skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's simply not true. While having high market share does give you a short-term advantage, if a better alternative exists you'll bleed market share over time. Look at what happened to Netscape, then Internet Explorer, then Firefox. It'll happen to Chromium eventually too.

The time frames at play shouldn't be forgotten about here, nor should the magnitude of the effect.

Most developers universally hated IE from IE 6 (2001) to IE 11, which might still be supported until 2030:

> Microsoft is committed to support Internet Explorer that way to 2030 at least, with one year's notice before it is discontinued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_11

And yet, it still had to be supported and for some systems still needs to be. For whatever stupid reason, many were locked into using it and had little choice. Sure, eventually it could be tossed aside by most sane enterprises, but if developers had been given proper reign over what to choose to use, then it would have been ditched a few years after the release of IE 6 (Firefox came out around 2002).

The average Joe/Jane doesn't really care about the browsers, though. They might not even recognize what a browser really is, merely know that they can use that one icon to access the Internet. Thus, the choice is made for them. Similarly, most laptops and desktop computers come with Windows preinstalled due to manufacturer deals, much like how most Android variations come with adware and other garbage. Nobody wants it, but nobody (at a certain price point), has any alternatives.

If you don't know that there's a choice to make, someone else will make it for you.

And i'd posit that there isn't as much of a difference between being technologically illiterate in Windows and being technologically illiterate in *nix.

> Open-source alternatives to popular desktop software packages have existed for decades, and the reason they haven't snatched market share away from the main packages is because they don't work well.

This is fair, though, especially because most FOSS software is basically developed below the poverty line: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

Nobody's going to have good UX or fancy onboarding if they can barely find enough resources to keep the project going and fix all of the bugs, as well as handle the technological churn of keeping dependencies up to date etc.

Outside of the ravings of FOSS enthusiasts and niche circumstances (e.g. servers), open source software will generally find it hard to compete with commercial offerings, most of the time, especially when it comes to software for the common folk.
This looks so pretty! Did you use any CSS framework for the fonts and layout?
https://archive.ph/MkTvP
Using environment variables with Cloudflare workers, to generate dynamic HTML
By applying for unemployment benefits. That only works if you live in a sane country.
Is it ever laziness? I think that the myth of the lazy bum is just that, a myth.
I too have a significant physical Lisp library, including TAotMOP. I’m also a bit of a curmudgeon and don’t love some of Clojure’s syntactic novelties. But even so I agree that Clojure is a Lisp. Lacking proper tail recursion really isn’t disqualifying. The workflow with CIDER is quite familiar for anyone with Common Lisp experience. I understand there are solid dev plugins for other editors too.
Which is what Sketch and Figma did with Adobe XD and what Procreate did with Photoshop digital painting features.
As a note. There was a popular Rails book at the time that was being released, I believe it was Michael Hartl's, but it may have been another one back then. The opening of the book was "open your web browser and go to herokugarden". On the day the book was released Heroku decided to pivot away from web based IDE towards the platform. Back then pivots weren't as common as they are now, believe Adam gave a talk at this at one of Eric Ries conferences.
Correct, IMHO these competitions are mostly setup in search of talented people and (maybe) catch the attention of general public on certain security fields
>Covid looked nothing like a pandemic film, thank god.

That's probably because it was not that great impact wise. If it was more like the Spanish Flu, with a huge death toll across all ages (as opposed to 1/10th the death toll, and mostly focused on older people and co-morbidities) it would have absolutely have looked like "a pandemic film".
Either that, or a compiler with such an instruction set as the target.

For instance:

https://github.com/arthaud/c2bf

It seems like this is a frivolous subject, but it is actually quite enlightening to realize just how little is required to get something that computes, it changes how you view the whole concept of computation.
Is io_uring the reason this is faster? I'm curious because redis is in memory right? And io_uring is mostly for disk ops, I assume?
FDB also supports some atomic operations that may decrease the number of roundtrips and remove conflicts:

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/api-python.html#api-pyt...

That said, I still don't think that it is necessarily the perfect match for implementing some of the Redis data structures.
Sleeping with employees seems to work to solve issues with tech companies:

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/kittylixo-onlyfans-instagram-em...
If the maintainer chooses to use SourceHut they know and accept the costs and benefits.

Anecdotally, the quality:quantity ratio in regards to both contributions and contributors is far higher if you use a service like SourceHut. There are no activity charts so there's no reason to game the system with low effort pull requests and features.
My problem was rather with problematic updates of zfs itself.

