skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it a car that was controlled through the N64 or simply a cheap remote control car with an N64 logo slapped on it?

Based on my history of gifts I've received, I would very much expect that latter.
Here's one perspective: about five years ago I stopped buying expensive phones. Now I buy economy Motorolas, and I've never looked back. The performance is somewhat worse than a flagship phone, but I damage my phones pretty frequently and I'm so much less worried about it when the replacement cost is $200 rather than $900.

Price has been a main barrier to my wearing a smart watch as my expectation is that something on my wrist will get damaged even more often - I do a lot of mechanical work. Certainly my $15 Casio is pretty scratched up. At the $20 price point, though, I might give this a try.
"Covid is certainly a higher risk than even quickly-researched vaccines will be"

That's a decision each person has to make. That may make sense for people with comorbidities, but maybe not for otherwise healthy individuals who have previously had adverse events tied to vaccines.

I agree with reading the studies. PubMed is a great resource.
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Bed time used to be 8:30pm but a few weeks ago she just turned the age where she absolutely needed someone to be beside her until she falls asleep. All hell breaks loose if we don't, and I've thought about implementing cry-it-out but looking at her mode of crying I'm not sure that's healthy. Anyway, I'm staying with her for 2 hours until she falls asleep (she does take that long) because my spouse already cares for her all day and is exhausted, besides, she has a part time job she has to do some work in the evening for. 11pm is not an exaggeration and it's how it's been in the past 6+ weeks. I have hopes that things will be different at 3~4 years old, but not right now.
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The emphasis was more on the "no web interface" part. In 2020, I feel like Subversion is significantly less common than git, so having to install SVN + possibly learn SVN commands is a moderate barrier to browsing the code.
The cables were (originally) redundant. There are actually replacement cables on the way from Germany right now. But after the one main cable failed earlier this year they noticed that all cables are MUCH weaker than previously thought. So there was (even before the collapse) no way of replacing the existing cables with the replacements. And yes that probably implies that they should have swapped out all cables years ago. But they didn't have the funding.
The thing with scaledowns is that scaledowns usually never happens. It also costs money to build scaledown logic and build around elastic resources.
As someone who converted a 400'000+ LoC Sybase SQL codebase to Microsoft SQL Server about 5-6 years ago, they did diverged since around 2000, but not by a lot. We ended up with a codebase that could support both Sybase and MSSQL, where when differences occurred, we essentially used compiler directives, which wasn't that often.
I agree, but in the case of audio or video recording devices i am especially paranoid. If someone sells how often i use a toaster i'm annoyed - if someone sells video or audio of me i'm livid.
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> Except nobody actually thinks this way, so there's that.

I won't argue with that, especially in 2020 :).
For my control theory lectures I made a numerical simulator based on scipy ode solvers. With a small library I was able to make a block diagram and simulate closed system response for arbitrary input. You have to create blocks(which is basically derivatives and outputs), put them in model and define interconnections. It is simple but pretty flexible. I am now trying to properly implement subsystems, and maybe gui for drawing block diagrams.

I would be super interested to see what you made with sympy. Can you show an example project using it, or put notification if you ever make it open source?
The low price of $20 actually slows my impulse to buy it. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but how reliable or usable can it be for that price? It makes me think of a cheap knock-off device I'd find at a TJ Maxx store on clearance. What makes it so cheap even compared to a Fitbit?
I'd argue that discord brand simply doesn't lend itself well to business.

maybe they'll spin off a business oriented division with a different name,
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Discord is awesome but do they propose any kind of plan for businesses?
Cloud Run on GCP is the “run any container” solution that this isn’t. It scales to zero, responds immediately to an incoming http request and can handle up to 50 concurrent requests out of the one invocation for no additional cost.
Yes, there are tools such as PostHog[0] that you can deploy on your servers. You can have events, users, funnels, etc. It shows you how people are moving around. It shows you clicks, page views, page leaves, etc. It shows you retention charts.

You can also use the client to create custom events.

When you move things to "the cloud". Take a look at Sentry[1] for error monitoring. It'll show you errors and exceptions aggregated instead of you looking into logs for exceptions and errors. It has integrations with GitLab, Slack, etc.

Additional resources you might be interested in are Segment[2] and RudderStack[3].

One good way to get things going is to have a way to interact with your users. Having a button that says "Send us an issue" for when they have problems with an `href` that opens a mail client with a prefilled template and email addresses can be useful.

<a href="mailto:support@yourstartup.com?cc=founder@yourstartup.com;cofounder@yourstartup.com&subject=The issue title&body=You can have a template here" rel="email">Complain!</a>

Another useful thing is to have either Slack channels so people can ask for help there, or help each other out to solve their problems. Essentially building a community.

(I'm biased against chatbots, but you may not have an allergic reaction).

