skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you in general, but there are much better people to do that with than Crowder. He doesn't seem like he's acting in good faith, and more generally, think about stuff very much.

There are plenty of intelligent conservatives/whatever that don't do the stuff he does that's just intended to be offensive/get attention.
Ask HN: Where to seek funding for agri-tech beehive monitoring startup?
I co-founded an agri-tech beehive monitoring startup in New Zealand several years ago with my brothers (they mostly run it now): https://hivemind.nz

It's a hardware+software product, a small business with real sales and income, and they're looking for around US$300k in funding to expand and take their R&D to the next level. The problem is it's hard to get friends&family angel investors to invest that much, but for VC firms it's too little to worry about (or they say the market is too small). Suggestions on where to look for funding for this kind of operation?
A lot of teams would say that their output is in spite of their manager, not because of it. What if the manager's contribution is net negative?
There's gonna be lots of those IMHO. GDPR will change a lot how IT companies manage their businesses and security as well. And I can't see American companies complying a lot with EU laws...Tense moment we live in.
I strongly disagree. Have you actually watched his lectures, read his books, and formed your own opinion?
Ask HN: What development metrics do you monitor?
Picking the right team performance metrics can be really hard, but once you find them they can have a huge positive impact.

What metrics does your team monitor, how often do you check them, and what tools do you use?
There are a couple sections, but for the most part it's chronological, with new entries at the bottom. Started adding dates to new notes/quotes/observations about 5 years ago.

It's a sprawling mess, so I rely on search to find what I'm after.

I reference it often -- it's like an extension of my brain.
Fixing the bugs is one thing, but identifying that user reported bugs are in fact bugs is an entirely separate issue. The latter takes a ton of time, requires no developers, and is what everyone above you in this thread is talking about.
Hi HN, we did an AMA for Women Make (the community I created to support women in the tech industry). Some of the people here might already know her work [1] [2]. She answered questions about nomading, building a personal brand, whether she would quit her day job, learning to code, her typical day at work, and more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172686

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163316
Your point is valid and that was a great episode as well but I think the best episodes are those where he questions and prods the guest to expound far beyond talking points, to give what is essentially a statement of philosophy after which Joe then dissects the points enumerated in that statement of philosophy. What makes Joe's process of doing this so compelling is that he's not doing it with an agenda to change the guest's mind about something but to deeply and truly understand WHAT the person believes, WHY they believe it, HOW that affects and influences their live and decisions and why that person thinks other should agree with them. Another thing that is great about Rogan's guests is that he doesn't limit the guest list to people who agree with him. If Adolf Hitler were alive today (and spoke English) Joe would not only interview him but get him to not only enumerate all of his beliefs but then explain why he hold those beliefs to be true. This process of explication is IMPOSSIBLE in the mainstream media and allows the listener to get to raw, fundamental truths at the base layer. It's a shame that not all Americans (and non-Americans too) have the intellectual curiosity and patience to REALLY LISTEN to and understand why people of different political, religious, and ideological beliefs hold the positions they do and then amicably coexist with them in respectful disagreement.
I want to be driven because it's safer and usually more relaxing, even though I like to drive.

And I want my Bluetooth connection to work flawlessly but it never does.
Tricks in beam search to force rhyme schemes, or techniques like constrained markov chains (c.f. https://redylan.neocities.org/#/how-it-works/ and https://github.com/gabrielebarbieri/markovchain) can give really strong results in lyric / structured text generation.

Might be worth investigating if you are interested in this application.
I guess I can't disagree with you on that, because ultimately I agree bikers should wear helmets and if I biked I would wear a helmet. It's just that the infrastructure to protect from cars is vastly more important.

As a pedestrian who walks about 30m each way on my morning commute, it terrifies me that if a car strikes me at 31MPH I have a 50% chance of severe injury. At 42 MPH, it's a 50% chance of death ( https://aaafoundation.org/impact-speed-pedestrians-risk-seve... ). Atleast I have a separated sidewalk most of my commute, minus street crossings. I would never consider biking in my city because I have to be there on the street next to a bunch of cars.
If that's what you believe, I'd argue the opposite. Most of the time people fear things that haven't happened yet. Give us an example of your fear?
I really wonder where Apple and specifically Tim Cook is in all this. I feel like I see posts on HN almost daily that would warrant one of Jeff Bezos's famous 'question mark emails'[1] from Tim Cook to someone within Apple. But I see no evidence of this. I see no evidence of panic within apple that they have lost the ability to delight customers and anticipate their needs effectively.

How often do I see a similar level customer or developer pain (anguish really, from supportive customers) regarding Amazon? How often do I see it regarding Google? All these companies have so many resources, but Apple is the only one that doesn't seem to be able to convert those resources into customer focus. It's painful to watch. Where is Apple's board? It's really discouraging!

