skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we want to be very reductive about it there is not a great reason to believe we can use formal logic to inform the chosen(?) actions of huge aggregates of molecules jiggling around. All ethical systems that have withstood the test of time (the gold & silver rules) use subjectivity. Everything else falls prey to absurdity.

I recall an objection was raised (possibly by Alasdair MacIntyre? it's been a while since I got wrapped up in all this) that any system of ethics must be inherently self-contradictory. The reason for this is something like any time we spend in pursuit of correcting or preventing some moral wrong is time not given doing the same for another. And there are certainly a great many moral wrongs going on according to any given system of ethics - probably all of equal importance.

Separately we might also ask whether we even want to solve the problem of ethics. Imagine tomorrow we develop an ironclad formal moral system - everyone is forced to agree it is correct through sheer reason alone, and it meaningfully informs our every action. Would you really want to live in such a world? It seems a world without freedom, or one which would quickly become that way. All-encompassing totalitarianism. [0]

In other threads you say you aren't interested in proving which system of ethics is most applicable to human endeavours or anything like that. At this point we get into "higher order truths about chmess" territory, as in - why bother? [1]

[0] https://www.existentialcomics.com/comic/139

[1] https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/chmess.pdf
It's interesting watching FP devolve into a white supremacist and orientalist rag for pseudo-intellectuals. Maybe it's always been that.

No one is 'winning', which is a stupid way to describe countries anyways, and reeks of Trumpian rhetoric. But if anyone is 'winning' it's China. They're the ones lifting millions out of poverty while the rest of the world becomes less equal. Also the idea that the EU is democratic is not really true. It may be made up of democracies, but its institutions are run by technocrats and many of its processes are anything but democratic.

Also, Belarusians have a higher standard of living than Ukranians, something FP will never say. Belarusians know this and it's one of the things that keeps their dictator in power.

"Europe’s spectacularly swift and successful response to the migration crisis demonstrates that mass migration can be controlled."

More white supremacist neo-colonial nonsense. No one in Europe is happy with how this is being handled, either on the right or left.

"Outside of Britain, extreme Euroskepticism enjoys scant support."

Absolute bullshit. The EU is full of Euroskepticism. Simply compare the number of countries wanting to join it now compared to 10 years ago. I don't think the EU will break up, but just wait until the next major economic contraction and we'll see who steps up to leave.

I live in the EU, and I can't imagine that many people in the EU taking this article all that seriously. It must be written for ignorant Americans.
I quite like the learn-by-commit style. Look at a diff and see what changes it took to add a feature. Very good way of showing things in a format everyone is already familiar with.
Who pioneered this? Was it TrollTech with Qt? (Author mistakenly calls it QT.) Or actually FSF themselves?

A disadvantage is that it goes against collaboration of people who don't profit from the proprietary version. They need to dual license their contributions by assigning their copyright to the organization (as FSF also requires). How many people refuse to collaborate as a result of this?
They never put a task off that they know is going to cause a shitstorm?
The problem with "Read this book on study habits, leave your phone in another room while studying, use timeboxing..." isn't that it's unappealing (and a reasonably smart person should be able to figure out most of these without being told). It's that these approaches don't really work if you don't have some baseline ability to focus. And too often it comes out just as "you're stupid and lazy".

For the reference, where I live we don't have ads for prescription medication. On the other hand everything tends to be diagnosed as depression and treated with antidepressants, no matter what symptoms are.
No, there’s just something wrong with what Activity Monitor is doing. It was fine the release before and since Catalina the list is really bad it doesn’t do column sizing right either.
One poster mentioned ADB, but another quicker way is to disable the app. It still uses storage, but can't start. If you do this early on, or after downgrading, then the phone can remain like new. Did this a lot on a phone I had 5+ years ago, shame it needs to be done though.
Does anyone else not use one? I get my news and reading content from HN, NYT, Google News, the national news service in my country and from Alexa which gives me news from CNN, Sky News and my national news service. I also check Twitter from time to time but I try not to see it's always negative.

BBC News is another source I browse to from time to time.
> „total market capitalization of U.S. tech stocks reached $9.1 trillion, eclipsing that of the entire European market“.

Isn't this more the result of a large unified consumer base with a shared language and culture, more so than regulation?
We (https://vcvrack.com/) do this and it works great for us and our users. Wouldn't give up the licensing scheme for the world. We'll soon release a proprietary fork (Rack for DAWs) of our GPLv3 software (Rack) as a new funding source. It's the perfect funding scheme and has no major disadvantages. The author makes profit from a fork of the software, which requires/causes the GPL version to be actively maintained (since new functionality and bug fixes of the proprietary fork often derive from modifications of the GPL software). And the user has a choice of using the open-source/free software, which they can freely run, review, modify, and share, or purchase the proprietary software. By Economics 101 theory, a "trade" is always mutually beneficial if the user's intrinsic value of the software is greater than the purchase price.

