skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i Think what they misunderstood is really their customerbase. Mid level audiophiles who want comfortable music with good sound. I don’t care if I can talk with my speaker and order pizza or not.
And my rough guess is, that just looking at the data their customers don’t change zones constantly but use a few very often.
The strategy that they currently seem to follow is a strategy against service providers in the field of music, instead of working on what they actually sell: hardware.
No matter how many blog posts will follow, as long as they don’t restart innovating in the interest of their core customers (mid audiophiles looking for comfort and usability to listen to music), they are losing me as a customer and i would bet they are also going to lose against the echo/HomePods and so on.
Sad to see a once innovative company struggling because they try to win a box fight not realizing they are better at swimming.
I listen to a podcast called the No Agenda Show that has sustained itself for about 10 years on a value for value model. Listeners donate what they want and there are never any ads. I think the model is applicable elsewhere. Granted it won’t make someone rich but someone can make a living.
Companies exist to serve their shareholders, their share holders are the ones choosing profit to be the primary focus.
Timpler – simple way to organize and plan your to-dos and routines
My last year's goal was to finally release it and I did it on December 31st!

Timpler helps you organize your tasks and routines.

Besides being a regular to-dos app, it has a lot of smart scheduling features.

- It automatically schedules your routines eg. "Read a book 3 times a week" - Timpler will pick the best dates for repetitions
- It creates daily tasks suggestions basing on your current context
- It allows you to plan your entire week in a few simple steps
Startup is a company with unproven business model.

Barbershop on a corner is not a startup, it is known how this works and what it takes to make it profitable.

Barbershop in World of Warcraft or some other MMO which makes haircuts to your virtual Orcs is a startup, cause no one knows if this is viable as a business at all.
App Store link - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timpler-to-do-list-planner/id1...
So we have now an effective weapon against Python, but what about PHP, Perl or Ruby?
Why is Apple taking 30% if not to prevent app developers from remotely disabling offline software that has already been purchased? How is that not a malware update?
A complete re-do of Firefox on Android hit Nightly. It'll replace current version of Firefox (stable) in the first half of 2020.

Judging by the current state, it'll arrive with no add-on support, which I honestly hope doesn't happen.
That's kind of broad. Also, the robots shown have very little "AI".

Maybe machine learning has reached a peak. It's routine now to make classifiers that are about 90% accurate, and really hard to get much beyond that. What we really have are systems which extract lots of signals from an input set and construct a statistical model that maps signals to results. This works moderately well with enough data, but hits a limit at some point. It's great for the class of problems where that's good enough. Like ad targeting and search. Not so great where a wrong result is a serious problem. Like self-driving cars and medical diagnosis.

I wonder what the next idea will be. I'd like to see progress on "common sense", defined as being able to predict the consequences of real-world actions as a guide to what to do next.
How does it bring people together? What a load of crap.
I'd say the customizable CSS was worse than the ads (search for "ugly myspace pages" in Google Images).
That sounds like something you could build in Apple’s Shortcuts app (assuming you’re on iOS).
What has always amazed me about Quora is that for every dumb one line question in the vein of "How do we know that the moon is not made of cheese?" there would be 500 word very well researched reply from an ex NASA chief of lunar mission. It always was baffling for me that such low effort questions would get such amazing answers.
And then there is Diplomacy, where you have to cooperate with everyone to get anywhere - right until you stab them in the back
ELI5 what makes the code mean anything to the computer?
As a former marketing co-worker once told me: marketing is pretty much just standing around flapping your arms to get attention.

The content might be dumb, but it drives eyeballs and you remember DO.
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Do most companies have a dedicated “merger”?
Hi all,

I'm a software engineer with 2 year experience at a single company and one of my job responsibilities is to merge code from one stream to another (we use AccuRev). Each stream represents a version of our product, a desktop application, with child streams representing future versions of the product. Development occurs across all streams and each stream is built every night for testing on the following day. In order to prevent build errors from unresolved conflicts when code flows down from a stream to its child stream, each stream is time locked and each day I unlock a stream, allowing changes from a parent stream to flow down, and merge all conflicts that occur.

After browsing Hacker News for sometime and reading articles such as (Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers)[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584144], I've recently started arguing to my manager that one person should not be responsible for merging everybody else's code downstream. And this is where my ignorance shines. I've known about Bors-NG before I started working and after seeing posts similar to one mentioned above, I was under the impression that most companies would not have a person or a group of people that dedicate part of their time to merge all change to a different stream/branch/repo/destination. However, my manager has told me that having a dedicated merger is not uncommon.

