skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can try an MX forwarding service like https://improvmx.com I use it when i left gsuite.

it lets you forward the emails to any free or paid service. I have my domain pointing to a @gmail.com account while my mom has hers pointing to @outlook.com.

if you pay $9 (total) you get SMTP servers and more domains, etc. (though the free tier is plenty generous already.

look into it. it's a great service. let's you move your domains at the user level fairly easily.
I switched to migadu. Works great and would recommend. Prior to this I used proton mail but found it cost prohibitive got two users with two domains. Hopefully their solution involves me keeping my play store purchases because that is the only reasonable I care about my Google account.
Did consulting work for a place that gave their execs bonuses based on story-point velocity... jesus.
can you give me a good project management software to use? alternative to Trello.
Yes. You should routinely generate and pull down a backup. We do it once a month.
Just as slow?

I’ve been using Jira for almost a decade now. Pretty sure it gets slower and slower.
True. The way I see it, until the industry comes up with an open standard for CI/CD configuration, we’re going to have to conform to each provider’s implementation.
Some thoughts here: https://www.devprojournal.com/technology-trends/cloud/are-cl...
To be clear, I'm not arguing that Notepad++ or NotepadNext isn't superior to Notepad. I'm simply pointing out that the original Notepad had useful properties that have been lost. I didn't think that would be controversial.
We use Linear, too, and it’s pretty great. Let me put it this way: literally everyone on the engineering team was happy when we moved to it.
I've never seen a downtime like this, and I've never seen a company like this.
Upon reflection, I acknowledge this comment was too far, and I apologize for making it.
Filters make no sense? You craft the filters, so if that makes no sense it’s because you didn’t craft the right thing.

What flow? It’s a task management software, not a traffic system. I don’t want it manipulating the flow of anything. It provides swimlanes and that’s more than enough for me. I can move any task anywhere at any time which is exactly what I want out of a software — for it to get out of the way.
Isn't a common complaint with Tesla now their build quality?
I had the same experience when I was a TA a long time ago. Reviewing the code to a homework set I noticed that two students mixed up the naming of two variables (I think min/max were switched).

I ran a whitespace sensitive diff and noticed the only difference between the two files was the author name in the header.

The professor sent a sternly worded letter to the class about not cheating, and nothing else came from it AFAIK.
Same with the Chrono Cross remaster this weekend: I'm already inundated with content farms spewing (bad) rehashes of tutorials from 20 years ago. We've come a long way from text-only 200-page gameFAQ .txt tutorials to more-ads-on-the-page-than-text listicles that split paragraphs of content over a slideshow of multiple pages in order to run even more ads.
In the recent past I’ve concluded that I consider being in the top results of Google Search to be an indicator of a poor quality website.
Maybe only in Europe, where it usually spans over 2-3 year. With my understanding, I would avoid it in North America.
I remember that time a few years back when Bitbucket was down for days after they somehow dropped their entire storage layer. We never received a postmortem of any kind.
> ...so why does betting on a Heads not make sense when you've been seeing too many Tails?

It doesn't make sense because the events are independent. It's not a better or worse bet to pick one or the other. It doesn't make sense to think one is more than 50% likely because of a series of other independent events when you know the odds a priori.
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are you GPT3 ?
The concept confusion is the one annoying thing about it. Too many nouns and no rigorous definitions of them. I’ve never encountered page load times, maybe we just have fewer tickets at my job.
> which is closer to the ethos of HN

HN has an ethos? I thought there were just a set of guidelines.
It depends what you mean by “existence”. Mathematical triangles are ideal conceptions that exist only in our minds.
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Confluence supported Markdown (or was it HTML? It’s been a long time.). We wrote a lot of automation that would pull comments out of code, format them that way, and load them into Confluence. Voila! Documentation that’s always synced with production code.

And then a point upgrade removed that support in favor of their own rich text format, so in an instant all our tooling died. We were not happy campers.

I have other thoughts about Jira: https://honeypot.net/post/jira-is-a-code-smell/
Not to mention that PhD students would mostly be self-learning anyway.
Mugen was so much fun to play, my friend’s brother had the Dragon Ball Z bundled with it. Spent many hours playing it with my friend, it was very easy to import new characters for hours of fun.
Pay for Workspace, your spam won't be flagged as spam (by Google) and you get raised sending limits. Limits are based on licenses, so the more you pay Google, the more you can spam, with a max of 4.6M unique addresses per 24H.

