skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicians do come by the battlefield and then they go home and brag about how they were exposed to war. This is common across the political spectrum.

Mostly their visits had nothing to do with actual policy and had more to do with scoring a picture with people in standard fatigues on big bases. Rarely if ever did those politicians get to see what it's like when a few American Marines are instructed to go on patrol with a platoon of Afghan National Army soldiers (I'm reminded of this story [0]. They'd parade the big armored vehicles by them, they'd show them videos of us blowing up things up from a distance, but rarely if ever did those stories cover when a 19 year old is kicking in the door to a house in Fallujah with a Russian supplied and made AK-47 pointed at his dome. Rarely would they see troops in their natural state. They made us shave, clean our clothes, and would hand out replacement gear if a VIP was coming by.

This is a limited subset of behavior I personally witnessed. Civilians do it too though, most people's understanding of Iraq and Afghanistan is based on fiction and rumors, where the real pros, cons, and incentives of each are buried under a mountain of narrative and conspiracy. In watching all the dog and pony show nature of things I wondered if politicians and regular civilians would actually benefit from military service.

In some way, I think yes. Maybe the left would stop crafting policy that is harmful to veterans and service members, like the ROE change that occurred around 2009. Maybe it would make the right do more than lip service and charade to the military and veterans. Maybe people would be more understanding and observant of the warrior class. But I'm always left with the thought that any of those experiences only mean something if someone cares to try to understand them in the first place.

[0] https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/veterans/2014/04/23/mar...
Ask HN: 2021 Longest running database-backed app in production?
What is the longest running database-backed app still in production in 2021? What language, database, and OS is being used for it? COBOL? DB2? z/OS?
Any direct experiences using this? I've been looking for a good multiplatform UI for desktop that does Mac/Linux/Windows. Mobile is a nice side benefit. It would be nice to use C# again

No, I'm not interested in Electron. Blegh.
Unless you are using your software as a resume and need more Github stars to land you interviews, this is a fine result if it gets you more money. Companies like money more than they like clout - and it won't help them to have a billion users and then be undermined by "AWS Grafana" and slowly go out of business. I much prefer companies choosing the AGPL over going proprietary, using a franken-license or going out of business because Amazon sucked out all the oxygen.

Edit: it just occurred to me that opting for popularity over money is "paying" yourself with exposure.
> Imagine if software was held to the same level of scrutiny..? Software is carpentered, some is designed, and little is actually engineered.

This is why I never approve criminalizing software bugs.

Imagine if you committed some codes, then turnout codes in that commit can be exploited by hacker 10 years later, are you willing to be imprisoned for creating codes that "fails to achieve a prescribed consensus of acceptability" ?
Speaking of, why hasnt Apple produced a home robot?!? One that is capable of loading and unloading the diswasher, same with laundry, take out the trash, take bins to curb on trash day, etc.
Arguably selling support/services to a company using that product would help pay for developers that work on the product, which to me sounds like a benefit.

With the AGPL that would require dual licensing, and that draws flak as well.

I think the notion that OSS means there cannot be any money involved simply cannot hold true anymore these days. Software has become extremely complex and requires dedicated developers working on it - and they need to eat.

We are currently seeing a lot of companies changing their licensing model for a reason - because there is not currently a middle ground between OSS and a working business modell that the OSS crowd doesn't hate.

That being said, I'd love to be proven wrong here!
I wish I could agree!

Modern electronic gizmos last as long as the underlying software is supported by the manufacturer. The bits are the first part that wear out, unless supplied by Apple.

Having spent some time in southeast Asia, I can assure you that if you break the screen on your iPhone 5, someone can put a new one in for you. Good luck finding a sceen replacement for any contemporary phone: not that you would be carrying it, since the version of Android it would be running would be so out of date and insecure that the parasitic malware would render it unusable.
The idea that everything is conscious is gaining academic credibility (2018)
I think that probably contributes quite a bit to growing houses. Even if someone doesn’t want the biggest house in the neighborhood, they almost definitely don’t want the smallest.
Do you find a significant difference between that and comedy podcasts?
Great article! I knew that orchards were part of SV's ag history, but I didn't know about Andy's and that'd be fun to visit.
So the big companies have a cartel to suppress their workers' salaries, and then they write "we pay you more than we ought to" into their contracts.

They probably believe people should feel honored to work for them for free, but paying you less than fair market salary and taking away all your hobbies is the most they can get.
They did say it's up to Microsoft: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-apple-exec-native-windows-...
I'm well aware. Have you seen this drama about it?

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/5205#issuecomment-4102...
I'm sorry, but I simply can't believe that "no one is particularly happy with YouTube" while so many people still use it, including the vast majority of the people who are supposedly "not particularly happy" with it.

