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It's not that innocent. There are numerous examples of subs being taken over in order to push political agenda. Two notable ones are r/canada, which has been taken over by white supremacists who push alt-right ideology, and long ago r/atheism was taken over by convincing the admins to oust the top mod on a technicality. In the r/atheism case the new mods had their own ideas about what sort of content should be posted and banned and silenced anyone who dissented. The majority of the people were very upset and didn't agree with these changes, but after seeing people drop like flies with the bans people either got scared into submission or left.

A bunch of these famous mods are part of a private sub where they discuss their pet theories on how to manipulate people, and on what sort of content merits being allowed to rise. They are explicitly against what they deem "low value" even if "low value" comments and posts are popular. Of course, it's pretty easy to define low value as anything you don't like, and you start to see the problem.
There's nothing wrong with this. Someone who legitimately buys keys from a bundle should be able to resell them.
I haven't tried that yet, but it's definitely on my list after these comments. However it does still leave issues like trying to open an app, but the hand shake being interpreted as a desire to swipe.
I used RabbitMQ together with python and celery quite extensively and it scales really well. One thing we had trouble with though was to find a nice mechanism to scheduled tasks. Eg. “Run this task 12 hours before departure”. Maybe AMQP is the wrong place to solve that problem.
It feels above-market to me, but it probably depends on the number of kids and where you are. We're paying $17/hour for daytime child care for one two-year-old in the north Atlanta suburbs. We've historically paid evening "date night" babysitters $60 for 4-5 hours, so $12-15 an hour, but that's an easier job because the kid's asleep a big portion of the time.
Negative social judgements, death threats and attempts at doxxing and property damage is a heavy burden when you know (or believe) it to be coming from real people that you can't control and who are unpredictable. It is a reasonably similar tactic to torture. The increased perception of danger grows your amygdala and it doesn't ever shrink again, it's something you have to know how to deal with now. If you didn't before it can be traumatic.

Watching ones you love die is terrible but it can also bring about a sense of peace. Being actively predated on is no fun. I have also seen mental and physical abuse as a child, fwiw.
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Is it not possible that the situation is a win-win for all parties and that all parties feel like they are well-compensated in terms of the value they've received, and that therefore no money actually needs to exchange hands?

You may as well ask why people volunteer their time at all.
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I find it bizarre also. I don't think this something dang is doing - he provided a pretty legitimate defense here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23225442

However I do think there are "flag mobs" which increasingly flag posts they don't agree with.
In the past I have developed in Go on musl systems without problems, so unless something has changed, this should still not be a problem at all.
There's a huge market of people who want to purchase managed hosting, not be responsible for their own servers. Think of the customers (such as WordPress developers) of any traditional hosting company like DreamHost.

The purpose of HostLaunch is to make it extremely easy to start your own managed hosting business to sell web hosting services in that same market.
I work in enterprise software, and I feel like there are two types of feedback. One is end users who provide accurate, actionable feedback on how we can make their job easier, and the other is end users who are mad they have to use software at all. Unfortunately the latter are the ones who complain openly in a way that just makes people angry but gives us, the product teams, no real direction besides writing AI that entirely replaces their job in the end.
That strikes me as much closer to linguistic than nationalistic; there's more than one nation that speaks English. Could you clarify what about that statement was flame-y? All I did was ask that adontz make the argument rather than making a dismissive statement.
I would guess this varies by state. (IANAL.)
Agree that Windows 10 seems to get the difficult stuff right. Stability, security, advanced graphics infrastructure, and very impressive backward compatibility with old binaries. Also agreed that the new control panels are a trainwreck, offering no advantages whatsoever over the old control panels they're trying to (very gradually) replace.

It's also incredibly bloated. Gone are the days when a few gigabytes would be enough for your Windows partition.
Right that makes sense that you need your name and address to verify. I’m not seeing the part where they sell that. That’s what I meant by “disclosure”. Sorry for the confusion.
Task saturation. It's windy, turbulent, your wife is uncomfortable and giving you looks. Someone cuts you off as you are landing, you go around. The field is busy and as you come back around for landing you're focusing about being unable to get your radio calls in. You land to the sounds of grating metal... Just one of 1000 scenarios.

As mentioned there are alarms already, but you can drown it out if sufficiently overloaded. Its best to recognize overload, take a deep breath and go back when calm.
> This sounds great in theory - harder to do in practice.

Sure, but lots of things are hard. That doesn't mean we should all be happy about software phoning home without the consent of the user.
I should have left the farm size out of my post, it's fairly irrelevant. The relevant point is that it would double a Saskatchewan wheat farm's gross income whether it was 0.5 or 5000 acres.
Hard to say.

By far the worst actor I've seen is (old media) Rush Limbaugh. It's hard to believe that Rush could believe that America faces any threats (e.g. war, crime, economic, environmental) other than the "Democrat party." You'd imagine that he wants to see a system more like Japan (liberalism with one party) or China (one party, no rights, no dissent.)

