skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure there's a penalty. NYT subscriptions have been going up, not down, despite it frequently reporting things that are bizarre or factually wrong. Same is true for many other papers.

That makes sense: people often buy newspapers for the analysis that reconfirms their own world views, and gives them intellectual ammo for their pre-conceived notions.

With citizen journalists (a.k.a. bloggers) they start out with no pre-existing reputation so tend to depend on other ways to quickly build credibility, like using lots of hyperlinks to sources so you can check their claims, or leaving comments open so commenters can criticise and respond. Even today in 2020 it's standard for news articles to provide no citations or hyperlinks at all, even when e.g. the entire report is about a research paper, and often comment sections are now closed. Exactly because so many commenters would often point out flaws in the articles!
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OT, but I refer to it as RoachDB and that helps a lot.

Roach could be a last name, or a type of chocolate...
This page presents me with an (email) paywall.
Pick a more unique user name. echelonhelicopter, for example
Any particular reason you chose that example?
>I pay around 1100 Euros for a 110qm apartment "downtown" and have no car.

That is incredibly cheap, which neighbourhood is it if I may ask? I live in Munich (well outside of Munich a bit but work in Munich) and trying to relocate with rents being very expensive.
I can get a 1 room apartment (30ish square meters maybe) in a decent block for that money you pay in Berlin.
you don’t understand babies are killed (rares
Nowadays) and selective abortions (million a year ) if it is not boy.

while the national average is 1100 , there are already states where it is 1250 or more , they already import brides from other states because finding a match is harder . sex detection although illegal still happens , and abortions follow

The numbers are real for both countries and are well verified over last few decades the problem is also well reported .

Sadly it found to be actually correlated with higher income and material income , states with higher per capita income have more sex selective abortions
Another silver bullet that will fail
> The only thing that's important is knowing what to google for.

It's even more important to recognize when the solution found with google is subtly wrong.
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> assuming that you can look into the future.

That's why I said "even the current world isn't".
etcd never was simple.

if you wanted simple, there was redis or memcached.

it's an arbitrary cutoff to call etcd simple (it implements Raft, for fuck's sake, it implies a distributed system, multiple odd number of nodes to avoid split-brain!)

systemd is simple, fixed config format, comes with every distro, default works, has extensive documentation, compared to undocumented distro-specific init scripts written in sh (or bash, or worse).

sure, if someone just wants to hack on their 8bit toaster, then they might find a simple shell script simpler.

but the post is not lamenting that.
QUIC-Based UDP Transport for Secure Shell (SSH)
Is it Twitter or who you choose to follow?
Only tangentially related but, speaking of taking care of people in their old age, my mother is taking care of my step father and she's clearly not happy about it.

She's only got one life to live and she's stuck staying at home with him until he dies or at least that's seems to be how she feels.

Maybe to be put it another way she can't get herself to check him into an old folks home and effectively leave him so she can enjoy the last few years of her own life while she's still able to. She's healthy enough she could travel and do things that she want's but feels she has to stay put until he passes. That could be tomorrow or 5 years from now. 8 years ago they said he had 3 years to live.

That doesn't mean she doesn't love him but she does feel somewhat trapped.

I suppose my sister and I could help her and volunteer to watch over him for a week or two at a time though neither of us have jobs that would let us do that.
But also, she married this man after we were both adults so while we like him as a person we feel no obligation like we might if he was our father or even the step father that raised us. Instead to us he's basically our mom's boyfriend.

It does make me think what I would do if I was him. Would I be self aware enough to check myself into an old folks home to let my wife or kids not have to take care of me? I believe I'd personally feel horrible by restricting the life of my loved ones. I'm sure I'd also feel horrible if they all abandoned me. I don't know which is worse. My currently healthy self wants to believe I'd value their freedom over my needs but my, future "old and needs constant care" self will probably feel different.
You've only written a few letters. How long does it take to write: "e = mc^2"?
To add: saying that your marketing is "technically correct" while focussing on the general audience is quite convenient (deceptive).
Are you serious? Last time I had my Macbook Pro repaired, they sent me a prepaid box, I mailed it to them the next morning, and I had it back in 3 days. Other than a tech personally coming to your house, what else do you expect?
Or https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass if you want something passwordstore compatible but with additional team features.
What is this fetish by some people to always label things "North Indian"? It is a national show on a national television where the participants are from all around India (from Ladakh to Tamil Nadu, Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh).
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No, we can just let the nihilistic and self-centered people go extinct. It's good for the gene pool.
> My ancestors thought it was okay to have kids during [bad times].

