skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not just postfix or sendmail you need to configure correctly and then put apt-get update/upgrade -y in cron to avoid the damage caused by making a mistake or falling asleep at the wheel. Casual self-hosters have other vectors of attack to mitigate, for example making sure sasl or whatever they may be using for imaps auth is solid, that passwords are strong and routinely changed, that php is also tight and so on. The stakes are relatively high, the efforts to compromise systems for this and other purposes are voluminous and incessant. So I'd say "it takes a village" to do this safely enough, not individual enthusiasts who cannot commit to administering a server diligently.
There is a large group of people starting to frame this a "personal freedom' issue. Some people in my circle are family members, or old classmates, etc. Some view it as a moral issue, because they are afraid of what 'the state' might mandate as a vaccine. (and what might get added in the future. For example, a few of them are VERY opposed to gaurdasil, since in their minds (not mine) that helps promote promiscuity, and the downfall of good moral choices, etc.

Overall, the people that I know that are opposed are all successful, in industries without strong education requirements (ie, realestate, the trades, etc) But have a VERY strong distrust of government, and the medical industry. They frame it as a personal 'freedom' but really, they seem to be worried that the corrupt state will push barely tested shots on our kids, that will cause who knows what.

I don't agree with them, but I figured I would state their points, because just calling them idiots doesn't solve the problem
>> A single night of 4 hours sleep, followed by a year of normal nights sleep will lead to a me that is indistinguishable from the me that slept 8 hours that same night.

Usually. Except if the 4 hours of sleep leads you to crash your car, or run into a pedestrian, or forget your child in a car.

In the usual case, a day of missed sleep is normally OK, but when you are responsible for other people (rather than just code quality/productivity), why risk it? And even in the general case...why risk it? It is far better to lead a normal lifestyle and be at peak performance in all parts of your responsibility.
They should add 2 zeros to the fine and offer FB the option to be broken apart instead.

Crimes were committed. Crimes continue to be committed.
Someone posted on reddit the other day about (seemingly) the exact same issue
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/bbrvlt/any_reco...
Major Intel Roadmap Leak: Ice Lake in Q2, Tiger Lake and 14nm Rocket Lake in '20
So there just...wasn't one? The Bronx is 57 square miles, with a population density of 35000/sqmi. The town I live in is 58 square miles, with a density of <2000/sqmi.

I searched "bookstore" on google maps around my town, and quit counting at 13.

Can someone explain the benefits of living on top of one another in such a congested area when nobody delivers services even as basic as a bookstore, while my podunk place in "flyover country" has now 13x the number of available outlets for something like this?
>> I'm sure there is no malicious intent behind this

> How can anyone be sure of this?

I know this would sound crazy to an alien learning English but the phrase, "I'm sure there is no malicious intent" in this context actually means "I don't presume there is malicious intent".

It does not mean, "I have a positive reason to believe there is no malicious intent."
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190426163107/https://www.trust...
>Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.

On this note: if you opt-out of telemetry, don't complain when your power-user features stop being catered to.
Animals are more or less “things” as far as the law is concerned. A dangerous dog will be put down irregardless of intent, just like a dangerous boulder above a house will be removed or secured. Blame, guilt, or morality don’t come into play. Conversely, training an animal brings with itself the same culpability as using any other tool, say building a trap.

In civil law, you are responsible for any damage your animal causes, training or not.

There’s an interesting dissonance here with children: at least in my jurisdiction, Hilden categorically can not commit crimes before age 14, and (contrary to popular belief) their parents are not responsible, either. I’m unsure how this extends to the case where the parents actively encourage the behavior, though.

There are some advocates for some sort of legal personhood for, say, elephants or apes. But this is more in the context of environmental law, not life-or-death.

See also that gorilla that was killed when someone climbed into their enclosure, and the entirely uninformed internet brouhaha that ensued.
Having lived in both India and China for some time, I can assure you that the scale and magnitude is completely different.
"I wonder if the so-called developed countries should be careful of their own premature deindustrialization. The US industrial base has faltered, but there is still so much left to build. Until we’ve perfected asteroid mining and super-skyscrapers and fusion rockets and Jupiter colonies and matter compilers, we can’t be satisfied with innovation confined mostly to the digital world."

I highly recommend reading Dan Wang's "Definite optimism as human capital" https://danwang.co/definite-optimism-as-human-capital/
Feminine Design, Masculine Design
The point was it is unfair to say that Mattermost cloned Slack. Many of these technologies aren't unique to Slack.
Is that an improvement in software, or just a result of hardware getting faster?
> this is just Tether buying up the supply to keep the peg

Buying up the supply with what?

Skeptics claim Tether isn't backed by actual dollars, so it's impossible to convert Tether for dollars.

