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> You’re offering 50% of a nonprofit and open source project. So 50% equity has no value.

Not if this was the only project; it's the first project.

> you’re looking for someone that can build the business side of things for you?

In a nutshell, yes. There's a lot of clamoring for something like this from within the courts but also a lot of feet dragging. I need someone who is relentless and can "close."

> Did you develop this software yourself?

Yes, all four applications (Data Replication Service, Configuration Manager, Notification App, and the web lookup app).

Tyler Tech does offer this as part of their Tyler Notify product but, like all of their products, it's very expensive and complex to implement -- and is missing features this has. This is vendor-agnostic, simple, at-cost and national.
The easiest way that I used to do this same kind of thing is to either patch the code to add a JMP instruction bypassing the registration check altogether, or using an in-memory patcher that runs the program and does the same thing... Validating the whole registration process seems alot more tedious than just patching the binary to skip it completely.
Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems [pdf]
“Feeding bedbug morbidity and mortality from nM human ivermectin dosage" (2013)
Your best bet may be a Unix workstation. IRIX in particular still gets modern software ported to it sometimes: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/cd5x78...
Couldn't it be argued that it is unfair for that to be required to be qualified as a breach of contract rather than "copyright" (droit d'auteur) violation if anybody can "contract" with you without even you being notified about it?

Or would that qualification actually be not that much interesting and it is "just" a matter of knowing that in France you must sue for contract violation in case of GPL violation?
But the aggregate cost to create and maintain that database is non-zero. That cost doesn’t scale at the same factor as licensees, but would still amortize to >$0.
>>It took over a century for the median wage in Great Britain to return to pre-industrial levels after the first industrial revolution.

I don't know what you're referring to, as all the graphs I've seen have shown a general upward trend in UK wages over the last three centuries. Maybe you could provide a source. What I do know is that per capita productivity, which is almost entirely a function of labor saving innovation, is strongly correlated with average and median wages, and is widely established to be the primary determinant of per capita income.

>>I'm not aware of this "reduced demand leads to increased prices" economic theory. Can you tell me where I can read more about it?

It doesn't reduce demand. It increases demand. Demand, in economics, is defined as purchasing power intent on consumption. As productivity increases, so does production, and with it real (inflation-adjusted) spending, as people having more goods/services with which to bid on scarce resources like labor.

Here's an explanation for how automation raises wages:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddit...
ha, you're right, the Ampere is the SI base unit for purposes of definition, but the Coulomb is arguably the conceptually simpler one... (though Volt is definitely derived). So, in terms of "intuition" (left) and SI base units (right) you have:

Watt = J s^-1 = N m s^-1 = kg m^2 s^-3
Volt = J C^-1 = N m A^-1 s^-1 = kg m^2 s^-3 A^-1
Ampere = C s^-1 = A
But is China better than Norway? Or New Zealand? Or Switzerland?

The US (pockets at least) are dysfunctional but other countries demonstrate the model of not having to live under a dictatorship that commits genocide and restricts liberties and have high values in the things you mentioned.

Not to mention that obesity comes from… consuming too much food. Chinese will be obese too soon as they become wealthier. Well, unless the government mandates calories or something like they do hours playing video games..
The Afghan biometric databases abandoned to the Taliban
I haven't thought about him in years, but James Plank is the reason I'm a programmer today. I was a terrible student and he likely doesn't remember me, but his classes were too much fun. He just assigned projects and a timeline and live coded similar exercises in class mostly along with the timeline. I probably would have switched away from Computer Engineering (a degree I barely use) without his classes.
> Australia knows it can just... get vaccines right? They are sitting at 27.1% fully vaccinated vs 52% in the US. What's their excuse?

Ahh. This one is good old pure utter incompetence plus possibly some good old corruption thrown in to the mix as well.

As much as a I understand, the gov decided not to buy Pfizer early in the pandemic since they could produce AstraZeneca plus an early vaccine candidate developed at University of Queensland at CSL (Australian BioTech company).

Instead of placing multiple orders with multiple providers, they put all their faith into CSL and it's trials.

Turns out, the vaccine at University of Queensland returned false positives of HIV cases. Stage 2/3 trials never occurred.

AstraZeneca later turned out to have side effects that quickly led to vaccine-hesitancy. By that time, Pfizer had supply issues since the US went full swing in to the vaccination drive.

There were some reports that the PM's mates were high up in CSL. I am not entirely sure of that bit but it doesn't seem unlikely.
Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat?
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Thanks! Yeah, I definitely think immersion listening can really help and I've used it a bit (subs2srs and audio books), but sometimes it can be used as a crutch to avoid speaking. Your app looks really cool and love that you incorporated SRS. Anecdotally, the hardest thing I've seen with my SO and I is that we end up switching back to english as we aren't disciplined when practicing together (even when in the other country itself lol)
I suppose it depended what you were doing. You couldn't beat Windows 98 for how light it was on RAM. Probably the fastest for DirectX games and so on vs. the competition. Fastest to boot and open up a word processor.

