skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another important differences is that copying and remixing is an integral part of the platform. A dance or a tune can be used by someone and millions might be using either by the end of the day, and it's gone the next.

While I don't care for it myself, I talk about it with my kids and it's fascinating.
Napster was a godsend. The music industry was a racket. In 1999 it would cost me around $32 for a single CD album here in Australia. That's close to $55 dollars today adjusted for inflation. When music/movies/games first moved to online distribution they had artificially inflated prices here. The cost of these would often be 40-80% than what Americans would pay. This was due to their distribution deals that companies had to artificially drive up prices here. When the Australian dollar rose against the US dollar they changed out prices to Australian dollars, since for the first time we were paying the same as the Americans. Overnight these things rose in price 50%.

I pay for my music. I have had a Spotify subscription for years. They're offering me a product at a reasonable price. You try to extort people and they'll move back to piracy.
> For example: if sales fall off a cliff, it's reasonable to interpret that as "perhaps I over did it." and so on.

But (a) that's not the outcome, so it doesn't help here, and (b) with the pandemic, even if sales went to zero, you'd still need some way to know the effect of that.
Agreed.

I’ve done a lot of infrastructure work, so my home network is...robust. Quite unusual; even for many corporations.

Two DMZs, three routers, three WiFi networks, two NAS units, etc. Also lots of redundant backups.
CAD is both math heavy and UI heavy. Getting a good UI right is very hard for an open source project.
Ah come on - the general consensus was that the performance of the UK economy was far better than the prophets of doom (of which there were plenty) had forecasted. Don't change the goalposts now.
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Have you ever dreamed of a Google search engine for your enterprise data?

As data scientists and software engineers, Tristan Mayer, Daniel Velasquez, and I have spent hours trying to find the most relevant datasets to do our analysis. Once we found the right one, we couldn't understand how to use it, or if we could trust it. This is painful but unfortunately too common.

We interviewed 150 companies at the end of our studies to search for solutions. Every one of them faced the problem. We worked hard for 6 months to build a solution and released the first version of our product.

Go check it out www.castordoc.com and give us feedback!
uLisp Zero (8 Kbytes of program memory with 1 Kbyte of RAM)
theyr'e what we call a travel management company ( = travel agency + software solutions). Their margins are close to the travel agency though, that represents the vast majority of their revenue. They're particularly exposed to business travel, so even worse for them at the moment
I remember being really annoyed at the reaction to that video. Here's 2 headlines from the first page of hits: "Elon Musk Waves His Hand and Designs Rocket Parts Out of Thin Air" and "Elon Musk to build rocket ship parts with hand movements through the air, and 3D printing".

His tweet before that video was "We figured out how to design rocket parts just w hand movements through the air (seriously). Now need a high frame rate holograph generator. Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium". That's really disingenuous. First of all, it looks like a typical demo made by an intern and some toys. Second, mechanical engineers don't need or want that type of interface. Actually manipulating and rotating CAD is such a small part of the process the time sink (aside from all the design and documentation aside from CAD) is adding dimensions and relations to geometry and relations. This video is the equivalent of a software developer's manager showing off a visual programming language and declaring text-based languages and keyboards are obsolete.
I suspect it was a joke about the pace of which the books were written.
is it still illegal if it's the exact same page including ads (revenues go to the source) ?
Crazy enough, in my country in Africa, we aren't trained to use Revit or AutoCad but Archicad primarly.
Hi,
Thanks for checking the website.

1- 404 issue: I implemented the PDF generation recently and I noticed that WeasyPrint has issue with html files that have too many tags (our books have around 2*number_of_words tags in them). This is not a big issue and it will be fixed soon in the next iteration.

2- Using Google API: Google APIs and other translation tools are great for translating sentences. However, the problem with use of parallel texts for language learning is our brain laziness. After few pages, our brain looses its patient to solve the translation problems (critical thinking!?) and actually learn words and structure of sentences. The focus immediately goes toward translated sentences in your native language rather than the original text.

Personally, I learn a word for a life when I slow down and think about similar words, its root, and at the end looking it up in a dictionary. The process is valuable.

