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This topic would be less of a sick joke if there werent absurd "water rights" given away 100 years ago that bankrupt the system.

I worked as an intern at NIH and buying fancy office furniture & computers was a thing to maintain budgets. There's a hoard of "farmers" using "water rights" to grow incredibly water ineffective crops (pistaccios, almonds) and just wasting water in general that far outstrip residential demand. Society owes these people, these leeches, nothing.

The idea of buying this illegitemate system out is disgraceful; none of this has ever been reasonable or fair. Change the California constitution that protects this horrific abomination & just end this world-killing pact.
Part of planning for very long road trips should be to carry a spare can of gas with you to account for incidents.
> It's turn based, so I don't need AAA game multi-threaded performance. It's single-player, so cheating doesn't really hurt anyone.

I don't understand this, just because it's turn based it doesn't mean you can't squeeze more juice out of your CPU if you want to have all kinds of good graphics, fancy animations, fancy complex environments (lots of moving pieces, etc), physics simulation, etc.

Turn based is just one style of play but there's plenty of turn (or pseudo-turn) based games (like JRPGs) which struggle with platform limitations. One could even argue that games like Final Fantasy XIV are turn based.
> Email is now an oligopoly, a service gate kept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.

While I understand what they're getting at here, I disagree. There are certainly other providers you can go with - You just need to pay up.

Happy customer of FastMail here. All of my personal domains, and multiples businesses are tied to it. Wonderful service, no deliverability issues, great features, etc.

So - clearly other companies are able to get it right. Self-hosting is probably difficult, but it's not like you're forced to go to Big Tech.
It was also a bit of a PITA before Ada'95 and by which time C had won.
To think of the millions of slides that were never viewed… I inherited several thousand myself and don’t know what to do with them.
Unless they worked out a deal for impressions and not conversions. Handwaving the 90% behind some asterisk.
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There are a lot of factors to consider and also subjective preferences. But I agree that a light metre is helpful, although one should remember that you can get a stand-alone one. There are even ones that fit in the hot shoe [1]!

[1]: https://cameraquest.com/voivcmet2.htm

As for camera suggestions, this is where it gets difficult and I know that I did not find the “right” camera for me right away. Initially I shot a digital SLR for about half a decade and while I got better as a photographer, I could never love the device itself and how it “made” me shoot. Got into film with a fairly small 50s Leica that I inherited, moved its 1949 Summitar 50mm lens over to a Bessa R2 after about a year because it has a built-in light metre, had fun with an original (fairly cheap as well!) Olympus XA, and these days I can afford Zeiss glass and a Zeiss Ikon ZM to match. But it sure was a journey and I feel I became a much better digital shooter thanks to it.

So, um… Recommendations? I like small cameras – preferably rangefinders – as they are easy to carry and forces me to work within the compromises they make in terms of flexibility for a given situation. If it was ten years ago, I would have recommended any of the Bessas (produced this millennia, built like tanks, and nearly purely mechanical) with a 50mm or 35mm cheap lens, but Cosina has either stopped or lowered production to a degree where you will struggle to find one at a reasonable price these days.

If you like wide angles (I do not really, as I struggle with anything below 40mm for unknown reasons) there are plenty of fairly cheap consumer and prosumer cameras from the 80s and onward with built-in light metres. My original Olympus XA was cheap and plastic-y as all hell, but oh boy was it small and could pack a punch with some good black and white film (straight from the scanner on good old Neopan 400 [2]). Sadly, if you want a 50mm on such a camera you need to go into the 60s and 70s, where the electronics easily become a bit more iffy. If you are willing to largely forego manual focus, there is also a whole range of cameras like the Fuji Klasse W, Yashica T5, etc. Just beware that some of these goes for crazy amounts of money these days and they are of course packed with electronics.

[2]: https://0x0.st/opC5.jpg

With all my rambling, I guess in conclusion what I am trying to say is that you perhaps should consider what you already know about yourself and your shooting preferences and go for what is affordable enough to be “a toy” to play around with to get your bearings towards “the right gear”. At least that is how I finally ended up loving the process of shooting both film and digital.
The linked Twitter profile is wild. Reads like ego-tripping. Don’t think there’s much danger tbh.
A few months ago I wrote a comment on HN about algorithmic trading and someone emailed me about it. I sent him a reply from my self-hosted email domain, and I have no idea if he got it. I'm on a clean IP and clean domain, with a reputable hoster. I have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set up correctly. Just last week I sent my gmail account a test email and sure enough it went to spam. There appears to be no rhyme or reason about it.

I believe the difference between people who say "email self-hosting is dead" and people who say "email self-hosting is trivial" is probably the volume of mail sent from their domain(s).

At my busiest, I was sending dozens of emails per day, but they were all from my work account. My personal account is pretty close to recv-only and probably averages an outgoing message count in the single digits per week. How can I reasonably keep an IP/domain reputation score fresh/warm if I send such a low volume? The answer is I realistically can't.

