skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately silos are still the future. The market niche owned by AOL was taken over by Facebook, and the web has already fragmented along superpower bloc boundaries.

But reading this you can easily understand how MS didn't understand what was going on. I've never been a fan of MS culture or MS products, and this insider view hasn't changed that.

While I realise it's a first person account, it doesn't answer obvious questions - like how how Windows got to version 3 without a class map, or some proto-equivalent.

Or if it did have one, why the Tools team thought they could write development tools for Windows before 3.0 without abstracting it, or referencing it, or something that wasn't in direct competition with it.

Or why anyone would think that building generic yet somehow also OS-aware tools in a moving target language like C++, that were equally suitable for DOS, OS/2, Windows, and maybe UNIX too, was even feasible, never mind a good idea.

And so on. More questions than answers. I'm much less interested in the fact that Sinofsky bought some t-shirts or worked out that shipping matters than in the decisions - or sometimes the lack of them - made in the background.

Given all of that - perhaps it really wasn't a surprise that MS couldn't see what the Internet would become in 1994, even though a lot of other people could.
‘Mysterious' Lights in the Sky
I wonder when we'll see retro-designs of these, i.e. like the modern Mini and the Bumblebee. One model I'm still missing is the 2CV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV
> The popularity of the latter might suggest that quite a few people are reasonably happy with the status quo.

People haven't thought it through at all. If they've even considered this aspect of it, I'd be surprised.

iPhone popularity is due to a mix of very good engineering, presentation, marketing and network effects.

Smartphones are also very, very new for people. Give them time and they'll rebel against a single point of control sooner or later.
It's about far more than that.

I had a pretty ugly business failure back in 2008. Every single one of my employees went off and got jobs. Some of them were snatched-up by competitors. One of them was my director of sales. When he came onboard he knew nothing about the business at all. Nothing about the technology. No contacts in the industry. I worked with him one-on-on and taught him everything, even how to sell the products. In fact, he didn't even have sales experience, in his prior job he was in marketing and I gave him a shot in sales. The value of that education cannot be understated. Of course competitors grabbed him as soon as they could. He went on to have a (and continues to have) a great career in that industry.

While my employees went off to grab new jobs pretty much without delay in income, I couldn't simply abandon ship. As this evolved I took out a second mortgage on my home and filled credit cards to keep everyone employed as long as possible. We had the potential for sales that would pull the company out of the dive the 2008 economic implosion caused. When those fell through I told everyone I had nothing left to give, go find a job.

Could I go find a job? No way. I was trapped by my own business until the bitter end. I had obligations. I couldn't just walk away. When millions of dollars are on the line, doing so is professional suicide.

So, no, not even close. People who think employees have the same risk as founders have no clue what they are talking about. As is always the case, most of these comments tend to come from people who watch from the outside and think they understand reality.

As my wife likes to say "No, your Google search isn't equivalent to my medical degree".

Or, as Mark Twain said: "A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way".

If you haven't held the cat by the tail you have no idea.
That's what the UL or CE mark is for
Another popular name for the Trabant was 'Rennpappe' - 'racing cardboard'; but you are right, i mixed things up a bit.
I often have the same problem with POS = point of sale. Another term often comes to mind.
uh... why?
the job of a trucker is to go from A to B as far as i know, isn't gps enough? why would you need to install cameras?
Hey, you mentioned in another post that you're working on a real estate application. Curious to know how that is going. Do you have a link to it that you can share?
One unbeatable feature of Trabant was that it cost only around $5000 in today's money.

It also seems quite capable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WRQcJ0QnTU
And equally shit with any sort of tech law. The couple were quite lucky. For a while there was about a 5 year backlog of computers (plus phones, ipad etc) waiting for the police to even look at. Imagine waiting 5 years to be cleared of this...
take a look at this hack for FFMPEG
https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-wind...

sharex only provides a MITM utility for ffmpeg, any issue is likely to come from either GDIGrab, or the linked screen-capture-recorder utilites (which are provided within sharex as an optional download)
There was a "newTrabi" concept making the rounds a little while ago, but nothing came of it:

https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z17483/trabant-nt-concep...
The trans community had a longstanding grudge on the word "trans" being banned not only from tags, but the title too.

People usually go to Twitch not to find one particular game being played, but to find community. Being trans is something most cis people seem to have issues relating to, so finding other trans people is the easiest way to avoid constantly repeating awkward conversations along a barrage of false preconceptions.

I'd imagine it's similar for other tags.
What is a good comparison of D relative to other languages? And what are the biggest improvements/nice things it allows?
If the census was limited to residency, age, and citizenship, these problem would vanish.

The census’ purpose is to apportion congressional representation.

All other personal characteristics are not the government’s business. The census has become far too invasive.

