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Show HN: I built a tool that diagnoses your email deliverability
As you may know, Google is rolling out bulk sender guidelines that go into effect Feb 1 (that’s this Thursday)

Your deliverability could be impacted so we made this tool.

Here’s how it works:

1. Send an email to the generated email address
2. Review your results

That’s it. The generated /results page is also accessible publicly so you can share with your team in case you're not the one with permission to add or modify records.

You can view an example of a passed test here: https://bounce.doctor/results/example

We currently check for valid DKIM, DMARC, SPF, List-ID and One-click Unsubscribe. We plan to extend this tool in the future as well but it will remain free and accessible without an account.
I've always wondered what they do here in the John Deere Innovation Hub in SF. They have a fancy building and sign and everything.

I guess they're making space tractors in there?
Are "children playing" even effective? Do you think the dangerous problem drivers are actually giving a shit about them? Similar for speed limit signs unless you have strict and regular enforcement. Although at least the prudent drivers would obey those.
> It feels wrong to say that it's fine for someone with only a profit motive to use private data in small, petty ways to extract more profit from someone that's already paid them, but that the duly elected representative government can't use it for big, important things.

We make this distinction all the time in areas like speech and searches, for good reason. The government is the only entity with near-omnipotent power over you. Corporations may be powerful, but they are ultimately restrained by the government’s monopoly on force; the government has no such restraints because it has the monopoly on force. It’s therefore reasonable and prudent to have different, more stringent rules for the government. If someone working for a corporation doesn’t like you, they can’t kill or imprison you (legally). Not so for the government.

With that being said, whether or not anyone at all should be allowed to collect or use this data is also a totally valid topic for discussion and disagreement.
I didn't realise it's a discontinued product!

The real challenge would be to do it for their flagship products .. Basecmap, and more ..
> If the company is taking an action that makes it less likely for people to come to the office or enjoy it, then it's pretty clear what they are doing.

Cheaper staff reduction without redundancy payments!

Except for the intangible domain knowledge loss, but that won't appear on a finance spreadsheet.
Agreed, it's just rhetoric. Same as all these claims of an ongoing 'trans genocide' in the USA. Absolute nonsense, but it gets the believers in this ideology all riled up, and so the purpose of this rhetoric is fulfilled.
I'm really not sure if it's perfectly context sensitive or too much even for systemd.

But dick answers is the specialty of the systemd development team. I wouldn't want to get into a contest against them.
This was surprising to me, so I did a little digging. Per [1], it appears the options were that chocolate milk comes from black and white cows, brown cows, or "don't know". As far as I am personally aware, both cow choices are correct answers, and I wouldn't blame anyone for choosing "don't know" when they haven't been given an option for both.

Of course it's also surprising if this was how the question was asked, and I may be misinterpreting the interview. Sadly, the survey itself does not seem to be available to confirm or deny.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533255590/alarming-number-of-..., quote: "RAGALIE-CARR: Well, there was brown cows or black-and-white cows, or they didn't know."
I've found the Kagi summarize feature very handy (does both YouTube videos and web pages).

Did a quick test of this tool for comparison (on https://youtu.be/iJuGkwA7S1c):

- Less summary and more bullet points

- Included sponsor in summary (which Kagi omitted)

I like the bullet-point format, but prefer Kagi's summary.

This tool's summary:

- Fireproof construction and compartmentation are key components of high-rise fire safety.<br>- Malfunctioning doors and windows can compromise compartmentation and lead to the spread of fire and smoke.<br>- Fire departments have a standardized response system that scales based on the severity of the fire.<br>- The Bronx fire in January 2022 was a tragic example of a fire that outscaled the response system due to faulty doors.<br>- Ground News is a tool that helps users find news stories without partisan bias.

For comparison here was Kagi's summary:

This video details the coordinated response of firefighters to a house fire in Colorado. It describes the different types of firefighting vehicles like engines and trucks, and how they are deployed from local fire stations. The response follows a standardized system where the first engine on scene acts as Incident Commander, coordinating additional resources. Modern firefighting relies on techniques like compartmentalization and sprinklers to contain fires before they spread. The video highlights how failures in compartmentalization, like faulty doors, can allow fires to break out of control as happened in a deadly Bronx apartment fire in 2022.
They who?

It is perfectly valid for the NSA to buy that data, because the NSA cannot use that data in a way that violates the fourth amendment without breaking other laws.

