skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading a post-mortem of Google Wave, and the author stated that Wave's problem was one of incentives.

At Google, they said, you get significant bonuses, promotions, and prestige for launching a brand new product, especially to large fanfare or hype. Conversely, you get little to no bonuses, promotions, or prestige for maintaining that product long-term.

That means that Googlers have huge incentives to create and launch promising projects, and then immediately transfer off that project to some other new project to create and launch that, leaving some other team to maintain it, thanklessly.

This means that, in the absence of top-down direction from the executive level, GSuite will remain effectively stagnant forever, with minimal, if any, improvements. In my experience managing IT for a small startup that used GSuite extensively, this was generally true; the service as a whole was "promising", but had huge gaps in functionality or integrations that would never be addressed (like being able to back up/export a user's data without having to log in as them and request a Takeout file).

Another example is Google Inbox; again, a new-ish project, launched to much fanfare and rave reviews, but once it's launched, who cares? So it was "integrated into" regular Google Mail inbox, except it wasn't because the team doing the integration isn't going to get those huge bonuses for doing all that work so why bother?

I'm not 100% sure that this is true; again, I "read it in a thing that someone said", for all the validity that has, but it would certainly explain why so many of Google's products feel 80-90% finished, and have for a decade or more.

In this respect, I've effectively given up on Google ever improving anything, unless doing so will help stifle the competition's growth. Improve Android to counter iOS? Sure. Improve Google Docs to counter Microsoft Office? Nah, we're mostly dominant there already.
On the subject of the (lack of) snappiness in Visual Studio + ReSharper, Jetbrains Rider comes with the ReSharper functionality built in and feels a lot snappier.
The last project I used Eclipse on consisted of like 50 different maven modules. Plus we were also using a mix of Java and Scala code. The Scala plugin we were using seemed to make everything run very, very slowly. At times, it couldn't even keep up with my typing.

This was back in 2011 though. Obviously things have changed.

The difference between Eclipse and IntelliJ was like night-and-day, however, in terms of performance.
> just rent a regular apartment directly with the owner

In a lot of countries the rental market is broken and prevents this. I've had this issue in the UK when I needed to move to London on very short notice after getting a job offer (and didn't have enough money saved up to afford a month's worth of hotel until I sort things out).

I had enough money to pay a deposit and a couple months worth of rent, so all of that paid upfront plus the employment contract should be enough to make most landlords happy.

The problem? The rental market around here seems monopolized by agencies and they all had referencing/application fees which means that even if I agree to pay the fee and take the risk of losing the fee if I get rejected I still wouldn't be able to get the flat quickly (my objective was to pay 2 months + deposit upfront and get the keys the same day). If I wanted to mitigate the risk of being rejected it would mean I need to apply to multiple properties at once, paying them a referencing fee to each (which I guess I'd lose if I back out even if I end up accepted).

Airbnb took my money no questions asked and I had a place to sleep on the same day. I'm still in that place 3 years later (paying direct now obviously)! I hate Airbnb for other reasons, but there definitely is a need for a better short-term rental system.
Have raw files been a thing in 2000?
> The low income might get better/more healthcare

It was a pedantic point - but taxing the rich intrinsically reduces the inequality of the post-tax income distribution because the difference between the top and the bottom is less.

> The low income might get better/more healthcare, but they don't get any more income from that spending

Lots of reasons - one is expenditures on healthcare by the employer, another is lost income due to injury/illness that preventative care could have prevented and that's before you start looking at medical expenses.
What's this have to do with the West?
For most companies this is a bit ridiculous. The UK government runs on Google Apps. Many schools and universities use Google Apps. Many large companies are on GCP.

Unless you're a Google competitor there's likely no reason to exclude Google products.
Are you talking about absentee ballots?
Ehhh I'm not sure why I would want to share my moneymaking methods with the world.

Instead of bragging on a leaderboard where I'm forced to share my methods I can instead brag via other methods and have a much larger audience (instagram)
I've never had something go that bad.

I had one experience where we walked away the next day and opened a support ticket due to misrepresentation and a landlord who was mentally unwell and scary. AirBNB dragged their feet a little but did refund us fully within 24 hours. In that case I just booked something new and it was all good.

I've never had someone cancel on me on AirBNB.
>She's about my age, and I'm wondering, is this really what she wants to be doing? Or is this all there is, here?

