skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are actually quite a few games that I enjoy because your actions actually mattered in the game, and I highly recommend you try it if you enjoy a good story.

Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human are excellent examples in that your choices actually matter. For example, it's possible to lose a character much earlier on and drastically change how the whole story plays out, or choose an action which entirely changes a few 'stages' you proceed to. There are also a lot of different versions of the ending, either by showing totally different ending scenes, or tweaking some scenes with different characters, or additional cutscenes that change the whole meaning of the ending.Gameplay was also very satisfying for both games, from the things you can do in each stage or the Quick Time Events (QTE) which also change how the story plays out.

In comparison to Telltale's games which are supposed to be about how your choices matter, the only thing that gets affected are some throwaway dialogue and maybe a few short scenes. QTEs are also laughably simple and nearly impossible to fail, and if you do fail you just restart in the last scene anyway.
FLIF is interesting, yes, but after doing some more research into it I came to the conclusion it doesn't hold any promise as an image format for the web.

The progressive streaming is a cool trick, but if you actually use the progressive stream to embed lossy images in your web page, you end up with lower quality than if you had just used JPEG in the first place, never mind something newer. The difference was pretty stark.
Did someone vote this down because they thought I was sarcastic? I loved how the parent had characterized it.
Is this power bi..? Ah, I think it is. I’ve really tried to get up to speed with it, but it feels so alien to normal excel in many ways. I feel an existential dread when I drop a column in power BI.

But yeah, it’s very powerful. It’s very sql like in the way you have to treat actions and data.
using excel isn't not fun, it's just that the mental complexity of excel is offloaded to the user. the user keeps track of the various computations and transformations. anything more than a quick check on some data exponentially taxes the brain leading to an ever increasing dislike of the software

being handed someone else's excel sheet is an infuriating experience because they're also handing you whatever convoluted mental model they used
See also rachelbythebay, "Don't mix threads and forks": http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/07/forked/
Of course Turkish has its ambiguities and was not designed with the same ideas in mind as Lojban.

But it is in many ways more precise syntactically than other languages and almost completely regular. This is also due to some "cleansing" of the language from Persian and Arabic influences in the early 20th century.

Imho with languages the elephant in the room is context. I don't see how the additional rigour in syntax compared to Turkish would be scoring points for lojban, when the contextual problems that both languages face are not solved.
Yes, several people I have spoken to said the main thing they got from the GoF book was giving a name to things they were already doing.
Citation needed? Seriously, if there's evidence to morally exhonerate him, let it be public information.
How do you know they don't do that too? This is just one news story, from one manufacturer.
> Banksy’s iconic Girl With Balloon (2006) attracted feverish bidding in the room and on the phones, racing past its high estimate of £300,000 to hammer at £860,000, or just over £1 million ($1.3 million with fees). As the gavel slammed, a siren rang out through the salesroom and everyone stood stunned as the Banksy canvas slid through the frame that it was contained in and emerged underneath—but shredded.

I'm impressed by whatever engineering went into the power source for that shredder lasting since 2006 while still being remotely triggerable with perfect timing.
A non amp link would of been nice https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167213/fr...
From the actual text, rather than the summary:

> The doctor picked up the phone and called San Francisco’s poison control center. No one at the center had ever heard of an accidental overdose this large—for Septra or any other antibiotic, for that matter—and nothing close had ever been reported in the medical literature. The toxicology expert there told the panicked clinicians that there wasn’t much they could do other than monitor the patient closely.
For a historical perspective ... way back in the day there was Unix at Bell Labs, and one of it's licensed derivatives was made by Berkeley Systems, and hence their distribution was called BSD.

Unix split into 2 main variants, BSD and System 5 Unix. Most commercial derivations were based on System 5, and BSD was used in academia.

A short time later Linus created his own System 5 Unix-inspired OS kernel, Linux, but from clean cloth, and distributed it with userspace tools borrowed from yet another OS project called GNU created by Richard Stallman.

The various BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, etc) are descendants of the original BSD.

People used to say BSD and it's children were "real" Unix and Linux was not, though I don't think many care about that anymore.
Plot twist: the buyer can now probably keep the frame + shreds and resell it for several times what they paid.
> I've never understood the need for noun genders

As a native speaker of Slavic language, I've never understood the need for differentiating between "THE table" and "A table". It's useless and clear from the context what is meant (note that both are different from "THIS/THAT table", which I do NOT deem useless.)

For English and Norwegian, I've learned grammatical rules that cover ca 80% of use-cases, the rest is guessing and I still get it wrong sometimes.
Don't build rocket fuel in your house.
> The spray painted work of the girl with a red balloon, acquired directly from the artist, came in what the catalogue called “the artist’s frame”—a frame that was oddly thick for such a small work of street art.

