skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It never feels like the contractor is an "expert" in a field, is any more efficient than another employee and is nothing more than another person that has been hired to do programming with less HR/employment overhead.

So not sure which audience this article is aimed at.

Maybe my experience in London doesn't reflect other places but as a contract and as someone who has looked for contractors it never felt like we got anyone special. They were another person and they took just as long to on board and become efficient.
Also, if you fast for 3 days you can rebuild your immune system [1].

[1] https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...
Yep this is the ONE thing that kills FF for me. I use an external 4K display (via Display Port) on a 2015 15 inch MacBook Pro and Firefox basically just spins the fans up nonstop while it is running.
"Forget about the Syrian civil war hype, the number of violent deaths globally have gone down!"

I hope everyone gets the point that you can drown a serious negative trend in a much larger set of unrelated data (how related is the incidence of fires in Ruussia with those in Brazil? I don't know, lets combine them anyway!).

I hope I get to live to the point where this sort of sensationalist trash headline isn't the most common type online.
I just checked one of the big chains. A single slice of plain cheese pizza is 295 calories. So an 8 slice "large" pizza would be 2,360 calories. Don't get me wrong, I've done it before, but that's a lot of food for an average adult.
From your link:

Recognize Multiple Speakers

Amazon Transcribe is able to recognize when the speaker changes and attribute the transcribed text appropriately. This can significantly reduce the amount of work needed to transcribe audio with multiple speakers like telephone calls, meetings, and television shows.

So they claim to be able to do it. However, having to do speaker diarization doesn't exactly make speech recognition easier, so you should adjust your expectations regarding the error rate accordingly.
That’s basically what I built, and I very much prefer to read that way. It’s a lot calmer.

You can find the link in my website, if you’re curious.

Edit: major difference there: I don’t download the content, just link to it.
Seriously thank you for writing this. It’s my thoughts entirely, but way better said than I could’ve, with a personal anecdote that is easier to follow than the one I would’ve used.
Which user demographic is running one's own email server ideal for?

My consultancy handles "all things technology" for multiple small businesses (sized 1-50 people, located mostly in South Asia). Anecdotally:

A lot of these folks are happily using mybusinesname.accounts@gmail.com and so-on, but decide to get their own domain for the added veneer of "professionalism".

Many are happy to use Yandex (1000 users with your own domain for free @10GB/inbox. Probably not appealing for some Americans given US-Russia political issues).

Startups/sole entrepreneurs typically come to us after they've purchased a GoDaddy domain and selected the "Business Email" option upon checkout, so they just continue using it.

There's a small sample of companies who are willing to pay for Google Apps because they like Gmail's web UI, and they want the rest of the Apps Suite too.

We also deal with a lot of local big corporations for project work. They're almost always using some kind of in-house corporate email system running Microsoft Exchange Server with a number of different rules like no attachments over 5 MB and other such silliness.

For us to invest time in setting up a mail server for a customer there would have to be a very rare confluence of:

a) I don't want Yandex

b) I don't want to pay for Google Apps / Zoho / other

c) (Optionally) I want to send 500000 marketing/transactional emails per day but I don't want to pay Sendgrid/Mailgun/Mailchimp/SES

To set it up we'd have to establish pricing and SLA. Would I agree that we do it for less than $5/user/month? Nope!

I can't really see a compelling case to do it unless you're a hobbyist with strong philosophical perspectives on this topic. Maybe my point of view is different because of Geography but I doubt things are very different elsewhere in the world as far as cost/effort is concerned.
One person a few days a year.
Just checked one of the big chains, a single slice of cheese pizza is 295 calories, or 2,360 per pizza.

edit: here we just say calories, but it's meant "kilocalories"
The XKCD forum is surprisingly well trafficked, and there's a pretty large crossover between their forums and Hackernews.

