skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true for the Solar System because all our planets have near-circular orbits. Suppose though if you had two planets with highly elliptical orbits and similar arguments of perigee. They will spend most of their time far away from their star but relatively close to one another.

I'm not sure if such an elliptical orbit would be possible while still classifying them as planets and not dwarf planets though.
I'm not sure what country you're talking about but that ain't what it's like where I live.
You mean like a web application where the modal edit window blocks the information on the original page that I would want to refer to, so I have to close the window, copy it in to a text editor, and bring back the modal window?

Sounds wonderful.
Show HN: Minutes – Simplifying sales call summaries and follow-ups
Hey everyone,

I wanted to share something I've been working on that I think could be really helpful for sales teams. As an entrepreneur who handles sales and marketing, I noticed a common challenge: the amount of time managers spend on creating call summaries and writing follow-up emails. Not only is it time-consuming, but it's also often a hassle to ensure accuracy.

To tackle this issue, I decided to delve deeper and spoke with several sales directors. Turns out, this problem is widespread, and even salespeople themselves dislike the administrative burden it brings. Inspired by these insights, I created Minutes.

Minutes is a startup that utilizes OpenAI technology to automate the transcription and summarization of sales calls.

Here's where you come in. Sign up for Minutes using the code "minutes_alpha," and you'll receive 60 free transcription minutes to play with the service. I genuinely value your feedback and insights, as they will help us refine Minutes and tailor it to the specific needs of sales teams everywhere.

Thank you for your support, and I'm eagerly looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Warm regards,
Bogdan, founder of Minutes
"For us, it's way better if the industry standardizes on the basic tools that we're using and therefore we can benefit from the improvements that others make and others’ use of those tools can, in some cases like Open Compute, drive down the costs of those things which make our business more efficient too." -- isn't this the Web 2.0 mantra applied to software?
It seems like a lot of people don't really consider what it really means to be "modal," and when it comes up, I describe it something like this:

A modal is not, in itself, an overaly, window, frame, etc. Generally, it really shouldn't even be used as a noun. Modal describes the state of the interface. Most interfaces allow for multiple user interactions originating from the broader interface, i.e., it is multi-modal.

Sometimes, it is necessary to put the UI into a single-purpose state, so, in a single mode. This is required when two interactions can interfere with one another. When one interaction must not be interrupted by another, we must go modal.

The author seems to be chiefly complaining about unnecessary modality and the way that gives rise to clunky UIs that don't allow for things like linking. That's rooted in conflating on-screen, 3D elements like overlay dialog boxes with the concept of one of some interface being modal. An example of this would be an interface with a item list that, on item selection, conjures a modal overlay dialog box with the item details. In the base case, there is no dependency problem here, i.e., it's an entirely acceptable design to allow a user to view the details of two items at the same time, and therefor it doesn't call for a modal detail interface.
But this doesn't negate the fact that cloud gaming works for a lot of genres and a lot of people. That market will likely only grow, and in that scenario, will likely become what most publishers try to cater for as that's where the worthwhile money is.

Look at how many competitive FPS have tried to take on CSGO and have failed since its launch. CSGO is very much the gold-standard of its genre.

Despite modern PC gaming largely being a better experience (minus bad ports, buggy launches), consoles still sell in huge numbers. If cloud gaming grows, I expect it to replace consoles for a lot of people.

Even now, rather than download a game to my living room Xbox, I'll just stream the game via the cloud to it. However, if I'm sat up close with a game at my desk, of course I'll install it on my PC. But at x feet away from my TV in the living room, whatever is lacking visually or in terms of latency, I'm not gonna care about when my input device isn't exactly all that performant. I dare say that about sums it up for a lot of people using the cloud to game.

This is without even bringing up the number of Nintendo Switch games that are streaming-only as the console can't handle it natively. Doesn't seem to bother Switch owners much.
Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary
Just to remind, closures are poor man's objects; objects are poor man's closures
Good for the ACLU. Not so good that they are so desperate for donations that it's beginning to turn me off. Full screen modal on page load? Really?
> WFH is nothing but a cost savings for companies.

WFH is a loss of control. For some leaders, being a "boss" is more important than what's good for the business.

WFH also requires the right culture. I've seen it abused when I worked at Intel, and when Yahoo cracked down on it, the abuses were similar.

I should point out that I've predominately WFH for almost a decade; but it works because I'm trustworthy and I work for people who are managers instead of "bosses." In an environment where the workers aren't trustworthy, or the management structure is more about being a "boss," it won't work.
"Deserve"? No.

"Seek"? Probably yes.
Three finger tap works on my machine.
Amusingly, there are two ways to read this comment.
Do you have an idea how the gift cards work? Is it like credit that's stored on your purchase?

