skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how the comments here are polarized, some of them claiming that Jepsen slaughtered RDX, others that it proved that the consensus layer is rock solid.

Let's appreciate this for what it is. Blockchains are, at their heart, a type of database (or at the very least a ledger which can be the foundation on which some subset of database semantics can be layered). Performance and reliability are empirical claims which can be tested empirically, using the kind of methodology that Jepsen has been innovating for many years. It is very much to the credit of RDX Works that they subjected their product to this type of testing. I'm not saying anything about the way the use the test results in their blog post and marketing materials, though.

What I'd like to see going forward is that it's routine for blockchain-based databases to be tested the same way as real databases, based on actual shipping product rather than speculative goals. Whether you think this would be validating or devastating reveals quite a bit about your preconceptions, but either way would be a win for truth and progress.
The fair share would be 80% to the one who builds the product, 10% to the PM, and 10% to the sales and marketing guy.
You raise an interesting point. Who will end up controlling the self-driving truck fleets, and what will the laws end up saying about how those fleets can be used?
You're wrong to attribute our position to ignorance. Scanning local files on my computer is not sensible. I understood exactly how it worked and found it unacceptable.

They'll never give you E2EE no matter how much privacy you cede. I'd be surprised if they're even allowed to - no doubt they're being threatened with punitive legislation if they do.
file dropping doesn't seem to work under linux/chrome
I found imposter syndrome went away when I realised everyone else was an imposter too.
Not sure why this is Marked dead. Seems like a perfect question for this forum. I too would like to know the answer.
I know Jira is difficult to get rid of once it is entrenched, but I’ve found Shortcut to be a great alternative.

https://shortcut.com
>/24 netblock on the second offense.

That seems excessive and abusive, I am not aware of any commercial ISP that is giving out /24 anymore. /29 is most common, I had to practically beg to get a /28 so what is the justification for banning an /24???
If you use Apple products don't forget to turn off location services. These actually temporary disable WiFi and start scanning networks in order to figure out the location. Pretty terrible for cloud gaming.
Those unsubscribe links should be there, for several reasons.

- The service-based economy means that entities (individuals and businesses) have numerous relationships. For the typical individual the number of password-based accounts crossed the 100 threshold years ago, at a doubling rate of every 2--3 years.

- Responsibilities can be transferred. The person who signed up for your service 5 years ago may no longer be at the company.

- List purging is a Real Thing. A few years back I'd worked for an organisation that had ... numerous relationships ... with individuals and corporations. These received regular email messages. Nominally, requested. Included amongst these was a major Wall Street financial firm whose implosion years earlier hit lead news and headlines worldwide. Despite not existing for years, there remained hundreds if not thousands of addresses being sent email on a regular ongoing basis.

- Mail can be forwarded. It's quite possible that you're sending mail to one address that is is being forwarded, manually or automatically, to others. This raises issues in unsubscribe requests, but might at the least be an opportunity to reach out to your customer to clarify the situation.

- I don't know if revisiting email contact approval on a regular basis (say once every year or two) is yet a recommended practice, but I'd strongly suggest that it be so.

Your hat may be less blisteringly white than you presume.
I can’t understand this dichotomy. Just because one is vaccinated, does not mean they are pro-mandates.
Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus
The signs have been on the wall all the time, but there never have been any large credible studies or trials to prove this, while everyone (and all the money) was focussed on the vaccines and only the vaccines.

Encouraging testing and supplementation of vitamin D in an early phase on top of getting vaccinated could have potentially saved many lifes. Especially for those who cannot be vaccinated.

Instead every time that someone suggested vitamin D for Covid, the media did their best to discredit that as potential misinformation, because not engough data and enough vitamin through healthy diet and outside activity. So instead of encouraging people to optimize their vitamin D, they even discouraged vitamin D, even when it has been known for years that there is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency.

Similarly there is an epidemic of magnesium deficiency, but not as severe as the low vitamin D epidemic.
Not to scare you but a lot of heavy metals and toxic compounds just get squirreled away by the body in some fat or in the liver, appendix, or lymph nodes.
> Unfortunately you cannot simply HODL IPv4 because authorities can come over and take you blocks back if they are not used.

Define "not used". I know several LIRs that have in excess of /20s allocated to them, and do not advertise their ranges to the (Internet) DFZ, but instead use them on private interlinks between themselves and other third parties.

The only requirement to be given address space by an RIR is a requirement for global uniqueness.

