skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too simplistic of an answer, though it could be part of it.

I think we wrap ourselves in a bit of false security when we say something is open source and think that automatically makes it more secure. We assume someone has looked at the source. But has anyone really? And those with the most incentive to look into these things might not be inclined to share the vulnerabilities back to the community for safety's sake, given the princely sums being offered by companies like Zerodium.
If only we saw this coming.... oh wait... Equifax's data breach of 143M records.

People have been calling for social security number system to be updated. In what world does it make sense to prove your identity with just a username (ss #) and not a password as well?
Physical signatures are nearly worthless a digital signature ensures that the prescription is valid unless the doctors computer or the pharmacies is compromised.

This would presumably be no worse than keeping people from forging paper prescriptions.

It would logically be based on a public private key pair like gpg.
Currently OSS is being destroyed by corporations flooding it with money. You can see people in projects becoming more corporate and political, doing very little and trying to protect and extend their power.

You can see largely useless features going in just because some corporation wants them.

I wonder what will happen if the destruction is complete. Will things revert to closed source entirely or are the corporations happy with being the puppet masters of OSS?
as a Linux desktop user. I believe, having web applications is preferable to desktop ones. however, the problem is talent is lacking around the industry to make performant web apps. Not every company can produce a high quality products such as Figma. things on web are not tied to walled gardens or any other stupid shit. easily accessible.
I'm not claiming anything, it's definitional to me.

As far as I can tell the Overton window has moved and the definition slipped over the past 10 years. I consider Microsoft a major contributor to that. The proof of that is in the fact they've shipped it in a mainstream OS.

They have included software which does things explicitly counter to what the user wants. That is what malware is. Unless of course you want adverts, in that case, more power to you.
The lack of voting is precisely why we have the candidates we have. Others ran and polled well, but their bases didn’t show up to vote and they lost.

Criticizing voting perpetuates the system that produces the candidates that you dislike. Grassroots efforts only work when people get out and vote.
I download and2k photos from Google to display in a photo frame Part I
I have worked for government contractors very similar to SpaceX in the past and watched friends get fired for far smaller transgressions at such companies.

It's nice to be reminded every now and then that the rules don't apply to the lords, only the serfs.
Then I hope we would also tax the bad UX of the competing 20-year old Frankenstein applications, which lead to slower business processes (= more resources used as well).
They’d be able to tell.
You should always set it to UTC regardless. User interfaces can use local time zone. Even if you're a small mom-n-pop shop, good engineering is long term planning. Let's say you get some 3rd party managed appliance and you work with their techs to troubleshoot an issue, or host something in the cloud but all the stackdriver/cloudtrail is not on your local time. Just use UTC until you have a specific reason not to,even then do it at the user/setting level not a system wide default.
I have a rig powerful enough to run a lot of last-gen games at 4K with high quality settings, and a lot of current-gen ones at mid to high settings and 1080p. The fucking redesigned Steam library lags, none of the animations (why does it need animations?!) are even close to smooth, and there's massive delay on every input. I've never once encountered a move toward webtech, or toward heavier and "appier" JS use in something that's already webtech, and gone "oh good, this works much better now, I'm so glad they did that."
I think you gotta connect the dots with UBI here. You wouldn't have to monetize if you didn't have to monetize.
> I'm not claiming anything, it's definitional to me.

Really? Because your original comment said this:

> Right now, today, they're shipping literal malware on mainstream desktop computers around the world. Oh, and it's not open source either, lol!

That certainly sounds like a claim. What’s your definition of malware then?
I agree, hence the "if;" I tend to be very conservative about new forces introduced and the like, no matter how exciting. I remember the search for the "fifth and sixth" forces decades ago, as well as the more recent failure of the EM drive.

Oh, I was not thinking of extracting energy via the Penrose process or anything similar. Rather, I was considering the need for baryons to create structure in a universe without many of them to go around. That'll be the next level of scarcity once you have switched to a civilization that only increments state changes as energy becomes available ... what do you build stuff out of? Baryon farming will be it.

Personally, I rather doubt the math will work out. I think baryons will fall apart one way or another on a scale that will probably outstrip most black hole evaporation unless a civilization was very crafty about trying to find the black holes that were below the usual three solar masses and instead opt for the little ones.

It's a fun thought experiment.
This isn’t true in Washington. My psychiatrist has been sending my ADHD meds for digitally for a few years now.

https://www.addcenterofbellevue.com/ If you’re interested in a new doc.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
Former Amazon VP opens up about decision to quit in support of 'whistleblowers'
Sure, it's "factually incorrect" if you use articles that don't post Grubhub's statement. Here's an article that got updated: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/28/19154220/grubhub-seamless...

