skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would phrase it a little differently: capitalism cancels vanity.

Up until the 16th-18th centuries (in Europe), the best way to get rich was to use force to loot/steal from others. Capitalism was the result of a set of institutions which allowed for more widespread trade, and profit from innovation.[1] These institutions took money from the rich who used their wealth for vanity projects (the passions this author desires), and gave it to the innovative problem solvers and inventors.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7863046-the-most-powerfu...
I prefer https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules which is more complete and doesn’t use unnecessary swearing.
dnsmasq comes to mind, it runs on quite a few embedded routers. Here's an interview with the author:

https://joshuakugler.com/an-interview-with-simon-kelley-the-...
This is why you are supposed to choose whichever dependency you add to your project very very carefully.

Also, each dependency you add to project is a security risk in itself. I really can’t believe how webdesigners casually add dependencies without a second thought especially with dependency management system like npm.

People give C++ lots of hate but thanks to not having an easy way of adding complex dependencies, it has less dependency driven bugs/security issues.
OTOH more effort hasn't been put into PWAs (by developers and Google) precisely because these won't work properly in iOS.
This is super helpful and explains one reason why different pieces come up with this in different ways. The two examples I have are one baroque piece and one jazz piece. I never figured there might be a historical difference, I always thought - wrong, apparently - that these were settled once and carved in stone.

That's very hard to recover from random input though. But it may be possible to figure out if a piece is baroque/classical or more modern.
If you don’t own an iPhone, then why do you care what Apple does?
That's a great suggestion. We were considering something like this for business or enterprise versions. It would also allow you to connect Dropbase pipelines to multiple files or entire folders in local or cloud storage.
This one though seems to work well on mobile, dungeon scrawl I could not get to work properly, at least when it was posted on hn not too long ago.
Gobe was independent of the beos and had a windows and linux offering, but only had a small team out of portland in the late 90s and never had the success it deserved.
haha fair enough.
SQLite feels like this to me. It's more than one person, and it's not thankless work (at least, I hope). But still it is critical to a surprising amount of technology, and maintained by a very few people.
If you're poor, you're not even allowed to day trade.
I'm a bit loathe to mention this, but it should be pointed out that GG&S has a really bad reputation among many academics as fatally flawed analysis [1,2,3,4,5,6]. It makes all sorts of methodological, factual, and theoretical errors that undermine the entire argument.

But rather than make anyone go through the rather verbose things I linked, a simple example demonstrates the point: The core of Diamond's argument is that geographical factors determined the course of world affairs between approx. 1600-1900. Not the hundreds of millennia before, nor at any point in the future, only those 300 years. That's a weird argument to make about factors that have essentially always existed and presumably always applied. Even if we accept everything uncritically, the result is a pretty terrible "grand theory" that can only justify things post-hoc.

[1] https://www.livinganthropologically.com/eric-wolf-europe-peo...

[2] https://louisproyect.org/2009/04/24/jim-blaut-on-jared-diamo...

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3054276

[4] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/guns-germs-an...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2vf565/myths_of... <--- Despite being reddit, it's actually credible and a good introduction to Restall's 7 myths

[6] https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2013.846490 <--- Despite being a published article, this infamous paper's commentary is on the same informal level as most of these.
Well, the first impulse is naturally to just use what's out there for free and leave it to some other poor sap to shoulder the cost of maintenance. That puts you ahead in the short run, at the cost of higher risk.

It takes a strong open source advocacy effort to a reach out and a sophisticated organization to be reached, for such an organization to recognize when it's in their interest to participate in open source maintenance.
Apple is the curator of the product. They can do what they want. Maybe at some point I won't buy it. But totally agree they have every right to do this.
The author of curl has a funny blog post about how random people will sometimes find the curl license in the software of their everyday things (like a Toyota Corolla) and reach out to him asking for help with their things.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
For anyone who hasn't read the rider: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt
I don't think the article is actually advocating a return to feudal monarchy.
I was thinking of this:

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-a-programmer-almost-broke-t...
The limitation here is not necessarily in the algorithms but in the data.

There's no reason to suppose that it's even possible to recognize causality and separate it from correlation purely from static observations - among others, Judea Pearl has written a bunch about it, this year's ACL best theme paper (Bender&Koller, Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data) was on a very similar topic, IIRC there's neuroscience research that suggests that mammals can't "learn to see" functionally if they only get visual input that's not caused by their own acts, etc. It's highly likely that no algorithm or mind can learn what you propose solely from the data (and the type of data) that was available to train GPT.