I used to like it back in the day; I even met my roommate (when I had one) there.
Config files really are not the problem with running email. The "why the hell is provider/BigCo/... XYZ rejecting our emails again" dance is, with the answer typically being "no clue, they certainly won't tell us, let's hope it works in 48 hours?"...
How hard is it to do your email yourself and make it secure?

For example, adding 2FA to your users, monitoring access, spam detection, etc...?
The key here seems to be that you physically don't have enough time and "space" to make up for the long hours without food.

It seems like it'd be way less painful to just count your calories.

Every diet method seems to try to avoid doing so. Modern tools make it easier than ever. You will not lose weight unless you run a calorie deficit.

Starving yourself every other day is a way to do it, but it also seems like an unnecessarily painful way to do it.
I loved that phone. If not for the lack of OS updates and the small amount of RAM, I'd still be using it. Everything since then by HTC has been considerably worse in terms of hardware quality.
>There are almost no paxos implementations, correct or otherwise, making it harder to reason about its popularity and ergonomics.

If I was cynical, I might guess that the purpose of Paxos these days is to generate expenses and technical failures for Google's competitors.
I always upvote grady. It's great to see his subscriber count finally starting to match the quality of his videos.
What? The title you are defending is downplaying ("forget the hype") the severity of the amazon fires by including fire rates in completely different parts of the world. This is exactly like downplaying the severity of a civil war by pointing out that the rest of world is not taking part.
This rings true for me, I got a iphone 6plus at launch and hated the large form factor.

it broke and I bought a used 6s (non-plus) and it was so much more refined.

Not to mention the smaller size was way more practical. The only time I wished for a larger screen was to watch movies on flights and an iPad is way better for that anyway.
Just bought a 6s (my first iPhone actually, though I have/had iPads and iPods). My former Samsung S8 and Android was working well, but was so fscking huge and fragile, it fell apart after only one year of use, with a screen replacement costing 270 bucks! Now I'm enjoying the creamy look HN is supposed to have, which I didnt't get on AMOLED.
If you do your cloud migration and just do a lift and shift without changing your processes or people (retrain, reduce, and automate), it will always cost more. The problem is that too many AWS consultants are just old school net ops people who watched one ACloudGuru training video, passed a multiple choice certification, and can click around in a GuI and replicate an on prem architecture.

I’ve never met any that come from a development or Devops background and know the netops side.
A lot of mail from a variety of providers won't be accepted by gmail. That's the downside of gmail.
> If configuration starts becoming more complex than looking up key value pairs, why not just write it in the programming language you are using?

Because you want to write a config file, not a program?

What next, config files, build systems and unit tests for your config files?

No thanks.
This clashes with my worldview. Knoppix hasn't felt relevant in at least a decade, and if there's influence to Debian, I don't see it.
gigantic pain in the ass correlated to very little money for the effort because come on it's email, which isn't hard.
This site is full of the clickbait crap that HN commenters like to think themselves superior to. But one article pandering to their beliefs about fasting and it’s at the top of HN?
I have run my own mail server for years. It absolutely was complicated for me to set up but I loved the process of learning and got it going without too much trouble. Now I can get mail delivered to nearly everyone, except Charter. It's been NBD from a maintenance point of view. Spam is all tuned nicely and I generally don't have to think of it.

E-mail servers are complicated. People with skills and interest can do them, no problem. It's not overly hard. I agree with that.

But I sure don't go recommending it to my friends who wouldn't appreciate spending a few days learning and setting all that up.

What I can do, however, is offer them e-mail accounts! So I guess as long as every group of 50-100 friends has one person willing to run an e-mail server, then we're all good. Of course, it'd probably be a pain to switch when that person dies or loses interest.

Maybe we just need to make it really easy to have a email@myname.tld that is portable and easy to move around.
I Guess it also depends if it’s a thin base, or pan.

I just love food. Sometimes hard to stop eating. Especially when I go taiwan or japan. I always put on a lot of weight.
> enough of a taboo subject in their minds that in a poll they may be more likely to rate their enjoyment lower than it actually is.

