skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email is increasingly difficult to do yourself with the proliferation of anti-spam and anti-malware protection, combined with consolidated usage of SaaS apps for email across the board. Most of the IP address space in AWS and Azure is blacklisted by spam filters (as is customer IP space from most ISPs if they don’t already filter SMTP traffic), so unless you want to roll the dice on config settings for everyone you send email to, you’re generally going to need an authenticated relay for outgoing mail — and your best option will be one of the big cloud providers.

If you want a secure mail service that won’t read your email, try ProtonMail.
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Neither vaccine was fully sterilising. In fact current US CDC advice if going to a country with a polio outbreak is to get a booster.

In both those cases the vaccines just blunted the transmission rate enough for r0 to drop below 1. We were also lucky that the responsible viruses had very stable mutation rates & no animal reservoirs unlike SARS-CoV-2. That meant they mostly died out over time once the transmission rate was reduced.
For those not trying to host their own, you might want to look at Migadu[1]. I have quite a lot of domains still running on the legacy GSuite, and a few others on the paid workspace, and the remaining on Migadu (not relations but a happy customer).

1. https://www.migadu.com
I worked as an analyst and was able to automate a job people in my shoes spent ~100 hours a year in doing. It was a huge success.

Until we needed a machine to run it, with good security controls, high availability... blah blah blah.

We're at the point where most people can find low hanging fruit by reading a Python blog in a weekend, but in my experience the IT infrastructure isn't setup to easily do everything else.
Those complaints have been raised for the last two decades and weren't heard.
The case studies make minor hacking sound like a job application.

After hacking the school IT systems Sam came to the attention of the police. As part of their engagement with the police, it was decided that Sam would benefit from education on the law through the Cyber Choices programme. They really engaged with the programme so they were offered work experience with a cybersecurity organisation. Whilst there they learnt how their skills could be put to good use and the type of damage their behaviour could have caused. At the end, Sam was offered a paid contract for 4 hours a week during the school term and up to 8 hours a week in school holidays.

https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/...
You apparently can use a webcam although I assume most people who don't have a smartphone don't have a webcam either.

The reality is that not having a smartphone means it's increasingly difficult to access any number of services.
Nice!! How big are those displays, and if you don't mind sharing, how much do those displays cost from your supplier? Last time I checked, e-paper displays were pretty pricey on their own.
Super interesting. Can you share what is the consulting/freelance rate going for skilled software people?
I retrofit old phone-based intercoms with software-only solution: https://www.DropBy.io

a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few years ago, now have 2 other partners.
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> This is also true for...

Agreed, those are already risks, and ones that are a lot harder to mitigate (though I do try where I can). Does that mean I should add another one that I can easily avoid?

There are risks in both local and cloud password managers. Maybe those risks seem equivalent to some folks, and the cloud features are useful enough for it to be a no brainer for them. For me, I don't at all mind manually backing up and manually copy/pasting credentials, and I don't miss the convenience of the cloud features.

> Let's say they did compromise your email account ...

This seems focused on the case of a dedicated attacker focused on you specifically. Id think each of us is more likely to be affected by various automated attacks that are backed by large dumps of account credentials.

In any case, I agree risks already exist in other places. For me in my specific set of circumstances this just seems like an easy one to skip.
Bitwarden for simplicity
It's a garbage situation. I hope things get back on track for you, and I hope karma gets those people what they deserve.
> The number of nurses that are willing to quit so they aren't required to get the vaccine is insane

Here are two lists of many, many hospitals that have instituted vaccination requirements and the resulting number of employees terminated for non-compliance:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/how-many-employee...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/vaccination-...

Seems to typically be about 0.5% to 1%, occasionally 2%.

Especially if they are clinical staff: good riddance.

> I think that might be what is driving the enrollment reduction.

I think it's more likely that they can't afford to take the classes (either not having the tuition, or having to work longer hours due to inflation), and/or they're reading all the horror stories about clinical staff suffering endless abuse and in some cases physical assaults from patients, their families, and virtual 'gangs' of anti-vaxxers.

The story about the redditor who was treating a dying patient whose family refused to put on masks so they could visit (and ended up removed from the hospital by security) was particularly memorable for me. The doctor went to the trouble of meeting the family in the parking lot, and for their compassion ended up sucker-punched in the face and waking up on the ground. Security wanted them to press charges but they declined because they were afraid of harassment by gangs of anti-vaxxers organizing online.

That is why people don't want to be nurses. Not because of a vaccine.
I've been timeblocking on paper for years with the Pomodoro method. One crucial part of that method that's easy to overlook is the part where you look back at your records when you finish a thing and see how long it took to actually make it, versus your initial estimates; doing this helps you develop a sense of how long this kind of task will actually take!

