skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that a lot of developers assume that a failed explanation is due to a lack of precision, and so they try and teach with long, detailed, overly-precise explanations.

Precise explanations are fantastic for people who already understand the concept: they let them go a level deeper and explore the underlying truth. However, they're intimidating and unhelpful for people who have yet to grasp the concept.

For concepts, analogy works best - 'code is like a...' along with minimal examples of ideas in accessible situations for your audience. Alice and Bob, etc.

Teaching code is about finding the right metaphor for your students - whether that's recipes or language or robots or something else - not bashing at them with "All told, a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor."
I know this is tongue in cheek, but it's actually an interesting frame.

"No business" software startups are kind of possible. If the software/product is useful, important, unique or cheap enough the business side would be trivial. An iphone equivalent for $50 doesn't need any marketing. A script that automatically optimizes any and every AWS setup to save money. A consistently profitable algorithm trading. Sales will be trivial, fundraising, etc.

In reality though, it's very hard to be that good on one axis. In a competitive game, you usually you need to perform across multiple areas. Great product and decent marketing. Great marketing & decent sales. etc.

This applies to Low/No code setups too. Maybe you can build twitter, airbnb or Tinder using Bubble. But, that'll mean that your product is very unlikely to be as good as those built using a more powerful toolset. The software itself can't be your competitive edge.

People have been competing with Amazon, without code, since viaweb. You're just never going to launch aws.
That second idea is a fail. My sister in law is a professional behavioral counselor. She is thinking as much as 40% of the population has emotional problems severe enough that warrants corrective prescription medication. That is fucking scary. That means just under half the public is some amount of emotionally dysfunctional.

If that many people were taking the medication they need it would contaminate the water supply. The drugs people take now are already measurably significant in the water supply.
I had the same experience with Windows XP growing up. Very few months I would reinstall my desktop computer that ran WinXP, and I did the same with the laptop I had after that which was also running WinXP. During that time I used to install a lot of random freeware and shareware and trial software and games and game demos. And probably those things were leaving stuff behind like you guys said.

The very first time I reinstalled WinXP was shortly after I got my first computer of my own for my 12th birthday. I was tinkering with some of the files, and discovered that I could open .cur cursor files in MS Paint. I edited one of the cursor files, saved it as a bmp and renamed the file to .cur under the assumption that this would work. Set my custom cur file as cursor and logged out. When I tried to log back in I couldn’t. Whoops. Freaked out for a second thinking I had broken everything. Remembered that there was a red floppy disk with an ambulance on it that came with the computer. Rebooted the machine with the red floppy disk and reinstalled Windows. Lost my files but had nothing valuable at the time anyways. Have lost more valuable data since then. And expect to lose more data in the future still :p
The "generalized collatz conjecture" (rather than 3n+1 and n/2 we use some a*n+k) was proven by the wonderful John Conway to be undecidable [0] by inventing a toy language called FRACTRAN [1] and showing that it was turing complete.

It would be so wonderful to show that 3n+1 and n/2 are enough to compute anything - writing "programs" this way would be fun to look at.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#Undecidable...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN
Webflow has CMS now: https://webflow.com/cms
The Kiss of Death
You got it backwards, lock-in is a good way to protect a dominant market position by maximizing revenue from an existing, large buyer base. Competitors have no chance to enter because they lack that revenue source, let alone competitors that forgo it completely and front load the price.
thanks for the advice. at the end I am looking for something like digikam but web based and with basic user management.
Madness, isn't it?
I have a Gemini PDA and also an AstroSlide on order which should be shipping soon. I think it is exactly what you are looking for:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
> in most places I've worked it hasn't been a big problem

In every place I've worked, there's been a limited number of meeting rooms and you needed to plan ahead to get one. And if your meeting ran over, it wasn't uncommon to have a group of people standing outside waiting for you to vacate.

> I've never had the problem that a meeting was being too noisy for the people outside a meeting

Fair. I was really thinking about the impromptu meetings of 3-4 people around a desk (because getting a meeting room takes too much time). Those almost infallibly annoy other people in the area, even if they don't say anything.

> Why wouldn't this affect remote meetings?

Suddenly adding a remote person to a meeting that was planned to be in person is difficult at best. It's common for the people on location to just not "play well" with the remote person. When meetings are "remote first", adding one more remote person doesn't wind up with that person being an afterthought. This is a fairly well known issue, honestly.