I doubt the frame was from 2006. And even if, the batteries in it could be inserted/changed prior the auction.
> If someone is creating a new language now, that is a concept that would definitely not be included.

Natural languages aren't designed, which is why the comment above is so odd.
yup, you can only shop on ali express with the same attitude as someone offering up a tender - you know the product you want and you know the price you want AND you have enough knowledge of the product to discern shoddy work. browsing on aliexpress is a nightmare
The point you may have failed to get is that hospitals rely on systems for catching errors (which is hard because medicine is super hard). The point Wachler attempts to raise is how when we blindly substitute technological systems with human based processes we can miss the mark if we're not extra careful. Very important as we think about replacing human effort with that of robots (think Tesla vs. Toyota in how they make cars...).

I would also like to point out that simply fixing alerts isn't necessarily practical. When you're reliant on outside vendors for a highly regulated industry (requiring FDA approval of any and all changes), you can't exactly change on a dime. So while maybe we all in healthcare sneer at device manufactures, there's not a ton on the user side we can do.
You'd almost think this story is too good to be true. But we all know this is real.
I have been on HN for more than 10+ years. HN has given me lot of exposure/knowledge to newer tech stack (e.g Frameworks, Cloud, Cyber Security etc). Having this kind of exposure helps in broad thinking when you design application.

It also provides different perspective on startups, politics, health etc. Best part is "ASKHN" where people are willing to share their experiences.

Also recommended HN to lot of my friends :-)
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All of the companies mentioned in the original article have the resources to sue Bloomberg for defamation, so there's that possibility.
Yes, they are "making a coherent product line from what is possible to customize or source as is" they will not pick a project developing a complex product from scratch.
He probably means the output of a batch processing pipeline. Clients will calculate a set of data once a day and shove it into some kind of storage[0] for you to download.

[0] probably an FTP server with no TLS and with the same weak username and password for everyone who connects, a setup which they won't change no matter how many times you ask
For one thing, it was created as a proprietary format that predates HTML.
Hah, Excel is the true weapon of mass destruction.

And of course, it feels great when you know how to wield it.
I always felt that this is a larger value than the implementation details. The software industry was / is still in need of more standardization and common vocabulary.
Docker on windows host runs in a virtualbox running linux last time i checked.
> We care about only one thing: helping our readers easily find and buy the best products for them

they came so close to convincing me and then they had to trot out the platitudes. no business cares ONLY about the consumer
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The art isn't in the artifact.
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I wonder how much monero he will mine from a post on the first page of hacker news about mining monero
I assume they won’t actually have to pay? I’d guess whatever contract their is with the seller also requires that the art is delivered safely to the purchaser.

I wonder what the message is here, or if there is a message beyond the publicity. I guess something about the art having no inherent value...
Some photos of the shredded art: https://hyperallergic.com/464419/1-3m-banksy-artwork-self-de... ; https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/sotheby-s-banksy-ed-as-... ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Std3LfVx41c
I don't think this is accurate even for the brands you listed. spigen and anker are consistently the most recommended brand even by relatively tech illiterate youtubers. they've built up some trust with me and I've only owned one spigen phone case for my nexus 6P - if I see someone complaining about a generic powerbank/case I recommend anker/spigen respectively and tell them to check out whatever content creator(youtuber or tech site) they trust to see a review of it
Then it would make no sense for it to not be true either, unless one assumes the government to spread lies to damage those companies, which also makes no sense.
Thank God, yes.

I mean, in theory it's great. In practice you always got cringeworthily bad translated versions of the Debian web site.

(A few years ago Debian's German pages got much better)
I’m mean they could do that too... but why do this weirdly awkward thing described by Bloomberg at all?

It’s not like doing both is extra sure, it’s just weirdly difficult and more easily detectable to do it in the way described.
I think it's all about the how you automate in healthcare. I'm working on a project to automate the way we collect MRIs, but we only are focusing on the "dumb" parts of the process that don't put patients at risk. I see a lot of the with tech in health over the past 3-4 years trying to automate everything all at once and forgetting nuance that goes into healthcare.
It's now a part of art history, it would be a foolish move on the part of the buyer to not accept it. Banksy has reaffirmed why he's maybe the only contemporary visual artist today who counts as a household name. Although I guess we cuold debate whether he's first and foremost a visual artist, or a performance artist. The audacity of his stunts and trickery far outweigh the merits of his clever visual puns.
The other way to use GoF and related texts is as an inspiration. It's been a while since the last difficult software design problem that I had to solve. But I reread GoF to get a new perspective on what I was trying to solve.