The point of the article is that the government, in trying to obfuscate the highly detailed census data, has made the public version highly inaccurate.
Thank you for the clarification dang I hadn't checked again to see that the title changed. Appreciate the help!
There's some basic software that can be seen as tools and sometimes are even called as such. They are like a hammer and while it might be cool for some people to have a hammer that has WiFi, Internet and a small 4k screen included (so that you can watch netflix), many don't like that additional functionality and all they really need and want is a hammer.
>“[Humans] may be descended from ancestors who were better at the concealment of their true motives. It is not enough to conceal them from others — to be really convincing, you also have to conceal them from yourself.”

Too often do I find myself in leadership roles that I don't want and am not happy about - simply because I find it hard to resist the competitive drive to be elevated.

It never works out.
Twenty-one Runners Dead After Extreme Weather Hits Chinese Ultramarathon
Do you think the existence of the epic store on wjncows has had an effect on the content of steam?

A really good example right now is riot. They distribute through their own launcher on PC rather than on steam. They have two sizeable games on mobile right now (wild rift and TFT). In a world where these are downloadable from the riot launcher on iOS rather than the app store, it seems likely riot (and other major publishers who do the same on PC) would follow suit? I don't see how having an app store without hearthstone, TFT, fortnite is the same quality as one with.
My father grew up in Herrenberg (on "Auf'm Bildkäppele") and has never driven anything but Mercedes.
How could there be an end when new coins pop up daily?
There was way less information back then.

Investing in funds wasn't preached by every other YouTuber (there wasn't even a YouTube equivalent, obviously). Investment advice was something financial advisors were doing and they have a pretty bad track record.

My parents / grandparents had good salaries, got rich with houses, got incredibly early golden pensions, wasted some money with investment funds and market crises (2000, 2008).
You'd still need leap-days, then, though. Otherwise, in 150 years, june, or whatever is the 6th month, has drifted from summer to winter (or viceversa) by then.

Another issue, is that while 28 is neatly divisible, 13 is not. What is half a year? When do you make up the numbers for Q3? etc. It introduces so much issues, that the net-benefit is hardly there.
> that I don't see people using enough.

I'm betting that's because of its steep learning curve.
Aukey is usually cheaper than Anker in my experience. That's why people buy from them, it's Anker-like quality at a cheaper price.
They legally ban them. If you are catched using one you go to jail.
Apple revenue is not ad (or otherwise, location) driven today but that doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow.

(Non ad location business: hazard profile based on where you hang out. Frequency of pub visits may impact your life insurance rates)
I use Amazon UK and have had very mixed experiences with finding and purchasing goods.

The site is increasingly swamped with low-quality goods sourced from AliBaba or AliExpress. This is easily verified by searching for a item and seeing the same product sold under a different "brand name" (with the same generic product photos). These "drop-shipping" businesses dominate many product categories.

Even with books, Amazon's print-on-demand service means that search results are swamped with "low-content or no content" titles (essentially notebooks, diaries, planners etc). These "no content" titles often slap an unrelated title on the cover for what is simply a empty notebook (e.g. "JavaScript notebook"). The keyword in the title is there to gain a higher position in Amazon's broken search.

The things described above are easily discovered online. YouTube has hundreds of "drop-shipping" videos and videos of publishing "no content" books. These videos are full of advice on how to manipulate Amazon listings using various techniques.

Quite simply, Amazon is now an untamed mess of an online store. But with enough customers (and growing) it is unlikely anything will change.
In the mid 90s my parents and me were having a 2-day trip from eastern part of Germany to Paris in a "Trabbi". It was loud as hell inside the car. And still, I don't know why, I really liked this trip and like the look of this car a lot.
I'm glad to see that GitHub finally allows embedding videos in the README.md so that people can stop using gifs there.
That sounds pretty fun. Imagine moving leap day to New Years, so that every once in a while we have a 2 day party instead of a one day party.
When a company stops caring about customers, it’s either because their management is stupid (and the company is doomed), or because the company is immune to competitive forces.
see your comment siblings, there are some clever font tricks to achieve that too
Looks sick!
There's a sort of mini genre of build simulators stapled on to a simple shell game (which the OP is one of the main contributors to). It works well because the controls are simple, the mechanics that builds tie in to are simple to grasp, and it takes way less dev effort.

For this specific game, snake works super well because it's very inspired by auto battlers, so different units as segmentd doing their thing and being killed individually works very well with snake.
> Give them time and they'll rebel against a single point of control sooner or later.

Who knows. Gaming consoles have had a decent run, but of course that may not be that good a precedent as they've not evolved into general-purpose computing devices to the same degree that phones have...
>Me making it difficult to be reached does not mean they’re not my friends.

Is phone and SMS considered 'difficult' now? Everyone I know simply uses SMS and phone calls.

