skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I follow the question. A lot of the disputes you mention here are terribly violent, which is why I so strongly oppose efforts to create more of them. A border should almost always remain a border - the process of unmaking a border is so inherently dangerous that only the most extreme circumstances can possibly justify it.
Show HN: How many Rods can be cut from fixed size Stock?
Sysadmins do.
I have seen quite some companies. and everywhere the same thing. intelij once the beloved replacement of eclipse now gives the same experience as eclipse. insane in memory use. constant indexing and slow scrolling ui's. spontaneous hanging and frustrating slow code hints.
now I admit that it's also a combination of many tabs in Chrome, using docker etc. hell everything became slower last few years.
CPUs just didnt make enough progress I guess.
The kernel contains vast number of drivers that are for universal buses like I2C, SPI, USB, PCI(e), SDIO, UART, writing any of these in rust would make these drivers unavailable to architectures unsupported by llvm. I think that would be quite sad.
Are you planning an experimental setup? I'd be happy to collaborate on something like this. Agreed about the sensors inside the room, you'd need them in more than one place and quite possibly also at multiple levels to be able to figure out the height of the transmitter. Ideally the sensors can be stuck on flat surfaces and go through a calibration routine where they 'chirp' at each other to figure out their relative positions.

Wireless is hard for this kind of stuff due to latency, wires are ugly but practical and for a first run I would definitely prefer a wired solution over none at all assuming it is even possible. An alternative configuration would be a cylindrical shape that is 'noise free', with speakers radiating outward, microphones would be set in a secondary circle around the first one.

I imagine this sort of setup would use a very large amount of computing power to make it work.
For practical purposes. If you want to get pedantic it's probably something like 2-5 calories per serving depending on brewing method.
I had no issues with disappearing tracks, but Google did helpfully replace much of my uploaded music with the "censored" versions, asking me to re-upload songs it threw away. Thanks, I'll go dig up that hard drive any day now.
This looks great, like the start of a "Reddit Enhancement Suite" for hacker news. It would be great if it also worked with hckrnews.com as I find that to be my main interface for browsing the day's discussions.
I've wondered why more groups or individuals don't take advantage of this. Most politicians seem to sell themselves so cheaply.
Ask HN: What's the best piece of software you use every day?
After "What's the worst piece of software you use every day?" I am now very curious what the best software is we can learn from.
Why it is weird? It has been done before in Ada, Object Pascal, C++, Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2, Lisp, Oberon, Sing#, System C#, Objective-C,....
> A ton of these claims are unsubstantiated if you look in the latest versions.

Could you be more specific? And which claims remain valid?
In the video [0] it doesn't show combustion occurring on both sides of the pistons.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26PjRQmIoeE
Ah. Thanks. I installed it and used it a few years ago but haven't for ages and obviously forgot the details.
I boot up my windows machine maybe once a month; I'm not sure what the login timeout is, but it seems to be at most that. I always have to log in. My password is something like "fuckyounvidiayoupieceofshit".
I couldn’t find anything documented about the consequences of having schools closed, only the consequences of them being open. According to internal CDC documents, “fully reopening schools and universities remained the “highest risk” for the spread of the coronavirus”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-schools...
I use VMWare Fusion for my day to day work and my experiences couldn't be better. Running it fullscreen is like running Linux on your machine, with the advantages of virtualisation, e.g. being able to suspend your VM.
You visited. I have lived. It takes the changing of the seasons and the winter gloom to understand why Vienna is structurally an oppressive place. The caves people live in, the mind-numbing streets they use to get to them, the sameness of it all under a dull grey. The hacks that have made it liveable are exposed by the weather, eventually, and you will see it, the inhumanity.
NES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmaMbJfIaQ
macOS Finder and how every sane alternative costs serious money.
> So, after boycotting a certain manufacturer for more than a decade on account of their root kit debacle

TBF It’s not even the same company. Part of the same group, but the entertainment companies are separated from music hardware, have their own heads, their own deals etc.

It’s like boycotting Vox media because of Comcast. It follows a logic, but it feels peculiar.