The desire to make Descendants in hard times is a natural reaction. In more peaceful times you have more time to think about it logicality.
> on servers you control

> SaaS

that's not really a saas though.

a managed services offering maybe, but that would be a differend type of business.
At Caltech, we'd call that "brute force and ignorance" which is often the best solution.

For example, Enzo Ferrari once said that the secret to better performance is more horsepower.
Many organisations have made this switch (and of course we use Element at Element for running the org).

We do have support for org wide management in the form of the Communities feature, but we want to completely revamp it to make exactly what you are describing easier. It is the next big thing on the roadmap and I would expect it land in the next few months.
>>Sadly it found to be actually correlated with higher income and material income , states with higher per capita income have more sex selective abortions

The more your income is perceived to be, the more dowry you have to pay. Plus you feel the need for a male heir to inherit all that money. That explains it.
k8s is great even if your requirements are almost static. because it standardizes so many small but important details
That does not mean that a generic name is fine.

It means that a unique, made-up word is fine because it will gain meaning. It may sound strange now because it is new and unknown but that does not matter because that will change. 'Google' went to a strange, made-up word, to being an everyday noun and verb.

In that respect a made-up word is the best option because you start with a blank slate and you can create its meaning.

Whereas a generic word already has meaning, several competing ones, even, and you have to struggle against that to build your brand, so it's an inferior choice.
This is the answer in addition to the stories being more subtle in many cases than implied by the term "Hyper-partisan". While "subtle" seems to imply less damaging to the political system, much like many people complain the media lies as being a large issue, this is pretty much the same thing except with a super PAC behind it.

Someone else brought up Facebook -- that's the other thing -- these sites are typically linked or used as sources during election season.

I think the amount of sway these sites has is small, but moderately effective. In a day and age where 70k votes can swing an election in a country of millions, it is just one of many tools in the bucket of lobbyists and political parties.
QWERTZ here. I need to use the following key combinations:

shift + 8 -> (

shift + 9 -> )

alt + ctrl + 8 -> [

alt + ctrl + 9 -> ]

alt + ctrl + 7 -> {

alt + ctrl + 0 -> }

Alternatively alt + ctrl can be replaced by altgr.

And for further fun:

alt + ctrl + ß -> \

shift + 0 -> =

shift + 7 -> /

Actually, it is probably easier to link the whole layout: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_2137#/media/Datei:Deutsche...

It is pretty bad for programming in languages that make heavy usage of braces/brackets/parenthesis.
Celestial mechanics: Past, present, future
Almost all the developers I work with never started working on a bug until i gave them the right steps to replicate it - even if the bug is reported by a user. A very stupid example i can think of is this: the developer designed a login form on web and mobile with the password field as expected, but forgot to uncapitalize the first letter of entry in password. Like if your password is abcdef, on mobile keyboard (unless you are careful), it would be entered as 'Abcdef' and would not work. The issue was reported thrice and he said that there is no error, and did not fix. Then later it struck me (and i tried it on safari while he tried on the mobile responsive version of chrome) that it is this issue. Not saying the developer should not start working right away, but the expectation is that if they actually paid attention to what was reported, it would not have taken this much time to figure out what the issue was. There needs to a midway which varies from org to org depending on their workload.

> is it more probable that this work should be minimised

I guess this is where automated tests can come in. You fix something and see if passes the unit tests. But then everyone has their own approaches. For him, fixing a similar bug twice is worse than finding all possible mistakes at once.
Here are some strategies for IOS:

1) use device identifer / advertising identifier to identify the user and block them. problem: user can reinstall app and these identifiers are recreated

2) store a random identifier on the disk or in nsuserdefaults or some other app storage. problem: user can reinstall app and these locations are wiped

3) store a random identifier in icloud keychain. my understanding is this doesn't have the same problem as above but its possible for user to wipe this.

4) use apple device check API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck this allows you to associate 2 bits of information with a users device. you can use 1 bit to control whether the device should be banned.

5) use a third party device fingerprinting solution or roll your own device fingerprinting. my understanding is there is enough entropy on the phone to uniquely identify it. for example you can find out what time the original OS was installed in the Foxconn factory. i think apple should ban all apps that do this but a lot of apps do this. :(
very good counter argument.

