skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not easy but it's not that hard. I've bootstrapped many mail servers on AWS and others and, although the initial outgoing emails might be flagged as spam AND you may have to remove yourself from Spamhaus and others, it's been mostly painless.
> it's not clearly a completely stupid idea on its face

A law to protect a useless middleman? Seems completely stupid to me.
Why not Gmail?
Because the ‘great products’ aren’t selling in large enough volumes to cover the division’s wage bill.

And presumably they don’t think selling far fewer at a much higher price would do so either.
> Free markets are when people are free to trade with whoever they want to, at the price they both freely agree to.

Except the numerous exceptions where that isn't true. I can't engage in insider trading. I can't get a child to give me his lunch money in exchange for a lollipop. I can't deal heroin. The point being that markets aren't absolutely free, they're free within the limits of what we deem to be culturally and politically acceptable. If you look at the logic surrounding the end of slavery in 19th century Europe, much of the debate was about the property rights of slaveholders and how they ought to be compensated for their lost property.
See, by siding with just McCormick, though, you're absolutely missing out on all the great Schmick content. They're Collab albums, produced much later and (of course) in John's heyday, are amazing. Spicy, even.
Meal Plan
I need a meal plan which I can prepare and eat in under 15 min. Should achieve decent nutrition. Should be under 200 dollars a month. Wish there was a subscription product for this. Like it sends you a box full of frozen stuff that lasts a month.
Any ideas? Again, cooking takes too long, requires too much effort. I lose my focus on work.
The Tesla rep on the phone said I am out of the area for that service. I don’t think I would have paid the extra anyway. I’m too cheap to pay such a markup for fixing a flat out of principle alone.
True.. I was slightly inaccurate, This org. had various USG funders, with a large slice of funding from US-AID projects. Washington is full of these 'USAID contractors', some tiny others mega-sized. But this project may have been funded by a division of US Dept of State that is focused on Human Rights - DRL. Not sure where the lines are about which one US-Aid gets and which one is State. For example development of journalism in an emerging country would be US-Aid. But OTOH, a project promoting free elections in the same country could be State. Not sure.

In any case, they span the range from benign to hostile nations, with varying risks attached. The "About" page for many such sensitive orgs would be silent on who the team was, except if it was Americans (like me) who didn't mind being their name out there (or nervously okayed the name being public).
The tokio scheduler and the go scheduler are roughly equivalent. Much of tokios bulk is reimplementing much of the std lib in an async compatible way (io, os, blocking).
Enigma: Puzzle Game with a Dexterity Component
Somehow I think their understanding would jump exponentially for ICE autos, but not for Tesla or any other EV builder. That seems to be the bespoke irrationality for this market segment.
The overall median income for all full-time workers in the USA is $39.5k. For full-time with a doctorate it is $79k. I think that 5-10x the median income of any education group is an ok place to pay higher capital gains.

$480k puts you more than $100k into the top 1%...
A lot of times it is just poring over code looking for bugs that have already been found in other locations in the code.

For example. this is a use after free bug. You can statically analyze disassembled code to find places where this might be happenning, and then figure out how to exploit that instance of the bug.
I'm pretty sure the Ministry of Health will go forward and push the non-vaccinated workers outside even if they don't have replacements available. And considering how much non-doctors healthcare workers are treated here, I can understand people not wanting to work there. (also it's not as if French hospitals require being French to work there)
That goes very well with this prior episode as background info: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/28/
And I don't have a problem with that because this actually means that non-meat is 40% and all food is 100%

Non-meat isn't zero either - massive fossil fuel inputs go into all plant cultivation from farm equipment to fertilizers to pesticides.
What are the best Mailchimp alternatives for those who do not want to support Intuit in the future?
I’m sure most people don’t need boosters but really, what’s the harm in giving them access? Specifically if the vaccines are otherwise wasted, since it seems like most places are wasting a lot.

Yeah we need to vaccinate the unvaccinated first, but most of these people in first-world countries are unvaccinated by choice, and i don’t think most first-world countries can ship their unused vaccines to third-world countries.

I’m fine without a booster, but i know others who are really nervous, particularly others who are older or immunocompromised but don’t qualify. Even if they don’t need boosters, the peace of mind alone will help.
Public safety is mostly funded at local and state levels. Public school is half funded by local government and half funded by the state. TFA is about federal taxes.
If we can call copyright infringement theft, then improperly asserting rights to media one has no rights to ought to be considered theft against the Commons or the valid rightsholder, and a flagrant repeat violator should be subject to punitive damages. Charges of fraud and identity theft should also be on the table.
Often, getting a specialized diet prevents you from eating over-processed foods, which would cut down on potential problems your body may have with them.