On your general point, totally agree. There was a company touting to “design” everyday noise by sticking a small module we’d keep in our ear canal, the company seems to have disappeared but I was so sold on the idea. Almost permanent noise reduction, or filtering for nearby voices only would be the dream setup.
do it as a greasemonkey script
That I think is part of it, another is it's not really obvious whether it means 'save it for me' or 'show others I like this (and also save it)'. The latter overlaps with upvoting but then you're in a different kind of bind because you can't show individual votes publicly since you don't show votes. It ends up in a kind of conceptual twilight zone, even if the UI was clearer. A private 'like' and a public 'like' might just be a bit too much.
Please stop. The way you've vandalized this thread is easily a bannable offense. I'm going to put this down to going on tilt (it happens) and not ban you at the moment, but please stop now. And please don't post any more flamebait—your account has unfortunately done that quite a bit.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules from now on, we'd be grateful.
How would airplanes use a battery here? Are they going back to using an external propeller, that’s tied to an electric motor, and powered by the extra dense battery packs?
The explanation of 'eigenvector' is a bit unique (in the sense that I believe it is absolute wrong).
Ah the other Tesla: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/manuf/tesla/index.htm
That they will miss out on bullying, peer pressure, processed food, and school shootings.
Why write the executable with an upper-first letter? Looks quite silly and not professional imo.
Who’s going to pay for that?
Online learning isn't effective for most small children.
I like Blender a lot. Especially since v2.8.

How you can rearrange the interface. The shortcuts. How fast it is.
> And there is the on prem and cloud versions. And they are not feature matched.

This is my daily nightmare. We’re building a competitor to Jira [0] so naturally we want to allow people to import their issues from Jira into our tool. Integrating to Jira cloud is a reasonably good experience. But Jira server? Total chaos. We needed to dig up an ancient OAuth1 implemention just to get users authenticated and it didn’t get any better from there.

0: https://kitemaker.co
It’s unusual for there to be haze. When there odds have it’s awful but it only happened twice, once bad and over mild, in the 4 years I lived there.
Props to the author for moving to an analytics tool that's more respectful to users.

For anyone who is interested in doing the same, I maintain an open source (and self-hostable) analytics tool called Shynet [0] that works without cookies or requiring any JS.

And to be clear, it isn't a SaaS -- the only way to run Shynet is to self-host it.

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
I found the argument to be profound as opposed to being manipulative. The amphetamine effect is something you can observe after a few drinks of coffee. Alcohol obviously and even sugar (diabetes) shows these changes in human cognition and common expressions like frenzy / pumped seem to line up. Love has been known to show psychotic qualities. It is important to revisit things with a sober mind as opposed to frenzy of a fight.
Talk to users, try to see what additional problems they have. For example, if they are taking a test, maybe they need help with applications, or individual tutoring. Whenever you are struggling, talk to users. Figure out how to make the users LOVE you and what you can do for them. Solve their biggest problem.

After that, see if there are similar users in a bigger market.
I'm usually pretty quick to dismiss such claims as well but in this instance I agree with GP jlokier. I do these kinds of massive emergency cost reductions fairly often with my clients and there's always a story of the current maintainers either missing some critical knowledge about what they're currently using / could use instead; or simply massive tunnelvision.

Some key factors here:

- Discontinuing expensive parts of the product is better than discontinuing the entire product.

- I see the M word being thrown around and that… uh… potentially says something.

- "We're not open sourcing because the product is too complicated" is also extremely telling.

- VERY often, "I'll discontinue because I can't afford to run it anymore" hides an underlying "I don't want to run it anymore"; one the maintainer sometimes doesn't fully realize themselves. I've seen this a lot on GDPR day, people shutting off services because it's "too expensive to comply". Talked to a bunch of them, and after a lot of chatting it always boils down to "This will give me a much needed break from the stress of running this thing which doesn't pay my rent, and I get to dodge the blame".

I'm going to go ahead and extend the offer GP can't make. soup.io maintainers, if you're reading this, are indeed spending 10k+ EUR on infra, and do want to keep your service alive and running, please reach out, I'll work pro bono. I also have some good contacts in the archiving world if it comes to that.
> iCloud

Don't forget that Finder has customisable tags which sync perfectly across iCloud. They are a top-level browsing option on the iOS Files app. Probably you were thinking of something more tag-first but it does exist. :)

Personally I really like the file/folder model because I can sync the whole caboodle to my hard drive, copy it to a USB backup, possibly transfer it to another operating system, knowing that I've captured the whole story.
I would be okay and favour the tradeoff... But I recently decided to eradicate gnome-calculator in favour of xcalc because gnome-calculator (probably due to being packaged as a snap) was taking 5-10 sec to show up whereas xcalc is literally instantaneous.
Exactly. Everyone is using it without realizing. More info: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
I am running Linux in a VM on the Mac, as I do need software, which is not available on Linux. But with the Linux VM running full-screen, I miss nothing from running Linux natively, but I can switch in an instant to the Mac desktop with all its niceties. Also, hardware support is no problem, as it is handled by the host system.
Please don't break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how bad the other comments are. It only makes the thread even worse. Just flag it and move on, as the guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You can also email us at hn@ycombinator.com to be sure that we know about it.
It would be very interesting how the API ecosystem would look, if BEAM were pervasive. Haven't used it myself but OTP seems like the right level of abstraction for networks.
You can happily spend years playing with cardboard, but not the same cardboard. It's very fragile.
Its annoying how there was pretty much no toilet paper to be found for months with a massive stock pile of paper towels everywhere and now its the opposite. I stock up on toilet paper and paper towels at regular intervals and was lucky to only barely begin running out once stores started getting toilet paper again but there seems to be no paper towels anywhere now.
There are some double-acting diesels used for marine propulsion, and, as in the double-acting pistons of steam locomotives, a conventional crank mechanism, with the connecting rod connected to the piston rod outside of the cylinder, is used.

