skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TempleOS was never a business, and it never was significant part of any kind of software market and completely irrelevant in terms of economic value.

I guess you are hung up on the fact that OP used hyperbole to say that "nobody" is going to focus on local-first software and you are trying to win an argument by taking this statement literally.

Can we be a little bit more charitable here, and actually argue the point of OP? Even though I am a die-hard Linux-on-desktop, Thunderbird-for-gmail, SaaS-averse gray-hairing dude who still is bent on spending countless nights and weekends setting up my own self-hosted services on my own bare-metal servers, I totally understand that the growing of SaaS-companies are due to economic reasons, not technical ones.

It is not like people are going around saying "Gee, I made this software here and I wish people could run on their computers, but they can't so I will have to create a startup business that runs this software on the internet and I will collect subscriptions as a way to fund the operation".
"Success" seems to be defined unclearly here. "Held and election and got a result" seems to be the only outcome.

"Quadratic voting was invented not by political scientists but by economists and others..."

Not much of a point here, this is clearly within the domain of economics.

It worked with 41 lawmakers, it seems like an interesting voting method for small scale. Can it scale up?
> I'm trying to understand what you're specifically objecting to - it's not researching treatments for these conditions being funded publicly, I think, just giving them to people who were affected by risky behaviors?

I wouldn’t phrase it in the passive voice, but yes I don’t object to research or people spending their own money on the consequences of their own behavior.
Did SESTA-FOSTA actually accomplish anything? Do we have numbers to show that it put a stop to sex trafficking?

Why was this legislation pushed through so quickly without any opposition like SOPA or PIPA?

I don't get the "why".

Who was behind this?
Coordinated groups have voting power of sqrt(total money)*sqrt(number of individuals), uncoordinated ones have sqrt(money). If you are for some cause, you should just find like-minded individuals and pool your total money. They have very limited incentive for keeping the money for themselves because they also agree with you on the issue.

Then the other side should also coordinate tightly in this manner, and now you have a new problem: polarization.
And I'm calling his observation ridiculous (as suggested) and expanding upon his observations with my own.

Why is that not ok? Are we not allowed to tell people they only have incomplete information anymore?
It's clever, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Because the problem isn't with strong preferences -- it's with extreme preferences.

If there were 7 versions of a bill (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) ranging from ultra-conservative (a "A") to ultra-liberal (a "G"), in a polarized community people could still be spending the minimum 1 point each on the A's or G's and none on B-F.

The problem with politics today isn't that people are single-issue voters (because they generally aren't -- it's not a problem that needs to be solved)... it's that the natural evolution of the two-party system has forced us into choices that are more polarized than ever before in the history of the US -- in a two-party election, we're often only given options A and G, or maybe B and F, but rarely C through E.
Great service. Use it since it's online for my little Job Board Listing: https://altafino.1mb.site/
Up in seconds, easy if you know basics of html.
There are other electron git-repo managers. What makes this one different than, say, GitKraken?

I wish someone would create a solid repo manager with Qt.
> I don't see the problem with that, because it would require me to convince you to vote for Y although you want X.

X and Y need not be alternatives for the same problem, X might be about financial deregulation and Y about privacy deregulation.
Better yet would be the actual symbol: ƒ
Tribute to Mexico’s murdered journalists:Q&A with creators of Netflix’s Tijuana
They are not oppressive policies. They are the exact same policies that apply to citizens already for centuries. This is constantly being overlooked.

Foreign policy increasing immigration does not make illegal immigration ok.
The big problem with TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE is that if you do try to insert a datetime with a timezone included, the timezone is simply silently ignored.

The confusing thing about TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE is that it doesn't actually store a timezone! It simply converts input with timezone info to a global instant of time.
Thanks for mentioning. I was looking for such a series. As per Wikipedia, it's historical fiction. So, wouldn't it be somewhat different than real history?
The way I understand it is that it's about the rate of release/recapture. Permafrost will release carbon much faster than the new vegetation can keep up with. Eventually (after centuries? no idea really) it might all be recaptured back but the damage will already have been done.
Mind-reading tech is here (and more useful than you think)
Google pretty much already does this with ChromeOS laptop devices. It would be nice to see the same concepts applied to mobile phone devices too
If Facebook and Google are private companies and they can ban whomever they want, why can't they have a policy to not hire each other's employees? FYI, i don't like any of those stances.
Sounds like approval voting only with limited votes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
Why is this a dodge? We have observations that need an explanation; for example: rotation velocities of stars in our galaxy imply a large amount of mass that if it were visible would certainly be detected. There are several competing hypotheses, one being a cold, weakly-interacting (i.e. it interacts via the weak force) type of new matter but all of them are claiming to explain the same observations, and the collection of observations connected to this phenomenon have a place-holder name until the problem is conclusively resolved. There’s no dodge here...
Don't use UNIX_TIMESTAMP() or FROM_UNIXTIME(). Both overflow in 2038.
Top PHP Frameworks: Laravel vs. Yii vs. Zend vs. Phalcon vs. Symfony
But what is profit? Companies selling at the price where customers think "Oh that's a great price! I'll buy it!". How to get a cheap price? Manufacture where labor is cheap. And/or where there are low carbon taxes. Or where the EPA has been told by the leader of the country to ignore pollution by your factory. And using the best-priced raw materials (more easily to get from suppliers that don't have to spend a lot of money complying with regulations...).