Because I hate to buy a gift card for 100$ and needing to do it again because I'm just not reached the next amount due to pricing schemes
> Further - users (and I mean normal paying users, not HN commentators) rarely ever give a shit about URLs. It's just not important to most people what the string of characters is.

This is not correct. Normal users have learned that if they copy that URL thingie, and send it to someone else, that someone else will see the same thing they see now.

I don't know how many times I've received a link from someone saying "lol look at this hilarious dog" and ended up on some useless overview page completely devoid of hilarious dogs. Because some fucking designer decided to do exactly what TFA is complaining about.
Building Cabin's Network City
That's an unjustified stretch. You're reaching for a non-existent "ironic switcheroo".
> Modal windows can't be bookmarked or shared as links. Deep linking can be added to modals, but it's complex. What will show up in the background when the link is followed? How much application state needs to be restored? How will the user be confident that it will work?

Why is there a completely untested assumption that everything should be linkable?
Very nice - yes that's quite quick and definitely uses less memory. When I tested it on an older iPad and on an Android device the difference in speed between the two approaches is a bit more obvious. Watching my kids bash away at this and expect it to keep up makes me more willing to use extra memory to do so. All that said though, I really like your implementation, it would likely be the right choice for a lot of use cases
Good luck...the "scabs" crossing your picket line all WFH and you'll never even know who they are.

WFH means work-from-anywhere, which dooms the leverage of a union
Regulatory superpower
The metaverse efforts at Meta isn’t just one project. It’s a massive org with multiple VPs driving many many different product lines. It’s not going anywhere.
You guys are almost there. So close... can someone take this one more step...
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FWIW - does anyone know of a tech employee who took this fallacy into account when making a career decision? Say, they looked at a company, concluded that it was over-hiring during a boom, and would likely be cutting heavily during the inevitable bust. So - they didn't apply, or told the recruiter "sorry", or rejected the job offer, or made a career move to a more-stable ship?
I don’t have to be one to criticize CEO actions. Especially since I, a regular worker, am the one that will be most impacted by their idiocy.
I pay $200 a month to be a member of a fitness cult. I hate the idea that it works for me, but it does.

It's okay to find something that works for you and not overcomplicate it, even if it's a cult token in the form of an overpriced exercise bike.
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Techies still see themselves as temporarily embarrassed owners rather than laborers. I wouldn't bet on it anytime soon.
These companies have boards, and these boards are incredibly "inbred" so that the vested interests coincide and reinforce. You'd be surprised how many of your C-suite sit on boards of REITs or have invested huge amounts of company "cash" into them.

It's most definitely about money, all the way.
The difference is, there was no SV startup unicorn with an insane valuation making roller blades. They were basic consumer products for like $20.

The executives made 100's of millions in profits off of a fad. They did an amazing job. Some of it's just dumb luck with the lockdowns, but either way, they made something out of nothing.
The Economist says that the layed-off workers were bloat:

"So far techies themselves have been mostly spared, observes Tim Herbert of the Computing Technology Industry Association, a trade body. Instead, the axe has fallen mainly on business functions such as sales and recruitment. These had grown steadily as a share of technology-industry employment in recent years, a telltale sign of bloat."
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/27/where-have-all...

The reality is that noone knows whether there's going to be normal growth, stagnation, or a recession, but one thing is for sure: The tech boom of the pandemic has ended along with the pandemic.

So these companies don't have proprietary magic insights and can reliably forecast a recession (as was your question), they're simply responding to the end of the boom and rising interest rates.
The card was PIN protected of course! With limited attempts. Just like a Chip+PIN card for a bank.
You're welcome. TNI is only part of the picture. Each government has a department that works with these groups. The US recently officiated one of the groups rather than trying to hide it. [1]

[1] - https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3472878-joe-bidens-m...
Technology changes expectation of privacy. Any neighbor can:

* Mount a laser pointed at your window and do complex algorithms with diffraction to listen to you

* Run Tempest and read your computer monitor (pretend we still have CRTs)

* Use a telephoto camera to look through your windows

... and so on.

Those were impossible 100 years ago, were expensive a few decades ago (outside of the means of my neighbors), are within the means of many individuals today, and will probably be very cheap in a few more decades years. That makes a world of difference.

