skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he's saying you can't quarantine spam if you choose. What his complaint is, I send you an email, your mail server says it accepted it, the email is then just discarded entirely (not put in a spam folder).
Any reason for cancelling and hiding the first Kickstarter for what appears to be the same product from 2020? [1]

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loodio/loodio-bathroom-...
It's the same in Europe, but I don't know if they are extremely underpaid in the same way. Money could fix part of the problem.
> I think that the DoD hires folks with degrees from UoP

Most federal government jobs that require a degree only require one from an accredited university.

The quality of the degree is not relevant for any but the most sought after positions (e.g., certain state department jobs, federal judge clerkships, etc.).

I think some military folks and some GS folks who want to move up to higher jobs but are prevented by the degree requirement often go to places like WGU. Same holds for masters and doctorate degrees.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the white noise near the source mostly just affect the perception of sounds for the person in the toilet, and less so for the people outside?

Kind of like if you're doing the dishes and have the water running, people can hear you just fine, but you can't hear anything that's said to you.

I know in psychologists' offices they often have the white noise device in the waiting room for this reason.
I've also been hosting since before Gmail was a thing but have since set up new servers with new domains in disreputable subnets, and I haven't had any deliverability issues. If you configure things right (SPF, DKIM) you won't have problems.

This idea that self-hosted email is impossible is wildly overblown.
> From my perspective, Disney should not have had special corporate privileges in the first place, so it's fair game that those special privileges are targeted for any reason since they are not rights

Not being retaliated against government for political speech is, in the US, a right, whether or not the retaliation is via a thing that is itself or right.

This is super important, because most interactions with government are not things that are a matter of individual right outside the rights to not being singled out on an impermissible basis, so if you erase that last bit you enable widespread arbitrary government discrimination.

> I get why people are up in arms about it (the education bill), but it's really bizarre to see people defend special privileges afforded to a corporate giant

Basically no one is defending that, they are defending substantive due process rights, which are what prevent government from making all other rights moot by how they allocate costs and benefits that are not themselves otherwise matters of Constitutional right.
Interview with EdgeDB CEO: Yury Selivanov
Show HN: Simple proxy for a web socket endpoint
The healthcare system in the US clearly has nothing to do with free markets considering how unbelievably opaque and regulated everything is.
The law should apply equally to everyone. The sole purpose of the legal system isn't only to provide deterrence. Fairness and equal treatment under law are cornerstones of the legal system. Some discrepancies make sense (e.g. higher bail amount for someone with means as an incentive for them to show up to court), but this is a huge overreach IMO.

Also begs the question, do wealthy people speed more than non-wealthy people? Do they need a deterrence?

> The overall TA mortality rate was 26.6(95% CI 13.4, 39.8) per 100,000 person-years, which was almost three times higher in men than that for women (40.4 vs. 12.1 per 100,000person-years). Lower economic level was associated with increased incidence and mortality of TA.

Optimizing for deterrence maybe means charging poor men a larger ticket. You see how this way of thinking is wrong?

Also imagine having to disclose your entire financial status to some court because you got a speeding ticket? It's a gross violation of privacy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309632/
It’s fine education if you make it so. My direct experience is that I can attain the same knowledge (and then some) as I would at a traditional university I had to seek it actively however.

I think outside of the most elite schools this holds true no matter what. Most people just go through the course motions and that’s that, even engineering students
A travel nurse means you just have to work across town you dont have to travel out of state, out of country, or to middle of nowhere. And these people are bringing in 5k a week currently. None of them are leaving.
I'm not sure that means anything. Large companies do layoffs all the time, as it avoids risk of lawsuits. They often solicit managers to voluntarily include some of their people to be included in the layoffs (folks who might be PiPed, etc.) rather than going through a longer process.

It's a really blunt instrument that I don't agree with, but at all of these companies there are going to be people coasting, and layoffs are one way to sort of make people re-interview for their own jobs.

Source: Happened to my division at bigco, lots of people were RIF'ed, but then allowed to transfer to other teams, I and other teammates got offers from other groups only after we 'interviewed' with them.
Off topic, but where did the "underwater basketweaving" meme (in the traditional sense) come from? My dad used to say that all the time in reference to what he considered frivolous academic pursuits.
To add some more anecdata: I've been going to a local clinic by where I live (a very poor area) for a little while. Some time ago I had a full blood workup on intake and it turned out my liver enzymes were out of range by like 5% of the standard deviation. They were in range for what the NHS said was normal for someone in their 40s and I'm in my early 20s.

I took this seriously and made some changes. I went back for a follow up I had scheduled for 6 months later. I met with a different doctor this time and she looked at my charts, asked why I was here, I explained I fasted over night and wanted to take a liver function test and I needed her to order one. She argued that "It's fine, you're not even that over the maximum!" and "Do you feel pain? If not you're fine."

