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I had the same ideas about feeds and blogs as you have, and I agree.

I have seen the idea about Markdown before, and have considered that too; it is not a bad idea. However, clients should only render Markdown if the article contains a "Content-type: text/markdown" header, and assume plain text otherwise. Clients that don't understand Markdown you can still read the article, since Markdown is meant as readable even when not rendered, so that is good, too.

I even wrote a simple NNTP server software and NNTP client software. Both programs are based on SQLite.

I have not considered your idea of servers where users can create their own access-controlled groups, although that doesn't seem so bad; some people may wish to run such servers, and may have some way of users controlling them.

Also note, you could have multiple interfaces if wanted: HTML, RSS, email, and NNTP, with NNTP as the primary and preferred interface. (To these, Gopher can also be added for read-only access, if wanted.)
While exposing a memory corruption friendly language into the internet.

What kinds of security assessments are done to guarantee that Scylla is as secure as Cassandra?
I dispute that Elon "zagged" badly. Yes the manner in which he comports himself on social media is deeply unproductive, but he's not wrong and he wasn't the one who zagged—everyone else did.

I'm sorry that most people forget this, but we didn't lock down our societies and place our economies on life support because people might die. We did it because it was absolutely critical that we didn't allow our hospital systems to be overwhelmed. We needed to flatten the curve. And we succeeded.

Again, it was to flatten the curve, not because there was a greater-than-zero risk of death. But at some point between then and now, the narrative hs changed to talk about keeping people safe at any cost.

At the same time we need to balance economic well-being, as having the economy shut down can destroy people too. We can remain as cautious as possible with high risk areas (e.g. public transport, cinemas, live sports, festivals, nightclubs) while moving rapidly to restore economic activity where risk is low.

Perhaps the most obvious example of a low risk / high economic impact situation would be highly robotised manufacturing which can easily enforce PPE use and limit shared touch-points. While a Tesla car factory is not a zero-risk environment, it's still a much lower risk than visiting the local supermarket which would have far more people and far less compliance around distancing and PPE.
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I've already read the story a number of times (incl. here IIRC) during the recent weeks so, despite it's cool, heart-touching and inspiring, it's nothing new.

What impressed me this time, however, is the quick read / deep read switch articles on this website have. It's the first time I see such and I bloody freakin wish every website had it!
Not sure about fulltime career, and also about your current life circumstances; the best way may depend a lot on them. This is what worked for me:

1. University, some time after it. No much obligations. Take low-effort job to sustain yourself (maybe freelance), spend the rest of the time contributing to open source. Treat it as a time to learn. The main goal is to become good. You can learn very different things by contributing to OSS packages, as compared to working for some outdated local company. Try to internalize how popular software is organized, how people review code, etc. Find people you respect, work with them. You don't need to have a shiny CV and pass technical interviews to work with great people you can learn from, developing great real-world technology, solving hard problems.

2. You need a real job. Try to find one which allows you to spend some time doing Open Source; have it as an important criteria for choosing a job, among salary, work environment, etc.

For me two types of companies worked as a "real job" which allows OSS contributions.

First, some small startups / companies. They often don't mind if you open source a few libraries from the codebase you've created, because usually it is not the code itself which is important for startups; they're trying to find product-market fit. For them a benefit is that code become organized better (after an idea fails, code can be reused for the next idea), and developers are happier, so it can be win-win. You won't be working on open source full time, but you'll be able to create something useful, and spend significant amount of time on it.

Second, there are companies which are built around open source, or contributing a lot to open source. Often there is a company behind a popular OSS software (e.g. Elasticsearch for Elasticsearch, or Scrapinghub for Scrapy). Sometimes company's github has many actively developing OSS projects, which is a good sign. Look for such companies, apply. There is a higher chance to be able to work on open source if you join such company. It is not given you'll be allocated to work on OSS, but a previous experience maintaining Open Source and contributing to it helps. That's good to be proactive here - use your experience gained from unpaid OSS work or small startup OSS work, start contributing without being asked.

According to my experience, working full time, having family and having significant Open Source contributions is very hard, unless an employer supports it, or unless the job is not really a full time job.

