skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't surprising at all, Skype for Business was a joke - the verb used at the time was Webex. What is shocking is how horribly Cisco bungled the entire thing. They went from market dominance (61% market share) to almost an afterthought in a matter of a year.

Webex was just as bad and unreliable as Skype for Business, the only reason why that shit even existed was that it integrated nicely with your existing Cisco telephony and conference room hardware. First, Zoom came in with an extremely easy to use solution right when Covid hit, and Teams sealed the fate of both by being cheap to effectively free and being even lower in barrier to entry - including the effort for compliance stuff like SSO and auditing which eventually grew more important for companies as the "it's a pandemic" excuse ceased to be viable.

Personally, I do not think that there is a chance that MS Teams can be displaced any more in the enterprise space, simply because of the compliance overhead that everyone else has to do while it's considered "done" for companies that already use Office 365. And now that MS is offering VoIP integration, companies are also ditching their expensive and, let's be honest given their reputation for security issues, insecure Cisco stuff.
Well, actually... you can just run C++ source as an executable... there are a bunch of C++ interpreters out there (of various quality, and probably not quite useful, but hey, nobody said you will have a good time running your C++ source).

But, yeah, if the article wanted to clarify instead of obscuring the functionality of Docker, the one we know and use, then saying that it runs the Dockerfile is misleading. I mean, it does run it to builds an image, that's how it build the image, but then readers need an explanation for why there are images and why do they need them, if all they do is running Dockerfiles, and that's where the "explanation" becomes worthless.
Yep. Even if consumers want environmentally friendly products, this only achieves the advertisement of environmental friendliness unless there is associated regulation. Companies can find a way to convince consumers that their products are environmentally friendly without actually changing the effect they have on the world. Consumers have minimal access to information to see through this effect. We need help from governments.
Is there an fertility rates published by income/wealth levels? Does the U-shaped fertility graph show up in SK? As in, poorest people have more kids, middle class have fewest kids, and richest have more kids.
>Infinite growth as demanded by capitalism

Capitalism does not demand this. You can have a capitalist system with no growth.
> Slack is harming itself more by being stagnant.

For better or for worse, Slack has a huge UI overhaul right around the corner: https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...
Sort of. Honestly though the demographic collapse could be a good thing for them if they play it right as labor becomes less and less important as we automate. Youth unemployment is sky high in China, it's not unreasonable to say they have too many people right now. The biggest issue will be caring for their bloated retired population, but honestly the CCP has a strong enough hold that they might be able to just say "fuck them" and hang em out to dry.

Either way I doubt it will be that much of an economic catastrophe, even if it is a humanitarian one.
> I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions.

I think the real issue is that there isn't a program language that produces a compiler error if the given code can exceed a maximum specified latency.

Even working on a program with soft-realtime scheduling, I've had to constantly push back against patches that introduce some obscure convenience without having measured worst case latency.

The problem is so bad I doubt most people realize it's there. I don't know what the answer is, but I have the feeling there's an intersection with timing attacks on software/hardware. Some kind of tooling that makes both worst case times and variance as visible as the computed CSS in devTools would probably help. Added to some kind of static analysis, perhaps devs to hack their way to decently responsive interfaces and services.
The pricing calculator has given me the perspective you've shared, not the one of your comment's parent. It looks outrageously expensive.

Cloudflare's R2 pricing seems a lot more competitive, but it's still lock in: https://r2-calculator.cloudflare.com

Another pain is the testing story. I just want to be able to write to a FS. There are S3 fuse bindings, though. Maybe I'm just a dinsosaure these days.
This is a great reminder for me to get off the Parallels "Give me $70 every year for absolutely nothing" train. Thank you @eliot!

Has anyone found a reasonably painless way to migrate their disk images from Parallels to UTM?
It's the same niche of content; people who repeat what the wealthy and powerful want to hear in the hope that a few crumbs will be thrown their way, eventually.
I'm baffled that some people don't consider it corruption when politicians are owned by campaign contributors.

I would call that legalized bribery. Legal because of course the bribed are themselves the lawmakers.
Kinda exists already. Google TheWorkNumber owned by Equifax. They most likely have your data too as every single major HR payroll processor sends your data to them without permission.
"X now wants your biometric data, as well as your job and education history for 'safety, security, and identification purposes'"

Also for advertising, monetization, tracking, selling services to government agencies, and training their machine learning bots.