If the FBI buys that data they need to have probable cause prior to that purchase else all the purchased information and everything resulting from that information cannot be used to prosecute cases. The reason is because defendants have a legally established expectation of privacy on certain electronic communications such as email.
The simple fact is the Constitution is there to protect you from the Government. I personally think the government can basically shoot you in the face without repercussions and not face much of an issue with the right coverup; it's a lot harder for corporations to get away with that in any legal way. Sure they can ruin your reputation via credit or whatever, but they can't pitch you in a dark cell for forever, nor do they really have much incentive to do that, unlike the government. Corporations are not the government, if you want to limit their powers then get laws passed that are a mirror of the constitution except for corps instead of the government; until then you can't say corporations and the government are the same or that corporations are as bad as the government.
I think that's a rather limited experiential take. Rather depends on the neighborhood where you may see kids outside playing freely or not. Regardless:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032489883/china-kids-video-g...

Wouldn't you agree China is outside of the anglo-world view?

Wouldn't you agree that is limiting how kids can be kids?
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Snowpipe Streaming Deep Dive
Low birthrate is only a problem for ponzi-scheme societies.
A thorough analysis on how Snowpipe Streaming is built behind the scenes.
Good point. And thinking about it, I know cases where people have received C&Ds anyway while only using official APIs and services. Will edit
My train of thought was similar to this, but I’m worried about my eyes. Although I’m not sure whether it’s worse than me looking at a regular screen all day long.
Discovering the unintended consequences of this policy is left as an exercise for the reader.
While true, Its important to note that the second Cell wasn't gonna be the same type as the main CPU cell. The cell they intended to use as the GPU would have only 4SPEs(vs 7 in the main Cell)along with various rasterization components. Would have been cool. Settling on the Cell was compromise after compromise.
These days there are several aspects of software development that we take for granted. Perhaps we don't know how we'd manage without them. But it wasn't always that way.
I think there's an interesting bit of human psychology on display here, where signing up for this service wouldn't be lost in the depths of a to-do list, but scheduling an equivalent bank transfer would.
>>It matters if you have money, time, and willpower to go to court.

This is why we need some version of Loser Pays law... Especially when there is a huge resource imbalance like a FB suing a lone dev.
I love the header image of that article!

I looked like that, most days.
the alternative seems to be aggressively metricize and cut

The SWE industry almost universally practices Scrum which is already pretty great for metricizing and tracking work.
I didn’t check, but it’s a safe bet the average number of people in a household decreased significantly.

That could increase demand even if the population decreased slightly (which it didn’t, according to another reply)
What's interesting is if you go to countries like Costa Rica, there are still more opportunities for kids to be kids. The US has created a helicopter parenting style along with many other western countries. Kids don't learn important things that playtime gives them and turn out more neurotic later on in life with much lower resilience.
Musk would obviously be on the side of the Martians.
My experience has been that people who work from home are a lot more productive than people who "work" in an office.
It is expecting the DEA to do their jobs so that a half competent defense attorney does not invalidate the evidence.
Exactly, and that means that airlines like Southwest wouldn't even consider it.

One of the ways that low-cost regional airlines save money is by standardizing on a single aircraft. For Southwest, that's the 737. Every single pilot, inspector and mechanic in their entire organization only needs to be certified on a single airplane, they only need to have one parts supplier, only one set of tools, etc. - it's enormous cost savings.
> it's more obvious in roles where the work is less quantifiable.

So management can go to the office and pretend to work, leave the engineers with very much quantifiable metrics alone.
This should be the main link. Since nitter went away twitter is unusable.
I like it. Simple and clear.

You could add a button to suggest extra features. It could be a way to consider a premium version that could give you money.
Google at one point actually started including their ads among the search results so you can barely tell the difference, whereas in the past the ads were in the side bar where you knew they were ads.

That tells you everything about where they are been prioritizing their energies.
You are not responsible for what other people do, only what you do. If you feel the need to comply with a C&D by, for instance, taking down your work, you take down the repositories you are in control of and don't worry about others who forked the work. Worrying about them is the complaining company's job.
VR headsets have been around for many years now and why does anyone believe a somewhat better version of those things would hit critical mass? It seems like the form factor is as much the problem as any of the implementations. Many people really wanted an Apple version to be a game changer. Maybe this game can’t really be changed?
> does anyone really find RTO surprising?

I do. I haven’t seen any clear evidence that RTO results in higher productivity or profitability for firms. Forcing knowledge workers to be in an office X days per week without given them flexibility and discretion indicates poor management culture and lack of trust to me.
At my prior ultra mega corp we meticulously capture telemetry on everyone’s work habits super big brother like. We had been for 5 years before covid and ramped up considerably with covid. Our sample size was over 300,000 knowledge workers.

We found an average 20-30% productivity improvement and nearly 40% morale improvement with remote work.

