skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apache big data suite (Hadoop/Spark/Yarn/Hive/HDFS/etc).

In several years of big data engineering work, I've believe I've seen only one application that couldn't be refactored into a simple multi-instance framework-free program. People use the big data frameworks as glorified distributed-job management tools, and the resulting systems are more fragile, more complex, more vulnerable to weird version compatibility errors, and less efficient.
Your 21st birthday is the day Earth is back in the angular position it was in when the event originally occurred for the twentieth time.
There’s been a few interesting finds in peat bogs.
Medium to long range aviation doesn't use ICEs, so no probably not. Aviation gas turbines have had efficiencies >50% for a decade already anyway.
+1 for MS Teams. I am forced to use it at work, too.

Terrible audio focus on a single speaker, it really forces you to speak like on these old CB radios where you had to say "over" every time you were done talking.

The single window UI follows the mobile-first trend but is awfully inefficient on my three monitor setup, even more so with screen sharing.

Plus, our admins lock the whole MS Office 365 down so that there are no APIs or third-party plugins allowed. Data in it is just trapped.

Such a waste of human potential.
Some people have issues of not wanting to be wrong rather than being right.
You replied to a question I wrote, not a statement. I'd like to know under what conditions an actual real person has suddenly become disenfranchised and was unable to vote early, on regular poll days, or via mail.
The 'Truth' requires perspective and nuance.

Climate, social change, technology, development, covid response etc..

Best example: Masks.

Do they help?

Probably somewhat, but possibly not. There was the very real concern overall that masks might give people a sense of confidence. Any 'reduction in hand-washing' would offset mask usage.

In the early stages, the plan was to not create 100x demand for masks (I mean, there was going to be 10x no matter what) by suppressing public need for them, so as to get the PPE to medical workers. (Not sure if that was the right move, but there's logic in it.)

Once the mask-making gears are moving into production, then the new perspective means 'masks can become more of a requirement for regular people'. So the equilibrium shifts, and then, 'as a whole, we should wear masks'. i.e. a 'new truth' to be propagated.

To any regular person sitting on the sidelines, it has to be confusing, and we should forgive people for being cynical that the press was screaming from day one 'don't use masks, you're not responsible enough and they need to go to doctors, they are in desperate short supply' to a few weeks later: 'wear a mask or you are an inconsiderate redneck'.

So 'new realities, create new 'truths'' in a way.

Even more nuanced 'truthiness':

Right now on CNN you see these graphs of COVID 'spiking' again in America --> 'scary'.

But - when you look at the graph of deaths it tells a completely different story. Mostly, it's still going down with a little bump recently.

Have a look [1]

The 'more complicated truth' is that the US has been expanding testing a lot, and possibly different kinds of people are getting infected (younger?), more people are taking it, and the rate fatality is dropping.

So what is the 'truth' there? Can we blame CNN for showing a chart every day, when technically speaking its 'factual'? But in reality it doesn't really tell the whole story at all and is potentially misleading? Or what about the responsibility of mass media to err on the side of being conservative (small 'c') so as to promote positive behaviour, in that people need to 'feel' the pandemic is material, or they won't wear masks.

For those people with the intelligence, means, education and wherewithal, ok, it's possible to 'sift through' the headlines, but most aren't in a position to do that, they have 'real jobs, real lives, diapers to change' and so the 'truth' is always going to be in flux.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
So it's often very complicated.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
i use ublock rules to hide scores and disable downvoted comment fading, but i haven't blocked comment count. HN has been much better for me since making these changes.
I think you're talking to GPT-3.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a Password Manager
I am looking for a password manager that works

- offline

- locally, without an account

- ability to backup

- mac app

It would be preferable if it is open source.

Any suggestions are welcome.
ServiceNow.

