skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Didn't Munich do this like 20 years ago and it was a complete failure?

Yes, but the failure was basically manufactured. You cannot keep every process as it was before and just install Linux/libre office, yet that is what they did.

Their current processes are optimized for windows to a degree that usage of the Microsoft office suite is part of the training they undergo.

Switching at this point would be a multi-year process that cannot be rushed. Each task needs to be evaluated separately and a new solution has to be tested and likely engineered from the ground up.
Not quite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Thanks for posting that for the world to hear.
This being the government, they have the power to flip this around. Why invest in compatibility with Microsoft Office when you can use the good old native OpenOffice formats instead? When the state is working in LibreOffice, there's no need to save files in Microsoft's format anymore.
Don't share your predictions in the real world, then. Normal people want to hear good news, even if they are false. Or bad news they find outrageous or catastrophic and that they feel empowered to fight.
Community = Accountability and Motivation = Execution
Kok v0.4.0: Redesign the annotation syntax
Previous submission, 88 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317217
New Clues to Delta Variant’s Spread in Studies of Virus-Like Particles
Perhaps there is some definition of freedom in mathematical terms in which the total scope of decision-making autonomy is maximized over all citizens? The barbarian example would yield a low tally, as the leaders of a hoard are "free," but their subordinates have little decision-making capacity. In terms of the limitations of personal freedoms, the boundary might lie where the diminishment of others' freedoms exceeds the diminishment of one's own if restrained. (E.g. killing someone eliminates all of their future decisions, but preventing a murder eliminates only one decision for the potential murderer?)
https://github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
> building out a similar technological and political infrastructure, using similar the justifications of countering terrorism, misinformation, sedition, and subjective “social harms.”

FWIW, this seems to be a common thread in many countries apart from China and the US. “Sedition”, for example, has become the stick to use for any kind of dissent uttered in India over the last few years (a lot more so compared to before).

> rather, it is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme. A consensus-challenging internet is perceived by both governments as a threat to central authority, and the pervasive surveillance and speech restrictions they’ve begun to mutually embrace will produce an authoritarian center of gravity that over time will compress every aspect of individual and national political differences until little distance remains.

Again, please add India to this list. It would take a lot to detail out how things are in the country. So let me share one recent set of incidents in a major city (where Google has its largest offices). Police, without the backing of any law or specific authorization, were stopping people on the streets and asking them to unlock their phones and show their WhatsApp chats so that the police could read and see if the person was involved in transacting ganja (marijuana/weed).

But such things go on without the courts batting an eye or punishing the abuse of power with serious consequences.

I’ve kinda lost faith in democracies and the claims of checks and balances with the executive, legislature and judiciary. Power corrupts all of them equally, and they all side with each other rather than with the people who they took an oath to serve.
Carpentry tools that only build workbenches.
"You do not extend tolerance to those who would deny your humanity."

And this is how fascism starts
Lamport acknowledges the report, not the error. I'm still not convinced there even is an error.

The state after step 9 should be the same as after step 7, i.e. `A(-:-,100) B(100:b,100) C(100:b,-)` because C needs to retain the "highest-numbered proposal" it accepted, not the one it accepted last. That means the nine steps outlined in the post/on StackOverflow do not, by themselves, demonstrate any problem.

So what additional steps are missing/what alternative steps actually produce an inconsistency/divergence?
I really like how the documentation also includes a huge amount of user contributed notes that demonstrate various alternate examples as pointing out certain caveats/nuances.
Update: I misspoke. Hitler absolutely accused Jews of treating Christian Germans of being lesser than themselves while arguing that Germans like himself were superior to everyone and everyone else was subhuman.

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Have you actually read Mein Kampf?

Hitler never claimed the Jews were denying his humanity nor had German Jews ever denied the humanity of Christian Jews.

Hitler on the other hand did indeed deny the humanity of German Jews. Perhaps you heard about how that turned out.
Posting a wiki article is not an argument
In that case, if you want a somewhat entertaining very-high-level overview of what would need to be done, then there's a manga that showed this off a few chapters ago, it's called Dr. Stone. What stuck with me the most was that the purity needed for the silicon used in processors was absurdly high, so much so that they couldn't quite do that just yet, so they made a processor out of parametrons and used magnetic core memory. I knew semiconductors had to be very pure, but it was a bit discouraging to realize just how much effort it would take if you started from zero.
It's the authors we disagree with we should read the most enthusiastically, because they may just provide an insight into what it is to have different opinions, and we may just be forced to admit they have a point.

