skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People also have different ideas of what "hard" is. I've never tried setting up a mail server so I'm talking out of my ass a bit, but after reading the article it sounds like you'd need to do a bit of googling/trial and error changes to get things set up, probably one of those projects that would take up most of a saturday or at least a saturday afternoon and might run into some hiccups every few months that requires more googling/tweaking.

Even if I'm way off base about the mail server set up being this way, some people still consider this type of "saturday afternoon" project hard compared to something that just works out of the box without any fiddling and can be set up in 20 minutes. I'm not trying to be elitist by suggesting these people are dumb or lazy, just that the semantics of what "hard" is varies for people, especially with little projects that require fiddling/tweaking/looking for outside help.
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I'm an EU citizen as well.
Perhaps.

Note that the author asserted:

> It helps to actually take time 6 hours, 12 hours before a reply. Meditate on the email. Write the email by hand on your notebook. Edit ruthlessly. Type it up on your computer. Only then, send it.

So, a) they knew how to type ruthlessly at least once, and/or b) had spell-check pick them up on that one.

But the gist of the particularly prescriptive advice was to word your missives carefully lest they be misunderstood.

In good faith, let's assume it's an unimportant mistake.

So let's consider:

> Fuck “working for Free”

> If you work for free. You are contributing to tyranny. You are facilitating the spread of tyranny. Nobody in their right mind and right intentions work for free.

I'm typing my considered and reasoned response on a computer that's running almost exclusively free software, the authors of which I'm eternally grateful to.

Because I'm currently employed (full time, contractor) for an agency that's doing good work (by my assessment) I'm quite happy to perform occasional non-billable work.

Certainly, in my time I've worked in places that made me feel something approaching TFA's emotional response, but it's not a set of rules that I feel can or should be casually applied to all contractual engagements.
Correct which is why I said "in theory"
Has anyone here used knoppix (or any other dedicated Live CD) recently?

In the early 2000's, distros didn't have live environments bundled. All debian used to have was a TUI installer and that's it. Ubuntu 4.10+ introduced a live sessions.

From 2004-now driver support and hardware detection has gotten much better. There are live session CD's that include "nonfree" drivers that further improve hardware support. You can pop in most popular distros and easily connect to WiFi and mount drives, often just as easily as knoppix did.

This complaint about systemd isn't a user-related, but the perspective of the live cd creator. Maybe it's true systemd doesn't help that case, but would systemd get in the way of a live cd user though? They're likely not going to be adding/removing/starting/stopping services, setting up users/groups, or anything else that'd be done in a permanent environment.
Now that you mention it, I think I remember an ad blocker indeed blocks those ads.
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This "selling out" nonsense... attempting a career in art/music is by definition "selling out". Only rock n roll snobby gatekeepers have this attitude; in the rest of the world it's called "getting paid". Hip hop celebrates Getting Paid to the point of mocking the "selling out attitude" of rock n roll.
There's generally more to a spirit than water and ethanol.
Can you link to the course you did?
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> And Pulse Audio was started by Pottering but he quickly moved on

Which is pretty much what I blame him for.

He has a history of starting ambitious (maybe overly so) projects, doing all the fun stuff until it kinda sorta works, and then riding off into the sunset.
Frntier- identifying the narratives affecting every sector
> the best bet is to keep fat under 10% of carbs

You mean cals, not carbs i guess.

If you are interested in this you may want to read "80-10-10".

> and (non fatty) meat or fish

The tiniest bit of fish/meat/oil will likely get you over 10cal% fat. Because there is a little fat in all veg/fruit/etc, which will bring you to 5+cal% without nuts/seeds/avocado. Half an avocado a day, or a small hand of nuts and you already cross the 10cal% in most diets.

You can use cronometer.com to do your research on this. It's fun and enlightening.
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Create a new account today and try posting to any popular subreddit and most likely your comment or submission will just be automatically removed. Default subreddits can have whitelisted domains and everything else is blocked, account-age restrictions, karma requirements, manual approval on all submissions. It's an interesting onboarding experience.
Great find. Yeah that clears up a lot about Telemetry.

