skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a company accepts a flat rate across the nation for their services but then pays you differently based on where you live then you should find new work. I came from an area where software engineers are routinely underpaid compared to their cohorts and the only thing I could do was leave and build up enough experience to work for companies that don't do geopay.
As someone that is currently in the market for a new car, I would love to get an EV, but I also don't have a good way to charge. Seems like most EV owners just charge at their house, but what about people that don't have access to a good power tap? (apartment dwellers, renters, etc.)

Sometimes it feels like there is a group of EV elites out there that are predicting the complete demise of ICEs while conveniently downplaying the problem of charging access. I live on the outskirts of a major metro area. I've looked at the charging maps, and there just aren't good chargers available right now. I really hope that chargers will become ubiquitous in my area in the future, but until that happens, I don't have a great choice.

And so, my next car is going to just be a standard ICE hybrid. I hope that will be the last ICE I have to buy, but for right now, an EV seems like it is just not quite practical for me.
The long s seems to form ligatures better. When people wrote with ink and quill flow was important —maybe that’s why it was devised. They also had many abbreviations so as to avoid tiring their fingers writing common words and particles over and over.
Self hosted email without deliverability is useless.

It’s like saying “it’s easier than ever to build a car! But you can’t drive it on the street”.

I would say deliverability is the most important feature for email.
Credit Karma has a platform for running models against their dataset, and appears to buy everyone's daily data from Equifax.

Also, Intuit is much more than a tax company now.
Giving large providers a taste of their own medicine might be interesting, let gmail spend 24 hours on a black hole list, make sure the removal forms have a captcha so they can’t be filled out by automation, when people complain on social media then let people know what it’s about. Social media really gets Google’s attention, it draws them out from behind their algorithms and silence when nothing else will.

Utilizing IPv6 more might help also since at some point it becomes absurd to have quintillions of addresses blocked for all eternity.

There are monopoly and racketeering angles also, since Google and Outlook are suppressing independent mailers in favor of their own paid products. Nobody will make any money except the lawyers but that’s ok as long as the situation improves.
> if you live on a lot of land where you're the only resident, which is otherwise generally not recommended

By whom? In my case, I am not the only resident, I have a large family on our acreage.
Putting up appearances and wearing masks (metaphorically) is daunting to me, so WFH has been a blessing. Maybe there's just something wrong with me when everyone is shouting that they want to go back and drag me back as well.
I think it’s fair to say that Rust has changed massively since initial release. There are certainly safety aspects, but doing what you describe should be trivial and trigger none or almost none of them.

The compiler’s error messages are fantastically helpful these days. Might be worth a tinker some rainy day, but understand being completely turned off of something as well.
I'm going to update the article with this but one thing from the original HN discussion that was recommended is:

https://improvmx.com/

Run your own email servers, but relay through there for better delivery?

Maybe this is what we need more of -- A class of mail system participants who exclusively maintain trusted IPs and do the legwork of trying to get through the gnarly systems set up by the other large email providers.

[EDIT] - "forward" -> "relay" for clarity

I don't know the solution but I know it needs to be discussed.
Putting aside the gatekeeping aspect of this comment, I found the rest of the arguments made for keeping this model closed really shallow.

I would have hoped for a much more reasoned and logically sound argument from a professional researcher.
I do like to use the "her" pronoun for prized possessions. Favorite car or whatever.

I will not feel bad for her. I don't feel like I should ask.
The lack of any meaningful social connection is a beneficial feature of WFH for me. I've switched companies many times and worked entirely remotely for the last 10 years with a short stint where I was a team lead and the company was WFH adverse. Not having a meaningful social connection to many of my coworkers has allowed me to focus on professional and personal development. When I want to socialize with coworkers I usually maintain texting or messaging relationships with coworkers who valued my work so I am able to keep a professional network in my pocket without ever needing to spend time in environments that are outside my control.

New people settle in faster in on site environments because we adapt to environments especially when we are required to.

The ideal situation requires a lot of effort and probably some desire to side-step professional development (talking about work) to spend time with people you currently work with doing something you enjoy (like playing board games). The ideal situation for me is probably something like being able to easily "coordinate company socials" with "let's play a game over Zoom/Discord". Even better if the Zoom/Discord are not company monitored and the interaction is ephemeral. Few products or services would give up the data collection since morale and performance can be measured in relation to the usage of these products or services.
Agreed, well written counterpoints.
Where does the water disappear to? Does it enter an interdimensional wormhole, never to return?
In that timeline Kodak makes an unbelievably massive pivot from being a chemical company to being a digital camera company, dominate throughout the 90s and into the 2000s, and then get absolutely smashed by Apple in the 2010s.
The cloud services providers have some of the worst IP blocks for spam. Cheap hosting blocks are a distant second place.

