skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most cloud solutions costs 2-3 times more than the on-prem equivalents. The selling point that's usually trotted out is "but it just works and you can fire your IT staff".

...Most people who move to the cloud end up still needing IT staff to manage it, and are now, by proxy, paying for the cloud provider's IT staff too. (Hidden underneath all of those cloud providers are a silent army of IT people.)

A recent conversation I had was whether to replace a server (five figures) when a neighboring organization was on the cloud for the same technology (three figures per year per device). The latter sounded a lot cheaper until you multiplied the devices by that three figure amount, and multiplied it by the five years the server's contract covered. The cloud solution became more expensive that the physical service in a little over a year.

I have similar conversations about Office 365. It costs twice as much as buying on-prem Microsoft Office, even if you buy Office every version. There's really no reason not to skip every other release of Office, which makes it practically four times the cost of on-prem.
I'm curious how the damage breaks down, because it sounds like a lot of that damage might have been him destroying just a motherboard and then the entire computer being written off.
Yes but the evidence for ADHD is dubious. We have a long way to go when it comes to understanding the human mind. Anyone, not just people with ADD, can increase their performance with narcotic stimulants. Just don't be disingenuous about it.
ACH - a basic account can’t have this protection. We have an idea for an account that is for sending only that is always 0-balanced. That’s not live yet, but perhaps it would satisfy your request.

Check - you can send a check to a specific person from the Mercury dashboard but you can’t print a blank check against the account. That would be rejected. So standard check fraud is not possible.
as long as it lasts, I enjoy it.
Deep Lessons from Our First Image of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon
I think the takeaway is that it's not usually the case that something this technical makes it to world news. Everyone wants to have an opinion, but even in this article's case of someone who's both a pilot and programmer, they apparently know next to nothing about how a 737 MAX is controlled (mechanically, not with forces artificially applied to inputs) because they fly a Cessna. And there aren't that many 737 pilots with the time or ability to write something frank about this without perhaps getting in trouble with their employers.
> The article is very light on any kind of evidence that boys are better of having a baby before their own children.

A lot of wow in a single HN comment. Very entertaining.
Even aside from straight adaptations, the characters show up elsewhere - such as when Xena helped Beowulf with Grendel.
Not at all. Even a lot of people that hate it, liked it for several months until it broke.

That doesn't say much about whether it's a good idea overall, though.
Reading about this tree climber, I noticed how when he used the word angiosperm, I was surprised by his intelligence, as if being a tree climber is something less intelligent people do. I'm ashamed of that. And, to see how dedicated he is to protecting forests and coming from such humble beginnings, it made me further ashamed of my privilege and what I'm using it for. This community on HN talks a lot about "changing the world": this guy is doing it, truly, in such an important and unrecognized way.
Is Softbank just going to invest in every self-driving startup? That seems like a really weird investment strategy.
Raspberry Pi limits the input voltage with a Zener diode across the input. In a Zener used this way, the current flow through the diode varies with the voltage difference between the input and the output - so with enough voltage input you can still make it fail, as you can exceed the max power dissipation of the diode and then it will burn - and after that, your circuit is not protected anymore.
I also hate it, but maybe it’s like music and it’s totally subjective.
A LOT of the forest that burned in the CA Camp fire isn't going to come back. Thanks to warming winters, the pine bark beetles are making their way up the Sierras and laying waste to entire mountains of pine trees. The folks who want to live in the burned out areas will now likely be surrounded by chaparral instead of pine forest.
One reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days of V7 Unix
Possible solution: run your text through a different machine translator for each account. Make minor corrections for cohesiveness.
ACH fraud protection is available to Mercury customers. I believe you have 90 days to reverse an ACH.

Customers do have better protection than businesses but in reality most banks extend the same rules to both.
Beyond funding is the issue of regulatory capture. The FAA is too cozy with the plane manufacturers, allowing them to help test,certify,document their own products.

The biggest overarching change I would like to see is the abandonment of allowing manufacturers to extend the type rating of airframes indefinitely and designing to avoid costly recertification and training vs a true focus on safety and innovation.
Classic was inserting an old 16k DRAM backwards.

Hmm... something smells hot... touch touch touch sound of screaming
There are rephrasing services available, presumably for helping users plagiarise. Some are laughable bad but possible helpful, while othersare quite good.
Eg:
https://quillbot.com/app

https://paraphrasing-tool.com/
I'm not 100% sure whether I understand the reasoning behind this.

"Hiding Like counts could reduce herd mentality, where people just Like what’s already got tons of Likes."

"Hiding Like counts might get users posting more since they’ll be less self-conscious."

"Narcissism, envy spiraling, and low self-image can all stem from staring at Like counts."

