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Ask HN: Recommendations for an SMTP Sending Service?
With the Google Apps changes I am looking at moving my emails somewhere else.

One solution is a SaaS service that would cover all my needs, but they all have limitations (except at very premium levels of prices).

I am considering hosting the incoming part (having my MX pointing to my home server) but I do not want to deal with the outbound part because of apparently how difficult it is to have consistent deliveries (because of spam filtering - there were several comments in HN about that).

Is there a good SMTP sending service that is affordable for home users (6 users sending a normal (low) amount of emails)? I guess that what I need is a service that will forward @mydomain emails (with the possibility to set up SFP, DMARC, ...) and handle at least two domains.
Related: https://dailygood.org/story/1609/against-the-clock-how-techn...
Desktop is falling out of favour anyway, so its potential impact is debatable.
Don't listen to the negativity, Software Engineers are paid handsomely, if you find that your dream path isn't working out you can always return to highly paid work and make up pretty fast.
Well you gotta be able to write a jira issue. Or read someone else and know what to do.
A Complete Guide to Building Ethereum DApps: Front-End and Back-End
I imagine IBM quantum computing will go to same route. IBM has become a husk of its former self — mostly marketing, and generally 5-10 years behind the cutting edge.
Incredibly well-designed application!

Anki Import worked perfectly (except MathJax) and the there are many well thought out details. Thanks for the tip.
Omicron cases appear to peak in US
I think it's easier to get the money if one has funding from parents or friends, after all most of this stuffs are dirty cheap (under $1K) and he has a whole garage to play around, but it's MUCH more difficult to learn the skills described in the article!
I would not say they need to put all of them, but some of them would be useful.

I do wonder if people would have the same opinion is they were putting those research dollars Russia, or North Korea, etc?
So, they invented a Mechanical Turk?
If you’re starting out your career as a surgeon, you really better hope you’re not the best surgeon in the room. People will die. Obviously there comes a point when you can’t grow any more and then it’s ok to be the smartest, but that’s hopefully after a long career filled with growth.
> Since most people don't seem to be aware: you can use Wordpress as a mostly-static website generator.

> Use WP Super Cache, and most of your pages are static anyway.

This isn't "static" in the sense of a static site generator because your web server is still running code, reading/writing files, sending SQL queries, interpreting URL query parameters (e.g. for search results pages) and injecting data into templates when pages are being viewed. There is a much greater attack area and types of possible attacks.

For example, the caching plugin itself you mentioned has had remote code execution and XSS security holes in the last 6 months and others in the past:

https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-super-cache

Many of these kinds of attacks aren't possible when your hosted website is only HTML, CSS, JavaScript with a CDN in front. Saying you think securing WordPress is practical is one thing, but there's a huge difference between dynamic and static.
If you want people to read your writing, don’t put it in a walled garden.
The author is absolutely correct in claiming that the *importance* of time in a culture is... cultural.

Timezones and DST are especially politically sensitive. See: https://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-th...

Same for the ideas around what is a reasonable time to sleep, eat, work. There are all sort of biases for/against early risers and owls across different societies.

Sounds like you and the other commenters might have an axe to grind here.
This seems like a nice guide and I'll certainly peruse it further.

But I'm just going to add my personal observation as a lifelong embedded C developer: I hate the Rust language syntax.

I'm not sure what it is but just trying to grok Rust code grinds my cognitive gears. I'm sure it all serves a purpose and I'm just a cranky old dude that will be left beind someday but, jesus, it just doesn't flow for me.
You're right, a HN comment doesn't do this subject any justice. Even a book might not be enough, as I have learned dealing with this issue for the past 5 years.

I wanted to refute that eating when hungry is ideal, it lead me to eating more often every day, eventually I was eating huge portions every 2 hours which resulted in insulin resistance.
Presently, for sure. I was wondering in the hypothetical, too, though. Authors really just need to provably show that they have a strong influence/presence on the publication graph or something. Although, reducing a researcher's entire value to a single scalar index is probably fraught. Also, egos would never go for completely anonymous authorship system, I think.
Ask HN: What bachelor program is best to focus on mathematical modeling?
Note: I graduated a master in CS in 2018. So I am by no means a new student.

I was thinking of studying an applied mathematics degree at the Technical University of Delft [1]. So I contacted a student who graduated from it and he told me that the program is very proof-based and not much about mathematical modeling (it has a few courses on it but that's it). I find this odd since I had the (perhaps naive) impression that when you apply mathematics, then it means you are using mathematics to model something.

So my question is: which bachelor program comes closest to getting a lot of experience in mathematical modeling? I kind of have the feeling that a bachelor of applied physics has more mathematical modeling in it, but also a lot of IRL experimentation (which I do not feel like learning, I just want to model a phenomenon or a bunch of data).

