skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bit you missed before your reaction is that this comment was about the decisions MS made back then. Not now. Not today. In fact quite a few of the replies to my comment are from a current frame of reference. Even the link to the current Samsung/Windows integration misses the point (all you have to do is read the ridiculously complex installation and setup instructions to understand).

MS, back then, missed a golden opportunity to create a truly useful differentiated product that, in my opinion, would have had a very high probability of success. The bar wasn’t as high as it is today. Slick, seamless integration between phone and desktop would have been an amazing feature. No, that did not mean running CAD on your phone. Again, the context is 2010, not today. I think that was iPhone 3 era. Something as simple as being able to seamlessly make and receive calls, send and receive SMS and do the same with email with either device, desktop or phone, would have been magical back then. Take a call in the car while you arrive at the office, once you get to your desk you put on your headset and the call continues through your computer. You can send text or links from your PC via SMS to the other person. Record the conversation if needed (with legal provisions in place). Etc. Again, don’t think 2022, think 2010.

Everything is conceptually simple. It is easy to talk about ideas, quite another matter to actually implement them and do it well. Concepts are usually simple; reality is difficult.

It isn’t that MS was full of unintelligent people who don’t know what they are doing. Not at all. The history of business is full of stories of intelligent and very capable people completely missing the mark or failing to recognize a shift in their industry. There’s a great book about this very subject: The Innovators Dilemma. In fact, the author makes the argument that some of these bad decisions are the result of good management.

BTW, I used “seamless” to describe something that is intimately integrated to the system. No installation. Think of good USB peripherals that just work.
How is the sentiment about Lex. Friedman here btw? I have only tangentially seen him and he seemed to be quite full of himself?
Parent wrote "The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids." You still pretty much in the middle of that blip. It is exhausting. When your kids are getting closer to 10, you will have a very different perspective. And you will have as much time as you want to enjoy hobbies, going out, etc.

Source: I have a 12yo at home.
> It was caught by the first HN member to comment

And this is what his attack was: making legitimate users flag a legitimate article.
I developed the fastest way to value any stock.

A video demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z23p8y6PFa0
The cloud is much more than that. The premium you pay for a cloud service is

- Ability to scale up and scale down in a matter of minutes.
- Reduction in variable capital costs required to meet peak demand.
- Ability to test and prototype products or services at scale without significant investments.
- Ability to have, on tap, products and services that in a traditional sense, would take a lot of time and manpower (A company can invest in equipment and manpower to spin a few services. But as you add more services, it costs more and more to build and maintain such systems. With cloud services, you can use, test and experiment before finalizing)
Fiber may be available in a city, but not in your building. It’s moderately common for a high rise apartment to only have the option of one ISP, with mediocre internet plans (especially if the building has a special contract with the ISP)
Why did it take so long for tabbed File Explorer!?!
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handi-Snacks_-_open....

Feels like this but with peanut butter replaced by grape juice.

I'm bothered the Truevine Chalice checks every box except "fits in communion trays".
>The property tax levy is fixed year to year, and makes up the majority of the revenue for school districts in my state.

I'm sorry, I don't understand this. What do you mean by "levy"? Every place I've ever seen had property taxes based on assessed property values; there was a tax rate, which is a percentage of the property value. (And yes, the assessed value is almost always lower than the market value, but it still rises with the market values.) Property values have shot up tremendously over the past ~5 years, so local governments have gotten a windfall in property tax revenues. Did they use this to pay teachers better and make the teaching profession more attractive? No. Now, all of a sudden, property values are declining and you're complaining about revenues falling?
A Tense Pay Dispute Overshadows Nintendo’s Upcoming Bayonetta 3
If I was an airline considering this, I'd want to see $/km fuel costs from the extra air resistance in the sales brochure...
Mine too. Hence my username of Irrational.
Jack Dorsey unveils decentralized social with algo choice and portable accounts
You could have some serious fun with a battle cruiser!

It’s bizarre how much I remember of that show, none of the Latin though.
The gem in that tweet screed is this comment:

> This gets back to the idea of preventing frustration. I determined that it would be more frustrating to have autocorrection “guess wrong” and erroneously fix broken typing.

I work on automation a lot, and this is so hard to communicate to the endless stream of non-tech types that just want to “tweak” the algorithms to be a little bit smarter. Trust is an asymmetric proposition, requires lots of positive inputs to slowly accrete it; it takes very few negative inputs to rapidly dissolve it. It is better to be reliably/predictably helpful some of the time, than it is to usually be helpful but sometimes dishelpful all of the time.