But if Tether is buying up the supply, what are the sellers of Tether receiving in return? If they're getting dollars, then doesn't that refute the skeptics' claims?
His blog is very easy to find, but also is full of all sorts of off-topic NSFW stuff which I don't really want to send people into unawares if they're not familiar with who he is. He has several recent posts on this topic which I don't feel like tracking down as their content doesn't really add anything to the conversation -- it's basically exactly what you see in the OP here, with more colorful expletives.
You may want to check out Helm - https://thehelm.com (I'm a co-founder)
Happens all the time to small businesses. You piss of the wrong person, phone calls get made and crippling fines are levied. At least that's how it works in my state. I can't think of it ever happening to a big business though.
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Similarly, rebooting an Android will disable the fingerprint unlock. The first time you log in after a reboot, it requires you to enter your pin.
Me too. The only problem I have with an alternative to Android or iOS is: will it run my banking app?
Hope they're not using a cloud instance - that sounds incredibly expensive!
Except it's more expensive than flying. I'd love to take the train from Boston to DC but buses are significantly cheaper and generally get you there at a similar time when you take into account how often they leave.
This project is trying to take advantage of modern Python features to handle encoding and decoding. It has been in beta for a while, and it's worked well enough at our company handling some gnarly payloads that I decided to bump it to a stable release.
A couple of weeks ago I was listening to a podcast and the guest worked at this data integration company. In order to provide integration with external APIs they needed to do this in case they changed any endpoint without backwards compatibility. They would monitor the API docs for any change so they could see if something had to be updated on their side. I thought it was kind of "brute" but then I realized there's no good way of doing this today.
I wonder how effective TV advertising would really be for something relevant to such a small proportion of the population.
I'm going to go against most of the replies and start with a question, because without a clear answer you're going to probably have mixed results, at best.

What is your motivation and what do you hope to achieve?

If the answer is clearly "I want to move as much weight as possible", then you should pursue a powerlifting track. It's very unlikely you would start with Olympic lifts an and end goal, but in the off chance, ditto that.

If the answer has a component centered around muscularity and body image, then you may want to start with an elementary bodybuilding program. What's the difference? You'll do more reps at lower weights (as %1RM), and you'll do a lot more accessory lifts, as opposed to primarily focusing with intent on [mostly] just the major compound lifts.

If your goal is to become more athletic, then you'll probably end up with a blend that combines the major compound lifts, accessory lifts, and explosive functional movements with resistance.

In my case, my first goal was "get stronger so I can perform better at my sports of choice", so I started with bootcamp style HIIT classes, then added more explicit functional movements and accessory lifts, and only then started adding compound lifts for total body strength & power.

Point being, identify your objectives first, then choose a training program. And, if you're a complete newbie, do not try to do this by yourself. Join a class, hire a trainer, or find an experienced buddy -- you'll have more fun, probably experience faster gains, and reduce your chances of injury.
Fear, uncertainty, doubt
My comment is not in a vacuum it’s a direct response to a comment that suggest regulation of a thing is improper because “people want to do it”. Your point is directly in line with mine...we can regulate things notwithstanding “people wanting to do it.” And that is not a reason to not regulate a thing, if people don’t agree with the merits of the proposed regulation, fine, but I think we both agree “because people want to do it” is not a reason to not regulate something.

I’m not saying slack is a fraud...I’m not even saying it’s a bad investment. People have read all that in to a concept.
I quit ProtonMail / ProtonVPN after trying over and over and over again to import mail through their IMAP bridge. They won't provide an open API for interacting with their mail services so someone can write a better bridge, and their bridge is very slow, disconnects repeatedly, and basically makes any migrations impossible. If you're willing to start over with an empty mailbox, maybe ProtonMail is for you. I eventually gave up trying to move my mail account in (many tries, with Thunderbird in chunks, with Lamiral's awesome imapsync tool, you name it), and let them keep the money I paid for a year of ProtonMail Visionary.

I ended up using StartMail from the StartPage people. It's not perfect, but I was actually able to migrate to it and use it effectively.
If you were a delivery driver you would consider parking tickets a cost of doing business too.
Visio and Access: Kicked to the curb.
If there were a viable news business that allowed local journalists to investigate the issue, perhaps this wouldn't have happened, or have been uncovered earlier.
When I was small we learned the inverted pyramid model of news, that the most important information should be at the top (the headline) and succeeding content should be ordered primarily in descending order of information significance.

Did this change at some point? Or is this just tabloid practices infecting journalism in the era of maximizing clicks? I find the old model infinitely better especially as people tend not to read past headlines in most cases.
Although I agree with the author's position that an awful lot of sketchy things are happening, and I'm sure happy I don't own any of this so-called stable coin, this line bothers me:

> If everyone redeemed their Tethers today, it is not clear how Tether would come up with the money

This is true of banks, too. In fact, if everyone took out all of their money from all of the banks, there isn't enough real money in existence to cover it.

