skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing about Skype for Business is it was a last ditch attempt to revitalize the image of Office Communicator, an absolutely terrible enterprise instant messenger service with half baked group chat functionality. Might have also had voice and video, I can't recall if they were missing that feature or if it was also half baked and terrible. They just borrowed the name from the Skype consumer product and slapped it on the newest version of Communicator. So not only was it not Skype, it was probably one of the few pieces of Microsoft enterprise software that was hated more than SharePoint (in my experience). Which is really impressive considering how much people absolutely despise SharePoint.
I find it funny how people have to clarify "I'm not right-learning btw" to lend more credence to their claims, and to not be attacked. Shows where we're at.
Shouldn't the URL be blog.x.com? They probably fired the guy in charge of the blog and haven't been able to update the domain yet. Rooks.
Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls
Hey HN! It's been a while but I wanted to pop back in to share that we just shipped paywalls: a remotely configurable, App Store compliant, and testable paywall out of the box.

We shied away from building this for longer than we should have but it's such a huge component of making more money on the app stores we just had to.

It relies on native components, but is configurable from the web, which we think achieves a good balance of flexibility and performance. We're just on iOS for now, Android soon, then hopefully more platforms in time.
As in, you need to make sure you strip out all references to the Terraform trademark before you make it public?
The GitHub link is: https://github.com/ghostfolio/ghostfolio

The premium hosted edition of this service isn't inspiring confidence if their front page, presumably residing within the same cloud infrastructure, can't handle the HN hug of death.

Operational issues aside, I love seeing open source self-hosted breaking into retail wealth management. Right now, it seems everybody I speak to that isn't a professional or institutional investor defaults to a frankenstien combination of spreadsheets and/or web frontends exposed by banks and 'standard' wealth management sites like Wealthfront/Bettermint.
Are you trying to draw a connection between disregarding IP laws and disregarding human rights? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't any.
> But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI.

I always demo it where people are open to it, I show them how it can used to steal their banking data (that has been the case already for many years), explain how everything they do is tracked (to those a little bit savy i show them the "hidden" tracking pixels here and there), I demo how people can talk about certain topics or search on site A and then similar content is shown on site B, and so on.

Spread the word, demo, explain, educate.

The mainstream is interested but they don't know how it works. They imagine cabals of people in secret dark chambers when in fact it was product managers in daily standups planning and delivering all this and an all too open to corruption politicians happy to keep the maases obedient and numb.
You've given me a lot to research, thanks for taking the time to share your experiences!
Typical American pickups aren't any more functional than Cybertrucks today. They may have the right bed shape but they're scaled up to look cool and own libs so that, as you say, they're impractical to load.
All those hard surfaces and sharp angles, looks dangerous to other road users. Have safety studies been done on this design vs. pedestrians?

Just because Elon Musk is enthusiastic about something doesn't make it a good idea.
Financial Times reports the opposite[1] (population: UK and USA) so who knows? Time will tell.

1: https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767...
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The US military invading foreign countries and exerting its dominance globally has nothing to do with protecting your rights as citizens.
Haha, yeah it does fall apart on the individual level. I don't think I would convince my girlfriend to have kids by talking dirty with population statistics ;)

And for the record I'm just another childless, un-married late-twenties tech guy that wants to travel and hang out with my friends on the weekend. So I'm definitely part of the "problem" not the solution.

I just mean to say -- we've inherited a really rich intellectual tradition that has borrowed from thinkers around the world, and really we are torchbearers for that way of life. It's not a guarantee that progress will march forever onward. So we need to think about how to keep our societies going in a way that still produces families.

Maybe that means the government steps in and says that every workplace has to have a day care center. It seemed to work for Patagonia. Maybe it means we start some crazy scheme where companies hire married couples as a package deal. Maybe it means we have to rebuild our cities to have denser neighborhoods with lots of families clustered together. Maybe we all have to start living in hippie communes. I have no idea.

I don't want society to go backwards, but I don't want our values to die out either. So it's clear that we need radical change.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm.
> ...live console/status of the DSN: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Very cool--you can even see the data rate for each one, AND the animation changes if the data rate is higher.
I think your vision of free speech in the past is off, compared to my born in the 60s memory. There didn't used to be racist hate speech on the news or widely disseminated widely like there is today on reddit in certain groups. If there ever was a crowd saying things to say keep black kids out of their local school yelling, the news would probably minimize it. Hate speech wasn't common. It was happening of course, but not ever-present, but today it is very easy to see it.

