skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gripe is with tennis shoes. Back in the day (70's), tennis shoes always had a piece of rubber across the toe to prevent your toe from wearing through the fabric.

Now, tennis shoes either don't have anything covering the toe, or even more ridiculous (Under Armor), there is a small piece of leather/vinyl on the outside edge of the big toe, but it strategically doesn't cover where your toe actually comes through the fabric after a year.

It used to be that tennis shoes could be worn until the soles were worn through. Now, the upper portion wears holes through in a year, maybe two if you're lucky, and the sole looks almost new.

And it's not just the fashion industry who are making products designed to fail: I just replaced a water heater after 7 years that had a 6-year warranty - surprise! The gas valve stopped working. Water heaters used to last 40 years! It's sickening to me that every household in America is sending a water heater and other major appliances to the landfill every 5-10 years, just so manufacturers, supply houses, and installers can make more money.
1) I'm a progressive and I'm saying this.

2) CNN and MSNBC absolutely are partisan entities, though CNN does try hard to appear less so. As long as MSNBC keeps employing Maddow and she keeps pushing debunked conspiracy theories, they will absolutely be seen as partisan. Her coverage as of late has been absolutely disgraceful and a huge stain on that network, IMO.

3) None of what you said addresses the very alarming fact that the heads of our intelligence agencies are taking senior posts in these media organizations.
We don't yet do scheduled "jobs", per se, though that's coming soon. You can do pretty much any site out there since it's full-blown Chrome doing the work. As long as you have credentials to log into the portals (and they're not behind some intranet or VPN) then you should be able to do it.

You can just try it out on our live debugger: https://chrome.browserless.io
Hi! Thanks for your interest in BBR!

BBRv2 aims to solve a different issue -- which is that in shallow-buffered networks, BBR consumes the entire link and starves out Cubic and Reno completely.

This work shows something different. Even in deep-buffered networks (like over most Internet access links) BBR(v1) has a funny property that it takes a fixed fraction fo the network link -- no matter how many other competing TCP connections there are. The deeper the buffer, the closer this fraction edges towards 50%.

Given that there are a lot of changes from BBRv1 to BBRv2, it's not at all clear whether this newer problem will exist in BBRv2 (we're trying to run some experiments to find out soon!)
Didn't install the app, but one look at the screenshot of the Fleksy in Playstore shows "earn coins as you type" feature. It also offers in app purchases, but didn't bother to install to check which.

I know many apps use coin system, but in many cases it's just a children manipulation.
Darpa Trucked Its Radio-Frequency Testbed Across the United States
Google Chrome update 78 is crashing on Windows 10
Interesting take on the freely available SMART data that backblaze freely shares. What caught my attention is the overall low read/write speeds of the drives, less than 1 MB/sec which is quite low even for mechanical disks.
Perhaps the HDDs aren’t being utilized as much as they could be, which in turn affects their lifetime.
Although the impact is incredibly minor, I'm sure consistently removing features also helps with build times.
I don't have any recent criticism of Uplay, I'm pretty sure I haven't launched an Ubisoft game with Uplay since maybe 2017 (more or less) (played all the 3d PoP though).

I commend you for offering to receive feedback.

I also understand that Uplay is a good business idea.

The issue was being _forced_ to use it in addition to Steam and having to create an account, since apparently at the time (2015?) the account linking didn't exist. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to have to launch two launcher just to play a game (perhaps it has changed since last time though).
fish shell gets around this nicely it appears; no commands are run until you explicitly hit enter (so you see the nefarious extra hidden commands before they're ran), even with the newline chars it seems to understand you're pasting a block
> (~== Not necessarily equal to. Did I just invent that?)

Yeah... in most programming languages it would be

shiny + new <> a good App Store

OR

shiny + new != a good App Store

The ~= (single equals) is used to for equal to with a regular expression on right side
Ask HN: Group-buying real estate to co-live?
I have been researching co-living communities for a while, and I would be curious to hear from fellow HNers about your experiences in group-buying real estate for the purpose of co-living on the property afterwards - either in a single house, or on a land with multiple individual houses.
>>So yeah, they did take your personal belongings. If you had a pretty wife or daughter, the local armed chiefs might take them too.

Even worst, they had their way with females after arresting their husbands and fathers as enemies of the state. Now that was some consensual relationship...
I'm guessing it is more that the different teams do not talk to each other, and Google must not have a good, standard review process.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
>> but for other minor stuff.

