skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Task bar on the same side of the screen as my "mouse hand" just feels correct.
And some of the Preview features for editing/annotating images and pdfs are now included in Quick Look.
Identify problems. This is usually what people complain or meme about. Identify and iterate better ways to fix them. Keep asking why.

For example, people complain they have too many tabs open. The worst solution is perhaps a tab manager. All the costs of keeping tabs open, in a new window, and often it replicates the history feature.

Ask why they have tabs open.

For some, it's because they need documentation open while they do work. The solution might be something that makes the documents and cheatsheets accessible with muscle memory, like Dash.

For some, it might be build times forcing them to multitask. Solution is something that notifies when the build is done. Also for these people, an anti-procrastination tool is more useful. Vice versa, someone might think they need an anti-procrastination tool, when they actually just need a lower cognitive load.

And so on.

Also most problems have been solved elsewhere. There are exceptions, like anti-gravity and FTL travel, which have absolutely no solutions. But if you want stronger structures and materials, you can look at honeycombs and spider webs. SimCity modeled traffic and unemployment similar to how Conway's Game of Life worked - a tile affected an adjacent tile and this led to some advanced looking simulations.
Niche overrated, personality underrated (and perhaps the only thing that's left)
The point is that it's possible for a company to focus on one thing for a long time. Do you dispute this?
you have this service done once in how long? and you call the technician rude names and complain, yet you pay that much for four visits to the gas station,

casual indifference, disrespect and basically stupid accounting on your part
That’s too much government control for my liking. Just being honest. Laws that prevent free enterprise never end well. There should be laws that prevent companies from selling a product at a “loss” to gain market share. But to prevent companies from releasing products is completely different level of control which is undesirable.
>Indirectly anyone who is interested in causing mistrust among western countries.

My gut tells me this is the most likely answer. It would be a very Russian thing to do.
Amazing how AdSense has been doing this since 2003 and Gg has still not fixed it.
This is a good one from GitHub: https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation...
Is there no way to buy a train ticket without ID?
But then what happened....
There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italki. But I actually have shied away from it, mainly because I get nervous talking in front of a live person who will be judging my capability as I talk. I much prefer the idea of a non-feeling ML algorithm talking back at me, even if it makes GPT-3 like gibberish mistakes.
"If you don't trust each other, trust us": a very understandable value proposition. Also very understandable trade-offs.
AWS is going for "the internet's backend". I don't see how that's any different. A SPOF is still a problem, no matter where in your stack it lives.
Pinterest uses (used?) mysql. Blog post is a bit old but a fun read https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/sharding-pinterest-...
"The YKK Group is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. As the world's largest zipper manufacturer, YKK Group is most known for making zippers. It also manufactures other fastening products, architectural products, plastic hardware and industrial machinery."

followed by

"On September 19, 2007, YKK was fined €150.3 million by the European Commission for running worldwide price-fixing cartels and sharing markets with zipper-makers Prym and Coats."

Perhaps not the best example? (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YKK )
"AI" with pre-sanctioned content just sounds like Eliza-like chatbots [1] (a couple thousand pairs of regex-match to fitting answer). Those actually work great to create the impression of a conversation.

I think those even were used in a couple games ages ago. But they are not very good at steering the player and keeping him on track, which is how dialog systems are usually used in game design. They might be useful in a truly open world where the player discovers the story themselves (maybe like Fallout 1/2), but the AAA gaming industry has largely abandoned that idea in favor of "linear scripted stories in an open world".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I don't think anyone made that comparison.

Smartphones are computers, they use the cellular network to connect to the internet, besides strictly phoning, they remain conceptually inside:

- computer/internet

- cellular phone

as an evolution of those broader technologies, what I find remarkable is their ubiquity/affordability.

As an anecdotal data point, I got my first (personal) cellular phone well in the '90's, probably 1994 or 1995, in the (late) '80's cellular phones were mainly for business use, I remember buying for the company I worked with (and BTW for a particular case where the need to reach this particular person was essential) one of these:

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/4500x

in 1988 or 1989 and paying it more than 4,500,000 Italian lire, the equivalent of roughly 2,000-2,500 Euro/Dollars of the time, considering inflation probably equivalent to 4,000-5,000 today and the subscription/calls were prohibitively expensive.
If y'all want to get in touch say hi at philipp@quazel.com
in an app like this, you should be transparent about whether you store users' data
For people who have played this and who know Chinese history:

How historically-accurate is this game? Will a child learn Chinese history?

There's a scale of realism, and I'm not quite sure where this falls.
SEC fines Oracle $23M, says the company bribed foreign officials
Corsair 7000D Airflow - it's a full tower.

Easy build, the case has a lot of room to route. I went with ZMT tubing rather than hard tubing, as I didn't want to deal with rigid fittings, I prefer the aesthetic, and it's easier for routing when you can have things other than right angles!