There are "rockstars" which are able to sustain themselves just by working on their own OSS projects, but I think currently they are outliers, not a norm. It may be possible to do this, but I've personally seen way more opportunities to do sustainable OSS work as a part of day job, as compared to donations or a new business.
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Sadness along every other feeling is indeed a computation, its just that people don't like to face such bleak reality, same way we can easily understand why a machine can be turned off and never to be turned on again and yet most of us have issues understanding when the same thing happen to our brains, so we rather invent a lot of mythology around such event (death). Simplified example: If I perceive my father died (input) I get sad (output). Is a system of stimulus/rewards/pushinement that has worked pretty well for the evolution of our species, is extremely complex but that doesn't make it not one.
Which should have triggered some sanity check indicating that their scraped data is way off.
They are bad at anything user interface related in general. There is no reason to assume good reason.
Absolutely. Not only stop showing me cyrillic letters when I click on a clearly english page; but also please bear in mind that sometimes you cannot guess which language is correct. Some countries have troubles identifying even their own language, like mine.
Slightly orthogonal: live in France, bought a new phone just before travelling. The first SIM card I put in it was a temporary travel card bought upon arrival.

Now Google Maps shows me prices of hotels in Uzbekistani soms. Didn't find a way to reset it in the UI, clearing GMaps cache didn't help either. It's been a year already.
Please look at this chart, showing deaths on a per-capita basis of Sweden and her neighbors: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

I guess "doing fine" is in the eye of the beholder, but clearly more people are dying there than in neighboring Nordic countries.
This argument begs the question and as such "Yes it would be sad" is a sufficient answer. Why not? We've failed to define "actually sad" in any interesting way.

Emotion is an especially odd angle as we can so easily manipulate it with chemicals. Why would that be relevant to consciousness?
> I think it's usually referred to as "corporatism"

No, corporatism is a completely different thing; it comes from the same root (“corpora” = “body”) as does “corporation”, but it doesn't come from or refer to corporations but rather to the whole of society with institutions in different domains being a singular whole body working together. It was a pretty big idea on Catholic social/political theory for a few centuries, before getting radically reworked into a central part of the basis for Italian Fascism.

Rule by the capitalist class through the entities creates by the State to advance the interests of capital (of which corporations are the foremost) is called “capitalism”, a name coined for that system by it's socialist critics who were quite concerned by what it did to everyone else.
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I feel that should be covered by regional locales set on the browser or system, like EN_US, EN_GB, EN_CA or ES_ES, ES_MX, ES_US. As a user also pointed out, if I'm British and am travelling to the US, changing the date order of an app/website just because I moved is even worse, it can be very confusing.
Is that feature auto? I mean, I find that it is almost always require the uploader to approve the language. Human translator can be horrible too.
Unfortunately the agencies in charge of vetting this kind of software work in timespans of 2-3 years (not just Germany in most other countries as well).
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But it won't look as good on the quarterly report. What profit has the managerial class extracted from the aqueduct?
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Interestingly enough, Chomsky asserts that what we have now is State-Sponsored Capitalism in the US. I think that's more accurate than neo-feudalism, personally.
Basically your only options to get paid to write free software is either to work for a company that develops it (say, Mozilla or Red Hat for instance), create your own company and make your software open or manage to get donors/sponsors (by far the hardest and less reliable method since it can come and go very quickly).

Getting paid for open source software is like becoming a successful musician, from the outside it's easy to only see the few "superstars" who make bank but for every one of them you have thousands of people for whom it'll never be their main source of income.
That's equating merit with user acquisition, which is the very thing that's fueling the (hyper-)growth of unsustainable unicorns!
But throwing a tamptrum and making yourself look like you won feels so powerful, so ...
And to paraphrase a post doing the rounds in the uk, elementary school kids are great at social distancing and never randomly lick you
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If they write off $39k, that counts against $39k in other income they actually get that they then don't have to pay taxes on.
Ugh... (that's the most I can add :)
Why not plain html? For simple formatting like you mention, it really is simple, and it has all the power you could want if you want if you to go further.
What are you folks using this kind of stuff for? The best I can come up with is carefully studying issuers' financial reports and reaching some not very good but close enough conclusion about the state of businesses. At which point paying a few $$ or even $100 in commissions is really irrelevant given how much effort I had to put in ...
not saying you have any choice in the matter of using Slack or not, but I can assure you that Slack software is aware of their bloat and inefficiency and they don't care.

The core task Slack is charged with WAS done 2 decades ago with significantly lower resource usage?

Why does this matter? because Slack is not your main productivity app (I HOPE) it's just a background process, effectively, most of the time, a communication channel you keep open and check in with from time to time.

Being able to keep an app open while you run your main productivity suite is a clear win. Slack loses in this respect.

