skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had it at the end of summer. I somehow sensed it was coming - felt weak 3 days before the official symptoms appeared.

1st day of officially having covid was pretty bad, weakness and temperature.

2nd day, surprisingly, I felt great as if it was over.

3rd day was the worst day of the whole ordeal. It was like flu - muscle weakness, aches over the body, and temperature. I felt so weak I stayed in bed the whole day.

4th-6th days were getting better slightly but also oscillating. Some days were better and others worse, with no linear trend.

7th day - lost my sense of smell and taste. Noticed it first by drinking water. The only thing I could notice is the texture. I was eating oat meal and remember thinking that it feels like eating saw dust.

8th-12th days - slowly getting better and recovery, still oscillating from day to day.

13-14th days - temperature was back to normal and I felt healthy, except for lingering brain fog.

15th day - started taking big doses of Vitamins B, C, and D, drinking magnesium supplements and zinc.

17th day - brain fog went away (which I attributed to supplements). The only lingering symptom now was loss of smell.

18th day - had a "covid tongue" https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-tongue which freaked me out at first, but after discovering it was related to covid it eased my mind.

20th day - the "covid" tongue disappeared and only loss of smell remained. Over the months the sense of smell started to slowly return. The first to return was the smell of urine (for some reason).

Currently - All is back to normal maybe except for the smells. I feel that my sense of smell hasn't returned fully yet. Thou that might be a psychological thing. I can smell things, but they seem to be not as intense as before COVID. But I cannot compare.

Summary - I didn't have any respiratory issues (no runny nose, no shortness of breath, no sore throat). For me it was similar to flu +/- some extra symptoms. The worst thing is that it takes about two weeks to pass. 2 out of 14 days it felt worse than having a flu, and remaining 12 days felt milder than a flu.
Instagram? The app which doesn't allow any other client and only has a half-assed web version?
What happened to the SaaS site in November? It jumped to $30k, is that right? That's a massive increase.
As usual, it is a financial one.

Do you have ~30,000 EUR / year for skilled admin? Plus ~20,000 EUR / year for hardware and other running costs? If you do, you can have your emails safely and reliably exchanged from your basement. If you don't, you can rent whatever on the 'net that suits your budget.
I suspect OP’s organization disabled it. Not really Microsoft’s fault but that how a lot of Enterprise products get a bad name - user hostile configuration.
Zero to Ond
I just updated the dependencies on this project. It helps find vanity keys that start with a particular string. E.g. @gardner1/lu4h

https://github.com/gardner/vanityssb
Let us first agree on what we are arguing. You proposed that:

> For most software projects, there should be a way to buy a commercial support license.

> For many, such a license should be required for use in any org which is over X employees.

I interpret this to mean that: You impose in the license of the software that if you are an organization over X employees, you are not entitled to use and distribute the software under that license instead you must hold the commercial license or you must in addition to the normal license hold the commercial support license.

In the first case(where the normal license grant does not apply to sufficiently sized orgs) I believe you impose a restriction of use on the software in a specific field of endeavor in contradiction with section 6. in the OSD.

In my view it is clear that if you require an additional commercial support license for some users but not everybody you violate section 7. as the rights to the program is restricted for some parties (orgs with over X employees only has those rights if they also acquire a commercial support license):

“7. Distribution of License

The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.“

Now it might very well be that you had another mechanism in mind for imposing your requirement of “Orgs over X employees must hold a commercial support license”. In that case it might very well be a different mechanism in the definition that conflicts with your mechanism, but I cannot see how you can achieve your aim of imposing a requirement on usage of the software for some users without contradicting the spirit of the open source definition which says that you must grant the same rights to all users of your software.

I cannot find in your link [2] what you mean by the phrase: “In practice, there are many "Open Source" licenses that allow paid licensing [2]”. Usually when people speak of paid support licensing for open source (or free software) that is an OPTIONAL support license or a separate commercial license(see the QT license options) that you acquire the software under, and it does not conflict with either free software or open source software. My opposition is only your stipulation that the commercial license be required for some users of the software, and it is this requirement part that I claim conflicts with the Open Source Definition. Note that it is perfectly valid to charge people to obtain your open source software from you, but you are not allowed to impose restrictions on their ability to redistribute that software (including source) to others for free, hence this is probably not the solution you are looking for?
As I mention in my post, this is the setting our admins chose so I do not blame MS for this (they support both, I know). Another setting they chose is to delete emails over six months of age and there is nothing I can do about it either.

The search and the interface are entirely the fault of MS as are the lack of more subtle features such as mass emails (which I have to use often while teaching online).
> Said that it was because my mailserver did not send enough legitimate mail for their algorithm to trust it.