If you send spam through Google, they will send your administrator an e-mail telling them that they are sending spam. If you send "a large volume" of this spam, they will stop relaying it until you promise not to send spam (or follow their guide to make your spam not look like spam).
I switched to Zoho mail and it works fine for sending/receiving email, but compared to Gmail their clients feel like 1999. The search is terrible (you can't search Archived email) and tags only seem to exist in webmail and are not shown in the main inbox view.
> With academia the dynamics are completely different because now "work" and "workplace" occupy the same space, as in they are equally important, with "work" might be even more important than the "workplace". So you get into a situation where you hate the "workplace", but unlike the traditional workplace, you can't simply up and leave because your "work" is far too important, and continuing your "work" at another "workplace" is from everything I read about academia, difficult to say the least.

I think this is a key piece to what makes grad school feel so exploitive. It's almost impossible to switch advisors, let alone universities. This results in a power imbalance that basically doesn't exist anywhere else in the modern, liberal world. If you do switch, it's almost certain to come with a hefty setback in terms of time.

A lot of this could be solved by standardizing the PhD. Passing prelims at school A should mean you don't have to retake prelims if you switch to school B. The fact that you do means you're the victim of a pissing match between universities.

The requirement to make novel contribution to the field is crying out for standardization. How novel? How big? Nobody can tell you. I remember asking my advisor what exactly this meant. Her best answer was just "Ehhh, basically it depends on your committee."

This is absurd. It would be trivial to standardize this. Do away with the committee and the thesis. Put down a number. You publish N journal papers, you get a PhD. But we won't do this because it's this ambiguity they use to exploit grad students further. Everybody ends up doing more work than necessary just to be sure they pass their defense. Fuck academia.
>Consider what influence they are trying to sell with data like this.

Well? What is it? Getting the government to legislate shorter return windows? Retailers can already declare "final sale" if they wanted to.
They've paid many tens+ of thousands of dollars for graduate school... they likely place some value on graduating!
I always learned/used the CLRS definition, despite having never read that book.
> I am not clear or see the obvious problem this would solve?

Web3-type projects in a nutshel
Budibase looked perfect until I learned there is no option for hosting locally. Doesn't make sense.
Mountain View has a lot of residential housing near Castro street so I can see how it might be different than Palo Alto. But let's be honest. if you live within a half-mile of Downtown Mountain View , you are probably earning in the top 0.1 percentile of income in the world.

The houses that are close enough to town centers to live that way are highly prized and unaffordable to almost everyone. By removing the possibility of driving to a town center like Mountain View or Palo Alto, you are actually disadvantaging people who can't afford to live close enough to casually bike to Whole Foods on a Sunday morning.

Look, this is a complicated issue. It's hard to get there from here because a lot of things have to change at once; there's a chicken and egg effect here. I can imagine a different Palo Alto or Mountain View, but I can't imagine how neighborhoods could change without drastic social upheaval. And if I have to handicap the NIMBY power of well-to-do homeowners to keep your plans from taking effect, I'm going to bet on them. Not because they're better, but because they're likely to win.
I don’t believe something like Dall-E 2 would make a visual artist’s job worthless.

Some of the cherry-picked examples were impressive, but the others, not so much. The output lacks the deliberation & thought that an artist’s work would exhibit given the same prompt.

Not to mention that most of the results are not not completely cohesive (e.g. a rabbit missing an ear) so not sure about their usability.
All of 'em. All of them will be safe. AI generated content is devoid of meaning and randomly generating some pictures isn't indicative of anything to me. Human works of creativity are so much more than randomly generating things from prompts - and don't forget you're not seeing ALL of the pics that have been generated, but some of them.

As people start to generate crap at tremendous volume with AI, more value and emphasis will be placed on creative works made by humans. I very well could be wrong, but either way it's not happening anytime soon.

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Games like go and chess are different, of course computers are better for calculating and optimizing moves and branching paths - no creativity is needed. This portion is completely irrelevant to the discussion of computers trying to generate art.
+1: we use them too and they have a reasonably flexible product in terms of labelling and project definitions. The only notable complaint I have is that the search doesn't support negative filters.
And here, “stupid expensive” means $42K/yr: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing?tab=data-cen...

Yeah, no.
I’ve been super curious about how modern SMTP handles encryption - my understanding is SMTPS was dropped in favour of STARTTLS, with a HSTS-like directive hosted in DNS.

Does the latter actually happen? Do smtp clients actively check this? What’s to stop some middleware performing a tls downgrade?
What was the unexpected things ?
Mind sharing the details about network engineering replaced by ?
Most forecasting doesn't really work, as in, most falls between "not useful for predicting the future" and "outright wrong." You could get your forecasts for free or you could pay millions of dollars, pretty much same result. Not an Excel thing in any way.
> why does betting on a Heads not make sense when you've been seeing too many Tails?

