skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this another example of something that to the casual listener sounds simple: "Good design" but the truth is incredibly complex, as many posts have already mentioned:

1) I am paid for design so leaving it as it is cannot be an option, I need to change something

2) I want to make something objectively better but this would make it too different than the other existing products

3) I can make it better but my existing users would prefer things to be left alone

4) I don't understand that just because that crazy new design works for Google doesn't mean it makes sense for me

5) Everyone has an opinion on design without necessarily any cost to that opinion

6) Marketing need to have some control over branding and the line is not usually clear

7) The reasoning behind design decisions is often lost over time so somebody breaks something to make it look good

8) Need to optmise for multiple devices = compromise

9) Things need a freshen up to stay competitive even if they are functionally acceptable otherwise we look out of date and people won't use us

10) The line between pretty and functional is not the same for each person/company product.

I could go on but you'll be pleased to hear that I won't!

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I want to add a note to people who aren't familiar - Sweden has a government debt collector[0]. Unlike the US where I'l told you can mostly dodge private debts and it just becomes a massive nuisance and credit nightmare, in Sweden the government will actually garnish your salary and repossess your stuff for private debts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Enforcement_Authority
But nobody chose the alternatives.

Java or single operating system applications were the alternative. Where would we be today if you couldn't swap between Mac and Windows laptops -- or worse, had to have both -- because you depended on applications that had no common operating system?

The reason we can use linux as a desktop is because of web applications. Now, it's possible that we could have ended up with Web Start or some alternative, but we didn't.

Even today, cross-platform applications are terrible or expensive or both. Even today, it's a giant pain to write cross-platform apps in anything but C or C++. (QT's documentation is not great for the alternatives IMO, and you end up needing to understand C++ anyway.)

If we want to get back to this, we need a better option. It turns out that nobody is willing to put in the effort when we already have web applications.

Worse is better.
> but Emacs can be more everyday-friendly. But it seems that it won't ever be.

I don't think it can; and yes, it probably won't ever be.

There's simply no incentive for Emacs to become more everyday-friendly.

For other editors and IDEs there's a strong motivation to make it work well on the first try, because if it doesn't work on the first try, it often won't work at all, and the users are helpless to fix it. On the other hand, with Emacs, it's pretty much expected for the users to scratch their itches on their own - because it's possible, so the perception is that it should be done.

Moreover, in other editors there is a strong motivation to make them work well for everyone. Again, mostly because users are not expected to (or are unable to) customize them to their needs - the users are going to learn the tool, with its quirks, workarounds, etc. In Emacs it's the other way around: nobody has the time or motivation to make the editor "just work" for everyone, because they are busy making Emacs work ideally "just for them".

It's very similar to how open-source Smalltalks work. You get an image chock-full of tools for customizing it for your needs, which is good. The bad part is that you get absolutely awful defaults, because using the defaults is a wrong way to use the software. When you can inspect and edit the code of literally everyhting with two clicks, not doing so is going against the intended use of the software.

It might sound harsh, but that's just how it is. Emacs is for people who want to have total control of their experience, it's not for people who want sane defaults. Even if Doom or Spacemacs help, they won't ever fully turn Emacs into a "modern editor", because being such is not the intended use case for Emacs.

Some people love it, and can't imagine working with anything else. Some people wonder how "debugging their editor config" is a good thing, and Emacs is simply not for them. Again, this is not elitist - there's nothing wrong with wanting to have a polished experience without much fiddling with config. It's just that Emacs is not, and won't ever be, a tool which provides such experience.
Sounds as nonsensical as this one https://twitter.com/ac2u/status/1347315392121872389?s=20
Building a Dual Shared and Static Library with CMake
Of course they should. They make the titles of their articles very public and what they choose to report on or not is an important metadata.
"Ownership" is can be kind of abstract, in this context.

A service like this needs to be infrastructure, one way or another. Secure, reasonably neutral, trusted... You don't want it serving as a retaining wall for a monopoly.
Well I knew this, but it shouldn’t surprise most of the people here either. How many factories, data centers, companies, and products have you seen that are ISO-something certified?

It’s an entire industry, of course part of that process is paying to get the specification that you’re already paying for someone to verify you’re abiding by.

The last time I went through an audit the consulting firm that was auditing us only very begrudgingly gave us the requirements for a couple of sections because we kept insisting that we were providing proof that we met them and they kept disagreeing. I still think it was just to shut us up...

As they mention in the tweet, you can possibly get them from the standards body in your country. For my current country (Estonia) they don’t seem to give it out freely, but you can buy the version they approved as the country’s standard for like €20, compared with the €200 for the official ISO version. So there are options...
The risk of doing this is that if it gets discovered (a big if) then there can be even more backlash. It may also be fodder for actual lawsuits.