In other words, a small self-hosted email server will be considered a spammer until it starts sending out large amounts of email? Maybe that can be automated...
When i code in python or react, I get proud of my 900kb spa web pages. I respect your site so much in fact, I would like to apply to work at your company. Where do I apply?
I haven’t spent much time on sales tax yet, but I do know there are Shopify plugins (tax jar being the one that comes to mind). I’m currently in Squarespace but don’t love it, and will probably swap to Shopify soon.
If anything, it's worse than ever. The favored technique these days is "snowshoe" spamming, where $SPAMMER sends a trickle of spam from a large number of IP addresses. About the only way to stop it is to block the /24, and then they just move on to the next block of IPs they want to ruin. RBLs like Spamhaus are helpful, but there will always be a few spammer IPs that haven't yet been listed. SpamAssassin can be handy, but it's a pain and there's a lot of rope you can hang yourself with. Blocking certain TLDs outright (.cam is a good candidate not just because of this, but also the phishing potential) can be an option.
You can configure postfix to relay emails to certain domains through a 3rd party SMTP service like SES. The MS domains give all of us the same problems, there is no other solution.
Wayland doesn’t mandate anything, it’s a goddamn protocol to put a rectangular window’s content to the screen. It is also freely extendable and has a very sane feature discovery in-built so basically any additional functionality can be created through a simple API (and many such exist already)
Being emphatic (or baffled) doesn't make your beliefs correct.

In case you are just uninformed, lookup 'Typhoid Mary' for a famous example of an asymptomatic carrier of disease.

Just because you aren't showing symptoms or dying doesn't mean you can't spread disease.

That said, I'm not making a claim contrary to yours. But your claim seems based more on your intuition than on fact or history.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination -- Herbert Spencer, 19th century English philosopher, scientist, and theologian

I've been attempting to train myself to be more open minded. For example, I have been skeptical of functional programming because my assumption was that it was an academic thing for those that didn't have to live in the real world of state and mutability. I thought it had to be less efficient.

Some investigation proved me wrong. Russ Olsen set me straight:

Functional Programming in 40 Minutes • Russ Olsen • GOTO 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0if71HOyVjY

We don't have to copy a million element immutable array to change one element. We copy a section of it and keep the rest in a tree structure of changes (this happens under the covers). Secondly, manipulating the stateful world is easier to understand if we isolate those actions in Atoms and Actors.

Now I see the beauty of it so I'm glad I investigated.
I do away with the middle ground. I rent email services from businesses that specialize in email hosting and I own domain name. No way I will have my email serviced by Google / MS / Apple and the likes.
I asked a neurologist I know about ALS drugs and he doesn't have a lot of faith in any of them.

On a personal note, my mother had ALS. I can tell you it is a terrible disease and a terrible way to go. I really do hope they find something for it.
Very nice and comprehensive resource. I don't consider myself impatient but appreciate the high information density and the ability to quickly skip past the parts that I already know and actually learned a few new things.
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

https://www.nyrb.com/products/when-we-cease-to-understand-th...
Mean numbers are likely misleading here. I'd expect a massively different distribution of wealth between these two countries. The richest in SA probably have terrific health outcomes.
Probably one of the best videos about subversion: https://youtu.be/GwDdJsdYM3g
Absolutely. I don't make any value judgements at all. I am quite aware that my own workflow is not for everyone, and is not inherently "better," in any way.

I do a lot of self-discipline "tricks," in order to enforce a certain habitual workflow, and this is one of them.

Many folks get far more done than I do, using very different techniques. I just enjoy the process and the Craft, as much as I do the end result.

One significant advantage, for me, is that I never have to worry about cleaning the house before the boss comes over for tea.
The same book i read last year. “The Beginning of Infinity” By David Deutsch, changed everything.
To be fair that isn't limited to open source software, I get plenty of that with my commercial software as well.
How does that compete with starlink? I suppose the bandwidth of a subsea cable is much higher, but latency is worse?
If you are buying a car and you require 96 months of financing, that's a problem. If you can afford it and the interest rate is low enough why wouldn't you borrow the money?
"$50K" is so vague and not useful for comparison.....
That's definitely interesting, but I feel like C#'s approach of just creating a new set of containers for generics aged way better. It feels silly that I'm paying a tax in 2021 on a decision made in 2004 to be backwards compatible to code written in like 1996
I think those numbers are too high. Even if not, companies like Airbus have that money and are using G-Suite. So Google has all corporate information (does the swamp redirect some of it to Boeing?).
The problem for SEO is that either the hidden parts are ignored or the indexing won’t properly differentiate between the different "pages" (sections).
True, but even Google Maps could work without Javascript... It may not be as easy to use without it though.
I had a very similar experience. Is there any cheaper option than just using aws SES nowadays ? (for outbound only! don't understand why people would pay the same rate for inbound)
My concern is what happens when aws decides to massively increase rates...
Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life
Fragmentation is not a skippable problem though. And especially when you depend on lower level services, choice without a standard interface will create an exponential explosion of should-be-supported APIs, which is terrible for an already thin community.
Scuttlebutt is a very interesting protocol, but I wonder how much benefits you actually get from decentralization. You could implement something similar with a central server and clients sending their locations. You could even implement E2E encryption for privacy.