Not for your benefit, but for X's uses and benefits. You are the product and X wants to sell your info and attention so Elon can earn his money back.
I wish that YouTube allowed RSS. If I could get an RSS feed for my favorite channels, I would be a happy guy!
Too bad jit isn’t working on iOS 17 because of the new personalized developer disk images for debugging.
Elon wants twitteX to be the west's version of WeChat, seems like he's forgetting WeChat is practically used universally in China because it's controlled by the government and forced on people. I see no way of twittex pulling this off.
No, it will use Rosetta 2, which uses a combination of JIT and AOT to do binary translation, which is actually quite fast.
as an eternal optimist, i hope this is how it shakes out
> cool

From the guy posting 'memes' and far-right talking points.
I've written many blog posts, pieces of software, and songs, that have all made exactly $0.
I do agree that "social media is uniformly bad" is too broad a stroke. That said, humans aren't exactly the best at discriminating something that feels good from being unhealthy or at least unproductive.
Unlikely IMO. According to my limited research, FedNow competes with ACH and other direct payment systems (e.g. Zelle), while credit cards are loan-based.
I long held out hope Apple would solve the news micropayment problem, but I suppose that’s what Apple News+ is (give or take).
Not really a trailer. More like a marketing placeholder video with moving screenshots.
Sure, but the US also tried to help other countries such as the Philippines and Iraq which haven't done nearly as well. US aid doesn't seem to be the decisive factor.
Well, the speed at which Finland and Sweden rushed into NATO (aka US) arms, when their illusion of "peace forever" was shattered, is a far stronger endorsement than anything else.

Unfortunately, we are humans and the only thing that organizes us beyond a certain scale (100-150 people) is force. Either you are strong enough yourself, or you need some strong backers.
Discussion currently on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37338585
Thanks for your concern. No, the extension pack does not contain any features we use, at all, but of course, this is on an individual, unmonitored, BYOD basis, so whatever the employees do is on them, I guess. We haven't been warned either which way about this.
On some level the success of South Korea is the success of Samsung. It is not clear how much you could separate the two.
Is it going to end up like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnLYuezGm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6STtU4vEA4
Why is there so much secrecy surrounding it? Is it not a publicly funded project?
I'd strongly suggest ^

This approach is incredibly effective, and will almost certainly guarantee one of the infamous "question mark" emails gets sent out. There's a whole process built around question mark emails that drags in a bunch of senior staff to ensure things get resolved.

You can read about it here: https://www.inc.com/business-insider/amazon-founder-ceo-jeff...

I've been on the receiving end of an ajassy question mark email once. That was an interesting way to spend a few days. The customer was complaining about slow uploads to the aws service I worked on. All I had to go from was their country, via some guesswork. They did at least mention which region it was they were having issues with.

It took a bit of effort but I was able to prove from service logs, to a reasonable degree, that the problem was with their ISP. All I had to go from was what country they were in, didn't know their ISP, which added to the fun.
I'm not arguing your decision to not have children. I've made the same decision myself, but the 'can't afford to have children' has always confused me.

Even after the point where contraception became readily available, people were having children with far fewer resources than anyone alive today. What I hear when people say 'We can't afford to have children' is an additional '...and maintain our current standard of living'.

It seems there's a lot of expectations that we heap on parents. My kids must have their own room. Must go to a prestigous private school. Must participate in expensive sports. Must travel. Must attend a top university, on and on.

Kids don't have to have any of that (ok, own room is pretty important after a certain age). The truth is parents need to chill out of this evolutionary arms race to make sure little timmy has every possible advantage even if they run themselves ragged getting there.
How is this suddenly possible against the "physics" of free market forces, that were unable to move when it was about wages, workers rights or the environment? Almost as if it's all made up..
It's the guest additions ISO thingy that's not open source.
Can you steal ideas? I think you mean copy.
When stealing something from someone, the other person does not possess it anymore.

Also in this context it makes even less sense as Microsoft bought Skype before Teams existed. I think you can't you steal something you own.
You nailed the killer question. That leads to all sorts of thinking about brand management and the skills of the person at the top.

Twitter had the same level of brand recognition that google has. Musk threw that away for a bad rebrand. He just wrecked a company out of spite, or ignorance.

It's surprising he didn't do his own social media to try and outflank them on features from the ground up. It would have been cheaper too.
> The source of the emissions doesn't matter to how negative the externality is

It does, though. We seem to have lost sight of the sustainability dimension of our planet. Cows can fart all day long and the carbon/methane cycles will recapture it, sustainably. In contrast, we cannot pull oil out of the ground in any sustainable way, since it was all created 100 million years ago in a one-time geological event that is unlikely to ever occur again in the history of Earth
The evolution of Teams Office Communicator -> Lync -> SfB -> Teams. Skype consumer had no impact on Teams sans the name and original codec which is no longer in use by Teams.

