skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to go meta with my comment and say that this article is a fantastic object lesson as to why linux faces extremely low odds of ever being adapted as a widespread replacement for windows or OS X. How many people (outside of your coworkers) do you know who would or could follow a path similar to the one laid out in this article?

I'm speaking as someone who has dabbled with linux since 1998. At that time, and now, there is a huge, confused ball of conflict between linux distributions, various levels of customization to those distributions, and documentation available on the web.

Here's a quick, recent example from my own experience. I decided I wanted to learn more about Emacs. I work in Windows at work, so I downloaded portacle. Great. Works great. Then you start watching youtube videos on how to customize Emacs, but most youtube videos are using Emacs in Linux. So you then have to find where portacle puts all the stuff that is in a completely different place than all the Emacs documentation and videos say it is. Great. And I haven't found anyone who talks about the benefits/costs and gotchas about whether to edit the init.el file, or the .emacs file, but now we're getting into the weeds.

So after that frustrating rabbit hole, I think, "I'll just install a linux distro in a VM." Next thought: "Which distro should I get?" Search engines are no help when it comes to finding the "best" linux distro because all I can find is superficial opinion pieces on the matter.

So back when I worked at an ISP in the early 00s, they used Debian, so I download Debian.

Try to install emacs in Debian, and I start getting weird errors about some certain package not being current enough, and apparently someone isn't maintaining/updating the install script for Debian. That's three days lost getting to that conclusion.

So I wipe that VM and download Ubuntu, because it seems to be the most widely used distro, and seems like a good distro for "normies" like me. Install emacs, no problem. Can customize by following youtube videos, no problem. Enjoying emacs now.

All of this comes at a high price, however. I've been messing around with trying to use emacs for a few months now, on my side time at work and at home, and it's only been in the last couple of weeks that I've been able to use the package in a way in line with the available training materials.

Normies have no kind of patience for this kind of ridiculousness. Techies justify these "rabbit holes" as enthralling and fun, and yeah, it feels good to finally figure some of this kind of stuff out, but overall, it's a massive distraction from actually USING the tools, rather than just futzing around, trying to get the damn tools to work in the first place.
> Content ID is not the DMCA. Content ID got it wrong here, and that happens all the time. It's not a big deal for the claimer. Which is totally contrary to how DMCA works, if someone makes a wrong claim there it gets very expensive for them.

That simply is not true. DMCA misclaims are pretty much not punished at all in practice.
Tech:

- Computer Science: Having a designer background, I didn't have the opportunity for formal training.

- React and its ecosystem

- TypeScript

Non-Tech:

- Music Theory

- Synths
I have a slightly tangential question: can someone link to articles and writeups that discuss how YouTube and other platforms efficiently disambiguate between a valid/allowable recording and a prohibited recording, when the content between valid/prohibited is very similar or near identical in the most obvious features (e.g. rhythm and key).
If you lined all the drive-throughs end to end would it get to the moon and back?

Edit: not even close. You'd need a little under 2mi of drive through per location to get to the moon
Quantum computing is reversible in this way. Rabbit hole starts here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla_bit
I'm not surprised.

But this sure surprised me:Pierrick Gaudry, from Lorraine University, was able to break the Ethereum-based smart contract encryption in only 20 minutes using nothing more than an average desktop computer and free, publicly available software. Gaudry estimates more modern equipment and sophisticated techniques could crack the encryption in only 10 minutes."
Driving a lot, say 80k a year. Driving on Uber or tracking.
Niche product: ability to resize the viewport within a tab
Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
> Nobody suggests scrapping 5G.

Neither am I! I am suggesting (and advocating) that we slow down so that these concerns can be taken seriously. Quoting from The Verge again:

> How did the wireless industry respond to [meteorological concerns]? By writing a blog post accusing meteorologists from across three government agencies of “risking our 5G leadership.” The implication, of course, is that worrying about detecting major weather events could make us lose the race.
True. But if you have kids, all your effort cleaning the kitchen will be gone in a few hours.
The old-school YouTube iOS icon for the favicon is a great touch!
I said simply!
This is all historically bound up. Audiobooks and printed books used to be separate physical things. The publishing rights ecosystem was built assuming this.

