skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But as engineers all of us over 25 know exactly what happens when managers "reduce" "administration".

After said activity there is more administration and less of everything else.
At that point, why work with the pdf at all? Why not just work with the tex source?
Animal products are bad for you.
One solution punishes people, the other one rewards people and provides a nice framework where every improvement benefits everyone using it. For example, at I/O, they announced that new changes to AMP was able to speed up rendering of all AMP based by 200%, and that's without any work being done by any of the people using it.
> I think it's foolish to assume that some novel and highly processed food item is going to be safer than something which we've been eating for thousands of generations.

It's not that processed foods are particularly safe, but that meat is unsafe in a way we're accustomed to. Again: every year, meat-borne pathogens kill 5,000 Americans and cause illnesses in 1% of the population. Fake meats simply don't cause those rates of illness or death. If they did, the FDA would not allow them to be sold.
> (or at least give people $10k/yr towards tuition)

This just means the colleges will raise their price by $10k/year. They will charge what the market will bear and capture the subsidy for themselves.
The Great Soviet Crescent in the Sky
I'm a user. I DON'T love it. Why isn't my voice respected?

In fact all the people here are users. Funny how that works.
I actually think AOL keywords worked fantastically.
In addition to this article, from the vlog "Plunging Enrollment at Mizzou" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CHd-w02lc>:

They can't pay all of the administrators that they need.

need

Also consider that the bennies at de facto government jobs are also higher than market rates (e.g. contribution to retirement schemes, insane types of paid leave) and it's funded with your taxes or government debt (future taxes).

The FA also addresses the politicization of college education which wasn't my point but interesting nonetheless.
About five years ago, the president of my university proudly announced at a Senate meeting that they had appointed a new Director of Sustainability, to help ensure that the university's operations were sustainable.

I asked if, in light of the increasing administration headcount, they thought appointing a Director of Sustainability was financially sustainable.

They clearly didn't get the message; while that particular Director has moved on to other things, there is now an Office of Sustainability with about a dozen people.
Kinda discouraging to make what would seem like a completely REASONABLE and VALID comment, and get downvoted. What's the point?! That's why I removed it.
We got a home computer in the very early 90's (Amiga 500) and dad bought me programming books for it. I was afforded the time to use those. I came out quite good in the brain department of the genetic lottery.

Those three bits of luck make up a huge part of where I am today.
I'm a Ham too and I'm wondering if it might be a good time to assemble a crystal radio - no power needed.
Ah, my reading of your summary doesn't seem to match the actual proposal much at all.

I read "random payments into bank accounts" as "payments into random bank accounts", which I think is one reasonable interpretation but clearly not the only one. I also took "reducing private debt by..." as being a requirement on the individual payments rather than simply a goal of the program.

With neither of those attributes, my analysis doesn't apply.
Could you find a source with the exact numbers or statistics that made this popular? Its possible it was done, but to say it was popular makes me skeptical.
https://github.com/indirect links to http://arko.net/, which links to http://indirect.tumblr.com/.
That's not pedantic, just unrelated.
thanks for sharing the paper, do you have any plans for a similar study on Monero transactions?
OK... so how did junk like this ever get into enough implementations that people were forced to include it in the standard? ;)
How is code size and performance?
> But on the same subject all pages would be data heavy.

Not all of them. For a trivial example, an in-depth article about a topic would be penalized more than a more epidermic one, because it would contain more text, graphs, etc.

> For reference, I optimized my website a while ago and ended up with the average page being < 15K.

I feel you, I absolutely hate that my website uses a bunch of stuff for almost no reason. 80 KB of CSS or 90 KB of font isn't awesome, and I started a project to provide information on how to create lighter websites (https://www.lightentheweb.com/, stalled a bit).

All I'm saying here, though, is that the solution is more nuanced than "heavier = lower". AMP is definitely not a step in the right direction, though. I wonder if Google could give sites that used a specific CSS file and no JS a bump, rather than loading things on their own domain.
Those are some pretty standard ignore lines for a Ruby project. Probably both taken from a common template.
It did. Honestly I had no idea what it stood for. Thanks.
> That's exactly what happened to Pivotal.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.

The original Pivotal Labs was founded in 1989. Rob Mee sold to EMC in 2012.

A little later (circa 2013), EMC and VMWare took a number of teams and assets (notably Labs, Cloud Foundry, Greenplum, Gemfire and Spring) and spun them out into a new company, which was called Pivotal.

Pivotal is basically three divisions: Labs, Cloud R&D, Data.

Pivotal Labs is the consulting wing, there is a lot of cultural and conceptual overlap with ThoughtWorks. The Labs division is the most recognisably direct descendant of the original company Rob Mee founded. Its offerings and work have broadened over time.