It seems that recognizing causality requires intervention, not just observation, it requires active agents, not just passive specators. It requires "play" and experimentation. Learning language meaning requires at least some grounding and alignment with reality. The problems of causality illustrate the limitations and necessity of integrating models with the environment, they do not indicate any fundamental limitations with model structure itself; perhaps deep learning isn't sufficient for learning these structures, and perhaps it is, as far as I know we don't have any good evidence to justify assuming one way or the other.

On the other hand, if/when some artificial agent has learned the core concepts of causality and language grounding in some small environment - using whatever algorithms are required for that - then it seems plausible that a GPT-like system could be sufficient to provide the mapping to extend these concepts to the whole range of things that we talk about; once the agent understands (according to whatever reasonable nontrivial definition of "understands") the concept of causality for some actions, it can learn the causality of all the other actions which are described if you read all the written text in the world.
Part of the problem I have with the notion that Apple (and Google) need such tight control over their app stores is that they do such a bad job of it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/technology/more-iphone-fa...
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/...
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...
https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:IOS_Games
"you can switch to a number of competitor feature phones with largely the same feature and app capabilities"

How much does that cost? How does it work if the apps you rely on are iOS only? How do I transfer my app and subscription purchases to my new Android phone?
Why is Apple unstoppable? Why can’t Google do better in the premium market? Why did Microsoft fail with a decade head start?
An Interview with Simon Kelley, the author of dnsmasq
The UK has a long history of not returning anything - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/wh...

The Chinese government's supposed approach is pretty interesting - https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
Yeah, my first thought was "you know, I think I've seen this before, in my category theory course in grad school."
I also wonder how much of it just comes down to serving a small dense area vs a large varied one. If you can focus on the cheapest customers to serve and avoid the overhead from needing to cover a large area it should be at least a little cheaper.
Oh yeah, they tried removing those in the _40 series (T440, T540, etc) a few generations yet. That went over well! :P

As I frequently mention in this context: You haven't lived until you've seen a highly paid security architect slam their laptop repeatedly in front of the client in frustration :P.

So they put them back in the _50 series and onward :).

Seriously, the generation was reviled and it was a complete rebellion to put them back. And with good reason.

The two "GIANT" (regular sized, but whatever:) physical clicky buttons are there for people who like physical clicky buttons. Which is a large portion of user base using ThinkPads / Lattitude / Elitebooks. These laptops are tools of our trade and we use them at home at work on airplane in coffee shop in the park in the backyard in the bedroom everywhere. We have a fixation for functionality, for positive action and reliable feedback, not design/minimalism.

I have no fantasies that we'll agree, but wanted to provide a perspective to enhance understanding :)

Edit/Update upon thinking: I think indeed there's a market/product for both: people / companies who prefer minimalism (Apple laptops are really the sexiest epitomes of that design aspiration and I'll agree if sleek sexiness is an important criteria, nothing beats them:). And for people / companies who prefer modularity / functionality / expandability / power... I'd love to say that ThinkPads cater to that audience, but in reality they're becoming more like MacBooks - minimalism is clearly winning in the industry, even if there's a backlash in the hardcore but tiny communities :-/

At any rate, it seems we went from "Trackpoint is the single reason against Thinkpad" to "nothing much against trackpoint", which answers my original question I suppose.
I’m 100% for Apple being pressured to have lower fees but less stoked about Apple being pressured to allow any payment processor. The root of my concern, I think, is that what is good for developers is not always what is good for users and alternative app stores will compete by doing what is good for developers at the expense of users.
Somehow Facebook running a market on iOS marketplace where they funnel every click to their preferred apps with their own in-app payments and frameworks mandated doesn't sound like a developer win to me. It may not much of a user win if Epic installs DRM into your phone with cool features like an always on audio chat.
> For the sake of argument, is there a limit to the number or kind of extra steps before you'd call it unusable?

Surely this comes down to what reasonable expectations are held by the customer. There are microcontrollers you can buy that require a soldering iron and USB breakout board in order to run your own software on them. I think that's pretty reasonable, but it would be a ridiculous requirement for a desktop PC purchased at Best Buy.

The question becomes: what are the reasonable expectations for installing third-party software on an iPhone. Personally, I think the overwhelming majority of iPhone owners expect and even highly value the fact that Apple (supposedly [0]) vets all third-party software on the iPhone, and it's generally more difficult to accidentally install malware or break your device than it is on other computing platforms.

[0] As I've said before, I think Apple actually needs to be more restrictive, because a lot of useless/broken/scammy stuff makes it into the App Store.
Can you do that? I'd be open to selling an open source project that gets over 1M monthly downloads. I can't seem to monetize it otherwise.