The update "helpfully" updated initramfs for older kernels too... and if something broke, it broke previous versions too, so they all were unbootable. Eventually I ended up with an USB stick at hand with known bootable environment :(
What's the advantage of this over an RSS aggregator?
I agree with you that it is a problem, but I don't think it's the primaries as much as it is the two-party system. If we are going to have political parties, then they should be allowed some semblance of self-governance. Otherwise, what's the point? There could just be one state controlled party that does everything. The more we control individual parties, the more pointless it is to even have different parties.

Personally, I see political parties as potentially important to a well-functioning democracy. The main problem I think is lack of competition. I would love to see at least a third party, maybe half a dozen or more, emerge in the United States. Obviously people have been trying to make that happen for decades, without success. I wonder what type of solutions there are to increase the number of viable parties? The one that seems most plausible to me is ranked choice voting, for one of the many minor variations of the idea. Are there other things?
You can always provision a Crunchy Bridge DB and connect to it, we've got a ton of customers using Vercel and connecting their app to us. With built-in connection pooling it tends to work quite well.
There’s no evidence of correlation or a causal link between guns and suicides.

In countries with guns available, men use guns for suicide.

In countries without, men use hanging.

Either way, it’s intentionally misleading to lump suicide in with murder and accidents.
Thank you Drew for doing your best! Please, never give up, no matter who wants you and your hard work to go away.

I have used Sway and fell in love with it, it was such a discovery of simplicity and beautiful design. I read about your new language many months ago, even then realizing the potential behind it. They want to silence you because you are a beacon of new hope and ideas. They fear your potential. Don't let anyone to belittle your talent and skill.
> The real issue is actually partisan primaries that push both sides further to the edge.

No, it's not. California has eliminated primaries in the usual sense (what is called a “primary”, outside of Presidential nominations, in California is the first round of a two-round majority-runoff general election where you aren't allowed to win outright on the first ballot even with a clear majority), and yet here we are talking about the effect in California, so partisan primaries can not be the issue. We’ve ruled that out by not having them.

The issue is FPTP single-member district legislative elections, which supports partisan duopoly and narrows the meaningful space of political debate toward a single high-salience axis and issues where splits align well with that axis, marginalizing all other issues. This has been somewhat extensively studied in comparative study of modern representative democratic systems, see, e.g., Lijphart’s Patterns of Democracy.
> I never deal with my provider’s voicemail IVR

In the era of smartphones, why would anyone use an IVR for voicemail? On phone VM UI was a launch day feature for iPhone…
No, it shows they don’t believe it.

Obama’s recently purchased beachfront property is a testament to this.
> Have Redis and Memcached aged so much we need a modern replacement? Or is this a webdevy 'modern' which just means the first commit is newer than redis' first commit?

The docs make some of the differences clear. Worth reading the GitHub repo readme.
Heads up that this combination of accounts (investor checking + brokerage account) does require a credit check, or at least it did a few years ago.
I have been really happy with Ally for the past 10 years.
I applaud the effort, but sometimes think apps like this when they promote self-hosting should have a mode of installation and operation that acts more or less like a desktop application.
It's known as the "it's cheaper to be rich" paradox.

You save on buying in bulk and using better made products with longer lifespans, afford better education that makes you more difficult to fool and gets you a higher paying job, make more returns by investing more money, conserve willpower for important decisions by not having to choose between soap and bread at the store.
I'm curious what the long-term impact of increased disease prevention measures will be. It appears that post-covid(Fingers crossed) we are installing more air filters, using more surface sanitation procedures, staying home more when ill, and occasionally using masks/respirators in public spaces.

Is the end result going to be a change in transmission vector for diseases? what other evolutionary adaptations are happening amongst common human pathogens?
That's the argument for UBI. Basically it's "no, we don't trust the government even to decide if somebody is in a precarious situation, much less to know how to help them".

It's probably more cynical than the reality warrants, but it's visibly closer to the truth than the current "let's poll the money and hire some people to help the ones in need".
I don't understand this. If the workflow doesn't work for you wouldn't it just make more sense to use a different platform anyway?
The problem with kids is, again, statistics. When you have, say, 5 million children and all of them get covid because that is what happens when a virus races on unimpeded, even a 0.1% severe/long term complication is 500 kids with a ruined life - ME/CFS is not a joke.

And then you have the kids with geriatric parents. It is no rarity to have 10 year old kids with 60-70 years old fathers and 50 year old mothers these days, and both with diabetes or smoking-associated COPD on top of their advanced age which is both known to be a massive increase in risk. Or they're already fighting some sort of cancer. For these kids, the knowledge that politicians do nothing to prevent them from catching covid while at the same time they have to worry about their parents is incredibly stressful.
You can now download the (second) earliest known build of Android ever
Even when unemployed, you should never be jobless. Your full time job should be finding a new job.
From the article:
>One drawback is that it’s not really integrated fully in your phone - for instance, iMessages to that number won’t work, and the calls need to be made through the app.