More generally I see the problem of "spamming the agenda", combined with the "if it bleeds it leads" tendency of the media.

Before Trump ran for president CNN's ratings were in the toilet, and it lumbered on between school shootings and MH370. To report on things like that you might have to take the Redeye from Atlanta to a flyover state, but today you can sit your ass in Atlanta or Washington DC and just cover 'what trump said', and 'what somebody said about what trump said'.

Since the election, the news has seemed to be "broken" in the way that a "clock" breaks. Arstechnica's Dealmaster always has a sale on Amazon Fire devices, Anker power banks, Xbox Gold, and whatever craptop Lenovo has a surplus over. The banner on CNN often seems to go unchanged for weeks. (e.g. "TRUMP WANTED TO FIRE MULLER")

COVID-19 was the first real news in a long term, but there is an obsession about "what trump said" compared to the other 300 million Americans. Trump doesn't really care if it is good or bad news, he just wants to be in the news, and if he held a press conference and nobody came, that would bring him to tears.

Similarly there is always some article pushed by a right wing group that says there is too much occupational licensing in the U.S (maybe true, but the same editorial turns up every month as if it was fresh) or that there is a trade-off between economic efficiency and inequality. (e.g. the evidence is that if you have too much inequality people tilt the scales, rich people buy T-bills depressing interest rates, and try to keep the action for themselves and their children... One of those reasons why Stalin invented the Purge)
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Launched my podcast, After Hour Projects, sharing stories of side projects - be it to pursue a hobby, advance a career, or start a business.

https://afterhourprojects.com
As opposed to programming languages with constructs that allow proper code hygiene. That implies an actual type system, a usable standard library, etc.

Shell is great for scripting usage of other programs, far better than other programming languages. That's what it's made for, after all. It's the only thing it's made for.
I think this plus Siri is going to be the answer. A heavy enough stylus so there's inertia to counteract the shake, plus a few fingers around it to counteract each other's shaking, as well as being thinner so it's easier to see where it's going, should work better than just her fingers.
That I agree with. Asking for directions is different. What I’m saying is what I see in my ND is the behavior I outlined.
Am not advocating for one or the other. Am not an economist.

My use of the expression `dragging its feet`, was in light of most prominent Indian economists advocating that the government must increase spending now without worrying about the deficit.
You have editorialized the title of the article. The expectation is generally that you use the original.
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Afaik exchanging money through mobile phone apps in Africa doesn’t involve actual banks, that’s why I used the expression “de facto banked”. The money-exchange system is totally different, more advanced if you look at it from the poor people’s perspective.

You’re probably correct though, this could never happen in the US because of regulatory capture (by the banks, mostly, but not only).
This is what I'd suggest, too, for sure. Just don't use the Phone app at all, if it's causing issues.

My Mom, who is 75, routinely uses Siri for all kinds of stuff. She's taken to it quite naturally and it seems to work extremely well for her. If you're using a voice interface, shaky hands become irrelevant!
you might need to provide a more detailed bug report than that...
Firefox (or OSs) should add a feature that randomly makes requests to a bunch of unrelated websites just to mess up their data collection and render it useless. This can only work if it's widely deployed.
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In my area(a 2nd tier major US Metro, a city you've heard of and may even want to live in, a state capitol) you could pay that dev $50k.
Agree, Hong Kong fate was sealed in 1990's. But Taiwan will spark a war, and for good reason. Bullets and bombs cannot be ignored and China is not popular in that area. So they'll leave Taiwan alone, IMO, for decades, until /when /if China is sure that they can overpower US military.
Where is this? Would your friend not qualify for some sort of government payment?
Using the opportunity to pimp my book, RabbitMQ in Depth: https://www.manning.com/books/rabbitmq-in-depth

:)
If you're comparing line counts remember that this one is vastly incomplete in comparison.
Ran into the same issue. Loved the design and the demos I saw so I signed up.

What I really wanted was just a simple flexible to-do list, something that I missed from Basecamp v1 and was willing to try somewhere else.

But the flexibility made it a nightmare. Because what I wanted was very simple, the friction that I encountered, though probably not huge, felt much larger, because I felt, why can't this be easier? I just want a simple to do list, and I was messing with headings and all of this non-essential stuff that I didn't need.

I'm sure in a business setting it could be different, especially if someone goes through the trouble of setting things up so you have some sort of system of consistency that you work inside of, but as a first time user the flexibility was a bit of hinderance.
That explains the cheap "consumer" (eg. home/pro) versions, but how does it explain the "rare" ones (eg. enterprise/LTSC) selling for $8 as well?
> Difficult concepts can more easily be grokked in a visual form.

