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> I've often been downvoted below zero within a minute of posting, just for playing Devil's Advocate.

I just want to point out that playing Devil's Advocate is not as innocent as you make it seem. Most people, when they say they're doing it are posting poorly supported populist arguments, based on some unsubstantiated folk wisdom or straight up fake facts. Not saying you did that in that particular case.

Playing Devil's Advocate is only valid when you're dealing with normative scenarios, for example when advocating for one policy over another, both of which have drawbacks and advantages.

When someone says they're playing Devil's Advocate for issues where the science has been mostly settled, it's usually what I stated above in the first paragraph, and becomes very clear that the poster has some ulterior motive or is personally attached to their beliefs over evidence.

So the reason those get downvoted is that when you have a wrong populist argument at the top of the thread, more people see it and adopt it as their position, thus perpetuating the cycle. To break the cycle, people downvote it.
I don't know what to do now...

Does clicking on forbes count. Or only when I click on a different website and forbes count...
> So, a library purchases a digital copy of a work. Then it lends out that copy, and until that copy is returned, it does not lend out any other copies of the work (even though it is technically possible to do so).

The issue is that IA decided to forgo the rule that they won't lend out copies of the book until it gets returned and instead decided to lend out as many copies as they wanted at a time.
Actually, you did respond.

I said I agreed with promptly admitting wrong, which was what the OP was all about. I could care less about the tweet. I revised the comment to reflect what I meant more clearly, after reviewing it, and agreeing with you that it could be interpreted ambiguously.

I also added that there is a legitimate issue, in that Apple has a very broad stipulation in their agreement (did you read yours?), that actually gives them the right to do exactly what the original tweet accused. Even though he was wrong about the facts on the ground, he did actually highlight an issue that has been present since the earliest days of the App Store (more than a decade).

And, yes, you are fighting, which is completely unnecessary. I would bet that, if you (not me) hadn't come out of the gate swinging, we might have found a lot of areas in which we could agree.

I'm actually a fairly decent chap. The chances are even that you are, as well. The Internet tends to bring the beast out in us. I am a reformed troll. I could have really come out swinging, but I don't do that, any more. In fact, as you can easily verify, I attach my name and reputation to everything I post.

In any case, we're done here.

Have a great day!
I think another option would be to accept being an introvert and not see it as bad thing that has to be changed.
a slumlord could then just hike the rent up by ubi(ish) dollars

oh, all my tenants have an "extra" $2,000 a month? they can pay more. housing is inelastic so tenants are the ones who have to bear the increase.
Why does it make sense for Apple to retain the commission on a charge back?

Because Apple might not be able to "take away" an app that was installed and then charged back instead of returned?
> however it would be interesting to have some examples of haskell developments that are fueled specifically by cryptocurrency applications

An article saying "this sector of our community is bad and scamming retail investors" is already burning MAD BRIDGES and putting an enormous target on your back.

"Bob Smith and Joe Brown, specifically, are scamming retail investors" is going even a little beyond that. It's just not necessary.

EDIT: For the writer of the article, that is. We in the peanut gallery obviously want all the details, which is why a little detective work is often required in these cases.
Fixing existing legislation like copyright law so that it can't be abused to protect this behavior would be enough; the market will do the rest and there's going to be a whole (legalized) industry specializing in cracking and unlocking (effectively repairing) defective by design products.
HN at least realized a mistake then posted updates to counteract the wrong information.

Imagine if this happened in more mainstream, more polarized communities where this Tweet would get posted, immediately and undeniably be taken as fact, and then promoted/upvoted without being taken down. And debunking something popular with facts will lead to it being parodied, downplayed, or ignored in favor of keeping the false narrative.

No wonder a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth puts its shoes on.
Excuses for prejudice
This overt cynicism isn't a good way to consume content.

If you create yourself a nice echo chamber (which social media and internet allows you to do so) you can triple/quadruple check to your heart's content and still consume "wrong" information.
Ask HN: What recipe website or app do you use?
Since wfh, I am looking for a cooking app with a good ux to up my usual recipes. What do you guys use?
No, what's mistaken is not noticing that the world has changed. Websites exist, youtube exists, there are a myriad of ways a writer might "write" or create which does not involve book form. Books remain viable because there's a business model to support them, but take that away and people capable of writing could and would go to modern competing products that didn't exist in the past.
This entire debate is about dishonesty. It is like supporters of football teams at this point.
Show HN: Twitter Pics to Slideshow
Click-baity title, but another good article about the prevalence of biases that make getting the truth harder with the advent of the internet.