Lots of people argue for decentralized protocols (e.g. blockchain), but in practice centralization is usually fine. Just because you have a trusted central server, it doesn't have to be expensive and anti-privacy like Google or Facebook.
This happened with my 2019 16" MBP (i9 8-core 2.3GHz). No charger, including Apple's own 96W, was enough when doing something heavy like CPU video encoding.

Last year I had to convert some blu-ray movies so I could stream them to my TV and it was common to go to bed with 100% and wake up at 20% or so. Throttling kicks in when the battery is too low, so I don't think it would shut down, but yeah, this was one of its flaws.

It also overheats and throttles very quickly (~1 minute) even with a more aggressive fan curve or even fans manually set to run at 100%. This can be managed by disabling Intel's Turbo Boost or by using Monterey's power saving mode, but that's not something one expects to do on a "Pro" machine.
> Please don't make light of people who died to an preventable disaster.

As I have explained several times already, not a single death there has anything to do with nuclear. Germany would have exactly the same amount of coal plants with all nuclear plants still there.

> So much whataboutery

Funny since this post is about Finland and you prefer to talk about Germany while refusing to talk about X.

> Maybe in the future you can join the movement that want to remove fossil fuels from the world.

Oh so now you are part of a movement to remove fossil fuels? Why don't you applaud Germany for the law to phase out coal COMPLETELY?

My guess is: because you don't care at all. You just hopped on the Astro-Turf-train and faced with the facts, you chose to ignore those and scream even louder.

Here is even more for you to ignore: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-nuc...
No.

The title is clickbait. It claims there is an effective treatment for ALS.

It is so bogus. In mice should be added to the title.

Thank you, GP, for the “in mice” comment. In this case it was absolutely crucial for me getting what was going on.
I still run my own email system (postfix/dovecot for imap), mostly for one reason: the virtual username function of postfix:

I configured postfix with:

recipient_delimiter = .

which gives me unlimited dynamic virtual addresses (username.<something>@mydomain), so I know where spam/leaks come from if I get unsolicited mail directed to `username.<unique_name_per_registration>`, and it makes it trivial to block.

I know that you can do the same thing with google addresses using + as a delimited, but the + sign is often not allowed in dumb email checks. Also spammers probably know about + and strip it automatically anyway...
> Apple fans who would be saying that the Intel MBPs were the best thing since sliced bread and that the users were doing something wrong

Maybe if you only mean the 2015 models, sure. But models between 2015 and the M1s were trounced by everyone, even Apple fans, for their keyboard issues and throttling the i9.

I had a 2017 i7, and it was the worst Mac I ever owned.
I've been running my own email since i was 14 years old, back then it was hosted on my home ADSL connection. Now I'm on fiber and still running my own email setup, but the end is near..
For the reason not mentioned in the article, it's getting increasingly harder to actually get a public routable static IP address and also be allowed to either send traffic on port 25, or use the ISPs relay host to actually send the email.
The main problem I've run into while running my own email server is IP reputation issues. It is still an ongoing issue for me.
You can read my previous IP reputation issue in this comment [11].

You should make sure your server's IP address isn't blacklisted. If it is, you're going to have major delivery issues with some email server providers (ESP). Some blacklists you can check are listed here [0]-[3].

I think my main problem now is the UCE Protect [5] blacklist. I think some of the major ESPs use their harshest blacklist from UCE Protect, which is their Level 3 blacklist [6]. This blacklist will include your IP if your ISP meets a spam threshold for any of their other IP addresses. This makes running a mail server on cheap hosting providers like Digital Ocean or Linode very difficult.

My conclusion is I should switch to a more expensive ISP that isn't in danger of getting on the UCEPROTECTL3 list or find an email forwarding service for a next hop destination for outgoing mail.

You can read more about UCE Protect here [7]-[10].

[0]: mailtester: https://www.mail-tester.com/

[1]: mxtoolbox blacklists: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

[2]: proofpoint blacklist: https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com

[4]: outlook blacklist: https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/index....

[5]: UCEPROTECT: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php

[6]: UCEPROTECTL3 blacklist: http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=3&s=5

[7]: UCEPROTECT Blacklist Scam https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170592-uceprotect-bl...

[8]: UCEPROTECT: When RBLs Go Bad https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/02/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad....