From my research there are both completely false statements when it comes to increase in this enzyme at my age range. Everyone said that if they see an increase in 6 months that's a sign of a larger issue and it's worth getting the test since your insurance would cover it (which mine did) just to be safe. After telling her I wasn't leaving until she ordered the test she opened her laptop to enter it into the EMR. I saw her open Google, copy "Hepatic" from "Hepatic Function Test" on my previous labs and then read the popup Google showed me out loud: "Liver.. ok good" and then order the test in the EMR again.

Some doctors haven't got a clue. It's unpopular to say because it's a convenient fiction to think you will get good care from any qualified doctor but when one doesn't know what "Hepatic" means then I don't know what to think.
The amount of rent seeking by SSOaaS providers goes unremarked and unnoticed.

Pardon the annoying analogy but it's like Java programmers clutching at control which is undermined by not only the language but the JVM itself.

"Java is secure by design.": I get the full stop. You don't want me to say this. But it's not secure in practice.

SaaS vendors all have a vetted list of SSO providers (even if there's only one option in the list). Honestly I'd love to know how SSO vendors market themselves to app vendors. I've never worked with this in a corporate environment.

What I do know is that as a SaaS user, I'd like to be able to provide my own authentication or second factor and that's never in the signup.
I think this alludes to it, but it's one thing mentioned in one of Atul Gawande's book is that in India they have hospitals that focus on one thing:

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-indias-no-frills-hosp...

So like a 2000 bed hospital just for heart surgeries. Like you're saying, the more a heart surgeon specializes, the better they are at it and the cheaper they can do it. Better Outcomes for less money.
Haven't had to queue up for the bathroom during work hours in two years!
The other problem with Mastodon / the Fediverse is how fractured it is. Here[0][1] are some examples of the sort of blocks that instance admins implement, including reasons such as "Allows controversial content" and "A lot of trolls, very [My Little Pony] themed".

I suppose it is to their credit that these instances are so transparent about their blocking policies, but I think the world would be a worse place if email or even Twitter made it impossible for people with different politics to message each other.

[0] https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances

[1] https://im-in.space/about/more#unavailable-content
This is just not the case im afraid
Woohoooo! I didn't know this great theme and how easy it is to install a new theme. Also, thanks for the background.

I still need to find how to apply it to the terminal ... but I'm on a mission now :-).

Edit: Done ...

Awesome. Thanks a lot.
An entire country and you have not one good thing to say?
I've set up my own mail server with Mailcow (https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/). Can't have taken more than an hour to get everything set up, including SPF/DKIM records for the domain. Set the domain, throw a `docker-compose up -d` at the repo and it Pretty Much Works (TM). I need to set up something to parse and visualize the DMARC reports from other mail servers at some point, but that's it: fully-featured mail server with ActiveSync, spam quarantines, AV, no diving into obscure config files necessary. Alternatives like Mailinabox provide a similar experience.

Some mail servers (Gmail, Outlook) discriminate against small mail providers by marking their stuff as spam. Ironic, because the spam I receive almost exclusively comes from free mailboxes. It doesn't happen consistently, and it tends not to happen anymore once the other party responds.

Truth to be told, I receive WAY more email than I actually send so I usually don't need to care about being marked as a spammer. I care more about control over my emails than I care about the occasional reminder I need to give Outlook users to check the spam folder.
Months after my last real procedure in a hospital, even after the insurance was settled, I could not get them to tell me how much money I owed them. Even when I went in person and told them "I want to pay you all of the money right now" they just shrugged their shoulders and told me they didn't know how much I owed them.

They just sent me a bunch of small bills in the mail one at a time and had a text field online where I could blindly pay them without indicating whether or not I had completed my payments.
That sounds right, but look at CSCO for a counter example. Plenty of cash, minimal debt and traded down through every recession.
> * In stark contrast to asking questions and trying to understand. But I have family members who are the "look everything up and then try to tell my doctor how they're going to treat me" ilk and it's crazy.

I still think it’s better than the other extreme of just showing up and trusting the professionals. That should work in theory, but my experience for myself and those around me is it’s incredibly ineffective. If what you’re dealing with requires the least bit of thought, odds are you’re getting brushed off to the extent you allow.

The real model of US healthcare is essentially apprentice/master, with the patient as apprentice. Apprentice does a lot of the work, not all, some needs to be approved by the master and the apprentice better know how to learn from the master, when to push back, and how to make it seem like it was their idea all along. You can imagine how this falls apart for mental health.
After all websites started requiring email for interactivity, it became a proxy for the identity, propped up by some trust in Google and whoever else. No one is interested in letting you ‘confirm’ your identity. This is more evident now that email hosts require the phone number in turn.

