skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming you're referring to the CAN-SPAM Act [1] or equivalent in other jurisdiction [2], but nothing of the sort is implied. The requirement is to make available and process opt-out without charge and promptly (typically in so many days).

It is neither dire nor prevents clarification, nor prescribes a specific experience related to unsubscribe links. It's odd to hear the only options are between receiving messages and having service terminated. That sounds pretty user-hostile tbh.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

[2] https://www.lsoft.com/resources/optinlaws.asp
And Google Photos.
Well, that's the general problem with the centralized internet we enjoy today. Telecommunications service providers have always been in bed with governments. I wonder if we'll eventually move towards a decentralized mesh network.

Another possible solution is to somehow get influential people to buy into these systems. That way, they won't want to stop it even if they could.
its a bit of dark pattern but i'm not sure if it is illegal. i suspect gofundme wanted the donations redirected so they would still receive the revenue the donations created. from their POV if they refund all the donations then they are paying fees for processing and refunding and not receiving any revenue. if gofundme wanted to still try and process the donations the more ethical option would be to set the default to be refund and allowed people to opt-in to have their donations redirected. also, my understanding is gofundme always planned to redirect funds to charities approved by the original organizers. i've seen some people claim that it was going to be charities approved of by gofundme alone but i have not seen evidence of this. i think in that case that would be deeply unethical.
thats the other reason yes.

depends where your priorities are i guess.
And probably only second to the "export" command for shell variables for confusing new users.
Here is what I would do:

- Hire so you can get that 60-70 hours a week down to 20 or so. You want to stay involved, but less intensely and in the areas that you care about.

- Make sure you are working out consistently. If you are doing some yoga, add weights and vice-versa. Check your diet as well: inflammation is a huge health issue that affects our mental health dramatically.

- Sell off/throw out stuff you don't use, especially clothing. A good spring cleaning is always a healing experience.

- Accept that there is nothing in this world will make you happy permanantly. Even minimalism. Even a good family. Even a good dog. C.S. Lewis said that this is evidence that we are not of this world, and I think he may have been right.

You have ascended to the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs and emerged into the desert of the real. It's time to think.
I guess you could try to go for the tortious interference angle:

I have a contract with the customer which involves interacting with them by email. Customer uses EmailCompany. EmailCompany unfairly blocks me from emailing customer. EmailCompany is interfering with the contract. Both myself and the customer have a reasonable expectation that we should be able to carry out our contract by emailing back and forth, so EmailCompany is obstructing the contract.

Any of this sort of "advocacy" only works if the customer actually cares about receiving your emails though.

In my experience, the customer will just switch email providers when I tell them we're blocked. I had an email provider just the other day who wasn't accepting my emails. I tried to get them to unblock us, but to no avail. I told my customer and he went and registered a new email elsewhere.
Is anybody using "fail2ban" connected to "badIP"?

(as described e.g. here https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/protect-your-server-comp... )

(in both modes, download & upload)

My root server hosts as separate VMs at least a website and an email server => both are magnets for all kinds of scans and intrusion attempts => I've got logscans + honeypots etc... set up (fail2ban then closes the source IP's connection for a while) which seem to be working.

I wonder if things could improve (e.g. preemptive FW-drop) by making fail2ban use "badIPs", and to make fail2ban feed back to badIPs the "bad IPs that I identify"? Any personal experience in this area here? How dynamic/reliable are "badIPs" lists?
I ran into a similar problem with docker on the same problem in zig; podman and on-metal had no performance regression but docker did. I kind of gave the fuck up on the plummer's sieve shootout at that point because (of this and other performance regressions I was finding, like CPU throttling) I felt like I was fighting the stupid rules of the contest more than I was discovering things about performance.

Anyways for the authors: try running it in podman and see if it eliminates the perf regression
Yeah, and don't hide some of the relays up under the dash where you can't even see them (thanks Chevy S-10, which is otherwise simple and decent; the relays seemed fine anyway)
I hope to see bitmessage supplant email for many use cases.

It is decentralized and has built-in mechanisms to fight spam. Also all messages are end-to-end encrypted.

Despite the name it has nothing to do with bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

https://wiki.bitmessage.org/
They have your CC/Debit card info on file.
There are great CLI tools already in this thread, but for some of my side-gig work I'm searching large piles of PDFs, docs formats, and ePubs with a GUI word processor open and need to reference the source by page/graf number. For those I use DocFetcher[1], a quirky and intermittently updated Java app that indexes file contents and provides rudimentary relevance searching along with regex. I index my docs, put the database it generates into a read-only shared directory, and point systems across OSs at that db so I can search quickly regardless of which box (or where) I'm working from, or can toss the app, db, and docs onto a thumbdrive for portability.

