skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with most of what you have said, and it would be crazy to expect the world to just change overnight because of a new plugin format.

However, this is another opportunity to allow change - to break the "chicken and egg" situation and unlock the potential for others to come along and ride on that change.

As with any change, it needs support and nurturing to grow and become something that will have a greater impact. It's a foundation to allow more innovation to sit upon without being constrained by licensing and legacy.

This discussion is an excellent point as to why things need to change. The situation as you have so eloquently summarised, is locked-in and controlled by a few big companies, with little space for innovation in the first place.

It may not be a big or rapid change, but it has the potential to make a difference. In the spirit of your sentence:

> I would love to see more change in music and audio

Encourage the change, and don't decide there's no point because of how it's previously been.
92 jobs for each step, 22 jobs for each form, 17 jobs for each office visit, $5,554 into the government coffers. Each step can be sold by some politician as some kind of a win for their campaign. Each of these people will fight hard to hold onto their position. Is this productive work? Maybe a very small minority of it, when you take into account how much it holds entrepreneurship back.
Banned from the banking network. You can't receive credit card payments directly.
AMD's Octa-Core 4nm Phoenix Point Zen 4 APU Breaks Cover
Sure, GR may well be self-contained and cannot encompass the quantum world in the same sense as the Newtonian mechanics is and can't. But the Nature does not have such boundaries, especially at such a fundamental level, and it is "self-contained" as a whole. So, while it may be impractical to try an create a unified theory of some aspects of reality, say, quantum mechanics and linguistics or economy, theories concerning fundamental aspects of Nature naturally are, and have been, subject to unification.
I'll probably get downvoted but this article seems highly sensationalized. It blames Facebook, while the blame should be on the hospitals who, for whatever reason, have the FB pixel code in locations where it shouldn't be.
Reminds me of my joke policy that meets many people's stated goals yet would be universally unpopular: the government should fight inflation by confiscating money from billionaires and then destroying it.
It's an application framework, with UI being only one part of it. It has a native Rust API for writing non-UI parts of the apps in Rust. Plus there's a lot of Tauri's own code for window management, clipboard, networking, auto update, bundling, etc.

Another difference is that it doesn't need to bundle a Node.js or another language runtime.
I've encountered some "computer science" programs that barely taught people to program in Java, included classes on Microsoft Excel and Access and didn't include any advanced math. Data structures and algorithms might get a single class to satisfy interview questions about linked lists vs arrays and what Big O notation means. It's kind of a polluted term I think, in part due to that kind of usage by community colleges and the like.
Look at the original post I linked.
At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?
I expect this kind of thing will be red meat to some people, and we can all agree that pointless bureaucracy is bad – particularly where stifling competition is the goal.

IMO the effort of any campaign versus bureaucracy is best spent on reducing the friction of governance, particularly for small entrepreneurs: digitalising processes, publishing clear guides, harmonising rules, establishing guaranteed response times, adding exemptions for small businesses etc.

Too often there's a reflexive "bonfire of the red tape" view – in contrast, I'd say it's actually pretty good that restaurant businesses have to e.g. demonstrate that they meet hygiene standards, produce a fire safety plan etc. and we probably don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

For all its faults, look to the UK for a relatively balanced approach to regulation of this sort.
It's crazy how much work went into those old games. I have a feeling those programmers weren't even paid that well considering how few people owned computers back then (so the market can't have been large).
More variety, lower cost.
Quite enjoying https://daisyui.com/ at the moment, and in general any framework built with tailwind CSS that allows styling with tailwind utility classes.
That's how I use it too, mostly because I personally find JavaScript and typescript frameworks harder to use than rust. Managing data in js is hard for me without static typing. Everyone will have different comfort levels but I agree, business logic in rust, front end in js is a great separation.
Minimum Viable Architecture in Practice: Creating a Home Insurance Chatbot
In an ideal world the Fed would not "set" any rates - it would be up to the market. However, the risk is there could be more volatility on the short end without the Fed 'anchor'. A compromise might be to greatly increase the target range from 25bp to funds target rate +/- 200 bp, lower bound 0.00 thus making a bounded floating rate. That might also require a shift in how lenders set rates on very short term debt to some type of period average, ie 3 or 6m average rate.
Context matters. The original post I replied to was admonishing Democrats as a bloc for not trying to reform healthcare, specifically with a taxpayer funded option.

The reality is that Democrats, as a bloc, are the only ones to have even attempted taxpayer funded healthcare, and somewhat succeeded. Just because a couple people who label themselves Democrats, but do not vote with them does not make sense to blame Democrats as a whole for holding back progress in taxpayer funded healthcare, and ignore the 50 Republicans voting against it.

