skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem imo is on the business side, most businesses don't know how to transform unpredictable progress into profit (even if average on a large timeframe that progress might be HUGE).

There's an interesting whole vs. parts observation in there. Societally, we know exactly how to transform unpredictable progress into profits: markets. And they work very well, over the long term.

It's just that markets work by trying lots of new random things, most of which will be failures, and then creating an incentive to double down on the winners. Every individual market participant has an incentive not to innovate, because most innovations fail. But some of them do succeed, and the ones that succeed end up replacing the companies that never tried to innovate in the first place.
I'm just not sure how I'm supposed to take social distancing guidelines seriously at this point. My state purports to have an order to stay at home, but as more and more businesses reopen, they've still offered no guidance on when it'll be permitted to see friends and family again. It seems increasingly clear that there's a hidden "unless you really want to" clause, and all of us who were strictly obeying the rules just got tricked.
To answer your question, yes, adults do buy didactic games, particularly for
other kids as birthday presents as a form of virtue signaling. The
money is certainly there, but the fun is decidedly not.
That's not openly joking, it's sales.

If you feel like you're way overpaying for AWS, you're much likelier to look out for alternatives. So if they help their biggest accounts save some money, it'll net them way more in the long run.
Darknet does not sound good either. You know, like the other Darknet.
You can watch how the sausage is made https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mpLlHn0FOekNg05yCnkzQ/vid...
Coronavirus: First Google/Apple-based contact-tracing app launched
How did the coronavirus (Covid-19) start?
I see, thanks. I guess in my mind I was thinking of Wordpress as .org, not .com.
In the case of Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23310792 / https://builders.mozilla.community/
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Can you expand? I did a little research and found on Wikipedia:

> The Mozilla Foundation is an American not-for-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project... Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a tax-paying entity, which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue. [1]

> The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation... Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary. [2]

So seems like the for-profit part is just to give it more flexibility in achieving the non-profit aims?

I'd love to know why you think "their end goal is profit". There's nothing in the Wikipedia pages about any substantiated criticism there. So just curious if there are real reasons for thinking this, or not.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Repetition Economics – The Story of Hunter, Mammoth and Wolves
Change the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints.

I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.
It is difficult to predict how successful a technology will be and how widely it will be adopted.

Does anyone use their 3D glasses that used to ship with "3D TVs" circa 2013? My Samsung TV came with a pair of active 3D glasses that were collecting dust. On the other hand we've had adoption of touch screens on handheld devices, it almost swooped the entire mobile market between 2007-2012 after iPhone's introduction. But the same thing didn't happen with Keyboard + Mouse input on a desktop computer. Infact, the market just exploded with new mechanical keyboard aficionados sometime around 2010, I still remember hanging out on geekhack a decade ago and now mechanical keyboards are everywhere.

We've seen in the past and we will see this in the future - a whole lotta focus on aesthetics, UI and presentation - i.e., cool graphics in video games, touch screens, holographic displays like the one in the article, AR/VR tech (magic leap?) without proper attention to content will lead to nowhere. Probably just make headlines.

Another thing is that people don't take ergonomics into account. Pretty much any sci-fi movie has people moving their arms about to interact with content. That would never take off in real life. Unfortunately, people like Elon Musk are hell bent on horrible UI/UX depicted in their favorite sci-fi movies and shoehorning it into Space craft (dragon capsule has all touch screen interface with literally no buttons, checkout the Everyday Astronaut channel's tour). Elon's vision about UI/UX is misguided through movies, it is embarrassing. The giant touch screen panel in a Tesla is the main reason I would never get one. I think he might put this 8k Holographic display as an option, please don't tweet him about it.

Sci-fi movies are the cancer of design. It is the victorian design equivalent of modern times, pure decoration. You can find traces of it in professional equipment, this thing looks like it was pulled from a space ship: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cGhQ0begL...
> there needs to be another (remote) computer to receive the readings,

TDR does not use a remote computer/signal processor. The reflection (the 'R' in 'TDR') comes back to the source.
Right, so maybe we should be telling the government to stop requiring financial institutions to require identification.
Similarly, project autocompletion for the directory where I do my web dev ...

export SITES=$HOME/Sites

# Plural to cd and list contents
alias sites="cd $SITES; ll"

# Singular to access a particular project
site() { cd $SITES/$1; }

# Autocomplete function
_site() { _directories -W $SITES -/; }
compdef _site site

It works from within any directory, which is nice.

site f[tab][enter]

takes me to

$SITES/foo/
Yes. It is literally just an anecdote about shareware, not a proven system for dealing with piracy. It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own.
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I think all mentioned issues are related to the implementation of the user probes, not the pattern.