Today's conservatives in my mind just say it out loud, and the typical news media isn't squelching it, and social media is broadcasting it to get more interaction. Today that hate speech is widely disseminated. That's why today's youths are more open to blocking it - because it's much more ubiquitous.
Object-based audio is a great idea that makes the most sense with some sort of headphones while watching something on TV so you can be fully immersed in the scene as you turn your head. It is definitely the next major frontier on the audio frontier. Unfortunately, it is mired in proprietary protocols, very expensive hardware that doesn't work right, totally deceptive advertising, and poorly mastered source material.
Funny you mention that. When I worked there I identified a bug in an internal load balancer where new requests were being sent to the most overloaded hosts. It was far worse than if load balancing had been completely random and meant tens of thousands of servers were mostly sitting idle. The few lines of code to fix that bug likely amounted to the biggest financial impact I’ve had on a company in my whole career. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to quantify the fix in monetary terms because I was in the midst of a reorg and the bug was totally unrelated to my main project. Kind of hilarious in retrospect to think about how such a giant problem went unnoticed for so long.
Seems like there's little overlap between the Truck as a status symbol and Tesla as a status symbol crowd.
The threading and only seeing new messages is a lot better in my Usenet client than any web forum that I use, including this one.

Yep. The Usenet experience is nice. The only thing that really got me out of the habit of participating frequently was a combination of two factors:

1. My ISP quit providing NNTP access by default

2. So many other people moved off, that a lot of the groups became nothing but CfP's, spam, and maybe 1 actual interesting post per year.

But in the spirit of "be the change you want in the world" I guess I'll bit the bullet and sign up for a Usenet account somewhere, or stand up my own server and look into what it would take to get peering setup.
This article seems to consist solely of quotes from another article, which itself is based entirely on an email exchange with another reporter, thrown in with some jokes at Musk's expense. Musk is an odd one but I find the people obsessed with making everything about how much of a failure they think he is even weirder.
I don't really see Twitter banning users for "incorrect" political speech. Moreover, their Community Notes work very well for fact-checking.
Isn’t the first problem you mentioned what “Ms” was invented for?
> "It's really bizarre to me that everyone's gone to this place in their mind that content has to be so curated," Bruening told us. "So curated that you can't show what you're cooking for dinner, because that's not cool enough."

Uuuuuh what? Everyone is doing the thing you want to do, but everyone else is doing it better, so you're complaining. If you were number 1, would you be complaining as well? Sounds like you're just a bitter loser.
How are hybrids a sensible solution?
Their ads inventory has fallen to zero. The only ads on there are Cheech and Chong. 24x7
I just tried and it came up fine. Onboarding is non-existent so that's unfortunate.

Edit: took me a while to find it, but the last similar too I tried was https://projectionlab.com/, and while paid, it's UX is way better.
´ based on a legendary piece of intellectual property. ´

I’d have said ´ book´ instead, but IP and the associated business idea seems to be the new normal for culture. I find it a bit sad.
> If every request took exactly the same amount of cpu time and wall time and same amount of ram and other resources, then random load-balancing is just fine for a sufficiently large number of machines.

The article points out random load balancing scales sub-linearly with increase in capacity?

If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to assume this means each server has close to the same number of items. However, since we are selecting servers at random, they will have different numbers of items, and the imbalance can be important.

...

This is a classic balls in bins problem... the summary is that the imbalance depends on the expected number of items per server (that is, num_items / num_servers). This means workload is more balanced with fewer servers, or with more items. This means that dividing a set of items over more servers makes the distribution more unfair, which is a reason we can get worse than linear scaling of a distributed system.*
It depends on what type of infection we are worried about and what structures are involved but generally an MRI and a lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid analysis to start. If there's an abscess a neurosurgeon can stick a needle/drain in it.

Usually a combination of clinical and MRI findings is enough for infectious diseases and neurology specialists to figure it out and start empiric treatment for something/a few somethings if the CSF doesn't give you the answer.

Rarely, at least at my institution, you could do a biopsy but you don't really want to be chopping up the brain if you can avoid it.
Drawing the boundaries on what is and isn't objective has always been the real game anyways. If anything, it's simply the status quo.
If you're serious that seems ridiculous.

You're suggesting it's a problem for a dominant product to release new functionality? Like once something gets big enough it can't improve anymore because that would be anticompetitive?

I don't see the obvious legal and moral reasons.
What definition of “right” are you operating under? It’s got to be an unusual one, and I’m interested to see where that conclusion’s coming from.
Some get more than others.
That is a good bitrate for 4K with modern codecs.
> The government doesn't have the right to regulate speech, but does has the right to regulate how people behave and conduct themselves.