With Tether, it is at least plausible that the money still exists and is simply frozen due to some terrible business decisions. With banks, the money doesn't exist.

I'm sure this isn't news to anyone on HN. The pros and cons of Fractional Reserve Banking are well known. But it seems unfair to hold Tether up to a higher standard than even our most established banks.

UPDATE: This is one of those can of worms things. A lot of you are making similar arguments, and rather than answer one by one, let me just say:

1) Comparing a run on Tether to a run on ALL of the banks was a poor comparison on my part.

2) Y'all might be right that it wasn't UNFAIR of the author to make the claim above. Tether did make that promise to their customers.

3) Y'all have way more faith in fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking than I do.

Cheers.
OpenBSD's a notable exception for ThinkPads specifically, primarily because most (if not all) of the OpenBSD devs do their development from within OpenBSD itself (i.e. using OpenBSD either as their primary system or otherwise with significant regularity), and said devs tend to reach for ThinkPads. So, naturally, ThinkPads ended up being the de facto "preferred" devices for (i386/amd64) OpenBSD.
That's not true at all.

We spent $100k on upwork. The slightly lower rates are nice, but the value is the contractor rep so we don't get ripped off and dealing with moving money. Note that moving money requires more than physical xfer, but also the legal structures and corps and whatever else to make sure we comply with all relevant laws, both here and abroad. The latter is not a trivial bit of work.

Without upwork, we would not be using contractors in Russia or Argentina.
On the Danger of Priming in Surveys
I can just tell you that I've seen difficulty at selling things at the $5/month price point. In particular I've seen people bridle at the costs of running a very small system in the AWS cloud that costs about that much.
Rippetoe has a video of him deadlifting 500 pounds at age 56. He's not the peak of physical fitness, but he is significantly stronger than most people.

To say that his advice is antiquated is controversial at best. SS is written for the brand new beginner, and is advertised as such. Its prototypical student is a high school freshman that weighs 140 lbs and needs to get bigger and stronger to make the football team.

Another commenter said it ignores other factors like diet and rest. This is objectively incorrect. The book harps on eating and sleeping/resting. Rest days are sacred. If you are trying to go from. 100 lb squat to 300 in a few months, you sleep and eat, taking occasional breaks to lift heavy. If you are fat, eat slightly less.

SS isn't about body building, it's about a brand new lifter getting to a non-embarassing level of strength. That means eating an adequate amount of food, erroring on the side of eating too much, and just cut back the calories after you have a 300+ lb squat. People like to make a meme of things like the 'Gallon of Milk A Day' advice. That's not general advice. That's for the 110 lb 15 year old who doesn't like eating food and wants to get bigger. It's not advice for the 20 something software dev trying to go from weak and fat to bodybuilder
> The point of headlines has always been to intrigue prospective readers, after all.

Which would have been a better headline on, say 9/11?

A: “U.S. Attacked - Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers”

B: “Something Awful Happened in NYC Today. Click here to find out what!”
> For example, many pit bulls who attack or maim people these days get put down by animal control. If a court could prove that an animal had been trained/conditioned (by a proven guilty defendant) to commit the offending act, would said animal still be facing death?

Yes, putting down a dangerous animal isn't a criminal punishment premised on the animal's culpability (as a matter of law, animals lack the capacity for culpability), but a protective measure equivalent to condemning and demolishing a dangerous building.
If people are selling Tether to buy BTC, the price of Tether should decline while the price of BTC should increase.

What actually happened is the price of Tether dropped < 1% and the price of BTC reverted to where it was a week ago.
Many are convinced that paying the workers, the lobbyists, shareholders, board of directors, and contract overhead is cheaper than just paying the workers directly.

I've been investigating why people think this for years. I've read a number of books, listened to lectures, went to proseminars in economics at UC schools, took some classes ...

Recently, I've become increasingly convinced it's actually just a giant hustle. It's an elaborate ploy that makes people money. Things like Demand Theory or the Efficient Market Hypothesis are modern astrology psuedo-sciences with real world evidence that's incidental or statistically insignificant at best.

This is especially true for the second-order implications like privatization.

There's no persuasive material evidence of the purported theory that privatization is more efficient. The most favorable evidence from the supporters (for instance, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg he has 3 more on the topic) say that private and public projects are about the same. They go over budget about the same and fail about the same.

Other more critical quantitative studies show dramatically better outcomes for publicly controlled systems - look at Oxfam studies for instance.

There's also a lot of evidence that the private systems however mint millionaires who make an absolute killing off the taxpayer.

Just like 500 years ago how religious people controlled the narrative and set up the rules of society and "laws of nature" to basically be giant money trees for them, there's a new class of people who have done the same thing.

