skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mailgun is (was) great for setting up a quick regex to process incoming mail. Maybe I'm misusing it, but I point all my non-email domains there and let this regex forward everything to my main domain:

^(abuse@|hostmaster@|postmaster@|webmaster@).*

I'd gladly pay $.0008 per message x2 to cover both sides of that event because I have very little usage. By putting email receiving into a tier that costs over $400 per year they've priced me out of the service.

It's disappointing the way these companies are happy to have enthusiasts, hobbyists, and side projects light-housing their products for them at the start, but eventually switch to paid tiers that alienate those same types of early adopters. It feels like it happens with every single service I use.

Boo!
Sure, this is typical of well-run environments.

But you probably don't yank power on critical things mid-load after making a trivial change. Excessive testing breeds its own risks.

But it's really, really easy to gank up a trivial change now and then.

In the past 10 years, I've been woken up three times. One was from third-party software having a certificate that we didn't know about expiring; one was from a very important RAID set degrading and failing to auto-rebuild to the hotspare (it was RAID-10, so didn't want to leave it with a single copy of one stripe any longer than necessary); and one was from a bad "trivial change" that actually wasn't. I don't see how you can get to a rate much lower than this if you are running critical, 24x7 infrastructure.
The Death of IMAP for Microsoft Users
I had tons of music on google playlists and almost stopped due to ads. Firefox extensions and ad blockers have made it my go to playlist spot again.
Some editors do syntax highlight "language injections" or SQL embedded as a string. e.g. Rider by JetBrains: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2018/10/29/sql-inside-c-st...
My understanding is that STEM degrees generally have a much more reasonable debt / future earnings ratio than the arts and humanities.

Is that not the case?

I guess it can be argued that those fields fall under "exploration and risk taking" though...
I seriously don’t understand why this sentiment(not yours) is so prevalent on HN. If we want competition in the tech sector, it seems to me that government enforcement of modulization would only hinder such competition. Why should a large corp’s web dev team care about mobile safari if they can just write on their page, “it seems you are using safari on mobile, we recommend downloading mobile chrome(AppStore hyperlink) and setting it to default, as of $PREVIOUSYEAR we will no longer support it.”? To me as things currently stand(that is Apple is not a monopoly), Apple’s walled garden approach absolutely embodies the spirit of a free market. Consumers have the choice of products and the defaultness of iPhones is fairly widely understood at the market level, best I can tell. Anecdotally of course, but almost all the l people I’ve talked to who buy an iPhone state that they buy it because they “don’t want to think about their phone” that seems fair to me.
Can we PLEASE collectively put our manners aside and confront people who are not covering their mouths when they cough? I'm very aggravated that people don't. What is going through the mind of a person who deep coughs, open mouth, without cover, in public transport? It's depressing.
This is (imo) the right course of action to (at minimum) alert countries wrt the gravity of this outbreak; however, I was disappointed to see the tiptoeing around potentially offending China. From the press conference, it seemed that Dr. Tedros made it painfully (maybe even unnecessarily) clear that this action wasn't faulting China for their handling of this situation. It's just weird to see that global politics is creeping into these public health decisions.
This isn't true. When running my own server Google will send me emails but will not allow me send emails to my Gmail account. I know it is configured properly because I can email other services just fine.
For a well-defined project like this, I recommend getting in touch with people in the OSM US Slack workspace [0] for advice on possible data sources, mapping techniques, prior/duplicate efforts, etc.

[0]: https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/
Trump Supporters Score Higher on Verbal Ability Tests
Nope. It's because protobufs can't differentiate between nil/unset and a zero value in this field: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/53f15caf73b9285d6043009...
Programming complexity is changed to devops complexity.

With microservices, without a good documentation how it connects, it's going to leave a very bad impression.
> Apple and Google are directly competing with OSM

Apple Maps _is_ OpenStreetMap in many countries. In Denmark it's used for turn-by-turn navigation even.

(Source: Talk by Apple employee at the OSM'a 'State of the Map' conference 2018 https://2018.stateofthemap.org/2018/T081-Working_with_the_Co... )
Here’s a blurb with the patent numbers. https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/01/billion-verdict-caltech...
I really hope this new Maps updates with new addresses better. The place I am living in now is about 18 months old. Google added the address in about 8 months ago, Apple still has not. People who use Apple maps and put in my address end up with an address clear on the other side of town. Pretty much everyone just trusts map apps, so this has been pretty annoying. I now have to give out my address and warn people to not use Apple Maps. Many still do despite my warning :-/

I submitted a correction inside the app a couple times over the course of several months to no avail. So I tweeted at AppleSupport. They assigned a support representative to my case and he's been calling me about once a week for weeks now. It's almost comical at this point.