Is this really the case? Is it normal to have one person merge everybody else's changes?
How is an advertising driven website not a proven business model?
The original version of Ad Words always seemed ethical to me. Its simply showing users ads for something they were looking at the present moment. Mixing results and ads is bad. We know for a fact the first couple hits are clicked at a much higher rate.
One tweet got me Bildr and Adalo as customers
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How about making Android Studio not sound like a VTOL vehicle when compiling projects that compile in 5 seconds in Gradle outside of AS?
To be fair Ask HN questions are often clickbait-y too. Like:
- "What book made the most impact on you"?
- "Best tech talk you watched in 2019"?
- "How you beat procrastination"?
I’m not sure you understand the purpose of an endowment. It’s supposed to be such a large pile of money that the institution can exist purely off of low risk gains without draining the principle.
Their battle royale game is already available in the NZ region. The version that was just released is just a stripped down version of Tetris Royale to fill the void EA's game made. The controls absolutely need to be fixed, but in the end, I just thing touch controls are bad in general, even the EA app was not enjoyable to me.
That’s playing the Trust Game.
People often see the Status Game as a proxy for the trust game which is a big mistake
I think that a constant pressure to optimize this specific aspect (layout) has caused this.
However, optimization is not innovation.

What are novel ways that search results can be presented to (and consumed by) the user? Where is search going in the future?

I am a bit surprised to not see them on top of this game, but at the same time it would be a ripe chance for someone else to give it a spin (assuming that they have a sizable number of users to begin with).
This really reminds me of the concept of elaborative encoding whereas we learn by connecting facts with preexisting knowledge [0]. Abstract things do not stick because we have less touch points to connect them with. The Baker Baker paradox for instance describes the fact that we are much more likely to remember that a person is a baker than the more abstract fact that his name is Baker [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaborative_encoding

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/20100...
If you sue them they’ll just remove you from the index. It’s a “heads I win, tails you lose” situation for Google.
Pretty much Reddit and HN Sentiment. And if you look at the growth of DO it is apparent DO is outgrowing its competitors.
IMO these types of companies never had a future. They only succeeded because of monetary inflation in the corporate sphere due to ultra-low interest rates.

If the interest repayment on a bank loan is less than 2%, then it means that any business which can make more than 2% profit on their activities is profitable. But do such businesses deserve to exist? The Fed sets the interest rate so they decide what kind of business is profitable and is allowed to exist.

It's obvious why the current economy has benefited tech companies that operate at high scale with ultra-low or close to 0 profit margins.
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To summarise, research suggests boredom is distinct from depression. In tests, [3]people seemed to recover from depression much faster than they did from boredom. [4]Boredom is associated with rising HR, decreased SCL, and increased cortisol levels. [5]Those symptoms are possibly triggers for or present in people suffering from depression. People expressing high level of boredom may suffer from substance abuse, relationships and career building like with depression.

Noting everything, it seems quite plausible boredom can be a trigger for depression and vice versa. Literally everything that causes boredom can also cause depression and the symptoms from both are trigger for each other despite being different enough.

0] Relationships between boredom proneness, mindfulness, anxiety, depression, and substance use:

http://www.azmonyar.com/DownloadPDF/15562289.pdf

1] Proneness to boredom mediates relationships between problematic smartphone use with depression and anxiety severity:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089443931774108...

2] Traumatic brain injury, boredom and depression:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/3/3/434

3] An open label pilot study of citalopram for depression and boredom in ambulatory cancer patients:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-suppo...

4] Characterizing the psychophysiological signature of boredom:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-013-3755-2

5] Cortisol Secretion in Depressed and At-Risk Adults:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4451064/
They are not random sequences of bits - they are very specific sequences of bits generated from a random stream.
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That was actually the most interesting part of MySpace. Sure, you could get bad designs, but there was an ability to express one's self that you can't do beyond the header image--much like the amateur GeoCities aesthetic we admire. MySpace and GeoCities were why and where I started to learn CSS.
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Certainly. But humans are supposed to be responsible for their own outcome, more often than not. America is the land of opportunity. Many people who are otherwise more than able to work, choose to Trustifarian it up and be a pimple on the backside of society when they COULD choose to be productive members. I am perfectly happy to pay taxes and lend a hand up. It's when I'm obligated to give a hand-out that I get cranky.
But a breach can be a disaster. Conclusion : it can maybe be interesting to have painless breaches. Like pentests.
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Definitely. MySpace was killed because Facebook was superior. And Facebook was superior because it didn't look like shit, people used real names and real photos of themselves, and they did that because it was only available to university students so it was quite a bit more private than MySpace. It didn't really have anything to do with ads.
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I wrote something similar several years ago: https://riskfirst.org/Silver-Bullets