Here's the response:

> "Grubhub has never cybersquatted, which is identified by ICANN as 'generally bad faith registration of another person’s trademark in a domain name,'" the company said in a statement. "As a service to our restaurants, we have created microsites for them as another source of orders and to increase their online brand presence. Additionally, we have registered domains on their behalf, consistent with our restaurant contracts. We no longer provide that service and it has always been our practice to transfer the domain to the restaurant as soon as they request it."

Totally agreed that Grubhub could've clarified this better. SMB Sales is hard, and it's not easy to communicate every aspect of a contract to every single merchant.

Not defending phone orders here.
I agree that git is a great model, however it's often hard to explain to new users why merge conflict require time to resolve, and nothing saves you from the added work.

Life just isn't completely decentralizable... sorry.
It's usually the same as linking, except there are tunables in every library, and the hard part is figuring out which one is appropriate for the job. Maybe, this call is to ask people how this library works out in the real world, on the current datasets that people have. Besides, they are talking of testing implementation specific limitations, and may they want to test for that.
We sell our B2B desktop software as a subscription since 2012 (previously it was freeware).

The key is to make it only available as a subscription (no permanent licenses) and it does not have any cloud component.

We managed not to fall in the trap of making two types of licenses (suscription or permanent) to maximize early revenue (we could affort to wait).

We seek a marriage relationship with our users not a hook up.

This increases the value our users extract knowing it will not go away in the long term and the lifetime value of customers is a lot higher.

We know that some customers will not accept a subscription-only desktop application but in B2B world they are fewer than it might seem.
> Totally agree with all that, but I also think it's one of those things that most devs hit the pain point for once, and then have a standard template project they use for everything going forward. I.e. I have all my webpack/tsc/eslint/prettier/jest boilerplate set up once, so now it's not really an issue for me.

Stop using JS for a year, and come back only to discover that half of the tools you were using back then is at best obsolete or even deprecated and unmaintained, or that their API changed so much in a major version that you can't recognize it (see the Babel6 — AKA Babel Vista— update).

And since you're not only using these tools but also their integration to your favorite editor, you cannot stick on the old version for long, unless you stop upgrading your editor altogether).
Ask HN: What are examples of well architected software systems?
AWS has been promoting the idea of "well-architected frameworks" with example solutions at https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/

If we would bring this idea to traditional software systems, what would be good examples of well-architected software systems of existing open-source projects?

Let's take https://martinfowler.com/architecture/ as a list of architecture styles, I think Kubernetes (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) is a good example of well-architected microservices.

What do you think? Do you know other good examples?
DaVinci Resolve Ate My Disk Space
It looks like the fourth edition was released in February 1994. And the product release history's latest dates don't go later than 1994.
See above.

> They have included software which does things explicitly counter to what the user wants. That is what malware is. Unless of course you want adverts, in that case, more power to you.

I also provided a list in the original post.
> I like your posts on this topic. Talk to wealthy EU citizens about their tax rates. They hate them.

I disagree, most wealthy EU citizens I know said they wouldn't mind being taxed more.
VSCode, because of electron, doesn't allow you to have multiple windows that share state while working on a project. This makes it terrible with multiple screens.
When why not just use gtk or qt and call it a day? Electron is unnecessary.
RSS and a few hundred quality blogs should give you enough content. And there's always, you know, books.
> non-fruits such as ... berries

Wat
> I'm pointing out that the government is just as capable of abusing citizens rights as private companies are

Your comment that I initially replied to was downplaying the possibility of governmental abuse of stronger identification. I replied pointing out that apart from direct government abuse, the current identification system is already rife with abuse by private actors.

In response, you switched to pointing out how the government does indeed commit abuse (which you had been downplaying), and invoking the dichotomy by saying "not private companies". This is detracting from discussing corporate abuse, by pushing the topic right back to focusing on government abuse.

> Part of this comes down to your political preferences and whether or not you believe that immigrants should be treating differently by government, as they have been for a few years now

I'm willing to entertain whatever perspective your argument requires.

> There are numerous reports that stimulus checks aren't going out to immigrant families as consistently as they are for others

You're going to have to be specific about what you mean technically. I feel like we have an inversion here, because stimulus checks are only going to people who can be identified to begin with. So yes, the profiling relies on having an identity - but the identity is already necessary for the bona fide government function, to prevent someone filing multiple claims (Sybil attack). It's not the same situation as say a hypothetical bread line where being a person who has waited for hours is good enough proof, but now ID is being requested solely so you can be profiled. It's also not like a situation where someone with a green card claiming a stimulus check has that fact used against them when applying for citizenship (at least I hope not).

