skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if someone says "yes, Hilter wanted to kill all the Jews, but he only killed 5M, not 6M" is that intolerant? Because in many circles that's regarded as denialism or revisionism.

This is the exact issue - what doesn't "intolerant" mean? It's a subjective label.
In my area, yacht racing is what carpenters do on the weekends. No joke. Brand new sails, custom everything, and, of course, when the wood trim needs fixing or varnishing, it looks gorgeous.
Also see 9 day old HN thread Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals [1]. I still find it odd that the die off is restricted to benthic animals. I can’t think of a plausible cause but I’m sure that an explanation will emerge soon enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24674082
Singapore Airlines sells out meals on parked plane
Maybe you’re extraordinary, and for most people it’s not worth it.
Ask HN: How to find profitable SaaS or Software ideas?
All of us have software ideas and projects we want to work on or currently working on. I know it is said that scratch your own itch and execution matters, yet there seems to wide array of software where CRM, Sales, DevOps etc. type of software made repeatedly and sold for millions year after year.

My question is how to do market research and where do I collect data for software projects? Getting 5-10 or 40 users, although hard, can be done with hard efforts. Making it sustainable seems really hard.

Where do I go about learning user demand and create products that ultimately end users or companies would pay for?

How do I conduct user research? Any tools, tips, methodologies that worked for you?

Thanks.
Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter
The beauty of this comment is that it's probably serious, but it also perfectly satirizes HN's nostalgia for the 90s internet and software.

We started with Spotify pulling a douchey anticompetitive move, and ended up at

> Spotify doesn't really add anything. The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing.

Somewhere along the way we've gotten lost. The only convenience of Spotify over Winamp is "social sharing"? Am I taking the bait here or do you actually believe this? How can you believe this?

What about the convenience of being able to play a massive amount of music without having to download and store it on your device? What about facilitating new music discovery? How did you come up with social sharing of all things as the honorable mention Spotify has over Winamp, when the latter is desktop software that requires you to manage all your music on your own?

I can understand if you don't personally value Spotify because you like owning media with no restrictions. But I can't understand being in denial about inarguable, significant conveniences offered by the platform.
Patenting plants is one reasonable extension, and the one we've gone with.

But it wouldn't have been totally crazy if justices had decided that when you sell something that by its very nature self replicates, you cannot get too upset when it does exactly that.

Agriculture is like other goods in that it can have costly r&d we want to incentivize, so we might want to prevent copying. But it's a bit different, in that it comes preprogrammed and desperate to break all these rules.

I feel like there was a time this could have gone either way, but it was probably quite a while back.
Right, but the criminal law falls outside of purely speech. That's the line drawn at least in the US - you can say whatever you want, but if you start inciting crime, that's a problem.

In Germany, the line is drawn much further back. It doesn't matter if what you say incites crime, the speech in and of itself is illegal.
https://ifg.world/

>See ‘Grapes’

For anyone interested in the breeders behind these (delicious) grapes.

Side note: I am very excited to see this thread alive.. I remember seeing it on New with 1 upvote thinking it wouldn't make the front page.
Meanwhile Singapore will be building world's tallest prefab skyscraper: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/singapore-worlds-talle...
100% agree that Daemon and Freedom are top-class plausible hard sci-fi, which is surprisingly hard to come by. On the other hand, I didn't much care for Influx.
Drools is awesome and we use it in some of our projects. but it just feels very monolithic and not a cloud native solution. What are some good lightweight alternatives to drools?
That's not really a "no".

And even with the full story it still doesn't make the law look great.

It's fine to infringe on the patent with as many plants as he wants, as long as he doesn't change the concentration of plants that have the gene in them? What if he had a field that was entirely contaminated via the wind? Would he be free to use glyphosate on that field? I feel like they still would have sued.
But we can just stick my flavor of the month js library on lambda and bobs your uncle
Yeah, everyone already knows that. Facebook can do what they want. But they can't claim they support free speech at the same time they censor their platform.

If they came out and said "Facebook does not support free speech on it's platform", then at least they'd be hoenst.
Hugo or any go program should fit that bill since that is one of the major selling points of go

Hugo has a ton of prebuilt executables that you just have to extract and its in a single file https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases
Very well put! And I agree that our retraining systems are horrendous. I’m probably not anywhere near as reasonable as you, as I can point to the government for every problem - why is college so expensive? Federally backed loans you can’t discharge in bankruptcy. Why do so many jobs need licenses that take years and tens of thousands of dollars to get when, for example, cutting hair is something you can learn on Youtube? Why does starting a billion dollar software company have way less friction and red tape than starting a convenience store? Why is housing so expensive? I can go all day.