Just because you don't see it on the Internet (or any other network you use), doesn't mean it's not in use.

IPv4 is knocking on death's door, and the value will drop once the DoD gives (6 years) notice that they've migrated all their services to IPv6, thus making 10? /8s available for sale and:

1. flooding the market

2. proving that there's nothing left holding back to run an ipv6-only network, resulting in wide scale migrations for networks that haven't migrated yet.
That’s a weird way of describing the Hatch Act. What is the point of political office if not to effect political change? That’s their whole rationale.

The Hatch Act is primarily about using political office for campaigning for political office, with the president and Vice President notably excepted.
>Do you really expect to get any portion of your money back if you cancel?

Yes I do. I stop using their app and service so I expect to stop paying for their app and service. I have cancelled several annual subscriptions from other vendors and they all refunded the prorated balance. Sometimes there was a small cancellation fee, but in all cases I received the vast majority of the balance.

Your analogy is flawed. In your example, I still have the thing so of course I have to fully pay for it. In the software case, the company can turn off the license and I no longer have it available to me. Refusing to turn it off is just bad customer relations policy. When you do rude crap like that you get (deservedly) written up on HN and other sites. Plus, you eliminate the possibility of a future customer relationship. It is just ugly and stupid on their part.
The number of deleted episodes is now up to 113.
I’m sorry it’s made things hard.
Glancing through the project ideas.

The market the author is trying to target in each of their ideas is hard to monetize without sales engineering.

Selling OS and programming language is impossible today and was hard back then without significant moat into a niche field. Think of wolfram alpha.

I suspect timing may have been an issue for Author's e-commerce idea. The craze for drop shipping and operating your own store is recent. You need logistics, manufacturing, etc on demand services to make it possible. Similar situation on payment, tax, etc side. It became much easier and hit mainstream somewhere around 2010.

The primary target for assessment tool is in edu or enterprise. Both of which are hard to get in without competent sales.

Dating and job board do not mix well. Monetizing any dating style app is hard without being a little unethical.

E2E email service is not big of a sell given the protocol doesn't support it and most people will use unsupported mail service. It is not the primary reason people use protonmail or fastmail, may have been a positioning problem.
If you don't think he's aware that his show causes outrage in some form or another, and that he intentionally leans into that aspect in order to keep his profile high and the money flowing, akin to a shock jock, then I dunno what to tell you.
Huh, it's rare that I started reading this message in disagreement, and while finishing it I ended up saying to myself "Yeah, maybe they were on to something, could be."
Thanks, I guess.
Good points, but why is it 15 years for 0.1%?
There are very good reasons why your I'd is your phone number
The reason parent poster can’t replace Jira isn’t that there aren’t alternatives, but because a large part of the corporate world has decided that Jira is the best issue tracker because it has the most bells and whistles; it supports the SCRUM / Kanban / whatnot style workflows.

Also, it is not that great.
Photopea is also a great ‘alternative’. Free, online, and written by one guy. Quite amazing feat.
https://www.photopea.com/
We just migrated to Fastmail.
Huh. What do you specifically not like about it? I personally think it's one of the good ones: it's simple, it works and the developers are careful about feature bloat. It sucks less than anything managed by their parent company.
Does paying them make you safe from their algorithms blocking your access at any point with no appeal? If yes it's probably the right answer, if no go with a company that is not primarily dealing with free users and has real customer service.
I don’t buy that the neo-liberals sold-out the rust belt: This was a slow death march over decades and across party lines.

After all, slave labor is cheap and lets the wealthy pool wealth, while feeling good about pouring money and industry into third-world countries. Best of all, it left the purchasing power of the middle class intact.

For a time.

I do agree though, that the liberals turned a blind eye when things were becoming unsustainable in the rust belt (fly-over country).
"I usually put all my code in one file "

Stopped reading after that, are you insane?
Domain Name: MXROUTE.COM

Creation Date: 2013-10-14T22:37:59Z

In 2019, MXroute became an official legal entity in the state of Texas, MXroute LLC. MXroute remains a family business managed by Jarland and Christine Donnell.
That is not what Jepsen demonstrates. Instead it shows systems making claims that are not supported by their implementation and/or algorithms. If you want to take on your claim/suggestion then those systems just have to stop making the claims he is testing for.