Like it provides deep satisfaction in an area they really value?
What I have found interesting about Rogan's show is that on the rare occasion he has more of a previous generation personality as a guest, I find these personalities are about 15 minutes of interesting. It's as if this new format requires personalities of greater depth, which, somehow, feels more gratifying.
Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
This might sound harsh, but if the best thing in life is IT administration for some company then you haven’t looked very far.

But hey, who knows, maybe they work for a charity or something?
I'm not sure I understand the demand for stock-anything.

When I need an image, illustration, or icon I need it to be one or more of the following:

1. Accurate

The image or illustration depicts a real thing or process I care about and it needs to show that clearly. It's unlikely that stock photos and illustrations will meet that bar. Unless the rest of my content is about a well known or generic topic my imagery is not going to be widely available or generic.

2. On brand

If I'm adding visual interest, color, flare, whathaveyou to a page and the exact content doesn't matter, then the styling and emotional tone do. More specifically they need to be coherent across my entire site/presentation/product. In addition this content needs to be helpful to a viewer to remember my specific property. My brand can only be diluted by using assets which are common, off-tone, or not fully integrated with a recognizable and memorable look and feel.

3. Repeatable

For any media I create and want to maintain I have to think about how hard it's going to be to change it in the future. If I find a great image or icon or illustration I need to know that if I need the source modified or reproduced with a slight variation I can do that. In practice, that usually means having continued access to the artist who produced the asset. Their style will come through in any project and maintain the coherence over time that allows for iterative rather than drastic change.

Convey information, build a brand, build a repeatable process. Stock feels like a self-defeating trap. Sure it looks nice, and for arts sake it can be desirable, but for any business or professional communication purpose it seems to entirely miss the point of having media in the first place.
It's also a good cover story that makes it easier to downplay your wealth.

It's also an effective means to make sure you don't spend all your time spending your income and thereby end up broke.
Digital natives do not necessarily prioritize cybersecurity
Thank you, this just fixed tearing on this T460p / Ubuntu 18.04.

It's both funny and sad that this is all it took. Linux on the desktop sure is configurable.
I've recently moved to somewhere where it's much cheaper to live (Europe -> Latin America) and I'm creating products that scratch my own itch.

In a couple of months it's already paying for my expenses.

For now I'm fixing things that frustrate me while I work on my Mac (managing windows, tracking all my devices).

I have a long list of things I'd like to see fixed in products I use and products I'd like to see come to life, so I'm planning to spend this year working on that.

Site: https://fadel.io/
Sure, I agree UK is a better option.
Are you a UK resident though?

I'm a EU resident and I have heard there is no way to open a business bank account in the UK without living there (i.e. without NI number + rent contract + utility bills).

If anyone has any info on how to run a UK company with a local bank account (not with an Internet bank) without being a UK resident, I'm all ears.
Attacks on the Rise Through Office 365
If it wasn't clear, that's kinda my point. We used to have one strand of the internet, now we have two. They can seemingly coexist, it's just the majority of people have a preference to the one that isn't the older one.
Another problem for the user of all Apple stores (iOS, macOS, books, iTunes) are refunds.

In Android you get an automatic refund when you uninstall a recently purchased app. No questions asked.

In Steam you can ask for a refund if you have played less than 2 hours and you bought the game less than 2 weeks ago. I've done this dozens of times and in fact being able to refund a game that I don't like gives me confidence in trying new games. Again, no questions asked.

Epic also has a similar refund policy as Steam. I only used it once though.

With Apple you might or not get a refund and much like App Store reviews there is nothing you can do about it.
Show HN: Airbnb, but for Product Teams
> she uses MS Word

I've always wondered about people that are able to switch platforms. I've always thought that you pick the operating system that best runs the software you want to use. So it makes sense that a Word user wouldn't switch to Linux.

> We both tried Android once and it was a disaster.

Why was it a disaster? Were the apps you needed not there? I use iOS (on an iPad) and Android (on a Pixel phone) and they both seem good enough.
Show HN: Search GeoJSON Boundaries
Who's cooped up in an embassy? Snowden is free to walk the streets.
Let's not be distracted from the fact that the middle finger emoji actually exists.
I just checked it and looks awesome! I’d have used it in a previous startup job if I just knew about your product back then.

Special mention goes to the landing page as you list all the features right away, no bs and a clear cost calculator. Couldn’t ask for more :)
A lot of folks are look forward to what's coming in tech, which is fine and good and can lead to promising careers and innovation. But I'm even more impressed with folks like Nintendo who do the exact opposite. They look at all the junk we've already passed up to see what can be done with it. So many times along their path they came up with products using what the Sony's would have considered obsolete junk. This is a great book about that history: https://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-Americ...