Are there any sources for these claims?
And are they the expressed reasons for this?
I am reminded of a particular "Olde Time Radio" episode of 'The Shadow' which involves a trial; a person of [political? judicial?] importance is accused of receiving or at least being approached with blackmail//bribery. Fatal evidence was reel-to-reel film video with accompanying reel-to-reel audio played in tandem ["high-tech" at the time, remember].

Lamont Cranston & Margo Lane are in the courtroom audience for plot reasons and Lamont has issue with how the voice audio [doesn't quite] sync up with the lips on the video despite potential technology sync issues.

"Believe only half of what you see," Lamont paraphrases//declares to Margo, "and nothing you hear."

I'll let folks enjoy the episode to the end and I realize that the quoted paraphrase is likely a paraphrased quote in and of itself, but many decades after both I've still remembered the phrasing.

-/-/-

I've encountered this myself personally when trying to be a personal witness to someone escaping bounty hunters through a hotel bathroom window. In trying to be A Good Citizen, literally being voluntarily in the face of a cigar-chewing dude with sunglasses, and intellectually knowing what "tricks" might be played on me [e.g. "tall, blond hair?" -- "no, short and curly black!"] I still made rookie mistakes in basic reality-telling. And this was live-and-in-person shortly after the event. "Eye witnesses are unreliable" as sometimes reported, indeed.
Metaphysical Implications of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem – Part 1
At least one guess is that this helps Softbank increase the value of its other investments in Uber: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/don-t-...
It's also common in the world of dance workshops, where international teachers tour several countries, teaching every weekend in another town. They usually just claim to be tourists, even though they're clearly travelling for business.

I'm still waiting for the big splash when one or two get investigated. It must happen at some point, their teaching is heavily advertised on workshop web sites. Their presence is the main feature of those workshops, after all.
I haven't had too much trouble with it aside from a poorly responsive spacebar at one point. I still dislike it though, and don't really find any value in the extra thinness.
Softbank is EVERYWHERE
But think of the whiteboard algorithms they can all put together in a pinch
Very strange. I thought the world was being eaten by Javascript, and now this?
the article isn't about the feel of the keyboard, its about the reliability. Unless you are saying you like stuck keys?
I look at remote job ads and I find the US, Canada at times the UK willing to hire internationally. Where Denmark, Norway, Germany seem hostile to non-locals.

To me those are key signals of a competitive market. It doesn't feel like Europe has a shortage of talent at the moment.
That's just the journalist's take on the feature.

In Instagram's app itself, the feature is elaborated as follow:

> We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this test, only the person who shared a post will see the total number of likes it gets.

source tweet: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1118970853654290432

Instagram then stated to the press they are:

> exploring ways to reduce pressure on Instagram is something we’re always thinking about
Offer a 30 year fixed mortgage at prime minus 1%, and we’ll talk!
I always though Zoom came standard on Macs, and that is was made by Apple. It works that well.

Turns out my wife had installed it before she gave me her MacBook.
> Is there any device that is supposed to survive this?

There used to be...

As a boy - and this is many, many years ago - I once, ehm, accidentally connected the external speaker-plug on an old vacuum tube household radio to the 220V mains.

A very loud bang, and the house went dark. The radio, however, was fine, although with an interesting new tonal slant to everything.
“seven elements that every keyboard needs to create a great typing experience.” I have a hard time imagining what those seven elements are, because I get stuck at two: 1. Produces the characters 2. That I intended to type. These two attributes are also, incidentally, what the biggest and most-valuable tech companies in the world are somehow grappling with anew.

Oh come on. Having a keyboard that causes as little fatigue and soreness as possible over time is an unsolved and complicated problem. There's also noise to consider. And laptops don't have infinite room. These factors come after "does it make the characters?" but they are not unimportant.
> I hope he gets the full 10 years.

Ten years for vandalism? That's injustice.

You don't even know why he did it. Perhaps he was just an idiot, perhaps he had a legitimate grievance that he didn't know how to "rectify" otherwise.

> Nothing like the US Penitentiary System to teach you a lesson.

Oh really? Then why does the US system have one of the highest rates of recidivism in the world? Why does the US have the highest incarceration rate in the world, perhaps with the exception of North Korea?
This is exactly what IBM and Oracle etc have been doing for years.
As an engineer who also really loves the outdoors (forests, mountains, etc.), I find gardening to be one the most stressful activities I've ever tried.

For example, I had several trees planted for privacy, and I cannot even handle watering them. There's no good recipe to follow, no fixed amount of water, just a vague instruction to dig a hole into the root ball and make sure the soil is "moist" but not "wet" or "dry". Of course, that is just like a customer saying he wants a design that "pops but is not too flashy" - a nightmare.
On top of that, there's one watering system for 7 trees, and various holes next to them have different-feeling soil; and often, different holes right next to each other by the same tree have radically different levels of moisture. Even the rain doesn't helps because arborvitae are very dense and while 2 feet from the root ball it may be almost swampy, under the tree still looks dry and I've no idea whether to water or not water them.
And that's before we get to fertilizer, pests, etc. Ugh.
And ofc unlike e.g. burning a cake, if the trees do die I'll actually feel bad.