Recently I've been studying where this economic school originated from (essentially Chicago Boys style) and what was driving it. I haven't found any serious scholarly work on it beyond things written by journalists.

The journalists track it to various organizations that formed after the new deal (each author has a different boogeyman) but the narrative is essentially the same: create think tanks, pack the colleges with favorable people, witch hunt the critics through red/left/whatever baiting, silence alternative views, create a media through movies, news, and television that support this view and so on.

Not because it's accurate, right, or correct - but because it makes them a lot of cash. The narrative actually changes.

Groups like the Heritage foundation or the American Enterprise Institute move their goalposts constantly over the years and defend it on supposedly principled economic grounds.

The problem is that you can often find, such as in healthcare, documents where they make multiple fundamentally contradictory arguments because the underlying market mechanics they defend are pliable devices of convenience to push the agenda of making private capital and that's literally it.

There's nothing deeper, nothing more fundamental. It's a giant hustle.
I just looked at Noticeable.io - does it integrated with Github pushes? How is this different from just publishing to our Wordpress site?
Not sure why you are being downvoted, you have a point. There is no excuse for the way Google is operating now - poor customer support, the only recourse twits and HN posts.

I think it also hurts Google themselves. There is a reason they have trouble competing with AWS. Why should developers trust Google that there will be a person on the other side helping them out when things go wrong? And they always do, at worst possible time. Amazon, for all its problems, has excellent customer service.

So your parent's attempt to fix this is a PR stunt at best. If they (/Google) care about this, they should fix the problems in the process:

- define, hardcode and publish rules that will lead to successfull e-mail delivery (SPF, DKIM, history,...)

- establish a gmail technical customer support service

And they should stop with preferential treatment of those who shame them publicly. Or do they want all of us to start doing the same?
I mean, you want me to search "niche erotica"? It sounded like you were describing specific collections that would have associated URLs.... but certainly understand if you don't want to post those links here.
JavaScript Ecosystem Survey Analysis
Samsung is having a lot of quality issues lately. There is a problem with the S10, which causes it to permanently lose connectivity, requiring a device swap. It seems to affect all carriers, but for some reason is affecting Sprint more than others. Of the 7 people I know on Sprint with an S10, all have had to swap them out for replacements.

Current rumor is "there is a RF transmission issue that burns up the modem, quite literally, so then it won't read anymore. Can happen on any band. The software releases are supposed to prevent this from happening. But if your device has succumbed to this already, you're hosed." https://s4gru.com/forums/topic/7899-galaxy-s10-family-discus...
The positive side-effects of blockchain
But that's just as true with credit card debt, right? If I couldn't make an important purchase because I hit my limit, my life might be radically different - is it therefore "not debt"?
I remain very confused about the focus on mobile banking apps. I watched as Windows Mobile sites extensively covered each and every bank that left the platform like it was an incredible tragedy.

Banking is the most obvious case for doing over the web. It is silly to limit yourself to platforms which your specific bank happens to support, given the incredible multitude of banks, and the likelihood that most banks' apps probably suck anyhow.
What does "crypto burn" mean?
Strong opinions require strong evidence.

CPI index (corruption perception index) places USA on 22nd place while China is way down on the 89th place.
It's prominent use case is as a workaround for shady exchanges who don't want to touch USD, for regulatory reasons, so instead they use "USDT" (Tether backed USD).

Some people look to stablecoins to avoid the volatility of crypto. Unfortunately stablecoins aren't really what cryptocurrencies are about, they're supposed to be without a trusted third party, yet stablecoins has a third party issuer who can for example refuse to redeem your coins.

I personally think they're a big waste of time at best and scams at worst (like Tether).
What if it was 1985 and it was found out that someone at one of the bells had sold a service to 10,000 russian spies to call everyone in the united states, and also provided them with the means to pretend to be someone else and mask their accent? And they did this specifically to sway an election in the direction of someone known to be affiliated with the mafia?

What would the punishment have been then? Adjust for inflation and multiply by 2 for punitive damages, by 3 for damage to the environment, by 4 for pissing off the entire U.S. Military.

Zuckerberg owes us everything he has, he exploited the entire world and then bought himself an entire neighborhood of houses to live in and a jungle in hawaii he's probably burning down for a golf course as we speak.

We should take it all back and put him in prison for about 10 lifetimes. He is an example for how to be awful.

Then we'll put his 'hoodie' in a museum.

https://lite.qwant.com/?q=zuckerberg+hoodie+symbol&t=images

Then apply the same to all American companies under Netanyahu's or Xi's control, and actually prosecute all spies from all countries after a 3 month warning to vacate or be imprisoned for life.

Globalization is not using technology for everyone to wage secret wars across borders, it is about organized federalization of republics and we need to create technology to do that based on the pile of ethical ruin and spy warfare we are looking at today, that is driving most everyone to despair.

And we need to do that fast.