Even if you aren’t on-board with the ones this article mentions, there are a bunch more in this list.. and it could probably do with a refresh soon
> There's the company whose culture is so odd that, when I sat down to write a post about it, I found that I'd not only written more than for any other single post, but more than all other posts combined

Following the link[0], it sounds like Microsoft?

[0] https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/#fn:N
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Their server admin guides seem to be good, though. Whenever I google for how to do x things, their articles tend to come up. (I'm not a professional admin, obviously)
> Since we "know" the exact answers have a finite number of decimal digits, we can just round off the lower part of the numbers, which will produce the nearest float with that number of digits.

What does that even mean, “produce the nearest float with that number of digits?”

If my float representation says e. g., 2.6749999999999998, and I “tell” it to round to three digits, the result is still 2.6749999999999998 in floating point representation, isn’t it?

A floating point number doesn’t care about the number of significant decimal digits you want it to have.
Every website has different ways of acquiring traffic. Quora's way of doing business isn't yet shown to be self-sustainable, which makes their business model unproven.
Isn't that true of AskReddit too? Nobody moderates the endless "girls of Reddit, what's something sexy that men don't realise?" questions.
One more reason to Like Linode.
I don't understand the point of giving a big table of numbers and then not doing any comparisons or calculations based on the data. Maybe it's just meant to make the whole article seem more scientific than the hand-waving that it really seems to be?

Anyway, I can't say for any other cities, but a population figure of 3.7m for Vienna is ridiculously overblown. The actual figure is 1.9m for the city, Wikipedia gives 2.6m for the metro area. But even just the city itself is sprawling and very badly connected towards the outskirts, so even the 1.9m are very unevenly served.

Also, it's not true of course that the French (and Germans, and Austrians) typically take their 5 weeks of vacation in a single block in the summer. That wouldn't leave any vacation time for the winter holidays, other school holidays, etc. Two-, maybe three-week blocks are much more typical in my experience.
People don’t really compare that hard. If DDG’s experience is intuitively easier than Google’s in the first minutes (because there are no ads and results are good enough), people will switch.

The real problem is the “embedness” level of Google is much higher than any search engine achieved before: a switcher must make a pretty serious effort to change browser settings, change tools etc, and you can bet top dollars that Google will pull all monopolistic tricks in the book as soon as they feel their position is truly challenged. This is a scenario akin to Microsoft vs office open standards back in the ‘00s.
They are protecting their brand, and are trying hard to create a strong trademarkable portfolio. Copyright expires, yes, but none of the case as I understand it really brought copyright infringement into question. Instead it was about trade dress and trademark. Those don't expire. Xio created all their own assets and material, and only reused ideas to make a game. People reuse ideas to make games all the time.

They're a smart business, and very tactical. I think when they do decide to drop the hammer on someone it's because they know they can win.

They also don't do it if they don't need to. If you beat them in a search engine ranking, you better believe they'll come knocking.
Of course you can, but for the vast majority of cases, you shouldn’t. Floating points aren’t designed to solve the problems financial calculations bring, they’re designed for general purpose math and efficiency.

If you’re programming a point-of-sale system, or a ecommerce site or something, using IEEE-754 floats would be madness. The increase in performance compared to decimal types is absolutely infinitesimal, and the cost of getting it wrong is MASSIVE. Just don’t do it!

Of course, if you really do need the performance advantage floats offer (e.g. high-frequency trading or machine learning), then by all means, use floats. But that’s a tiny minority of those programmers who have to deal with money.
Cool topic, but that article was a bit long and meandering. Here's a good supplement:

https://gisgeography.com/geodetic-datums-nad27-nad83-wgs84/

Global coordinates in general are a lot more complicated than many people realize. For example, how exactly is GPS "elevation" determined? If you're standing on a beach at mean tide, is the elevation from a GPS receiver guaranteed to be zero everywhere on the planet? Here's a good starter on that one:

https://eos-gnss.com/elevation-for-beginners
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Late ‘90s MS was still in ascendancy on merit, technically speaking. This is more early ‘00s MS, all hubris and contempt for competitors.
> My summary: if you are doing some financial math that does not need to be accurate to the penny, just use floating point numbers.

