skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the inside that is how pretty much we went through it.

The community was already getting tired of the multiple Symbian reboots (just IDEs there were three of them), then came PIPS and Qt, while it seemed like a strecht everyone was kind of still on boat.

However then the whole Linux vs Symbian started to gain steam, Symbian went open source, and finally the burning platforms memo happenend.

Not many happy faces at Espoo during that week, and even more unhappy devs asked to throw everything away and jump into .NET, when the Nokia community had a long tradition of Java and C++ development stacks.
There's a paper by Schmidhuber [1] in which he argues, IIRC, that not the surprise as in high or just-right entropy is what satisfies the observer of e.g. art, but the fact that it teaches you a new, previously unknown pattern of regularity about the world which allows you to compress information better. I may be misconstruing it though b/c it's been a while since I looked into it.

On another note, Brian Eno has cited Morse Peckham's "Man's Rage for Chaos"[2], which seems to be more in line with what you are saying and to claim that the purpose of art is offering surprising shifts in perspective that break up the otherwise overly strong drive towards order and predictability.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4552798-man-s-rage-for-c...
Is that suggesting that all "bastards"' mothers were raped?
I wrote “normal”, not ”default”. Almost every autoexec.bat file I saw in the wild contained “prompt $p$g”.
superglue is a no go there... I repair such things using tamper evident seal (those red/blue varnish for tamper proof screws etc)
What are you suggesting, that we should ignore facts if they are highlighted by people whose views you don't like? Or that Amy is untrustworthy and lying? If that's the case, please point to some lies that she has told?
> The story of smoking in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is capacious enough to include the distillation apparatus of the alchemist, the water pipe of the cannabis smoker, and even medicinal smoke enemas.

I had no idea this was a thing, that's disturbing lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
Is it superior usability or superior possibilities to customise the phone?
WRONG!

Elop did exactly what the Nokia board asked him to do.

All anti-Elop bashers should read about what happened before spreading this content.
"List of largest optical reflecting telescopes"

8.2 m (323 in)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflec...
What I read (but I can't remember where) is that Mongols would use the threat of razing as a way to force cities to surrender. If the city surrendered, they were spared, if not, they were razed. Pour encourager les autres, if you will.
Agreed. Even if it's legal I'd be upset. I'd sever my relationship with the company and maybe post a negative review warning people not to post positive reviews.
The only problem with Monero (and most other privacy/decentralized related projects) is that there is a big illegal industry that desperately needs such a product and it needs it much more than any legitimate user so it has gained a Tor like reputation. The only ones who need superior privacy are those who have something to "hide", at least according to governments.
Not just small caps – turkish has different case mapping for iİ ıI vs the ascii mapping iI.

There’s also situations like German, where, until 2017, a single lower case letter could map to two upper-case letters (but they wouldn’t map back to that single lower-case letter):

toUpper(ß) == SS, toLower(S) == s, toLower(SS) == ss, toLower(toUpper(ß)) != ß

(Since 2017 that’s been fixed, although not adopted by every publication or software yet, by using ẞ. toUpper(ß) == ẞ, toLower(ẞ) == ß, toLower(toUpper(ß)) == ẞ)
I think if you have intrinsic motivation to work on your hobbies, it won't feel like work and you will find a way (unless you are actually extremely exhausted - then the fix is to rest). 'I feel like I’m missing that spark' sounds like you don't believe that working on that project is beneficial.

http://mindingourway.com/guilt/ helped me to discover my intrinsic motivation. But you might end up doing something else instead of your original hobby.
I am using Atlassian's free plans for Jira, Confluence and Service Management.
They are great!
And yet, that’s not what they did, that’s just your image of the kind of people they are, and now you’re spreading that image without any basis.

This sibling comment deserves the most attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26500831
There are some more colour-scales to investigate at cpt-city: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/
I can confirm it was to some extent like that.

The first maemo tablets did not have radio to avoid competion with Symbian, and devices like S90, for example.
Agree, you probably want to just read some cpu time stamp counter before and after, and make sure you ar pinning your threwads, locking the clocks, etc. so that you can get a reliable time from there, or... just use cycles as your unit of measure.
I suppose all criticism is cancel culture if you just pretend the “cancel” part is there.
Should be possible for study group to naturally form around topic of interest and comb through the details to write up two pager and 30 second video to condense the subject at hand.
Possibly, we'll never know unless that happens.

But something that I noticed during the GME craze is how (some) people were making pledges to donate part of the profits to charities if things went well for them, and later showing proof of doing it.

IIRC someone pledged 20% of the profits thinking they'd donate a few 100s, and ended up donating several 10'000s, but staying true to the pledge.

If you dig the subreddit you'll see people donated to foundations for autism and homeless shelters, in addition to local food banks.