PS: There is also another trend, that is System claiming they fixed the issues Jepsen finds, without submitting themselves again for analysis...but I digress now...
I admire your steadfast adherence to your principles, but as far as I'm personally concerned, there's no way it's a +EV play to be somewhat of a PITA to everyone else, on the basis of a position that would be percieved on the other end somewhat like "weird computer man yells at cellphone software".
The most apt description I have come across of perfectionism is that it stems from some unresolved trauma that led to a fear of not being accepted and resulting lack of confidence.
There’s a balance to be kept. It’s definitely not good when someone spends too much time on their own trying to get things just right. On the other hand a lot of modern agile trends seem to result in a lot of folks losing site of the big picture.

Sometimes a problem is hard and needs time to figure out. In a lot of cases adding too many people to the discussion can result in distractions and churn due to their individual priorities and limited understanding of the problem.

The best I’ve figured out here is to constantly ask for feedback from only the people who would be directly effected by the immediate task I’m working on. But that’s also deceptively hard to figure out sometimes.
“Don’t be evil” isn’t a normal company value. But Google isn’t a normal company (2021)
I was recently in a very similar situation to you and found that the $PATH of my git bash contained a network drive. Removing this for me made it still slow but useable.

This also made any programs I was running in it - like vim - useable too.
> HIPAA (one P, two As)

There's a weird thing going on where everyone pronounces it as if it were spelled "hippa", and then everyone believes it must be spelled that way because of how it's pronounced.

It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone to pronounce it in a way that's compatible with the spelling.
They are not excepted. They must abide by restrictions on the use of government resources during their political activities.

https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/1007/100797.us.us.2.html
Non-cloud Jira as a workflow manager is pretty good. It’s intuitive, powerful, quite fast (again, on-premises version only). But my current company uses the cloud version as an agile project management tool, and it’s awful just because it is soooo slow. And they keep changing the UI, sometimes with good ideas, sometimes not, but because it is so slow nobody wants to use it to update their progress. For example I update my times once a month because it’s an awful experience, and just use a spreadsheet the rest of the time.
Do you have some kind of source that gave you this misinformed idea you keep repeating? Neither Britannica, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com or any other obvious source remotely supports what you are claiming.

Are you confusing Libertarians with Liberalism?
I’ve been considering this, but how good is the spam filtering included with this plan? Do people often end up bolting on 3rd-party spam filters in front of Business Essentials?
When you have several groups of people who distrust and dislike each other, and you start using your business as a means to support the fight of one group against the other, you only increase the enmity between the groups and harm all businesses by starting a process that forces everyone to choose which group to support.

It does not matter whether the reason for initial distrust is religion, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or political beliefs. You should not start such "economic war" unless your goal is complete elimination of the other group, which, i think, is a rather stupid goal to have.
Every website with cookie tracking. Which is every website.

Anything electron: massive hog of resources and will never be rewritten on a nonbloated platform.

Every single package manager and scheme still seems fundamentally broken and are bad compromises. But there's no money in fixing it so it will always be broken. I salute people doing the thankless work of packaging OSS and language libraries. You are fighting the good fight, even if it is a losing war.

Any and all OTP (time suck, blocks automation, debatable gain over "good passwords").

IDEs (every IDE becomes an intense love/hate relationship... Intellij is dragging to a halt on a couple "medium sized" projects... but what would I replace it with? Eclipse hahahahahaha?)

Javascript: still an awful language, even with a ton of improvements and typed options. May webassembly kill it, although webassembly is probably another google trojan horse to control the web.

Java: should stop "improving" itself and just work on the JVM and migrating people to Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure.

G Suite (well, it's better than outlook, but spying and the sword of Damocles with getting locked out with no recourse)

Microsoft Windows (still have an iron grip on games, I hate everything else about it since Windows 7), although a glimmer of hope is that it does eventually have a real unix core.

Bash: the number of stackoverflow searches per line of code whenever I have to write bash is like 5:1, as in five stackoverflow searches per line of code written. But what options do you have? Perl is dying, fish/zsh isn't ubiquitous, etc.

Installing any software written in python will probably fail, or worse, break all my other python apps. Example: AwsCli

AwsCli: again, stackoverflow searches to line of code/command ratio is terrible. options aren't well documented, responses aren't documented or well-exampled, error codes change between releases (seriously, HOW MANY DIFFERENT error messages can expired credentials result in?)

Aws: please someone start beating these people. Oh, the options are google and microsoft. Oh well.