One major leap in this for me has been developing a habit of also tracking time spent on a project somewhere in the project itself; I'm an artist, and every piece I work on now has a layer called "tracking" with a bunch of little hash-marks representing a half-hour of work, with other annotations like the date and maybe what part of complex pieces I was working on. It's now really easy to look back and say "this drawing with a complicated library background took 7h".
Not as much as the lack of side effects complicates your code when you're struggling with concepts like "A Monad is Like A Burrito".

The whole point of a lot of code is to have side effects.
Thanks a lot. Found it and all worked fine in the end.
> I cannot imagine a single language without the if operator, but only a few PLs accommodate full-fledged trait bounds, not to mention pattern matching. This is inconsistency . . .

How?

> Sometimes, software engineers find their languages too primitive to express their ideas even in dynamic code. But they do not give up . . .

Is this a failure of the language, or a failure of the engineer?

> If we make our languages fully dynamic, we will win biformity and inconsistency,[^] but will imminently lose the pleasure of compile-time validation and will end up debugging our programs at mid-nights . . . One possible solution I have seen is dependent types. With dependent types, we can parameterise types not only with other types but with values, too.

Types are a productive abstraction/model in programming languages. One of many. Each has its strengths and weaknesses; each is appropriate in some circumstances and not in others. Types are not the solution to all problems, any more than currying or OOP or whatever else is.
Ehm, I'm not sure how that makes any sense at all. Someone who can't be trusted to repay 100k can certainly be trusted to inhabit a (insured) house worth 700k without setting it on fire. Landlords do exactly this all the time. Also, it's not about keeping the money safe, but about generating a return.
I've thought about this as well. Various factors contributed to ultimately displace the trade routes from land to water. These factors range from Mongol invasions, to geography. When trade stopped the flow of ideas stopped.

The current geopolitical conflict is about preventing the shifting of trade routes back to land from Western controlled waterways. It is amazing to me to consider for example Armenia's history and see the constant back and forth between a west and east aligned contenders and see its echo it contemporary events. Ditto for the overall high level connectivity between east and west, and how its shifts mirror civilization balance between East and West.
hmmm, i live in a similarly sized building with a live-in super. he's not the one receiving a third of my monthly income. where is the rest going?
I also see that in these "everyone is leaving California" stories. It's not that I really care whether people are coming or going, but there is a part of the media that seems to bring the hate. The main change of the last two years has been less immigration, not more people leaving (there are always lots of people leaving), but you never hear that. Sometimes it feels like they are trying to tell the story people want to hear.
> What am I missing?

- Not all evictions were covered by the federal ban, or any applicable local bans

- Most people likely did not actually go through the eviction process (most people want / try to pay their bills; most would avoid a life where a landlord is constantly hounding them for unpaid rent; its greatly preferable for a tenant to avoid the mark by almost any means; can be expensive for landlords; some landlords still do illegal “self-help” evictions like lockouts or making tenancy unlivable)

- If the evictions don’t actually “soar” beyond pre-pandemic levels I’d assume it indicates the number of tenants abusing (or even rightly using) the moratoriums was lower than the stakeholders have been making it out to be

- There have been programs running simultaneously to provide rental relief across the country to make payments to landlords
Even though you can’t evict them, I would have assumed the missing payment would catch up with them eventually - e.g. by tanking their credit rating, or selling their debt to a collections agency… Is this not the case? You just swallow the loss and go on?
Thanks for letting me know, that's pricing that tells me I should spend more time looking into your product.

And for the record, I wasn't trying to single you out or pick on your site - I find myself getting more and more impatient with company's not being upfront about their pricing over the years so it's basically the first thing I look for these days.
Is there an opensource/selfhosted alternative to obsidian?
From 1983 popular media, "War Games":

David Lightman, a bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and hacker, uses his IMSAI 8080 computer to access the school district's computer system and change his grades. He does the same for his friend and classmate Jennifer Mack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
> Apparently there was at least (if not more than) the usual level of misappropriation of those subsidies, so complaints from landlords abound.

