skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be surprised if this actually materializes. Most likely google will abandon the project (whether by killing it or just moving all the talent to something else.

Keeping up to date native Android/iOS functionality by basically reimplementing it bugs and all is an endless demanding work requiring strong talent that will never be good enough for all your use cases and will churn anyone who works on it both from the work itself and the constant complaints of the community.

No other programming powerhouse would be willing to partake in this or even be able to keep up - you won't see an AirBnB, Microsoft or Wix commitment like you did with React-Native, where these companies were active contributors to the core and have low-level libraries of their own.

Google is the last company I'll put my money for doing long term maintenance on an open source project, let alone one with no prospect for monetization or search market-share.

There's really only one way that Flutter survives - and that's if somehow Android moves to it as a first class citizen.

This is immensely unlikely. And probably will doom Android. And in the impossible case where it will - it means iOS will become second citizen.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it (yet!)[1]

I was really excited to be accepted into the beta, but ultimately didn't want to move stuff to GitHub just for CF Pages.

[1]: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-pages-with-git...
> Chemically, H2O and D2O are identical.

Deuterium is so much heavier than regular hydrogen that the bond lengths in D2O are shortened by enough (~3%) to affect cell chemistry. Also significant differences in boiling points and other physical properties.

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/D2O/D2Oh.htm
Hows that better than a bank account?
You can hold CHF on a bank account as well and it keeps the same value as the note. (both lose value due to inflation)

Also dont forget insurance for banknotes in a safe.
If it wasn't for knowing the website I'd call it standard recipe blog spam - but it's an interesting read.

I suspect that the secret isn't the ingredients but instead how it's made - and the way the cheese is handled may be it.
The tap water where I live in Canada is fantastic. But when I'm served filtered water with tap water ice cubes I can tell the difference pretty easily.
It sounds trivial to "wrap open source software", but surprisingly it is big value-add to thousands of companies. We can't just look at successful companies like Netflix to downplay the challenges of operating a service. Not every company knows how to operate complex systems under manageable cost. How many companies can really manage a Kafka cluster, let alone scaling it, for instance? Indeed, even companies that people deem powerful may screw up, if they don't get their culture or process right. Take Uber for example, for god damn five years, they still couldn't offer a service like EC2, let alone supporting persistent volumes. They still couldn't make their database provisioning on demand via an API. Their MySQL-based NoSQL solution was still based on FriendFeed's architecture and the APIs were hard to use. Yet they spent millions building a k8s replacement, building a GPU database, switching from mysql to postgres and back to mysql, etc and etc. So, yes, cloud companies like AWS buildd mere control planes to wrap open-source software, yet such seemingly mundane offering does bring values to many customers.
> Is Amazon too big and a bully?

Is Starbucks too big and a bully? Sure, they force Mom and Pop shops to close by out-competing them, and that sucks. But bullying? I believe that's just Capitalism.

Or say you're 6'6 and weigh 230LBS and you join a football team full of people who are 5'9 and 175lbs. Are you a bully just because you're bigger?

ES basically handed them a platter with a goose laying golden eggs and a sign that read "Free Goose" and hoped they wouldn't try to make money off the eggs.
They come definitely from a privileged niche point of view although they usually have some really interesting insights. For instance this one article about how suburbs are created and that kids in the past were at their parents' workplaces and learned how they work. [1] Or another article about quality of discussion, ranging from collaboration to ad hominem. Still I hesitate to share them outside of the typical startup crowd because parts of them might offend people. [2]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
All this will do is compel companies to move to crypto friendly countries. China squeezed down on crypto. Chinese exchanges just moved their headquarters to Malta.

When you start getting into DAOs and their legal status and everything starts becoming murky.

Crypto has truly some of the most exciting developments taking place in the world today at the intersection of art, finance, law and economics. The quality of discussion on HN about crypto is woefully out of touch.
Another data breach, another stony silence from Facebook
But in that case, the question still stands. Sure they started the company, but they didn't build it alone. There are usually people involved with little to no equity. It's similar to how there are CEOs making millions per year, when that money is really made through the sales of the products of the workers. So they aren't just being compensated for what they produced, but for what everyone in the company produced.
Okay, sure, let's consider it a currency for the sake of argument. I would posit that if I can't easily exchange my crypto into a form that I can use to pay taxes with, or buy groceries with, that it's a useless currency, and so people will be able to but won't want to accept it in a trade. Currencies aren't useful simply because they _can_ be traded, they're useful because they _can_ be trusted.
> most of the same people in government who want to see a crackdown on Bitcoin also seem to want cash to be eliminated

Can you provide a source for that? First I've heard of such an argument from government officials
> They dont want competition

Which is another way of saying they want absolute control, which in this case is the absurd charade where "inflation" measures that they claim represent life on the ground exclude the essentials like education, healthcare, and housing.
I'm speaking in the hypothetical where crypto is regulated or banned. If you can't legally use it to trade where you physically reside you either need to convert to fiat overseas or buy your physical goods or services overseas. In either case the government isn't going to turn a blind eye "just because".
Imagine if they went after Mongo next?

