skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When something interesting is trending on [insert popular platform] that this audience finds interesting, of course people are going to submit it here. This site is 100% submissions based.
List of April Fool's Day Announcements
In an effort of eventually reducing the clutter on the front page with fake announcements, let's just post them in here instead as we in the past few years. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
Appreciate that you have more rights. Look at the Huawei saga where the CFO was able to sue for false imprisonment in Canada and compare it to those Canadians arrested/affected by Chinese government in retaliation for Canada arresting the Huawei CFO.

> The claim states that Meng's rights under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms were violated. Meng, who remains under house arrest in Vancouver, suffered "mental distress, anxiety and loss of liberty", it says. The claim seeks declarations that her Charter rights were infringed, various damages and costs, all unspecified. [https://www.afr.com/news/politics/world/huawei-cfo-files-sui...]
The (surely apocryphal) origin story I heard for Worcestershire sauce was that it was a (failed) attempt to replicate an Indian tamarind chutney, which was abandonded, left to ferment in barrels, and rediscovered.
Google Tulip: Grown in the Netherlands, Google Tulip communicates with plants

https://blog.google/products/home/google-tulip/
> at the moment, even forking it is a copyright infringement

Not that it changes much, but from the GitHub Terms of Service:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-terms-of-service#...
Google Screen Cleaner

https://blog.google/technology/next-billion-users/cant-mess-...
I don't know on what depends, but I run a small Discourse forum... and I can tell you is a major PAIN!

I'm not a web developer (I develop mostly firmware) so I'm not into all this kind of stuff, but I know it is written in Ruby and runs in a Docker container.

It requires at least 10GB just to be able to install and 20GB just to update once in a while. It takes ages to compile. It's a PITA to update. Plus docker gets stuck with old images (not sure it's the right term) and you'll have to manually clear them.

20GB!! It's a freakin' forum software!!! Some triple A games are around 8GB.

I'm glad someone is asking for alternatives. I think all this overhead is because maybe redistributing a Ruby website it's a PITA and requires a full environment installation. And hell yeah I believe a simple test suite can take 10 minutes to run in that poorly conceived environment.
Terrorism and Its Specialisation
They are for-profit organizations. They will make happy those who pay more. Simple rule of capitalism. Don't know why some are still wondering about this.
Bollywood star homes that are nothing less than a dream
I always call and ask politely for the latest offer to new customers, they always give it to me.

I did find it strange that I went to an energy rate comparison site and my current provider offered met 150 euros to stay for another year. Guess I should also call them every now and then.
the spitting one was odd to me, it seems totally natural. for the pine tar, I am with the pitchers again. if batters can use it to have better grip on their bats, seems totally logical for pitchers to do the same to their balls
Not at all. Making mistakes is one of the best things when you learn a language. Kanjis can be complicated, but also fun. Cheers!
This comment articulated my thought so well. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who would react like that. :-)

The industry is playing a silly game.
Get a thermometer and check the ambient temp. It could be a bug on the mobo/BIOS. As an AWS SRE, we once had an issue where we had waves of racks being unavailable. They'd go offline, were booted by automation, whereupon they'd come up only to go offline again. Our usual approach to solving such issues didn't work (we had a concall spanning 3 days to triage this issue). We typically relied on IPMI sensors for thermal events in the fleet. The typical script fetched the IPMI temp and if it was too high raised a ticket. What we never factored was a temp going too low. So, it turns out, that the datacenter in question would allow air from the outside in winter to help with cooling during winter. One of the air vents got stuck open and servers went cold... (IN deg C): 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 255 << oops bios initiates a server shutdown due to a very high chassis temp. Server vendor issue a patch a few weeks later. We had to put in an alarm for temp going too low in our monitoring!
> "This page suggests the number of 95+ mph fastballs more than doubled in 10 years"

if true, pitchers have probably found a way to cheat which hasn't been discovered yet (not that batters aren't cheating either)
I think market worth as perceived by the employer is shortened to "worth to you" in that sentence and then confused with how much the employee is making for the company. Every employee should create more value than they cost, for some relevant definitions of "value" and "cost". That doesn't mean they should get paid less (money, total benefits and whatever other vague upsides to coming to work) than what's reasonable in the marketplace for their job and their abilities.
You can. I've used WebRTC for multiplayer support in Quake 3 compiled to WebAssembly.
Good point, but properly priced ISOs should have a discount of about 2/3rd the value of the preferred stock (as determined by the previous Series-* funding round) at the time of grant. So even if the valuation hasn't changed, most peoples' options should still mint a pretty penny if they were priced according to typical practice. I don't know anything about Uber.