Or as Thumper put it (kinda): “If you don’t have nuthin nice to add, don’t add anything at all.”
Absolutely have the same experience here and it drives me nuts.
Glad you found the game you were looking for. Funny enough the sequel to this game was also purchased by me at the same store around the same time (Caldor)

Commander Blood: https://youtu.be/e9nOYM6nSXo?t=39

With an intro like that I could NEVER forget this one. That and the fact that this game did not crash constantly like my missing game did lol.

Too bad it didn't sell well, those French dev create the most unique stuff but sometimes it is too unique for the mainstream.
If you're using github or gitlab, you probably don't have any control over whether or not voting is implemented in the issue tracking system.
How did you accidentally get a clean cut through bone?
> You're conflating two different things: (i) toying with DNA/RNA, and (ii) gain of function research into human viruses.

If you've got some kind of model where these are in fact two entirely distinct things, that would explain some of the confusion in your position.

"any selection process involving an alteration of genotypes and their resulting phenotypes is considered a type of Gain-of-Function (GoF) research, even if the U.S. policy is intended to apply to only a small subset of such work."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579/

Perhaps do some reflection on why you've latched onto the phrase "gain of function" and if you really understand what professionals mean by it.

> Like: accidentally making human viruses more deadly, OK

The prep for "accidentally more deadly" is going to be necessarily the same as "we're certain it will be more deadly," and in practice lots of viral research is probably "middling probability something deadly could happen."

> But so far as I've heard, the Wuhan research didn't help with Covid at all.

Where are you getting this high-level graph of coronavirus-related knowledge tagged by origin of research clearly showing a lack of contributions from Wuhan?

> Covid itself may have been caused by gain of function research

Or it might have simply been lab-escaped SARS coronavirus, making its way through an adaptation path.

Or it may have been entirely caused by constant unceasing unimaginably well-resourced natural "lab" of the world that would inevitably have produced something like it at some point, and absolutely will inevitably produce something like it again.
There is an element of national security involved here. Currently the best chips come from Taiwan, and China claims Taiwan is part of China.

In the future wars will be fought with robot-soldiers. The robot with the fastest chips will be the smartest of them all.
That sounds a lot more like a back-end issue than a front-end issue
Screeps! My screeps[0] bot has been running since 2016 and has recently needed some love.

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A case study of 1 for a research group doesn't usually get enough attention. Doctors, for the most part, aren't interested in research. They're just wanting to play God and fix problems. The why is unimportant because there not writing a research paper, they just want to be thankful, bow before the alter with your offerings and move on.

I don't think this is the way it should work either but since this method solves 98+% of issues brought before them there's no reason to change.

Finding a research scientist who's interested and paid to study your problem would be the best bet, but a group of 1 funding becomes and issue. The total group suffering from such issues may be larger but how many have just managed the symptoms and accepted it as their life. Self-assessment is also plagued with biases which all doctors know so unwinding your notes is tedious and they can't bill for it.

I would suspect that your case is related to the gut biome especially since pills reducing histamine response help the problem. Gut biome is still kinda of a new thing but I'm surprised it wasn't a direction that was reviewed.
Go Advent Calendar 2022 – Call for bloggers
Hi HN community,

I am running the Go Advent Calendar this year again and there are still a few slots left to be filled.

You ask what is the Go Advent Calendar? It's an advent calendar for bloggers.

Do you have a blog? Do you like to blog about Go related topics?

Great, visit https://golang.christmas/book and reserve an advent calendar window (1st-24th December).

After you confirmed your slot you can start writing your Go related blog post at your own time. All you have to do is publish your blog post shortly before your selected window is due to open and submit the link to your blog via a secure link which will be sent to your email. On the day the advent calendar will open the window and display a reference to you and your blog post. You own all your content, this is not an attempt to get free content from bloggers onto another platform.

It allows the Go community to read one Go related blog post every day leading up to Christmas.

December is normally a period where companies slow down and employees get more time to work on something they choose themselves or do some blogging/learning/training in their own time. The Go Advent Calendar is an initiative to make this a bit more fun.
Hahaha, of all the times to have a brainfart like that! Thanks :)

What surprises me the most is how entrenched that industry is, like it's impossible to get rid of them.
DaVinci Resolve coming soon to iPad Pro, enhanced by the M2 chip
Descent? Descent 2?
Won't this require spectrum licensed from every country the plane fly's over?

Easy in North America... But all other regions of the world a typical flight might go over 20 countries. If you can't secure a license for just one, you're gonna have a 5 hour flight with 20 minutes of no internet... Not great.

And I don't think they're getting a license for Russia, Iran, China, half of Africa, etc any time soon.
This seems to be a misconception. It actually doesn't say that.