[1] https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/5-years-later-jeff-bezos-...
In the same vein as those: Conversations with Tyler and Sean Carroll's Mindscape.

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
The case for a reputable website is even stronger given that you can literally inspect the source code as it runs. While a native program might require disassembly and de-obfuscation, a website can only deliver JavaScript that can just be copy-pasted into a text editor.

The one exception I can think of might be WebAssembly, but to date most native features (like location, filesystem access, even manipulating the DOM) require interop with JS to be used by wasm.
How long till we get video acceleration?
You can search by size in gmail in the web site. Also, you can connect any pop/imap email client and sort by whatever you want. Even if you don't want to use Thunderbird full time, spend 10 minutes once a year to get it connected and do some mailbox cleaning and you can pretty much solve this problem.

Alternatively, you can just archive off X years off mail and store it off of gmail. That way if you ever need it you can always dig it up.
I’m not sure you and I are looking at the same stores. The Mac App Store alone is chock full of scams, and many of them are quite obvious (just search for the name of any popular package but there are many more). Apple does an absolutely terrible job of finding these. Meanwhile, Apple is really good at finding the most annoying reasons to reject updates from legitimate developers.
What is this weird narrative that pre-iPhone smartphones didn't exist in the US, and somehow only Europe and Asia had these "advanced" devices? We had smartphones too. All the negatives you mentioned (no physical keyboard, copy & paste, etc.) were brought up by lots of people when the iPhone was first released. Ultimately it didn't matter, and the iPhone was a breakout hit and every single smartphone on sale today is based on its core design.
Bluetooth is much simpler to implement and cheaper than WiFi.
> The first half of the story is that the stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design, complete with fake cable stays

To be fair, you can make that criticism of almost every monument and famous building in the world. If the Sagrada Familia didn't have all those over-the-top arched ceilings and all those do-nothing decorative carvings, it'd have been finished decades ago!
It makes me feel so small to know something so large will happen so far in the future that any memory of the human race is so unlikely.
> By definition?

Yes, in a Hilbert space (i.e. an abstract vector space with an inner product), the definition of orthogonality is that the inner product of two nonzero vectors is zero.

I'm not sure I really know what you mean by geometric vectors.
I'm not grumpy about this one at all, but there was a post on reddit about kids making $30 to 60 hour doing yard work and general help out type things. The most I've made in software development is $65/hour as a contractor (so my expenses are higher than normal employment) and lately it seems like I struggle to get any work. When I was a kid I was making $5 for that kind of work (maybe worth $10 now).
Idle Speculation on Whether Apple Is Going to Hold Another Keynote Event This Yr
I do think ignoring the rules is part of his success. If you add the ridiculous stories about Russia, which was one of the worse conspiracy theories, but was mainly driven by the intelligence community, the current political situation isn't a surprise at all.

The spying was equally supported by the Democrats as well as Republicans. They further try to restrict freedom on the net by their newest attempt with the CASE law. It is one of the most consistent pattern of established parties.

Trump didn't win because it would be helpful for his base. It is to evict people that failed to bring forth sensible policies.

It is reactionary, but perfectly understandable. If everyone ignores the rules, we will do that too.

I am no American, but that is what it looks like.
Who do we blame for climate crisis – Big companies says WWF
> What happens if he gets banned by Adsense?

They makes the same amount from AdSense in one month as they do from 15 months of their job. Assuming this has been going on for a few years, I doubt the money from the job is really effecting the size of their financial safety net. If they're spending within their means from the job they have a safety net that will last "forever". If not their real job isn't enough for them anyways.

Non financial reasons for keeping the job could make a lot of sense though.
All previous versions of Windows stabilized because they were more or less feature complete. The problem with W10 is that it’s continuously in motion. 1809 becomes stable, but before you know it you’re on 1903 and the trouble starts all over again.
Redux Starter Kit 1.0: the official batteries-included toolset for Redux
> What good prompting the user does if the prompt says: "Would you help to make your beloved app even better?"

The prompt doesn't say that though. The prompt text is controlled by the user's browser, not the website.

Example of a prompt in Chrome: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2015-07-22-...
That is a good point... I bet there is nothing else as powerful at the price point either. It would make an excellent Linux media server.
Build it and they will come - you can't expect everyone to get out of their cars and start using public transport, then somehow use the slight increase in ridership revenue to sponsor huge infrastructure projects. Simply put: the government needs to throw down SERIOUS capital and political will to build out 20 miles of trains all around a metropolitan area.

