skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't thought much about the fact that the economic impact of quarantine measures would affect private dental practices as well.

It's difficult for me not to be at least a little cynical; there is a clear, strong, (and reasonable) economic motive for this move, and I feel I'd have more sympathy for their position if they had stated as much. While I'd understand that some patients might have significant issues that need to be addressed, the population at large will be fine skipping a cleaning to curtail the spread for a few months.
This feature now built into Word, and has been for some time. see my other comment in this thread.
This looks very interesting but I doubt large enterprises will allow it considering the online nature and the inability to secure confidential work on internally hosted systems.
The numbers don’t lie–NASA’s move to commercial space has saved money
> https://startupname.website

The best one I got was automaticgorilla.com. I don't know much about automation or gorillas, but I'm pretty sure that the intersection is an unfilled niche.
Takeover more power and then move people to markdown with a sleight of hand. I cannot cope with MS Office anymore. I was in finance 5 years, plenty of Excel work, when I open Excel today I am quickly reminded how painful it is and go back to Python.
Many companies, including the one I work for, have most development happening on Windows. It is far easier to manage for Enterprise use-cases, with all relevant services integrated and obtained from a single vendor.

Not to mention that there are quite a few development environments for more obscure platforms that still only exist for Windows.

Overall, since most development time is spent in an IDE, the OS is really of little relevance to software development. Sure, some people insist in using command line tools, and that is unlikely to be pleasant on Windows, but a lot of other developers don't, and we couldn't care whether we're running our Emacs on Linux or Windows or Genera or whatever.
Not sure I agree. I've seen many repeat founders showcase their product without mentioning their credentials. Here are the D3js founders showcasing ObservableHQ, and commenters discovering the team post a background check, no mention of their background anywhere:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274686
I accidentally wound up managing a cafe about 25 hours a week for free, was that not work? What's the definition of accidental here?
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Could anyone refer to a definite guide to what Wireguard is, what painpoint it solves and effective applications of it?

What kind of magic can I use it for to pipe data around securely in my AWS fortress?
Doesn't make it not a monopoly and it's still bad for consumers (on the first order, on the second order allegedly it enables the producers to create more content).
The annotation divs have to be rectangles, but the mouse/touch-sensitive areas of the underlying image don't! The author's goal is to only show an annotation if the user hovers over/touches its corresponding region in the image map.
If we follow your logic:

Why is the state currently donating its results to companies profiting billions?

https://other98.com/taxpayers-fund-pharma-research-developme...
There is nothing inherent in mainframe hardware nor software ecosystem that causes it to not scale. In fact, "modern" scalable software architecture with containers, microservices and pervasive automation closely matches how things are done in mainframe environment for 30+ years.

This fact obviously isn't lost on the IBM, because they even market scaled down mainframe hardware as "kubernetes cluster in a box".
> [1] https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/

It looks like the departing chief hadn't had the job for long. Might be a hot potato at the moment...
Versioning is good for restoring backups, it’s hard for seeing changes over time.

I recently worked on a word doc with four other collaborators. Someone inserted a footnote. Looking through versions it took me 10 minutes of sifting through the dozens of versions (auto save creates new versions very frequently) to find who and when that section changes.

I wish there was a git blame for office.

I also wish the old day of “checked in” versions where I could set a number and a comment.
The reviews for that game were amazing just because of the lack of self-awareness:

[Keith Schlesinger] criticized the "not well developed" victory conditions, reporting that he got a high score in one game by "sacrific[ing] nearly all of the big and small business firms in the country to achieve the win! What kind of a victory is that?" Schlesinger found that adopting an extreme libertarian ideology including ending Medicare and many other government services resulted in almost hands-off victory although "the entire private insurance industry goes bankrupt in the first three months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHealth
Commenters on there think he was forced out for not selecting Boeing as one of the lunar mission providers.
I even doubt the patch will be accepted upstream. That patch adds nothing for other distros and is not convenient to maintain upstream.
SSH agent has other interesting possibilities too - it's an opaque channel from far server to your local machine, there must be various cool hacks you could do.

Years ago I wrote something to copy a file from a remote machine to my desktop over ssh-agent, worked well back then. https://matt.ucc.asn.au/ssh-xfer/
A new way to make quadratic equations easy (Dec 2019)
That's some sort of anomaly. They took everything else, and murdered half a million civilians. I guess the remaining marbles were in locations too difficult to easily loot? Or too weighty.