Economic freedom leads to personal freedom and increased happiness. The never ending desire to have the government solve all our problems is what got us into this huge mess in the first place. I know that people are hurting, but the solution will emerge.
AWS is usually the least of our problems (though when people use AWS they're generally doing something weird enough I have to look at it). It's more the bottom feeders of OVH and Choopa/Vultr. I blacklist them instantly in every network I end up responsible for.

Digital Ocean is a weird bird because to me it's more of an educator than a hosting company (but people will of course abuse it the same way). I'd never run prod on it and I usually end up blocking their ASNs, though I feel a little worse about it.

I wish they'd sell technical writing as a service. Their documentation (especially for common tasks that they don't even directly sell, like OpenVPN setups) is superb.
China Cybersecurity: No Place to Hide
If you are expecting one thousand simultaneous requests, serverless or not, you will need a db and an appserver which support one thousand simultaneous connections. There is no getting around that.

You will have to analyze your burst rate and the lifetime of each request to figure out the size of your connection pool.

I also am not clear how AWS introduced the problem of not being able to connect to the DB. We've known about the need for connection pools and connection reuse from before AWS was a thing, no?
It is very rare that anyone would file suit, or even be aware of, a home gardener breaking this patent for personal use, no?

Pretty sure many countries even require commercial use to even be considered patent infringement.
This is by far the most interesting thing about the article, and I'm a little sad to see most of the comments here are about typewriters and keyboard layouts and not about exploring whether shortcuts can change the way you think.
> Spotify doesn't really add anything. The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing.

Did Winamp let you stream (almost) any song you wanted?
Excuse me.

> “America can’t afford for Facebook to take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the integrity of our democracy.”

How is this news? The president wins or doesn’t. The vote should rule, not sleekness bowing out because initial sentiment shows an impending loss. Amplified given the delay of mail in and absentee ballot uptake.

Whoever wins will win. Fuck tradition. Own the win.
This article from Sept 14th has details on the memo by the fired employee:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
I admit, I'm tempted to change all of my bios to "aiming for a sugar daddy" and see where life takes me.
Geometry types for graphics programming [pdf]
If Forbes main audience is wealthy and well-educated, but their scions regress to the mean, they have a problem if they expect all their kids to be accepted to a high-status college. Prep schools can do a lot (working with very little) for a lot of money, so money can fix that end.

But standardized tests get in the way of “getting the skids greased”, as it were. Pricey test prep courses only go so far. The kid needs a few functioning neurons to score decently. The title implies a simple solution is at hand...why take them at all?

An article with this title could play well to that Forbes audience. The general public...not so much.
Are there any good neutral sites that break these down (including funding sources)?
Your body constantly sheds skin flakes (dust).

Tiny mites find those flakes, cover them in enzymes that break down skin, then wait for them to break down enough to eat.

When a puff of air lifts the dust into your lungs, those digestive enzymes attack your lungs.

Your body produces extra mucus in response, to trap dust on the way in, and inflames the tissue surrounding any damage to prevent infection taking hold. Neither response is pleasant.
We've changed to that from https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/07/reports-faceboo.... Thanks!

Submitters: please note the site guideline that says: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was living this life, with the kids, and enjoying it... until COVID.

With the schools, playgrounds, libraries, and museums closed, the city life lost a lot of its appeal. And with my office closed, WFH with kids was... difficult.

We’ve moved to a bigger house in a small town.

It’s better for now. As far as when the world eventually settles into the new normal? I guess we’ll see!
This. I can type at about 100 wpm, (which is faster than most people), but I cannot _think_ at 100 wpm for any sustained period of time. I can speed-type a sentence or a few lines of code, but my output is still constrained by the time it takes to think through and revise the sentence or code in my mind.
Vim is a very keyboard-oriented program.

Dvorak with vim isn't that bad. HJKL is in a row on QWERTY, but Dvorak at least has JK together, and H to the left of L.

CUA keybindings like Ctrl X, Ctrl C, Ctrl P can be a pain with Dvorak. (I also don't think shortcuts like Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Insert are widely supported across OSs, nor USB HID's copy and paste keys).

Other than that, it's just about remembering the shortcut by the letters, not by the position of the keys.
> Spotify should definitely allow users to shift self created playlists

If their ultimate goal was to make a universally beloved product, they should absolutely do this. But their ultimate goal is presumably to make money, so I don’t expect them to make it easier for their customers to leave unless they’re forced to by regulation or an improbable level of churn over this particular issue. I’m not arguing that it’s morally right (or wrong, for that matter), but it’s exactly what I’d expect them to do given their incentives.
Ah. I've been on the road all day and caught this thread too late.