How do you know how many Heads and Tails the coin has flipped in its lifetime? Maybe its previous owner flipped a bunch of Heads. Maybe it flipped some Heads while it was jangling in your pocket. And if you don’t know, how the hell do you expect the coin to know?!
The implication in the comment I was replying to was that if people see the value in something, they will voluntarily contribute to its maintenance.

The fact that many workers would not pay optional dues does not prove that the workers don't see value in the union.

Obviously the purported value of a union is in the ability to collectively bargain on behalf of its members (and to provide tangible support for workers participating in strikes or who are pursuing legal action against an employer). Unions may do this or not, but the argument that gp made is not a good one.
The XML backup that is available in the Server and Datacenter editions was not meant to be used for anything other than toy instances. The documentation suggested that you restore from database backups and copies of the home directory that contained all the attachments.

Whenever possible, I've always used SQL backups (MariaDB or PostgreSQL) to clone or restore JIRA instances. The database information will accept changes in the base URL without issues. It makes setting up testing and mimic environments pretty easy.

When I recently had to move a project to a new instance that I didn't have jira-administrator access to, I had to provide the server admins a set of CSV exports of our JIRA project so that it could be imported over properly. All of the tasks subtasks, and linking had to be provided in separate CSV files because JIRA would fail to export more than 20000 entries in a single file.

It took weeks worth dry runs and checkouts to make sure it would be successful. This was because we had to give this other team a long list of custom fields, workflows, and schemes that represented our software development and program management methodologies.

On the transition date, I was out of the office on a prearranged cancer treatment. I still got texts from people freaking out while I was sitting in the cancer ward getting my infusion. I told them that I couldn't even look it anything until I got back in the office after my treatment and recovery period. Thankfully, they managed to limp along get 80% of the issues resolved within 2-3 days.
You didn't take into account the heat death of the universe.
Try checking the "buy" URL.
Have you heard of this car company called Porsche? I think they have some of the answers you're looking for.
I think I would just use Tor onion services for this.
Pugs. An army of sleepy puggies.
This is sorely needed in Australia. Uni quality is incredibly poor and no one is held accountable.
Similar how truecar pisses off the dealers and had to stop offering useful info that lowered prices
> Empirically the coin should should converge to 50% of the flips reading Heads,

The catch is: only for an infinite number of throws and monotonicity is not guaranteed.
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I'm not sure such a complex system of content moderation & process could so easily be federated; I'd love to see a federated system equivalent to Wikipedia out there or one that has successfully transitioned governance like that. Email spam, by comparison, is far far less nuanced. Regardless, it'd be a new effort and wouldn't just work or be trusted year one. It'd need to be tested and refined over years and years, like Wikipedia has.

I could see several nonprofits and news brands along with Wikipedia shift to becoming a set of sources of truth for different & likely overlapping topics. That shift could happen gradually, as part of a mix of monetization incentive changes and more explicit 'here's how you participate' coersion (medium is message stuff; see FB's pivot to video, or youtube algo changing how content creators create). The generated result that Google spits out could reference those and note them as inputs, including noting where they disagree or choose to include or exclude certain context.

I still don't see how these ideas get funded without Google directly funding them, where algorithm transparency comes in play, etc.
This reminds me of the intelligence services certified for top secret information version of a FIFO queue: the FINO queue. N of course stands for …
Reminds of C14, which stores data in a nuclear fallout shelter, and takes a few minutes to retrieve. https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/
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> Empirically the coin should should converge to 50% of the flips reading Heads, so why does betting on a Heads not make sense when you've been seeing too many Tails?

If you knew, a priori, that 75% of the next 4 flips will land on H, and you've seen THH, you are justified in guessing H. In this scenario, H was actually due.

I think it's clear that real coins make no such promises.
I think there’s a clear reason why the author’s kitchen has a lived-in, personalized feel while the real estate listing does not, and it’s not particularly philosophical.

The author’s kitchen was designed by the author, who knows exactly what he likes, exactly what would make his kitchen reflect his authentic, messy self. The same is true of the pastoral kitchen scene, regardless of what one thinks of it aesthetically—it was designed by and for its own inhabitants and their unique quirks.

The real-estate property was designed without knowing who would inhabit it, or what their tastes and preferences would be. There are thousands of potential owners, and the important thing if you want to sell a property is to alienate as few of them as possible. Thus, homes that are designed without one buyer in mind tend to feature middle-of-the-road aesthetics that as many people as possible will find acceptable, even if none of them feel like it’s their perfect kitchen with all the little touches that make them their own unique selves.

