skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building a dating app, SwanLove (https://swan.love). It's still in MVP mode and centralized mode.

I'm thinking of pivoting into this kind of business model: B2B. So I make my dating app something like GitLab or WordPress. You can install it and host it yourself. You pay me every month if your users exceeds 100.

Say, you are a priest or a gym owner. You have a community. You want your people in the community (church, gym) to have a chance to find a romantic partner inside the community. Anyone who wants to register in your dating app needs to be a member of your community first (church, gym). This way, I don't even hold the data (avoiding becoming a honeypot for hackers). I just want the money (in an ethical way).

What do you think? Is this ethical business model for a dating startup?

For the centralized dating app, maybe the subscription package can help them foster their relationship. I don't know. I'm still thinking about it.

Or you can create a bounty in the dating app for someone who can introduce a wonderful person to you. Then if you get married, the dating startup gets a cut from the bounty. The problem is how you verify whether people get married or not. Can we do something like bootcamps offering ISA that can access their students' tax records?
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I had rather Germany stay in the global small league the way it is than be seduced by perceived anglo-saxon economic success and turn into some crappy copy of the US. The US truly scares me.
Testing is a bit of a mess. There aren't any standards and it's highly subjective and interpretative. Some facilities/tests don't even report the CT of the PCR, rendering the result essentially meaningless (which in many cases then also affects death figures, along with the "died with / died of" debacle).

Cherry-picking of course makes this worse - introducing arbitrary and potentially contaminating boundaries such as governmental policy (red vs blue). Did red states generally employ higher CT's? Do we even have that data? No, sometimes its discretionary or not even recorded. We do know Trump was heavily encouraging more testing, as this painted a better (and, to his credit, ever more accurate) picture of mortality rate, so even just that may plausibly explain such a result.

Conversely, at least regarding all of the testing data as mixed establishes a better starting point for analysis less subject to such foibles.
Really good immune response.
I think decisions presupposing self-consciousness posit an input into the decision making process that doesn’t come from the outside. Surely correlated with the world but not determined by it.
Yes, blockchains are garbage for fraudsters and scammers.
> This pandemic management was/is real shitshow.

Why was the pandemic management a real shitshow?
The HTML serialisation doesn’t do self-closing tags. A trailing slash does precisely nothing: the parser just skips it. It’s dead weight. I strongly recommend against including trailing slashes, because (a) they serve no purpose to the machine; and (b) they mislead people into thinking they mean something, when they don’t—and indeed the vast majority of cases where I see trailing slashes used, they’re not used consistently, so some void tags have them and others don’t (if it was used consistently I wouldn’t mind so much).

(The XML serialisation is still a thing, in various contexts. Serve a document with an XHTML MIME type and the XML parser will be used; or embed HTML in SVG via foreignObject and it’ll be XML serialisation you need. Also note that SVG in HTML invokes… uhh… more XMLy behaviour from the HTML parser, so that the trailing slash does have its XML meaning.)
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>I take a socially relatively cohesive country, where an illness or going to university will not bankrupt you, where your kids can travel alone in public transportation, where police shootings per year are single digits, where the air is very breathable and the tap water is drinkable over world leadership any time

You're obviously entitled to your oppinion, but can we please stop pushing this cherry picked cliché narrative of "US bad because healthcare, shootings and tap water."? That's like saying Europe suffers from mass terrorist attacks and sexual assaults on young women.

>We can always pump some billions into football or another sport once in a while and watch the nation win the world cup, if we really need to dominate something for no good reason

Why not pump some billions in local unskilled wages and stricter enforcement of regulations so that foreign workers won't have to get exploited by unscrupulous German businesses?[1] That would be for an actual good reason IMHO.

[1]https://www.dw.com/en/germany-meat-industry-conditions/a-540...
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> Moreover, markdown is confusing to use for basic stuff like [...] enumerated lists

This is a huge plus for me. Any list with more a dozen of entries and it would be tiresome to have to fix that. Also I can move the lines around freely without weird formatting issues.

Links are okay in my opinion, images are just a bunch of crap. To make an image clickable you'd have to do an image within a link, something like:

[![alt](url)](url)

> every dialect of markdown has an infuriatingly different way of doing basic things that totally breaks your soul if you use a handful of them at the same time.

Completely agree there. Extensions of Markdown are really annoying, but I guess that's what happens when "true" Markdown wasn't updated since 2004.
I personally find it highly likely that the decision mechanism emerges from physical computation in the brain.