OH! The AWS CONSOLE: What a piece of shit. How much money does AWS make every minute? Basically enough to actually fund a team for this? This is for ec2/secgrps/r53 aka the bread and butter. And they DID rewrite it, and managed to make it FAR WORSE. Performance is awful. Screens refresh and move items as you try to click on things. Do I have a choice for adhoc stuff? Oh the cli? See above.
> The only thing I can see is the quiet hours do start a little early; 11pm is more common than 10pm.

If we lived there, my wife would appreciate 10pm vs. 11pm being quiet hours, as she's often in bed well before 11pm.
I'm a new fastmail customer. Fastmail doesn't control my domain how does this feature work?
Mandates will always be political.
At least they got their account banned after performing some action, I got mine blocked after 3 years of no use, it was just standing there without money or ads.
You’re underestimating how long the tunnel is, how many vehicles are waiting to go through, and how unwilling to follow rules people are. When I was waiting to drive through it last summer some guy decided he was tired of waiting and tried to drive around the line and into oncoming traffic. The railroad police had to chase after him and stop him before he shut the whole tunnel down.
How is self-hosted email these days? Are there web-based email clients with search, filters, and labels?
I spent a decent part of my adult life in Canada and I can’t believe what in God’s name is happening to that place.

Canada is experiencing a severe housing bubble at the backdrop of Chinese snow washing, wage stagnation is real and middle class is slowly getting wiped out. The only thing keeping the GDP at the level it is is high level of immigration which favours the wealthy in the name of a “point based immigration system”.
The ruling liberal party is genuinely out of touch and the PM knows nothing but virtue signaling. The conservatives are also facing a leadership crisis since they lack largely a coordination and single thread holding the party. NDP is a joke and virtually does nothing and the electoral system is almost broken thanks to this three party system (oh and then there is Bloc which I don’t even want to get started on). Trudeau was elected prime minister with less than 33% votes.
The whole COVID crisis was used by Trudeau to call a snap election and then they don’t seem to have a plan to embrace the endemic outlook. This whole vax mandates for truckers was such a distraction at the backdrop of inflation and struggling service sector. I keep thinking what are these people thinking? Any decent policy advisors would say now is not the time to do things out of spite against the people who are critical to supply chain.
> We were also informed that our normal, business communications with paying customers should have unsubscribe notices appended to them. Which is to say, you're a paying customer of a service and we send you some kind of alert or critical announcement ... and it should have an unsubscribe link.

You absolutely should. The amount of junk I get because someone else signed up for something and fat fingered their email address is ridiculous. "Mandatory communication" with a company I've never dealt with gets flagged as spam.
> They aren't against the vaccine, they are against the mandate!

It makes no sense, but the amount of people who conflate the two is shockingly high. I guess strawmans are easier to argue against than someone who holds nuanced views.

edit: one such example of someone who conflates the two https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30225017
"If the New Coke was available on the shelves to my local supermarket yesterday but is entirely unavailable today, it has been censored."

I would argue: "No - either the supermarket, or Coca-Cola decided it wasn't selling very well."

In case you're too young to remember New Coke -- and how its sudden removal was so traumatic for an entire generation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
To repeat the question that person asked: when does an organic movement to apply pressure become a "pressure group organic movement"?

When do their actions, in your eyes, cease to be ordinary "vote with your wallet" market interaction?
They can scan my encrypted backups all day, what do I care?
My opinion isn't even based on all the JRE stuff with Spotify recently, I just don't like Spotify anymore. I use it every day, but only because it's the best I have. The UI changes at least a bit every single quarter, and if I have a weak connection, but my songs are downloaded, I still can't access them. I have to disconnect from any network and then I can access my *downloaded* music. It's slow on my cheap, but recent Android phone, all for an app that plays music. On my old phone, it just stopped working. It was two years old. They finally added lyrics back, but about 4 or 5 years ago, they had lyrics and removed them, saying they'd be back soon, but didn't communicate anything about it. They soon removed the button that said it would be back soon.

So many artists I listen to don't have a legitimate way to purchase their music, so moving to completely owned music is difficult (this would be optimal for me). Even if I was able to make that move, finding new music would be a lot more difficult. I will say that Spotify is 100% responsible for the new music I find, which it does do a good job at.

The problem is that the Spotify alternatives are even worse than Spotify. I really do think it is the best I have, but god damn do I dislike a lot about it.
Wake up in the middle of the night, shake your head violently and turn to the other side. That probably will do it.
Have you considered self-hosting BitWarden?