When our elderly CEO decided enough was enough and forced everyone back into the human hamster wheels we saw a reversion to the pre-remote work performance across the board basically immediately and employee satisfaction dropped considerably below pre-pandemic levels. Interestingly the people who refused to comply with the mandate saw their performance improve even more, which made the employee review consequence for non compliance stick.

This is a statistical average so there are outliers, and the population was bimodal. Some people genuinely did better in the office and saw performance improve when they returned. But that definitely was not the mode.

So, I feel for the folks who aren’t part of the general group that does better at home, and they are the ones who say things like this. Remote work is great for business not because it improves morale and productivity (which it definitively does) even if it doesn’t for you). It’s because warehousing bags of mostly water to sit all day on zoom commuting to telecommute with their teams scattered all over the world is economically inefficient.

We saved like $5m/y with bring your own device by ceasing the corporate subsidy for blackberries. We could save hundreds of millions by ceasing corporate subsidies for your chair with bring your own office.

The fact a board can improve EPS by a significant amount, improve morale and productivity, by not making industrial human chicken coop seating available is a no brainer, but it’ll require passions to cool and the elderly CEOs to retire.

Edit: I had a preexisting remote work agreement with this company. As the RTO lockdowns and roundups became more severe (we had a less than 20% compliance rate with the mandate for at least a year), they claimed my RTO agreement hadn’t been properly approved and wasn’t valid. Suddenly I had to come into an office where I didn’t work with anyone locally, everyone I worked with was in Europe or NYC and I was on the west coast so had to go into the office at 4am to start my zoom meetings (I usually started at 5am at home, rolling out of bed and logging in), etc. I did the only honorable thing and write a widely distributed screed about the absurdity of RTO (more impactful when a senior dude does that), and quit immediately. I got a much better job at a late stage startup with no RTO policy, pays better better work, and the people I work with are happy and productivity.
Honestly it sounds like you work at a very poorly run company. There's plenty of companies thriving with RTO and cultures of trust.
Right. There's also the sophomorically named "TRAMP" for connecting from a locally hosted emacs session to files across a wide range of protocols including ssh.
A multi-stable deployable quadrifilar helix antenna for disaster-prone areas
Except every study done since the pandemic has shown no effect on productivity from remote work, yet somehow every thread on this is filled with totally real stories about someone they know who doesn't work.
Generating Children's Stories with A.I [video]
Piracy is a bit of a problem on pixeldrain, but I am fighting it. I have automated DMCA processing and am banning infringing users.

I'm not able to find any court cases. I'm not sure where to look either though.
It doesn't matter to the platform, mind you, I've seen people abuse this. They will deactivate the account and require ID.
I am completely unclear on whether publishing your project open source gives it (at least, the code, if not any deployed version) any kind of protection if Facebook etc. target it

I would love to get a lawyer's take on that, although I guess it would differ by jurisdiction - California and Ireland are probably the two key ones for most big tech
Meanwhile FORD says that the powershift gearbox is YOUR fault for not using it properly. American automakers are a joke.
A few common counterarguments and my responses:

Kids don't have to be super expensive!

This is true, but it's also true for most people they are. To make them not expensive, you have to avoid a lot of things that most people consider a normal, middle-class part of a regular lifestyle or a middle-class way of raising children. I won't dispute that there are probably smarter low-cost ways to raise kids, but we're talking about parents as they are and will continue to be, not parents as some idealistic frugality experts: people will want to pay for music lessons and for vacations to Disneyland. Especially if they were already taking equivalent vacations before they had kids.

Why should I have to pay for your kids?

Because collectively, people having children is what supports society, especially when it comes to people eventually retiring. If there are no more workers when it comes time for you to retire, society doesn't work. If there are not enough workers, society doesn't work well. The proportion of government budgets that different nations are paying out towards elder care via pensions and healthcare is huge and increasing because of changes in this ratio; the fewer workers you have, the more something's gotta give.

Can't we just use immigration?

This actually isn't a horrible idea, it's just that this is likely only a temporary solution, for one simple reason: birth rates are low or dropping nearly everywhere now. You can only take the excess youth from other countries for so long before that won't really work anymore. Eventually, it'll be shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic, especially as more and more developing or previously-developing countries improve their own economic situations.

There are also possible issues with cultural integration of immigrants, but I don't disagree that using immigration as part of the solution is a good idea at least for a while (and certainly, some countries already do this; the US has been below replacement rate for a while but has still had an increasing population).

What about robots doing all our work so we don't need workers?

