skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, period.
Pandemic e-commerce boom was direct consequence of people not going out, which comprised three major categories: back office employees going WFH and manufacturing/customer facing jobs getting shut down on one end and people needing some line of work / shops needing revenue on other end.

Were the chances that WFH proliferation will remain at pandemic levels high? No.
Were the chances that opportunistic eshops will remain once prior corrects high? Debatable.
Does JMAP do anything about the fact that it takes on average multiple whole number seconds, with frequent spikes into 10s of seconds, for email delivered to show up in people's inboxes? Source: https://status.postmarkapp.com/

If not, is anyone doing anything to improve this situation?

Sending packets over the internet across the farthest ends of the earth takes about 300ms roundtrip. What's preventing email from approaching this?

Latency is the biggest UX issue facing email IMHO, and a huge part of why it is continuing to lose ground vs alternative messaging systems, most of which are proprietary, but offer sub-second latency delivery. The world will become a worse place if the trend continues to its logical conclusion and proprietary silos eventually fully supplants email's remaining use cases.

The high average latency and even higher variance leads to people second guessing if an email they sent will ever arrive, and if an email they're expecting has ever been sent, resulting in crude workarounds like resend buttons becoming commonplace and seen as necessary, perpetuating the uncertainty around deliverability, and even further eroding trust in the system.

But most importantly, the latency problem makes email unsuitable for the most compelling use case for messaging platforms: real-time conversation.

Holding a spontaneous real-time conversation over email is painful, as anyone who has tried can probably attest. Both sides are constantly left wondering if the other side is simply taking their sweet time to reply, or if the email is just taking even longer than email usually takes to get delivered. Conversations that could have taken mere seconds end up taking minutes as a result.

This is why email has been consistently losing to messaging apps for fun conversations between friends where email's latency would suck much of the fun out of them, to Slack for mission critical work conversations where wasting time means literally wasting money, to live chat widgets for businesses looking to provide a customer support experience that delights, whereas conversations over email frequently tends to frustrate, the list goes on...

Solving the latency problem for email I believe is the key to slowing and possibly reversing the trend of email's slow but steady decline, and society will benefit massively from the continued prosperity of this rare miracle of an open system that managed to survive for so long despite all its shortcomings.
One of the biggest annoyances I have with prolog (or more accurately, prolog code), is this love that prologgers seem to have for "from a to c" shortcuts, that in any other language would be considered bad code. (I've also seen this done in Haskell, in the name of 'math elegance').

E.g. consider the introductory example in https://ciao-lang.org/

app([],Ys,Ys).
app([X|Xs],Ys,[X|Zs]) :- app(Xs,Ys,Zs).

A reader coming across this declaration would probably read this mentally as: "Fact 1: The predicate app when applied to the empty list and two unifiable lists evaluates to true. Fact 2: The predicate applied to the list with head X and tail Xs, a list Ys, and a list with head X and tail Zs evaluates to true when Xs, Ys, and Zs evaluate to true".

What a mindf**. Compare to the much clearer:

% base case
app( List1, List2, List3 ) :-
List1 = [],
List2 = List3.

% general case
app( List1, List2, List3 ) :-
List1 = [ Head_of_list1 | Tail_of_list1 ],
List3 = [ Head_of_list3 | Tail_of_list3 ],
Head_of_list1 = Head_of_list3,
app( Tail_of_list1, List2, Tail_of_list3 ).

A reader is much more likely to read this in a logical manner: "App is a (recursive) predicate that takes three lists. The base case evaluates to true when the first list is empty, and the other two lists are equal. The general case first tests if List 1 and List 3 have a common head, and then tail-recursively runs the rule again to see if the remainder of List1 and 3 continue having common heads all the way up to the base case, where List 1 has run out of elements.".

The latter reading is far more likely to make you click that this two-part predicate concatenates two lists X and Y to Z.

I get it, the top is probably more language-efficient, but it's nothing a good compiler/interpreter couldn't refactor trivially under the hood. It's obscure for no good reason other than 'brevity' / 'mathematical elegance' or whatnot.
If Aliens land in New Jersey and find out they're not using the metric system there, they'll leave immediately, no time for talking about calendars.
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But the Moon has no influence in modern everyday life. It did in the past, for scheduling fishing, to attack an enemy tribe when there’s no moon, or to hunt nocturnal animals when there is.
You’re absolutely right. Which makes it perhaps the biggest conflict of interest in history.
Because without a standard protocol they would be N underspecified proprietary variants: the Gmail web service, the Office 365 web service, the Office 365 from last year web service...