They may still decide to do it. But there are potential costs.
A good one, yet go check the crowd with pitchforks and torches heading to Qt castle.
And please write your library in all languages.
A self-sustainable wearable multi-modular E-textile bioenergy microgrid system
But at least the case of healthcare in the US is a very special case. They are literally looting the people. Even an ambulance ride costs huge amounts.
I made a 1D video game that you can play with 3D glasses
Or just invest in a digital advertising company (example: Facebook and In-Q-Tel)
Downvotes to this comment shows how HN has been deteriorating in quality- this was meant for constructive discussion and criticism so users can learn from each other (for the community's gain)- not because you merely disagree: offer a valid and logical counter-argument or some value to the thread. This is not Reddit.
Pay for someone to be social with you? Like RentAFriend[1]?

1. https://rentafriend.com/whatis
This website is a nostalgia machine. Plus so many links - easy to keep me busy for a few hours.
It surely does, I live in it.
And 43' of table with the density of ebony..!

From the article: 72 lbs/ft^3. Estimating the table width at 6', and thickness at 2", that would be a total weight of 3096 lbs. Plus a healthy non-zero for the legs and other supports.

If you carry the tabletop (legs and trusses removed) with 24 people, 12 on a side, one every 4 feet, that would be 129 lbs each. OSHA would not approve.

You could probably find 24 people at a woodworking school who are up for the challenge. It might be harder to find a place to put a 43' table in the first place!
It looks like they cut a single 43ft board from the oak, then cut that into 4 planks for the kiln and milling process. After that completed they would join them back together. You lose at least an 1/8" for the blade width plus whatever they had to trim due to cupping, but that could be very difficult to see in the final top.
The iso standard is pretty much spec'd out enough on Wikipedia.
Atari Computer Disk Images
Tesla touts self-driving to consumers. To the DMV, it tells a different tale
Reality check, that business is pretty much alive in Fortune 500, and I work mostly with such products.
Is this like having an encryption standard that you have to buy to inspect? Is this analogy appropriate?
This is a joke right? Everyone knows most non-profits are just a way to dodge taxes by funneling it from James Richperson Foundation to James Richperson's shell companies. Damn right large donations should be restricted and used very specifically for what they were meant for.
I don't think either of those subscription services are unicorns or making billionaires. If anything I'm happy to see indie developers able to maintain a decent income making useful (but often niche) tools that other people can use. Of all the SaaS services I pay for, it's one like these that I'm the least apprehensive spending money on.

Video codecs are hard. PDFs are a labyrinth of a file format with traps everywhere. I bet whatever open source equivalent you'd find of these services either require some serious additional tooling to get what you want or are too outdated to be useful anymore because the maintainer moved on from the project.
Could Intel adapt a Rosetta 2-style approach? Preprocess binaries to replace ancient instructions with modern equivalents, and be able to use smaller decode units? Would the gains be worth the translation requirements?
Rural Alaska is getting Covid-19 vaccinations right
Where did you get this about GME? It literally skyrocketed once Chewy team started to take over and transform company.
The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained (2021)
Not necessarily. The non-GPL utilities the GNU coreutils are based on are presumably licensed as MIT, ISC, Public Domain, or similar. If that is the case, those licensing regimes don't forbid adding extra restrictions, so adding the restrictions of GPL would be permitted, and the new derived (again, assuming interfaces are copyrightable) work would operate as being essentially GPL licensed. Things get murky as there are proprietary utilities too that coreutils are probably based on, but then there are also specifications of behavior (SUS, Posix) which might or might not sever the "derivation path" of the work, or might introduce further licensing constraints.
It seems like it has some nice advanced features that the data engineering team might appreciate once an application gets large.

But as the person who needs to load up some data and do some transformations, this article gives me very little information about why I should switch from pandas.

But I am excited to hear about new solutions in the data frame space!
I think it's obvious that I am holding a substantial amount of GME right now, and I think I should disclose that.

Ryan Cohen, the guy who founded Chewy, is on the board for GME and leading an initiative to transform Gamestop into an e-commerce store. In other words he wants to compete directly with Steam, and while many don't realize it yet, Amazon. And this is one of the only people in history who has successfully beat Amazon in a product category before. Chewy absolutely dominated the pet market for e-commerce.

What I think Gamestop should do is compete directly with twitch, and set up an online game store on top of that. Basically do what twitch is doing but better, because twitch is shockingly bad for an Amazon acquisition. Then Gamestop could host online game tournaments, and they could even draw attention at local brick-and-mortar stores. They've got the real estate, they've got the brand recognition, and they've got the goodwill of the public right now (which is something you can't even buy, Amazon doesn't have that even with a trillion dollar market cap).