I don't know why you would make up a 'fact'.
To be fair, I also cringe at LinkedIn links. If you're using that site for anything else other than fulfilling social obligations, you're likely in marketing eugh
A lot. Pandemic accelerated globalization. Availability of VC money used to be exclusively American but is now global.
> [1] A 'writ of outlawry' is an old legal instrument that allowed courts to withdraw the protection of the law to criminals it could not bring to justice. Murdering them would be legally equivalent to killing a wild (non-endangered) animal. As you might imagine from a legal concept that is effectively The Purge IRL, it is not used anymore.

Damn, you had me excited for a second.

So there’s no chance I can get one of these from a small claims or administrative law judge? Like maybe even just a little one?

How do these writs interact with other wildlife laws in California? Do I have to check if the individual is a native Californian (thus considered native wildlife) or will the judge do that for me? Does that mean I can capture them in a safari if I build the double layered fence enclosures and get them certified for exotic animals?
I had a card-carrying communist teacher in high school, and he used to say that representative democracy was obsolete because we now have better mechanisms for Athenian-style direct democracy. These referendums seems to indicate that this would swiftly put an end to his entire ideology. I would also like to point out that every time there is a referendum in California, the people go with the conservative position, but every time there is an election, it goes to a liberal candidate. How is this possible?
> My solution? Spread the population apart such that people will stop comparing themselves with one another.

That would fix the problem, but it's not a solution, because there's no practical way to implement it. It's hard to imagine that even five people would willingly move out of Seoul.
You have to assume they would want to limit their audience, which why would they?

They would prefer everyone using their app and not artifically limiting to a subset.

That's only something governments or captured corporations do and Twitter/X is neither. Although that could change and worth raising the possibility. Is there any way they could institute a hard constitution-like policy that could prevent it from ever sliding down that slope?
I kind of hope some walled gardens pop up and close off other parts of the internet.

I still reflect when I go back on tours of 70s / 80s / 90s media, and while I get some of the "oldies tour" is also kind of a "greatest hits" effect, but there seemed to be a lot more creativity, especially wacky creativity, in the past.

Some of that is callous mass market media calculations by "big media": multi-hundred million dollar movies/games aren't going to be off the beaten path.

What is strange is the ARMIES of "content producers" and all they do is produce things in basically the same way.

So the "SEO" optimization seems to clip the wings of all grassroots content production. Google should have enabled the long tail. It ... sort of ... has, but man its hard to find it drowned out by all the mediocre crap out there.

People don't seem to be isolated from the internet and let some path of creativity percolate for years or even decades like what used to happen. Internet monoculture really seems to be destroying interesting creativity more than it delivers novel creativity from around the world.

"Comorbidity" with this is the death of patience and attention for wacky stuff, people click away too quickly.

About the only actual evidence I can deliver is the oppressive nature of the cinema sequel. For some reason, I just mark the first Matrix movie (1999) as the death of creativity in Hollywood.

However, of course, that may be the point in the 18-40 demo that I aged out of the great popular culture recycling machine. I think a lot of that 18-40 demographic number comes from the fact that by the time you hit 40, you've seen all the tricks, and the repackaging of the tricks/tropes just seems cheap compared to the "original" experience you had with the trick/trope.
You're right, but I suspect they have some pre-availability numbers -- who would watch this if it were available? Test markets, focus groups, etc.
Those aren't trucks, though. They're glorified hatchbacks and are essentially cars with more storage room. A truck with an open bed is much less practical for city life.

I've seen some concepts with glass covers for the bed. That makes it more like the crossover SUVs. If they do something like that then I can see it.
What percentage of crops will fail in 20 years?
You write that you have "opted" and then that you can't afford having children. That sounds more like childlessness was forced upon you - unless you've explicitly decided to be poor (such as for example monks do).

Many cultures value independence, so when people are forced to things, they tend to twist it around by saying it was their decision. That's why important issues get swept under the rug.
Should I have children in a country where I can get fired for no reason, apts cost $1M+ and you have to work slave hours?

LOL
You’re referring to the 60s US? The Civil Rights movement? The decade where George Wallace, when inaugurated as governor of Alabama, declared “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”? The decade Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated? The decade the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and 24th Amendment were passed? When Southern Democrats flipped to Republican over civil rights?

I fear you might be viewing the past through rose tinted glasses.
I dunno... this sounds reasonable... using AI to augment human cognition instead of replacing it. Several projects I worked on at Amazon would have been successful had we approached the problem as "augment" instead of "replace."

