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I am imagining like a gallery app such as Instagram purely in terminal lol never mind the consequences of the user base being primarily sys admins and software engineers. I could imagine browsing a rather weird Instagram clone.
In principle, competition is good, I agree. However, in this case, you need to give up your principles to even be allowed to compete.

Look at what happened to the NBA, they didn't give in to China's demands, and just like that, they're out. The same goes for any company that's not willing to give up it's morals and values.

That's not competition, that's just extortion.
Show HN: To Listen to Any Page Prefix the URL with Playthis.link
I was tired of having to constantly scramble to find a podcast I want to listen to when going for a walk or just running on the treadmill. I, however, usually have an abundance of blog posts or articles around the web that I'd like to read. The problem is walking is not very conducive to reading. So I made this quick and dirty site that pretty much works anywhere, no app install, no copy paste, no nothing. Just add the domain playthis.link before any URL in your browser and hit enter. It will redirect to an audio file that automatically starts playing. You don't need to click a 2nd button to play the file either. It just starts reading the text right away. You can do this on your phone and just pick it up and go for a hike.

Example:

Amazing blog post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/

Audio version: https://playthis.link/https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
The hard thing to do, which Bezos does very well, is to stay focused, patient and stay invested. Now it’s even easier to be even more patient as amazon has a very deep pocket.
From the github:

>> I do not see a practical use for this library, but I think it's interesting.

+100

This is the essence of hacking.
Now I know why Jin Yang is this adorable and Dinesh Chugtai is Pakistani.
Certificate file. Generated on registration and handed over as a download and shredded server-side. Not as trust-fulfilling as a user supplying one, but less of a learning curve. (Still need validation on it either way, which can be painful).

Which, of course, means "forgot my password" doesn't work.
This is exactly the same conversation that HN is having about blogging/social media.

Be the change we want to see in the world. Stop posting on YT/FB/IG/wherever, and create your own site, attract your own audience.

I'll come watch you/read it/listen to it. I'm sick of FB/YT/IG/wherever.
One reasonable interpretation is that the US President is saying that there is no way to legally perform mail-in voting without committing fraud. Is it in fact fraud? You may wish to check whether you're about to engage in fraudulent behavior.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I think far behind is in reference to Amazon.
>It's part of the reason why Hollywood movies have devolved into such pablum--you can't risk pissing of China now that 1/2 of your income is due to the Chinese release.

You also could never afford to piss America off, which is why every other protagonist in hollywood movies is some Tom Cruise lookalike who combats people who speak English in a broken Russian accent.

Just seems normal to me, the only difference is that the other 95% of the world population now have enough cash to vote with their wallets and American companies learn what it's like to operate in a world where different cultures have different values.

Sure you can disconnect from everyone, but that doesn't sound wise long term, in particular not for Hollywood.
Interestingly my current CLI project https://github.com/boyter/cs/ does need to be stable because I am putting a TUI mode into it... and yes dealing with the dangling goroutines in it for the TUI mode itself is especially painful.

Generally if you just stick to fan-out-in processing though I find goroutines not too bad.
I had no idea I had access to this, thank you!
Let's not an say we did
I made it all the way. He doesn't, unless the point was C# devs are dummies who don't know that Anders in fact designed Delphi in addition to C#.
Except this isn’t commercial competition - it’s a competition in values and the role of the state in people’s lives. It’s Enlightenment values vs thinly disguised fascism. It’s a competition, alright - just be careful which side you’re fighting for.
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In India, it is quite similar and popular. However we can do that with a variety of apps. The amount will be deducted from account. It uses the unified payments interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface) tech and Bharath QR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BharatQR)
Billing is really hard. I've had projects that literally sat on the shelves for months while we finalized our billing model, after realizing it would significantly increase the cost for our largest customers.
Which studies show this?
I personally love building CLI tools in Node, since I and my co-workers all have it installed. Nice synchronous STD lib for file manipulation and async/await makes for compact async code.

If I worked in a Go shop I'd probably use Go, though.
I don't trust Qt licensing anymore. Whatever company owns Qt will forever try to squeeze it for money.

