skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's an unsolvable problem. It's also largely cultural. I don't think it has to do with unconstrained exponential growth.

Visit any poor regions of the world and you'll find there's a lot more emphasis on taking care of the elders regardless of the median number of children per family.

For a variety of reasons, that kind of culture gets wiped out in developed nations, to the detriment of everyone. Outsourcing it out of the family and building a capitalist industry around it is super dystonian yet here we are.
Ask HN: What are the most innovative new OSes in active development?
There was a recent thread about SerenityOS [0] which lead me to Andreas Kling's youtube channel. I like his ideas about tighter vertical integration between the OS and desktop apps, and a browser that is a smart document reader, as opposed to a VM for web apps.

I am curious to hear about other innovative ideas happening with other OSes in active development.

Bonus points for non-POSIX plays or language choices beyond C/C++/Rust :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212294
Modern medicine is wonderful for reducing deaths from childbirth, antibiotics, surgeries, etc. but for someone who has an "incurable" condition which stumps every doctor they've been to, imagine how frustrating it would be to be told every time that nothing can be done or every treatment just makes it worse? If someone else promised something, not based on rigorous scientific trials, it would be tempting to take it, or at least consider it. I can see why someone would consider things when desperate, or sees the side effects of some conventional treatments. And it stands to reason that there exist treatments unproven which work, otherwise medical research would have stopped long ago.
I haven't been to Denmark so I can't compare, but I agree there is much to be learned by looking at how other countries fare.

In the densely populated Netherlands we are facing very serious gridlock problems now with cars clogging the highways and railways at full capacity.

We can't keep building new infrastructure (highways) at the pace we did before, because - besides being very expensive - we lack the space for it. New solutions may lie in promoting remote work, carpooling and shortening home/work commute distances.

I also suspect that bicycle infra will be developed even further (e.g. with bike highways) as they take less space and are less disruptive to the landscape.
Take when someone streams on youtube - it is exactly that. Ability to stream video live, let your viewers chat amongst eachother + being able to receive donations. With Youtube becoming more Goolag than before, and because Youtube is actively becoming platfrom just like any other where they don't share profits with creators anymore, I storngly believe this is where it's going to be "at" for startups. I already looked into it and I believe the issue with large data storage and traffic is now solved with cheap hardware AND P2P streaming like bittorent and the js client for the web browser.

Then you can see that YT creators now rival TV - easily. So I believe the internet will transform in a way where an youtube channel will become something like a tv show or late night show or whatever TV equivalent from the past. People will be actively looking and subscribing to these individuals or shows on purpose and will be consuming them periodically like they did in the past with television. Hence video is the tech I'd look into and the concept of making good platform/s for creators and viewers to connect and interact(!).

Blogs are dead. FB is good only for groups(many people in one place with many interests can easily connect). Twitter is pure pollitical cancer. Instagram is just for worshipping attention whores..eh "models". Any non-mainstream social network became too singular because people who were kicked out form ms sn went there. So all in all, social networks are dead. But video, video is a medium that is too deeply rooted in humans for some reason. I guess the ease of consumption? So I stirngly believe that is the way to go. I mean, you have hundreds of streaming services nowadays...no one will be buying all of them. People still want to consume good content but TV is shite and these online stremaing service will become unafordable. So there will have to be alternatives for people and as I have mentioned, YT is cutting sharing of profits with creators(not to mention censorship), so these creators will be looking for alternative means of earning and creating and sharing.

(I didn't proof-read my response so sorry for typos, I type fast and don't have time for this)
>but the connection between Christian symbolism and the West and in particular America would not have been lost on a country which had within living memory had a couple of atomic bombs dropped on them by a foreign army bringing Christian symbolism with them.

Japan was aware of Christianity and Christian symbolism long before the Americans dropped the atomic bombs, with missionary attempts going as far back as the 15th century, or thereabouts[0], so America really didn't "bring Christian symbolism with them" as a foreign army at that time.

Arguably, it was fear of the growing influence of Christians and their possible allegiance to the Pope threatening the Shogunate's power base (ironically, a similar fear that Americans would have of electing JFK, that he would be a puppet of the Vatican) which led to the Sakoku period and Japan committing genocide against its Christian population[1], forcing the religion underground.

I'm not disputing the analysis you're presenting - there is obviously a lot of symbolism in anime relating to the atomic bombings and occupation, but I wouldn't go so far as to imply that Japan sees Christian symbolism generally as being emblematic of that. Oftentimes it's just a visual metaphor for "the West" in general, or an attempt at "foreign" mystique[2] particularly when supernatural or magical elements are presented, where A lot of anime characters will recite spells or special moves in English because it sounds cool.