"[..] and in such a way that there will be no tendency of the driver to cam out of the recess when united in operative engagement with each other."[1]

Wikipedia says:

"The design is often criticized for its tendency to cam out at lower torque levels than other "cross head" designs. There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners.[14]: 85 [15] Extensive evidence is lacking for this specific narrative, and the feature is not mentioned in the original patents.[16] However, a 1949 refinement to the original design described in US Patent #2,474,994[17][18][19] describes this feature. "

1. https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0216985...
The Swiftkey app that made typing tolerable on the iPhone is now going to be killed for iOS starting next month. So there really isn't any alternative for now.
The fucking period moved.
>These are cultural differences. ... People feel the outside world is dirty and their babies are clean and that dirt is stress. Imagine this for 10 years. You will be driving your kids a quarter of a mile.

No wonder younger Americans all have deadly allergies to so many common things like peanuts.
How we use binary search to find compiler bugs
As mentioned in one of the other comments here, we have come to the realization that the last-mile growers are not incentivized enough, sometimes not at all, to "maintain" the trees till they can sustain themselves.

The government and public authorities will sign a plan; then it goes down to multiple intermediaries, and by the time it reaches those planting the trees get little to care. It is rampant with corruption and fraud. If I have to put in numbers, here is an idea -- if there is $1 available for every tree to be planted, anyone in direct benefit at the final step gets less than 10¢. Those organizations and people "shouting" about planting trees goes on to the next plantation project, and it goes on.

I have been involved with and have invested in nurturing an ecosystem in a remote corner of India. I have got the involvement of the locals, and they know what trees/plants to grow that will benefit not just in sucking in CO2 but bears fruit that the locals can leverage. The idea is to have a tangible outcome from the trees that we can create a circular economy and treat the Climate actions as a good side-effect. The locales have no clue and don't even have enough to survive to care about Climate Change.
No that seems more like the DOS era. This was definitely some sort of Win32 application (ie. runs on Windows 95/98 and not DOS)

See my comment here for more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258294

Thanks for the suggestion though!
FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7
The link doesn't cover their question. They asked about installation costs, the link only talks about monthly costs ($12.5-25K) and hardware cost (150K). Modification to an aircraft, expertise, and being FAA cleared is always expensive.
Why are you reading hn?

Shouldn't all the stories here should lead you to a different path?

Questioning rationally your beliefs?
Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions
Spookiest acqui-hire ever.
It’s just poor communication.

The right way to communicate is say:

“Based on other viruses, we believe masking helps reduce the risk of transmission.”

“Based on initial clinical data we believe vaccination will reduce or possibly eliminate the risk you transmitting the virus to others”

What I’m guessing happened is they thought not being confident in their answer would cause people to not comply.

But the #1 rule of communication (I did some company PR work) is never lie, even by omission. If you lie you’ll eventually get caught and people will never believe you in the future.
USB4 v2.0 Specification Published for Doubling the Performance
https://github.com/ordiri/ordiri

I've been working on an incredibly over engineered platform to run my home lab and to help learn about some lower levels of the stack I don't get to play with much in my day job as a consultant.

It's based on the kubernetes api server so while it doesn't understand "pods" or even proper "namespaces", it uses the same YAML resource model and api server code.
Absolutely. Focusing on lots of different tasks is the antithesis of focus. Focus is identifying and executing against one singular goal.
Maybe they should plant in areas where people aren't struggling to make ends meet. Plenty of deforestation has happened all over Europe for example.
zzt is amazing. i don't think i discovered it until the 2010s. made some fun puzzles that only i played
Curious, indeed. I guess it depends on what they mean by clean here. I would think serrations would leave traces (very small, jagged edges) on the bone, but if it did I’d also think they’d mention it. It’s very odd. I guess the alternative is that they chopped it clean off. That’s pretty gnarly to think about.
Yep! I'm not planning on working further on Cha at the moment, but I've learnt a lot since I initially wrote the PoC code and that is probably how I'd go about it.
I love the UX on mobile. It’s super intuitive on an iPhone for me.
aamoscodes had some good suggestions, and bunny.net would also work as well.

If you trust your VPS capabilities, you could also run a Peertube instance. It should have the embedding features you want. However, I'm not sure what sort of performance you are going to want on the VPS to make it close to something like Youtube. (How many TB of video do you have? How spread out is that 4 TB of stream data? If you do run it, I'd suggest running it through Cloudron to simplify security and backups (it's very good at that).
I'd be curious if this holds up just viewing my friends kids. It seems from the outside, some enjoy their kids, some don't. Some have kids who are generally pleasant to be around, some don't.

I've always wanted kids but I of course imagine having the pleasant to be around kind. Not that I wouldn't do my best to see they come out that way but I'm sure most of the parents with unpleasant kids thought they were doing the right thing at the time.
also Arxiv (Google Scholar) and HN
For me the issue is that it learns the words I use. If I accidentally mistype and don't correct a word once, that word is forever cursed.
I never considered an iPhone until I could use custom keyboards.