But I have the distinct recollection of it being excruciating for multitasking. Towards the end of Windows 98's life you might ask it to run a video player, a game, a chat client, a browser and a word processor all at once. Stability disappeared. So did responsiveness. Windows 2000 (or Linux) handled heavy load much better.
I live in China, and really the US/European flavor of democracy is much better than what we have here.
The time between midnight UTC and 9 AM Pacific is a magical, horrible window during which billions of dollars of servers throughout the world heat up producing mundane reports.
Unfortunately, people optimise for new user acquisition, not ongoing user satisfaction.
Apple Store vs. Repair Shop: What the Right to Repair Is All About
This. Old Games had lots of work from History, Mythology, Science and all sort other details in it. I mean even old Diablo I and II had a whole story book that came with it. Was it Lord of the Rings quality? No. But it is so much better than not reading a story book.

All the history lessons from games like Civilisation, Sim City helping you imagining a whole new world. RPG had lots of story telling.

Heck even MMORPG like World of Warcraft, you have to learn team building before any shit could get done. I often thought it as the ultimate leadership testing. Motivating people without any usual tools like promotion or salary rise.

Modern Mobile Games are bad. VERY bad. I would even argue it is worst than Social Media for kids. Some of them are designed to cause rage so your kids would rage spend to win. There is a reason why Nintendo thought it was wrong to do Mobile Games. It is simply not the type of games they want to be in.

I could go on, I have been ranting about Mobile Games for more than half a decade. Wishing Apple would do something about it. But 80% of all App Store Revenue coming from Games were too lucrative for them.
Not to get political, but it’s exactly this that makes me wonder if people understand what socialized services will turn into. Do people want DMV-like experiences for _more_ aspects of life?
I would rather work with a codebase that has too little architecture than too much.

When the architecture is underdeveloped, it only takes somebody with a little more experience to fix the problem using incremental refactoring. But when astronauts have run wild with too many abstractions, it can be incredibly difficult to unravel them, especially if you don’t have the original developers’ help.
how long do you expect the underlying older PHP basis to be supported as a module in apache, or run viably through whatever nginx does? what guarantees of backporting CVE security issues is there?

This wasn't just hatred of PHP (its a C like syntax. low barrier to entry) -It was about OLD php. Depending, formally (it may work on new PHP but it isn't clear. it might use deprecated language features or side-effects which dont work that way any more in newer language platform) on the old language spec can be a nightmare.

Plus, if its in a language you don't "like" then local mods are harder.

Would you e.g. run a Rust binary, if every other dependency you had was in GO? Or, APL, if nothing else you ran was in APL? Some choices about language make sense, if you consider the full ecology of running a service on a host.
I wonder what they think of steganography, the elephant-in-the-room of all anti-encryption debates.
About this:

"The 1990s had a word for being trapped inside a manipulative notion of human contact: AOL. Facebook and its ilk are the rebirth of that limited vision."

Okay, but the tone is critical, so let's ask the question, if this limited vision is somehow a bad thing, why have we seen it for 30 years? If it was there at the beginning of the Web, and it is here now that the Web is mature, then there must be something compelling about "this limited vision."

Keep in mind, I was a huge fan of the original blogosphere of 2000-2008, and I was sad when it was killed off with the emergence of Facebook and Twitter. My first startup, from 2002-2008, was originally focused on weblog tools, before we moved onto ecommerce tools.

But, again, the question needs to be faced, why did people find Facebook more interesting that the blogosphere, and why did decentralized attempts at social networks (such as FOAF, Friend Of A Friend) fail to take off, despite a lot of hype from all the major dev personalities?

Merely whining about the way the world is doesn't really help anyone. Instead of complaining about "this limited vision" it would be helpful to see more essays about why, exactly, people continue to choose limited walled-gardens. Why don't more people want to see some wider vision fulfilled? Why don't more people explore more widely? Why don't more people take out there wallet and spend more money for the kind of independent content that, in theory, they might want to see?
Half-truth here. Younger people, recently more influenced by Xi Jinping's heavier hand in dispersing Marxist indoctrination, are indeed very supportive of the CCP ("generation N"). Other demographics, specially in southern China, aren't, but they can't speak up or they'll get prosecuted with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
It depends on your environment. Say if you are at a university or something with students it will be very different than if you are working for a tech company with your Chinese co-workers. Also, southerners tend to be less nationalistic than northerners, so if you are in Beijing it is very different than if you are in Shanghai or Shenzhen (though if you are working at a tech company, your co-workers will be from all over China).

