skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s only people who are in the email marketing industry who think that they are the email industry.

The email industry would comprise a lot more than just marketing.

You have email providers. You have email clients. You have non commercial newsletters. You have evites. You have e-cards. You have emails related to ticketing and reservations.

The email industry is far larger than email marketing, despite what the email marketeers would like us to believe.
Is it just me or is iterative non functional code usually easier to debug? Or are the tools a lot more mature?
This, exactly. When you're one person, you don't want to be dealing with server hardening and making sure the CPU hasn't been exhausted, or getting DDoS'd and trying to scale up your servers. I ran a website on S3 with a CloudFront CDN fronting it handling for less than a few dollars per month.
tldr;
The author motivates the solution given in the article, but does not explain the problem which GitHub Actions solve.
I would have liked to know what to expect before dumping an article into my brain.
Seems like an extremely specific minutia to build an entirely new distribution for.
Also if less is more, how do you call less? I always preferred it because it is faster. /jk
Can we talk about medians, not averages, please?

This page provides some nice insights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

For example: The US has a median/mean ratio of 15%, which is very low (ranked with the bottom 10 of countries), where Egypt, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are at the bottom.
> the pop-ups interrupt and obstruct, breaking immersion.

Here is a trick for website owners: don't track your users. No need for any popup anymore.
There's a browser extension which clicks away the consent dialogues for you:

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

It lets you specify a global setting to what extent you want to be tracked, and communicates that to sites that support the extension's "standard".
Did you stop to go the washroom? Did you stop to let a cramp pass?

I stopped reading at 11pm last night, yet I may indeed read again tonight. Stopping something has never demanded permanence. Indeed, in the exact same header that you're arguing about they also use the word Entwicklungsstopp (which effectively means engineering freeze or stop -- most interpretations favor the latter -- which yet again may or may not be forever).

This is an absolutely silly argument, however the article by Electrek is perfectly fine.
What surprises me more is that tracking pixels even work anymore. What email clients don't bother to filter them out?
Opt out is a problem anyway, GDPR is better in that it requires information up front, opt in.
Funny how a CEOs public letter is looked at with more skepticism than OBL on here.
In terms of graphs, I think this one gives a good overview of how ridiculously precipitated everything is:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Running regular processes is even "more lightweight".
An outdated idea about solar panels has been slowing advancement: study
Since you seem to care what others think about your code, it’s worth considering making your code public or find someone to share your pull requests with. Someone who occasionally reviews your code. You can even pay someone to do this.

Alternatively you can set up a linter that doesn’t let you push your code until it’s properly formatted and/or well-tested.

With regards to more higher level stuff such as setting and working towards goals, I find a “mastermind” group invaluable. It’s a group of like-minded insividuals who meet up regularly (offline or online) and discuss what they are working on. Having a structure in place to make sure everyone has to share their progress or lack thereof is key.

Shameless plug: I built WIP ( https://WIP.chat ) To solve this exact problem. It’s a community + group chat of makers where we actually share our todos and the progress we make. (this makes it very different from your typical group chat)

Of course you could also set up something similar yourself with a group of friends. A weekly Skype call with Google Doc. Etc. Whatever works best for you.

Edit: typos
The GDPR is much more than an EU regulation that forces a cookie wall. In fact, there is no cookie wall obligation anywhere. The fact that companies are so uncreative and can only come up with these silly solutions shows how broken the internet is and how widespread tracking is.

GDPR does solve some problems, in my view. For example, it allows EU citizens to ask companies to disclose what they know about them and how it is being used. You can ask companies (and they must comply) to delete your records. Data must be pseudonymized / anonymized in many cases. Those are all real effects. It offers transparency and gives more control to individuals.

If you want to learn more about what the GDPR does do, what protection and control it brings EU citizens, I refer you to the wikipedia page which has all of that and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I could see the argument for a second home but for a home you are living in it seems counterintuitive if not against natural justice
I think any email that uses tracking pixels could be classified as either spam or marketing, or possibly both.

If you use tracking pixels in your receipts, I think you're doing it wrong.
Article Is Spying on You
Ages back when the CEO of the company I work for came by he talked about somebody who worked in the communications department (where they tell the company everything happening). He told us how she organized her work:

Every day she would start with a white board or piece of paper and write down everything she needed to do for that day. The next day she'd take whatevers left and start the list over. Her goal was to make sure nobody ever could say they have no idea what was happening in the company, and honestly she did a phenomenal job at it: she wrote up transcripts, shared videos and pictures as well. You just knew what was going on: some people don't like reading: there's audio / video, or they don't like video: there's a transcript.

