skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth noting that according to Crunchbase, Soup received at least €80,000 in venture capital in 2007 and 2008: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/soup-io#section-fund...

Yes, that's not a massive amount of money and it was a long time ago, but it should still mean that they're not totally in control of the company, and that there are investors that have been expecting a return out of it eventually. Just reaching a break-even/moderately-profitable state probably wouldn't have been good enough.

I also see this article on TechCrunch talking about "soup.me" receiving $530,000 in VC in 2012: https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/14/soup-me-lands-530000-lets-...

It specifically says that it's a "reboot service" of soup.io, but the soup.me site no longer exists, so I'm not certain. Their inactive Twitter account (https://twitter.com/soup_me) does have an identical logo and a location of Vienna (same as soup.io), so it's probably true that it's the same company.

That's definitely a much larger amount of VC, and would make it even less possible for "sustainable" to be an acceptable end goal for the site.
The stash is popped before the command finishes, so your changes don't appear to vanish. Unless there's a conflict while rebasing a prior commit. Actually I'm not sure if aborting the rebase at that point would pop the autostash, but it should.
Target’s Gig Workers Will Strike to Protest Switch to Algorithmic Pay Model
Those are all GET requests, how can you attribute that to spammers? Seems like crawlers, aggregators etc are more likely.
PunyInform, library for writing interactiveFiction in Inform6 for 8bit computers
> FInally, i'll point to my favorite post on the subject, Don't be a free user by idlewords: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/*

I used to believe this. Now Google Play Music is dead despite my $20/month.
I've been looking into a few of these (need to replace keybasefs before zoom kills it)

- syncthing does one thing well. However you need to be your own server admin. Which is great if you are or your company will do it for you, but I don't want to do it for my personal stuff.

- syncany is exactly what I want, but it didn't get out of alpha, the team apparently didn't make money and have stopped maintaining it, and it still has some scary bugs, although probably my needs are somple enough that they woulnd't be triggered.

- cryptomator looks good itself, but you need something else to do the cloud storage part, which ideally supports webdav. Unfortunately the davfs2 crashes my linux box and the other alternatives don't seem to be much better.

- nextcloud and owncloud again want you to be your own server admin

- the guys benind tahoe-lahfs have a reputation for solid crypto and reliability, but it is complex to run. privatestorage.io were going to do a managed version, but it doesn't seem to have materialised yet.

- There are solutions like internxt and ipfs where everyone stores everyone else's files. I'm not sure I trust that not to go down without warning.

- proton are supposed to be coming out with a protondrive, which hopefully will have an open source client, although locked into them.

- There are proprietary ones like tresorit and spideroak, which have closed clients. I may have to grit my teeth and use one of them.

- A bunch of others I didn't evaluate yet.

What I want is for someone else to do the server admin part (availability and backups), but without my trusting them with my keys, which I only use with open-source client code. I don't mind paying a reasonable amount, but apparently this is hard.
My brain

K-Meleon browser

MiXplorer

Block This
I wish I had an answer for you but I'm still learning. For instance, I used to gravitate to work on products that were "democratizing" XYZ or "cutting out an entrenched middleman" but I eventually learned that those terms are constantly abused by monopolistic companies.

A few pointers I've found helpful though:

1. Learn as much as you can about systems thinking and apply it to how the world works. I like Donella Meadows' book (Systems Primer).

2. Look at how you spend your time and mind (ie your work). Work on products that, if successful, would create an equalizing feedback loop (I currently work on a personal finance product, but other areas where this exists are edtech and healthtech).

3. Teach.

4. Look at how you spend your money.

5. Look for and work against any form of "impunity". No one should be above the law or beyond accountability, especially people with power and/or money. That's how things (societies, companies, etc) rot.

6. Do your part in every small thing. If you're hiring, take a bet on someone from a less "traditional" background. Speak up when something is not right even if it doesn't impact you personally. If you follow sports, always, always root for the underdog :)
Even I would like to tune in to Docker bashing (in this case one can actually say with confidence: "Hitler was right"[1]) the fundamental architectural problem is on the OS side.

