skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iced supports the desktop and the web. No mobile support but I don’t see why it couldn’t. https://github.com/hecrj/iced

Technically, Qt has bindings and supports them too.

So I don’t think your dream is too far off. Though the quality of that level of cross platform might be an issue
I wonder how many websites publish JSON feeds though. I don't recall ever coming across one, or maybe have I just not been paying enough attention?
Wait until you get into the dystopian world of clips on YouTube targeted at children.
TY! I fixed it.
Yes, daily numbers are almost completely meaningless. We don't have to wait multiple years to infer meaning from the numbers, though. If countries are very similar, had their infections at the same time, but now have a 800% difference, like Sweden and Norway, that should make us pause and consider the effectiveness of the different approaches.

Total mortality is also already much higher in the EU than in the years before (Edit: Despite the lockdowns!).
I just want to support my kid. It would also be nice to someday retire from the job I hate.
That actually was super helpful! I went to the GH-Pages preview [0] and pulled the compiled CSS file out. I hope the license permits reuse in this way. Thank you!

[0]: https://dracula.github.io/gh-pages/
Chloropleth Map of How World War I Changed Europe's Borders Forever
There's probably a long rant waiting to be written on this topic. Myself, I've observed how over the last four decades, CGI effects went from worthless, through novelty, through increasingly awesome, all the way to "cheapest garbage that can be made that looks convincing enough when the camera is moving very fast".
I don't think you're wrong but...

Good luck convincing the average consumer (voter) to do without for a while and then pay more after that. They'll lynch you if they can't get the latest iTurd for 499.99 plus tax.

Also, as long as the CCP run China, they'll be stronger than the west (consumerism and short-termism and Chinese abuses of them aren't just US issues). We need them to democratise, consumer domestically and sort out other issues (wet markets, treatment of minorities). That's the long term win here. Convincing them to treat Google and Uber fairly is nice but it's not going to make them reasonable partners in 2,5,10,50 years time...
No I’m just amazed that people are willing to give government more power - the same government who would like nothing more than to have more power to intrude on people’s life.
In case of paper it's not implausible at all. It's just ignoring a necessary part of the system - a human that executes the process on paper.

I don't think it's any more implausible (that this is a conscious proccess) than saying both personalities of people with split personality are conscious.
Never heard of Couchsurfing and I'm quite shocked this idea was able to captivate a considerable amount of people. It all seems terrible to me. Invite a bunch of strangers to hang out in your house? What a terrible idea! Sure, not all people are morons or psychos but there are such people out there. And only one is all it takes to end or completely ruin your life. Risk a life to be able to hear a bunch of bullshit what some idiot has to say is totally not worth it imo. If you want to talk to an idiot - you can find plenty of them on Facebook or Twitter. At least it's safe. And for the real life communications just hang out with your family, classmates, coworkers or even neighbors. There are a thousand people that you know and have some sort of relation to. If you wanna date - use tinder or something.
Be careful out there, if not for yourself but for those, who love you and care for you!
That is speculation.

We have absolutely no idea how consciousness is produced from electrical and chemical signalling between a large ball of fats.

We know that it is (because we perceive our own), but we can't map from one thing to another.

If consciousness is merely neural activity in a brain, then why can't we simulate really simple brains?
Isn’t it a little - like 200+ years - late for that?
I don't think that Georgists have the misunderstanding that you claim. I'm not a Georgist, but I do like many of their ideas and listen to some modern day ones.

What you are arguing against, the idea of taxing something based on its "value" where everybody already values things differently, this is not a new thing. It's not hard to implement. We already do it. It's here in the real world. We have property taxes. Each property is unique, non-fungible, everybody has different valuations for every property, and yet somehow we still work out a "market" value.

Establishing land values is only a slight modification of establishing property values. It's easily solvable, and the places that have implemented it have not had difficulty establishing the valuations for tax purposes, by basing these valuations off of market transactions.

But, you might argue, what if your personal valuations are different than what the "market" values them at? Well good for you, because then you are likely able to find a great deal more value out of a property than what the market values something at.

And maybe if the market values something far less than what you value something, then you can hold on to it for cheap! And if the market values something far more than you value something, you can avoid the expense of buying it, or if you have it, you can profit from selling it.