The reason that the "Serverless Revolution" appears to have stalled is that the customers who have the most to gain from serverless technologies have the least ability to recognize that the technologies they're using are actually serverless. Nor do they care.

In its most reductive form, "serverless" just means "SaaS." And Shopify store owners, for example, don't care about how many servers they run -- they care about how many snowboards they can sell. They could maintain one, twenty, or twenty thousand, or zero -- if the cost to run these things and provide value on top is abstracted away by a few tools it doesn't really matter. So you can use i.e. AWS Lambda to solve their problems, or you could sell ShopifyStoreManagerPlus but they don't care what it's called. They just care that they sold more snowboards.

So "serverless" stalled because the target audience doesn't actually care about the implementation, so the smart companies selling "serverless" solutions all dropped the lingo. AWS Lambda is just another tool in the toolchain; an engine and crankshaft instead of a horseless carriage.
> Additionally, beyond Dvorak, is there a better way to increase typing speed...

I'm really not convinced Dvorak intrinsically speeds up typing
Facebook is toilet tier in 2020. The only use we have for them is marketing to dumb boomers with money. Everyone else we just spend on google to reach.
They say "If you would like to have it included in your favourite package repository, submit an issue."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077359

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24082827
Underfloor has to be done right (installed on materials with a very low thermal mass) or it will be horrible in buildings that have a highly variable heating load.

Underfloor systems applied directly to concrete subfloors will take many hours to change temperature. In climates with a large spread between daytime and nighttime temperatures, such underfloor heating systems will either overheat the building during the day or be unable to ramp up quickly enough to heat at night.

Also be aware that underfloor heating systems are only compatible with a subset of flooring materials and don't like area rugs.
The Future of Buy-Side Due Diligence
I'm not sure why Ruby (dependencies at run time) and Go and Rust (dependencies at compile time) are both lumped together as examples of what you aren't looking for.

Doesn't go or rust give you a static executable?
Would you please stop posting name-calling and/or flamebait comments to HN? You may not owe Facebook better but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

Also, generational slurs (or any slurs) will get you banned here, so no more of that please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The thing I love most about git is how easy it is to undo any mistake short of deleting the repository.
A middle ground between both would be ideal. Does AWS offer settings to cap your spendings? (I googled and found AWS Budgets but it seems to be only an alerting system, not a cap.)
That may be true, but every musician/smaller label I come across is saying that Spotify is killing independent music.

The economics of streaming mean that the long-tail just isn't commercially viable. People no longer buy music outright, so that leaves practically no way to make money selling music.

If you deeply care about music, how can you work for an organization that, according to all musicians, is destroying music?
Cooking in the kitchen is one of the worst offenders for air quality, for example.
Ok, that's enough. We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring our many requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> moral acts

You spelled "wear a mask and avoid crowds" wrong.
I think these scientists recommended approach makes sense... Let the young and safe live normal lives, and dedicate resources to protect those who are vulnerable to the virus.
The facts are that COVID-19 is still out there actively infecting people

As are many other viruses.

Many a school has opened under the rationale of "we can't just hide from it forever", only to go into shutdown again because of the inevitable outbreak that occurs when a bunch of kids are packed like sardines into a hallway or classroom environment.

It's now well established that schools are not significant drivers of infections. Which is actually rather surprising; it's a reasonable hypothesis that lots of kids would get infected and then pass it to vulnerable family members. But the results from schools around the world show that that's not happening to any significant degree.

It is far better to be overly cautious than not cautious enough in such a case, even if it comes at the expense of inconvenience.

You can't make that general statement without quantifying the harms on both sides. Denying education and socialization to children, throwing millions of people out of work, and telling people they can't visit family or friends for an indefinite duration goes well beyond "inconvenience".
Applying for Jobs in the Modern Age
And less of a modification on an older farm -- backing up horses was hard enough that many older farms will already be designed for one-way traffic, with all eg barns allowing you to pull through.
Indoor air pollution is mostly carbon dioxide, combustion byproducts (in houses with propane/gas cooking appliances), volatile organic compounds that offgas from plastics, paints, rubbers, and similar materials, and assorted particulate matter.
I disagree that’s what he’s insinuating. I take a much bleaker view of it. Those jobs are gone permanently and many of the new jobs we see on the lower skill end of the scale are ghost jobs that ONLY exist because it’s cheaper and quicker to just pay people to do those things than to automate them, but once the cost of development/automation has been paid for we’re going to see millions of low wage jobs disappear at a MUCH faster pace than we have to this point.