I've had co-workers who were really harmonious river crab, and some that were very non-harmonious grass mud horse...all in the same team. Outside of work, I didn't really talk about politics at all, it just never seemed to be that important beyond a lunch topic.

China was going in the right direction under Hu, if only because Hu was a weak leader. The authoritarian uptick really came back with Xi, and now that Xi has basically become president for life, it is really reinforced. It is a bit disheartening to see China move to being more liberal to more authoritarian all in a few short years. The trend probably won't change for a generation or two.
I think that you're lumping together two kinds of collapse "believers" together - one for which "collapse" means the collapse of civilization, and the other for which that word means the collapse of their country/state. The latter is much more likely, and I think that fretters of that kind are more prevalent than you think - I probably have six friends who are of the latter kind, and only one of the former.

> The West _is_ going through a lot of change/political soul searching right now

I believe that you're understating the situation a bit - at least, here in the United States, we're beginning to see markers of the kind of "cultural revolution" that happened in Russia in the 1910's and China in the 1960's - and while neither of those states have collapsed, exactly, tens of millions of innocent people were killed and rather unpleasant governments installed as a result.

While categorically different from total civilization collapse, I don't blame my fellow Americans for starting to get nervous and start prepping like a high-school senior.
I don't know why this man has such a large following outside of economics. There are a lot of better analysis of how such oppressive systems form. I respect Hayek but The Road to Serfdom is a boring read.
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You're right, and kids are so successful because they simply have so much time into it. (And literally everyone around them is a free language teacher, correcting mistakes.)

Adults don't have those luxuries; however, we can be taught and easily comprehend rules that kids don't get. Since I'm familiar with French, one such rule might be that you use a pronoun before the verb but a noun goes after. « J'aime ma femme » compared with « Je t'aime ». The contractions here, too, are things that you are likely to very easily understand (je + aime = j'aime; te + aime = t'aime, and 'je' isn't contracted).
That's not entirely true. Indian Coffee House chain has been around since the 60's. There were also Irani/Parsi cafes in some cities for even longer.
It's not reasonable at all. Literally all they do is run a database. 50% profit margin. Insane. You only see numbers like that in a monopoly.

They do not need the money at all. It's pure rent seeking.
Simple Hack to Make Decisions
I think that's what the article was describing as ABAC, and explicitly declared (paraphrasing, not quoting) "temporarily out of scope because this blog post is long enough".

But yeah, ephemeral/contextual stuff can be really important too, though getting as far as a decent RBAC system does tend to buy you a lot over most statuses quo.
Apple Plans to Add Satellite Features to iPhones for Emergencies
I think the primary point of the article is true: the open source space for these tools, is a giant mess. It depends on archaic (in internet-dog years) spec, on old platforms, on inter-platform mashups, it has standards-interpretation differences, the big players are doing things which become lockin, nobody is thinking about how to do this well enough you'd commit to it, cross-platform, without inheriting decisions for the future in terms of maintenance.

Its not how we want it to be. The problem is, this is a big problem space and has a lot of complexity underneath.

Not the least being that "timezones, are in so many ways, a complete mess"
Given the size of the staging areas, and the density of men & materiel there, perhaps not much precision was required.
I really appreciate your counter, I think that we have both made our points.

My intention wasn't really to bash on Martin Fowler, the problem is much wider than that, and he is certainly not the worst example, just happens to be the OP's subject.

Let me end by quoting MIT software engineering professor Daniel Jackson, I think that he pinpoints the essence of the problem beautifully (in his book "Design by concept", where, BTW, he credits Martin Fowler's book "Analysis Patterns" influence):

In my work as a consultant, I've been involved in discussions about future products and strategic directions, usually under the rubric of "digital transformation". Companies may be keenly aware of what they're trying to achieve (better customer experience, increased customer engagement, differentiation from competitors, etc), but much less certain of how to do it, and especially how to explore new posibilities and get results and feedback quickly. Too often, the options are cast in terms of technology adoption (selecting from the latest shiny new things, whether mobile, cloud, blockchain, machine learning, Internet of Things, etc). These technologies may have great potential, but they are only platforms, and choosing one with the hope that it will transform your business is no more plausible than expecting such an impact from the adoption of a new programming language or web application framework. A better approach is to focus on functionality, which is the source of real value.
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I have been working as a data scientist at a large healthcare company for a few months. The pay and benefits are great, but there is nothing to do. Days go on without a project, or an email or a meeting.

In some ways it is great. Since I work from home, everyday is like a holiday. I have small kids at home and I am making good use of this flexibility.