Here, however, it seems they extract electrical energy by moving a magnet back and forth in a coil.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Shake-Flashlight-1/
Many students don't have the right type of environment at home for online learning. I am not an expert in this area but would imagine it is much more diffcult to learn online as a 6-year-old versus a 16-year-old. There are also a lot of skills beyond academics students best learn through direct social interaction.
Well it was a guess. That's why I qualified myself with "I may be full of it". There isn't enough information about their system to make a serious assessment.

Maybe they did. Maybe they decided it's possible but would take too long and they can't afford the loss meanwhile. Maybe they explored options but don't have the right knowledge.

But 10k€ monthly cost for serving 6 million users seems avoidably high unless it's something compute and data intensive like gaming.

It seems like a perfectly normal cost, even a sensible choice, for a cloud-based, invested-in startup with cash to burn that is optimising for speed to market and growth. But not for one that is cost optimised.

All that said, I wonder if their cost is actually mostly on people to run and develop the thing. Other comments have taken it as meaning the cost of infrastructure, and I ran with that. But soup.io's own note does not say it's all on servers.

If that's the case, obviously it's a different situation and there may be no reasonable way to reduce the costs below revenue.
Congrats on getting your product ripped apart on video ;)
Every time a new Rust version comes out I compile my toy Gtk-rs application ported from a C/C++ User Journal article about Gtkmm.

The C++ version still wins by several minutes on a Asus 1215B.
Technology for noise cancelling headphones is fairly straight forward. You put a mic near the entrance of the ear and then reverse the wave. The ear is basically a one dimensional sensor in that configuration. Now, take the headphones away then think about what you have to do to cancel noise. You have this two dimensional window in your home that lets through three dimensional sound waves. The best that you can manage is a two dimensional speaker array which is what you see there attempting to create some sort of sound hologram. It’s insanely complex and anyone who thinks that a company who makes good noise cancelling earphones would therefore be capable getting technology like this to work is just very naive. It’s another magic leap. A whole bunch of people who think they are not buying into snake oil when they really are.
"Sic" means "that's not a mistake". When quoting, it often means "I didn't make the mistake, I faithfully copied somebody else's" but when writing your own stuff, it means "I didn't make a mistake; I meant to write that".
If you carry the same brand to benefit from the recognition factor then boycotting all of them is the only consistent action imo.
And their first time creating Thunderbolt. Just as an example.
If you disqualify my experience but hold your own as a valid data point, I guess we are done.
Don't forget that large manufacturers also manufacture trends as well as best as they can. That's the easiest way to sell. Someone I knew that worked in clothing design said that all the big manufacturers decide either by observation, discussion in industry journals, or collaboration that e.g. olive green (not the current example) is going to be the thing this year so customers are essentially forced to buy the newest "trend" due to lack of choice.
IBM/HCL’s Lotus Notes Domino.
That appears to be an earlier iteration, as (one of) the videos embedded in the article does show it to be double-acting, as does the one in the Technology section of the website [1], where it can be seen at 00:34 and 00:42.

[1] https://www.aquariusengines.com/technology/
> says you need to master each step on the track before moving onto the next one. this is poisonous and borderline evil

What’s wrong with it? You do need to understand calculus before classical mechanics, classical mechanics before quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics before quantum
field theory, and quantum field theory before the Standard Model. I’ve seen tons of people disregard this and the result is always confused word salad. People waste years of their lives this way, going in circles without ever carefully building their understanding from the ground up. The order in school was chosen for a reason.
This is awesome, determinants were one of the things that I never really understood during my degree
The article specifically states combustion is on one side only, the video's visual is a little misleading.
I think Rust scratched a deep itch by targeting people who are unhappy with C++ and definitely started off targeting a bigger, less competitive market than Julia.

Julia has a harder marketing job than Rust. Julia needs to convince people who use $slow_dynamic_language and $fast_static_language together that they'd be better served by just using Julia for both jobs.

Even more importantly though, julia needs to convince people that it's premise is even possible. People have deep seated biases that make them unaware that it's even possible for a dynamic, garbage collected language to be fast.

Rust on the other hand 'just' has to convince people that it's a better ~1:1 replacement for C++. Most people who have written C++ deeply believe that a better language is possible and yearn for that language.