Google for example, doesn't even hide the fact you have to request whitelisting using their online business services portal. They don't give a toss what kind of sender authentication/signing hoops you have jumped through already, and user letters may still end up in the spam bin.

Many users have indeed migrated to the web platforms, and don't care about people data-mining their business communications. The real issue is so have many spammers/scams, a side-effect keeping their trade on life support by removing technological administrative barriers for the desperate... and you can't block Google/Outlook/Redmond.
Honestly yeah. I used to have a lot of friendships formed in the workplace, but the post pandemic places I've worked, there's certainly coworkers I liked but I can't say I know much about them at all. I don't think zoom socializing works all that great, ie zoom happy hours or whatnot but maybe that's just me.

On the other hand, not having a commute, and not having to fake being busy during down times makes it easier to strengthen outside of work friendships and hobbies.

I also think occasional remote meetups in person can really help. I think it's easier to hold a casual text or zoom conversation if you've interacted in person a bit
I wonder if there is some selection bias going on. One hypothesis could be that the people who are financially more responsible (and thus are more likely to be approved for a new credit card) are also the people who are unlikely to apply for a new credit card just after seeing an ad in a website. Thus, credit karma ad clickers self-select to a lower success rate than what their model predicted.
Yes, they are more sustainable but they are in no way replacements. I've had a few but I wouldn't make it a habit to replace meat with it. But I would surely replace one of my meals with 100% vegetables if it was easy to get and tasty. One that comes to mind is a bean and rice burrito with salsa. It's delicious. That's the type of replacements that should be pushed, not fake meats.

The idea that fake meat is so much better is crazy. It's just a new way to make a buck.
Counterpoint, our mail admins spend a lot of time trying to convince small-scale providers to shutdown the spam email coming from them. Lots of people who host at small scale providers don’t care about patches, so they send tons of spam.
I don't know if it's radical, but having a single car stops being practical as soon as your two kids have to be at different sports tournaments 100 miles apart. Sure in theory you can rent another car when you need it, but in practice it's such a hassle that unless you're short of parking spaces it's easier to own 2 cars.
Someone mentioned this directive on slidge's MUC* yesterday, but I haven't looked into it too much yet. I guess slidge's plugins should be easier to maintain once this is directive is in application. I should focus on improving slidge's core more then.

* xmpp:slidge@conference.nicoco.fr?join
At a minimum we need some sort of fast charger that can add 50+ miles in 5 minutes. Granted, in a gas car that's a full tank usually, but let's be reasonable about what we can expect in the near-ish future.

Having wireless tech that can charge that fast would be even better. Maybe get on a little conveyer belt similar to an automated carwash and by the time you exit, you have 50 more miles than before. Hell, imagine these things running parallel to a road like a pit lane on a racetrack. Move on the track for 5 minutes, then they turn around and grab cars going the opposite direction.

Seems pretty inefficient and probably a logistical nightmare, but it would be cool to see it work!
> I would say deliverability is the most important feature for email.

You're not wrong, but the thing is, the deliverability problem is not completely broken.

I don't have a problem sending emails with my self-hosted stack with DKIM, DMARC, and SPF set up. That said, some people do.

I lightly monitor my domains to make sure they're not on blacklists and have figured out how to get things working over time.

The battle isn't lost yet -- some people have problems and others do, but discouraging people from self-hosting is not the way to fix it.

My main point is that while deliverability can still be hard, many of the other things that made sending email hard (configuring postfix, dovecot and DNS correctly) have become drastically easier.
This makes me wonder, does archive.org comply with GDPR?
Gmail wouldn’t care at all, they know the pressure would go the other way. Racketeering doesn’t mean what you think it means.
To colinsane's point, I don't want to be a restaurant, I want to cook my burger at home. A lot of us do. You're OK with the Hostdime restaurant. I'm OK cooking my own burger. A lot of us are and we don't want to lose that right.
Plugin series hybrids are becoming popular here in Australia where distances and use cases like that are common. Same approach that diesel electric trains use for similar reasons. EV drivetrain with an ICE generator. Efficiency and drivability of the EV drivetrain, with robust fueling options. You may rarely need the petrol generator in daily commuting, but then you head interstate and have all the current infrastructure to work with.
i don’t understand the context of your question. do you mean, why do i have a few hundred thousand laying around?
Sortof i guess https://mailcow.email/
This is basically all incorrect. Maybe you are writing about LSB radix sort? I am writing about MSB radix sort. You can get some off-the-shelf MSB radix sort for sorting strings of arbitrary lengths here[0]. While this repository is mainly about parallel string sorts, I've found a version of this MSB radix sort that does not perform a bunch of unnecessary copies and caches more bytes at a time[1] to be competitive with the parallel sorts in the repo.