If only price labels are more something along the lines of "Price: 300 USD, 3kg of CO2, 400l of polluted water, 40ha of ruined farmland"...
How to Monetize Augmented Reality Apps and AR Startups
A Mysterious Hacker Group Is on a Supply Chain Hijacking Spree
Rats are quadripedal and cars kind of are too, so cars must live in sewers.
By that same logic,

> How is that inconsistent? Both things are a law.
As a person who loves both coding and worldbuilding, this is a website that was made for me, and I had to share it. The design is clean, every letter and symbol from even the most obscure scripts seem to be included in their databanks, and it is simply a joy to hit the random button and look at whatever comes next. I have no affiliation, but you can even make an account and favorite the characters you find to be the most captivating. It's a site I didn't know I wanted, but is now in my top ten places to visit on the web.
The sad thing is that I don't think it actually did anything to fix any of the child abuse problem tumblr - and all modern social media sties - actually has. Though tumblr dying will prevent their particularly boneheaded abuse problems from remaining relevant, so perhaps in a way it did fix it.
They are not citizens so don't have the same rights and don't have a legal residence to be sent to so detainment is the only option, other than immediate deportation and skipping any case processing at all.

And yes, even if you are a citizen and you get arrested, you will be separated from your family. If you have children, they will be placed in protective services. They do not go with you to jail. Whether you are arrested for speeding is explained in my prior post.
I don't think anyone alive today was at that meeting.
> So the business model is asking users for a donation? This sounds more like a non-profit to me.

I think the idea is to get enough donations that they're no longer a non-profit.
Few things bother me more in life than the prevalence of Pi over Tau
China's furtive underwater nukes test the Pentagon
Say I have a party/club/whatever. We're going to handle all sorts of decisions by voting and/or similar means.

Is there an app we can use that'll handle voting, and do a good job?
The bad blood between Wikileaks/Assange and The Guardian go back quite a few years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110106083508/http://www.counte...

https://wlcentral.org/node/839
I like my lawn, thanks. Glad I live in a country where I can keep it.
> Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are basically monopolies.

They're not monopolies, they're just expedient ways to reach larger audiences. There's a difference.

A lot of clones do exist. They would just leave it the content creator to bring their audience.

If anything, there's now a danger that the platforms that cater to the fringe now start to gain traction, as some of these figures do bring with them a sizable audience of their own.
That sounds like a way to get things fixed best sadly. Do it to big business clients who in face of millions to billions of liability go and tell them to fuck off and let their clients know why they couldn't show up. They aren't doing anything wrong following security policies if the policies weren't already a work around.

If it causes an international incident all the better to humiliate them. Sad that the system is so oligarchic but bullies learn only through force.
Downloading is the problem. Twenty years ago, you would go on the internet and find an installer and just trust it.

Now days, you have to figure out which of the 10 download buttons is the real one. And then you have check hashes if you want to validate that you actually downloaded the installer that the publisher released.

I think that browser based software is a huge step backward in terms of richness of user experience. I can't believe that, in the year 2019, GSuite has usurped Outlook and the traditional native office applications in the corporate environment that i work in. But here we are.

But, there's no denying that any friction for the user getting the software will drastically reduce their likelihood of using it at all.
There's more to plant quality than output alone. I'd expect a "disneyland" factory to have other metrics, like low rework, safety, worker satisfaction/retention, responsible procurement & disposal of raw materials, etc.
Let's say Alice only cares about proposition A. And Bob only cares about B.

Alice can spend all her 100 tokens on A, and she gets 10 votes on A. Ditto Bob can spend all his 100 tokens on B, and he gets 10 votes on B.

But if each of them spends 50 on A and 50 on B, then A and B both get 2*sqrt(50) ~= 14 votes, so both Alice and Bob win by colluding.