We need to get away from the myth of single people and their small steps changing the world...we need our governments to actually invest in their own society's well-being and structure.
NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain”
Airstream Builds Astrovan II for Boeing CST-100 Astronaut Transport
Too much clicky, clicky for something that could be scripted. It's the main reason I always roll my own CMS instead of using something like Wordpress. Bloated/confusing interfaces can be cumbersome and actually slow an engineer down quite a bit.
Deploy OpenFaaS with K3sup and Minikube
Ask HN: What tech stacks small businesses use?
Following the thread on successful one-person online businesses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072

There are little information on what technology they use so I might as well ask that
The originally proposed design was very basic but also pragmatic and likely to endure. When that design was rejected teams were assembled to come up with a range of designs and pick one that would be suitable. The group that chose the winning design later claimed that they had no comprehension of the design risks and had only renderings and optimistic initial cost projections to work from.

There was a process that involved many people and it failed.
Ask HN: Is Hadoop Still a Viable Career Path for (Big) Data Engineering?
I am what you would call a Data Engineer and currently work mostly in the Hadoop ecosystem with spark. I feel like Hadoop is not aging well and even Spark is moving to Cloud-based environments like Databricks.

Is the hadoop path still a viable career choice today? And if not - what is a good field to transition in the next 3-5 years?
I side on this issue with MS.

He even brings this up in the talk, mentioning Dreamcast.

How it died early on, because of piracy - developers didn't want to produce games for dreamcast - so no one bought console because no one made games for it.

Its a vicious cycle that cannot be stopped otherwise.
I didn't jump there. The parent statement is "More public transport and less cars is always an improvement" jumped there.
U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
Oh, my. IBM is way lower than I thought. Thank you for setting my perception straight; I amended GP accordingly.

I would almost qualify that as intellectual self-subjection (and perhaps ethical, in the way of science). Aiming so low that it's trolling, for lack of a better word.

Wikipedia's "Quantum supremacy"[1] article:

> The term was originally popularized by John Preskill[2] but the concept of a quantum computational advantage, specifically for simulating quantum systems, dates back to Yuri Manin's (1980) and Richard Feynman's (1981) proposals of quantum computing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5813 (2012, in the abstract: “[...] we hope to hasten the day when well controlled quantum systems can perform tasks surpassing what can be done in the classical world. One way to achieve such "quantum supremacy" would be to run an algorithm on a quantum computer which solves a problem with a super-polynomial speedup relative to classical computers [...]”)
My personal feelings are that #2 (crash reporting) and #6 (complexity) are the biggest issues facing Apple software quality. Apple is a metrics-driven company, and when managers see bad metrics going down (like crashes), they think they are doing a great job.

But, just like with police crime reporting, there can be an effect where metrics are massaged or are reported differently. With Apple, I think the issue is that crashes are avoided by design or by nature of growing complexity, which means that metrics will continually be going down, even if user-facing issues go up. An example being that a failed sync does not crash.

Apple has attempted to get ahead of this, recently, with the new Feedback Assistant allowing beta users to grab and report sysdiagnoses, but there's still a lot of work to do. I really appreciate the point the article makes:

> Besides the fact that bugs are expensive, both in support costs and engineer time, they’re starting to become a public relations concern.

Apple would be wise to heed this, instead of continuing to blindly trust metrics.
Great video! Demonstrates Dutch cycling culture really well. Thank you.
Didn't AMD plan to provide CUDA shim, that works for their ROCm? Besides, you shouldn't be using CUDA lock-in to begin with.
[There won't be any because he's full of shit]
Ask HN: Hide your email from companies – Project feedback?
Hey! I'm working on a project that adds privacy and spam protection when signing up for things. (It's similar to the new Apple Hide My Email feature if you've seen that)

What are your thoughts about this? I'd really appreciate your feedback.

I made a little demo video for more info: https://youtu.be/zjpvvexABdM

Thanks,
Ben
I agree that cities should make motions to make biking more mainstream. My city has very prevalent biking and there are many dedicated paths and roads were bikers are given equal right of way. It’s great. Helmets are mandatory and no one complains. Are there some that don’t bike because of this? Probably a few, but if that is the barrier, then I don’t think they’re treating biking the right way.
Looking for a Data Engineer to Join the Team in Utrecht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
Decision Making Support Systems #3: Differences Between IA and AI
The cancer metaphor is apt because noone knows how to cure it completely
That’s not accurate. This year had Catalyst and SwiftUI which sucked a lot of manpower from dev tools and frameworks.
Big words from a new user bearing a random string for a username.
The original context always struck me as regressive and it is no wonder it fell flat.

While meant to criticize the tri-tracked educational system as a potential given that the dystopia was a replacement for the class system even if bad it fails to make a case for it being worse than literal nobility and connections to posh schools and old money.

It falls utterly flat like calling Oliver Cromwell the first military dictator in England while ignoring the kings.

Self perpetuating in negative ways is certainly a problem (there is a vast difference between being ahead because your family taught you and being aheas because competing with you is illegal) but it needs to be taken in the context of the now. What is the alternative is the real question of importance.
> They're challenging the notion that free speech and democracy are required for capitalism and economic gain.

