skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I think "undeniable" is way too strong.

I wrote the email chapter for the book "Internet Secrets" in 2000, and I ran my own mail server 1997-2019, so I have a pretty good sense of what the landscape was like then versus now. QMail and Postfix were both out before 2001, so you didn't need to know sendmail at the time. You just had to be able to configure the mailer to get things up and running. And given that there were decent Linux distributions available, the technical challenge wasn't high.

The difference now is that from there, there's a lot more to understand if you actually want your email to get anywhere reliably. It's complicated, subtle, and much harder to resolve problems when you get it wrong. At the time, the biggest problem was bounces. Now deliverability has become a dark art.

Just out of curiosity, when did you start running your own mail server?
From examining Swedish death spike data, you can see that viruses like COVID occur about once a decade, the last being Swine Flu in 2009:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Its just that, using Swedish data again, Western societies are significantly more aged: eg. there 120,000 80-84 year old men (prime COVID death territory) in 2020, vs only 101,000 in 2009. Its similar in many other Western countries: about 20% more elderly people, in absolute numbers.

As such, the 'same' types of respiratory viruses will simply kill more people.

The decisions is thus a social and political one: do we lockdown and force 6-monthly vaccinations on everyone, based on elderly deaths that will occur anyway simply due to the baby boomer cohort entering their twilight years?

I think we need to just get more efficient at end-of-life care, focusing on simpler treatments and comfort, as well as euthanasia-on-demand for anyone over age 75.
I created a project called Knit Data (https://knityourdata.com). It allowed you to connect your Google Analytic with Hubspot automatically. Every night it would sync the CRM transactions into Google Analytics as an event, which gave a better viewpoint of attribution. We ended up making about $1200 a month from 3 customers in ARR.

The biggest learning is business partners -- choose wisely. My business partner is still a friend, but he didn't produce and it ended up me just doing all the code, all the marketing, so I asked myself why should I continue if I'm doing all the work and he doesn't have the time. The other big learning was making sure to do proper validation before building or spending your time on something. I took the word of my friend because he was an expert in the space. We had no problem getting people to sign up and literally give us their API keys (at first), but they wouldn't respond back to emails - which shows it's not a huge pain point.

I'm now working on a few other ideas on the side but making sure to do proper validation before building.
I think it would have been fine if it had Tell HN in front of it. Without it the title would be against the rules and guidelines. One could argue the word Goddamn seems to be provocative. Which could be appropriate if it was really down. But it is not. I think @dang need to edit the title.
I admit I might be more paranoid than the average person. This could work if we knew each other IRL or something like that but as it stands what you said is a nicely worded version of "Source: dude trust me."

Accepting crypto payments could be a solution but I'd totally get why'd you want to avoid that.
Gigabit internet

The money I spent to upgrade home WIFI and have Ethernet for my desk

Lexus

The money I pay to book Tennis court every week

Donations

All my ergo equipments (chair, monitors, standing desk, lighting, keyboard, mouse ...)
Where have you seen that?
The author should squash useless commits. A readable series of commits is put to review. At merging to a commonly used branch no more squashing.
For corporate support, that’s totally on them. Checking the spam folder is customer support. The “oh sorry your email went to spam!” is one of the few times I express dissatisfaction to a company. It’s not my responsibility to make sure my email doesn’t go to their spam folder. Not when I’ve taken all the right steps to make sure my emails are not marked as spam. If you have customers, you have to check your spam folder! It’s not foolproof.
I ran an email forwarding service https://mailwip.com (former hanami.run) that also support SMTP and IMAP.

IMHO, gmail is the best company out there that can accept your emails. The most common issue with gmail is email land in spam but they learn quickly and very rare just outrage reject IP. as in, gmail won't relying solely on reputation of IP but based o sender domain or so.

Compare with hotmail or icloud or some random email hosting service, they will reject your IP just outright.

I would say it's definetely tough and stressful to run an email services for everyone, but if you run it for yourself only(so you know you're good and won't send out random spam), I will say it ins't that bad.
>> US ... was desperately trying to raise inflation.

Well good news, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams....
My sweet dude, MAME can run IRIX even! For years i longed for an IRIX emulator and it was there all along. It's not oerfect of course, but MAME overall is just plain great.
They by no means have total control. People can still think. The point is media also provides interpretation. So, instead of going into a voting booth reflecting over your own needs or principles, you go into the booth thinking about polling and statistics. You vote for somebody because their number is higher on 538. It gets worse when you consider that the people being polled are themselves thinking about who is most viable or likable.
Eating its tail
I bought a Samsung power bank recently and was surprised that it was made in china and not Korea.

If that’s just assembly that would make sense considering Samsung’s expertese.
Critical thinking is harder than exercise.
> Once, I've heard this pro-NFT argument: It's like if you would own the original of Mona Lisa.

