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FuryBSD also made it to the HN frontpage yesterday.

Both FuryBSD and NomadBSD are based on FreeBSD.

Is FreeBSD just generally a better desktop OS than OpenBSD? I've never used any *BSD in my life, so I honestly don't know.
Incredible tech from the videos through the technology page and the medium post :O

Their UI looks incredibly sexy
https://medium.com/cruise/the-disengagement-myth-1b5cbdf8e23...

Also the quality of their simulator, I've never seen anything like this in production.
Someone should make an app for this and it could be done way better. Here are is how I would do it so its better and fits in the use case.

1. More realistic and even custom sounding text-to-voice API such as amazon polly or - https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ (this one uses polly https://www.text2voice.org/) or google wave net https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

2. Then, and this is where you can get creative, is to mask the app so its UI looks like something that is allowed in a classroom i.e. dictionary, wikipedia, ebook reading, audible, spreadsheets etc. Also, make sure to name your app something innocuous.

See these examples of Reddit masked as Microsoft Outlook:
http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/
Reddit as word -> http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/
Reddit as code -> http://codereddit.com/
Reddit as unix shell -> https://redditshell.com/

Also, allowing the app to recognize which companion you are voice to texting (with the earpods still paired with original phone), then the app can use logic to know when one person is "speaking" and hold off on speaking a message until your companions message is over, otherwise there is potential for overlapping cross-talk (also have quick-cancel/pause speaking).

Other obvious features would be to clear spoken texts from the input box and maybe even keep recently typed/spoken words as in a "recently used" area to minimize new full-text input being required. And if partner's app is doing the text-to-voice, it would already have the conversational nouns and details. Anything to minimize typing input, etc.

If someone builds this lmk :)
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That doesn't seem too impressive. It's essentially a workflow that a few universities could band together and replicate via an open source project relatively easily IMHO.

As an example, Pandoc can already handle 90% of this type of workflow by itself (converting Latex to various XML formats). An open source project shared among a few universities or developed by single body like the ACM and used among dozen's of publications and fields. Even two or three full time people working on this would cost much less than $1M per year.
It was surprising at the time, too.
It is a tax on customers. Incumbents can generally afford to pay more than upstarts, and of course will just pass that cost on.
Has anyone done this successfully so far? I would have thought that the round trip time for the video feed + returning inputs would be prohibitive. I've done a similar thing with vehicles in videogames, and anything over around 150ms was pretty much undriveable.
This is _exactly_ the use case I think self-driving cars are perfect for: a shared fleet of cars continuously picking up and dropping off passengers within cities – eliminating the need for parking and allowing cities to reclaim that ROW for other uses (bigger sidewalks, bikeways, parklets/seating, or even dedicated bus lanes and light rail for high capacity routes, maybe even housing in some spots), finally allowing vehicles to become a crucial supplement to higher capacity public transportation rather than a competitor to it, and hopefully decrease the amount of space dedicated to cars (think highways and sprawl in addition to parking) within cities.

I hope they can pull this off.
Why do you keep saying that? You brought the topic up, don't do that if you're just going to get mad and say why are we talking about it over and over.

You became a sucker and helped contribute to others being suckers by doing absolutely nothing after very obviously getting scammed.
Well I was right there with you, thinking it was a completely shit idea, but a little math shows how it at least popped up on the radar (and I don't think its quite so bad myself after some thought):

100,000 music instructors, $60 per hour, at 365 days per year is roughly: $2.19 billion gross revenue per year-hour in the segment. Assuming, the average hours per day are like 3.5 (I can't imagine folks doing this are giving lessons for a full 8 hours per day, 5 days a week), that gives a total market of like: ~$7.65bn. Assuming they could earn a 20% stake in 100% of the market, that's like $1.53bn.

Looking at the numbers, I think there is likely more potential than they realized[1]. I would suspect that by and large, digital advertising is capturing almost none of the market as kinda proven by their analysis. Looking at how low the frequency of searches were compared to the sheer number of employed individuals tells me something is off as a whole with the analysis.

That is to say, digital advertising isn't showing the volume of or demand for musical teaching service because it's highly likely everyone believes it's incapable of doing so or adding value... That (driving the market online) is the problem to be solved in the space, because it sounds _hard_, and solving hard problems tends to be the way to make a lot of money. The other opportunity I would look at is, sort of from the other side: how to fix (what I assume to be likely) most music instructor's "underemployment" problems (i.e. inconsistent, few, or not enough hours). I imagine this angle would probably net more gross sign-ups as well since users (instructors) would be advertising the platform for you.