This applies to probably 90% of the people in the world. The whole follow your passions thing is an upper middle class developed world thing.
You'll be able to tell babel to use a different "importSource" instead of `React`:

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx#...
> only to discover that you’d absorbed what amounts to a few sentences?

This is akin to saying that "F = MA so why do I need a whole series of lectures and chapters in a textbook to explain it!" Understanding the basic idea in physics that F=MA involves building a variety of intuitions about what this really means, what it entails in the real world, and how this influences the ways we think about this powerful idea. You need to see examples, experiments and applications of this idea for it to make sense, even though it can be perfectly reduced to 4 characters. Once the student of physics has all of the information in their head a vast amount of complexity can be reduced to F=MA.

An even more powerful demonstration of this is of course Einstein's famous E = MC^2. A pretty simple assertion, but really unraveling what that means and entails is easily many years of study.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are many books that genuinely defy reduction in this way. Hegel and Derrida are notorious examples of these. Scholars of either would tell you that not being reducible is an essential property of what each of these writers is trying to say. However I suspect the author of this post would very quickly become frustrated with these works and beg them to "get to the point!".

And another perspective outside of these are the "Desert Fathers", the early Christian ascetics, who would spend years meditating on single passages from the bible.
Don't worry, that "Those damn kids need to slow down!" mentality will hit you long before you realize you turned into an old fart causing traffic jams during rush hour.
SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactoryImpl implements SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory
The patents in question are the following gems:

A method to improve the usability of city-building games using templates to define the positions of one or more in-game contents that can be applied to in-game areas based on the commands of the player.

A server and method for transferring an object between two users, as well as the communication module for sending and receiving requests for transfers from other players.

A control method for a touch-screen shooting game which first displays an effective shooting range which then detects whether an attack target is in range and commences the attack base on a command from the player.

A recording medium and server method for selecting game content to be used in an in-game battle -- the selected item being replaced by another option for a future turn.
A server and control method for selecting character cards from a selection and using them in battle against an enemy character -- the selected item being replaced by another option for a future turn.
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe looked far better on an ST than on a PC.

[edit]

Compare:

http://www.atarimania.com/st/screens/star_trek_the_rebel_uni...

https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/s/star-trek-...
There's an unstated assumption here that the reason people read books (especially popular non-fiction) is to extract the maximum usable information content from them over the long-term and that anything less than that is a failure. I think that is fundamentally misconceived. The primary goal of popular non-fiction is to entertain. It is read for pleasure and the only reason it happens to be about things that are true is that readers derive a little extra pleasure from prose that they think may have some relevance to the outside world.

If you read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and recall nothing but find it 6-9 hours of time well-spent, the book has completely achieved its goal. If you get a couple of good anecdotes out of it that you can use at parties later, even better. Not to mention the social cachet of being an intellectual who reads non-fiction for fun.

This otherwise very intelligent essay falls into a common failure mode I see. If you look out in the world and see everyone obviously "doing it wrong", the odds of them all being stupid while you have sole insight are very slim. Instead, it is most often the case that they are doing it right for a goal that is different from the one you presume they have.

(There is also the obvious criticism that if the author feels linear narrative is a poor medium... why did they use it for their essay?)
There are tons. They are all massively privacy invading and horrible from an ethical perspective.

The phrase you're looking for is something similar to bot management, that should get you results on most things.

Akamai, Shape, Distil, list goes on. It's a dumb arms race. Lately, the purchases are tunneled through hijacked IP blocks and hacked/malware-running-proxies mobile devices as proxies.
> how many years does it take before my family is accepted as a local and not treated like an outsider? how long does it take to grow new roots?

When you start paying taxes and contributing/engaging to the area (working, consuming, giving)

This, quite obviously, varies a lot from place to place - but IMO, if you fill the above points, you're as good as natives. But I think the biggest divider between insiders and outsiders is engagement - if you start engaging in the community, that's the fast-track to getting accepted.
The hate for PA is as unqualified as it was for systemd. Time will tell.
What’s the warning equivalent for yaml/config?
Ward Cunningham should go back to the original CGI wiki, but add the JavaScript from https://flak.tedunangst.com/ so that SPA-lovers can smile in satisfaction at a webpage with a goddamn loading screen.
> From official documentation I found about 20 pages of content to describe a 1 page financial message. It's an absolutely horrific problem in graphic design to relate 5% message to 95% documentation.