For reference, "What’s a Fair 409A Discount?": https://www.sethlevine.com/archives/2018/08/whats-a-fair-409...
My favorite anti-productivity introspections:

- Remember that you are going to die. Time flies, have you noticed? Is that status symbol that you are pursuing really that important? Is it ever going to make you happy?

- There is more wisdom in one of your cells than in all self-help and management books combined. Maybe you can't focus for a good reason? What could that reason be?

- Remember the last time you felt glad to be alive? Was it related to being productive?

No need to thank me.
Startupberlin.co Getting Aquired by Rocket Intranet
>it manifests as "severely outside the norm trim", which it most certainly does

How do you know it manifests as trim at all? How do you know it's not an elevator problem? But you're certain, gotcha.

>they're certainly less competent than pilot #3

The pilot who wasn't flying, because he couldn't fly, was in a position to watch the scene unfold and happened to be the only person with both the trim wheel and yoke toggle in his field of view? Are you aware most airlines with four crew for international flights require all of them in the cockpit for takeoff and landing expressly to aid in CRM? If two high hour pilots are all that's needed, why require four? Sometimes in an emergency a different perspective might be useful? But again you're certain.

>Boeing failed to consider the worst case behavior of MCAS

Not in evidence.

>Lion Air maintenance fucked up

Not in evidence.

>Lion Air pilots weren't able to diagnose the failure that morning

We don't know how far along they got. The first step in commanded pitch, roll, yaw, or power changes is reaction based on training, not diagnoses. The plane must be stabilized to buy time to conduct a diagnosis. There's circumstantial evidence of startle factor which can be a considerable inhibitor to diagnosing anything.

>Well then why was the issue so difficult for the pilots to diagnose here?

I have no certainty based on the available evidence. That's the point. What we know is, they were expressly not trained on any differences between the prior model and the one they were flying, let alone the existence of MCAS or MCAS upset. And many U.S. based pilots who fly MAX and found out years after the fact for the first time of its existence and function were pissed that it took an accident to learn about it.

Why would U.S. pilots be pissed if this "certainly" manifests in such a familiar manner that there'd be no difficulty, no delay, and no worry whatsoever, and that U.S. pilots would have easily recovered from the identical scenario?
Possible. But it will also mean that Google probably does the same in other countries and you should not think you would be exempt from this.

It also does justify and support censorship Chinese people are subjected to. You can argue that is not up to Google to judge the chinese government and that might be correct. It still cooperates with the regime, so the accusation of supporting censorship is valid.
Show HN: Rookbot, the World's First AI Virtual Assistant for Debugging
kiva.org
Spanish has the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, which is exactly like the French Académie. Many latin-American countries have an equivalent, and they coordinate with the Spanish one.
Looks interesting

but without support for an HTML5 web browser and VLC/Smplayer and various other programs, whats the point

Whats the advantage of ReactOS or Linux
You killed it
Not my company (I'm a freelancer) and every freelancer brings his own laptop. Furthermore all of us work from remote, often even employees do. I've seen this happen everywhere with the small/medium customers I'm working for.
I do like how nice and simple the IRC client and text editor look
It all comes down to the level of self awarenes and emotional development demonstrated by species. Some primates come close enough to young human children in that regard to cast at least some doubt, but mice? Yes, we probably shouldn't kill them for fun, but saying that their lives are worth as much as human lives is ridiculous and insulting to all humans.
StartupBerlin.co Getting aquired by Rocket Intranet!

https://twitter.com/StartupSlack/status/1112624369833033728
Why do you say PHP's documentation is garbage?

Just one reason is enough. I personally disagree, I think it's great.
How many of those airbag fatalities are due to drivers not buckling up?

It's called Supplemental Restraint System for a reason.
Looking at their respective tours, they don't feel very deep either - they smell like a few features layered in fat, and put inside a web app.
Truly amazing work. I'm curious if you know why the ping time to 127.0.0.1 varies so much between pings.
Feels right to remind people to keep backups :P
They could be actually better and much faster than humans for initial diagnosis. This has far greater implications, e.g. early detection actually reduces big burden from system.
Serious question:
The article says that there are roughly 10 million people living in Haiti.
It also says that the Red Cross collected roughly 500 million dollars in donations.
To me this sounds like it would have been a better idea to take whatever they wanted for themselves and give the remaining lets say 400 million in equal parts to the people of Haiti.
Even if only 50% of that money would have reached its destination, each of the Haiti people would now have 20 million dollars to built up new lives.
So why would these organizations try everything to buy land there and build houses and stuff - instead of just giving the money to the people who need it. Except for taking the money for themselves, obviously.