UNIX, and especially Linux, is a monolithic design. Even such an OS is able to separate user processes form each other all system parts run by concept in the form of a "big ball of mud", with "god-like" capabilities available to them by default. Sure, some internal "barriers" have been added, and per process capability dropping has been retrofitted, but this is backwards form the architectural point of view. Cutting things in peaces after the fact is almost always way more complicated and awkward compared to designing things in a modular way form the get go.

This is related as virtualizing a modular OS is almost a no-brainer (conceptually). You just need to start additional instances of the required system servers / modules / whatever-you-call-that-parts. Compared to that virtualizing a monolith is like trying to construct a kind of Ouroboros: It needs to run itself (with an altered, usually constrained view on the 'outside' world) from inside of itself; and it can't just globally drop the "god-like capabilities" its execution context provides—like it would be possible with an external process. It needs to "hide or manipulate things in front of its own eyes" even "it" has the "all seeing eye". Or to put it even more metaphorical: "A God tries to use his divine powers to constrain his omnipotence so he can lie to himself about the things he sees, without himself ever being able to look through this jugglery". Formulated like that the architectural issue is obvious, I guess.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ , and I just learned it seems he was also a Kubernetes fan. :-)
It is not just for them to decide that. They are in a risk group and therefore get infected more easily and spread the infection more easily. It is in their and all our best interest for them to stay home.
Well, that sure is the most "first world problem," tone deaf thing I've heard all day.
Twitter on the web. The worst program I have ever used. Jumping, twitching, changing so I can't read. It is torture.
>my first HN comment was downvoted to good learning effect for me

Well, if that downvoting was for disagreement, then the lesson you would've learned is not to stray too far from the group's thinking.

>Feel free to downvote this one

You won't get a downvote from me. For some time I didn't downvote at all. If I issue an occasional downvote now it's for what I consider overt bad faith, but never for disagreement.
You'd probably do great with Gitlab then. It lacks some features of JIRA but the ones it lacks are mostly what you don't use. But it's interface and simplicity is a joy compared to JIRA. Literally everything is keyboard driven via markdown and built in actions in text. The API is simple and crazy powerful.

NB: Not associated with Gitlab the company in any way.
Because you want something done and out of your way so you can do something more important?

I once wrote a piece of software specifically in the hopes that companies with shitty implementations would steal it just so I would never have to deal with the problem ever again.
We use Moodle since we can not afford the privilege of paying a lot of money for such a crappy experience. I notice a lot of other schools went with Canvas for the same reason.
Archive for those with ad blockers: http://archive.is/R7VlA
Wow, I’d never thought of using it like this. Thanks for sharing, I just added something new to my workflow!
Oh yeh!! Also, Trac.

There is literally nothing good about that issue management program except that it is free. It is impossible to understand what you are looking at. It is just awful.
We have already seen what happened when the bars and restaurants re-opened (increase in infections and deaths). I imagine we won't see anything different when the schools re-open. So this seems incredibly shortsighted to me.

It's sad that the administration is willing to sacrifice the teachers, misc school staff, parents and children for short term gains.

Not only are we endangering human lives, but we are risking prolonging this disease which will continue to ravage the economy. If you think it's bad now, imagine what it will be like in 2021 if we continue at this rate.

Why can't we continue with e-learning for the first half of school and reassess the situation as we approach 2021?
Even accounting for children sent to camp, there are a lot of children left to deal with.

In the US, about ~20% of children attend summer camp in a given year (that includes both day camps and overnight camps). For children from poor families it's down around 7%. 38% for children from affluent families.