[0]https://www.tofugu.com/japan/history-of-christianity/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku#Rationale

[2]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeCatholicism
with something like proxycrawl you should be able to build the crawler yourself and start crawling to build a big index. Once you get big enough and you start bringing traffic to the sites, you can then stop using them and create your own user agent and ask sites to whitelist you. It will take some time but can be done
Yes, and (disclaimer: this is part of my job) often structural engineers have a very "narrow" view which summed up with the (as well often "narrow" views) of the architects, of the plant engineers and of other technicians/designers that are involved in a project create the need of a coordinator/facilitator that helps in the communication among these people, checks the (sometimes not-so-obvious) possible conflicting parts of the various drawings and "translates" the design for the contractor.

Particularly lately I have seen an increase of (otherwise very good, smart and qualified) engineers and architects with no or very little on-site experience, that produce beautiful and valid drawings/designs that cannot be "as they are" realized in practice.
>1. They are vey different. Those who arent aware of the large differences shouldn't comment as if they are they are subject experts. Telegram might be full of holes but it is a very different thing to Slack. (I use both for different things.)

This is just bullshit. Slack does TLS, Telegram does their own weird TLS replacement. In both cases essentially zero conversations are E2EE. As far as privacy and security goes they're essentially the same (although Slack has a better track record of honesty than Telegram!)

>the refusal to introduce sustainable funding

What do you mean? Selling out their customers seems to be rather sustainable, they've been at it since the start and nobody cares to even talk about it. https://habr.com/en/post/206900/
I always thought of the App store as a lottery. Better to make a few millionaires than to make everyone happy. The point is that this pattern plays out well for Apple because it shapes the image that you can become a millionaire too by developing for the App store.
Please note that I have just edited my answer and added a question, so your comment actually refers to the 2 questions before the last one.
This is one of those 90s inspired urban tales. Even a decade old CPU can rip through the entire registry without breaking a sweat.

And it is just a hierarchical database, nothing special about it. It shouldn't be very different than accessing files on the file system.

(there were some bugs at the past that caused Windows Explorer to slow down but those were fixed long ago and they were just bugs with a single application, not something inherently slow with the registry itself)
Did they not use 2000? Or XP? Or even 7 for that matter?
https://www.nytco.com/press/erinmichelle-perri-joins-the-tim...

Yeah, NY Times agrees with you. They have a CISO.
What possibly kicked off Earth's climate change
Apex Legends – Scaling from Zero to 10M Players in 72 Hours
>E2E encryption is kind of a fucky thing, some suggest it is fundamentally impossible for central web services and even mobile / desktop apps

"some suggest" How about you actually name some competent people who suggest this?

>Basically, if there is a third party involved in the code besides Alice and Bob, the two can never guarantee E2E encryption.

Oh, this is a downright insane, dishonest argument. Perfection is impossible, so we shouldn't even try!

>Anyways, Telegram does seem to have the best encryption of any major service, and it's what we use at my company for almost all internal communications.

Why do you think this? This is such a fundamentally ridiculous claim, I find it absolutely fascinating that someone might arrive at this conclusion.
I was not talking about my current situation, mind you. I made a career as a software developer, which is one of the few professions that allow for flexible schedules and working before completing your formal education.

Europe is quite diverse, so your experience might be very different, but here part time jobs are really scarce, and as I said even if you find one it is quite likely that you won't be able to fit it with your uni schedule.

Most degrees have a schedule where theory is taught in the morning and practical classes in the evening or the other way around: For chemistry students for example that would be theoretical classes and laboratories, but an ill-conceived attempt at uniformity made it so that even for fully theoretical degrees like math you still have those "practical laboratories" where you'd basically just be going through exercises. Attendance is mandatory for everything.

> It might be hard to finance all your university expenses by yourself, but you can definitely cover a lot without any real impact on your studies. Just be more effective with your free time

While you are right that you can ease the load (summer break jobs are certainly doable), even if you're able to do that, for many people just taking care of part of the cost (or even all) isn't enough. It's not only about higher education having a cost, it's also about the cost of opportunity, since their potential income is needed at home. A year studying might be a year that the family can't afford turning the heating on in winter, or mom being unable to go to the dentist, or your sister not having new clothes. The student sees that every single day while knowing that if they just forget about uni and get a job wherever, they can start solving those problems straight away. It's clearly not the best long term decision financially, but the humane factor is crucial and hard to explain unless you've been there.
> Shotwell said SpaceX will need to complete six to eight Starlink launches — including the one that already took place in May — to ensure continuous service in upper and lower latitude bands. “We need 24 launches to get global coverage,” she said. “Every launch after that gives you more capacity.”