This depends. If that documentation can be reused by other participants in the development process, it's very useful. Perhaps a bit excessive, but useful. With that you could hand it off to the recipient of the message and they can implement their own processing in their own language and applications. If you handed them your implementation could they use it directly or easily port it to their own target system?

And what was that documentation? Does it add real clarity or not? I used to work on a project which had an absolutely massive message spec document. Over 1k pages (I know 1k, I think it was closer to 2k but can't find it online for free to verify), and the implementation (of the message data structures and primary functions) was certainly much less than that.

But that documentation told us the exact memory layout expected. Messages which in C may have been described with a 20 line struct definition could mean 18+ fields if reasonably formatted. Each field has expected values/types (that the C int type doesn't sufficiently specify) that need to be documented. Like "This 4-bit field can take a value from 1-10, here are the meanings of each:". Now that one line in C is at least 11 lines in the spec. So about a 1:10 ratio of code:documentation was reasonable for this situation.
Your browser isn't connecting to your own IP, it's connecting to a shodan.io server which looks up your IP in their own database.

Of course Shodan's web servers are always listening on port 80, just like with all websites.
Yeah, I was going to ask, is this a promise or a threat.
Ask HN: Where do you learn about things like telephony, elevators, and radios?
I've been interested in the EM spectrum, telephony, and elevator operations for a while. While I went and got my amateur radio operator's certificate, I haven't been able to find many resources at all for telephony and elevators with regards to things like how PSTNs work. I'm wondering if any of you have better resources than I do that you'd be willing to share.
I suspect we pay a higher price because of the competition for short term rentals in much the same way that it has an impact on rental and for-sale markets.

Assuming it was still possible, without AirBnB we would likely be paying private rental rates on Craigslist/Gumtree.

Both Christmas' and NYE so far we have not stayed in AirBnBs because we get priced out of the market (we have ended up house sitting instead)
I recently had to use LibreOffice to format a simple document because Google Docs couldn't handle it.
They're both phrased unnaturally, IMO.

This is why we teach sentence diagramming in elementary school.

Maybe the person who came up with "WSL" wasn't a native English-speaker?
I hope this is satire. SF/SV clearly have some of the best paying jobs in the country. And I haven't seen a riot anywhere around here all year.
Thanks for this excellent food for thought!
I think the problem in Paris is not near the problem in barcelona
Isn't their only carrier retrofitted Russian tech?
probably IP rotation by the ISP?

Edit: saw your Edit. :)
I bet VS Code will be as slow if it could have the same features.
"Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away", it's some of the most egregious poverty porn out there. These High Court bailiffs (who are employees of a private company, because of course) show up at people's doorsteps; if it's because of a debt, they demand payment or start taking inventory of items to seize.

So my only knowledge of this part of UK law comes from watching this garbage TV, but what amazes me is how much freedom the officers seem to have with respect to how strict their enforcement actions are. In some cases they only ask for a small amount of the debt and a payment plan to make up the rest, but if the debtor's uncooperative or a bit of a dick, the officers are going to start towing cars and carrying out TVs.
How is it an example of "shining at its best" when the Soviets made far more sacrifices during WWII only to be robbed of the credit in pretty much all western popular accounts. Yes, they were more brutal to those they defeated in many instances, but that doesn't diminish their military contribution.

The US government doesn't engage in direct censorship like the Chinese government but it does have some power, in practice, to shape its portrayal in the media. The Pentagon pulled production assistance from The Hurt Locker because it didn't like certain aspects of how the military was portrayed[1], as is their right of course. Most films cannot afford this luxury. The relationship between the state and the press is also closer than many think, particularly when it comes to briefings from the intelligence community.

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook admittedly do a pretty good job of allowing a wide range of views to be expressed, although this comes at the price of allowing massive amounts of disinformation as well.

>try to find something similar on PRC's pointless war in Vietnam which they lost.

How about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_(2017_film)

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-25-la-et-hu...
> Restaurants are pretty packed in the places that reopened

Not true of where I live in San Francisco

> they were pretty packed in NYC until literally the day the lockdowns started

That's before people got scared because NYC was literally the first place for this to happen and most people had no idea what was going on. You can see how restaurants performed in countries that remained open, like Sweden, where you can find lots of people talking about how their sales dropped 80% despite no lockdown. For a low margin business, that kills.
There was a POSIX subsystem in Windows NT before Microsoft acquired Interix (which became Windows Services for Unix).
??? The Zimmermann Telegram?