With all that said, you'd have to assume there is latent under-served demand (25-35%) in the market too to bother with anything I've said... that 25% is essentially what would be left over for others after you've captured the niche.

One last thought, for the VC since it looks like they're reading HN. Have you thought about doing retroactive market analysis where unicorns now exist to see what the market looked like then (e.g. short-term vacation rentals in ~2006)?

Might give you some strong signals for where there is potential...

[1] They are indeed a VC so it may not be in their best interest (time value of money, opportunity costs, etc)...

Edit: Adjust some bad arithmetic.
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Awesome product that does not exist.
5G is supposed to make this feasible.
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> My background is in computer engineering, but I've always been fascinated with the design of user interfaces.

Forgive me if I’m being too critical, but I strongly doubt your background or enthusiasm are that extensive. The real IRIX would be well known to someone with that description.

On the opposite view, the full capitalization matches the original name, so it’s possible you’re trying to appropriate it.

Either way, change your project’s name or it’s going to be hurt by it.
And .sucks is expensive for a TLD. I also hate .co. They're basically a top-level typo-squatter IMO.
Your link supports my statement.
16" MacBook Pro, Catalina, I get "“PharoLauncher.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software." "This software needs to be updated."
Smashing – Sinatra based framework that lets you build excellent dashboards
you can use keyword searches as native features of chrome and ffx
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https://medium.com/hackernoon/for-the-love-of-god-please-tel...
Was this reported in the news? Why did I not hear about it?
Why can't we just invest in buses? This will become the luxury/premium version of "public transit"
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I would just quote Fredrick Brennan's statement on PHP in 2020:[0]

> “There was nothing wrong with the PHP 5 language specification. The problem with PHP is PHP Group.”

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crnlHLVdno
What behavior would prevent a technology like ultra-cheap phased arrays from being locked up due to the corporation seeing some potential in either the technology or the team to buy them, but then not giving both the leeway to develop the market for the technology further?

In this specific case I guess we don't know the full picture of what Lattice Semiconductor intends to do, but there are many examples in software of startups getting acquihired and then the team dissolving into new projects that are more familiar or closely aligned with the pre-existing business model of the company.

Since it's always possible to just turn the startup into a subsidiary I'm sometimes confused as to why this happens, unless if it's an issue of maybe brand dilution or the market opportunity being too small to be worth the overhead of keeping a separate entity tied to a larger one. Which is a part of why more opportunities for low-growth or long-tail companies would be important, since now in the case where the means for bringing the IP to the market are eliminated no one gets anything at all.
How about 6 keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
Ask HN: Have you tried meditating at work?
So is this a concept car? Has it been built or launched anywhere? Unclear what this announcement actually is.
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Kops – Kubernetes Operations
Come on, it’s just the first month of the new decade.
So really, your complaint is that you don't get to win by as enormous a margin. Maybe if you play that tiny violin on a street corner in the freezing cold you'll gain a sense of empathy for the homeless.

Let's not pretend this is some sort of moral argument when you're forcing people to sleep on the street so you don't have to risk being scammed by tenants.

You're demonstrating a limited knowledge of both housing code and its implications, and also the homeless problem.

Homeless break down into sheltered and unsheltered homeless. People on the street, the unsheltered, are primarily people with mental and substance issues not receiving help, and don't want to be in shelters. It's completely irrelevant to a two family house being partly empty? Why not then requisition a one family house forcibly and cut it in 10? Do you think that would solve the issue? The City provides shelters, section 8, public housing and now affordable housing.

Secondly no the government doesn't pick winners and losers as you put it. What if the government decided to confiscate your car because some people can't afford them to get to work? If you spend your life savings on a two family house, you think the government can force you to lodge anyone they please?

Is there a single democratic country where people do this?

More importantly, you'd have a house owner go bankrupt out of spite, which is what you demonstrate here? Violins, the violins aren't coming from me, if you read our exchange.

People like yourself, who see no difference between a small landlord or business owner and a huge landlord with 100 buildings or a corporation, are what give even reasonable-minded social democrats the shivers.
Well at least someone else has noticed. Off-topic but I've also started seeing modern software websites with no screenshots, to the point that I can get a better idea of what a product is like from the screenshots on Google Images than I can from all the text and pretty graphics on the site itself.
I have no problem viewing it in an incognito window (not signed in). Perhaps the settings have been changed?
This is a tricky proposition. Google has free speech rights to display whatever they want on their own server pages. These aren't statements of fact so it's not falling under libel & co.

