skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eclipse (and any IDE for the matter) is an incredibly complex piece of software.

I don't think it's reasonable to say Eclipse is bad because you haven't used it for 10 years and had trouble finding your way around, etc. The same could be said about Visual Studio, VSCode, IntelliJ or whatever else someone wants to program with today.
They could, the big difference is they would just be another player on the lightning network payment channel, perhaps a very big player, but not "own the whole layer" kinda big.
> There are several major issues that have the support of the majority (sometimes as much as 80%) of the population, and yet they are never voted on.

Can you provide examples?
Oh! Now I understand the confusion, good point. Will try to edit something in quickly before the edit timer expires :)

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/833/
How does it feel knowing that he didn't step into your logic trap?
I work at a financial company (200B assets) writing software to analyze bond market. When pandemic started and stock crashed, our software didn't expect such a market crash (obviously, it's called a pandemic ...), so I had to work 80+ hours to get it fixed as everyone else who worked on the application already left and the new people didn't have any clue. Fast forward to the post-mortem phase which also happened to be annual review time, my manager told me I am a toxic person and I made everything worse during the crisis.

To make the matter worse the night when everything was fixed, I was on my way home at 3:30am and I got a speeding ticket for going 60mph over the limit. I fell asleep behind the wheel, thank God I'm still alive.

I left that team immediately, and exactly one year has passed and they haven't been able to find another person to replace me but what bothers me is they promoted that manager because I left and he got all the credit.

In summary, I will never ever work over 40 hours for any company.
Intriguing that the HN community is (every time) so excited about CSS.
I'm pretty sure all of the songs I recorded in high school are gone forever, since I only backed up the Audacity files and not the entire folder. Perhaps this is for the best, but either way I'm glad future emo teens will have an easier time preserving their work.
"Tell me what led up to the failure -- include technical details and process/technical/decision-making that led to the failure. I don't know the engineer and my interest is in the idea/technology, not the person."

I agree with the emphasis on the technical side of things, but I would argue that some failures might have indeed something to do with the person. Their characteristics and habits. Their way of life. Even their taste in music and art. That all influences failure or succed of projects.
But it is surely harder to get meaningful data out of it ..
It's broken in open source because hardware is horrible but OEM's must make at least a minimalistic effort to make their hardware work with windows lest their hardware be returned to walmart. Presumably infinite effort to figure out how windows does it would yield software that works as well but in the real world of imperfect documentation and finite effort results in imperfect results.

There was a thread on this a while back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25385860

Short answer buy hardware known not to suck at it.
No, I’m using a STUN server. This issue is unrelated and due to the local IPs being masked by mDNS addresses so that local network topology isn’t leaked to the world at large and my routers handling of mDNS. Which is why everything works over the local network if I disable mDNS use in Chrome. TURN is the ultimate fallback to being unable to NAT punch.

Ironically getting machines connected across the internet with WebRTC has so far been relatively smooth sailing.
I don't think that's really what I'm saying.

Every Web forum (this one quite notably included) has some kind of ground rules for moderation because if you don't have them they become overrun with pornography, hate speech, or some other kind of content that puts off the majority of users -- in other words they were never radical free speech zones in the first place. If we were talking about sending people to jail for sharing PizzaGate conspiracies I wouldn't support it, but I don't really see what benefit there is to Facebook or Twitter tolerating such content, and with something like 10% of Americans saying they at least partly believe in QAnon it is getting hard to act like the problems arising from this content are irrelevant or just a sideshow.
boring == stable, and I'm perfectly fine with that for serious projects. I'll leave to hipsters to pave new paths, and I'm going to learn from their mistakes ;)
A quote from that link:

> Life's too short to remember how to write Bash code.

Hard agree.
Bank of America had this[1] to say: “No good reason to own BTC unless you see prices going up. .. it is not tied to inflation, and remains exceptionally volatile, making it impractical as a store of wealth or payments mechanism. As such, the main.. argument for holding Bitcoin is.. sheer price appreciation”

I haven't found a reason in favor of owning btc other than "number go up".

[1] https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/13721290012512215...
I wish developers would merge the XDG Base Directory support patches.
I'll bet that the front page demo was written before that feature was added and they just haven't gotten around to updating.

Documentation is hard.
One of the web projects I worked on some years ago was visualisation of a research project into compensation levels for farmers who have had herds culled from Brucellosis.

It’s an interesting economic question - because farmers around the world feel the economic impact of losing their herd in entirely different ways. When you get the compensation value wrong though you make the outbreak worse - because farmers will shop around an infected animal to enable others to claim.