Has anyone done a program that had a lot of mathematical modeling in it?

[1] https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/bachelors/tw/bachelor-of-applied-mathematics/the-curriculum
> There is no proof

That’s an odd requirement. There is no proof Intel will ever put out a faster chip. There is in general no proof for any new technology because it hasn’t been built yet.

Narrow city streets aren’t vastly different than normal city streets, and people used to constantly say sure operating on highways is easy, show me self driving cars inside cities. I think people underestimate how long self driving cars are going to take, but they are already good enough to be useful which means companies will continually invest in being just a little bit better.

Looking back automatic transmissions took decades and where seriously flawed for most of that time, but just a little bit better every year and eventually they became the default. Cruse control and every other major innovation went through that same cycle, it’s just that once something is good enough to be the default it has been around so long nobody wakes up and says “wow it’s finally ready” because it’s been in use for a long time.

IMO, take everything people are generally expecting self driving to be in 2030 and it’s going to be ready in 2060 and the default by 2090.
What is Bayesian/Frequentist inference?
Try to steelman this: the reification of the construct of time makes it appear as an independent objective object.
At least the tax euros stay in Europe, and you get local expertise, tech hubs etc
Check out https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2022/01/email-thoughts - it was posted here recently
Although small in comparison, they also bought weather underground for a cool billion or so and completely ran it into the ground.
I can honestly say that in Dundas, Ontario that is my experience. My life has not suffered for it.
This is really good advice.

Technical PM in big tech here. Going to chime in with some thoughts as I made that same transition after 5 years in engineering. And been doing it for the last 5 or so years.

Given that PM has two definitions:

Product manager - what & why

Program manager - when, who, how

Some companies simply get these two disciplines mixed up or a single PM handles both(hard job). Some PMs act more like engineering managers & other PMs act more like MBAs.

The number one way to grow as a PM? Read and embed yourself with your users & product.

Learn from other accomplished individuals, find mentors on what works and try new things for yourself. It's amazing to me of how many complements you may get about some strategy or tactic we used as a product team successfully that just came from a book & applied to our space. Lenny's newsletter is great too, but even books about successful / failed products are just as helpful.

> Don’t let gaps form between you and your customers and between you and the builders

This is commonly an Ivory Tower problem in which teams don't do any customer research or get out of the building to talk to people they're building for. It's hard to blame them when they've never done it before to be successful nor have a PM who understands the value of embedding themselves in the product they're managing.

> People matter most

My personal motto for any new product or effort is to "work the people, then the problem". It doesn't matter if there's deadlines if nobody is talking to each other or learning from the very people you're building the product for. Once everyone is rowing in the same direction & agree on a common vision, it's smooth to execute upon it.

> Write your resume in ten years.

My ten year plan when I first started in software was to become a DBA(wrote it in 2010). And that DBA dream was more close to modern data science today. The data science side of PM work is an absolute joy and fun. It's exactly what I wanted when I wrote that 10 years ago. Oh how things have changed. Now that I'm a more senior PM, that 10 year plan has shifted to be a director and/or running my own successful product with all the skills learned over my career.

> The “art” of product management matters more than the “science” over the long term.

The art is the right brain(creativity), the science is the left brain(logic). I personally like to see this as emotions vs. facts. How you feel about something is much different than the reality of it. The art of being a good PM is by invoking emotions. How engineering feels about the backlog priority? How do users feel about an upcoming feature/change? How do leadership feel when you present your next year plans? There's a reason why many popular PM books are called "Inspired" or "Empowered". It's because of the emotion being invoked when your team is firing on all cylinders and your users are happy with your product decisions.
Half Life 2 Running on a PinePhone Pro Using Box86
Source?

Lived and worked in D.C. and have a TS/SCI, sat for FSP…. The IC doesn’t pay even close to big tech rates. There is also no mystery around someone contacting you, just apply to the NSA / CIA / etc. if those paths pique your interest.

Startups working on IC-relevant tech getting funding via non-traditional means is absolutely true but not guaranteed.
More info on what it actually does: https://askubuntu.com/questions/926461/whats-the-difference-...
Yep. The midlevels are supported by automatic protocols in Epic (e.g. sepsis, DKA -> put these dozens of orders in with 5 clicks) that physicians decide on and approve. They also rely more heavily on imaging instead of a physical exam and history. When unsure, they can consult a physician, even a specialist.

It’s a very polarizing topic in medicine that patients generally aren’t privy to. Especially for resident physicians who often make half as much as these midlevels yet have more education, there’s a lot of bitterness. The federal government is ultimately to blame… having a fixed number of residency spots to artificially limit the supply of new physicians is terrible, and this is the predictable result.