I can see how that may have an effect. Thanks for clarifying.
One of my favorite memes:

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
An overlooked problem in these kinds of articles is that fires are not a yearly problem. If you have 10 hectares of forest and in the first year 4 hectares burn down and afterwards every year one hectar ... there is no forest after 10 years. So it’s not a “win” that only one hectar got burned. There are several studies that point to possible tipping points where the Amazon as a weather/rain/cloud producing ecological system breaks down if you burn enough of it. Wherever that point may be at the end, we sure as hell are getting there step by step.
It looks like an alternative to Jsonnet which has schema validation & strict types. IMO, Jsonnet syntax is much simpler, it already has integration with IDEs such as VSCode and Intellij and it has enough traction already.

Cue seems like an e2e solution so it's not only an alternative to Jsonnet, it also removes the need of JSON Schema, OpenAPI, etc. so given that it's a 5 months old project, still has too much time to evolve and be mature.

We're heavily using Jsonnet for our data modeling (https://github.com/rakam-io/recipes) and pretty happy with it. We also have plans to add support for JSON Schema which is adopted by many of IDEs so that VSCode makes us feel like we're writing Java, not a Jsonnet file.

Cue is Google's 6th attempt and given that Jsonnet already has traction and works well out of the box, I would invest my time into Jsonnet at this time.
I've had "shepherd's pie" pizza before. They used mashed potatoes for the sauce. It was pretty tasty, but I could feel the carbs.
Ethereum full node syncing diary (geth edition)
Same as for my master password: a randomly generated, memorized password.

The trick to remembering them is to use them regularly. This is also why I don't use a passphrase: a password is much shorter and less frequently typo'd, thus less annoying for frequent use.
Can a "spatial interface" make something 10x (not just incrementally) better? Are there spatial interfaces only possible in VR/AR that meet this threshold?
Transcribe does “Recognize Multiple Speakers” — it’s on the page that you linked to, in the list of features.

I would also recommend comparing it to Google’s and maybe MS/Azure’s services.

Aside from the fidelity of the transcription itself, and the accuracy of disambiguating the different speakers, I’m also not convinced that all of these services will give you an end timestamp (start timestamps are sometimes there, but not necessarily for every word or sentence).

You could try a multi prong approach by doing the transcript to get text and speakers only (using the services mentioned above), and then using an aligner such as “gentle” [0] to find the start / end times.

You will have some gaps and wrongly transcribed words, but it may be a start..!

[0] https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle
That might well be the justification of it, but there is no mention of "media" or "reporting" in that headline: a headline that does not include in it the supposed subject matter is a poor headline indeed.

You need to cough up some pretty extraordinary evidence for the claim that the editor writing that headline would not be aware that it is misleading to leave out the subject entirely.
OT:

Thunderbird org should create/sponsor its own email server software.

That's the way to spur email development by causing development on both sides of the chain. Sometimes in unison.

And they should also initiate an email service to put their development in action.

Imagine the innovation that could happen then.

- Email encryption standards for key acquisitions

- folders/labels stored as imap keywords

- large file sending protocol using third party services

- msg retrieval when email severs experience outages

- development in mail list servers.
> it's 'a gigantic pain in the ass' which is (in normal word use) one form of 'hard'. Which is why most sane people stopped doing it themselves say 15 years ago

I've been running my own mail server since 2000 or so. It isn't hard, it takes almost no time at all, and I have my own independent mail that nobody reads, and I make the decision of which mail to accept.

I will take the liberty of classifying the above comment as FUD.
> Except some things get sunk like a brick before they even garner 10 votes. It's a nice explanation, it just doesn't fit what we're seeing at all.

I believe some sources are automatically weighed down based on url.

> That doesn't apply to the flagged stories I saw.

I checked half your list and found no flagged stories. I saw comments and discussion though.