It might be another one of the usual internet "mobs", but it's the first one were I see unorganized individuals part of the community pushing others towards doing good, lead by example and show proof for it (although typically with some meme reference in it).
How did you ensure you'd given each iteration a proper go? Are there any tips you can share for validating them that were effective?
The installation instructions for the server install don't seem to work.

> wget https://releases.mattermost.com/focalboard/0.5.0/focalboard-...

> tar -xvzf focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz

The file is actually a zip with the tar.gz inside:

focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

$ unzip -l focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Archive: focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Length Date Time Name

--------- ---------- ----- ----

12461347 02-02-2021 00:38 focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz

-------- -------

12461347 1 files

Running tar directly (as written in the instructions) will fail with:

$ tar -tzvf focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar: invalid magic

tar: short read

It seems like there's something unintentionally producing a zip at the end of the build process.
Nokia and Sony-Ericson already had touchscreen phones running Symbian on sale in 2002!
GC9A01 1.28 Inch Round LCD Module – A Good Choice for a Smartwatch
If not, I was imagining this could be an elaborate scam. Although the clues seem to point that it was an in-person job, I can imagine in today's climate "hiring" people remotely and pulling a scam like this. The result being to get some cash payment from the victim to avoid legal trouble.
Any recommended links? Did anyone look into which funds shorted Nokia as market cap dropped from 30B?
Visa has incentives to play by the tax rules and make it easy for the average consumer to spend Bitcoin in dollars. Most cryptocurrency credit card companies built on top of Visa aren't willing to get their feet wet, not even in the country they are operating in.
> or shipped to Turkey where god knows what environmental crime is committed with it.

We Turks just produce a lower grade of plastic out of it.

Source: my father works in plastic industry
Last week, my son had to make a podcast for school. He created a series of small sequences with his mobile and I told him I would make a big mp3 out of it.

I had never used a sound manipulation software before, but within 2h (including downloading and installing the software) I was able to import all the files (It was not intuitive, I had to search a bit), cut stuff, put a bit of a piano stuff he played with fade in/out effect and create a nice 2 minute mp3.

I was blown away by the final quality for so little work.
also they don't adopt them, they fund their caretaking. this title is pretty poor.
Prototype: Open Smartwatch Based on ESP32
Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild!

I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an internet meme, reckless asset trading, and a change in the trajectory of the fate an endangered species.
Morgan Stanley Made the Move, to Offer Its Clients Access to Bitcoin Funds
You're assuming that tech is a meritocracy (it very much is not).

You're implying that if a tool is archaic, things cannot be done with it (also not true).

You're also explicitly saying that the features James mentioned are esoteric, which is easily disproven by the fact that many mainstream languages have them nowadays.
> You can keep your postal systems and secular courts, I would like to get some of the cities they sacked and their libraries back.

That's a really big tradeoff, how did you arrive at your conclusion?
I haven't been following this too closely, but is this whole thing some kind of generalization of the milliondollarpage idea?
Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to 'salmon'
It’s clearer if for M1 you read “the new architecture promoted by Apple around their M1 processor”.
It's not just PR, it's literal gorilla marketing!
Krita earned an estimated $4850 from Microsoft App Store vs $2000 in donations and finally allowed a full time maintainer, per this 2018 article https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...
Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations
I don't think that I can guarantee success. There was some angle of luck involved. However over time, because I am getting faster, I am getting more shots at the game. Earlier I could play one game over 2 years and make many mistake (which now look obvious to me) along the way. Now I can play multiple games every year. So that helps you build your own luck to some extent.

> Q1. What was the prerequisite for your success (product/service, team, market)?

Drive and desire of learn would probably be biggest. No task is good or bad: If something has to be done it has to be done.

Acquiring more skills apart from programming: devops, product, hiring, management, sales, marketing, legal, accounting. This help you develop holistic view of your product and company.

> Q2 What technology space are you in? (Digital/brand vs high-tech)?

Product for end consumer. The end product itself is not very high tech. I don't know a humble way to say it - but the tech powering the company is really well architected and managed.

> Q3 What weré your difficultis when iterating over your product concepts, and what was the iteration frequency?

This could be a 5000 word reply. In the end difficulties don't matter. Brutally prioritize and keep at it till you overcome it. Know when to cut your losses and move on.

> Q4 How long did it take to take off?

I had 3 products which saw good adoption. Only the current one is financially successful. Each of those took 1-2 months to build and we knew within a week that it was going to be successful.
This article really deserves more attention. I hope you repost it at some point.

The Datacultr app mentioned is a particularly barefaced example of efficiently extracting small amounts of money from many users through hardware control.

