skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting in that it seems to organize tenants into their own database.

I've built a few SaaS products with on the order of a few thousand customers per application. Performance can sometimes be a problem when each customer can have millions of rows but no relation between those customers. I believe this is pretty typical.

What's the purpose of mixing different customer rows? You rarely aggregate them all together. A million rows is easy for a database but when there are billions together, it starts requiring deeper optimizations.

The idea of each getting their own separate database makes intuitive sense to me but most tools for dB access aren't built with this in mind.
Mist people arent worth a million dollars, that downright silly.

But i do agree that centralised storage of everyone's passwords does not make sence.

I've decided to use KeePass and store the encrypted password file in cloud storage - that way it syncs between my phone and conouters, and i can always get at it if i really need to. But it does make logging into reddit on someone else's oc very difficult.
Yea, the author performed an argument by selective observation in the followers section. Choosing a GitHub user from a famous TV show to prove his point makes the line of argumentation particularly fallacious.

I'd need to crunch the numbers, but would suspect that number of followers is highly correlated with GitHub stars, PyPi / NPM downloads, etc.
> > A mortgage payment is always less than rent for an equivalent property, anyway

Yeah, I don’t understand these statements. It is clear that people making them do not have experience is real estate or only have experience in specific markets. There are absolutely many real estate markets where the rent is more than the mortgage, and anyone with enough real estate knowledge to give advice would know this.
Sure, but that still directly goes against the argument that humans are naturally hierarchical, because they aren't.

And there are ways to have agriculture and industry and compounding scientific advancements without having rigid hierarchies, are there not?
Most of bardcore sounds too modern to me, likely because it is being done with modern equipment with certain modern expectations.

Contrast the bardcore version of popcorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLT2fNBSf0

with an version actually played with medieval instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJ_mUap_2A

Another example is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxjH2HCWzo
This is a trailer for BBC4's Medieval Season. The music is Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze played on Medieval Instruments.
> best personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”

Lost me right there. That is such a stupid book.
Yup. No way of knowing exactly, but I'd guess that quite a lot of the "students" are in the same boat...
This really varied from place to place. I live in a small city in the midwest. My mortgage payment is barely more than my rent was and I went from 1 bedroom to 3. I also went from hearing neighbors all the time to rarely hearing them and having a fenced in yard where I can do whatever I want. Those luxuries are more than worth it to me.

I could make more in a large city but real estate would be way more too.
The problem I’m having with this is that, while yes you don’t have to worry about the tragedy of the commons in your own home or church or place of work...it isn’t feasible to live your entire life outside the commons. How/where would one receive goods & services? How would one travel from A to B, and over whose infrastructure?
“Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.”

No, pretty much everyone, even the staunchest opponents of anarchism, thinks human beings are capable of that. Anarchists are people who believe that people are not merely capable of that, but alo have a universal enough tendency to act in an irrationally altruistic manner without external constraint that external constraint is not necessary to prevent widespread harm inflicted by even a small minority of transgressors seizing opportunity for unjustified gain at the expense of others. I get that this piece is intended to be a less subtle form for anarchism of what the “world's smallest political quiz” is for libertarianism; propaganda to convince people that despite disagreeing with most substantive political positions taken by most anarchists they've ever encounter they are nonetheless closet anarchists, but come on.
About REST : REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Massé (O'Reilly).

My reference when I'm designing a REST API.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/rest-api-design/9781449...
I’m in favor of the owner-occupied mortgage interest deduction (MID) because I believe that owner-occupied housing should not be at a disadvantage compared to commercially rented-out property.

Without MID, landlords can (tend to) outbid owner-occupants for property because of differential tax treatment. (Commercial loans for profit-seeking businesses are always tax-deductible as we tax profits and not revenues.)
> On the contrary, it' and indictment of the current law system, it has utterally failed to protect the environment and other living things.

The fact that our laws have tried to protect the environment and 'utterly failed' is clear evidence that behaviour of individuals and corporations are not, by default, making good environmental decisions.

The idea that these actors, who are bad stewards of the environment when laws are compelling them to be good, would suddenly become good stewards of the environment in an anarchic system, is wishful thinking.
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> There are absolutely many real estate markets where the rent is more than the mortgage

That's what the quote is saying.
Zapatistas, Apoists, Chris Boehm's work which suggests many if not all (current) pre-industrial societies (implying all societies from 250 000 - 15 000 years ago) maintain anarchist-like societies.

As such, civilisation (and farming) and therefore hierachical societies account for 0.06% of human societal structures, measured by time.