Now that they're fungible, its not making much sense any more. But millions of publishing contracts exist, that enforce the distinction. What do we propose to do about it? Without dismantling fundamental contract definitions.
The look and feel reminds me a lot of basecamp!
Brightness is also specified for different media — between 100 and 300 nits for SDR content, and 1000 nits for HDR.

Text becomes painful if the contrast is too high, but if you have a cheap screen at 70 nits it won't ever be an issue.
No tracking, no dependence on power (I go writing at an off grid cottage), simplicity.

Lots of reasons.
I'd love to read the collection of short stories this appears in, Ogon Diabła, but I cannot seem to find a published edition in English. Any suggestions?
You make it sound like he told us it was ok to be unreadable and make spelling mistakes... No, we needed to be readable, always. And attentive to presentation, on occasion, but only when it mattered.

I'm very grateful now for the ability to take notes quickly in meetings where things go really fast and I don't have a chance to ask people to repeat what they said. But of course if I'm sending those notes out later, I'll take the time to format them properly.
> Databases, particularly any database which benefits from more than 16MB of L3 cache.

Yes but have you seen this actually measured, as being a net performance problem for AMD as compared to Intel, yet? I understand the theoretical concern.
Ethical Responsibility for Tech Should Extend to Non-Users
The Q SDK – Add HQ Trivia style gaming to your own apps
American 240V outlets are two-phase (two hot plus neutral). A European 240V appliance (which is one hot plus neutral) cannot safely be plugged in to such an outlet.
> Their competitors would also be having a field day.

What competitors? This is a classic monopoly and its a sham that Google hasn't been broken up.
Sometimes it's just working collaboratively, creating an atmosphere where you encourage the "junior folks" to ask questions without judgment. Also whenever you stumble on something interesting you share. I miss this aspect of my current job, am 100% remote and miss those discussions.
I don't think it is biased so much as targetted to the US. It kind of has to be that way because otherwise its overall relevance deteriorates if say it lists rising private health insurance costs, reeducation camps for being involved with the illegal capitalism because it combines US millenials and North Korean millenials.
It seems they covered the other attack possibility with the new update as well but another researcher from Harvard was able to break the system so he could count the votes before the election was over. Plus, now there is a new big update and writing code for numerical methods in such a short period is never bug-free. Let's see how it plays.
I understand where you are coming from. Currently the website doesn't sell the product as is. I think you'll have trouble finding that paying customer. You need a good unique strategy if you want to break through.
Sure, right here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/24/world/america...
I wonder under which paradigm the modern robots of iRobot (the Roomba company, where Brooks works today) are developed. Them being three-layer would be a pretty good indictment of pure-subsumption as an architecture.
> because then we have the money to automate it

I think you are missing the point that in this case you _don't_ have the money.
How does him arguing for nuclear power over renewables makes him less trustworthy? You completely lost me there. Sounds like you're just trying to find something to attack his motives.
Chrome has the option to display an image background on your default new tab page, if you want to keep chrome's favourites.
I think also because the key to the experience is interaction and playing. However, in more 'cinematic' games, one can avoid purchasing the game and just watch a speed run.
> You point it out right there yourself—each language picks a pronunciation and sticks with it.