If markets are useful for something, it's finding out what a population thinks something is worth. When it comes to land, and who is excluded from using this precious and finite resource, and who is allowed to use it, market valuations are extremely useful. We can watch transactions to figure out who is using up the most of what other people want (i.e. holding land with high market value). If somebody is hoarding a precious resource, but unwilling to pay the taxes to hold onto it, perhaps they don't actually value that resource so much after all.
> But the question is how do you sustain yourself while working fulltime on building/maintaining open source software

One thing I would suggest, is thinking about what's acceptable to you ?

At the risk of summarizing what's been said already :

1) Get donations

2) Build some form of open source business (consulting, or open-core)

3) Find a business that will pay you to work some part of your time on open source

4) Find another work and do open source on the side

I think that it's very easy to fall into the 1) trap. In many ways, it probably aligns the most with the values of open source which you seem to care about, but except for a handful of people, this is clearly unsustainable and a road to sadness. And all the various efforts that I've seen over the last 20 years to "improve" this situation have failed.

Solution 2) is pretty popular around here, for obvious reasons. Especially on the "open core" side, it tries to find an equilibrium point between open source and making money. While I'm sure there are many successful examples, there's also a pretty big tension between the two sides on terms of ideals, and they may not define what's success the same way. You may not enjoy a successful exit.

Which brings the last 2 solutions which are pretty similar. One thing I'd say is that in general, there's a lot of demand for software engineers. Many fields have needs for them (a lot of them outside the software industry) and, to keep this short, you probably have options to find something that you can accept (you may not want to work at Oracle !).

In my case, I've been taking care of a macOS screensaver[1] for a couple of years now. Since I didn't start the project, I've always felt bad about asking for donations, but a few users insisted, so I've added a small donate button. Despite the stars and downloads, the donations are far from even covering my expresso addiction ;)

But I never expected otherwise. And sure, I could make the donation thing more prominent, some may even say put a button in the preference panel of the screensaver. I'm not sure it would move the needle by that much, and it's probably not worth the extra guilt I'd feel about asking for those.

So in my case, I do freelance engineering jobs, surprisingly completely unrelated to the insanely niche field of macOS screensavers ! I also try to work on (unrelated) iOS apps for myself, although my expectations on that are mild, it's not an easy path.

But I do have control of my time, and I enjoy being able to keep adding new features to Aerial (there's weather in the latest betas !), although that effort tends to come in bursts depending on my free time. And although it's a burden, I've even taken to "enjoy" doing support, which I certainly wouldn't have expected !

[1]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
Yes. If nothing else, the web browser is a native desktop application.
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Kids are next level close proximity. They touch each other constantly in all kinds of way.
I predict that this will backfire in a big way.

The people with the largest government-backed research budget and with the largest pool of data about Covid are likely Chinese. They'll probably also have enough patriotic citizens to try out new vaccines to benefit their country.

Now imagine if a working Covid drug is indeed developed in China. Because the US and UK hollowed out the sharing agreement, they'll then need to call in favors.

That might well ruin Trump politically, but at the very least it'll put both countries in a much weaker negotiation position for future trade agreements.

I just don't see any reason why the US or the UK might be leading this research globally. So why would this seem like a good idea for them?
Two Coasts. One Virus. New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times Worse Than California
"It's kind of disappointing how easily the recommendations shift once you click on a video that's sketchy."

It isn't just "sketchy" videos. Someone linked me to a video of a dog being rescued, which I watched on my logged-in profile, and it was fine and all, but explaining to YouTube that that doesn't mean I'm interested in hearing about every dog ever rescued (since I didn't know about the 'delete from history' trick) has been a lot of "Never show me videos from this channel" button pushed.
Wow, they offer you promotions? My company makes you apply for all except the entry level to mid level jump.
software UX suffering doesn't nearly enough translate to software developers' suffering.
Have you ever read the comments section of a YouTube video? It's rife with insults and always has been.
Not according to the HN rules
I love VLC. In fact, we all love VLC! This is one media player software that has never, ever, let me down. Every other player has let me down in one way or the other, but not this. Building a software of such high quality is impressive beyond words. So many thanks to you for this..
A housing shortage doesn't necessarily mean that new housing would be more profitable than something commercial. I do agree that this would encourage landowners to improve their buildings more in theory. I'm from a country that has a land value tax and frankly it just doesn't matter much. Maybe I just haven't seen the distorting effects that property taxes have.
Tesla was installing 1,000 solar roof per week in the US, just before COVID19. They plan to ramp that quickly and roll this out globally. If they're able to deploy solar roofs in volume for both residential and commercial building, you can expect them to slowly become one of the biggest generator of renewable energy.
Yes 5G masts are the cause of covid and need to be all burned down. Vaccines causr autism. Bringing your kids to the doctor is harmful, give them bleach anemas.