This is all ignoring the fact that in the context of taxpayer funded healthcare, you need 60 votes to do anything, so the measure for “control” of the Senate would be 60 votes.
LOL, what do you plan on eating in the meantime since you think the jury is still out on fruit?
Snow White Apples, LTD
Maybe, but it's not always possible or straightforward. It's probably a much lower bar to streamline it like this. Fixing the system is often an uphill battle. Maybe existing restaurants will fight against it, cities need the revenue from it, it's a complex mix of federal, state and city laws, etc.
It's true that it may have been aliens, it's just an extremely low probability.
Yeah, I see it from both sides. I lean towards being an independent developer doing a lot of prototyping so I like Fly's tolerance of quicker, less strict practices in this regard. Not had any problems with fly.toml so far, but my apps are relatively simple.
Very nice. That would abrogate the concern that taxing the wealthy is socialist redistribution. Can’t have that accusation if you just burn it!
> I think an enormous percentage of people in their early and mid 20s are largely clueless about predatory business practices and how they can be impacted

And yet the same stereotype is said for elderly people being susceptible to scams, etc. Jokes about limiting granny porn aside, it's still generally viewed as a preposterous thing to suggest for elderly people to limit what they can do based on age.

As you pointed out, wisdom about X/Y doesn't come with age, it comes with experience, and there's many variables to determine what you get to exposed to when and what one's needs/desires are.
Okay, so what are those 92 steps, 22 form in 17 office visits? The article lack any substance and it is pure activist piece, unfortunately.

There's this story about the extremely heavy and complicated French labor laws. The story goes, businesspeople complain that the law is more than a hundred pages long booklet and as a response the French legislators print the booklet in smaller font, thus successfully taking the laws under 100 pages.

It's supposed to show the ridiculousness of the bureaucracy but IMHO it's pretty fair to solve the problem by using smaller font if the complaint is about the number of pages.

Maybe we can have more intelligent discussion if we actually know the context and the content. I suspect that some of those steps, fees and forms are reasonable and some are outdated and only exist because the law was made pre-internet, pre-smartphone era.
Apache SkyWalking: Application performance monitoring for distributed systems
As a former longtime LI pro user and LI user at launch... I'm not surprised. LI loves spam and they have no intention of really doing anything about it. I refused to keep paying for such a low quality service. This has not negatively affected my consulting networking or revenues at all. Good riddance. It can go in the trash with FB.
His initials were LT, if that helps (if not, I can clarify his whole name over email or however people privately communicate on HN?). I may well be exaggerating his 'major'ness - I'm not that familiar with the Cassandra contributorship, but that was my understanding from my team!

As for Cassandra itself, we were certainly quite sophisticated users. There's a decent chance you'd know the company in question. It's a fair point about the language: I'm not a fan of Java and it probably colours my opinion a little; I was speaking more from a philosophical standpoint about reducing the theoretical complexity of software to make it more deterministic & understandable (out of the tar pit and all that), more than to any specific deficiencies in Java that caused any actual issues for us, of which there were no direct examples I can recall. (Pathological GC did cause some occasional degradation, I suppose, though at best that's semi-specific to Java.)

I think most of the actual issues, from my on-call years, were as a result of stuff like: (as I mentioned) anticompaction and suchlike causing pathological performance; our own misconfiguration of things like asynchronous replication / bootstrapping (which once caused a very severe incident, as in 'endemic data corruption and loss' severity); application-layer issues from product engineers misconfiguring consistency, choosing poor keys for partitioning, constructing poor data models that require table scans, all the ordinary stuff for which Cassandra is at most very obliquely to blame.

Also, I agree it was stupid of us to use Cassandra in (what was) a very serious environment, in probably one of the most safety-critical sectors outside of medicine and rockets. We knew that. We did the same with several technologies. Literally, we had a diktat saying no engineers could mention it in blog posts. On reflection it's quite unfair to blame Cassandra for our decision - to a large extent, yeah, we were holding it very wrong. I would not have made that choice myself, at all.
Possibly because debit is debt from the bank's POV? They owe you that amount of money. I'm not sure though.
Debugging stories: from printf, just Flash and beyond
We're now doing sort of the same tricks, but with power management on mobile devices.
Well, it's in their bio (but I agree that it would have been nice). Full disclosure: 3rd time I hear abut ScyllaDB.
I tend to love books that require a lot of effort and time on behalf of the reader, Infinite Jest and its never ending footnotes are probably my favorite book, however I really struggled with Ulysses and ended up putting it down as my inquisitive nature had me diving deep into every footnote, maybe I'll pick it up again and try to resist the urge to fully understand each reference
I do not understand "treat people like volunteers".
There are very, very few good heat conductors which are dielectrics.

