skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your product is great, it doesn't need to be good (2010)
There are a variety of reasons that I've heard. For some they simply can't match the level of performance of COBOL on the main frame. For others the code is so complex that re-implementing it with feature parity is nearly impossible. It took decades to get to where it is, it won't be replaced overnight.

Another fascinating explanation I heard about was the way floats and numbers are represented in the different architectures. Due to minor differences, a non mainframe/non COBOL implementation produces incorrect results.

I read a great article about it a year or so ago, I'll see if I can find it and link to it.
I really like GitLab, especially the Kubernetes integration. Its nice to see some Terraform integration as well. I do hope some of the security scanning goes to lower tiers, that can be very helpful.

The biggest issue with GitLab I find is their stubbornness to have different prices for reporters vs developers[0][1]. It really makes no sense other than they just want more money (even though they are losing a bunch because lots of companies refuse to do it).

[0]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/3320

[1]https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#reporter-user...
> America just needs zoning policy that isn't totally broken (i.e. geared towards the rich). Japan has been doing a pretty good job.

Compounded by nearly 2-3 decades of astonishing population decline, and a 'freeter' type lifestyle for all but the most 'privileged' youth that also helps in reducing access to desirable housing, too. Personally speaking had Fukushima not occurred, I think I would be owner and chef of a Kaiseki kitchen at an Onsen Ryoukan in the Country-side by now given how affordable and plentiful those abandoned compounds are all over Japan.

NIMBY is real and gets the nouveau riche up in arms and drives them out to the polls and releases purse strings for lobbyists like nothing else, but to be entirely honest as a multi-generational Californian: they can keep the Valley.

Its atrociously managed, its old, over-crowded, needlessly expensive and stricken with horrible politically ambitious and greed driven shortsightedness, the homeless problem is a glaring symptom that has clearly proven that neither money nor legislation can solve its core problem.

My family up there divested from their businesses and sold their homes in the area in mid 2000s to move to the South, and while its not perfect it shows that there are is no better way to show your opposition to a system then to just leave.

If many former office jobs and school classes (K-12 as well as University) can be optimized to be done remotely, then I will reluctantly accept that the COVID situation was worth it. Having a population density like seen in New York is not just undesirable (for many reasons) but also a biological hazard. Disruption had to come the housing situation, and I think this could be just as good as anything else in trying to alleviate the damage caused from having remained in an archaic system created to benefit the Land-owning class for doing nothing but being born at a time when housing prices as well as overall Economic health and sound wages were accessible to most in the US.

These land owners don't create wealth, they just consume it off the backs of people far more risk-prone than themselves that still have Utility in the Labor force, and we're thinking they'll ever allow for implementing something that is against there interests? That's a deluded panacea that won't ever be achieved using orthodox methods, like voting for fairer zoning laws.
How many new applications are you people running?
Fixed Headline:

Businesses don't have enough need for summer workers to pay them
I share almost all of these issues. What drives me super nuts is the multi-display support which NEVER "just works".

I have to disconnect and reconnect USB-C 3 times, turn off the second monitor, switch inputs, restart the €3000 machines twice or whatever. So annoying, how does this pass QA at all?

Also, don't setup and use multiple users at the same time. That's really messy as well.
I've added shared whiteboarding to my handwriting app: http://styluslabs.com/share It is possible to deploy your own server.
19.10 added the "NVIDIA On-Demand" profile in Nvidia Settings. It needs the driver version 435 or newer.

It works okay, but you have to launch processes with a specific set of env variables to use the Nvidia card.
What is the point of a privatised economy, when all these inefficient businesses are still subsidized by the state?
IMHO the original choice of the path seems incredibly ill-advised and the main burden lies with the original developers.

sometimes old errors and mistakes come back and bite
Is PG 11 required for this new release? Does PG 10 work?
you can set that up in the contacts app.
You're ignoring the meat of the #2 choice, Google wanted more user data, location data at that. In order for that to be a good deal, you'd have to think that Google Maps is more valuable than privacy as a tentpole feature of iOS. Which I think is clearly false, especially since Google Maps was obviously still going to have an app on iOS, and this time on Apple's terms.
Hopefully Carta will be able to shake things up and help solve this? https://www.ft.com/content/d52b0487-b13c-4bae-bf27-770518ff0...

There is also LTSE by Eric Reis - https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/22/18629621/long-term-stoc...

Curious how this will play out.
OneNote can be collaborative. It also runs reasonably well on an iPad with Apple Pencil. I used this combo for a remote meeting recently while we were all on teams for audio. Some people were using OneNote on Windows and drawing with a mouse. There was occasional sync/lag issues, but I will certainly try it again.

The Teams Whiteboard is pretty bad, and clunky to get to in the middle of a meeting. Most Teams users don't even know it's there.

