skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually did. Not for the moon landing though. It basically frustrates the person to the point that they begin questioning their own conspiracy theory. Sometimes you need to hold a mirror in front of people to see themselves.
The movie The Cube springs to mind. No one knows what anyone else is building other than a very few who put the whole dastardly thing together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)
If you demand the things to be impressive in order to count, you can not build culture of building. You will build culture of impressing. And impressing in most cases requires a lot of money thrown on pr.
> you also need to find and install plugins (loaders) for various file types, and those plugins need to be configured as well

No, you don't _need_ to find and install plugins, unless you need it because you're going further beyond than the core use case of webpack.

You're comparing two tools that have different focuses and compare them on the axis of "working out of the box" which some specific use case in mind. Parcel might work out of the box for React, because it was created to provide that experience. Webpack wasn't created for that, but to provide customizations for its users. Of course Parcel is gonna be better at providing that experience
> Not a skeptic myself, but the argument that 400k people needed to keep a secret is pretty weak.

That's unless you start looking closer. Those people, they aren't universally fools, they think by themselves. Maybe not all 400k, but a sizeable non-reducible chunk of them do.
Yeah, school nowdays tolerate bullying much less.
This is a very interesting presentation.

On the topic of innovation policy, Mariana Mazzucato argues that governments should take a more active role in driving innovation towards particular goals. Be it electronic warfare / military electronics that begat Silicon Valley as detailed in this presentation by Steve Blank, or getting to the moon before the commies (Apollo program).

See her Ted presentation at https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_inves... or her book "The Entrepreneurial State"
What Is Your ‘High-Order Bit’?
I feel like these people just need to remove local admin from their parents' accounts, setup automatic updates (no countdown warning) on Windows LTSC and have Malwarebytes Premium installed. Check in once a quarter.

Or get them a Chromebook and teach them the basics of Sheets and Docs. Check in when the laptop dies, shit you could have a backup one to swap out to and still spend probably 50% of what you would on the Windows PC, 20% on the Macbook.
Keep in mind that Chrome also sends a high-entropy identifier that is certainly sufficient to identify you in combination with an IP address, to every Google property, including DoubleClick, on every request (first or third party).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-do-mosquit...

There is a link to the study too
What causes it is people have a gnawing sense of inadequacy, and conspiracies give them a sense of superiority.

It's incredibly seductive to be in on a secret. It makes you feel special and boosts your self esteem.
Fair enough; I should have said "leading edge fab".
Australia cyber attacks: PM Morrison warns of 'sophisticated' state hack
This is like a post from an upside-down world to me.

I suspect that perhaps you've learned primarily front-end frameworks for the majority of your career (an assumption, sorry if that's not right), which will make it seem as though frontend is easy compared to all this mystery stuff you're not used to working with.

It's the same for me, but the other direction. I've always worked with server-rendered applications, so to me all that stuff is super simple and working with frontend technologies involved learning a swath of new paradigms and tooling, so it seems like the more complicated one.

I think the learning point for me is simply that you're probably not going to care about what my arguments for server-side languages are, because it's never going to map to your experience of them. Just like I don't agree with any of your general points in the second paragraph.
No, that is a misunderstanding of Ockham’s razor. If a simpler explanation explains all known phenomena, then of course, choose the simpler explanation. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any unknown phenomena that the simpler explanation can’t explain that forces us to choose a more complicated explanation later.

Ockham’s razor doesn’t say anything about reality. It only says anything about which model of reality we should choose given a set of known phenomena.
Electricity has been around for quite some time now, so my guess would be: no.

But perhaps it's a combination of factors.
The best way is to use the Socratic method, if you have a lot of time. If you throw enough wilful ignorance, compliments, kindness, genuine interest and an endless amount of questions at someone, you’ll eventually get them arguing with them selves. It’s really the only way to move someone, because you’re not really convincing them of anything, they are doing that themselves.