Internally the project was always known as the ‘cowcullator’...
At Mapsense we would always refer to Color Brewer https://colorbrewer2.org/. Basically takes the thinking out of the equation.
Since it's a student project to learn about VHDL and synthesis the pong clone had a few additions like simple math-expression based textures and we ignored trying to get close to the exact movement behaviour. But you actually get to control it with rotation based input. :)

In regards to ROM. It was an FPGA, meaning it was reprogrammed on every startup. But all behaviour was built as logic without accessing any memory.
> she's literally trading more risk(and that risk concerns her family too) for no gain whatsoever (it costs nothing to delete a tweet, but the loss of her job could potentially cost her everything).

I have to disagree with both of these points, but am not downvoting you.

Even if you lose your job, you are still eligible for COBRA. She, and her family, would not immediately lose their health insurance. It might cost them a bit out of pocket, but they're not going to die. Further, I doubt someone who works in social media, in the tech space, and with 50k followers on twitter these days would not be able to find their way into another job.

Second, "costs nothing to delete a tweet", while financially true, is not true across the board. People do not like to be censored, especially needlessly so.
What is the benefit of using ZFS on a personal or dev machine? I almost never tinker with filesystem partitions or allocation once I set them up as part of installing an OS. I occasionally do on a production machine if I've misjudged space needed for something, but there again it's pretty rare.
I've wondered about this. In some limited areas, it seems like change helps keep things fresh and people off of autopilot. From that perspective, it's possible that if prolonged the results would level out.

And, yes, I say this as someone who would rather have a four day workweek.
Microsoft is a very left organisation.
Change my mind.
To quote myself, emphasis added:

> alleged shadiness

I can't speak on each and every guru out there, but many do seem to be eager to take your worldly possessions for you own benefit, and much of this is predicated on their self proclaimed enlightenment. The perverse incentives seem like a vacuum for sociopaths to occupy
For example, "the collective lack of full faith and confidence of the people that the US Government will always act in their best interest"
Think Spatially to Grok Lifetimes
I suspect they put it that way because they don't want to offend conservative readers.
True, that said, I think it's a good data point towards a 4 day workweek none the less. I feel most people would have predicted the outcome to be negative or hurt by the four day workweek. So we don't know if it's sufficient to increase productivity, but it clearly isn't sufficient to decrease it either. And that's already pretty promising data.
Thanks Audacity team and contributors! I love to see major releases from tools I've been using for decades. So dependable, always ready to save my bacon when I need it.
Pixelon vibes.
Plenty of people use Eclipse for their daily-driver. 2021-03 has been out for merely hours and already has clocked up over 11K downloads[1]. That, of course, doesn't count all the people happily using a previous version.

Eclipse itself has certainly improved dramatically in the last couple years. Speed, UI, Installation, etc. Lots of polish going into it...

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
Doesn't seem to work in my browser (Firefox)
NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor
I think a better model would be something where insurance is included..or covered by the source of healthcare.

Example: Hospitals are generally the source / hub of medicine in an area. So you subscribe to a hospital and pay them 5% of your income.

Hospital then negotiates rates with other hospitals or all hospitals maybe set common-rates for things. Whether you're in an injury locally or across the globe they cover the cost.

Hospital gets recurring income monthly to budget by. PCP's and specialists might get a cut of that as well maybe they get shares of the income based on office visits/year?
You can say the same about running Linux on your laptop. The answer is that you don't buy the random $20 routerat Walmart and hope that you can install openwrt on it. Instead, you buy the router specifically to install openwrt on it. It's certainly a bit more painful but you get used to the idea of using a bit older gen hardware but enjoy excellent software supoort.

Over time, with enough people do it, the manufacturer will realize that and cater to you (see the Linksys 54gl router, archer c7, dell laptops, and Lenovo Thinkpad -- the manufacturer all know people buy the hardware to run the software they want)
I remember when I got my first VGA card, I was so excited and the games did look so much better to me! It's also how I felt about getting my first audio card (the original Sound Blaster)

Even looking at the comparisons in that post I still prefer the VGA versions over the EGA versions. Guess I did not get enough exposure to EGA to have that much nostalgia for it. My family got a computer around '91 and I think the VGA card came within a year after purchase
Thanks for the heads up. When the link said "vamachara" I just took it face value.
The Beeple's $69m NFT is public and image is downloadable
bash + nohup are elementary parts of using Linux, systemD is not and therefore learning it is added complexity.
My favorite game to play when working on hardware projects is "make it work (with what you have)".

It's way more fun than just going to the hardware store to get what you "need". Granted the end result is normally pretty ugly, but then again the end result is not why I play the game.
This is true, but it's also true that making faint features visible (like the dark, dusty regions) often requires the use of local contrast, sharpening, and masks.