:)

These types of comments make me smile. The government is an idea is the minds of people. It doesn't/can't have rights. It's a non-existent entity.

And yet. People believe that it has the ability to create 'rights', and people will be somehow beholden to its pronouncements. Is government 'God'? I think to most people the answer is yes. It is their authority; such individuals are not an authority of themselves.

The proper answer, imo, is that nothing except for my own heart and reason can guide me as to what is morally right or wrong. No work of man (law, religion, government) can say anything to me. All these works (law, government) are badly bent towards a self-serving elite, for the extraction of wealth from those that believe in these phantasms.

We laugh at those in history who we are told tithed 10% of their work to their local lord in the feudal system, and 10% towards the church, but don't blink at paying 40% to the government.

There are really only individuals, but the mind control in most is very effective.
> full of coded bigotry

Baloney. The comment might rely on some outdated information, or if you want to be uncharitable, outdated stereotypes, but that isn't bigotry. There's no need to moralize.
All of these changes that seem impossible that are routine when there is a large scale war on - production shifts + consumption is restricted.

The difference is that an existential climate crisis it just isn't treated by our leaders with the same importance as a good old fashioned war.
For the same reason farmers don't own grocery stores; making a film is different from distributing it. The filmmakers know how to make a film but they don't know how to release it to movie theaters and actually receive payment from ticket sales, heck they first have to actually convince the movie theatre to show the film in the first place. They also have to get it classified and rated and sometimes even censored, get all the appropriate music licenses for different markets, advertise for it including making trailers and posters and that work often has legalities associated with it all on its own, and the host of work that is needed to make it worthwhile to release a movie in various foreign markets.

The filmmakers release it in their local market first, usually the U.S. is the biggest market. If the film does well and an UK distributor has the confidence that it's worth releasing in the UK then the filmmakers will sell the rights to the distributor to handle all the stuff I mentioned above.
In Norway, about 90% of new sales are EVs. They aren't a third world country.

https://insideevs.com/news/675163/norway-plugin-car-sales-ju...

The USA was at 14% last year and could hit 18% this year.

https://insideevs.com/news/675163/norway-plugin-car-sales-ju...
Well, I can't think of any media articles talking about, specifically state level, censorship efforts from the left. But the Whitehouse was recently told by courts it couldn't communicate with social media companies about content moderation. Trying to claim that isn't censorship will require some mental gymnastics.

But let's not forget the censorship around the hunter Biden laptop story and the censorship of lab leak theories for covid. Both completely legitimate topics, both completely blocked out during an election year. The right wasn't calling for or defending those actions, the left was.
That sounds nice, but doesn't seem to match what Xwitter is actually doing.
They were all called Mlecchas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha

It should be obvious that the above is merely a historical note nowadays and is no longer valid.
The shortage is actually lamenting about the cost curves.

"We could get so much value if we could hire skilled people at half the market price!"

Same thing has been going on for cyber security specialists for the last few decades. Serious shortage of candidates for entry level roles with 10 years of experience.
Buying offsets is not shifting the blame, it's paying someone else to fix the problem. The reason for that should be that you either have no cost effective way to offset the carbon yourself, or there is a very attractive market for the offsets.

If demand were x+100, and theoretically some company wouldn't be able to afford to buy the offsets, it wouldn't somehow have ended up with the blame of Shell, they would just have found no one to solve their problem for them and would have to fix it themselves.

Of course this is assuming that whoever is selling the offsets is actually performing the task of carbon offsetting effectively, something that many believe is not actually happening so that puts things into even more murky waters.
I guess I just consider them the same market segment. We don't get upset at car manufacturers when they bundle wheels and tires with their cars.
If Elmo doesn’t like it? Definitely
It was so slow to run an x86 ubuntu os on an apple arm that it was unusuable. I switched to running an arm ubuntu on apple arm, that was fast.
People are buying status symbols. Sell to them if they choose to.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...
Non, because they can already "burn the flag/constitution/bible/effigies of the president/???"

This is the status quo and it's accepted by nearly everyone on the free speech side. There is no sequence of future reductions in human rights to prevent.
My guess is that it's only going to get worse as each streaming service builds up their exclusive library.

As prices and interest rates go up, people will become more concerned about getting value for their money. Having 5 different streaming services will be an increasingly difficult sell.

> "viewership is a lot lower than people think and much less correlated with show quality"

That doesn't surprise me. Many are probably just turning on the TV due old habits, and keep it on in the background while staring at their phones.
Yet another SPAC scam that has bitten the dust.
Can't see ISIS adopting this truck any time soon.
> Dissenting ideas are impeding the growth of technology now.