>Shotwell said many of the Starlink features are being tested by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a program called Global Lightning. SpaceX in December 2018 received a $28 million contract to test over the next three years different ways in which the military might use Starlink broadband services. So far, SpaceX has demonstrated data throughout of 610 megabits per second in flight to the cockpit of a U.S. military C-12 twin-engine turboprop aircraft.
I think that's a good thing.
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Even then, it was not obviously a fallacy; several well respected political economists of the time had similar ideas; both Ricardo and Malthus believed that rising automation would lower wages, though without qualification as Marx had.
I use a markdown editor, currently Typora, since it has a side pane with folder structure. I keep folders for personal notes, study notes, project plans, compsci “knowledge” where I have massive notes for each subject. All of it is backed up and synced between devices using Nextcloud. Works fine, is free and doesn’t need paid subscriptions.
A little bit of social media (twitter posts, product page on FB), and a big push via Google AdWords at Easter and Christmas. Sales tended to be fairly seasonal so we focused on those periods.

Also, spent a lot of time getting the meta tags on every product page exactly right - which I felt (at the time) was the benefit of rolling my own shop front-end instead of using one of the pre-made big name shop engines.
I turned a software development blog into a profit-generating asset in 2 years.

I then used it to market my skills as a Software developer and it helped me gained employment.

I highly recommend any developer to start a blog, and just see where it takes you.

My blog is https://zeroequalsfalse.com
Naming them "Database" courses is a bit of a trick; they usually don't actually study databases. They study data, models of data, algorithms where accessing data is very costly and a little bit of concurrency.

This is all useful and it does make sense to think about it at the same time, but in practice:

* Concurrency requires a lot more focus than as a side effect of one course

* Cost of disk accesses isn't necessarily important in database practice, eg, if using an in-memory database.

I think database courses are fantastic and I enjoy talking about models of data, but anyone who goes into one thinking they are going to learn about actual databases has been misled. Even the SQL syntax is only really being taught as an example of how the relational data model can be insubstantiated - 'learning SQL' isn't academically interesting.

If it were me, I'd break most intro-to-databases up into 3 - one course on concurrency, one course on data models and fold the algorithms into an existing algorithms course.
> Also, wealth from family of origin allows risk taking, funding for law or medical degrees, which for lower income students represent a huge risk so they go to safer less lucrative fields.

Why not make an agreement with acquaintances that they fund (a part of) the tuition fees of your degree course. On the other hand you have to give them back a percentage of your gross income for the next, say, 10 years after finishing university. This should mitigate the problem a lot.
> I guess you've never experienced a 40-45c day. You sound like one of the regular tourist types we get who dismiss how seriously we take summer conditions

Funnily enough I was thinking that about you, because on 40+ days we've got people out riding, overcrowding beaches, walking and some even sunbaking, many will be doing that without shirts on in the open sun and they're not going up in flames. Some poor buggers even have to work outside doing physical labor on such glorious beach days. Personally on days like that I like to go for a quick swim and spend the afternoon with a beer on a bowling green if I can. We've been doing this for generations, my great grandma was doing it before cars, sunscreen and aircon were invented and kids had to walk to school, indigenous people were doing it much longer. We aren't scared of the sun as our skin cancer rates will testify.

Of course these days there's people that take the doona off in the morning and enjoy their air conditioned house, run to their air conditioned car to work in their air conditioned office for 8 hours then do it all in reverse and never see the sun. Of course they don't climatise because they're living in a different climate.
One's sanity is another's insanity. I dislike vsync'd desktop (and it is my #1 annoyance with Windows since 8, i just put up with it) so for me the sane option is the existing default one.
Most cities don't get more snow than can be cleared from the roads.
It is indeed very likely going to die. Webkit team isn't even considering it anymore now.
they are not that complicated. you just need a format of storing records where you need to store size of value and value itself in byte form so you can read it back and then it is ALL about indices. and that is really it. you can try to build a db by yourself from scratch of use some key-value db as base. the magic is usualy not in storage or indexing but in the query processing and parsing and optimization. that is essentially what makes dbs different. and then, of course, how they handle transactions. in my experience a simple write lock(mutex) is the standard, though you can get a bit advance and use more graular locking so your transactions, if they do not overlap, are way faster and not stop-the-world fast.
Maybe Apple just doesn't need this for anything (yet)?
I agree that it doesn't go out of its way to clarify that Trotsky is not amongst that set. But then why should it? If it had mentioned that Freud would have met El Santo, you wouldn't be raging about how it had failed to clarify that he wasn't an intellectual.
A CLI tool for hiding the application's icon in the Dock
hardware from that era would be slow. If you used an iphone 3 right now it'll be slow guaranteed. Also the first iphones were shiny toys, underpowered and featureless compared to Nseries and Win mobile. If they were that good, Microsoft would have responded immediately.
It's excellent to see momentum building like this. Cycling:

- Has lower cost-of-entry in terms of purchase/rental

- Keeps you healthier, which can also contribute to remaining active and mobile in older age

- Provides easier self-maintenance for most common faults

- Requires less fuel (particularly combustible/fossil)

- Can be just as fast, or faster, for transit from A to B in urban environments (especially with e-bikes)

- Is more social and human - cyclists can chat to each other while commuting or in transit, rather than being isolated in glass bubbles (which sometimes leads to misunderstanding and road rage when a simple conversation - even if a little confrontational - might resolve things)

- Requires less physical space - which eventually will make it easier to park cars, once we reclaim this inefficient use of our environments

- Pollutes less

- Is more easily portable within other modes of transport (trains, aircraft, or cars)

- Is, in the presence of good bicycle infrastructure, simply a much more pleasant, enjoyable, and self-directed way to travel

One remaining issue perhaps is large load-carrying; and that's certainly somewhere where cargo bikes and cargo e-bikes are innovating. And also a situation where the physical distribution of goods is changing (for example, via on-demand delivery services, some of which themselves use bicycle couriers).

It's really time to get people shifting towards bicycles in a big way. The arguments against it broadly do not stand, especially in the presence of e-bikes. Cars aren't going to go away, but they're way overused currently.
There was a big data deletion bug from an update that happened around a year ago, I don't think there was anything that bad in Windows 7
> To access on the computer you'd need to download a program, on mobile you would need an app

Are you suggesting that I don't need to download anything to view a website ? I beg to differ.

If you check the article, namely the photo of the phone you can see there's a browser opened from localhost, so something must have been downloaded on the phone.
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> ... hidden under thick layers of concrete ...

... and (only for the record) behind false or falsified inspection reports.

https://www.corriere.it/english/19_gennaio_31/reports-on-mot...
Giotto framework: using topology to build a new language between AI and users
It's against almost all certificate standards for the certificate holder - Tesonet to allow an unrelated third party to use a certificate with their name on it. Or for a third party (proton) to use a certificate that has another companies name on it.

If you would like, I can pursue this issue further given what seems to be confirmation here of a certificate violation.
> "Is this a web application or a smartphone one?"

It used to be a web app, but nowadays, most people use it as an app.

> "What did you have to learn, tech-wise, to be able to build it?"

At first, PHP. Then JS. I've been coding for 15-20 years now. The app is made in Ionic + Cordova. As I wrote often here on HN: End users give zero fucks about the technology. Most people (unless they're designers or coders) don't even see the difference between a native app and a hybrid one.

As a single developer, Ionic is great, because you have truly one code base for all platforms. If the apps were native, I probably couldn't do all of this by myself.

> "How long did it take you, from your first line of code until you released the first prototype?"

2-3 weeks, and then I iterated a lot with actual feedback. But: I didn't introduce a pricing model for the first couple years. It was a hobby back then. It also was a different internet. So take this with a grain of salt. I don't have experience on how to start a niche product and get paying customers from day 1.

> How did you get your first user(s)?

Through forums.

> How did you get the business idea (without details)?

A friend of mine said: "It'd be great if there was a software that could do X". It wasn't directly my own pain point, but of a friend. I didn't work in that field before, but read a lot over the years to acquire the domain knowledge.

Thanks :)
This is an interesting answer. Somebody says there will be hundred millions of people fleeing their then uninhabitable countries (which will lead to millions of death, just look how many people drown in the Mediterranean see each year now, and how the European population is more xenophobic year after year). And you answer saying GDP will be fine!
By the same token, anybody who distributed a fork of the said script is free to charge for it as well, as long as the source code (or patches thereto) is/are distributed under the GNU GPL or compatible license.
The N95 sold more units than
the original iPhone.
I think there are a lot of areas as the most promising

1. Digital Twin(s) -- Soon all people all around the world will have two worlds, one real and one virtual
The virtual world would be like the next generation of Minecraft and people all around the world will work together on open-source projects, like what people do on Github but in a virtual n-Dimensional world

2. AI and Biotech --> See Yuval Noah Harari lectures on Youtube

3. Climate Change related activities

4. Fusion which is the next generation of renewable energy