skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the past 2 and a half years I've been running a YouTube channel with semi-automated content. The content in question is threads on AskReddit. I know a lot of people look down on content like that (tbh myself included) but to be fair most content on YouTube is very low-effort. It's not getting close to the views it used to, but now it makes an average of about $1k/month.

Our content is a lot higher quality than most other similar channels, mainly because the software I made automates so much. Which is why I think this one stood out. I effectively spend an hour a month or so just maintaining the software, while the actual work of uploading/making thumbnails is outsourced to someone I know. He spends maybe 15 minutes per video and we upload daily. It's a fun side-business to have but I don't expect it to be viable long-term unless I somehow pivot it into something else.
I went full time independent in June of this year which gave me a lot more time. Since then I've averaged 60-80 hours a month on it, so I guess it's approaching a half-time job...
Try looking up “Beginners Mind”. It’s a concept from Zen Buddhism.
"not true". See? I can throw out spurious comments too!
While I still see gaps at the sides of most unbearded masks, I'm not too worried about shaving.

We know they don't stop airflow, and mostly stop droplets, so why fret about beards when most worn masks have the same issues for the unbearded?
You're seeing the same images that Google does, it's just that these are dynamic pages that change over time. Google might only crawler pinterest.com/cute-cupcakes/ every day, for example. Meanwhile, Pinterest refreshes the content of that page every day, but at a different time than Google crawls it. Boom, you click on the image google showed for "/cute-cupcakes/" and what Pinterest was showing is no longer there to be found. Both Google and Pinterest are misbehaving here. Google is using Pinterest to beef up its image search. Pinterest is using Google to get traffic. But Google won't share any of its precious data with other companies unless they pay for it, so Google doesn't pass anything like a hash or X-ORIGINAL-IMAGE-URL in the referrer headers when you click on a link, so Pinterest's hands are tied, sort of.

Anyway plenty of bad behavior to go around. Both Pinterest or Google could probably solve the issue with better engineering. I put a bit more responsibility on Pinterest, but I'm not giving Google a total pass here either.
In my experience the time sink is high when you're setting it up. Then it's mostly zero.

Though I'm not sure I'd recommend to invest into it. Back in the days that unix knowledge was valuable and setting up your own e-mail was a good way to learn thing or two. These days those skills are useless for most people, so I'd say use hosted mail and spend that time learning some more valuable skills.
Someone should make one for the classic, "my other computer is your computer". God I hate that sticker.
I recently had a revelation when my 2017 Mazda 6’s battery was dying, only the minimal systems were online. Despite the car having a stick shift, shifting felt clunky and the car felt like it was going to stall unless I gave it higher revs than usual when upshifting. The car would shutter when I turned too hard.

As soon as I replaced the battery, the car went back to normal. I had no idea how many electric systems were factoring into my every day experience, even with a manual transmission.
Congratulations for the launch. I really like the idea of being able to interact with my notes through messaging. I would like to see this as a feature of Evernote. Now I can email notes to Evernote, which I use all the time, I can also send Telegram messages to Evernote, thanks to IFTTT, but I cannot perform searches using email or messaging, which is what this tool is made for. I hope that the guys at Evernote copy the idea once they solve the more basic issues they have now.
Even if your ip address/domain is not in the blacklist right now, it only takes a few people marking your correspondence as spam for it to be blacklisted. Since everyone is on these big free providers, nobody will ever see a single email from you any more. With less centrally controlled email, that would not be possible. I think that is the problem everyone is talking about.
> generally fine

So you're saying that anything can get you blacklisted if you're unlucky enough? I think that's the point of the people you're arguing with.

At this point we just need to figure exactly how unlucky.
To find settings of an extension I always use the settings gui, it has way better discoverability, so far searching for the name of the extension and approximate keywords yielded the setting I needed quite quickly. I use settings.json to check or change settings I already know, and for sharing them with others.
You don't even need scp if you go for minimalism. ssh and cat work fine (add tar on top for multiple file transfer).
So obvious, and yet apple is worth $3tr...
> Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo".

I personally use generic stickers from random sticker packs, since I also don't like the product or political stuff (well, work laptop can have employers product if there's nice stickers for that). E.g. the laptop I'm typing this on has a small bird sticker in one corner.

> You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting someone to do that for laptops.

"Laptop skins" is the keyword for that.
Or any kind of transactional email, I assume?

I've run a hobby website for about 15 years that does not even have a newsletter of any kind, and includes "stop sending me emails" in each transactional email (all users are double opt-in verified), and password resets are still not delivered half the time to gmail addresses.
Seems like a reach to me. They're providing a ton of utility. They are mitigating the a few key liabilities IMO:

1. The legal liability of a studio/prod not providing ample protections for employees. I'm unsure if there is precedent here, but it seems to fall under the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act.