It's the same with a low-meat diet since so many restaurants don't offer food without meat - you end up not eating out as much or selecting healthier items.
SPC launches $65k social impact and technology fellowship
they are moving into ecommerce. They've acquired tradegecko last yr and rebranded it as quickbooks commerce.

Also, if you look at mailchimp recent product changes with addition of MC stores, they are positioning themselves to compete against ecommerce platforms. This could be planned beforehand to be part of the package for the acquisition.
Here's hoping Musk tries the same thing in Michigan to get around the hold that the auto dealers have on the state legislature. I know there are tribes in Battle Creek and Mt. Pleasant who would probably welcome a Tesla dealership, especially if it drew traffic to their casinos.
I think you're missing the major aspect of mailing lists that is why they are used for projects like Postgres or Linux: transparency. (at least when the lists are also archived, which is a different issue).

Mailing lists lets the future user see the decision making process unfold throughout a thread. These interactions can be archived and searched. Most users don't interact with these mailing lists in realtime through an MUA. They search an archive to find the appropriate thread. And critically -- anyone on the list can build the archive. It doesn't require any special infrastructure on behalf of the list owners.

It can be cumbersome, but it's also robust. Imagine if the history was only present in bugzilla, Jira, GitHub issues, or a forum? Bug trackers aren't always the best way to work through a brand-new API design. Email back and forth with collaborators on the other hand...

Also -- mailing list archives are also ridiculously easy to index in a search engine. Data stored in bug trackers aren't always as simple...
I would rather them maximize profits rather than decide to actually take a stance in manipulating society. At least I know where I stand with a greedy corporation.
Some homeservers are larger than others (e.g. matrix.org). They don't all need to be compromised to enable mass surveillance. It also depends on where TLS is terminated. If you're running a homeserver on AWS or something behind their load balancer, there's a difference.

Generally, I'd argue that E2EE provides defense in depth against "unknown unknowns" if server infrastructure is compromised by any means. Although I do acknowledge it adds one more level of complexity, and often another 3rd party dependency (presuming you're not going to roll your own crypto), so it's not a strict positive.
about 1000$ per user? is that the value of our privacy?
probably because each user uploaded their address book?
> Why did they need the law to protect them from competition back then?

It kept more profits in the states with dealerships versus car manufacturers.
Exactly this. This is one reason we homeschool. Public school in the US was so incredibly oppressive (cops patrolling the halls and writing lewd conduct tickets for kids cussin'???), I was frankly shocked that most kids and parents put up with it.
One rule for me, another for thee.
Yes, but let's not forget the biggest source of emissions is, by far, the generation of energy.

Aprox 45% of global emissions come from:

- Generation of electricity and heat.

- Burning of fossil fuels at factories, mines, etc, to produce energy on site.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
> That doesn't mean everything MS does is poison.

Of course not. I love New Microsoft's products and customer/dev support. I vastly prefer Microsoft over any other FAAMG. I trust them more and think they're far less harmful than any of the others.

All that said, I don't believe any of this is because of ethical principles. It's because they make more money by being "good" than by antagonizing their own society and customers.

> Companies are a collection of different people, with differing actual personalities, including agreements, disagreements and meaningful conflict and negotiations.

Yes, but as we've seen throughout human history, morals disappear as soon as people are part of a large group. You can participate (and even lead!) while telling yourself that the things you're doing as a group are totally out of your control.

For example, I have a Jewish friend at Facebook who is appalled by their enablement of conspiracy theories, but he still works at Facebook.

If everyone at Facebook who objected to their company's behavior would find another job, I guarantee the behavior would change or the company would collapse.

> I think most MS movement has been self-serving, that doesn't make it inherently bad or good

I guess it depends on your definition of "bad". I have never observed a large corporation take a huge hit to its bottom line in order to stand up for something moral. I don't think I ever will. To me, that's "bad" -- a group of people who exercise an enormous amount of power without feeling that they're personally responsible for the consequences. That's why I described it as psychopathy.
> Actually teacher's work less during the school year than other professionals.

Yes, they average 36 hrs/wk over the full year instead of 40 hrs/wk. 10% less time. And they're off 2 or 3 months a year. So, that lines up with my "they tend to work about the equivalent of a regular fulltime job while only getting paid for 9-10 months" statement.

> I seriously doubt Walmart assistant managers are getting anywhere near that level of benefits

And the majority of that is in pension benefits which assumes they work until they earn it out. It's one of those clever accounting things where since most teachers quit after < 10 years, they don't get any of those awesome benefits.

> I can't find any data on how much Walmart pays out in benefits, but you see to be pretty familiar with how much Walmart pays so please share.