In any regard, what I personally do is I create tickets in whatever ticketing system I'm working with be it Jira, Trac, GitHub Issues, whatever system and I write out or take the tasks / stories / issues (man devs really need to pick a darn uniform term) and write out a checklist of what I need to do even if I go back to the ticket. As I'm working and I realize something new I need to do, I write it down. I check things off, or cross them off (to make it more obvious what isn't done in longer lists) and I found this helps me when I go "what was I trying to do again?"
New World Money Invented, Next After Capitalism
> As most PC gamers know by now, the Epic Games Store has been signing exclusives to its digital distribution platform. Unfortunately, some of these games already had Steam Store pages, creating the expectation for some that it would be launching on that service in the near future. Now, some reportedly recent Steam TOS changes may very well halt this practice entirely.

- If you put up a Steam Store page, you can’t release the game earlier on another platform.
- Any patches/updates must be released for Steam at the same time as they are on other platforms.
- Games can be released on other platforms, but you can’t put up a Steam store page until 30 days before the Steam release or the game’s original release, depending on which of the two is earlier.
Arch is based on the KISS'DD principle (KISS for the distro developers).
The article is extremely weak and then tried to explain way why some publications who say negative things don’t get blacklisted.
It's not GDPR's fault that websites have awful user experience. If they really cared about privacy then they wouldn't use popups that required multiple clicks to remove tracking cookies.
What do you mean reuse whatever is available? Non derivative distros are going to be using their own package manager and not just using some prebuilt package for another system.

But regardless, I agree, fragmentation isn't really a problem. It would be very rare indeed for some software to only work on some distro but not another. And if this was the case, you could probably change it with enough work (swap out libc or whatever).
If she literally says that, please quote it.
I know another problem with the same solution. Imagine a ferry with n cars that drive on land onto a narrow road that prevents passing, and each car has a unique random preferred speed > 0. The cars start driving and starts clumping together in groups. The expected number of groups is the harmonic series up to n.
I know it's the common American vernacular to call toilets "bathrooms", normally I wouldn't bat an eyelid at it, but it just seems weird to see London's old underground public toilets referred to as "bathrooms".

I think it's the fact that it's referring to something Victorian that I expect them to be talking about something that actually houses a bath.

When I first saw the headline I thought this was literally about old bathhouses that used to exist. As seen in the cult film Quadrophenia.

Oh well, language changes. I guess in couple of hundred years we'll be referring to the actual lavatory porcelain itself as a "bath".
Maybe this is another selling point for Asus new TV-sized gaming monitors.
Only in the HN bubble.
Radically New Way to Finance Nonprofit Projects (Crypto ICO)
While I would totally love to see nuclear fusion be an option, I am afraid the timeline simply does not fit the challenge. Realistically, we won't be able to have nuclear fusion production-ready under less than 20 years, and most probably ~40 years.

If we do nothing in the next 20 years, it's not 2 degrees we are looking at, but 4+ degrees. The difference will be millions vs billions of deaths.
Well that's what version control does, so if you remind yourself that when someone does a git blame later, and they see who wrote the awful code and dread your existence, you might want to fix it up.
I fill it with PlayStation
> But so much of that tracking isn't really necessary.

I've just launched my e-commerce platform and I see 34 unique visitors and no sales. Analytics is key to figure out if something is wrong and I'm not talking about the code.

> I'd rather focus on making my product better.

How do you make it better? Having numbers without analyzing user engagement is shooting in the dark with a shotgun.
I've recently heard about The Generation Forest[1]. They plant trees for harvesting in a sustainable way. Different trees that produce wood in 20 to 100 years and you get some returns when they are harvested.

[1] https://thegenerationforest.com
Ask HN: IT related things that you can learn in 2 hours?
What could you recommend (books, videos, blogs, links, courses) that can be read/practiced in 2 hours and at the end will really give you a sense of truly learning something new and the learning is complete in its own (there is no need to read something more).

I am interested in things in IT (technical things) and around (including management, leadership, communication).
> As an european who rejects ad trackers on every website, I can confirm that a good 95% of them are correctly implemented and will let you keep browsing.

Really? Any chance you could share some examples, because my strong impression is that a clear 95% of those I see are not compliant.
> There is a reasonable expectation that when you submit your email to a company in exchange for their service, they will email you communications relating to their products and services.

No. Most of the services out there require an email to sign up to the service itself. Using that email for anything beyond the core provision of the service I signed up for is a breach. If I bought a fucking pencil sharpener from your website, any communication beyond keeping me abreast of (and optionally checking if I was happy with) my order is abusive.
Please share the link if you have it!
> While spammers may have a problem, people don't.