It's more like if you would own a certificate (very likely of dubious provenance itself) saying that you owned the original of the Mona Lisa, which certificate also listed the address at which the actual original is stored, in case anyone wanted to see what you “owned”.

But that makes a less-enticing pro-NFT argument.
Gasoline for my motorcycle.
You are 100% true. But erdogan did buy russian weapons after the us forbade him to buy american ones. Turkey disobeid the american golem and must pay the price
“No more experimental than any other vaccine”

you are creating more vaccine hesitancy by saying this
This paper gives the best algorithm I know of, and a sketch of its complexity: http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/.notmine/PDFs/Parsing/SPIEWAK,%2....
I use Zim-Wiki for this. So zim-wiki syntax. I find the way the text files and folders are organised intuitive even without the zim interface, I prefer separate text files for things too.
It's a different axis. The Turks are fighting the Sauds for influence in the Islamic world, while the Sauds are fighting the Iranians in their imagined Shia vs Sunni conflict.
Countdown to James Webb Space Telescope Launch
> most open-source interfaces are like eating on a diet.

Because there aren't open-source contributing UX/UI designers. Almost all open source interfaces are quick work done by mostly backend developers.
I am vastly less productive working from home. Many of my friends will (privately, as you say) confess to the same.

I keep seeing this narrative that the pandemic forced everyone to try remote work and surprise! productivity went up. I really, really doubt it.

What actually happened is that you had sufficient organizational momentum to keep things going. Your rate of actual creative work (big new stuff launched, etc) has almost certainly cratered. Your new employees are all struggling. If you've had a spike in turnover, the company as a whole is probably struggling. But it's invisible, because you can't keep your finger on the cultural pulse of the company without an office for that culture to manifest in.
> Yust a question: would it have been a good idea for a Turkish person, say, a year ago, to invest in stable coins to prevent suffering from Lira depreciation?

> PS: This is a sincere question…

No.

PS: This is a sincere answer.
Capacity of healthcare systems shouldn’t be the primary concern, preventative immune defense and avoiding hospitalization in the first place should be.
there doesn't seem to be any discussion of this article. But I feel obliged as someone who has worked with official statistics and data science to emphasise how much of a read it is worth.

one of my constant bugbears is even finding other data people who can and will take into consideration the context and uncertainty around the data itself, for in our societies and with our current levels of education and numeracy, there seems to be an bordering mystical connection between data, numbers, and authority. even beauty products, junk science, and conspiracies will often try to convince you with numbers.

and the struggle of how, as a data scientist and statistician, to use numbers in policy with largely innumerate policy makers and populations is an ongoing friction.

for an example on the inherent politics of numbers from my own country, observe the following from our official statistics office:

https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1370.0

note the date of last publication. this work was subsequently cancelled and will no longer be updated. I'm not here to say whether that was right or wrong, but merely to draw awareness to this tension.

meanwhile, while I was working in official stats, we were always extremely frustrated by the conspiracy theories around the likes of unemployment statistics or cpi. while all stats are inherently political, the amount of bad or invalid critiques of these statistics, as well as the implications that we were trying to generate then in some kind of conspiratorial bad faith was always disappointing.
I really really wish I could love Youtube Music. But I just cant. It is even worst than Apple Music.
lol this is so patently false. in a family very close to me, the husband would very much like his wife to wear not hijab and his wife tells him to mind his own business. both are muslim.
Odd Lots: they've been covering a lot of interesting issues related to the supply chain crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots-podcast
Thanks for the tip!
I have somewhere in the basement Irix 5.x CDs and I would like to play a bit before trying to resurrect an old SGI Indigo
Want to plug in my favourite https://github.com/kanaka/mal basically make a lisp in lot of language.

Really give you ther idea of what is needed in build a programming language. Soemthing won't quite obvious. until you I down and write code. Example the ability to rewind, go back to a few earlier token.
Fuck Christmas etc. I never had friends, all my life I was locked by classmates. Today I live alone with my parents. I never am messaged, smsed, emailed, phoned. I have no friends. The only people I see are at gym and at work. I have only one 06 at gym that I could see after gym by eating in restaurant but it's difficult for me to make friends at gym... At work it's a bit better but no friends too. Moreover I'm ugly and girls don't crush me on tinder so I am virgin. I tried gay sex because girls don't want me.
Depending upon the specific agency, agencies in the USA value a statistical life at anywhere from $7-$10 million.
Somehow it’s “characteristically ugly” for me, looking at these examples specifically. You can get good-looking documents in LaTeX if you customize formatting just a little bit, but the default colors, shapes and even fonts are just off. Especially Beamer.

It’s really like a style of clothing: a sort of old man’s suit that looks normal in academic institutions but in most other settings you do look like you’ve just come from that institution.