But go on, downvote and flag me some more for speaking truth to power...
it's rather obvious, i would say...
I’d say most of the successful ones get jobs that involve at least part time work maintaining their project or start a company around it that offers services and customization.

I know the guy who wrote Jepsen makes enough from consulting to live off of the consulting.

The guy who wrote haproxy started a company that sells basically haproxy consulting and custom services.

The guy who wrote Sendmail did the same, and then Sendmail was acquired. The core maintainers have always done Sendmail as part of their job.

Netflix had a lot of core maintainers of key software on staff who got paid to work on OSS alongside internal projects.
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This does not seem simpler to me, this seems easier to mess up. The most common use case is dropping all fields.

Furthermore, you still have to special-case Drop because now you have to support destructive destructuring for Drop types because it isn't allowed anywhere else.

And plus, if you forget to do this, the failure mode is a stack overflow.

The current design is absolutely based on practical requirements here, it is not a retroactive justification. This is by and large how destructors work, for good reason.
Even further: without a way for end users to take action based on that comparison.

If I decide that I don't want to use Slack because it drains my battery, then I can't take part in Slack conversations.

Because Slack is the go-to chat application for so many teams, excluding myself from those conversations is not feasible.

End result: I carry on using Slack.
But attention seeking narcissist seems accurate description of Elon Musk public behavior.
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Commenting of HN is very different than writing educational context. Colors made it really easier to show correspondences in-between languages, especially when they are in different order. I also had the problem the other day when writing software documentation (imagine code portion without colors... hopefully in this case third party lib are doing the job).

You (and other posters) can ironize as much as they want, the truth is dealing with colored text in Markdown is equals to inputting raw HTML, as which point mixing the two markup languages is more painful than going raw HTML.
Original link: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-suspends-podcast-addic...

Weird that Apple does this proxying... not going to open up that News app.
> This is quite literally the “99% of ‘poor’ people have refrigerators” argument popularized by Fox News.

> You should find better sources of information.

The factual claim I made is true. My sources of information are just fine, so you must be objecting to something else.
I think there is, and as the "desktop dies" I think we will be left with a higher percentage of users expecting high performance native apps, when "normal people" migrate to tablets and smartphones for all of their tasks.
I see the possibility of a resurgence of native apps based on that. or maybe it is just wishful thinking.
I think what they mean to say is, "Communist Critical Theory = Garbage."
> we all know that the reality is that our politicians are bought out by the corporations, and the regulators are staffed by ex-employees of the very companies they are supposed to be regulating

While some amount of cynicism is probably healthy, it's very important to keep in mind that these observations aren't absolutes.

There are many, many politicians who aren't bought, and regulators who are genuinely fine people who want to do their jobs responsibly.

It's important to make this distinction, because we can use our voices and votes to increase their power relative to the bad apples, and thereby make the system better.

Unfortunately, it's a slow process. But if your cynicism takes over and prevents you from taking even these little steps, then you're part of the problem.
Full time job?
How would the competitor get customers to pay higher than what DoorDash charges?
These were my AP Calculus teacher’s AP score distributions for his students when I went through his class: http://drootr.com/calc/content/BCScores/BCData.html. Grades usually averaged around a B/B+, so many students with Cs were getting 5s on that exam.
I hadn't realized that cardboard boxes were that expensive!
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>Now take this to the extreme: replace all of these neurons with empty shells and route the computation to a billion people in the world to perform on pen and paper. Is it still conscious? If so, what if you removed the brain altogether and just performed the computations directly on paper, is the paper conscious?

Yes, absolutely consciousness would exist in all of those scenarios — but you couldn’t claim that any one “thing” such as the paper itself, would “be” conscious. The notion of a separate self is still fundamentally an abstraction placed on top of billions of neurons interlinked with a musculoskeletal system, through which quadrillions of new atoms are constantly cycling through. On a long enough scale you only have the psychological “gestalt“ of a human.

Even the sensation of “self” is still ultimately just another internal cognitive model, because ultimately everything else we perceive is also just an internal model of reality.

In your example, that internal “self” model would continue to exist within the abstract computationally-mediated consciousness-generating process.

Each conscious process exists in its own fully separate ontological space—because it is inherently
subjective.
You're looking for a hard cut off where none exists. Most likely everything is conscious on many different levels and scopes of capability.

So the case which makes people really uncomfortable - are cows conscious (because we eat them) has the very unsatisfying answer of "yes, not in the same way we are most likely, but in some way".
Couchsurfing, I love you, but y'all have a horrible business model.