When people ask, "Why hasn't someone disrupted YouTube?" I think the more boring answer that keeps getting overlooked is that it still meets the expectations of enough users, and the dissatisfied constitute a small percentage.

> Many have started seeking alternative revenue streams to mitigate platform risk.

What's wild about this is that the content creators doing this still use YouTube! Even after fully acknowledging the problems, and actively mitigating those negative consequences, they still return to the platform.

I just don't see how that'd happen if it were actually a "bad" service.
Most of the planning occurred on Twitter. This was substantiate by the FBI.
> Any thoughts on Pulumi vs Terraform?

If you're just getting started with Terraform be sure to check out CDK for Terraform. It allows you to drive Terraform from a variety of high-level programming languages instead of it's DSL.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/
They'd make a fortune by providing Discord as an in-game communications solution/integration for commonly used game engines such as Unreal/Lumberyard.

Make it free up to 1000 concurrent users, then $x/MAU at plateaus /w reduced rates + $ for extras such as white labeling.

The current in-game Discord overlay is an end-user 'hack' by comparison. Games/applications are notorious for limited/locked-in communication systems and are non-trivial to implement internally. See Star Citizen's 'Spectrum' developed by Turbulent as an example of complex in-house solution.

Heck, Epic provides grants for this exact sort of development. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/megagrants

If anyone from Discord is reading this feel free to contact me for bizdev/implementation advice :D
There was a popular 90s report that concluded a 10× cost for each step from requirements to design to testing to production; I suspect that’s the one.

That rings a bell. Possibly it was something cited in the original Code Complete? Could also have been cited by one of the consultants pushing (at the time) relatively new and unusual testing and review practices as evidence for why their advice was worthwhile. But you're right, I think the exponential cost increase argument was based on a very waterfall-y development process.
Isn't that a clear cut example of Orwellian double-speak?

But not to assume malevolence ...

It's humorous how the aristocratic class is so much more Marie Antoinette these days.
I love the boiler we have, but it is an old pre-gassification boiler amd simply is too inefficient. New boilers are way more expensive than is worth it, so we have switched entirely to high efficiency indoor wood and pellet stoves.

I miss the smell of the oak from the old boiler, but not the smoke or absurd amount of wood we were going through.
I have seen this in action - it takes years to get it
Qatar is the highest in the world at 49 tons per capita per year. So you’re off by a lot.

That doesn’t make 416 tons a lot by any stretch, but we are still early in the technology cycle for carbon removal/sequestration.
Podcast Addict is my favorite. Being able to keep different settings for every podcast is nice.
TV nowadays do a lot of "image enhancement" as they call it. Things like contrast and saturation boost to make TVs look "better" at the store.
Calibrating a screen that dynamically messes with the colors seems impossible. Maybe Apple will ask the user to set the screen in a more passive mode to deal with that?
I think the real question is, suppose they make this thing 10x as fast, with 10x as much storage, and 5x the pixel density, 5x the max brightness, unlimited battery life.

Would I get one (at >$1k)? The answer is likely no, unless it's very cheap.

It's an absolutely lovely little device to have laying around on the coffee table / couch, to read the Economist, turn on some music, watch a Netflix episode. But not at the price levels it's at.

I can easily do without it, because it's still not replacing my iPhone or Macbook.

It's great to see the innovation because these features will be part of the $300 entry level iPad in 5 years. But the added value just doesn't seem to be there for me to be an early adopter of the latest Pro models. All the improved features don't really help me read the news any better or stream a show any better. And while I'm happy to pay $1500 for a Macbook due to its deep functionality, I'm only willing to pay a few hundred for a consumption device like the iPad.

I feel the iPad is kind of getting squeezed by a much improved bigger iPhone and smaller and better Macbook. The last iPhone screen is 75% larger than the iPhone 4, making lots of consumption in an iOS interface doable. The Macbook Airs are powerful, slim, great battery life, lightweight. There's the Apple TV / Smart TVs for watching shows. For me I either have to be way to rich to care, or the iPad to be so cheap that it's worth having on the side.
> A lot of Youtubers like using 4K (or higher) cameras because the resulting video looks better at 1080p.

A lot of Youtubers are not streaming, which is what most people use their laptop webcams for.

> I would think the M1s are more than fast enough to do a nice job downsampling in real time from 4K to 1080p.

Just video encoding a 1080p stream in itself is already extremely intensive even for high-end CPUs. Especially considering that I (like most users) am simply trying to take a call, and have actual work already going on that I want my processor to spend its time on.
Guidesly – Connecting anglers with trusted fishing guides
Politics aside, is there any special reason to use the plain GPL anymore? I guess if you want a copyleft license then AGPL is the way to go (in terms of granting freedom to the users). Unless there's some shortcoming of the AGPL that I'm not aware of.
A similar HN comment in 2007 might have read as follows:

"Why is my cable bill $100+? I should be able to subscribe to channels a la carte. They bundle everything together so they can charge me for channels I don't even watch!"
Your builds will only fail if you don't check in your lockfile.
Your numbers are way off. ~7 tons of CO2 is what the average American family emits per year
> A few monopolistic corporations having dictatorial power over key technologies is a dystopian nightmare.