EDIT>> "Can you do that?" meaning, "Can you sell an open source project?" Not "Can I sell to a scammer?", for people accusing me of planning to commit a crime.
We shouldn't be allowing everyone to drive. Autonomy will fix this. Apple will bring it to us, just like they have kept our phones safe.
Spacetime Coordinates: Gibor Basri Interview
Would anyone donate to a service that maps your dependency tree and breaks up your donation to support the projects in your entire tree (not only surface level) proportional to their usage or something like that?
Don’t worry about that. One of the reasons I got really into STEM at a young age was because of educational programs. Started with Magic Schoolbus, graduated to Bill Nye and copious amounts of Discovery (90s when it tried to stay about science)
If you only want to do SSH, that way is a huge hassle, way too much to do on machines you don't own/are using casually. If you can use newer SSH versions, they support FIDO2 natively:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/u2f-fido2-with-ssh/
A couple years ago I wrote a program to make dependency diagrams just like this! https://github.com/kach/tower-of-power

Here's `pdf-redact-tools` from Homebrew: https://github.com/kach/tower-of-power/blob/master/gallery/p...

Here's the CS core at Stanford (dependency = prereq): https://github.com/kach/tower-of-power/blob/master/gallery/c...
Thanks for sharing this here!
This is how apps on phones worked for a really long time, each carrier ran its own App Store and in many cases you were renting the phone from them or getting it for free with your plan. Mobile carriers have begun merging into megacarriers over the last decade, but for a while you had a choice of at least 4 real carriers in the US.

Plus, you could unlock your phone (in some cases) and move to another carrier, which theoretically meant a different store! True freedom.

Of course actually using these phones and putting apps on them was MISERABLE, mostly because they were symbian and/or j2me apps
What we do for binary in JSON, is store it out-of-band. In the DB that would be a dedicated table, on the wire it's MIME.
You have almost all of this backwards. The more "industrial" the farm, the more likely they are to employ the precision methods to address the issues you raise. Talk to any major farmer and they will tell you all about how nutrients are managed down to the square foot or smaller to reduce waste application. The tech that makes no-till planting viable, which is one of the most important ways to reduce erosion and increase sequestration is being adopted by the biggest players first. Advances in no-till and pesticide technology are reducing the number of tractor passes per field per year dramatically.
I've always thought of Stallman as the canary --- the extremist at the edge. I don't agree with a lot of things about him, but I think it's important that such people exist in order to "delineate the boundaries". Him changing his views towards "acceptability" should be taken as a bad sign, regardless of what those views are.
No one really knows because they won't make the list of items public. It's all based on circumstantial evidence, and the fact that the British Museum has a bunch of stolen artifacts.
The most newsworthy one in the last year was core js - a JS poly fill library that most other big npm libraries are built on top of. The maintainer is some random guy from a remote part of Russia. About half a year ago, he was sentenced to a prison sentence . He was the sole maintainer of the project (I guess he refused to give other people write access). I’m not sure if any of its dependent projects have done anything about forking the project, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most just ignore it until it causes some hilarious left-padpocalyse.
People have tried and failed.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/2/12775922/google-project-ar...

I think there is no money in letting people repair and upgrade components.
Having an html tag, and even a browser that interprets it and connects to grandma's saved credit card is not the problem. But where does the money go to? It has to be a central body that holds all accounts and the page can specify their wallet id in another tag. How do you create that in the spirit of the open web?
Heartbleed was really the watershed moment.

"Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL" (2014):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...
I'm definitely envious of all of the time the people who were dying of starvation on forced labor farms under Mao or Stalin had to pursue their passions.
Not exactly a lone developer, but ffmpeg
Sounds like a better translation would be ‘slipshod’.
Smooth teleoperator: The rise of the remote controller
Might be an unpopular opinion but I think RH is great for financially literate retail users. Zero commission especially on options is incredible. They need to work on trading workflow or at least have an alternative for experienced users.
There is no "optimal" way to invest. Every person/instiution has different risk limits, obligations, and time horizons. It's not a one size fits all kind of thing.
Honestly, yes, imagemagick is such a ridiculous dependency for everything.
NTP basically was but I think things might have changed since?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3144546/time-is-running-ou...
The author is envious of the landed gentry, able to profit (through the use of force), and pursue a series of vanity projects (or passions).
I've seen that claimed. And then attributed to chemicals used around and in the building of power lines.

Sorry no link found right now.
I honestly feel the best option would be for spotify, netflix, microsoft, facebook, epic, and all other companies who have been burned by apple to pull their apps indefinitely.