> I would think for meeting quality an in person one is likely to work better as a meeting

Under optimal circumstances, the in person meeting does tend to be best. However, there are so many different variations from optimal, it's my experience that remote-first meetings wind up being better in nearly every _actual_ case.
You would have to add a learning method to tell it how to encode/decode graph data, but the framework is agnostic to the model choice. So any Flux model is supported.
citizen/soldier/farmer the Romanitas ideal.
Also kind of rolls up into the whole Cincinnatus thing.
Learning Go by Examples: Introduction
After testing - looks like new sign-ups get a choice of @outlook.com or @hotmail.com (although users with previously available/legacy domains like @hotmail.co.uk retain them).

Apparently the service as a whole has been based on o365 since around 2015 according to wikipedia.
I look at No-Code the same way I look at Canva — one can create powerful designs in Canva that were once the exclusive domain of expert photoshop/illustrator designers. It does not replace them but reduces the barriers to entry for others which is a fantastic thing! There are many ideas that can be set free and realized with No-Code platforms that otherwise wouldn’t due to the difficulty. I say this as a software engineer. No-code won’t necessarily replace us but it will elevate the game.
Culture has been hyper-local since forever, and you'll never remove that instinct. It's a success story for humanity, not a problem to address.

The issue we face today is that it's profitable to provide free online arenas where tribes can do battle.
Soybeans and hay for cattle in Missouri. Together they run about 250 acres, probably a quarter of that is wooded but still a decent landmass to cover. And those farmalls are their daily drivers. I believe my dad’s got a newer one he uses for it’s pto for digging post holes and such. Those old tractors are workhorses, if you know how to take care of them and work on them yourself they’ll last forever.
I agree on the PayPal front...I don't have a Patreon account, so it's not just donating, I have to click "join", which is a quick turn off
How to Predict (Almost) Everything
This keeps coming up and makes me wonder: this sounds exactly like a golden opportunity for another manufacturer to offer a different business model. What prevents a new company from selling combine harvesters at a premium price that use widely available parts and sensors? Or what prevents a cottage industry of replacement motors, ECUs, etc. from taking over where John Deere et al are acting in this way? It seems to me that the only reason I would want to buy one of the big name machines is so that if it breaks down I can quickly get it repaired and not lose much due to the stoppage but that’s clearly not the case here so why bother with them and why don’t better options exist?
your comment reminded me of installing ms office 97 from floppies. all 45 of them.
I can't imagine not talking to my parents. My dad is definitely wiser than I am so I always go to him for advice. I also consider both of them very good friends. Then there's the whole culture thing. US culture is extremely diverse and it's nice to visit your hometown and return to what you experienced growing up.
I have an alternate solution to propose to you that I used for a couple of years quite happily:

- Smart Watch for Voice/Text

- small Tablet with keyboard cover and LTE in your pocket for everything else

These days I have a different situation where I prefer not to have anything if I’m away from computer and I just use the Watch. I have the Apple Watch / AirPods which works quite well, but I know not everybody wants to commit to the Apple ecosystem. When I was doing the tablet-in-pocket thing, I was a bit more cross platform and it still worked great with Google Voice as the central hub for everything.
The lengths Westminster Borough will go to while they delay the inevitable. Eventually, sanity will prevail and Oxford Street will be pedestrianised. They've tried this before - remember the wheel?
>>Now, consider what would happen if an extremely dangerous vaccine were introduced that resulted in 20 times as many AEs of all types as all the other vaccines to which it gets compared.

(emphasis added by me)

I am guessing here, but maybe the idea is that if there's an increase in AEs of all types, they're probably not caused by the vaccine.

I think the AEs are just bad things that happen after you get the vaccine, not necessarily bad things that happened because you got the vaccine.

Some places are prone to certain illnesses, and some drs/nurses are more inclined to report than others. So what they're looking for is a change in the proportion of AEs.

EDIT: I think the author might be making another mistake too:

>> Those unfamiliar with statistics will not recognize the problem, but when the different vaccines all result in similar problems (like myocarditis or blood clots, as has been noted), the chi-squared statistics will remain muted

The CDC document linked says:

>> PRRs compare the
proportion of a specific AE following a specific vaccine versus the proportion of the
same AE following receipt of another vaccine (see equation below Table 4)

The author seems to think this means "another Covid vaccine".

But just after that section, the CDC makes it clear that they really mean other vaccines in general, not other Covid vaccines:

>> CDC will apply appropriate comparator vaccines (e.g., adjuvanted vaccines like Shingrix
and/or Fluad for adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccines)
Well, time to retire the term "bikeshedding". It used to mean something (the tendency of people to have the biggest arguments over trivia because everyone feels they understand it), but apparently not anymore.
Why would they mention things they don't sell on the product page? Do you expect Photoshop to mention "oh you could use something cheaper made by someone else"?
> Adding hover-over alt text on a radio button form

"Alt text" is text that isn't seen but serves the same purpose as what is seen for people with visual impairments (and web indexers).