They recently changed their licensing AGAIN: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
I agree. People are demanding social media companies fact check things that they can't know the state of.
Your project reminds me of the game Drowning in Problems. Although it has a lot less character, it still tells a rather simple story. http://game.notch.net/drowning/#
Not pure unpredictability in general, but unpredictability about how much and when progress will be made in a positive direction, eg. what you'd tend to get in applied AI. A few ideas:

- in a highly competitive market your actions can be unpredictable by competitors: evolution shows this can work even in the most primitive ways - it's so damn hard to swat a fly because it changes direction randomly, being smarter than it doesn't help... you could get supercharged versions of this advantage with random-AI-progress as long as you don't constrain business direction, eg. if your AI research suddenly produces breakthroughs that shows you can have an advantage on smart adult toys by applying you aerospace technology capabilities, then be willing to get in that space and play to win regardless of how much that makes sense (tip: you'll probably want to stay privately owned, markets will likely hate this "random pivoting" as it would look from outside) -- as business you'd be "the fly that no one can swat"

- use what's knows to be good at turning positive unpredictability into overall profits (markets), but internally - have multiple projects & people competing against each other inside a company, cheating antifragility / resilience, and really allow projects to fail (as in make it clear that you could be promoted even if the project/team you lead fails, so encourage the king of risk that would be too high even for a startup) etc. - you'll average out the unpredictibility and be left with the progress + antifragility -- as a business you'll be "the cockroach that survives after radiation, eg. unpredictability, has killed everything else"

Hint: all these are already happening, since before AI... and what you'll see now will be that AI/ML will bring most benefits to large corporations with multiple lines of business and multiple independent departments/subsidiaries competing agains each other, and startups-inside-corporations that until now were "pale fakes"... and probably investors already groked this too, there's a lot of growth in AI/ML applied deep inside the guts of big Cos... when this plays out to real wins, result will probably be pretty dystopic: SMBs will be wiped out, lots independent startups too probably (as a small/lone player you can't turn unpredictable progress into profits), you'll get even more centralization, and more mass-surveilance bc now it will not offer only national security advantages but also massive immediate business advantages with AI feeding on the data...

EDIT+: That's I think the problem we need to solve is how to de-centralize and spread the benefits of applying AI to business... bc it will naturally promote centralization and closed gardens, unpredictable progress is mostly toxic to each individual player alone... we need some business-version-of-democracy++, pure capitalism will result in a marriage of mega-corps + pseudo-totalitarian-govs since these will be the entities naturally thriving in the new landscape.
Again, you're ignoring nearly a decade of modern research into how addiction happens, and the social infrastructures that have been deliberately set up by both dealers and drug/alcohol/pharmaceutical companies to get people addicted.

You say yourself:

> yet society still thinks that it's ok to keep marketing those dangerous substances

If you're acknowledging that society is pushing people into drugs, doesn't it kind of make sense to hold society responsible for getting them out?

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But even ignoring the causes of addiction, your suggestion that we ban alcohol/drugs also doesn't have anything to do with whether we should help people who are physically addicted now.

Okay, cool, let's ban heroin. It already is illegal, but whatever. We'll super-ban it. Even after the super-ban, we're still going to need to help the people who are addicted right now -- people who are suffering from both a biological and psychological dependency that is outside of their control to fix on their own.

> people like to play with fire

If you ride your bike without a helmet and accidentally suffer a brain injury, should society help you, even though you ignored safety advice? If you get distracted in your car and crash, should society help you, even though you weren't paying attention? Is your position that only people with birth defects have a legitimate claim to support/grace?

When I was a young kid, my brother and I use to go out in the woods and pretend sword fight with sticks, even though our parents told us this was a stupid, dangerous thing to do. We got lucky, nothing ever happened. But if one of us had accidentally stabbed an eye out, would we have been entitled to any kind of social support?

I still don't see anything that would make a drug addiction different from those scenarios.
I downvoted parent, not because I don't think nationalizing FB is a worthwhile conversation - it is - but because his or her comment was completely lacking in substance.

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The biggest issue that I see with nationalizing Facebook is: what does it mean for the US government, bound by the First Amendment, to manage a social media platform? Can there be literally any moderation at all without infringing on the First Amendment? Honest question. Clearly, fake news and the like cannot be removed. What about spam? Personal attacks? What about when those attacks get racist and vile (the US does not have hate speech laws)?
Well Amazon has several business units that could probably do something productive with this. The obvious one is of course their delivery fleet, which at some point will start benefiting from autonomous driving. We're talking about a logistics operation that is large enough that they operate their own planes and airports.

Then there's AWS, which is also used for machine learning and other purposes. I imagine this company has a lot of the right kinds of skills they'd want to tap to offer off the shelf solutions in that space. Even if they'd ditch the product that could be valid.