However, when we talk about decision mechanisms, we inevitably introduce the question of whether this decision mechanism can work better or worse.

“Free will” may be seen as a computational notion of “health” for this decision mechanism, similar to how we use the term health for our physical bodies. A free will is a healthy will, in the sense that our decision mechanism is not broken by e.g. drugs, electrodes or mental illness.

Second, many people, myself included, hold the assumption that the ordering between options A and B is not purely subjective. If there exists an ordering of options which is objective and external to the agent of choice, then the choices that are actually made can be compared to that external ordering. Free will in this sense denotes the observation that our choices may reflect an ordering which is significantly different from the ordering imposed by reality. This is not a scientific claim and cannot be disproven scientifically. Holding this assumption is in fact a choice.
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The VLC app for Android still works though.
I mean, I think this is like saying it's O.K. to not care about climate change because we have done enough and it's not a problem anymore. i.e. It's way better than it was and it doesn't effect me so I can live my life however I want, I am not worried about the future generations that may have that problem because of my actions.

In this situation, you are saying it doesn't effect you so you have the privelege of not caring.

Totally fair! Wish everyone were in that position.
Ever is a long time.
Vaccines work because they keep the immune system active and primed to recognise the disease being vaccinated against.
Not Radio Equipment, it was an original Buchla Modular Synth! The purpose of a Buchla synth is specifically to make psychedelic space sounds!!
Oh come on, there is amazing progress in Germany on digitalisation and hi-tech. The government of Upper Frankonia is now switching from 4-digit fax numbers to 5-digit fax numbers!

https://www.regierung.oberfranken.bayern.de/presse/pressemit...
Roku is also going to have problems with their marketshare being so North America focused when platforms increasingly need their stack to either work internationally or at least be trivially repurposed for international. Globally Roku's marketshare is nowhere near 10 - 20%.
The A14 is basically a M1 with less CPU and GPU cores, so I guess most of the work done for supporting the M1 on Linux could be reused for the A14.
Mind you, this site is zerohedge; one of the early high-traffic sources of conspiratorial conservative/far-right opinion.
> * for italic, * for bold.

I think something ate one of your *s. One star or underscore for italic; two stars or underscores for bold.

> Links are [](), but I do mess that up sometimes as well.

If you use the "remote ref" style[1], links are `[text][ref]` which is much easier (I remember the order as "this [text] points to that [ref]").

[1] https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#reference-style-...
A couple of observations:

- this isn't the authoritative article on the origins of the wirecard scandal that the title would have you believe. It would be nice to read such an article but this isn't it.

- BaFin, the German regulator has historically been the one to trust but failed to verify. This to a large extent because they didn't have the budget or the staff to do their work properly, traits it shares with many other regulators around the world.

- Another problem is that regulators tend to have a two-way revolving door with the industry they are supposed to regulate. It is pretty rare to see a regulator that really takes such an industry to task.

- Finally, and more worrisome: Europe and the United States have both stopped being hungry. Yes, SV gives the USA a headstart for now, but keep in mind that SV is a spin-off of the MIC, and that without that MIC SV would have not existed as a phenomenon. The 'silicon' in silicon valley doesn't point to servers or hardware but to a much more basic element: the transistor, which displaced the vacuum tube. Back in the vacuum tube days electronics factories were much more wide-spread across the globe than they are today, the tech was much simpler and as a consequence the entry level was a lot lower. Once a country could make glass making vacuum tubes was a relatively small step away.

The distance between making glass and making modern chips is 50 years of investment in technology, a time horizon only very few regimes operate at, and usually those happen to be the plan-economies.

So for everybody else the doors are now firmly closed. Europe is on the backfoot, within another 50 years or so I expect the United States to be on the backfoot too.

Scandals like Wirecard are less rooted in the cycles of ascendancy of the tech world (though as a 'darling' Wirecard got away with more than they should have been able to) than they are in the simple fact that regulators are not operating independent of the industries they regulate.

Boeing 737 Max anybody?
> Besides, an open patent scheme means that any pharma company can sell the vaccine. And I guarantee that the vast majority of companies that will start doing so will be fly by might operators that will take advantage of desperate countries to sell them crap that will end up killing people and simply damage vaccines in the eyes of people all over the world.

This is a completely unfounded claim. You have no evidence, no data, etc to back an argument such as this one.

