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History time!

NativeScript was born after forking Appcelerator Titanium’s Hyperloop project, which was meant to create direct bridge between native APIs and the JavaScript runtime.

At the time the fork happened just when Appcelerator made Hyperloop development private since it was facing more or less the same anger from the community that we see in this article and could not keep the promises that hyperloop was meant to fulfull. (This reminds me a lot the current situation with React Suspense)

The idea in the community was more or less “those bullies from telerik think they can fork it and finish it before us, they will never complete it” and indeed they faced a lot of the problems that was delaying the release of hyperloop itself.

At the end of the day the embraced Angular as a React Native killer (React Native more or less killed the competition for bridged native app frameworks IMHO) but never reached the quality required… wait for it… for a commoditizied framework. That’s the problem: no one will ever pay for a framework which competes with free (if proprietary and not compatible) native frameworks.

(Fun enough, Titanium SDK is actually incredibly solid right now, still following every native SDK release with only some weeks of delay)
Yes exactly, you have actually to google it maybe you'll be able to find a useful link that makes Amazon looks good.
I think there's a big difference between some tech company secretly logging user locations for their nefarious, privacy-violating money-making ends, and a national health system working to allow life to return to normal for millions of it's citizens whist trying to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.

I think Apple/Google should put a little bit more effort into this -- this sort of tech is going to be essential in getting countries re-opened safely, especially with questions around the efficacy of vaccines with some of these new COVID variants.

Anyone who's worried about the privacy can simply choose not to scan the QR codes (or not enable the feature / install the app).
>By the listed measures, this is still the case.

What measures? The ones in your original comment?

>healthcare, education, sanitation, nutrition, shelter, comfort, convenience, etc.

In the US, you can trace all of these back to wages, especially since healthcare is tied to your employer in the US, and you can look up any a variety of data to show that wages stagnated decades ago, length of tenure at employers decreased, increased participation in "gig" economy and service industry which don't offer benefits (i.e. loss in wages), consolidation of growing economies in fewer areas of US resulting in cost of land rising disproportionally to income, etc.

> Do we have any reason to believe our children will not have better healthcare, nutrition, access to information, etc than we do?

I don't know who "we" is here, but it's reality for people who spent 20 to 30 years at a manufacturing facility that was then outsourced and who now live in a town with no significant business, whose kids' only hope is to use college to boost themselves into an in demand career, but that involves moving to a HCOL area where they now have to sink a significant amount of money into their land purchase (house) to establish themselves, away from the rest of their family.

>If we don't, then what justification is there for agitation?

I don't know what other sources of information you want, but I know pretty much everyone in my parents' generation got married, had kids, raised families, and now the number of people that are coupled up is around half in my family and friends, and those with kids by mid 30s is even lower, maybe a third.

There's shortages of healthcare providers in rural areas because no one wants to live there, there's more and more competition for in demand areas as everyone tries to get in before they can't afford it.

This is all volatility. This didn't happen when everywhere was growing, but this happens when you have a divergence, and you're either on the upswing or the downswing.
I remember using Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a windows98 machine - it was considered pretty good even back then..
> they can invest more resources into developing it than the original team ever could.

I know this is a popular narrative, but as someone who works on AWS, I think you would be shocked by how small the individual dev teams are that build and maintain the services that everyone uses.

I'm not going to downplay the network effects involved. Of course AWS has a tremendous advantage in being able to standardize the customer billing, IAM, and EC2 Usage.

And there are economies of scale.

But individual AWS service teams are:
* incredibly lean and focused
* still have to make a profit on their own terms based on the infrastructure they build and the fees they charge customers
* laser customer obsessed to solve people's (developer's) direct needs.

I understand the community's concern about AWS investment and approach to OSS. But I can assure you (though you have no reason to believe me) that the goal is never to embrace, extend, then extinguish. It's all in the service of going where the customers are, and solving problems that they tell us they have. The profits are a byproduct. The "working backwards" process is no joke. We spend a lot of time figuring out what is the right thing for customers to build, start building it, and THEN we think about how do we make money from it.
Ask HN: Top tier or FAANG remote-only positions?
I know Facebook is hiring permanent-remote, I'm curious if there are any others?
I wonder if it's feasible to create some kind of database of reporters and their reliability - 'John doe has written n articles that turned out to be fundamentally wrong', Jane doe has written m articles that were fundamentally wrong'.
Oh yeah, the transcription is super good. I'm so sad it is crippled on iOS by requiring some weird app switching to work. Except for that part, it is super faster there too.
Taking things out or disabling them at chokepoints is easier than doing an entire engine on your own.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
AWS just has engineers full stop. No specific ops engineers.
Nonetheless, there are proteins whose role is to bind and sequester lead, which means there was some functional selection to avoid lead toxicity.
The cost of debt has dropped would be a more accurate description. Well... just because you can take out more loans does not mean you should. The issue is really how long you can refinance the debt for, or can you outgrow the debt, otherwise you’ll be forced to inflate it away. The cost of financing will not be this low forever and it’s still a few hundred billion of interest each year. Still, we should spend money on infrastructure and cool tech while we can.
One missing mention is `console.groupCollapsed(label)` which is handy for nesting large dumps of data that you don't want to steal visual real estate.

