skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone with experience compare Mailtrain / Mautic / others?

I did a quick Mautic setup on a DO droplet a while back. It felt a little like beta software, a lot of careful steps to get things working, some things didn't work, updates and some actions on a clean install gave me PHP errors, Amazon SES API wasn't built yet so sent super slow via SMTP only, etc. And it leaned way harder into marketing automation as I should've expected from the name (JS on page to track users then associate them if/when they sign up later). This was at least a year ago and they've had a major release since so might have fixed some of these but I'm still trying to save money for a small business who can't afford $200/mo for sporadic newsletters and welcome series with free stuff.
Huge ranges of IPv6 addresses are extremely common, virtually no ISP can be bothered to allocate smaller blocks than a /64. The minimum allocation of addresses recommended is a /32, which is 65k addresses.

You also know they don't mean port numbers because there's no such thing as a 6-digit port number.

From tfa:
"""Imagine your SSH server only listens on an IPv6 address, and where the last 6 digits are changing every 30 seconds"""
Good news, but agreed. GE announced a shred-to-cement program in 2020 (27% cement CO2 reduction ). That was better than sending (currently 8000 blades/year) to landfills.

A few more details from Ryan Ginder in links below. Looks like it's a better way to 'extract the glass fiber reinforcement and use it to make higher value recycled composites'. He claims 'the process is material-agnostic'.

https://mabe.utk.edu/ut-receives-funding-to-recycle-wind-tur... [2020]

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-4321/4/2/24 [2019]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0cGugRe1w [11:45]
What display technology will be used in 10–20 years? LCDs & OLEDs may be obviated by then, but panels of some sort will still be a must.
I remember Age of Mythology (AOM) was like that. I would spend a lot of time investing in defenses only to realize my opponent - who was more agile and wanted to just get shit done - would attack me early on. He would lose the first battles, but I would lose the war.

I ended up adopting a more agile strategy where castle-building was not that important anymore. Instead, I would try to get shit done as soon as possible.
Blizzard's game launcher (use to?) downloads the games via Torrent. E.g. starcraft II, world of war craft, etc. That's pretty damn mainstream.

A lot of older networked games were, probably some modern ones too. One player hosts the game (either picked automatically by the match making system, or by running a game server listed by a index server), and everyone else connects to them. Call of duty, counter strike, starcraft, etc.

As other people mentioned the internet, also texting and telephones, but the peers in this example are really big. I think some of the bank transfer stuff is also a "distributed" system with big peers.

FireChat (distributed chat over wifi) was reasonably mainstream in Hong Kong for awhile: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/firechat-off-the-grid-messag...
There’s definitely something uniquely satisfying about knowing that code you wrote is saving other people time or helping them create things. The beautiful thing about programming is you can solve a problem once for yourself and also end up end up solving it forever for everybody.
I had a similar situation (with a pair of $25 earbuds). Amazon took my review down for "promotion", presumably because I included a picture of the card with an email address to contact if you wanted to be compensated for your review. Probably 75% of my deleted review was about the item itself.
Print a negative and use it like a stencil. You could also mix acrylic with sand so you can exclude the glue part altogether
It's easy to accept that explanation because it logically follows, but it requires you to make extreme assumptions (the lab's competence/honesty stats approach 100%), which he seems prepared to do. But it's hard for me to apply those kinds of assumptions to a CCP organization, for reasons that should be quite obvious. That WIV is still refusing to allow outside investigators should cause one to adjust their priors on that competence/honesty spectrum.
But that's the key difference between west and Russians. One wouldn't blink an eye to kill one of their own people to advance, while other tries to protect their citizens at almost any cost...
This theory doesn't even involve people conspiring, just an accident occuring. Except I guess if you believe the CCP is conspiring to prevent certain facts related to the early days of COVID's emergence from being known. What an outrageous suggestion that is.
Interesting, could you expand on the issue with Brits and alcohol?
Upvotes are free. HN has been upvoting this theory since the beginning.
Men vs. WOmen: Nail Metaphor is hilarious
https://www.braveclojure.com/ is where I first learned Clojure and I recommend it wholeheartedly. It is directed towards complete newcomers to the language.
Amazon has produced 11 generations of Fire devices, but they all serve a very specific purpose: a portal to purchasing things from Amazon. That means their innovation has come in the form of having the absolute lowest cost devices for their level of build and hardware quality. They've innovated in that direction, investing quite heavily. You seem to want them to innovate in terms of features: That's fine as an opinion, but that is not the only direction for innovation, and Fires already have the most important feature Amazon wants for consumers: a smooth integration to buying stuff.