Cloud R&D is responsible for Cloud Foundry (including our commercial distribution PivotalCF), KuBo, Spring, Pivotal Tracker and I always forget something or someone.

Data is responsible for Greenplum and Gemfire and a number of related technologies (eg HAWQ).

It's a complicated history, because nearly every part of Pivotal has a history that predates Pivotal.
Ah, I stand corrected, looks like the blog belongs to him, but the article itself was written by someone else (@williampietri).
I'm not part of google, but they had been doing that for years, and still nobody was working on speeding up their sites.
I imagine Lyft is subsidizing their rides similarly, if not to the same extent? If not, how could they be competitive? Lyft's prices in my experience are at least $1-2 above Uber for the same trip.
They were and then those were disbanded a few months ago, presumably in preparation for this deal.
"An ounce of prevention is cheaper than a pound of cure" comes to mind.
Reddit can't figure out how to make their mobile site fast, so I guess AMP to the rescue.
Thanks, any insight into whether this is because of work life balance and culture at Amazon or people simply deciding that Seattle isn't for them?
I don't understand this idea that seeking profit somehow ablates them of consequences.

Just because they can make a profit doing something doesn't mean they should be allowed to continue, especially if the mechanism of profit damages public or communal infrastructure/resources/etc.

Do you really want to sit by and let them ruin the web just because they can make money doing so?
Are you saying that to cut the bloat you actually need to know the business and how the parts fit together ?

Heresy !

If that is true then the whole idea behind management is flawed. (management, MBA, business administration and the like depend on the idea that managing one company is pretty much the same activity as managing another. If what you say is true, that you cannot just generically cut then such people should never be put in charge of companies or even departments, yet that is exactly what is happening in every large company).

(Just a frustrated ex-cisco employee whose manager had an MBA)
That's great that PHDs are good at research, and engage in that.

But personally, I want to be taught by a professional teacher who specializes in teaching and isn't spending any of their valuable time doing research.

Researchers should research and teachers should teach.

It makes no sense to me that researchers, who do not enjoy teaching and would rather be researching, are forced to teach.
It's a public ledger of every single transaction, as soon as you link your identity to some payment, the game is up surely ?
> Principally, it disadvantages smaller players with smaller IT budgets. The New York Times would consistently consistently under Buzzfeed. A Pyrrhic victory.

Well, assuming equal relevance yes. But the NYT is not exactly a small player and could easily up their game in the page speed department. Besides that you could slowly ramp up the weighing to give parties the time to adjust.

> Most people get news from the walled gardens of Facebook and Twitter [2].

And this is what worries Google. Their long term adversary is Facebook (not Twitter, at least, not nearly so much).

> The minority of us sharing links to newspaper articles probably have direct relationships with publishers.

Not necessarily. I use a variety of aggregators.

> For example, I read the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Bloomberg and other papers directly on their sites because I subscribe to their daily newsletters.

Ok.

> The things I read about in the newspapers AMP gives me faster access to hand me better (i.e. more serious and more actionable upon) uses for my attention.

Yes, it's a very seductive proposition, and one that given Google's power in the marketplace they just might get away with. See also: Microsoft bundling their browser and tying it in at every level possible in to the OS and other abuses of monopoly power.

> In every case where AMP is a worry, journalism's general decline is more important.

But that's the same kind of argument that people use when India has news about their space program: Why don't they fix hunger first. It's possible to both worry about journalisms decline and monopoly power abuse on the web, especially when it concerns the distribution of news.
ShopRite does this as well (northeastern US).
Because the majority of people enjoy it? And the common user wants fast load and doesn't care about the philosophy of data retention and web ownership?
The main reason Google caches the pages (when a user comes from Google search) is so that the page can be preloaded by the browser before the user even clicks. This preloading is part of the reason that the experience is so fast.

If Google preloaded the page from a non-google server, there would be a few problems. The most important one is that it would violate the user's privacy. That server would have in it's logs a request from a user that didn't click on the article, and could intuit information about the user's searching behavior from that request.

Less importantly, without the page being served from Google's cache, there is no way to guarantee it's actually a valid AMP page. The only thing Google knows is that it was valid AMP the last time it was crawled, which could be days ago.
Mux (Zencoder/Video.js team) is hiring engineers to make online video better
Having good food on site is a perq, not a "squeeze every drop".
>The absolute best was when it was just me and the company's owner working together.

You're just reinforcing the parent's point that "[t]he secret sauce of startups is that in the very early phase there is no management."
Hahaha I loved this conclusion. Some people took this way too seriously. I'm a recent college grad who, instead of getting a 9-5, spent the last 4 years building relationships with clients who I LOVE creating for. More than anything, this is a commentary on how much time I watched my friends watch other people live rather than find out what they love.
Using Upwork? There has to be a better way
You are a founder.