What you're describing sounds like a "tooltip." Maybe it would be even better to have it displayed all the time instead of mouse hover (no mobile device users without a cursor to hover with?)
The random seek time would be brutal though.
> competitive RTS games in the Blizzard tradition (in contrast to models like Company of Heroes/Dawn of War, SupCom, or C&C).

I don't know how to interpret this other than "it'll be a destroy-your-mouse high APM obsessed click-fest that will ignore all lessons and modern inventions in the RTS genre over the last 20 years."

IMO the worst thing that could happen for the industry is 5 more Starcraft remakes.
> "Mind uploading" is the wrong way to look at it. How about "mind copying" for a best case (whether that copying requires the destruction of the original is another issue); "mind simulation" is a less palatable case.

One way we could do it, it's to slowly replace one by one natural neuron by a virtual or synthetic one and by keeping all synapse correctly connected. It should allow an "upload" (well more a conversion) without breaking consciousness continuity.
Bad news first: $300MRR means you have validated a niche. Now you need to know if it scales at least 10x-20x to make a living of it.

Good new: At this point you can afford to know your users.

Send them an email.

Meet them in person if possible.

I made my first sale ever just because I met an existing gutomer just to say "Hello, I am your new sales rep. How I can help?".

Make them see you as a person rather than SaaS.

Don't ask customer for new features.

Get interested in customer ecosystem:
- what works for them?
- which software do they use?
- figure out when does projects/money arrive.

Sometimes just making two pieces of software to cooperate it worth a subscription/license or might open a path in a bigger market.

Also, don't build something specific for a customer. If it is usefull for all of them, build it. If not, scrap it.

Monitor churn rate like crazy.

Rise your prices, and granfather your current customers service plan. Be careful not to make it sound like you're trying to charge them much more.
Yeah that's why I can't understand why they need a dedicated GPU.
congrats on the launch, Aditya!
So, minimum of 10500 deaths per billion...
> Trying to be helpful by automatically doing stuff I don't necessarily want.

Wholeheartedly agree. My #1 personal pet peeve that fits this description is links that automatically open in new windows/tabs.

You might (correctly) assume that most people want to open certain links (e.g. document previews) in a new tab, but that doesn't mean you need to force it upon them. Let them decide if they want to click with the left or the middle button.

Do you really think there are people out there who read your website, click on a regular link and then go "Damn, it opened in the same window. I guess that thing I was reading is gone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"?
We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub
Linkus
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This is an excellent comment, I love how you phrase it. I've had people (even on HN) get angry at me when I suggest that we do have a wonderful visual/graphical was to write software: text. Text is a graphical representation of ideas. One that, as you point out, has been honed over hundreds of years for expressing ideas, and decades for expressing code.

Text is so amazingly intuitive that don't even think of it as graphical, but it is. As you also point out, the reason it looks complex is because software is complex.
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That was my thoughts too. Go look up Tory Island on google maps - most of us would very quickly redefine our understanding of 'exposed'.
IMO a key thing for human QA testing is to test unhappy paths and error handling. What happens if the user does something unexpected. The happy path is generally well tested by developers during development, but testing the unhappy paths is much more difficult and time consuming, and that's where the QAs come in.
I have also been self-hosting my email for almost 20 years.

Until a few years ago I never had any problems, but during the last 3-4 years I had sporadic problems with messages that either were not delivered or they were delivered with a very large delay, e.g. a day, or they were delivered only if I resent them 3 or 4 times, at some of the large providers, like Gmail.

It still works fine most of the time, but when problems happen they are annoying because there is no way to know that something happened, unless I have an alternative way to ask the recipient, e.g. by phone.

In any case, now I always check that at least the final destination e-mail server has accepted the message, which should have been enough to guarantee the delivery, according to standards, but nonetheless this is not true any more.
Algolia raises $150M in Series D
> Why not nullify Pfizer’s patents?

Don't threaten me with a good time. There's insane level of harm both medically and financially that comes from locking life saving drugs behind patents.
FCC grants permission for polar launch of Starlink satellites
Welcome to the club, then!
Yeah, you are totally right, the time factor of losing in MOBAs (I persoanlly played a lot of LoL in the past, and tried some DotA and HotS) pretty much defies my argument in that regard.
But when I compare that to losing in Civ (not RTS, but strategy in general), I think I had a better feeling for why we lost.