So here's hoping this new map app avoids this kind of headache.
Something to turn into a product? Economies of scale could help staff it then?
There are many variables when it comes to travel restriction. "Travel restriction" is simply not a binary category which you either have or do not have. Hence, I'm unconvinced by a universal conclusion of "travel restriction does not work" from a few retrospective studies of a few heterogeneous cases of past travel restrictions. I maintain that we should not give in to the conclusion that global spread of infections is simply inevitable, except by chance, and write off restricted mobility completely.
Wow, that’s massive news. Could you share a link to your source please?
Your last point has me thinking - hypothetically if an individual were in this situation, could they sell 'equity' in the eventual settlement in order to take money off the table now, rather than go bankrupt from legal expenses etc and get nothing?

E.g. Sell 50% of the initially ruled $1.1B settlement for, say, $100MM.

Anything like this ever happened?
I seem to remember someone posting their results of testing Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze for ETA accuracy, and what you describe was also what they found: Apple Maps was the most accurate, Google Maps was optimistic, but accurate, Waze basically reported the best case scenario. Edit: found the original [0]

I've long thought that Waze creates the illusion of saving massive amounts of time, when its benefits are marginal (although real). I know I personally prefer an active commute to one waiting in traffic, even if travel times are identical. Waze seems to maximize for the latter.

[0] - https://arturgrabow.ski/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/amp/
> The issues here are simply too complicated for juries to decide--particularly the amounts of money.

That's why the appeals courts exist.
"... As a non-profit institution... "

Sounds legit.
Coronavirus:

-5,974 confirmed cases

-170 deaths

[1]For comparisons the SARS outbreak of 2003:

-8,098 people worldwide became sick

-774 died

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html
You can use them from browser if you use duckduckgo as your search engine. There is still not an option to navigate there (if you are, for example, planning your trips in advance). Very basic, unfortunately.
I haven't heard of the flu shutting down a 11 million habitant city. The flu doesn't kill 290-650k per cycle, its more like 12-60k.
If you care about music, find human creators and curators (record labels, well-run stores, reviewers, DJs, etc) you like and pay attention to what they're doing. Talk to them, even. There are likely some of these people within a degree or two of you socially.

Use algorithms only if you're at a complete loss and need a bit of help serendipitously stumbling onto any of the above, but don't rely on them.
>Why not just use github, gitlab or other VCS?

You can only revert changes to states that you have explicitly stored and uploaded. Dropbox does that automatically any time you save a file. That simplicity makes it more reliable. You will never lose anything you saved. And with rewind you can go back to any point in time. The advantage of git comes from its branch/merge features. But for a single developer on a small project that doesn't know git well that's not worht the complexity.
Big Law Makes Big Money
I'm so ready for AMD 4000 parts in laptops
About a year ago I noticed that for some reason Google Maps occasionally reported my house being 3 blocks from where it is. None of the other houses on my street had this issue. I filed a correction with Google expecting a long delay for it to be resolved. I received notification in 45 minutes to an hour that the issue had been resolved.
This is HN, how about presenting an opinion about some preferable alternative?

Do you think Malta's number of representatives should be cut to match the UK's, in which case it would have (less than) one member and any minority votes on Malta would be hopelessly lost and ignorable? Do you think the UK (and others) should be boosted to match Malta, in which case the EU parliament would have eleventy thousand representatives? Do you think some other scheme else would be better?

We have a similar discrepance in Norway, BTW, where it basically doesn't matter. The least populous region has historically had less that 2% of the population and about 3% of the parliament seats, but the numbers are very small, haven't made a difference, and of course the issue exists precisely because the numbers are so small, so it can never grow to be a big discrepancy.
I think this is fine, but only if we also bake in all of the things that Apple has achieved using their dominance.

- Strong encryption
- Privacy Protections
- Not using user data
Here's how you find new music: peer to peer. Soulseek is what I recommend. The value is unlocked when you search for something relatively niche. You'll find users that have what you're looking for and can then browse their shared directory and download other stuff that you haven't heard of but appears interesting. If you like what you find, buy it. P2P is life.
Feature toggles are the answer here
I think "perfection" is understood to be a limit or non-unique. But where we are with tooling today, industry wide, is so completely abysmal that I don't think the behavior of shooting for absolute perfection or something in reach is that different.

Words like yours implies we are "good enough" and anything better is "too costly", and I don't think that is remotely true.
This might be useful: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559
Y5 Yubikeys cost that much, because they do a lot more than just FIDO/U2F. U2F Yubikeys cost more like $20.
Minecraft was Swedish. Nokia is Finnish. VLC is French. ARM is British. Sinclair was British. The entire demo scene is Nordic.

Israel is technically in Asia, but for most practical purposes (legal system, healthcare system, taxes, sport leagues, broadcast rights, dvd regions) it is considered to be in Europe. And it produced Checkpoint (firewalls...), Teva (largest generic drug manufacturer, but also original drugs like copaxon for MS), CAR-T for cancer treatment, and a couple of other things you’ve heard about.
For a more cultural example, look at the Queen of England.