I think "dystopian nightmare" overstates it. Monopoly control over particular technology is also a working definition of the the patent system. Hey, wait a minute ...
I do miss having the extra screen space, but even 16” felt like a bit of a compromise compared to being docked with a 27” monitor.

If you don’t mind a little blurriness you can always run it at a higher scaling mode and get effectively the same screen space as the 16”, just shrunk down. I go the opposite way—I’m willing to sacrifice space for perfect 1:1 pixel mapping.
We use slonik and a few helper functions. Very little boilerplate.
> Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.

~ Fred Brooks

> I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

~ Linus Torvalds
Nobody mentioned the fact that their main audience (Gamers) love spending money on vanity stuff (hence Twitch).
Having used WinForms and WPF and Xamarin, it's great to see a more cross-platform approach.
There is a “flamewar” filter that derates content with too many back and forth replies.
Doesn't matter where the most or least happened. Plenty of it happened on Parler, we know about it thanks to the leaks, and they had been warned for months before the riots even happened. Fault does not require a shareholder majority.
Happy to see an alternative to json and YAML being used. TOML has been a delight whenever I've used it.
Thank you for this concise summary. While not a dedicated cloud services administrator, I keep up with new technologies and follow tech news fairly religiously, and this press release made my head hurt with all of the cloud-specific buzzwords and proper nouns.

Sounds like a neat and useful project for complex setups.
Youtube has operated at best break even revenue, but mostly at a loss for years. Who has the money necessary to do that for years and years?
I'm well aware, and I've read it before.

(1) is immaterial to the discussion; I can copy to my heart's content in private, and as long as I don't distribute it, no one will know, and no one will take any action against me. At any rate, fair use defenses #1 and #4[0] are pretty compelling to cover private, non-distributive copying.

(2) is similar to (1) in that it has no teeth until you try to distribute your derivative work.

(3) is explicitly about distribution.

(4) & (5) & (6) are about public display/performance, which don't apply to software, and I would argue are also about distribution anyway.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/
It's terrifying to store credentials. I'll take 4 hours of downtime once in a blue moon over lost nights of sleep over potential security breaches.

I just can't even imagine why you would these days, there are even "local" options that act as "local 3rd party auth providers".
This is factually incorrect and disgusting. Please, keep this racist nonsense off of this website.
How does it compare to jetpack compose and the web? (ergonomics, capabilities, performance)

What is the 2D renderer being used, skia?

Usually the biggest selling point of non web GUIs is being NOT js. If only Microsoft could integrate graalVM in Edge/electron then we could all use our favorite language in the feature complete APIs of the web.
Wouldn't this mean that Pulumi has better coverage than CloudFormation?

Some things in the AWS API aren't (yet) available in CFN.
Oh phooey, all this does is extend GPL rights to users who are running the code over a network rather than their own machine.

If you don't like the GPL then you won't like this. OK, I generally disagree, but reasonable people can disagree.

If you do like the GPL this merely fixes an important corner case.

And if you are someone who pretends to like the GPL but hides their work behind a network connection: just grow up and admit you don't like the GPL. Don't lie for PR purposes.
Sure: 16” was 6-core i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 5500M 4GB GPU

Air is M1 with the 8-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
Is there a way to tie crypto to decarbonization?
Since BTC seems to create insane incentives to consume energy - I've been wondering if it would be possible to create an arbitrary cryptocurrency whose "mining" is tied to the verified removal of C02 from the atmosphere. Instead of getting governments to set a price for the carbon, consumer demand for the currency would drive the demand.
This video might be interesting to you https://youtu.be/GmWpFCjh0Fk
Possibly expand into enterprise or education and tread on the toes of slack or teams. I suspect server boosts actually could cover a large percentage of costs, especially if they either feature gate things like file uploads or chat history.
Scandals linger far longer than 3 years.

A great example is M&M’s dye choice became controversial due to customer confusion over which red dyes where harmful. So, the company couldn’t simply change the dye because what they where using wasn’t problematic. In the end they had to flat out stop selling red M&M’s for over a decade, and their reintroduction was surprisingly controversial.
I prefer the plug to not be on the charger itself. When you plug it into a power strip, it always blocks one or two other outlets.
They could just rename it the War Prize. Definitely the most controversial of the Nobels: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/war-and...
> one particular group of people

I assume you mean the OSI. But it's not just them with a problem with the SSPL. Debian and Fedora both reject it too, independently, for being non-free.
Very confusing that all types of masks are called masks in English. In Danish masks that filter air you breathe in are called masks (N95, 3M, etc. are maske in Danish) while masks that only capture some outgoing particles aren't (surgical masks, cloth mask, etc are called mundbind).
In those days, the basis of comparison for Linux was established Unixes, first and foremost Solaris. As a free hobby version it was already very desirable, and it was in the process of acquiring the performance and reliability that ultimately made it displace all the existing Unixes. So in that respect it was definitely great.

