skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the cycle of life. Zawinski's Law is a powerful force.

The same thing happens with ticketing systems: $old_ticketing_system is way too complicated and bloated, so let's jump to $new_ticketing_system because it's small and easy to understand. Oh, but we miss $feature_1, so let's ask for that. And $feature_2, and $feature_3. Continue until $new_ticketing_system becomes way too complicated and bloated, at which point you find $newer_ticketing_system, which is great except that it's missing $feature_3. Oh, and $feature_4. And 1 and 2, come to think of it. Oh geez, now $newer_ticketing_system is also coming apart at the seams, time to migrate to $even_newer_ticketing_system. . .
> How's this work? (detailed) We send your browser a unique string. It must be "solved" within 5 minutes. You browser is told to hash that unique string over and over, each time adding a new number. Your browser starts at 1 and counts up. Doing this until the outputted hash starts with 5 zeros (this is the solution to the captcha and is needed to submit the form).

and why couldn't a bot do this again?
> How about we let adults do as they please instead.

I don't understand why your post is so angry. In England there are no laws that stop people vaping. We have a government organisation that has to make recommendations for public health, and they've given their recommendation.
Why? I'm honestly bothered by this Cold War mentality that has settled in people due to the amount of repetition that Huawei somehow is doing something bad yet no single piece of evidence has come out to support those claims.

Restricting competition by using FUD is nothing new to the Linux community, but seeing this being done at the govt level and people buying into this whole tribal mentality is astonishing. I have more issues with some monopolistic tendencies that companies like Google or Microsoft in the 90s had, especially with how Android is effectively becoming closed source through the Play Store and Services, yet you do not see that level of collective paranoia going on.
If I don't use them then language complexity doesn't matter. Compilation times might be a factor assuming that turning them off doesn't also decrease that (which it might).
Nintendo is a monopoly with respect to Nintendo games (but not Nintendo devices, since you can buy those all over).

Monopolies aren't inherently illegal. See e.g., patents and copyrights, which are legally granted or protected monopolies.

What is illegal is anti-competitive practices. This doesn't require a dominant or even majority market position--authorities in the US and EU have gone after companies with relatively small market shares that engaged in anti competitive actions (though they haven't done so in many years).
It does on a Windows vm if you checked the add to path checkbox.
It's insanely inefficient and the price of the electricity you're burning is much less than the value of the crypto. So you're costing your users money, and you're only capturing a small amount of that money.
I for one am glad that my favorite FOSS projects do not talk like sterile Oracle PR drones, nor act like them.
Robert X. Cringely
> 1. Python core dev pretended Python 3 was good and ready by, like, 3.1. It wasn't.

IIRC the messaging from Guido and Python core dev circa PyCon 2008 and 2009 was that it was good enough for people to start thinking about how they might migrate. This resulted in experiments with different approaches to migrations, maintenance of versions for Python 2 and 3, etc, but at that time there wasn't a clear end date and no rush to migrate. It seems like a lot of people misinterpreted what was actually said. Similar misinterpretations seem to happen within the wider internet community around the GIL and perf considerations. That cliff is finally here ten years later after a lot of experience with migrations.
Four European countries stripped of 'measles-free' status
> Compare the situation with Java!

Isn’t that comparable to java? Oracle gives you paid security updates on version 8. You can keep using the previous version without security updates or migrate to OpenJDK 8, which have their own security group. More options, seems better to me.
> they don't pay it

There's not much they can do in this regard; they might actually pay the Apple Tax in the accounting sense, but the tax taken goes into the same bank account. They can't take less money from the $10 Apple Music charge since the tax has to go somewhere, and they can't just charge less money for their services since that would just be changing the price for the users, making competition even angrier about Apple undercutting them.

The Apple tax is 30% by the way.
But even in this supposed nanny-state of the UK with it's single payer commie healthcare there are no laws preventing people buying and using vapes.
I think you missed the point of the grandparent comment. It referred specifically to what "the average person thinks [is] a baguette". I love Japanese baked goods, lots of super light fluffy bread, great pastries. But crusty, fresh baguette is not something I saw much in three years of living in Japan. Every supermarket had bread in a bag that was called バゲット and looked like baguette — but every one got the texture all wrong.

Just like there are places (Asian groceries, etc) to get good tofu in North America, I'm sure there are places to get good baguette in Japan. But the average person would think of what they can get in their local supermarket, which is decidedly not-good.
Those people are a sample of the general population. Most of the people on that bus are not blaring music or aggressively panhandling. A small percentage, just like in the general population, are.

I imagine, from the above poster's comments, that they have chosen to live in a community which isolates itself from a large portion of the population. When utilizing a service like the bus, or maybe the DMV(Department of Motor Vehicles), they are now forced to be around the general population that they have been able to avoid for most of their life.