The typesetting is much better than anything in common (non-design-professional) use though.
Shift from Julian calendar to Gregorian. Easter wasn't at the right date any more due to the Earth's precession, so the Catholic church changed the calendar.

Different countries changed at different times. Quite a bit of Europe did the switch in October of 1582 when Pope Gregory instituted the new calendar, and skipped 10 days. England waited until 1752, by then the Earth had precessed enough that another day had to be skipped.
My own experience from running a private e-mail server the past 5-6 years is that the problem more than anything else is garbage "e-mail gateway" products, like e.g. Cyren GlobalView and Proofpoint, that gets in the way.

There's a tendency to perma-reject e-mail coming from "not seen before" domains despite the e-mail passing FCrDNS + SPF + DKIM + DMARC validation, which makes it difficult for private e-mail server users to get through to people.
Still waiting for Fabrice Bellard to write a bullet proof stand alone imap smtp server in 5k lines of c. When that happens I'll self host!
I would feel extremely comfortable banning those head coverings from all universities, if not all public venues. Religious vestment simply has no place outside of ritual occasions. But then again, I'm from the country Atatürk took after. From our point of view, allowing religion to exist is treating it with tolerance. Acknowledging religion as something that deserves any sort of deference by the State isn't acceptable. And I say that as an otherwise religious person myself (don't take it as the stance of some rabid atheist).
Void Is a Blogging Platform
> "adversity builds character" type of advice is a backwards rationalisation at its purest. no, adversity does not build character but merely reveals it

This seems like the classic fixed vs growth mindset situation. There are those who think that we are born with all our capability and then there are those who think that we can gain new capabilities through experience.

If you're truly set on believing that everyone is static, then fine. However if you have some curiosity, then a pretty good gentle introduction to growth mindset can be seen in this short 10 minute summary of an RSA talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9TVbAal5s
In Florida, estate sales price their stuff such that it is hard to flip. And by estate sale, I'm talking about the companies that come in and price everything, organize the items and are running the cash register.

If it is an estate sale run by the individual owner this is usually good and nothing more than a garage sale where everything is sale including the proverbial kitchen sink.
I could continue yelling I'm ugly and describing my face. I'm ugly and atypical.
The biggest change will come from the individual DIMM chips going up to 256 GBs. Samsung has made DDR5 SDRAM up to 512GB per stick, but as per industry reports - they are datacenter-oriented SKUs. Notably, with higher speeds @ 6000~7200Mhz, this performance will be a few multiples more than DDR4. The only thing to keep a watch might be power draw & heating.
The HN policy is that we're supposed to assume people are not paid shills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

In the case of articles touching on China, though, this is hard. We will never hear the perspectives of Chinese nationals who disagree with the CCP line, even if they reside outside of China, because they will be reported and their loved ones will face fearsome punishments. So HN "debate" is polluted because only one side is let through, regardless of whether those espousing the CCP line have any formal relationship with the CCP.
this is why persons self-hosting email servers are much more likely to have success using a small to medium sized, trusted local ISP where you can establish a relationship with the persons who run the ASN. And determine for certain that the ipv4 /24 your mail server's /32 is contained within does not contain random other $5 to $30/month people buying VPS/VMs/low-budget-dedicated-servers with credit cards.

If you can have a high degree of confidence that no outgoing smtp spam traffic has ever been emitted from any of the other IPs adjacent to where you're hosted, the opaque blacklists of the big mail receiving providers (gmail, etc) are much less likely to consider your legit traffic as spam.
Oh cool, I get to celebrate his birthday twice per year now. That said, strangely enough, if the calendar changed after my death and people were still celebrating my birthday, I'd expect people to celebrate the day on the calendar I used rather than the accurate day.
> But for practical reasons it's necessary to have a digital artifact that matches the printed artifact in page and line numbering.

Unless you are distilling to PDF, this is not viable. But I assume you mean PDF output, then you need a screen form factor that is paper-like, like an iPad or some other letter/A4 style tablet.

You can manipulate math for on-screen documents as well (MathML), but (a) it isn't very viable to use them for both formats and (b) people who pursue math publications mostly love the focus of paper formats (even if they view them on a screen as above).
The rest of web3 are solutions in search of problems.

web3 runs on top of web2 and is therefore subject to all of the forces that affect and control web2 plus the "get rich quick" elements of web3.
I think the simplest explanation is that pollsters are from the media/elite; when Trumpers get a phone call from a pollster, it's either their chance to "own the libs" by lying, or they're embarrassed to admit their reactionary beliefs so they say what they think a centrist or liberal would say. Then they vote for the furthest right wing loonies they can find.