2. They are doing supply-chain/operations security work. If every extra on set caught COVID filming would cease, and money would be wasted. If talent catches COVID -- same, but if talent catches COVID and ends up hospitalized or worse you've got not only a delayed movie, but potentially NO movie.
A non-zero percentage of the world GDP originates from work done on MacBooks, to differentiate it from most “toys”. I don’t have one so I’m not talking my (mac)book here.
Ha, there's a metric that would be interesting.

Probably the secret is that I try to spend as much time marketing as I do coding... (I usually fail but I'm guessing I still manage to market more than most devs)
TheRegister writes:

> The core of the flaw is that when Azure App Service users uploaded their git repositories to the service, the repos landed in the publicly accessible directory /home/site/wwwroot directory. Among those uploads was the .git folder, [...]

Fascinating that this never occured to anyone.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/24/azure_app_service_not...
I didn't realize this was a thing. Who is your audience? I assume people who want background stuff going on while doing something else (like a podcast etc). Otherwise why wouldn't they just read reddit?
The site seems more geared to workers who are interested in participating rather than a FAQ.

The flyer tweet seems to have the main jist:

* We deserve a respectful workplace.

* We deserve paid sick time.

* We deserve protection on the frontlines.

* We deserve proper mental healthcare.
Yep, and it’s also worth noting that the tasks get harder over the month. If someone only looked at the first few days, that would seem easy. On the other hand, the past few days from day 19 onward have been quite tricky.
I like the simplicity of Fathom analytics https://usefathom.com

I also switched from Google Analytics this year and happy I did.
The free tier only imports 1,000 messages and hides a couple features. There's a $10/year upgrade to import your full chat and unlock them.
Haha, thanks! Dates me I'm sure.
I've run an email server for 10 years now and by and large this is the case. I am the only person that uses my domain/IP/mailserver. I know it doesn't send spam. I've still been blocked by MS Office 365, marked as spam by google, etc, every few years. It's quite a hassle to get unblocked involving lots of lying about having a Microsoft account or the like to tech support till you get to techs who actually know what a mailserver is.

Frankly, I'm shocked you've never been arbitrarily blocked and I find your insinuations offensive.

The last time I was getting blocked it was the solarwinds fiasco where their internal mail tunneling/forwarding and filtering setup broke all DKIM and suddenly solarwinds users like NOAA.gov were rejecting me and adding me to naughty lists. There was no fallout for the megacorps and their broken setups. There was only damage to independent mailserver operators doing the right thing.
As other are saying this just isn't true.

I've run my own email for decades and I've designed and run some pretty big commercial installations.

As a small provider, you run the risk of existing in a netblock used by other people sending spam. A small co-op I ran encountered this problem once. They were operating on the cheap and while they weren't sending spam their neighbors had been.

Even as a large provider at a billion dollar company, figuring out delivery issues is a huge pain and generally not worth it. There are unofficial professional postmaster meetups around the bay and these can be helpful in getting escalation contacts to fix issues, but even with entire teams of people dedicated it's a lot to handle and is usually worthwhile to outsource the work to other companies who already have these types of relationships established.
Pffff people said this 15 years ago.

Hotmail is an occasional pain for the self-adminstered email server, everyone else works fine IME.
Wendover Productions had a video on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msjuRoZ0Vu8
I would really say that "running your own email" is a set of things that can be done independently:

- Getting your own domain and using a provider such as fastmail or proton is a first step that gives you lots of security fom arbitrary. Because you own the doorstep, you can change provider without having to inform all your contacts of the move. You're also more secure from unilateral moves from your provider.

-Hosting your own mail server means that you are responsible for the persistence of your mail. It's a nice artisanal thing to do, and you may be satisfied to know that no one is reading your mail.

-Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part, because you need a stable IP that is accepted as a legitimate mail sender. Moreover, you need to monitor this property in the long term. Every mail server has their own way to choose who is a legitimate mail sender, and it's an ongoing pain to check that.

You're not forced to go all the way, you can simply pick a domain to secure the frontdoor, or you can host your mail server without sending mail by yourself, etc. You can also self-host, and change your mind later without much impact.

I personally would incite everyone to do at least #1 for safety reasons, #2 if you want to fiddle with the system to know how it works, and to avoid #3.
Not all smart TVs are like this. Next time, go to the store and ask to have a play around with it.
qmail since 2003. No intention of changing, well, maybe to postfix.

There's several advantages for me, I can easily backup Maildir with find -mtime +90, tar and purge.

Using mutt to read my own mail makes filtering off spam very easy.

Maybe gmail has some advantages, somehow the domain looks more "professional" than hotmail or outlook addresses do. Can't explain that though.