Self-hosted email remains an extremely difficult and time-consuming endeavor unless you happen to have some good luck, it seems.
I moved job a couple of months ago. Even though I WFH in general I live very close to the office, so I’ve been going in for half a day per week to have coffee and lunch with my team, then I head home in the early afternoon.

I probably get half as much work done during that morning as I would at home, but I do feel like it’s helped me get settled and feel part of the team much faster. Even that short time each week gives you the opportunity for inside jokes and so on.

Obviously I’m in a lucky position in that it takes me 15 minutes on the bus door-to-door and to be honest I’m not sure I could be bothered going in if it meant a full day. I’m very hesitant to set precedents for being in the office in case WFH gets taken away or nerfed or something. Not that I’ve had any indication that’s on the cards, I just don’t really trust any companies at all, no matter what their “people team” talks about.
One important point not discussed is that wages paid in a HCOL zipcode will be spent within said zipcode..it fills the tax coffers that funds the infrastructure of the corporations that have a ‘you-scratch-my-back-I-will-scratch-yours’ arrangement with the city govt.

Example: when Twitter and Lyft and Uber got tax moratoriums from San Francisco to establish HQ so the employees will move in and spend their wages and pay taxes and all the good stuff. Except SF dropped the ball. Vs. The South Bay has historically had a better relationship with the FAANGs..Apple or Google will never leave Bay Area. South Bay takes good care of Silicon Valley. And the favour is returned. It costs millions and millions to build and keep 880 et al smooth running.

There is no benefit to paying someone in a LCOL zipcode the same wages as as in a HCOL area.
Postfix and dovecot are not some evil "oligopoly", they're community based truly open source software.

Almost none of the things linked there are run by serious isps that are responsible for other peoples' mail in quantities of tens of thousands of inboxes or more.

Resist the urge to reinvent the wheel just to be a contrarian.

Edit: yes, I see the issue, the mention of postfix+dovecot is jammed together in the same small paragraph as the oligopoly. It's as if they are being discussed as the same thing. The oligopoly is clearly google, office 365, etc. One hundred percent in agreement there.
Treat it like joining a new web forum community back in the earlier days of the internet. Follow and as appropriate participate in the on-topic sections (e.g. project-related slack channels). Lurk a bit in the off-topic sections (e.g. slack #random channel, but also look for others employees may have set up like #cooking) to get the general vibe of the place. Then make an effort to ramp up participation over time to a comfortable and, importantly, consistent level. As much as you're getting to know your coworkers, you want them to get to know and remember you, and all they have to do that is your regular participation.

Make an effort to connect with coworkers in person whenever there's a business or on-site trip. See if the company has any hosted events, holiday parties, or other in-person meetups (and if not, suggest some). If there's any coworkers that live nearby, suggest meeting up for lunch or after-work drinks occasionally.

Beyond that, as others have mentioned, you can seek out local social organizations and clubs, or even just try to interact with your neighbors more.
Except... they already did outsource training chips and bought thousands of NVidia A100 GPUs.

So now they'll need porting effort to move their GPU-based current design to this new, very non-GPU, instruction set.
If I was responsible for the cyber security of a whole country, I certainly would stop using computers.

That's an entirely separate issue from whether a background in computers would be helpful or required.

One thing, you could get hacked, which would at best be embarrassing, and two, when your job is talking to people about important things, the fewer written records the better.

I once naively asked at work why we didn't simply record a regularly scheduled meeting and use voice recognition for a first pass at the notes, instead of having someone take them manually. Even in correcting them, it would be so helpful to be able to rewind and play back a recording. I got an withering look and a comment to the effect that people don't expect to be recorded.

It reminded me of how I read long ago that the official transcript of what is said in Congress gets extensively edited before it is final, even to the point of inserting speeches that weren't made in reality.
> I love EVs. That being said I wish someone would make an enclosed bicycle/motorcycle that costs less than $2000.

I don't love EVs yet, but I would love a reasonably priced electric motorcycle. I'm not even sure if overall they are greener with the current grid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography
Agreed. Salient.
Considering that RAM in the Macbook Pro is not upgradeable, buy as much RAM as you can afford now.
No, they aren't really addressing the point, they point out that eating more vegetables is better but they don't address the point that creating more satisfying dishes with out having to produce a super processed product that does not resemble a vegetable and requires so many resources is so much better than fake meats at any level.

Fake meat is green washing at its best.
Setting up regular 1:1s just to chat sounds good. Though if I were new at a company, I'd feel forced to have a work-related/productive reasons to schedule these meetings...