Essentially, all these help focus on issues based on impact (positive or negative) and frequency.

When you get the 20th user complains about something, you know the next thing is to get that fixed if its impact is big.

I wrote a bit about this here[4], here[5], and generally about stuff here[6]

- [0]: https://posthog.com

- [1]: https://www.sentry.com

- [2]: https://segment.com

- [3]: https://rudderstack.com

- [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841

- [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365

- [6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244246
According to your own words, even those who timed their FOMO badly won't be worse off forever - it's more like buying a computer for yourself right before the next one came out - just wait a couple of years.

If you are into bitcoin for short-term gains, then it's a casino either way - same as forex, but with more volatility. But trading it all back to USD with profit is not what bitcoin is for.
Because "slack" is so business-like?
Mattermost too. Slack competitors are going to benefit from companies not wanting to touch Salesforce with a 10 foot pole.
I'm somewhat surprised that Amazon didn't end up acquiring Slack, considering that the major thing they are missing compared to Microsoft is productivity tools. If they had purchased Dropbox and Slack they could've gotten a foothold rather quickly and slowed down one of Microsoft's major selling points (you already use Office, why not Azure?). Discord could be another interesting company in the chat space, as I'm sure they are considering an enterprise play (if they aren't they are insane, considering they have one of the more user friendly chat services and with SSO and a SLA they could probably charge $10 per user).

(Yes, I know Chime exists. But I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using it, and Slack is still rather popular.)
> Colocation isn't that much better either because there are still situations (like corrupt filesystems or malfunctioning power supplies) that would require physical access to the machine.

I disagree.

You still get all those problems with a shared provider, recall Ghandi's outage?, DigitalOcean, Linnode's and AWS a week ago. Your also stuck in a tighter situation when it does occur.

With years of colocation I have never encountered a power-out event within the datacentre. That's a potential seven years of uptime if I hadn't changed providers in-between.

Nor have I ever suffered a corrupt filesystems and that includes myself preforming DR monthly via sudden power-loss cold-boots. Sure I accidentally deleted /etc/ once.

The only issue out-standing is a failed RAM stick however it's a poorly server which I'm retiring in the new year. Poor thing.
I can't imagine our company sticking with Slack if we are forced to start using Salesforce as well. Although I'm not really sure what we would use at that point. Teams needs the whole Office subscription and we're already on G Suite.
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At least now we know that slack is enterprise ready

Finally!
Which in some ways will be wonderful and hopefully drive people to more productive solutions.
To be fair, it's quite unlikely the Spanish Flu was deadlier than COVID. We now know that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 infections are asymptomatic/mild, and those infections are only really identified due to RT-PCR testing. The vast majority of asymptomatic Spanish Flu cases would have been impossible to identify in 1918. We also have access to much faster/more aggressive treatment options than would have been available in 1918/1919. As a global community we were also more tuned into breaking events in Wuhan & prepared more swiftly accordingly (not enough - but that's a different discussion). Comparing oranges to oranges, if SARS-CoV-2 had spread in 1918, it's likely COVID would have been a bigger killer than the Spanish Flu.

It's probably more apt to state that the 1918 Pandemic was worse than the 2019/2020/2021 Pandemic - probably true. Virus to virus? Probably not.
They are not Slack.
Gah! Dammit.
It's not only about creating jobs or keeping jobs, it's about keeping a current capability of the US industrial complex running. And if you stop it it's like a bakeries oven, when you want to turn it on again it will not be ready in to produce in time for when you need it.

That's another side to projects like the F-35 that people on HN usually don't pay attention to. This programs not only "create" those jobs but they also keep the infrastructure and "machine" running that can design and build this very powerful weapons. The US had air superiority because of its technology for a while and if all that infrastructure and people just start doing something else, in like 5/10 years then the capacity to build this machines is dead, and it would take 10/15 years to get it back up and running.
I guess a difference is that Lisp implementations generally cache the generated code between runs.
All the bubble leaders are 'retiring' to Texas and Florida.
Bizcord.

That was easy.
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Look at the use cases. Discord is very much known for people talking about video games , not much else.

Slack started as an internal business tool and it remains so.
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> AMD also has a mobile chip with 8 non heterogeneous cores that has around the same TDP as the M1.

TDP is no where near actual load power use.
It funny that, everywhere in my circle, people are going "damn, we need to find an alternative now".

It really says something about a company that people see their name getting close as a sign they should stop using a product.
Slack has actual administrator tools unlike Discord. Discord very clearly has no interest in the capturing any significant market share in the business space.
Create a new login system, make the white theme default and call it "Discord Business". Done.
I'd say that I'm amazed Google hasn't come up with a competent Slack competitor yet, but then it's "Google" and "a messaging product", the two are like oil and water.
I'm still rocking my Bip even though I don't use most of the smart features(heart-rate sensor doesn't seem very accurate). I just wear it as a regular watch because it looks good, it's slim and discrete, visible in the sun, has customizable watchfaces and shows me notifications from my phone(via Gadgetbridge, no cloud account BS). That's all I need, I don't want fancy interactive smartphone features on my watch to provide an endless source of distractions for the whole day at an easier reach.

