skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rhineland model means not only shareholders are recognized as stakeholders. This is implemented in things such as workers councils. Sure, it not perfect, and it wouldn't catch crimes such as the exhaust scandal, but it requires by law that a company not only looks after shareholders. It's a much better idea than the Anglosaxon model that has taken the world by storm, and I wish the world would look more to the Rhine countries. Germany/Switzerland/Netherlands are some of the best rated countries to live. We should have more of such policies and laws, not less.
Metafilter[0], via moderators, has done a nice job for several decades. But definitely less technical and more social than HN...

[0]: https://www.metafilter.com/
Not that you asked, but, in a nutshell, they invest in and advise early stage startups.
A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater
I can certainly see his point. The more I grow older, the more I am convinced to spend less time on internet interacting with people. Not only the anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is a magnet for toxic people, it also brings out the worst in people. Even disregarding the outright abuse or outrage, the opinions I see on the internet is very hard to meet someone in real life who has that kind of opinions.

Every Google related thread immediately becomes a thread of bashing Google's history of killing products. I don't know how many times people need to have the same conversation again and again. This has gotten to the point that I don't open any Google related threads. I am here to read thoughtful discussions, not some broken records again and again. Internet forum is hard.
The effects it’s had are far reaching. The Arab spring, right wing extremism, anti vaxxers, the rise of Bernie Sanders just off the top of my head. Seems quite serious to me
If only you could convince our marketing and graphic design departments of that...
Amazon's Alexa on my Echo. I use it everyday as soon as I wake up and when I go to sleep and through out the the day. It's quirky but for the most part it works. Pretty amazing...
I had to stop frequenting the r/amitheasshole sub for this very reason. Getting outraged at the assholes, and then having my comments about the assholes get hundreds of upvotes, was too rewarding. It was certainly drug-like.

It is strange, too, because I am normally an extremely forgiving person, and am often criticized for giving too much of the benefit of the doubt to people. Even if I am like that in real life, I was still able to be sucked into the outrage cycle.
My time is limited. I'd rather spend that time gluing together other bits of functionality than reinventing each bit one by one, unless I have to
> The app is dead

Huh? I'm still using it every other day or so.
Hadoop was never meant to be user friendly. Which is why you have commercial versions of it like Cloudera & AWS EMR, meant to fill that void in the industry.

FWIW, I feel your pain on a daily basis, but I do like Hadoop as a low cost massively distributed db.
Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution (Summary and Notes)
Oh so make an installer for ArchLinux and call it Manjaro..no need for another Distro :)
people might laugh at you but Colombian "cartels" have deep ties with the government and the military. They even know the patrolling routes of the US Navy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3uSDGL9sw
10,800 Assault Weapons Parts Seized by CBP in Louisville from China
Then that's poor documentation.

Documentation, like comments, is most useful when it answers "why" sometimes "how" but rarely "what". And "why" changes much more slowly.

It's why I find API documentation to border on useless. I need examples and rationale, not variable names.
Please. Even if you don't believe that the terminology has a role in perpetuating stereotypes, it does make people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.
Thanks!

And thanks for building on top of it and making a useful app :)
The thing is, in 4 years when your intel mac has run out of juice and you want to sell it, and expect it to have retained its value wel like Macs usually do, Apple will drop support for it and it will have zero value.
This has been a big concern of mine lately. I spend more time here than I used to, but I increasingly get less and less value out of the time I spend here. I used to come here to learn about bleeding-edge technology and startups and cool ideas and things that geniuses were working on. Now when I come here I almost always end up arguing politics, not because I want to but because those are the stories that people actively comment on and I have poor self control.

The few tech stories that do make it through are far more pop-tech article (right now NPR, BBC, New York Times, MSN, and Haaretz are all on the front page... absolutely nothing to do with hackers or gratifying intellectual curiosity) or talking about startups that are shutting down.

I'm tired of collapsing the inevitable "Macbooks are bad" thread and finding out that was literally the only conversation under the article. I think the mods do a great job of keeping the conversation civil, but a poor job of enforcing "intellectual curiosity" like the guidelines call for.
> and I get the ad-free YT perk!

GPM and YTM are identical subscriptions and always have been for as long as I can remember, if not forever, save for that short time when YouTube Red was inexplicably a few dollars more per month compared to GPM.
I think there is probably a balance somewhere in between. Surely you can also agree that there are people at large currently yelling at people that they only imagine are standing on their foot. And the tone of response is important: see my previous comment about tact and manners. If everyone escalates the issue at the first opportunity, things get scary fast.
Teams.