Eg:
console.groupCollapsed('data$ at load');
console.groupCollapsed('GridData'); console.table(data$.GridData.toList());
console.groupEnd();
console.groupCollapsed('Loads'); console.table(data$.Loads.toList());
console.groupEnd();
console.groupCollapsed('Drv'); console.table(data$.Drv.toList());
console.groupEnd();
console.groupEnd();

This will present `> data$ at load` and clicking on the chevron will open the data showing the list of entries and clicking on their chevrons will show the table for each.
>This is one of the reasons I believe social media sites should enact age-based voting. Such that older accounts that have withstood the reputational scrutiny, have greater influence.

Then those accounts just become hot commodities, or you front load a bunch of accurate reporting about banal stuff and bank that credibility for when you want to go fangs out.

Think about it, that's how we've gotten into the "post-trust" situation we're in now. Age does not against bullshittery confer protection. No technical measure will. No edifice is permanent except that in the churn, some people with standards will rise in spite of it all. They'll get torn at at every opportunity, but it's also why critical thinking is everyone's job. You can't delegate it. Nobody can be a habitual follower by default. You have to check.

So many firms exist with the sole purpose of perception/crisis management simply because it is so powerful a tool. No one can protect you from having to think and come to your own conclusions. I thought differently for years. That the media could be trusted for having skin in the game, and dedication to the ideals and tenets of their profession.

Then I learned about how crushlingly pragmatic the world is. Either you acknowledge it, and plot your way around it, or you get run over by it.

I leave with a few quotes and a rather notorious person who rammed home an illustration of this point.

>In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

-Abraham Lincoln, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858, Debate with Stephen Douglas

>Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to inquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, and if it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it to be done.

-William Randolph Hearst, unpublished editorial memorandum, date unknown

>"You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war."
- also William Randolph Hearst

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173692

Make no mistake. The Fifth Estate is a pseudo-Governmental entity for a reason, and as a citizen, demands due diligence before letting one's sense of the world get run away with.
This seems a lot like the hoagie from Glasgow, a kebab shop staple. Chips, cheese, sauce and doner meat (or chicken), all wrapped up like a burrito.
A lot of databases handle many types of data.
I'm well aware of both the colloquial use of practice and "marxist praxis". I was simply implying that, as written, my statement didn't intersect marxism in any way and therefore couldn't have been misunderstood as such without willful misunderstanding.

Note that there are other uses of the word that also themselves don't intersect marxism in any way

https://www.ets.org/praxis
https://www.luc.edu/socialwork/praxis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apraxia

Furthermore the precise definition of praxis:

>Praxis (from Ancient Greek: πρᾶξις, romanized: praxis) is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.

is exactly what I intended (since I believe pg, and others I was implicating, pontificate but don't do much).
> Great, it's an interesting philosophical question. If the issue is so important to him, he should transition to a career in philosophy, or sociology, or anthropology.

By that logic, a person without primary job in social study can criticise him for his social behaviour. People are more than just what they work on and everyone has ideas to themselves how society should be including me, you and him and sometimes like to tell the world about this. I generally tend to ignore that, e.g. when a programmer tells how bad trump is or what should be the age for consent in this case. But this doesn't mean there should be anything bad in expressing social opinion publicly.
It's not speculation though. They literally sell one currency for another. That they have value is a given, or they wouldn't be able to exchange one the other. (notice how it doesn't matter which currency is which in that sentence?)

Acceptance defines value. No other factor trumps it.
It’s too late for vaccines to save Michigan, CDC director explains
Agreed. Maybe unpopular opinion, but entrepreneur insights from CEOs are rarely valuable because no individual contribution outweighs sheer luck. Every day millions of people make smart decisions, take good risks, and work hard without significantly improving their conditions. It is pure survivorship bias to think individuals are capable of more than slightly nudging the cosmic needle if it happens to land near the right place.