You have been using Upwork for years. It’s not cheap but you are used to it.

You like how it handles the payments. All your freelancers listed in a single place.

It’s easy. You feel in control. Payment comes out of your account automatically. You get a weekly report with the hours they’ve worked. A dispute resolution system gives you peace of mind (some think it sucks though!).

And don’t get you started on the fees.

Problem is…

You are now sourcing most of your freelancers through word of mouth and networks.

Vin - a .Net developer in Spain. He is a freelancer and invoices you directly once a week with the hours he’s worked.

Remember you are still using Upwork, right?

Next hire: Alice - a graphic designer you found in a Facebook group. She is a project based freelancer uses Payneer.

Friday. End of week. Vin worked on your company report all week. Sends his invoice.

Monday morning. Get a text from Vin.

Oh sheeeiit! Forgot to pay him - not the first time :(

"Hey, all good but had to find more work elsewhere. Can only commit to 4 hours per week now man”, he says in a funny tone.

I hear you say.

“Fk! - he was good! I need him!”

I need all my freelancers in one single payment platform. Like Upwork but just to manage their payments. That’s it.
If you want to see how much luck directs your outcomes, just flip a coin for every decision, instead of calculated choices.
Part of the Stanford library collection. Every time they are loaned out to an art show they go through conservation.
Pretty much everyone in the bitcoin community takes this knowledge for granted. If you want actual privacy go with either Monero or ZCash.
Yeah, the article completely misunderstands what this is about, and so do most people in this thread. I expected more from HN.

This is something Chrome has implemented, and they've asked other browser vendors to do too. You want AMP to load the page quickly on your first load, but for sharing, the canonical link is the best to give to people.
Show HN: A web-based client for all your files in the cloud
Messaging should be implemented by the kernel.
What's your net worth?
Google is already using the ranking system to promote certain websites over others, this would be just one more factor (and presumably it already is a factor of sorts, but with a different weight).

Even if AMP pages would render 1000 times as fast it wouldn't matter, it would still be an abuse of power. The relationship between a reader and the source of their content should not be mediated by Google. What point is there in HTTPS everywhere campaigns and such if Google MITMs every news article you read? What point is there for a content provider to even have a website if Google will end up serving the content?

This is simply bad, the only upside is the speed gain and that is one that could be sorted out by the market with a gentle nudge from Google rather than by some kind of monopolistic end-game on their part.
Research is fine. But it should be funded by the government, and NOT by student tuition.

Researchers should be spending 100% of their time researching. And teachers should be spending 100% of their time teaching.

It makes no sense to me that researchers, who don't want to be teaching, are instead forced to teach.
You can do the rendering, even within an iframe, on iOS (where iframes have an amazing quirk of resizing automatically) without messing with scrolling (both vertical velocity and horizontal swipes) and breaking the browser's on-page search (which is extremely annoying); in fact, it is so easy to pull this stuff off on iOS (again: in no small part due to the epic iframe quirk) that it kind of comes off like you just don't care.
Interesting idea. How do you think about language-specific libraries? E.g., is there a scikit-learn coming to isomorƒ soon?
This was meant to be more of a commentary and how much people have switched from spending time on their discovering and acting on their interests to spending hours simply watching others via social media and then feeling frustrated.
> Especially local news sites

You mean TV channels? The ones that all look the same? The ones run by Sinclair broadcasting which will soon be able to control 76% of them?

There seem to be very few true local companies left, the ones around pretend to be local when in fact they're identical to every other one owned by their national parent company.

And that company can afford to do it right. They're rich. They don't need Google to do it for them
This does not include standard AWS egress pricing, which is something like $92/TB.
I've had a few of them, and the smell was the most noticeable difference from real beef.

At least in cooked form, the smell is more distinctly of beans, not cat food.
Oh it's Amazon alright:

https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/
Hmm, I don't know about SF but I live in the Bay and there are at least five Walmarts within a short drive. Maybe SF real estate is too expensive in the city itself?
Enough to not work and day trade (lose) shit coins all day. On the other hand life is sort of pointless now. Trying to avoid the hedonic treadmill.

I'm not rich, I can just pay my rent for a decade and a half before really having to dip into savings.
I only wish there was a way to automatically have those pesky t.co links resolved when sharing.

I don't use Twitter, but other people do, and when they share a link to me I'd like to be able to 1) see what I am clicking on, and 2) avoid sending analytics information to Twitter when I do so.
> I don't understand this idea that seeking profit somehow ablates them of consequences.

Who's talking about consequences? I'm debating OP's point about "Google's (less than neutral) motivations/actions".

It is a private, for profit, company, why would anyone expect neutral "motivations". The motivation is profit.
It would be interesting to know the rate at which they subsequently fall out of that status.
Not so much a lifespan as an average; Amazon is hiring tens of thousands of people every year.
First, I was talking about the extra cost, in general, with all universities.