3- Team of volunteers: It is easier said than done. The functionality is present but I prefer to improve the suggestion engine as much as possible before I involve volunteers. Are you interested to join?
If you notice, the decline started in 1999, while economy was absolutely booming. There was also a recession in 1991, and the industry revenue continued to grow there. CDs were still very much the primary method of consumption for audio well into the early 2000s. But yes, eventually (by 2005 or so) the iPod had become very sleek and popular. Still, iPods were generally powered by iTunes sales, and you'll note the iTunes sales never made up for the loss in CD sales. Part of the reason for that could be that for the first time, you could buy single tracks rather than pay for an entire album of songs you may or may not like. Certainly torrents had a dramatic effect on sales. Even when I was in high school in early 2000s, kids were selling bootlegged CDs for $5 a pop because they had burners and fast enough connections to download many songs (broadband wasn't even that widespread in early 2000s). Everyone was on Napster after it came out in 1999. I can't even describe to you the magic of being able to download virtually any song you can think of. Prior to that, you had to hunt a song down physically or listen to a radio station for hours, hoping to catch it in time to press the record button on your cassette tape.
When reading the title I literally thought someone managed to break into asos.com (the clothing store) as the branding itself is also in capital letters and everything.
Good for them, tailwind is a great lib :)
This seems to still not be settled. Hard to distinguish banks pressuring governments via threats to leave from banks actually leaving, still.

https://www.americanbanker.com/articles/banks-are-ditching-l...

> In the coming months alone, Barclays may ditch its investment bank's headquarters in the capital; Credit Suisse is offloading nine floors of office space; and Morgan Stanley is reviewing its entire London footprint.
Could also mean we test more people, register more mild cases.
For the sake of clear experiment I would distinguish those cases and mark them as a consequences of contacting COVID-19.

The stats about the total number of death seems quite noisy.
What would the point be of a cryptographic authorization if anyone+anything could just query the card details? As is trivially demonstrated.

Maybe it is highly advanced data store that in the end just sends out the secret in plaintext. Doesn't really make a difference though.
What exactly do the EDR tools recommended by the attacker give you?
Ggplot: Grammar of Graphics in Python with Plotnine
I highly recommend in the ux threads to read “about face : the essentials of interaction design”

It is a comprehensive look at ux and goes over the history, the context and how to incorporate in a project.
I believe the [citation needed] was intended to humorously question specifically whether Martin is in fact still making progress on those books, not to question that he uses an archaic setup.
I’m not doubting the facts you mention and the amount of the hypothetical subsidy might be on average in the low two digit dollar range.
The overall point is however that the App Store restriction was known at the time of purchase, so demanding to remove it without compensation is unfair.

(What would you say if your employer or client demands to pay a bit less after signing a contract with you?)
Working for a mid-sized Berlin startup, most of my coworkers who are not EU citizens and don't yet have permanent residency are working here on a Blue card. Especially for folks from the US, Canada and Australia it seems really easy to get - you can even apply for it in-country.
I use twitter for that. Don't follow journos/news orgs. Just follow topics and saved search terms.
> There's easily a multi-billion dollar opportunity

If I was able to build such a software that has potential on stealing Autodesk software. And Autodesk showed at my door with $50,000,000 in cash. I would sell it so fast that I would be flying in a hired private jet to some island free of the pandemic by next morning.

The rational is simple. I will make up some numbers: If I have 1 chance in 1,000 to get 10 billion, that is an expected value of 10 million (10b/1000). 50 millions is way better return than the expected value of 10 million.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle, Adobe, Autodesk... any of them has deep pockets to buy any one that has a chance to steal their business. It is a good deal for the challengers, because is a all-cash no-risk opportunity better than any expected value. It is a good deal for the big-ones as they protect their business and some times they get a good deal (YouTube). The consumers, the economy and society as a whole are the big losers in the deal.
People judge an experience by its peak and end, not beginning and end.

The best (or worst) part and the last part, that is.
China Blocks Access to Twitter, Facebook After Riots (2009)
The French New Wave wandering spirit, the dynamic almost music video aesthetic etc. got a new life in WKW and with “Besieged” Bertollucci seemed to say, nice try kid, now watch this. All of the above plus politics, even more beauty and uncompromising vision.
What is shortsighted is importing millions of people to a small, already overcrowded island and thereby reducing quality of life and further destroying the environment. But somehow I'm not allowed to have an opinion on controlling our borders etc. else I'm a bad person.
Fixing politics and corruption across Africa
I dislike the Reddit design only because I disagree with its goals:

* Make users use the app
* Make Reddit more like Instagram (browser visual content)
In the UK I subscribe to "The Week", which covers stories by reporting what different newspapers report.

You don't get much in depth, but you do get a good cross-section of how stories are reported, and you get to remove headlines which is the source of 96% of the world's troubles.
> we test more people, register more mild cases.

That, and the age structure of the infected changed: the older people are doing what they can to avoid the infection, if they are able to do that.