However, to reply to GP: the full explaination for the rebranding is here: https://element.io/blog/the-world-is-changing/

it was posted to HN some weeks ago.
My current employer uses https://bonus.ly/ and I love it. The money is small (a dollar here and there), but the recognition is public and reports are sent to managers about their teams. People can also comment and add to someone's recognition. This has created a few moments of someone getting over $100 from a tens of coworkers for something helpful.
That sounds really interesting!
I currently work on a side-project which is a distributed application and I plan on incorporating kubernetes/cloud-native into some of the core concepts, so I will check it out once I'm at this part of the implementation!
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That's a good point. I've noticed larger enterprises doing this with their pr's, which has always struck me as bit silly when it is a house hold name (Oracle, Canonical, VMWare etc) but ofc not everyone would know them. But for smaller vendors this becomes even more important.
Yep, in NZ everyone would assume you were being sarcastic.
We're going to be a multi-planetary species. All we need is people willing to take risks instead of peons trying to live a cosy, uneventful and "sustainable" life in their government-allocated single-room apartments. And having children really isn't a huge risk even for the most incompetent.
One supports the other. Running high profile on premise solutions helps support the Matrix eco-system as a whole, especially if the installation federates.

The SaaS offering means that smaller organisations can also get come onboard without going to extra expense of a large scale self hosted installation.
The reds are coming, run!
I applied for a job with an American software multi-national a few months back. I received an automated email claiming that they were "excited" by my interest in the role. Six weeks passed without any contact whatsoever from them, after which I received an automated rejection email, which began: "Dear [redacted], We've really enjoyed getting to know you!"

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that they had any obligations to me, but to my European sensibilities, the blatant insincerity of those emails borders on the offensive.
"You, Sir, are employing a double negative." -- Mr. Spock
I am saying:

- The problem the author describes can happen (I have seen it happen)

- I do not know whether it happened in the case of etcd

I am not saying:

- I have a proposed solution to this problem

- The people who do the difficult work of actually writing the software should be removed from the decision process

Apologies if that wasn't sufficiently clear.
I assume this is the same as using Terra preta, which can be produced in a sustainable way and stores carbon dioxide.
Login with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc...

Let them handle account creation and detect misuse.
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Will it be an update that replaces the current RiotX on my phone, or will I have to download it as a separate app?
Got to #3 Product of the day on Product Hunt, now what?
So my micro-product, Trends Everywhere got to 3rd spot on PH: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/trends-everywhere

Now what?
This started as a side project but obviously has a lot of potential and traffic now.

What would you like to see in a product like this? What would make it really stand out? Which features would you like me to add?

Go crazy, everything is possible!
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Do you want to live in this world ?
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No, you either have both or neither.

Fuel management, through controlled burns, herbicides, and mechanical removal, plus maintaining fire breaks and exclusion zones, is what makes it possible to have permanent structures.
> the freaking fines should go directly to the users. Not some opaque and potentially mis-managed “general budget.

This is what created the "I'll sue you" for everything mentality in the US. It's peak individualism and I'll be happy if we can keep this american cancer culture out of Europe for as long as possible.

Also, it goes to the end user, building roads, schools and other infrastructures. Even an half assed public budget is still better for me than some random dude getting half a millions euros out of nowhere. This guy didn't lose any money and didn't get any physical damage, why would giving him $600k be a truer sense of justice ?

You seem very angry about a broken system that doesn't have anything to do with the article btw. I don't think you could ever end up in a situation like yours in Europe, there are too many safeguards and regulations, but I guess that's too close to """communism""" for people across the pond
The girl shortage will change the culture. Dowry will disappear, possibly to be replaced with a bride price.
I see this idea here in several places. Effectively "more money = more kids"

There is ZERO evidence that's the case. In fact all evidence points to the opposite. The more money people have the less likely they are to have children.

I'm not suggesting that we should therefore lower people's incomes. Only suggesting that the idea that his has anything do with lacking economic opportunity has zero basis in fact.

The richer a country gets, the less kids they have, period.

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follow up: According to this

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

birth rates do rise at some level of income but not enough to cover deaths.

Here's some other charts to look at

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

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To put in another way, let's wonder if we lived in a post scarcity society and everyone had all they needed and more. Would the birth rate explode? Would it go up a bunch? Would it hit the replacement level? I suppose it's all speculation but my reading of the data it is would not hit the replacement level.