Some difficult concepts can more easily be grokked in a visual form. I'm not sure that they all can. In fact, I suspect that it might be about even (as many easier in text as are easier in pictures). We just notice the ones that would be easier in pictures, because we're working in text.
> In other sectors, yes.

Not even. But it's not worth arguing about this, it's basic macro and if s/he doesn't want to educate themselves, that's up to them.
The problem is with Valve, who charge a 30% commission, even for sales directly from the Developer.

In a world of 12% commissions (ie. Epic Games Store) the effort to sell directly wouldn't be worth it and G2A wouldn't exist.

Epic has also recently enabled keyless integration with some 3rd-party stores eg. Greenman Gaming.
Could you clarify what you mean?
The story about a few imports
I don’t know, but the US is a huge country with some very poor parts and some very rich parts. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was below market rate in Silicon Valley.
Here is what I do myself to avoid surveillance culture, in case anyone find it useful.

1. I always use local apps rather than webservices if possible. I use only free software, built from source, to be sure there's no tracker in it (I would love to find a way to whitelist which apps can access the network, but I haven't found a way for that yet). There's almost always a way to perform a task locally.

2. I have a copy of wikipedia, using kiwix (through kiwix-serve). My default search engine is my local wikipedia's one. It's insane the amount of answers you can get to common questions simply with a local copy of wikipedia

3. I always install documentation for the libraries I download. I have `go doc` running locally, always install ruby gems with ri and rdoc, set the gentoo's `doc` use flag to have C libraries documentation locally. Most of the time, there's just no need to go to the web for API documentation.

4. I made myself a rss client similar to rss2mail that will fetch rss feeds and mail items to me. When sending a mail, the rss client makes a http request to the full article url and add it to the mail as attachment. Then I read my content in mutt, having lynx dumping the html content as plain text (through `lynx -dump`). So I read all the content offline, and nobody can tell what I read. I have my own smtp server so that I disclose the least information possible.

5. when I have to use the web, this is first through a text browser through tor (I use a modified version of elinks, but I guess lynx would do just as well). This makes sure I only download the html page I want to look at, while running the least possible tracking stuff.

6. when it's not enough, I have a chromium build, in which I have disabled javascript and images by default. I use chromium rather than firefox because it allows me to load extensions from sources. I have such extensions to enable javascript and images if needed, but this is the ultimate recourse.

7. I use my own local dns resolver. I don't know why people don't do that more, it's actually really simple. bind9 resolver works out of the box, you just install bind9, change /etc/resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1, and that's it.

8. if I post online (like now), I make a different account every time I post, using always a different email address. This allows to prevent profiling from public posts.

9. and of course, I'm actively researching everything related to the p2p web, like dat, ssb and cabal.

So basically, I took the red pill.
From what I've seen the Android ones aren't much better than standard Android ones, and the simpler ones won't enable her to use things like banking and parking apps.
Also it's possible that local travel restrictions have shown that per-mile injury and fatality rates are biased by trip distance.
So the US, with its Constitution protecting the people from its Government, is allowing this whilst also considering Edward Snowden a traitor?

It seems something has shifted 180 degrees since WW2, and the US Government has quietly won the game where the goal was to shit on the entirety of the history upon which it was built whilst, at precisely the same time, pointing to the Constitution as the reason why "America is Great!"

You're fucked. At least China isn't pretending to be free.

If this is how law enforcement agencies are allowed to operate, how can you expect citizens to respect any rule of law? The precedents are evaporating.

The West is dead, we're halfway through the transition to the next stage, which just means history will repeat itself - but will be recorded in higher definition so that maybe we'll learn it more thoroughly next time around.
Mr. Robot's writers knew this.
Well ok. The reason I changed it was because I thought the original was too sensational
"Five people moderate the 92 largest subreddits."

If that's true, why? How could an individual possibly have enough time and attention to moderate more than one subreddit with millions of users?
Still, patents are a way to provide exclusive access to technology, to those who pay. That's not something I personally would like to see happening to my inventions if I'd work at a university. It's also not how universities used to operate, traditionally.

Further, I feel that if it's paid for by the public, it belongs to the public.
The flip side of this would be to say that auto fatalities are fairly low and steadily decreasing, with a fatality rate of 1.25 per 100 million miles driven. For reference, that's 10% greater than the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
How is it for production deployment? I was considering it for something recently, but got overwhelmed by the documentation on setting up a fault-tolerant production deployment, so have been avoiding it. Was this an overreaction? What is your experience with that?

Also, do you happen to know how well it works in a fault-tolerant way for communicating between services that are in different data centers?