There's also the idea of (effectively) embedding loans in smart hardware so they follow whoever's actually trying to use it. (Also already thing with cars.)

Both techniques seem likely to have many other applications. Probably very unpleasant ones.
Accelerating K-Nearest Neighbors 600x Using Rapids
This sounds awesome. Link to the product? Love seeing these kinds of businesses thrive.
"be the change you want to see"

Be the change by taking political action. I also like to donate to projects every month.
>What does it even mean to adopt a gorilla?

The verb "adopt" isn't to be taken literally.

In charity or volunteering, it's similar to the template of "adopt-a-<noun>". Examples such as "Adopt-a-Highway" or "Adopt-a-Child" to sponsor a hungry child in Africa.

The Dian Fossey webpage for "Adopt a Gorilla!" has a list of 6 bullet items that tells donators what "adoption" means: https://fosseyfund.salsalabs.org/adopthomepage/index.html
"Adopting" is what they pay for. It's symbolic of course, but it is called exactly that.
Well, Warren Buffett brought up the farmland.

I'm not invested in gold, and I mostly agree with Buffett here. I just want to point out that the argument ain't watertight.

(I try to be especially critical of arguments that support positions I agree with. Have to be careful not to bullshit yourself too much.)

I mostly agree with the conclusions of the Dalio piece, too. But I don't agree with all the arguments.

My main takeaway was to get inspired to look into how to short US bonds.
Ask HN: How do you automate Google Workspace and other staff account management
We are a company of about 200 people and have no automation to help manage accounts. Everyone in the company uses Google Workspace, Slack, Notion and various teams use a variety of other services, as you'd expect (Pipedrive, Zendesk...)

Are there services that easily allow us automate creating and deletion of accounts when staff join/leave?

An example desired workflow would be:

We add a new user details in Google Workspace (or even in a Google Sheet), and add them to various groups.
Notion and Slack accounts would automatically be created and they would be added to various groups based on their Google Workspace groups.

They would have calendar events created and welcome emails sent to them based on their groups also.

And when the GSuite user is removed, their access from Notion and Slack would also be removed.

Given every company faces the same problems, there must be a solution, right!? I am just not finding it very easy to find one -- or maybe I'm taking the completely wrong approach?
It doesn't seem that nonsensical to me when considering things like epigenetics. It also doesn't seem all that nonsensical if you flip the causality to "some genetic change resulted in more brain activity/growth and necessitated more protein consumption as a result".
What kind of consumer product? Just curious. Is the habit here to be vague for reasons of IP protection or something?
The whole "this is pointless", "that is stupid" movement has definitely thrown up a "fuck it then" anti-signal in my mind.

If most things we can do is pointless, fuck it, everything we do is probably pointless.

I'm actively fighting against my own mindset to keep looking for things I can do that will make an effect. Most probably won't. I get it's just virtue signalling or whatever phrase of the week we're calling it but it's also inertia. Yes this one is pointless, but maybe the next step isn't.

Anyone that's ever been told what they're doing is useless will never know.

Shamefully I didn't give any consideration to anyone but myself, keeping my existing mindset everyone on the internet was a white guy like me with all the privileges I have. GitHub changing master to main might have been a joke to you, fair enough, but it opened my eyes.

I dunno I'm probably just whitesplaining, sorry.
What's the best Sony device to buy for running Sailfish?
Scientists Just Changed the Rules of What You Can Do While You Sleep
Translation of what you wrote: "I just make things up out of my imagination, because facts aren't real."
Thanks for sharing those links. The win95 design was a great read, a proper data driven approach to user experience.
Google VRP has rewarded a total of $313k for the best Google Cloud hackers
Since the buyer is in the NFT business, it seems obvious to me that what they paid for was marketing for themselves and their space. I'm not sure $70M on advertising would be better spent. As the old adage goes, "you can't buy publicity like this".
No, they're asking "what even is the problem if the solution is this?"
"adoption" is the terminology used by the foundation, and symbolic adoption is a known quantity in this type of operation so I don't have a problem with it.

However referring to wallstreet bets users as "investors" does seem like a bit of a misnomer...
I still don't get why this is a scam, there is a SHA-256 hash of the whole image in that token, complete with timestamp and a buyer signature - the buyer can certainly prove he was first (or Nth) to buy this exact thing anytime he wants (if he doesn't lose his private key ofc). Who cares if some URLs included do rot?