If you run your own mail, you have a domain, so running your own web site comes naturally too.
The Goddamn Airplane on the Goddamn Treadmill (2008)
It’s easy to be outraged at examples of hypocrisy. They piss me off too. But looking at the bigger picture, everybody is a hypocrite. I’m not sure it’s even possible to have a fully consistent moral philosophy, let alone always act in accordance with it.
> Your IMAP access might be as good as theirs, but things like your webmail, your spam filtering, and almost certainly your general security will not be as good as they have.[...]
> Especially, open source can't compete on features like webmail and performance in things like spam filtering.

If anything roundcube is a better webmail client than many of the mail-provider ones. And that's ignoring all the ads and tracking that these come embedded with, even if you pay for them.

I haven't used gmail-for-organizations but if it's anything like the normal gmail interface then ... I guess some power users will prefer it? But in my experience many people prefer roundcube, because it's simple and usable. Not that it's perfect or better in all the ways, it's just from my experience and the users I talk to, it is just as good and fills a need that gmail doesn't.

Same goes for spam-filtering. It's not that spamassassin/amavisd/rspamd/postscreen/RBLs/whatever is 100% perfect, it just get's you pretty far, and from my experience also gmail, as the main contender, has varying success on how close they achieve 100%.

And even security is not magic. A large mail provider doesn't have access to magically different security tooling than everyone else. They have a threat model that is slightly different and their scale allows them to do some things that not everyone can. But wrt to one's userbase it's perfectly possible to be "just as secure".

Running your own org-mailinfrastructure is certainly not "artisanal" - for some reason this comes off slighly dismissive in the article - it's just that, as anything, it's work that you have to want to invest in. A trade-off where it often does make sense to outsource. But then email is not so different from any other service you want to provide.

... but then I see that the article seems to partially be writing off of the experience of using the U of Toronto mail system, which seems to be using squirrelmail and procmail. I didn't even know squirrelmail was still developed - this impression kind supported by there being no news between 2013 and October 21, 2021 on the frontpage https://squirrelmail.org/ while procmail is unsupported since approximately forever (it feels like pre-9/11 but I am not sure).

If you compare that experience with outlook.com - then I can certainly see why one could come to the conclusion in this article.

EDIT: Heh: my guess of procmail being pre-9/11. Wikipedia says: "Final release 3.22 / September 10, 2001"
Automatic monitoring should also be obvious at this scale. Also I am sure non-technical users also understand what it means to put up something on someone else's website.
Windows with WSL 2 is really good for general development. You can essentially use Windows as a shell of an OS to run certain tools that don't work great on native Linux while spending a majority of your time in a terminal treating the experience as native Linux. Docker is also extremely fast with no volume performance issues.

We all know the "other" issues with Windows but besides privacy (which feels disgusting to even say btw), it's really solid, fast and feels ok to use. I do a ton of dev / ops related work on it and don't have too many complaints from a technical standpoint -- lack of a first class tiled window manager is the only big one that comes to mind.
These are seemingly MacOS only which doesn’t really qualify for the vast majority of data center uses. They’re here to build software for Apple devices and that’s pretty much it.
This is the kind of situation where there should not be any action described in any other terms than the hammer coming down hard.

Saying there was pressure just makes it sound like regulators are completely impotent.
Well, fuck. Where was this when I was in grad school?
By this standard, the African bush and the villages of India should be full of thousands of "races" because of the high genetic diversity and relative reproductive isolation of many populations therein, which far exceeds that which delineates our conventional racial classification. But in the real world, race always refers to the same old Negroid/Caucasoid/Mongoloid classification that a few Westerners came up with in the 1700s.

Why is that? Does it feel plausible that Science fixated on the Biologically Correct racial classification of humans over a century before Mendelian genetics and the germ theory of disease became widely accepted?

Or is it perhaps more plausible that racial classification came into vogue for other, more unfortunate reasons, which are now well-known and documented, and then persisted by mere inertia and conventionalism/conformism?
This seems like a bit of an edge case though. How many open WiFi networks are laying about the regular apartment building or house?
Half-kidding: sounds like a sales opportunity. "I'm not Heroku but I might be willing to help if you give me your company plus x". Only if the stars align in so far as the request is not insulting, you actually do happen to look for money and the requester would be willing to pay (never happens because even if "the company wanted" your contact would be in no position to decide) you'd name an adequate price. But yeah, those stars certainly won't align. The only benefit you can get from receiving those mails is a tiny glimpse into who might want to use what you made.
Stackoverflow: A New Addiction (2008)
This might be the tl;dr quote:

> And then he offered the closest thing you’ll find to a Unified Theory of Matt Mullenweg. “As more and more of our lives start to be run and dictated by the technology we use, it's a human right to be able to see how that technology works and modify it. It’s as key to freedom as freedom of speech or freedom of religion. So that is what I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting for.”