I suppose if you have globally distributed friends groups, this could be difficult, otherwise I don't see why. You give up a few features and it's not the most secure but it's a viable alternative almost everyone has access to.
Be careful, even their books are flammable (/s)
Love BH! I buy most of my Apple products from them since I’m not charged sales tax in my state (the legality/merits of this can be discussed at a later time).
An Appreciation of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [pdf]
Ha, I recently asked one such question & did not expect to see this so soon: "Ask HN: How do you spot trends in Crypto before it blows up?" → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219070

How does this work in theory?
This is just a scapegoating of one 'bad apple' to pretend that this action is all that is needed to improve whatever situation Amazon is pretending to tackle here.

In reality the system itself is rotten. Aukey is just a sacrificial lamb to distract from that rotten system.
I tried starting an “OOP Scala” project. The entire Scala ecosystem, at least the parts that seems good and active, all seem to be FP oriented.

If you simply want a better Java, I’d try Kotlin. Or Java 15.
Is it actually slower though? I feel like that’s Vue’s entire marketing strategy. “We’re just as fast and small as React but include way more out of the box and it’s easier to grok for new people”.
Why would anyone be confused by this?

EDIT: I guess the submission title has been changed.
I think it's worth appreciating the resource constraints under which the Trabant was developed. The questionable technical choices weren't made out of socialist incompetence but because certain materials were hard to come by and practically every citizen was eligible to request one.

While the Western Allies quickly changed their post-war plans to build up Germany as a military base against the Soviet Union for the impending Cold War and the US offered Germany loans for their surplus resources, the Soviet Union initially sought to deindustrialize Germany for reparations to rebuild its own infrastructure that had faced massive destruction by Germany throughout the war.

Additionally unlike the Western Allies, the Soviet Union had only just barely experienced its own industrial revolution and was still largely agrarian until it shifted gears to produce for war. And while an important strategic partner, East Germany spent most of its existence as a puppet state, stuck between producing commodities for its own population, producing export goods that could only be sold at a massive loss and supporting the Soviet side of the Cold War while facing constant provocations from NATO and the US.

In fact, the most valuable "export" for East Germany were West German spies and "collaborators", whom the West German government routinely paid large ransoms for.

EDIT: Deleted the last paragraph speculating about what might have happened if East Germany had continued to exist because that's probably off-topic and requires a more thorough understanding of late East German politics.

EDIT2: To clarify, I'm mostly pointing these things out because the video the parent posted is infuriatingly light on details while just constantly mocking obvious UX or quality issues. The presenter doesn't seem to know much about the car itself and instead tries to give a strained Jeremy Clarkson impression. There's no historical context given (other than "it's a communist car") and it barely even describes any technical aspects other than what would be obvious to any layperson. Contrast this with this Forgotten Weapons video about a horrible mess of a gun that ruined the company that made it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bULArrKs4
really dislike the doublespeak here. speaks very poorly of this man’s leadership. either blame the engineer or don’t, but don’t try to have it both ways
The 50 and 76 percentages are not compatible because they're based on different denominators. That means you can't assume it's 50 of out 76 (especially as then 50 out of 24 women would be being underpaid, more than all of them...).
I’ve seen this project ages ago a it’s apparently dead now: https://m.facebook.com/NewWarsaw
Reduce vs. Filter Map Reduce
>What strikes me as the issue is that he identifies literally anyone who may level any criticism at him as acting in bad faith: purely participating in a game of status and an inferior one at that.

Where did you get that? I read this part of the article as describing a mental model the author believes in.

Thinking about it, the model matches up to my experience of the world.

A thinker needs to be able to express their best thinking. If this is what he believes and can argue for, that's an intellectual service. We can use our own intellect to agree or not.
There is also a wonderful interview with Pirsig given shortly after the book was published:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RULOIr4MJII

Look out for the turtle with four elephants on its back. I wonder if Terry Pratchett got the idea from this interview.
I think this is one of those "when you start thinking about it, you mess up" scenarios that I encounter with plenty of things. Like when playing a piece of piano music from memory - as soon as I start trying to think about which notes come next, I make mistakes and sometimes even have mental blanks and need to take a break before "remembering" again.
Anyone saying this is some mad racist thing is really over thinking this. Its just going to be used to filter hot tub streamers by race, same as you can do on pornhub or anything else
Hacker please take over this app
App Store called iOverwrite will overwrite unused or freshly deleted empty memory such as to render unrecoverable. Will not work with latest iOS no updates 3years. Maybe just update it?
Ask HN: Has anyone tried using Microsoft Teams in Silk Browser of Echo Show 5/8
As of today, Echo Show, Echo & Echo dot doesn't support Microsoft Teams. However has anybody tried using Microsoft Teams in Silk Browser of Echo Show 5 or 8 ? Does it work with calls ?