Between 2017 & 2019, I hosted about Couchsurfers. I initially paid to verify my identity, and I paid a few dollars per quarter (I forget how much) to maintain my membership. Then I needed to change my credit card. There was literally no option to change my credit card. In order to change my credit card, I had to let me credit card expire. Wat.

In there recent email about running out of money, they were looking for people to spend $2.49 USD/month or $14.99 USD/year. I was like "hey, I can finally support them!" So I clicked on the link, and because I already have a verified membership, there was still no option to pay. I contacted support asking how I could pay, and instead of giving me a way to send them cash, they gave me ANOTHER FREE YEAR of verified membership. Wat.

Maybe start a Patreon? It'd be hard to screw that one up.
Ummm Context here is "desktop software"
configuration management will be key-value and you needn't bring SQL in for that purpose.

Let's not bring "in-house web app" into the picture just yet.
agreed.

a well DESIGNED technological stack WILL allow for high-level control of low-level structures.

Electron and Browser-based apps make a deliberate tradeoff that may be suitable for some kinds of apps (Balena Etcher, as I mentioned. You click a button and some process starts and alerts you when it's done.)

I would simply say that the OP should reverse the question:
"in which cases can an electron app suffice for a desktop application" and not presume the death of desktop apps.
> Hell, I'm tempted to write him in this time around.

Another Trump vote, then?
Criticism of paper-and-fax coronavirus infection reports spark change in Japan
Gov IT departments are a couple of years behind (average) company IT departments which are a couple of years behind what people use.
Ah yes, preventing uglier server-side errors is indeed a very valid reason. :)
A teacher who fails to report their cheating student seems to be taking on some personal risk…
> if you're going to go to all the effort of setting up a Redundant Array of Independent Civilisations, you might as well do it properly and send them to another world where they won't be at risk.

What's riskier, setting up a colony on Mars with untested ecosystem technology, or testing the technology here on Earth first?

> Nothing else could justify the expenditure

What justifies the expenditure of putting a self-sustaining colony on Mars?

We have oil platforms in the ocean. People live/work there for a few months, then cycle back. That model is much more likely to work for Mars, if the expenditure is justified in terms of revenue extraction.

If the justification is to save humanity from a large number of possible extinction-level events, then some of those can be averted by having on-Earth isolated ecosystems.
really shrunk?
Try to use AppleScript or Accessibility. It's like VS Code doesn't even exists.
I've been saying this for years. Every browser offer to configure a whole set of preferred languages, including dialects and the order of preference. Every website should respect that choice (unless they didn't have time to implement more than one language at all).
My OSS project is a satellite to my day job.
that article (which imho is totally devoid of any substance) still reminded me about other thought experiment by Feynman: What if there's just one electron in the universe, traveling back and force in time, becoming positron when changing time direction, consuming energy when turning forward and releasing when turning back? He was quick to reject this idea, because in this case there would be exactly the same amount of electrons and positrons in the universe, and it doesn't seem to be the case, but I just love the elegance of the conjecture.
While annoying, I don't even care about websites setting the wrong language as default. What I absolutely HATE, though, is websites and apps that FORCE you to view them in a certain language, based on either location or on OS locale.

Google Maps is the worst. I live in Israel, so I obviously want to see street names in Hebrew. My Android device locale is set to English (Because that's the way I prefer, and I also rather not see everything flipped because of the RTL nature of Hebrew). This FORCES me to view street names in English, and there simply NO WAY around it other than changing the device language. It has been this way for years, and it's painful. Why not just let us modify the language on per-app basis?
OSS gives me a chance to work with people I like, to learn, and to contribute to some great software projects. Most of what I do these days is either building or using OSS. Last year I quit my job to do OSS full time with a few friends. Since most big companies see OSS as „free“, it’s not simple to make a living from OSS only. OSS is creative like art. Somehow we need to think differently about compensating indie OSS projects (code, docs, examples, analytics, slack, community, and cloud services) for their work. Free is not so easy. GitHub offers people a way to contribute and there are other ways to donate. It’s usually not enough. We also do some commercial support, and that pays a little. But it’s difficult to get a regular revenue stream. Especially with cloud it’s time to rethink how OSS „works“ for the makers. Maybe there are ways to keep open, and still have some minimum level of money from commercial uses especially from established cloud companies? Still, I love doing OSS and working with so many others that share the same feeling.
I hope it goes mainstream and they all go under because nobody wants to pay their crazy prices while not actually supporting a restaurant