skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure -- you noticed that like ~46% of voters choosing on the issue opposed it though right? I mean maybe that's typical to have something like this win by a 4% margin but I'd have to say it's far from a general majority saying, "yep, let's do it." Then you've got the people who probably didn't even vote and found out about it when their car registration fee went up a couple hundred bucks.

BTW, I voted for it so I'm aware, I just find it hard to believe it's so borderline and there's folks who seem really angry they need to contribute to the community's well-being. But hey, I guess as someone else said, no one likes to pay taxes.
Kinda the same reason why I only used an Ergodox EZ for a couple days. I realized that collaboration is hard and also wasted too much time configuring it. Restrictions do free sometimes.
I think we have bigger fish to fry closer to home when it comes to preserving whatever versions of democracy we have. We’re not going to effectively fight China when we do so much business with them, and a war would be catastrophic. Meanwhile if you care about freedom and democracy, the (re-)rise of populism, and even fascism seems like something we are capable of fighting.

If we want to change China in the long term, we should probably get our own houses in order so that we can actually occupy the moral high ground. Sweden, Germany, Italy, France Austria, the UK, all have either slid hard to the Right, or have flirted with the likes of Marine Le Pen, Lega Nord, Alternative For Germany, and so on. Then you have Hungary and Poland going fully off the deep end, and oh yes, Trump. All in all our table is full before we pretend thst we have either the political will or leverage to make China change. We might even have to accept that the Chinese people more or less have to fight for change themselves, or not, because we’re too busy doing business with Beijing to worry about their concentration camps.
> Depends on what the EULA for the product said and what happened to the company.

The EULA to dBASE III stated that the grant of license lasted for fifty years. If, after fifty years, you were still using dBASE III, you would no longer be using it legally and had to return your copy to Ashton-Tate.

All you dBASE III users out there -- you've got maybe 15-20 years left!
I would think weather conditions on any given day would vary this number wildly
What about 500 years ago?
Capitalism was the cause of extreme poverty, from enclosure movements to slavery to industrialization to colonialism. To say that capitalism is to thank for lifting people out of the tragedy is hilarious. Especially as capitalism causes 8 individuals to be richer than half the world.
This really should be an operating system service, so all the applications get it right. Instead, everybody rolls their own, with erratic results.
> but is the term ABI new

No, it is age old. The thing is that it is only "a thing" to embedded native developers and library authors.

The general concept is that the programming language "API" doesn't define how the dll/o/a/la/lib/so/dylib "loader" look for "symbols" in the file. If you example, I do:

enum {FOO, BAR};

and next month I change it to

enum {BAZ, FOO, BAR};

then everything will still compile, but if I execute an older program with my library, it still thinks FOO is 0 and BAR is 1 while it's no longer the case. It gets worst for function and type definition. Then when you get into C++, it gets an order of magnitude more complex because almost every code change will somewhat break one or many symbols. This is why there is often "proxies" called PIMPL or d_ptr between the library symbols and the actual implementation code. C++ has no officially standardized way to serialize the object to their symbol names. This is often a pain point and Apple wants to fix this for a decade for has so far failed to get everybody to agree on something.

For embedded devs, more problem arise from the fact that the instruction set and C library themselves are not the same for all devices and this also break pre-compilled code.

Many platform will often favor "static binaries" over dynamic ones to avoid the consequences of breaking the ABI.
Near the end of the article it does say:

We are not alone in our quest to keep old software alive. For example, the Internet Archive is preserving thousands of old programs using an emulation of MS-DOS that runs in the user’s browser...

And also then goes on to refer to other Living Software Preservation initiatives.
Amazing that people would code up a "spot the difference" type of game where you can win money without reading up on the techniques used to solve that type of game.
More like you can't say "I like you" because all they talk about 24/7 is how no one will date someone their height. You would practically need to give a sworn affidavit that you didn't care. They don't let you avoid the issue by talking about anything else at all.

It becomes a case of "No one loves me because of my big hairy wart. Want to see my big hairy wart? Let me tell you how many hairs it has. I've actually named all the hairs. This grey one is called George. It's vastly uglier than the other hairs because it's grey..." Ad nauseum, making it absolutely impossible to go "My, what lovely hands you have. Gosh, that's a terrific jacket and it really goes well with your eyes. Want to have coffee sometime?"