Of course in the modern day and age, such a conversation is rarely going to happen.
> Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years.

Yikes! What can we do to make sure that doesn't happen again? Oh, right, nevermind.
> Due to its single-threaded nature, Node.js was never a good choice for compute-heavy workloads, though, and now that capable nonblocking frameworks also exist on other platforms — some with elegant, modern APIs — performance is no longer a reason to choose Node.js.

But do these other frameworks give you the simplicity of sharing code and using the same language in for fe and be ?

For me the performance of Node BE applications is just a nice bonus, for having consistent development environment with huge library of radily available packages.
React isn't bound to web, there's quite a few React Native targets (ios, android, macos, windows, qt, gtk)

I recommend React when making an app, web or otherwise.

I recommend vanilla HTML + CSS with optional JS when making a website.
> For every star we had on GitHub we did 21 cents in monthly revenue ...

Who gives a crap? You guys started out as OSS and said it would continue to be. That turned out to be bullcrap, just looking for exposure.

> I have used both but Table Plus is 10000x better and more popular.

sigh Table Plus supports many different types of database. If people are looking for a macOS specific solution that does that, Table Plus might be a decent choice.

"SQLite Browser" on the other hand is specific to a single database. Though is cross platform and fairly popular in it's niche.

That being said, where are you getting "more popular" for Table Plus from though? Measured by what things?

> SQLite is 6 years old

Huh?

> SQLite has $102 in Patreon support.

You seem to be meaning DB Browser for SQLite.

Do we seem like a commercial project to you?

We recently added a Patreon link to our download page, after forgetting to put it out there much. The Patreon was originally created to cover our server costs (about US$75/mo from memory) some years ago, a goal we reached in 3 days.

That being said, we're trying out various things for a SaaS model as well because - like yourselves - we recognise success there will help with sustainability.

But we're sure as hell not going to bait and switch anyone.

> Look at Sequel Pro. ... and look at it now.

Seems like a commercial product whose organisation went broke, released the software as OSS, and couldn't get traction for that either?

People do appear to have picked up the project again recently, in an attempt to move it forwards:

https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro/issues/3679#issuecomm...

> Our goal is to...

Sure. You guys started out by bullshitting people. Unfortunately, the lack of integrity doesn't seem to be directly hurting. :(

One can hope it'll mean missed important opportunities for yourselves later, but who knows. You seem to be really leaning into the sales thing here on HN though.

> We've spoken about it here too ...

With an established history of lying, who cares?
If you're interested in the innovation policy aspects, see writings by Mariana Mazzucato, particularly her book "The Entrepreneurial State".
Technically you're correct, but IMHO the Eastern Roman Empire fell at the end of the 6th - the beginning of 7th century when the Danube "limes" fell in front of the incoming Slavs and Avars. Yes, there was a renaissance between let's say ~850 and the late 1100s (with the Eastern Roman Empire getting back to the Danube, among other things), but I think that at that point they were actually a Greek empire, nothing Roman left about them.
If the moon landing was indeed infeasible from a technical perspective at that time, those people would know, that their designs were inadequate or flawed. The "some people might think they do legit work" argument doesn't really hold, because they would either know it was an impossible feat, or it would possible and no need to fake the landing.
$99/year != $10/month. It's $8.25/month. Also something like Fastmail is $9/month (or $90/year) with 100GB of storage (which is what HEY provides) - so it's actually pretty competitive pricing.
As other's have mentioned, the lies about WMD where rather quickly dispelled, and doesn't compare to moon landing conspiracy. As far as I understand the WMD fraud was successful insofar that the administration was able to use it as a pretext to go to war, but it was also quickly debunked.

I think you're missing the point that Armstrong tries to make. While he indeed starts with your selective quote, he then goes on to say that it is rather unlikely that the government would get away with a fraud of that scale. If nothing else, then simply because of the amount of people involved in the moon landing, and third parties that then and still to this day are able to confirm that the moon landing actually happened.

