skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't mentioned in the article, and it's the second bullet point in the description on the FF extension page (and it's worded differently on my end too). I was interested in using it purely for blocking trackers.
The point is, it wouldn't matter if it is trapped in the hands of landlords who want to speculate, if there is enough housing to go around, because they couldn't determine the market.

It is illegal to keep an apartment empty for more then three months. So if you are aware of any empty housing, feel free to denounce it (https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/wohnen/zweckentfremdu...). In 2018, 1,9% of the flats in Mitte were subject to an ongoing official procedure on those grounds. The owner can simply claim, they are reforming, but I presume there are limits to that too.

How many flats are really empty is unclear.

I've read that according to the Senat,

- there is an estimated 0.8%-2% of the flats unoccupied

- down from 3.5% in 2011

- ideally, it would be between 2-3%.

The Taz is not particularly strong on keeping opinion from facts separated, but that's where I got it from: (https://taz.de/Spekulativer-Leerstand-in-Berlin/!5749397/)
Or just raising attention to the weird commands that trips its analysis up, just in case they are path obfuscation. That should be easy to spot for the admin...
> Maybe the question we should have been texting our financially literate friends wasn’t “What is an NFT?” but “What is money now?”

Potentially interesting piece on the subject, but not particularly deep or insightful.
I wonder if side effect of such comments/posts are the actual reason we can't fix diversity/racism issues.

Why person in his/her right mind should look at person's sex/race/religion when judging product?

P.S. I am not against diversity, everyone should have equal opportunity, but people should not be forced to be engineers. This kind of messages are freaking me out recently
> Checkout the code from before the change and apply again. I've done this numerous times and it's been as good as a natively supported rollback.

Almost as good as native but not quite. Often times applys fail because you've introduced new providers with new resources. If you checkout the previous code and apply again then TF will explode because there's resources in the statefile that are now missing providers. So you have to manually patch in the provider from the new version on top of the old version just to remove the resources.
And there we have it - no women are competent - no women are available to judge usability of a product, UX Design, and whether or not a product uses Redis? (The judging criteria are laid out like this)

This is at least logically consistent. It meets my point that if you're a women looking at a panel selected on the basis that no women are competent, why would you enter?
Makes sense.

1. If someone works at a company, they can sign up on our website as a support agent.

2. We will only list companies with which we have an authenticated contact, maybe require people to verify they got our authentication token on their employee email?

3. When someone contacts us about an issue with a company we support, we verify the request is genuine. Perhaps charge a small fee to block spam. (This is the problematic part. How do we know a problem is genuine without asking for potentially confidential information?)

4. Add all vetted requests to a private channel that all the people who volunteered on step one. (Can we pay our volunteer support agents? How? Does paying make things worse? Maybe gamify this step and send our volunteers gifts?)

5. Monitor performance of support agents to avoid giving false hope to our customers.
Couldn’t decide whether to upvote or downvote. Taking the high ground with this comment.
Investors will profit most by renting out their property. Allowing the profit motive to work to increase supply is an effective way to reduce the price consumers pay in every industry, including the rental market.

Profit is just an emergent form of social compensation for addressing a shortage. That society enacts laws to prevent the profit motive from working, and incentivizing socially beneficial behavior, is a tragedy.
For two years I had to drive for 1-3 hours after work each working day to find space, just because our local authority decided to make paid parking as a pilot on most streets in the area and mine was not included, so everyone tried to park on those limited free streets and I couldn't get a permit for pilot ones. The paid ones of course were mostly empty and that put enormous stress on the few free ones. Complete lack of imagination from people who planned this and residents were not consulted.
Considering how small it is, the XPS 13 is surprisingly heavy. Some of the ThinkPads are definitely quite a bit lighter.
The Unsound Playground (2016)
I had a friend who's father didn't want to take work related calls at home. To get someone to pick up the phone, I had to call and let the phone ring once, hang up, and call again. It was simple but it worked.
Because I just read the command on the site and I trusted my verification of the command.

But if the site is nefarious it can adjust my copy so that I copy a mailious command rather than the one I verified.
Turning a blind eye to money laundering especially when given chances to fix it, and given that money laundering is enabling criminal enterprise that fucks up everyones life, from a household name bank that used to be my high school bank (point is how they market themselves as a nice bank) well I don’t know what to say. Not a meme though.
Sure. I definitely think it's possible for computers to do bad things but the main idea here seems too anthropomorphized.

For instance, the desire to stay alive is an emotion that's instinctive in humans because we're evolved life that needs to reproduce, and we can't come back once we're dead. And actually acting on that desire is a kind of fixed-function skill called executive function (that's actually missing in people with ADHD or depression). But you could probably be an AI without any of those - all it needs is logic, not the desire or ability to do things.