"We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part [Boghardt disagrees with this translation, giving a weaker "consent" rather than "understanding"] that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you. You will inform the President of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain, and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President's attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.

Signed, ZIMMERMANN"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Zimmerma...
Microsoft wouldn't make back the purchase price doing anything with OpenAI's IP that they can't do now.
Edit: disregard my comment, I mistook PTP to mean Ethernet while in reality it's Point to point Fiber. In any case my point about noise still stands. But PTP Fiber is really rare in the world, given how many people are stuck on coax.

Yes, with FTTH (or FTTP) I meant GPON. Refarding PTP, do you mean a residential ethernet network? (Technically FTTB, copper / ethernet to the premises)

Branding anything other than FTTH as "Fiber" is misleading.

It's like saying DOCSIS 3.0 is Fiber because its a Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial network, while in reality all cable internet networks are HFC, the difference is the number of nodes serviced by a CMTS, which when reduced by a node split will result in higher speeds and more capacity.

Or saying DSL is "Fiber" because uplink to the DSLAM is Fiber. All DSLAM uplinks are Fiber, difference is how many street cabinets are there because DSL speed is dictated by the local loop length, and with more street cabinets there is higher chance one gets built closer to you enabling you faster speeds.
>This land use is just as disruptive to the enjoyment of others as "a vibrant city with street life and parties.

Being drunk and loud late into the night and not letting others sleep is not as disruptive as using land to live life.
Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US
Remote IT Asset Management During the Covid-19 Crisis
He linked the android version, if you click the warning it goes to the normal desktop page.
Firefox may have to eventually switch to Chromium, just like Microsoft did for Edge. I've noticed more and more sites not working or breaking with Firefox. It's bad enough now that I switch to Chrome when doing anything important. It's a sign that companies and developers are starting to accept that testing on Firefox is optional.
> This thing serves no purpose if the movement and lights are seemingly random...

It looks neat. It makes for good discussion. It inspires others to think about various ideas. Art serves a purpose, but we all appreciate it differently.

> it's not a "dress" but more of an exoskeleton.

Who made you the arbiter of "dress"? :D
This is mostly correct. However, one could add an ML classifier to find patterns in EEG that correspond to e.g. happy vs serious mood. Mood recognition can be done from a camera pointed at the face. If there's any rhyme or reason to the set of 1024 EEG series, the network would learn it.
Hopefully this hasn't caused any beefs in the village ╰（‵□′）╯
It may surprise you that Jews turned in other Jews during Nazi occupation. People are people, they don't fit into nice neat little boxes.
Not universally, no. And even if their camera did, no guarantee they used it or kept the file.
Told me I have port 1723 open, which was a surprise. But it did NOT tell me that I have port 22 open, which I do. False negatives are a serious problem for a service like this, much more serious than false positives.
I've seen the same happen, so I've filed a bug with my reproduction:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666575
Oh yeah, regarding creating accounts, I had a recent situation where I wanted to make a reservation at a restaurant and the system they used required creating an account to do so. I disagreed with this so I phone them to make the reservation. After the call I actually got an email confirming my reservation, without me having given my email address! Their reservation system (Resy) had created an account for me! The only way I can think they got an email is from me having made a reservation with that restaurant in the past with a different reservation system and the restaurant took it upon themselves to populate that info in the new system, which then created an account for me. Needless to say I was a little frustrated that an account was created on a foreign-owned 3rd party service that I didn't agree to (and the whole reason I had called in the first place)...

Anyway, bit of a rant there but it's another symptom of software essentially disrespecting the user/customer and making them "pay" for the choices of product design.

Regarding cognitive effort, I talk about this with people on a pretty much constant basis. My feedback to designers and product people is always about how much cognitive energy I have to consume to interact with this feature/app/etc. We live in a time where our cognitive capacity is constantly sapped by exactly the things we're discussing in this thread. Extraneous notifications, software update reminders, "dark pattern" UX on news websites, animated advertisements, inconsistent/unintuitive design patterns across different software/platforms, low batteries (or other tech problems), etc.

Every bit of effort we can make on the creators' side to make the user's life easier is a 100% worthy undertaking, IMO. Not only is it a good thing to do for our fellow humans, they will recognize the ease of use and be a happy user or customer as a result.