Edit:

just for kicks:
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
― Murray Bookchin
This behaviour is most definitely promoted by capitalism, so I wouldn't be so fast to make it a general principle. In fact, all proof shows that humans are extremely cooperative and social when the going gets tough or disaster strikes.
Show HN: I built a feed of engineering blogs from top tech companies
There is no reason not to have government, as long as there is no state and no master/slave relation.
Yes. And I find it annoying when HBO plays ads for their shows before starting what I have selected to watch. They started doing this a year or two ago.
It's not really related, and I'm sure that the majority do. However I do wonder sometimes, everyone is keen to loudly declare their love and support for the 'correct' party when around others in a hyper liberal workplace - but in the privacy of the voting booth it might not be the same, and that is the place it matters most.

(I'm stating this based off of my experience in the UK only)
There are lots of free options. We use zoom because it has the best and most consistent quality.
> Not only were humans very loosely hierarchical essentially until the invention of agricultur

Even if they were both this and peaceful then, this would only imply that we merely need to dismantle agriculture and the civilization dependent on it to return to that state, which I submit is an unacceptable trade-off to most people.

And even if it was acceptable to most people, it would take only a small minority opting out to retain the power to subjugate everyone opting-in and ruin the whole effort.
>The VC model for funding technology is the root cause of user hostile technology. The pressure of investments that expect high returns [...]

VCs are not the root cause. You're not looking hard enough for counterexamples.

Examples of software companies that didn't take VC money that many consider to be "user hostile" are:

- Intuit -- see 1-star reviews on Amazon of annual Quicken releases and forced upgrades of buggy software that nobody wants

- Autodesk -- expensive licensing and stagnant features and bug fixes in Revit, 3ds Max, etc

- Microsoft -- list of various user complaints over decades are well known [pedantic alert: MS took a little bit of VC money from David F. Marquardt but they didn't need it because they were already profitable with cash in the bank; they just wanted DFM as an advisor for their upcoming IPO]

The real root cause of "user hostility" is that companies are run by humans and humans are self-serving and want to make more money. E.g. Look at COVID causing some colleges/universities cancelling in-person classes and refuse to refund tuition fees claiming that "video instruction" is same quality of education. The money came from students and not VCs.
You can't blame VCs for that.

>VC is ripe for disruption.

The issue is the company founders, not the VCs.
Put another way, suppose you have some linear dynamical differential equation in n variables that you solve somehow. Then, take that solution and expand it in some set of basis functions (e.g. a Fourier series). You wouldn't throw your hands up in the air and say "wow that's so complex, look at all those infinite terms in the solution!". The complexity isn't really there, it just appears to be there because you've chosen to expand your solution in a basis that makes it appears really complex. Similarly in the MWI we see something that looks complex simply because we've chosen to expand the solution in a set of states that makes sense to us (state1 = particle at location 1, state2 = particle at location 2, ...)
I prefer using an Evoluent vertical mouse on the Mac, though the most recent OS patch broke their software (for now).
You deduct the sales commissions because that’s money you lost in the round-trip. (Your profits were actually reduced by the amount you paid in commissions and we tax profits/gains.)
Interesting, I'm not getting that modal. Have you recently read some other articles by The Nation?
If that were true then no landlord would be cash flowing if they bought the property with a mortgage.
Regulation could go a long way, e.g. tax incentives for open source development or using open standard/platforms. Imagine giving developers or companies lower tax rates on profits from open source products, e.g. for resulting donation income.

That way they could operate cheaper and could pass the savings in tax on to users or investors. For clients this would be nice too, they could reduce the risk of being locked in when choosing a provider and shouldn’t care as long as it’s not their core business.

The challenge would be preventing misuse and how to get countries to give away tax income that other countries might use.
For anyone interested in QM foundations, last year the IQOQI Vienna had a very interesting lecture series on Scientific Realism that many living philosophers and scientists to discuss the matter. Very interesting exposition + lots of different ideas presented: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtIs3eEC6pzL1v_haWfzn...

Warning: each lecture is ~2.5h long and informationally dense so can't be played at 2x speed.
I can post the design if you'd like, although it's easy to tell from the datasheet, which lists the main parts. It uses a pair of AD8603 op amps feeding the differential input of a TI ADS1115 ADC. The intent is to use the op amps in a unity gain config, to deal with the probe's high impedance.
> It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy.

You're rankly speculating, and that puts me in control of the board.

I choose Barcelona, 1936.

Now is the part where you read the relevant Wikipedia entry and attempt to find the intersection between the facts there and what I quoted from you above.