You can see this kind of thing in practice if you've ever been a non-white person in a redneck bar.
Will be interesting to see what other governments are doing or will do in the future.
Got a laugh from your title. The percentage of adults on HN who play Minecraft themselves probably far outnumbers the percentage who have children.
> Debian tends to be more up to date than Trisquel since it's usually based on the previous Ubuntu LTS.

Agreed with most of what you wrote, except this last bit ... it's a funny way to put it :)

Ubuntu is based on Debian, it "forks" from Debian "unstable" aka "sid" every 6 months (with a fair amount of additions and modifications). Debian stable is released roughly every 18 to 22 months, so it has similar age, on average, of Ubuntu LTS (uniformly every 24 months). But sometimes it's a year newer, sometimes a year older, etc.
You are asking the correct question, it does not matter if the cost is financed by banks or public. The cost of borrowing increased substantially, even though exchange rate decreased in the last one week.

Access to TL got harder by the actions of the government. This is why interest rates increased.
IDEs can show commit history. But you're right that it can get messy tracing back to the original commit when a file has been changed many times.

But for the most part I feel like comments should be automated tests. If a line is there for an edge case it should have a matching test for that edge case.

The only exceptions I see are for performance optimizations or some other situation where you can't easily test.
Educational subscriptions.

I used to be a huge miser and resent the idea of paying for, well, anything digital or knowledge based.

Now I realise that, well, I'd spend £5 on a pint in a pub, what's £10 a month? Even if there's only a 1% chance I actually learn XYZ that's better than nothing.
I had great-grandparents and grandparents die as a kid. It's probably happened to most people.
As the world has gotten more divided and angry, it is easy to get swept up in the discourse, much of which can be intense.

I hope that this time of year grants many of us the opportunity to take a step back and reflect on our shared humanity.

In the thousands of years that human civilization has progressed, we have had some bad ideas and some good ideas. I think of Christmas as a time of year where we can all, regardless of our religious views, appreciate one of our best ideas: that we can all find it within ourselves once a year to sacrifice something... anything - our time, a little spare change, a friendly gesture or even just spreading some festive cheer, because we want to do something nice for someone else and make their day just a little bit better.

May your days be merry and bright.
> Until then I'm going with that studies I've seen that all seem to say roughly the same thing (despite widely varying sample sizes and quality of methodology)

There are none with acceptable sizes. You're just talking.
Moreover after work I can see no-one to play with me
Planning to try and do something like that.
There is an awesome GitHub repo with lots of cool stuff to hack on for Christmas on millions of electric cars. This is about as hacker worthy as it gets.
Right? Sounds like a recipe for diabetes.
Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)
I wonder how long their pump will last, their USD reserves are now exhausted, their new savings plan will also cost a fortune.
I liked the style of this blog post/self-addressed letter. I found myself brainstorming many of the methods for Quiet that the author mentions.

Side note: I've always wondered how much potential is lost in the current generations because of the constant distractions (of all kinds). The type of deep and creative thinking that comes from boredom and a lack of interruptions can drive great change and ideas from a personal and societal perspective.

The switching cost of focus changes is a real issue in thinking in deep ways. And the cost of doing it frequently is definitely a drain and cause of atrophy in overall focus ability. Trying to rein in your ability to focus for longer periods of time is HARD. It's mentally and even physically uncomfortable.
There has been so much written on this topic. I don't think people actually agree on what's the best way to learn a foreign language, and that includes language teachers. Various methods I have encountered include:

* Focus on reading text and vocabulary. Grammar will follow naturally from the text.

* Focus on grammar. Vocabulary is a detail.

* Focus on speaking. Speaking is the key to fluency. Speak to as many natives as possible. (Note: this can be incredibly annoying to said native speakers)

* Focus on writing. This is the best way to retain both vocabulary and grammar. Speaking will follow when you have vocabulary and grammar memorized.

* Focus on listening/hearing. Understanding is the key to communication. Remembering grammar and vocabulary will follow naturaly, e.g. from TV shows, games, movies, songs, etc. in the target language.

I could go on and on and on. Seriously. My advice is two-fold:

* Stick with a language. Whatever your method is, don't give up.

* If your method doesn't work for you, change it. If your teacher doesn't work for you, change it (e.g. textbook, school, course, TV show, whatever the "teacher" is).

It's that simple. Truth to be told, learning a language is mostly hard work. There is no secret. There is no "aha, you've been doing it wrong, you could have learned Chinese in 3 months!" method.

For example, using Anki might be useful, and you might find it fun, but it will not magically make you remember anything. And, even if you remember something in the context of Anki, you might not recognize it in the wild (e.g. in a text, song, or a game). Alternatively, you might not be able to produce it (e.g. passive recollection is very different from active production of the language).

I think the best one can do when learning a language is to simply stick with it. In the grand scheme of things, whether it will take you 4 years, 5 years, or 6 years to feel fluent is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It will, most likely, be years though.