skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of mail are you sending?

Just personal emails. Volume would be somewhere around one email per month or so.

> Are you getting anything on your abuse@ address?

Nope.

> Are you getting any feedback on JMRP [0]?

That seems to require a Microsoft account and that's something I neither have nor want. I believe sending emails has to work without having to register an account for each provider you're interacting with.

> If all else fails, the mailop mailing list [1] can get you closer to someone on one of these networks to help.

Thanks for the tip, although I'm not sure if I'm the right audience for this list, as I just run a personal mail server with very low volume.

Funnily enough the "Best practices" section of the Mailop website contains a dedicated point (https://www.mailop.org/best-practices/#large-providers-gmail...) stating that there might be unresolvable issues when sending to large providers:

> If you want to send mail to recipients who have accounts at big email providers, be aware that all of the above cannot guarantee that these providers won’t reject your mail, put it straight into recipient’s spam folder or just silently discard it - they just impose their own rules on anyone and you virtually can’t do anything about it.

My guess is, that the reason for the problems is the same as quoted in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673347), stating that the mail volume is just too low for outlook.com to establish enough trust in the sending mail server.

If you look around on the internet, there are plenty of other people with the same issues with outlook.com. To me it seems Microsoft is doing something fundamentally hostile to small mail servers there. Interestingly enough sending to Office 365 hosted email addresses works just fine.
This is awesome. I'm not from the US but will move there soon and seeing how the internet connections around the area where my partner lives are absolute c*p, maybe this would be an option?

Can I reach out to you somewhere? You can also write to <username> at Gmail.com if you don't want to publish it here.
I also ran across this a couple of years ago[1], and there's a cool twist to it for different regions (which adjusted their own calendars on different years): `ncal` correctly handles the skip differently for the UK:

$ ncal -s GB 9 1752
September 1752
Mo 18 25
Tu 1 19 26
We 2 20 27
Th 14 21 28
Fr 15 22 29
Sa 16 23 30
Su 17 24

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2015/06/09/Dates-That-Dont-Exist
This idea does not work when you need a different comment on each line. You're obviously not going to commit each line of code separately.

Also, not all code is being read in an IDE, and not all code is stored in git. The code may outlive the repo and valuable context could be lost.
Yeah, the confidence started strong and has definitely waned. I have to assume that comes through, and am always trying to coach myself into a better mindset. I know I'm good at what I do, I'm just not good at convincing people of that. Doesn't help to have a portfolio of mostly outdated work for companies no one's heard of.

I did what I could for product-market fit and sales efforts, but I'm sure there's a ton more I could learn. It's difficult to fight the impulse to roll over and try to be anything-for-anyone when the work I want isn't coming in, even if I know that makes my offering unclear at best, unappealing at worst.

Thanks for your thoughts.
If I have business outcomes that are dependent on people receiving my emails, it's difficult for me to be in a situation where the other person may need to, at some point, be told that they aren't getting my emails because I'm on some kind of "hipster email system" which they are no doubt going to perceive it to be.

They're probably going to wonder why they are wasting their time with me when I can't even get something "as simple as email" right.

For personal email I'd probably consider it.
Russia has been trying to invade Ukraine since 1991.
It's a problem of energy and orbits.

To get from low-earth orbit to the sun-earth Lagrange point 2 (where the JWT is headed) takes around 7 km/s of delta-v[0]. That's a lot of speed.

You could try to do this gently enough that the unfurled JWT won't be damaged by the acceleration. This isn't totally impossible, but you'd need a good Hall thruster (ion engine) with a huge amount of reaction mass, since the JWT is so big itself. It would need to run for longer than any other such thruster has. It would need massive solar panels to power it.[1]

Or you could have the original rocket just be bigger, and throw it all the way to the right orbit while everything is packed tight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
[1] I'm guessing at this, but that's my intuition. I encourage anyone to correct me because space is too cool to be upset that I was wrong.
But even if the link eventually dies, you have the business explanation.

Normally the comment is an explanation of the intent but the referenced ticket has the full discussion and backing data that led to the decision
I often include links to the section in the online D ref spec that defines the behavior the code is implementing. This turns out to be very handy.

I wish that could be done for C and C++. Too bad it can't, because of copyright issues. I don't link to online descriptions of the C std library, because I've found errors in those online rewrites (rewrites because of, again, copyright issues).

So, for C and C++, I just cite the paragraph number in the standard.
The logical reasoning is starting lacking, and the preassumptions are equally entrenched.

> We will never hear the perspectives of Chinese nationals who disagree with the CCP line

This is not true. Watch Radio Free Asian, the epoch times, and many indenpent Chinese dissident channels on YouTube like Mr. Jiang Feng (https://youtube.com/c/%E6%B1%9F%E5%B3%B0%E6%97%B6%E5%88%BB). These are mostly Chinese speaking content. You of course can find a lot of English content of western media interviewing Chinese dissident.