Anyway, Elgin 'rescued' the marbles after a period of particularly egregious destruction of Greek history. Much was lost, blown up or deliberately demolished. If the Greeks didn't give a damn, why should Elgin be blamed for caring?
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Sure, it's probably better to use that if you don't mind that. I am big on plain-text files and Git and sometimes I have to bend reality a little bit in order to keep working my way when others won't. This is one of those cases.
I suppose the obvious answer is the Xbox One. Microsoft's consoles will presumably continue to support Direct3D and no other graphics APIs.
Linux getting first-class support from applications isn't a valid basis for criticism. It's not like Linux is actively doing harm to FreeBSD or anything.
Founder of Satchel explained why (YC S18) is in the title here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242404
Office365 has version history. You can flip back and forwards and see the changes any other collaborator has made. You can set the history to be pretty deep too:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/enable-and-configur...
That's what "flat" OpenDocument files are for. Use .fotd, .fods and then you can have all the file content, plus referenced images, objects etc. all separate files under version control without the zip container.

I do this with LibreOffice. I've not tested Microsoft Office with this workflow.
>>Meanwhile, you can buy a generator for as little as $400.

You can buy a generator for even less, and it makes for a more robust emergency plan.

But... most people don't. The tool you have is always better than the one you don't. That's why phone cameras (and apps generally) are such a game changer.

If you own a tesla, you own a big battery and it goes where you go.
How can round trip efficiency be 90%, when the one-way 240V charging losses to my Tesla alone are greater than that (at 83.61%)? Is it lack of three phase power in the US that is killing me?
Being able to run dx12 in a virtualized environment that's still under Windows (and thus not actually changing anything vs just developing only for windows) is going to lure undecided game developers how?
Why do some Covid-19 patients infect many, but most don’t spread it at all?
I wrote this comment in response to a deleted comment that said something like “use SharePoint.”

I find that most office users can’t use SharePoint. There’s too many things that are confusing or don’t work as expected, so it’s rare to find a business user who can set up SharePoint sites or workflows or even document organization.

So I’ve seen “SharePoint developers” who are consultants who know what to click and configure.

If I’m going to have to hire special people to make web sites, I’d rather just hire more technical people who can code something or tie together products. SharePoint developers cost the same as Wordpress developers to me.

The big advantage, I think, for collaboration software is to have contributors work directly with each other. Having to go through a secretary to convert work to some special format eats up the big benefits from stuff like SharePoint.
Thays Why I use markdown and latex for everything. I was back in college 2 years ago, after 15 years. DOing mechanichal engeneer. All my reports where writen on markdown and latex, and saved on gitlab.
How to Save Sheep with Cellular IoT
It's pretty clearly stated on the landing page of their website: https://www.wireguard.com/

- simplicity

- sound crypto

- minimal attack surface

- high performance

- well defined
Also agreed. I want the built-in Python data structures like dictionaries without getting too much Python DNA.
Covid-19 helped me earn 5 figures in 30 days
I've used git+latex for a very long time, and more recently, git+markdown.

It works really well!

But it won't work with your nontechnical office staff. :(
I got 4 new customers and a 10x return by building a side project
I already had a PHP site so I wanted an easy way to integrate a blog in my site. I ended up creating a micro-blogging library[0], which just renders markdown as blog posts. The advantage is that there is no build step, you only write markdown files (VSCode has live-preview by default for markdown) and you have easy versioning as markdown is just text.

[0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
...especially considering that you can't just go buy them some petrol.

Now that I think of it, what's the MO if you run out of juice in a tesla.. tow?
Archlinux had their own non-sysvinit system (which went away in favor of systemd) as does voidlinux (runit based) and alpine (OpenRC) today.

The problem is less the init system itself, but applications that depend on a specific init system [1] (gnome used to be a major source of contention in that regard).

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
Notion's export used to dump it all in one opaque blob of files with no structure aside from some CSV files that roughly described where things went. Maybe they haven't used it since Notion changed it to use folders.
Reversion to the mean.
Are there any meaningful benchmark results for mainframe hardware available anywhere? You’d expect there to be, like for any other competitive platform, unless the IBM’s license makes it impossible to share them?
And? For the third time, most people never even think about syncing with the chain. Do you understand how cryptocurrencies work? Have you ever used one? What is your point?
Yes, because it's an explicit effort to remove market choices from the people forcing them to use the product on a monopoly basis: otherwise the behavior wouldn't be happening, and it's such a valuable outcome that it's worth billions.

The fact that it's failing doesn't change that purpose.

Is a mousetrap's business the giving of cheese?
Here's the issue with that argument, though.

Platforms win out because of user familiarity, not because they're necessarily the cheapest option.