Overcoming confirmation bias is a daily struggle for me - it can be so incredibly easy to sit back and read articles that confirm what I _want_ to believe as true and accept that as proof my beliefs are well-founded. Looking for sources of raw data has helped in that regard - numbers tend not to lie as much. Representation can be skewed, though.
I don't think Cardano is running a shady exchange, but Cardano sure is traded in shady exchanges and people are losing money trading Cardano. I don't think that's a controversial statement.
> Then they started calling my wife as she was listed as my next of kin.

Minor tangent, but that got me to wonder: would that be legal under the GDPR, which only allows you to use data for the (legitimate) purpose it was collected for?

In this case, they gathered next-of-kin info for (I assume) disbursal of benefits when the employee is dead or incapacitated. “To find the employee after he quits” would be out of that scope, then, right?
>How are you more at the mercy of the rich if you have more money?

Because that money is coming from the rich. Would you say your boss/employer has less power over you the more you make? IF that is the case, it's not because of how much you make but rather because of how much value you have to the company. In the case of UBI, there is no value exchange, only a handout. If there is a value exchange, it's merely the prospect of less riots/civil unrest.

(This is not even to mention the wash effects of inflation, which are covered well in the other comments on this thread)
I see. I did spend a few months on a crypto trading platform and they had this frequent-updating table to display latest prices for each currency. DGXL really is an input-first component, so I haven't thought of this websocket approach.

Still, DGXL has methods like setCellValues, among others, that let's you update a part of the grid, not the entire grid. And it's super fast because of DGXL's virtual DOM.

Thanks again!
The first thing will be forced by economic factors, not just landlords doing their job. everyone just takes a permanent vacation because work sucks. At the very least a lot of them will work less. This is an intended outcome. Supply hence falls through the floor because full automation doesn't exist. As supply is constrained and demand is just as high (if not higher) this in turn starts triggering higher prices which is to say (hyper)inflation. Now your UBI is worth nothing and you will be joining the nearest sweatshop soon. If the government tries to inflation correct UBI it will just make it worse.
> your horrible job

The problem I have with this is “who gets to define what is and is not a horrible job?”

Just not liking your job can’t be the litmus test here. If 95 percent of people doing a job thinks it’s a fine job and 5% hate it, does that make it a horrible job? What about 5% and 95%? When does a job become horrible?

Also, what about a generational change in attitudes or a difference in attitudes between regions. There are jobs I did that I consider decent honest work that I put myself through college doing that many people twenty years my junior would not even consider. There are jobs city folks would do that country folks would not do? There are jobs immigrants are fine with that native born citizens would consider horrible.

For those of us working hard and paying lots of taxes, we have expectations here since it's the fruits of our labor that are paying for all this. If we're expected to work so others don't have to, there needs to be solid justification that those of us still working agree with.
If there's no limits on how many copies they would hand out and no limit on how often you can check out the same book, then for practical purposes it's not time limited.
well yes, but as long as there's no vaccine, it remains fairly predictable it seems.
I'd normally do what's outlined in this article with CTEs. IE, make a selection, use that as a base in a following selection, repeat, until you have all your data, then join it all together in the needed view at the end.

Is there a performance advantage to using a lateral join over CTEs for this type of analysis?
Why Have Exposure Notifications Failed?
Unfortunately there is no "out-of-the-box" solution for what you are trying to do.

It depends on the actual database (or storage solution) that you actually employ; for example:

* in case of Postgres there is streaming replication; but I think by default (and perhaps there isn't a way to disable that) it also "streams" `DELETE` operations; so you still have to do things manually;

* in case of CouchDB (a document store) you could use replication, and then on the "on-premise server" (i.e. in company A) delete the old data and filter this operation in the replication;

However, in the end I bet you'll end-up implementing a custom replication procedure. Which is not impossible, but not quite easy when you take into account network reliability.

----

A "quick and dirty" solution would be this:

* dump data (either in SQL, JSON, TSV or whatever fits your use-case) in batches, of say 1 day or 1 week per batch; compress that with `zstd` or `lzip`; (depending on your data it should compress quite nicely to at least 75%;)

* upload that to S3 for archival or staging area;

* if you need on-line access to the data, import it in your database on AWS side;
It's called disrupting the market, I don't see why not. Uber innovated, airbnb innovated and now non profit internet archive.
New Relic drops host-based pricing, adds everything to free plan
New Relic changed their pricing model significantly this morning, now charging for seats (first user is free) with 100GB data ingest, thereafter $0.25/GB.
More precisely, Apple has a stipulation on their contract that a non-lawyer misunderstood and didn't get a lawyer to clarify.
There was some handwaving around all the physical books locked up in libraries that the IA took it upon themselves to virtually "borrow" but there were no actual partnerships AFAIK.

(And, honestly, why stop at libraries? There's actually very little special about libraries from a copyright law perspective. There's absolutely nothing to keep me from putting a set of bookshelves in front of my house and do an honor system book lending or take a book/leave a book thing.)
If IA agreed to a controlled-lending contract, it absolutely does.
That's cool!