It's basically an engineering equivalent of a customer from hell who is super vague, changes specs all the time, and you have multiple bosses who disagree; and if you screw up the project people suffer.

I already wish I just had a taller fence built, cause I'll have to hire someone to deal with this no doubt.

They really should come up with bio-engineered "robot" trees that have an instruction manual with specific quantities of water and stuff to be applied at specific intervals...
It probably saves a CPU cycle or two.
Thanks indeed, wish our managers knew this too. Instead of saying "What is he doing for work?!" every day.
That’s part of the plan!
Yeah, I think they'd be better served by something like `CC BY-ND 4.0`.
Projects Idea for a Web Technologies Course
Hello, I have a course I take this month called Web Technologies and we are asked to come up with a project idea and build it. Please do suggest some ideas.
Thanks.
Probably related to the switch to USB-C, which started with the 2016 models.
Plenty of sources out there on network theory and information cascades.
I've never thought to ask how Bumble works from the men's side: is that true you don't see anyone until they swipe? I assumed that wasn't the case, because I receive messages saying "there are people who are interested to meet you" who I haven't seen yet.
Well, he was pretty good, he let us take the decisions completely so we never paid anything for it other than in time. Moreover, we weren't flush with cash or anything so they wouldn't have made much anyway.
Apple Owes Everyone an Apology
I like the sharpness of it and don't mind short travel.

I hate when I have to send my laptop in to Apple for 10 days to repair it because a speck of dust entered it.

So now I use a "keyboard condom" on it to keep dust out (despite Apple's explicit support article saying NOT to use one) and it's turned into the worst keyboard since the ZX80
Does anyone know what's happening at Toyota ? They Gil Pratt (from DARPA/CMU?) leading TRI in SV, Boston (and now apparently in Tokyo). They have a TTI in Nagoya, have $100 M in PFN, and have an in-house autonomous driving effort. ...

Yet, they invest $500+660m (with Denso) in what is empirically proven to be a reckless team in Pittsburgh.
The author actually picked the Apache license but changed it to MIT a year ago[1].

I imagine the author is trying to do open source well by using a license but doesn't fully understand the impact it has on the project. That's fair enough, and very common when people are new to open source.

[1] https://github.com/mikolajdobrucki/ikonate/commit/5993f43ce6...
In the world of CAD, you'd be much more useful building a company making higher quality expensive CAD software.

They can rebuild Notre-Dame, decently and efficiently, if they can avoid having too many chefs. You might want to think about what you can do to build the next Notre-Dame. How to build your own Notre-Dame.
There's a corner two blocks from my apartment in SF where I regularly see women hustling. I've even been approached on the sidewalk in Union Square, which is an area heavily trafficked by tourists.
"This smearing is exacerbated by the SNES' matrix math implementation, which uses trigonometric lookup tables and rounding to cut down on the time needed to perform all that linear algebra on '90s-era consumer hardware. " - this is a bit of an apology for what I feel like is some actual bug in the math used in the Mode7 hardware. We spent a lot of time working around the inconsistent decimation. Either way this cleaned up version is rather nice.
Real Mr Pibb was awesome, although wasn't available in my region growing up.

When they moved over to Pibb Extra, that stuff was just nasty.
Apple has gone 5150 Over the last 6 years. Disconnect from reality is an understatement.
90% of Webex calls I've been on for some reason didn't allow using computer audio. I couldn't even tell if it's disabled or somehow broken. That makes it hard to use good headphones. I usually ended up calling the webex phone number via hangouts, so that I can use a real headset. However, in a way it doesn't really matter because it's hard for other participants to use good audio equipment as well and so everyone else is using some echoey conference room speakerphone or worse put their phones on speakerphone. Zoom treats computer audio like a first class citizen and I've typically found that 80-100% of participants call in via that and end up using a good Sennheiser headset or similar. That makes for a so much better experience.

Everytime I am on some damn webex with people yelling into their conference room speakerphones, I just want to hang up.
We're on a site right now that hides like counts for these reasons :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605
I guess the problem is I see hacker news as the tech community and this tech community now has a lot of social power that maybe they're not used to, not aware of and don't really understand.
so I don't think it's good enough anymore to be such a culture shaping community through technology but to, in one of the biggest forums, say what we just can't discuss this stuff we can't handle the discussions.