I step away for 3 hours and that process that is consuming 4GB RAM is none other than Teams.
Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus Outbreaks
Glad to hear it! I just hope Linux doesn't end up with the crates.io vendoring nightmare that the big-corps made for themselves.
> So you claim to have an answer. But won't give it. And instead, insult.

My friend, I didn't just "claim" I have the answer to that question, I gave it to you. More than half of my comment above is the answer. Hint: starts with "So how about". And in addition (not instead) I stated another fact (not insult): you are not prepared to have this conversation.

You have no answers to questions that form the crux of the matter, questions you should really be able to answer by yourself because they are a matter of fact and public knowledge. You have absolutely no argument and keep asking me for more answers, or commenting on my wording, or accusing me of spreading FUD. And even when I provided answers in a reasonably well structured comment (4th paragraph) you still weren't able to follow. If you tune out every time the other person answers you're not qualified to have any conversation. This is advice, not insult. The premise of a conversation is that at the very least you listen to what the other party is saying. Otherwise it's just 2 people shouting to the emptiness.

> Your account is no more or less throwaway than mine.

You stumbled on an obscure submission that was already buried very deep on HN and you went straight to the bottom of the page to reply. The only way you could get here was to search for very specific terms, or have a direct link. You have to admit it really looks like throwaway account behavior. Literally having "throwaway" in your username doesn't do much to change that impression, it's not the first choice for first time HN users.
If you can wait, then wait. That should always be the motto when buying a mac anyway. But even more so now.

You will either get the Arm, or get a fantastic deal on an Intel mac.
I am looking at the route it is generating from my place in New Orleans and comparing it against my own mental route generator for cycling and it’s not doing so well. It’s got me running parallel to Jeff Davis Parkway instead of taking the trail along the very green parkway, then up the side of Bayou St. John with the least greenery (one side has a lot, the other has next to none). Maybe in part because the unofficial desire trails up the green side of the bayou that I regularly see joggers on don’t seem to exist on the map. Going though City Park makes sense; coming back I guess Cortez isn’t too bad a choice if “avoid repetition” is on, but avoiding Jeff Davis just seems super weird.
If you think Jira is bad you should see Remedy.
Thanks for sharing your experience. We (designers) don’t often get to hear feedback like this first hand in an unguided conversation. So I really value it.

Your points are super valid, and your last sentence resonates with me heavily. It’s the essence of what my team is focused on improving. Our out-of-box should be as close to ‘great’ as possible. This goes for the most technical implementors, admins, devs... all the way down to non-technical single-app users. A great platform will know how to do this gracefully without forcing the latter through the same experience.

Going to bring these, as well as the other points in the thread, up in my staff meeting next week. It’s relevant to the work we’re currently doing.
Just two weeks ago I moved to Matomo from Google Analytics- it works great, and it feels like a tiny little contribution to make the world a better place.
The author asked for the worst software. However you listed

Atlassian, which is really nice (Try alternatives like CA Rally which is horrible)

Git, Linux which are gifts from god

Docker, which helped containers become mainstream and enabled the nice infrastructure we can have today

Facepalm, I sometimes forget such people exist
That's all well and good, unless you're an attorney, author, document writer, research scientist, or literally anybody who types a lot...

At jobs I've literally copy PHI all over the place for data processing.

Copy and paste is vital and often top secret.
What? I've been going to AES67 meetings and talks for several years and worked on AoIP products, I don't think I've ever met someone from the automotive industry or heard they used the protocols that AES67 is going to supplant/integrate with (Dante, Ravenna, etc). The standards committees members were professional and commercial audio manufacturers.

This isn't how you connect something trivial like an LCD to your speakers, it's how you rig up the audio system at a theme park or network the audio feeds for all the broadcasters at a World Cup match. Those are two applications that AES67 committee members had worked on and where it will probably be deployed.
It's costing them 10k/month to run it, and they are getting 1.5k/month revenue from it.

Now it is quite possible that they are using more server resources and bandwidth than are actually necessary to support their current users and the current usage patterns of those current users.

But there is quite a gap between 10k/month and 1.5k/month, so if you take it over with the intent of making it profitable as opposed to simply making it less unprofitable you are probably going to have to find a way to increase revenue substantially even if you can reduce costs.

It's hard to see a good way to do that. Their revenue comes from ads shown to their free users and subscription fees from the users who have paid for an ad-free experience.

To increase ad revenue you can either try to get advertisers to pay more per ad or show more ads.

Getting advertisers to pay more seems unlikely. It's too random a user base to really be valuable.

Showing more ads might increase revenue. But it might also make the experience for free users worse, leading some to leave. Free users leaving does reduce operating costs a bit...but if it also reduces new content, it might make the experience worse for paying users, so you might lose some of them.