Oh, and the battery lasts forever and because of the low pricetag I won't cry if I break it or scratch it during sports or household chores.

I feel like the Bip is the unofficial successor to the beloved Pebble.
It's not the literal name, it's the reputation.
Seems like an ignominious end for them. I hope this helps them take on MS, I guess.
Kinda bummed by this news. I know a bunch of people over at Slack and I'm sure none of them are excited about being acquired. I still don't understand how salesforce has gotten so big where they can acquire $25B healthy companies which really don't fit into their eco-system.
It is supposed to be 70% ethanol with up to 0.1% “other stuff” that is supposed to discourage drinking, and when I checked 10 years ago I think it wasn’t isopropyl but I might be misremembering or thing have changed.

Thanks! Will look into that.
Can't wait to see which Slack alternative wins after everyone jumps ship.
I hope this acquisition does not pass regulatory oversight. This is how it starts. Very soon, we will have another competition-killing, anti-competitive behemoth on our hands like we did with FANGM and then we will suddenly ask ourselves how it all happened. THIS. Right here. Is how it happens.
First, I said rebooting, not disabling updates.

Instead of name-calling, maybe post the group policy here that allows you to never reboot after updating.
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The report shows that given a path, any app can access file metadata or learn that no such file exists outside the sandbox. It does not show access to file data itself. The Safari specific part of the report is data leak caused by the fact that Safari embeds sensitive information (URLs) into file metadata (name).

I believe you can access those directories by either enabling Full Disk Access for the process of interest or by disabling System Integrity Protection.
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however amazon is not really a tech-first company, their main business is retail (even if a lot of their revenue comes from AWS).
Discord's problem isn't it's name. Discord's entire interface is based around gaming. It shows your running game in the UI, it integrates with Steam, etc. It's loading messages are all based on gaming culture.

It just doesn't present itself as something you'd consider for your business.
My father was a plasma physicist that researched controlled fusion and he told me that current neutron sources were not useful for this. I think was a combination of the energy spectrum of the neutrons, the flux power, and the physical size/shape of the target area.
There's entire companies built around this data. In fact, one of my former employees partnered with one and paid for my FitBit. In the aggregate, FitBit purchases will drive down the probability of healthcare claims, saving the company money overall.
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Ask HN: Why don't we have widespread, decentralized social networking?
With decentralized Social Networking (SN) platforms such as Diaspora, Mastodon, Manyverse, etc. it seems like a no-brainer for many people to implement both personal and small group nodes that can either run standalone or in a federated environment.

It seems that there are a number of blockers to widespread adoption. Some of those are:

1. Inertia. Most folks are already on centralized SN platforms, as are their contacts, friends and family;

2. Complex installations[0] keep many folks from even attempting to install such platforms;

3. Lack of symmetric, high-speed broadband access limits the ability to self-host such platforms;

4. Limited/expensive access to domain names, DNS hosting[1] and static addressing (in the absence of widespread IPv6 adoption by consumer ISPs).

Given that most consumer-grade computing systems are mostly idle and storage costs continue to plummet, the argument for decentralized platforms just becomes better and better.

As such, why aren't more folks promoting them and/or developing mechanisms for broader access/acceptance?

[0] Yes, there are Docker images for many of these platforms, but implementation/adoption of Docker is limited and most of these platforms require significant IT and development knowledge/skills to implement.

[1] This could also be addressed via containerization, but there seems to be limited interest in promoting such self-hosted platforms.
Just wanted to say thanks for this new feature. The ability to use images up to 10 GB is huge. Being able to customize the container image down to the base OS is also nice. Don't let the negativity around the Lambda-specific bits get you down. I know that Lambda is about more than just serving HTTP, and I for one plan to use this new feature for a non-HTTP use case soon.
It's not really about the name or the branding but that fact that Discord's primary market and the driving force behind all their features is gaming communities.

Business, for worse, will demand features catered to their workflow.
> You can generalize the infrastructure to run 99% of businesses needs and write that Terraform code only once. You can bring that with you everywhere and take care of the basics in seconds and you can sleep at night easily without a pager going off.

To quote my parent. That's what we did and it worked for us.
Leisure time is hard to define recently. People are escaping, true relaxing used to come from a hard day's work that passed on the gift of life to someone else and you could rest easy, then finally throw a joyous festival together.

Today's leisure time is closer to busy escapism than relaxation, for the poor at least.