Perfect storm of abysmal design/UX used to represent a bloated and confusing underlying information architecture. It's possible that I'm using an poorly configured version/instance of the product, but good lord, I'll do anything I can to avoid using it at work.
What's the alternative? Why does DO have a captcha to begin with?
I assume you mean to ask Google for your money back?

It's funny because I have a client right now asking for some advice on how to design a localizable website that can guess default language and I'm realizing that no one has really solved this very well.
Amazon Music on Android because every time I open it it shows a full screen ad for their music subscription service.
I can’t find anything easily. I am used to moving around by tweaking path ( win explorer). Really miss that
Would it be possible to design a macbook that has both an intel x86 processor and an ARM one? Sort of like how we turn off the discrete GPU when not needed. Too expensive or too complex?
I use JIRA for personal projects and at work. It's coming to the point where JIRA is so slow that I'm willing to invest the time to migrate my personal projects over to something else. If I simply want to add a label to a ticket it can take an unreasonable amount of time. It's mind blowing when I'm paying a decent amount for seats.
JIRA can do markdown.
> this is more about whether to shut down schools and the economy.

Can you give me any reason why schools should not be shutdown?

What happens when teachers catch the virus? Is the expectation that they should come to work? If they're supposed to quarantine for 3ish weeks, who fills in for them? And what do you think happens when large portions of the school catch the virus, or kids catch it and bring it home to their parents and family?
Anything by Atlassian, but specifically Jira and Confluence.
Anyone can see flagkilled comments, or any [dead] comments, by turning 'showdead' on in their profile.

Just be warned that most of what you'll see is comments by banned users. Occasionally we get emails from people who don't realize that and somehow assume that moderators are condoning the worst dreck that appears there.
They are recompiled by Rosetta at install time, leaked benchmarks indicate it’s not slow.
Android because 2-3 years of updates is far shorter than the lifespan of the hardware.
What's a "cabin on the ice"?
same here, we pretty much only had lego (a lot was second hand) and stuffed animals as kids. now, for my own children lego and compatible bricks is the only thing that survives here. pretty much every other toy breaks after a few weeks.
It's number of bytes, not loop iterations.
I just visited the web page and saw the following message

> Internet Explorer not supported

I'm using firefox. It's better to perform browser detection and show the message if you detect that I'm actually using internet explorer. Otherwise it seems like something is wrong with my browser.

Here's a stackoverflow answer for how to perform browser detection with JavaScript: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2400935/browser-detectio....
Mail.app on macOS. Some macOS apps are really great (Notes or Safari for example), but the average quality is poor. Mail, for example, is slow, search almost never works, etc.
It just seems like a lot of conclusions to draw around an article that hasn't been released yet and which no one has read.

Plus, what if the New Yorker article got something wrong (not necessarily thru negligence)?

Or what if the NY Times article changes between now and its publication (if it's published)?

What if Alexander misunderstood something? Or, what if there are circumstances which people have not chosen to publicly share for whatever reason?

I appreciate you writing back. At the end of the day, it just seems like this whole topic struck an emotional chord with a lot of people for reasons I don't understand, or, don't agree with.

To be fair, I've definitely felt an emotional response. There's a lot of fear going around in the world right now, and understandably so.
What hierarchy is supposedly staying constant? Keyboard shortcuts have no hierarchy.
I was strongly considering it, given the touchbar and keyboard nonsense, but then they at least brought back the escape key and inverted arrows which was enough to keep me onboard.

Native docker would be a strong draw, but the thing that has stopped me so far is that I have refined workflows and a handful of killer apps (eg. OmniFocus) that I don't want to retool.
I'd buy an app like this

The actual effects are quite boring at the moment though (a spinning cube, a waveform, graphic eq bars)

Would love to see some more psychedelic kaleidoscope type of effects
> but the outliers make you go crazy

Agreed, so very much. I live across the way from an old-age care home and, based on stereotypes, you'd figure that would be quiet living. Not so much. Their landscaping crew gets out with leaf blowers every day, they have a weekly generator run-up test that lasts for half an hour and pulses with a deep bass, and every few hours on every nice day they pump out the best hits from the 1940s and 1950s on their outdoor patio.