As mentioned by others, we can't accept patches to our GPL software without a contributor license agreement (such as a paid contractor position), so make sure you're aware of this before choosing the dual-GPL/proprietary scheme for your own software. This isn't a big concern for us because in my personal experience, a patch that actually saves me time in the long run is very rare (See Quality section of https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack/blob/v1/.github/CONTRIBUTING.... You get what you pay for.) But I'm perfectly fine with doing everything myself or through hired work.
Research: When Overconfidence Is an Asset, and When It’s a Liability
That's simply not how the lines are usually built, unfortunately [0]. In general, electrification was done for entire rail lines. If you look at maps of non-electrified rail, it's a relatively small amount where you have a sufficiently long electrified section near a station to charge. And usually, at the end of the line, you don't have enough time to get a good charge in.

Certain regions of Germany are an exception, partly due to their early electrification of the rail, then subsequent damage in WW2, then strange rail layouts, but if you look at non-electrified rail maps of the Netherlands, France, the UK etc it will be extremely clear that battery trains wouldn't work well.

Part of the reasoning is that you want these massive batteries to last, so you're going to want to charge at the fastest around 1C, aka 1 hour for a full charge. Turnaround time at the end stations being usually around 5 minutes for these services, your choice is either to absolutely destroy your schedule, fork up far more $$$$ for more material or ignore battery rail.

Look, if they made economic sense, we'd already have electric locomotives - the technology is extremely simple, just toss a bunch of batteries into a box; the engines themselves are already electric. Similar batteries to electric buses, too. But while the economics of electric buses do make sense - and you see electric buses in most of the world's cities today - trains running on batteries really don't make sense in most cases. That's why you don't really see them. Out of the nearly 2000 Stadler FLIRTs that are running across Europe, zero of them run entirely on batteries today - and there will only be a projected 55 in 2023 (!) in one region of Germany.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railway_lines_in_the...
The dominance of the big tech companies is a mistake, a failure in market regulation - they are allowed to go too far in terms of company mergers and anti-competitive behavior.

Of course, Europe can't "compete" in exactly that without loosening the shackles in the same way, but that's not something I, for one, would want.
Are you sure that's not caused by something else, like having a single language used by more than 300 million people, instead of 24 official languages [1], each used by, at most, tens of millions?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
Ye a mechanical timer is digital in its output, right? The analogue dailer could maybe be the power, but it was most likely discrete too.
> XIPs are stuck with deflate/gzip or bzip2

I actually had a poke around the XIP format after I was particlarly annoyed after the XCode update.

For XCode: The XIP contained some kind of DEFLATE'd index I didn't bother with. Most of the meat was an uncompressed "PBXZ" stream, which contained various LZMA compressed CPIO chunks.
Safety before everything!
I suppose it wouldn't help much to tell them that, even had they been attending classes in person and gaining the benefits of cohabitation, they would still be getting financially destroyed by a broken system.

This is really just shining a harsher light on what was already there. I feel for these students for the _additional_ pain they have to endure.
search for "comcast lpwan" or machineq or "comcast iot"

just make an agreement with one company, done.
Thank you, I meant Castillian Spanish.
> How does dual licensing work with 'downstream contributions'? If some user finds a bug in your GPL code, fixes it, and pushes that code to your repo?

> You don't own the copyright to that bugfix right? So how can you re-license it under a commercial license?

The way we do it in my project, and the standard practice for Apache (where we copied it from), is tohave a CLA that gives full rights to the original owner for any patches people want to PR.

> What about meaningful improvements instead of bug-fixes? I can see a bugfix being trivial enough. But if someone works hard to improve performance, and then some other company starts selling that work without compensation for the original author?

This is a bigger problem, but in practice I assume it wouldn't happen because if someone were to actually put in weeks or months of work into significantly improving the project, why wouldn't you just hire them or pay them ? After all, the whole assumption here is that this is a model for a for-profit endevor.
> "Europe’s spectacularly swift and successful response to the migration crisis demonstrates that mass migration can be controlled."

> More white supremacist neo-colonial nonsense. No one [1] in Europe is happy with how this is being handled, either on the right or left.

I'm guessing you're calling it "nonsense" because they call it "successful" despite no one in Europe being happy with it. But what makes it "white supremacist neo-colonial"?

