jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is this really a big IF? Software revenue is technically rent (since the cost of production is 0), and that's definitely growing as a fraction of economic activity.

The cost of production [software engineers] is not 0.

The labor of maintaining software products [sysadmins] on the internet to perform the distribution is not 0

The cost of distribution [bandwidth] requires extensive infrastructure that the owners charge for. The power, hardware, etc. for the machine is non-0 as well.

> rent-seeking is expending resources on political activity to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating wealth.

That is the definition I'm used to.

So I'm not sure if you can really classify that as a "rent".
I came in here to say the same thing. I've been learning Lisp and some other functional languages but I'm still not sure why Lisp and Prolog make such good AI languages.
This is Hacker News, so I was speaking to the crowds here. Sure, most companies can’t have work-from-home as a viable alternative, but I’m specifically talking about purely digital companies - even where devs don’t interact with customers :shrug.gif:
> They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture

I.. I thought that it's gonna be a Youtube channel about people living.. underground. I should get some sleep.
> Where's the comparisons of educational systems?

They exist, it just needs putting in a little bit of effort to look them up.

> yet I can name […] only one of [educational systems]

I am also not an expert in pedagogy, but I can name: education in the home by parental units and private teachers, Waldorf, Montessori, democratic schools, MOOC. It would be interesting to find out how you would end up in a situation where you could not.
I'm guessing the repository is private
Habr is great. I don't visit other Runet sites often, but read Habr regularly - it's part HN, part Slashdot, with great original content.

The Russian Internet seems to be an overall great place to find information on old devices, old software, and the like. http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm is a retro-looking site about retrocomputing, it has many articles from computer magazines circa 1990. Also worth noting that due to Russia's traditionally "relaxed view on copyright" it's not hard to stumble upon a site that has direct download links to e.g. versions of MS-DOS or Windows 3.1.
An example of LSD's effect on art: [1] More details here [2]

Then there's the visionary art[3] of Alex Gray.[4]

There's a great book that documents studies done on LSD's effect on creativity.[5]

On the subject of music, LSD famously influenced the Beatles,[6] and many other 60's bands... and which, in turn influenced many others. In fact, there's a very good chance that most if not all of the contemporary music you like to was directly or indirectly influenced by drugs of one sort or another.

[1] - http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzp00sBETe1qa88x9.jpg

[2] - http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/artist-draws-nine-portrai...

[3] - https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=alex%20grey&t...

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Grey

[5] - http://www.amazon.com/LSD-Spirituality-Creative-Process-Grou...

[6] - http://beatles.wikia.com/wiki/LSD
In theory, if you are philosophically committed to the idea of open source, it logically follows that every binary you release should come with full source, without exception.

This is the case for me, for example. I never release software without source.
I swear I saw a keychain TV (VHF) on something like Banggood once, for a couple dozen bucks. Really wish I'd bought it for the novelty value, as I can't find it at all now. It would have been a remarkable example of technology reaching a peak immediately before it goes obsolete.

edit: Holy shit, I found it! It's a Mytech MT-010. Can be had for 20 bucks, if it ships to you at all.
Make a PR! I need a better command line client.
Because you have one life and busy days and personal and professional merge with a lunchtime meeting then an afternoon doctor's appointment etc.

When you are back to back most days (common at Google) you can't be juggling multiple calendar accounts all the time, not least because a personal event doesn't show on your professional cal meaning someone can try to double book that slot.
Always fascinated to see people use alternate input methods. I wonder if there is some possibility for steganographic applications with this? I.E., plug a soundcard into an oscilliscope, play a specially crafted .wav or equivalent file, and viola, secret message?
First, I've made one sinful over-simplification in my own post, in conflating NoSQL systems with eventual consistency. While that's usually the case, it's absolutely not an intrinsic property: my apologies!

True SERIALIZABLE-level ACID does pretty much simply just work - and if you're using Postgres the performance hit really isn't too bad. Of course you're chucking away replication then, so whether it's suitable for your needs may vary rather!

Dynamo-based systems have 'tunable consistency' but that's almost always over one key: multi-key operations are usually inconsistent. That being the case, they're pretty much only 'easy to use' for applications with a very simple data model: my experience is that most applications of any real complexity will at some point want to do some kind of multi-key operation. That being the case, you're probably on the hook for a pretty expensive programmer.

I'm vaguely aware that this doesn't strictly apply to Cassandra, and it has a limited notion of transactions - last I checked they didn't work very well at all ( https://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra/ ), but that may well have changed

I do appreciate your blog post in general - I think there's an awful lot of oversimplifying of this stuff out there. Part of the problem is that high speed, concurrent, distributed data storage is a topic that is, at its heart, pretty damn complicated. Unfortunately,
Congratulations to the author and a succesful campaign.