Almost all of these are louder than the city's rules permit but code enforcement has told me that because both buildings face each other over a privately-owned parcel (one of these "privately owned public spaces"), the noise transmission rules do not apply.

I found this out after I called the care home, twice, to ask if they could maybe turn down the music or do the generator test later in the day (when more people are out and it would be drowned out by other ambient noise) only to be told, politely, to bugger off.

I like living in a city and am not going to move--it's not that annoying, compared to benefits I get in return--but sometimes I wish the commons weren't so tragedy.
SVN is so dead simple to learn and use. And while I see the benefit of DVCS it hasn't really had much impact on developer productivity. The tools around are just so much more sophisticated than what we had for SVN. And I kinda miss being able to checkout subfolders directly.
I've just given Zim Wiki a try, and indeed it seems to be closer to MoinMoin than other alternatives (also in terms of syntax, not only file storage).

However there are a couple of rough edges like for example:

* the builtin editor doesn't seem to have an option to edit the "raw" markup; it's always in WYSIWYG mode;

* according to the documentation [https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Wiki_Syntax.html] the wiki syntax is quite trivial (nothing bad in that), however it seems to be a strange combination between Markdown and a few other wiki syntaxes; thus migrating to and from Zim would be an issue; (I see that there is an Markdown export option, however just like in case of JPEG this is a lossy conversion, and after a few "rounds" the markup could degrade;)

* the builtin web server seems to be quite rudimentary; (perhaps there are plugins out there that solve this;)
The internet. I mean, I love the concept of what the internet could have been, but it's currently the most hostile thing I have to deal with on a daily basis. Bad actors are too prevalent, and the amount of BS stuff we've tried to come with GDPR/Cookie banners, Do Not Track, AdBlockers, etc.
Great idea, but this is complicated by having to model the Python interpreter.
To kill the Linux version you need to run "killall teams" in a loop because it keeps trying to respawn itself
+1

And when you need to profile something, get ready to set up custom drivers, custom kernel flags, and recompile 30 GB of libraries and source code for that custom cupti.so.
> but I’m hopeful that we’ll someday get to a point where (almost) all of the vehicles on our roads will be electric.

While we wait for that why can't architects/planners take soundproofing more seriously (if they've considered it at all) and actually make the walls and windows inside a building soundproof. It's not even outside noise, I lived in apartments where I could hear my adjacent neighbors.
$374K ARR Update
Maven, since the dependency hell and that __every__ single project requires the same ugly boilerplate and yak shaving tasks, worsened if the infamous release plugin is used.

Jira, because it's too slow and bloated from features you never use anyway.

IntelliJ, because it freezes on every 6-7 autosuggestions, on projects of 50-80K LOCs.
PowerShell and WSL. Windows has thoroughly redeemed itself after years in the wilderness.
This sounds similar to the concept of a "multi-value register" [1] I've seen in a few places while reading about CRDTs the last couple days. Is that what you're looking for? The idea is that each process maintains a vector clock with the latest timestamp from all other processes, and we don't delete values until one version can be verified to be "later" than all the others.

[1] Section 3.2ish of https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00555588/document
This one burns. Slack is excellent in so many ways, but it really wants to become a noise machine that drowns you in alerts and simultaneous demands for your attention.
Git. The UX and design is broken af, nothing work, noone get it.

AWS. I don't know where to begin. Nothing make sense. Nothing works.

Docker. This thing is basically backward at every step. We should have never packaged different things on linux as a single "container". It does not work that way and that has created more pain than solve anything.