[1] See my reply regarding no one being happy.
Snapchat AR/AI Lens [No Code Involved]
Pain free form validator designed for reduxjs/toolkit
I have a hackintosh for iOS development (faster build times than a MacBook without paying for a MacPro). It's a lot of work to get it up and running, maybe 8 - 12 hours if you've never done it before plus an additional 12 hours getting Bluetooth, WiFi, USB mapping and iMessage working but it's worth it. Once it is up and running it does 'just work' plus it's a hell of a lot cheaper. The only thing you have to worry about is doing it all again in 6-12 months if you want to stay on the latest OSX.
Since typescript tsc can compile js, you could switch to using the typescript compiler to compile your javascript.

It would also detect some probable bugs in your js code.

Of course after a day or two you would start writing typescript and never look back.
Wow that’s awesome! Thanks so much
Well, it does help when 320+ million people speak the same language. That's a huge consumer advantage that any US startup has.
I think they refer to technology innovation rather than the size. Because there is really no shortage of European monster sized companies.
What do you think would be the ideal license for the open source part of this dual license model?
is a comparison between a 168-commit one-man show and an 30k-commit, 1600-contributor project or a project which his the main asset of a company valued at 2.8$ billion dollars really going to be relevant ?
I guess someone might become fluent in a second language for work purposes, and then once retired, may not need to speak that language much.
It seems that there are many shades (Pardon the pun) of colour blindness.

I'm R/G colour blind, but I can still see red and green. I have issues when red and green are close to one another or blended though.

It becomes impossible for me to distinguish between what is red and what is green, or where the colours start and end.
The idea is to allow presentation data to be included inside of general data, and also to allow presentation data to contain any kind of general data (not just string keys and string values). At some point in the distant future, it would also be nice to have official numeric tag assignments in schemas (e.g. 1 = "View", 2 = "TextBox", etc) to further improve processing by eliminating the need for text parsing just to decide what kind of object to present. These would be transparently converted from the text-based names in the human-readable text format when converting to the machine-read binary format.

The overarching purpose of Concise Encoding is to bring forth the tools to make transmitted data accessible to humans, and at the same time efficient to process by machines.
> Another thing we need to fight against is providing software to companies that put users into walled gardens. We need licenses that require data export and right to forget. Encode the GDPR into our licenses.

Don't like walled gardens either. But imho the "fight against" should be done by (more flexible) political regulation and not by (rather inflexible) software licenses.
Just want to say thanks for working on VCV Rack, it made modular synthesis accessible to the masses and I have gotten a lot of joy out of it. Keep up the great work!
Here's a direct link to the study: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/1551/2018/essd-10-15...
Sorry for a somewhat late reply. It’s interesting because on the whole that was the time I feel Firefox started a slow descent (with a few upticks here and there, like Quantum) . I have been an avid FF user since at least a decade.

I mean Firefox has been “there” , but it has and is on a knifes edge when it comes to capturing the hearts and minds of developers (now on chrom/ium) and the regular user.

I remember a real buzz after the demise of IE and and uptick in the early part of the decade.

While I love the FF blogs and privacy work you’ve been doing, it’s hard to get the non user back into the fold.

What I hope to see is a more involved model like Blender. Developers are missing features with the devtools is what I hear most when they dont or can’t switch.

For users, it’s different, I have now installed FF for a lot of people, but they often don’t even know they have choice beyond what was installed (Safari, Chrome, Edge)
A more incentive based campaign might be great here, show how FF does thing better in many ways.
How do you like your ThinkPad Yoga for note taking? I'm thinking if to get something like this or Samsung tablet for pdf reading and annotation writing notes on pdf for learning what do you think?
Show HN: Git-workspace, a tool to locally mirror Git repos from GitHub + Gitlab
> no one in Europe being happy

That is the real nonsense here; many people are happy with it. Just people who shout in the tabloids and right-wing and the underbelly (politicians) make it sound like everyone thinks the same way. We do not.
Yes, and because of that it suffers the same downsides of JSON. You also can't just transparently convert CBOR to JSON because of the data type disparity.
>I don't understand. Mind to elaborate? Eli5?

Not OP, but I assume he/she means something like a consumption tax[0].

However, given that poorer people tend to spend more of their income than wealthier ones, unless such a tax is appropriately calibrated, it can be quite regressive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax
Interesting to put this view of the anthropocene next to David Graeber's and how he thinks it shaped the evolution of human society

https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/

He and David Wengrow ask why "the myth of 'agricultural revolution' remains so persistent, and argue that there is a whole lot more we can learn from our ancestors"
Got it. We also lack tango, but we've got plenty of cheese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBdOzQf_I68
Does it have to be online? Meaning they have to be able to see your sketching as it progresses?