Also, in the case of this specific image, I think it's important to note just how deep the images are - they're processed for high resolution in the individual components, so the mosaic has an absolutely huge resolution. When downscaled to look at the whole thing zoomed out, that might give some of the impression of over-sharpness.
Audacity is one of the best open source software products out there. Grats on the release!!!!
Okay, then go take out a loan and sell some covered calls. You'll make money on the premiums. Why aren't you doing that?
Lightning, technically speaking, is garbage.

10k transactions per second ETH2 layer 1 + zk roll-ups providing throughout multiplication threatens VISA.
Trails appear very quickly, at focal lengths of around 20mm (typical dslr kit lens) they are obvious in 20-30 seconds, with a 100mm lens (start of telephoto range) they are obvious in 3-5 seconds. This of course depends on the res of your camera (I shoot with an 8MP and a 24MP).

To get rid of the trails you need a tracking mount. The better the mount the smoother and longer it tracks. Astrophotography is expensive...
The "EGA is better" crowd makes me think of the "vinyl is better" one. Sure, albums produced with the vinyl as the target, verbatim put on CD, were better on real vynil. But that doesn't mean the vinyl is better per se, at least not technically.

Here is almost the same, due to its limitation EGA needed some creativity that VGA didn't need. But in the end VGA was also mastered and produced some masterpieces (for example Monkey Island 2 to remain into the LucasArts realm).
Well, the alternative is that a lot of people around her are misogynistic for no reason, so your empathy for her means you're assuming a lot of other people are unreasonable assholes. How far does this get you in life?
McConnell is on the record saying he doesn't think the government should be bailing out blue states for what he has deemed profligate spending, so no need to look back to 1975.

https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressrelea...

> “I said yesterday we’re going to push the pause button here, because I think this whole business of additional assistance for state and local governments needs to be thoroughly evaluated. You raised yourself the important issue of what states have done, many of them have done to themselves with their pension programs. There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations.”
I always feel that Eclipse is Foss but mainly supported by large corporations who put real improvements first in their commercial version. When I see eclipse, I directly think big blue’s toy project. But the basic IDE is still feature complete, but lacks the real needed innovations imho.
I think you mean "objectively", not "empirically". Your word choice is problematic as it invokes the authority and propriety of empire as the most rational form of governance. While we're arguing for linguistic purity tests, let's maintain some principled consistency here.
It certainly does come across as harsh, and is probably why you were flagged. In a debate, you simply don’t insult their intelligence, especially without evidence disproving their claims. You haven’t said why you’re an alleged expert on this subject, either. And regardless if either one of us are experts, that shouldn’t change a thing. If they’re truly ignorant, that can be quickly shown by counter arguments. HN’s toxicity has risen over the years, but we still strive to keep things civil. What’s magical about this community is that you _do_ come across experts, and through civil discourse you can learn a ton from them.
It’s like slash dot hating the iPod all over again.

“Expensive, less TPS than my SQL server. Meh”
> In summary, I will never ever work over 40 hours for any company

Thank You!
Because only the worst employees actually took the 5th day off. Unencumbered by the usual idiots, productivity soared.
Why is it flawed as a currency?
The anti-BTC sentiment on HN puzzles me. There is no intelligent critique. The doubts that are endlessly repeated here have been addressed in detail, and are available online. Scaling and transaction throughput, energy consumption, state attacks, protocol weakness and lack of backing have all been responded to, to a sufficiently satisfactory degree.
Autopilot is nothing bad. For repeative tasks that cannot be improved with reasonable amount of ressources, you are better off in autopilot. It saves energy for critical times.
Interesting that they decided to change the project format from bag of files to single file. I certainly remember when I was new to computers and I was using some software and brought only the project file with me to a friend and didn’t know I had to bring the source files also. But after the first time of making that mistake I learned from it. Personally I still like the bag of files approach for music and video projects because it keeps the source files accessible and I use a few different pieces of software and don’t want my source files locked into a project files (even when it’s a SQLite based approach like Audacity 3). And for me personally I don’t want to duplicate files on my local storage medium either.

But I can see how it will be helpful to users in general.

macOS has a really interesting feature that allows bag of files to appear like a single file to users but it’s actually just a directory and you can still access the files inside by opening it as a directory. Of course that doesn’t help for cross platform software though, as on other platforms you will still only see it as the bag of files that it really is.
It's impossible with current bitcoin transaction fees. Monero has a better chance at seeing real usage as currency.
Downvoting folks - please keep downvoting, but I'm sincerely curious to know what's wrong with including other's part comment?
Yes, it will be wonderful to have equality of the sexes again. If women don't want to pay child support they should just not have unprotected sex, like men.

Or we do the sane thing and stop treating clumps of cells like people.
Over 100 people killed in the city of Bata (Equatorial Guinea) explosion last week. There's not much OSINT on it.

Explosives on a military base detonated after farmers cleared their fields nearby with fire.

https://twitter.com/ChrisSGiles/status/1369646599559909377

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/four-large-explosion...