There's a commercial version that prioritized bugfixes, making the free and open version less attractive than it used to be. But it's still one of the better tools for the job when you want more than a grep-equivalent.

[1] http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
I make a lot of slides. I was in an Office shop, then Google Docs, now back to Office. On one hand, they all suck, and there are lots of horrible idiosyncrasies in each. On the other hand, they are both fine once you get used to them. I hated google slides when I switched, but I got used to it and hated PowerPoint when I switched back.

Google slides is definitely better as a web app. The web version of PowerPoint is unusable. On the other hand, office on the whole is much more polished, has more features, and things you'd take for granted like cut and paste between all the office programs (didnt work for g-suite last time I checked).

The main reason I use office now (in my own business) is because ironically Microsoft is way more customer friendly than google, and I don't want some arbitrary google product change or ML ruling to destroy my business, so I would never use them for something professional. That's much more of a concern than box alignment.
Remember MySpace?

No?

Facebook is on the same path and will, eventually, meet the same end.
Though I wonder how much the video game market has grown since the Wii had reached end-of-life
and they just added VMWare Horizons as well
https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2022/01/horizon-samsung-dex-ena...
Yes its all very loosely approximated to real life anyway when avoiding the spectral level. Its not just the filter but also the quality of light being emitted/reflected from behind - A broad spectrum light like the sun will create more even effects while narrow spectrum lights like flourescent lamps or HPS street lamps can act variably.

Looking through a yellow filter at a yellow flourescent light - you could easily see almost all the original light (bright yellow) or none (black) depending on the spectral transmission of the filter.
Why every Costco product is called 'Kirkland Signature'
The minute your system depends on good behavior from any of the parties involved, you've failed as a designer.

It's like nobody learned anything from Snowden's revelations. The second those backdoors are available, they're going to be surrendered in secret to various three letter agencies in the name of national security. That's going to happen on day one. On day two they'll be breached by foreign intelligence services.
Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of software?
Man I would like something like this here, even a very weak version. Last Christmas day our neighbors across the street had an all day "party", turned the stereo up so far you could hear the bass through the whole neighbourhood, and I couldn't think at home, had to leave for most of the day.

I get people want to celebrate, but does the music/bass need to be that loud, really.
Nothing hard to explain. I feel the same way (only one kid).

Just feels like I never get to lead projects or take on big chunks of work past few gigs. I really want to start my own thing in the next few years.

Treating this as a cautionary tale what advice would you give someone wanting what you have?
I would love for a highly reputable team or individual to test blockchains and their claims. However, the testing should be done in a way that respects the fact that blockchains are a different type of database and should be judged as such.

For example, because of the blockchain trilemma, increasing transaction speed isn't always a good thing since it could sacrifice decentralization.
> There’s a GPU-based solution to this, but it involves some compromises in quality.

There’s another GPU-based solution with RTX and other ray tracing solutions that is high quality. Might be compromising efficiency in some typical cases, unless a lot of geometry and/or instancing and/or samples are used, and then in that case it may be both an efficiency and quality win.
There are some indications that it doesn't significantly help.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
It's not a binary choice. You can gradually replace the admin at various levels of abstraction. The only risk is the same risk all programmers face - creating unmaintainable code. You can do that with or without the admin.

Use the admin more where it's most useful. Use it less where it's not. You don't have to go cold turkey.
All it is going to take is one big violent event organized using end-to-end encryption and that's it, this bill (or something like it) will pass. So you should probably prepare for that political battle if this is an issue you care about
> so it doesn't mean anything to have "ngrok.io" credentials any more than for "com" and WebAuthn won't allow that.

Nowhere in the spec did I see where ngrok.io should be excluded as a valid rp id, I looked pretty intently but could have missed something. Just like with localhost this was purely a way to cheaply get tls to simulate a more real implementation.