What do you title these 1:1s so that your coworkers will accept them, and so that your manager won't lift and eyebrow?
Yeah, this is my compromise too. I'm not able to spend the effort setting up my own mail server right now, but don't want to just use one of the really big players, so I use my own domain and FastMail. Feels good to support a smaller player.
Can we guesstimate that fine as "days of profit" ?

one month? one year?
Slower is safer for pedestrians. It's safer alternative for (?) elders than a full featured car.
Did you ever see eye-raising photos from customers like nudes or even crimes?
> Okay, so we managed to add cruft to the code without making it significantly worse. Now is this a change you would actually prefer as an improvement if someone asked you to review the original version?

Added cruft? I don't think so.

The second version without the break is imho a clear improvement! It's pure functional code (ignoring the logging).

Compared to the imperative code which uses mutation of state defined outside of the function, which makes the inner workings of this algo even harder to follow, it's an obvious improvement.

Line count stays the same. Therefore I would in any case prefer the second, refactored version.

There may be cases where a multi-level break or even a goto would yield a better solution, sure. But those cases are rare and likely not present in Python at all as you do such things usually only to avoid a few machine code instructions; something that is irrelevant in Python as it's anyway slow, no matter what you do, so such optimizations would not make any sense at all.
> painted bicycle gutters are NOT proper bicycle infrastructure either

To be clear, where I live there are recently installed “dedicated” bike routes which are separated from car traffic by concrete barriers and curbs, and also separated from pedestrian traffic by curbs and intermittent heavy ceramic planters. The problem is that the separations are interrupted to allow turns and deliveries. All of the separation is partial. I feel a ton safer in a painted gutter, and much safer still in the middle of a car-wide lane.

To make matters worse, the particular “dedicated” infrastructure I’m thinking of is on the left side of a one-way street and introduced complicated signal timings that surprise even regular riders and drivers. I’ve posted this before here and elsewhere: when I have to go somewhere in that part of the city and have to brave even a stretch of the route, I deliberately choose to be in car traffic even with drivers irrationally yelling at me to get in the bike lane and trying to run me off the road with their cars, because it feels safer than being in the bike space.

The theory of dedicated bike infrastructure is interesting to me, but what I’ve seen in practice where I live mostly motivates me to ride on roads with sharrows right in the middle of the road clearly indicating that I’m allowed to be there even if every single driver forgot their driving instruction.
Holy shit! I think the expectation was that tbis was a total lock. I was quite expecting this to be an excitinf day for renwed democracy, one of the first major taking back taking new responsbilities in the 21st century. This comes as a major surprise, I think, for most.

I wish there was more belief & hope out there!! What a sad rejection! There was a ton of improvement presemt here.
Son to be obsolete, though at the time of this talk it had many good years ahead of it.
Some of us use Wireguard or OpenVPN to host where we want and use a static cheap or free (like Cloudflare) public point of presence IP.
Photo CD made a lot of sense for small-time pre-press desktop publishing. The images were well scanned at high resolution at a time when desktop scanners were finicky SCSI devices that took a long time for a mediocre scan. If you were not developing your film yourself, you could do worse than to just have the lab scan the negatives for you, and indeed this is how I use my film camera for the most part, enlarging only the images I like.

At the time, usable digital cameras looked like the Kodak F3 back plus shoulder-mounted hard drive in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-photography-revoluti...
Yep, that is exactly my problem.
I doubt it - CK is funded and the FTC is underfunded. Trusting the government over private in this scenario could be perilous.
That's crazy. I've had my Model 3 in northern Virginia for over four years. Charging at any Tesla charger has always been quick, freezing cold still 100+ miles in 20 minutes. Charging at the free chargers at the grocery store with an adapter in the dead of winter isn't the fastest, but it's always greater than four miles per hour.

The only car temperature problem I've had in the winter in Virginia hasn't been with an EV at all - just a VW diesel that had trouble starting due to extreme cold.
oh, I see the link now ... ok in the article/page not the headline itself.
Almost certainly a large part of your problem is that your individual IP address is in a shared net block that has other neighbors that have historically been a source of spam.

Unless you can get hosting at an ISP that does not sell low budget, commercial virtual private server, virtual machine or dedicated hosting to random people with $20 and a credit card, this will be an ongoing problem.
You don't know about KF because you're not being targeted by them. That site's purpose is to harass people off of the internet, and potentially to the point of them killing themselves. It's the ultimate form of a de-platformer.

So, in this case, you're worried about vigilante mobs deplatforming a platform, and the slippery slope involved, but the folks being deplatformed are a worse form of what you're arguing against.

It's hard to understand what you're standing up for here, because there's no way to argue for the existence of this site without contradicting yourself, and negating your own argument.
I think the point is that there are easier options than postfix and dovecot for most self host cases, the oligopoly is formed by other entities.
It’s inevitable that the advance of technology will both improve the world and potentially be a vector of potential misuse.