> they will be reported and their loved ones will face fearsome punishments.

Another slander by western Media about the social situation in China. Essentialy, the media wants to paint the Chinese soceity as inhuman, and incapable of rational thinking. That of course becomes a nice subconscious justification of violence towards them, like what happened in the colonial era by White colonists to justify their policy towards Indians.

Chinese do not report their friends and family. The might expose by standers occasionally, online. But again that's not too different from someone got cancelled here.

> polluted because only one side is let through

The one sided part is the negative and inhuman side of China right?

Think yourself for a moment the slanders some IDs received when they advanced a contrararian view on China with seemingly plausible backings, and the unanimous views that portrait a unjust and inhuman Chinese society.

If you think the one-sided part is the positive part, then it bears explanation that how someone stating objective truth got slandered repetitively without any factual counterparts.
The gist OP is getting at, though not put so eloquently, is that covid is endemic and there will continue to be deaths, even in a world with 100% vaccinated and boosted people.

So covid being "over" is really a state of mind/choice of when to accept that it's endemic and drop the hysterics/restrictions.

Omicron should be cheered as an effectively natural vaccine that looks to quickly end the worst of covid, yet media continues to fear monger about case counts, by and large. I am seeing some articles speaking to it as beneficial though.

The fear a lot of people have over covid is totally out of proportion with the actual data, and media by and large continues to stoke these fears.
Can we crowdfund 3 more this way, I wonder?
One reason they are different from a normal service part is that they are classed as dangerous goods.

That means they can only be transported by vehicles classed to carry dangerous goods (with many regulations).

I would also assume that they have specialty storage requirements - the warehouse shelf for normal parts would not be regarded as safe.

I am in New Zealand, but I am guessing that the requirements in the US are probably more restrictive than here because we rarely sue over here.
All quality internet communities I've ever seen start with strong moderation. Everything else is secondary.
It’s still not that simple, unfortunately. Ironically, there are too many single pint failures. Maybe JWST broke in a way that can’t be repaired. Maybe congress doesn’t approve the repair mission. Maybe the repair mission would actually cost $1 billion. Maybe the repair mission fails. Now imagine you’re the mission designer. You could trade increased complexity for some small chance of a repair mission maybe being possible. Or you you could decrease complexity and just accept that repair won’t be possible. The answer becomes pretty clear.
Water on Mars: Significant amounts found under planet's Grand Canyon
I'm reworking my website (see my profile/email) and will try to put them there as I finish my PhD. Just need to find rhr time to do it properly. It's one thing to type out comments, it's another to publish self contained text and claims.
More practically speaking, the issue is for sat internet, you need to both receive (relatively easy to hide, at least from broad based surveillance), but also transmit (much much easier to pick up). So I doubt starlink will be a panacea.
Anecdote, but I started in modding and made some amazing friendships through it as well as honed my abstract reasoning I use for programming professionally now.

There definitely social benefits that can outweigh the more concrete software == value and time trade-off benefits, but I find communities that are "worth" it _much_ harder to find these days.
Recently released (days ago) US census data disagrees. Only New York had higher outmigration in absolute numbers than California.
I don’t think this is a good rule.

1) I can’t see “git blame” in my code review. Don’t make me check out the branch to review your changes.

2) If we refactor the code (say, extract a new class wrapping the functionality) then the explanation in git becomes much harder to find. If it’s a comment you can just copy it over.

You should explain the change set in your git comments too, but at a different level of abstraction - why is this whole set of changes being made? What problem is being solved? What’s left to do? Etc. this stuff can’t usually be associated with a particular line of code.

So inasmuch as you are arguing for good commit messages I strongly agree. But I disagree that this should be at the expense of good comments in your code.
see also "dataclasses" since python 3.7
Don't forget about the rootkit :-)
Basically he still believes in the Ottoman empire and that his country should turn into a super-power that controls the Mediterranean. Many Turks share this idea, too.
VAERS is not the best information available by any means, but it is indeed a valid source of information. The issue with the paper is that it misuses the information and draws conclusions that aren't actually indicated.
Merry Christmas to all my fellow hackers! :]
>one of the outrages posts was for a minor outage in us-west-1.

It was both us-west-1 and us-west-2, for 45 minutes or so. Was interesting for Auth0 customers, as they use us-west-2 as their primary, and us-west-1 is the failover location.
International laws are defined by international community through some Democratic process. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law
By definition, as long as thrusters are firing, you are accelerating.
“Maybe Jeff Bezos could fund this” is not a good parameter to design a mission around.
They have negative real rates.
> aha, you've been doing it wrong, you could have learned Chinese in 3 months!

