skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with cynicism and corruption conspiracy theories is that they become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If everyone is corrupt, then it’s OK if you are, etc.

There is no fair application of the rule of law, there’s no reason for rule of law, only the rule of men. Better hope they’re on your side!

My point is that clear corruption as we think of it (fraud, bibery, self dealing) in most Western countries is NOT considered normal. Ie. It happens but we’ve built institutions to counteract it. The FDA is notoriously bureaucratic in order to detect and prevent corruption, and for the few cases to slip through, to correct it.

When you hear about corruption stories, that’s about the system WORKING against those cynics that are testing it for their own benefit.

Cynicism is self destructive. If our institutions are broken, we must work to repair them.
This will likely backfire in the long term. People writing content will shy away from writing articles on subjects or which answer questions that google will simply steal and display. Eventually the existing sources will become out of date and google will begin to serve inaccurate information.
Dark UI Design: A step-by-step guide
Key error in your argument: "would not cost them anything."

Of course they would lose profit on the customers that would pay for X instead of .8X. "if i can buy the same hardware at 20% less cost why would I buy it at the full cost?"
I feel the same way - I’m somewhat skeptical partly because it’s good to be skeptical of most things, especially something that you can’t really see, but mostly because when I ask the climate change people what I should do in order to combat climate change, their first and only answer tends to be “vote democrat and never vote republican!” That being said, I still mostly do what (I think) the climate change people say I ought to do such as recycle, prefer energy efficient alternatives, and try to walk when I can. To the extent it doesn’t hurt us, we all might as well be “environmentally conscious” even if it turns out we didn’t actually have to be.
There are some reasons to be skeptical of Blockstack in particular. They make a lot of claims, pump cash into apps without disclosing it's actual source (they claim it's from sales of a subtoken, but aside from a blog post, I can't actually find any evidence of that) and in general have built a JS heavy library that is setup for easy code injection.

None of these apps need a blockchain. None of these apps gain any benefit from a blockchain. Just, I dunno, don't use a giant universally observable blockchain that suffers from the majority issue in order to store private data? Seems easy enough.
^^ Ross Ulbricht
It's insane how many intelligent, thoughtful people I've met who still parrot the line that "oh our children will be screwed". Or even worse, they make some random allusion to scientific progress or God and claim it will all be okay.

No.

Science will not save us. God will not save us. It will not be okay. And unless you're currently on your deathbed, you will feel the effects of climate change. You will be fucked.

I suspect only drastic, world wide, almost revolutionary political change could effectively halt the massive carbon generating machine that is human industry. Except the problem with massive revolutions is that they tend to cause conflict, which tends to increase emissions (tanks don't exactly run on solar).

Man, I'm pretty damn close to joining a doomsday cult.
Try again, this time by reading the page with your eyes open.
That would be like car dealer asking "should I get a LOI before I let folks drive the new car." For a 7-day trial dont waste your time, or their's, on a LOI. LOI's are not worth the paper its written on.

A no commitment try-before-buy is almost always a great sales strategy for good software. Customers would have a hundred questions when they actually use your product. this is also a good opportunity to learn about how to sell to the next client by improving your sales pitch.

Not sure if your product is amenable to this, but one learning I would share is give a "shared account" for trial. for example the product could be branded in your name, other trialling companies could be using it at the same time etc.

say for example if you were sellling GMAIL, you would give them a 7-day free trial but they have to use an email and password you give them like username: test@gmail.com , password: test123 and other users will be logging in at the same time - trying sending and receving email, tagging mails, suggested replies etc.