> Why are you asking me this? I'm not the one flagging stuff, seeking to shape HN for others, if something doesn't interested me, I click "hide".

You are the one complaining you don't see what you want to see on the front page.

> Except when it's not, and when "at its core" is just a weasel word.

Some people on HN will argue to death that it's a social network. I disagree as well. It's a link list curated by registered account upvoting and downvoting stuff with some kind of anti-spam filter in between.

I don't think you can be reasoned with if you hold the position that downvoting/upvoting/flagging is downright censoring.

Now the truth is, you haven't really provided yet solid evidences of tampering attempts from the CCP (or anyone else) on HN. Not saying it doesn't exist, though.
Our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party
New Texas laws: Illegal to send unsolicited nude photos
And if you try to host it on Digital Ocean, they actually block port 25 out, so you're out of luck...

And you have to manage diskspace, backups, firewall/fail2ban, OS updates etc etc etc

I'm in the same boat as you. Managed to grind my teeth and pull through something like this for my own use and family, but it was painful.
Are you implying OP is a thief?
The key issue for me here is that I still can't easily get a more or less accurate calorie count for a random meal in a restaurant near my workplace. Because of that I need to stick to a very limited menu which feels so depressing that I prefer ADF over it. Is there a solution I miss?
Everything I know about systemd is bad.

When I want to write a script that runs on startup, I expect that I can just put (or link) it in some directory where the scripts are that get started on startup. Or that there is one main script that calls all scripts that are intended to be startet on startup.

I do not want to write a "service" that has some "only run once and then discard" flag or whatever.

When I want to look at logs, I want to use the tools I like. less, grep, tail etc. I do not want to dabble with some binary format and its tooling.

When I want to start or stop a service, I want to call a script that does that. A script which I can look at and see what it does. Like /etc/init.d/apache2. I do not want to execute some magic command like "service apache start" which I have to guess or look up and which gives me no clue about what it does.
> One big big big thing I learned from the book is to not read a non-fiction book like it was a novel.

I did a double-take until I read 'non-fiction'. Yes, absolutely, I agree. Large non fiction books need to be approached strategically for time saving's sake.

Fiction on the other hand, I adore taking my time :)
Most people drop jquery locally on the server in a js folder. It's probably the easiest part of the project.
Well if you have a normal immune system, you can get the MMR vaccine. Which if it is effective, should significantly reduce your risk of contracting measles as a disease, no?
If the vaccine is effective, there are two casez in which ggp commenter's life is threatened by gggp commenter's rights: a) they have a immunologically normal, but have refused the vaccine for whatever reason, which is puts the risk on their shoulders, b) they have a compromised immune system, and cannot get the MMR vaccine, in which case gggp may actually represent a threat to their life not preventable by normal action.
In another case, I've seen a company that spends dozens of thousands of dollars a month on the cloud infrastructure to run a site that services a max of 50 concurrent users. The truth of that matter is that the production site could run just fine on any developer's laptop and a one-time spend on a pair of geographically-dispersed dedicated servers would free up huge amounts of cash without any measurable/actual impact,

I find it hard to believe that even if I went out of my way to throw every single bit of AWS technology I know that I could Architect a system that only has 50 customers where I could make it cost that much more. I could do that with AWS with a pair of EC2 servers, a hosted database, a load balancer and an autoscaling group with a min/max of 2 for HA. That includes multi AZ redundancy. Multi region redundancy would double the price. That couldn’t possible cost more than $500 a month
Is there any reason you can't forward all outgoing mail through AWS SES with a custom MAIL FROM domain so it looks like it's coming from you? That way you would have a high reputation IP pool at nominal cost for a low volume.
Yes they are, but you're leaving out the most important point here. It's content SPECIFICALLY designed for babies. The onus is on the producer - whether it's toys, videos, ads - for us to have some regulation saying x is ok but not y.

By your method of thinking...let's just make everything OK for babies and let the parents decide.