Eink readers, as I said, are a completely different product class, not at all comparable to iOS. And if you chart the progress they've made since their original eink devices there have been significant improvements.

The kindle app on Android has a 4.7 star rating. On iOS it's 4.8. A few negative reviews don't mean anything when their ratings are that high. Whatever issues people have, they are outliers.

I'm no Amazon fanboy-- I don't like them very much as a company. But they have absolutely innovated, you just disagree with the directions they have chosen to go with that innovation.
>The workers at the lab "were tested and there was no evidence found of Covid antibodies."

Tested by whom and how? If a trustworthy disinterested party positively identified the workers, took their blood samples, and tested them via a procedure with a low false-negative rate, then the test results are meaningful. Otherwise, there is reason for doubt.
I read a comment where someone suggested the virus originated at the market -- and was then caught by someone who works at the lab.

The interesting thing about that theory is: I don't know how to assess which of those two scenarios is more likely.
How is healthcare normally delivered in China?

At least in the US a fair amount of patients show up at the ER first. The Wikipedia page for healthcare in China says there is a tiered system but also a shortage of primary care doctors in clinics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_China
Mers mortality was really scary, 30-40% I read earlier today. Just imagine what would have happened if that spread
The reason why there are so many scam projects in crypto is because big fiat power-brokers wanted to pump up the price of scam projects in order to draw attention to them in an effort to discredit the Blockchain/Cryptocurrency concept as a whole.

The problem is that they underestimated how much people hate the fiat monetary system and how far they are willing to deceive themselves in order to adopt and promote alternatives...

Some common cases of extreme self-deception:

- Bitcoin's measly 2 transactions per seconds is great, it's intentional to keep the size of the blockchain under control...

- Bitcoin consuming the same amount of electricity as an entire country is a good thing... It adds security, it uses mostly renewable energy and in fact, it speeds up the development of renewable energy technology.

- Proof of Work is better and more secure than Proof of Stake... The fact that everyone has to trust a tiny handful of companies who can produce Bitcoin mining hardware doesn't make it any less decentralized. The fact that the network can be hijacked by outsiders who have 0 stake in the network simply by buying or renting a lot of mining hardware doesn't impact security at all.

While this might sound like a critique of Bitcoin. I'm glad that people were able to do such extreme mental gymnastics to end up investing in Bitcoin because its success makes a mockery out of the entire financial system...

Bitcoin and Dogecoin are not so different. Their goal is to discredit the current financial system by showcasing its extreme inefficiency and stupidity. I chuckle to myself when I see Bitcoiners speaking about Dogecoiners in a condescending manner. They are both useful idiots.

Any intelligent person who understands what's going on can see that just about every aspect of our modern economy is at least as dumb as Bitcoin and that's the whole point. Satoshi was a comedian.

BTW, I'm bullish about crypto, but not about Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the other top scam coins which are hoarding all the attention away from genuine projects and starving them of funding.
It’s likely the pilots were fed a relatively standard line and asked to divert to Minsk.