I guess it was unlisted because of all of the slide flickering, but to anyone who is interested in watching it, it's very watchable and you can make everything out.
Odd, scene differentiations often seemed like arbitrary slices just meant for trying to get to a certain point in the movie, long ago when I'd look at them on DVD's. Not something where you could objectively say "this is where one scene ends and another begins" and others would come to the same conclusion on their own.
> Success at Amazon is deeply driven by networking

I've seen this at other places. It created toxic politics and divisive cliques.

Without dragging it out too much, I'd think there needs to be a high level of accountability that can overpower strong consensus around low sources of truth and group think.

It would be great (and appreciated) to hear any opinions you have on this topic.
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Here's the difference:

* setting up gitlab ce is easy

* setting up LE certificate is easy

* setting up wordpress is easy

* setting up mail is easy

If at some point in the future any of the first three stop being easy in an obvious way, there's a whole team of developers who will work hard to restore easiness.

That's quite different from a blog author shrugging because their configuration-in-a-tweet is obsolete in three years.
Perhaps the hype was over promised? The only means I am aware of is managed identities, which is against the prevailing ethos.

I don't see centralized services being disrupted precisely because of UX, which trumps the dweb benefits.
You mentioned your anecdote multiple times, but expect others to only mention theirs once? Not to mention it was likely a different person responding to you each time. It seems like a very natural pattern, not surprising.
I agree with this. I was never great with journaling (and have trailed off from my daily journal while I was abroad this summer), but I found something about writing with a fountain pen on paper to be extremely soothing, compared to typing it. It also means I don't have the problem that another user mentioned, with an app showing me how I felt X days/months/years ago; I can read over it myself to get the insight, but it's not forced on me.

I really need to get back into the habit of that (and penmanship practice), but my life is kinda boring since I've come back and got back to work (I teach for 8 hours, and have an hour commute each way).
...are you assuming that there isn't someone at Twitter who monitors Presidential Posts before they go out. I assume there must be.
any link to the tweet itself? I cannot watch the video
Oh yes, we need more empathy for violent criminals. Why not some empathy for the victim? Why spare any empathy for the perpetrators of violent crime?
This person keeps saying “Big Mailer Corps” which is extremely annoying. That’s a really easy way to blame someone without actually calling out either specific entities or behaviors. I work for what they probably consider a “big mailer corp” and I wholeheartedly and deeply doubt there is some weird conspiracy against people running mailservers, it just actually is difficult and yes some of us really have tried. It’s kind of unfortunate that it’s hard because I don’t think, for example, you can use a personal gmail with custom domains, unless you have a separate Google Apps account. Fastmail and Protonmail do support this, and probably at least a couple other providers. It’s probably worth the paltry $5/mo that Fastmail charges for the saved time and effort debugging, updating servers, and fighting spam filters over years.

Disclosure: Google employee. (I do not work on anything related to mail.)
Either we do or we don't bear the sins of our fathers. If the latter then use of the word 'forgiveness' is ridiculous. A different form of language should be used on such an occasion. Essentially – regret that 'some of our ancestors acted in this way'.

Of course, it's corporate guilt that's implied. But how can that be unless the corporate rules (the constitution and laws in the case of a country) are the same as the ones which applied when the original 'sin' was committed. In the case of Germany they are obviously not.
The two pizzas solution can be easily explained by delivering an American style pizza and seeing if the team can eat it.
NYC Bicyclists are killing pedestrians and the city won’t stop it
Managed mail server clusters for years with an ISP. Agreed, too many things that can break and cause PITA.

However, ‘Hard’ is a subjective term.
The deeper you are in a trade or the longer you have done it, the easier it comes to feel.
I visited a family farm and found it very very hard to squeeze milk outta buffalo.
My great uncle however has dealt with that buffalo that for years and didn’t sweat it one bit.