I don't think my neighbor should be allowed to do any of those. I'd like my privacy.
ok "Natural Climate Solutions" Griscom et, al 2017 PNAS

... seems to be a respected-among-scholars starting point.
prior to appx 2016, it meant the intelligence apparatus and the constellation of orgs and ngo's around it; after that it meant the unelected permanent bureaucracy that persists across administrations
While I agree with the author, I can’t actually think of an example where a modal is being misused in this context? Every application I’ve worked on with a ‘resource detail’ component had a open in new tab hyperlink.
A few years if you have only one artist i think :)
There are plentiful sources, which might not agree on the data that they have. Actually investigating that might take more effort than most people are willing to put in, few would care enough to sit down for the better part of the day and go through numerous studies.

https://www.statista.com/topics/3928/reading-habits-in-the-u... and
https://www.statista.com/statistics/222754/book-format-used-...

> Book reading remains a popular pastime, with the most recent data showing that three quarters of all adults had read at least one book in any format in the past year.

https://testprepinsight.com/resources/us-book-reading-statis...

> Almost half of the respondents haven’t read any books in over a year: 48.5%

> According to the Pew Research Center, about 64% of American adults say they have read a book in the past 12 months. This is a similar share to the previous year, and is consistent with the findings from 2020.

> The National Endowment for the Arts released a report in 2015 that showed literary reading among Americans had declined significantly over the previous 20 years. In 1992, 56% of Americans had read at least one work of literature in the previous year. By 2014, that number had fallen to 46%.

> The NEA report also found that literary reading was more common among older adults than younger ones. In 2014, 53% of adults age 65 and older reported reading literature, compared with just 36% of adults ages 18-24.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/09/21/who-doesn...

> Roughly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Jan. 25-Feb. 8, 2021.

https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/public-life/boo...

> The percentage of Americans adults who read at least one book of fiction or nonfiction in the previous 12 months (outside of work or school requirements) fell to the lowest level on record in 2017 (Indicator V-04a). In 1992, 61% of Americans had read a book for pleasure during the previous year, but by 2017 less than 53% had done so.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/388541/americans-reading-fewer-...

> Americans say they read an average of 12.6 books during the past year, a smaller number than Gallup has measured in any prior survey dating back to 1990. U.S. adults are reading roughly two or three fewer books per year than they did between 2001 and 2016.

So I guess there's a decline of sorts, but the exact figures vary a bit, probably depending on the particular polls and their audiences, the risks of self reporting biases and so on. That said, people are still definitely readings books, for the most part. Of course, some also include stuff like audiobooks, which is also an interesting format. I don't think that verifying everything is very easy, though, since a meta study that explores the methodology and so on might be more useful for that, rather than just taking everything at face value.

I would still unironically enjoy a SummarizeGoogleGPT or something, to not have to dig through various articles, each with a different layout and formatting.
People working from home can be as productive and efficient as they were in the office but the majority of them choose not to be.
That's still the need to make money. It's just that they're making it from the government, and therefore have to publish what their real customer wants.
It feels like cheating: The Trek Domane+ SLR9 AXS gravel bike, reviewed
Simply put, it's the worship of money and wealth. More money, closer to God.
Summary: Space based directed energy (DE) weapons are the only thing capable of reliably intercepting hypersonic glide vehicles --- and the USA does not have them at this time.
So is the CEO also just a worker who must seek employment to earn a salary to live? Why or why not?
“Here we go again.”
So rationality says that if 2 out of 3 (66%) of those that created a technology insist on the same thing, the controversial view is of those that don't agree with it.
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Ah, the most powerful optimization technique: add random sleeps to the code and when people start complaining remove them and collect your bonus

</joke>
*for now.
I've looked at bitwarden which is completely open source and is self-hosted. I tried it, but I'd rather pay a "premium" for someone that gets paid to upkeep the application to the newest standards.

Bitwarden sometimes has troubles with filling in forms properly which 1password more often does the correct thing saving me seconds / minutes every day.
Right. No one is keeping you from putting on a pair and taking a skate on the bike path. And, once in a great while, you see someone doing just that. But there's probably no skate rental place on the bike path any longer, people don't organize group trips, and there are no mass urban Friday night skates.

I assume while frisbees are still around, they're also seemingly much less ubiquitous than they were.
Some people reflexively blame everything bad that happens in the economy on the Fed's QE, usually because they're outraged by it though they have no reasoned justification for feeling that way.