All of them with complicated authentication requirements, idiosyncratic URL construction, and other difficulties. You would throw away the baby and keep the bathwater.
> It wasn't a "crazy gamble." It was a calculated risk

The theme of this thread is risk taken by employees. Sure, it can very easily be characterised as "calculated risk" for the company. Was that risk calculated for employees?
Not just the US, it's also present in at least part of catholic Europe: in Portugal Monday is explicitly called "Second Market" (Segunda-Feira).
I am surprised that anyone has anything good to say about Scotrail, yet it seems even their terrible service wasn't enough to dampen his sunny disposition.

Scotrail is terrible. Not one of the last ~6 services I have used has gone well.

My favourite example is when my train was cancelled due to 'weather'.

It was slightly raining.

Only Scotrail could be caught off-guard by rain in Scotland.
I was ready to be upset at this, but actually it's not such a bad idea. It's a single shared flight for one person and you get heating for months in return. There is no universe in which this doesn't make sense.
> discriminating against people based on legally protected parameters, like having children or not.

Perhaps you might like to re-read what was written, slowly and very carefully.

Some people struggle with parsing meaning from English and jump to rash interpretation.
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I think most people forget the most important aspect of calendars: farming.

Harvest and plant cycles are stable in this "sun oriented" calendar design.

Every year x type of seed is planted in the same month, and harvested in another. So every year, same months can be planned beforehand.
Primary job is senior software developer. Secondary job (part time) is an IT director in an industry allergic to software at a super large employer.

There are times I hate the immaturity and entitlement that comes with developing knowingly shitty corporate software. I do so enjoy the whining, bro culture, and entitlement in software. In the past when I could feel burn out approaching I would temporarily turn the part time job into the primary employer.

Now I am strongly considering abandoning the secondary job. It’s a career destroyer. The challenge there is that anything technical or complicated is a mystery black box for most people in senior management. Although my job is clearly defined in a manual senior management is required to read ignorance prevails nonetheless. That means I am liable to their ignorance and their assumptions built upon that ignorance despite knowing my job according to the manual. That is a career destroyer.

So, my plan is to disband my department. I will elevate my two subordinate senior managers to positions of higher responsibility with extremely narrowly defined scopes. One will own networks and infrastructure and the other will own application support, products, and knowledge sharing.

I will direct those managers to carry transfer requests on their persons at all time. If senior leadership asks them to do something stupid they are empowered knowing, in advance, they can work in a different segment of the business. Then I will leave.
> that it actually started poisoning others that never had a problem with this (Gen X comes to mind).

sigh

https://slowrevealgraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scre...
Very - you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos:

> Here the authors find that inferences of power from photos of the faces of the managing partners of America’s top 100 law firms significantly corresponded to their success as leaders, as measured by the amounts of profits that their firms earned. More interesting, this relationship was also observed when judgments were made based on photos of the leaders taken from their undergraduate yearbooks, before they began their careers or entered law school. Facial cues to success may therefore be consistent across much of the lifespan (approximately 20–50 years).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189428_Judgments...

There is also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect - which is different from the above but obviously related.
Isolating your country is a measure that only makes sense when you view problems as something someone else makes, with solutions being something you primarily provide. It is unhealthy and bad for cooperation to think this way, and a "left" that proposes this is not very left at all. It is a solution that doesn't focus on the people: it focuses on the money and in/out groups.
DKIM offers something similar.
It reads that it should be above the shoulders.
Ask HN: New to having wealth, how to protect my assets?
In the past year I did a short stint doing contracting in the cryptocurrency sector and ended up with what to me is quite a lot of liquid assets (~$50k at the moment though some of that is earmarked for taxes). The current economic climate being what it is, I really don't want to keep that money sitting around (especially not denominated in euros - I'm an EU citizen), but I'm in my mid 20s and have no experience with investing.

How do I manage my money in such a way that I have piece of mind? I won't ask for investment advice directly since people are (understandably) reluctant to give it and taking investment advice from strangers on the internet is (understandably) considered a poor idea, but some leads to get started doing my own research would be very helpful, as this is kind of stressing me out.
Because to be expert the axiomatic building blocks must become instinctive, so you can use your limited working memory on higher order problems.

It's hard to explain instinctive things, or, for some, to understand why they are not automatically instinctive to others.
Korea Finds More ‘Abnormal’ FX Transactions via Crypto Exchanges
Tiny keyboard kit turns a cheap smartwatch into a cheap mini-desktop computer
Changes on the ground are gradual but basically:

* spiralling taxes on income for anyone above the bottom 20% of earners

* housing policy that actively stops construction, mis-allocates housing, maximises debt etc.