Atlas is a virtual monopoly for Mongo solely due to SSPL, and it has created a ridiculously overpriced ecosystem for hosted and managed services, and tooling around it.

Parking the technical merits to one side, considering the sheer number of devs and early-stage products that are built on Mongo, I'd love for someone to go after them next.
Yep, both the Smithsonian Air and Space Center and Steven Udvar-Hazy Center are well worth the visit. They have the Discovery, SR-71, and Enola Gay on display. Oh and the Concorde! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center
I think the very fact that you have to rely on things like that when debugging speaks volumes about the language deficiencies. Or maybe it's just the tooling or environments where JS is executed?

In any case, the debugging experience is probably the biggest reason why I dislike modern web dev and tend to steer my career towards back-end.
Not mentioned in the piece is that a small fraction of naturally-occurring water is "heavy" for a somewhat different reason. Oxygen as well as hydrogen has stable isotopes, O17 and O18.

Summary of O16, O17, O18 formation inside massive stars, here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_oxygen
I think you are confusing different types of banks. As for loans, think about your housing example: say it takes 30 years to earn enough money to buy a house. So without banks, people could only move into their own house after 30 years of work. Thanks to loans, they can move in now and pay it off within 30 years.

An even more extreme example, if you want to start a business. If you have to save for 30 years to get your starting capital, you might already be too old to start.
Meilisearch is a new niche engine for instant-search experiences, and is far less flexible and less mature than Elasticsearch
> The purpose of the FSF isn't protecting children

The purpose of FSF and RMS as a spokeperson/leader is to represent a movement and the people behind it.

You cannot represent *me* if you:

- make all sort of "weird" remarks about age of consent

- brush off any sincere question or constructive criticism for decades

- systematically walk up to every young woman in a conference to ask her out

- throw temper tantrums for being offered a can of coke at a conference

- show up at conferences improperly dressed, barefoot, pick from your feet and eat some bits

- show up at public dinner with a strong body odor

> The purpose of the FSF is free software. Not people's feelings.

The behavior as a PUBLIC speaker affect the credibility of the WHOLE movement in the eyes of the world.

It's only rational not to support a bad public speaker.
I can’t find any engineering job postings on their careers site with the location “Ghana Remote.” Hopefully those roles are coming soon.
Where is the snow belt? Is that just the entire north half of the country?
Did you look at the actual pages?
Thanks for posting the PG wealth tax article. It is a highly flawed analysis.

First wealth appreciates over time. So if your wealth appreciates at 15% / year, and the govt. taxes it at 1%, the net effect is growth rate is slowed to 14%. With these assumptions, someone starting with $1mm in wealth ends up with $2.6 billion after 60 years!

Second - PG ignores that most wealth tax proposals have a high minimum wealth - in the $50mm range. So there is no early compounding of the tax. Adding this into the model, the wealthy founder ends up with $3.3 billion after 60 years.

With no wealth tax, this hypothetical founder ends up with $4.3 billion. So, yes the government has taxed a total of ~ 25% over 60 years, but the founder ends up quite wealthy.
Neoverse V1 has SVE, Neoverse E or N do not.

"E" is efficiency, N is standard, V is high-speed. IIRC, N is the overall winner in performance/watt. Efficiency cores have the lowest clock speed (overall use the least amount of watts/power). V purposefully goes beyond the performance/watt curve for higher per-core compute capabilities
JMESPath is similar: https://jmespath.org
Nigeria banned banks from trading in crypto, killing off the fiat.

Nigerians just started making telegram and whatsapp groups, made codenames for different coins and traded them for cash or bank transfers.

Unless you decide to bank commerce and phones and the internet and talking to your neighbor and running a computer, you can't ban crypto.
Unless the application is decentralized enough so there is no central server to pay for ...

EDIT: but I probably wouldn't use it either.
Stable coins exist.
If this project were to be governed by Apache Software Foundation, I'd have associated more credibility to this effort.
I don't think "upper management comp has exploded only because they invented an entirely new way of compensating themselves" is the get-out-of-jail-free card you seem to think it is.
Thanks for the recommendation. I just checked the latest Dispatch Weekly and am pretty disappointed by the reporting there, as a lot of the summaries still read more like political commentary and wankery than reporting facts, and the long essay about some reporters child is completely unnecessary. Is that normal for that newsletter?
True! At least they kept some sandwiches in the freezer to reverse engineer later
Just before COVID I trekked into Baïkonour - just next to the building with the Burans is Yuri Gagarin's launch pad - which is quite amazing to see.