I think you need to know how to handle the discussions. I think you have a responsibility to because your actions like it or not are shaping the culture and that has significant effects beyond yourselves so you're going to have to adapt your communities and you communication abilities to enlarged with that.

otherwise it's like trying to apply the BBS ethos of the 80s to the present, after software already ate the world. I don't think the tech community gets to take the benefits of that power without also shouldering the responsibility so you're going to have to start having these border discussions that are often by definition highly charged. they're going to have to start learning how to do that and to engage with differing viewpoints. instead of pushing away the blame for avoiding that on to something other than themselves. maybe hacker new can't evolve but something else needs to.

it's not enough for companies to have these discussions internally in private they need to do it in the full light of day. also finally it's a bit disingenuous for you to say that while we can't solve the world's biggest problems well silicon valley's often reiterated motto is well that's exactly what we're trying to do.
> What is the trade-off for not being included by default in the main extension, CPU?

gorhill's (developer of uBO) explanation from[1] below:

> uBO-Extra is needed to deal with IL stuff because the IL inline script appears at the top of the served HTML page -- before any other secondary resource-pulling tag.
uBO-Extra injects its content script declaratively, i.e. on every page, hence it will always run before IL stuff.

The root cause of why it is needed is because of a bug with web socket implementation in chrome.[2]

Additional info on why both are needed (& why for chrome but not firefox) in some reddit threads.[3][4][5]

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227#issuecomm...

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=487422

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/83quub/ublock...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/7mfkv1/ublock...

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/a9trz2/ublock_origi...
It's also possible that they're experimenting with this in anticipation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19665221 (a proposed ban on likes for children).
Thank you. How about SDL 2.0? It was a major rewrite - is it modern enough?
The private upvote counts are one of the few things I dislike about Hacker News.

It feels like the system is hiding information from me that I would find interesting and that I could use to reason about the world.

I would find it even more interesting if not only the upvotes would be public but also who upvoted.

And for downvotes it could be an interesting experiment to make a statement mandatory explaining why one downvoted.

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Neural Painters: A model-based approach for generating brushstroke paintings
This is a solvable problem, but I don't think anyone is approaching it from a sufficiently removed perspective.

Up front, yes, we need to be compassionate to these people (and they are people) and remember that if you're posting on HN odds are you're fortunate enough to extend a helping hand once in a while.

But we cannot sacrifice the city's quality of life by enabling behaviors that endanger these people and others. That's what we're doing right now. Explicitly. There's no "how do we engineer our way out of this problem" by way of designing some new novel public bathroom. Reinventing the urinal isn't a solution to this - it isn't even a bandaid. What's worse, more public bathrooms seems extremely likely to encourage a spiral of dangerous behavior to an increasing degree. We'd just move it from the streets and concentrate it in public spaces that are no longer really public, but rather are just bio-hazardous dorms for the homeless and addicted. Elsewhere in this thread, someone noted that SF essentially already has a pseudo-UBI program for the homeless. This seems patently absurd to me. Forget about this being a literal cash transfer to drug dealers, giving an addict cash is actually worse than just giving them drugs - now they have to go out and score, endangering themselves and very likely others around them.

So what is to be done? First we have to be honest. The overwhelming majority of these people are no longer "down on their luck". They're addicts, with severe mental health issues and no amount of "nudges" will make them change their behavior. We should start with diverting all this money that goes to nebulous initiatives like "housing" and these cash give-aways into funding legitimate facilities staffed with case workers, doctors, job trainers, and police.

And then we should make vagrancy illegal.

I don't say this lightly, as I've had a family member die from opioid addiction. But so many of these people have lost their own agency. They no longer have the ability to care for themselves. If the state doesn't step in, they will be next on the gurney - and everyone here knows it. You know it when you walk past the guy shooting up on the sidewalk on the way home from work. You know it when you see the woman with that "look" holding a sign that says "7 months pregnant, terrified, anything will help". We can stand idle and watch this happen, like we have for so many years. Or we can swallow our pride and realize that this system we've set up out of "compassion" is fundamentally broken and is at its root enabling severe problems - and end it.
I suggest finding a language that you can learn online.

It does not have to be what you really want to learn, just one you can get stared with.
Ruby has some decent lessons out there where they tell you what to type, you type it, and see the results.

First, like an essay, create an outline. Write what you want the output to look like, search stack overflow for examples, and it will get easier.

I learned Matlab, essentially deleted it from memory, and felt as you describe a few years later. I had to relearn it and just pushing myself with the pomodoro technique (20 min on, 5 min break) worked.

Good luck.
I'm glad they stuck with hiding the like counts.
This is interesting - as Jack at Twitter also expressed the same sentiment in removing likes and retweets. Alot of twitter users fired back because it was to prevent large ($), but unpopular, accounts from being ratio'd (meaning being embarrassed by their comment-to-like ratio, if the ratio is high, it is being you said something dumb, that no one likes).

The way instagram frames this is sort of healthier, but I can't imagine Facebook doing this just for social good.