And I'm sorry but I cannot believe that one would actually need more than 300 million dollars to get an arbitrary amount of money to 10 million people.
No, it doesn't if you mean with "exactly these decisions" that it also decides what words are considered officially part of the language.

You also got the name wrong. It's "Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung" (Council for German Orthography) and that is exactly what they do.

They standardize on the orthography. Nothing more.
The general case may still make not giving raises (or only small ones) more profitable - you don't know how many other employees didn't leave despite not getting big raises, it may more than make the difference for the odd person leaving because of it.

Or how long they got that guy's labour at a discount before he wise up & got a better paid position elsewhere. It may have been years of savings by then.
I generally find pomodoro’s 25-minute work intervals too short for software development, I prefer the 52/17 method.
The Chinese communist party has killed more people than the nazis ever did.
Armies are portable civilisation.

If you task most civilian forces with going somewhere that has disaster level problems there will be blockers. Oh, we can't go there until they have: power, clean water, working telecoms, physical security, etc.

In contrast your military forces can, if necessary, bring everything. A US army deployment can make its own electrical power, make water safe, deploy radio communications, and of course it can provide its own physical security. It is not cheap, but it works.
No, currently they can't as there is no open source license.
The point of cussing is to add emotional color. Remember that and don't judge people who cuss in a cool way. They don't judge you for being dry or uptight. As an example of how useful cussing can be, imagine that you want to critisize your manager for being unpersonable. Calling him fuckface, a dick, an asshole, to his face would help. If you can't do it, there likely a huge problem in your relationships, or it simply isn't your communication style. But if it is and you can do it, it has power. Good vibes when critisizing.

Now I overthink this whole thing and went too deep in my comments, failing to do it fluently. I still belive cussing is an important tool in communication, and if it is frowned upon to cuss in a room, then I doubt it is a room filled with winners. They are concerned with superficial instead of essential and lack emotional intelligence.
> Neither English, Spanish nor German have a dedicated powerful centralized institution that makes those decisions for the language, and I guess Chinese doesn't either?

Among this list, only English doesn't have an institution.

All three other languages (Spanish, German and Chinese) have multiple institutions, basically one per country that speaks the language, just like French.
The Emperor is used as a nationalist symbol to tie the people together (to promote us vs them).
Nah. They try to find and promote alternative words but no one uses them.
> (and these days you don’t even see that much variety in Linux any more either)

I beg to differ! While I do see that there are a a handful of very popular distros, there are tons more out there!

Spend a few minutes poking around DistroWatch[0] and see if you don't agree.

0. https://distrowatch.com/
https://amp.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626...

Make sure you have javascript disabled or use "reader mode"

Or delete the AMP CSS in developer tools or use a browser that does not support CSS
Not all job that pays more requires you to sacrifice your life. I would even argue the other ways that jobs that pay more usually require less from you, leaving you with more time to be with yourself and your family.
"Often wrong"? Really? By often, 50% more wrong than right or less? Or more? I can count on one hand the number of occasions I've found the documentation to be incorrect.
This feels like a whole lot of empty, girly drama. The only takeaway from this feud is that you should not trust wordpress themes and plugins even if you pay for them.
Cranking up playback speed to 2.5-3x makes it a bit more bearable.
Right. So it is a world in which everyone is for themselves.

Companies shouldn't blame employees having no loyality then.

Having survived a few rounds of layoffs and saw colleagues let go, I said to myself "On a scale of 0 to 10, I will love this company as much it loves me -- 0".
This list doesn't say what scope those regulators have.

I only know the situation for German and there the "Council for German Orthography" only regulates orthography not language and word usage, so take this list with a grain of salt.
Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018
Changing jobs to get more pay doesn't neccessarily means you have to work harder though.
> Because you can, Convenience, and compatibility.

You shouldn't shoot yourself in the foot because you can - it doesn't seem particularly convenient to wait > 10 minutes for tests because the laptop CPU is overheating when a proper development server would be twice as fast even with (clumsy) single-core tests.
Roads already refreshed regularly, may be some specific color will be enought.
Let me focus on the financial part:
First question is if funding the right route for you – if it aligns with your goals for the business. I’ll assume it is.

For the pitching phase:
You want to show you understand your market and your customers – if you found product market fit – what is that market, how big is it, and what is your approach to achieve that?
Your roadmap and strategy and leading. Your financial projects should back up your story and show you understand how you plan to scale your business and what it takes to do that.
So the metrics and and projections to include depend on your exact business.
2 sources with suggestions on key metrics:

https://tomtunguz.com/saas-startup-benchmarks/

https://abel-finance.com/8-saas-performance-metrics/

In the pitching phase – in the main deck you don’t have space for much detail – 1 or max 2 sheets with financials (cashflow, MRR, and some key metrics) - but do prepare more detailed sheets to have at hand if investors ask.