That makes no sense...it's why society has laws (Why can't I go buy a bazooka in Europe? Because there are laws).
Beyond Agile: The Studio Model
SpaceX begins hunt for Starship landing sites on Mars
No, it's real. It used to be prominently on the site sidebar, but it got very big around the time xkcd first got popular, and the link was subsequently removed. After that, you had to know it existed and just go directly to forums.xkcd.com, so the only people who knew of it were generally the people who were early xkcd readers or people invited by them. Imho it's one of the better open "offtopic" discussion forums on the web, partly because of insular culture trending towards thoughtfulness.
I absolutely agree.

> - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it

No. Been there, done that. It was a major PITA. It's not even something I would consider again for small organizations as it's an economic nonsense too.
You can use hosted mail with pgp/gpg if you don't want anyone reading your mail.

Otherwise your mail is read in transit on the way to you anyway, so self hosting is false privacy.
Netflix Account Email and Passwords
Is terraforming the moon even possible? I was under the impression it had too little gravity to ever hold onto an atmosphere. Mars, OTOH, at least already has a thin atmosphere to work with.
I would much rather use Firefox full time, but many sites (like youtube.com, for example) just don't render well/speedily/at all on FF.

Open Chrome and everything is fine. I get TFA said some devs don't write/test for anything but Chrome... but you _have_ to keep Chrome around for some things.

So much for an open web. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"The investigators point to other benefits that ADF may have, compared with continuous calorie restriction. Previous studies have suggested calorie-restrictive diets can result in malnutrition and a decrease in immune function. In contrast, even after six months of ADF, the immune function in the participants appeared to be stable."
But not the 2 dimensional index(match, match) use case, unfortunately
The Strange, Nostalgic World of Obama-Biden Fan Fiction
I found this a thought-provoking article. It’s a follow-up to the author’s previous piece, The End of Agile[1], which was discussed on HN a week or so ago[2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/23/the-e...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776316
That's just saying "I want things to be the way I first learnt them and don't want them to change."

This is fine, but you do have to accept that things are going to move on without you.
TSA Reverses Ban on Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge 'Thermal Detonator' Coke Bottles
I had to stop reading at “ruflessly”, I can’t trust someone’s opinion if they can’t take the time.
You can not be sure you have ever had consciousness prior to the present moment. All you have are memories of it that may or may not reflect reality.
[EDIT: any of the people downvoting this care to say why you think its points are wrong or irrelevant to what is being discussed? The article is literally about the world-wide situation, and it's misleading to present the current discussion, and what I've been arguing about, as about the title in isolation. The headline is clearly just using the Amazon fires has a shorthand for the overall situation.]

Did you read the article? It's literally about the world-wide situation, and the reporting there has been on the world-wide situation.
Well I was there when Firefox was born (i even sent a donation and got the CD). To me these “corporate missions” are just marketing fluff. Just give me the browser.
They are referring to NY style pizza. Standard serving is 2 slices per person.
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How well would that work orchestrating a combination of a Docker containers, C# (.Net Framework not .Net Core) executables, Powershell scripts, etc?
"Yeah, but I don't have this bug for my 200 friends that have Gmail plus you want my business and I like Gmail so it's your problem."
I don't understand why it has to be so difficult to run a mail server on Linux, BSD, etc. So many different pieces to set up and configure.

I've been running SmarterMail on a Windows VPS for years and it's been rock solid. It's just a single Windows service and all the configuration is done via its web interface.

Why no one has come up with a simple solution like this for Linux/BSD yet?
This is both true and irrelevant, because your boss/customer/whatever doesn't care about this story.
That’s a standard team size for agile, so I’m not really sure what the concern is.
I hold the understanding that its possible to view a license plate from space. I suggest you keep to that view in mind as well.
The word "hype" inherently refers to what people are saying about something, not the thing itself. The issue is about what people are saying. The headline wasn't "Forget about the Amazon fires", because it was talking about the hype not the fires. What headline would you use instead?