skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restrictive Email Validation
My email is a@firstnamelastname.com. Often it isn't permitted when signing up to services. So I use a+[servicename]@ instead.

Why is this so? I've never seen/written validation rules before so I don't know why this happens.

Any other examples of regularly rejected email addresses?
Let me check if I get it right: can this be said to be a case of incorrectly aggregating experiments? We're in a sense taking min(p) over all p-values, or any(significant) over all results, when we should use an aggregation method that takes into account the total number of studies aggregated?
Good luck, its been attempted unsuccessfully many times here in the UK a recent big example would be Manchester Piccadilly station
Interesting tangent: Lobsters were once so ubiquitous (both in Europe and the US) that they were considered a food of the poor. There are even records of servants petitioning their masters to not be fed lobster more than 3 times per week.

Supply and demand, I suppose.
How much space did that take up? I live in a compact apartment in a European city and don't think I could possibly stock more than 2 weeks, there's just not enough space.
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Inflation's taken it's toll but I think you can still find Banh Mis for $5-6, even downtown. You can find premade burritos for ~$5 at grocery stores like Rainbow or Trader Joe's (but they're closer to 10 oz not the supersized stuff you'd get at a taqueria). And, quite frankly, I find the 7-11 sandwiches to be perfectly serviceable and usually in the $5-$7 range.

London's a funny example to me because I've been consistently underwhelmed by the food in England (train stations are no exception).
surely there have to be some hobos who enjoy a bit of classical
Yes. I'm saying it's odd to support institutional ostracism for committing a crime, but then turn around and talk about how terrible felony disenfranchisement is. Or how employers shouldn't inquire about criminal history.

I'm on the side of not ostracizing people without ongoing evidence of malfeasance, personally. For both varieties.

To be clear, if it were shown that Joi Ito or anyone at the MIT lab had reason to think Epstein was still engaging in the behavior for which he was convicted - that is a serious issue.
A house is a liability. Land is an asset
My experience mainly outside the South East is virtually every half decent UK bakery will make barmcakes and sandwiches to order, for about the same or if they are more it's only by a little - say 10-40p. Yet you'll usually get vastly more fillings, so they work out much cheaper, along with scope for customisation.

The chain bakeries like Gregg's etc just offer the same sort of carefully rationed pre-pack choices as supermarkets.
Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but I'd handle enumerating this just like enumerating a set of three numbers. For an integer i just do (1-2(i%2)) * (i/2) using integer division. If it's recursively enumerable with natural numbers then it has to be trivially extendable to all integers just by that method alone.
The problem is that you don't know what the sources of error are. In methods like density functional theory (DFT), or other post Hartree-Fock calculations, the sources of error are well understood. We know where the predictions break down and we know what can be relied upon.

Methods like this are difficult to verify. You don't know where the weaknesses in the model actually are and you don't know what is reliable. This is an interesting idea but has limited application and, even if the model can be understood well-enough to determine the limitations, this will not replace methods like DFT due to the cost of the calculations.

DFT is imperfect due to the limitations of the functionals and basis-sets but we know what it does well and that is a lot. It is reliable when used by someone that understands the sources of error and how to apply the methodology to the the target system in the most appropriate way.
Any chance you're calculating BoM costs on the assumption a distilled/pure alcohol is used as an ingredient?

As this articles highlights, these recent "hard seltzers" actually use a brewing process, apparently for tax purposes.
Aside from the fact that its obviously relevant, maybe it was mentioned because the thread is about an article that opens with some of those same statistics on the reduction of poverty.
The "lifted out of poverty" meme is most often brought up to validate various forms of western imperialism.

If most of the lifting has been done by China, which did not yield (did not relinquish control over natural resources, etc.), then that's bunk.
Is paying a 16 year old girl to have sex with you so reprehensible that society should turn its back on you forever? It's bad, don't get me wrong. And Epstein got off lightly for it. But in my book it doesn't rise to the level of "socially exiled forever".

Now, what Epstein ended up being guilty of in retrospect - that gets up into "socially exiled forever" territory. But what was known at the time? I'm not so sure.
The article also mentions greater demand as the reason for the increased competition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20897889
The New Yorker piece mentions, among other things, that yes, they let Epstein adjust research priorities:

> the Media Lab ... consulted him about the use of the funds

As an example of Epstein deciding which research should continue:

> In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, “Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year?” Epstein replied, “yes.”

