skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered rolling out your own?

I.E. contact companies that would be a good fit for your website, work to build ads with them, and charge them a premium for a highly relevant audience?

I'll be attempting this in the next 6 months. I plan on:

- having 6-10 ad spots on the site
- charging a flat fee per week
- placing a company's ads in ALL the ad spots for the weeks they pay for.
- working with advertisers to make static ads with minimal images, fit the aesthetic of the site.

No idea how this work and it'll be a good amount of work. But I think it'll be better for users as well advertisers.
It's usually extra hostile for things like caching. I've (on multiple occasions) seen one URI endpoint, http posts and method as a separate header. Pretty much as far away from a sane caching best practice as you can go. Also; a lot of these older web services doesn't support deflate, gzip (accept-encoding, vary, ..) so your average responses are 500kb and up. :'(

In a recent project, a client saturated their wire as a result of just this.
I'm not on my death bed, but I wish to hell and back I could work more. I'm sick to death of being poor. I'm broke today. I hate it so fucking much.

Half of that equation is that I have health issues, so sometimes I am just too sick to work. The other half seems to be that I am a woman, so good luck getting taken seriously.

I spend a lot of my time wishing I were dead because being unable to get enough work is such a shitastic experience. So, you know, speak for yourself. The feminization of poverty is real. Working to benefit other people without getting paid for it is the actual definition of what slaves do. It also nicely sums up what traditional women's work is all about, which most women still do the lion's share of.
Why are we doing this? Why are we wasting money on something whose sole purpose is to save face for a thin-skinned demagogue who can't stand being unpopular? He successfully played the American game of Electoral College to win his position, but is butthurt because more people voted against him. He waffles back and forth from one tweet to the next, and often they don't even have a shred of truth, so why is he even legally allowed to pursue this?

He has actual problems he could be trying to solve, or he could be pushing his and his follower's agenda, but instead he is burning the American taxpayer's money trying to substantiate a false claim made by a random twitter user with zero evidence, and for what? Simply to buoy his ego, or even worse, to try and rustle up more rhetoric for a new age of Jim Crow laws, laws proven to adversely affect Non-Republican voting groups. Nevermind the fact that it's totally possible to create voter ID laws that DON'T discriminate, if you are willing to piss off many Libertarians who don't want a National ID card.
I bought a lead test kit for under 10 bucks when I was concerned about the paint in my house.

Hmm. Of her device, the article says:

The result is Tethys, a sensor-based device designed to detect lead in water faster than other techniques currently on the market.

So have you considered the possibility that her device works differently (and perhaps better) than yours? You seem to be basically knocking her innovation, based on the fact that you once used a device that was "similar" in some way.
Pressing the brake on a Prius will use regenerative braking. It only switches to friction braking if you brake extra hard, or the battery is already charged.

So there's no need to "avoid the brake pedal to use regen" the way it sounds like these Bolt drivers are doing. Which seems really dangerous.
Is there a good writeup on "WSDL: Lessons learned", with some depth?
You may have already tried it, but from this comment I think you'd really enjoy The Witcher 3.
They've been known to steal a ton of their recipes from other people, without acknowledging them.

https://mic.com/articles/163958/the-secret-ingredient-to-buz...

Also, there is a reason we have an executive chef developing menus. Ever heard of too many cooks spoiling the soup? That, and the general population has shit taste in everything from food, to entertainment. Having the children of buzzfeed deciding this, will end up with a menu full of macaroni and cheese, and pizza logs.
I feel like it's disingenuous to the purpose of a "higher education" institution. Would rather they not need to make the money that way - perhaps it is a corruptive influence in that it changes the "goal" of the institution.
Well, somebody has to test water for lead, I think you're saying that it shouldn't be the (sole) responsibility of the consumer, which I agree with.
For another anecdotal perspective, I don't read your initial inquiry or its response as particularly problematic. I can understand why you might feel disappointed or frustrated. I don't read their short response as defensive, but rather as a more genuine expression that they're not interested in doing much more than what they've already done, rather than them not taking you seriously. One might misread your opening question in a negative way (Have you considered…? read as Why haven't you considered…?), but I don't think 'client4 did. I think you expressed yourself clearly and offhand I can't think of any way I would have written it differently.

When someone doesn't feel the same passion that I do about a particular issue or topic, I can get frustrated, too. I have to consciously remind myself that people prioritize things differently. I'd love to be able to infect people with the same level of commitment I feel, but there's no sure-fire way of doing that in my experience. Edit to add: I do think there are ways to become more effective (e.g., Dale Carnegie's methods), and they take practice. I know that's little consolation when things don't seem to be going your way.

This is a long way of saying I think this is only an example of mismatched levels of interest in action, no fault on any side.

As an aside, I really appreciate your self-reflection!
Unless I misunderstood your approach I think working from what a consumer would like > what the server produces is forwards not backwards when it comes to API design
> Banks are among the biggest culprits.

Wow. From an article about insects you arrived to banks in three sentences. Kind of impressive.
20 bits lets you represent more values between n and 1,000,000 times n than 8 bits does, but it still doesn't let you represent them all, because these are real numbers and there an infinite number of values between n and 1,000,000 times n.