They basically insist you love their wart upfront in a way that just makes the entire thing a non starter no matter how hard you try to avoid the topic of their wart and focus on other things. No, their wart is their entire dating identity and only someone with a wart fetish could possibly figure out how to work things out with them.
There is one thing “right” about capitalism and that is a huge increase in consumer goods. Shame it is also literally boiling the world we live on but hey, for a short while we could get new iPhones every two years!
Show HN: Botlite.co.za – Create FAQs for Your Business on WhtsApp
I’m also wondering to what degree this represents a triumph of economic, political and social reform, and to what extent it might be a triumph of massaging the definition of “extreme poverty” and other accounting or semantic fuckery.

Edit: Evidence suggests thst it is indeed, semantic fuckery. The World Bank is really only saying that three quarters of a billion people earn less than $757 a year.
Almost everything about this article is wrong, and it's way too damn long.

> . The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets.

Atkins (and other low carb diets like keto) honestly take people back to the diet we had in the 1950s/60s. Lower carbohydrates.

The fact is we are fatter, collectively as a human race. There has to be a cause for that; a cause that can be reverse. We weren't always like this; and study after study is showing us the "low fat" diet has been a disaster.

We need waaaay less sugar and starches in our diets. And it's so impossible because it's difficult to find anything on the shelves of a grocery store that aren't loaded with them.

The industry was so afraid of the Adkins diet in the early 2000s they paid Harpers to publish a total 'fake news' article after he died; blaming the death on his diet. This was later redacted, but it was too little too late. Even today, people still believe he died of a heart condition.

The industries need people to keep consuming sugar to keep their bottom lines growing. Imagine if Adkins had taken off and today, every fast food place had a no-bread, low-carb option? My hypothesis is that we'd see obesity rates drop across the US and eventually the world.
> Modern HTML is really nothing more than div tags everywhere, with a handful of span tags.

So just add a layout-language to divide it from the content, as already done with style?
Extreme poverty is very clearly defined since 1995. Quoting Wikipedia[0]:

> Extreme poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, was originally defined by the United Nations in 1995 as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services."

IMHO, this is a very timeless definition as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
Can you make money selling your data?
XINU OS worked for me. You can work with a beaglebone or a raspberry pi. There is a nice book for explaining every piece of the OS (IO, scheduler, memory management, etc.) and the source code is all there for you to tweak, browse, read or do whatever.

HN discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10643757
I believe just attributing it to capitalism is way to broad of a statement. It's not too uncommon to say that the "capitalist era" has existed for about 500 years, and the explosive growth of value has existed for a much shorter time. So to simply say that all our current growth comes from capitalism is way to simplistic.
Inflatable eyeballs
Sounds like some combination of low-grade depression and anxiety. It's not helped by modern society generally not expressing gratitude or affection for each other. What you're feeling is pretty common.
Wow, the integration with the heads bios is something I thought for a long time would be a great feature for a external key.

The problem is just that we don't live in a world where most people can use heads.

You either have to buy older hardware that is compatible with coreboot or buy a Librem laptop.
This article shows that a company which claimed "we lost" in a post election meeting has actively discussed censoring search results related to conservative policies - no subtly required, just facts.
Hmm, looks like the actual browser files are now offline on that site (and it's mirrors) which is a shame.
I know you deleted your other comment, but I'd still like to respond to one point about it. I hope that doesnt give you any troubles, if so, please mention it and I will delete my comment.

> He made it absolutely impossible to tell him I liked him without it going really terrible places.

I feel for him. I do have ADHD as well, and it is very hard for me to accept compliments. I was also bullied in school which I assume also plays into this. Everytime someone compliments me, I feel like I am getting set up for a joke. Raising your hopes, and then slashing them in the most hurtfull way possible. "Oh wait, you actually thought I like your eyes? lmao you're such an idiot"

But I do also agree that you're not his therapist, and that he probably should have talked to his therapist(which I assume he saw for his adhd) about it. I did. Its great.
Reminds me of a video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqq1roF4C8s
So a guaranteed way to win a court case for damages?
It seems to be a question of timing. I can see two competing explanations, the spread of market economies and the demographic dividend.

Keep in mind most of this extreme poverty was eliminated in Asia, and in particular China. Unfortunately China began to liberalize its markets and realize its demographic dividend in the early 80s, at the same time, so I'm not sure about that case.

Again in India, liberalization and falling birthrates happened together in the 1990s.

25 years ago was 1993, two years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It's an arbitrary time frame, perhaps conveniently selected. That said, market economies spread rapidly throughout the second world during the 90s, and the Soviet subsidies that had kept a number of command economy-leaning third world countries were cut off, forcing liberalization.

The most powerful effect of this was the widespread loss of belief in the effectiveness of command economies. With the end of the USSR the major ideological opponent of capitalism collapsed. World historical event -> world-wide change in outcomes is too big a correlation to dismiss.