Intrinsic semiconductors, and Beryllium Oxide. Neither are cheap enough for mass market products.
Robinhood’s Stock Is Now Worth Less Than Its Cash on Hand
Technicals can't move through heavily forested areas. Can't drive through a tree. In more lightly forested areas, aircraft targeting pods and radars can pick them up just fine.
from the abstract:

Although Capsicum has been extensively studied and great advances have been made in the understanding of its taxonomy and the relationships amongst the species, there is no taxonomic monograph of the genus as a whole. As part of ongoing projects to revise the genera Capsicum and Lycianthes, we present here a comprehensive taxonomic treatment of Capsicum, including updated information about morphology, anatomy, karyology, phylogeny and distribution and a revision of the nomenclature and typification of the 265 names in the genus. An identification key and descriptions of wild and domesticated taxa, together with distribution maps and illustrations for each, are provided.

so it is a catalog entry of peppers, but it has not been done before.
I'm curious, how hard would it be to make a Firefox extension out of this?
I hope timing attacks will not be commercialized or we will see quite some performance degradation in Brave ;-)
Ok spacetime, that's enough out of you.
Next: we try to heat sink the sides of the CPU.
unless you want to delete the philibuster, that's a long way from the 60 votes you need.
Hey, it’s how to keep the government alive, why knock it?

Perhaps it is because when more than 10%-ish of economy is sapped for goverance overhead, it generally starts to suffer … badly.
A startup needs to disrupt this!
I remember reading a biography of a Navy Seal (possibly Rob O'Neil) and he tells about when he and his team were gearing up for a mission and choosing their kit and he described something called the "good idea fairy". Some senior person would come along and suggesting add a particular piece of kit as it was a "good idea", then another senior manager would suggest something else and on and on it would go until they would have so much kit to carry they wouldn't be able to carry out the mission. I think the layering on of each for or step is a bureaucratic version of the Good Idea Fairy.
You've never seem my code. hah
cargo tree | wc -l tends to over-count dependencies a lot because there are many very common crates.

Use grep package -F '[['package Cargo.lock | wc -l instead. This is doubly true if you pull in multiple crates using the same framework behind it, e.g. in async projects. E.g. for exa this is 45 instead of 61. For deno this turns into a 3x difference (515 vs. 1571).

Other reasons, besides what has been mentioned (vendoring being very uncommon, crates existing for common type and trait definitions, crates being generally scoped more narrowly resulting in more smaller crates), a lot of crates have additional crates for macros. Bindings often end up being a whole bunch of crates for this reason (i.e. one xyz-sys crate for the FFI bindings, plus one or more crates for a rusty wrapper and perhaps one or more crates for convenience crates). Case in point from deno's dependency tree:

├── futures v0.3.21
│ ├── futures-channel v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-core v0.3.21
│ │ └── futures-sink v0.3.21
│ ├── futures-core v0.3.21
│ ├── futures-executor v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-core v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-task v0.3.21
│ │ └── futures-util v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-channel v0.3.21 (*)
│ │ ├── futures-core v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-io v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-macro v0.3.21 (proc-macro)
│ │ │ ├── proc-macro2 v1.0.38 (*)
│ │ │ ├── quote v1.0.18 (*)
│ │ │ └── syn v1.0.93 (*)
│ │ ├── futures-sink v0.3.21
│ │ ├── futures-task v0.3.21
│ │ ├── memchr v2.5.0
│ │ ├── pin-project-lite v0.2.9
│ │ ├── pin-utils v0.1.0
│ │ └── slab v0.4.6
│ ├── futures-io v0.3.21
│ ├── futures-sink v0.3.21
│ ├── futures-task v0.3.21
│ └── futures-util v0.3.21 (*)
Anyone fancy giving universal healthcare another stab?

Either to save lives:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/universal-health-...

Or to save money:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200536119

The aversion to it honestly baffles me.
So what? A mix of wavelengths is just as real as a single wavelength. More to the point, colors are merely perceptions (artifacts of consciousness) which can be caused by a variety of factors.
I very much agree overall with your observations and points. I do think though that one should always consider moral aspects to policies and decision making since peoples’ lives are affected. Making policy based on economic theory without considering moral aspects seems like a bad idea in general.
Guerrilla marketing for The Dark Forest ?
> Any contribution that M$ makes to open source or open standards is to support their own bottom line

Does Microsoft contribute financially to any social programs or other philanthropic projects? Are all those contributions done solely to support their bottom line?
Why is it that we are allowed to unearth these remains, but when it comes to remains of e.g. native Americans, or Indigenous Australians or Canadians, there is a push to have them reburied? Seems like a double standard to me.
First of all, I do like sciter, it's fresh air in wails,webview,electron & tauri.

There are several cases why I prefer an electron: BrowserView, FileSystem api, newer css feature(Interop 2022 are greate), and all the newer js feature I use but I don't know it.

I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted.

If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails .

BTW, I'm sorry for the small app part, small should mean adapt or bend to sciter.
Care to share some links?

I have been unable to find any "desktop-like" components.