That sucks! I wonder if there’s a way to fix that.

As for memorable phone numbers, one of my buddy’s parents had a phone number that was XXX-YYY-0001 and boy was that helpful when I got arrested and couldn’t remember anybody else’s number.

Pro Tip: Memorize a few people’s numbers!
Who specifically is doing this?
We put our then 2-year-old in preschool last fall. Even though the whole classroom was supposedly masked (toddlers are not great at this, though our child is actually very consistent), she got RSV within a couple months. It cannot be avoided.
You have to be presented the number in the UI to buy it in the UI…
Is that really a solution though?

Like you're advising people to just pack up and move across countries and continents without having any idea whether or not that's feasible.

Are you really trying to offer a constructive solution or are you just trying to brag about living in Europe?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Conclusion:

"Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened."
I guess I should have known better but I was surprised to learn that Drew would be on the receiving end of that stuff.

The vibe I got from sourcehut is that it's built by peers for peers, they are remarkably open about everything. The service is straightforward and doesn't force you to a particular workflow. It's a solid hosted version control with a no-nonsense web UI - open source to boot. What's not to like?

It blows my mind that someone would actively hate on such a project. Oh well, internet.

(I signed up for srht and pay a small amount for my personal non-work stuff.)
I don't understand the harassment and I think it's terrible that a maintainer got so much criticism that they felt they had to resign.

But more generally, I think he has a negative reputation largely because of his blogging. He has criticized others in strong terms, in blog posts that get a lot of attention. We aren't that into reading another criticism when the previous ones didn't seem that well thought out.

Sometimes the advocacy for his own work is also based on strong criticism of others for doing it wrong. It's "my way is good and other projects are harmful" rather than "I think my way is better, but other projects have different goals and people have their reasons for preferring their workflows."

But he's getting attention because people keep sharing his blog posts in various forums, and he's not responsible for that. (Including this blog post appearing in Hacker News.)
liqudity is the technical term.

Betfair was lobbying in US for a long time to get a legal toehold and failed. I wonder what has changed.
Steve Lopez (LA Times columnist who also wrote The Soloist) talked with local homeless people in Hollywood a few years ago. I can't find the links now, but some were similar to TFA - local people who ended up on the street owing to a confluence of factors including eviction, injury, addiction, and bad luck.

But there were a number of profiles involving people, usually outsiders, who made decision to come to southern California because they wanted to live near the beach (on a $600/month social security check) or they wanted to break into show business or the music industry.

One young couple from Detroit had a friend of a friend of a friend who was a producer, bought a one-way ticket to LA and when that connection didn't pan out were stuck on the street. Even Lopez, who has done a lot to document the human tragedy on the streets of LA, seemed a little exasperated by these cases which had their origins in unrealistic assumptions about making it big or leading some sort of dream life in LA ... and the burden put on the already overwhelmed system to help people in need.

I also recommend viewing some of the "Invisible People" interviews all over North America and sometimes Europe:

https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/videos
I found it ironic. The reason I avoid FOSS alternatives is because of the UX issues. I get wanting to be small and unobtrusive, but at least make your links clickable.
>will (somehow) turn earth into a barren rock

Well, hundreds of millios displaced and/or dead would be enough. Doesn't have to "turn earth into a barren rock".

And as for "suddenly", many systems tend to have a breaking point, especially systems, like the environment, which have feedback loops that can easily feed into each other and make things worse fast. Collapse is seldom linear or a nice gradual curve.
As an innocent user I tell you that LSP mode just works whereas Eglot needs tailoring to be a joy to use.
Just keep the MBAs with their Midas touch away from basic tech. Engineers are good enough at math to balance the books, it's not really harder than balancing a checkbook. I had better finances as a high school student than most Wall Streeters at the peak of their career. Got alpha they didn't, accounting for real is just mathematical horse sense.
AFK is out the door on Runscape. The game logs you out if it doesn't take mouse or keyboard movement after a period of time.
Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
Disagree. Everyone already knows about the Tether scam, so the risk is priced in. Nobody will really lose confidence as everyone expects it to blow up for a decade now. Secondly, people will just switch to USDC.
USDA to Allow Producers Termination of Conservation Reserve Program Contract
It's common country knowledge that chewing on a little dirt is good for toddlers.
> There is no accountability for any of these programs that are enacted.