I mention it because I think there's a lot of value looking at the "no longer promising" areas and see what can still be done with those tools and pieces in innovative ways. And so few are actually doing that.
Or they could get a new job at a competitor.
Can you say whether you are yourself an active cyclist?
I think you don't understand the reason for middle-management.

I think I do, I’ve worked at places with more middle-managers than engineers! They mainly held meetings with each other all day as us engineers got on with the real work, self-organised when necessary.

It wasn’t too bad since we were mostly left alone but we still resented their generous salaries being paid off our labour.
I think he has mentioned that early episodes were with people not in same room.
Awesome! Happy updown.io customer here. We use it for https://www.pickfu.com Always happy to support fellow entrepreneurs.
That would still be institutionally malicious, if not the result of malice by any single person involved.

Having a separate review system that provides different and more favourable treatment for (equivalent) internal apps is in and of itself an abuse of the store.
Add to that the fact most "senior" Java programmers don't know or understand Java's memory model, which is not trivial.
No they have different meaning.

How to not X = How to avoid doing X

How not to X = The wrong way to do X
16 years of managing personal information and credit card details of 100’s of millions of people. Without any known data breach.
Ask HN: Isn't GBoard basically a key logger?
Along with any closed source keyboard app, are you paranoid that they are privy to basically any and everything you do on your phone?
One of my favorite interviewers is Sean Evans from Hot Ones on Youtube. Fantastic questions every time. Most guests also remark how good his questions are.
That’s what platforms already do - yet they are being slandered for not saving their users from themselves.
supervision != surveillance
Pretty standard method to obtain new users, but I don't think Google is unable to advertise their keyboard on their own.
In your profile settings, enable show-dead.
I don't think I've ever met a developer who didn't want to rewrite their predecessor's code and that includes the one I see in the mirror. Doing it in a different language would definitely be more interesting.

Do we admit that this is a factor in the decision to rewrite vs. reuse?
Dr. Khan is not just a cardiologist, he's a vegan and my problem with him specifically and with veganism in general is that it's often ideological.

Chris Kresser is not an "acupuncturist". And this is a classic ad-hominen ;-)

Joe kept interrupting Khan because Khan was avoiding answering the asked questions.

And Chris kept mentioning the elephant in the room, which is that the randomized-controlled trials (the gold standard in nutrition) don't show a statistically significant link between heart disease and meat or saturated fat consumption and that's a fact, being also the subject of recent meta analysis, that used GRADE to reach the conclusion that there is no good evidence for the claim that meat causes cancer and that adults should probably continue their current meat consumption:

https://examine.com/nutrition/red-meat-is-good-for-you-now/

This isn't to say that meat or saturated fat is good or bad, but if listening to such a podcast causes anger at the people daring to question a "cardiologist with 20 years of experience", then maybe you should consider that you yourself have stepped in the land of ideology / religion and that's just not compatible with science or health for that matter.
This is a good article on design patterns and considerations when designing for older users: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/designing-digital-t...
What you're forgetting is that running an online business all day is isolating. Going to work with colleagues, all working towards a common goal, gives a sense of community. When you are not dependent on the money from your job, it also gives you a certain amount of leverage people normally don't have.

Then on top of this, for this gentleman to see a big change in his/her lifestyle, considering they are already earning $6K/month, any new business would need to make substantially more than that. Is making another $6K/month going to seriously change his/her life? Probably not. Maybe it affords a bit of a nicer house, staying at 5 star hotels VS. 4 star hotels.

The reality is to see a major difference in lifestyle from a new business, it would need to make $20-30K a month, or more.
Road damage is proportional to the 4th power of the weight of the vehicle.[1] The average bike's weight is about 1/100 that of the average car (unscientific method of searching "weight of average bike" and "weight of average car"). So you'd need approximately 100 bikes to cause the same impact as 1 car! And 100 bikes can transport 25x more people than 1 car.

> everyone living densely-packed into the stereotypical SF or Seattle city.