The majority of people can tolerate a clean space, but we are each messy in our own unique way. Someone else’s messiness might be intolerable to me, and mine to them. I’m not sure how to scale the kind of design that feels messy and human, since most people have neither the time to build their own living space from scratch nor the resources to hire someone to create a bespoke space just for them.
It can be good if configured well, but it’s almost impossible to configure well. I don’t even know how to describe it, it’s so difficult to change settings to make things better and not worse. One can make different issue types, and each issue type has fields and workflows, and you can make different screens to deal with all of those things. It’s just so easy to add complexity and so difficult to remove it. Addons often add all these things, and trying 3 addons for 1 hour just to compare them can really mess things up if you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s even quite difficult if not impossible to do this in a completely isolated test environment. And of course you’ve often got people adding complexity on purpose.

Once complexity is added, it’s basically impossible to to reduce it, even by starting a new project with new screens, etc. Because at minimum your issue types will all be infected with complexity. The most competent managers I have seen try JIRA for 2-3 weeks max and then switch to a spreadsheet.
Considering that the current deepest borehole in the world is 12km [1], 20km is a lofty goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
Where are you able to see Russian propaganda? I thought all effective channels were blocked?
Yes! Shakespeare too! "TDLR: They both die". So much better ! /s
We probably crossed paths back then - I had made a few characters myself and collated a few packs of neo-geo characters that weren’t in KOF. Even ran a community website briefly.

It was also for me about the same time I was getting into development in a big way.

I miss those days of the web. Looking back on it now, I expect a lot of people that were around before the September that never ended were saying the same of the rest of us in 98/99, but those to me really were the glory days.

I’m relieved that Reddit still exists, as it’s about the closest thing to a collection of those early niche communities that we have left.
It’s unbelievable how bad/slow this country is at building rapid transit.
This is short sided. AI is at the point An average dude who, say isn't good at drawing or painting can use AI that draws or paints for him. Sure a good chunk of the produced images/art will be garbage but good examples can always be cherry picked.
Or more likely, use it and hope for the best...
I had gotten that, I could've sworn I added a caveat about "unless you know that the student you're referring to was like that" but looks like I did not.
Do you truly believe he was suggesting 33/33/33/1 as an accurate rule? I think he was just suggesting that X% of people like you, X% are ambivalent, and X% dislike you, so you have to know this to properly understand feedback. Some people will be like your grandmother and always have a kind, positive word, some will basically not care, and some will try to hurt you regardless of how good your idea actually is. For example, they might totally miss the point of a blog post you make, and nitpick you on the precision of the numbers you used despite that precision being irrelevant to the point you are making.
The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen
It won't be all that hot, so I don't really think the floppies are in any risk of melting because of it. Probably nothing to worry about.
Your agent had no incentive to do a good job she already got paid before you showed up.
Do integers exist? Do sequences of integers exist? If they do, so do the real numbers.

This is because any positive real number has a decimal expansion which determines it. For example pi = 3.1415926535... or 1/3 = 0.3333333...
Same in San Francisco. My old landlord never rented out my old place when I left (3 unit building). She was getting close to retirement and had gotten advice that the building would fetch 2-3x if fully unoccupied. So she was just waiting since giving up $40,000/yr in rent for a $500,000 higher pay off is an easy trade off.

People forget that you can always “price in” regulatory changes. Then you just see which path maximizes profit. What may seem ridiculous (leaving a unit empty) actually makes a lot of sense based on the rules.
I have worked at a big famous tech company where you had to have approval for every dependency. It was slow to get a new library reviewed, but usually the popular ones were already on the list. I think this process actually scales reasonably well because the more engineers you have, the more likely it is someone else has been there before.
The HN ethos has one rule: Each level of comments shall disagree with the level before it, with the article counting as level 0.

First-tier comments shall disagree with the article. Second-tier comments shall disagree with first-tier comments and agree with the article if necessary (but only when necessary). Third-tier comments shall disagree with second-tier comments and may or may not be related to the article, and so on.
Monospaced fonts are not nice for prose.
>Middle managers just have a higher probability of being ineffective due to lack of experience/resources,

Actually, I think it's because they're more difficult to discover; Determining whether a middle manager's performance is good or not is a far less trivial task than determining whether a technical employee is producing value.

Middle managers are adequate by default. Individual contributors are not. If a middle manager does not obviously cause damage or liability, they are generally assumed to be "working". If they do not appear to be exceptional or effective, it's assumed that their role has not presented any chances to excel. They are protected partially by the empathy that other managers have for their position. Managers are rarely fired simply for not producing results, which is very much not the case for individual contributors.

The difficulty of weeding out ineffective middle managers means they will be present as a higher percentage of total manager head count than e.g. ineffective line managers.
This.

I was going to say the same:

> walk around the neighborhood you're thinking of renting in...call them...

It works far better in Belltown (Seattle) than the free "apartment shopper weekly" printed ones (which have glossy pictures and outrageous prices).

Your entire post is spot-on.
Thank You.