Uber had and still has a large lead on Lyft. They get free advertising all of the time through the media. How difficult is it to accept that you're not going to be number one in every market (but you'll likely remain number one in most markets), spend money wisely to shore up your position when necessary, and do everything you can to stay profitable?
If Uber drivers are worse off, why would they drive for Uber long term? Unless you are a taxi driver, I don't think Uber has taken your job, so if you are working for them it means they are providing you with something better than what you had before.
I get that. But I still think that there's a distinction between "not feel strongly" and "be desperate".
I appreciate the comments about what these kind of startups to do the 'reliability' of the pricing system, per Hayek.

I suspect the pricing system has always been more 'broken' than many, certainly Hayek, would like to believe. Selling under the 'true cost' because of subsidy from investors is in some sense just another form of 'externalization', like not paying for environmental devastation byproducts which has always been traditional, since at least 1492. (Or 'artificially' low prices due to a labor force held hostage by enslavement, or violent retaliation to organizing, at different points in history).

The 'true cost' ends up being a pretty slippery notion, as the OP later approaches a bit in suggesting the price system is not in fact a "naturally-occurring phenomenon".

> In turn, the major reason for that situation is for years there has been far more investor capital than there have been high-quality investments for that capital. "We find ourselves in a liquidity surplus,"

Also interesting. Marxist economists have been talking about this since Marx.

"A crisis of overaccumulation of capital occurs when the rate of profit is greater than the rate of new profitable investment outlets in the economy"

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation#Marxist_c...
Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud, Now GA
Having the ability to magically open new tabs in this situation doesn't do a whole lot of good when all the other applications still suffer from overall memory pressure because the app doesn't give back memory to the OS in time when needed.
Doesn't having a regional domain name (.es) affect SEO and user expectation? I thought the website is in Spanish.
They don’t hijack https they hijack DoH. The point behind this is to protect the average user but they’re just going to get the recursive resolver from dhcp. People who bother to use something are the same ones who will tunnel traffic or run their own resolver.
They don't create new money, they hand over a part of the company. The shares don't grow by themselves. It has nothing to do with printing money like central banks do.
it was sitting underground and unknown to men for almost all of time
Microsoft’s new PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10 is available to download
It should be standard in all cars, but also all utility companies need to support it - in Germany, we definitely don't have any larger infrastructure rolled out to have the cars charging dependent on the grid load. What we have is special contracts for heat pumps, where the power company can e.g. switch off power for no more than 15 minutes per hour.
> people want the freedom to drive as far as they can, because it’s hard to predict when they will need that capability, and charging is very slow

For most people, if they really need to drive hundreds of miles unexpectedly, I doubt spending 15 minutes at a high-speed charger to top up the batteries will be an issue.
No it's a new frontend for Emvi which focuses on keyboard controls and better attention focus. What do you mean by the same old tricks? You'll find some images and gifs in our Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/emvi
It's still being played. There are some plans to write an android client (notably by Trench War's poid, on patreon as quantumspace). Its golden days are long gone, but it's not uncommon to find games with 40 active players in Trench Wars these days.
I agree with you mostly, but Excel is still often a good choice for reporting. And with a package like xlwings, you can do it all from Python.
Pre-history of probability (2016) [pdf]
Really? We’ve been using it for 3 years and it works fine. Make sure you pay attention to min/max task settings.

There are basically three ways to do it:

Min less than max, max is 100.

Max greater than min, min is 100.

Some combination of the two.

For the first you take down running tasks first and then backfill with new (green) tasks.

For the second you add green tasks and once stable take down blue.

Make sure that if you only have two tasks that min/max move in 50% increments: I.e you can’t scale up/down to 125%/75% but can to 150%/50%.
Most people? Given how much it costs? I doubt it, or Adobe would be the company with the highest valuation in the world.
The "Sr. Vice President of Production and Launch" at SpaceX has also just departed from SpaceX. Berger writes in the piece below that "[t]he timing is not great, with the most important launch of SpaceX's history looming on May 27, a crewed flight of the Dragon spacecraft."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/relativity-hires-spa...
This gives an (artificial) example of the power of GNU Parallel over xargs: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-...
Yeah, but generators are a PITA. Mine has at best a 50/50 chance of starting without having to go to the shop to clean the carb, etc.

It would be quite nice to know I had quick, reliable power on tap that is regularly tested just in the normal course of my life.
To an extent.

They could just have you stand in front of the notary and swear (after the notary checks your identity), for similar effect and security.

The signature is only a small part of the whole procedure.

In most routine transactions, it really only shows everyone involved that This Is Serious.

As a little experiment, I once looked up the legal ramifications of 'faking' your own signature. Ie signing with a signature that's completely unlike your normal signature. Or changing your signature around every day.
- AWS Business Support Plan

- The ability to configure everything about a lambda and export the template.