In a similar vein, do I really want to tend a buffalo in my backyard, when I can get the milk I need from a supermarket?
It's like buying an insurance where number of years it covers depends on how many years you want to work for a company. Yes, that means getting little sicks is not that worth it. Having serious condition? It's a fucked up anyway.
Another voice saying: I've done my own mail, and it is hard. When my messages don't get through to the recipient due to my unusual choice of running my own mail, from their perspective it's as if I never sent the messages.
Every major retailer in the U.S. that I've visited has them. Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon, etc.
> I explained, why systemd is a step in the wrong direction

I see a bunch of "I want X", but I don't see any "why"
Or at least, choose an existing decent one email server software stack, and then focus efforts to make on-boarding/setup of that stack as easy as possible. I think you're onto something because the Thunderbid (and of course the mozilla) brand is respected enough to take seriously. AND, users would flock to it because it is highly respected as an org. Yeah, kudos for this idea!
I think the author mixes up a few "start-up" concepts (MVP, failing fast, etc.) with "agile" concepts (people over process, early delivery, etc.) and therefore is kind of shooting all over the place. I'm not going to argue that scrum is somehow not "true agile" (by definition, agile-or-not is entirely driven by the context of the team), but there's definitely a few points of warning in the Studio model proposed:

* a single architect / visionary to provide the "creative direction" within a project is a huge bottleneck. It's possible for showrunners to get down into the weeds of the scars on Orc's faces on a fantasy show; for a large software architect to get into the mechanics of on-disk data format is obviously failure. Filming is short sprints of hard deadlines in a way software development simply isn't.

* "magic happens about 85% or more": eek. Have we not learned that long periods of development with nothing visible are dangerous?

There's lots in here that I agree with; some of it seems a bit self-contradictory (i.e. "we need redundancy / understudies at all levels" versus "hire and level up creative people"), but overall this just reads like another list of "here's a lot of stuff that often goes wrong. My manifesto is to not do that". It's not amazingly actionable.
> Now, and going forwards, I think we're in the phase where non flagships are reaching 'good' too

This will obviously vary from person to person, but I felt we already reached this point 4-5 years ago. After getting an unlocked Moto G2 in 2014 for roughly $200 new, I no longer felt like I was sacrificing so terribly much at that price point.
Your not paying for the best you are probably paying a similiar amount for your fulltime employees. What you get is all of the people who couldn't find a fulltime role who have to take this without any benefits so the quality is lower.

Now if you remote sourced the role gems will be found.
I think I like the fact that pen requires much more thought. Or, perhaps also the contrary: you don't think too much about it while writing, and you can write how you feel, without it later being edited to seem better when you're in a different mood (even if that's later in the writing). I've found that stream of conscienceness style writing is the best for me, as it allows me to more accurately reflect what I feel too. I think that having to type it would end that, and I'd be too apt to edit it later.

As for digitization, there are likely ways you could go about doing that, but I'm not sure I want my journaling to be digitized to be honest. To me, there's something about keeping it in pen-and-paper that's appealing, even though it does lead to lots of things to keep up with.
Cool! I found it. The site's down. :(
Honestly there have been zero angry sysadmins in the picture. Actually very few if any sysadmins in the picture since 2016.

Anything I touch that requires sysadmins is outsourced one way or another, either via managed services like rds or in house dbas.

If aws or in house dbas have strong opinions about systemd it doesn't impact me.
The time to what? To finish off the sentence?
The article states "In a later TV interview, Conan Doyle tried to explain his views..." Doyle died in 1930. Pretty sure he never did a TV interview.
The racing office performs a "shake", which is pouring numbered beads out of a bottle, to randomly choose one.
Wayland is nearly vaporware, gnome 3 is optional, kde plasma is optional, nvidia drivers are optional and have functional FOSS replacements, pulse I'll grant you (and hope you see the irony) and dbus I can't honestly comment on because the little direct interaction I've had with it was fine but mostly I don't think about it. The flaw with your list is that half of it is optional and anyone who doesn't like those things doesn't have to use them. My daily driver is xfce on xorg.