I think hospitals support inefficient midlevels because they can bill patients for the increased resource usage, but it’s not good for the system overall when unnecessary scans and consults are done, and more complex patients don’t get comprehensive care. Many foresee a two-tiered system developing, where the rich see physicians, and the poor see midlevels.
Mortgages are overcollateralized loans.

Credit cards are loans based on future income streams (which can be securitised in fact with crypto technology -- think a defi bank automatically getting 20% of your future income until it is repaid)
An in-between for cars and bikes with fair range, medium speed and some cargo has existed for a long time in the form of mopeds.
Interesting.. Any sources or examples ?
> Narrow streets can be equipped with some kind of helping beacons one day

That changes the goal posts in my opinion. The “self” part of “self-driving” no longer applies.
If you want to get a sense for where the author is coming from, I would refer you to the many stories of Amazon workers who pee in bottles because the clock-based schedule imposed by their employer apparently does not permit even the flexibility for universal bodily functions.

Depending on a where a driver is on their route, taking a piss might be 2-minute pop into a fast food bathroom, or a 20-minute diversion to find a bathroom. This is a good example of how important and basic human experiences don’t conform to the idea of universal and repeatable time increments that can be bolted together to make schedules.

Instead of the schedule accommodating the person, the person must accommodate the schedule. This is what the author means when they say the clock creates time.

One of the ways we measure power in society is the ability to resist this. The Amazon driver has to pee in a bottle to keep their job. But everyone has to wait for the CEO if they need the bathroom between meetings.
I found this article [0] by a teacher who experimented with using formal spaced repetition systems in a classroom insightful. There were clear differences between motivated and unmotivated students, as you note. He ultimately decided that its utility was narrow, and that keeping students from forgetting facts is not the most important part of education.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F6ZTtBXn2cFLmWPdM/seven-year...
If you are searching for a Medium alternative checkout Notaku https://notaku.website/product/blog

It uses Notion as CMS, the blog posts are stored in a Notion database with additional properties like description .etc

Disclaimer: I am the author, let me hear any feedback if you try it
i am a huge fan of this style:

def foo(obvious_thing:type, *, modifier:type, modifier2:type, …)

Because I find this call incomprehensible:

foo(items, 12, “apple”)

and this immediately better:

foo(items, num=12, kind=“apple”)

and preventing my callers from being able to do the first is a huge win.
Python is already strictly evaluated. It's not ambiguous in that way.
This is wholly true, but the comment above makes absurd claims ("Smartphone/tablet? No one converts there! Want privacy? Use Debian!"), bending backwards to say something negative.
Isn't that intentional? Picking sprawling glyphs for common items, and simple ones for rare meanings would be "inefficient" in some interesting sense. Indeed 'i' is the most common letter in Latin.
Agree.

But again, depends on the area.
An attic in Trento city center, in an historical building, completely renewed very recently? 400k

That gets you a very small flat in Milan, and not even near city center.

Same price gets you a big-ass detached house where I live (30 minutes drive from nearest city)

As for quality of living I don’t have much experience, I’ve been living for a while in Ireland and UK, but only few weeks at a time, so I don’t really have anything to contribute to that discussion tbh
It probably depends a lot on what the code is doing . I've seen systems with multiple services inside and a couple of them had to do db calls and could not be cached. You can easily end up with 10-30 servers. Also, the cheap versions may not have enough cpu or memory for all systems.

In this case the serverless versions may be better, easier or cheaper. We did not use Python or Ruby by the way. I still think Python is a bad choice for most systems.
Watson became a marketing term after the company spent hundreds of millions to brand Watson to be synonymous with AI. The term Watson then got appended to existing businesses as it allowed them all to benefit from the brand equity and Watson ads. This unfortunately happened even if there wasn’t any AI capabilities, so it eventually backfired.

Watson Health seems to have been focused on selling the narrative of AI in healthcare, even though the technology wasn’t there.

The divestiture is only for IP also, and it seems most people in the group will be laid off.
> we now call that kind of behaviour a sock puppet account

Maybe it was a Socratic puppet.
Is there an open source CMS for this though? Prismic doesn't seem to be: https://prismic.io/faq/product
Thank you for sharing. I wish this were the default behavior of positional and keyword arguments rather than requiring a `/, *` in every function definition.
Gwern's "Spaced Retention" post suggests applying it to recognizing correct syntax for fragments of Haskell code:

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Can you give more details on why you want to learning about mathematical modeling? And what do you want to model? Given your educational background, there are probably more time- and cost-efficient ways to learn the same material (which is likely highly application-specific).

Also, applied mathematics programs teach proofs because they want to show that their applied methods are guaranteed to work, as opposed to being fragile, ad hoc guesses.
Not to belabor this point but it is indeed the same number of key strokes. CTRL i requires two keys and and underscore required two keys as well.
Understanding NFTs – How Do NFTs Work?
I frequently go to stores that are open at the convenience of the owner. Often this is out in the country, but there's even one storefront near me in NYC that proudly says, "open by appointment and by luck". You quickly get used to the human-scale patterns.