I feel this is rapidly turning into an impromptu session of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" about names.
I Made a Game in Rust
The internet is becoming less free
I've taken a look at the statistics presented here and mathmatically there isn't a statistically significant link between their groups. Are you suggesting there is?
Well, a lot of San Francisco did, anyway!
Presight Capital raises $80M fund to connect US startups with Europe
It is a good metric because it is a measure of random access. Bigger requests are a mixed measure of sequential performance and random access (and you can basically infer the performance for any io size from the huge request bandwidth and the smallest reasonable IO IOPS)
Supporting thousands of users from a huge firm, while only charging them $49, is not a problem you want to have. You're just giving away resources at that point.
It's amazing how so many people who "don't" believe in God blaspheme at the earliest opportunity.
Show HN: Stack NG – News site/social media web app
There are exceptions to every rule. Don’t yell at your coworkers I think is a pretty strong guideline though.
The author has another article with the following headline:

"Republicans Can Own The Libs on Climate Change By Defending Nuclear Plants On The Brink"

That's troll language. This guy is not a legit journalist.
Can you tell us what you consider to be THE MAIN features / traits of a CRM that makes it good? Like 90% of it? We are building one now.

What we already have:
An app that is used by 100000+ active users to manage their contacts and put them into groups.

What we want to add:

Each Group would have a Tree of States

Each State would have (full HTML) Email Templates that you customize with our mobile editor

You would be able to send template emails from your phone and track email opens and link clicks, and get notifications.

Each “email open” or “link click” can move people into a new state, from 5a to 5b so to speak. Of course, primary states would have names.

You would also be able to place calls and take HTML notes on each contact, which can include images etc.

The CRM would let you see at a glance who is in what state in the pipeline (actually, a tree).

Also, business card scanning that saves contacts in bulk, then you categorize them based on Group

We may also, later, want to add other features, such as “countdown” graphics and other widgets to the templates, and tasks for teams.

Charging

In your experience, what would be a good market clearing price for such a CRM? You would be able to do everything from your PHONE, rather than having to go to your computer. Do you know of a CRM like this? Or even an app that an track email opens? I only know NewtonMail maybe.

I was thinking of charging $20, $50 and $100 a month plans, for 200 emails, 1000 emails or 10,000 emails per month, respectively.
On the other hand I once had the enviable task of converting a spreadsheet to SQL - minus the data import, the calculations in Excel ran for hours, after the conversion the stored procedure took about 2 minutes to run.

And this was something that the business had to do daily - you can imagine how effective it was to start the calc in the morning, have it hog all your CPU for hours then get the results after lunch if you were lucky and did not have to restart the whole shebang.

Yes, Excel is brilliant at communicating with business users and getting stuff done quickly. But it does not scale and has some problems with the normal software development flow - just try to put your Excel files in version control and you'll see what I mean...
I mean, let's put it in these terms and see how you feel.

Write a book. Your average book that reaches shelves takes 4 to 8 months to write. About 2 months for the first draft and roughly 4 to 10 rewrites depending on the author's quality.

Then it goes to a publisher that hires an editor to comb the book a few times over. Discussing aspects of the book and a decent amount of rewriting from here as well.

Then theres cover art.

Oh and typesetting/formatting for actual publication.

About a good year's worth of work along with many people for one book.

So, go ahead, do that all for free and dont feel salty when some other company takes your story, exactly word for word, makes easy money off of it and gives you nothing.

Just saying. Rent and food isn't paid with like buttons, reddit karma, hn upvotes and hugs/kisses.
On the other hand, the impact this forest fire tweet serie had was greater than most of trump's tweet, which pretty much everyone ignores today. It forced Bolsonaro to mobilize the army and almost caused an international agreement between Brazil and Europe to fail.

Not to mention that the list also includes Macron, which used the emotion caused by those pictures to influence the G7 summit that took place right at the same time.
Thanks - good thoughts all round.
I love this model. "We'll help you deliver value, on the house" as a trial.
A fact which may be related is that Unicode contains a character which is in effect a lengthened tilde character, called U+2053 SWUNG DASH: ⁓

Therefore, might your “swan hyphen” be a corruption of an original term “swung hyphen”?
Core ML – Inference on iOS
Yeah ok, we got thay from the parent comment.
VMware Introduces Project Pacific, Transform VSphere in to App Platform
The Robot Ship Set to Cross The Atlantic and Change the World
Sure! I like to keep it simple. Might add it in the future :).
Or, if one sticks to their supply/demand guns the skullcaps become worthless and either are avoided by players as a cheap way to skill up or it becomes a gold sink. Both are useful.