It makes people uncomfortable to think that success is mostly a matter of luck. I am extremely lucky to be where I am in my career, and I greatly respect people who can admit this instead of rambling about “hustle.”
He said that poorly. But if you follow his point, he's saying that the richest people in the world in 1982 should have been the founders of companies in 1940 to 1960. He's not talking about those who founded companies in 1982; those are the richest people of 2020.

And so his point stands - why were the richest people in 1982 not the founders of companies?
Don't be silly, of course you can. It's inconvenient, but not impossible. ON/OFF ramps are the parts that they could regulate but the tighter they squeeze, the better the circumvention methods will be. I think HN really overestimates the ability of states to keep this under wraps and underestimate the ability of the ecosystem to adapt.
The Misinformation Congress Peddled to Combat Misinformation with Tech CEOs
Blog post today from us on this topic: https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/
“Good Design” Is Making Bad Cities, but It Doesn’t Have To
I did not. Thanks!
OP having a lesson about flip-side of open source software. I have never written JavaScript or NativeScript but it is very uncomfortable to read a aggressive commentary about an OSS.

> 2. Documentation is ridiculous
> They are behind with the docs for years. They always promise that the next version’s documentation will be really finished and will be awesome and contain everything.

So what? That's your responsibility to start a project with an open source framework that doesn't even have a proper documentation, you're completely free to not to use or if it is bothering you, help them.

> 4. Arrogant communication
> Go to their Slack channel and ask them about anything I mention above. They’ll cut you out with some trendy BS like:
> "You are too negative, I can’t help”

I can clearly see the reason why.

> 5. There’s no support at all

Yeah, i'm pretty sure that's how not open source works.
> Ghana is a supporter of free speech, online freedom, and the Open Internet, of which Twitter is also an advocate

Well this sounds great, maybe Ghana will teach twitter their values. Sounds like a great move overall
> Not just another social network

> it's just a forum with some convenience features

Ok...
You raise good points. Linus is a one in a million person... At the same time I do think kids, hobbiests, small startups, and people who can’t afford expensive computers will make use of RISCV on commoditized programmable logic chips like FPGAs. Look at projects like MiSTer, simply not something that was available for hobbiests and free culture advocates 20 years ago. I can see a similar development happening in the computer space. Actually I’m surprised homebrew computers architected around an FPGA haven’t yet become more popular. Maybe as the popularity of RISCV grows we’ll see more of that. Would be great to see a project that implements a risc-v based computer on a de10-nano board as a starting point.
It seems the claim here is that physics is more fundamental than mathematics. It may be an open argument, but anyone who wants to make this claim today really has to address John Wheeler's "It from bit."
Jesus, can't companies just be the company they are y'know.
Yeah I would pay money to have one of these at the top of every article I read.
Exactly. In government, this would be called cronyism. Most people instinctively understand the controversy there.
> So yeah, rich guy writes a blog article saying essentially "people should just do what I did" and water is wet.

I think it's even better. Rich guy that became reach by funding tech startups says: "wanna become a billionaire? The easiest way nowadays is funding a tech company! I can help!"
> Price gouging is the practice of using outsized leverage in a particular market to charge excessive prices. Like snow shovels doubling in price after a snow storm. Or $10 water bottles after a hurricane.
> So for AWS the term is arguably correctly applied

What outsized leverage have AWS had for a decade? There are multiple competitors at different levels, AWS are just better in terms of coverage/redundancy and amount of services.
That should not matter, but I did since you asked. It appears to be a take on BLM movement. BLM is not a race.
I definitely relate to wanting to birth projects like this into the world! The ending-involuntary-homelessness one sounds particularly interesting to me, personally. I'd love to hear more about it.

A follow-up question, is there a reason you want the stab to be well-funded? As opposed to a FOSS, nominal-fee-for-hosting-bootstrap?

From my limited perspective, the worlds' most successful technologies, in terms of (value created) - (costs incurred for each impacted party) tends to follow the FOSS/open model.

Again, limited perspective, but having observed some "well-funded" things from the inside: being well-funded comes with the cost of an incessant demand for outsized and near-term returns.

This demand is, quite frequently, at-odds with net value creation. In fact, it urges your project to become re-distributive: sucking money from bottom-to-top, either directly from the global poor, or indirectly, through government subsidies funded by taxes that are paid by those who need an income to survive (86% of federal revenue comes from individual income tax + payroll taxes, in the US in 2019. 7% from corporations. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sourc...).

The redistribution passes through you, the founder, near the top, which is nice for you because you get to keep some of it, but it doesn't change the net value equation.

All this to say, if your goal is to create real, enduring value, you might be on the right path already, today!
Elizabeth Taylor famously demanded and got a million dollars to star in "Cleopatra", the biggest contract ever at the time.