Once when I was in Munich I needed medicine on a Sunday. Despite the pharmacy's posted hours stating it would be closed, I was somehow able to raise the pharmacist and get the medicine I needed. I was very grateful that day to have a human in the loop.

I hardly think store opening hours are a good argument for the "absolute necessity" of supreme rule of the wall clock.
Age and high-growth entrepreneurship
That need exists, but clocks aren't the only way to solve the problem. This is HN after all. Disrupt time. Sell store availability as a service. APIify that shit!
They coast on enterprise lock-in while pretending they are innovative by shoveling money into non-useful blockchain projects.
> VSCode plugin

Wait, what? There's finally something usable in that department?
Marriage is a private contract. It is just subject to specific rules. Employment is a private contract too as much as employment is a government sanctioned institution.. Really what the institution of marriage gets you is a tax break. But we also had the mortgage deduction in the past too.
Yeah ideally you want to narrow down your search space as much as possible with each guess. Starting with determining your vowels seems like a natural thing to do, but it gets slightly more complex from there if you're looking at letter frequencies and positions.
Julia owes a lot to CL in terms of language design and is doing very well in its niche.

Watching how Julia fares in competition with Python can be seen as a kind of test of the Worse is Better hypothesis.

Cf. https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julia-and-lisp/25119
EU Parl. Vote Ensures a Free Internet, but Must Add Stronger Privacy Protections
Crypto is different because the scumbags are motivated by the currencies themselves.
Documentary Critical of Disney, from the Disney Family
"convert online" = "using a webpage in a browser"
I sometimes think we're approaching a future where people will learn to bake bread by scraping the topping off frozen pizza unless we make an effort to educate users on how to use the tools they have at their disposal.
Go is fast.

Generally speaking, you can expect a well-written Go program to be no more than 50% slower than well-written C. Normally the Go program will only be 5% or 10% slower.

Saying this another way, a carefully written C program that takes 100 seconds to run can be converted to Go and might take 150 seconds to run, in a bad case. In a typical situation the Go program will take 110 seconds to run.

Of course, a bad programmer can make anything slow.
I second this. React is a fantastic framework but does alot of things "it's own way" so unless you already know it, it's going to be much harder to get going with it.
Yep! I'm now catching up on this. It's so complicated!
I attended a talk a few years ago given by one of the blockchain VPs at IBM.

It turned out that under the hood they were just using conventional distributed database technology. All marketing in order to get multiple companies to work together on shared systems.
A field fixes itself: the applied turn in economics
I think that depends very much on the person. It really does make sense that sharing with people who care about you would be beneficial, but it really doesn't seem to work for me. If I tell my goal even to someone who is close to me too early, I'm just much less likely to do it. It's as if a large chunk of that intrinsic motivation is just gone as soon as I verbalize my goal or plan to any sort of audience. It impacts me on a small as well as large scale.

Small scale example: If I tell my partner that I plan on going to the gym this weekend, I'm less likely to go when the time actually comes. If I make a plan to go to the gym but don't tell anyone, I'll probably do it.

Larger scale example: When I decided to try selling my fiction writing, I purposefully told no one for about two or three months, until I made some sales. Then, when I felt I had enough momentum and something to show for my plans, I told my partner what I've been doing. He was very very supportive. But then I fell into a habit of telling him _too much_ about my writing journey and plans, thinking it's safe now. It wasn't. The more I talked about it, the less I actually did it. It got to the point where I had to go into lockdown mode of not talking about it at all (and asking him not to ask). Now, I am careful to only talk to him about aspects of writing I've already finished. I can talk about how I've released a book, or what challenges I had in the last release. But I can't talk to him about what I'm writing this weekend, or what my plans are for my writing, or when I hope to have my next release.
I dont care about your respect... I'm just saying your 'top-tier salary' of 2x doesnt compare with an actual top tier FAANG salary, in my experience.
MacOS also included the Scriptable Image Processing System `sips`

https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/sips/
I thought the same, but as I grow older, I believe people would reject this. Even a subpar human GP would be much more accepted than a computer. That's not necessarily true in some societies though, e.g. Japan probably would accept it.
That said, I would probably focus on fixing the system first in a way that a significant percent of population doesn't need to order fish medicine off amazon to get treatment.
I think they still make a lot of money from their legacy business, z/OS & mainframes, DB/2 etc still run basically all large banks, insurance companies and many other types of businesses. IBM can charge whatever they want for the hardware and services to support these things because their customers have no alternative. So they have just been farming this for decades, and can afford not to succeed at anything else (so they don't).