Unless it’s an inflight emergency pilots will normally follow the recommendations of ATC. “There is a report you have a bomb onboard and divert to Minsk where we have a bomb squad” would likely work.
True. I gave a lot more weight to the genetic evidence, the 1200 mutations from the nearest related bat virus, the receptor optimized for multiple species, evidence it was first seen in humans hundreds of miles form Wuhan, etc.
idk what you are on about, you wanna defend throwing away a whole laptop when the battery's dead or the LCD is broken? You don't think "right to repair" is all about replacing IC's on a PCB, right? There are a ton of vital components in a modern laptop that would easily be replacable by either a dedicated layman or an unlicenced professional. E.g. the webcam, SSD, battery, cables between these and the MB, the LCD, keyboard, touchpad, power button, speakers, screen bezel, digitizer, daughterboards, lid sensor, the list goes on and on and on.

And remember that "right to repair" does not only entail end users, but also local repair shops and IT service companies who simply are not licensed with a specific brand.
I've updated the examples to account for the device pixel ratio, it'll probably look better now.
Yes I think actually this could be a PR win for the publisher. I’d say this opens a can of worms but these companies love to recycle old content. With studio support, the same actor, and some of this high powered movie magic they could really convincingly replace the offensive character.
https://onemileatatime.com/bomb-threat-el-al-787-fighter-jet...

A similar situation from a few weeks ago.
Lrzip – Long Range Zip or LZMA RZIP
Centralization is key to imparting knowledge, establishing law and order, and securing our existence through terraforming the planet on an immense scale — which is what separates humans from animals.

Scott Alexander uses the example of the US interstate highway system to defend the type of “centralization” which has been so crucial in humanity’s increasing standard of living [1]:

> I like Seeing Like A State as much as anyone else (though see the caveats in Part VII of my review for some criticisms). But it worries me that everyone analyzes the exact same three examples of the failures of top-down planning: Soviet collective farms, Brasilia, and Robert Moses. I’d like to propose some other case studies:

> 3. The interstate highway system: 1950s army bureaucrats with a Prussia fetish decided America needed its own equivalent of the Reichsautobahn. The federal government came up with a Robert-Moses-like plan to spend $114 billion over several decades to build a rectangular grid of numbered giant roads all up and down the country, literally paving over whatever was there before, all according to pre-agreed federal standards. The public had so little say in the process that they started hundreds of freeway revolts trying to organize to prevent freeways from being built through their cities; the government crushed these when it could, and relocated the freeways to less politically influential areas when it couldn't.

Put simply, centralization is in our DNA. It is fundamentally how humans have become the planet’s most fearsome apex predator. Nature is very fearsome, of course, but the power to shape nature via concentrating power into the hands of the most capable in a meritocratic fashion is even moreso.

It’s not surprising centralized services dominate their decentralized counterparts. Bitcoin, however, is interesting here because the S&P is actually down since 1970 as measured in gold [2] — rather astonishing, given the S&P tracks some of the most powerful (centralized) human organizations in existence. It appears despite our best efforts, sometimes elements which exist outside of our political and legal grip can outperform even the greatest man-made feats.

Satoshi Nakamoto used clever cryptography to replicate a precious metal in digital form, as an attempt to pull humans away from centralized government monies. That was 2009, though, and people have since gotten too caught up in the glittery financial rewards aspect of Bitcoin to appreciate it on this level.

> Bringing fresh competition against Chrome isn’t really an option either. Modern browser rendering engines are so complex (especially when you have to implement all of Chrome’s undocumented quirks too), that even Microsoft gave up trying. And if you’re thinking of making your own system that eschews the web standards, good luck trying to bootstrap the entire web’s worth of content

The Gemini protocol is getting there. I recommend Lagrange [3]. Drew Devault hosts some of his blog articles on Gemini.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-weyl-on-technoc...

[2]: http://pricedingold.com/sp-500/

[3]: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
I have no idea if that's baseline average or not, personally I find the article frustrating.

There's no discussion of how many people work at the lab, how many staff visited hospital the year before that, whether it is in fact common for those staff to visit hospital when they have seasonal flu, or any other factors that would put this in any sort of context at all.
On Motivation and Optimization
I'm flagging this obviously troll comment.