Also, I found that some people tend to take the descriptions of design patterns as a kind of gospel and any deviation from the Right Path outlined therein is heresy. But that's how the application of design patterns leads to failure. These are raw building materials for your design. You always have to shape them to fit your exact needs. Extend them, reduce them, cut them in half and glue the halves back together with their backsides - do what you must to get a clever design that leads to simple code.
Judging by [1], I'm pretty sure updating section 108 is still a proposal.

In this case, my impression is that the Internet Archive is basically ignoring copyright law and hoping nobody complains, relying on the lack of commercial value in such obsolete software, and to a small extent the moral high ground our society assigns to libraries.

[1] https://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/09/copyright-office-re...
I wonder how much money they wasted on the rebranding from the Sleep Train brand to Mattress Firm.
It stopped half way, to me it is more 'art' than before.
PostgreSQL should be accessible by default to anyone.
And Excel should require approbation from higher management and IT after a painful bureaucratic procedure.

Unfortunately it’s always the other way around.

Don’t get me wrong: I really like Excel. But I don’t encode any data in Excel sheets anymore. Now I store everything in a PostgreSQL DB and use ODBC for native access and Pivot tables.
Imagine that the boards actually do exist, and represent an espionage by a foreign government. Why would the company not immediately hand it over to the FBI/CIA, and immediately be forced to sign an NDA?

It would most certainly be illegal.
I've recently started reading Drucker's Lost Art of Management and have discovered that Drucker's work has significant Kierkegaardian influences, amongst other writers: https://books.google.lk/books?id=Pm4CHo6IdKIC&lpg=PA35&vq=Ki...

I've always thought of Drucker as the quintessential management guru disconnected from reality, but reading through this is starting to change my view about the man and his work...
">>In trade wars you want the enemy to sink their funds. What could be better to do that than to force every U.S. tech giant to audit their hardware?

Tomorrow: Oh, your servers /parts /smartphones are made in China?
Yes and no. Power BI is a mixed cloud/desktop thing - the desktop GUI for creating reports/charts is actually pretty cool. PowerPivot and Power Query in Excel are add-ons that tack on the same analytical engine that Microsoft purchased to power new features in SQL Server. I believe MS is branding this all now as Power BI, but it's still a little confusing to be honest.

In the Power BI desktop app you can connect to standard RDBMS' like MySQL, Postgres, or SQL Server and basically it works like Tableau. The really interesting part is you can export these data sources and hook them into Excel (local or via the cloud).

> It’s very sql like

It should be, this is essentially using Excel as an GUI on top of technology designed to run an analytics RDBMS. It actually is an entirely separate interface from Excel and feels bolted on after-the-fact.

Here's an example of the PowerPivot Excel add-on screens:

https://i2.wp.com/www.kasperonbi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NDO6MpT70PM/maxresdefault.jpg
>the lack of an atmosphere would prove very damaging. Without the buffering of air around drilling tools, dynamic friction will be amplified during drilling tasks, generating huge amounts of heat. Drill bits and rock will fuse, hindering progress. Should demolition tasks need to be carried out, explosions in a vacuum would create countless high velocity missiles tearing through anything in their path, with no atmosphere to slow them down. (You wouldn’t want to be eating dinner in an inflatable habitat during mining activities should a rock fragment be flying your way…) Also, the ejected dust would obscure everything and settle, statically, on machinery and contaminate everything.

[taken from https://www.universetoday.com/12726/building-a-base-on-the-m...]

I can't imagine keeping those telescopes free of dust will be a trivial task even if you somehow manage to install them without issues - maybe you're imagining a single mobile package deployed to the moon ala the mars rover?
A lot of it is, or nobody would have been buying to begin with.
I was the CTO for medical software company that kept track of adverse drug events and other hospital incidents. We also made software for Root Cause Analysis projects and the subsequent committee meetings. UCSF was a client at one point.

Hospitals and practitioners are incentivized to never admit they made a mistake. This article is that writ long.

The screen said what would be ordered and did exactly that. The ordering physician did not read the screen. Perhaps the screen could be better but it's not bad. The dosage is bolded.

Someone else reviews it and also doesn't notice the error. I.e. they did a bad job of reviewing.

UCSF staff had turned off notifications and alerts in a very broad manner.

The robot pharmacist gets dragged into this even though it just followed orders, in an article titled "Beware of the Robot Pharmacist". Imagine how long this series would be if the robot had actually made decisions.

At one point a nurse asks the juvenile patient if he thinks 38 pills is too much. In movies, asking a child for advice is the comic low point where we are meant to realize the adult is incompetent. This nurse kept her job.