Well this notion is simply not true, these two things are tangentially related at best.

You sound like ‘because they demonstrated against my beliefs, they need to be shut down’. Not for this reason, there are plenty of other reason to pick from.
Oof, I mostly only ever listen to Rogan on long flights and then choose episodes based on whether I have any interest in the person interviewed. I was excited to listen to Nick Bostrom, but came away from that episode wanting to scream. I feel like there are other episodes that have been reasonably good... I’m struggling to think of any that stood out in recent memory.

But yeah, Rogan’s a mediocre interviewer at best, though he can be entertaining himself. And the long format of the podcast means that interviewees can sort of talk themselves out, which can give real insight into what they think.
Thnks for sharing! In this hustle-bustle, it was difficult to get what is going on, reddit is exploding. so, the moral: no worries, nothing bad happened
>Make a real native app all the other decent people if you need this.

Who is going to pay for this? How many ideas will die because nobody can afford to pay for 3+ native developers across Windows/Mac/Linux? How many teams will decide to axe Linux support because it's not worth it?

Why develop natively when you can just hire one JS developer to write once, deploy anywhere?

Native apps failed to democratize the market. We are stuck with platform-specific applications that will remain intertwined with their vendor of choice presumably forever.

PWA or bust.
When you have billions in cash in the bank, and your future revenue is tied to subscriptions Tim Cook simply doesn't care about this, its minutiae to your bottom line. They can screw up for YEARS and still be a largely profitable company.
After watching Mark Zuckerberg testifying on Capitol hill I think it's obvious Facebook and Alphabet are leading the show... A very interesting case is Alexander Nix speech against UK comittee, recommend.
> t pricing models? Is Duolingo / Tinder model (1 month / 6 months / 12 months) the best choice for B2C subscriptions without Spotify / Netflix-like licensing costs?

is it a mobile app or a desktop or SAAS? just curious.
I know that in Python, you can do:

>>> import fractions
>>> from fractions import Fraction as F
>>> F(3, 17) * F(12, 5) + F(56, 99)
Fraction(8324, 8415)
>>> F(3, 17) * F(12, 5) + F(56, 99) / 3 + 2 * 4
Fraction(217412, 25245)

However, if you use a float or a complex with it, the fraction get resolved:

>>> F(217412, 25245) + 0.1
8.712081600316894
>>> F(217412, 25245) + 1j
(8.612081600316895+1j)

You also have some constants:

>>> import math
>>> math.pi
3.141592653589793
>>> math.e
2.718281828459045

But they are not just symbol, there is a precision-limited value behind it. Although the value seems to match the precision NASA considers to be enough for trajectories of spacecrafts like Voyager: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...
Yeah, I had Nokia N9. Best phone I ever used. Only wish it had a replaceable battery. Elop killed it before it arrived by announcing the move to windows. That was one of the key event for Nokia in particular and the smartphone industry in general.

Imagine if Nokia had continued investing in a linux phone, android wouldn't be what it is today.
For loans, banks are looking for expected future stability in your income.

I would never discourage anyone from self-employment, but right now I'm watching a good friend try to get a mortgage in Germany... and he's been running his own company for 20 years... in a highly volatile industry... and let's say they'd be treating him a whole lot better if he had a boring day job at some big company.

If you're planning on stuff like mortgages and (depending on your passport) visas, "regular old job" is worth many multiples of self-employment. If your self-employment makes enough that you won't need a mortgage (etc.) then great, but I would bear it in mind when thinking about quitting the day job.
It's also just a matter of being able to take time off. If it's just you, you're still going to have to respond to emails, fix problems, deal with clients, etc. which is at best a distraction and at worst makes it very hard to really get out of good connectivity range.
The reason we can't have nice things is that when idiots come along and take a budget that can cover a boring bridge and boring testing then piss it all away on a fancy bridge nobody needs they don't get punished. If anything they get rewarded.

The only reason this got noticed is because people died and bodies create opportunities for all the parties that should have stopped this stuff before it started to score virtue points and look like they're doing something cleaning up the mess.

If the (metaphorical or literal) tar and feathers came out every time taxpayer money was spent on a boondoggle like this you wouldn't have nearly as many boondoggles like this.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my clocks! I appreciate your feedback. I have experience with Very expensive, VERY high end yacht stuff at my day job. But no significant experience in this market.

There is one other wordclock (that I know of) in this same price range. They are really positioning themselves as a trendy factory product.

I’d like to position my clocks as unique art pieces with a connection to the artisan rather than a factory product.

All the others I’ve seen are competing on Price/diy.

Do you have any specific suggestions your recommend look into? I’d love to hear more about your thoughts.
I still don't understand why using people's request pronouns is a problem, or even why some feel the like they need to walk on eggshells because of these issues. Just be respectful.