Also, of those who do go to camp many of them go to camps that do not last the entire summer.
The good news is that git is extensible enough to support this use-case. You would need to wrap git with a tool/script that watches for file changes
A giant pile of spaghetti, and every institutions spaghetti totally different.
Agree 100% with everything except for Linux and Git.
Ha! Brilliant!... You should share the code because that would be funny as hell
I am going to go against the grain and say I rather like Teams. Video calls work really well. Voice calls are clear. Screen sharing occasionally doesn't work as some have noticed, but restarting the call seems to fix it. It is so much better than Webex though. I think it is still suffering from the teething troubles of trying to bring so many things under one umbrella, Sharepoint (which already had groups), Skype for business, Onedrive and chat. This has created some quirks which will need ironing out.

The killer feature really is that it is a dream to deploy for admins who already had AD. I pushed it by group policy and sent an email telling people to log in with their existing Office credentials. I can't remember what I did with macs, I think I may have just told users to grab it from the appstore.

Think of all the admins faced with having to move their whole company to home working with no notice for Covid-19, you can see why Teams is an app that has found it's moment. Teams has been the saviour of many companies during the crisis. I'm sorry but minor UI niggles (which I personally don't find problematic) just pale into insignificance.
> Video game prices have been declining in real terms, in part because of cheaper manufacturing and distribution

and competition from "free to play" and mobile games
I work as a control systems engineer and ClearSCADA is my biggest pain point.

Crashes all the time on both the front and back end. Bloated mess of user displays that you have to drag and drop elements on by hand. Oh and let's not forget that I'm usually interacting over a slow RDP connection.
I work in games so the answer for me is Unity editor support on Linux is poor so I can't, although I'd like to. Have most distros gotten solid high-dpi support yet?
* neovim

* 1Password (caveat I work for 1Password)
I'm an American and a few years ago I started getting into Japanese musicians (Senri Kawaguchi, Kanade Sato, Yoyoka Soma, Rie Suzaku, Juna Serita and others). This got me into reading a little about how the Japanese write and it's crazy.

They have four different systems. There is Kangi which is from Chinese. There are two different systems that are phonetic but based on syllables rather than single sounds. And finally they use the Roman script like we do. It must be really hard on the elementary school kids who are trying to learn this all.
That’s great to hear! I’m glad it’s working well for you. And yeah, Shynet is definitely in part a response to half-baked self-hostable tools like Fathom’s offering.
First, they seemed to have interviewed some members of the research team to make the piece. If you want someone qualified to comment, they are the best choice.

Further, the interviewee is a neuroscientist, but we have no idea why they were picked to comment, how deeply he's analyzed the research, what the context was that led to that quote, or how long Reuters spent talking to neuroscientists to get that quote.
> I would have thought that at least hanging on.

it happened the same to the Sega Saturn / Dreamcast, the MakerBot, and the Osborne Computer in the 80s. Customer delayed buys, because a new and disruptive product generation was coming.

That effect is named as Osborne Effect since the 80s.
Let's see what happens with the upcoming Macs.
If you want to change from a git-lover to a git-hater, just join a project that uses submodules.
U.S. Air Force Launches Three-Year Fielding Plan for Skyborg Weapons
Excuse me, if I build an email newsletter list with 83 million subscribers there's no email fact checking injection ministry of truth at the IMAP layer of the protocol. If 83 million people choose to follow Trump, then Twitter really has no arbitrary say. They really are breaking their social contract and section 230 protection and they're becoming an editorial force with the power to shape public opinion as they exercise that. Just as it would be a step too far for SMS providers to inject their opinion into my private text messages, it is a step too far for Twitter to inject their opinion and arbitrarily target conservatives. They deserve all the hell they are going to get for this approach. I fully support breaking them up or suing them out of existence. Freedom of speech is too damn important for a handful of power-hungry silicon valley Inquisitors to control.
Does anyone else get this weird nauseating feeling from NC headphones? It's been a while since I wore some, but the silence felt... loud.
I wrote this in 2006 (a couple years before V8):