You mentioned an observation methods, but essentially they are absolutely the same as hooks, just inverted (with a bit less overhead on branching and hook call). E.g. your example with bytesReceived counter can be implemented with atomic operation and further export on demand by some other goroutine.
> governments will be in full control of consumer spending by influencing interest rates that are charged by the Libra system

How can governments be in full control if there's a private partner/consortium/whatever that controls the technology? This seems akin to the whole "drive for Uber and be your own boss" argument.
I was reading the article trying to guess the price of this thing. I was thinking $20k before I got to the last paragraph which mentions the price is quote only. I assume that means I was very low on my guess, but then I checked the website and they have 15 inch dev kits for as low as $3k, so I have no idea. Anyone have a rough ballpark for what this would cost?
Nice, using similar workflow for my blog, emacs export + some post-processing [0].

Even with high quality parsing libraries, when you dip into the most advanced features of org-mode (like literate programming via babel), you end up needing emacs anyway. And it's much more pleasant to tweak existing export code, than figuring out how to reimplement it from scratch.

[0] https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p/blob/master/src/compil...
It's totally backed on "we have loads of hard drives with spare storage capacity but no IO capacity, so sell it off cheap, but make sure it doesn't perform too well or it'll eat into our other products".

Nearly all cloud providers have more storage bytes than they have IO (ie. each individual hard drive receives so many read/write requests per second that if they filled the drive all the way to full some read/write requests couldn't be handled and would be unacceptably delayed)
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I guess they sell some books in obscure formats. All the books I've bought has been straight epub.
Heads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.)

https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following script is added:

<script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script>
Because laymen, movies and nowadays even tech consultants don’t know (or don’t want to know, in the case of the latter, for financial reasons) what AI is and picture advanced ML, fancy neural networks, acrobatic talking robots, Skynet, GAI, etc. instead.

Which is way more cool and gives you more dreams (or money).
It depends on the book. Some Kobo eBooks are protected by Adobe DRM... it's mentioned on the main book page in small print about halfway down beside the format if DRM is included.
I'm in the same boat as you. There was something about integrating SM, but I couldn't get it to work. There are two decent open source choices IMO.

Meld Merge (https://meldmerge.org/) is my favourite, due to being cross-platform. Works well for merging, and `git difftool -d`. Although I cannot get it to run decently on macOS nowadays :(

WinMerge (https://winmerge.org/) is also good, but Windows only.
Because Harvard doesn’t want that. The value of that degree is 90% signaling and 10% networking. If anyone could go that would remove most of the value.
In China and other emerging markets, downloading apps from app store are just something that many users would rarely do, no matter it is App Store, Play Store, or many other Android App Stores available in China. It is a big obstacle that most US developers never realised.

The main benefit of super apps, and why it is so popular in those countries, is that it doesn't require users to download anything to use new feature. In some use cases I also found that so convenient.

Just as an example, WeChat has an ecosystem of mini-apps. When you go to a restaurant in China, you can often find QR code on each table. If you can that QR code, it would open a mini-apps that lets you place orders and make payments, without waiting for the waiter to serve you. A mini app is like a website that doesn't require download and storage on the phone, but the user experience feels more native and is tightly integrated with features available in WeChat. It would be much harder to get users if the same thing requires you download an app.
Her first example, "proportion of a six-pack of water" is actually very complex, with a lot of potentially distracting details. Nowhere does she mention that's what her fractions are measuring, either! The whole lecture was simply a mass of detail with no reference to the underlying concept it was putatively intended to explain. No wonder the children were confused. Why not start with cutting a pie? Guess that doesn't lead to nearly as much busy-work.
which i really appreciate when it comes to googling them for help with stuff. i can google "aws lightsail" and get results directly relating to what i'm looking for. have you ever tried to sift through the mess of seo marketing crap that comes back when your search term includes "VPS"?
Neat, didn’t know about v! But on my system (Ubuntu 18.04), Ctrl-v doesn’t do anything. What’s it for?
Show HN: Random Terrain Generation in Clojure
Duplicate discussion of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311934
GSB designates MBA, MSx degrees as STEM
An automated process only has to be wrong once to compel human operators to double or triple check every other result it gives.