Contrast with this link also (currently) on the HN front page: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/12/is-it-even-worth-working-on-...
Bangle.io – an open source local first note taking web app
Kids.. random kids.
That first heuristic is very difficult. It means you can’t work on the Linux kernel or pretty much anything that could be used for server infrastructure.

It also means you’re very restricted in license choices since you otherwise never know if your project might get picked up in the future and used in a proprietary service. This likely means you have to use something like AGPL.
Not so much a question of luck, sending out sipping notifications that for example include advertising is risky. Sending a high volume of appointment reminders for the same appointment is similarly problematic.
LaTeX needs to be updated. It’s slow, errors need to be better handled, packages need to be improved, language should be more expressive, etc.

There is beamer for presentation that is a pain to work with. Sometimes the most that I can understand from an error message is the slide in which the error has occurred. Sometimes I even have to incrementally delete the text and compile the remaining text to identify the slide location. Sometimes I can’t even abort the program with Carl+C or D or X after the error has occurred, and I have to close the terminal (maybe IDEs are better, but that’s another can of worms). It’s also super slow. I am really in pain working with it quite often.

A lot of times, producing the intended behavior in latex requires complex hack of internals (see Stack Exchange answers) because the feature is not natively supported.

It seems software engineers don’t care about LaTeX (and don’t use it to know about its problems). Academics are also not expert in software to fix it. The pace of development thus has been slow.
You aware that you can just define a container as display: table-cell and then center stuff in it the old way - at least i remember doing this 10years back or so to solve centering issue I just couldn't get right... (Pardon if above isn't valid css)
Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise Sandwich
I've certainly used it as a conversation starter, just like wearing a band tee. I think there's something interesting to say as well about putting cheap stickers on a a super expensive laptop as a “see if I care” vibe like slapping a bumper sticker on a Lamborghini.
Savagery
Life expectancy is a terrible measure for quality of healthcare.

First off, it’s not necessarily calculated the same when it comes to stillbirths versus infant deaths, which drastically skew numbers.

Second, other factors unrelated or weakly correlated to healthcare systems can impact life expectancy (alcohol use, diet, traffic accidents, suicide).

Third, racial differences in longevity.
I think the "decent effort" part is the key thing. We had to change our mail routing temporarily earlier in the year (after having sent via Office 365 for multiple years) and keeping on top of emails that were being blocked was a non-trivial amount of effort (and stress) for a period of time.

Unlike the person to you're replying to we had no issues with Google or Microsoft (once we did the requisite things) - it was Yahoo (and the people they provide email for) and then multiple mid-size organisations who used IP based block lists. At one point our mails were being rejected by our local NHS trust, the London Fire Brigade and a mental health agency we make referrals to. None of this was complicated to resolve but it was energy that could have been better used elsewhere.

I'm not usually part of the "let's go cloud without doing any cost-benefit analysis" movement but with email delivery I was happy when we could go back to routing via Office365 again. If a recipient decides to ban Microsoft's IPs that's usually going to be a bigger problem for them than me.
He conveniently forgets the biggest looters are in congress or the board room
tell me you live in north america without telling me you live in north america
If the massive bandwidth shared CPU / GPU memory approach is optimum on the desktop for many workloads then one would think that there would be a sizeable market for that in the cloud - after all many desktop workloads (video editing) for example are moving to the cloud.

Can’t see it being Apple but feels like an opportunity for someone.
> If you were able to somehow get your own email server to deliver email to Gmail and Outlook, great, good for you - but stop pretending that anybody can do it.

Yes, that's probably true. I've been running my own server for 20 years now, and I guess that in itself helps with getting my mail delivered (apart from t-online, but who cares about them). At some time I also hosted some mailing lists, but I quickly abandoned that because that's a surefire way to get your IP blacklisted sooner or later. If you set up a completely new mail server, there probably is a lot of luck involved, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, at least not for your critical business mails. I pretty much keep doing it only out of nostalgia, it doesn't really make any sense otherwise.
End users have no problem -using- a Linux computer. My 75+ year old mom uses it and can do everything she wants. Mostly things she wants to do are web-based. A Chromebook would probably be fine for her too.
No, she didn't install it herself. But she never installed Windows her self too. And yes I had to fiddle a bit with Wine to get her online bridge (the card game) program working.
For older people things like W11 upgrade being pushed is hell. They click a button that popped up without knowing what it will do and if everything goes well the desktop has changed and the don't know where to click anymore.
If the upgrade doesn't go well they are entirely lost.
From that link, the use cases are:

> Developing, building, testing, and signing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, WatchOS, and tvOS applications on the Xcode IDE.

I thought it was more for when you don't have a choice (Apple forces you to) than general usage. Are things going to change?