What's to stop them doing this?
Domical = OCaml and Iodide – Iodide
To me, this passage epitomizes why I am not convinced by Kauffman's claim that we need new physics:

"The question of whether there is a physics of life demands that we consider that all examples of life might at their core be part of the same fundamental phenomenon; otherwise, ‘life’ is not an objective property, but a collection of special cases... but conventional approaches to life’s origins — such as the ‘RNA world’ and other genetics-first models — cannot yet be formulated [as something like a physical law]. That is because they make many assumptions on the basis of properties that might be unique to the chemistry of life on Earth, such as that RNA is necessary to life’s origins."

Kauffman starts from the position that he wants life to be a unified ontological category, rather than a collection of special cases, but, for the sake of argument, what if it isn't the former? That would not rule out science[1] describing, analyzing and explaining it as the latter - it would just mean that Kauffman's intuitions would be mistaken.

Stephen Jay Gould, wearing his historian-of-science hat, wrote several articles about various examples of pre-, proto- and pseudo-scientific world models, each of which tried to fit the diversity of life into a preconceived grand scheme. Linnaeus et. al. took a radically different approach, in which they abandoned (or, at least, de-emphasized) preconceived schemes, and, working from the bottom up, based their taxonomy on a detailed examination of the physiological similarities and differences between organisms. The unifying theory for this taxonomy was found later, in the form of a theory of evolution, and the taxonomy undoubtedly helped develop the theory.

So let's put aside dreams of a unified theory, and see if we can understand just the origin of life on earth. If there is a grand theory, this would help find it.

[1] I wrote 'science', not 'physics', because I don't think the reduction of biology to physics is often useful. Take theories of evolution, for example: they are not reductionist, and a reduction of the history of life on earth to the underlying physics would not provide a better explanation.
Extinction won't happen. 99.99% could die and that would leave seven million people.
>On the economic front they're as centrist as they get, regularly attacking the likes of Corbyn in ways that the Sun is starting to envy, smearing Assange once they're done profiting off him, printing puff pieces for the Saudi Crown Prince etc. The Guardian is no darling of the (grassroots) left, I can assure you.

That's the modern left: centrist (or, rather: "establishment corporatist consensus") on economic issues, centrist on societal issues, loony on SJW issues -- and pro-war/imperialism/against enemy-du-jour in establishment millitary-industrial issues.
Yeah, I used to do the same thing, I had dozens of limited VARCHAR fields and sometimes I forgot to change them when my application validation logic changed, and then we'd get errors from length limits being hit. It was a very liberating day when I realized I didn't need to have the length limits in database and that it made no performance impact, I went through and removed them all promptly. Life has been better since.
Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA
This is a defeatist attitude and it's also wrong.

It's certainly possible to tell the difference between Fox News and Breitbart, or CNN and The Guardian.

Of course being completely unbiased is impossible, but it's a goal work towards, not something to give up on by default.
Often that's what it takes to achieve significant progress, even as an individual. Shoot for the stars and you'll likely see modest progress, but if you aim for mediocrity, you might not even attain that.
> The reason that software is online is a business one, not a technical one.

That's only partly true. Software gets more and more developed for the big corps in mind as the sole users. So web browsers are developed to make Google and FB happy. Kubernetes is developed to only work in AWS and Google Cloud really well. And so on.

All that hollows out the foundation that gives software usability to all of us. Eg. if big linux corps only focus on Kubernetes, Kubernetes only works in AWS and GC, then nobody puts effort into Linux anymore. It might even happen that linux gets unusable if you don't run it in such kind of environment. In the end it all depends how the majority of resources get spent.

So we come from today's tech level X everywhere to tech level X+Y in the cloud and tech level X-Z on local clusters. Then where will most of the data be? Where will the new hip stuff be? How can you develop new stuff with an incomplete local infrastructure?

What you lose is not the desktop software but the desktop. And you will lose it in a technical sense. You won't be able to rebuild it technically alone.
Boeing might represent the greatest indictment of 21st-century capitalism
Again, it's about reach.

My local dive bar can serve me burgers whether it has a customer base of 1.000 or 1.000.000. A social network, however, cannot function without hundreds of millions of users. Otherwise it's an anti-social network.

As a result I can post my video to DailyMotion instead of YouTube but how am I going to build a following without engaging with Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter?

These networks require mass user engagement to be effective which precludes a myriad of competition. I don't think breaking these companies up as Elizabeth Warren suggested is the correct solution because it fundamentally handicaps their ability to function. But I think there does need to be regulation around how they do business which sadly does not exist.
Some of the more surprising ones (to me):

1) Don't use timestamp (without time zone)

2) Don't use varchar(n) by default - just use varchar or text without any length specified

3) Don't use money - The money data type isn't actually very good for storing monetary values. Numeric, or (rarely) integer may be better.
Link to paper with results on Imagenet and comparison with related work?
Power Lines are several hundreds of km and even only 1% of the global electric production seems a huge amount to me...
But in reality it is much more, in US is 5%: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3
Not everything can be solved with economic incentives. Do you really think people are making a conscious decision, "I'm not paying for it, might as well peel the top off my truck and grind my day/week to a halt because my employer is liable for damages"? If that was the case, they can just drive through the water wall too. This is an attention management issue -- does the driver realize they are too tall for the tunnel. Most will be caught with the initial flashing signs, but even those high-salience signs are somewhat 'normal' and thus possible to subconsciously ignore. The water wall is very out of the ordinary so it has a maximum likelihood of capturing attention.
Absolutely.