Ultimately, it has always been like that, since the dawn of civilization. The answer is not fighting technological advances, but regulating the use of technology from law enforcement (and the government, and bad actors) instead.
Stable Diffusion Prompt Enhancer Analysis
We're not going to be figuring it out in the next few decades fast enough to address the climate crisis.

100 years from now it may be all hydrogen fuel cells, but that doesn't help anything today.
I'm not sure how the post came across as Postfix and Dovecot being the monopoly... Just to be clear, the oligopoly are the large email providers (Gmail and friends).

> Almost none of the things linked there are run by serious isps that are responsible for other peoples' mail in quantities of tens of thousands of inboxes or more.

Software doesn't have to be run by a large ISP to be worth running for people. Even at tens of thousands of inboxes (which is something post people don't need).

Good software is out there for running self-hosted email and people should know about it.

[EDIT] The post must have been unclear, I've edited it so hopefully no one will think I'm bashing postfix/dovecot.

I've even tried to make them easier to use in the past[0], but gave up when I realized that there was better software out there that completely sidestepped the problem.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/postmgr/postmgr
There's an biological and evolutionary reason why humans have biases. The ideal of becoming completely unbiased and rational is not only impossible, but bad for you.

The person who was unbiased, the person who didn't feel the irrational ikea effect, did not survive to reproduce you. So trying to deny your natural tendencies and natural biases can also influence your survival.
Title is extremely misleading.
This is pure victim-blaming. The problem is that bulletproof hosting exists, not that people are sick of spam.
And for most people, using a large mail provider is the necessary evil. I don't see much difference between a small mail provider using block lists and a large mail provider using the same block lists + their own proprietary lists and metrics.

Both result in other small mail providers getting blocked for arbitrary reasons with limited recourse.
I don't know that IP addresses are doxing. Maybe, but doesn't seem like much for that.

Past addresses isn't doxing.

You have one example. I do appreciate the example. I don't really think 1 post is really systematic though. You could easily find an address on any of the big players. They appear to remove posts that get reported so it is possible this one wasn't reported.
88,000 people in perhaps 50,000 vehicles all taking the ONE road out of town.

That's an interesting point.

We see this a couple of times a year in the United States — tens, or even hundreds of thousands of people evacuating because of an approaching hurricane.

It takes hours and hours and hours to go not very far. And when you finally get someplace with an open hotel room, it's hundreds of miles away.

Although I believe they are close, I'm not sure EVs are ready for that challenge yet. Especially since a gas station half-way to safety can fill up hundreds of cars faster than a dozen EVs can charge.

Can more chargers solve this problem? Better chargers? Both? Something else?
Oh, that's my little project. I planned on doing a show HN in a few days or so, but someone was faster than me. I'm happy to answer any question.

Slidge even has a hackernews plugin, to be notified of replies to your comments and to re-reply from you XMPP client. ;)
As we saw in Europe and Texas, electricity price could get insane extremely high for a short time so possibly power grid operator pays more. A problem is that some people want to hoard electricity on their vehicle in such situation.
My server uses encrypted connections and my own certificate. If I send an email to a family member on my server, no one on the Internet can read its contents. If I add a recipient and FAANG or Microsoft then yes it wouldn't matter. If that is truly important, we can learn to encrypt emails locally first.

What does self-hosting accomplish? I'd say it's important in the way that having HAM radio operators is important.
Except you can get them for MSRP at many dealers, for example: Sunnyvale Toyota.
I don't follow. I am pointing out that using the same kinds of lists that the big providers use will result in smaller providers being arbitrarily blocked with little recourse. Do you disagree with that assessment?
95%+ efficient coal boilers have existed since the '90s.
that spectrum isn't for phones. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-alloch... will let you know how the spectrum is allocated.
If anyone decides to make a docker-compose file that can do all this with a click, please share.
«So, starting today, the MX records of my personal domain no longer point to the IP of my personal server. They now point to one of the Big Email Providers.»

I would have kept the MX records pointing to my personal server, and I would have changed only my configuration to send outgoing email through a third-party relay (eg. Gandi). This would have solved all the author's problems (deliverability issues) while staying 99% self-hosted.
Not the person you're replying to, but as a manager: a manager who dislikes employees reaching out for 1:1's with other coworkers for any reason is a bad one, imo. I encourage my folks to be proactive in learning from other teams and to be adults who don't need hand-holding. As long as they hold up their bargain of a reasonable amount of work done in a time frame, what they do with their time isn't my business.

(caveat that it's for normal water cooler talk and not a top-of-the-iceberg issue of a very big iceberg of issues.)
That sounds like a better solution and not at all what I would assume someone means when they say that they use blocklists to filter out spam.
Legal Complexity
more than $2000, but https://www.litmotors.com/ was trying to do an enclosed self-balancing two-wheeler for a decade (their Founder/CEO has a pretty bad injury a few years ago) - supposedly they're reforming but we'll see.