Also, across the world, different measures are still in place, changing the dynamics of the spread, compared to the start of the pandemic when the spread was practically unconstrained. The dynamics of the spreading is also different in different settings.

There's no any scientific reason to believe that "the virus" changed in any way biologically. It's the world that does its best to adapt. Also, the schools and the universities are not opened for students at the moment in many countries, also slowing down the spreading.

Edit: answer to: "Viruses don’t mutate?"

The coronaviruses have additional mechanisms to correct the copying, slowing down the mutations, compared to e.g. flu viruses.

Edit2: answering: "The main reason for why Coronaviruses don't mutate much is because they don't have to": I wouldn't call that "the main reason", but it's a part of their success. Coronaviruses have longer genome than many other viruses, and having uncontrolled mutations in that longer genome would make them degrade too fast, so there is that molecular mechanism they have, correcting the copying errors. Additionally, they have other mechanisms to recombine their genetic material, something like "sex between (corona)viruses" where even more than two parents could be possible. But that's different from mutations and happens under different conditions. Knowing all that, and all that what est31 mentions, it is indeed true, the coronaviruses really simply don't need to "mutate fast."

Edit3: "There different strains" is not true. They are different isolates, where the completely minor differences exist, but for all it is known, until somebody proves otherwise, and nobody has, there is still just a single "strain" of SARS-CoV-2.

Edit4: Thanks to Gibbon1, yes, comparing with influenza is tricky, but maybe it's good to give readers the idea once again that this is surely not flu and that the viruses aren't the same and don't behave the same.
The FT should serve you well.
I had so much trouble building a catalog for my data visualisation.

As data scientists and software engineers, Tristan Mayer, Daniel Velasquez, and I have spent hours trying to find the most relevant datasets to do our analysis. Once we found the right one, we couldn't understand how to use it, or if we could trust it. This is painful but unfortunately too common.

We interviewed 150 companies at the end of our studies to search for solutions. Every one of them faced the problem. We worked hard for 6 months to build a solution and released the first version of our product.

Go check it out www.castordoc.com and give us feedback!
You have a good point -- I've never heard of other languages, so that's why it sounded like sarcoma or carcinoma or lymphoma or melanoma or those kinds of words to me.
A few years ago I heard “HBO is trying to become Netflix before Netflix becomes HBO”

Today the news is trying to become Facebook before Facebook becomes the news.
Ask HN: What software have you used which gave you an definite feeling of speed?
The problem isn't so much maintenance or performance as interoperability. I used to enjoy old Macs (pre-OS X era models), but gave up on them when sharing data became a chore.
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I only know of one system (grabcad) that just offers simple version control for CAD.

Most are the equivalent of JIRA, i.e. lots of features and bloat that sell well to managers. They work, but only if there are people dedicated to setting them up, enforcing workflows and maintaining them.

Something simpler and more standardized is needed in the physical engineering space to become part of standard practice, like git has for software.
> "default to no" .. opposite of what you're suggesting.

Not necessarily, just depends on how easy/hard you set the bar for disproving the hypothesis. It also is somewhat inherent in that you really are trying to disprove the hypothesis.

On the other hand, if, after reading the résumé, I do not want to hire this person, why on earth should I go on to interview said person?

The "default to no" part is, IMHO generally correct, because false positives are a lot more damaging/costly than false negatives. My perspective may be warped here, because I have worked for companies that get LOTS and LOTS of applicants. At some the team would screen hundreds of résumés a week, of which maybe 1-2 were somewhat interesting, and that was after the HR screen. Oh, and I also got to clean up after one of the candidates → colleagues I said no to and the rest of the team approved... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And that’s £30m that benefits your competitors just as much as it benefits you. Hard to justify the ROI on that.

It can be done though, maybe a foundation approach where high tier members get increased input into the product roadmap.
Yep

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Try Tom Fowdy, Carl Zha, and Jerry Grey (@Jerry_grey2002) on Twitter; Daniel Dumbrill, Nathan Rich, and China Teacher Brand on Youtube.

All of these lean more towards pro-China, but they're nowhere near as crazy and blindly pro-China as the /r/sino guys, and they analyze situations pretty well. All of these are open for debate, whereas on /r/sino you get banned if you're not showing absolutely loyalty (speaking from experience).

Jerry has an excellent blog too. The funny thing is, he never intended to talk about politics, but all the bad news on China since COVID-19 frustrated him so much that he began writing. https://medium.com/@jerry_grey2002

If you wanna discuss things, feel free to seek me out.
"some models of gen iv of nuclear power plants can pretty much do the same"

I'd be interested to know which fission plants make fuel recycling and waste disposal trivial, I could make a lot of money!

