiritual belief:

Anything that increases and improves our knowledge of the universe - including knowledge of how to best use existing tools, and which tools to use for which jobs - is a good thing in and of itself (barring exceptions related to negative externalities which don't apply here).

I don't know if that's the author's rationale, but it's the one I would use.
I've been thinking about venture funding and how companies do not turn a profit while growing.

Wouldn't using funding to sell a service/product under the market value be considered anti-competitive? I mean the businesses without funding would have to price their services high enough to turn a profit, while venture-backed businesses do not.

Are there not chat services that would have thrived if Slack did not offer one for free/relatively cheaply? What happens when Slack wants to increase prices, but the market competitors have diminished in the meantime?
Yeah, they make special salt packets you can use called Oral Rehydration Salts that have an osmolal ratio of electrolytes plus just enough glucose to cause your upper intestine to rapidly take the fluids in. If you are severely dehydrated drinking a liter of the stuff is enough to restore you to sanity within about half an hour. I usually carry one or two packets in my hiking/climbing first aid kit. Trioral is a really common brand.

Mountaineering is strenuous and all-day enough that you drink water all day, and hyponatremia is a serious concern from drinking straight water for some people, like me. So what I normally do is mix up some Nuun and drink that every few hours. If I get in a bad way and run completely out of water. then I will mix up a liter of ORS and down that. But that's an emergency kind of thing for me because one of the side-effects I've noticed is that ORS will make you thirsty sometimes.
"My cat never kills anything outside, see it has a bell on it!"... Lies.
The title is clickbait, because it deliberately withholds key information to force readers to click. A non-clickbait title would be:

"Pollution suspected of causing rare cancers in Waycross, GA"
You're missing that the Free File Program and Turbotax "Free Edition" are entirely different things:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2572617-what-s-the-differe...

> TurboTax Free File Program is geared towards lower-income filers, regardless of tax return complexity, and is only offered through the IRS Free File Alliance (FFA) program. No upgrades are available.

> TurboTax Free Edition, on the other hand, can be used by higher-income filers but only handles simple returns with no additional schedules. Upgrades and add-ons, such as TurboTax PLUS and Audit Defense, are available.
Please add (2009) to the title.
> ... while those companies most heavily affected by privacy-related scandals faced the steepest erosion in trust.

Amazon hasn't been involved in any large privacy-related scandals.
Seems like if you don't change something you are potentially losing out on a lot of great students. Maybe you do not need to change your e-mail service, but I would hope you are at least warning applicants about this issue somewhere in the application process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk&t=397s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBfB2MJw3qg
In reality, your "productivity" is likely to be negative, as you will need to spend even more time fixing the mistakes you made trying to program in a sleep deprived state.
Can you start a behavior by prohibiting it too then?
It's not all about that. It's also about building muscle which is about training over time with appropriate rest and diet and can't really be short circuited without steroids.
That's pretty amazing if he got that far (5x5x500) just with 5x5's every 5 days- really speaks to the power of the KISS approach.
Fastmail's web client is absurdly excellent compared to Gmail. It's as if, instead of copying all of the bogus stuff Google piled into Gmail, they just made a really good version of webmail the way it was in 2003. Instead of scrapping webmail and starting over, they evolved it into something better. The result is fast, clear, easy to use, and no-nonsense. It's as if all the features that bloat Gmail at this point are just there to solve problems caused by Gmail's bloated feature set. You really don't appreciate how bad it's gotten until you switch.
"We think he ran it, but he left" ;-)
Yeah, but it “solves” it at a monetary and privacy cost (albeit relatively small for the former).

It bothers me that we tolerate various personal possessions (in this instance privacy) being taken away and then given back, generously (/s), for a small fee. I would rather be groped and spoken down to then hand more information/money over to another poorly-managed organization.

Moreover, the Airline-Security group has always been reactive rather than proactive. I don’t see how TSA pre-check prevents anything in the first place. What’s to stop someone from deciding at some point after the Pre-Check process that they want to create havoc on a flight? Nothing. Then we’ll have Super-Pre-Check, for only $190 and this time you “only have to” give a DNA swab. Sorry for the cynicism, etc, but I doubt I’m alone in calling the whole thing a facade.

Anyway, I forgot my initial point, but there’s my rant.
Does AI compares whom data to define which message is important or No?
It doesn't track any specific way on evolution of mentality when it goes to define data correlated to humans usage. Like others products on market. Therefore, if you apply this thought to AI I guess they just made with basics conglomerated informations gathering. That CAN´T move a barrier when satisfying humans usage. It is just how you confront which message is correct to say is relevant or no. AI can be freely a way companies uses their needs on market influence because they're , on a very simple association, doing by themselves, then people get a notion of arbitrariety on those machines that create discussion to the whole universe you see about robot revolution etc, but not the case. I guess they try to hard to make then appear as human to be soon accepted by costumers, its just the way it is, it is not the time to require maximum levels of perfection on how easy they're to addapt as a user
The evidence seems to indicate that vaccines don't cause some kind of "immune system overload". There are efforts underway to increase the number of vaccines given at a time.

https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immu...
Relevant Lemon Demon song "Redefine your Logo" which appears to be about the Pepsi Logo.
https://youtu.be/qImHuiYnVQ0
Your FastMail is different than mine somehow. Mine just says "Mail" with a drop-down arrow in the upper-left corner.

Note also that, in GMail, the logo isn't a menu. It is just a link to the page you are already on. There's a hamburger menu next to it, but that just opens the sidebar.
>Chat is commoditized software at this point.

I don't think I follow your logic. Why would this lead to Hipchat being completely shutdown?
> I feel like as they leave more and more up to the algorithms, we suffer.

With all the hand-wringing about what happens when the "computers" take all of our jobs, I think you crystallized how it all ends for us. It won't be a cinematic extinction of humanity. We will just be ignored--each of us trying to talk to a machine with a human voice, and each of us perpetually on-hold.
1^N is "1 raised to the N". The one measles case so far growing exponentially where N is the exponent. It's still 1 for all values of N though. Nothing is actually increasing even though it's "growing exponentially". There is one measles case so far. Even if it "spreads exponentially" you would still only ever have one case if you intentionally misunderstand how disease spreads and model the number of cases with the function X^N where X is your starting number of cases.

Jokes aren't funny when you have to explain them though
>most people aren't going to download a new app

Fair counter. There will be some lock in. Given that both platforms have similar pricing means that there are strong arbitrage forces at play that keep them in check.
I host my own email stuff too (private stuff and for a couple of friends) and sending to microsoft domains (hotmail, outlook.com) consistently gives me the most problems. Right now it seems to be ok again but I always make sure that people using my domains are fully aware of all these problems.

Edit: not long ago I used a gmail account to contact microsoft support to get them to remove me from their blacklist again (couldn't use my normal email for obvious reasons). Ironically enough their reply got marked as spam by gmail (something in my included message parts might very well have triggered that but I had to laugh out loud at the situation).
Why disco made pop songs longer