petemir

I worked for a company that sent travel deals newsletters everyday. Deliverability to (then) Hotmail was abysmal.

We then got the recommendation of a company (cannot remember their name) that could analyse our IPs and give recommendations. Naturally, the recommendations were the ones that you could find everywhere so they were not useful, but the company did have access to MSFT's score of our IPs, so we could know when we were close to being blacklisted and could take action/ramp down/etc. How did they have access to those internal IP scores? I don't know, but it seems totally fishy :).

For sure we spent 5k+ USD yearly in this service (which is a huge amount of money in a 3rd. world country), and "somehow" after paying our deliverability did improve, despite doing the same things as before, as the recommendations were not ingenious.

So yeah, e-mail deliverability is a mafia, for sure.

Could you share a link to your found solution? Thanks!

Yes, they go around that because they are considered a “three-party scheme”

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48519/why-are-a...

High fees are what Apple uses to offer such “great benefits” with their existing card. If they want to expand to Europe, the only cards enabling that would be Amex, or Diners (which is even less accepted I think).

If the Amex partnership includes global (or at least, European) expansion (which seems more plausible than with GS), it may generate extra pressure on vendors to accept it. iPhone market share is quite high in Europe(~35%), and I’d guess mostly comes from high spending sectors (e.g. 56% in Swirzerland, 50% in UK). I would try to attract their business.

I hate that it works this way, but perhaps an Apple-Amex deal is what is needed for businesses to start accepting Amex.

Edit: typo

At least in Switzerland, Amex is still a pain to use.

Are we sure? (Some) People are still going to vote for Donald Trump in 2024, one of the "bullshit generators" (such as chatGPT) used as example in the article.

(n.b. I am not trying to make any type of political judgement here, I am just using the example in TFA).

It’s not clear from the voice alone

> iCalendar setup is only possibly through the iPhone app at the moment.

From what I gather, only iCalendar can be setup just through iPhone.

> It can display calendars from Google Calendar and any iCalendar link* (ical, ics, ...).

> You need your phone (iOS or Android) only for the initial configuration.

You can setup Google Calendar through Android

The Archive link was posted in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38289869

Actual title: “Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API: Embrace the 20% Black Friday Treat”.

You may have some comments about the relationship between HRV and stress here:

"A healthy heart is not a metronome: an integrative review of the heart’s anatomy and heart rate variability" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25324790/

Then you have a persponsibility to your profession/hobby and you should submit more helicopter stories to HN :).

Nokia Bell Labs are working on a earbud (i.e. earable computing) that does (indirectly) blood pressure sensing by using PPG sensors.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3572864.3580341

There are some sparse examples

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.08.210

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1811.04115

https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164587

At least in some parts of Italy (I was in the Lombardy region) you pay an annual garbage tax where they provide you yearly with a predetermined amount of bags containing an RFID tag. You can still ask for more bags if needed, and I guess that in that case your tax would get adjusted depending on usage (which they track with the RFIDs). Kind of unsettling though that they could link your trash back to you.

Furthermore, I find that barcodes are a bit more picky w.r.t. how to scan them, while RFID is easier.

fyi: apparently that's only a welcome (e.g., first-time user) offer. As soon as I logged in, it changed the price to ~11usd per piece.

My dream: to have every supermarket item embedded with an RFID tag so I can have a constantly up-to-date pantry inventory, with notifications of out-of-stock or near-expired products.

Yes, I am too lazy.

That link is less than 2usd (1.62chf) for me. I’ll never understand Ali’s pricing.

Gradient ascent?

Meanwhile, I went to an Apple Store to try to repair the button on my 4-yo iPad and the only comment from the Apple “Genius” was “your iPad is too old, get a new one”.

I always envisioned a kind of world peace where all car manufacturers got together and in a not-designed-by-committee way developed a mesh protocol where vehicles and “the city” (i.e. traffic lights, railway crossing and so on) could communicate data to each other in order to ease some of the limitations of current autonomous driving technology.

And if you want to get that grim feeling from a game, check "This war of mine"

I am not able to download it on Firefox - Linux. Is it Windows/Mac only?

From the images and description on the app's Play Store page [0], the skill level is manually set.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.lorendb.mu...

Thanks, you're right! I actually run my own private instance for scrapping so I never recall the main instance.

I totally agree that Twitter/X is a shit-show since the not-so-recent change of hands. I am only providing an explanation to what OP sees.

You are only seeing what Twitter's current front-end is showing you: a random assortment of old/"best-of" tweets.

Enter through an alternative front-end (https://nitter.com/SlackStatus) and you should see more status from this year.

I did not try cloning, but I do have several profiles whose settings/plugins are synced by using Firefox Sync (you can select which things to sync).