NB that in early UO, skullcaps weren’t a drop, they were mass produced as they were the most cost effective way to build stats and skills. Doubly so if shopkeepers would actually pay for them
Good for them, with some luck they'll even pull some Open Solaris to Solaris to Death move.

Meanwhile: https://adoptopenjdk.net/
United States 240V is single phase. 120V is split phase, with the neutral drawn from the middle of the coil.
Nice, native deferred rendering for style sheets next please!
Have you got an article where you talk a bit about point #3 - "a mathematical dialect of regular expressions". The words all make sense, but I cannot picture it :-). Your Oil posts always appear up on lobste.rs shortly after they're posted and I thoroughly enjoy them, but I must have missed a few!
Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
If someone said to me 'one thousand base sixteen' I would think '=> 1000_16 => 0x1000'; certainly not that they were converting all numbers to base ten solely for the purpose of speech.

Thus, I agree with you, there's value in making digits beyond 9 pronouncable for higher bases (if dealing with them enough to make devising the system worthwhile of course).
How to make panic attacks your bitch
Mostly circulated by the same crowd that invented the term "conspiracy theory" to discredit the people researching and trying to reveal real conspiracies.
That's absolutely my opinion with the way the media (and some celebrities) are surfing on the climate issues nowadays.

They're causing so much anxiety and fear on the subject, that if by any chance climate warming or amazon fires or anything isn't as catastrophic as they say, then the whole environment field is going to be trashed as a fake by the general audience.
This is cool, I could add Nasa as another image provider, alongside of Bing.
yea, but in that case the problem isn't entering the hole, but the obsessive personality.

As an obsessive person myself, knowing how to stop, how to put things down and "grasp for air", is something I had to learn to do (meditation helped)
This article demonstrates that it is overthinking the issue — both approaches are correct and about as fast. For non-copyable structs move vs borrow are semantically different, so the choice is even clearer.

With built-in style lints and Clippy, Rust is doing quite well in keeping codebases simple and idiomatic.
World’s deepest hole plunges 40k feet
It is somewhat common to make some of the wall outlets in the kitchen 240V sockets, but definitely not common to equip all the outlets in the house that way.
At the risk of getting into the tabs v.s. spaces debate of cooking: Electrical stoves are good enough, electric induction stoves (unlike the old electric stoves) can near-instantly change their heat output, which was the main benefit of gas over electric.

Induction stoves are also much easier to clean compared to gas, since the entire heating surface is flat glass[1]. In The Netherlands there's an established gas infrastructure, but when renovating many people are opting to switch to induction over gas, even though they have the ability to keep using gas.

Those homes will usually keep a gas-powered boiler for central heating, which will be the only remaining household use of gas.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooking
That raises the question who in today’s media doesn’t get involved in trolling or clickbait headlines anymore?
This is an unnecessary worry. How about they cross that bridge when they get there? If they spent time worrying about all that _could_ go wrong, they’d of never have built anything.

People who spend time worrying about what could go wrong don’t make good business operators. The truth is, when you get a business off the ground so many things go fantastically wrong and so many go fantastically right and you’ll have not anticipated any of it.

Let the person who built this CRM focus on the only thing they really need to worry about: building an awesome product and getting people to pay them for it.
I struggle with this too. Some of the advice here is good and I won't repeat it, but three rules I've found helpful:

1. Wait before clicking submit. I write my reply, then go get a cup of coffee or take a bathroom break or whatever. Then when I come back, I ask myself whether the world would be better off if I closed the browser tab instead of posting.