As others have mentioned the ideal solution would have an easy way to point at things on the whiteboard. The lack of a hover state on touch based systems makes this more tricky, but there can, of course, be a pointer tool.
Indeed. And with an alpine butterfly loop, you have basically tackle. So it's great for tying stuff, because tightening doesn't require retying.
I agree. Moving things to C# reduces interop overhead and I think it's the right direction. If you don't want to look at engine code, don't. Why does anyone care it's in C# if they're not looking at it anyway?
Is HN blocked in China?
I used Unity professionally for 5 years, then I took a 15 month break from game development and went to work on a hobby project and the latest version has completely changed to the very core. Made me give up and I'm currently looking for a game engine that's basically what Unity was 3-4 years ago. Pretty simple with a robust multiplatform support.

Godot looks the most promising (and open source) but the lack of console support is not ideal.
Indispensable? No. Irreplaceable...maybe.

I don't technically need my foot. But I suspect my life is a lot easier with the one I have.
I think the idea of miscalibration of matching isn't that the system can't ID classical, it's that the system doesn't know that classical should have different rules apply.

A lot of pop music "sounds the same" but the songs are actually different in meaningful ways note-wise. When you're dealing with classical music it's all the same notes! Just different people playing it.

So probably what's happening (some-how, some-way) is that the ID mechanism is trained to find songs that are "the same" and in pop music they're only "the same" if they're the _same song_. But in classical there are many songs that are different that are the _same song_ and so the model which was trained with one set of assumptions completely fails when a different set of assumptions are in play.

And because classical doesn't register in a big way to the people in charge this doesn't get fixed because it only takes the algorithm from 99.85% accurate to 99.72% accurate which as we all know, is meaningless!
Its not likely. They are insistent on the pricing model, even if it does not make sense. See my post above.
I can repro this locally as well. Interesting if it's inconsistent with Apple docs and when Gatekeeper should be firing, as running stuff locally without distributing/downloading is somewhat out of scope for notarization.

Reached out about this to Apple dev support, hope to get more insight.
Beyond me how people still paying for mac and windows botnet , just switch to linux everything just works
This seems both more work and more expensive than GitHub Pages. Hardly the cheap or lazy option.

And if the author is reading - your Author link is broken.
true, does not make it right though.
Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites
I don't know elsewhere, but in Spain social services can take children from their parents if they're not being taking care of properly. And that doesn't necessarily mean that the parents are to blame. So if the parents can't control the children, they can tell government: we can't hold them anymore, their behaviour is antisocial and we can't take responsability if they commit a crime.
Joe Rogan got ripped off
There has been research on it. I forgot the source and can’t find it easily, but if you email Julian Togelius, he might know. He doesn’t focus on game AI research and is the only name I can remember at the moment.

Edit: oh, Togelius also seemed to have researched it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2017/1...
They set "fast = true" as a global constant variable.
I'm getting 10-15 minute beach ball of death freezes on a month old MBP 16". That recur until I hard reboot. I can't open the 'force quit applications' window during this nor the apple menu. Can't reboot or shutdown from the cli or otherwise. Some apps lose network connections, some don't. The entire system becomes unusable. It requires a hard reboot. I think it's related to Intellij IDEA and similar IDEs somehow, but profiling those shows the slowdown is not in their apps but in the OS. It won't start with anything plugged into the USB ports, not even just power. Been trying various things but if it doesn't go away, I will return this when the Apple store here reopens. The only good thing about this coronavirus is that I've had more than 14 days to test this and find out what a clusterfuck this OS is even on a $4400 brand new mbpro. Do they even test anything anymore?
At least at Microsoft it was called "stack ranking."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
As an amateur sailor I beg to differ.

First, you can tie knots with steel wire, too.

Second, I would be much more comfortable hanging artwork on a thin twine than on steel wire. Steel wire tends to be sharp and scratch and punch holes in anything it gets into contact with. Rope that will be durable and can withstand the stress of hanging 30kg artwork is still very thin. Just google it and be surprised. (https://www.ingersollrand.com/pt-la/lifting-equipment-materi...)
I switched almost 2 years ago after 15 years on Macs.

Fedora 32 Workstation is pretty good if you want to see the best of what Linux can offer. It may not be the lightest and fastest distribution but it is easy to install and everything works. You'll get to experience Gnome which is the most original Linux desktop environment and the best one in terms of user experience in my opinion.

If you want something more traditional with the start menu or dock or desktop icons, perhaps something like KDE Neon is better place to start. It might feel more familiar. Will be lighter/faster too.

Put each of them on a USB and run them live on your machine for few minutes each and see which one makes more sense to you.
React Canvas Grid High performance
The arbitrage on that has to be pretty thin? If the pack cost X and had to be replaced after Y years, can you recover that from each day's electricity?