In reality, even the gen 4 plants that have interesting approaches to reprocessing still produce a lot of harmful radioactive waste. Not all the fuel can be recycled and the process itself is imperfect and messy.
Ask HN: What key ideas from different domains are essential for a PM to know?
Stories have five elements. The first four are:

- Character
- Worlds
- Events
- Narration

The fifth element, Authorial Intent, unifies and empowers the elements of character, world, events and narration. There seems to be an analogous structure in product management. The first four elements are:

- Business Analysis
- User Interface / User Experience Design
- Software Development / Engineering
- Project Management

These elements are unified and empowered by a PO or PM's ability to Interface and Integrate across multiple disciplines and between various stakeholders.

I'm assembling a list of ideas from the different domains to grow my own PM knowledge. Live doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0NnhH0hsjWq2r80FiInXb1-kMj2p26fuj21-uc2lTA/edit?usp=sharing
His physical arguments are atrocious though, even refers to Zeno.
As I stated in the article: I am not a lawyer; my university gives us the freedom to provide code under a licence that we see fit. Of course, things change if they have a preference for a certain licence. Nevertheless, my point is also that any licence is better than no licence, right?
Luckily, since ITER and SPARC are being built with the same aspect ratio, all the learning about plasma control, materials, cooling, tritium, remote handling, etc. is fully transferable.

The tritium extraction and processing is a whole separate multi-story building full of first-of-a-kind equipment which will be 1:1 transferable to any breeding fusion reactor.

The work that ITER and IFMIF will be doing on material lifetime and handling under heavy neutron bombardment - a really substantial engineering problem - will be fully transferable.

The work on first-wall material which has to handle the neutron flux, very high thermal loads, and not poison the plasma when traces of it come off is also fully transferable.

Basically everything that's really new about ITER except for the size will work the same way on an HTS based machine.

I'd say about 2/3 for the science done at ITER would need to be done for any D-T fusion device, another 1/6 applies to all similarly configured tokamaks (i.e. it's less less relevant for stellarators or spherical tokamaks), and 1/6 is ITER specific (high estimate TBH).

If things run according to schedule (obviously questionable) then in 2025/2026 ITER will have first plasma and CFS will be on schedule to start building SPARC. CFS is being very clever in doing all their magnet design work first - investors are funding it because even if they don't get either SPARC or ARC funded and built, they will at least have some very useful IP on large HTS magnets which is bound to be worth something.
They are really not hard to get, especially in Germany. Obtaining the visa to enter the country and starting the work, took only a day (plus another day for the consulate to ship my passport) and the card was issued within 6 weeks after my appointment with foreigners office.

Although, getting the appointment with foreigners office took 5 months (after my first entry to the country), because of the high number of applicants, but they have a legislation that automatically extends your visa if you have an appointment for a long term residence permit.
Although it lacks a notification in WhatsApp it's just as easy to check a phone number for 'aliveness'. When you select 'new conversation' you get a list of your contacts with a name (from your address book) and a picture and tagline.

This is all based on your address-book so it doesn't matter if the other party knows your number or not.
Piggybacking here because you stated a sentiment that really resonates with me.

I left the UK in 2014 for a “1-2yr Max!” Period as my girlfriend was getting her masters degree in Sweden.

The echoes of the Ivestigatory Powers Act and the threat of a looming referendum gave me a little pause on my desire to return, but we both thought it was political posturing so we put aside our worries and continued the plans to return, albeit more apprehensively.

After the result was announced I was upset, a whole bloc was going to close to me, the ruling party (whom I fundamentally disagree with) was going to remove a lot of the checks which kept it accountable, lots of uncertainty- my family suddenly became openly racist (that’s just anecdotal though, certainly not all those who chose leave are racist but my family apparently was) — which is ironic as my mother and I have polish surnames from my great-grandfather who fought in the war and was exiled from Poland for it.

The longer I stayed away the more “detached” I became, the more coldly I looked at the situation and dispassionately assessed statistics and debates. You can’t know from the inside how farcical this whole thing looks.

I naturalised to become a Swedish citizen as soon as the option was available to me, I have no personal stake in the future of my home country anymore.

I’m still “pro-remain” but only because I still think it’s best for the country. I don’t really care that much any longer.
Seems a mixture of speculation, downsizing of workforce and office space due to coronavirus, and all sorts of other things. I don't think that supports the idea that "Banks kind of had to move their headquarters out of London"
Regarding time... It's sometimes not easy to say what happens when in a Haskell program. Yes, monads give you a sequence, but it's usually not the one sequence of an imperative language.