I sell a product that allows customers to send messages via WhatsApp. I give them a shared account to play with as long as they like. but if they want a branded account , they have to pay upfront and only then i set it up.

back to the car analogy. Think of it like a demo car http://bit.ly/2ySHeTc . The client get a feel for the car but pays if they need one, all for themselves.
> because management had decided an unachievable purity was more important than frank and open communication

Can you expand on what you mean by this?
DuckDuckGo is lately behaving the same way... Time to find another alternative I guess.
Yack means throw up in many circles. Just be aware of the name.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yack
Kind off, note this was a prestige project, financial loss of it is probably minimal (now the money will be put in broad market)...
I got bitten by homelab fever few years back and got myself a small server. I had such grand dreams with it that never materialized. Now it sits unplugged in the corner deprecating itself :(

Stuff that I was planning to do:

* Managed VM platform (~"EC2")

* Centralized auth (FreeIPA)

* ZFS NAS (also possibly ceph) + backuping

* Container platform

* Your typical web/email stuff

* Monitoring/alerting/log management

* VPN endpoint (and other more advanced networking stuff)

* Probably something more I have already forgotten

I realized that building a private cloud actually takes serious effort and not just putting some lego pieces together. There is also bit of circulatory stuff there that makes bootstrapping more difficult, especially on one single box.
Of course we don't actually buy that many things from Chinese companies. Mainly western companies that use Chinese manufacturing. The 'powers' that control western countries don't want to stop doing business with China.
It would be an interesting experiment to crowd-source these types of punishments/penance. Not in a binding sense, but as a way to lobby judges for sentences that might best rehabilitate the offenders.
Teddy Roosevelt was a big game trophy hunter, who set aside swaths of unspoiled north American soil for appreciation by many.

I think conservative didn't imply conserving nature as much as conserving social norms and policies.
Wouldn't that completely break all IMEs? I doubt people in Japan, Korea or Taiwan would enjoy not being able to write their language for potentially a very long time.
Please elaborate! You seem to have direct relevant knowledge but this tweet-length jab doesn't add much to the conversation. Even just a couple paragraphs would help us all understand.
And also because they've slowly made sponsored results look like organic results to align better with their becoming evil OKRs: https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog...
>Now Google is using the same content and depriving them of the traffic.

I found some instructions[1] that says a website can opt out of Google's Featured Snippets with special HTML code:

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”nosnippet”>

Are there any cases of websites deliberately opting out of snippets and therefore seeing their referral links (and ad revenue) increase?

[1] https://searchenginewatch.com/2019/03/27/google-featured-sni...
Yes, Teams is a SharePoint client from the SharePoint team. Arguably the best SharePoint client ever from the SharePoint team. (The chat storage even gets stored in the SharePoint backend and you can add Teams chat as widgets on a SharePoint frontend.)
VMware Octant
Those aren't viable seeds. Cavendish bananas (or other bananas that are cross-breeds) have 3 chromosomes (triploidy) since they are cross bread between a diploid (2) and a tetraploid (4). These triploidy cells cannot perform mitosis and thus do not enlarge in the banana. They still have "seeds" but they are so tiny that they pass right through our digestive track and don't break our teeth.

If you see a viable seed it's going to be quite large, looking like 5-10 mm each:
https://www.quora.com/Diploid-bananas-have-seeds-How-many-se...
A bunch of those things aren't really searches though, are they?

I do queries like "2 tbsp in tsp" or "45 * 22" or "$25 CDN in USD" all the time and I don't think of them as a search.

Same goes for my Echo. I ask it all the time for today's weather or what time the Texas Rangers are playing or who is the starting pitcher for the Giants tonight. None of that feels like a search.
Yarn (and now NPM) allow reproducible builds via a lock file.
I was with you on the first statement - I have no reason to doubt such a thing.

The rest of it - you lost me bro.
A regime that relies solely on the threat of violence to maintain its legitimacy, but which is not willing to employ violence, is not going to last very long.
What in the world are you talking about?

Of course the world is not black and white, there are shades of grey. That is completely orthogonal to subjectivity vs objectivity. Just because a situation is grey and no one can agree on which shade of grey it is, doesn't mean the situation doesn't objectively have a shade. It can just mean humans are fallible and can't see perfectly, so we're all wrong to some degree about the correct shade. But there could still be a correct shade.