My point is that their comments have less to do with the bus, and more to do with their opinions on the general population. Of which they typically spend very little time around.
Submitter here Jon,

Firstly - I must apologize for submitting as 'Fuze BASIC' - indeed my confusion was from your previous product; I did not realize that 'FUZE4' was actually a new name and just thought it was a clever way of saying 'FUZE BASIC for Nintendo Switch'. EDIT: Mods, could you change the title if possible? I can't edit it myself.

Everything else you've said - I 99% agree! (I think we could have an interesting discussion around "every "coding for children thing" is fake"). I started out on the Commodore 64, reading the books and typing in the program listings; I'm thrilled that you've made something like FUZE4 and think it's a wonderful fit for the Nintendo Switch. Lots of people own this console and now they too can have the 'coding out in the living room on the TV' experience that I (and I'm sure many others here) had growing up. I also think having the tutorial material built-in is great; I have fond memories of spending evenings immersed in the comprehensive QBASIC help documentation, way before the days of the Internet and a thousand distractions.

I'm glad to hear that you've submitted a patch to fix many of the bugs - that comment was the only one that gave me pause with regards to purchasing FUZE4 right away. With that out of the way, I'm really looking forward to diving in!

One final note - I think the Nintendo Switch eShop stands out as a platform that hasn't raced to the bottom when it comes to the pricing of games. I hope it stays that way.
What is the right use case for K8s?

And why is "ease of deployment" not something that someone should expect from K8s?

I've been sitting on the K8s sidelines for a bit as things iron out, and I've been deploying it on bare metal on a test bed over the last few days with the intention of using it as IaaS for some of my own apps.

It seems to be what it's meant to do. Keep my app running on infra following the rules I set.
>The safety of vaping is entirely dependent on what's in the liquid you're vaporizing

This is statement is incorrect. It discludes the very real and proven health threats that heavy metal consumption can enlist.

A simple understanding of the chemistry involved is enough to infer the presence of dangers not dependant on the liquid being used. If you cook an acidic tomatoe sauce in a completely copper pot... the safty of consuming that sauce is not entirely dependant on the tomatoes and the same applies to vaping[0].

[0] https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20180226/toxic-...
A cheap and virtually indestructible NAS that relies on an encrypted P2P network
I once set up an Elasticsearch cluster in Kubernetes.

My conclusion was that it was totally redundant because in the end I made a few super-nodes that each run one super-pod (which is basically just one node from the elasticsearch cluster)

I was confusing to think about the nodes of the cluster. is it a kubernetes-node? or an elasticsearch-node?

after I was done, I felt terrible, but it was already working so I had to shrug it off.

It is also kind of funny to think that this is all running in virtual machine which provides one kubernetes-node with runs a docker container which runs one elasticsearch-node using the Java Virtual Machine.
It's funny seeing that "forest" - apparently I grew up in it, but I grew up surrounded by farm land. There's even cities in it. I mean, yes, there's lots of land up there you could conceivably hide in, but it's kind of miserable, with bitterly cold winters. I don't know why anyone would want to.
How about a link to a chart indicating frequency and severity of severe weather events?

The Paris Agreement is predicated upon the link between human actions, climate change, and severe weather events. 195 countries have signed the Paris Agreement with consensus that what we're doing is causing climate change.

Here are some climate-relevant poll questions:

Do you think the costs of disaster relief will continue to increase due to frequency and severity of severe weather events?

Does it make sense to spend more on avoiding further climate change now rather than even more on disaster relief later?

How can you help climate refugees? Do you donate to DoD and National Guards? Do you donate to NGOs? How can we get better at handling more frequent and more severe disasters?
A good standalone is Money Manager EX
I'm carfree downtown in a big Canadian city. Bikes + Uber + public transit work for most things. Pogo car is a decent "mid-range" option for ~1 hour drives.

Honestly it's not bad, save for deep winter, which can be rough. Walking keeps me in shape, and it's saved me a ton of money in terms of monthly payments and insurance.
python 2 will continue to run on production systems for at least another decade, thanks to centos6 and making it basically impossible to upgrade to python3 as the main python binary on the system without completely breaking everything.
As a counterpoint, we can agree that the sea has lots of resources as well and that does not mean that we are all going to live in an oil platform because that is simply not ideal. There are well paying jobs to be had in those regions, but I do believe the parent post has a point on limiting stuff. Is it economically viable to build a underwater community? towns in the middle of the mosquito infested Amazon? etc etc
Announcing the new version of Microsoft To Do – we’ve come a long way
I'm sure you've seen endless comments on this website about how Apple has an outsized amount of "profit share", and that it matters a lot more than market share for app developers.
>> Hopefully they can correct the mistake by granting full citizenship to Hong Kong permanent residents who wants it, otherwise whatever they say is a farce. Same goes for USA, if they want solidarity with Hong Kong protestors grant them unconditional asylum or permanent residence, rest all talks are worthless.