And just to keep the conversation focused: the inability to defend a city against an impending attack from fascists and communists is a completely different problem than the people in the city "acting much worse under anarchy."
> I'm quite curious who this is aimed at. .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem.

The cloud (even Microsoft's Azure) has changed this somewhat, and continues to do so.

I work as a architect for companies in the enterprise world, and most businesses are now much more open to using Linux and non-Microsoft systems. I recently finished a project for a Microsoft shop, using Postgres, RabbitMQ, Linux and dotnet Core, and this is no longer unusual for me. This current situation was utterly unimaginable before the cloud - I love finally having the freedom to choose something because it's a good fit, rather than being forced to use something "because policy".

Furthermore, dotnet is not purely for Microsoft shops any more - dotnet Core helped change that. Personally, I use dotnet Core for all my side projects, and it works great on Linux.
Curious to why you had to turn on JS to view the article. The article is contained, in its entirety, in the initial page load. I use a modified version of links that doesn't even have javascript to turn on and the page popped open, as most do, without distractions.
Currently I behave because it's in my interest to abide by laws, even those I don't agree with. If all authority disappeared overnight, I believe my best course of action would be to immediately assemble an armed militia so we could enforce a set of rules within a community that we believe are the best. I would still respect many social norms, but definitely not all of them. One thing that comes to mind is that "innocent until proven guilty" goes out the window. If I perceive someone to be a threat then I will use whatever means I have to neutralize them, rather than waiting for some kind of arbitration.
I interpret what you mean as "VC model" as investment bets that are essentially high risk / high return. A high return play would be one that envisions dominance in a $1B plus market, and high risk play is say a 5% chance that you see your money back. How does "high return" mess up UX? If I understand the "Lurking" review, it would be by focusing on skeevey attention/reward patterns to habituate interaction in online communities. That seems like a narrow case for your broad claim. I also don't understand the "scarcity and under-production" bits.

That said, disrupting the "VC model" seems like an interesting question. The implication for me would be many more bets that are lower risk / more marginal returns. An IPO or buying stock would fit that profile, but that's small amount of opportunities overall and there's nothing disruptive about that. For me, an example of something different might be community-focused investing. Pick a region or town as a locus of investing, and invest in a number of existing business and infrastructure all across the broad, with the idea of moving that local instance of an economic system from a static phase to a growth phase. That has nothing to do with tech, per se. Maybe that's the disruption ...
Score free Krispy Kreme donuts today in honor of holiday weekend
If someone is allowed to amass power to to abuse others, it is not anarchy.

You seem to assume anarchy implies no rules, but fundamentally to ensure minimal rules the bare minimum is to shut down any attempt at aggression against others.

An anarchist would argue, however, that protecting society against aggression does not require a top down state.
I’d highly recommend reading Roy Fielding’s dissertation paper where he introduced REST.

For anyone who hasn’t read it, it will fundamentally change how you think about REST and APIs for network services, and you’ll create much better APIs armed with that deeper understanding.

Paper: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

Chapter introducing REST: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
I have never realized this. Wow, this would explain some weird conversations.
Ask HN: Which medium works best for self-study?
I realized that I retain way more information when I look at written words, rather than looking at graphics or watching videos, but conventional wisdom says that a picture is worth 1000 words so I'm probably not in the majority.

I wrote a book about French wine (I wrote the book that I wished existed when I started studying the topic) because of this preference, but I'm wondering whether I should publish this content as a mobile app with more graphics and more interactions rather than in wordy, book form.

How do you prefer to learn about a subject ? Long form text, graphics, videos, small daily snippets of information ?
A Brief Explanation of Greg Egan’s Dust Theory
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That article doesn't actually support your argument. The dictatorship of the small minority is a case of simple accommodation, some people want things much more strongly than others and those things are not very costly to the majority, so they get universally accepted to reduce friction. It doesn't mean that intolerance wins, just that democratic societies are accommodating of minor but strongly desired things for certain groups.
One way to solve this is to extend these types of benefits as a way for any employee to help care for children. If you’re an aunt or uncle and want to take time off to help care for your nieces and nephews, you should be able to. That being said, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for employees complaining about these specific policies. The entire world is in uncharted waters here and these companies, as well as individual employees, are doing the best they can with responding. As the article points out, these benefits aren’t meant to be used for vacation, they were introduced as a way to help employees respond to a sudden loss of childcare and the collapse of an education system. And to anyone who thinks this is a vacation, I recommend spending a week in a household with children who are unable to go to school while still trying to get work done.
I can't decide my sentiment towards the Magic Mouse. With my last job I had one with a MacBook Pro, and while the system integration was really good, and the function of it was fairly good, the form wasn't.