Wouldn't this itself be error prone? The operator is, after all, human.
Niantic adds reality blending 2 Pokémon Go making ur virtual pals more realistic
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It seems to me that this just kicks the can down the road--from calculation to verification.
Well, think about time just for a second. Take your average 25 year old frontend developer, for example. Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery. That means all these people had to be doing professional modern web development at the age of 20. What’s the likelihood of that for most people? Take you average bootcamper, by definition they didn’t know modern web development when they were about 22. If they graduated recently, that means around 2015 they were maybe 17 years old, and if they went to a bootcamp post college, they sure as hell don’t know anything from the 2009-2016 era.

So that’s who writes this stuff. They literally don’t remember a world where you can build very simple things without state management, without scoped styles, without jsx.

I’m not an agist, but it’s like c’mon dude, it’s a blog, when did you start web development? Don’t write your own blog posts yet please, mature a little first. Way too much noise out there now days.

Why do you need type checking for your blog? You really going to double check that you’re posting a string or something? Do whatever you want, but stop posting about it like it doesn’t sound unnecessary to the rest of us.
If you don't want async/callbacks you are using the wrong framework. Serial code is much easier to deal with. And async/await just hides the complexity under the rug, hoping you'll never get backpressure and other issues.
Callbacks take a while to grok, it took me about a year to learn how to juggle all the async calls in my head, which a multi threaded language will do for you. Both have their pro et contra though, with multi-threading you'll be dealing with locks.
Baen [1] is another to mind that imprint-wide believes that DRM is a waste of time. As another poster pointed out it is interesting that it is mostly sci-fi imprints leading the vanguard of DRM free, in terms of well known commercial publishers.

[1] https://www.baen.com/faq?section=drm-policy
> Email

Awkward to spell and to remember, unless you write it right there and then and get the other to proofread it. You also get a single piece of information, not even a full name.

> QR code

Pretty uncommon where I live (Northern UK), particularly outside geeky circles.

> take a photo of the email address

This is occasionally done but it's annoying (you have to transcribe it later) and again is unlikely to carry any other data like the guy's name.

> Or call the other one to confirm that you've typed the correct number

It takes time out of the conversation to proofread the contact name as you save it, and you're then lacking email - yeah you can get it with a phone call, which is already pretty awkward ("can I call you to send you an email to organise a call"), and again spelling an email over the phone is pretty bad and error-prone.

> worst case, you can just hand out a paper business card.

That's what I do, but apart from the environmental impact, you then have to print and store a bunch of cards and every time you change job it takes weeks (or months) to get new ones (and cringe at their design).

Dunno, maybe I'm more sensitive to this because my name is difficult to spell for English people, but I do wish I could avoid having to drag with me stacks of thick paper.

> Are there examples where bump/shake would be really that useful?

Trade shows, sales events, all the way to going to a bar and it turns out some guy is a decorator you might call on.
I think you missed the point GP was making. To quote:

> Unfortunately, just reading the FAQ a few red flags. It doesn’t allow importing encrypted keys. [emphasis added]

To which you responded with:

> Alternatively, you can import the key manually in “Advanced settings / Manage private keys”. Caution: Make sure the key is not protected by a password, or remove the password beforehand. [emphasis added]

GP is talking about it using a key which is encrypted with a passphrase, and it seems you agree that this isn't supported (otherwise why would it ask for you to decrypt the key on import?).
I think you touch on a deeper point about games.

Part of the joy of games is agreement on the parameters of what is and is not in bounds for the game. Knowing that boundary lets you focus on only the things within that while pleasantly mentally unloading all of the myriad messy things outside.

Even though each videogame is different, there is a surrounding videogame metagame culture that players tacitly assume defines what all videogames are allowed to do. When learning a new videogame, players assume the rules of that metagame still hold true. (This is one of the reasons videogames today can be so difficult for non-gamers to get into: they don't have this absorbed culture.)

One of the rules of that metagame is "NPCs do not mislead the player." (Other rules of the metagame are: "Your savefile cannot get into a state that makes it impossible to beat the game," and "It should not be required to die/fail several times in order to learn how to proceed.")

It's valid for a game to break that meta-rule, but it will be very unpleasantly surprising if they believe they are playing the stock videogame metagame as they learn this game's rules.

This is kind of unfortunate because there's a whole giant space of possible videogames that could be made with interesting rules if only you could set the expectation for players that this game steps outside of typical game culture meta rules. You occasionally see experimental games that do this like Lose/Lose, which deletes random files off your hard drive when you lose (!).
My favourite:
I got 1/3 on the first test and 1/3 on the second test. So in total I got 2/6. So 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6.
By that same note, people are calling every automated feature AI and it no longer means what the words actually mean.
You’re welcome.