K8s: same
Go: same

Venv. Goddamnit this never worked well and same as git, noone gets it.
+1 I hate it. Probably only thing about my mac
I am confused. So it was not the corpses? Can you spell out what the problem then was? (I presume general bacterial infections then), but then why was the other ward not affected (so much)?
You can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot longer.
Jesus christ that background is distracting.
> Those are all also false

Only on perverse semantics. You can always provide a plausible-sounding semantic model of any proposition stated in natural language that renders that proposition true or false. But natural language utterances actually do mean things despite their inherent ambiguity. When someone says "Smoking causes cancer" they mean, "Smoking a lot produces a statistically significant increase in your risk of developing cancer." They do not mean, "Smoking one cigarette is guaranteed to give you cancer." Picking at semantic nits is counterproductive. There's probably even a name for it as a logical fallacy but I'm too lazy and frustrated at the general state of discourse in the world to bother looking it up right now.
Agreed. The hivemind's fancy is fickle. Resubmit if you think it's worth a second shot.
I’m still salty that Python 3 fragmented the community so much. Both sides of the debate are equally shrill.

Hopefully they won’t merge that latest pattern matching proposal. Talk about impossible to backport code...
Ah thank you
>Plus, our admins lock the whole MS Office 365 down so that there are no APIs or third-party plugins allowed. Data in it is just trapped.

To be fair, that's a feature from team's perspective. If your admins are worried about sensitive data leaking out at all, and refuse to have a whitelist of approved 3rd party integrations, then that's on them. Imo it's a good thing to allow admins to do.
In the Article they talk about use in air conditioners. Most ACs don't seam to be able to handle the resistance that HEPA filters would add.
> Mounk indicates oh, American dream ruined because of spoiled daughter, while actual journalism exposes systematic pay disparities and unequal treatment of customers. Huh.

Not to defend the article too much, but does that really matter (I would say it depends on the timeline)? Whether the person persecuted is eventually found to have some reasons why some persecution may have been justified, that does not justify the original persecution. All it does is make people feel better about their past actions, even if those actions were not justified.

Punching a random person on the street is not justified because you later find out they are a horrible person. It may make you feel worse about punching the random person... but it really shouldn't.
Twitch for not moderating chat.
This is so important. I see so many people farting around in the problems of highly scalable distributed cloud systems with thousands of nodes, not realizing that single-digit QPS per node is insanity, why don't you look there first? Computers are fast.
Yeah and when it's updating some includes you can type faster than it'll show the new characters. That always really messes with my brain, when I press a key but a different (previously typed) character shows up instead.
I've started intentionally making my answers subtly wrong. E.g., if something might look like a fire hydrant, but isn't, I mark it positive. I usually have to do it a few times anyway, and it makes me feel better to think Google's AI datasets are inaccurate.
Oh cool, which model? Where should I buy one? Can I buy 10 of them to pass out at burning man as 911 radios?
There are a couple issues I have with slack. Threads and message editing.
[OP here] I would also like to point out that by "self-hosted" I actually lean towards a HTTP-server-based solution as opposed to a desktop-application one.
Atlassian's Jira and Confluence. Why?

Their search capability is just bad. To find something requires a lot of tries and tricks. I don't want to waste cognition because they re-invented the flat tire.

Their inbrowser text editors are also just bad. On the level of WordPress three years ago. Markdown? no. Cut and paste from other apps? OK, if you remember to "Paste as Plain Text.
> Telling your climate change denying uncle he's an idiot won't change his mind

Usually it does change his mind if he respects you enough. It wont work on a stranger but it is very effective on long term friends.
Windows because of Windows Updates.
+1 for the concept of starting in parking lots or trailheads
It's extensively tested on various benchmarks and the programming languages I've mentioned are the best performing, based on electricity consumption.
You can snooze channels.
It seems to generate quite a bit of vibration, even if you couple two of them in an alternating way you just change the vibration from parallel to the pistons to perpendicular to the pistons. It's not as easy to balance as a rotary engine.
ConEmu makes any Windows terminal app far less frustrating
that being said, museum pieces! I'm not sure I'd want to own one, but the movement to put modern components inside an old Power PC Cube chassis is pretty fascinating to read about...
If we’re talking about a philosophical ideal, then you should have no problem understanding that calling for a boycott is speech, just as much as trans-rights denialism and racial “science” advocacy are speech.