How about increasing subscription revenue? Maybe you can impose limits on free users to encourage them to subscribe--but that might drive some away. Maybe raising subscription prices would work...or maybe lowering them so more buy them would work. Or maybe adding features for subscribers beyond ad-free would entice more to buy.

The problem is that you can't really tell how well any of these things will work. All you know for sure is that they have somehow built a user base of 6 million apparently somewhat satisfied users and if you take over you are going to have to poke it with a few sharp sticks to get it going the right way and hope it doesn't get too annoyed.
Jira is such a pain to work with. For example, there seem to be two different ways to create a new issue. If you get to the one that uses a modal, the text input is in Textile format. Whereas the other page uses Markdown. It's insane that anyone thought that was a good idea
How to Read Lisp Code
I would say espresso making at home is an expensive hobby unless you are willing to tolerate variability in the output. A decent stable machine is going to be close to 1k and the really nice home machines starting at 3k. A good grinder is also expensive. I got all the gear (buying stuff used where I could) and I have spent maybe $1500 on components. I love it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who isn’t willing to put in time to learn and money for decent tools.
Well done guys! We need more companies like Who Gives a Crap to inspire us all.
Problems are an under-appreciated part of the creative process. When Nobel prize winning scientists were asked what are the most valuable things for a scientist to have, a good research question came out near the top.
Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship
Spying claims are latest twist in Germany's Wirecard thriller
Sadly, the level headed people recuse themselves which only adds to the toxicity.
Now the goalpost has been moved to all the staff, eh?
> kill as many people as it takes to get to herd immunity

Evidence continues to mount that immunity to Covid-19 is time limited. There will be no herd immunity. Of course, it's not like we have ever achieved herd immunity to any disease before vaccines.

Evidence also continues to mount that systemic damage occurs even in people who are weakly symptomatic. I suspect that this is true for viruses, in general, but Covid is basically allowing us to collect data that would be unethical to collect from an experiment.

> The only way to safely reopen schools is to suppress the virus enough that you can contain it with contact tracing. If you can't do that, there's no way to safely reopen schools in full.

New York will be the exemplar. They seem to have it contained and have 100% contact tracing. They should be able to reopen--we'll see how it goes.
I have a Sony CD player from 1984 sitting on my desk, the D5. It's pretty sensitive to scratches on disks (no error correction) but otherwise works flawlessly.

The mirrorless cameras aren't just pretty good, they're the new standard unless you have Canon/Nikon brand loyalty. I can't find the stat right away but IIRC Sony supplies more camera sensors than anyone else for smartphones (or maybe its just the high end ones)

I mean I'm not trying to change your mind, just adding my 2 cents that every piece of Sony hardware I've had was extremely well built and lasted years or decades. I have an old Minidisc player too I dig up every few years to listen to recordings I made back in high school.
Houdini. It has so many uses: procedural generation of 3D geometry, as a learning tool for understanding matrix transformations, as an FX and simulation tool. It's the most powerful piece of software I've ever used. It feels like it's from the future.
This sounds like a good idea on paper, but allow me to frame this differently. The first vaccine will likely be slightly experimental because it was done rather quickly. This means you are effectively asking the government to set up shop in likely minority and poorer neighborhoods to administer a vaccine that might have unknown side-effects that don't appear until being used by a larger population of people. It seems like you are supporting experimenting on the poor.

I think you need to make it available, but in this case, maybe allowing people to choose is the right decision. Make sure it's available equally, yes, make sure poorer people have access, but don't rush to make sure that only the poor get it.
And after that one of Dave's ex-students put the Self technology into Javascript (V8). So you were right.
Neural networks are largely black boxes whereas a computer program or other symbolic configuration is a compositional interpretable description.

The program is the explanation of the output, i.e. the program causes the output.
I was lucky to meet a guy who is running a company that id working on an extremely polished alternative, called Edubase. (I’m not affiliated.)

It seems both the students and the teachers love it. And I can see why. He demoed it to me and for example for Math exams it supported equivalent form solutions. That’s definitely not the trivial kind of stuff. And the list went on, both the capabilities were off the chart and the user experience was top polished. It’s already used on universities and in some private companies. Definitely check it out if you need a solution from the space.

https://www.edubase.net/
Hey, I disagree pretty strongly.

The butcher, the brewer, or the baker likely takes pride in the role he has in feeding and enriching families around him. But he's also got to feed his own. And the fact that there's money involved gets him to work on those days he'd -reaaaaally- rather not go. But money isn't enough to feel fulfilled in one's work.

And if you don't feel fulfilled in your work and your work's role in society: I'm sorry for you.
That app looks considerably more powerful that trello. Why so dismissive?
>Should I rebase or merge? Or squash commits? Should I cherry pick onto a new branch?