So... Don't use floats where accuracy is important? I agree.
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There are tens of thousands of people who first learned to code by customising their MySpace page. They might have made some seriously ugly stuff but that feature was amazing for getting people in to the tech industry. It was brilliant.
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> Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode

Right. The other problem is that garbage mode is two-way.

I don't want to see other people's likes etc, and I don't want to have my own garbage jammed into anyone else's feed either. Short of going private there's no fix for this.
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> Culling means the removal of something with undesirable traits.

You just defined "moderation". Just because you call it culling doesn't make it so. And your bad-faith approach in this thread makes me think if you were indeed banned from Tildes (which I'm starting to doubt), it was the right call.

Question yourself.
This is an honest question, what is Quoras business model? It feels like a traditional forum.
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Sorry, but I remain skeptical. The same people who use `float` for financial calculations are probably the same people who don't understand how/why to do the rounding described to avoid these problems. Way too many programmers think that they are working in base 10 when using float. Why not just make them use it, and keep them out of trouble.

Also, I wonder what the overhead of rounding every operation is? Comparable to the cost of using a proper Decimal class?

"if you are doing some financial math that does not need to be accurate to the penny, just use floating point numbers."

I would argue that financial math by definition needs to be accurate to the penny. Where is "pretty close" financial calculations considered acceptable? Having worked at a bank, I know how seriously this sort of thing is taken.

From experience, working in scientific applications and numerical computing, summing large numbers of floats is fraught with accuracy problems too.
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Good floating-point printing functions output the shortest possible representation. So if 2.675 and 2.6749999999999998 are indistinguishable, print(2.6749999999999998) will show 2.675
Not only that, but the benchmarks ignore the cost of translating back and forth between pandas format. By the time you've done a comprehensive benchmark, you'll realize that pandas is actually pretty well optimised and the only opportunity for speedup is writing specialised functions for a narrow set of use cases. This library is a small box of such specialised functions. It will never be able to compete with pandas in general.

cuDF is a more plausible candidate for replacing pandas in performance-critical scenarios, and even cuDF explicitly aims to supplement pandas rather than replace it.
You would probably start with one cable and increase it over time.

HVDC cabels are already routinely build undersea. There is a 700km long cable under construction between the UK and Noreway. The longest HVDC connection is over 2000km long in Brazil.

Superconductors have a maximum current, if you go above that current, the superconductor will gain resistance and the heat will destroy it. So you would still use high voltage transmission.
It seems the A/B testing for this has morphed over to 'what dark patterns can we ultimately get away with?'

Some of the excellent points Kent Beck makes in this video about leaving Facebook seem to resonate here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4gqsIYzyE
This is about a Dutch registrar being social engineered. I specifically chose a Dutch registrar for my Dutch company, thinking that it would be so much harder for non-Dutch people (99% of the world) to social engineer a Dutch registrar. I guess not.
Sounds very similar to Pinterest; a spammy clickbait-ridden excuse for a website serving only to deceive you when you search for products or images for non-users, or an amazing tool you can use to categorize all the things, and find inspiration for similar items for users.
If you're young it means connecting with people you care (or are interested in) without a confuse UI or scammy ads. I meant the keyword here is friction
In the early 2000s we called this "Jumping the Shark"
I have run with SIP disabled pretty much since it was introduced. Nothing happened. Unless you are a three-letter-agency target or a person clicking on random files, you’ll be fine.
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Surprisingly, Apple doesn't care a bit when developers fuck you.

One app that I bought on the app store for 60€ just refused to start one day if I didn't buy an additional annual subscription.

When I complained to Apple, they just told me to contact the developer.

They take 30%, but they don't care one bit if what they sold you actually works.
Same thing happened to the high profile domain Sex.com by sending a fax. It was almost impossible to get back, and the criminal made millions in the meantime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com
There’s more to money than what happens in the checkout line, and that’s where the problems with floating-point math arises. For example, one codebase I’m aware of ran into serious problems with line item refunds when currency conversion was involved, IIRC. (“Serious” as in “couldn’t generate a refund that exactly matched the charge on the customer’s original invoice.”)
I’ve also switched to DDG and Firefox since this debacle and will probably end up shifting family over. It matters.