Job losses are only going to accelerate for the foreseeable future across most industries and they won’t be replaced by anything or at most a small fraction of what was lost.

Instead of the Jetsons (everyone’s jobs get simpler and simpler until they’re trivial, which seems to be what you’re leaning towards) we’ll have huge swaths of people that have so much time on their hands the time value of labor will drop to almost $0.
A good write-up I found online is https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...

indeed as you said: "The Supreme Court found that Schmeiser’s actions constituted infringement. Monsanto’s evidence at trial, estimating that 95-98% of Schmeiser’s 1000+ acres contained canola plants with its patented gene, convinced the Supreme Court that the infringing gene’s presence was too pervasive to be caused entirely by accidental delivery."
I think there's very few people who would fit in to the internet speed range of "capable of streaming music consistently enough to prefer that over downloading" and "downloads slowly".

Finding and downloading mp3's isn't a problem.
I have a lot of respect for good front-end people. They usually end up holding multiple roles (front end developer, user experience designer, accessibility designer, etc) that only marginally overlap and are also at the complete opposite end of what I work on.

It's the one area of tech I don't work either in or directly adjacent to. I treasure having worked with a couple of god-tier devs I can take my dumb questions to when I do have to touch their world.
Because some goof lawyer suggested it and the marginal cost of adding the text was ~0. A patent like that is a ticket to huge margins as far as agriculture is concerned. It makes sense that people would err on the side of protecting it.
Serverless functions can be set on a timer exactly like cron jobs. But you can also set them to act on certain triggers, when a message comes into an SQS queue, when a notification goes to an SNS topic, etc.

You can do the same with a VPS, but I think VPS cost more because you pay for all the time you're not using them. With serverless functions you only pay for execution time. And with one-off, daily, hourly jobs you end up paying far less, unless your jobs are compute intensive (cron jobs tend to not be...?)

I have seen some VPS these days come in at like $2 a month though, so it's worth comparing the cost.
I think you mean they are engineered but are not GMO.
I don't think that's true. I can think while I type just fine. We are not machines who can do only one thing at a time.

As an analogy-- plenty of people can play their instrument while they improvise the next bar in their head.

Try it! Transcribe the words I've written here and while thinking about the weather.
It's not useful, as many attempts to demonstrated its effectiveness have failed.

It can be art, eg, if it entertains you.

It can be a fraud. But it's not a fraud if the people involved think they are honest and even helpful.

So (D) a pseudoscience.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Exploitation vs. Prevention: The Ongoing Saga of Software Vulnerabilities [pdf]
Watch this wrecked Tesla Model 3 charging and launching in Track Mode
People's Republic of Desire (Dystopian Live-Streaming in China)
That's pretty much what hugo[1] is. Download the .tar.gz and put the executable wherever you want.

[1] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
If you are building a house, I highly recommend watching Essential Craftsman on YouTube. He has a wonderful playlist series on building a spec house that will help you understand what's going on. I even signed up for his Patreon (my first time using that tool).
Can confirm this advice - my brother does high-end HVAC install and repair work and I've spent several months with him doing the same over the last two years. Mitsubishi and Daikin are about as good as you can get for high-efficiency minisplits and are a lot less likely to fail on you in a few years than the cheaper brands.

Also a quick note on heating in colder climates - take note of what's available in your local area. Electric heating may not be the most cost effective (or most reliable) option in winter.
Also with the c64 you do not really want to go back to that keyboard, do you?
> According to wikipedia[1] monsanto says they won't "exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seed or traits are present in farmer's fields as a result of inadvertent means".

Well that's telling, in that they still claim to have the right to shut down such a farmer.
Extended support until 2020/01 won't need to be paid as we know. Need to pay for Extended Security Update if you still need to receive security updates now.
Yeah I learned a whole bunch about this from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/real-johnny-appl... (via Fark, and summarizing a book) recently:

* Johnny Appleseed planted from seed instead of grafting trees in part due due to his Swedenborgian Church beliefs

* Apples are extreme heterozygotes and each newly seeded tree produces very different apples, so you can randomly stumble on some brand-new delicious varieties among many thousands of cider-only trees

* The FBI cut down many of Johnny Appleseed's trees during Prohibition to combat hard cider production (I should probably read the source book for these claims, Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire", because this sounds kind of crazy)
That's beautiful. I hope your house comes out as well as that.
Is COIN-OR from Google? I'm pretty sure I've met some lead developers of the group in person and they weren't from Google IIRC.
That's stenography. If you truly need to type fast, there's better tools for the job.