Marketing spammers maybe, but now scammers and malware spammers have the floor instead. Laws only stop the law abiding citizens from doing their thing, it sure doesn't stop the criminals from.... being criminals.
r/woke is a flavour of r/thathappened focused on parents embellishing their kid's achievements. That said, it is interesting how we imagine (maybe expect) the next generation avoiding what we see as traps we fell in. Almost as if they were to save us from ourselves.
"Good" addictions you could have online:

* Contributing to Wikipedia.
(Check out Citation Hunt: https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/)

* Being an active member of insightful online communities.

* When you encounter an interesting piece of information, archive them with archive.org.

* Reporting harmful content.
It reminds me much more of Crux or even Gentoo (with the Bash ebuilds as package management).
... anyone that can seduce VCs, speak charismatically and preferably has a prior track record.
Just because you associate emails with spam doesn't solve the problem of every charity, business, church, school and group needing to communicate with large numbers of email subscribers. Like anything, bad actors make it worse.
Slightly OT, I know: Does your company sell power trains to individuals? I'm shopping for one (around 50kW, perhaps sans battery) that is relatively inexpensive and can go on the road in Europe without an extra electromagnetic inspection.
Do any email clients block tracking pixels? My understanding is that they block images by default but if you choose to view them you will load all the tracking pixels.
When you are working for someone, or with someone else, you have their voice as authority, or as someone you are helping. Find what motivates you. This is similar to going to the gym yourself versus going with a personal trainer.

What are your expectations? What would go good or bad if you do or do not succeed?

How much do you really regret, what aspect of it do you regret the most? Identify one specific problem and seek to improve that specifically. Once you are good at that little thing, pick the next one.
This is a serious impending problem for Safari users. The web has become nearly unusable without a high-quality, uncompromised ad blocker like uBO.
Can you really get separate devices for less than a feature phone ? My Nokia/HMD was only $20. I agree that a smartphone isn't the cheapest solution.
iPhone 11 performs 134% faster than best Android flagships on Speedometer 2.0
Can the Dutch Tax Authorities show me where I can with relative safety make 5% ? my 5 figure portfolio (uk) returns about 3.4% income.

Its also odd that if say you get a ten bagger and turn 5k into 50k for a 45k capital gain you don't pay tax on that capital gain.

It would make sense and be firer to tax income and capital gain different and on actuals.
Ask HN: The “porn-site” LEAVE button problem
Sorry for this Ladies and Gents, I know you don’t visit any porn sites. (I don’t visit any porn sites exactly as you don’t do that!).

Ok, I tell the truth: In my free time, I do visit many-kinds of porn sites (for research purpose only of course :),...

## This is what I find interesting:
The usual concept of a “index-page“ of a porn website is to let you decide to: “ENTER” or “LEAVE”, the website.
(Actually: Any user has always the 3-rd (third) option, to close the web browser window/tab! OK!

now....:

## My Question #1:
Is anyone (except Me) disturbed by the fact that 99.9% porn sites, are linking the “LEAVE” action to: “google.com” or “disney.com”???

## My Question #2:
Who invented schema like that? And why is anyone following this pattern?
That's not how GDPR is designed. In Europe, the business model to 'sell' Web content for the permission to track has now become illegal. Web site owners will need to change their business model, or they will be fined.

Note that you can still 'sell' Web content for forcing your customers to see advertisments. You just aren't allowed anymore to track that on a person-by-person basis.
How’s your experience with CDK? I’ve been looking at it a few times and it felt a bit raw and not well documented yet.

Did you have a solid AWS experience prior?
Making Better Worker Bees
So much this. Every time I see a popup with "We respect your privacy", I think "no you don't" and try to see if it is something I can block in privacy badger to remove the popup.

If the site respect users privacy it will not track the users and don't need the warning
Our main enemy now is physics, and we can not make “deals” with physics
> This is how you create terrorists.

Which the war machine needs in order to grow.

Which the politicians need in order to get elected (Some people want "strong" leaders, for this definition of strong).
Quite, these are not 'excess' reserves, they are just reserves.
"Making sure the children in our society do not regularly stumble upon damaging material while browsing the internet, is something we can all get behind."

Well I can't. Most boys get their first exposure to pornography at maybe 10-12? It's natural and doesn't cause any problems. It's crazy that sex is so vilified in our society. And I don't think anyone even understands why.
You shouldn't be creating ssh connections all the time, but instead using persistent connection to each server that ansible opens once at the beginning, and reuses for all subsequent tasks.

See ControlPersist/ControlPath OpenSSH client configuration.
Not having marketing spammers is still better than having spammers and scammers
Let us celebrate this small moment of poignant joy of him being able to give a big “fuck you” gesture to Facebook, before he realizes that the very platform that he was able to express that sentiment is actually owned by Google and he hasn’t really escaped the wrath of Silicon Valley tech companies at all. (Maybe he’s even worse off than before; his labor as a Youtuber isn’t protected by any law at all, and he can lose his job at any moment with a touch of a Google employee’s algorithm.)
I’ve seen tremendous improvement in my productivity lately simply by documenting everything I do in a spreadsheet.