I don't think you need that much density to encourage biking. Even a city with a lot of townhouses, 3-4 story apartment buildings (for the yuppies), and no parking minimums for businesses ought to be dense enough.

https://www.denenapoints.com/relationship-vehicle-weight-roa...
Probably half of the time (~2-3h per week) is spent answering questions/requests from clients or helping them diagnose downtime. I try to improve the product to make sure my clients don't need me so that when they do I can help them properly.
My girlfriend's got windows 10 on her computer, the other day she asked me if I could fix the start menu for her. I hadn't really looked at it before then. It was full of crap she didn't install, there was a popup in the bottom corner advertising for an office 365 subscription. She just wanted me to get rid of the tiles. There's no option for this, only an option to make them bigger. So in the end I sat and manually removed them. 2/3's if them were were links to crap like Amazon and eBay, candy crush and other shit that just came preinstalled. Nothing she actually uses on her computer ever ended up pinned there.
iCloud had its own set of issues, but I wouldn't be surprised of many of the OS framework engineers were involved in those two projects (and other; there are rumors now of Apple AR glasses).
There's no such thing as a "C/C++".
That is highly unlikely, such a mundane job as a sysadmin compared to having your own online business.

If he liked it that much, then probably he wouldn't have started a whole side project that must have consumed evenings and weekends for years.

If he would have found professional fulfillment in his job, he would not likely have started a side project in the first place.

As he mentions in his own reply, he stays because he feels that his job defines him as a person, and he would lose his social identity if he left.

This is a surprisingly lucid reply, he can do whatever he wants and I wish him the best, but it's clear to me that he has other much better options available.
It's not quite that efficient... IBM's arxiv paper says "64 PiB of disk space are required for 53-qubit circuits, and 128 PiB for 54-qubit circuits".

Summit has 250 PiB of total storage currently, so it would seem that a 55-qubit simulation is almost within reach by IBM's method as well.
Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka Ft. Colin McCabe [audio]
Will just point out it's 25 years since Deep Blue and 10 since Watson/Jeopardy. And boy were lot of claims made back then. Good ol'IBM has yet to deliver anything.
That sounds an awful lot like a typical project that starts out on the right foot, everyone has a procedure they follow but crunch time approaches and they start to cut corners just to get things done. Documentation and testing are the first I’ve seen to go.
Following the quantum supremacy controversy is very frustrating. It gets constantly framed as a decisive step that changes everything, which is wrong. But then there's also an opposite and equally wrong reaction that any challenges to the claim prove that quantum computing doesn't work at all.

The reality is that quantum computing technology has been improving at the same steady pace for decades, and quantum supremacy was recently invented as a concrete but not very useful goal that people could realistically aim for in the near term. That is a totally standard and legitimate way of guiding technological progress.

The problem is that quantum supremacy is vaguely defined (what does "infeasible on any classical computer" mean? what computers can you use, and for how long?) but it is presented to the public as a sharp boundary -- which means that every company in the field has a huge incentive to claim they are the first. This IBM claim is not a fundamental objection. Given that everything they say is correct, Google could still achieve quantum supremacy by their standards just by incremental improvement, slapping a few more qubits on. So why even bother disputing Google's claim? Because it will set them back a few years, and that's enough time for IBM to make a claim of its own. That's why academics, who have no stake in what company gets the hype, will just consider this whole episode rather distasteful.
Tilting Wings, Tilting Tailprop, but Not a Tiltrotor: Karem’s FARA Design
I got downvoted to hell and back for saying node.js is easier to develop in/be efficient in/be productive in than Haskell. Can you believe that?
Funding Doesn’t Mean Overfunding
I agree with everything that you said, except the part about windows explorer slowdowns being fixed. I still find it to be an order of magnitude slower than Gnome's file manager for simple cases. I understand some of the reasons why this is, but its still pretty nasty.
Some really interesting points, thanks.

As others have pointed out it's definitely a combined approach to increasing both public transport as well as cycle infrastructure. Electric bikes give you quite the range, which may compare with the average car commuting distance in many cities. Taking public transport from the suburbs and then getting on a bike within the city centre is also very common here in Copenhagen. Heck, even driving to a train station, to take the train/bus, to take the bike, can often by faster than driving with bad traffic.

So while I agree that the car gave people the freedom to keep their job and buy a home, I don't think that argument holds given a decent public transport network and cycle infrastructure.
I thought his recent interview with John Carmack was great. Though a lot of that has to do with Carmack himself being a great communicator.
You don't ask a 3-year old to ride their bike 5 miles. You put them in a trailer or child carrier. On an electric bike that ride will take about 25 minutes. Considering rush-hour traffic, that's often faster than driving.
With such a shallow view of freedom, physical property ownership is a very anti-freedom concept as well, is it not? Ownership of a house is an infringement on the freedoms of other poeple who want to live there?

Intellectual property is no different than any other sort of property. The right to own property is invaluable, and serves the purpose of maximizing freedoms in the long run.