No harm in spreading lies and absurd conspiracies, right?
Was supposed to say "hosted about 50 couch surfers".
Potentially soon for Flask, https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/3412. Also see Quart, https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart
+1 for providing other options. Never heard of BeWelcome or Trustroots.
> I hope this gets rid of the "out-raise your competitors and spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous money sinks" strategy forever.

Narrator: It didn't.

As long as there is greed and speculation, people will continue to fall for schemes like these.

People, especially here on HN, like to talk about how big of a ponzi scheme cryptocurrencies are, but they are just a reflection of other such systems in the offline world. They just happen in time-scales of weeks and months rather than years and decades.
> Should Apple/Google be forced to carry pornographic apps? White supremacists apps? Apps that invade people’s privacy?

My computer allows racist pornography and its the greatest invention in the history of mankind. As far as I can tell, iPhones have not lived up to that legacy.
threadlocals = app.context ?

Agreed, but that's the beauty of Flask you can just pass around the request context.
What a load of hogwash...

The effect of lockdown is very clear on the graphs of new cases and deaths: the rate of increase slows down, peaks then falls fairly rapidly as the lockdown is kept in place.

Places where measures were relaxed too much have seen a resurgence of cases, looks at Iran suffering a third huge spike.

Lockdowns are bad of course but they are the only recourse once when you are too late to act and have no PPE and no practical measures to cover your entire population.

Lockdowns have terrible side effects as well but doing nothing will just overwhelm you health system in a matter of weeks, and more people will die.
It's what happened to Italy before it implemented lockdown.

It's what's happening in the UK because they were late to the party and inconsistent with their measures.

The main factor of success is how seriously and early countries took effective measures.
Australia may have hot weather and a spread out population but they did a lockdown and took measures early.

Hong Kong has nearly 8M people and is one of the densest places on earth and only had about 1000 cases and only 4 deaths... no lockdown but as soon as people go wind of what happened in Wuhan, nearly everyone in HK was wearing masks and sanitizing like crazy.

Lockdown is the only option when you did nothing for weeks while watching other countries struggle.
If you only have 9 sponsors that probably means few (one) of them is paying for 99% which means you might not be able to rely on that income?
Chinese pharma isn’t there yet.
Are the churches open yet? From what I see, Georgia religious leaders (at least from mainstream denominations) are hesitant.
> Remember, it's their free time they are donating to you, so make sure that you went extra mile to really prove that the bug is in the project and not in your code.

This is kind of what I'm trying to address, which is the belief that the creator of the project is owed something and thus also free to be a jerk. Most users are not going to donate money, but some of us do so on occasion. I usually donate when a project is in dire straits just because I don't have a lot of cash floating around for myself, though over the decades this has added up to thousands of dollars donated.

However, when I see a project has been rude to users, or even actual experience see a project desperate for funds that was rude to me, I don't donate a thing no matter if I use it a lot. I don't believe in treating users like doormats and won't support it.
> who cares if Discord or a browser's HN tab aren't optimally efficient? You're just going to suck it up and use it. With this in mind, a lot of the native app discussion is technical superiority circlejerk.

People who use it. "Suck it up" isn't the correct answer, and it only happens because software is an incredibly non-competitive space.
I have less of a problem with EU telcos than with American multinationals.
In a normal business, someone spending $20 for something that cost $10 to make would not decrease the availability for anyone else, because the company would be able to make two widgets for every one widget they bought.

There's already something very fishy about the university system that anyone who can pay more than they cost isn't let in. Why do admission slots even exist?
> The fear is justified and the extreme prejudice against Covid-19 misinformation (most of which has an agenda behind it) is warranted.

This is the same stuff that was said during Iraq War. That it was justified. Later, we found out that it wasn't and that we attacked a country even though it was Saudi Arabia that was primarily responsible.

Now, they are trying to say that extreme measures, such as censoring people with alternative opinions is justified. Who cares if WHO or whatever else agency disagrees. People are capable of making choices for themselves and doing research. Blocking information, just because it may be inaccurate, doesn't justify it. You then have a centralized power determining what information is accurate like the events that lead to the Iraq War.
Only responding to a tiny piece of your very good comment.

In the Maier/Rechtin book on system design, they spend a few pages talking about the word “Emergent”, and how “weak” it is. They says that we use the word to denote things that are almost certainly explainable, but for which we do not yet understand the mechanism of its behavior.