Two of the three components in your list that are mearly mandatory came from the same engineer. Why we do we keep accepting his code?

FWIW, the desktop world is less important and I run Linux as a desktop. The nightmares I get from systemd are all about my servers. If we could have left servers alone, people like me wouldn't even have cared. As it is, I have to get out the kid gloves when I'm dealing with my service platform because Bad Decisions are now system standard.
Are you using IPv6 or IPv4 to send the emails? DigitalOcean apparently blocks port 25 outbound IPv6 access because whole ranges are getting blocked.
This is a great analogy. Why do more work when you can get the same result with less effort?
Twitter can't keep it's CEO's account secure, and does not review his posts.

I doubt they do anything special for the POTUS aside from exempting his account from the platform's rules.
There are a few excellent episodes on the topic over at Manager Tools.

(I'd be happy to train your team if you don't want to go through their archive.)
It happens all the time.

The development scope is feature X with A,B,C. Customer asks for D and E. Technically D and E will add maybe 3 hours and Y cost to the total.

Your choices:

a) Bring it up which almost always leads to some haggling. Emails turn into calls, calls turn into meetings. Meetings turn into negotiations, negotiations lead to some compromise, in the end you have spent 3 hours just reaching an agreement, which nobody will reimburse you for. If you don't reach an agreement you stand your ground in numerous ways, most of which result in getting stiffed or losing business.

b) Spend the extra 3 hours.

A lot of times it's just simpler to choose (b), and like the author says, give in to tyranny. It's a genuine problem.
It’s a “I have been doing this for six months and I have the world figured out” type article, best I can tell. Next up “The Seven Telltale Signs of a 10x Developer (which just happen to describe me)”
What do you use for automated messages (ie, login emails, password resets)?

I asked Fastmail support, and they basically said, "we're not really built for that." However, most of the other services I looked at had arduous terms (arbitration agreements), and even they were talking about delivery rates in ranges of 85-95%.

My takeaway has been that as an app creator, email is really unreliable, and I should try whenever possible not to make it a critical part of anything I build. If 5-10% of the people using your service can't get a password reset email, what do you do?

As someone without much experience with email of that nature, it doesn't seem like the major services actually solve the deliverability problem. If they have Google-style support where I can't get one of them on the phone if my emails aren't sending, then I might even be worse off using them rather than my own setup that I can at least debug and experiment with.
It would be nice if these big mail services accepted actual proof of work as a way to guarantee that your mail gets through. Maybe someone could extend SMTP with a bitcoin-like challenge where the server sends the client a nonce and a difficulty factor, and the client has to reply with a suffix that you can append to the nonce so that the whole string hashes to something with the corresponding number of zeroes at the end. People sending personal emails will be happy to burn a penny of CPU time as "postage" but spammers won't be able to send their spam profitably, especially if you increase the difficulty factor based on how many emails you've sent in the last hour.
> A quick litmus test: if you’re getting paid by the hour. You’re not a full time employee. You’re a contractor.

That's utterly ridiculous. There are so many jobs where this is not true from flipping burgers to civil engineering. Clearly the author hasn't thought this out at all.
From the article:

>7 pedestrians killed by cyclists since 2011

From a quick Google search:

>19 cyclists killed by cars in 2019 alone

What alternative is suggested? Skateboarding? Running?
Exactly. One of the reason fires decline is because there is less to burn. Most of the major forests have already been wiped out at spots more susceptible.
I feel that. Or maybe this is a self-realization sort of thing.
This isn't a problem with FF. It's a problem with the author's pitch.