Personally I'm on the old feed in tarriff scheme which gives me a fixed price for generation, regardless of export or usage ...
I think this type of descent into "storytelling" is one of the anti-patterns of modern journalistic writing. Why isn't there a major push back against these anti-patterns among journalists, I often wonder.
GitLab Developer Evangelist here.

You can install GitLab and only _use_ it for 'git' (source control management). But the install is the same - GitLab is a single application
This is very possible on Arch Linux, moreso than other distributions. After installing Arch, just run the following two commands:

sudo pacman -S xonsh

chsh --shell /usr/bin/xonsh

Bam! You're booting straight into a full Python environment when you turn on your computer. This is similarly achievable with other languages as well, including BASIC.
What is your definition of dead? IBM still profits 10+ billion annually and has 300k+ employees.

Why is this layoff (compared to the other hundreds they have done over the decades) the inevitable end?
> I have never ...

_You_ may not have, but plenty of us have. Although, it's not as important when or how many times one has _needed_ to exercise one's freedoms, as it is to have them. But yes, plenty of us open-source users and supporters have exercised this very freedom. In fact, quite a lot of open-source contributions happen _because_ of this freedom: someone has an itch, they scratch it, and _then_ they upstream it.
Can we get a MacOS @BruceDawson0xB up in here?

https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB
Show HN: Quizlime, run your own real-time collaborative quizzes
Why you should share your ideas online
Humans all ready are black boxes.

IMO, if you're worried about a black box AI juror, we all ready have that--they are called (human) jurors.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171223121530/http://www.nation...
It is! We're super excited about it. We've been running it on GitLab.com for some time now, and it's been great to see.
It's crypto-"State ownership of production".
Apologies. Our hosting company seems to have some trouble in some US regions, this staging site is available for now: https://detab.webflow.io/
AlphaZero and Monte Carlo Tree Search
"Within 48 hours of diagnosis" indicates nothing about disease severity, nor how long patients were sick prior to diagnosis.

> Wait, where does it say that in the study?
The study _supports_ the idea that sicker patients get hydroxychloroquine more frequently than less-sick patients. The study's raw figures show that sicker patients get hydroxychloroquine more than healthier patients.

The study states that besides age and BMI, "all other [control] data were treated as categorical variables in the model."

It's clear the study's authors don't sensitively control for patients' angiotensin-renin-aldosterone system health.

There's strong subject selection bias in "initial disease severity" as well when some subjects die at home and others go to the ER mistaking mild Covid for heart attack symptoms.
The obstacle is that we still do not fully understand nor are able to replicate their sonar, even the Navy that has been studying dolphins for decades still cannot duplicate biosonar (read more here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2019/5/140328-navy-d...)

The burst pulse is extremely complex, some can have 400 single clicks in one pulse (our ear cannot even hear these single pulses, they merge and for our human ear it sounds like a creaky door), and the pulse duration is like a few seconds. Each click is broadband (can go up to 100 kHz and beyond), it is frequency modulated with varied peak frequencies, center frequencies, RMS, some clicks can have 2 peaks, etc. It is super fast and super complex, we we cannot just generate one, only dolphin's sound producing mechanism can.
I think a lot of companies have become features-hungry, gathering more and more side-features and forgetting their core value.
I've done this before in a few video games, hopefully things work better here than when I try it
Sounds great. So I just manually execute this `compress_chunks` command once on each data node and then I have compression enabled forever on those nodes?
Beyond me how people(and specially “power users”) are still paying for mac or windows botnets , just switch to linux everything works
Which is the vicious cycle. Design a board using a phone or networking chip for a production run of 1000, then the value is going to be worse than a commodity part. Which means no one is going to buy them.

If the phone/networking chip were designed upfront to to be less cost optimized for its target market (say putting graphics on a networking chip, or more PCIe lanes on a phone soc) that would help. As would assuming your going to sell 100k of them, and assuring the design and pricing is competitive with a $300 x86 motherboard+cpu combination. The honeycomb could be a good board, but its obvious they have designed it for some target market that isn't actually a generic mITX board. The CEX, and x4 SFP cages add cost, but little value vs a desktop board so you have a board that costs $800 and competes poorly with $150 AMD boards that take AM4 processors unless you happen to need 4 ports of 10G ethernet. The honeycomb minus all the networking junk would be selling in the hundreds of thousands of units if it were $100 to $250. The rpi doesn't sell millions of units because its good, its sells that many because its $50.

So really the "flaw" is all the extreme upfront cost cutting to create a product that is laser focused at a single big fish customer, then failing to provide a generic and flexible version for the open market that can be customized less expensively.
I liked Xtree. I actually had my own DOS file manager (Directory Freedom) but that was deliberately kept very small and fast. I liked Xtree for when I wanted to look at or work with the whole directory structure.
I’ve never seen a company use their “these terms are whatever we want them to be” clause so aggressively as unity has at least twice now. How are you supposed to trust them as a partner?
There are multiple purposes for tools. Companies are started to make money as one of their purposes.
GitLab Developer Evangelist here.