If you can build but are building the wrong thing, you need to:

- focus on user stories by capturing them from the user with the problem-to-solve. DO not let anyone get between you and the actual user. You need to talk with them yourself and listen to them and teach yourself how to ask them questions and feel their pain.

- work on your ego. You should have ego but you should be able to accept feedback.

- users want perfection even though you spent so much time building it “this way“

- be willing to build it shitty the first time to get feedback early, or willing to build it nice multiple times but you don’t get to quit working on behavior because you invested the time.

- Yes, it matters that the button shows the selected glow and its ugly. Fix it. Yes it matters that the element has an extra refresh blink, go back and prevent that from happening.

- Bad product can be death by a million pinpricks (like Paxful Wallet right now) or it entirely lacks a feature to do something at all (like IntelliJ has no option to commit just the open file and no more.). OR BOTH

Email me if you want to stay in touch rob@banagale.com
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I prefer something like "alias sp=trash" (sp for suppress), and getting into the habit of using this alias (for instance by doing alias rm="echo nope"), so that if I use it on another machine by mistake, it just fails instead of using /bin/rm (and I can then resort to trash or double-check that my rm command is not faulty).
That's been my theory as well, that the ultimate victim of Photoshop piracy in the 90s/00s was Paint Shop Pro. Adobe didn't seem to care, professionals still needed their properly licensed copy at Adobe's prices, and students who learn with pirated Photoshop might become actual professionals with paid licenses in the future.

But at $0 vs $0, Paint Shop Pro was a lot less appealing that it would have been at $99 vs $399 or whatever Photoshop used to cost.
Blaming it on Vitamin D instead of socioeconomic policies of the ruling government is deflection and dismissal of more substantial class and race issues in responses to Covid, especially Sweden's which is broadly considered to be especially fucked up.

"Nope, Sweden didn't mess up, it's just that they have more brown people and uhhh vitamin D". The hell prior do you have that you think such a conjecture makes more sense than "Sweden's COVID response not only sucked, it sucked especially for poor and marginalized people"?
Do you use Greengrass ? I think not many people do but I really like it.
It's a sad state of affairs, but I would honestly trust Facebook more than your average cryptocurrency startup or exchange. That is still not enough trust for me to use their product though.
Then why didn't he just buy a physical copy?
I saw an earlier prototype at a Demosplash at CMU. It was really incredibly cool in certain instances. 3D objects really looked like they were "in" the volume of the display and moving my body or head from side-to-side was pretty flawless.

That being said, it also had limitations. 3D effects that extended beyond the display (like a tunnel, or some larger effect) lost that depth to me, and there's no up-down 3D, only side-to-side. The one I saw was also not as high-resolution as you might think, the effective resolution was the resolution/elements where each element was a particular angle the display was to be viewed from and the computer had to render the display from each angle simultaneously. The prototype I saw had the effect of looking a bit like 3d objects underwater.

Still, it was the closest thing I've seen to a volumetric display outside of a lab, and in the cases where it really worked (things inside the volume of the display) it was kind of jaw dropping.

edit here's the pouet page for the demo I saw
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78756

This video is from a handheld camera that moves around the display that's helpful to understand how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US7hzM0a21E&feature=youtu.be
You can't perform operations with apples, oranges and fruits unless you use them completely interchangeably ,i.e. 1 apple = 1 orange. Otherwise, you will break algebraic equalities.

You can convert apples to fruit and oranges to fruit and then do operations on fruit, but you can't go back from the result to apples and/or oranges. For example, 1/7 of (3 apples + 4 oranges) is 1 fruit, but we can't tell if it's one orange, or 1 apple, or 1/3 apple and 2/3 orange.
Comparing Pulsar and Kafka: Unified Queuing and Streaming
I've been playing with Gemini and I love it. On the one hand it's so constrained it's almost a toy, but on the other it's usable and fun!

As far as interacting with the WWW vs "Gemini space" it's night and day, or should I say nightmare and day.
For webapps, this exists:
https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/

Unfortunately it's not available on Safari for iOS and also doesn't work with native apps.
In this thread I saw how a petition to show an example of bogus claims of discrimination, followed by a clear cut answer to which not even the asker could argue against, devolved into nebulous musings on what certain organizations should or should not consider unfair advantages.

This is probably the main reason why I hate these discussions whenever they appear in HN. It's not because of whether I consider that initiatives for "inclusivity" are "baseless, performative and counterproductive at worst" or "the right step into promoting a more dynamic exchange of ideas", but because one side of the discussion never stops moving the goalposts.

The conversation only stops when one side has successfully shouted out dissenters, and not out of any actual solid argument made in their favor.