The Media Lab also kowtowed by allowing him to make contributions even though "Epstein was listed in the university’s central donor database as disqualified".
Good: a product or service which can command a price when sold.

You can argue that a house and housing are two separate goods, but they are still goods.

Everyone needs housing. But people also seek houses to provide themselves with housing or to generate rental income.
It wasn't secret, just not published publicly. Epstein went to the Media Lab and hobnobbed with people there, had them over to his house, went to their houses, etc. So when people were skeptical of him, he would say "Oh have you met my dear friend Joi Ito, he is the Director of the MIT Media Lab." Other people thought, "Oh hm, this guy is legit." Creating an aura of respectability around him which gave him easier access to young girls, because he was seen as trustworthy.
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I am not sure you are engaging in good faith if you believe rape can be non-violent, but the article makes very clear it was known to basically everyone at the time - so many people that Ito had to lie about where the money was coming from.

Believing someone should be able to vote and be in jail are not in any way contradictory; certainly not that someone should be able to vote but not be able to throw their money around to excuse their sexual abuse!
"Neighborhood character" is not a good reason to not build.
> Does it turn a blind eye? Does the NYT trick Google by displaying something else to Google then to me?

Pretty much this. Google used to have a policy called "first click free" that basically said "you can have a paywall, but a user must be able to see the first content they click on from a search result. for more content, you can make them sign up".
They dropped that policy at some point (and it was never really enforced, though many/most did follow it), so cloaking for paywall-purposes is okay now.
That doesn't sound right. I believe spirits have been higher-taxed than beer/wine, in most places, since long before the 90s. And, Zima, as a "malt beverage", would seem to have qualified for the same beer-like treatment as White Claw today.
The leaf was pretty well modded, tyres and suspension to keep speed in the corners would both require less regen braking into the corner and less power to get to speed on the next straight, helping to nullify the lower power and passive cooling.
Given enough time and a well-considered methodology, yes. I know two groups that work directly upon this and have great results.
It's a bad idea what it end up starting a cycle where every big application uses their own DNS. Some of them might not wven do it right
It seems highly likely that someone took upon themselves to decide that a single letter before the @ was not a valid email address (it is).

Many email validation functions/regex are also often simply copy-pasted from a google search and poor validation spreads that way...
The poverty rate of $2 a day isn't about living off $2 converted to the local currency, if is about living off the local currency with a value of what $2 is worth in USA. You can compare it to live off what half a cup of coffee costs at Starbucks.
The problem I see with this article and arguably all classical economics is that housing as a market is lead by irrational concerns (feelings), you could list many of them... for example I’ve bought a 1960 absolutely disgusting council flat for probably too much money but once renovations are done up I should be able to rent the rooms for near £2800 while the mortgage is £1600 per month. A Victorian house in the same area barely rents for more (£3400-600) but the mortgage with a 10% deposit would lose you money renting it out.

This makes zero sense, but regularly happens. Also property is not fungible as no two properties or areas are the same.
I got hired as a COBOL dev just recently, in a low cost of living area, fresh out of college, for 55k. Salary will certainly go up. I see average in my state as 70-90k/year with some experience.

I agree cobol dev's salary aren't absurd, it is slightly below other dev positions. There is an opportunity for lots of money, but it comes with immense experience and understanding of specific business logic. Overall, it's not bad pay for having a pretty easy and consistent workflow. And no fads to deal with.
I share the same experience. Rarely is there one colleague or superior who completely groks the problem space. But is this not what you get when you move fast and break things?
Maybe not surprising when you go to the world’s 2nd richest person, a person whose net worth keeps increasing by billions per year, to learn what it’s like to live on nothing.
Sounds like they'd have to have my face on file so that they'd be able to identify "oh yeah, this is one who has opted out".

How else would it work?
Note that the ballot measure recently passed in Florida to restore voting rights for felons specifically excluded murderers and sex offenders. It's not so "interesting" to many people that they want a weed dealer to be able to vote while Jeffrey Epsteins should get the brazen bull.
Of course they had reason to think it. Take a look at this exchange between Evgeny Morozov and his Epstein-connected publisher. It reads like pimping, not a professional interaction.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...
> I am not sure you are engaging in good faith if you believe rape can be non-violent, but the article makes very clear it was known to basically everyone at the time - so many people that Ito had to lie about where the money was coming from.

I didn't say that rape was non-violent. I said that what Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of in 2008 was non-violent. And it was.