Do you have any evidence suggesting otherwise that doesn't reduce to your dilapidated pessimism?
You can generalize that: German government doesn't mind exploiting people's health and the environment, and prioritizes industry interests. Two current examples: the ongoing ignorance about ground water pollution [1], and the Diesel air pollution affair, which is far from being over [2].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-sues-germany-over-water-tainted-by-...
[2] https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/deutschland-und-welt/wirtschaft... (no English source)
From what I understand of the Many-Worlds Theory, if it's correct, we can have both 'free will' and 'determinism': a man orders pizza, in 90% of possible futures he chooses a Margherita which is his favorite, but in 10% he orders something else.
> _A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?_

Most likely not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
The lack of any formal specification means Markdown can be pretty much anything you want it to be (provided there a supported implementation)
What kind of CAD? Architectural/Constuction? Mechanical/Electrical schematics?

From an architectural viewpoint, linked files are problematic. It's rare that a model is entirely self contained. Linking (XREFs) are commonplace and loading external files can be problematic. CAD models also gather 'junk' - symbols (blocks in AutoCAD parlance), which need purging from time to time.
> There is now a move to see Kaminsky inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. It is an accolade he thoroughly deserves.

Where can one lobby / sign / press for this?
Do you really think the difference between someone coerced and someone free is "trivial"?

Or between someone who is free to make a choice because they are informed versus one who can't make it because they don't know of it? Or between someone who is capable of understanding the consequences of their actions and someone who is not?

These differences are - obviously, I might add - very important. And they have nothing to do with magical free will.

By the way, the difference between internal and external factors is not the critical thing. There are several ways to restrict people's free will with internal factors - like for example, a person who doesn't know X exists cannot make a free choice to do X.
Sure, but market share should be considered as a percentage of the overall car market, not just electric sales.

It's unrealistic to expect that Tesla would continue to dominate the EV market forever. It is realistic to expect that Tesla will become a significant player in car sales globally.
There is an absolute wealth of connection between more diversity and better products: it’s not that a monoculture can’t make products for everyone, it’s that it’s easier for a team that has wider representation to do so: it’s a competitive advantage for them.

Want examples beyond hand driers? Apple missed menstrual cycle tracking in the Health app. NASA offered to send 1,000 tampons with the first woman in space - and had to abandon its first all-woman spacewalk for bad planning in kit availability. Google Photos tagged black people as gorillas. (Regardless of the cause, it shipped). SnapChat shipped a yellowface filter. Google Translate delivers highly gendered results when translating from gendered languages into English. Google Home is 70% more likely to recognise male voices because of training set bias. Women are 49% more likely to be injured in car accidents because the seating position for crash testing is designed for men. And - yes! - Pinterest has struggled to reach men as users apparently because of its SEO strategy.

Want more examples? Ask any passing woman what app she uses that clearly didn’t think about women.

Diverse teams make better products. The stats are out there.

Trying to argue this highly political. We wouldn’t even be able to talk about your point at Basecamp. Does that not worry you? Don’t assume they will always agree with your politics just because they’ve done this.
Maybe potentially saving lives by providing negligently under-reported and big-coughtech suppressed information is enough to motivate someone to set up an account?
Ford has being down for the past years, closing factories worldwide. I think their focus now is on the SUV/Pickup trucks and exiting other markets.
> Germany will continue slowly declining with whole Europe.

If what's currently happening to Germany (uninterrupted boom since > 10 years) is decline, then let there be more of it.

It's great, that you are living in the moment, but I take a step back once in a while. The other side of the fence is probably not greener.

Germany is by no means perfect. Administration is a shit-show. But stuff is indeed improving (very slowly).
Won a pitch contest a while back with this cheeky presentation that aligns with the advice in the article: https://www.slideshare.net/guard0g/deeprem
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I don't know if it's because I've only been here four years, or because I'm from a city/country with a lot more crime, or it's my train line, but I've never felt unsafe on the late trains or the night buses.

Also, for the unfamiliar, 'guard' here does not mean an armed guard.
Oh I thought no debt history would equal clean credit. That’s bananas, surely it’s safer to lend to someone who has never been in debt? I don’t get the logic..
They have refreshed the Model S and X. So no cars produced while updating production lines
BioNTech (a German company) invents the vaccine known as Pfizer. German (and EU) administration then fails to roll it out.

Also weekly meetings changing (symbolic) measures, making everyone tired of the whole show.
People who say things like that generally consider profit to be stealing because there would be no profit if everyone was paid for their value.

The way I see it is that profit occurs because the value of the end product is greater than the sum of its parts.
Because it's not an article about the wirecard scandal. It just uses it as one large example of scandals in Germany and why they happens on a social level.