One important note - the front rad is an X-Flow rather than traditional U-Flow.
But our EUR9 tickets are gone, so no free access to the revolution trains anymore.
Agreed. I think they do a lot of good for the ecosystem, but there's no reason to give one organization so much trust and to continue centralizing everything you do on their platform. They're very, very good at cultural and enterprise marketing though. My boss and countless others are completely sold that they should handle all of our complexities.
> Why not.. speculate using futures or whatever instruments

I've wondered this same thing. My guesses are either...

- The oil hedge sizes at that level would be so massive, no counterparty could/would take the risk

- It would be market manipulation at a level beyond what what the SPR is, and crosses some line

but I don't know either.
Their specific argument for this case is very interesting.

> the administration has created new problems for borrowers in at least six states that tax loan cancellation as income. People like Plaintiff Frank Garrison will actually be worse off because of the cancellation. Indeed, Mr. Garrison will face immediate tax liability from the state of Indiana because of the automatic cancellation of a portion of his debt. These taxes would not be owed for debt forgiveness under the Congressionally authorized program rewarding public service. Mr. Garrison and millions of others similarly situated in the six relevant states will receive no additional benefit from the cancellation—just a one-time additional penalty.

These people are directly, immediately "harmed"
> if EU leadership was competent, they'd do the thing that USA is most afraid of.. talk to putin and make a strong europe.

Wow Just wow. Ready to place responsibility at everyone but Russia's feet right? Such a blameless third party victim in all of this /s.

The pipeline itself was in good part Merkel's olive branch to connect Putin economically to the rest of the EU. The hope was that giving Russia more to lose would prevent these conflicts. Sure the US, among others, we're wary of this kind of interdependence.

Well, now we know how things shook out and we're all dealing with it. Germany from the back foot this round.

Now I'm not attributing any great foresight to naysayers (US among them), it was a nobel bid for peace on Germany's part and there's always a chance we'd be talking about the brilliance of deepening those connections with Russia.

But we can't.

Russia drove its tanks into Ukraine, nobody made them. They weren't under any great duress. Even the most unjustifiably charitable take of Russian justification accounts for what, just Luhansk and Donetsk? But they tried to take Kiev. Tried to take every bit of Ukrainian's coastline with the Black Sea through Odessa. Russia good out of it's way to poison their reputation here with conquest.
and imagine if plot leaks happen through an NPC... would ruin the game!

ultimately we care more about our character than the NPC being "realistic".
Congo Bongo
Really great work, congrats! I asked the AI about a painter, it immediately responded with "oh yes I know him, I love his pictures". I told him about my job, it said something relevant ("I love computers too"). Ha!

Really impressive & great. Congrats on the launch! Really awesome work.

Micro bug report: clicking "Install Quazel" shows a dialog with a small 404 icon/image. Cheers
Attempts to Stop a Hurricane in its Track
This is awesome. Underground is right, I had never done across this before.

I played Mtg starting around 1995 until 2001. I've often thought about getting back into it but I also knew I was drawn for a nostalgia of the game that doesn't exist in the modern context. I recently found Flesh & Blood and found it interesting though I didn't commit to buying and playing. I'll be checking this out for sure, though.

In a similar vein, I've recently moved my DnD over from 5e to primarily OSR play and it's completely reinvigorated my love of the game.
In the UK they still have next-day delivery, sometimes even same-day depending on what you're buying and at what time of the day.
Compared to rest of world? Yes
I think the question you need to ask is: who can build, maintain and operate the needed infrastructure for "task x" better? Cloudflare or you?

For many (most) use cases, CF will operate at a resilience and stability and professionality level far above what they can achieve themselves.
Yes, ahk is a great framework for its purpose. It’s hard to repeat it from scratch. But it would hugely benefit from literally any mainstream language around it. Imagine how many plugins simply wouldn’t exist or delivered quickly if e.g. vscode invented its own arcane vscodescript instead of js/ts. Or how richer desktop automation could be if ahk could use pip, npm, IDEs and interop other “junction” tech seamlessly.
Unlike Google or Amazon? What happens when there is an outage on either of those? I think it is great that there is more competition in the space writ large.
I see this type of comment all the time, you are vastly underestimating the skill required to do the thing you hypothesize.

Spend 15 minutes walking through the scenario, there is a lot that can go wrong with your simple plan.

Of course it is possible, but you would need to find the intersection of
1. Willing / Desire to blow up the pipeline
2. Have the skills to create an underwater bomb of correct properties to blow up a pipeline.

1 & 2 is not "Anybody". Its a relatively small set of the worlds population, probably someone with mining skills, engineering skills, probably diving skills and/or former military.
Fifties and sixties weren't really collectivist (neither was any time except for the war communism of 1918-1921 for that matter). Individual citizens had private property.
What, “They’re not an empire, they only rule ⅓ of the Earth’s surface!”?