Where Windows won out at the time is that no end of essential proprietary software ran only on it (or perhaps also on Mac OS) and Linux was locked out. For example, if you wanted to use Garmin mapping software to download from your GPS, or use most printers, scanners, webcams. And of course a lot of web sites only worked on IE6 which looked poised to take over the way Chrome has now.

How times have changed. Most gadgets "just work" in Linux now too, the desktop environment is great (and here I refer to Mate, not the ongoing experiment that is Gnome 3), and the whole thing mostly just serves as a device driver for a web browser anyway.

In my personal opinion, too, the high point of Windows was Windows 7 since it first came with all the common device drivers so stuff would "just work" without the driver hunt dance. Windows 10 works pretty well - I have it on my work machine. But my mom was recently given a Windows 10 machine, and I set it to be as scrimpy with data as I could ("metered connection" and the last aggressive updates). Where, with her limited habits, she used to use around 500MB of data per month (email and very light browsing) she now comes in at 2.5-3GB, forcing a higher tier of mobile data (she's on an LTE gateway - lives in the countryside). Not great. Here Linux wins again in an old school way - it took some serious tweaking under the hood to get it to not consume data constantly i.e. not only not auto update, but not even download the updates and not even constantly download the index of available updates. Opinions vary on the wisdom of this, but it is of course behind a NAT firewall with all unnecessary services turned off. And using zero bytes per month that weren't asked for.

Back to the Windows XP topic. Her Windows XP machine is in the process of giving up the ghost after all these years and while I had her half converted to Linux/Mate, the Windows 10 machine is just more convenient, mostly because it is faster than my leftover laptops.
It's not an objectively bad service, in a vacuum. It's a bad service compared to itself from the past.
A better headline would be "Facebook wants to inform users about the fact that scraping publicly available information is easy (and there's nothing wrong about that.)" Of course, that wouldn't get Vice as many clicks.

Don't publish information you don't want to be part of some database publicly on the internet. I wish schools had some sort of tech literacy class where they explained this stuff to people…
Commento doesn't work. I tried to integrate it with my site a while ago. Didn't work. Got some server error. So I tried to contact the guy behind it. He didn't respond.

It's dead, as far as I can tell.
I’m not saying the solution is for people to not move, I’m in favour of people living where they want. I don’t have the solution to the problems caused by rapid growth, it’s probably some combination of allowing mixed zoning so that there is enough housing and supporting businesses for the new residents along with better planning of or restrictions on municipal expansion to avoid sprawl and encourage better use of the land within the existing municipality. There’s probably a bunch of other reforms necessary to prevent the bad parts of gentrification and provide more of a safety net for people who get displaced. It’sa big hairy problem for sure.
Maybe make the choice to move to established residential areas with infrastructure and housing to support growing populations instead of water-parched small communities near natural wonders?

Alternatively, those wealthy people could use their wealth to build civic infrastructure (e.g., better roads, better school, housing for working class people) to mitigate the negative externalities of their move. But generally, those wealthy movers are moving to escape urbanism and would be loathe to do those very 'urban' things.

Again, I don't disagree with you that in the current American system, 'I've got mine, f** you' is a totally acceptable way to approach moving to a new community, but to put it in words you used, "It's not going to fly" at least not in the long term.
Trust in blockchain-based systems
For me the iPad (2018) was just the cheapest entry to the tablet + pen combo. I love digital pen input and the tablet for reading documents. For a moment I liked the app ecosystem and thought maybe the Apple hype is valid. Now, I hate the stupid limitations of iPadOS, the Appstore and the commercialisation of every god damn aspect of the iPad experience.

I would kill for a good Linux tablet with low latency pen input. Xournal++ and Krita would be completely sufficient.

Most apps and ideas I initially liked on the iPad, would be much better FOSS. So many apps ultimately fail for me because the developers trying hard to wall some garden, instead of implementing export/import of an open standard.

Oh and ofc, horrible file management and no code execution.

Fuck this shit. Stallman was right...
Oh interesting (and kind of weird). I didn't know this was an option. Though it does say this at the top:

> This experimental repository contains software which is still being developed and in the alpha testing stage. It is not ready for production use.
That comment was made two years before PEP 621 even existed.
My IKEA models are not Wifi either and have a lot of flexibility (and the gateway is offline-first too). I can understand the demand for IP, since it probably simplifies a lot of things about the software stack (and licensing).