They use (iirc) the example of a black box system that produces a whistle noise at seemingly random moments, which observers interpret as “emergent” when reality reveals itself on closer inspection. Their point is essentially that the description “emergent” is a cop-out, and that so far nothing we’ve described as “emergent” has actually turned out to be inexplicable.

I often hear smart people saying things like “consciousness is just an emergent feature of our brains”, in a way that seems to imply “that’s that”, when in fact it’s not an explanation but rather an admission of ignorance. Admitting ignorance is fine, but ignorance is not an explanation.

I personally don’t think we’ll understand the mechanisms that underpin consciousness within our lifetimes, but I certainly don’t think consciousness is inexplicable.
I don't get the opening story. If his restaurants weren't delivering, who was Doordash picking up from? Did they just get doggy-bags to go?
Of course, but we knew that weeks ago from various research studies.

This is why closing schools is an extremely poor idea. I suspect with the number of countries in Europe reopening schools, this will put pressure in the US on states still blindly refusing to do it despite all the facts.
Sure, don’t ask them to fix or debug it either.
Hannes Mehnert Interview on OCaml and MirageOS
I worked on a project that used CQRS and Event Sourcing years ago. It was an unmitigated disaster, never made it out of prototype phase.

By using Kafka (or anything else) as a "commit log" you've just resigned yourself to building the rest of the database around it. In a real RDBMS the commit log is just a small piece of maintaining consistency.

Every time I've worked on a project where we handle our own "projections" (database tables) we ended up mired deep in the consistency concerns normally handled by our database.

Whats so hard? Compaction is an evil problem. We figured we could "handle it later". Well it turns out maintaining an un-compactible commit log of every event even for testing data consumes many terabytes. This and "replays" sunk the project indirectly.

Replays. The ES crowd pretends this is easy. It's not. If you have 3 months of events to replay every time you make certain schema changes you are screwed. Even if you application can handle 100X normal load, its going to take you over a day to restore using a replay. This also happened to us. Every time an instance of anything goes down, it has to replay all the events it cares about. If you have an outage of more than a few instances the thundering herd will take down your entire system no matter how much capacity you have. With a normal system, the Db always has the latest version of all the "projections" unless you're restoring from a backup, then it only has to restore a partial commit log replay, and only once.

Data duplication. Turns out "projecting" everything everywhere is way worse on memory and performance than having the DB thats handling your commit log also store it all in one place. Who knew.

Data corruption. If you get one bad event somewhere in your commit log you are cooked. This happens all the time from various bugs. We resorted to manually deleting these events, negating all the supposed advantages of an immutable commit log. We would have been fine if we let the db handle the commit log events.

Questionable value of replays. You go through a ton of bs to get a system that can rewind to any point in time. When did we use this functionality? Never. We never found a use-case. When we abandoned ES we added Hibernate Auditing to some tables. Its relatively painless, transparent, and handled all of our use cases for replays
That's funny. UK is now switching off TETRA to a new ESN network; based on LTE. Quite a few issues with it, so it will be a while yet, but most of the masts are built. It will also allow coverage in rural areas to improve (as operators can share the masts built for the emergency network).
Note that this was for the fiscal year that ended in March, so before most of Covid-19's impact.

Can't imagine what FY2020 is going to look like.
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Now that's more problematic. You could test this further by replacing those phrases with references to a different country, though it's possible that your account will receive more scrutiny from moderation bots due to your recently deleted comments.

It would be interesting to test trigger phrases on a larger scale from different accounts and publish your findings.
Assuming that's a serious question: they don't have drop in replacements right now.
What's with GetYourGuide? Will they recover after COVID?
ProPublica seems to break a couple of huge stories every year operating as a nonprofit. The fact that they aren't ad funded means they don't have to churn out lots of Content to keep eyeballs coming, so I know every story I hear from them is worth my attention.
The Harry Potter Index (2017)
You could at least put some attribution
How to Setup AWS CodePipeline for a Asp.net Core Web API Project
This is sinister genius. Do you have a citation link? I’d love to read more.
Appears likely that someone that has access to the hotel’s customer CC data might be behind this and the local police are aware of it too...

“Not only is this hotel horrible, our guests had their credit card stolen and $500 worth of purchases made on it!!! Reporting this place to the police. Do not even go near this hotel. Total crooks, denied everything when confronted but they were caught red handed” [1]

...makes you wonder what is really going on.

[1] https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...
There is something similar in modern times in Hamburg called "Alstereisvergnügen". Alster is the river, Eis is ice, and Vergnügen can be translated as Fair.