* collapsing public services due to lack of spending (NHS, Education, Local government provision)

* gold plated, very inefficient spending on certain benefits (housing and pensions and now energy)

The UK is the poster child for a lot of what Americans complain about with Boomers. When house prices go up 50% people shrug because boomers already own, when food prices go up 1%, government immediately offers anyone over 60 a huge subsidy. Then we realise there is no money so we defund health and education and increase taxes on working people. Rinse, Repeat.

The tax changes this week are nice (I will get an extra 2% in my pay packet) but they mostly just reverse the tax increases last year. Meanwhile I need to earn about 8% more this year just to keep up with inflation and because the allowances/bands don't change that will basically wipe out any gains from the "cut".

And we will need to vastly increase taxes very soon as we just decided to throw as much money at energy as we spend on education for under 18s. And that's not to solve the issue, it just paying people NOT to cut their use or insulate their houses...

/RantOnSteroids.
I've been using it for about two years now and it really made support easier. Sojan and the team do an amazing job with Chatwoot!
No, the idea is to build a 'bubble' of new code that isn't subject to all the backwards-compatible flaws of the old syntax. It's just an experiment for now.
I often use Conrad for its huge collection of small parts (mechanical as well as semiconductors) most of which can be ordered individually, with an interface with lots of filters and easy access to manuals and data sheets. Sometimes their categorization is a bit off, and they don't have CAD files, but it's decent enough.
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It is not worth destroying ecosystems for a little more power, local or otherwise. That kind of thinking is what got us to our current day, with everything going to shit.
Or even, no Zoom calls at all.

I worked remotely for 10 years, we never had any Zoom calls or phone calls. Only contact was via email, and all the work was done 100% asynchronously.

I'm interested in working remotely, but only if the company is working asynchronously, letting workers choose their own hours, etc. Not if they regard remote work as a way to save on rent & office equipment while keeping the same synchronous micromanaging behaviors.
> The person calling have no idea if they are interrupting

Nor should they care. This is in your control, exactly as it should be: turn the ringer off.
A week is a quarter of a lunar month, we kept them around after months stopped being lunar, because they are kind of nice.
Well, this meme couldn't have come at a better time :p

https://t.me/gentoomemes/972
Employees, like capital, are a component of the bet. Work is a lever just like money. Always is, always will be, that's how we have anything in capitalism. We might as well call it capitalaborism.
He mentions eating a hot meal in first class, he also has a picture of Trans Pennine Express first class seats. There's two pictures of hot meals. I'm leaning towards mostly first class tickets.

Yeah it can be affordable, but it doesn't give a representative view of train travel...
>Not too long ago, it was perfectly fine for people to turn up at your house unannounced, to pay you a visit, for no reason in particular other than to engage socially and you were expected to host them at your house (!).

Not really. Maybe for the particularly extroverted individuals, but I'm quite aware of people, both older and younger generations, who would love nothing more than to have nothing to do with anyone disturbing the peace of their homes.

Folks out in the countryside especially have such a tendency; people go out to live in the country in part because there's less god damn humans to deal with compared to city life.
I believe it's not about customer enjoyment, it's about profits. If a customer spends more time on the website, they might buy more stuff they don't even need.

It's the same reason why you have to waltz to the back of every supermarket to buy essential items, walk back to the front, and look at individually packaged, overpriced snacks for several minutes while waiting in line at the register.
I can't tell you how happy I am to see Golang language server support finally added! Thank you!
> Objective-See

Heh, I C what you did there.
For the avoidance of doubt the same can be said for any country against any other country.
Yeah, this looks really helpful for many cuisines not just for Thai!
super easy and user friendly. Easy to rollout, to keep a working supply-chain for the physical OTP...
> disseminating information to the public for the purpose of image management.

This is pretty much the definition of anyone ever making any kind of public statement. Choosing ones words carefully with the knowledge that what they're saying will affect others perception of themselves and the situation at hand. I don't think anywhere in Tobi's post was it implying this _wasn't_ a business decision, I figured that went without saying. Shopify's a business, hiring decisions are an enormous consideration for businesses. Were you under the impression Shopify was a charity?

> I know all the nice things you did! The P was R'd!

As much as this is the way you cynically expect others might interpret Tobi's post, I think anyone with experience working in or running a business will have no problem understanding that businesses are not people and that messages from a CEO are not meant to be treated as blogposts or emotional diary entries.
Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it.

Full song, with an earlier version of the machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos
https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/literate-calc-mode/ is pretty nice. I always have literate-calc-minor-mode (+org-mode as major) in my scratch buffer for quick calculations.
> Cambridge is infamously time consuming to get to by train

Says who?
Something you could do anyway with a network of $50 android phones mounted on bridges over freeways.