It could be that there is a legit email provider that got on the banned list inadvertently. Would you mind sharing the provider?

If you want to not do it in public you can DM me at olearycrew on Twitter or email boleary [at] gitlab.com
It only seems that way now because some platforms have begun locking down their root directories. Nix, by design, doesn't conform to the FHS way of organizing directories so it made perfect sense to use /nix when the decision was originally made.
I often incorporate snippets; some from SO, some from SomeRandomDudesMessyBlog.io

I have a rule, though: I never add code, unless I understand it 100%, and I often make tweaks to adjust it to my immediate needs.

One of my best thefts was a simple FIFO queue, from this book: https://www.objc.io/books/advanced-swift/

This is my adaptation: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

I really had to do almost nothing to improve it. I think I just extended its utility a bit.

Of course, these weren't your usual SO "academic sample" dudes.
This should be a real book!

It is important -- vital even -- to know how to find the right code, how to understand and test it, how to modify it.

And not just from stack overflow, but also from colleagues and even yourself.

If this were real, I would buy it.
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Hagoromo Chalks, Progress and Vim
"Results: The addition of zinc sulfate did not impact the length of hospitalization, duration of ventilation, or ICU duration. In univariate analyses, zinc sulfate increased the frequency of patients being discharged home, and decreased the need for ventilation, admission to the ICU, and mortality or transfer to hospice for patients who were never admitted to the ICU"

HCQ is an enabler; zinc does the heavy lifting but only if administered early.

See my other comment downvoted to oblivion below.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v...

Hydroxychloroquine is just one of several zinc ionophores that inhibit viral replication. "Zinc Ionophores Pyrithione Inhibits Herpes Simplex Virus Replication"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23867132/

"... the virus replicative cycle can be divided into 10 steps (Fig. 52-1): (1) adsorption, (2) penetration, (3) uncoating, (4) early transcription, (5) early translation, (6) replication of the viral genome, (7) late transcription, (8) late translation, (9) assembly, and (10) release of new virus particles."

If using HCQ as a zinc ionophore which targets replication, "antiviral drug treatment should be started early, before irreversible tissue damage occurs. Such timely treatment is not possible without early and accurate diagnosis, which is difficult for many viral infections (such as infections of the respiratory tract)"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8119/
Exporting environment variables via artifacts sounds like a strange decision, but I guess its one way to do it. After years of waiting for jobs to communicate other then relying on file artifacts this is somewhat disappointing.

I would like to see parent/child pipelines recive some love as currently it does work but quirks are all around. For example, its not easy (or sometimes even possible) to pass pipeline variables from parent to child, pipline UI behaves differently when being part of relation (and many times unusuable or shows a wrong thing), not being able to repeat manual jobs with the same var initially passed, not even being able to run it again with any other var unless you delete all previous executions, strange limitations on masked secret vars, $ in your password will get evaluated as variable etc ...

Seems like an afterthought, rather then a carefully designed feature set. Too organic for my taste (I guess Conway's law is full blown there).

While Gitlab CI is getting better (or more capable, rather then better) then before in every release, it does seem bloated, overly complex, full of surprises, not reproducible locally, very slow (caching is ridiculous feature that makes job often run longer then without it) and with strange design that doesn't let me view my build log full screen or collect entire pipeline output easily.

Generally, Windows is also lagging behind (I can't use pwsh as runner shell today after 4 years in existence?). The worst recent offender: you display 'fail' on every job in color: "WARNING: Failed to load system CertPool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows". This trips everybody that job has failed when it didn't.

I think Gitlab guys need to start taking CI/CD/runner more seriously or at least bring some fresh mind to it. After all, this is one of the major reasons for many people to use it.
> First, some monopolies are monopolies forever - network and utility monopolies.

Could you expand on this a bit more? Network and utility companies can clearly be broken up. The actual infra can be owned by municipalities.

> Price for rent is not governed by landlord's costs but by what the tenant can bear.

Citation needed. There is competition amongst landlords as long as housing supply is not severely limited. If supply is limited, that is a failing of zoning policy. The flat I just started renting a few months ago was priced on supply-and-demand, not on how much I earn (otherwise the landlord did a pretty terrible job of gouging me because relative to my income I got a good deal). You can look to Japan as a country where zoning policy isn't totally nuts like it is in parts of the US.

We are dealing with monopolies, the current administration notwithstanding. Andrew Yang in particular has a number of thoughts on these issue:

https://www.yang2020.com/blog/regulating-technology-firms-in...
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/net-neutrality/
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/zoning/
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/financial-transaction-tax/