But of course these solutions include bespoke self driving solutions for those car manufacturers needing to catch up in a hurry. They are going to spend billions doing so and that are going to be in need of exactly the kind of services and scale that AWS provides. IMHO most of them are going to not succeed with in house solutions and are going to be looking for something off the shelf. At least, I don't see the likes of Kia, BMW, Chrysler, etc. turning into the type of software companies that can actually do this half decently any time soon. So, that means AWS offering all or most of this as a service sounds like a good idea.

Of course the theory and practice of acquihires are two things. Most of them flat out fail and are nothing more than a big corporation scratching the backs of investors (e.g. on their board) by bailing out their failed investments. A lot of exits in the startup space fall in this category. Investors hate having their investments go bankrupt. An acquihire you can still spin as a success. A bankruptcy is much harder.
Definitely excited as well!

Curious how we buy support?

Looking at https://www.timescale.com/support there doesn't seem to be any support plan for on-prem TimescaleDB.
Delphi is fine for coding nearly anything.
I don't think the distinction you're making about C and C++ being systems languages, and Pascal being an application language totally holds.

Pascal is a totally fine system s language. AEGIS (a from scratch Unix like) was written in Pascal and by all accounts was a great option at the time.

And what makes C and C++ unsafe exists in Pascal.
Wowzers, I was literally wanting this just earlier today, for all the reasons you built it. I bet it would be useful for blind people as well, although I know they have other tools. Here's a link to this article itself.
Very cool. httpss://playthis.link/84170ea641f64ccc4e25fcc3ecaec030.mp3
Java and C#, in that order.

C# appeared after Sun sued Microsoft for trying to embrace/extend Java.
Maybe I've missed something but from reading all the other comments their summary is exactly the one I wanted. What would you say are the actual features that are key which they missed?
In C# 9 there will be Source Generators, an easy way to generate code in a build task before compilation. That will remove the need for Reflection in many areas. Work is also underway to identify and remove all "linker" dangerous code. Once the SDK is linker safe and has a lot less reflection, AOT becomes a lot easier.

Mono is now part of the dotnet family so I suspect they are going to use that for AOT in C# forwards. Starting with Blazor.
Works well for my needs. QML has a JavaScript runtime and follows both a declarative and a reactive programming paradigm, too.

GTK bindings via PyGObject also work on macOS[1], if Qt's licensing doesn't suit you.

[1] https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.h...
> Yet, there is this weird focus on mailed ballots

It's not that weird. Mailed ballots can be coerced quite trivially at home, out of the view of authorities; no technology hacks or fake ID needed. That's why some of the "fact check" figures themselves are nonsense , such as the one claiming that only 0.00006% of mail votes are fraudulent. That's based on convictions. Nobody knows the real number.

In Northern Ireland postal voting is strictly controlled and monitored and permitted only in individually-reviewed case, because we had decades of coerced fraud by balaclaved men with baseball bats.
Not to mention how native client-side apps consume far less memory and CPU than their web/electron counterparts. I miss those days when I would have a bunch of native apps constantly running and minimized. These days it's considered normal for a music player to consume 500MB of memory and for chat apps to consume multiple GBs of RAM.
It’s so exhausting having to live through this ridiculous propaganda war. Everyone seems to suck here, but there’s so much finger pointing. The people on the US side of the isle seem to be especially frantic now that it’s abundantly clear they dropped the ball about 100,000 times (underestimate) and trashed their economy in the process.

Can we stop pointing fingers and just take a break ffs? Everything China does the US does, sometimes with variations in degree but most often just with a different label (occasionally with different timelines, but it’s hard to take seriously the idea that US 70 years ago should just be off the hook while we roast China).
IL2CPP won't come to .NET Core world?
What if the "value" is bullying/stealing? I think the comment suggests "learn to live with it".
> Any sort of tampering will be swiftly detected, and the parties responsible should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

But these kinds of affirmations are just wishful thinking. Voter fraud does happen, and while it is punished, the results (the elected officials being placed in office) are actually basically above scrutiny. For example, recently an elections judge (equivalent of an elections commissioner from what I understand) in Pennsylvania was sentenced for taking bribes to add votes to certain candidates. While he is now punished, are the judges he elected removed from office? As far as I can tell, no they are not.

Or what about the Bush/Gore fiasco? We never even had a proper resolution because American law demands that there be a president by Jan 20 following an election. The best hope is that the elections are secure, not that any wrongdoing is caught after the fact.
> After Microsoft ported SQL Server to Linux, Ballmer said he no longer saw Linux as a cancer, but he maintains his analogy was right for the time and that going to war with open source made Microsoft a "ton of money".