My experience is also that people who trust the tales of a conspiracy over a wide array of substantial counter arguments are simply not open to actual counterfacts from others. It's like fake news, the conspiracy supports their believe system, and rational arguments to the contrary simply isn't effective.

Still I agree that conspiracy nuts need to be confronted. Perhaps though, not so much in an attempt to convert the believer as to stop them from spreading the conspiracy to others.
I couldn't help but notice an ambiguity in the phrase

> Summer temperatures drop by 1.5°C to 2.5°C

While I now understand that it means a drop of roughly 2°C plus or minus 0.5°C, my initial reading was that the temperature dropped from 4°C (in the previous Summer) to 2.5°C (in Summer of 536).

Is the meaning of "a drop by A to B" always to be inferred from context?
They do charge an upfront fee, it’s $100 per year for a developer to be allowed to publish an app, regardless of if the app is free or paid or uses IAP.
They not only sold lie to the US they sold it to the world.

Colin Powell stood up at the UN to present the world his Power Point of lies:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/06/lie-after-lie-what-colin...
That’s not what that law means. If you keep giving money, it will make sense to build high rises that house more people.
Preface

I think that you should always talk about average users. There is no point in talking about technical users that make up a small slice of the market pie.

I’m an Apple customer. I’ve an iPhone but I’m still horrified from needing to buy a developer account (which is like 99$) to install (my) apps on my iPhone (only). It would be probably possible for Apple to enable checks for personal apps, executing apps that are signed with the same iCloud account or something like that (doing all the checks on the device, no servers involved).

Never mind that macOS is a hot mess for (some) developers, right now. So, yeah, I have some issues with Apple too.

On compensation

I see a certain similarity between Hey, Spotify, Restocks. They all are (paid) apps trying to take advantage of Apple user base, without compensating Apple for it.

Meanwhile, Apple is expected to keep paying for the App Store servers, its curation team and its app approval team.

Obviously smartphones are getting better hence (average) users will buy a new phone less often and Apple is expected to keep supporting old devices for 5/6 years and it has to pay the engineers who work on the OSes and the APIs, and the non-engineers that keep the show running.

You could argue that Android and Google are better.

But Android is not Google’s main business, ads are. Google has built (mostly free) services that generate data about its users, which is then used a bait for advertisers.

No one cares if you’re using F-droid instead of the Play Store, Google is still getting its checks from you and your org using Gmail, Analytics, AdSense, YouTube, etc...

On side loading

Side loading apps (for the average user) is risky and it’s mostly done for three reasons IMO:

- cracking apps
- accessing apps that are not allowed on the Play Store
- escape Google

I don’t really have much to say about side loading. I’m too biased against it, so maybe someone else could convince me that it’s a good thing.

Conclusion

What would happen if Apple allowed apps to use external payment options (like Stripe)?

Well, the obvious, no one would use IAP because there would be much cheaper services that are not compensating Apple.

Apple is far from perfect:

- the App Store approval process is a mess
- the communication process is broken (removing old message exchanges, come on...)
- they really don’t seem to care about indie developers

However, although Apple needs developers to keep running the show, without no Apple there is no iOS, no App Store. It’s a tricky problem to solve.
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That's fair, though app disruption is more impactful - kind of like how websites went down for SOPA.
The polymorphic view as I would like them would enable us to re-use entiere <query expressions> (i.e. "subqueries") applied to different data sources (i.e. "tables").

E.g (made-up syntax)

CREATE TEMPLATE VIEW numbered_by_ts(t1) AS (
SELECT t1.*
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ts) AS rn
FROM t1
)

e.g. use it like this:

SELECT *
FROM numbered_by_ts(table_name);

I think they should behave more like C++ templates rather than C pre-processor makros[1], thus I used the keyword TEMPLATE in CREATE VIEW. If you provide a table that doesn't have a column TS, it would be a syntax error, just like it is with C++ templates.