I don't think this will happen. But if it did, GME would be ridiculously undervalued right now.
Eaton troubleshooting: Why is the sky blue
I was on a gap year after an MEng in Computing when covid lockdown v1 hit the UK. Unsure what to do with my life I watched Downton Abbey with my parents and baked lots of banana bread. I'd picked up ukulele to de-stress during exam seasons and weeks before starting my first full-time engineering job I decided to make a rap music video with some vfx, animation, and... juggling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GziSV9hQ-r8

Camera: Canon EOS 70D

Mic: Audio-Technica AT2020

Interface: Mackie Onyx Blackjack

Software: Logic Pro X, Adobe After Effects + Premiere
that's interesting, is there a source?
Only a subset of standards have a certification industry around them.

In your dispute with the consulting firm you were expected to buy your own copy of the standard, they don't have the rights to give you one.
Absolute worst compared to what? Have you tried packaging software on Windows?

If you have something better in mind, please implement it. It’d get used.
This does exist in many bigger stores in Sweden too, and it's bliss.
Object Browser (2010)
People seem to forget that VW was part of a massive short squeeze that made it the most valuable company in the world for a few days. It took about a month for everything to deflate.
Thank you for this list from the fsf, I didn't know it existed. Usefull for selecting products like which bluetooth dongle to buy.
I don't think it's appropriate for the state to enforce contracts of wage labor, for similar reasons that they shouldn't enforce contracts of child labor or indentured servitude. No one would be forced to do anything, they can hire or do wage labor if they want, but the state wouldn't participate.
I have really enjoyed CODE as well, and I recently started reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Completely different subject, taught in a way it builds up.
That leaves the critical question: "lift up how and when?"

Lift up by better primary education? Lift up by more outreach to get more poorer people into computing as young adults? Or lift up by having hiring quotas for people whose family income was provably bottom quartile for at least 5 years in their childhood?
But it needs JS to search content, it sucks.
The planks are expertly milled to fit together perfectly. No doubt this required extra handwork due to the density and length of the planks.

It's usually done by machine, but the traditional process is manual of course.
> ...statistically it’s very clear the vast majority will lose everything...

The same is true for state lotteries and other forms of gambling, but many people continue to participate.

I think of it like buying useless items too. "The state of anticipating and desiring a product may be inherently more pleasurable than product ownership itself." [0] This is very similar to gambling where you are essentially paying for the opportunity to feel hope.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/study-wan...
Absolutely. They even reference ISO 8601 in the spec when specifying that the T and Z can also be lowercase.

As far as I’m aware, the only difference between the two is something related to the - in the time zone offset... though I’ve also seen plenty of libraries parse 8601 with and without -, so it seems not to be super important.
“Turning out to be” is a little disingenuous. It was never not worthless during its meme tenure.
An autonomous underwater robot saves people from drowning [pdf]
I agree that TSLA is irrational, and I think that this is true regardless of whether you think there are more gains to come. My impression of TSLA investors is that many of them just want to be a part of the future, and many others are trying to make money off the volatility & irrationality.
Short clip of a customer entering a competing swedish cashless store via BankID app https://youtu.be/Rbm_puP4PgA?t=13

Swedes also use the BankID app for online interactions with health care and other public services. Last year I did my taxes in under 60 seconds. (Get notification; BankID login; check prefilled values from bank, employer etcetera; BankID sign.)
It says almost 500 days for my country. But my country estimates to have 100% vaccinated by summer.

Far too pessimistic. It's likely not taking into account any acceleration.
I guess it's that I've always thought this is a misunderstanding of what Hemingway was doing. He wasn't trying to write simple language comprehensible to busy business people trying to get their jobs done. He was trying to write good literature as he saw it. Any alignment of the two things is accidental at best but often just a misapplication. He left things out in order for them to exist in the reader's own imaginative journey through the book; his spareness was a way of welcoming the reader into the story. That is not a good thing in business writing!
libraries don't make you money, services do. Libraries get your name in a license in the "open source licenses" tucked 20 menus deep in an app's hidden dev options.
Early stage, need effort-budget to CBA vs risk to build calendar estimate.
Sonde: Rust library to compile DTrace probes into a Rust library
Not exactly same capabilities as Android phones yet, but getting there fast with software updates: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
I realize it's not what you're referring to, but the context and terminology of your comment reminded me of this:

https://manybutfinite.com/post/the-thing-king/
It doesn't, but also, services were far less common compared with libraries when it was popular.
Googling “ bankid privatägd kritik” gave me one hit - to Flashback. Hardly mainstream...
This might all be correct, but it’s still 100% to Markle’s made up claim of racism against her kid.
I haven't seen their page, but I've seen this kind of thing before. After lining up approximately where things should fit, one piece is cut in a smooth curve just back far enough to remove the live edge. The other piece is cut to match that. This can be done using router templates. IIRC there's some trickiness with the size of the router bearings / guides to account for cutting on one side vs. the other.