Any interval of time with a discrete task, even if it’s answering emails, I note and occasionally provide supplemental information.

I’ve noticed that it’s helped most with clearing through lots of small tasks, because when I record my start and stop times, I feel less inclined to let “answered an email” take any more than a few minutes.

I still don’t have a productivity boosting solution for big complex projects with lots of research, except “lots of coffee.”
Great, so how do we fix that and stop them doing it?
I think the hold-out paradigm is woefully overrated in part for similar reasons. It's always seemed odd to me to emphasize hold out samples when you know their asymptotic performance in the form of fit statistics.

I'm always for examining replicability, but the current paradigm to me seems misguided and this articulates some of the reasons very well.
This is what kills me about web developers of 2017-2019 (maybe farther back to 2015 or 2016?). We had this awesome hype about supporting mobile resolutions with CSS years ago but now it seems like nobody accounts for the various screen form factors available when designing websites.

Like those sites with the overly huge logos that look ridiculous and annoying on 1080p but I'm sure on 2k and higher they look fine. I don't want to scroll down an entire page worth of scrolling to read your article, it should be immediately available.

Thankfully there's Firefox's Reader Mode.
>So, I guess I won't know if 10% open my marketing emails or 50%. But who cares? I wouldn't even know what to do with the information anyway.

So you were tracking people without even needing the information? Why?

>I'd rather focus on making my product better.

Yeah, analytics are useless for that. Use your gut! Everyone knows that's better than using data.
Perhaps a case of CYA gone wild?
Doesn't gmail load images when the email get to the server and not when the email is opened? (That is at least what some who know more about email than I do say) So the only thing tracking pixel really have shown is if the user uses gmail or not
So do you care about the civilians, or not? It seems possible US engagement saves more civilians than it kills. At least that is presumably the general idea.
There's usually an unsubscribe button for marketing spam, and if there isn't I usually block their email. You can't do that with scammers / illegal spam.
Absolutely. Then puberty hits and the brilliance seems to take a huge dip. I guess obsessing about sex takes a lot of brainpower. Just a hypothesis though.
Article author here - Tracking pixels aren't blocked per se in most email clients but you're correct that they rely on images being loaded.
Gmail, among others. Gmail proxies remote content when the email is opened, so the IP address of the user is not disclosed, but the time and number of opens can be tracked.

Google could proxy and cache remote content in emails when they are accepted by Gmail servers, and that would render Gmail users untrackable by third-parties.
What is more, you can:

1. clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux into https://github.com/<YOURNAME>/linux.

2. push a fake "torvalds" commit into your repo.

3. check the SHA of the the commit that you made.

4. the commit will be visible at the original repo URL with your SHA (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/<SHA>), with no indication whatsoever that this is coming from a different repo

I have reported this problem to GitHub a while ago and they replied to me that this is a well known feature of the repo "network".
No "industry" is needed for pub/sub news. The GDPR only affects the companies abusing current system for unsoliticed advertising
I guess I'm just not that familiar with HTML email anymore in general, and when I do read it I generally do not have images regardless.

I always assumed that disabling 1x1px images would be first on the list of mitigations against this technique. I was under the impression that email clients, in addition to an option to block images in general (usually on by default for an address or origin), generally prevented the loading of remote images. Embedding images directly into emails is fine, isn't it?
Same here - I'm using credit card only for extra protection (chargeback and so on) always making the full payment at the end of the period.
Cannot upvote this enough. Folks just don't want to know the truth: Asymmetric war just guarantees more war.
They recently developed brand-new 4-cylinder and inline 6-cylinder diesel and gasoline engines which will certainly be in use for quite some time. While these new engines are put on the majority of their new cars, they will probably concentrate on EV development, but that doesn't rule out any successive ICE developments in the future.
We generally fine them big for breaking it, and may forbid them from doing business at all if they keep breaking it
I think one would need to put something like that as a guerrilla war.

There needs to be a distinction between:

* attacking civilians (terrorism)

* attacking The System, but going for softer targets and not taking its military might directly head on (guerilla war)

* attacking The System, in a Military v Military setting (regular warfare)

While there are groups that will never have the direct strength to take a head on fight, I think it's beneficial to have a category showing that they limit their targets to agents of the system rather than any random civilian.
There's a lot of value in sane defaults, and in learning to accept them. Having to tinker and adjust everything quickly becomes a chore.
He's Dick, from the internet.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02