Why NASA didn't opt for a balloon too for this mission?
> I've made the delightful discovery that per-page ink pricing schemes, such as HP's "Instant Ink", can be very effectively leveraged to make photo printing as close to free as it's possible to get, with the incremental cost per print being effectively just that of whatever paper you choose to use.

Would you care to add some more details? Is this an all-you-can-print deal with a fixed monthly price or something?
Hi. I have worked for one of the acquirers (card acceptors) for couple of years, designing and implementing credit card terminals and security infrastructure. I was also security officer.

Basically, credit cards can be very secure. But it also costs. Banks do simple cost/benefit decisions and may in many cases significantly lag behind in technology for various reasons. They get away with this because consumers have absolutely no idea how cards differ and what the options are.
I regularly meet people who have been using it for months and still keep using the wrong vowels.

It's not insurmountable by any means. However, if Pinyin came in on a code review, I'd have a lot of comments on it :D
Is the pico in your username a coincidence, or just particularly subtle and clever?
Ok. I can only speculate unless you want to document.

I'll guess again! My VPN just happened to be IP banned which I had no way of knowing before registering.

I'm sure new people appreciate being labeled as abusive trolls and spammers just for registering and I’m sure new people don't stay either.
What do you get when the rule makers (Twitter) implicitly impose rules for different users but decide to stay silent and not enforce those rules when another user breaks them (or even themselves)?

Hypocrickets.
Storing web logs in a SQL database is a pretty bad plan.
>"communication is terrible"

My company has brought in a lot of Amazon people and ideas, but unfortunately we go this one backwards. "Communication is great." Managers are explicitly encouraged to structure projects to maximize cross-team and cross-org meeting hours.
I'm also an author, though not represented by one of the parties. My personal reaction was that the "uncontrolled" digital lending was still very controlled. It was media-constrained (some patrons complained about this), time-controlled, and overall a far cry from the idea of just giving books away in what most would view as an "uncontrolled" fashion.

For this reason I also think use of the "uncontrolled" term is unfair, disingenuous, and even does a disservice to the public at large. It further propagates the myth that loosening already-strict controls is the same as having no controls at all.
I agree with both (1) and (2). We require all devs, as a part of the onboarding process to read, improve and correct the docs for onboarding for each new hire. A PR is required. This forces all developers to understand what happens when something actually breaks and also how to locate the information, should the need arise.

This is also why we've never Dockerized. It masks too many issues and no one seems to have a clear understanding of how all the garments are stitched together.
1 this exists and is way worse with wages. People are forced to work, and at mercy of their employers. UBI frees people from wage slavery.

2. This is no different than now. Endless scams- advertising, etc all the time to extract peoples money. Regardless of source.

3. Duck ups aren't going away. Under UBI they at least won't be at the mercy of beauracy and changing political will re funding social services. And people who want to volunteer to help them will be free to do so not having to spend a 1\3 or more of their waking life just to survive.

UBI won't fix all problems. But its advantages outweigh.
> What's happened is certain bad actors have deliberately taken advantage of a weakness in the social contract to enrich themselves & lock down the ownership of our own culture.

That's ridiculous. Copyright exists becauce in the past bad actors misused the liberty of culture to exploit poor creators by selling their work without paying them anything at all. In the grand picture copyright is good, because it enables cretors to live from their work, and let's them invest into bigger pieces of culture of higher quality.

What we need is to ensure a balance between the commercial interessts and societies interesst.
I did my part by holding on to the money. We took a vacation a few weeks ago and spent it that way. I think we're in the vast minority though. The stimulus really should have been held so the money could go to businesses as they reopened.
As for the vacation, we drove to our destination (a resort in San Diego). We disinfected the room ourselves before moving in. We canceled daily cleaning. We avoided crowds and stayed masked up. People are critical of vacationing right now, and rightly so, but it can still be done in a safe way.
A lot of merchants are starting to use 3D Secure now which is essentially two-factor authentication.
Depends on where you bank I suppose. Also depends on where you credit.