With common table expressions it would be easily possible to inject entire subqueries into the template view:

WITH cte AS (SELECT ... FROM ...)
SELECT *
FROM numbered_by_ts(cte);

For completness, WITH queries should also be allowed to be TEMPLATEs.

Speaking of the WITH clause, SQLite support ploymorphic views because SQLite CTEs are visible in elements that are "generally contained"[2] in the statement (the SQL standard defines it differently[3]).

Example:

CREATE TABLE t1 (
ts TIMESTAMP
);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('2000-01-01 00:00:00');

CREATE VIEW numbered_by_ts AS
SELECT t1.*
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ts) AS rn
FROM t1
;

CREATE TABLE ta (
ts TIMESTAMP
);
INSERT INTO ta VALUES ('2010-01-01 00:00:00');

CREATE TABLE tb (
no_ts TIMESTAMP
);
INSERT INTO tb VALUES ('2020-01-01 00:00:00');

SELECT * FROM numbered_by_ts;
-- accesses t1, resturns year 2000

WITH t1 AS (SELECT * FROM ta)
SELECT * FROM numbered_by_ts;
-- accesses ta, resturns year 2010

WITH t1 AS (SELECT * FROM tb)
SELECT * FROM numbered_by_ts;
-- syntax error: no "ts" column in tb

SQLite is the only system I know of that implements WITH like that. See "views bypass with" here: https://modern-sql.com/feature/with#compatibility

The polymorpic table functions, as introduced by SQL:2016, might be able to accomplish all of that but for me they feel like using a sledgehamer for cracking a nut.

[1] As far as I understand the Oracle 20c SQL makros behave like C pre-processor makros.

[2] "Generally contain" as defined by "Syntactic containment" in ISO/IEC 9075-1. The 2011 version of that can be downloaded for free at ISO: http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c05...

[3] ISO/IEC 9075-2, "<query expression>": the definition of "query name in scope" says "contained", not "generally contained".
Dude, seriously, you should probably stop submitting this, It's been noted and it might be a cool project, but submitting it every 3 days won't help much.
So basically you are admitting your favor for apple is so strong you can not possiblly believe Apple is the bad actor in all this

HEY is far far far from the only example of Apple abusing their position as gatekeeper to iPhone users
Well you can do your part by not using google analytics/captcha/amp or other google spy services on your own sites.
I think the title and vocabulary used should be centered more on resource utilization rather than the build metaphor.

This is because we have a lot of capability (which is stated multiple times by many authors). We just have a poor system to funnel those capabilities to the right places.

This conversation reminds me of startup growing pains when there is dysfunctional org structure and communication lines. I'll reference some reading material for those who are seriously interested in learning more:

https://hbr.org/1990/01/in-praise-of-hierarchy
https://www.thee-online.com/Documents/SMC-HiQ.pdf

The basic idea is that hierarchy/structure is needed to allocate resources in a more complex way. BUT American values has traditionally gone away from an explicit hierarchical structure and instead tends towards a flat org structure. The issues described all sound like issues that come from a poorly run flat organization, or an organization at a pragmatist stage (if using the vocabulary in the 2nd link) - mainly that hierarchy is implicit and there is still people at the top, its just hidden and undocumented how to get there or how changes happens.

To me, it makes sense to look into organization theory literature as a direction for potential solutions and try to fit them into our societal context.

===

Another way to describe the article's point is the fact that we were once the employees of America, but have now become the shareholders. The wild west era is characterized by the people not being separate from the livelihood of their community. The town is a self contained unit where everyone in the town is helping to keep the town running, and every townsman has a role to play in order to keep the town lively.

Nowadays however, it seems that there is a distinct line between the people running the town and the rest of the town. The actors are not the townsfolk; they are the bureaucrats, the designated representatives, the people put in charge. The rest of us are spectators, benefactors, shareholders benefitting from their work but effectively cut off from participating in it. They are the clergy and we are the laity.