It's like a conspiracy theory, except the "conspiracy" part is actually true (the Fed was exactly trying to create inflation), but the consequences are fanciful and legion.
They can still destroy your site, they just can't destroy anything else on the same server.
The first part of your response is just equivocation. The latter is just an assertion lacking substantial evidence.
Open-source alternatives to popular SaaS tools
GNOME is a lost cause. Once they started shadowing keybindings from readline they failed at UX.
Modal is a common term for a UI element, as used in the site. I'm not saying you're wrong, per se, but I think you're missing the point, or perhaps missing context into modern UI design terminology
DNA extraction and sequencing from sand, water and air
Maybe not in the past, but I sure as hell as now.
Xbox haven't be jailbroken since Xbox One (prev gen, first homebrew support, with virtualization protection tech), so their track record is pretty good. Perfect jailbreak prevention is impossible, but MS does pretty well.
Idea: Convert a cargo ship into an Aluminum Smelter. Regularly relocate it to ports where the price of electricity is minimal or negative. Profit.
Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?
How do you battle against (self-inflicted) anxiety/paralysis when you are attempting to tackle a problem you are not sure has a solution? I have a very open mind to solving problems but it can make it difficult to come to conclusions. Anyone know what I'm talking about here? Have any advice?
Good to see general resume improvements but ...

Can we not try to force s2idle? It uses way too much power. I've not yet seen a laptop which is capable of staying "sleeping" in s2idle as long as in s3 sleep. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

I also don't really get why: s3 is more than fast enough to be awake when my laptop is open and I'm ready to login, the only "need to be faster" way I can see is when you do not lock you laptop and go straight to desktop but that has ... issues.
> But if that's the case, are we basically still in the early innings of this crisis?

We might be, but more likely is that Meta is facing a reality that all huge companies eventually face: there isn't a play for megagrowth anymore once you are the size of big tech companies. You'll grow a little faster or slower than CAGR. So, since you can't grow the top line, you start looking at the bottom line and becoming more capital efficient. Laying off overpaid people is the start of the process.
wouldn't ctrl+shift+v do the same thing .. ie remove formatting of the number.
You put it in your pocket and throw it away at home.

IIRC, part of the reason for no trash cans is that eating in public is sort of taboo - you do it at a resto or at home. Food wrappers are quite a lot of trash people need to throw away.

From my last trip to Tokyo I recall vending machines having both garbage and recycling bins. So just keep an eye out for vending machines.
You are absolutely correct in that way of thinking. What astounds me the number of people on HN who are saying that we are lazy and anti-capitalist with that way of thinking. The system is broken. The rich are getting richer and the average workers are getting screwed big time. Privatized profits, but socialized losses.

As George Carlin said: "They are getting fcked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fcking years ago."
As long as they don't brick the devices it might not be so bad. The spend was likely not optimal. But there probably has been worse cases see the likes of Juicero.
Unfortunately, some of them are buying even more. I know Google spent at least 4B on purchasing office real estate in 2022, probably more
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That’s what chefs were taught too. The reasoning behind it is that less flipping equals good browning. The idea is that carryover heat and resting will cook the insides adequately.

But I think ATK or someone else debunked this as the best practice. Flipping more than once gets you more even internal cooking.
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Ask HN: What do you know about vector embeddings?
I'd even argue all html modals are bad designs; including alerts, forms, and confirmations. HTML modals are poor emulations of native dialog boxes; they try to address rendering performance problems that no longer exist.
> Would you flag an article of Einstein saying nuclear power is dangerous back in 1939?

Great physicist. His ability to predict society changes is more difficult to evaluate.

We are (sadly) more use to things that explode, so it may be easier to compare nuclear bombs with conventional bombs.

Anyway, some people claim that nuclear bombs and MAD prevented WWIII, so perhaps nuclear weapons are good (if they don't explode over your head).

Anyway, in spite a hundred Einsteins had signed a petition to stop nuclear weapons, the governments would have ignored it.

Conclusion: I would not flag it, but I would ignore that thread.

PS: He was wrong about Quantum Mechanics... Smart doesn't mean that he was never wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%8...
Same deal in Korea. Theory is if the provide trash cans people will use them for household waste vs the incredibly annoying household trash system.
I found two different translations easily available.
> the serfs

While you're arguing class warfare, I think it is worth asking whether the "serfs" (dictionary: "an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate") at Meta are working on things that improve society... Isn't the typical developer at Meta making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year making systems that are destructive to the social fabric and cohesion of society?
Is that the truth, what they say they do, or what they would like to do?
All the things which the RFC recommends against are still all bad practices, for reasons which have not changed.

Modern server “cattle” style naming, which I assume you have in mind, is actually explicitly mentioned as a reasonable idea in the RFC text.
I found one in the Bay Area 5 years ago. Then another the year after. Salt was effective.
As I said, amusing.
Capitalism has overoptimized for profit, I think.

The paperclip maximizer has started eating puppies to produce too many paperclips.

I'm enchanted by the phrase "quality that's too high for the market to rationally produce". It referred to how much quality a hobbyist can put into a physical good because they're not manufacturing them at scale or for profit. I didn't realize that's a moving target though. ;p