But it was darn well worth it. The movie was a huge hit, and a big reason for that was Taylor's star power.

I'm sure they could have gotten an endless supply of starlets who would have done it for free, or even paid to play the role. But that wouldn't have been a good business decision for the producers.
Not OP, but I am. Tell me the bet conditions and the winning criteria. Would take that any day. I'm serious.

I am certain they will at some point try, but fail miserably.
The start maybe done by open source some technology they use that can profit and help other startups. Maybe open source their own version of "React". That will be a good start.
Agreed, the suppression of research in this area, for decades, reveals a fundamental failure in how we as a society conduct science.

E.g., now that it turns out that saturated fat is wholly harmless, the past five decades spent failing to investigate why meat consumption really causes circulatory disease is practically criminal. How many early deaths are traceable to this sustained failure? How many, to having continued permitting trans fats in stuff sold as if it were food? How many to oxidized unsaturated fats?

People like to insist that science always gets it right in the end, but these corrections are always isolated flukes. The pattern suggests a clear majority never get corrected.

mRNA vaccines are just such a fluke; their inventor spent her whole career being spit on. How many died, for lack of mRNA vaccines in past decades when the method could have accelerated vaccine development by years back then, instead of only now?

A great fount of suppressed truths must lie dreaming in the work of women and minorities driven from their fields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc87uvk8GBc
That would make sense as a post-exceptional-transformation windfall. Not as standard comp for keeping the seat warm while saying "yeah do more of that thing that prints money".
It's disappointing that MCF doesn't get more attention.
> I'm not sure that using a phone that exposes a full Linux system is the answer here

or the full list of vulns in the Linux kernel, for that matter.
> Everyone who isn't like PG (so, 100% of the population) is finding it difficult to make enough money to have a life in the most basically fulfilling sense: education, retirement, support for loved ones, and good health

This exactly. PG arguing the relevance of the Gini coefficient is oblivious to the the crumbling state of the public infrastructure in the US and the declining accessibility of high quality public goods to the working and middle class.

The Gini coefficient is an indicator, not an objective in and of itself.

Investment in public goods might even make the super rich even richer by making the corporations they own more effective through better trained workers and less loss due to poor infrastructure.
Google always has two projects that cover “the future” - one is undocumented and the other was just deprecated.
Firecracker, s2n, chalice, jsii.

On top of that AWS has done a lot of contributions upstream, particularly around the linux kernel, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin..., (particularly the virtualisation stacks involved), some around OpenJDK at what looks like an increasing pace, and the like.

To be clear: not an AWS employee.
CEOs have very direct performance stats. It's the quarterly financial statement release.
Being in the bottom quintile for the US is not very relevant if you're not from the US. What matters far more is your position within your own society, as that's what gives you the safety net, connections, education, etc.
I think OP is being needlessly pedantic, but in fairness you can do all sorts without quantum hardware. Making quantum algorithms (shor did not have a quantum computer), quantum complexity theory, etc.
Why would I ever join a union that didn't protect me from rampant undercutting via importing more workers? That is the whole reason I would join a union.
Tim Cook explains why Apple is stepping up to protect privacy online
For an article posted to Hacker News, this is disappointingly low on technical details. So there is some "heavy signal processing" involved. And there are a few brands that sell it. Um ok. But how do they work? How do they simulate those clues tht the ears get through physical phenomena?

As-is, the article is more like a mix of product history and sales pitch than something a hacker enjoys/expects.

Imagine an article about brtfs just mentioning when it started and that it procides snapshots. Yeah .. sure, but how? That's what interests a hacker.
Appropriate or not, it was the truth, and whether people feel like hearing it or not, the truth is always justified in standing up for.
These are all over-collaterized, so you're usually borrowing up to 30% of your collaterals value, it's nowhere near the 2-20x leverage that you might get in traditional markets or leverage based exchanges.

I think it makes a lot of sense in the current bull market, it probably makes less sense in a bear market unless you're borrowing only up to like 5-10% of your collateral to actually spend on something you need.
This is what bugs me about it too. It’s so dependent on GitHub for no technical reason.
I can see value in democratic nations agreeing to use a single global blockchain they've created, without an MLM-Ponzi structure redistributing wealth simply because of adoption/use (consensus by agreement, not through greed/financial gain).
You can rent a car but nobody would suggest the car manufacturer be paid nothing for the privilege just cause the rental company cracked car maintenance and how to fill the tank.

The AWS "value add" is only value add in the context of being locked into AWS in the first place.
We Need Public Intellectuals