Python, R and Matlab users typically don't believe that it's possible for a language to do what julia does.

Furthermore, Julia did initially spend a lot of marketing effort on the scientific community, which is somewhat small, and is more composed of people who just see their language as a tool that only needs to be 'good enough', so they're less likely to want to switch than say systems programmers who spend all day faced with C++'s inadequacies.
Sometimes it is important that you're seen as right. If there is a disaster coming then it's absolutely important that the other person sees you as right. Even at the cost of the relationship. It's really about weighing whether or not being right is worth the consequences of achieving that. Is being right worth driving a wedge between you and your partner? If the only thing you get out of it is the self-satisfaction of being recognized as right and you push the people you love away from you then that is a calculus you have to make. Some people will weigh being right as above everything else and so the rest of us will drift away from those people. Some people will decide that the relationship is more important and so give up on being right to make the other one happy.

When you try to have both, being right and having those people around you. You hurt them, so you have to do something to make them come close to you again. That cycle of abuse goes back and forth wearing away at your "victim" like car engine getting worn down. That's why victims abuse feel so worn out and exhausted without realizing what's hurting them. Sure their abuser makes up for it. There's so many wonderful things about them that make up for all the bad things. The more extreme these swings are, the faster the victim is worn down.

Not to mention all the manipulation and other awful stuff that can happen in an abusive relationship. This is just one slice that can be looked at.

So ultimately, the right amount is whatever amount keeps you in balance with the people you're right with.
The functionality of git is great. Mostly. (I think the whold concept of stage/index/cache is completely unnecessary though) I find the UI to be inconsistent and confusing. Why would I ever want to make a branch without checking it out? It's literally never happened, yet it's the default.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with an even worse one. That just makes things even worse, and is exactly what the site guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Haven’t heard the term boxen in a long time :) any chance you were part of the Distributed Computing/[H]ardOCP community?
I used to think I hated Jira until I had to use WorkFront. God awful.
> A reason I basically just don't give gifts is that if I prefer to receive cash, and you prefer to receive cash, then what the hell is the point of it anyway?

> I remember when I was little, probably early elementary, my brother gave me $5 for Christmas. I thought that was really swell of him, so I went to my room and got him $5. In the end, what was the point of it? It didn't mean anything.

This is solved by asymmetrical giving. The structure of Christmas, where everyone gives a gift to everyone else, is wrong. Compare Chinese New Year, where adults give money to children, or a Chinese wedding, where everyone else gives money to the bride and groom.
Yup, two stroke engines are phasing out. Some places have banned them years ago, like Lake Tahoe. I grew up with dirt bikes, and two strokes were the most powerful and fun.
Thanks for the recommendation - cycle.travel’s my site!

I’d like to do a dirt/gravel profile. Main reason I haven’t so far is that it’s very hardware-intensive (as in tipping over into renting another Hetzner box).
What is a smell? Is it a substance, or a perception
Komoot does mileage requests. I use it nearly every ride.
This comment breaks the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and arguably the site guidelines also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's great to give helpful feedback about bugs, but please edit out swipes like "Major fail" when doing so. They're especially noxious when someone's presenting their own work. We want people do to that freely on HN, and get helpful feedback, not internet nastiness.
Why does it seem like everyone assumes you can only socialize in school? I don't think homeschooled kids are particularly deficient in this regard either.
D is definitely trying to support it as well, how far they will get remains to be seen.
> we can put other, much more effective traffic safety measures in place.

Like? (Don't limit yourself to the easy-to-introduce-today; not everywhere has established road infrastructure, and your ideas could be used there.)
Yes, but there's no reason Apple couldn't launch this feature on x86 macs if they wanted to. Almost everyone is developing their apps in the x86 simulator anyway. No doubt some apps have ARM-only libraries, but I doubt it's many.
Outlook. Hands down, it's utter trash. I quit for the web version at my company. I'd LOVE to get rid of it, and I'm the damn CIO.
Well, one possible point of a boycott is to send a message to the extent possible. "Infecting users will ruin your brand" is one possible message. The brand's buyers also bought its legacy.
Ohhh it's a sequence of zeroes.. oops I missed that part. Makes more sense now.
Three dimensional speaker arrays are definitely possible, a simple one would be a cube, a bit harder would be a cylinder.

Yes, it is extremely hard. The question is though, can it be done? Phased arrays are insanely hard as well, they do work though.

In the 80's there was a free space noise cancelling demonstration on a cross roads in a major city somewhere, I can't seem to dig up any references to it. IIRC that was a completely analog setup, I have no idea how it worked but they had a volume within which background noise was substantially reduced. I can't stand it when I am 100% sure that I read something but I can't find it.