ACE2 was part of mechanism of action of previous coronaviruses. Here's first search result for SARS and ACE2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287568/
> No, the solution has to be political. That’s uncomfortable for me, as it probably is for you too. Software I can do, politics though? That’s hard.

I've been noodling this point from the political end for academic reasons of late.

Conclusion: society is an 80/20 problem.

- 80% geared toward stability (why I want actual companies with heft doing things like bridges and hardware &c). Socialized things.

- 20% geared toward innovation. Risk taking. Capitalism. Experimentation of the "Hold my beer" variety.

The tension between these two cannot and should not be resolved; rather, graciously supported.

I submit that TFA makes the point that the 80% bullies the 20% a bit too much. Government's role is arguably to be an honest referee, except that the 80% tends to have the loot in addition to the numbers.

I'd like to rally more around the FSF to do more to preserve and protect open culture. Takes leadership, business chops, and patience.
Just my personal estimate
Author wants political solutions (socialism) to "fix" centralized applications instead of developing better technological solutions. Yawn.
> Considering that traditional finance has a long history of predatory practices, anything that decreases their influence is a good thing to me.

Why should we trade onymous and regulated predators for anonymous and unregulated predators? If State Street said, everyone who invested in DIA is a sucker, and we're taking their money, they would be prosecuted. These scammer's claim that they will not face consequences is plausible.

Ethereum has been described as a "dark forest" where, if you make the slightest mistake, your money becomes "miner extractable value" and is no longer yours. When I buy stock, my order goes to HFTs who wring every ten-thousandth of a penny out of it they can - ten-thousandths of a penny that are rightfully mine - but my order gets filled. Market structure is destiny, and Ethereum's market structure enshrines frontrunning.

Let's say we start a bank where people can apply for mortgages, and a decentralized network of investors bid on those mortgages. Those investors take on-chain data and feed it through machine learning and whatnot to determine the creditworthiness of the borrowers.

I believe such a system would create decentralized, anonymous, unregulated redlining. The ML algorithms would observe that certain neighborhoods have lower incomes, or that other MLs are bidding higher interest rates for certain borrowers.

I think the biggest misconception cryptocurrency advocates have is that things like trust and equity are problems with technical solutions. They aren't; they are social problems that demand social solutions. That means creating regulations to codify and proliferate (what we desire to be) cultural norms. That means centralization, so that there are people who can be held to account.

ETA: And perhaps the second biggest misconception is that "Finance 2.0" is not just a recapitulation of "Finance 1.0", sans the hard-won restraints on it's abuses and excesses. If you don't believe that these abuses are effectively managed - that should only give you more pause.
This is journalist or journalism of our mordern world.

What is "sought hospital care"? To get some Vitamin C or get some serious surgery? (In China people go to hospital more often I guess, as people tend to deal with ailments relying on doctors a lot, rather than letting it go by itself.)

Nothing told.
Nothing in the government moves this fast. These regulations have been in the works for years and it took so long. However they might be prioritizing it more than the previous admin because Trump gave huge tax breaks to companies and had lax enforcement.
Some counterfeit parts can be worse than waste, they can be dangerous. Like batteries that catch fire and glass that shatters into sharp fragments.

It can also happens to legitimate products (ex: Galaxy Note 7), but these can be traced and recalls can be issued.
It's still unclear to me why anticompetitive behavior is so hard to understand for people here. Free markets don't exist. Stop pretending they do. Apple has a crazy amount of power over companies selling apps on their platform. Power that would easily be considered a monopoly and anticompetitive if brought to court in, say, Germany. The fact that Apple doesn't own the smartphone market completely is irrelevant. What matters is their potential and real power to unilaterally decide on contract/business matters affecting any number of companies that use their platform.
Are you part of a union, and is this recommendation feasible because of "worker's compensation"? I imagine I might not go get checked out if I felt like the risk was low enough and I was worried enough about being able to pay the bill.
In the 1960s DIY TV repair was such a big thing that there were self-service kiosks in supermarkets that sold vacuum tubes and included a tube tester.