If you're reluctant to use the centralized identity, you obviously have some malicious intent.
Absolutely. In case it wasn't clear: I was saying that just dealing with peoples' health makes for a fundamentally stressful and potentially toxic environment, even if each individual in question is perfectly kind and reasonable.

Mistreatment by doctors and management isn't excused by that, but I think it can be seen (partially) through that lens.
One trick that makes SELinux on RHEL much less of a bother is to always use the system-provided default paths for data and logs, and just mount additional volumes for data at these paths.

The vast majority of SELinux trouble I've seen stems from people customizing things needlessly and then they need to adjust the default policies.

Another common problem is not separating the OS / application binaries, configuration / data and log directories, which is just bad hygiene even without SELinux. I've seen many installs where people have just dropped their stuff in /home/ec2-user and then the whole server breaks at some point because / gets filled by a sudden burst of log entries.
Seems like we've come full circle. A credential from an institution was a good indicator of the caliber of the individual. Now, with Study.com and the roll-your-own degree programs, it's hard to know. That once-good indicator tells very little now.

I went to NYU Gallatin for a bit and really wondered what in the world anyone seeing that on a cv would think.
Some call it retribution, others call it reversing a privilege that should not have existed in the first place.

I find it most humorous that the ones calling it retribution would generally support this measure if it had been forced on, say, Koch Industries in a red district of a purple state.
Bitcoin isn't a stock. It has no counter party risk and doesn't offer returns. It is a monetary good. It's akin to holding a commodity metal like gold or silver, but it has comparative advantage in that it has no competing utility, it is only useful as a money.
pay, benefits, and hours

I suppose you could just pay people more money to make it worth it but the long hours take a toll in other ways as well and contribute to burnout no matter how much you get paid.
Florida's Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that the Reedy Creek Improvement Act did not violate any provision of Florida's constitution. To apply the Federal constitution, a federal court case requires there to be an aggrieved party (and Florida state judges likely won't/can't revisit this to apply US constitution). Which leaves just Florida, which has no standing to challenge its own law after being enjoined by its own legal process, and leaves Disney which only gains from the contortions of the State of Florida and would also not challenge. All residents of Reedy Creek are Disney employees and their children, a major disincentive for any of them to be the political activist and challenge it, they are poorly paid and their rent is cheap ($75/month for space if using a mobile home).
Seems like a lot for online courses. You can do an in-person course for that money.

On the other hand I think it is competitive with e.g. The Open University though who also charge the same fees as normal unis.
Degrees are only worth anything with the backing of a good university. This course isn't accredited.

Additionally, he transferred in a bunch of credit from elsewhere, and had watched multiple MIT lectures, so it's hardly 3 months of effort.
Going to WGU now, it is exactly as advertised. Low friction, decent quality education at a low price.
Wow you're right, old one is impressive, I like it much more, and to me, it even resembles more a fox than the new one. Never thought about how cool those few lines can represent a fox so well and with personality.

Although I admit the concept and spirit of the new change makes sense.
I host my own email and never get marked as spam.

One fantastic tool is: https://www.mail-tester.com/

And another is Gmail. When you send an email to Gmail you can see some spam info in the headers which you can use to fix problems.

I just hope I never get blacklisted.
Sometimes you can fix this by sending the blacklist a message but this is not always possible.
A year or two ago the industry decided everything had to be 'a platform'. This is them saying "we too will chase industry trends for cash. we have a platform!!! bring us your money". The branding/logo thing... I guess is to reinforce to potential customers that they do more than host code, I dunno. Nobody understands what DevOps means so I'm not sure why they'd lean into that.
How can heating be inefficient?
Don't know nowadays, but a few years back when I was still using python something that drove me nuts from pip was how bad it was at managing transitive dependencies.

If package A depends on package B 1.0 and package C also depends on package B but 2.0, the order in which you run pip install for A or C will lead to a different version of B. And of course either A or V would break as soon as they hit an incompatibility. Obviously you would notice that only by running the application or tests.

So you have to use pip freeze to kind of generate a semi lock file,and every project uses it in a different way, because you also need different dependencies files for dev and production....and these are just plain TXT files which I don't think it is the best "format" for this.

Then you have these text files but also a "setup.py" which is for the package you produce, but hey you need to read the txt because otherwise you need to maintain them in two places. So you add a Makefile to tie all of this together, and that's another rabbit hole.

Add to this the mess of virtualenvs already explained in sibling comments and you have the perfect storm.

I know that nowadays are things such as Poetry, which work a lot better, but there are a good bunch of tools competing with each other.