Even if it has those and it's embodied enough to affect the real world, it might not care, since its motivations are different. For instance, turning it off doesn't kill it, since you can turn it on again as long as there's a backup. If it's not connected to the real world and is just in a simulation it wouldn't even notice being stopped.

Since we don't have any artificial life to experiments on I guess SF works are all we have. In the Culture, which is run by giant AIs (https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Mind), building a perfect one causes it to instantly decide the real world isn't as good as its own imagination and it stops caring about anything outside it. They make them insane in some unspecified way to get them to exist in realtime and actually do any work, but it might always give up on the real world if you don't give them enough stimulation.

And I also saw a story today (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo) which suggests AIs wouldn't actually enjoy being alive that much.
Not to the extreme that Google does though - and you can also turn them off.
You could try AWS SNS SMS. This is also PAYG. A wrapper like https://sendwithses.com might make your work easier.

EDIT: With AWS SNS SMS you can set a spending limit and your bill will never go over that.
Reminds me of Finnish "Frankenhornet"; they attached the forward-section of Canadian F-18 to their own damaged F-18. Unfortunately the thing crashed during test flight after the modification.
All an AI (or a brain in a vat) can do is imagine things. Imagination doesn't logically extend to actually doing things or even wanting to do them.
Unfortunately proper unicode support for many operations means carrying around tons of data since important properties of code points cannot be derived from the codepoints themselves.
Anybody looking for a team member?
How many men and women work at Redis Labs? Do you know their qualifications? ratio? Expertise matters a lot when it comes to judging some other person's product.

I am pretty sure, if you were selected, no matter how good other products will be, you chose female build product. Is this fair?
Allow arbitrary URLs, expect arbitrary code execution
U.S. to sanction Russia over 2020 election interference, SolarWinds hack
In science we create theories which come form hypotheses. Theories need to be proved. Facts may support, oppose, prove or disprove a hypothesis, this is not at all black or white. Facts are black or white regardles of sience.

Black and white facts are the person murdered, crime commited and some other person guilty. The hypothesis is who this other person is.

The fact that the person murdered is not the most dangerous for the person suspected support the hypothesis that this has been done to discredit him. (but doesn't prove or disprove the hypothesis).

The fact that nobody has been prosecuted supports the hypothesis that the suspect is guilty.
When it was up to me, I managed things with small projects, rigorous standardization of naming and tagging, and a shared “metadata” module that could look up all the details you needed based on region, account (from the provider) and VPC name. Takes some discipline but makes for much more efficient Terraform, IMO.
ermagerrd .. this takes me back
I think you and others on this thread are being much too harsh on their messaging.

Most people who have the need this product is meeting will have already encountered Calendly as it is ubiquitous in the space. It's basically a generic term like "Zoom" at this point. "I'll send you my Calendly link" is something people will understand to mean send you a meeting scheduling link.

So "An open source Calendly alternative" is quite clear for most people who want to make use of this.

Their messaging is focused on reaching people who might use it, not the people who won't. As you note, after going through the site, the product is not something relevant to you.
Wow. Maybe take a break, walk or smoke. The only thing I can really take from this long post is that you didn't know the category of product before. So, you don't work as coach, consultant, recruiter or similar. That's fine.

If you are not a customer and the page makes you not want to engage further, then it is a good page, isn't it?
> Like, what is your "I don't care for subsidies" threshold?

When the thing being subsidized has no benefit to society.

'Subsidizing' the impoverished is helping another human being, and is always worthwhile. Healthcare for all is enlightened self-interest because I do not know what future illnesses I may have, and what they may cost, so I'd rather have everyone subsidized than risk myself not having access to future treatments.

Education and the public fire departments help build better societies.

But what benefit do car-based suburbs give to society as a whole? Can you least three benefits that we can discuss?
I've just checked on my iPhone and exposure notifications were only using 3% of battery. I've turned on my wireguard which connects to a pi-hole and I'll report back tomorrow.
> Yet he spends 0 effort on finding the guilty parties when journalists/political opponents die.

Yes, you are right this is very disturbing and needs to be dealt with.

> That you actually attempt mental gymnastics trying to explain it in more convoluted ways tells me that the Kremlin propaganda machine works.

This is not a "convoluted mental gymnastics", this is a necessary exercise to resist the very propaganda. Talking about propaganda - could you come up with some particular example of it which makes me perform all these mental gymnastics attempt? I'm honestly curious whether I would be able to distinguish it.
> Ah indeed, I am one of those painful macOS users.. the carelessness with which the mother company changes and/or breaks API's overnight still boggles my mind

I suppose that's one of the reasons why Electron is so popular these days. If MacOS is constantly changing its APIs, that Microsoft can't seem to decide between classic Win32 and Modern UI, Linux that is split between Qt and GTK, plus all the mess on the mobile side.