You can call or email Lourdes Morales in the non-partisan CA LAO if you're truly interested.

Note that nearly 1/4 of the entire United States homeless population currently resides in California. The state deals with homelessness at a scale/complexity that makes advice like "we should have better government" and "people should be accountable" not very helpful.
> "Unless the West puts diplomatic pressure on Asian buyers, we do not see the supply gap widening and oil prices spiking," said Norbert Rücker of Julius Baer.

Apart from a big East-West conflict, I don't know how that helps anyone. Having a stable world is definitely important for Eastern countries. But reducing poverty and improving standard of living is at a higher priority than that.
I'd say using io-uring is an example of modern since it has only been available since 5.10 of the kernel. They also sit on some more recent research on data structures that perform well in multithreaded systems.

https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background
Looking at your Twitter, it seems a more apt article would be covering Solana's failure to function as a decentralized blockchain, rather than the same tired re-hashed Tether fud that most new crypto participants parrot.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/12/04/solana-devs-call-al...

https://solana.com/news/04-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-...
Ask HN: Are JS bundlers filling a design flaw?
I don’t have a lot of experience in Node development. From a glance, my idea of a bundler is a utility that takes code from software packages and assembles it with autogenerated boilerplates to produce front end applications that can run without any backend dependence.

From looking at a few, my concern is they are inherently bloated and fill a gap that really shouldn’t exist.

Shouldn’t JS client code be assembled with packages as a standard, something that compiles together without all this filler nonsense?

These things typically produce tens of thousands of lines just to add simple libraries.
finished reading the README but still have no clue how does this compare with other operating systems, or what are the killer features.
The 2020/2021 bubble is going to look like a big missed opportunity for the crypto industry to get Tether's books right. It might have been their one and only chance to find enough dollars to actually make their backing 1:1. Now that that bubble is in the past and future bubbles are at the mercy of both public sentiment and macroeconomic conditions, Tether just has to hope that a majority of USDT stays "on the sidelines" and doesn't actually get withdrawn into the real economy. They won't necessarily implode like UST but the possibility hangs over every downturn and panic.
The two girls kissing looks innocent, but it shows the potential for AI to create believable virtual porn. They don't give the prompt for that video for some reason...
> They may be rewarded but they aren't being guaranteed that the value of what they hold will always go up.

> Again a Ponzi scheme is a very specific thing. People make an investement and returns on that investment come from new investors. In this kind of stablecoin system there is no part that where that specific thing happens

The returns on staking do come from new investors. As you point out in your next comment, they turn negative after the project stops growing.

I agree it's not a Ponzi scheme in the narrow sense that some mountebank is telling stakers that they're being paid from the profit of nonexistent businesses before running off with the money. But the dynamics are identical: as you point out in the next post, the project depends on stakers earning rewards from its growth and the scheme collapses when the project stops growing and the stakers seek to avoid losses.

The dynamics of a casino are different: it doesn't promise its gamblers a positive return and thus doesn't needs constant capital injections to survive. Gamblers are service consumers, not investors and betting for entertainment that the wheel will stop on black, not for profit on the casino's ability not to default.
It is "modern" in the sense that the design and architecture is idiomatic for high-performance software on recent computing hardware. The main advantage of modern (in this sense) implementations is that they use the hardware much more efficiently and completely for current workloads, enabling much higher throughput on the same hardware.
Every single child (and people under 18 are just that: children) dying because their parents couldn't be arsed to follow even the most basic gun safety laws is one too much. Toddlers shooting themselves with the gun that their reckless father left under the pillow? Even in countries with very liberal attitudes to guns such as Switzerland don't have that problem.

Not to mention, the cutoff at age 18 is obvious because most people have finished education at that age - and the most shootings happen at high school.
Because if the government has the power to imprison homeless people (even if the prisons are "nice" hospitals... today), then they also have the power to imprison "hysterical" women and blacks and gays and anyone else who the government thinks is mentally insufficient. Source: US History.
> Bike murders

Why is it so hard for people to get along? Drivers can just look both ways before blowing red lights and stop signs and not tailgate cyclists and reduce their murders ten-fold. And cyclists could be aware that they're required by law to be as far to the right of the road as is safe and to stop at signs and lights to drop the animosity against them ten-fold. Grr.

> Bus transfers

It's a bloody nightmare. As a student I had free bussing in a pretty well-covered city. It was literally faster to walk the whole distance. I'd ride the bus if it dropped below -20F or the sidewalks weren't plowed yet, but otherwise it wasn't worth it even for free.