This is something we should all be advocating for.
Hi,
I think that this question can not be answered so easily, unfortunately.
Low-code tools are just a new way of writing applications, and thus, as there is no programming language that is universal, there is no low-code tool that will allow you to build everything.
As a programmer, if you want to do intensive database queries, you will probably go SQL while if you want to write web applications you will probably choose php/node or whatever.
For low-code I think it is more or less the same. Some of them are good at building nice UI (I personally think that Panda Suite is a pretty good tool for that(http://www.pandasuite.com)) while others allow you do build flows applications or complex event processing, etc...
Everything depends on your needs and on what you mean by "complex".
If there is a low-code product that I love, I would recommend you to have a look at Hackeet (https://www.hackeet.com) but it is a biased opinion because I have created it !
So, in order to be honest, I suggest you to have a look to node-red too which seems to be quite popular.
I (obviously) prefer our product but among our competitors, this is the one we prefer.
Hope this helps.

Thierry (Hackeet, A Cost Effective Low-Code platform, for everyone !, https://www.hackeet.com )
Microsoft never had a monopoly in the OS market. Plenty of businesses large and small used competing OSs like Apple, Unix, Linux, Beos, OS/2, DOS, etc.

Microsoft had a dominant market position, and anti-competitively leveraged that market position in operating systems to muscle its way into the internet browser market.
The captcha is considered solved if the browser finds N nonces (with 0 < N ≤ 10) where a SHA-256 hash starts with 20 bits set to 0 in less than 5 minutes.

A nonce is valid on average every 2 * * 20 hashes computations, which is about 1 million hashes.

A modern GPU can compute several billion SHA-256 hashes per second.

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Since this protection is uncommon, it will protect against spam, until someone creates a dedicated bot to bypass this captcha.

Also, I suspect phone users will have a hard time getting through. My phone took 30s to validate the captcha used in the demo, which has the N variable set to 2.
Run your first application on Kubernetes
Spotify 23rd was a reference to the article in the NY Times.

It's 5th for me today, not including the Pandora ad at the top.

Quote from the infographic in the article:

"Before Apple Music arrived in the App Store, Spotify was for years the first result in searches for “music.” Shortly after Apple Music was added to the store in June 2016, it took the top spot. By then, Spotify had fallen to fourth place. In Feb. 2018, Apple apps suddenly appeared in the top six results for “music.” By the end of 2018, there were eight, some of which were unrelated to music. At this point, Spotify was the 23rd result. Spotify complained to European regulators in March that Apple was abusing its role as the gatekeeper of the App Store. By April, all but two of Apple’s apps disappeared from the top results for “music.”"
That was the first programming language I ever learned - lots of fun memories spent in Blitz3D and BlitzMax trying to make "the next Skyrim" with high school friends.

The newest member of that family is Monkey 2 [0], not to be confused with Thorsten Ball's Monkey [1].

[0]: https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2

[1]: https://monkeylang.org
When the CDC tells people to stop eating a specific food because of disease outbreak, even if rare, people stop eating that food.

When you dive in to the comments here, keep in mind a number of the posts are from addicts minimizing cognitive dissonance. The internet would’ve looked the same when cigarettes were first blamed for lung disease as well.
Recruiters will possibly say anything to get a sale.

But when talking to your future peers/team mates, I think you can expect a lot of honesty if you ask the right questions about how things really are.

I know I'm always 100% honest, because if they get hired, we'll be coworkers, and they'll know if I lied!!

PS It's weird that you didn't get the title in the contract
Today I Learned.....

And if I had kept reading the link I found (but didn't post)

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102714/are-roth-401...

Unlike the employee's contribution, however, the employer's contribution is placed into a traditional 401(k) plan, and it is taxable upon withdrawal. The employee's into a Roth 401(k). Therefore, many employers have found the additional administrative demands of offering the Roth 401(k) outweigh the benefits to their employees and do not often offer one. This is the reason for the perception, or misconception, that employers cannot provide a match to Roth 401(k) employee contributions, when in reality, they are simply not providing the option for the plan at all due to the administrative hassle.
1 in 4 Americans think the sun orbits the earth. More Americans can identify the Three Stooges than the three branches of government. Almost half of Americans don’t believe in evolution.

What most Americans believe doesn’t hold much weight.
This just irks me the wrong way.

What problem are you solving by making work for devs range from "incredibly hard" to "outright impossible" via taking admin privileges away? Surely you must understand that all things should be in balance, that security isn't the sole goal of an organization but rather an important consideration in the overall structure.

Are you attempting to create a tech "solution" to a hiring problem? You aren't going to succeed.
See the point is sometimes you need to choose between

1. Ape Shit company . 2 Stinking Bat shit company 3 Piles of Horseshit company

;-) Sometimes people make choices out of necessity. To escape your worst nightmare bozo boss to get a short term reprieve.
>Instead, I spent my time moving to languages that had more respect for their invested users.