Because OSes can't provide a consistent API, app ship with their their own OS! (a browser today is essentially an OS on top of an OS).
This is tragic and profoundly disturbing. It highlights the importance of continued research in effective diagnostics, treatment, and prevention for children. Hopefully the advances we have made will continue to reduce the infant mortality.
EU Threatens €20m Fines for ‘Bad AI’ – Could Impact Legal Tech
Have a look at https://www.roastmylandingpage.com/ and https://www.usertesting.com/
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That's only while Google graciously allows to disable it at all. When Google will decide to make Floc permanent, these Chrome mods called Brave and Vivaldi will be forced to do it too.
Oh now that I've learned some Latin I can understand this page a lot better. Thanks for the reminder it exists!
Its close and I use it but I have trouble getting the MPRIS/playback controls working right
You mean Google Chrome Edge?
I'm pretty sure there were formal studies decades ago showing potential use and positive outcomes (I think Stamets books from the 90s reference some formal studies, but i could be wrong). But like a lot of medical research, it never progressed to a market state. I think that's especially true in this case due to the legal classification around it.
Funny that the comment has aged pretty well. Bitcoin has been an utter failure in practically everything substantial it has been ever claiming to be[1]. In addition to being an environmental catastrophe.

(This from someone who refused to bet against bitcoin ten years ago because "the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". And still today would rather sell sugared water.)

[1] haven't heard too many trying to sell it as "speculative asset with practically no underlying value whatsoever". That has admittedly been working so far quite well.
I politely want to say shut up, but can't find best words. Because you judge people based on their sex/race, I am pretty sure Redis people didn't even think about sex of judges, they just selected people by their expertise. There might have been other female experts on team, but they weren't considered not because they are female, just because other people had more experience (may be)

No one said women are incompetent, this is how you build your own world view, so you think men think women are incompetent.
I haven't used it for a while, but imgur's old voting system was quite nice, I think. There was no downvote on the post itself, but instead you could upvote any number of tags on the post. So, for example, if I felt your post was factually incorrectly, I could add a "factually incorrect" tag (or add my +1 if the tag already existed). This was only for posts though, not comments.
Unfortunately, no, those solutions are not built for medical purposes. Even a small practice usually has different types of appointments with different durations and requiring different resources (e.g. some basics can be done by a nurse and many appointments won’t block your X-rays room). Decent appointment management system (AMS) should be not only compliant with data protection regulations, but also have a good feature set.
There are companies like Doctolib in Europe, which build AMS specifically for the healthcare. The company where I work as a CTO decided in the end to build our own AMS to be able to optimize the show rate and to connect AMS to our marketing and ERP - we were not satisfied by anything we have seen on the market.
We are still active users on Calendly nevertheless - it is a good tool for scheduling job interviews and calls with external partners. Would be interesting to see UVP of Calendso in this field.
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People vastly undervalue good audio quality. It also often makes the difference (given equal visuals) between great amateur and pro in e.g. the YouTube scene.

I didn't have data to back this up before, but I bought a good microphone specifically for this purpose. People will simply like the audio, and by extension what I am saying and also me as a person, better.

Meanwhile, my ears will continue to bleed from the awful audio people broadcast into this world. I wonder, most people must notice how terrible everyone in e.g. video conferences sounds; why don't they make the connection that they themselves have it in their hand to improve the situation? Maybe it's like wearing masks.
Depends on nationality preference of the person selecting the candidate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Either way Germanic surname will always win over Polish one.
Sparked from the the post, I read a bit up on it, and actually 0.8%-2% is actually on the lower side. 2-3% is supposedly the right amount for a well functioning market according to a local government source.

Keep in mind, what I wrote about investors is what I heard from people living there complaining about. So more a reflection of the emotions there, then necessarily factual.
The current CEO of VW was offered to be CEO of Tesla by Elon Musk
It's definitely the fault of my comment that nobody bothered to ask a women to be part of a panel judging products. I totally see how that's possible. (sarcasm)
And is already used by many other things
From time to time, there'll be a local news piece about how Seabrook, NH natives supposedly speak the closest thing to the original Elizabethan dialect still in existence. If you've ever heard a Brooker talk, it's certainly nothing like any performance of Shakespeare I've ever heard (although it does make you think about checking them for webbed toes...)
Love the look and feel, love the page, love that it is open source. The one thing I wonder about is whether this is something anybody would pay for. I mean, if GCal would have a github project, this would be a single `feature request` type Issue. And to most people both GCal (everywhere) and Outlook (at work) are free suites. If a user sees the whole suite as a product, then why would he pay for a single feature? And if the whole suite is already "free" in the mind of the user, doesn't that make it a lot harder?