When your TV stopped working, you took the back panel off with the TV turned on and looked to see which tube was not glowing. You would then turn the TV off, pull that tube from its socket, take it down to the supermarket, stick it into the correct socket on the kiosk, and press the "test" button. A meter or lights on the kiosk would tell you if the tube was dead.

If it was, you looked up the tube in a book that was attached to the kiosk. The book would list the part number of an equivalent tube sold at the kiosk. You'd grab the right tube from the racks of tubes in the kiosk, go pay for it at the checkout stand, take it home, put it on the socket, and 99% of the time that fixed your TV.

If that didn't you might take the rest of the tubes in and test them just in case the problem was a tube failure other than a burned out filament.

Only if that didn't do it did you call the TV repair shop.
Appropriately, ODD is an acronym for Oppositional Defiant Disorder, “A disorder in a child marked by defiant and disobedient behavior to authority figures.”
Sounds like you aren’t working on a greenfield project, granted most people aren’t. But it’s not like that for everyone.
Here's something from the complete story from the Wall Street Journal (upon which Reuters based its report). They spoke to "officials" familiar with the report, one of whom specifically said it was "still in need of further investigation and additional corroboration."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-report-of-illnesses-at...
It's gone from front page, after 30min.
I haven’t known many people who had to go to a doctor of any kind for a flu who weren’t quite old or with a chronic condition. Perhaps the three people in question were all elderly
Only if you consider the ability to afford food an improvement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/world/middleeast/lebanon-...
The big difference here is that now we have the added problem of dealing with ACE2 bindings which affect human lungs/liver/heart/pancreas/etc.

This is a dangerous difference.

> SARS-CoV recognizes angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as its receptor, whereas MERS-CoV recognizes dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) as its receptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0400-4
Out of how many?
Riffing off your thought:

Perhaps goalies should treat penalties like free kicks i.e. the goalie doesn't stand at the center of the goal and offers a far corner for the kicker to aim at? The goalie knows exactly where the kicker should be placing the ball and if the kicker is perfect accurate it's a goal but if the kicker is off then the goalie should save it?
NATO scrambled fighters from four countries to just watch a plane a few weeks ago.

https://onemileatatime.com/bomb-threat-el-al-787-fighter-jet...
How long would that have taken them to clear it? 5 minutes?
Or better yet, just unplug the computer while it's on /s.
> “People do surface mount rework all the time”

What percentage of Apple customers are doing surface mount rework, or even hiring other people to do this, in your estimation?

My guess is less than .01%.

And how much could that really be increased if Apple were forced to make their parts accessible and available in the aftermarket? Vs the carbon footprint of the extra manufacturing effort and having to set up distribution channels for these parts?

I just don’t see the sustainability argument. I don’t think any large number of people would suddenly say they want to keep their slow, heat-generating Intel MBPs if they were more repairable. The upgrade cycle will always be the upgrade cycle.

It’s disingenuous to play the “green” card here. I’d be more on the side of the right to repair Apple critics if they would just be honest and say “hey, this is a hobby for us and we want to save money and we just want to be able to do this stuff because it’s fun!”
> It is just me, or does it seem suspicious to anyone that this information existed, and wasn't reported in 2019 or 2020, or even in early 2021....but only just reached the press on the very evening of the WHO meeting.

Not really. The original source was "a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report." It's quite plausible that the report had been on the shelf in 2019 or 2020, or only accessible to people who knew how to keep secrets, but then was more widely disseminated to prepare for this meeting, after which a leaker got hold of it.
This all comes from a "previously undisclosed" intelligence report that came from an "international partner."

Not disputing that. But it'd be nice to know who that partner was...