- Serverless Application Model tooling

- Quick Create Links - you can give out a link to developers that let them create infrastructure by using CF and just enter parameters. You can restrict them to only being able to create a stack that you specify.
The mystique of mathematics: 5 beautiful math phenomena
Yeah, with an emulator. You could as well use Hercules instead, it’s Open Source.
Leaker claims to have seen “Apple Glass” AR glasses, details how they’ll work
Very cool. It’s hard to find good tools to ensure you’re staying accessible once you’ve made the effort to get there.
Have you actually seen disabled PIN pads? I have seen places refusing cash (which I believe is illegal), but the PIN pads are easily wiped down between uses.
Fake U.S. Dept of Treasury emails spreads new Node.js malware
I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that actually uses cloudformation unless a template was provided them to setup something like a lambda.

Why would you when terraform exists?
It's an obstacle to suing Doordash for trademark infringement, which is what you would typically do when someone is doing business in your name without your permission.
> I just want a bank account and to have that bank record my spending and let me download it, securely, and automatically.

I don't think this solves the problem, unless you use incredibly broad categories for budgeting such that you never want to split a single transaction over two categories.
Sounds a bit like a modern version of The Jungle.
That would be OS/360 (or Linux) on Hercules running on, well, a Raspberry Pi.
I'm with you. So many people I work with don't understand my visceral hatred of Office and Google's offering.

It's not that I think they are inherently bad pieces of software, they're actually all pretty amazing. It's just that after years of using markdown, org-mode and python, I get frustrated by how long it takes to debug a spreadsheet or format a document.
"Two people with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the personnel matter said his resignation was spurred when Loverro broke a rule during NASA’s recent procurement of a spacecraft capable of landing humans on the moon."[1]

My guess is that he was told: "Keep the moon landing on track for 2024 or you're fired." And the only way he could do so was to illegally expedite the selection process.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/19/nasas-h...
I don’t have the math background to assess the accuracy of these replies, but they might explain it.

https://twitter.com/NikhilBukowski/status/126262285333933670...
I vaguely remember that change tracking was a feature in Word even before O365 era.
Nevertheless, like others said - Office365 is what you need. Versioning in O365 is not necessarily user friendly and intuitive, but it works. It saved me and my colleagues many times.
Paint Shop Pro was built by an airline pilot in his free time
ZRAM Boosts Raspberry Pi Performance
Bank transfers (at least in EU) do come with some reasonable consumer protections; it's not to the extent that a chargeback provides in disputes with the merchant (receiver-initiated transfers e.g. direct debit transfers do have similar or even more extensive protections) but it does come with some protections against fraud, e.g. if your credentials were stolen and misused to make payments that you did not authorize, then you would be able to recover your money, unlike cryptocurrencies.
> not a choice if you develop Windows software

A minor nitpick, but cross platform development is usually a painful work regardless of which platform you use.
With Excel (the stuff that tends to be most critical), Microsoft has gone through a few iterations on this. Just a few days ago, they finally enabled a proper Version History on the online version of Excel, much in the same way as it’s been available with Google sheets for years. If you are bound to offline Excel, your options include 1) Shared workbooks 2) Co-authoring 4) Network drive 5) SharePoint 6) DropBox/OneDrive etc. You can get all the pros and cons in a recent blog post of mine: https://www.xltrail.com/blog/collaborate-on-excel-workbooks. I am part of a group of developers so we agree with you on wanting to have “GitHub for Excel” which is why we built: https://www.xltrail.com
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I thought most phones got rid of the back button, or do you mean the one in the mobile browser chrome?
The thing I've wondered about is a "digital leash" between an Apple Watch and a phone. One of the big problems is that you need something that's not too annoying under normal conditions but alerts you quickly if you left your phone on a bar.
I would recommend something much longer than 4 digits.
Experts lead the charge in rethinking how we work
I was thinking of posting the same thing. Especially since his resignation cites political risks...
But we already have a company gobbling up all the e-commerce demand out there and charging small businesses large fees: Amazon. Having more platforms where businesses can be found by customers is a good thing, and will provide downward pressure on fees.
You try doing any reasonable data processing with PowerShell and it will use a lot of resources. You can accomplish a lot with awk.
I was a PowerShell advocate but it still has a lot of rough edges which is disappointing. And is very verbose. Sometimes grep | awk can be incredibly succinct and fast.
The one dimensional left-right spectrum is clearly inadequate, as there are many more axes. 2D maps are more useful (e.g. the Pournelle and Nolan Charts) but still a bit simplistic.