"You want to be using Firefox for the foreseeable future" is plenty. If they're technical tell them FF plus Ublock Origin. If not, install FF plus Ublock Origin for them.
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> The monopoly they get from being the USPS is the one nobody would ever want: having to deliver first class mail anywhere in the United States at a price they aren't allowed to set themselves.

That's the case for your local power company or water utility too. A government-granted monopoly (which the USPS has in the form of first class mail) is almost always accompanied by government-regulated rates.
A potential argument against transit reliance, or at least trains relying on the grid to keep running (instead of using batteries or diesel). Personal transport options (cars, bikes, horses) are a decentralization success story when the grid goes down.
Neuroscientists can help address climate change
Viewing a license place it not the same as reading it.
I don't remember many times that I encountered Firefox-specific web bugs.

I've had bugs where the site doesn't work in Firefox but works in Chrome, but as far as I can tell, those were always caused by the aggressive privacy settings I use in Firefox (whereas the Chrome profile is mostly default).

I'm not particularly concerned with the article's complaint about onboarding. The problem is that Firefox is simply slightly worse (less polished, often slower) in many, many aspects.

On Desktop, Firefox is quite usable, even if it is a bit less polished than Chrome.

On Mobile, it's another story. The only thing saving it is the fact that Chrome doesn't let you install extensions, so you have the choice between an ad-filled web on a browser that runs well, with the ads slowing you down (with Chrome), and a clean web in a slow browser with an unpolished UX and infuriating bugs that don't get fixed (with Firefox). So far, I'd say the two experiences are comparably annoying.
I'm a contractor and make more than I would as a full time employee. Companies also don’t tend to overwork me because they need to pay for every hour.
Never seen a single pizza feed 5 people where someone did not need to stop at McD on the way back home.
Same - I cannot tell if this is meant to be satire.

I am an hourly contractor, and I prefer it to 'full time' employment. As with everything, there are pros and cons, but overall it is a net-positive for me and the way I wish to spend my time.

I sort of follow the point about respecting productive time. I do try to cut the bullshit. I do spend a lot of time thinking about the emails I'm going to send my clients (that I don't bill them for) so that my information is as efficient as possible. I've found an hourly rate that works for me and if I'm offered below that I just say 'no'. I don't consider that working for free. I don't find myself competing against 'full-time' employees in the way the article suggests. My experience is the opposite. I still think it might be satire...maybe?
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Interesting, I've been thinking about reflection too. As I've grown older I am a lot more self aware and think about my experiences, what I've done and what I'm doing now. It really helps to critically evaluate what you're achieving. But as you say, the reality is most of us really aren't doing much interesting, creative or ground breaking. Maybe that inspires you to focus on doing great things, but for me its sad.

Maybe just acting like a child and try to have fun is a better solution.
GPU layer composition was available in Firefox for ages, long before WebRender. It just was not enabled on Linux by default due to fear of bad drivers. But anyone who heard about it or asked about performance on various forums knows about layers.force-enable in about:config.
> Elixir would create a telemetry

Erlang `telemetry` is something different from OpenTelemetry.

> Phoenix (and other libraries like Ecto, etc.) would use it

And this is a fact. Both Plug, Phoenix, and Ecto are using Erlang's Telemetry library.

> And the end goal was to have a Phoenix web UI that would come out of the box that you could goto and see a bunch of really useful things about your server's health

This will probably be implemented as an external library in form of OpenTelemetry as I said.

> Did all of that get scratched for OpenTelemetry?

No, OpenTelemetry and Erlang's Telemetry have different goals. Erlang's Telemetry is meant to be lightweight metrics logging library with API for defining exposed metrics. OpenTelemetry is the OTP application that will ingest these metrics and will expose them to the external services like DataDog or Prometheus.

> The official website at https://opentelemetry.io/ doesn't show Elixir as being a supported language.

[Not all languages are listed on the website](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-erlang).
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But this is a language, so it needs to be a program to run?
Oh wait.. feel like I miss the joke.
Reminds me of stuxnet