My career is stalling though. I started doing Kaggle competitions and code challenges to stay sharp, but without stimulus, I am losing motivation for that.

What would you do in my situation? Change job? keep quiet and enjoy the ride while it lasts? Reach out and ask where I can be useful?
>Australia knows it can just... get vaccines right? They are sitting at 27.1% fully vaccinated vs 52% in the US. What's their excuse?

The five key reasons that come to mind, after witnessing events unfold:

1. Sitting at a lower global priority on the vaccine purchase list for Pfizer due to very low case numbers.

2. Government deciding that the bulk of vaccines should be produced locally (likely due to a combination of sourcing being difficult, and for national security reasons). This inevitably means taking a bit longer to ramp production up.

3. The Australian Immunization Advisory Group declaring that the vaccine produced locally should be used on people aged 60+, while Pfizer would be the preferred vaccine for everyone else.

4. No vaccine injury scheme. If you are unlucky and get a rare blood clotting disorder, you have to wear the full treatment cost. And because of #3, you have to see a doctor and sign a waiver to get AstraZeneca. (This has since been relaxed now and does not have to be a doctor consultation. You can just sign the waiver at the point of vaccination)

5. Government not pushing as hard, as it in hindsight should have, to purchase more Pfizer. This is a difficult call for any government to have made at the start of the pandemic though and really ties back into #1. The locally produced vaccine would have easily covered the entire population, but the chance of blood clotting really did a number on this strategy.
Cost to operate a registry, estimates are under $1/domain - costs have been decreasing. Why should VeriSign get an indefinite monopoly with a no bid contract that renews and allows price increases? There's no benefit to the internet as a whole, where .ORG at least is plausibly going to a non profit (as hard as they tried to sell off to private equity).
I just received a refund for a campsite : (
I treat claims that people can hear differences between lossless and high bitrate lossy compression with scepticism. I do not doubt anyone's sincerity, but it's unbelievably easy to fool yourself with audio signals. Expectations become reality even when the signal is identical. What you expect changes how you listen; and how you listen changes what you hear.

(I work for a classical music label.)
I hope you know that's not true. That database has a license and/or support fees regardless of how frequently it’s updated. Same for the OS. Then there’s the hardware it runs on. The backup software and associated costs, etc.

There’s absolutely no possible way the cost is $0 unless that database is entirely funded already.
I'm nearing the end of a PhD and the most difficult classes I took were the totally-unrelated-to-my-study-and-research semesters of Japanese. The classes were really intense, sometimes meeting twice in a single day, but were invaluable for my months-long stint there. I continued classes after I came back, but eventually realized that activities for class (e.g. essay writing, grammar worksheets) were less useful than consuming native material.

It was also a refreshingily daunting experience to throw myself at something I quickly realized I had no talent in and to really writhe and struggle, but to stick through it, motivated not by any external party or marketable skill, but by earnest interest in the topic.
It's also the case, that the best historical, academic sources consistently point out that Russian disinformation and propaganda is some of the best in the world. From what I understand, based on what I've read, the US has actually learned from them. I think part of this has to do with their two decade head start over the US in political warfare. In other words, Russia has more experience doing this kind of thing over time.
Hey, that's what HN is about. You got experts in very specific niches and we should be able to talk to each other in detail, right? That's the advantage of this place as opposed to somewhere like Reddit. Though expanding size we face similar issues.

These are good points about GPS and other metadata. I didn't really think about that when thinking about this problem, but every album I create is pretty much a combination of GPS and temporally based (though I create this with friends). But I think you're right in suggesting that there are likely _simple_ ways to group some things that aren't currently being done.

> I can now see how the idea of "use public libraries = solution" falls short. It neither presents a viable solution or demonstrates rigorous understanding.

ML is hard. But everyone sells it as easy. But then again, if it was easy why would Google and Facebook pay such a high rate for researchers? There's a lot of people in this space and so it is noisy. But I think if you have a pretty strong math background you start to be able to pick out the signal from the noise better and see that there is a lot more to the research than getting SOTA results on benchmark datasets.
Plain simple text sites (Hacker News is a good example) have one great feature: they're inherently far more accessible to those with disabilities, particularly those who rely on screenreaders or text magnification or similar. Of course, following proper web standards could make the flashiest of sites accessible. But simple paragraphs of text, links, and lists, survive automatic mangling most of the time, whatever the target format is. You'd be reaching a significant population there that's often excluded. (It may be of regulatory compliance relevance, too.)
You missed the second part: work on it for a year, declare it well scoped and on track then move on to greener pastures, dumping the actual work on some juniors.

Best part about the people that do such things is that they may not even realize they do it!