When we read authors too close to home that say things we already think are true and share our views, we'll let almost any nonsense argument slip by. That's a waste of time if I ever saw one.
Timestamp shows which one came first.
But the article says:

> The scientists were able to prove this by analyzing nasal swabs from around 300 patients. They could predict with a probability of around 90 percent that individual patients would later become seriously ill or die from the Covid-19 infection.

Or is your response to something else?
Of course, HN readers are equating you with Hitler now after what you said and I'm not surprised. But just so you don't trigger them next time, a better phrase that you may agree with and that won't be so triggering might be 'you deserve as much tolerance as you give others'.
Babbage's analytical engine comes close, and doesn't even use electricity.
It is actually a 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport with 175K miles on it. Trying to figure out the trigger but it's like when I come down from a gear doing around 45-55 the van jolts short and there is a loud cluck and then it slips into neutral and then catches back in gear.

And yes, like shit is the right way to put the treatment. But I understand, it is so hard for people to not see my disorder as something I willfully express on the world. I know a better understanding is around the corner, but I am afraid treatments will take longer to appear. It is a slow process.

And thanks.
What you’re describing is the scam, and that’s become the definition, but “NFTs” in general do have more potential than that, even if it’s crowded out by bullshit. NFTs make more sense where a token’s utility is implemented in the same system as its ownership. For example, a domain name is an NFT, and there’s an ethereum name service: https://docs.ens.domains/ - ownership of a domain allows you to configure the domain.

I’d wager most people purchasing art NFTs don’t really have a good understanding of what they’re buying. Some think the art lives on-chain, or that if the art lives on IPFS it is a blockchain-based permanent thing (it’s not, data only exists in IPFS as long as >0 people “pin” it, and artists engage in pin rings to pin each other’s art).

So I see potential value of NFTs in general, though I don’t think the value is necessarily good. You could make the argument that art NFTs are like a MVP to see how ownership of different kinds of things in a distributed system works. I’m very skeptical because it’s attempting to create artificial scarcity of digital media, and if they figure it out for real, I can see that going wrong in more ways than I can see it going right.
I used to volunteer for the FSF and I can't agree with that at all. The FSF is politically/socially irrelevant and GNU has largely failed and been relegated to an extreme niche. The "free software movement" as it stands is still a reactionary movement, a desire to go back to the good old days when hardware vendors also wrote all the software and shipped the source code along with their products. It's just not a realistic goal.

It also doesn't seem to really matter whether you call it open source or free software. Either way the projects that I see are all struggling for cash in the same way. It's not easy to fund a product when the entire point is you're giving away your labour for free to everyone on the internet.
Update to a more recent version, they re-worked the nav to be one menu on mobile.
It's good to be resilient, but I think it is also important to see the example workplace as what it is too. It is just as much a factor in this story.
1. The develop-try cycle is fast: In PHP if you change some code it will be immediately visible - no server reload needed. That's because the "application" is reloaded at every web request. There is no application server.

2. The PHP ecosystem is quite mature, and packages are of good quality in general

3. Dependency management works well. You will rarely end up in a state where your dependencies are incompatible between each other (something that happen often with npm for instance)

4. It's faster than python/perl/ruby
Either that or he didn't read the article.
Generally you're probably right, but it does depend on how many users you have.

Not speaking from experience, but I'd presume there are quite a few custom software projects that are designed for one single client running on a cluster of handful of machines.
What kind of harm, i.e. which stats to look at to compare the different approaches?
> So when that decision indeed caused something bad, he emailed the CEO explaining why they should have know it was bad from the start.

Given the meetings where decisions were being made were happening behind closed doors, he very well may have complained about a direction the CEO had chosen.