It's almost the same idea [0] Galileo used 400 years ago to prove he was first to see Saturn rings by hashing the image description and distributing the hash.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn
Wasn't that fairly common in ancient warfare - cities that surrendered would be treated better than those that chose to put up a fight?

e.g. The Siege of Tyre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tyre_(332_BC)

Edit: Mind you the Mongols do seem to have been quite methodical about it:

"On the first night while laying siege to a city, the leader of the Mongol forces would lead from a white tent: if the city surrendered, all would be spared. On the second day, he would use a red tent: if the city surrendered, the men would all be killed, but the rest would be spared. On the third day, he would use a black tent: no quarter would be given."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege
> This melting cycle was happening before the industrial revolution and was not created by humans.

"Because I, exporectomy, decree this to be so! Facts, evidence, none of these are important, compared to my opinions."
> I'm sure that story has additional meaning (and less surprise) to folk in Europe

Indeed, information is a receiver dependent quantity, as you say, and is formalized as such in any information theory textbook. Really, the information in a message about variable X is how much the receiver's subjective probability distribution about X is constrained by the message.

In practice, creating a complete model of the system i.e. enumerating all the possible variables and their prior probabilities is impossible. However, this doesn't mean the entire field is useless. In fact, the work of Shannon and others helps us understand the limits of what is possible to model and gain information about, and by how much. What those limits mean requires grappling with philosophical questions far above my paygrade.
The 300 Spartans and their allies' mission was to hold off the Persian army for as long as possible, allowing the Greek city-states to better prepare their defence.
The largest transport monitoring platform
This happens to me too! Exactly as described. I have 16gbac mini conmected to an external monitor with an HDMI cable. A bit irritating but not a huge deal
I don't do any color work on it so the occassional color issues are not a problem for me.
Apparently there's a config option to turn off telemetry.
https://www.focalboard.com/guide/admin/

While I understand the feeling, it's also truth that these kinds of projects appear to receive a lot more criticism than if they went completely closed source which feels a bit unfair.
That doesn’t really match reality though. He did the vast majority of this work when he wasn’t relevant in any way. It’s not like he became famous in 2007 and continued publishing to milk the cow. For a decade almost nobody cared, then he became a meme artist.
Translation of what you wrote: "I have nothing to back up my false claims, so I'll just splutter in outrage."
Gorilla squeeze is coming!
Google facing $5bn lawsuit over Chrome's not-so-incognito mode
I agree with your sentiment.

But it's not house prices that are important. It's housing affordability, which is better measured by monthly mortgage payments (and rents).

However, that was not what happened in and after 2008.

Availability of credit collapsed. So owning housing got cheaper for people who could still get credit, but renting did not become cheaper. Have a look at the backlog of https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/ for more than you ever wanted to know about the topic. (Or splurge on the author's book.)
Deleting a board is possible, but there is no confirm and no way to restore. Very dangerous!
To some extent it depends on your role power within the org to make changes, but something everyone can do is to constantly talk about the culture with your team, this can be in one on ones, or group settings.

You can say something like “our business makes sure you have everything you need to be productive, we have a strong home office budget you can use to get anything need like monitors or keyboards or a nice chair or whatever.”

Even saying this to one person has a positive impact and makes people feel like the team has their back.

Or “we are super solution oriented so if you get stuck please immediately speak with someone in the team and we can help remove the roadblocks or teach you how to do the thing”

This tells the person our culture is about supporting and developing people and also sets the tone for being solution oriented for when dealing with customers as well.

If you can say a few sentences a day to a few people about “how the team should work” either internally or with your customers then you are partially driving the culture of the organisation.
This is a bit of a hot topic in Australia - and the world (rightly so). A sampling of news articles in the last week:

https://www.theage.com.au/search?text=consent

With respect to the idea of consent via app - it's simply a dumb idea. People can change their mind, use of the app can be forced, then there's the whole tracking and data privacy issues (the slut-shaming potential of this data can't be overstated, especially in a courtroom context. "But your record shows you consented to 5 other sexual liasons in the last 3 days").

Consent is given continually and can be withdrawn instantly. If in doubt whether you have consent, then you probably don't. So ask (again) or stop.
The problem is that your hobbies are not hobbies, they are just more work.

If you could pick something to do after work that is not TV, and that you WOULD feel like getting up and doing, what would that be? Maybe a game of tennis with a friend?
I'm trying to build a community around Python and its ecosystem at https://news.python.sc

Recently, I added a job crawler for Python jobs at https://news.python.sc/jobs

This is still WIP and could need some traction ;)
And here I thought Amazon's "Upload" was just a fantasy...
Reminds me of when Gamergate people donated money for bowel cancer because of "butt hurt"
> that's exactly the kind of tension that they want to create

Who's the "they" referring to in this sentence? We're talking about an online forum where people don't know eachother's names for the most part. It's a community known for reckless spending in the pursuit of humor. I see no reason to believe this is anything other than an action that a particular user took in an effort to be funny catching on and becoming a meme. There's no PR firm planning their actions in a centralized way.