There you go.
Gitless seems to check your boxes. I haven’t tried it myself as nowadays I end up doing most of my git operations through VSCode keybindings. But it has always seemed interesting and I’ve considered bringing it into Code as an alternative git interface.

https://gitless.com/
Do you think charging users for support could be a feasible option? I'd pay $100 for a call with a representative who can call shots on Youtube's strike reviews.
I have that but I'm currently doing the webdev course by Angela yu. Heard that colt steele has planned for an update.. no one knows when. As far as I can see the big difference is colt doesn't cover react.
> I would almost argue that reading for information (as opposed to aesthetic enjoyment) is a hugely inefficient waste of time if you don't use a SRS system to retain what you've learned. I've probably read hundreds or thousands of books in my lifetime, but I can really only remember the minute details of the ones I've added to Anki.

I use Anki (and the classic version of "SuperMemo") a lot, too. However, I mostly use it for learning languages (vocabulary), or for more complex material in case a test/exam is coming up (to avoid "cramming").

However, I see two problems with such SRS systems, now that I've been using them for over 10 years:

1) I can often not recall the knowledge in real life, simply because I study _both_ the question and answer side of the card - in other words, if I'm asked the question in a rather different way, I might not recall that I know that fact at all. The most extreme example of this was that certain flashcards broke after a while, e.g. showing a gray (instead of a white) background in the question card, for some reason. Whenever that gray card comes up I know the answer immediately, without even having fully read the question (which I forget over time). So in the end, what my brain remembers is:
<question card with a medium-length sentence and gray background> comes up -> answer = "propensity". (I'm learning English as a foreign language).

2) A lot of knowledge in books that I read (let's take the "Pragmatic programmer" as an example) is not suited for flash card system learning. It's knowledge of the form "if this happens, do that", e.g. "if you are about to write a new method in your source code, think of how you would test that method first, to improve the method's quality". Sure, I could create a flash card that has the question: "what should you do when you write a new method?", but it's pointless. These kinds of things require deliberate practice for the specific situations, when you are in the IDE, not in the SRS software. It's methodological knowledge where, in the end, it doesn't matter if you could answer the question when someone asked you about it on the street, but it matters that you remember when you're in the actual situation.
Why it's time to redesign the old air conditioner
Elastic UI Framework is really well done https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/
Specs or otherwise, it's a pity this font doesn't support at least the full range of Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) characters. Otherwise it looks rad!
AI algorithmic progress is outpacing Moore’s Law at it best.

Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet.

How that affect self-driven car is still to be determine, but progress is very real

https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-efficiency/
> You also could never afford to piss America off, which is why every other protagonist in hollywood movies is some Tom Cruise lookalike who combats people who speak English in a broken Russian accent.

This is different tho. You can produce a movie that pisses off people, and still have it play in theatres.

If you make a movie that pisses of the Chinese government, not necessarily the people, then that movie won't even be shown in China.
My experience on Facebook suggests almost the opposite - my younger friends tend to hold partisan opinions much more steadfastly than the older ones.
Yeah I really needed it myself, feel free to let me know if you'd like any features.
Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
What is your most indispensable subscription?
For example, I have subscriptions to several news sites that I consider invaluable -- LWN and the LA Times, to name a few. At one point, I considered my IEEE and ACM subscriptions as such, but now that I'm no longer in academia they seem much less important and have lapsed. And while I subscribe to several stream sites, I wouldn't consider them "indispensable". But I'm curious -- what subscriptions do people consider their most useful?
Well, I guess I got the first cache bug, it doesn't pick up the comments after the first audio is generated. Still super cool.
What I heard was that California refused to cooperate, and the commission couldn't do much without their cooperation. Though this is only a rumor I heard.
I'd just like to commend Twitter for going the route I suggested YouTube take https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266238

No need to censor, only offer a second opinion
A young person is building their life, lockdown is preventing them from doing that. For example a person looking to build a family will miss out on a few months they could find a partner, and the fertility clock is ticking
I am not sure what you mean under marginally. Delphi and FreePascal/Lazarus have no troubles producing 64bit executables. I have ongoing commercial product in Delphi and it is 64bit only.
Why is that laughable? If the company wants to be receptive to its critics isn't it reasonable for them to create such a role?
Perhaps they’ve been using the WaveSurfer software for audio analysis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer).
Yep. Like not handling the same corner cases or the same operating systems.
Please share the studies which show the decline in polarisation, really interested in reading them.
Open-plan offices are the sweatshops of the West (2019)
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Who's disconnecting everyone? Have we observed Brazil doing this sort of thing at the same level as China? Australia? Nigeria? Canada? Anyone else other than China?