I can't use my bank card without mutual validation, same with my credit card. Even if you do it manually we still get a challenge-response that you use a hardware device or an app for.
What's a "real" cyclist? Someone who rides for sport in full kit and trains for races? Someone who commutes to work and runs errands in street clothes, even in bad weather, maybe because they don't have another option? A casual weekend family rider on rails-to-trails? Someone on a cross-country tour?
Presumably they make things of value to get rich, which is why we enjoy the standard of living we all do.
Uber and Airbnb are still in dubious legal territory themselves, especially when it comes to employment/renters rights.
There was evidence (chart showing negative income), but it was misinterpreted. What is interesting is that Twitter got a lot of corrections,but HN didn't get a bunch of iOS devs saying "No, this doesn't happen on my app" (at least not in the dozens of comments I read).
I'm really bullish on this concept. I learned how to code coming from a finance background, and the mental shift from Excel to relational database felt natural enough, but the lack of Excel-like ways to interact with those databases has always felt like white space to me. Well done!
Does anyone have a legal theory under which IA can potentially defend itself here? I am no legal expert, but I just can't fathom an avenue where they win this case. The merits of copyright law can be debated, but given that the law exists, what legal framework can IA use to fight this, or is their losing the case a forgone conclusion?
Pg9.3 is pretty old at this point.

That said laterals can be very useful, and it's still worth reading the article I'd you're not familiar with them.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the article though. It's just an anti-bitcoin article of which there are many.
The article here is about cryptocurrencies that pull in money through ICOs and that turn out to be fraudulent and that use Haskell and sprinkle some right wing politics on top. In the end the article doesn't really say anything if you ask me and I don't really see the link with Haskell. Haskell just has properties well suited for cryptocurrencies so it gets used more than certain other programming languages for this specific purpose. This seems more like the author disagreeing with consultants, who happen to use Haskell, that take on (according to him) dubious jobs.
invasive in the same way as employees looking at customer data is invasive?
Very nice. Would be even better if I could just click on the topics to select the ones I wanted to view in the newsletter, instead of having to type them by hand separated by commas.
There are a ton of problems with hand gestures.

One, they're hard to see and blocked by line of sight (voice isn't.)

Two, they require hands to be free to communicate (not always the case, and in situations of survival it's probably not doable at all.)

Three, they're limited versus voice. Voice has soft and loud and more sounds can be made than variations of hands. More meaning can be ascribed to a sound.
No, leaving them in place for possible future mission
Exactly.

When people treat you that way, you politely say "If you want my help, change your tone."

If they don't, hang up.
Sure, no government incentives required. The median home price in the US is $226,000.

A typical mortgage payment on that mortgage is $1,100.

Adding $1,000/month will put many renters above the minimum income they'd need. Keep in mind, a married couple will be getting $2,000/month.

There will be vacancies for the same reasons. People moving up-market.

Highest end homes will also increase in value. Everybody moves up, and homeless folks who are homeless due to loss of income will have a place to live.
> And then there's Vim which, depending on how it was built for the respective distro, doesn't seem to accept any way to copy or paste text.

I install GVim, since it tends to be compiled with the most features enabled. You can still use the vim executable in a terminal and ignore the gvim one. Then it's just "+y / "+p to copy/paste, or add this to vimrc to map it to \y, \p:

noremap <Leader>y "+y

noremap <Leader>p "+p
Nice. I'll give it a try if its really free
Sounds like the same thing as a mortgage.
My ex-manager was the reason I left. He was.... odd.

You could warn him in advance about an impending negative issue. You could use lights, fireworks and even shout in his ears, but he would ignore you.

The the issue would occur and cause problems, big problems.

He would then ask "Why didn't you warn me?"

I would pull out my paper trail of emails, meeting notes etc.

To which he would reply "You didn't try hard enough to get my attention."

And that is why you don't put a career salesman in charge of your IT department.
Isn’t this just the nature of news? Common events are not news, uncommon ones are. So news is always going to give more coverage to the less common theory.
Didn't ruby historically have poor support for windows? Everything great has to start small either eay.
> no limit on how often you can check out the same book

There was always a fixed limit on how long the book remains checked out, and it must have already expired to all that checked it out at that time. The DRM protection remained active.

Edit: answering the post below:

> They had a limited number of licenses to produce works and they produced more than that.

It was at the times that all the physical libraries were closed, one can argue that the demand wasn't bigger than what the public libraries would have been able to handle, and even it had been bigger, it was only because of that exceptional emergency happening.

But I agree it would have been much clearer had they made some fixed limits corresponding to the estimated number of the books in the physical libraries.
Again nearly all library systems already have a digital lending system in place
Cure53. The best.
Because they wanted to test a helicopter
"early next year" : or maybe another year later, or never.

Or someone beats them to it, making it not 'world first'.

Great PR ( submarine ) though.
Sure it was shopped around at $17 but soared to $27 on it's first day and has been below that ever since
Weren't horses domesticated in Asia?
There are some GUI features that address this. For instance, there is no downvote button if you reply to someone, or if they reply to you. But ultimately, the use of the button is up to the community.
CTEs can be an optimization barrier. Only recently did that change from "are" to "can be" and even now only in specific situations is it not.
I think dreamer in this context is the person who gets you fired up and giddy but you seem to be the person doing the work. Maybe irrational and emotional as you say. There is no malice but a lack of reality.