Here is an timeline overview of wirecard: https://www.ft.com/content/284fb1ad-ddc0-45df-a075-0709b3686...
ft probably has more in depth articles.
If you want a more "entertaining" kind of video you can watch "ZDF Magazin Royale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g1jk_49r2U (Similar to the style of Last Week Tonight")
It has English subtitles.
BTC isn't a currency.

That's the old narrative, now it's a "Store of value" and a "hedge against inflation".
Buy an electric car for everyday stuff, hire a car for holidays?
What if self-consciousness is merely awareness of the choices your clockwork body makes?
Amex offers 1.25% cashback, and they also have rewards cards that provide "points" which are redeemable on most major airline/hotel rewards programs. In practice Amex is almost universally accepted (I make 1-2 transactions a month that aren't on my Amex, but almost never a big ticket purchase).

For the cases that amex isn't accepted, all the major airline groups have a rewards card too (although BA's is an Amex), and most of the supermarkets have cashback cards in the 0.75-1% range.
> I think something ate one of your *s.

That's because HN supports stripped version of Markdown and supports italic with one *, but not bold with **. You have to escape it with \.
The article has many logical inconsistencies. None of the points made refute Gates' position.

The stockpile of the US would be just as high if the IP were free. They overproduced out of an abundance of caution which from a national point of view certainly made sense.

The only thing that the Serum Institute proves is that if there are production capabilities in development countries, they are used to full effect and IP is not keeping them from anything. OP would have a point if the facilities at the SI would be idling due to licensing issues. Whats keeping them from producing more seems to be predominanlty supply chain issues (which have almost nothing to do with IP).

From what I can see, there are simply no excess production capabilities available (neither in developed nor in development countries) which is the bottleneck.
> I'm assuming it doesn't mean being capable of basic sexual activity, because that seems like a given for 90% of potential couples

I would suspect that more than 10% of women complain about a male partner being unwilling to perform oral sex on them, or bad at it, even though this might be very important for them and the main way they can orgasm. Men, too, complain about women’s ability or receptiveness to things they need for satisfying sex.
> I'm getting contacted by headhunters left and right every months but I'm still reticent to leave because we're short on staff and the project I'm working on is really important for the company and I've was kinda hired to bring those things into reality as the other devs are mostly technical experts in their fields than actual developers and in addition the code is ugly.

Red alert. You basically just wrote “I should quit tomorrow”.
Philosophy is one way to try to grok the world. It is deceiving when it claims the universe is finite, bounded and fully quantifiable, without proof.

Determinism in an infinite interconnected quantum universe ceases to have pragmatic meaning. There is order, but we can't measure everything exactly. It's playing out right here with us, but we fail to grasp it all.

The possibility of higher frames of references invalidates absolutism to mind-games. Which is what hypotheticals are, until new actions are made.
Macbooks Are Impossible to Use
I dont know if this is because i've been spoiled for the last 2 years by archlinux (and wayland which seriously deserves a shoutout) after i lost my last macbook air a few years ago, but after I recently bought a new macbook, trying to replicate the experiences of my past, im seriously finding myself in countless scenarios where im thinking either the "tech giants" are in a kind of cold war against each other, trying to attack each other in every single subliminal way, or that closed sourceness just sucks literally all the shit it can muster out of the asshole of proprietary software.

Please tell me im not crazy.

Seriously, why is chrome infinitely better on linux than mac?

And why does safari like ughhhh!
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I cannot understand how this works at restaurants in the US.

Last time I visited it went like this:

1. I get a bill ($50 for example) and give the server my card

2. A card payment notification appears on my phone for the $50 payment with my bank

3. The receipt comes back with a tip field where I write $10 and sign

4. The server now updates the payment and a few days later when the payment clears, the amount has changed to $60

But what if the server chose to enter $20 instead of the $10 I specified? Do I have to keep the receipt and remember to go check that the cleared payment matches a few days later? How else would that be caught?

In the UK, you enter the tip on the card machine when you put your card in, so the payment is immediately taken and everything is clear. I really want to know why I shouldn't worry about the above scenario next time I cross the pond!
I've looked at this before and failed to get the idea.. I thought all you needed was a raspberry pi, a domain name and a public IP to be "indie web".
> Fine, but can we please stop pushing this cherry picked cliche narrative of "US bad because healthcare, shootings and tap water."?

Well those are the reasons, why I would not want to live there, even though I recognize it's economical superiority. Actually mostly the freedom of children. The other things you can solve with money. But your kids will have way more freedom in Germany and there is nothing money can do about it in the US.