There's an abstract argument to be made that identification in general is a cornerstone of the ever-growing government (legibility of humans), but I think that ship has mostly sailed, especially in a thread about unemployment compensation.
So I have been thinking about software projects lately, and I have come to the conclusion that a lot of these tools/solutions exist to "build houses" when most of us are just throwing together lean-to sheds and dog houses.

Software projects today are naturally more complex and have more complex tooling the same way building a house today requires more knowledge and skill than it did 50 years ago.

Then there are some folks/organizations building cathedrals, and the associated tooling (react, angular, maven, etc) and all the rest of us look up in awe and thing "well I guess if I want to be that good I need to use those tools on this dog house."

But your dog house doesn't have the need to host parties, provide security, or even real weather protection other than a roof to keep the rain and sun out. Yet we all try to build our dog houses in ways that might be better if they are one day converted to a proper living quarters but likely will never have a need for running Water or windows.
It is certainly not overrated. See Windows 10.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/control-panel-and-setti...

https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/sty...
We mostly used Google Street View to guesstimate where to put things. We started off building a 1/3 scale model of Gampel Pavilion (the stadium where commencement takes place), then we expanded on the roads around Gampel and started on the buildings connected to those roads. There are a variety of console commands (like /fill) that enable you to basically cut and paste portions of the world, so we could start building something in an open area and then transfer it to where it belonged once it was done.
The real issue is not any set theory, but another one: do sets exist? If they exist, they can function as causal antecedents. However, it is unintuitive to think of sets as causal antecedents. This is why great mathematicians postulate another world for numbers, sets, abstract objects, etc: Platonic world. That way, you can get rid of unintuitive-ness in the world we live in.
They have a couple of open source products.

However they are not one of the big 4 as you have listed.

I have heard MS employees talk about open sourcing some of their bigger products and the conversation always comes down to the issue of the third party code (libraries, etc) they use that cannot be open sourced along with the main product.

I'm not defending Microsoft in any way just giving an explanation I have heard over the last few years. I believe Mark Russinovich has talked about open sourcing things a number of times if you want to look into it further.
There's still a place. But not for reinventing wheels and half bake a new take on a "solved" problem (mail reader, music player, personal task manager, etc.).
It was the ambiguity of the word 'web' that tripped me up. You still need a network of computers for email to be useful.
Ends justify means?
My I recommend IPTC's NewsML-G2
https://iptc.org/standards/newsml-g2/
> Another way to think about it: if landlords have the market power to raise rents, why wouldn't they just do it now, rather than wait until an LVT is passed?

Exactly. Because they hold monopoly pricing power over tenants they could in theory increase the rents 10 times even today. They don't do that, because better strategy for a parasite is to maximize profit and not to kill the host.
- "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter
- "Foucalt's pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
- "A Perfect Vacuum" by Stanislaw Lem.
- "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.
To be clear, I am not arguing for or against the validity of the claims regarding covid-sim. I am only saying that this is not a good example of the effect where people feel entitled to get open source code that fits their needs.
To save people the effort of clicking the link: it's satire.

It's as though The Babylon Bee or The Onion were to focus on tech and startup news.
I recently configured FreshRSS on my Raspberry Pi 4 and I'm using both the web interface as well as Reeder syncing through its greader compatible API. While this setup may not be for everyone, reducing time on twitter in favor of reading blogs notably increased my happiness, and how content I am in terms of intellectual stimulation after taking an RSS reading break.

As a bonus, the FreshRSS web interface, while not being the prettiest, is surprisingly effective for going through the unread articles.
It's an interesting question though: Is plan B of succeeding in interstellar travel actually easier than a plan in which we figure out how to change our biological construct to survive in harsher climate-change or post-war conditions?
Land value tax is considered among the economists as being one of the least distortionary taxes.
You have a lot of disappointment with HN

Much realer talk: I have been here nearly 11 years. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board and it looks like I am probably on track to also be the second woman to spend time on the leader board under my new handle (this one).

I have my criticisms of what goes on here, but I spend so much time here because whatever sexism and nonsense happens here pales in comparison to the hip deep crap of most other spaces. So I'm quite fond of HN, which is a large part of why I am here so much.

Rumors of my supposedly significant disappointment with HN are somewhat exaggerated for various reasons.