Honestly there kind of is, you just have to put yourself in a "sink or swim" situation as the article says. You'll be surprised how far you can get in 3 months if you are in such a situation.

Also, don't believe any crap when someone tells you "X language is hard". This is perhaps the biggest myth I have ever seen. It's only hard if you think it is, and if you try to learn everything by rules and flashcards, which native speakers don't generally do. You can also try to make anything look hard that actually isn't. I find people in the US especially love to talk about how hard Chinese (and also Japanese and a few others) is but it isn't particularly different in difficulty than English or any other major world language. 5-year-olds can handle it, they just weren't told it's hard, they just needed to speak it if they wanted to argue and get their stolen pencil back.
What kind of wifi do you have? We got a Netgear Orbi system for our 5400 ft^2 house and it's never worked properly.
If you send from an ec2 instance is "always free" (tm) for the first 62k outbound emails each month and 1k inbound.
As should everyone. Last summer I learned at least some renters insurance generally doesn’t cover riots. So yes, even though you may not care if your landlord’s building goes up in flames, you should care that your personal property won’t be covered. Just calmly & peacefully (no need to brandish weapons) standing outside your apartment like you’re a homeowner can make a material difference.
200% agree, and have done.
Er....but, (posting on) hn!....oh, the irony.
That's just what reconfigured by international laws. CCP of course will proclaim rulings that are favorable to China.
Absolutely. Those guys were laying their lives on the line with every launch.
Yeah, eradication of a disease in the wild is a whole other matter. But so rabies also is another matter. Cases are relatively rare here (hello, fellow Canadian!), and surveillance is relatively good for the little burden of disease it brings.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/rab...

Genetic surveillance is just around the corner, and will soon be / is now within reach even of developing countries, with solutions like Oxford Nanopore's ultra-portable sequencers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRSxWtJPUw
>there must be a follow up mission planned

https://www.universetoday.com/139461/what-comes-after-james-...

The write up goes into detail on how missions are planned, and what is in line to follow JWST.
My spouse is a PT and hates her software. I get the sense that she also has an above average appreciation for the needs of the admin staff. They quote literally make the difference between a good day and a bad one by the choices they make around scheduling.

The problem is that she works for a large chain and the people with purchasing power are not clinicians.
Yep snooze fest for me too. DNF
Note that I'm not defending the article nor the positions taken therein. I'm exploring some reasons that I see behind this being an emotional issue. Bit of a role reversal for happytoexplain :)
This and also being able to satisfy an itch at any moment. Be it youtube or facebook, whatever your favourite drug is. It's infinitely available and is much easier than any other form of activity.

But in an of itself doesn't create anything. Mindless content consumption doesn't even leave memories sometimes, what to say of ideas.
he admitted the story is made up in the comments
Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1
Islam is flexible. He'll bullshit his way out of it. Seen it first hand. Also most of his target countries for influence are already Muslim Sunni. So that should work out.
Most was provided by a single investor, about $40k each was provided by myself and one other. Software developers are expensive
What about all the natives slain by Americans, and then the slavery? How about racist laws designed to get the black population into prisons (largely successfully)? What about people dying, because money that would normally be used to fund healthcare are being wasted on invading other counties instead?

So, I’d say it makes sense to focus on the current state of affairs, including recent history. War in Georgia is recent history, as is the Middle East. Holodomor, American concentration camps for Japanese, or apartheid - not so much.

Not to mention that people responsible for Holodomor are all dead. People responsible for killing million random civilians in the Middle East are living very comfortable lives, and their fellow citizens don’t even consider them criminals.
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer [0], because it brought the concept of reciprocity to the fore for me this year, and nudged me towards Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard), Eat Like a Fish (Bren Smith), and The Wayfinders (Wade Davis), all about ways of life that embrace diversity towards resilience in the face of the hyperobject of climate change.
The life stories of the authors has been helpful in my personal development to be a better parent to my child, and a better spouse, so that we’re better-able to adapt to and shape change.

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=braidi...
As a Bucharest resident I must say this is so cool on so many levels, especially glad that the author realised this:

> and a poorer southern half, so I focused on the south, because wealthy neighborhoods, no matter the country, are pretty much the same.

pretty early on, it took me a few years of living here to actually notice that difference, I used to be blind to it for one reason or another.

Also, for the people that really digged the photos with the apartment blocks I shamelessly leave a link with my IG profile [1], I use to post such photos in there from time to time (plus some other, mostly architectural stuff).