Rather than Beirut compared to a volcano it'd be good to known how Bata compared to Beirut.

With the all the video coming out of Beirut it seems like a good point of reference.
This view is a really poor understanding of what engineering is about. If what you are saying is true then we wouldn't be sitting here trying to encourage engineers to learn every layer of the stack. Each of those layers is significantly different and quickly falls out of the domain of a Software Engineer.
You do realize I made up all of the numbers, right? They're hypothetical numbers to illustrate a point. Because it is really difficult to pinpoint the actual value of labor and whatnot. And I'm not looking to discuss whether any particular job is worth any particular value. So I use a fictional, hypothetical world where I already know the values (because I made them up), to highlight a core point.

Which is why a lot of people want to steer away from the conversation of what labor is worth. Because we may have to admit that companies are short-changing their workers (no matter where they are working).

> $15/hour, then that is the value of the employee to the company.

That's an assertion that I do not grant you. And by definition of the fictional world I created, would not be true. The value they provide is $10/hr.

But let's assume that it is $15/hr for a second. Then, if the company provides no value whatsoever, then why should they get anything?

Why can't the worker just go and sell to whoever the company was selling to and make the money directly?

That reason is the value the company provides. And it is worth something. And I'm completely willing to acknowledge that. Just because something can be sold for $X doesn't mean any single part of the chain to produce that item provided all of the value.
> We also fixed over 160 bugs that had been accumulating over the years.

This is good news indeed. Previous versions of Audacity are so buggy that they're barely usable. Version 2.4.2 crashed more often than not when I used it.
> if you photograph stars with an exposure time that is too long, then you get star trails in the image

He was using a tracking mount. At 200mm you can't image for more than a few seconds without trailing.
> Lightning, technically speaking, is garbage.

Do you care to elaborate?
Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but after having recently done my taxes, it seems to me you'd generate a capital gain or loss that has to be captured on IRS Form 8949 every time such a thing triggered bitcoin to be converted to USD, goods or services.

Or is it some nudge-nudge-wink-wink situation where everyone, including the IRS, ignores such a thing unless the sums involved are large.
a.) Jamie Dimon had nothing to do with JPMorgan's strong financial position in 2008. He just lucked into the fact that JPM was not exposed to MBSs as heavily as the others. JPM did get exposed mightily in the flash crash of 2012 though, and that was under his watch.

2.) Where do you get this info that he was "brow-beaten" into accepting Fed money? Many of the banks, including others such as Wells Fargo and Boa didn't need the money either. That was just Hank Paulson's way of compensating them for the really expensive acquisitions, which none of the banks wanted to do really (JPM got Chase, Wells Fargo got Wachovia, BoA got Merrill Lynch, Buffett got Goldman Sachs and Lehman was left to die).

3.) There are way more brilliant bankers and financiers than Dimon in the financial industry. Steven Schwarzman and Peter Peterson built a behemoth investment firm from the ground up. Sergio Ermotti just engineered one of the best turnarounds for a big bank at UBS. Blankfein and now Solomon effectively shifted GS from their S&T desks to give more power to the Strats Tech teams, effectively changing the culture at GS, a sector where JPM is effectively lagging in spite of being the largest bank with the biggest resources. And this is not even taking into account some of the more brilliant bankers abroad.

Compared to nitwists like Thain or Corbat or whoever, sure Jamie Dimon beats them. But there are way more brilliant bankers who actually built something. Jamie is the classic example of happened to be at the right place at the right time.

I honestly don't know how this hero-worship of Dimon came to be - maybe it's those memes they have running around.
Also, you can't just pull tweets from the web and show them as testimonials. You will need to ask the sender for permission. (I would personally hate it if my tweets were pulled out of context and used like this for commercial purposes, without my consent.)
I was a linux and freebsd user in my younger days for a decade, until I switched to macOS. Now I am approaching my 40s and I would never do a customisation craze of my younger days, where I would spend time selecting a wallpaper and themes. My wallpaper is grey, I barely see it, so why bother?

But I still customise – just different things. Mac lets me customise my workflows with little effort. All the UI scripting, keyboard maestro, Launchbar actions and hyperkey shortcuts help me a lot. Computers are good at tedious and boring tasks, but I am not. It may seldom get me back the time spent for doing the workflows, but it helps me to stay sane with all the mouse-clicking, keeps my RSI in check, and gets me some satisfaction knowing that my craft is not only good for reading sales items out of the database.
I was taking a zoom class and they released some youtube videos in which the vocabulary words were pronounced by a native speaker. I downloaded Audacity, grabbed the youtube video with python's youtube downloader, and was able to splice up the recording into individual vocab words and put them on my Anki cards.

So Audacity helped me to learn a foreign language. Thanks!