> I found it very easy to deploy WebAuthn securely, writing everything from scratch as a toy project to understand how it works

I’m glad you found it easy but judging by the fact that you implemented webauthn by yourself, your skill level is probably advanced. Furthermore, in my particular case I needed to support legacy u2f-api keys, which added to the complexity. The APIs are different, what they expect are different, and the third party libraries are different.
Yep, all the warts are totally forgotten the moment you have to use Powerpoint or Keynote again and have to coordinate with changes with multiple people.
Agreed, this was upsetting to read. Why is the author wasting their life in a field which they don't even see as a valid creative endeavor?
To the "turner diaries" guy, Revolt Against the Modern World and The Death of the West are supposedly better (regarding actual influence on right-wing thought), but you can't try to ban something if you don't know it exists.
I think a lot of us are no longer convinced traditional two-party partisanship is a useful lens through which to understand politics. Regardless of party, the politicians pushing this bill are overwhelmingly pro-surveillance state and pro-big government as well as being invested in perpetuating the two-party machine. Personally, I now see things more through a lens of those who perpetuate the two-party machine and big federal government on one side and those who are skeptical of both the eternally growing central government for it's own sake and the reduction of local and individual autonomy.

Neither big party really represents many of my viewpoints as much in recent years. Even when I do agree with one of them on something, I now suspect many of the inter-party battles are as staged as pro-wrestling where the eventual prevailing side was already predetermined by special interests, lobbyists and the party machines. It's weird how many votes on something I care about fail to survive committee or amendment by just one vote. And the politicians who voted "against" the thing in the 'losing' party, all happen to be in very 'safe' districts or not facing reelection soon and those facing reelection in 'unsafe' districts happen to be the ones who voted "for" it.

This happens far too often to statistically be random chance. I hate that this possibly makes me sound like a conspiracy nutjob but the math here says something's definitely going on behind the scenes.
That one post-war trade agreement largely came down to Armand Hammer, a petroleum magnate having favourable personal relationships towards the Soviet Union. Overall trade between the Soviet Union and the US never exceeded 1% of the American GDP during the 70s and 80s and the countries where effectively decoupled. Obviously they weren't in any relationship one could legitimately call 'most favored' (which is a purely diplomatic term) given that we call the period the cold war for a reason.

The relationship with China today is entirely different. The countries are extensively linked, with China being America's largest single trade partner outside of North America. 20% of American imports today come out of China alone.
> I don't believe political viewpoints fall into that category, but I'm willing to hear any good arguments that they should be.

If you don’t believe that political viewpoints should be a protected category then you are condoning private entities pressuring the public into certain political viewpoints. If I cannot use Spotify unless I agree with their politics then that will strongly influence me to agree with their politics to the extent that their product has utility in my life, which may be to a significant degree. This may be in a situation where my politics wouldn’t ordinarily align with Spotify’s if I were left to my own critical thinking.

I believe we should generally limit the amount of influence private companies have on the political viewpoints of the population. Especially when these private companies can be very powerful corporations controlled by a relatively small amount of people. Especially in a democracy.
Certainly some journalists don't understand basic statistics, but counter to your insinuation, I'd guess the author of this piece does. Among other degrees, she has a Masters of Science in Biochemistry from UW-Madison: https://www.nytimes.com/by/apoorva-mandavilli. Rather than lowering the standards and expectations for science journalists, I think we should raise them, and applaud the people like this who (likely) do understand what they are writing about.
as best I can tell, those are valid guesses for the getting started version of those generic wordle games, but are not valid syscalls; for example, fstat and mkdir are not found in that file

I would guess the valid guesses are loading https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html and then

[].map.call($$('a[href*="man2"]'), it => it.innerText).map(it => it.replace("(2)", "")).filter(it => it.length===5)

or similar

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or, as someone pointed out in another post in this wordle trend: just look in the source view-source:https://nezza.github.io/syscordle/static/js/main.97b9266c.js

It's weird that syscordle doesn't show up in nezza's repo list; I didn't know that was possible with GitHub Pages
It is a missing piece, but there are a few alternatives out there. Examples are Raw Therapee, Darktable, Capture One, and Luminar. I cannot give a recommendation on quality, but do have the first two installed alongside Affinity Photo for occasional use.
> It makes no sense to me how bitcoin is still number one cryptocurrency despite it's garbage fundamentals. Failed at everything it was supposed to do.

It doesn't matter that bitcoin failed in everything it set out to do (and more) because people don't "hodl" bitcoin for the things bitcoin set out to solve. They do so because the want to go "to the moon". If your only interest in crypto is speculative investment, then you aren't interested in the fact that bitcoin is broken beyond belief: The important thing is the market-recognition since that maximises the chance for high demand, which induces hyper-deflation, which sends you to the moon.