For the scale they are doing, they might be able to set up a more customized solution. For example, a router attached to some guide tracks like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
This is some wholesome caustic indignation I can get behind. Surely today’s social media networks would have classified this content as hate speech and inciting violence.
This is great. I've wanted a library for this, but a SaaS will do. :)
This guy is [1], if I found the right paper. Though the order appears to be alphabetical.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01855
But most of those screenshots are from Blood!
Hit me up when BTC goes bankrupt.
this is not a source
digging through their Instagram posts, it appears as though they've developed a newish technique for this which they call a "river joint." They match the not perfectly straight edges of adjacent boards as well as they can, then they square up and rout a tongue and groove into the edges. Where there are small gaps, they add small filler pieces as necessary, but try to minimize that.

It seems like a beautiful but laborious process that is mostly applicable to a very high effort piece like this.
Did you get a lot of sales?
>Developers make one API call and we take care of deliverability, retries

Don't developers need to handle deliverability and retries to Diahook?
thanks for the pointer, I missed the discussion!
It's not an analogy -- ISO/IEC 18033-3 [0] is literally an encryption standard that you have to buy to inspect.

[0]: https://www.iso.org/standard/37972.html
Or alternatively, make it a toggle on/off switch with a LED light sort of indicator, which would be super clear without localization because that's how mic on/off switches are in the real world.
The engine is prone to falling to the following mate in 11:

1 e4 e5
2 Nf3 f6
3 Nxe5 fxe5
4 Qh5+ Ke7
5 Qxe5+ Kf7
6 Bc4+ Kg6
7 Qf5+ Kh6
8 h4 d6
9 d4+ g5
10 hxg5+ Kg7
11 Qf7#
You have to buy the ISO 27001 standard, which is a security standard: “ISO/IEC 27001:2013 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization. It also includes requirements for the assessment and treatment of information security risks tailored to the needs of the organization.”
I find these articles really interesting, within the reach of most developers. However, writing a book must take an incredible amount of time. I have started several but then got bored after a couple of chapters!

I guess the trick is to write about something you have a special "qualification" to write so that you are not just writing something that will only sell 100 copies after taking a year of your life!

Being James Patterson would probably be great but it takes time to get the success that then pays for you to sit and churn stuff out at the rate he does! I need to go back to work now...
In fairness, "DHTML" / programmatic manipulation of the DOM was just invented in 1996 and eventually ended up being the envisioned successful client application runtime implemented across browser versions and runtimes. Now, of course with the Chromium hegemony we have an old-is-new-again set of problems on the web, but I do think that for a time, people _did_ listen to this advice and stopped writing applications for _only_ IE4/5/6.

As an aside, I do still think that if a cross-platform application framework that were built from the ground-up for secure Internet-delivered application use had ever materialized in a robust way, we would probably be in a better place as an industry. But, that didn't happen, and it certainly wasn't for lack of trying - see Java Applets/Web Start/JavaFX, Silverlight, and of course the elephant in the room Flash / Flex.

Instead, HTML evolved into dynamic HTML / "the DOM" / HTML5, and each layer of abstraction built there was "good enough" to dethrone all challengers - in no small part due to, again, people heeding the advice of the OP quote and not implementing browser-locked software.
Unfortunately, normal software cannot afford the marketing budget a service can (particularly a VC-backed service).
Okay, I’ve been hesitant to Show HN but this feels like a good space. I built an algorithmic art project for my personal site/tech blog: https://eyelidlessness.github.io/

The site’s still young and there’s more coming but the initial art algorithm is in place and I did an explainer here: https://eyelidlessness.github.io/blog/2021/03/what-the-art-p...

TLDR: the art is generated from the git commit hash when a post is published.

I have a bunch of ideas for other ways to use the git hash data for other variants, but I’m pretty happy with the first pass!
Personally, I think 80% of the reason it skyrocketed was for the short squeeze, 20% because of the new team and it being undervalued if you believed in that new team. $30-$40 seems reasonable if you believe the team is gonna turn the company around IMO, but people were putting thousands and tens of thousands into shares because they're hoping the short squeeze puts it to $1k+ (at least that's the meme/not a meme if you believe WSB).
I read it's also required to book an appointment to get the covid vaccine
rfc3339 is a profile of iso8601
i.e., every rfc3339 date is also iso8601 date but not in reverse
It's not anyone though, it is a renowned professor called Claus Peter Schnorr. And he has claimed through other channels that it is his paper.
This company handled time tracking quite differently than most, because everyone was paid by the hour, even devs. The same time tracking system was used to track time spent on tickets as was used to by the accounting department to track hours. If you went to a meeting you'd update your timesheet with the meeting and its billing code. People were quite religious about maintaining an accurate timesheet as part of the culture. I think it's about the highest quality dataset you could hope for.