Separately, every single example you brought up is black-and-white. If a "knife-wielding maniac" were in the process of killing random innocents and police don't have a way of nonlethally restraining them, then of course the police are justified in killing them. If a cop in the USA or anywhere was in mortal danger and had no way of nonlethally restraining their attacker, then killing their attacker is justified regardless of the mental health of their attacker. If an innocent isn't following contradictory commands and isn't threatening anyone's life, of course it isn't justified to kill them, what are you talking about?! There is nothing grey about the fact that failing to follow contradictory commands by police should clearly not be punishable by death?!?!!

I'm sure there are tons of Han Chinese on the street who think concentration camps for Muslims in China is acceptable, just like there are tons of Americans on the street who think concentration camps for Muslims in America is acceptable, just like there were tons of Americans on the street who thought that internment camps for Japanese-Americans were acceptable, tons of Palestinians who think all Jews are invaders who should be wiped out, tons of Jews who think all Palestinians are suicide-bombers who should be wiped out.

Those people are wrong. Those examples are not shades of grey and not subjective, lots of people disagree because lots of people are wrong.

I'm also wrong about lots of things, I should not be dictator of the world, and neither should anyone else. That's why we need a system with rules set up so that the more wrong ideas shrink in influence and the less wrong ideas spread in influence.
This looks amazing. Going to give it a try for my next project.
I think the issue is how strongly people are complaining.

For example.

I think we can all agree that sexism is bad, and that in a perfect world your coworker would not be looking at you with "hungry eyes". But the world isn't perfect, and you have a coworker who is attracted to you. Maybe even a bit too flirty.

But then people treat this as if the coworker is a horrible human being rather than maybe just an oblivious or socially awkward person who isn't really trying to cause any sort of harm. And this behavior then gets equated with sexual assault, "violence", and so forth.

The perspective is all skewed. It's not nearly as large of a problem as they're making it out to be. There was a story a while back about a woman who realized her drink (coffee I think) would start tasting strange in the middle of the day so she took it to a lab and had them analyze it. It turns out one of her male coworkers had been ejaculating into it when she walked away. THAT is horrific. Your male coworker being a bit flirty is not nearly on the same level, but people treat it as if it is. And that's where the problems arise.

And you just watch, atleast one person is going to respond to me affronted and imply that I must be arguing that it's ok for unwanted attention, or that I believe it can't cross unacceptable lines. It absolutely can, that's not the point.
Well, he kind of had to in order to make his point. As long as I’ve been alive (four and a half decades), they’ve been insisting that we have “only a decade years to save the planet” - so going back to a report from 10 years ago and comparing their 10-year-predictions against right now is a good way to figure out how concerned you should about their current 10-year-predictions.
One challenge is that those in the Midwest seem to welcome the idea of "global warming" & several Midwestern states seem to be key to winning the presidential election.*

I think that is a very hard marketing battle to win since the idea of climate change to many people just means warmer temperatures.

I think a lot of people in colder climates feel they have little to lose. The actual massive scale effect is extremely difficult to comprehend, even after watching excellent documentaries. I think it is only something most voting citizens will care about when it effects them personally & by then it would be far to late.

* Based on living in the Midwest

- Edit - Giving this more thought I wonder if these articles need to be less about temperature changes & reflect more about increases of extreme weather & effects on farms.
While watching the HBO Chernobyl dramatization, I was struck by the Soviet government's contradictory response of publicly denying the problem existed and minimizing its extent, while at the same time giving the science team almost carte blanche authority to requisition resources to solve the problem. 5000 tons of boron? Helicopters are on their way. The entire country's supply of liquid nitrogen? It's yours. Robots? If they'll help, sure.

The show made a big deal about how communist secrecy and denial obstructed the solution, made the problem worse, and even allowed it to happen in the first place. "A nuclear disaster cannot occur in the Soviet Union".