Hospitals are incredibly political environments and this article goes out of its way to keep everyone's hands clean. But at the end of the day multiple people made mistakes and the author just decides to blame everyone's new favorite boogie man "technology".

Having seen hundreds of incident reports, I assure you that most hospital issues are caused by people making mistakes and/or not following procedures. And all signs point to that being the case here.

What would have been more helpful is if the author would have followed his own conclusion, and centered and titled the articles around it:

"Safe organizations relentlessly promote a “stop the line” culture, in which every employee knows that she must speak up — not only when she’s sure that something is wrong, but also when she’s not sure it’s right. Organizations that create such a culture do so by focusing on it relentlessly and seeing it as a central job of leaders. No one should ever have to worry about looking dumb for speaking up, whether she’s questioning a directive from a senior surgeon or an order in the computer."

Perhaps if medical leaders stopped pretending that they always do everything perfect - i.e. the opposite of this literally CEO approved article - people further down the ladder would feel they could also be honest.
I am fascinated by how little syntax is required to actually communicate with each other. You can remove gender from language entirely and still understand what people mean. We can even get rid of time-based tenses and instead say something like "I go to the store yesterday". This is incorrect English, but the point is still communicated. As you say "the" and "a" could be condensed. You could go even further and combine these words with "one". Having traveled to a lot of places where I had to speak languages that I don't speak or understand, the amount of language built on top of the tiny "required" subset is marvelous and interesting.

Other questions that make language fun. Any ideas where eenie meanie miney moe comes from? Why does flat (low) German exist, and how far is it from Dutch (or English)? How many dialects of various languages are spoken in the Alps? Why do we call different Chinese dialects "dialects" and not "languages"? Which language has the most diverse set of conjugation rules? But I digress.
For me, "the" and "a" are critical for understanding whether you are introducing something new or assuming that I know what you are talking about from context. If I use "the" then it's something clear from context, if I use "a" it's something new. The languages I know make a big fuss about this so I'm curious how you can figure out from context whether you can figure out something from context.
If that’s the case, I guess Banksy will be laughing even harder...
On the topic of idleness, you may also find Russell's In Praise of Idleness interesting (it has been discussed on HN before)

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

It is where the following famous quote comes from:

"First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so."
The speed issue is even more pervasive -- compose, but also labels (if you use L to label emails a lot, you have noticed it).

Two questions, if you do not mind --

(1) Does FastMail offer threaded email conversations? I cannot stand the left/right pane display of email UIs like Outlook (or Apple Mail).

(2) Does FastMail offer labels and filters that come close to those in Google Mail?
> Likewise, the combination "ei" will always be pronounced "eye."

That's not true for German, e.g. in some loanwords:

"Atheist" and "Koffein" (= caffeine) use "eh-i"

> I've never understood the need for noun genders

Sometimes they show different meanings of a word:

German:

Die Leiter = the ladder

Der Leiter = the director

French:

la tour = the tour

le tour = the tower
Granted, the benchmark only covers training, but for a chip that spends significant die space on dedicated AI circuitry the performance gain over the previous generation is disappointing.
“But is the work destroyed? Or is it transformed? Even Branczik isn’t sure. “You could argue that the work is now more valuable,” Branczik said. “It’s certainly the first piece to be spontaneously shredded as an auction ends.”
Some more background on the iconic image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_Girl
I read on Vice they are already speculating that this may have increased its value.
I'm fairly amazed by the amount of skepticism here. A story this big is certain to get a lot of people looking into it. It would be pretty boneheaded for them to run a story like this with no evidence.

I suggest the skeptics keep an open mind, instead of categorically denying it could be true, just because a couple of for-profit companies don't want to see their stock plummet the way Supermicro did. Nothing reported so far is out of the realm of plausible, considering the value of a successful supply-chain attack against tech companies.
With so many crops engineered to withstand a particular herbicide like glyphosate, how likely is it that this standardization also creates a single bio profile that can be targeted?
As bad (and deserved) as their reputation is for helping well-meaning users to create a big mess, spreadsheet software provides an incredibly intuitive UI to put in front of users that have the domain knowledge but not necessarily direct software engineering knowledge.

I've been thinking about this for years, ever since I first read "A Small Matter of Programming" by Bonnie Nardi: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/small-matter-programming where she explored the history of end-user programming systems, and concludes that spreadsheet and CAD software are the only examples that have had widespread and undeniable success.

ASMOP was published in 1993 and I think it is still just as relevant today.

Just as it's possible to write a terribly-architected and designed program in any language, I suspect that with the right engineering effort and insight, modern software engineering practices could bring the complexity under control.

We shouldn't expect to just take spreadsheets and stick them into production, just as you wouldn't take a hastily-written prototype written in any programming language and do the same.