It's like saying that you want to regulate what can advertising companies display on billboards, ex. they cannot display competitor's ads nearby your company's offices. Since the billboard space is private and owned by the ad company (similarly to the ad space on Google servers served pages), they get too decide to put there whatever they want (barring free speech limiting regulations).
It sounds financially absurd or foolish but someone should work on search, Google can't stay the Monopoly for long
It’s interesting, Google is moving completely pay to play if you also look at the ad tech movement right now.

Google has always preferred you just give them a dump truck of money and have them run the ads where they would prefer.

With Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) they generate the ads and the keywords you bid on. Which means you can basically agree to pay Google X amount per month and they will run ppc ads for you.

The part that you won’t find online, since most of these guides come from agencies that want you to pay them to manage the ads, is that these DSA search ads actually work really well, in some cases outperforming agency work.

It could be preferential treatment internally for its own generated content or maybe google just knows which specific copy to show, URL’s to link to and which keywords to surface the ads under, better than any human can.

Either way, it’s starting to paint a bleak future for the web and even as a marketer, it’s not one I’m excited about.
YouTube will no doubt have plenty of tutorials. But, hey, get a decent soldering iron and good solder and go to town. You'll learn quickly and will probably enjoy it.

Kind of knitting for nerds.
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I remember a thread where everyone complained over too many wikipedia results popping up. Now we complain the other way.
Absolutely, most of all your points can also be applicable to the same reasons why many programmers complain in their hundreds of thousands about how much they hate C++ due to its footguns and sheer complexity which they assume that they have to literally learn everything in the language and from their bad experiences from C++ 2003.

So Rust becomes the most loved alternative to C++ but is also equally just as complex, slightly harder to read, twice as frustrating due to some having bad 'anecdotal' experiences fighting with the borrow checker and a large lack of post-1.0 libraries. Those wanting to "Rewrite it in Rust" from a C++ code base will be quickly disappointed...

Perhaps the answer to both the PHP, C++ and Rust issues from programmers is always a reply saying "You'll get used to it"...
Don't people usually cut out the middleman on dating apps straight away? From my experience, after the initial connection, and before the first meet, you usually exchange numbers, and continue through anything else but the dating app.

In that aspect, I don't see how it's different than pairing with a maid.
> “I guess you need to create a search engine...”

For years [1] I’ve been looking for a browser extension that will let me flip a switch and search only within the sites in my history and/or bookmarks.

You know you’ve visited some sites with the answer you want, but have to try to recreate the divine moment in google.

[1]: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/46270/solut...
/r/haskell is pretty good. /r/python isn't great, but not bad either.

There are subredits of every kind, even great ones. But they change with time.
Using that case study, getting $21k in revenue for $80k in expense makes zero sense ever. That doesn’t even count the actual startup cost to build the platform or even get the “talent” to deliver the lessons — which is an expense not to be ignored. So the real $80k is probably much higher because for a marketplace to exist, you have to attract buyers and sellers. And a 30% commission means that music teachers would have to sell at 30% more than they would for their own off-marketplace customers. And, unlike app sales, 1-1 music lessons don’t scale, so that 30% is a real hit because they can’t really make it up in volume: 1 hour can only yield, 1 hour of lesson for one person. I know this problem well: I founded a therapy marketplace that has been surviving for 10 years now, but it took 8 years to actually become profitable and still, just barely.
Good naming method for your library after all the obvious react date names are taken
Actually the EU's GDPR comes close to this with its requirements for data portability between websites. In particular, it states:

"In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible." [1]

Conceivably this could be interpreted by EU regulators as requiring Facebook to automatically send all your Facebook posts (on an ongoing basis) to friends on other social networks (or at least to a shadow account that you've registered on some other network, which is then connected to friends in the Fediverse). If the reverse flow of data were similarly mandated (especially based on anti-trust considerations), then your friends on Facebook would be able to see what you posted on your Fediverse page. The hard part would be demanding that Facebook make your friends' posts visible in your account on another network, since that requires portability of someone else's data.

There are apparently efforts being made by Facebook and other big companies to enable certain forms of data portability [2], but I worry that these are designed to distract regulators and frame the problem in a way that is compatible with the business models of the major providers.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

[2] https://datatransferproject.dev/
fn compose<T>(
f1: impl Fn(T)->T,
f2: impl Fn(T)->T
) -> impl Fn(T)->T
{
// both arguments as well as the returned value
// are functions which take and return the generic type T.
// (to be precise, they implement the Fn trait).
}

let returned_function = compose(|val| val == 1, |val| val < 0);
let value: bool = returned_function(true);
I’m pretty mathsy but I don’t get this
A good critique for the Nth start-up no one's ever heard of. Less useful for a $20B company owned by, and the future of, General Motors.
Can't agree. Mild steel and bulk wasn't the strategic industry it was once considered by every nation, and was going as it was predicated on price. That's probably fine unless there's a major war.