Also, you'll get better answers if you mention which tools you use for online collaboration.
Failure of market regulation, indeed. Look at big tech. Microsoft got big with dirty tactics. Facebook and Google get away with scandal after scandal. You can't compete with crooks. Not in US, nor in EU, nor in world.
I guess it's been a while. Last time I played around with Linux properly was around 2009. Having worked with Ubuntu servers as recently as 2018 though I did find getting python 3.7 up and running a bit of a pain, with differences in the process for minor versions of Ubuntu.
> You have much higher probablity of getting a good education

Getting an education for me was easy in The Netherlands. If I look at my family's finances and think about US university prices, I think it would've worked out if we'd be smart about it. But it would definitely not be easy.

It'd be about as difficult as it is to do a second bachelor/master in The Netherlands (1st bachelor = 2K. 2nd bachelor = 9 to 12K, outliers on both ends are 2K and 25K, in euro's).
Yes, I did. Thx for bring it up. But I still want to get more details, like can these conversations be productive? Or how are they different from in-office ones? And when do people like to have these conversations?

Thx for reply!
Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)
> you don’t really do this if you care about the freedoms that GPL is meant to preserve

I mean, if this was the case, why provide the source at all ? Or why make it free to use forever ? Why not release it under a license that states usage is only permitted as long as the author allows it, i.e. for a limited trial period ?

My point here is that you can be pragmatic and say:

If some people want to build a free world, fine, I agree with that idea in principle and I will provide my work to them for free.

On the other hand, most people want a paid world, which is also fine, I might as well provide my service to them as well and benefit from it.

You're not doing as much as releasing stuff under GPL-only would, in that you're giving people that pay you an out, but it seems to be better than nothing. Plus, it's a more positive approach than GPL, in that it's not actively "hurting" people that don't want to join the open source community (by not providing them any option to use the product), it's simply giving an advantage to the open source users.
Classic moving of the goalposts IMO. 2015 was the last year I could get reliable data for. Wait time? What standards are you basing your comments on and what countries are you comparing the USA to? By any reasonable standard, the US is still very pro-immigration and pro-entrepreneur.
Interestingly, my mother started learning a foreign language recently and it got me thinking. Is anyone here well versed in the state of the art of brain plasticity? I always wondered if you could slow down Alzheimer's disease by trying to "outpace" the brain decline by forming new connections at a faster pace. Learning a language was the first thing that came to mind.

I'd also be very interested in a comparison of two language vs. three language. Switzerland would be the obvious choice but children from partners that don't speak the same language and use English as a lingua franca or Canadians with one extra language (Chinese living in Canada etc.) should provide a big enough sample.
Translating and regionalization is cheap compared to adhering to 28 different sets of laws.
Great, but if it doesn't translate into quality of life metrics for a large portion of the population, you're still not there.

US Tech stocks is in large part a matter of highly-international companies with international revenues, international jobs, flowing to international shareholders, who trade their shares on various worldwide exchanges in an international marketplace, shares of a company which happens to have a US headquarter.

That doesn't at all mean that only the US benefits from this arrangement, or that these tech stocks make Americans uniquely rich, or created massive employment among Americans, or create tax revenues uniquely in the US etc etc. The reality is much more nuanced.

The average American or European isn't directly that much affected by the top tech companies existing in the US or Europe.

The public company markets also say nothing about the private markets. Europe is known to have a large SME base, large family companies, old state-owned enterprises which exist as semi public/private. You can't compare it to a country which has optimized for public companies on that single metric.
> I'll start with the most basic ones (using [] as a wrapper/delimiter)

So far as I can tell, this doesn’t use [ or ] in its syntax at all, so all the values you give would be represented exactly as strings without any problem.
URIs and UUIDs are never going away. We're always going to need a way to lookup resources, and we're always going to need unique identifiers. To not include them is a mistake, because you then have to add a (potentially incompatible) extra layer of encoding at the application level just to store them in the encoding format.
Your ideas sound pretty cool to me, thanks.
I'll implement them later.
Cheers!
I also think this is the best approach, it allows for commercial use, and anyone that doesn't want to pay for it, gets the same commercial benefits as they are willing to give upstream.
I guess you lack some context, but if we just assume you are talking about covid, well, yeah, the positive test numbers in NL looks quite bad: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/netherland...

But your covid deaths are not really reflecting this rise. Same can be seen in France and Germany. Quite odd actually.
Thanks for the tip. The title has been updated.
China didn't bankrupt itself in the process of a space race, and they're not doing it during the cold war but just because they know they can. If China put a 'cold war' attitude into doing something, you can bet that this would have been done in less time. Just look at how quickly rudimentary hospitals were built for their covid outbursts.
The company is now called Qt Group https://www.qt.io/company
I posted this about 10y ago and didn't get much traction, I got an email from the mods the other day asking if I could repost, so I did.
Getting a degree if at all possible will generally be a great help with immigration around the world. I would try to get a degree if at all possible.

Where I live in Japan, a degree and a job offer will get you in the door very easily. No degree and you have very few options.