Sort of like a hunger strike. I am confident apple will cave first.
Free e-commerce UA channels to leverage
So, how would you go about recovering that context from a midi file? In other words, is there some 'running state variable' that I could keep track of that would allow me to choose one way or the other?
We are but vehicles for the realizing itself.
$100?
Did you get alpha
Please don't... we already had our scare in the past when someone handed over the JS project for something to a third party and broke the internet.
Imagine telling someone with an iphone that there is no facebook, whatsapp, spotify, or netflix. I think android would gain a huge boost from this.
> which is to consider whether it would be anticompetitive for Google to ban other app stores from Android

That's what I'm getting at. Is it anticompetitive to deliberately make your product worse by removing a key differentiator between your product and its closest competitor?

Or come at it from another angle: would it be "anticompetitive" for Apple to (in new iPhones) completely remove the App Store and thus all reasonable expectation to be able to run third-party software? Is it anticompetitive to sell a handheld computer than can do email, play music and videos, etc., but not run third-party software?
Could you fork it to a closed source "premium" version and implement some high-demand features?
In today's world of Cancel Culture, I'd say yeah. The disclaimer is needed now more than ever.
I wonder what Franklin would think if he was alive today...
It used to be Home versions couldn't get more "Enterprise" features, like full partition encryption and the ability to join a Domain. Naturally GPO doesn't apply to a home user.

These days, I run Pro on pretty much everything and don't seem to miss anything. Perhaps "Enterprise" comes with less Candy Crush and other bloatware pre-installed?
SQLite is supported by commercial arrangements (https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html) and used by giant corporations all around the world, quite a different story.
If GPT-5 is capable of creating a cost-efficient implementation of GPT-6, then maybe we don't need to worry about the extrapolated $5 trillion price tag.
Or, a third manner, which is not forcing notarization at all. Not simple making it disableable, but not enforcing it at all.
facebook? value?
Honestly not that many that I can think of. XCloud is a notable exception and I hope Apple changes their rules on game streaming services. I think many of the App Store rules have a benefit to end users but the “no game streaming services” rule seems like a loss for everyone involved.
Yes you can. In fact Spotify did just that before they stopped allowing in app purchases.
There was an insanely popular one, TouchArcade, that died because of the same burst of action by Apple. Crazy to see this come full circle, TouchArcade was run by one of the most loyal and oldest Apple blogs, MacRumors.
And at the same time its bus factor is 1.
Of course. But from my point of view, Apple designed a capable device and deliberately limited its capabilities for its own advantage. They have the private key to sign apps that iOS will run, but you do not. They empowered themselves, while depriving the user of that power at the same time.

It's as if you bought a house but couldn't repaint the walls and rearrange the furniture to your liking. You'd have to call a special person from the company that built the house.
I agree, parquet cannot be ignored and we're planning to support it.

What would you be interested more in: loading data from parquet files or converting and storing your data in parquet?
PGP

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...
I'm not a city planner, and this is just my fantasy, so... ?

I think this is part of building to a larger initial scale and using partnerships to bootstrap the city.

If you think about what features a thriving major city has, and which of those might be seeds to populations, things like universities and community colleges, large corporate campuses (if those ever matter again), and transportation/logistics hubs could be very good draws. Plus you'll need housing for the construction workers, food and services for them, etc.

I would imagine that in the unlikely future of something like this happening, there would be major investors from philanthropists, corporations, that would help start the seed institutions as well.

It's been a while since a billionaire started a new prestigious university with their name on it. Maybe Bezos, Buffett, or Page is game.

Maybe Google or Amazon wants a new campus that's designed for a partial work-from-home employees and near suitable WFH housing with easy transportation to campus?

One thing to keep in mind is that the centrally-planned Chinese cities that were criticized as ghost towns are now populated. Housing is expensive, and if there's a place with available housing, it'll likely be filled.
Ok, and what exactly is your proposal?
Is physical space an actual thing? Or is it just a statistical interpretation of configuration space?
I really wish they would. I would be okay if games had to all be paid up front and there was upgrade pricing.
Basic feature support is missing too. Every native app can do push notifications and so can every other browser, yet Apple still haven't added support for it in Safari.
Why? There have been alternative implementations since forever.
Daniel Ingram said this (dharmaoverground, mctb) in a recorded conversation on youtube a few months ago.
As opposed to Wall Street “professionals” making the same bets using other people’s money? This is absolutely no different from 97% of the people milking the investment management industry on Wall Street.
Probably the is-thirteen package, for checking if a number is equal to 13.
Conveniently, you can get smart thermostats that effectively abstract away that particular cognitive burden: https://www.ecobee.com/en-ca/eco-plus/

> Take advantage of time-of-use electricity rates in your area. eco+ intelligently precools or preheats the home at times of day when electricity prices are low.