I’m not sure what more they could have done. Python 2 was released almost two decades ago, with an original planned sunsetting that got pushed back to 2020. That’s plenty of time and respect for their users.

>All for zero benefit in the end, other than the hope that they don't make the same mistake again with Python 4.

You’re free to stick with python 2 for as long as you’d like. You’re free to fork the project and continue develop it. To say there is no benefit to new and evolving languages is odd and short-sighted.
Here's the thing: this settlement is remarkably near Vancouver. Like a 20 min drive from downtown, maybe 20km total distance. This isn't some remote part of the province, this is literally in Vancouver's backyard.
Yeah, the correct phrasing of that question is "Show me the place where I'll be working." They should be able to lead you down the corridor and show you potential future co-workers at work.
Right. I don’t know for sure either.

The constant alarmist nature of news does contribute to people being alarmed and believing that things are worse.

In any event even if the frequency and magnitude aren't deviating from historical records, coastal populations are increasing all over the world, so all else being equal vastly more people are affected.
> The same argument works in the other direction, except then it’s 9 to 1.

Will not be better to let them choose? (For real without pressures).

> I’m just aware that people are projecting their own values onto this situation in ways that are unfortunately not helpful to many workers who want long shifts.

Long shifts are profitable only if everybody else is not doing them. Otherwise, everybody has more money and prices go up causing inflation. "Extra shifts" should - by definition - be the exception, not the rule.

> Whether or not they should be allowed to work as long as they want is a big, thorny question.

Higher accident rate, worse health, more stress, etc. are not good. If money really will solve their problems, it will be better to reduce Apple/Foxconn profits in exchange for better lives for their employees.
Though you could have done most of the work ahead of time.
Of course it's relevant. A definition of monopoly that only relies on raw unit numbers is obviously incomplete.

Antitrust is about power, and Apple has a lot of it.
That is so cool.
Going forward, I'll be maintaining Python 2.7 for the indefinite future. This will be under project name "Bladders". (Python is named after Monty Python's Flying Circus. There is another fantastic British comedy called Black Adder, and the main character is sometimes called "Bladders" as a contraction of Black Adder.) Unlike Tauthon, I won't change the language at all, only maintenance. I'm also going to make a curated software repository of Python 2 code, starting with the standard lib and some common third-party packages (like Snakefood.) And I'm going to pay technical writers to clean up the documentation.

I don't give a fig about controversy. I just want to keep using Python 2.
The stratifications on this are troubling.

> But there are wide differences in assessments by partisanship. Nine in 10 Democrats think weather disasters are more extreme, compared with about half of Republicans.

It's not a partisan issue: we all pay these costs.

> Majorities of adults across demographic groups think weather disasters are getting more severe, according to the poll. College-educated Americans are slightly more likely than those without a degree to say so, 79 percent versus 69 percent.

Weather disasters are getting more severe. It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe.
In sorry but I would fire anyone that puts soundness in scare quotes. Yes, there are tradeoffs and yes, it's possible MS is doing it wrong, but soundness is well defined. In an industry that already has a dangerous apathy about all forms of correct, I consider this flippant tone inexcusable.
Most languages have had breaking changes at some point in their history. Even the language known as "Perl 5" had them in almost every version.
>>I do enjoy cooking by the book from time to time. At the same time, there is a lot of Asian food that is made by instinct.

There's nothing unique about "Asian" food in this regard. You can codify anything culinary, and you will get a stable result (more or less. Some produce is better seasonally, old meat doesn't taste as good, etc but that's all cuisines). You can also cook "from the hip" and make things that fit your personal tastes.
I never used the word “entitled.” I think if an investor is extracting surplus value from employees of one of their portfolio companies, the employees of that company should be free to attempt to organize to regain as much of that surplus value as they can.
It's not a microservice, no. In our stack, microservices interact with ES which is part of a separate cluster. Early on, we ran ES as a pod in Kubernetes, but that was not a production-ready solution at all.
Amazon Employees Will Walk Out over Climate Change Inaction
Few people want long shifts. Most people want more money. The companies should pay enough that overtime isn't so attractive.
It can easily do it, the point is that doing this makes it more expensive to spam your site. Let's say normally, it takes 1 second to post, now it might take 10 secs. Now you're spending 10x as much to post a comment or form, etc
If you do go with TypeScript have a look at Nx. It's tooling around TypeScript monorepo that helps you do exactly what you want: write code once and share it between backend/multiple frontends. It suppports Express or NestJS in the backend and Angular, React, Web Components in the Frontend. https://nx.dev/

If you want to make it work with Ionic/NativeScript/Electron as well use xplat. https://github.com/nstudio/xplat