In general MSB radix sort will have to look at the same parts of the input elements as multi-key quick sort, but one hopes that it gets to make fewer passes over the array. A comparator-based sort would look at about the same parts of the input elements as well, but it would look at them many times more than necessary.

> Finally, it requires a sort-order-preserving transformation. I mentioned case-insensitive collation of Unicode strings as a well-known difficult problem. I do not believe there is mapping to an order-preserving representation which can be done bitwise. At the very least, it will be difficult to support all of the collation styles that currently exist (eg, French collation is different than Dutch).

The requirements are a bit underspecified, but I think these can be solved by unicode normalization + tolower + codepoint-wise comparison, which is probably what you'd do in your comparator for a comparison-based sort as well.

[0]: https://github.com/bingmann/parallel-string-sorting/blob/mas...

[1]: https://github.com/dendibakh/perf-challenge6/blob/Solution_R...
The early adopters prove the market and make it so that charging infrastructure becomes more prevalent.
Thank you - fixed it on the post title. Not sure it'll update on here though.
The App Store also uses your personal data to sell ads. The difference is the Play Store isn't the only game in town on the devices that have it.
can't zstandard use standardized dictionaries as well?
> I would say deliverability is the most important feature for email.

That's only because true it's the one feature the oligopoly is withholding from self-hosters.

It's like saying "the most important feature of an operating system is the ability to multitask." Well, yes... but I'm glad we don't have to worry about that anymore when comparison shopping.
Older monitors could also get left behind forever. There was a firmware update for my somewhat buggy monitor, but Benq will only include it with new production monitors.

I do wish reviewers paid a bit more mind to the myriad of GUI/usability issues w.r.t. monitors (waking from sleep, DP disconnects, slow menus that are plagued with inconsistencies depending on the monitor's state, etc). Sometimes, if I'm lucky, a reviewer will make a side note about it in their comments section.
No I've pretty much abandonded the idea that I will ever enjoy running. I've given it more than a fair shake, and have found other ways to stay active.
I remember when sendmail was the de facto standard, and postfix was the lighter-weight new kid on the block.

I’ve had my own domain since the 90s and self-hosted at one point out of my dorm room. I continued for years after, but I gave it up before I ran into issues with deliverability. It was largely due to issues from the other side of the equation: Too much spam in my inbox and not enough time and motivation on my part to keep fighting it. I noticed my throw-away gmail account had pretty good spam filtering, so when moving my Mx to gmail became an option, I threw in the self-hosting towel.

EDIT: Again, with perspective from the other side of the spam fight, I wonder if anyone self-hosting on a non-residential IP that is having almost ZERO of their emails go through successfully has their DMARC set up properly. I use gmail for my own personal domain, but Microsoft 365 setups I manage for companies all use the strictest filters for emails without a tight spf rule (and a pass) and not using DKIM. Those are just not optional these days, unfortunately.
Public health is not at stake. I want to cook my own damn email burger thank you.
> felt more like a cog in a machine.

to be fair, you are. regardless of geopay or not.

comparison is the thief of joy. but if you must compare, do so against local companies.

you didn’t mention that the job stunk or was otherwise bad. just that you were paid less. if you don’t think the pay is fair, the course of action here is pretty obvious …
Every few years I checkin to see how they’re doing, really would love to have one of these.

With the way cars and SUVs are growing though I feel like more mass and crumple zones are necessary for a safe driving experience though
what about people that don't have access to a good power tap? (apartment dwellers, renters, etc.)

I've lived in two apartment buildings that had electric car chargers. In both buildings, the chargers were constantly engaged.

Hopefully some of that electric infrastructure money ends up putting chargers in private and public parking garages. I think that would give people more confidence that they could switch.

Related question: Once you charge an electric car, how long can it sit before it discharges on its own? Like how if you charge your cell phone, but even if you don't use your phone, eventually the batteries will still run out.

I don't drive much, so I wonder if it is practical for me to charge an EV in an apartment garage, then move it to another space and leave it for a week or two or three and it still be full?
I started to build Leon in late 2017 on my free time. There is no big organization behind Leon AI, just me and more with the community later.

At the moment the whole core is being rewritten, many new features are coming up. Please do know that the main strength of Leon is about the core and not the skills yet. Once the official release shipped, with the community we will all focus on building new skills by extending from the core and let Leon makes meaningful things.
Among the upcoming things, new offline STT/TTS solutions will take place.

It's going to take some time to build a respectable personal assistant that respects our privacy, but we are getting there.

If you have any question or just wanna chat, feel free to join us on Discord.
That's a funny coincidence: my partner recently watched an old episode of "Little House on the Prairie" in which one of the characters mentioned "salt-rising bread". I have coincidentally been baking a lot of bread lately, so I felt curious about how that might work, and looked the process up. After reading this article, I think I understand it a little better still! I'm not sure I want to try it, though.
Well if you live in an apartment complex, I'm pretty sure storing large amounts of gasoline in your apartment isn't allowed either, so there's not a difference.
I looked up the cost of puberty blockers and this turned up : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/well/family/what-are-pube...