2. Always add, don't subtract. If I don't have something substantive to contribute that hasn't already been said, and I just want to cut the legs out from under an existing comment, it's probably not worth the time and emotional energy and it won't convince anyone anyway.

3. Talk about the ideas. Don't make the response personal unless the person I'm responding to specifically asked for a personal response (asking for advice on a situation they're in, etc.) If I find myself writing the word "you," it's a sign that I may be violating this rule.
The answer to this is summarized pretty well by another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20797869

Still, a mature adult would have recommended someone for the next version of conference and if all points out your recommendation is being taken seriously you do your part and deliver your conference in the current version.
The free-via-local-UK-public-library access is actually pretty pain-free -- you just click the 'sign in' button, enter your library card number, possibly click a link to tell it which particular local library the card is for, and that's it. There is no password. It's worked in Firefox since forever, and I'm sure it will work in Safari too. It then remembers you're signed in for a bit, and next time around it's even easier because your web browser remembers the library card number and can fill in the field for you.

It's a great resource to have handy. Personally I set Firefox up with a search bookmark so I can just type 'oed wombat' to look up 'wombat'; if you're not signed in it goes through a quick fill-in-the-library-card-number interstitial and then you're straight at the definition.
I agree that they incorrectly predicted future events, but no one should be able to that with absolute certainty. Past events are, of course, much easier to report accurately.
This bit seems pretty damning:

> As SolarCity struggled to raise money from institutional investors, it began offering individuals a chance to buy what it called Solar Bonds. (“Now you can get paid while driving the solar revolution,” the marketing material said.) But there were few takers—so other parts of the Musk empire took up the slack. According to the shareholder lawsuit, SpaceX acquired $255 million of the bonds.

Other than Musk's involvement in both, what's the situation where a company like SpaceX sees a need to plow $255 million into debt obligations issued by a solar panel installer?
I love this system, but how do you deal with the ambiguity around "ten"?

9: nine
A: ten?
B: eleven
...
10: ten?
20: twenty
30: thirty
Using references to temporaries is at least slightly less painful with a ref pattern:

let ref a = p1 + &(d1*s);
let ref b = p2 + &(d2*t);
dot_product_by_borrow(&(b - a), &(b - a))
That particular horse was never broken to begin with, much less in anyone's barn.

fbreader has a tts plugin, and Android has many utilities to convert between different formats. I sometimes use TextAloud (with Paul16, the best TTS voice imo) on my PC, to make audiobooks for myself.
this is so impractical
You can tell it's not a fluke if you look at the copyright claims that are sometimes available in the "Show More" section. Frequently, it will show claims that recordings of the same piece by other performers are part of the video.

Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDCgFFBk20

Two of the movements have correct copyright claims for the performance, but another of the movements has a claim for a recording by a different conductor and orchestra. I see this all the time.

Like another person said here, we don't know how Content ID works or what exactly it's looking for, but it's clearly not an "exact match" of sound waves or something: it has to catch covers of compositions that are still under copyright, for example [1].

[1] https://diymusician.cdbaby.com/youtube/posting-cover-songs-o...
Thanks! That makes sense, will work on it :)!
Or we could, you know, just go to school and work and interact with one another the way we already do. Rather than trying to force people to give up years of their short lives via a draft.
Faster load time, easier scalability, and the overall affordability that these two elements introduce are probably the strongest argument in favor of looking into static site generators.
Calling life improving start ups
So I just stumbled upon this Tel Aviv based digital marketing agency that has this competition and the start up that wins gets four fricking months of FREE service, including SEO, social media and content marketing. Check it out here (if you're an english speasking startup only
https://lp.ranky.co
"Half of the Amazon is protected against deforestation under federal law."

For now.

The point is we should be RE-foresting the planet, not DE-foresting at all, regardless of whether more or less rapaciously than previous years.
This is effectively an ad for https://www.itemsy.com/.
Ha, the person you're replying to even wrote "except for Whatsapp"! That's curious...