For the most part, we saw landlords REFUSING these subsidies and refusing to help tenants get them - https://newrepublic.com/article/163840/erap-cash-tenants-not...
I didn’t like moving to Obsidian from Joplin for this reason, but Obsidian is so much more useable because it stores everything in a regular file hierarchy. It also has a better UI. And above all, I absolutely hate Joplin’s “every note is a folder” approach.
How is this pdf getting more direct traffic without increasing search volume? I would expect to see some correlation of their claims in google trends

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=eviction%2...
Americans have no national identity card. The closest thing is a Social Security number, which has no security or biometric features.

https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus
The comparison is very apt. My mother always says how this current climate in the US reminds her of the Cultural Revolution, and told me on many occasions about how one of her physicist friends got "struggled" against because he had the temerity to claim that the sun had black spots, and it was taken a a veiled criticism against Chairman Mao and the party. It was just a struggle session where he had to wear the dunce cap--no jail time, but I'm sure it was quite a frightful experience.
I meant the unemployment benefits are a social service.
I already had to do this a month ago, using the id.me service to view my IRS account
My understanding is that the key derivation function chosen, argon2, is much more expensive to compute than something like the SHA family of hashes. This is a desirable property in a KDF precisely because it makes brute forcing much more difficult.

Further, argon2id incorporates strategies to make GPU parallelization less effective.

Obviously this won't protect you against something like a dictionary attack, there's nothing that can magically protect you if you choose a low-entropy password, just something that can make the process more difficult.
Back in 2006 in high school I carried an external hard drive with a clean macOS install on it. I'd boot that and I had a SOCKS proxy setup (before I knew of VPNs or could pay for one). It was a joy to browse unimpeded and without any annoying management software running. I can only imagine what kids are doing nowadays.
"Your estimated wait time is 3 hours and 27 minutes"

Hmm. Guessing this will get rolled back when they figure out people are going to all come in deadline based waves. There's no way to staff for a "real person identifies you" process with how the IRS currently works.
> via a mobile device

Why the F does it have to be a mobile device? Is this another excuse to install a spyware mobile app that tracks your GPS?

Why can't it just be a web-based thing that I can do on any device I want?
I looked into FastMail as well about 1-2 years ago. I’d like IMAP PUSH support for iOS, to replace the polling needed for gmail. Good support for iOS search is also needed, I haven’t investigated how FastMail works in that regard yet.
I read it as "ever" but who knows?
I am honestly curious how an administration that is sooo against voter ID squares it hypocrisy with things like this, or other ID based initiatives designed to secure these institutions but ID requirements to secure voting is viewed as racist or other "threat to democracy"

If Secure ID is needed to access IRS, or for proof of vaccination I fail to see why is not needed for voting...
I'm not finding this argument particularly compelling.

I definitely understand that rentals can be profit seeking tools that are harmful (ex: slum lords) - but I don't think removing the ability to rent actually solves that problem.

If you can't rent - there are wide swathes of my city that just wouldn't be developed at all. It would remain the private estate of the family that owned it. Instead those plots are sold or developed into apartments/condos/townhomes.

Basically - land is a revenue generating asset. If rent is illegal, folks will use it for the next best revenue they can make. They won't just suddenly dump it on the market for sale.

Further - renting can be a valuable tool. I moved very often right out of school seeking to live as close as possible to my current job. That was insanely helpful to me, and not something that would be financially feasible if I had to purchase and re-sell for each (near-yearly) move - even if the house I was buying only cost 100k, and not 500k.

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Basically - I understand the sentiment, but I think this argument glosses over far too many likely consequences of removing the ability to rent (ex - I promise you you'll just end up with a lot of company towns where "Room & board" is free, but only if you work the company job.)
Thanks a lot. All of you helped a lot. Must have been blind yesterday evening. It worked.
I wish I had something insightful to say, but this is so spot on. You have put to words something that I have been struggling finding words for. I wish we could all "see" this issue and somehow get out of the weird algorithms that are plaguing our society.

I think that's why I like Hacker News right now. Among other reasons, out of any news sources, the comments here continue to be mostly grounded and reasonable, not hyperbolic and dramatic.
> Most social change movements have similarities. The civil rights movement, the anti-slavery movement, the women's suffrage movement, the equal rights movement ...

Yeah, but isn't it obvious that some are more similar than others? Did the woman's suffrage movement deface monuments or have the ability to enforce some of its ideological orthodoxy outside of its own activist institutions? There's obviously more similarity between the Cultural Revolution and the current social justice movement than they're both "social change movements."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

> The first things to change were the names of streets and stores: "Blue Sky Clothes Store" to "Defending Mao Zedong Clothes Store", "Cai E Road" to "Red Guard Road", and so forth. Many people also changed their given names to revolutionary slogans, such as Zhihong (志红, "Determined Red") or Jige (继革, "Following the Revolution").[5]

> Other manifestations of the Red Guard campaign included...harassment of people, such as intellectuals,[8] who defiantly demonstrated the Four Olds.[4] In later stages of the campaign, examples of Chinese architecture were destroyed, classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart, and Chinese temples were desecrated.[5]

> ...This statue of the Yongle Emperor was originally carved in stone, and was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. A metal replica is in its place.