I mean, I've just googled it. I saw that they have some 401k plans and some stock purchase plans. They seem to offer decent enough insurance (in that they cover dental and vision as well as health) but I have no idea what their copays are. In looking it up, it seems they also pay for you tuition costs, which is nice.

> I know a bunch of teachers and a few principals and all of them across the board have said it's impossible to be fired as a teacher after the probationary period.

Yes. It's stupidly hard to fire a teacher. But if the underlying job sucks, being secure in it is irrelevant. If teachers tend to quit, it doesn't matter how hard it is to fire them.

Also, the firing or not is very state dependent.

The people I know in retail always seem anxious about their numbers, but I've never heard of any of them getting fired for missing them.
> by hiring more people who will take the results of the algorithms and have a second look at all appeals by using common sense

Who wants to work for these companies anymore?
House Democrats propose new retirement plan rules for the wealthy
As you point out—there are also fantastic administrations of shared resources.

For example, many fisheries in the USA have recovered tremendously through smart limits. The Atlantic cod fishery is often cited. I personally have experienced the Pacific North West salmon fishery and can confirm that the fishing gets better up there every year while the Dominican fishery gets worse. The DR fishery has experienced the tragedy of the commons.

The DR also experienced fantastic forest preservation in the 1970s. This was after all the old growth was destroyed. There was a success of the commons following a tremendous tragedy. Still, in the last few years these old laws have been disrespected and so the forests have been decimated to make way for Haas avocado plants. Do not buy Dominican Haas avocado.

The tragedy of the commons is very real. Learn more about the success and failure of different shared resources through Elinor Ostrom’s work.
Most creators of "intellectual property", or their mentors, grew up in a world where physical scarcity in distribution created artificial scarcity of information. Earning a living under that system makes people ascribe morality and self-evident "correctness" to those business models.

Scarcity of information is gone because information isn't tied to physical distribution anymore. Tomorrow's bits will be easier to copy than today's. Short of legislating away general purpose computers bits aren't ever going to get harder to copy. Staking your livelihood on a business model where bits get harder to copy is probably a bad business decision.

Will this mean the end of some types of for-profit artistic expressions? Yeah-- probably. If those types of expression are valuable to humanity creators will figure out how to get people to pay for them.

Will this be the end of all for-profit artistic expression? Not likely.

As per-copy-based business models dry up "intellectual property" creators will be forced to move to new business models or find other jobs. After awhile (maybe a generation or two) the new business models will seem as self-evidently "right" as those that came before.

The morality ascribed to old business models probably won't disappear until the people who grew up in earlier times die. (I am reminded of John Philip Sousa railing against sound recordings in a 1906 Congressional hearing). Hopefully the legal copyright regime will evolve as people coming of age under in a world of easy-to-copy bits take the reigns of power.

Alternatively I suppose we could end up in a dystopian "Right to Read"[0] world, with general purpose computers heavily regulated and old business models enforced by jack-booted thugs.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Have you implemented your own USB devices yet? How about your own BLE based protocol? All with your own code (not using some off the shelf library which imposes its own abstractions on you)?

I've done a moderate amount of firmware programming, and while some of it seems "easy" or "obvious" in retrospect, taking a new chip, implementing a crude task sharing "operating system", writing drivers for peripherals, then writing a host facing interface (like USB, or bluetooth) and then writing the host driver for it, and making it all happy... Eh, actually that might be more tedious than hard.

The last thing I worked on that evoked "wow that was fucking hard", required minimizing the power draw without sacrificing features, so you have to deal with creating state machines to track all the various standby and power states of your peripherals and radios and mcu, and transitioning between them in the right way (and with the right timing!)

Doing cool sound/music stuff used to be hard, but it's eas(ier) now that your microcontroller is frequently 32bit.

Make a live update mechanism for your project that is provably un-brickable. That was difficult 10 years ago. Might still be difficult.
You'd be surprised. Often that dude will have preferences that go way beyond linters and may even contradict widely accepted best practices.

I've worked with the dude who insisted on factoring out functions for unrelated 2-liners, creating extra coupling where we don't want it, the dude who insisted on mocking library code in tests when it would be easier and more thorough to just use it and make sure we're calling it right..

My favorite was the dude who, after 3 days of back and forth changes on a semi-urgent PR goes silent for a day, I ping him, he says "thinking of more comments :)" with the goddamned smiley.
Individual horses can have wonderful personalities. Once I got over how unsettling I find their physical size, I really got to enjoy their character. The ones that like people tend to be very curious and friendly.

Plenty of them don't like people, though. (And many for good reason.)
I do, and I consider jupyter to copy mathematica notebook, without seriously admitting it.
> Once the problem escalates to be a legal dispute, this is the only way communication can happen.

But there hasn't been any other previous communication. Our first notice from them, as detailed in the post, was from their lawyers.