I take most AI announcements with a huge grain of salt 'cause many product managers and execs seem to think "just throw a neural network at it and we'll be successful." I hope we get past that phase soon. I like that there's an exec who's noticed after 10 years of promises, LLMs still have major gaps in capabilities, but those gaps might be covered by throwing a human frontal cortex at them.
The only reason it works in China because it disallows the competition and also lets the government spy on everyone through a single app. In China the Internet might as well be WeChat. Twitter, sorry "X", is in for a rude awakening unless Elon pulls the app from the EU.
Neat idea, but I don't see a great way to handle real estate, unless it's shoe-horned awkwardly into wealth items. For me, that's a gotta-have.
> Don't like the politics? You wouldn't have liked Usenet in its heyday either.

Or just join an instance that is not explicitly political. You don't have to be on beehaw or hachyderm.
Show HN: It's time to rip out your iframed Typeform
Hey HN!

At our last startup, we got super tired of the stale and outdated look of embedded Typeforms or similar no-code survey/forms tools. They look clunky, have limited to no SDK or API, and over-all just feel unprofessional.

In our Launch HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246292) from a few months ago, we mostly covered our React components for in-app onboarding such as checklists, tooltips, etc. Since then, we've invested heavily in building a fully customizable forms SDK for React that allow devs to whip up a beautiful in-code React form with a data layer in just a few minutes.

You can read the latest on our React Forms SDK here: https://frigade.com/changelog/async-validation-handlers-in-forms and get started in a few minutes (it's free!).

We're still trying to collect more feedback from the dev community and would love to hear what folks think. Is this useful? Do you prefer no-code?
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37325120
Yes same! I've always wanted some "simpler" net worth tracker, still on a spreadsheet at this point.

I never liked the big heavy ones with all the bells/whistle integrations that want your password so they can log directly into your financial accounts. And the integration would always break, causing my net worth to swing by double digit percentage points. I ended up spending more time nursing the integration than actually watching my net worth.
Practically yes. You have to look at it more granularly. Likely you're looking at it by economic sector.

You need to look at it by sub industries in industries. That's more closer to the logical perspective people are acting on.
Can I see the announcement for this phone? Or is that also coming “early next year”?
> All people don’t want brands in their closed communities!

Since you can't avoid having these ads/brand placed in your preferred social media platform (the users are the product (to be sold to advertisers) and not the customers), the next best thing that you can do as a user is to subvert the undesired brands that you see in your social media stream (e.g. by posting something that makes fun of an ad that you see) to make the social media platform a less desirable place for the respective undesired advertiser.
I don't argue that they're not also incompetent but I would argue that that incompetence is a side effect of corruption that you're not privy to.
Yes, that's true. $30/user/month w/o discount.
I didn't mean to imply that South Korea developed all on its own. (A good example of a country that tried to do that, with closed borders, is its northern neighbor.) Certainly, having the foremost superpower in its corner helped tremendously, much like the Marshall Plan did for post-WW2 Western Europe. It's a fascinating history that I can in no way do justice in a HN comment, save to say that one can't simply throw money at a country and come out with a result like South Korea. :-)
Don’t trust Corporations in the capitalist system. Happens every day.

OpenAI saying they will keep your private data safe from being used for training? I am wondering what the story will be in 5 years hehe
> This must be why solitary confinement is considered such a great privilege when incarcerated.

Ha! Nice line.

But, in all honesty, totally controlling another person, confining them, is only an example of control.

But, if not in the individual, where do you think meaning or anything of value, occurs? The feeling/meaning/thought, is only within oneself, surely?
This degree of power, practical editorial and censorship power, should probably not be held by a single person or corporation.
People who called "conspiracy theorist", as they flagged my comments, are now watching the story unfold
You mean this?

>We’re currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.

Not even a year ago they fired the majority of staff and disbanded entire teams. Whatever expansion there is now is dwarfed by those massive cuts. Twitter's policy has been, and continues to be, to keep moderation to a skeleton crew as a cost-cutting measure.
I dunno about SK but in the USA the road to kids was: partner up, get a stable income, find a home, start a family. The second and third links in that chain are broken for most people. The older generation wants to work into their 70s and own a bunch of rental properties so… no grandkids.
Why quit Goodreads completely if you can just use the good parts of it? I use it to:

- manage my "read" and "to-read" books,

- glance through a couple of top reviews for the book that I'm intending to read

Goodreads is super useful for these features. I don't know how many times I saw a mention of a book, added it to my to-read list only to finally read it years later.

What I don't do on Goodread:

- look at the average score (it's meaningless),

- engage too much with social features.
You own both FirstLast@gmail and first.last@gmail. Try send an email to both, and you should get both emails.

They are likely making a typeo elsewhere in their email address which is causing the confusion.

for example:

Steve.foo@gmail.com

stevenfoo@gmai.com

Notice one is Steve and the other is Steven, the dot has nothing to do with it.