[..]“It depends a lot on what is obtainable through a patient’s insurance,” Dr. Kremen said. Insurance companies are reluctant to cover off-label drug treatments, and implants can run up to approximately $45,000 per implant out of pocket, while shots cost can cost thousands of dollars per dose.[..]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/when-transgender-...

[..]The Endocrine Society’s guidelines suggest starting puberty blockers for transgender children when they hit a stage of development known as Tanner stage 2 — usually around 10 or 11 years old for a girl and 11 or 12 years old for a boy. The same guidelines suggest giving cross sex hormones — estrogen for transgender girls and testosterone for transgender boys — at age 16. However, doctors caution that estrogen and testosterone, the hormones that are blocked by these medications, also play a role in a child’s neurological development and bone growth.
[..]
Another area where doctors say there isn’t enough research is the impact that suppressing puberty has on brain development.

“The bottom line is we don’t really know how sex hormones impact any adolescent’s brain development,” Dr. Lisa Simons, a pediatrician at Lurie Children’s, told FRONTLINE. “We know that there’s a lot of brain development between childhood and adulthood, but it’s not clear what’s behind that.” What’s lacking, she said, are specific studies that look at the neurocognitive effects of puberty blockers.
[..]

Most of these treatments are still very expensive and often out of reach for people without the help of insurance. The cost of puberty blockers is approximately $1,200 per month for injections and can range from $4,500 to $18,000 for an implant.

[..]

NPR article is 2015. The first NYT article is 2021. So I guess prices are going up!

I suppose there are a lot more opportunities for revenue after the puberty pause. Profitable racket.
> 1) cost of living - a lot of my colleagues are in locations where they can buy independent houses which are cheaper than an appartment in the city I live…………

Have you considered moving/transfering to another country ? You list all the problems there and you would benefit from higher income, free healthcare and housing opportunities

Focus on what you can change

Move to where the money is or find a company that pays location independent wages
Most folks would consider -20C cold AF.
Technically, it’s been obsolete since like 2019.

It’s honestly impressive how many times the MTA managed to mess up a switch to contactless.

Fun fact: the same year Metrocard was rolled out to the general public (1997), Hong Kong introduced its Octopus card, a smartcard ticketing system. So Metrocard was to some extent dated on arrival.
I’ve WFH almost my whole (>20y) career. I wasn’t around to say how this has affected my current team because it was fully remote before I joined and before the pandemic. My previous team went remote earlyish in the pandemic and at least from my perspective became more social. I personally have been more inclined to be social with my community outside of work, which is something I’ve struggled with in the the past. I’ve also been more inclined to have meaningful social connections with the coworkers I actually enjoy socializing with because I have more choice about the social circumstances. I’m quite happy not to have the artificial social pressure to be working and friends and working and friends and working all the time. To the extent other people do have that desire I hope you’ll design your thing to recognize that some of us very deliberately don’t want to participate and make every bit of it philosophically opt-in and consensual.
One of SPF or DKIM is pretty much mandatory, and SPF is far easy to maintain.
But how much time do you spend dealing with that? Is it worth it?

I self hosted my email for more than a decade but I gave up when the time spent was just too much.
File a complaint request, they will fix it, they did for me.
Would using a VPS with a static IP not work?

Also does it help to use Google/Azure to host with regard to IP reputation with Gmail or Outlook?
If people want to live in remote areas

This is an easily solved problem. Just stop eating. Once you stop eating, then we don't have to have farmers and their remotely-located support communities growing food for you.

For bonus points, stop using computers. Electronics are made up of all kinds of metals that are mined in remote locations. So, stop using electricity at all, if you're really concerned about this.

And while you're at it, give up toilet paper. It comes from trees that are waaaay out in the forest. If you stop wiping, then we don't have to truck trees to paper mills to make toilet paper for people in the city to use.

Do your part.
> There are very very very few places without electricity in the world.

In the first world. Billions live in places with no or unreliable electricity.
https://dutchbikes.nl/home/
What happens next if Kenya Supreme Court upholds Rutos win
They never said free nor even public health care.
A red LED (or really any LED due to the physics of the type of energy transitions used to produce light with an LED) has a much shorter wavelength (significantly higher energy photons) than any type of EM wave sued for cellular connectivity (including the mm-wave stuff that isn't being deployed very widely).
"Wouldn't surprise me if Linode were entirely blocked."

I'd be very surprised. I hosted email on Linode for years without issue.
Honestly didn't know about the Barcelona system, that is cheaper. Looks like a good network too.
Yes, the scale and techniques involved were super interesting. It's out of the light but far from boring.
Or a used smart car