My favourite part of his post reminded me of a quote my marketing professor once told me "The most important thing in a marketing campaign is a great product"

Had desk been a poor product, I doubt the Halo-effect would have happened.
And literally all of this won't help if you leave your house and leave a door unlocked, which is the far more likely scenario - the one time we got robbed, that was exactly what happened.

Had we not left the door unlocked, chances are people wouldn't have tried a daylight robbery.

Reasonable security measures are also an important part of computing.
> People just don't trust authorities anymore

I would argue that the issue is not mistrust of authority per se, it is rather the rampant politicization of authority. To wit, I feel like a more accurate reflection of the zeitgeist is:

People just don't trust authorities with different political leanings than them.
Why is that?, genuine question
> don’t want to take claims of election fraud very seriously.

There has been no evidence to support any of the claims being made about systemic election fraud.

Zero. What is there to take seriously?

> When Trump won in 2016 there were claims of fraud for that in addition to claims of support from Russian hacks into voting machines. None of these were taken down.

I don't think those ideas were mainstream at all on the left, and even if they were, they weren't being made by people in positions of power. There's a difference between someone anon on the internet claiming fraud (because that's meaningless) vs the sitting president doing so.

I don't call Barack Obama spending the time between Nov and Jan drumming up support for an insurrection against the government. Can you show me where that happened?

I don't recall Hillary Clinton ever making the claim of election fraud, or any elected official saying those things.

Right now you have the majority of Republicans in the House making those kind of claims, in addition to the President and several Senators. The fact you would equate the two shows you are too deeply biased to talk neutrally on this subject.
Martha Stewart? But that was securities fraud, the only true crime.
If an auto immune disease damages your body but then it stops manifesting, your body will remain damaged. A medical treatment for the caused damage would be called a cure in this case. Vaccines that stop the auto immune response are not cures. A somewhat helpful example is pancreas transplant for type 1 diabetics: the person with the transplant would be "cured" (ie they'd have their own insulin production) but the auto immune disease will destroy the donor pancreas eventually. Hopefully in the future we will have complete, synergistic treatments that take care of both.
> React requires no compilation. (JSX requires compilation, but you can use React without JSX.)

While true I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a non-didactic codebase that uses react but not jsx.

Can anyone point to any recognizable projects or products that do so?
Part of the problem was that NS Savannah was obsolete about the time it was introduced, combined with essentially requiring military crew to operate due to US law.

So you introduce a very expensive to run freighter that requires complex cargo handling just as containers are starting to take the world. Not a good idea.
Interesting, thanks for clarifying. Those do seem like big challenges.
> Hello world may not require CRA, but not using CRA is often a huge mistake.

I'd like to learn more about bad times that have occurred due to failure to use CRA up front.
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Does this mean we can simply convert any xml api to a json equivalent by just json.dumps(xmltodict(xml)) ?

I am going to give it a try.
Adware is a form of Malware.
The shocking depletion of the world's fisheries over the last century and a half is one of the great tragedies of our modern civilization. We're causing mass extinction on a level we have to go back to the fossil record to see. We're eating fish that was previously thrown back or used as bait, often just giving it bogus pretty names (like Chilean Sea Bass).

I live in the US for now but having grown up in Europe I understand the situation there better. Nationalistic arguments resting on protecting 'traditional' livelihoods and preserving centuries old fishing villages have been used to continue subsidizing an industry with much larger collective fishing fleet than is possibly justifiable. Of course nowhere in this "tradition" argument is it ever acknowledged that traditionally we used vastly less sophisticated machinery and mechanisms so catches per fisherman were obviously dramatically lower - and we were STILL depleting stocks.

This is no different to any of our resource extraction industries sadly. Give rights to extract resource. Rights holders make tons of money. Use money to pervert political process and buy protection against breaches of law and regulation. Deplete resource. Move on.
App stores are great for commercial developers but culturally clash with open source apps. If someone were to take grep and commercialize it, no one would use it. (Though I have seen stories about it happening with Blender). But if grep were an app in the Play Store, and it was open source, someone would grab the source, commercialize it, and maybe even invest in advertising to make their grep to the most popular one.

Spare Parts is (was?) part of the Android Open Source Project, but got posted to the Android Market with ads added and only minor changes. Romain Guy (of Google's Android team) posted sample code for a Shelves application and had the same experience.