Though I stand by my position that it should be easier to turn my writing into income than it has proven to be and I stand by that not solely for my benefit but because of broader implications throughout the world that this issue has which people complain loudly about on a regular basis here and seem to fail to connect the dots between those issues and their choices. The fact that I choose to use myself as an example of this phenomenon should not be misconstrued as me being hugely personally butthurt with no larger point.

I use myself as an example because then I'm not doxxing other people or making them a target or whatever. I can decide just how much heat I care to take for today and walk away when I have had enough.

I do that as a "best practice" that I have worked out over the years. That's it. It's the least worst option in situations where unpleasantness is unavoidable.

I have zero plans to sell health fad crap. That absolutely will not happen and it's one of the reasons most of my sites have no ads: because the kinds of things I talk about tend to attract ads for things I would never, ever recommend, like colloidal silver which is straight up literal poison. I may at some point in the future move to zero ads. I'm aware that most of HN uses adblockers and I understand and respect the reasons they do that.

But if you want good content and you don't want ads, somehow that has to be paid for. And the current climate adds up to "Writers are just supposed to work for free." I think that's a fundamentally broken mental model. It's not sustainable. It's in line with ideas like "If you aren't the customer, you are the product." People decry content marketing, then don't want to support indie authors.

If you want everything free and don't want to pay your authors, they will work for someone who will pay them. And that means content marketing. If that's not the internet you want, then you need to stop insisting that writing simply doesn't pay and start kicking a few bucks towards indie authors whose content you would like to see more of.
Ah yes Church Numerals... who needs ints when you can have those in C++? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/190796/46301
Just from personal experience: 42% is pretty much on the dot. It might be that with 92k you're still taxed in a lower class (or maybe you're married and thus getting a discount).
I specialize in data recovery / digital forensics tools, which require very low-level disk access to be able to read physical media at the block level. I doubt there will ever be an HTML5 standard for low-level disk access.

But aside from my particular specialty, I also prefer any other software I use to be fully native. I'm surprised that's such a controversial thing to ask for these days. All I ask is so precious little:

* I want the software I use to be designed to run on the CPU that I own!

* I want software that doesn't require me to upgrade my laptop every two years because of how inefficient it gets with every iteration.

* I want software that isn't laughably bloated. I think we have a real problem when we don't bat an eye upon seeing the most rudimentary apps requiring 200+ MB of space.
The radio spectrum -- those airwaves we say belong to the American people -- should be treated as our common treasure, not purchaseable by corporations. Lease them out for, say, 5 years or 10 years, and then put them up for bids again.

We all need clean air. We all need clean water. Those who use lots of water are usually charged by their local utility for what they take. Some farms and water bottlers deplete the local resource, and they ought to be charged for what they take from the commons, if the carrying capacity can't handle it.

Supermarkets in Manhattan are amazingly inventive in providing a lot of groceries in a space whose smallness would be unimaginable in suburbia -- and is difficult to "social distance" in today.

In the city, that supermarket woudl not be a single-story building; it would have a 20- or 40- or more story building overhead, and all those users would share the land value tax.

And the building would not be taxed, so no downside to fully developing, and regularly redeveloping, the lot to serve human needs.
Hey, I just want to congratulate you on building a stunning product. I really like the design and feel of the site. Congrats!
I think the GP means contemporary as "at the time".
I see you haven't turned the corner either.
This is probably a case of me blurting something out without adequately reading through the comments and for that I apologize.

Please don't waste anymore time or energy on my comment.
Well there is one group in America that’s much more concerned about the issues of voter and welfare fraud than the other, but it’s exactly the reverse of what you’re describing here. These issues represent some of the most controversial elements of Trump’s platform.

The issue of voter id has a weaker legal basis than any of the issues relating to welfare reform. In the past it’s been argued to violate the 14th and 15th amendments, but this line of reasoning hasn’t been upheld by recent supreme count decisions [0].

More contemporary arguments against it tend to center around the 24th amendment, and arguing that it represents a polling tax. But this argument hasn’t had much success either [1], though I’m not sure if it’s been fully explored by the Supreme Court.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_El...

[1]: https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/m...
The format was designed so you could do simple animation in a way that otherwise acts like an image format. For actual video style content, it never saved space. And codecs for video have massively improved over the years, while gif hasn't.
It's been taken down of course, but I will deeply miss their Warm Cookie Radar. It wasn't technically sophisticated or anything but brought me and my colleagues a lot of joy
You probably should be telling that to the person that thought requiring more identification to the most vulnerable people in society was a good idea.