There's also a book written especially on the Southern districts of Bucharest (mostly Berceni), called "The Other City. Places and Stories from Bucharest-South" [2]. It's in both Romanian and English, I haven't personally read it even though it's somewhere on my book-shelves but it's written by people that deeply care about this city so I can vouch for it.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/mihaitc/

[2] https://carturesti.ro/carte/celalalt-oras-locuri-si-povesti-...
I think around 1998 or 1999. I don't think we disagree on the facts: I totally agree that there is a lot more to understand and that deliverability is a nightmare. No question. What I see is that today people can achieve a reasonable mail server while being an expert at less.
Literally looking for a cafe racer for the summer lol
We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Services
Definitely not just you - I expected a collection of Internet lore, famous copypastas, RFCs, etc.
I started paying when my kids got into YouTube. It was either that or blocking it altogether.
Same to you!
What are the memory requirements for postfix, dovecot, and rspamd these days?
Thanks! I checked it out, and Eknath Easwaran's translation looks good to me. All I have to do is skip the first couple of pages of each chapter.

I have not read any translation yet. Archive.org has Prabhupada's translation, which was the exact opposite of what I was looking for. So I dropped it after 5 minutes of skimming. I have chanted the Gita in some prayer groups when I was very young, without understanding any of it. That's about it.
I distinctly remember being shown this ~35 years ago when I was first shown UNIX as a demonstration of how high-quality the commands were implemented... even something as weird as the calendar changeover was accounted for.

And, yes, it exists even in the earliest versions of the "cal" command, dating back to the mid 1970s: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

The implementation is pretty clever as well. The jan1() function simply returns the day-of-week the year starts on (and knows about the calendar-system change). The cal() function compares jan1(y) and jan1(y+1) to detect leap years by noticing if the weekday of Jan 1st advances one or two days.. and if it's anything else it assumes it's handling the 1752 case. Then inside of the printing loop it just jumps from 2 to 14 whenever it is rendering a month that happens to contain 19 days.
I kind of agree with this. It’s like I have my grievances with the HN community, and I think there are times where articles get flagged because they are of a certain bent, but mostly it is surprisingly fair.

I’ve been (rightly) chastised by dang, though generally I try not to troll. (Sorry to those I’ve been a troll too)

For the most part I don’t know a better place to have discussions of the kind you can have here.

Happy holidays, and Merry Christmas if you’re so inclined, and a happy new year!
Mark Arax, the author of that article has a longer book, A Dreamt Land, on the subject of California agriculture and water, (probably the article is an excerpt) that is a really good read too. A little more up-to-date than Cadillac Desert, and more focused on California and the Central Valley.
+1 for SetApp! Love it and the iOS complimentary apps are always a bonus
More democracy does not necessarily mean more committees in a big centralised state. One problem I personally have with representative democracy is that the representative class will proliferate. If e.g. the railroad/community was organised as a co-op with special legislative constraints, you could have democratic oversight without these meaningless elections. Compulsory, random chance representation or coercive voting with a review by your successors are also mechanisms which could be explored. Even a well designed market could serve that purpose.

"more democracy" simply means we do not just give one dude (and it's still most often a dude) the keys to power and call it a day and instead think about how to distribute this power so that it stays functional enough to produce public goods, but smeared around finely enough that it's hard to abuse.
Is this the largest virtual fashion show?
I bought an ASUS mesh system, I think it’s like the rx-92?, based on suggestions here previously. I love it, the ui is incredible and you can tweak lots of settings. For 2 units I get pretty good coverage in my home with masonry blocks all over the dang place and thick wood everywhere (it’s a 50’s home). I can even use ddns and an OpenVPN connection on it with very little work, and it supports a lot of other things like printer sharing and file serving from a usb drive. It’s about 400 bucks. It’s not “enterprise” but it’s just as good and has none of the cloud bullshit.
Is it actually useful?

It saves people from needing to create passwords for each service if they don't use a password manager while also eliminating SSO as a data collection mechanism for major internet companies. That's not nothing, but the entirety of this is achieved by signature based authentication, which has existed for years and years but has achieved basically zero adoption.
In 2003-2004 I was trying to start a software company to serve public schools.

If I were making the pitch today it, you’d call it a tightly integrated Schoology + Teachers Pay Teachers.

At the time, I was thinking in terms of a complete product to make the entire public school system better from the lives of teachers at the core. I should have separated the concept into smaller MVPs and we would have beaten TPT to market by a couple of years while having income to fund our other projects.

I’m happy to see that TPT has been able to find success though. I think they fill a huge need and it’s cool that they’re using Elixir now.
Ask HN: How to convince an anti-vaxxer/conspiracist to change her mind?
A dear family member believes that: it's a conspiracy; vaccines are made by killing live fetuses; no one has ever isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus; etc.

I tried everything to convince her she's completely wrong, without success.

What else can I do?
my_point3d = (1.0, 2.5, 7.2)

Voila!
I was going to point out a similar thing. I was a contributor for a few years in the mid-2000s
Base 64 encoding spoilers is next level smart!