At this point Prince Charles is so old that he may well just abdicate his kingship to his son.

Maybe not. But for most purposes he has been eclipsed by his son.
The issue isn't absolute numbers. We don't know the deadliness of the current outbreak. Lets take the flu for example. According to CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e.... The death rate is around 0.09% at the worst according the numbers on the cdc estimates (Which is a very pessimistic estimate). If the coronavirus has a mortality rate of 1/100 it would make 10x more deadly than the flu.
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I see them while navigating. I tried navigating to some rural US locations and I see them all the way through the route.
Running the official numbers, mortality rate is less than 3%. If we plug in estimative models claiming 25000+ unrecorded infections, mortality is less than 1%.

Unless you are in a sensitive age group or have other health problems, data suggests you're most likely to get over it as a regular flu.

It's not all perfect and is worse than a regular flu, but especially now after the announcement some people may way over-stress themselves which doesn't do good to your immune system.
Only for Presidential elections, which, to be fair, isn't the most important one for the federal government. Congressional elections are more important.
Hardware Hacking with C# and JavaScript
I work on a project where dev teams (plural) occupy time zones spanning 16h. Having a very hard boundary between service concerns helps immensely with remaining sane even if the project could be rolled into a monolith from the perspective of code or data complexity.
> With hundreds of commits trying to go out every day, probability that at least one would break something approached 1. Then everything had to be rolled back. Getting unrelated concerns into separate deployable artifacts rescued our velocity.

Software tends to reflect the structure of the organization that creates it, so this makes sense to me. If you have multiple teams contributing to a stack, eventually it is easier to have the teams work on their own (micro-)service(s).

I recommend to most people that stacks should start out as monoliths though, and move to microservice architectures only when they encounter enough pain. I think starting out with microservices from the get-go just reduces initial velocity with little payoff until you hit a certain scale.
So why don't you move to cloud/managed services? I can tell you from own experience that having a HA solution you don't really understand is a really bad idea. Just go with master/replica for Pg and a well documented troubleshooting and manual failover procedure. It'll likely be more reliable than some HA black magic. And it will likely take less than several weeks to get up and running.
Shame we don't do HATEOAS, just RPC-over-HTTP
SB 50 (California denser-housing bill) did not pass Senate
Go for it. See if your action pulls us towards collective action. Do you chastise every person you see breaking this social norm?
"orders-of-magnitude higher developer productivity", to quote the author. We aren't talking quibbling over the last few crumb like a microbenchmarks game, but a revolution of the means of production with profound economic implications.
It is absolutely not. Even if you are not considering the whole spam thing.

They specified that it wasn't even if you could ignore the spam issue. I said that it was if you ignored the spam issue. The first post in this thread was "We've made sending electronic mail way too complicated under the guise of fighting spam."

I'm aware that it won't get past every spam filter, but it gets past both Gmail's and my own provider (a smaller, non-American one), which is good enough for my own use. My claim was that sending electronic mail is a solved problem, because it is.
Most ISPs block SMTP traffic, which creates a pretty significant barrier to sending email. Even VPS services send through a secret gateways with all sorts of filters and controls on it.
I agree they are great. I kind of miss the older style of reports though, with memes all over the place!
The argument is that something the size and complexity of the JWST has never been attempted, which leaves a lot of Rumsfeld's famous "unknown unknowns" it's unfair to saddle the contractor with. There really needs to be a middle-ground on cost-plus contracts; something that allows for unanticipated issues to be dealt with, but punishes shoddy work or insanely silly lowball bids.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/shodd...

> In a vibration test of the telescope earlier this year in California by prime contractor Northrop Grumman, dozens of loose fasteners — some 70 pieces in all — came off. A few pieces are still missing and could well be inside the observatory. The locknuts were not tightened properly before the test, according to a report by the board.

This sort of thing (IIRC, this individual issue cost $150M) should come directly out of the contractor's profits.
The way all global superpowers and, by extension, their organizations have to babysit China's government has gone from ridiculous to ridiculously dangerous. Politicans pretend not to notice human rights abuses, ignore the fact that the regime is repressive and a danger to its own people, and now try to act like saying 'Hey, the virus originated in this country, hope they contain it' is some horribly offensive thing. It's unjustifiable in my eyes.
I use music map all the time! It's intuitive, and I've found it pretty accurate as well. Well done.
My extremely modern recommendation for those feeling like they have no good sources: have y'all tried reading more blogs?

I still read Stereogum (which recently went independent again after being owned by Billboard) and Pitchfork. I stay reasonably on top of popular music with them - Stereogum in particular strikes an amazing balance between having good coverage of straight-up pop while still giving coverage to often-ignored genres like hardcore and grime. Their writers certainly have their blindspots, and they are driven by popular label press releases as much honest discovery, but that's kind of why I read them - I want to stay on top of the zeitgeist.