Photos for the interested: https://ninjito.com/2020-02-05-Baikonour
(Gagarin's launch pad in the second to last photo)
This reminds me of a graph of breweries in America over the last 100+ years.

I think the line started around 3k or 4k breweries across America around 1900, reached an all-time low in the 1970-1990s and now were back up to where we started.

Of course, the story here is refrigeration. When refrigeration was not common place, you needed a lot of breweries near consumption.

I'm also thankful for the variety of beer options we have today.

edit: this might have been the image I remember - but theres no data source mentioned: https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/historical-b...
Why would the app need to do a lookup? Store the numbers, and if/when you test positive then submit them along with your bluetooth keys.

Seems to me like a lot of these problems go away if governments stop making things more complicated than they need to be.
The server side license stuff doesn't prevent shared hosting providers from using software. It just requires hosting providers to open source their infrastructure.

I think the internet would be even better today, if shared hosting providers had been sharing infrastructure technology since 25 years ago.
Performance and incentive alignment. John Doe stacking pallets at the Coca Cola factory really won't produce much better top or bottom line results for the business if you offer him a stock bonus. His forklift only drives so fast, and he plays a very minute part in the direction of the business. The CEO on the other hand can have a huge impact, and it's why shareholders choose and vote on certain incentives and bonuses.

But more importantly, in other businesses this type of comp is certainly offered. If you work in a small startup in any position, you probably get stock options, because your performance on a 10 or 20 person team probably does have real noticeable and measurable impact on the business's success.
Hey All, if you're interested in getting a good understanding of this vs Elasticsearch, we invited the team to give a Haystack LIVE talk where they outlined the details and goals of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_6U1luNScg
>Whatever your stance on cryptocurrencies are, what is of little dispute is the business opportunities they have created. Binance and Coinbase are large, successful companies.

What business opportunities have been created outside of the crypto space?

> i feel nations who embrace cryptocurrencies early will see mixed results as the landscape matures.

They may also leave themselves open to these currencies being manipulated by foreign mal-actors
Weinstein just published outline of the general idea he already had decade ago. Apparently he has not worked on with the technical details (doing physics) to see if it works out at all.

Vague ideas are "everyone is selling, nobody is buying" market. No amount of promotion will change that. At least Nguyen is politely giving him pointers.
At least it’s not an order of magnitude worse /s
I could see the physics department doing this, if it wasn't that expensive. They used to have cocktails with dry ice in them - not sure how legal that is, but it's great fun. If you breathe in the vapour you can taste the drink quite strongly already.

(Note, if you put too much dry ice the water in your drink will freeze and that can affect the taste quite negatively..)
Microsoft love implementing features that make me want to disable everything including Windows Update

How many people doesn't get updates today because they got sick with the way they were doing windows updates back in the "forced restarted" early days

This bloat culture at microsoft has to stop, please!
How Workast has helped businesses evolve in the new state of work through Covid
> They come from diluting Wall Street.

Yes, until the company offers a stock buyback (which these companies collectively spent more than 50 billion on in 2020)
> Hows that better than a bank account?

GP said it, negative interest rate, i.e. the bank charging you to hold on to your money when you have more than a certain amount (was it 100k or 25k CHF).

So if you put in 100k in the bank and wait a year, you'll be able to withdraw maybe 99.8k CHF. If you hoard 100x 1000 CHF notes, you'll still have 100k CHF. Sure in 1 year those 100k CHF will probably buy less Big Macs then the present, but the 200 CHF loss will mean even less Big Macs.
google maps and youtube and instagram were acquisitions

2/3 of those arguably are among the most important parts of their respective companies
Uh isn't "swimlanes" actually sequence diagrams?

I was looking for an actual swimlane diagram tool...
I know a few people who worked at FAANG for a few years and then bought nice houses in the city I live in (they left their FAANG jobs). Money might not bring you fulfillment, but having enough to buy a $500k house in a place you want to live can get on the way.
FCC Asks Consumers for Broadband Data Information
I wonder why they didn't go with "How Twitter is Colonizing Africa"
I did manage to work around the limitation by creating a mirror on Github, but it's definitely suboptimal.
So de Icaza told an anecdote and got > 50 likes, but we never hear the other side.

Why do some Twitter personalities always have first hand evidence while also writing software? Where do they find the time?

At least we have Microsoft/Linux instead of GNU/Linux now.