[9]: ASK HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064722

[10]: SQLite3 IP blacklisted: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/bb61881d7a?hist

[11]: Previous IP reputation issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437841
> Sanitizing individualism in the Christmas Eve is not for the faint of heart.

What on earth is this sentence supposed to mean?
Small typo, he originally wanted to support Scheme. I wonder where if the typo was introduced in your comment, or in the book, or in Wikipedia at the time (which was since corrected)!
I'm grateful we got a reasonable system out of PA eventually but damn it took time and I agree it is today better than what we had with ALSA. But as I remember it audio sucked with ALSA until it didn't and then we had about two good years of audio before PA came about. Then we had 8~ years of crap again and yes a lot of it was definitely due to really bad drivers and masked inconsistencies in the past.

That's not my point tho, my point is that PA didn't sweep in and save us, in fact it at first pushed us back A LOT. And claiming otherwise is a disservice to ourselves when we consider additional radical change. Such as Pipewire and and Wayland.
Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with Omicron / Delta variants [pdf]
I think I am showing my age when I say, I remember when Linux by default came with sendmail enabled by default. You could use your Linux box to send e-mail anywhere without it getting caught up in spam filters. Fun times.
I love Cordwainer Smith. I vividly remember reading "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" as a teenager in the 60's. It had a huge effect on me, and I still have that copy of Galaxy magazine.
This is interesting. At a first glance this seemed idiotic, but digging a bit deeper it might actually work. Let me explain myself.

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Their example in the linked document has the following usecase:

> [Alice is a singer/songwriter] joins the app and chooses to register the username “@alice_ukulele”. She checks if it’s already been taken by calculating its address and looking for an existing username DHT entry with that address.

In traditional DHTs (chord/kademlia/etc) this wouldn't work as anyone could create "links" with the same key, and since there is no consensus on the network or coordinator nodes, this is not useful for registring unique keys on the DHT. This is the reason IPNS and other such systems use public keys instead of arbitrary strings when they want to create links to content addresses.

From my 15m of Goolging, I think holochain is trying and kinda managing to solve this issue by having a custom DHT called rrDHT (RedRibbon?) [1]. Which apparently they patented [2]. Like, WTF guys.

They have taken the core notion of "buckets" in DHTs and renamed them to "neighborhoods". Now, each node keeps their own ledger for each neighborhood they are in, and gossip it with their neighbors, which then become "witnesses". If you attempt to alter your ledger, they will let others know and everyone in theory will block you.

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This is an interesting idea, but without having the implementation details this can be either amazing or terrible.

i. What is the conflict resolution mechanism? If two ledgers have the same key/value pair, which came first? This can't be time based, so I assume there is some sort of conflict resolution which quickly skimming the patent and docs didn't appear.

ii. As a node without too many resources that is simply trying to lookup a value, how do I know if I trust the nodes I connected to without having to sync all ledgers from all neighbors?

iii. Scaling this will be so fun.

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1. https://blog.holochain.org/how-rrdht-works-a-tech-deep-dive/

2. https://uspto.report/patent/grant/10951697
Not everyone is medically able to get a shot. It's not 'easy' for those people.

For most people obesity can be resolved by putting down the fork and soda straws. It's a lifestyle choice.
Nice theory. Sadly the reality is we have very little leverage against the huge corporations which have been helped to their monopoly status on the back of open source software.
Note that both the FSF, OSI and DoD (in your own link) agree that in practice the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition are equivalent. So if you believe your license is open source but not free software, then you are very probably wrong.
It absolutely doesn't cost 20k EUR/yr in hardware to run a email server, but the time sink is ridiculous.
In short, FOSS or not, do not work on something that doesn't benefit you (either by being paid or solving your problem).
Gmail works with . as delimiter as well as +
At the end of the day, it goes back to a very simple question - what is the basic business model, and how does money move? Who is paying for what, and what are the true incentives?

I believe that Apple’s true incentive is to sell their own devices and services to users and businesses, and let developers like Tact participate in the app economy to possibly get a small piece of that.

Google is an ad company. This is why I am as suspicious of Android as many people here are of Apple. What business is Google in, at the end of the day? Who is the product, and who is the customer?

I mentioned desktop because when we operate in the Apple universe, the devices and software all come from the same place, with the same philosophy, for better or worse. When you use e.g a Windows desktop and an Android device, now you suddenly have two separate universes, philosophies and privacy attitudes to figure out. I think Microsoft is doing a great job. They are not in the business of actively abusing you as ad-driven businesses are but their main focus is enterprise and platforms these days because that’s where the money is.
They are going to block standard authentication soon though, leaving only their 'modern' webbased authentication. So basically IMAP/POP as we (and our mail clients) know it will no longer work with O365.

They've already delayed it a few times but they keep pushing for this.