So there has been no attempt on their side to come to even an amicable conversation. I offered that --but was denied.

> And honestly, even the domain name postgr.es is confusing.

That domain is held by PostreSQL Europe. So according to your argument, they shouldn't hold it.

> From the PostgreSQL EU website (as linked by you), these are their specific trademarks:

That they are more or less confusing is something I may agree with. But I don't see why it may change the subject matter: if the agreement would be that only a single entity would hold them, so be it. PEU can't definitely do that, under no circumstance.

"Funnily" enough, PEU is also one of the entities suing Fundación in the courts. Indeed, on the very first letter, as our post mentions, they are presented with PAC as if they were part of the same: "in representation of both the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada and PostgreSQL Europe ("individually and collectively")".

So your argument that PEU's are not confusing is not what is at stakes here. It is that two entities, unrelated and separated, want to be the steward of the trademarks in Postgres. And if a third one tries to help, covering some observed gaps, it is sued by both. That is potentially collusion.

> And I'm sorry, but the global stability of the Postgres project is far more important than whatever good intentions you had.

I agree. But then why https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/trademark-actions-agai... is posted publicly? If the matter is in the courts (as it is), why is it needed to bring it publicly? We're happy to defend ourselves in private and in the public if needed, but I don't see what they win by this, and I see how it goes against the whole Community.

I'm sure you have read in our post that "The PostgreSQL Association of Canada; Postgres Europe; and Fundación PostgreSQL will transfer, permanently and irrevocably, all domain names, trademarks and other IP assets to the new NPO. New, clear and non discretionary rules will be established to allow fair use of the PostgreSQL trademarks by any stakeholder.". So it's not that we're unwilling to transfer the trademarks to the "Community". It's just that we disagree what the governing bodies of that community should be, believing that the current ones are a great liability and need urgent reform.

Of course, they don't want reform, so they chose to bash us publicly when the matter is in the courts. Who's harming the Community then? Are the trademarks currently registered by Fundación not offered to the public, with indeed less restrictions than PAC and PEU's? (https://postgresql.fund/trademarks).
And lost me as a user years ago because the way it was being (mis)managed.
I suspect in the future the searches won’t really matter any more. There will be software that automatically generates ultra real synthetic porn from your favorite fetish based on a deep learning model built on representation of what you have already enjoyed.
I didn't propose that, so I'm not sure what point you're making.

I just said that YT should receive and acknowledge claims of fair use or public domain status. Then, if a copyright claim arises, video uploaders know that YT is already aware of the asserted status and will evaluate it alongside the copyright claim, instead of assuming the latter to be true by default.
The Future of the App Store
I can only speak to weed, but the tribal reservation that I was on would not allow weed production for a couple reasons, one is that they receive quite a lot of federal funds and assistance, importantly they let the DEA run drug enforcement/stings, and the tribe doesn't want to rock the boat unless there is a very clear and well supported upside.

Not everyone in the tribe would be supportive, i.e. it would be a political risk. You would probably generate some tax revenue, but especially in the early days (in Oregon), it wasn't clear how much you'd make, whether banks would support you, whether the DEA would get angry about "interstate" commerce, regardless of their actual jurisdiction etc.

So their answer was, at the time no, you cannot grow weed commercially even though there wasn't really anything stopping them at that point. However they, and many other tribes, operate casinos(against the law in their state) and sell fireworks, potentially against state law or city ordinance; the latter because the ATF doesn't care, and the former because it represents over 80% of the tax revenue of the tribe and there is a history already built there between regulators and the tribe.
What you are describing sounds like scheduled socials to me, just in the office instead of over zoom. But I would not be surprised if mostly wfh with a few in-person days turns out to be the optimal setup for most offices.
It's interesting to me that these are laws and not contract provisions between the dealers and the manufacturers.

Then again, way back when, dealers may have been the weaker party in contract negotiations, so the law was intended to protect them. That almost certainly isn't the case today, though, given the proliferation and (local) political power car dealerships tend to have.
How so? The 8086 emulated on ESP32 is faster than the real one.
Their margin trend is amazing, 15% to 20% and I presume 25% now that they have made quickbooks a SaaS.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTU/intuit/profit...
Invulnerability for your devices is a chimera. You can only do what's possible in your capacity to secure yourself.

I am at peace with the fact that I'm doing the best I can and keeping those I love protected.
> Google probably should compile a list of public domain recordings to act as a blacklist for YouTube copyright claims.

Should or would. Why would they be interested in that, the current situation brings them money and that's all they seem to care about.
For those who are interested in modifying their diet for the environment but are hesitant to cut out meat altogether: the two-thirds vegan diet has much less carbon footprint than going fully vegetarian [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/15/how-much...