I just ran into Dave Ungar (of Self fame), and mentioned how ironic it
was that JavaScript pointed to Self as its inspirational prototype
(vis-a-vis JavaScript's prototype based object system), but JavaScript
totally missed the boat on efficient compile-ability, which is the most
interesting thing about Self. (I mean, anybody can make a prototype oop
system that runs slow, but it takes a fucking genius to come up all the
brilliant stuff in Self, like the aggressive inlining compiler (it has
no byte code interpreter, just a bad-ass compiler), incremental
compilation, polymorphic inline cache, coupled with dynamic
de-optimization to make it debuggable). He gave a cool Self demo of
writing a straightforward factorial function, then editing the source to
the system's multiplication operator, so it would return a different
result if you multiplied something by 1,000,000. Then he showed how it
affected the factorial function, as well as the rest of the system,
which incrementally recompiled itself as needed. All that and perfect
debuggability, too! About JavaScript, he retorted that it was actually
possible to efficiently compile JavaScript if you were really devious
enough. Too bad the art of designing languages so you don't have to be
devious in order to compile them, was lost of so many popular bad
language designers (PHP, JavaScript, Perl, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)
Is it possible to design a piece of software that is identical to soup.io but runs at a fraction of the cost?

The answer is almost certainly "yes, if you're willing to rewrite it from scratch". Unfortunately the capex required to do that weighs heavily on the opex saving.

"They should have designed it from the start to be efficient" would normally be my next thought - but there by grace go us all.
Shouldn't there be a leasing program for computers?

So you can have the latest model every 3-4 years, give it back if it breaks down and get a new one pronto, and just pay monthly instalments (with some premium) instead of the whole upfront fee.
They are absolutely throwing away an easily monetizeable product here.
If you sleep on your back or stomach, airpods Pro would be great for you. I side sleep so they’re not an option for me
Show HN: EV only rentals - starting with Teslas
I'm also getting Network Error. All I got from the site and GitHub was: some way of creating an API around web data. Wasn't directly clear why it's a superior way of doing that.
I agree with your strategy, sometimes early adopters are also beta-testers.
Google doesn’t need more money. It’s sometimes a blessing, as unprofitable projects face no pressure, but sometimes a curse because profits don’t motivate them to keep products alive
Maybe an unpopular opinion among Zig programmers, but the lack of operator overloading is/was the true buzzkill for me as someone that tends to do a lot of math/science work in C and C++ both. Getting operators in C++ is one of the biggest productivity boosts compared to when I work in C.
If you do not understand, I cannot help you.
> gradle => need to include the executable in every project

Hmmm ... one of the things that kind of made me really stick with Gradle is the wrapper tool that make sit dead easy to bootstrap a build without including gradle in the project. Of course, the first thing the bootstrap does is download gradle, so maybe that's what you mean ... but it's been a small price to pay for me.

There are much worse things about gradle ...
> Osborne effect.

Totally. Don't buy either, Apple is obviously going under. ><

Thing about Macs is, they have this incredible lifetime, annoyingly (to those that like to save with buying older hw) hold high value in resale. Try pricing a Mac Mini from 2012, or Late 2014. Compare a similar compact WinDesk from those years. Though it is interesting to see a pattern, and moreso when it is famous enough to have a name, I do not think the Osborne effect applies here. Today's current Intel Mac will still be unaffordable NIB or used when the 3rd gen ARM Macs are released. I'm not really happy about that.
Atlassian does not seem to have an interest in listening to their users.

But they do. Their users are project managers. The genius of Atlassian is how they’ve managed to convince so many programmers that it’s for them. It never was!
Dub – Dlang Libraries
The software that powers almost every appliance or device on the "Internet of Things" that I've ever used.

The manufacturers of those appliances and devices really do NOT know how to develop usable, secure software.

See https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en for egregious examples.
Doesn’t the Internet Archive have a collection of websites they backed up just before they went down? Do they plan on backing up Soup.io? Do they even know about it?
Intersystems purchased Trakcare, which was developed by an Australian company. They'd love to sell it in the US, but Epic is Intersystems largest customer and they have an agreement to not compete in the US.