But when I think about how we're reacting to climate change, it really seems like we're pretending the problem doesn't exist the same way they did, but without the corresponding succeed-at-all-costs extreme problem solving.
This is a neat writeup, thanks! Do you use a proper server rack and if so, where do you keep it installed? Right now my homelab is in a tower, but that's obviously not ideal for density.
How the climate emergency could lead to a mental health crisis
Fedora developers discuss ways to improve interactivity in OOM situations
It doesn't work that way. Literally every fruit, legume and vegetable you're eating, that you're not hand picking from a forest, is the result of selective breeding and this has been going on since agriculture happened, from around year 10,000 BC at least.

It's not perfect, since the selective breeding we've been doing has been for diluting the proteins and increasing the energy per acre. And there are still plenty of concerns with various seeds we've been eating, like wheat, corn or soy, but interestingly these are also the playground for GMO research and that research hasn't been about making them safer for humans, but rather for increasing the yield, protecting patents and for reduced pesticide use ... which should raise further concerns about their safety ;-)

When I'll see GMOs meant for making consumption by humans safer, those are the GMOs I'm ready to buy into, but not until then.

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> with GMO we can be assured it's a very small set of edits that we can more readily assess the safety of

I don't believe that we can readily assess their safety, because I've been interested in and studying nutrition and I know how science in this field works.

But if you know more on this subject, please provide details.
I don't know if I'm old, but my wife and I are in our mid-40s and we agree that we smell differently than we used to smell, for instance when we were in our early 20s.
That's awesome, well done. Really nice that it exports to codesandbox as well so you don't even need to download anything. Would love to see support for TypeScript as well.
Given that you agree with the basic premise of climate crisis, what part of advocating for a post carbon economy "hysterical"?
I'm not sure people understood your innocuous joke...I did.
I assume they realized they don't need that many air superiority fighters and that they are costly to maintain. What would you even do with 750 planes that have very limited use in bombing Taliban fighters in caves?
Useful iDRAC features like remote display and remote ISO install isn't in the base Dell iDRAC license. So I still need to hook up keyboard/monitor if it's more than a reboot.

Edit: iDRAC is the Dell LOM, iLO is HP
Timeline to remove GCC 4.2.1 from FreeBSD
Curiously, I spotted no mention of the various Microsoft-focused antitrust investigations/rulings back in the 90's.
A lot of older people don't shower or bathe as often as young people because they're worried about slips and falls. I'm surprised that the article didn't consider that.
Hm, I think there's scumminess on both sides, since (as GP noted) even simple sites (e.g. for lyrics) are bloated and unusable.

Before:

User: Hey Google, what's the monthly payment on a 20-year mortgage with 3.9% APR?

Google: Oh, MortgateSite would know, go there.

MortgageSite: Here's your calculator.

User: Okay, let me put in the numbers ... awesome, thanks! Oh, neat, they can hook me up with lenders. Let me take a look.

MortgageSite: Thanks for the referral, Google!

Everyone wins.

Today, it's more like:

User: Hey Google, what's the monthly payment on a 20-year mortgage with 3.9% APR?

Google: Oh, that would be this much: ... . Here are some sites where you can dig deeper.

User: Um, okay, might be worth a look. Let's try MortgageSite.

MortgageSite: uhhhhhhh hold on a second. Hey, see our BUY THIS PRODUCT mortgage calculator. AND THIS ONE

User: Uh, okay, I'll just type in--

MortgageSite: HEY! It looks like you're new to this site. Want to get on our mailing list?

User: You know what? Screw it.

MortgageSite: Confound you, Google, for stealing our traffic!
I tilted at the windmill of making and selling a secure RTOS for 10 years. It is a fool's errand, and everybody that likes money should stay away.

What I painfully learned is that hardly anybody save sometimes the US government is willing to compromise on features or pay 1 cent more for a secure RTOS.