This is either built into the culture over a long period of time, or there's some pernicious systematic law that pushes mature ecosystems into a clergy-laity state. Either way, both explanations need an active structural solution to combat it.
Survivorship bias? Or am i just missing the joke here?
As he finished up a video call with his parents who were stuck in Europe, he knew he was right. The wold was so naive.

He dictated the last few words on his latest iPhone to save time before telling Siri to send the email - magically connecting himself to the fraudulent spaceman, bits of data flying over air in an instant.

"We are still thousands of years away from having the technology to fly to the moon", he chuckled. He turned his lights off, sank back into his bed. Content.
Funny, I am just reading biography of Rosa Park and NAACP was not exactly popular organization in her life time. The parents did not wanted their children to be in youth wing and membership was low where she lived. She was incredibly frustrated by all that prior bus event blowing up.

NAACP also pushed government most of the time - the registering for vote, push to make school desegregation actually happen, letter writing about various criminal causes. They were not trying to do it without government, they were trying to make government do the right thing.
When I went to see one of the samples, I was pushed to a signup screen. There seems to be no way to explore without signing up. Is that what others are also seeing?
It’s how the industry has worked from day one. “Wrong” is an opinion. In a legal sense it’s “precedent”. This is how the entire industry works. Before Apple, software developers only got a 30% to 40% cut to be in carriers app stores. Yes they had app stores where you could buy J2ME apps. Most retailers have a far greater wholesale to retail margin than 30%.
"Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut"

and then this.

I believe DHH is correct that this is anticompetitive behavior and should be punished the legal way.
I once got on to Microsoft for some phone support, After asking me lots of questions about myself which were necessary before they could answer the specific question I'd already asked, the person on the other end finished up by saying that this was a question I needed to put instead to the vendor who had sold me the product. I can't remember if they asked if there was anything else they could help me with today.
Many folks have successfully used the US Navy training modules for electrical systems: http://www.compatt.com/Tutorials/NEETS/NEETS.html
I don't think rerendering an entire webpage on the server side every time a new chat message arrives is a good idea.

There might be people that misuse SPAs when server side rendering is the better choice but SPAs clearly have use cases that are not possible with just HTML.
Usual retail markup depends on the category. For jeans it’s several thousand percent.
> The company refused to hand over encryption keys, arguing that it would violate users’ rights to privacy and would not help weed out terrorists.

Take note on how it feels to read this line when it's about a country that isn't yours. When the United States pushes the same argument, the rest of the world's privacy is at risk.

This is why European governments increasingly try to keep their data on European soil, and to trust businesses bound to EU laws.
So we want government price controls.....
That still leaves 40,000 people who are in on that lie.
I admire Armstrong for taking the time to write such a thoughtful letter. With the exception of people who are close to me, I usually calculate that it's not worth my time to engage and try to refute a conspiracy theory.
Dissenters? Skripal is a former GRU traitor.
How do you define 'a true one' when it comes to religion? For most people the true religion is just whatever religion you grew up on.

And cults turn into religions all the time. There's a fine line between a cult and a religion, and that line is ownership of real estate.
She has proved that it is not the form of management that causes environmental problems, but rather large-scale exploitation. In doing so, she has discredited the hypothesis of the tragedy of the commons, which was never based on evidence.

Many private industry owners do not even step on the ground they are exploiting. Why the tragedy of the commons gain so many traction?
Yes, my point is that LinkedIn is part of an overall strategy.

The best way to use recruiters is to give them a few minutes regardless of the job, they have more, it's their business, and they will start pimping you out. Best job search hack ever!

I'm doing a few extra steps now

1. Tell them the company salaries are far too low, take a sample point back, hopefully a hack that raises everyone's salary

2. Getting intros to companies I want to do business with, not go work for. This has not been fruitful, but it is a recent strategy change