I love open source, but make my living with closed source Android apps. One of my early projects actually was an LED flashlight app. I tried selling it for a week or two, then switched to a free and donate model which doesn't make much money. My other apps do, and it's just a flashlight so I have no interest in monetizing it. I also rarely update it, don't answer support emails for it, and certainly don't buy banner ads to promote it. Without any marketing effort on my part, there is no way it will compete with the commercial offerings. I've considered open sourcing it, and maybe I should, but I'm still a bit attached, as it was one of my first apps, and I'd hate to see a fork of it with ads and junk grow more popular than it. I also wouldn't have much time to review pull requests and build/test new APKs to publish.

The app is TeslaLED. If it works on your device (works on most modern devices) then it's probably what you're looking for. Sadly if it doesn't it is unlikely to get updated in the near future with support.
this is NOT a stupid idea
pixel peeper perhaps, but these images are nice when you look at them on a smartphone screen, print one or view on large screen and the pictures from a mobile phone give a whole different feeling and sense of quality.
Imperial study was in the context of a tiered UK system that keeps schools, so increased infection from young people is my personal and ill-informed hypothesis of how the new variant achieved 50-70% increased r0 under restrictions.
I'm not sure what you mean. Humans have been social animals for a very long time, so it stands to reason that they would be genetically different from non humans, although i'd expect similar results in other social animals.
From my point of view, the most interesting and balanced part is hidden 3/4 of the way to the article:

> Russia’s social media campaign ultimately played a marginal role, according to Benkler, but the media was elevating both its importance and its messaging. “The media is taking all the remaining trust and authority it has not yet lost to Putin, and using it to say exactly what he wants”

It is intriguing how well that echoes with what Grugq said almost two years ago.[0] It's not that the disinformation campaigns on social media have been necessarily effective by themselves, but the US (and to a slightly lesser degree, UK) media is amplifying them far beyond the original reach.

An incendiary, uncorroborated piece of "news" draws attention. Any corrections, if such ever emerge, are shoved out of the way, to the bottom corner of page B7. Rinse and repeat. Media gets to source free material, and the eyeballs keep coming back.

0: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv7wmv/former-exploit-broker... ; don't bother with the text on that page, listen to the podcast episode in full
A lot of these are straw men arguments. In particular it's taking a lot of statements about how Section 230 ought to be amended or replaced, and falsely portraying those statements as being about how Section 230 currently works. Obviously Section 230 doesn't work that way right now, which is precisely why people are proposing changes.
These platforms are really just websites. If you don't like them, you are free to make your own website. If you create a website would you really want the government to interfere with it?
But where will it find the money to support, say, 1 billion people? Telegram already started to show ads.
One of the biggest reasons I use and like Signal is because it doesn't have a bunch of extra stupid crap like payments, in-app ecosystem, business interactions and all the other junk pushed by corporations in a quest to "expand the userbase".

I just want a solid texting platform, that's it. So far I've been happy, even with a few unnecessary updates like stickers (?!) and disappearing messages (ugh).
If you seriously don’t know about this, then the parent poster’s comment about schooling, is completely accurate.

> Our (non-higher) education system in the US is nothing to be proud of and wildly inconsistent at best.
I assume that this would work better for games like Sims or SimCity, since generally you're always clicking the same things and reading the same text - for e.g. Grim Fandango, you'll only be reading the same text again when you replay the game, which takes a while.
Free:

- Breeze: authentication starter kit

- Cashier: payment processing through Stripe or Paddle

- Dusk: automated browser testing

- Echo: real-time broadcasting

- Horizon: queue handler

- Jetstream: application scaffolding

- Mix: frontend asset compilation

- Octane: serverless Laravel

- Sail: Laravel Docker environment

- Sanctum: SPA authentication

- Scout: search engine

- Socialite: OAuth provider authentication

- Telescope: application monitoring

- Valet: macOS developer environment

Paid:

- Envoyer: zero-downtime deployment service

- Forge: Laravel hosting via AWS, DigitalOcean, and more

- Spark: application scaffolding kit

- Vapor: serverless Laravel hosting via AWS
Threats, misinformation about say a butterfly sanctuary?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/06/texas-butter...

These seem to have real results.
Are you trying to imply this was a lie or misinformation? Conditions continue to evolve, as do recommendations by experts. The President of the US is listening to experts.
Most people prefer to play along and have a good time and not think much about it and focus on the night itself. Less about making a point and more about having fun at the place you'll walk back into once you exit the toilet.
Kinda interesting to draw parallels to e.g. the 2022 iOS App Store.
You probably want at least some redundancy otherwise you're at risk of losing data as soon as a single one of your hard drive fails. However if you're interested in maximizing capacity, you probably need erasure coding, which Garage does not provide. Gluster, Ceph and Minio might all be good candidates for your use case. Or if you have the possibility of putting all your drives in a single box, just do that and make a ZFS pool.
How do you go from ‘Apple is offering a new payment method’ to a rant about how you don’t care about privacy?