Look at it another way. The market for cybersecurity is supposed to hit $300 billion by 2024, according to a recent report. If we only released secure software, that $300 billion market wouldn't exist. In that sense, it is vastly more economically viable to release insecure software than to spend any effort on securing it.
Thanks! Would love to hear any feedback once you give it a spin.
Ukraine doesn't have 2A though. Most of the "weapons in the population" in the hot phase of the conflict there came directly from the military bases where the separatists used to serve. People simply switched allegiances. Some willingly, some not so willingly.
Actually, I was just thinking of something like this. In particular, I'd like to be able to keep tabs on a group of YouTube creators, without being dependent on the whims and machinations of what the YouTube team wants to promote. There are also certain creators who post to both YouTube and BitChute, but prefer BitChute, and I'd like to have a browser that will show me the BitChute version preferentially, without my having to think about it.
Hi, I clearly misunderstood your post. I implied you didn't know the licenses while I did not understand the "to bear" part of your post, at all. Furthermore, I am sorry if I came across as offensive. You make a good point in this post, clarifying your viewpoint. A viewpoint I can relate to.
Seems to me an activist loud enough to get legislation passed could also be loud enough to organize an effective boycott or at least a pretty effective PR campaign against companies (or even individuals) that are threatening species.

People like animals. I'd certainly be willing to buy Coke rather than Pepsi if I thought it was going to save an owl or a possum or something. I also don't think Coke would be above putting an owl on some of their packaging to remind people that buying Coke will save owls.

I'd much prefer this approach to legislation.
How is this different than Google Earth / Maps?
Fair, but at $370 I think the ratio gets much better.
Use Restic to Backup to Minio or S3
It also means "talk"
The differences in email editors and how to get the best design quality
Awesome, thanks for clearing that up
Totally. Un-clickbaity. Title. It’s meaningless. I saw the url and was curious.
Not to be callous, but as someone who's struggled with the feelings of "otherness" of having to deal with mental health issues, this comes across as someone with no context trying to help and making it worse.

The fact is most people with mental health issues want to be a part of some sort of community. Having a mental health issue isn't a community itself - just like "people that fly on planes" isn't a community, or "people who drink coffee from starbucks".

I assume that the intentions are pure here - but its both culturally and tonally offensive. It comes across as patronizing and does not meet anyone where they are - the tone of the site addresses people the way a parent would a child with poor mental faculties. I'm sorry, but I don't think you realize how "normal" people who deal with anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc are. Its almost like you've taken the view of mental illnesses from the 1950s and slapped bootstrap on it.

Some examples -

Grammar:

> Earning points and prizes for creativity, art, hobby

Language:

> Jobs board for people with psychic problems

Patronizing:

> We know that despite your difficulties you have necessary skills and intelligence to use web applications and internet surfing.

I'd beg you before you go further - meet and get to know some of the people who you're creating this site for. Theres a fundamental lack of understanding on display here.
Thank you. I figured people would want to be able to quickly check out the code and play around with it rather than wait for npm install :)
not to bang the trope drum too loudly, but Kurzweil mentions this phenomenon when describing the way that growth looks exponential over a long scale, but feels more like S-curves[1]

1- https://www.slideshare.net/olandri/l03-exponential-world
I was diagnosed with Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss years ago and haven’t found any cures despite some kind of Chinese acupuncture wasn’t of help.
The ban was a long time ago, in 2017.

https://www.hk01.com/中國/105476/太像習近平-小熊維尼-慘遭-河蟹

Of course you wouldn't have problem about it now.

Yes, there are a lot of stupid claims a out China in the western press, but there are easily equally, if not more, absurd claims about USA in China too.

Same for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, so on and so forth.

BTW, maybe try 8964 八九六四 and see what you get.
“Bicycle for the Mind”
Taxpayers hit from govt partnership with US video game maker Machine Zone
We're the only species that can make those decisions and the only species that can consider the consequence of those actions. We've grown beyond just letting things run their course and watching what happens - it's become increasingly obvious we work against our own self interest in how we run around destroying things. I don't find the ecological equivalent of "boys will be boys" in any way satisfying.