My main use-case is to receive status/change notifications from a service running elsewhere from the API server servicing the UI, in order to avoid polling for new data.
At https://yazz.com we use visual programming to lay out forms, which are then scripted with code. Used in large enterprises. Is that not visual?
Would anyone be able to explain the benefits of RabbitMQ over NATS? As far as I've seen, it's really just that RabbitMQ is more feature-rich, which I personally feel like isn't that crucial, as frankly many systems are not going to take advantage of those more complex functionalities anyway.
>People exclaim kawaii liberally —about as liberally as “oishi” for food delicious or just so-so.

There are four sets of people.

People who know 100% what kawaii is (e.g. because they're Japanese).

People who know 90% what kawaii is (because they're cultural freaks, or watch anime, or whatever)

People who have heard the term kawaii and associate with being "cute" in general.

People who don't even know what kawaii means, and don't use it.

Categories 1,2, and 3 are by far the larger in my experience (well, 1 is small except in Japan, 2 is small, 3 is small, 4 is huge). People in 1,3,4 added, category 3 is nearly insignificant, and doesn't define the term...
For a few years now I have been using PHP as a thin-client UI layer on top of C# Web API (dotnet core) projects running on Ubuntu/Docker. In my experience this has worked out very well, and has been easy to separate the areas of responsibility between Software Engineers and Designers.

All of our sophistication and unit tests live inside the C# back-end projects. While the PHP in the UI layer is limited to very simple code like for loops and templating; otherwise they're mostly design projects centered around HTML/CSS/UI/UX. Keeping it so simple makes it rather easy for designers to pick up on and work with.

I started a small website to document this pattern:

http://rapstack.io

I have advocated for its use on most of my projects, but obviously the mere mention of PHP stirs up a lot of knee-jerk reactions.
Adding to what the sibling comment say, be careful about buying into RabbitMQ's clustering; having run it for years, I found it to be extremely brittle.

We often lost entire queues because a small network blip caused RabbitMQ to think there was a network partition, and when the other nodes became visible, RabbitMQ has no reliable way to restore its state to what it was. It has a bunch of hacks to mitigate this, but they don't solve the core problem; the only way to run mirrored queues ("classic mirrored queues", as they're not called) reliably is to disable automatic recovery, and then you have to manually repair RabbitMQ every time this happens. If you care about integrity, you can use the new quorum queues instead, which use a Raft-based consensus system, but they lack a lot of the features of the "classic" queues. No message priorities, for example.

I've never used federation or Shovel, which are different features with other pros/cons.

If you're willing to lose the occasional message under very high load, NATS [3] is absolutely fantastic, and extremely fast and easy to cluster. Alternatively, NATS Streaming [4] and Liftbridge [5] are two message brokers built on top of NATS that implement reliable delivery. I've not used them, but heard good things.

[1] https://www.rabbitmq.com/partitions.html

[2] https://www.rabbitmq.com/quorum-queues.html

[3] https://nats.io/

[4] https://docs.nats.io/nats-streaming-concepts/intro

[5] https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge
Craigslist would not be where I would recommend operating civic functions.
Based on the quality of today's conversation here on HN, I'm not inclined to fault them for taking that approach publicly. We can't even discuss this topic coherently ourselves. Our discussion here is filled with "this is my position" statements that are presented as arguments contradicting another's position.

I think this post here today serves only as a rallying cry for "no telemetry" extremists and contributes nothing interesting or curious or relevant to HN that hasn't been covered in hundreds of framing-implied or framing-explicit "telemetry is bad" posts prior.
Most of things aren't the future. Most of those things are whats wrong with china tech because no one actually wants them. They are usually more expensive than just hiring a person or older tech. And really they've been forced onto people by the government from what a lot of people see.
Google, Facebook and Twitter are all trying moderation by algorithm.

See regular posts on this very forum about algorithms running amok, banning people without clear reasons, and accounts only becoming reinstated by being famous enough to get enough traction to get a human to review your false positive.
Hey I'm not saying money needs to change hands. I'm just pointing out it's work, like in the physics sense. Something valuable has happened, both in the business sense and social sense, but obviously the priority for parent poster is the socializing.

Benefitting from socializing is not worth the reddit moderator role is my opinion, under the psychological load they operate in.
> Idiots don't write bot scripting operations.

My personal experience is: an army of bots is useful but the effectiveness is limited. The key is to activate and mobilize a group of crazy people, by influencers or bots - real humans, genuine citizens - who's willing to be the online warriors of an ideology to work for you, e.g. "We must stop the globalist", "They're taking away our guns", or "Impeach Trump". The ideology is not limited to a specific one, anyone can use this method.

The Russian seems to have developed a powerful strategy against the USA: actively promoting conflicting ideologies of all sides to increase political instability.
JeroMQ has been nothing but a pleasure. I don't see ZeroMQ being obsolete in its forked forms anytime soon.
You're likely not even safe from this if you are using Chrome OS. It does sandbox the localhost web server [1] [2], but it does not restrict access to it from the host.

[1]: https://youtu.be/pRlh8LX4kQI?t=954

[2]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA...
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