In the sufficiently long term, yes that might work, we might get fully automated luxury communism (I'm certainly not against the idea). It's just that

a) We don't know how long it'll take until we actually have robots capable of doing all the basic things you need in a society like growing food, constructing buildings, practicing medicine, teaching people things, etc. and also

b) So far, humanity has done an awesome job of basically making up new jobs that require humans every time we get rid of existing jobs that require humans. The number of people we need to grow food has collapsed, the number of people we need for industrial production per unit of <thing> has steadily been decreasing for a long time, and yet somehow we keep coming up with more jobs for people to do, new ideas of what counts as a necessity (your great great grandparents probably didn't consider individual therapy to be one).
> And if you can't convince your "boss" to give you enough time to deliver something that meets your bar, quit.

Ok, all the programmers with a sense of ethics have quit. Now what, boss?
I was thinking that you’d need a pretty accurate clock reference to do this, automatically triggering based on a microphone to log the time.

But I guess not. Sound is slow on a distance scale of miles, so timing it to the nearest second is good enough.
It sounds to me like Boeing has been making incremental changes to the 737 over the years. Clearly now it's NOT the same plane. But was there a clear point in time where they crossed the line and it really should never have been certified as the same aircraft anymore?
There’s no requirement to wear them 24/7…

You can get an awesome 2-3 hour immersive movie experience and still look at your partner after. A good cinema experience already envelopes me and makes me forget I’m surrounded by a hundred others.
Very good post, also kind of depressing how big companies can easily squash the little guys

> It doesn’t matter if you’re right. It matters if you have money, time, and willpower to go to court

There are some exceptions to this, but for probably 99% of cases, this is true

I’ve personally been on the receiving end of a litigious situation, facing a very wealthy individual. It did not go well for me, and had to swallow my pride/ego. This last bit might be the hardest thing to do

It is one thing to rationally know that the world is not fair. But when it happens to you, oh man, it’s not easy at all to take it
You can run codesign just fine in a VM.
Definitely what I would have tried to do. Likely would have taken me longer than the approach the OP took.
the boo boos are fine, but what about medical costs? Thats a component that I hear nobody talk about with safetyism. Can you imagine what a $15-20k bill for a broken arm (ambulance, ER, surgery, medication, follow-up visits) does to a middle or lower-class family? This a major factor to why people sue, because they can't afford these kinds of boo-boos.
> wipe out the block storage device attached to the VM

Does this provide guarantee that subsequent job won't be able to recover the data?
My own personal experience. We made the mistake of buying a suburban town home next to a state highway with an HOA. At the time it seemed great but as our kids got older, they wanted to play outside. We’d get letters from the HOA about the kids playing in the street and how that wasn’t allowed cause of the bylaws. We ignored them and let them continue to do what they want. One time a board member tried yelling at the kids and my wife flipped out on her.

Now one of my boys wants to walk outside of the neighborhood. He’s thirteen and at the age I was when I’d run around everywhere on my bike. We don’t have decent sidewalks here and traffic on the main road is 45MPh and they are legit assholes around here who don’t pay attention and are always on their phone while driving. My wife doesn’t want to let him walk to friends and I understand why. Our environments are built for cars, not for people, to travel. Too many stories of Bobby or Suzie getting hit by cars. I’m working to petition the three townships that manage our town to invest in sidewalks cause I’d love for him to be able to run around but at least with that buffer.

So, I get safetyism. I don’t want to lose my children. I also don’t want them to experience life through an ipad so anything they want to do, we’ll go do it. We actually did do a walk down the road a few weeks back, trying to show them how to hug the road or go into the grass to stay away from cars. Once they’re in town, the sidewalks are nice but being right on the edge, we get left out.
What's so great about a family farm? We're much better off without 90% of the population being poor, self-subsistence farmers.
"Why don't you want to telegraph your entire social graph to the world? What are you hiding?!"

I'm not expecting you or anyone to believe this but I find the whole concept of Facebook boring, in fact mindbogglingly mind-numbing.

What's missing from people's lives that makes them addicted to Facebook? After all, humankind has survived and managed without Facebook for all of human history save the past couple of decades.

Given a normal distribution of interests, statistics would suggest there's likely a few more like me tucked tightly down one end of the distribution curve.
If it takes being in person for your management to tell that someone is not doing anything and PIP/fire them, then I'd certainly call that poor management. You shouldn't have to look over my shoulder to know that I'm doing my job.
We (and our new clients) constantly get frivolous cease and desist notices from a particularly butthurt competitor whenever they lose one of their customers to us. They have a habit of shutting off customer access to their systems and ignoring any requests from customers (who are still paying their bills) for their data.
pass arguments, receive parameters vs pass parameters, receive arguments
Is it possible for someone to

1. Be a really good 'in person' manager (able to foster a good in-office culture, motivate and coach people effectively in real time).

2. Be a really bad 'remote' manager.

Not saying RTO mandates are a good idea, but to say it's masking poor management as a black and white statement lacks nuance.