That said it's tough to tease out what is driving what, economics or demographics. I do think that human flourishing occurs when ideology gets out of the way of individuals pursuing their own interests, whether their interests include opening a small business or not birthing children for the motherland.

So I am not able to say, "it's because of capitalism," or, "it's because of contraception and female education." I am confident that we can say, "ideology and authoritarianism make things worse."
Keyboards are absolutely horrible on touchscreens, regardless of layout. I love my new BlackBerry Keyone.
It took 10 years to go from Falcon 1 reaching orbit to Falcon Heavy reaching orbit.
I try to be respectful of peoples' faiths as religious was (and maybe still is) an important part of the evolution of civilization. But it's also important to realize the limits of faith and try to move past them.

God doesn't have a place in my life as a hacker, except maybe as a foundation for writing fun though experiment blog posts like this one:

https://khanism.org/faith/fate-and-destiny/

Some hackers and coders do believe in God and are conservative and we shouldn't condemn people for that. At the same time, it's not important when contribution to the open source community. People just care that you want to contribute, and that people contribute useful stuff.

It's not something that should be really relevant past that.
Sloan Kettering’s Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar
but just ended up restating the obvious: obsessive male geeks can be a pain to work with (regardless of gender)

I wish we could get this message out there. If more women are interested in programming, great, but all I care about is making software development less of a toxic, alpha-geek hellhole for the people already in it.
May not agree with everything Stallman says, but he's admirable nonetheless.
Almost everyone was extremely poor then too.

You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything.

https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture
Kinda neat, kinda freaky .. all in trees ...

I mean, the artists could have got a bit more creative. I guess it's easy to personify trees though
I wasn’t able to reproduce this, I wonder if the author fixed it already?
> I applaud their efforts but frankly I'd rather see a new language done right.

Opinion of mine is what's needed is robust and performant inter-op, and only then a new dialect that fixes some of the deep legacy problems with the language. At least that would provide a clean migration path.
Better technology, which has led to incredible productivity and increased quality of life.

This was in part natural advancement as it is exponential and we eventually just hit explosive growth, but the environment was helped along with capitalism, free markets, and major world wars which encouraged the spread of information and trade.
Wouldn’t surprise me. Last trip to mainland China and nothing worked online. Apps like Instagram, sites like Google, etc. except Bing and WeChat. Perfect WiFi yet everything filtered.
I'm no historian, but I think extreme poverty has existed for a lot longer than the idea of capitalism.
> The way in which mathematicians structure proofs has fallen behind the ways in which software engineers structure programs (which are isomorphic to proofs).

If we accept that a software program is isomorphic to a proof, is there anything that isn't isomorphic with a proof?

I can prove Pythogoras' theorem with a diagram, so by extension anything in the physical world is a manifestation of mathematical theory and, since it exists, is isomorphic with a trivial proof for something.
Yes indeed. World Bank... We can stop reading the rest of the title and avoid reading the article entirely.
Mac OS X Mojave About
> If we want to change China in the long term, we should probably get our own houses in order so that we can actually occupy the moral high ground. Sweden, Germany, Italy, France Austria, the UK, all have either slid hard to the Right,

Do i read you correctly that you believe it is impossible to be moral and at the same time hold conservative views?
I made one of these in JS a while ago - https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/zPQvrv

And a nicer 2D wobble - https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/rYgxdJ

Porting old demo effects to browsers is a lot of fun.
I have never been able to learn vim, and I imagine that the bizarre incoherence of its key syntax when typed in dvorak has something to do with it; I've never been especially good at rote memorization.
I think flight time is around 50 minutes. Depending on what time I leave the office she sometimes gets to her house up there before I get to mine in Cupertino.
I don't see how backlight settings for a truly dark room are relevant here. I've been annoyed by several of my devices being unable to dim far enough, but never in a situation where I would expect to be able to easily read words printed on paper. An office or classroom setting that has adequate light for pen and paper work could be too dim for an LCD at 100% brightness to be comfortable, but almost any device can be dimmed enough for that environment.

Color temperature can also be a problem, but there's a lot of awareness of that issue nowadays. Most operating systems now support automatic adjustment of color temperature based on time of day, plus manual adjustment. Devices that adjust their color temperature to account for ambient lighting are starting to catch on, and I expect they'll be pretty common in a few years.
Can confirm. Wasn't blocked yesterday but is not reachable right now.
Geek gardening: A Wired guide to domestic terraforming
Ask HN: Studying for breadth
How have you gone about studying a wide range of subjects?