Perhaps RedHat and Debian (depending on the outcome of the GR) should rename that part.
Do you mean a better SMTP server or making a better* e-mail in general? (As an example)

* Better in this case would be a fundamental design to prevent spoofing, provide S2S encryption maybe E2E encryption, fixing MIME typing issues, fixing Rich Text/HTML display, etc. Basically an actually good faith replacement of e-mail instead of a vendor co-opting.
When someone is pushing is stuff it’s probably garbage
You're not wrong, but the perspective feels like missing the forest for the trees. So what if stock-based compensation was uncommon in 1965? The average employee doesn't get to benefit from the very real contributions they've made to the company, while the CEO does benefit. Why didn't employee profit-sharing increase at the same rate as non-salary compensation did for CEOs? That's still relevant.

Additionally, your comment leaves out the golden parachute CEOs often have, which is orders of magnitude greater than most severance packages, if there's even a severance package in place. Financially, it's pretty hard to fail as a CEO of just about any public company; even in failure, you profit considerably.
There are plenty of unofficial records and leader boards for typing speeds where qwerty typists are just as capable (more so even due to sheer availability) as Dvorak typists at hitting 200+wpm, and while that alone shouldn't be used to judge the quality of a particular layout it shouldn't be ignored that there's no difference in attainable max speeds done in short bursts. That says nothing about sustained typing of course, but I strongly suspect if you're already a competent and fast typist in qwerty you'll be comparably as fast in Dvorak and vice versa.
Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers
Or make it illegal and have the NSA directly attack the compute used to secure it
Yeah, much better for them to not hire any people in Africa and just have their product there! /s
This is impossible - the fine would have to be absurdly high to matter and if they disabled their business in the EU there would be riots. Facebook can essentially do whatever they want as they are also likely sending information to services.
I appreciate what dkma does--but the steps are still a major annoyance for customers who typically blame the app developer.
People from the US and other countries are sending money abroad via crypto to fund terrorism outside the US
I figured as much, but was surprised by the 30% figure. I always assumed a tax rate of > 40% to support those social programs and benefits.
I was lucky enough to go to the Masters in 1999, and 2014 and the change was remarkable. The 1999 course was very quaint and secluded, with the facilities mostly temporary structures. You parked in peoples front yards for $25 a day, and yes the food was great, yet cheap. Fast forward to 2014 and it's like the place had become a major sports park. Suddenly the houses are gone and you're parking in a huge field, going through metal detectors, large cafeterias, even a hotel has sprung up. What I liked about the 1999 course was how much it wasn't commercialized. In 2014 it felt overly commercialized, but I guess that's how they make money.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has made the case that Apollo 8, the first mission to venture outward from low Earth orbit, deserves a place in this pantheon and is arguably more epochal than Apollo 11. It is a question of which is more significant: venturing outward for the first time, or arriving somewhere for the first time. Collins has said that, as time passes, that first tentative outward journey feels more significant to him on the grand timeline of human history than the first step on the Moon.
I can't comment on NativeScript as a technology. However, I would like to comment on the issue of his treatment in support channels.

He surrounded in quotes: "We are working on NS for 6 years, how dare you tell something is wrong?" and that seems suspiciously like a paraphrase on his part. I doubt it is a direct quote but rather a way the author wants to describe how he felt over the course of several exchanges.

One of the other supposed quotes, "You are too negative, I can’t help", is a bit more telling.

His other criticisms aside, I actually have no problem with open source support channels (or any support channels really) excluding toxic negativity. Some people seem to assume that complaining is the same as contributing. If the only thing you bring to the table are your complaints then don't be surprised if you get excluded.
HN is boomer central when it comes to crypto. Haven't had a single enlightening discussion about it here.

I see a lot of misconceptions about scams and pump and dump schemes carried over from the 2017 run, and complete neglect of the innovations created since.

If anyone wants a refresher, I'm always willing to chat. I will also write a primer to help get folks up to speed on what's the latest in crypto.
I think you misunderstood my response. it's not that the same software works as an eBook reader on every platform, but that nearly every platform has native and high-quality eBook readers. Try and run your Electron application in a Symbian phone or an iPad, for example.
It says inspired by vim but it isn't vim compatible?

I am pretty much confused. I heard that Rust community likes to remake everything in Rust, so I guess I can put this in that bucket.

Like, we have NeoVim that is pushing the Vim boundaries. This doesn't seem to be trying to do that.

I think, as an effort, it is probably very educational to make editor. As a product, it might not be for actual Vim users. As you know Vim is plenty fast, with NeoVim unblocking operations, we have our problems and challenges solved.

Clearly Rust is fantastic language I and other devs should pay attention to and learn as it inspires people to make things.
He was writing those things on his personal web site, before anyone called them blogs.

It has nothing to do with free software, you're right, they are his opinions on stuff.
Yes, and considering Ben's past writing on Stratechery, this is also a constant argument of his. The Internet is abundant of alternative-but-same-quality content, not just copies of a single original source.