Not every "social change movement" does stuff like these examples, but they all have parallels in the current social justice movement.
That's true, though the "big enough landlord" isn't as common as many think. About 40% of rental properties in the US are owned by individuals[1], with most owning less than $400k in properties[2].

1. https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/economists-outlook/landlord-st...

2. https://getflex.com/blog/landlord-statistics/#:~:text=The%20....
It has everything to do with your personal philosophy. I haven’t met a good person in my life. Here’s your philosophy: “Some people are bad yes, but the vast majority of people are not”

You’re telling me the vast majority of people wouldn’t take advantage of others if they ended up with serious power.

History and personal experience tell me otherwise. People are not basically good.
I think you're talking about the axioms which form the modern foundation of mathematics, but mathematics isn't a science, at least not in the sense I'm referring to. Mathematics is a tool; it does not aim to describe the world, but rather provides a toolbox useful for doing so. It doesn't work the same way science based on observation does. There is no faith involved, but rather just arbitrary choices that result in a useful end result. That's good enough. It's like a protocol standard we all use because it makes our life easier. You don't need faith in HTTP to use it.

If you mean the foundations of the scientific method, e.g. things like trusting your perception of the world (to some extent), that indeed crosses over from science into philosophy. But that does not invalidate the scientific method, not does it mean all of science is faith-based; it just means we had to make some assumptions to be able to accomplish anything at all. Those assumptions are still something we can and should question, we just don't have any good way of testing them.
I used to have a decent side hustle making this much money but the tax changes this year have de-incentivized my work ethic
Just because someone says something is insane, doesn't mean it is. It's typically 1% or less of the workforce. See my other comment for two long lists of hospitals and the resulting numbers of terminated workers. It's very, very small.
KeePassDX has its own keyboard that lets you securely input usernames, passwords, and other fields without exposing sensitive data to the clipboard (handy when autofill doesn't handle the field).

- Website: https://www.keepassdx.com

- F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre...

- Source: https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/releases

Another FOSS app called Keepass2Android has the same feature, but recent versions of that app are not on F-Droid.
The real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war (2021)
> because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say.

Definitely. I know someone in NJ who has not received unemployed benefits for 14 months. They call every month, and are told to keep waiting. No one returns their calls, snail mail, or emails.

There is zero justification the government cannot respond via email, or give you a call back, other than they would like you to waste so much of your time and effort on hold that you give up.
This is just creeping wokeness again. It is designed to lead to more bureaucratic overhead, probably creating a role for some kind of "caste non-discrimination compliance officer." Meanwhile, there are no "castes" in the US. No one knows, or needs to know, what "caste" I am.
I moved from gsuite to fastmail about 6 months ago

I'm pretty wary of any "automatic import from $previous_service" tools (having been bitten in the past)

so I ran the fastmail importer against my user's accounts, then later reconciled this against the gmail/fastmail APIs with my own code

... it was completely byte-for-byte perfect (other than "muted" conversations, which weren't imported at all, that I dealt with separately)

I was very impressed indeed
As an expat American I was originally super pleased to see something like this was finally happening, however, this was quickly diminished once I tried signing up. It requires documents like a phone bill in English to verify my identity, which I simply cannot provide.
Just because they can't be evicted doesn't mean that get free rent, especially if they're employed. You can still file a lien on them or garnish their wages.
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This makes me think of 1984 and how the world was in a state of perpetual victory while simultaneously at war (danger) at the same time.

fwiw in the book it was a means of controlling the populace.
>As a landlord, I can tell you that the government does NOT replace ANY of the missed rent.

I can see why people get so frustrated with landlords. It’s the same kind of frustration when Wall Street asks for government intervention after making a series of bad trades
I believe it's 15% however my beef isn't with the fee but rather "the market" pricing. The value I deliver as a passionate dogsitter is probably worth several hundred dollars a day. The dog lives in our home, is showered with love, we take and send photos throughout the day to the owner and typically the dog sleeps in our bed (not to mention we usually buy the dog a toy). The rate we charge, based on what others are charging should mean your dog is locked is small room, akin to a kennel and fed/walked regularly.

We've not had enough repeat business to develop "outside" relationships, but I'm sure that's coming down the road as we've made plenty of dog owners (and dogs) super happy.
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RemedyBG, a from-scratch Windows debugger. https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg