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That you went with an angry post about Donald Trump on an article that doesn't mention him once (or mention politics much at all, really) is telling. Your stereotypes are showing.

Perhaps read through the article, rather than jumping at a headline? You might come away with the impression that it could be worthwhile to meet "these unwashed masses" and find out that they're people too, with just as valid a viewpoint as yours (regardless of whether you agree with it).
I agree with you. I did Spotify for some months and one of the reasons I quit is because I noticed I had stopped listening to music that was not on Spotify. Which is unnacceptable, of course.

Since then I had the music on an SD on my phone. But I'm afraid of losing it and losing all my music, also don't want to have to manually backup the music.

Now I have a Raspberry Pi as a Music Server and it works flawlessly :)

(One SD Cards with the system and music and another one as an automatic system backup so I don't lose any music and can just swap the cards if one fails)
In the UK at least taxis are in fact public transport. In London in particular they have to take fares to any reasonable (defined) destination, they have to take disabled passengers and passengers who need a dog. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it isn't public, that's why England's public schools were (are) called public schools. Anybody could go there - if their parents had the money.
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> Where did i say i dont?

You implied it by suggesting bullying is useful for getting rid of those people. I don't know how you advocate for them being bullied and removed, yet stand up for them at the same time.

> Owning up their share of the blame has a corellation to standing up for yourself in my experience

I would not be surprised if there is a correlation; but the causality seems pretty obvious to me. If you were bullied would you admit to anything that might result in more bullying? What if the people who supposedly support you are secretly hoping you fail?

I have no problem standing up for myself, even if I have no support. I also have no problem with the truth. I'll look my boss in the eye and tell him if I screwed up. I do it out of respect and because I'm about solving problems, even if I created it. But, if he's a bully and the only thing that is going to happen is I'm going to get more abuse? Well, I've probably already complained to HR and/or quit, but if I haven't... screw that guy. He can prove I was the one who screwed up or he can stuff it.

But let's not forget the context: bullies are useful. So what if the bully is the one who screwed up? Is he going to take his share of the blame? Doubtful. My guess is he blames his victim.
Planting native eh?

Thistle, mesquite, dandelion, and cactus don't really sit well with home-owners associations.
"UNITED ARAB EMIRATES" 1st yeah that's some bs, just take the example of a EU passport where you can live and work indefinitely in any EU country without visa.
"What I tried to do was subtly to entice my readers to reflect on the validity of the ruling beliefs about women in STEM"

This may sound rude, by why are you even talking to me if you're not desiring to engage with me and my literal words? Wouldn't a blog be more suitable for you? Because I'm still not entirely sure how your points interact with me, and why you're responding to me.
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> Given the right motivation, people will put up with any UI.

Another way to think about this is: without the right motivation, people will hate any UI, no matter how good it is, simply because it requires learning (even if the learning ramp is really smooth.)

The only way to judge how good a UX design really is (as compared to another UX for the same workflow), is to compare how quickly and well people learn that UX when truly motivated to do so. Otherwise you’re not comparing the UXes themselves, but rather just how much learning your user populations happen to have already been motivated to put into systems more similar to one or the other of your UXes in the past—a result that will be meaningless in anything but the most “targeted at 100% of consumers” of apps.
tl;dr - Today’s web services, APIs and applications are required to be highly responsive and always online. Managing state across multiple data centers distributed far and wide around the globe is a hard problem to solve. For CDNs to be truly useful they have to work like (Geo-Distributed) Databases.
Familiarize with other distributions/operating systems: nixos, one of the bsds, etc.
This site has been submitted to HN a dozen times but the only time it got much discussion was in 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481026

Here's a couple related links submitted in the last year with significant discussion:

"Traveling the World on a Third World Passport":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17778108

"Show HN: Compare benefits of a second passport based on the one you have":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577386
I love all kinds of music and it'd be unrealistic for me to have it all purchased. I listen to easily 20 artists in a day, and those rotate very quickly.
> Dealerships often get more than MSRP

That's not true. Each trim package has it's own MSRP, and while a dealership may inflate the asking price for a particular model with a particular trim package or features, few people walk into the dealership having no idea what the standard asking prices are - and willing to pay full asking price too.

Of course dealerships make money from financing terms and leasing - and yes things like "window etching" and more are pure profit for the dealership. That doesn't change the vehicle's out the door price.
Nope. Not worth it.

There are mountains of evidence demonstrating that people change their behaviors when they know they are being watched. Do we really care about the automatic resolution of petty squabbles between children, or even the coercion of children to never engage in petty squabbles? Do we really want to rob children of mischief, conflict resolution, and making a case for themselves in a way that cannot always be substantiated with hard evidence? Do we really want to condition young minds to see a constant surveillance as a kind of benevolent security blanket?

And that's not even all that's at stake. The Overton window is shrinking as it is, and academia has adopted a censorious and puritanical orthodoxy. Classes benefit a great deal from the students who care enough to challenge what is presented as de facto truth, but I'm inclined to believe that this will give a basis to silence that behavior. Looking back on my own experiences, would I have felt comfortable speaking out against teachers if I knew I was under surveillance? I'm not so sure. But in most cases, even the teachers themselves often told me that they were happy to have somebody engage them meaningfully. But some weren't so happy, and those are the ones that have a new channel for abuse.

And what about the teachers? Some of the best teachers I had would've been fired for what they taught, or allowed students to do. Allowing controversial class discussions, sometimes among students bordering too young to handle the subject matter. Doing a dangerous chemistry or physics demonstration that bends the rules slightly. A classroom led by a cheeky teacher was often ruined by the superintendent or principal standing in the doorway. Now they're in the doorway 24/7.
The gist of their purpose was described at the end of the article, they are hoping to reduce harm by allowing some manufacturers to determine the sex of their animals prior to birth. In this case an engineered mammal would be practical.

I find the general purpose agreeable (or at least more ethical than just killing the undesired sex), but before they ramp up production I think it would be extremely important to regulate the cases where this is used.
I remember like 10 years ago it was all the rage to support 45 different databases. I'm so glad that time has passed. It wasn't feasible. Yes you can orm the crap out of things so you never see a line of SQL but you end up with index tuning on multiple database platforms. I noticed the trend thankfully just sort of walked itself away about the time non-traditional databases entered the picture and well it was pretty much impossible to support Mongo and Mysql (reasonably). I'm assuming more things are going back to Mysql/Postgres/Sybase/DB2 again, but I hope more companies and OSS projects stick to just one this time?

The bottom line argument is this: When you make the decision to support multiple databases think of the 10-20 years of changes your product will exist through (and possibly a lot longer) and realize how much extra work that is going to be even if you use ORM. Then if you come to the decision Gitlab is - are you going to want to write the porting software for your users or just let them be shit-out-of-luck?
People still use wordperfect. Legal profession really likes it.

I truly do not understand why having used both.
> Clearly you agreed to google listening to and recording to all sound being made in your house, leading to privacy violations.

That's not how these devices work.
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yeah, unfort. I did not :(
> Spend any amound of money to have small class sizes, pay teachers better, make schools friendly and welcoming, have more counselors around or whatever.

I share your strong distaste for surveiling children, but I don't think throwing money at the problem is a good solution either. there are plenty of well funded elite private schools that do everything you suggest, but still have severe bullying problems.
Worst practice? Seems to be a pretty standard website ;-)
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I don't know how much it even really decreases outbursts in the classroom- this is at the elementary level so all the kids are pretty impulsive. But the reality is that it gives teachers a tool to make admin and parents address the behaviors without just dismissing it.
> Before we continue, ask yourself if you expect this information to be collected on you and relayed back to your parent, your child, your spouse, your co-worker, a salesperson, an ex, a random stranger, or a stalker every time you read an email.

Yes. I expect analytics to be captured from HTML emails which I open.
>And of course anyone within earshot of any of those devices also deserves to have their privacy obliterated, even if they themselves don't own one?

If you don't warn others about a listening device you may even be running afoul of wiretapping laws, depending on your location.
What has Facebook done to engender this level of trust with you? For myself, and I dare say most people paying attention, Facebook has clearly demonstrated they should not be allowed to become a central bank.
Doesn't that hold for a e-VISA too ?
Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth.
> even today many people in the Linux world are opposed to the idea of GUIs and user-friendly software

I hear that a lot, but is that really true anymore? Linux Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and Fedora are all in the top 10 most-watched distros on Distrowatch, and two of those have Gnome as their default GUI. Say what you want about Gnome after Gnome 3, but it certainly was intended as something to be a lot more user-friendly and embraced the idea of a GUI heavily. (Personally, after I gave it a chance, I grew to really like Gnome 3; I think a lot of people's visceral reaction to it had to do with the fact that it was no-longer trying to be like Mac or Windows).

I've been using Linux full-time (no dual boot) since 2010, and consider myself somewhat of a "hardcore" user, and even I still mostly use a Gnome setup.
Free choice is the opium for the masses, as the prospects of young people have diminished considerably in recent times. Tech companies bundle this choice illusion as "convenience".
EU benefits have nothing to do with the passport
India's Jio, Facebook launch literacy program for first time internet users
The Swiss passport has the best design for sure.
Unless you avoid producing heat (in the thermodynamic sense), the Carnot efficiency is a hard upper limit. A fancy steampunk apparatus to harness heat near the Carnot limit is still optimal.

Improvements come from running hotter or from avoiding producing heat in the first place. Some newer nuclear reactor designs output their heat at very high temperature, and devices like fuel cells and direct capture of beta particles can, in principle, exceed the Carnot efficiency available from using the fuel to heat something.
Arguably, if it was the case there is a systematic push of women to dominate all levels of higher education, then only a minority of extremely hard working or talented men would achieve high level positions while the vast majority would be women who used nepotism and social networking to achieve their standing (via feminism-boosting).

So it still isn't making intuitive sense to me why most leadership is still male if it holds true that women should have the most power and have held the most power over the leadership pipeline for over a generation.
Last I knew, the coprocessors that are running all the time are very, very small and incapable, and only capable of detecting the wake word, and that not even terribly reliably; it sent the wake word off to the main processor if it thought it heard it for further checks. This would be, say, two or three years ago.

Are there now co-processors running all the time that could do full speech recognition (not just keyword recognition, which is way easier, but full speech recognition) all the time without such significant battery drain that it would be noticed? I ask not because I consider this some sort of technical impossibility, but because if that is the case, I'd like to know so I can update my understanding of the situation.
I don't see anything click baity. It was, indeed, not easy to opt out. And this is for someone that knew they could.

"
To figure out how to do so, I had to leave the boarding line, speak with a Delta representative at their information desk, get back in line, then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board"

That is a process that is not easily discoverable. And the "opt out" isn't announced as an something that even exists.
A smart speaker has a tiny CPU designed to listen for the wake word and doesn't even fully power up until that is heard. Sure it's voice but it's the voice equivalent of pressing a record button.
There are generally some more educated pockets within these regions that are actually quite desirable, but lack economic development. These spots, like Asheville NC (the place I ultimately would like to settle down in) are unfortunately quite expensive due to low housing supply and people from out-of-state moving in. But I've got a remote gig now, so I just need to save up more. Personally, I will be happy to be part of a culture that values friendliness, ingenuity, sweet tea and banjo music.

Fwiw, I tried moving away to Seattle, but despite my educational attainment and liberal leanings, I found that I just prefer NC. There's something to be said for living somewhere you don't feel like an outsider. After 5 years in Seattle, I still couldn't lose that feeling.
Taxes are the federal catch-all. It's like "disorderly conduct" or "resisting arrest" but for higher net worth individuals. If they can't prove the thing they actually want to get you for and can't trick you into lying to a federal agent then they go through your taxes and generally speaking most people involved in the kind of stuff the feds put you in prison for aren't paying taxes on said stuff in a manner that is fully consistent with law (paying what you owe is not necessarily enough to comply with the law for these purposes).
But still, PSP did it better, with fewer clicks, that long ago.
My argument against this is that I have never, ever seen a tabbed code base where if you changed the original tab size of the author the code didn't end up looking like total shit, usually because of next-line alignment issues.

IIRC the original Sun Java source used an 8-space tab width, and looking at it with a 4-space width made it much more difficult to read.
I would note that Photoshop has had, for about a decade now, a set of “configuration pre-sets” (I forget the exact term) under the Window menu. These allow you to, in a single click, turn off all the menus and palettes except those relevant to the subfield you’re working in.

And honestly, Photoshop isn’t even the best candidate for that approach, since some image-manipulation “jobs” can pull in every tool in the toolbox. It’d make perfect sense in a program like AutoCAD, or Excel, or an IDE.
Also worth checking out is reddit.com/r/selfhosted, which tends to be much less 'masturbatory' than /r/homelab
A streaming service is _not_ just a collection of your favourite songs.
Content discovery and auto-playlist are some of the not so easily irreplaceable featured offered by the likes of Spotify.

And anyway, the diss about ownership Vs rental is far too broad a swipe for the topic at hand.
Why not have a password-protected repository per client? If you need public dependencies, build them once and copy them to all repositories.

HTTP supports inline username and passwords, use HTTPS to keep the password encrypted on the wire:
http://username:pass@server.tld/...
Why Are U.S. Drivers Killing So Many Pedestrians?
To hold a passport you must be citizen. If you're let say American and German, you have a EU passport which is very powerful since you can live and work in any EU country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passports_of_the_European_Unio...

My point is it's better to hold a EU passport than a UAE one.
HN title is not good. Original title is "U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row, Reflecting Rising Drug Overdoses, Suicides."

The comparison is between the last three years and 1915-1918, but the Spanish flu was just getting going in 1918.

EDIT: folks just arriving, the HN title has changed since I commented. It previously said "worst trend since Spanish flu," or something.
I wish everyone were able to express their thoughts that clear!

(crawls in the corner and sobs)
For exploratory work MATLAB and the MATLAB IDE are pretty good and shorter scripts are fine. However once you start trying to write actual programs and pass 1-2 kLOC or so, MATLAB just gets more and more painful.
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This is still Photoshop (today) requiring more clicks that PSP required in the 1990s for the same task. This was true for many tasks at the time.
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They do, we actually put together a correctness test for this behavior:

https://github.com/timberio/vector-test-harness/tree/master/...

Logstash is not graceful. Our testing shows that they basically shut it down and start it again.
This is incredible. Pleasantly surprised every 2-3 seconds by things I didn't even think of.

"Oh, it didn't mean whole email, just the first part"

"Hmm tab doesn't work"

"Oh, it didn't mean whole domain, just the first part"

"Where's .com, oh I see"

"Wait 'Next' isn't the big blue button?"

"Oh I see, that big red message means my password is good."

The 'How can we help' arrow just makes it grow slightly taller. Over and over. Heh heh heh.

And that was just the first page! This is fun, had me genuinely chuckling quite a lot.
> they implicitly discourage men to apply for job by adding "We especially encourage women to apply." to job ads,

Wait, how does that implicitly discourage men to apply? Sure, it is a direct encouragement to women to apply, but that is not therefore an implicit discouragement to men. An implicit discouragement to men would say something like: "We encourage women to apply above others" or "We encourage men to also look for other opportunities".
I really want to see what happens if Facebook says no.
i gave up on the second screen...
>Unless you’re reusing the original source code, there’s no copyright violation per se

Dunno about that one, chief. Copying non-literal elements of code can still be infringing.
If the real reason is they don’t want it, who cares what the other reasons are?

In your critique of their argument, I don’t see a single reason why they should use MySQL. So why should they continue to use MySQL? Why should they solve nested groups and long text columns? What does that buy them?

> All they had to do was implement a nested set pattern for their groups [1]

I admit I have a sensitivity to knee-jerk “can’t you just” comments, but reading the first paragraph of your link, this doesn’t sound like an automatic win. Is it possible that they tried this and found out that it actually couldn’t be supported in a performant way? (Edit: turns out they did exactly that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344575) Either way, it sounds tricky... so back to the real question... why bother?

“Updating requires renumbering and is therefore expensive. Refinements that use rational numbers instead of integers can avoid renumbering, and so are faster to update, although much more complicated.”
Years of market manipulation is fine as long as you're a federal agency with the backing of major banks. It's like the US complaining about Russia proxy wars and election interference - who do you think they learned those techniques from?
What is Open Source? How do we implement it? Why is it useful?
Homeschool: Not a viable option for us. Both of us worked, with high salaries, but not high enough to easily forgo either income. Plus, neither of us felt qualified to teach some middle-school and many high-school level courses - so we worried about a transition from home-school into a school during adolescence.

Private: We didn't see an upside in our region. Public schools are excellent. The local private schools don't perform materially better (once you adjust for public schools being required to serve low-income and special needs students). Downtown private schools would have had an upside, but at great expense ($35k+/year) - we thought saving that money for college was a better idea.

Public - we chose to live in an area with excellent public schools (both because of the schools, but also proximity to jobs, liked the area, etc).

Public schools have their problems. But most can be mitigated by "voting with your feet", paying attention to local politics, and being actively engaged with the school.
There is indeed a cookie banner, at least for me.
So, what good is this list? To make the people on top feel smug, and the people on bottom foment revolution to change their country?

It's not like you can easily choose your passport like choosing a sports team or college or something.
Having a Mercosur passport (Argentina) and EU passport (Spanish) I think I have a pretty sweet deal - Spanish passport gets me visa free to most of the countries in the world, and the Argentinian passport gets me to Russia visa-free (hi Putin!). And then on top of that I can live in any EU country and also live and work in any (or most I think) Mercosur countries without having to worry too much about work visas, etc.

When I see the kind of hoops that some of my fellow countrypeople need to go through just to find work abroad (i.e. come to the EU) I really really appreciate that my mam was intelligent enough to tell my 15 year old self to go get the citizenship when we could.
FCA (UK) proposes ban on cryptocurrency products
I agree with trying to move more of the network functionality out of the ISP provided device and into home servers. A simple and cheap access point[1] can provide all the L1/L2 you need. Then you can run dns and dhcp inside Linux, configure firewall rules, segment your network, etc. The sky is the limit!

Note: I reccomend a dedicated access point over hostapd because I had a lot of problems with it circa 3 years ago.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/tp-link-tl-wa801nd-300m...
MacOS support was removed back in 2018.
Its so terrible I love it.
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