Cache is the most archaic and least usable programming environment I've ever experienced. Unit tests are not a thing. MUMPS, which underlies the whole system, is stringly typed. The entire stack is junk, so it's no surprise that Trackcare is either.
Ahh the part I missed was that the arrows were in the subjects blind spot too. Very interesting.
Mexico approves law against right to repair
MacOS. Everything “just works” (iCloud, FaceTime, unlock with Apple Watch, multiple wide screen monitors) and I can still drop into a terminal whenever necessary to run something I wouldn’t run in a container.
I think op refers to the faculty of the brain to configure some of its parts for performing specialized functions (languages, emotions, etc) based on the same substance : neurons.
Gradefinity (https://gradefinity.com) is a kind of Blackboard + Scantron LMS alternative that is really targeted in terms of what problems it intends to solve (in-person and online tests, gradebooks, and communication).

Full disclosure: I built it-- I'm very receptive to feedback and feature suggestions though and am looking for pilot schools if anyone is interested in shaping the platform/knows someone who might be.
Nobody said the policy was based on a book not is anyone advocating for it, that’s an obvious straw man.

Your mention of “quality improvement” is another slight of hand as that’s not really the FDA’s purpose nor do you support it with sources. Show some data for food (and drug) safety preceding and following the FDA and we can discuss.
No it's to make sure donors know that the money they give will have a legal obligation to be used to achieve the mission statement of the organization.
Even if hosting costs weren’t a problem, doesn’t the complexity of maintaining Soup sound like a bigger one?

> This is also the reason why we dropped the idea of open-sourcing soup. It's too complex to maintain and to hand-over.
I tried to setup my iPad 3(?) a couple of weeks ago to control Apple Music on my stereo. It was just too slow and software was way out of rev. So, yeah, I tossed it back on my "recharging table" but it's pretty much useless.
First, eliminate advertising. Next, eliminate anonymity. Next, focus on teaching things that can be taught. For one example, the old (pre .com) comp.lang Usenet forums were fantastic. For another example, Consumer Reports is a blissfully dull but useful publication. B2B commerce at least comes with contracts and credible threats of legal retaliation. Broadcast consumer marketing is fully toxic.
Now that there are multiple people, I wonder if they will fold in the separate program needed to parse tabs and carriage returns.
Unless you need to record sound, noise cancelling headphones are much more cost effective. If you do need to record sound, directional microphones and noise shields for them are a little more practical.
Something like project 1 in the "Other projects:" part of this page?

http://www.byrdsight.com/apple-macintosh/
Kodi on Raspberry Pi: slow loading menu, random hangs & crashes, getting bluetooth LE working was a adventure, BLE remote key presses are only recognized after pressing them several times when waking up, SMB file access not reliable (mounting a smb drive and then accessing it works much better), plugins are flaky at best (youtube needs api keys, youtube cast with extra plugin works mostly (when it does not crash), amazon video stutters on SD video, satellite TV is much less reliable than VLC on Windows)

I'm still using it because the alternatives come with their own drawbacks (usually high price but still having enough quirks).
The D Language Foundation
Thunderbolt was a joint effort between Apple and Intel, years before it came out, called "Light Peak" then. The first Intel demo was on a Mac, and Apple first announced the Thunderbolt commercial name.
I bought a first-gen intel iMac and it lasted me a long time. I was quite happy with it.
Anything with the word "Enterprise" in its name or description. Any "Enterprise" search system will be useless or unusable [0]. Any "Enterprise" file/document management system will be a nightmare in any possible way.

[0] I once had a page-long note file on literally how to search for a document by title in $HUGECO's search application. Because it took me 3 hours to figure it out the first time. Not exaggerating. It would probably be easier to operate a DNA editing machine than this thing.
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S10E07/1034532.jpg?b64lines=IE5PVy...
Sad to say, I had the same reaction :\