The main objective is to become conversant in any chosen subjects to the level where I would be able to ask sensible questions to experts and they would be able to give meaningful answers that I can understand.

A side objective, this being HN, is that this will make me better at spotting and evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities.
Sure but now we have a system that is very well optimized to allow a few people to get super rich at the cost of the whole world safey (them included).
Thanks..I don't understand why people continue linking WSJ even due the fact that not everybody has a subscription with them
It would be interesting if you were right. Have you read any of Larry Niven’s work? In his Known Space novels, especially later Ringworld books the idea of “wireheads” is extensively considered. The outlook adopted seems to be what you’re implying, that is to say it would supplant all drugs and most addictive vices. It would also be al ost invariably fatal due to self-neglect, reproduction rates of the affected population would be low, and after some generations most seriously addictive personalities would be essentially eliminated. Whoever was left wild naturally become wireheads, so would have some baseline of addicts, but it would be a fraction of pre-wireheads days.

Interesting idea, with a bit of a bumpy ride on the way.
It's not hilarious to thank Capitalism for lifting people out of tragedy - It's what has happened. Coal power plants in low income countries; iPhone factories creating an economic explosion in China; T-Shirt factories in Bangladesh. All of these things are the result of Capitalism and the free market, and participating countries are doing well. They are accepting some environmental damage, though. Consider that the company making the most progress in sustainable energy is, well, a capitalist company.

Alternate systems have not worked out so well, as you know. Communist planned economies led to the starvation of tens of millions, and that number increases to hundreds of millions when you add the persecution, jailing, and sometimes immediate execution of citizens of Communists states that had a history of political activity of the wrong sort. Recall that in Soviet Russia it was beneficial for each individual to "inform" on their neighbours to the KGB, so that they could claim their apartment. And it's suspected that Vladmir Putin is actually the richest person in the world.

Colonialism and slavery are pretty rough, but they are not a product of capitalism as much as a product of human malevolence and brutality. I'm sure you would find evidence of colonialism and slavery in pre-civilization times and in non-capitalist societies, so that argument falls flat.

Also, regarding the 8 richest individuals - If the rest of the world is getting on OK, why should we not have a couple of super rich people around? Why is that inherently bad? Why do _you_ think you should have a say of where that money belongs, exactly?
A lot of people seems to be skeptical about this. There is a wonderful book called Factfullness which is written exactly for this kind of audience. In his book, Rosling suggests the vast majority of human beings are wrong about the state of the world. He believes his test subjects think the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it is. Bill gates sponsored this book for all the students graduating from college and I can exactly see why by going through this thread.
Actually, from the little ice age around XVI-XVII centuries that everyone was poor, at least in Europe and Asia
A lot of slot machines used to work like that. The outcome appears to be random, but is in fact a big hard coded table determining the outcome depending on current state. If you know the table and are able to determine the state of the machine, it's easy to cheat the game.

I remember having read similar stories about slot machines in Germany.
I like non of these optins. What I want is U2F for every ssh connection.
I actually really love it on my phone. I've considered switching to Colemak a few times in the last 10 years, but the typing experience of Dvorak on my phone let's me type really fast and I want my layouts to be consistent on my devices.
Git could be a showcase of inconsistent and confusing UX. If you like it, and you don't see any issue with it, then you know nothing about good UX.
Did the Communists not build tanks or burn coal? Is it Capitalism, or is it the human desire to take the path of least resistance; is it not human to consume ready-made energy that has been subsidized by the carbon capacity of the oceans and atmosphere?
Twitch was never big in China or Asia in the first place even when it was not censored so you're gonna have more trouble trying to sell Twitch in Asia, theres already popular dedicated localized streaming sites for each East Asian country, it would be like trying to make Uber successful in East Asia: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/gaming-community-why-hasnt-t...
My problems with LFS are:

1. The documentation is always in flux. You may get lucky and it's accurate, or you may not, and spend hours looking for tarballs that no longer exist online, or worse find them and they are no longer compatible with LFS - They don't host the required source archives along with the LFS book, and a lot of links to parts you need end up going nowhere.

2. As a step-by-step it does do what it says on the tin, but as a learning tool, there's a lot missing. When I was less knowledgeable about Linux I found myself following the LFS book with little to no idea about what I was actually doing and why. It would say things like 'chroot in the build folder' without actually explaining why, and what chroot actually did.

3. The whole thing can fail at any point, leaving you with a broken build, that more often than not, you'd have to wipe and start over. As most of the steps involve compiling, that's a lot of lost hours.