The hugely expensive deep specialisms, and really unusual steels and steel products that were made in just three or four places in the world, one of them Sheffield, need not. cough Iraqi supergun -- though Sheffield Forgemasters are actually one of the few still around, thanks to govt underwriting due to their nuclear capability. Funny that. Nor need the manufacturing of some of the world's finest precision tool and instrument makers. A tiny few survive, despite government best effort, not because. Most were eagerly snapped up by US, German, French or Japanese -- if they still exist at all, it's as name made elsewhere and a fattening of someone's portfolio. Of course many disappeared without trace, and of course a fair selection that weren't worth saving having got fat and lazy, or overly unionised.

While morons were cropping up on UK news throughout the eighties and nineties trying to persuade us that making anything was obsolete (and so frequently that it quickly got as overused, tedious and cliched as the recent Theresa May election slogan "strong and stable government"), Germany quietly got on with new services and manufacturing. Their mittelstand(sp?) and technical training regularly cropping up as something for the rest of Europe to envy. UK disassembled the last of the technical colleges, apprenticeships, and all the regional centres of knowledge and excellence. No matter how keen you're unlikely to pick manufacturing for your new UK business, as we are exceptional in the extent of our disassembly of the sector.

How did Sheffield's future as a centre of telephone call centres work out? Or Central Belt's reinvention as world centre of electronic and IT manufacture? How did the focus on the City work, when right after the "big bang" Wall Street went on a shopping spree of stupendous size leaving few native survivors?
This is analogous to micro transit - on demand, smaller buses or vans. One crucial difference, the most expensive cost is eliminated - the driver. Larger buses still have a significant place and will become much cheaper when the driver is gone.
Is there a shorter domain name for ddg?
> I just hate when tracking is bundled with advertising. And I hate when advertising is camouflaged.

AFAIK pretty much all customers that pay for internet advertising WANT tracking (a cookie or URL session ID that tracks you from the advertising platform to the advertised site destination) as a way to verify that their money is actually producing results, otherwise they have little way of knowing that.
The Verge video explains it better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3E7p4S_1m4
Well, looks like everything in Rust is somewhat hard.
> Yeah, I had to get the keyboard replaced when some keys failed after a year

As a person who had to replace a microsoft ergonomic keyboard after 14 years and has never had to replace a laptop keyboard I would consider a laptop keyboard that was replaced after a year due to failed keys to qualify as 'barely functional.'

It's the 21st century. keyboards are a solved problem that should never fail. It's abject failure on the part of Apple for releasing a flagship laptop with such a comparatively shitty keyboard.

No keyboard should be failing at this point. Keyboards are a mature technology.
Presumably they found the content interesting. That's the high-order bit, and in the end the only thing that really matters on HN.
I think you answered your own question.

I want a door to door bus without the homeless guy and two kids yapping on their phones.

I would love to never own or be responsible for a car ever again. Just summon them when needed or book them in advance.
try <foo> !w on DuckDuckGo
Interesting. I live in a "third world" country (Argentina, one of the worst-performing economies in the world) and just had an interview with a German company (a large SaaS in Berlin) offering relocation to me and my family.

Not sure what to do, I have a shit boring remote email marketing job for a US company. But with my small US salary, I live quite well here (own a big house w/ 1000 sqrt. m. garden in a nice small town, good car, no commute, kids go to private German school, good weather, ..).

Not sure if our quality of life in Berlin (me being a data scientist) will be better as our quality of life here in the third world (me doing monkey work but in a cheap country).
You just need to control the upstream libraries and have some subtle memory overflow. No dodgy commits other than a "update libXYZ to latest patch".
Does anyone who knows anything about Apple think they would approach the FBI before creating a new feature?
Google changed their results page? I didn't notice. uBlock Origin does wonders I suppose. For me their results look the same as always. Youtube as well, barely any ads slips the tight net my ad-blocker has.
Ah, reminds of the Optimus Maximus: https://vimeo.com/4294567

I also remember owning a Samsung Alias 2, which had e-ink keys so you could use it in either vertical or horizontal orientation.
I would just point out there is a very clear legal distinction between action and inaction. Further, all of this only applies to the issuance and proper service of an order compelling silence. I think the EFF’s common statement that if the canary requires affirmative action to not deploy the court is in a tough spot to compel that action. Also, I can say with a large amount of certainty, that no judge blatantly ignores procedural or semantic formalities out of hand. The judge in question may way the relevant factors and disagree with an argument, although some judges built caseloads of precedent on just such minor quibbles, but it is literally the judges job to at least consider a technical argument on its merits.