In the DD phase:
You’re going to have to be very open – you want to show the truth, your positive and realistic assumptions and be honest about your challenges. This is the time to build and solidify trust. You’re probably going to share your full financial model with the investor.
Investors don’t expect you have every potential challenge solved. They expect a leadership team that understands where they are going and how they want to get there, and is capable of dealing with roadblocks that arise along the way.
Most European countries have a similar language board, English is more an exception than anything else.

And there's not much Gaulish influence in French, here is the full (and small) list of words originating from Gaulish: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mots_en_fran%C...
I've always focused on being efficient, not productive. I want to get my work done as fast as possible so I can return to enjoying life.
Companies that strive to improve their effectiveness can develop a methodology to apply this principle from top to bottom.

A good manager will identify the optimal point for each of his team members. This optimal point will serve as a target performance ceiling for managers to motivate and encourage their staffs to work toward to. If we try and push them over this point then we will begin trading output quality for needless productivity.

For someone at the top, it’s important to determine the optimal point for your organization’s current equilibrium state as well. The goal is to always operate within this state, but slowly and incrementally move the equilibrium point up over time as your organization develops and increases its capacity.

Depending on each industry, the degree to which this principle will affect organizations will vary. For example, it would be more decisive to those who produce creative content as their main output since the negative impacts can be very noticeable and highly detrimental, whereas a manufacturing business relying on human labor can be quite flexible in re-adjusting their capacity.
> It’s not like Google is actively developing next gen censorship and oppression technology by applying a url blacklist.

You're right, they are actively developing next-gen censorship and oppression technology with much more advanced and stealthy methods.
UN people are making $1000 USD per day, NGOs spend millions on a project that leaves a town worse off than before, foreigners come in and mess with the local economy in every way they possibly can.

Aid money buys foreign rice, floods the African market with it so the locals don't grow any next year, then the problem is worse and the dependence just grows every year.

I'll write at least a chapter on all these and more in the book I'm writing about my time around Africa.
> each of the Haiti people would now have 20 million dollars to built up new lives.

You mean 20 dollars...
Show HN: Different code snippets management software “CodeExpander”
> each of the Haiti people would now have 20 million dollars to built up new lives.

Isn't your math way off?

50% of 400MIllion = 200MIllion

200Million/10Milion = 20

So each person gets 20$, not 20 million dollars.
...which is such an odd thing to do on a forum frequented by people who pride themselves on their breadth of knowledge and openness to new ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYt5yuiGk9E&feature=youtu.be...

Minor frustration: Someone in the <5 employee count deserves more equity. Yes that % is pretty common, but I think that's wrong.
Why Testing Is the Backbone of Any Good Software
Not OP but I presume one of the root problems is how the aid is organized. You need lot of grass roots work to actually figure out what works locally. But that's not how you progress in a western organization. You need clear project plans, then you need a budget and follow ups on the project milestones. Which is all paperwork, and not directly related to the actual effect of the project on ground.

It's like a re-enactment of the Soviet Union. Big plans, big scopes ...
> the Académie could make a recommendation on such titles (and it may have done, I don't know) and those would be carried into the French public school curriculum

Actually, the school curriculum (both public and private) follows the Ministry of Education recommendations which are based on the Conseil supérieur français de la langue française, and which are not necessarily the same as the Académie française. Although the Académie usually approves them, it is purely symbolical.
Allow me to be off topic and rant about git here for a hot second. It is not as off topic as you'd think.

It has been proven again and again, over thousands of year but especially recently that the real valuable data is often in the raw notes of a research and not the published material. git allows you, very easily, to destroy history just to make the log prettier later. Instead, it should allow you to construct a hierarchy of logs and hide the nonimportant details but allow it to be shown later. Similarly, git reset --hard should not throw away work, that's criminal https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29 fixes it but bah.

Back to topic: when there are hundreds of thousands of public posts, the mind boggles you are asking whether there's any value to it. There's no question some of it is valueable. I do not know how to impress this mindset where losing information created by people is henious, unthinkable.
I kind of doubt that emergent properties can be modeled.
That’s kind of the nature of conservatism. Some invaders capture the city, force everyone to convert to their religion or be killed, and 500 years later it is our religion, the religion of our ancestors, the one we always had and will never change.

I think the EU will always be a mere bureaucratic administration unless all European citizens speak the same language. I can’t really think of any serious alternative to English, that’s by an order of magnitude the only real common denominator. For that, French, but also Dutch, German, Spanish, etc must all disappear as languages. And we should be ruthless. French only became the language of France because that country got ruthless with regional languages (patois).