Too many blind spots.
Hum, org has built-in export/publish to (among other things) html. You can add inline .css as required. What it is missing?
COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, but May Not Be Able to Save Them
Chapelle is a "Right Winger?" Is he a "White Supremacist" too, yet? "Clayton Bigsby" was a dog whistle!
I don't think there ever was federation support? Or maybe you were an earlier adopter than me, and talk of a time before they killed federation?
are you sure you're not mixing up freedom and stability? Individual freedom is not something China is known for.
Sure, there's lots of people on the far right saying things like "Muslims are terrorists who are trying to invade us" or "globalism is a plot by the international jewry to do so-and-so".
I think this article is mischaracterizing him as an applied mathematician with contributions to economics, game theory, computing etc — it gives almost no weight to his real mathematical work. I wonder why - it seems inconceivable that the biography being reviewed makes the same mistake.
Also unix talk(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
I'm in a position to recommend similar for a large organization, but am on the fence. They have SharePoint on-prem and Office, and are being pulled to Office 365 by MS sales folk. I'm definitely pushing to linux containers for apps, etc, and part of me wants to recommend Libre. There's a lot not to like about Office and SharePoint, but I've yet to find decent open-source document management software that does all the things SharePoint does. I could recommend they stitch together some things, like some of the low-code projects I've seen here, some calendar apps, some dropbox clone, BI/reporting tools, etc. into a Kubernetes environment. But that's more complex than "go pay N/user/mo for this service". You have to get SSO working for all the things, and each has their own quirks, etc.

Any HNers out there have recommendations for open source tools to replace SharePoint/Office 365?
Racism has deep roots in humanity, and likely other apes and beyond. Its roots are in an evolutionary-beneficial distrust of others that is now maladaptive.

Which groups fighting racism are you referring to specifically?
we're using this for document management in a large European research project. It sort of works but has its quirks. The UI is not really smooth, and the whole system could be more stable. I once lost a day's work because of a bug in the writer component. That was quite discouraging.
You can see it as the "signature" of the creator. Everybody owns the photograph, but only 1 person owns the signed photograph.
I think you and austincheney might be looking for [TypeDoc](https://typedoc.org/). See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265856
I don't know.. I'd be very worried about bitrot, so I would at least want to clone that hard drive a few times. Then spread those copies so that a leak in a basement doesn't take it out. At that point, why not just make a VM which you can move everywhere? I still have VM's that are 10-12 yeras old that I can still boot.
Could you provide a comparison of Budibase vs. Power Apps? What are the pros and cons?
I am glad that they posted this with the subtitle instead of the original title "Cultural Revolutions" which was posted a couple of days ago and sadly got no traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29247018

The way Edward Snowden weaves Ai Wei-Wei's account of his journey through the Cultural Revolution (1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246165/1000-years-o...) and his own is great:

From the time I began studying China’s quest to intermediate the information space of its domestic internet, as part of my classified work at the NSA, I’d experience an unpleasant spinal tingle whenever I came across a new report indicating that the United States government, was, piece by piece, building out a similar technological and political infrastructure, using similar the justifications of countering terrorism, misinformation, sedition, and subjective “social harms.” I don’t want to be misunderstood as saying “East” and “West” were, or are, the same; rather, it is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme. A consensus-challenging internet is perceived by both governments as a threat to central authority, and the pervasive surveillance and speech restrictions they’ve begun to mutually embrace will produce an authoritarian center of gravity that over time will compress every aspect of individual and national political differences until little distance remains.
> Under the influence of politically correct extremism, individual thought and expression are too often curbed

Uh-huh. I can only assume this refers to the so-called "cancel-culture" which probably doesn't exist (I am not claiming that there aren't "cancellation" incidents, but for this to exist as a "culture" or a trend, it needs to be shown that fewer people today can express and publicly disseminate fewer opinions than in the past; this is probably the very opposite of reality).

Freedom is almost self-contradictory. A person living alone in the world can be free, but two cannot. Either they have the freedom to curtail the other's freedom, or they do not. Either way, someone here is not fully free. So whenever people speak of more freedom, the question is, more freedom for whom and at the expense of whom. Like anything political, freedom is a resource that needs to be allocated among people, and there are valid debates over how. But within reasonable circumstances, there is no one direction toward freedom, but many directions, each giving more freedom to some and less to others.
Mostly efficiency. A typical shell function doesn't spawn a new shell, which running a script would. On a modern system, it's probably irrelevant.
Between Something Awful forum members where most of us went “huh, novel, whatever” and didn’t get wrapped up in it.
Well yes, it directly corrects the wrong attribution made above.
We use asciidoctor + jekyll at $CURJOB. It seems to work great, can be hosted for free or low cost. Lots of templating wins.

I do wish it supported running code snippets, but I think that can be done with some scripts and including things. (On the list, not done yet.)
> What problem does Bitcoin (Or blockchain, if you prefer, I'll take either answer), solve?

My opinion - the most significant problem bitcoin (and, historically, gold) solves is it is a store of value that is difficult (arguably, technically impossible) to inflate - there will only be 21M bitcoin, ever.