Second, since you brought it up, can you explain how they determine the cost of tuition? If it’s unimportant maybe they can simply eliminate it for everyone. Are other universities the same?
I wouldn't trust in Monero's privacy. Most of the techniques uses to defeat CoinJoin would also work against Monero's ring signatures, which amount to effectively the same thing.

ZCash is definitely a different tier of privacy... or it would be if they made ZCash proofs required for every transaction. But instead they made anonymous payments opt-in and therefore your privacy can be defeated by people upstream or downstream of you.
Ask HN: Happy numbers in JavaScript that's readable and ESLint-able?
Hi,

I'm trying to learn how to code happy numbers in JS. I've seen a bunch of examples but most are either very difficult to read / understand, use implicity declared global variables, or have really bad style (according to ESLint / D. Crockford).

Can anyone point me in the direction of a readable, clean, not-too-difficult-to-grok happy numbers func in JS?

TIA
It's a single twitter thread, not an article. And how do you think it misunderstands what this is about?
He didn't do it assuming he'd get caught.
Like interview processes and office design being copied for tech companies, universities clone from the top end schools too. Almost every university starts trying to manage their donations because top schools are making over 10% gains. Building a <facility X> or an <advanced institute of Y> because some other school has one. Even the schools that aren't broke are hemorrhaging funds on construction and real estate investment for buildings that aren't for teaching, research or any other task traditionally associated with being a university...
> How does your quotation relate to the original commenters statement?

That this wasn't "Apple standing up to AMP" as the commenters claimed.
The connection between these two has always been hazy to me. I often mixed up the two when talking about each of them independently.

This article was well-written, exactly precise enough, and cleared up the confusion. Thanks for sharing!
Oh yes.

Smallpox, eradication of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
I'd imagine it was the inclusion of "you're more than welcome to". Whether intended or not, that turn of phrase makes it possible to read the comment with a snarky tone.
I also often find that discussion of motives is murky territory but:

* The post it's replying to admitted motives behind those critical of AMP to the discussion.

* The idea that page weight is a problem best solved by a solution like AMP is hostile enough to the principles the web is based on that it's hard to bar either motive or outright thoughtlessness from the discussion. Defenses on either front are also admissible.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if headless chrome even supports it yet.
It’s Raining Rust at Red Hat
Would be great if it got rid of twitter shortened urls and other similar walled-garden cruft.
Luck is a short term fluctuation in Texas Hold'em. Over the long term, the fluctuations of luck smooth out. A given action could win or lose on one hand, but over the long term, the return (or loss) will reflect the strength of the decision.

In real life, lottery wins happen, but not often enough to bank on.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but IANAL)

https://cloud.google.com/terms/ has explicit language around termination, disagreements around billing, breaking the law, etc. Sections 4 and 9 are probably the most relevant. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but read the indemnification and so on. Unlike other services at Google, we have real, paid, 24x7 support. I understand the general concern, but I think it's misplaced in this case.

[Edit: whoops, missed your comment downthread. I'll circulate internally with legal]
> For a trivial example, an in-depth article about a topic would be penalized more than a more epidermic one, because it would contain more text, graphs, etc.

But such trivial examples should be trivial to get right no? It's all about the relative weight of the various factors that determine the ranking and a 'lightweight' article could be recognized as such.
Boeing used to have a major factory in Seattle (Plant 2) but moved all those operations outside of the city. Boeing retains some operations at Boeing Field.
In your analogy, are the students his sore muscles?
Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
How?

I've been hearing variations of "universities have too much administration" for at least a decade. I still haven't heard any solutions that aren't ridiculously expensive or already being implemented (and failing). Except, of course, for the solutions like "make it impossible for most of the people who currently attend college to go to college" which are approximately as politically viable as making French fries illegal and which furthermore do not really seem to have any mechanism to fix administrative costs other than "market voodoo".

One thing that tends to come up repeatedly when these discussions do reach a modicum of depth is the persistent gaming of the university rankings system. Universities game the ranking system by e.g. encouraging students to apply who are not likely to get in so that they will appear to be more exclusive. It would be nice to improve university rankings so they can't be so easily gamed, but will this actually make a significant difference? I'm not convinced yet that rankings actually have that large of an influence on university policy, in the first place.

The need for universities to police student behavior is another unfortunate situation. It's my understanding that federal cost-cutting is basically behind the moves on the government's part to implement policy by way of schools' enforcement of student misconduct. An honest politician should be able to fix this by allocating money for the government to do what it should have been doing in the first place, but increasing spending is very hard these days...
OP here: I started this project as I needed to manage and edit files regardless of their location. It's under AGPL, and you can self host it on your own server but a demo is available on my own server: https://nuage.kerjean.me