I would love to utilize the good mic & speaker in Echo show for Team Calls.
fair point i think
See 2017 charts
Well, I live abroad, my family and friends have various group chats on WhatsApp and Messenger. I can’t blame them for not wanting to include me, since it would cost them quite a bit of money to text or call me.

Plus, phone calls are quite different from general text messages. Messages allows anyone to reply on a time they’re free for it.

So in general, yes, SMS is considered difficult, in my situation.

The main thing that WhatsApp and Messenger gave me was the ability to stay in touch with anyone I knew, wherever they lived. SMS just doesn’t cut it; huge fees and no groups. There’s really no alternative.
In what way is having valuable exif data that I use for tracking hikes and vacations being stored safely in my online backups the same as Facebook scraping that exif data to invade my privacy?

The false equivalencies in this thread are almost overwhelming.
Doge peaked but it can still go up when there's Elon Musk behind it. That man can move markets with his 55 million Twitter followers.

There's all kinds of coins blowing up. These are mostly shitcoins but they do provide 100x returns for some.

I recently read a thread when someone turned their $2k investment into $1m in 1 month by investing in SafeMoon.

Coins like this are popping up everyday. There's also a burst of revenge coins like https://www.fckyousarah.com/ when someone's GF cheated on him so he made a revenge coin dedicated to her. And people are loving it as it's really stupid & hilarious.
2006-2007: My most exciting personal 12 months in smartphone history
I believe that there is a lot of innovation headroom left in music technology. As another poster has said, availability of more cycles has long stopped being a factor. But self-stabilizing effects in UI language (you are good at what you know/you learn more about what you are good at) have started kicking in even earlier, see synth emulations. Those self-stabilizing effects are strong and they make it very hard for new approaches to take foot. But that also means that there is still a lot of space left unexplored, or traveled by explorers who never made it back (read: dabbled with a technological approach but never brought it to musical success).
It does not only apply for penalty kicks. I encountered this situation on the pitch regularly, especially when I had time instead of pressure.
Same in table tennis. I tend to make unforced errors the more time I got.
Why not? Having the whole application in one Kubernetes setup, with all databases and other services is very convenient. Are you talking about performance overhead, or are there other drawbacks to this approach?
"Getting rich" shouldn't be our metric, as it's arguably an unreachable goal. Rather, we should aim for something definitely possible: Make our successive generation better off than what we had (in the context of each family unit). If that means giving them a better education (or giving them an education at all), or passing down some wealth in the form of inheritance or wisdom, or making sure they have stable upbringing that you didn't have then so be it. That is good enough in the grand scheme of things, and I would argue is the most moral view we can take on this game if we take a multi-generational approach to it.
If you haven't read it, "The Inner Game of Tennis" by W. Timothy Gallway (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inner-Game-Tennis-ultimate-performa...) is worth a go.

Whilst it's technically a tennis coaching book, the tennis is really just an example to explain bigger things.

Anyway, there's a great story in that book where he says something like "if you want to put someone off their game, compliment them on how strong their backhand [or whatever] is today. From then on they'll think about it before every stroke and destroy their own performance."
I never had any bad experiences with Amazon.de, actually. Though I do watch out to only buy genuine stuff and try to avoid off-brand. I buy stuff quite regularly too.
Hey, stop shitting on my friends.
Oh no a person on the internet thinks bad of me
Brood X
Or just look at what contemporary jazz is like this decade. Absolutely whole-hearted embrace of pop and hip hop production techniques, sampling, DAW-dependent live performances, thicc 808s etc.

Live music performance techniques have even to some extent begun to emulate some sounds that are artifacts of digital production like sidechaining.

What's really cool to me is again a lot of this stuff came from music traditions we (tech bros) tend to dismiss (pop, hip hop, even ccm lol) but have become important parts of "serious" music.
Does Wayland not have an equivalent of _NET_WM_PID?
Ethereum Beacon chain and Pos rewards and slashes explained
What I said is mathematically correct.

For the sake of completion:

Suppose there are N employees.

76% = 0.76N are men; 24% = 0.24N are women.

Suppose also that n men being underpaid for their work.

The stat as quoted suggests there are n women being underpaid. (Or, sufficiently close to n, that a stronger stat can't be quoted)

Chance of men being underpaid: n/0.76N

Chance of women being underpaid: n/0.24N

Chance of women being underpaid is therefore (n/0.24N)/(n/0.76N) = 19/6 > 3.1 times higher.

I rounded conservatively to conclude "women are three times more likely to be underpaid".
Maybe UK (and everyone else) needs a law that requires anyone manufacturing an Internet-connected device to set unique passwords or force users to change the password before they can use it, like California's (SB-327).
Belarus opposition says government forced plane to land to arrest journalist
In Boston metro I doubt you could find a decent condo in a decent area for much less than $500K. Which you can get a house on some land for an hour outside the city in some communities.
Or wood. Or basically most things. Just depends on the level you’re comfortable with.