And it kind of fits in the scheme, as MOBAs are, in a broader sense, at least partially, a game of strategy. Not nesassarily when you start as new player, but winnign consistenly also takes thinking ahead a lot. What risks to take, which weakness to exploit, what item to buy. Theres a lot of just in time decisions to make, while also keeping the bigger picture in mind.

Maybe MOBAs are just "direct action" enough to cater to a wider audiance, but strategy enough to share some of the same problems?
Blogger fell out of favor years ago after a redesign confronted everyone with a loading screen before showing the content, because for some reason some overzealous developers decided that web apps are the future, even if blogs are statically generated content. Searching on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499374 comes up for example.

Google will pull the plug on Blogger at some point.
the good old day when 4mb of ram would cost an arm and a leg. first upgrade on my old 486dx4 100mhz
I don't think anyone made that claim. I think we can assume that the vendors make profit on the sale of the equipment. Then they make more profits on the maintenance.
This is a little different than what the OP is asking but - I programmed an Xbox controller so that its buttons can act as left and right mouse buttons. This helps relieve fatigue in my right hand when I am working on mouse-intensive CAD work like laying out circuit boards etc.

Write-up here :
https://iskender.ee/2020/12/27/Dual-Mouse.html
That’s not true on the car warranty side at all. Some luxury manufacturers and most recently Tesla make this claim, but any part that meets the spec is fine and doesn’t violate any warranty.
I’m a big believer in this idea; so much so that I have a Bluetooth keyboard for my Boox Note 2 e-ink tablet. Very writing, reading books and note taking via the stylus focused, though e-ink refresh even on a device like this might be too slow for some (depending on what refresh setting you choose), it’s entirely replaced the need for paper in my life — and for travelling at least around Queensland it’s been brilliant.
They did a redesign of the writing interface about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499374
There would be a record in the land registry, with a map.

Even if the house disappeared he would still own the land. Given that it was a very basic house it's likely the land was worth at least as much as the building.
Looks like one past thread:

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2016 Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943028 - Nov 2016 (16 comments)
Oh man, Homeworld was an absolute treasure of 90s gaming
The homevoters and the haut precariat: New social classes for a new age
I would just exlain that funcion call adds intructions inside it to recipe/execution list. I think kids probably can get it easily.
Because harvest time is the same for everyone, and you want to secure that equipment for that week or two depending on crop, or else you lose the quality if not the crop. When I was pitching around a marketplace for farm equipment sharing, this was one of the main objections - when you need it, you need it.

This is also what makes withholding a repair key so pernicious, as they have you over a barrel, since your productive window with the equipment is also limited.
Barriers to entry are pretty high. Developing, manufacturing and selling complex machinery is a very capital intensive high-risk business.

You can't simply copy the existing stuff, because patents. (And software copyright, yeey!)

Even if such a new company enters the market there's no guarantee that parts will be available later. So those new premium priced combines will have their own added risk premium.

And. There's again no guarantee that this new company won't ever "turn to the dark side". So probably farmers' resources are better spent on directly lobbying for "right to repair" policy.
or don't.. and fund krita or GMIC instead!
Our copy of Windows 95 was on a CD, but it still needed a floppy boot disk (I don't think CD booting was a thing for another few years). I hated using floppy disks and hated booted from them the most. I always had the feeling it just wasn't going to work and now I had no way to boot my computer at all.
Anybody know what's involved in moving from DX7 to DX11?
What's the difference between no/low-code and just an application? Most of these just seem like a solidly built application that allows users to do complex things. MS Word is a no-code application to generate documents, Photoshop is a no-code application to generate images, Chrome is a no-code application to explore the web.

"no-code" just seems like a marketing term.
>The vaccine is rendering infected people asymptomatic.

woo didn't think of that. that would be not so great if still infectious.
Are you comparing ‘tent cities’ to the gulags?
The Cellebrite Wars: Moxie's Stunt and Freddie's Phone
Conceptually, it can't work for general use cases.

I hope the investors realise this.
IIRC Windows 9x could address only up to 1 GB of RAM. If you had more memory, you had to use the NT family to use it.
What about the beautiful M+ 1m font?
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/foundry/m-fonts
Weirdest Mushroom and Fungi Species in the World
Dive bars are the best. They're the last parts on the fringes of society that's accessible to all, but where anything can still happen. You never know who will show up, where they'll be from, what may be going on in the bathroom stalls when you walk in, what drugs may be offered in the bathroom, what drugs will be getting consumed in the bathroom. Sadly they're slowly disappearing as real estate prices soar and and most of America's cities/towns slowly homogenize into a never-ending strip mall.