But this way you don't have to pay for the cameras - someone else has done it for you.
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tbh betting on the fact that you will have explosive growth in the future while you are at the best economical time of your life at an exceptional time where most of the industries but e-commerce are suffering due to a worldwide pandemic and hoping that while millions of people died, countries debts increased, well gamgling that people will buy more after this time is a "Crazy gamble".
Damn, that site is good
It also means you're paying your labor cheap. That makes you more competitive.
The authour. You can see their domain in the email that makes the signature.

> CA/emailAddress=ca@conman.org

> CN=gemini.conman.org/emailAddress=sean@conman.org
I'm at a loss for words.
Very entertaining!
I suppose if we have to start from scratch we might build a better system, but who has the time?
It just shows the amount of change that has occured in the past couple of thousand years. Yeah, it might not make sense, but it works...mostly. Just get rid of DST and keep the rest for now!

This reminded me of a Joe Rogan bit, where he imagines how the human race will explain Kim Kardashian to aliens.

Many things will seem illogical to beings who have figured out interstellar travel...
Pretty people get undeserved favor form basically everyone.

Presentation has a lot of power. We're all shallower than we'd like.

You can game this with little effort. Dress well, maintain a good haircut and pretend to be confident.
The newer Fenixs can do 50 hours of regular GPS mode. Not even including solar.
yes, but then it'd be dull and not funny. the whole USP of Foone is that they explain things in a fun and engaging way.
There are advantages to synchronous, however. Stuff you don't necessarily need to know right now, but if you can't take care of it in realtime, you wouldn't bother with async. Say, I'm at the store and I want to know if my girlfriend needs [some product I'm staring at], and I want to know right away, because I'm about to leave, but if she's unavailable, it's no big deal. I'll try to call her and if she doesn't pick up, I just skip it. I'm not going to do an async query and then stand around for some undetermined amount of time to decide whether she's going to respond. It's synchronous or bail. That doesn't imply that it's needed now.
There is one such book on how to write, absolutely the best in every way and recommended by the most eminent writers in the world. You can get it from any stationery store, and it only contains blank pages.
God forbid you actually have functioning token rotation and revocation alongside 2FA. So insecure. /s
The MPS-801 was a uni-directional printer, with a coil spring to pull the head back to the left hand side. Other than making it slow, it also flew back via the spring and hit the left side with a loud thunk after ever line, which made printing stuff out late at night when everyone else was sleeping, very problematic.
Some of the best documentation I've ever seen. Click on the "Learn More" for any of the apps (I suggest ransomwhere). Other software developers should take note that this is how it should be done.
I was never able to make TB work with O365 SMTP server and OAuth. IMAP works fine. I wonder if it is TB fault or it is the Microsoft doing something non-standard.
Overall the change makes sense, it is hard to have 2FA with basic auth.
Also known as the ever-lasting tension between security and usability.

To protect privacy, I would support an understandable degradation of usability.
You'd need to place those, maintain them, prevent vandalism, route power to them, pay for network connectivity and weather-proof them. The price of the cameras is not the problem.
So they care about social justice, which is bad, and they are only pretending to care about social justice, which is bad, and they use it as cover to do the opposite of social justice, which is also bad.

So, higher education is definately bad, and whether social justice is bad or not depends on whether you open the box and find out if the cat is a Republican or a Democrat?
I personally am putting my savings, assets etc into Funds. As a Swiss citizen, lot of banks here are offering Funds investing. Some of these funds are index following funds, which I personally consider the lesser evil of all investments. This will not make you richer, but has a good potential to keep you out of trouble and definitely less riskier as stocks or other instruments. So take a look what your bank offers as funds investment opportunities.
It made no sense when I look at first. Because I thought I could google it. But the details here are great. I think it's useful.
I'm sorry you feel talking to other human beings synchronously is the same as being forced to systematically adhere to a norm that is now commonly accepted to be determined by epigenetic factors.
Are you stripping hex bolts? If so, the solution may be to buy some good hex bits (and a bit extender) which make it much easier to avoid slipping and stripping the bolt compared to a plain hex key.
>McCrystal was in fact all about actually reducing civilian deaths. He drastically altered almost every aspect of daily combat life of US and Afghanistan government soldiers in that quest.

Please cite a source. Everything I have read from him indicates he was more concerned with the perception that civilians were being intentionally targetted, and it is also specious to argue that he attempted to reduce civilian casualties during a period when Obama intentionally changed the definition of "male enemy combatants" to ensure that any males in the target area - any at all - would be counted as combatants, not civilians - regardless of whether they were actually aggressive.

This was a highly duplicitous act that has done more harm for American interests than good.
Yes, when demand for what you're selling decreases, you will be selling less of it.

Doesn't matter if it's labor, or widgets.