> Believing someone should be able to vote and be in jail are not in any way contradictory; certainly not that someone should be able to vote but not be able to throw their money around to excuse their sexual abuse!

I suppose the conceptual contradiction is in the belief held by most liberals (in which I include myself) that prisoners who've served their sentence ought to be reintegrated into society, and as much as possible treated like normal citizens. They ought to be able to vote. They ought to be able to have jobs (with some specific exceptions: sex offenders working with children, financial fraudsters working on wall street, etc..), and generally ought to be treated normally.

Now, in retrospect we all know that Epstein was continuing to commit his crimes. But it is unfair to judge people like the MIT Media Lab based on what we know today, rather than what they knew then. What they knew then was that he was convicted of hiring an underage prostitute in 2008. A serious crime to be sure, but one for which he had served his, admittedly light, sentence at the time.
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"The mail server survey published on September 1 by E-Soft Inc, a company specializing in web server surveys, says that Exim is currently the most used MX server with 57.13% out of a total of 1,740,809 mail servers, representing 507,200 Exim servers being visible on the internet and accepting connections."
Maybe Exim people are smarter than you give them credit for. Exim does use separate processes and privilege separation.

SMTP daemon itself does not run as root (on default Debian it runs as "Debian-exim" user). Some processes do need to run as root for local delivery, as others have mentioned.

How exactly this exploit works around that I don't know. PoC isn't public. Bugs happen, even with secure designs.
Well, DoH effectively bypass DNS-filters set up by countries. While some are questionable, I believe it won't take long until Mozilla ends up with some bad press, and being an underdog it doesn't need that.
May be, what about me actually getting those patches?
>> Why does a decrease in world poverty matter in a thread about living on $2 a day?

Because the definition of poverty is $1.9/day or less. Did you read the article?
Yikes. Absolutely it is if we're talking about an organization who also looks after students.
> This is completely misleading, close to lying.

Philanthropy in a nutshell.

On a more serious note, I couldn't agree more. Any sort of international metric for poverty (like the $2 here) is downright useless because it ignores all the local context.

> I hope you will be touched by their stories, their challenges, and their dreams for better lives. I also hope that you’ll ask yourself what you can do to help the millions of people like them.

You could ask people in the US living below the poverty line and reach this same conclusion. Hell, you could give away 50 bucks directly to a person living in a country with a crappy economy and literally change their life, instead of filming them with thousands of dollars worth cameras to "inspire" people in the west. That's why I prefer GiveDirectly.org over any other charity that attempts to fight poverty.
Or use Postfix, it is separated this way.
It wasn’t just one 16 year old girl, and any educated person dealing with Epstein either knew this or should have. The term “Lolita Express” was widely known for years before the current scandal broke. A simple google of Epstein any time after 2008 would have revealed what kind of person he was.

So yes, he should have been exiled by the people in his public life.
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This irritates me too, and I see it all the time. No, a sliver of metal or a piece of plastic being excited by an indiscriminate outside force is not a robot.

If there's offboard sensing and control systems which can maneuver the particles individually then you could make a case for it. If you're just jiggling them with a magnetic field then no.
I don't see either of those excerpts as establishing any actual Epstein-driven changes in MIT Media Lab research priorities. The specific example of "soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher" suggests the exact opposite: Epstein gave to whatever the Lab requested. (If anyone's "kowtowing" to anyone else that anecdote, it's Epstein howtowing to Ito.)
Because with Google you only have to trust one organization that flat out says in the FAQ that they do not "correlate or combine information from temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that [you] have provided Google for other services".

Quad9 is a conglomorate of "Threat Intelligence Partners" and three founding organizations: IBM, Packet Clearing House and Global Cyber Alliance https://www.quad9.net/about/ . What's that third one? I don't know, but it's founded by The City of London Police, NY District Attorney and the Center for Internet Security https://www.globalcyberalliance.org/who-we-are/ that third one is like a hundred "Partners", with such privacy champions as The US Secret Service. Over 100 organizations. What are their incentives? What role do all these organization play and how much access do they have? Who knows.

Compare their privacy policies. They're strikingly similar because Quad9 largely lifted theirs from Google's (I'm assuming, since theirs came later)

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

https://www.quad9.net/policy/

Google's policy states they collect private information for 24-48 hours, keep "anonymized" information for 2 weeks and then randomly samples that data for permanent storage:

> Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.

> We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.

> In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.

Quad9 collects effectively the same information (except AS) as Google's 2 week logs and says

> All the above data may be kept in full or partial form in permanent archives.