Or “Cloudflare cannot possibly be taking advantage of their market share, since they have competition!”?
For comparison, what was Hans' percentage?
> Why trust a cloud provider who could go down and take half the Internet with it? Why centralize it that much where that is even possible?

The problem is that governments worldwide have done little to curb abusive behavior that makes this all but necessary to survive on the Internet:

- India (for US/UK based callcenter scams) and Turkey (for German based) don't do shit against scam callcenters. There have been multiple high-profile Youtubers making videos exposing these scammers and police there hasn't done anything, some have even boasted about having connections to bribed police officers protecting them.

- Russia, China, North Korea and Iran haven't been kicked off of the Internet despite both nations actively running hacking campaigns and sheltering hackers and "bullet proof" hosters.

- Western governments still don't mandate open source or at least audits for Internet-connected appliance software, which means that there are tons of devices (smart cameras, other smart home systems, routers, ...) out there that end up compromised, and on top of that residential Internet connection speeds routinely cross 100 MBit/s these days giving compromised appliances an awful lot of leverage for DDoS attacks (which is the chief use case for employing Cloudflare, AWS Cloudfront+WAF and others).

There simply is too much abuse in the system
Nice to see this. Do they have a project roadmap for mypyc?

Doubling performance is nice, though it does still leave a lot of performance on the table. I’d be curious to see a comparison between this and Cython.
Ask HN: Why does US air more prescription med ads vs. over-the-counter meds?
Do patients really have influence of recommending medication to their physician.
> it is supposed to be like that

I’ve seen claims that this is for structural reinforcement of sandbags, which makes no sense on multiple levels. (Even if the tank armour can’t resist bullets, a premise which raises its own host of questions, there is better light armour. And even if one insists on sand, a requirement which raises its own host of questions, civil engineering has better solved the problem of immobilising sand.) Those claims also have zero history before photos of the egg cartons emerged, which isn’t unexpected for military kit, but suspect given Moscow’s tendency for ham-fisted retconning.

The broader point is, whether designed that way or not, it’s evidence of incompetence. If the people doing that built a pipe part, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it fail. (Though based on German comments, there is reason to suspect foul play.)
Thank you for the detailed answer. Another similar model is the Founder Institute.

I know a few people who actually became advisors as well. But they had little previous success (or none) and I've always wondered why would any founder take advice from someone who's not done it before and succeeded. The fact that OnDeck hires these people as advisors is a turn off.

Furthermore, like you said, their experience can be replicated and I highly doubt the quality of the network they have.

Also, the problem with this program is that they get their results upfront (the money you pay to join) and really have no problem if you completely waste your time there and do nothing at all. Whereas an accelerator (YC for example) ties their success to your success, in fact, they're willing to give money to bind their own success with yours (which is why they end up having the highest number of exits and IPOs out of any accelerator in the world).

Finally, even in your post here, notice how there's no clean "it's totally worth it" statement here. This seems to be a recurring theme in my research.

They probably are very well-intentioned, it's just that, in my opinion, despite the good intentions, it's not a great program even for first time founders. Hungry founders will always find the way to the needed knowledge and network, especially with today's available tools and online communities etc.
there's a snail icon you can use to have it speak slowly
Which monopoly? The video creator is free to host their video on whichever machine they want.
Definitely have to charge extra for that service.
There are plenty of reasons, a DBA I used to work with moved to the team running the LHC at CERN. I think I went to some conference talks of his. They had a lot of data!
Beauty, and human attraction to beauty, is impossible to overcome. While sometimes informed by culture, attributes like symmetrical faces are desirable across all cultures. And those attributes are often powerfully informed by genetics. Absent absurd handicaps like in the story, people with those attributes will have better lives. Life is not fair. In some ways it’s better that it’s not. Our perception of beauty, and marveling in its wonder, is something that makes us uniquely human.
the fact that they were fined isn't really relevant to my point. you can use patagonia if you'd like
At that point, why not just have a human write those responses?

Every character using the same three lines doesn't seem like a technology problem. Getting voice acting out of the time-critical path by automating it might help, but I'm doubtful about the usefulness of AI-generated scripts.
Babies, I guess.
My comment isn't a criticism! I was just confused what you were doing, but now I get it. You run webpack for people and then host the bundle for them. If the title was "Webpack as a service", I would've immediately got it. But I guess your target audience probably wouldn't so your title makes sense for the audience you're targeting + SEO.

It would've never occurred to me to make something like this, but after searching for the terms you suggested below, I do see many people asking for this. Telling those people "just setup node/npm/webpack" is probably not helpful. Your service is easier for those people. Nice job identifying a solution for people with a problem!
Ah nice— yes, for me also in Chrome. But seemingly not in Firefox on Windows 10.
I run a mixture of SharpEnviro, Emerge Desktop, and a couple of ahk UIs, (clock, alt-tab, cpu monitor) it's a bit odd looking.