(I use swiftkey, but just type the usual way.)
Brilliant talk
"If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."

- Richard Branson
Saudi Arabia: US citizen jailed for 16 years over tweets was tortured, says son
Chopping wood or similar, maybe? I think it’d be a miracle they didn’t bleed out but I’m not a doctor. The next sentence in the article suggests it couldn’t have been an accident but the reasoning seems odd.
GraalVM Being Integrated into OpenJDK
You don't need ships to blockade
He gets good guests and asks interesting questions. His interview of Demis Hassabis was great for example, and Yann LeCun was good too. He went extremely deep with John Carmack.

Some of his interviews seem to skew a bit more religious / alien theory and I just skip those.
Are you reranking results with neural nets? I'd like to have a personalised filter + reranker that can sit on top of everything else.

We need to take back control of our feeds. I think the trifecta of user control is - filtering, ranking and UI. Any of them can be used by big corporations in shady ways. Your meta search engine is already a new UI and allowing multiple sources empowers users. But we need more than that, something like customisable neural reranking or recommender systems that serve the users, not the advertisers.
1. I can’t say I have found any real downsides yet. We have had to make improvements to support new capabilities, but it has been surprisingly easy to do so. Our most recent improvement was to formalize the concept of MVVM so that our ViewModels essentially acted in the same way as our Feature types. It allows us to continue using almost the same pattern at individual screen that we have been using at the feature level.

Our next big effort will be fitting the architecture into SwiftUI, which I think will actually be also straightforward since SwiftUI is extremely functional.

2. Onboarding is probably the biggest “downside”. I would say there is absolutely a learning curve that requires some investment but everyone I speak to about it has been pretty positive after getting over that hurdle. And it feels like our productivity is very high.

3. Android does not follow the same pattern. I am planning on sharing your article with the team though. :-)
That's logically impossible for many reasons, the first of which is that arithmetic is a prerequisite for quantum field theory, and that secondly quantum effects like those don't occur at scales at which intelligent organisms live.
Is there a well-tested, reliable, flexible and good working tool for windows that does the same and can be installed as a service? Just watch a directory and do something that I can configure easily with a textfile?
Funny enough the next suggested play after that video is this one where the article got its headline from, which it credited to Steve jobs in the first paragraph, from WWDC ‘97: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eP99neOVs
My comment was more about the 1-click-major-spend aspect. You can always terminate a normal instance - refunding a RI purchase is going to require a lot more explanation and dealing with support/finance/lawyers.
Piano Gym - It's really cool, and I wish I had someone technical to actually work on this together.

Here's a quick video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4

Piano Gym is a learning and practice ecosystem focused on prioritizing music theory and performance skills acquisition through the use of flash cards. We use flash cards in order to pair them with modern learning techniques like spaced repetition, graded feedback, and progress tracking so that you can practice material and work through content that is managed by Piano Gym, and all you have to do is enroll in a school/course/lesson and do your reps! Just show up every day and do 15 minutes of reviews. You're going to make progress.

The website uses the Piano to navigate exercises as well as regular keyboard/mouse input. It works on browser technology and I'm looking to eventually make it mobile devices.

It provides content creation for everyone so that anyone can make their own schools/courses/lessons and the best part is each school gets its own landing page.

For example I'm using the methods book from https://freepianomethod.com which is provided by Mayron Cole, and if you wanted to practice it without signing up or enrolling you could easily visit this link: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method

Even better when you find the piece you want to practice you can share it directly like so: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method?sheet_mu...

My goal is to do this for free. I believe that no one should be blocked from learning. And one of the issues with this at the moment is that it's just me currently working nights and weekends to make this happen.
Thank you for the suggestion. This definitely gets closer to the visual design but the operation of the game was more like Myst. Ie. CGI generated pictures in the same style as Blade Runner that you would click to traverse through with occasional FMVs involving real humans (and randomly the game would crash)

This helps narrow it down so much appreciated for the suggestion.
sk55, I'm so glad the UX works for you! That was the big question if the different design would be intuitive for people.

I am hoping the swipe to see more columns of searches will open up a whole new direction allowing more specific searches to be seen quickly. You could just swipe between different modalities. And possibly jump to narrower ones like just looking at reddit or stackoverflow, or php documentation (need to add that later).
And iPadOS window mgmt features cut it for 99.9% of users so… even stevens?
Only the taskbar's icons can be aligned to the center or the bottom left of the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The taskbar cannot be moved to the left, right or top of the screen in Windows 11, a huge regression.
Holy cow, that's a multi-billion-dollar industry of corporate doublespeak right there.