This is extremely naive. Much of modern science and industry is built from dissent, people seeing that things are different or should be done different. Is your comment to say we have moved past a need for dissent? Remember, Galileo dissented and was censored.
I had no part in choosing any of the names assigned to me at birth; I don't use them and don't particularly feel any attachment to them.
Mostly apathy. "need to spend this year's budget"
Thanks for that, I ended up messing around with this on the iOS17 Beta and, in theory it seems like a lot has improved but the betas seem to be missing a lot of the actual voices.
X is dead. Drive a stake through it's heart and get it over with.
What Is the Best Way to Write a Stream Processing Application?
Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition
Learned that the hard way.
the logical endpoint of that is some crazy guy shooting up a pizza place, not civil society taking back control of technology pointed at them. Ever played the original Deus Ex? There's a reason Musk on his Bob Page arc loves to stoke conspiracy nonsense and it isn't because it produces effective, rational governance reigning powerful people in
That's only because they never invested in the corporate side of it.

Both Google Meet and Zoom have both consumer and business users. Skype could have done the same if Microsoft didn't let it rot.

I'm not even sure when or why people (including myself) stopped using Skype... I used it constantly a decade or so a go both for business and personal. It's like Microsoft just forgot about it while other competitors entered the market and ate away at their market share.

A strong Skype brand and decent Skype for business product would have made so much sense. Regardless of quality, wherever I've worked Teams always felt like a soulless forced corporate product. The brand is almost universally hated, and for what? They had a great brand with Skype it was just neglected.
The difference is that Office has almost complete market dominance in productivity suite space. Using that dominance in one market to crush competitors in an unrelated market is generally a big no-no. It doesn’t result in better products or better prices, it just allows a company to abuse more customers.

You claim that Slack doesn’t offer enough value to justify its price, then why did people pay for before? Teams is cheaper, sure. But is that because it’s actually cheaper to operate, or is it because Office is a giant cash cow, and Microsoft are subsidising Teams pricing with Office profits?

Teams is quite clearly a separate product to Word or Excel. Both Teams and Office represent entirely distinct products that are fully featured and can be used completely independently of each other without any real loss of functionality. There’s no reason why they should be bundled, Office was perfectly profitable without Teams for many decades. It not even vaguely the same as Excel adding Python support, Facebook adding chat, or Reddit adding image uploads.
> why can't we do nuclear

Because of environmentalists like Green Peace, Sierra Club etc.
Are you paying attention to how ridiculous that sounds? I voted for Biden and this sort of hyperbole makes me think some of what trump says is right.
Ask HN: How to find out if I'm a good enough programmer?
Here's the thing. I've just been accepted at a highly regarded startup accelerator, which is great, I'm very excited and have tons of ideas to try out. BUT, I have never worked as a developer before, I programmed mostly as a hobby, I can Emacs, Arch, finished CS50, and went trough a full-stack boot-camp (learned Rails) earlier this year and that's basically my whole development experience.
Could this possibly be enough to not completely ruin my chances of success? Any tips on how to catch up as fast as possible?
Thanks in advance!
> Does that mean you can stand outside your Congressman's house at 1am with a megaphone?

These days, that seems to depend entirely upon which cause you're protesting. If you're campaigning about the climate or against racism, you'll probably get away with it. But for many other causes, you'll probably be dragged away in handcuffs.
If you take away any country's ability to defend itself, and if you take away its powerful allies, there's little to stop it from being exploited or conquered. Especially if the country has resources or is of strategic interest.

You're distorting what I'm saying, but in a way you're also eloquently arguing my point for me.
That'll be great. I love seeing Community Notes on ads. They completely destroy the ad at times.
While you're right, I'd say a good dictator is better than a good "council". Dang (and whoever helps him, if anyone) does a good job of keeping meaningful debate alive here, and shunning useless commentary and unwarranted hate.

But yeah, it is censorship.
Why are “dead straight panels” not advantageous in manufacturing or functionality? Are curved panels easier to deal with?
Apple is expected to add a new type of lens to the iPhone in a few weeks, which will signficantly improve optical zoom and decrease the utility of many point and shoot cameras. Under your morality, should Tim Cook be thrown in jail for this?
That lack of such a photo isn't evidence. The presence of such a photo is also not evidence that the package was actually delivered -- there are numerous cases of the delivery people putting the package down, taking the photo, then immediately stealing it.

So, if I were the police, I wouldn't really put much stock in those photos at all. Surveillance camera footage, however, is a different story.