To make an analogy, npm feels like using the latest, top of the line Macbook while pip feels like using a Casio calculator from 1985 with an external keyboard. That's the gap I feel between these two tools.

So if you ever use python, try first poetry or any of the other tools, pip is a terrible mess.
And there's nothing wrong with that. There's something fundamentally ritualistic about asserting that people who already have the knowledge required for a credential are somehow debasing the credentialing system by testing out of it.

I'd say that some people are looking for the "college experience." That's unrelated to education other than by proximity to it.
And the whole point of this post is just marketing
I despise the notion that "real communism has never been tried!", but real online teaching has, uhh, never been tried.

The futuristic dream: kids use fancy tech like AR goggles and haptic tech to manipulate shapes in a collaborative learning game and ultimately learn math in an intuitive way. Think of the best Jypiter notebook you've seen and then take that off the screen and into the real world. Then add an AI assistant that constantly guides you through common questions and make it so that the whole program is continually being refined to make it better and better for each successive generation of kids. Every lesson has tens of millions of dollars poured into it since it will be reused potentially billions of times.

The practical dream: okay we don't have money for any of that, but at least use the internet to break geographic constraints. Have actual math teachers teaching math to various classes around the country/world, have actual music teachers teaching music, immediately direct gifted kids to accelerated classes, have more flexibility with special needs kids (e.g. take classes in a different time zone so that their parents can help), offer a wide selection of second languages by connecting kids to foreign teachers, do virtual exchanges, etc.

The reality: most kids don't even have computers. Actually I was shocked to learn that many kids don't even have chairs and desks at home. This is in Canada by the way. My wife was teaching K-8 online classes to kids lying on their beds, propping up their mom's borrowed iphone on their bellies, trying to not fall asleep as the front camera streams a dimly-lit view of their chin.

So to summarize, we start with the same in-person learning, from the same teachers to the same class, remove all of the blackboards/manipulatives/etc., reduce the child's field of view to a 6" screen streaming a laggy 480p video with horrible sound, delete all friendships by enforcing quarantine both during and after school, and finally conclude that online learning doesn't work!
So tired of these "European" comments feigning cluelessness to try to feel above others. There is huge variety in healthcare quality across EU countries (waiting lists are years long in my country) and no one can speak of Europe as a monolith and make much sense. People in my (EU) country who have serious illnesses often seek to go to the US for treatment because they have facilities and doctors that specialise in their illness and don't have a hope of survival otherwise.

I see these comments all the time on Reddit and HN but never see the reverse from US posters. They just come across as insecure and snooty.
Central African's Republic largest export (40%) [1] are diamonds. Perhaps there is a market for the exchange between crypto and diamonds?

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/central-african-republic/export...
Looks like the 50's, originally coming from an Alaskan practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving#Poss...
It's weird that they frame the growth of web frameworks as a reaction to feature-rich mobile apps.

> From the get go, mobile apps on iOS and Android were full applications written in Serious Languages™ like Objective C and Java...This [deeper integration] resulted a much better UX...

> Doing all of that with JavaScript was seen as ludicrous at first. But as time went on, applications started to get more ambitious. Social networks added chat and DMs and other real-time features, Gmail and Google Docs...

Desktop-similar Google Docs and Gmail predate smart phones. Meebo was running a desktop-like chat app in 2005. At the time, it felt ludicrous. Rich client-side web frameworks were already pretty far along by the time the App Store came out in 2008.
I was in disbelief when I found out that some people are in a dilemma about getting a CS degree or not, when they already have some other degree. And here I am with no degree in anything, working as a SWE. I've gone back and forth about it - mostly I don't care about the fake degree from WGU and similar schools and then to get a degree where I'd actually learn something new (MIT maybe?) it would be a huge time sync, cost and I'm not sure I'd even be accepted.
The relevant German proverb here is "Bäume wachsen nicht in den Himmel"

"Trees don't grow to the sky"

The question for many of us is how long you want to wait for the inevitable correction, because it could, worst case, be a decent portion of a human lifespan.
Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees
No one wants to hear the truth.

There’s near-infinite demand for healthcare and a constrained (mostly artificially) supply.

Insurance, people and government can’t solve the problem of the supply and demand by throwing money on it.

You either expand supply or remove demand. Given removing demand is... not desirable. The only alternative to fix the issue is remove regulation and expand supply. That’s it.

Insurance makes the issue worse by increasing demand and in a way limiting supply through requirements and procedures.

Government limits supply through regulation AND expands demand by paying for procedures.

An approach is to deregulate, such as removing government licensing, remove Medicare, etc.

Imo Prices would drop >95% within a 2-5 years (to India or Mexico levels).

I worked in medical billing for a few years and the issues are beyond obvious.