No start menu just a bunch of desktop icons, Dopus is probably the closest thing to a start menu/launcher I have.
Yt just hosts the creators. They get paid whatever the ad market pays for the niche they are in. Plus what they make from Patron or Locals subscriptions.
Do nato actually "control" them in the sense of making subs surface etc then? I didn't know that. Cool.
I for one think this could be a very useful idea for my use case (education) and am looking forward to see how it turns out.
Plus being told it's wrong for the poor to beg. In Chile only the rich are allowed to beg. It goes like this: "hey can I have ten cents!" [poor begging rich] "Get a fucking job you piece of shit!" [rich begging poor]. Telling a poor man to get a job, in Chile, is begging, because jobs they realistically can get all pay less than they cost, it's a gift to the rich man, a donation, charity for the rich, begging. And injure the poor in the process, or demand he betray his fellow man. That's why I always try to come up with something for beggars, they're doing the best thing they could be doing by begging, working would be terrible then they'd get a back injury on the first day, feel denigrating, which addressing (which society dodges, prefers they take that injury and insult to their graves) would cost millions. Just huge waste of money. Better they beg and I give, that has objectively superior economics. Like I talked to one who got a job, told him yeah duh that job is over it was a shit job, he was like uh how did you know? I just know because I just know. And then I gave him a 20000 peso bill, which I first broke for him at the kiosk which I can do but he can't, so he could spend it. And told him "spend it on whatever you want! Whatever you want!" Dude try to preempt him asking me, asking hurts, people insult you, it's degrading, people call you inferior, people beat you for asking just like people piss on people sleeping on the street to indulge their sadism. I've also seen guys take out a 10000 bill (like $10, but big money in Chile), stretch it out, and then laugh their ass off. Dude it's so cruel. Nobody thinks it could be them sitting on the concrete.

And they have all kinds of stories these guys, dude I love talking to Jonathan Ramos here, dude way better than all therapists I've ever spoken to in my whole life combined. He told me "obviously you got tortured, look at the things you say, you lay out the truth for people clearly!" No picólogo could have ever said that! Dude categorically superior to every professional therapist! And that cost 4 dollars!
Managing people is a specialized skill. Both employees and employers should require that those in management positions have the necessary training and credentials to perform the task. This means either taking a specialized management curriculum at university or being put through a comprehensive management training course.

It takes four or five years of education at a University to get an engineering degree, yet businesses somehow find it acceptable to make anyone a manager regardless of whether they have been trained.
Is there a library for homomorphic encryption that application devs can use? Is it practical to use this technology yet?

Edit: I found this library from Microsoft but it only supports addition and multiplication, not comparisons and sorting so it seems it’s not practical yet: https://github.com/microsoft/SEAL#microsoft-seal-1
Many thanks for your feedback! We're still in a relatively early stage, which explains the bugs. We'll take care of the one you mentioned asap.
I nominate Shiva Ayyadurai, self-proclaimed inventor of email:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#%22EMAIL%22_in...
It is but there is a huge upside to it: no bosses breathing down your neck (even if they are nice and hands-off, you still have to do what they tell you), no 9-5, no nauseating business corporate language, no commuting, interacting with coworkers, etc. I am a content creator myself, get paid way less than I could at a 9-5 job, and would never go back simply because there's nothing better than doing exactly what you love without having to waste time doing what other people want you to do.
YKK has the unique advantage that everyone working with clothing knows that the only brand to deliver consistently high quality is, you guessed it, YKK. There have been a number of HN submissions on that subject in the past.
Could someone post a good answer (outline) about how you would build out a GPS related feature for an application?
Google missed their opportunity to do this: they've had Google Meet / Hangouts / ... for years. They have the same backend infrastructure that can scale to thousands and low latency to everywhere. Meet already does this with a custom Google protocol in the browser.

If Google had just opened their APIs, they could have provided this to everyone...
On the top of my head, excel and all the features it has. There are probarbly lots of other things. But if Googl Workspace works then good for you. I just know there are tonnes of companies out there that just cant live without MS-Office
When I was a child I grew up on one these old homes with Jaali design and as family grew we added in few extension to the house with modern look and feel. During peak summer you can feel the difference in room temperatures in old vs new section of the homes. Jaali design essentially helps in partially blocking sun, you still get the light inside the home and it magnifies the surface area to loose all the heat very easily.
They forgot the most important part, make sure you have a “white” sounding name.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/job-appli...
In front of a mirror, practice Additionally, you can record yourself. See how it sounds by reading a page from a book or newspaper and then playing it back. The listener benefits from effective use of pauses and emphasis.