Nobody, or very few people, care about crypto for any of its features and the people that tell you they do probably "hodl" substantial amounts of crypto and hope to drag you into the pump.

There's not a single problem crypto solves without inducing a new party with equal amounts of leverage (i.e. you don't need VISA, but you do need exchanges) because at the end of the day, crypto is built to change the people that control the money rather than remove control structures entirely because that's impossible: there are always going to be people that facilitate the interaction of the blockchain with the real world and these interpreters/resolvers are the powers in crypto.

However, that doesn't matter: nobody buys crypto the currency, they buy crypto the investment and from that POV bitcoin is still the non-plus-ultra in speculative hyper-deflations.
But unless you're doing a computation without I/O (i.e. no reading back the results, no providing inputs), you need coupling into the rest of the universe, and typically into a low-entropy part of the universe like the Earth, where you have entities that care about the computation. So, I am not convinced having a deeply isolated part of the universe is the answer; in fact, the isolation vs. signal quality tradeoff makes it sound more and more like a fundamental limitation of practical concern.
Good point, generally. However, it depends on the list or the tactic that's used. Blacklisting an ISP's ASN or entire network range because the blacklist creator set an arbitrary threshold of acceptable number of spam activity from 1 or more IPs. I'm really not sure about the legal aspects here, but there are so many practices that blatantly approach extortion. And it's skillfully done in the name of "online etiquette" or a "safe internet".

Obviously, legitimate use-cases exist for such services, provided that they are operated by faithful people/entities with some level of credibility.
Basically every professional cryptographer has been saying that it's impossible to build a secure system this way since the idea was floated by the US government in the 1990s.
I got caught in this a while ago and got out because I got mad at the service rep and said it was unfair. This was like 2 year ago now though.
Ask HN: How do you make tough decisions?
I am running a startup after years of waiting for the 'best idea'.
I realised, if I had started somewhere instead of waiting for 'the one idea', I would still have learned a lot and that would have been financially better too (by getting better jobs with that experience etc)
So, now I started this startup, which I know makes money, and I know I can run it. Problem is that, this business is not scalable. The reason I did this because I thought, 'this will not retire me, but it will take me from A to B, ie make a million or two' (hopefully).
I am very confused over past few months, that we haven't made any progress in our startup due to not having any direction.
I have another idea, that is scalable, but Uber like margins, not SAAS margins.
I think answer to my problem would be straightforward to you, but I am too blinded.

How would you make a decision in this case?
It should be proof enough I feel it necessary to make a throwaway to even comment on this because it's so easy to get marked "anti-science" for being a skeptic.

This article (typical of NY Times, honestly) is editorialized. There are so many questions to ask:

> Booster doses cut the risk of infection in vaccinated people by about half across all age groups. The gap between unvaccinated and vaccinated groups was much greater. The numbers most likely reflect only symptomatic cases, and may be different for asymptomatic infections, Dr. Barouch noted.

To this day I have not seen a single study that controls for the obvious confounders. In particular, people who get vaccinated are likely "safer" in general. They most likely work out more, they most likely care about their health, they most like wear masks, and most likely listen to their doctor unquestioningly. ALL of these are confounders that MUST be controlled for in order for any study on booster efficacy to meet the bar of actual science, and not this pseudo-scientific idol worship we have right now.

> Some people have worried about persistent symptoms even after a mild bout of Covid. But a recent study suggested that the risk of so-called long Covid is highest among people with one of four predisposing factors, including Type 2 diabetes and the presence of autoantibodies.

Weird, just recently we were hearing long covid is unavoidable even with vaccination in some cases. This was never mentioned. Yet another ultra low quality "studies say" post written by a non-scientist.

> In those age groups, vaccination itself — two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — decreased the risk of hospitalization and death so sharply that a booster shot did not seem to add much benefit.

Indeed, despite my area being pretty well boosted we still had a massive peak in cases. Without a doubt the "journalists" spun it as a catastrophe that is the unvaccinated's fault. Well, if 80% of my location is vaccinated, do you think a positive rate of 38% can only be because the unvaccinated? I suppose if you listen to MSM like NY Times and the mouthpieces at the CDC you'd probably believe so.

This calls into question the vaccine effectiveness in general. Which have the same problem, confounders are everywhere and no one is controlling for them. It's far easier to sell fear than science, because science takes time.

One day we'll get actual information. Until then we're stuck with these faux-journalistic pieces that are just cleverly dressed up op-eds with reddit-tier "studies say" bait.
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