We all trust the fiat USD as a store of value bc we have trust that the US treasury and central bank will not start to fund government operations by "printing" more money.[1] However, that is effectively what is happening.[2] This is a really hard pill for people to swallow bc it fundamentally changes our worldview - "the US government is the most trustworthy, I have saved all my money in USD, how could they do that to me?" That emotional response will look like anger, hate, denial, etc.

So, what the fed and the treasury are doing is very bad for everyone. Hopefully, the majority of Americans will come to that conclusion before it is forced upon them. How does bitcoin solve this? Bitcoin does the same thing gold did (except a lot better in a couple ways [3]). When I dig up a gold nugget, I worked to create it, which is another way of saying I spent some energy and that energy is represented in that nugget I hold in my hand.[4] Bitcoin is the nugget in electronic form. Digging those nuggets is hard bc they are rare, so I don't worry about more people competing with me with more nuggets.[5] Now the dollar has a competitor. I hope that bitcoin keeps the stewards of the USD honest, bc people can trade their dollars for bitcoin - that is the problem is solves.

[1] I am not a fan of the word "printing" when describing the mechanics of what's going on today. It's an over-simplification, but analogous enough for people who do not have the intellectual inclination to go into the specifics. Most people get bored very fast when I try to talk about economics.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csf4fdV-EOQ

[3] It weighs as much as the thing that holds the private keys, takes up almost no space, is divisible, can use it for a payment very quickly, very divisible, bitcoins supply is known, etc.

[4] If you take away anything from this post, please let it be this - energy is the master resource.

[5] This is the best starting point for people to dig deeper (trigger warning, Jordan Peterson is in it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvQcuIb5rU&t=65s
> Racism in the US is just fascism that hasn't hit white people yet.

It's rooted in classism and in a special breed of expressively-aggressive individualism. Self-identification and self-expression is paramount. You are forced to identify as a member of many different groups and outwardly express your thoughts and opinions.
I think the biggest advantage of Org Mode over Markdown is that Org Mode can attach properties to headers. This seems trivial, but it's not. Because of that, you can:

1. Give a header an id and jump to it from anywhere.

2. Attach scheduling information to the header so that you can easily track TODOs and DONEs. I usually further break down a TODO into several sub-TODOs and write something under each one to organize my thoughts, including code blocks, tables, quotes, footnotes, which is impossible in Markdown.

3. You can attach anything else to it, too. I also attach an Anki note ID to it and use Org Mode as an alternative Anki editing environment. Because of the attached note ID, I can easily distinguish whether I want to create a new Anki card (without an ID) or update an existing one (with an ID). That is also hard to implement in Markdown (Strictly speaking, I don't think it's even possible to implement it in Markdown).

My only complaint is that Emacs is the only text editor that fully supports Org Mode. Other editors (e.g. vim, VSCode) support it too, with only to an extent.

Sometimes I also wonder why Org Mode is not as popular as Markdown, the former is far more powerful.
You are definitely not alone, this is very applicaple to many fields as it comes down to lack of critical thinking by majority of people, that is why I actually think it is normal, not that I approve but it is just the natural way of how things go.

I see that the norm in IT is too much cargo culting but it is at different levels in different shops (different people, company culture etc.). It is especially funny when there is so much unclear and contradictory opinions/implementations formed around supposedly the 'best practices', but of course it is never funny :) to those people who know it all. So many people lack the notion of opinions and tradeoffs, feasibility of applying some 'best practice' depends on context but no, all it takes is someone to read a copy-pasted article and zealously defend the bulletpoints without even understanding the essence. People probably feel a lot of proud when they conquer (or at least when they think they got it) some complex unnecessary pattern that is supposedly the bestest practice that is practiced by only the select bestest developers, this probably adds a lot to cargo culting.

Anyway though, I found that being easy going sometimes (read: always) is the least painful way of dealing with such people. Of course it might be hard for some people, but at least try to play the game of being politically correct, for the sake of your own sanity. For example you can just reply that it is not necessary to apply complicated patterns on simple showcase project, this would be a pretty political answer I believe.
well let's say I want to write a click-baity title and after thinking about it long and hard I hit on "I am super boring", as it happens this title turns out to be extremely ineffective as click-bait.

My contention is that the intention to click-bait is not sufficient, but that a threshold of capability to match the intention must be reached.