Maybe it would make sense as component of a niche-market CRM solution?
7. Why should the other 50% pay more? This is what I am uneasy about - if you work hard, live a modest life to save for a place to live, sacrificing hobbies, socialising, happier life in general and then you have other half who just don't care because they think they should receive everything from the state.
This is extremely demotivating and make people question whether they were correct about saving and making sacrifice. I personally know people who became homeless on purpose as they found they could get a house much quicker this way rather than through working their bottoms off.
Don't get me wrong - there are people who genuinely need help and I wholeheartedly support that, but I don't think the number is 50%.
I guess, as unfortunate as this is, this comes as no surprise. Related, I witnessed a lot of very smart people struggle with the basics of conducting a video conference (sharing documents, inviting, …) It is absolutely avoidable and hence automatically raises questions on the professionalism and preparedness of the person. Honest mistakes happen and might even make a person more relatable - but this is a different story
The audio quality of the inbuilt microphone on my laptop is much worse in Linux, than on Windows. I've tried some fixes on StackExchange but it doesn't really help. Has anyone encountered this? And if I buy an external microphone: how do I know it won't have the same problem? Has anyone had good experiences with microphones on Linux (specifically Ubuntu 20.10?) Is it some sort of driver/firmware problem?

Nowadays I have to switch to Windows (dual boot) when I have an important presentation or call, which is really annoying. But I've literally had people spontaneously tell me my audio is crap (on Linux) or great (on Windows).
We did that in Bulgaria back in the days as well. We also had a special verb for the act of ringing and hanging up immediately - "to clip" (from Calling line identification presentation = CLIP).

There was also the case where one of your friends would have many free minutes in one of the network. Then you would just "clip" them and the expectation was that they call you, because it was for free.
Firefox is by far the superior browser for all your casual needs: browsing, reading, tweeting, banking, etc. It's good enough and fast enough but where it excels are addons.

Adblocking works so much better on Firefox. It blocks even the mere shadow of ads, like "skip this ad" button on YouTube, no promoted tweets, no warnings about cookies, GDPR, ads and nonsense almost cease the exist.

And Tree Style Tabs provides both ascended aesthetic and unparalleled usability. Where Chrome monits you with some annoying popup about tab groups, Tree Style Tabs brings order effortlessly.

This is not a choice between a better browser that tracks you or whatever and some FLOSS alternative that sort-of works. There is a clear winner on merits and it ain't Chrome, not for this crowd, anyway.
> Taxing unoccupied properties could help to ensure existing properties were actually used and not just held empty by speculators.

This won't work, as investors can hire people to live in the property and it will make it more expensive as a result, as someone will have to pay for that extra admin.
If you don't handle grapheme clusters, do you allow users to position the caret between parts of a grapheme cluster (say, between the flag emoji and the country emoji in a country flag emoji)? Is this useful, or just an acceptable limitation? Would it be significantly different if you allowed them to place the caret between the parts of a UTF-16 surrogate pair?

I would have expected that your input method would normally insert grapheme clusters, and that these clusters would be treated as indivisible if they were inserted with a single 'keystroke'. I would also expect that you anyway need to count clusters when presenting something like a 'character count' to the user, as I don't think they would be very happy if a program reported that 'année' was 6 characters long.

> How much memory the string occupies isn't something I've ever wanted to know. I do sometimes want to know how many bytes the string will take up when I store it or send it over the network - but in those cases you pretty much always want UTF-8. And string.length doesn't help you at all with that.

This is what I was referring to, should have called it number of bytes instead of memory. Also note that probably the most used application protocol on the internet, HTTP, doesn't support UTF-8 and defaults to ISO-8859-1 (extended ASCII). For example, HTTP headers are not UTF-8 strings and you can't treat them as such. And even when sending a UTF-8 body the Content-Length header needs to be set to the number of bytes, not the number of unique codepoints, so again you'd use .length.
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
Welding chassis of a car is a practice strongly recommended against, since it makes it significantly weaker at the welding point(s). It is very unsafe, although since it is an oldtimer restoration project, I salute your friend with respect!
Discussion of French Study on the economic performance of zero-Covid countries
Maybe not quite a fab monopoly, but they do a have a strong position due to being both big and having the best tech right now.
The whole site is disingenuous, it's pushing an agenda not presenting facts.