If you want a game theoretic, capitalist analysis, Google has an incentive to keep the web running and keeping it an awesome platform, to make sure humanity's information is created and shared in an open format that they know how to index and that they can freely index, instead of apps or some alternative web or some other walled garden.

But we're bombarded daily with "goog bad" by politicians and journalists, so Google must obviously be just brazenly lying and you should give your DNS history to an organization founded by The City of London Police instead that "share anonymized data on specific domains queried [...] with its threat intelligence partners".

Please double check my work, I didn't read the privacy policies too carefully (I think notably Google stores the AS number and Quad9 doesn't) because I don't actually care, I (along with roughly 100% of internet users) just give all my DNS history in plain text to my ISP.
Does this count for backups, too?
> blocking a canary domain

And how long will it take for most ISPs to block this domain when they realize that their DNS servers are not being used anymore? Some of them sell this data so they see it as a source of revenue.

At this point this canary domain will have the same fate as Do Not Track.

> I look forward to applications taking DNS under their own control.

I am sure I can find a hundred applications/programs resolving domains on my machine. It is unrealistic to configure all of them separately. At this point we are back to the OS providing the configuration for all of them.
Not true. The article is not about living with the equivalent of $2 in USA, but a few African countries and values converted in dollars.
A few years ago some colleagues of mine spent a month in rural, mainland China, trying to see how people live with a few dollars a day. While those people were poor, the numbers are very misleading when you convert in dollars.
Since i live here, I can tell you people living on this salary in Africa are not living a 'regular' life. They live in shacks and they eat a malnourished diet, they sometimes tap electricity illegally (and dangerously), they do not have money for clothing or any sort of improvement. On top of that they have to deal with things like heightened crime in their areas or the fact that a bit of bad weather can destroy their houses.
Yeah, it's called "bleach" but it's really made up of autonomous nanobots which steal electrons from cell walls.
It is substantially cheaper to train people and training people in COBOL is easy. Some businesses are starting to realize and even try to encourage IBM to do more to promote their products.

As another user said, allowing people to spin up z/OS would be awesome. As of now, it's not really practical to learn without direct access to mainframes. So all the cost is on the business to train devs. Which is not as important in other dev positions
So, this may be threading a narrow needle, but personally I don't think someone should be socially exiled for hiring prostitutes, or merely being lecherous in a non-aggressive way. The insinuation in those exchanges is that the women being referenced were prostitutes, or some such similar arrangement. But I don't think we ought to be exiling people for that, and I don't even think it ought to be illegal.

What Epstein did that crossed the line was manipulating under-aged women into prostitution. People society deems to be incapable of making those kinds of choices for themselves. If the women surrounding Epstein and being referenced in these emails were under-aged, then yes, you're right. But if they were consenting adults, I don't really see why him paying other consenting adults to have sex with him should prevent him from being a public intellectual or donating to places like MIT.
I would try contacting some of the lesser known CAs. Those who voted "No" on recent CA/B forum ballot to reduce certificate lifetime are probably having some hard time keeping up with ACME, and might as well sell the business. A root valid for next 3-4 years gotta do because Android updates are faster now and current shitty IOT devices and "smart" devices would be dead by then. In recent Symantec sellout to Digicert, it looks like the more pressure a CA has, more likely it would be to buy them out. It's gotta cost in millions though I suppose.
I run Postfix.
The author (Wietse) himself is very active on the mailinglist and happy to answer questions.
Students at MIT are of legal age, what does them looking after students have to do with anything?
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Precisely. Houses depreciate, the land they're built on (typically) appreciates.
You're super 100% wrong. The model 3 absolutely does have the same restriction under load. I have no idea where you're getting your ideas.

I am a Model 3 owner, I assure you it will reduce power after a time. No need to take my word for it though you can find plenty of autobahn demo videos showing it. It's not terrible but it is a thing and it's "worse" with track mode.

Numerous "sporty" car reviews also mention this fact. It's just the way it is. Not an impact to most drivers. Absolutely critical to someone who loves the track.
Like I said, if it was widely known that he was continuing to engage in this behavior, then I agree, he should have been exiled.
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I chose it because it is really easy to set up and configure. That alone made it a much better choice than Sendmail, and I stuck with it.
Completely agree with you, I did not say anything different. I just said the currency conversion can make a huge difference. With $2 a day you starve to death in USA, a burger costs more than that.