There are many many things that just use some CSS styling on native radio buttons or whatever, but very few that offer higher-level functionality like tab-strips where I can pull of a tab and reorder it etc. I.e. more than just styling some divs.
Yeah, there may be some shock at the 92 number, but really what is a step? I can probably come up with a shocking number of steps to make coffee in the morning... I think it's more important to understand if the process is well defined/laid out and if the overall time from the first to last step is reasonable. Plus, depending on the situation, I'd rather the work be in my hands because I know I would be efficient, at least.
There is an excellent book a Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital, that discusses these issues. He has a chapter on the number of steps it takes to open a business in Hati and Singapore (if memory serves me correctly). Hati requires thousands of steps and if done correctly 17 years to open a business legally. Singapore take a few steps and less that a week to open a business legally. This has broder implications to property rights and if countries prosper.
Nothing like telling your boss "Sorry I missed the deadline, but my desktop needed maintenance"
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look (2019)
Get buried in a pine wood box, you'll be gone in < 100 years. Plant a tree ontop and create something productive in your later years.
Deno 1.23
That is against the law, you shouldn’t have to prove you aren’t selling poison apples to start a business. Let investigators arrest/fine those breaking the law.
Are ESTAs the one where applicants have to list their own social media accounts, or am I thinking of something else? Last time I went to the US was 2018, so even if I remember right, things may have changed.
One distinction between Microsoft and early FAANG (except for Apple): FAANG cut out the distributor and kept those profits themselves. Microsoft always had distributors as a key component of their platform sales.
That isn’t what Bitcoin is about. People can still manipulate the social mechanics involved.

They just can’t manipulate the fundamental rules. That’s it. Anyone can send any transaction anywhere. The monetary supply is fixed, no one gets to decide arbitrarily when money is created. And to make new money, there are specific conditions which simultaneously contributes value to the network.

It doesn’t fix inequality, it just fixes the rules and makes it so we can at least trust the fidelity of the system.

People take for granted the honesty of the existing systems. But when we bailout big failed banks and big business by printing more money and let the common person crash and burn, it is clearer how dishonest it is. Most people do not have a friend that can get the government to bail them out — but some people do.

That is just scratching the surface on the problem with intermediaries infecting a monetary supply. At least with bitcoin, we all play by the same rules. There is value in that kind of honesty.
Why are you so hostile to AGPL? If you are a product user, you have enough skills internally to modify the software code, what's the issue in contributing it back?
Also in the end they are basically trying to force AWS etc to give back to community even if it's just internally used. I don't think it's that bad.
> transaction processor, run by a trusted operator

> there are no intermediaries

Except the transaction processor.

Which part doesn't sound like Venmo?

"Signed transactions" is essentially SSL/SPIF/I don't know the details but it's regular Internet security encryption and signatures.

The only difference from Venmo is that users get a proper PK instead of phone or email address id, and it's vertically integrated.
People expect to be protected from the unscrupulous which means councils, governments, police, IRS etc. all need to know who is doing what, then there is the ability to do background checks, tax status checks and in regulated areas perhaps hygiene checks, site safety checks, certain permits.

Otherwise the simple model only works when you know and trust the vendor enough to take the risk that what they sell you is not quite what you wanted.
If you could or did pay it off then you wouldn't have been counted in the survey.
I initially thought this was going to be an article on animal perception, and of course I was curious to read a human's attempt to confidently describe the perception of completely different being.

Not what I got, but I did get the classic dismissal of the abilities of practically all other life:

"but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species"
The final paragraph:

"Objects that have been unearthed will be preserved and many will eventually be displayed in museums. But larger finds will be bulldozed to make way for the new rail line."

So much destruction and expense for what increasingly seems like a vanity project.
"Anti-Irish sentiment was rampant in the United States during the 19th and early 20th Century." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Discrimination

IANAL, but my sense is that Judge Woolsey was not himself inclined to anti-Irish bigotry - but he was willing to make use of such bigotry to buttress his decision. Actual bigots protesting against his ruling might find themselves arguing that the Irish lower classes (note how the ruling calls out their social class a few paragraphs earlier) are too virtuous and pure to entertain carnal thoughts in everyday life...a line of argument which most such bigots might be less than comfortable in making.
I don’t think fees should be $0, that would allow bot farms to start businesses.

I’m wondering how different the world would have been if we had enforced a $0.01 cost for email…
to the Orcs, we are the pest
> They're technical terms - entirely different tactical actions.

Right here! This is so close to what I was talking about. You might refer to the specific field the are technical terms in.

> You're confusing a screen with a guard or covering force.

Nah, likely a non-professional.
Firstly, why does every story need to include a mix of genders speaking? If I wrote a story about a night out with my mates, would you complain that only men were talking?

Secondly,

> And it is a sci fi story that ends in a Bible scene!

Did you miss the entire premise of the story?