It looks great on a desk, sure, but it's not that ergonomic, and having to flip it on its back to charge it (thus disabling it), is absolutely useless.

I use a Logitech MX Master 3 nowadays, and while not quite as ground breaking as the Magic Mouse, I'd say it's overall better. The shape of it is great for my (larger-than-average) hands, and the amount of buttons (and additional gestures via modifier button) makes up for the lack of touch surface. The absolute flagship feature though is the magshift mouse wheel, which allows for ratcheted scrolling on Windows, while also removing the ratchet mechanism when you're trying to rapidly flick through a file.
People who bought houses in different time periods had different experience. See folks who bought in 2005-2006.

Also, for a young person who knows where they are going to be for next 5+ years home ownership may turn out okay. If you have to move for an opportunity the house can become quite the tight noose around your neck.
Sunk costs?

How are there greater sunk costs related to switching distros later instead of now if Ubuntu starts actually misbehaving in a significant way?

I grant you, if you haven't picked a distro yet and this whole thing bothers you, by all means, pick something else! That's the beauty of the Linux world!

But if you're already in the ecosystem (and I have to assume most people complaining are... Otherwise why waste energy complaining about the actions of a company that doesn't affect you) I don't see how the sunk costs fallacy applies here.
For Americans with children, owning a home ensures your kids will attend the same school each year and a known school in the future. May be different in Germany, but in a place like Los Angles, the public schools can vary _greatly_ a small geographical area. If I showed you pictures of two public schools 20 minutes from each other, you’d be blown away. Renting makes securing a “good” school much more challenging.
This is such demagogue reasoning that it is hard to know where to begin.

A good indication of something being off is when it is trivial to rewrite the points to support the exact opposite point. I.e.

"Are You A Conservative? The Answer May Surprise You!"

"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police?"

"If you answered “yes”, then you are used to acting like a conservative! A most basic conservative principle is that there exists an enduring moral order. Thus voluntary community is an important aspect of human life leading to reasonable understandings with each other and to treat each other with dignity and respect."

Etc. etc.
A friend works for Microsoft in the Netherlands and apparently the way it works there is everybody can dial their working hours up or down as they see fit. When he had a newborn he worked 70%, then 80%, then 90%. Averaging a half day once a week is enough for all the sick days and other child-related emergencies.
Integrating Intel Power Gadget Library into Go Module for Metrics Extaction
I think this backlash is a microcosm for why our welfare programs are always under attack and identity politics plays so well in our society.

The Balkanization of benefits is _always_ a way to drive a stake through a cohort of people. Any type of increased leave benefit should be available to all. If that means the pace of developing new things for the business slows down, that’s what that means. We’re in an unprecedented time where anxiety and uncertainty is reining. The notion that we have to produce the same amount as before the pandemic is ludicrous and callous.

No one should be taking pay cuts, whether they take more vacation or not, if the underlying health of the business remains strong (in Facebook’s case, for example, it is). Arguably, no one’s marginal value of labor should be changing either, it’s just that their working hours may change, and that should be okay.

We’re just approaching distributed work, right now, all wrong. Commons hours matters less than good, written communication. If folks need to adjust their schedules significantly (more than two hours, here and there), then so be it. It won’t matter in the long run. Especially if leveraging that flexibility means that they don’t have to take PTO days for other reasons.
So I am playing a bit of devils advocate here, but then isnt the KKK a good example of Anarchy? The community agreed that part of the residents should not live there anymore, they made there own laws and tried to enforce them.
Excuse me, we already "know"/strongly assume since July that's it's a BK (bradykinin) storm, not cykotine. Not much different, just different treatments needed. https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177
> if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else

Some apps, like Chromium have no alternative ppas available.

I installed KDE Neon 20.04 and when I discovered that Chromium was being switchted to snap, I searched for any current *.deb out there. NO proper ppas, just found some outdated Chromium 1-3 versions behind the current version.

If it wasn't for the KDE from Neon, I would have switched of distro in the hour. I switched to Chrome instead.

Got some old compiled Chromium just to have the thing available (I can just run it when I need it, it takes maybe 1/4 of sec to start).

Just hope Canonical doesn't try its snap thing in more critical packages or (FAR) worst, in the LTS server versions.

I would be getting popcorn to see the show when half the Internet start to ditch the LTS overnight over some half-propietary half-baked software being put in charge of its otherwise perfectly GPLed infrastructures.