I’m shocked that you would engage in call-out culture by accusing me of arguing in bad faith and constructing straw men. HN is not the place for engaging in cancellation like that. If you are incapable of formulating a reasoned argument, please consider refraining from posting.
The reverse, a cancelling field for outgoing noise, would be great for practicing music instruments, or guest parties, times when you don't want to disturb neighbors (or roommates). Do the scientists discuss this?
Not the OP but I use a shell and “open” most of the time.
The note on timestamps – that they can be subtracted but not added to any reasonable definition – is more generally an affine version of a unit. In this case, time is affine because it has a reference point to which it is relative.

Temperature is another obvious affine unit, due to a constant reference point. You could argue contextual measurements (eg voltage) may be affine in circumstance, but that’s covered better by experimental technique than a unit definition.
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13960183

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10445927
The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (2017)
Paid to Live on a Deserted Island for 1.5 Years and Do Nothing but Kill Seals
Great feedback, thank you.
For me the most important point of this piece is:

>Seeming to be right justifies disrespect, contempt, and other forms of emotional pollution

I don't think it's about being right per se, but that feeling that you are right often also makes you feel justified in being an awful jerk to other people. This is especially true online. In my experience, the people who pride themselves on being brutally honest are more interested in the "brutal" part.

And this behavior often hinders the spread of truth, because while rationally we should simple evaluate arguments on their own merits, in reality no one likes being treated badly and so people are going to be less receptive to even true statements delivered in an abusive way.

The facile response to this is to cry that we're supposed to never say anything or do that would upset people so we have to hide the truth, but this is ridiculous. There's a huge gulf between being an asshole and never saying anything. Being right isn't a license to be a terrible person, and it would serve those in interested in the truth to remember that.
I really like BitWarden: https://bitwarden.com/
> But the motorbikes, however, are the works.

And they do it deliberately. The concept of "loud pipes save lives" is so annoying. Maybe on the highway, but the way they rev their engines in neighborhoods is not necessary or even in town.
The instant nature and character limit of Twitter is what made it so toxic, I think. So now anyone can broadcast any dumb thought they have. If you were a blogger, you'd think about your thought more before sitting down and writing a long-ish essay about it (maybe you even learn as you write that your thought is wrong, incendieary, etc), but with Twitter...

In theory Facebook also offers this instant thing, but the idea with Facebook was, it would be limited to your friends/network...
How about not letting them read the clipboard at all. They don't need it.
Unless your answer is “ERP”, you haven’t actually seen how bad software UX can be.
+1 for Teams.

It's horrible.
Has anything ever worked for you?
Thanks! Looks really interesting
It even uses the same materials, though in a much easier to build arrangement: a nickel filament through a tube, and gets convection as a bonus.
And this is the ITSM system that has the best reputation of them all AFAIK :)
That's with one microphone and presumably a single speaker. I wonder how well one could do with several microphones around the room and several speakers, with their relative positions known accurately and some computing power to generate the best possible reverse sound distribution.
Totally agree. LinkedIn is dumbest ux sitting on a gold mine of data
Ublock Origin would save you the ads.
Git tooling has improved dramatically and papers over most of the confusing parts. The biggest flaw by far is the opaque command line rules. There's a reason "how do I undo a commit?" has >20000 votes on StackOverlow instead there being like "git undo" or something obvious like that. There's dozens of Qs like that because it's so far from obvious. A lot of git purists in the early days insisted on uselessly complex workflows (rebase this and bisect that) despite adding little value. And the general concept of staging a commit isn't very useful either.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/927358/how-do-i-undo-the...
Thanks; I should have done more than glance at it.