Basically, for whatever reason, people that are well educated and well off want children less than those that don't for whatever reason.
Using another instance makes sense, since the official matrix.org instance is super slow and overloaded...
Pretty interesting
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If you are planning to keep your feet into the eCommerce market, or if you have already entered into this market, then you must be aware of the challenges.
I am honestly not sure how to interpret your comment but I'll try to respond. The fault is not with the AP. That's just a computer doing what it was programmed to do. It's with how the system is presented by the people selling it. The marketing is intentionally deceptive for profit and people died for believing it. And Germany didn't ban the system, they banned the deception.

If Wells Fargo or Comcast did the same pitchforks would be out. But Comcast can only hurt you, misusing AP can hurt others too. So having the government intervene is a matter of public safety and doing what a government should do: look out for people's interests, not the corporations'.

When you build a system you have to compensate for inherent weaknesses. Tesla does the opposite and exploits them for profit (as many other companies do) by capitalizing on these well known human weaknesses (lack of attention, gullibility especially with complex topics). They use easy to fool systems that assume drivers are always engaged because they allow the AP to disconnect less and look more capable. And they capitalize on the gullibility by branding the AP as something it's clearly not:

> full self-driving in almost all circumstances. The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat

> All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go.

> manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed.

> use of these features without supervision is dependent [...] regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions.
It matters whether the company executives live in a democracy with rule of law or an authoritarian one-party state.

I have no qualms doing business with American, Canadian, Indian, Japanese, or European (minus Hungary) companies...

I would be very cautious doing business with Chinese, Russian, or Saudi firms.
Nice! Did you plant the tree yourself or use a service?
The point is, they should not actually require candidates to recall these things from memory. But there is certainly value in the non-memorization part of this knowledge and the ability to solve this kind of problems distinguish people who can think from those naive jobsworths. If nothing, they are better than back-of-the-newspaper if-you-have-seen-the-answer-you-know-the-answer kind of trick questions.
Yeah, this would be a website. Maybe ok for one primitive shop. And for webshops there are tons of frameworks, also possible with reasonable amoumt of work.

But a virtual marketplace .. where different actors make transactions, is a different story. Consider you have a bug and people loose money because of you. It really needs to be solid.
Many apps nowadays use phone numbers for verifying new accounts. Obviously, it is far from impossible for a malicious user to get a new phone number if they care enough, but it does usually have a monetary cost, which will keep a significant portion of malicious users out. This also can help prevent some forms of fraud.

This is somewhat obvious, but take care in designing social interactions on your app, and introduce easy reporting systems and user-controlled blocking systems (e.g., even if you don't respond to a user's report in a timely manner, a user should still be able to block communications from another user using a button in the app). You may want to allow users to choose to only allow messages from users who have been on the site for a certain amount of time, or have some kind of additional level of verification. Also consider introducing active, paid moderators who actively respond to reports as they come in, if your budget allows.

Allowing users access to open text fields on the internet is inherently dangerous. I have tried to avoid it in all of my apps (for example, I've made games that use randomly-generated user names rather than allow users to input their own, and I only added user comments to an app I was building _after_ I'd built a user reporting system and ensured I got an immediate alert on my phone if a user sent a report). It is your responsibility to try to design your app, and moderate your community, to mitigate these risks.
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Brandon, why do you make it trivial to find your identity and trace your activities all across the internet?
Consider using a different name everywhere for improved privacy.
A Question that came up while reading: What happens when I start with collecting all the ideas and too many ideas are coming up? Do I need to put a particular focus on managing these ideas? How to treat the team fairly when everyone comes with an idea?
Are you thinking of memetics?
No, the pre-amps of even cheap interfaces (e.g. Behringer UMC series) are good enough for voice-overs with a dynamic mic.
Just add partial application and haskell lambda syntax.

Many think think that python already lost almost everything that it was loved for initially. So why not change it more drastically
I'm not sure why there's this insistence that 'giving up' time spent on hobbies makes you less interesting or less fun. You can have some hobbies, learn new things, etc; while being a parent. Sure you don't have as much time to do it, but having kids can also make you learn things and get perspective you wouldn't otherwise.

Also, worth remembering the alternative to such a "pointless cycle" is a pointless short existence and then human life would be over. Sure, you can argue that's a good thing for earth, but even life on earth is pointless in the grand scheme of things if you're going to use that line of reasoning.
Interestingly, this post refers to twitter.net, not twitter.com.

Maybe a mistake ?
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