I think if you have specific tastes, you should find sources covering your niches. I also think that if you live in a major city, you may want to find local coverage - I read Brooklyn Vegan, which is (unsurprisingly given the name) also mainly focused on mainstream indie, also but covers a lot of smaller artists who are coming through NYC soon. I've managed to see a lot of live music I never would have heard of thanks to them.

I am also interested in working on better ways to discover music. I've been working on a small Twitter-like social network for sharing new music on and off for the past few years, somewhat comparable to This Is My Jam. It doesn't do any fancy algorithms or anything, it just presents music your friends post in a form that's easy to listen back to (via Spotify and Apple Music SDKs - would love to have more sources someday, but Soundcloud and Bandcamp don't really have APIs for this, and obviously hosting content is a minefield). I'm watching the comments on this thread closely for inspiration on this - right now I've just been using it with a couple friends and thinking about how it might expand in the future :)
This is really cool!

Are there any existing models to start with?
It seemed during the conference that they were trying their best to not step on Beijing's toes. I wonder if they think China would stop cooperating if they called them out on their poor containment procedures.
Specifically preload or HSTS?

Because HSTS gets you most of the protection you need while being able to recover if something goes horribly wrong.

Set your HSTS timeout to greater than the gap between user visits and it does prevent active MitM.

You're only unprotected for first time visits being actively intercepted or particularly long gaps where HSTS can expire (both of which are hard targets).
Please explain the difference to me. Mailgun is sending tons and tons of spam email; what is so special about them that they aren't ending up in people's spam/junk folders?
Could you add the timeframe of each pandemic? I believe the coronavirus is 1-2 months old, but how long was SARS to get to 774? I feel like the comparaison isn't great without timeline.
It's vox. Don't look for intellect from such sources.
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My admittedly old-school way of finding new music is the following:

1) Put a link to my last.fm profile in my forum signature.

2) Ask people to review what I listen to and make recommendations.

This has been infinitely more useful than the standard machine-generated recommendations, particularly when it comes to specific sub-genres and the like. A human who sees I have Black Sabbath, Sleep, and Pentagram in my rotations but not Pantera, Korn, or Slipknot in my list is probably going to implicitly understand that I don't like nu-metal, and will recommend something within the traditional heavy metal or doom metal genres.

The machine algorithms, on the other hand, think it's all just "heavy metal", and will then send me bogus recommendations for Marilyn Manson and other crap that I'm never going to touch.
Or people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

I'm tired of dumb people saying, "Well, I don't pee on my hands!" Yeah, but you touched your junk, rocket surgeon.

Even worse are people who use their phones while going to the bathroom or even at the urinal, then bring their nasty phones back into the office and put them on other people's desks. Gross.

On the other hand, there are a few people in the office who go all Lady MacBeth every time they flush. Good for them.
> enforce separation of concerns and data ownership

You can enforce separation of concerns and data ownership in a monolith just as much as you can not enforce these two characteristics in a micro service architecture. Microservices and monoliths are a discussion about deployment artifacts, full stop.
I've been running a SaaS in the email space since 2011. It is not surprising at all, to me, that Mailgun decided to do this.

Sending an email _is_ trivial - you're right - but getting it delivered to the inbox, instead of the spam folder, is far from trivial. At scale, it is incredibly difficult. Even worse, spammers and fraudsters are utterly relentless. They hammer services like mine and Mailgun's constantly with fraud and phishing and porn and other garbage, inbound and outbound.
The issue with the browser (and sideloading) is security. Browsers by their nature are essentially apps that run arbitrary code from an unknown location. How do you ensure security of the devices if you don’t control the browser?

Safari is great on iOS. I’ve never felt the need to run something different. Same with sideloading apps. I’ve never seen the need for that. Maybe I’m an Apple fanboy but I think they’re doing the right thing in both cases.
Chris Lattner left Google a few days ago. Swift for TensorFlow is likely dead.
I'm solidly in the Millennial bracket and the closest thing I had to "planned activities" before I was old enough to pick them myself was Little League during the summers.

Then again, I grew up in rural Iowa, and I've heard cultural trends take a decade or so to make their way from the coast all the way inland.

But I think some of it is also just a matter of what you are focusing on. I'd guess there are plenty of kids growing up similarly unsupervised as in the past, they are just more out of sight than before.
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An additional consideration is that predictability can lead to unintentional gaming of mechanics. For example, there are WoW addons that keep track of your bonus damage RNG trinkets to tell you when your RNG is hot and when its cold so you can optimize when you use some big finisher.
There are already 8243 confirmed cases.

https://thewuhanvirus.com/