From my perspective, these are policy decisions that need to be made by some "management-ish" level. Git provides the mechanism to do all of them. It's up to you/your organization to decide how to work.

In the open source project that I run (20 years, 75+ developers over time, 400-500k LOC) we all have a clear understanding of (e.g.) whether to merge or rebase. On the odd occasions that there's a lack of clarity, it's normally a great sign that it doesn't matter.

The fact the you would be asking those questions suggests to me that the necessary policy-level decisions have not been made (or have not been made clear).
A few years back someone was writing software that did potentially illegal things, like more than 40 bits of crypto, which was illegal when distributed outside of the US (maybe still is).

Their response was:

"It's completely legal as distributed. Look at the header and you'll see:

#define CRYPTO_LENGTH 40

"
Honestly, why take the loan if you don't need it and don't know what to do with it. Even at 3.5%, you'd pay an extra $11,000 over the course of the loan. (Less if you pay it off early.)

But unless you have a compelling reason to take on debt... why would you?
It's ok to have a different opinion. But you shouldn't assume your experience invalidates my own.

I've used a large number of text editors. Vim, Sublime Text, TextMate. I loved them all, and they are of course much faster and less resource intensive. I would still pick VSCode over each of them when given the choice.

VSCode strikes a great balance. Ironically I find it far more performant and smoother than Visual Studio itself.
Personally having done a bunch of mathy things both ways you get used to expressing thing without overloading. On balance I would opt for overloading because it feels natural to me but it’s a niggle rather than anything serious.
I mean, that problem is hardly common and Windows is definitely full of similar bugs. And I'm not sure it's possible to make web browsers much simpler without losing functionality - the websites they have to support necessitate the complexity.
If the coronavirus is airborne, we might be fighting it the wrong way
Ah, I see you also have a mobile app. Nice! Is this mainly a mobile version or a native app?
I can't respond to this specifically unless you give specific links. Sometimes, there are extremely bad comments which we've missed—we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Other times, though, people put extreme labels on comments they don't like, and basically want us to ban everyone they disagree with. Also, no matter where one draws the lines, there are borderline cases that require judgment calls and interpretation, making it impossible to please everyone.

We do not moderate Hacker News for "decorum".
[citation needed]. A quick google search shows some warnings about this happening (due to lint and dirt building up and the motor overheating) but I’d be very surprised if it’s even in the top 10.
Take off every 'ZIG'!!
You know what you doing.
Move 'ZIG'.
For great justice!
I still use a machine like that. They were faster hands down.

Even faster a commodore 64. Flick a switch the os is ready. Load geos now you have a basic windows.
I really like the plain structure, but I also noted that sometimes it is difficult for the small projects to reach the front page. Please remember to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and upvote interesting small projects.
Try https://podman.io
I know someone who is very empathetic. Not necessarily sympathetic, though. She feels other people’s emotions strongly (and internally). A big challenge for her growing up was to learn that someone else’s sense of certainty didn’t necessarily mean anything.
The "press" also causes active damage in these kinds of situations. "<X> shortage in stores" in the news will immediately cause a run on said <X> thus creating the shortage even if it didn't exist before.
They did mention why:

>poor formatting...many conflicts/broken formatting

Yes you can create crappy presentations in Powerpoint but when you open those crappy presentations they still look exactly how they did when it was created. That's not always the case with LibreOffice when one of their files is opened in Microsoft Office.

When I was in university I had instructors who demanded documents be created in MS Office (which I did not own) and I did those assignments in the library where MS Office is installed on every machine.

Basic documents work just fine between LibreOffice and MS Office but the more advanced you get the worse the compatibility is. In your view, how much responsibility does the author have for broken formatting versus the reader? Basically, if I (as a student) submit a document with broken formatting, how do you as an instructor make the determination that it's because of a software error instead of a lazy student? And after you make that determination, how much time do you as an instructor put into fixing the student's broken formatting versus rejecting the document and moving on?
This is great Zig is one of the projects I think has a real future and have enjoyed programming in. In terms of languages for the web with WASM I think it has massive advantages over Rust. I love that it’s gaining traction and only wish I had more spare time to actually help out.
The audio device mentioned in Daemon exists. It's been tried for advertising. You can buy one if you want.[1][2] The audio quality is not very good, but voice will get through. The main application is museums, where you have one next to each exhibit, pointing down from above.

The problem with creating nulls by cancellation is that you create peaks somewhere else. You could null out one person (maybe only one ear) somewhere in the room, but multiple targets will be really hard.

[1] https://ultrasonic-audio.com/products/

[2] https://www.soundlazer.com/shop/