Why would people have to choose between using only cash and sharing their data with everyone? The normal thing to do is limit who can access the data as much as possible. And if people don’t do that, why would legislators care?
This is why censorship doesn't work to combat misinformation. People are going to make up their own minds, no matter what.
So, as you aluded to, it's a matter of math. if 20s,30s and 40s males are generally targetting women in 20s then men in general who are in their 20s will have a much worse time.

Some regions like san antonio or san jose simply have more males than females ~ roughly 2-9% more. That doesn't sound like a lot, but run the numbers on this. If 80% of the population is already coupled up, that leaves 20% single. Now if you have 29% males and 20% female, it means single males outnumber single females almost 3 to 2, which is quite a large margin.
Perhaps we could contribute ourselves instead of asking if others can.

Google seems to be heavy users of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A... which offers a lot more power and flexibility towards accessibility compared to plain text by enabling accessibility to full featured web interfaces instead of basic versions.

See other methods https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessi...
Internal migration is not the same thing as immigration.
In standard consumer networking, say I have a /24 (say 192.168.1.0/24) and one dual-homed host performing Network Address Translation to a Internet routable address, how would an attacker easily initiate a connection to one of the hosts on that internal subnet from somewhere on the Internet?

They obviously can't address traffic directly to 192.168.1.0/24 over the Internet as that's a bogon address and the Internet routers will either reject it out of hand, or not know where to send it.
This is begging the question a bit though, isn’t it? Low total fertility in Japan does not necessarily mean “make up the difference with immigrants”. There are other policy options to address that issue.
There's a word for people who expect to get things for free without giving anything back to the authors or community that made it possible.
When people ask why they should do YC, I always come back to this example: if Steve (of reddit and now hipmunk) took Y Combinator funding -- with his wealth, connections, and experience -- why wouldn't you?
May have something to do with starving if the job was not done. Quite a strong motivator. Not sure if it's a good thing or not, but not many of us will literally starve if we do not get some of our job done, so being sloppy does not have severe negative consequences.
The photons that make up the condensate have no rest mass, which is why they travel at the speed of light whenever they have a non-zero amount of kinetic energy. Anything that has any form of energy has mass, since those are just two different words for the same property. Because of this, the photons can be called "massless" (i.e. no rest mass) but still have mass, and the condensate could in theory have mass without any of its constituents having mass. The photons have mass from their individual kinetic energies, and the condensate could have mass beyond that from any potential energy required to get it into that state. Although, if the condensate is stable in any sense, it probably has less mass than the sum of the energies of its photons, with the difference being the loss of potential energy it gains from being stable.

As a comparison, atomic nuclei are composed of particles with non-zero rest mass, and they tend to have less mass than the sum of their components because of their stability. The difference between the mass of the nuclei and its components is how much energy you have to dump into the nuclei to split it (plus enough kinetic energy so that they fly away before they reform).

As to the question of what constitutes "matter"... I'm not sure that's actually defined in a way that's 100% free of contention. My personal opinion would by any configuration of particles that's stable. This new stuff could qualify.
I don't really know what it means, but my understanding is that photons actually have a mass. E=mc^2 => m=E/c^2, and photons have energy...
@ runjake

To you maybe. Some of us also do stuff like Video and Audio editing, processing and mixing on our machines, not to mention photoshop and stuff. Remember, the industries that made Mac cool in the first place? yeah, we're still here, just getting addressed less and less. i everything is nice, but there's still millions of people who use this shit professionally.

Apples attitude - i.e. killing the xserve when there's hundreds of the things in usage in render farms and video asset serving etc. - is, while typical, somewhat frustrating.
B2B space is boring. Enterprisey stuff is boring. You end up with a convoluted system that's designed to please a 1000 different costumers. Most of the problems you'd deal with are customer-specific, nothing interesting.

System level stuff is interesting, what's boring is the enterprise.

Why are they evil? Android law suit.

Also maybe the fact they just rebrand RHEL and try to sell it. Granted, it is legal (due to the GPL), but it's still evil. They view open-source as an opportunity to leech technology for free and resell it after they rebrand it (and possible add proprietry extensions to it). Their CEO is quoted saying "if an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. [...] So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do."