There are many aspects of our primitive selves we suppress or condition and educate against in order to have a better functioning society.

Tribalism should be next on the list.
eBPF Can't Count?
Until a troll uploads the Bee Movie script as a first name.
As a counterpoint, ten trans people were murdered in the UK in the last ten years. About one per year in a population of of 66 million. A high estimate of the number of trans people in the UK is around 500,000. On average, there is a one in one hundred thousand chance of being murdered in the UK each year.

Given those figures, trans people are considerably less likely to be murdered than non-trans people. Even if we take the lowest estimate of the number of trans people I've seen — around 200,000 — non-trans people are still twice as likely to be murdered as trans people.

https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TvT_TMM_...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

(And I don't think Milo is responsible for a single one of those murders)
The problem is that it requires extra mental effort for zero benefit. For example if I tell you that cos(x) is a symmetric function and sin(x) is antisymmetric, the meaning is far more obvious than if I tell you one is odd and the other is even. It costs you time looking the words up and energy remembering them.

Species doesn't have an exactly bounded definition because it is not an exactly bounded thing. It's like trying to define "life". This doesn't really have anything to do with bad jargon though so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
Which disproportionately impacts the poor who have to commute into unaffordable cities.

You see there are no easy solutions, our societies have built-in negative externalities of all kinds that culminated in this problem.
Ask HN: Experiences building document file format based on zip vs. sqlite
Besides the sqlite.org case study on using sqlite as a replacement for zip as a document file format - I have found little else comparing the two for use as a document file format, and what other people (not affiliated with sqlite) think about the two approaches. Do any of you have experience you can share as it relates to using zip or sqlite as a file format?

Some background: I work on a multimedia application that currently reads/writes entire documents on open/save. In addition to being slow, some customer's devices run out of memory when opening large files. I'm looking to move to a file format that allows me to stream from disk the images/videos as needed.

It seems moving to an approach where the file is required while editing could cause problems on networked drives, files in dropbox folders, disconnect-able drives - so if you have any thoughts on that, would love to hear it.
> Got a keylogger or someone watching over your shoulder, and they now have your password even if the server is not actually asking for it.

If this happens you've lost already, -W or not.
Perhaps people are beginning to look at the downsides of innovation at all costs. Tesla's and Google's technical contributions can't be divorced from their failings. I'd think this would be a refreshing shift in startup culture.
Since the link to the paper, at the end of the article, is subtly broken (at least for me), here are the links to the abstract and directly to the PDF:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3092895_cod...

Doi:

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2003531
So for beginners, you will still need a Remote Machine or Container for your development?

This could potentially fix the problem with Ruby Rails on Windows. But we now need to figure out the remote "part".
This article is 17 years old ... I must be missing something. Why is it relevant right now?
quite a caricature they have become. It was still different when Occupy Wallstreet happened.
That's not how I interpreted his post. Not sure why you did.
Oh no lawmakers actually cooperating to achieve their goals. What a tragedy!
No, they say:
"If you're connecting with -W to a server configured to allow you access via peer authentication you may think that it's requiring a password when it really isn't. And if the user you're logging in as doesn't have a password set or you enter the wrong password at the prompt you'll still be logged in and think you have the right password - but you won't be able to log in from other clients (that connect via localhost) or when logged in as other users."
Seconded. :)
Switch to electric transportation as quickly as possible.

Change your mind about needing a personal automobile, and share it with as many people as possible. Use public transportation if you have it, and insist in your community investing in public transportation systems if you don't.
Additionally, it's got almost nothing to do with ideas anymore. It's about tribes.

If you're in tribe A, your media tells you tribe B are literally devils. There's no understanding a devil, or compromise with one. If they say something that sounds reasonable? It's probably a trick. Hannity or Maddow will explain why tonight.
Why did you call his incomplete information ridiculous?
Lambda Calculus: PyCon 2019 Tutorial (Screencast)
There is another factor in favor for text - it is precise in meaning and easy to output as opposed to even "memorize an 8 bit Mario sprite and get all colors right without a single pixel out of place".
Those who own so little Tesla stock as to not be aware of it will also not be noticeably impacted by their failure. One could say that's the whole point of diversification.