20 bits lets you represent all the values which are integral in base 10.... but so what? Why is the fact that a value is integral in a particular base make it the minimum resolution difference that you need to represent? Why do you need to quantise at that level? There is a luminance of 1.5 times n, isn't there? But 20 bits doesn't let me represent that. 21 bits would. See what I'm saying?
I'm incredibly negative towards bitcoin, but I'm similarly negative towards my fellow humans who will seemingly continue to invest.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Of course, some would argue that the Crypto-market is exactly as rational as it should be.
go.com is over a decade older than AMP.
I hate this idea that it should be photo realistic.

> But all of them feel videogamey and none of them would pass for a film or a photograph.

Thanks, if they didn't looked at least "videogamey" I wouldn't have any interest. Stop this terrible trend of being a film!
I think this brings up a greater issue, and the purpose of the law in general - companies are motivated to be as profitable as possible, hence laws to prevent, say, a company building a militia and enslaving a state to turn them all into farmers or something (possibly the most profitable route? Who knows).
The author makes a point of Nintendo opting out of HDR but does not realize thats due to hardware limits not allowing deferred shading. The HDR techniques he does not like are all made possible by the use of deferred shading. These techniques may be sometimes used to overky stylize the look but it is undisputed they create more realistic images.
Supercomputers do optimimize for different things, e.g. they have faster and lower latency network interconnects. But, over time the differentiation will diminish as the public cloud providers invest more.

You can't beat economics and the public cloud market will grow to be much larger than the supercomputing market. This is similar to why supercomputers switched from bespoke processors to commidity x86.

AWS already has several instance types with 25Gbit ethernet, for instance: http://www.ec2instances.info/?cost_duration=monthly&reserved...
Have you considered the possibility that is doesn't? and that a successful product on the market deserves more benefit of the doubt than a kid's science fair project?

Usually what happens in these stories is that a kid makes something that is a pale imitation of current standards, and the parents use their industry connections to get a PR blast about their awesome kid, that gets the kid a leg up in college or getting a job, and the 'invention' is forgotten.
I think it was the crappy auto-generated wrappers from back then that was the downfall. Both in c# and Java, there was too much magic, where they tried to hide too much and make it look like regular local function calls. People associated soap with the magic and when rest came along everyone jumped ship. But the problem was never with soap itself.

This swagger stuff is actually a step backwards, as rest was never meant to be used for api specifications anyway. Or at least the primary focus of it seemed to be hypermedia and evolutionary interfaces.

Neither swagger nor soap are really what I'd expect after 20 years of trying to come up with something though. Would have expected something far more powerful that has more of a functional style, allowing for various combinators and such to be generated.
Fred Wilson on USV's Model
ESPN was, for the longest time, espn.go.com.
Bingo. I do wonder why people insist on seeing house price inflation as being solely caused by rising value of houses - due to increasing demand, constrained supply ... kitchen renos? - without acknowledging the role of the falling value of money - increased supply via deregulated debt creation, artificially low interest rates and QE.

The capital gain on housing then becomes a self-reinforcing loop as capital seeks yield in a low interest rate environment, and investment flows towards these unproductive assets instead of creating productive capacity. Regular buy-to-inhabit buyers are dragged along in the cycle as long as they can obtain sufficient credit.

In a system like ours (the world's that is - I'm not American) where money is created when banks write loans, debt increases more quickly than the money supply (because debt has interest, money doesn't, and in a housing boom relatively little new real value is being created). So the debt can never all be repayed, and at some point there must be a financial crisis.

Unless this time is different?
I never considered "Neopets" to be "girl culture".

Probably because I played it and I am a dude.

> nearly 60 percent of Neopets' visitors were girls

Eehhhhh, that's a really tough sell for "Neopets" to be "Girl Culture". It was an internet game and internet community.

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This concept of "Closed Girl Space" is kind of intriguing, but seems to assign gender to a concept that I've never considered "Gender" to be an important distinguisher. Geocities, Homestead, and plenty of early internet "club websites" have similar "Closed Space" concepts (including "Webrings" to join the club). Its just how communities around the internet were built back then, before "Search Engines" were very popular and when websites were spread by word of mouth.

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There are some gems in this article. This is a good paragraph that greatly describes the "feel" of the game:

> Neopets was the wireframe for a community of girls that continuously expanded its expressive reach. Not bound by the limitations of a traditional open-world game built on a console system, Neopets began a collaborative building exercise for those that played it. Even in the aspects of play that were regulated by Neopets developers, users provided input: A player could publish reported and researched stories or opinion pieces in the in-game newspaper, The Neopian Times, or build out shops that filled Neopia's marketplace. Players gathered in forums and in guilds – partly responsible for the Neopets DIY media scene – to forge relationships and share experiences. Communities of storytellers, artists, reporters, designers, and poets emerged, alongside an economy that fed off its collaborators.

Just remove the "community of girls" part, because Neopets really was a fully inclusive culture no matter who you were.
We are pre-launch startup. We got our ten first customers presenting at 1 million cups events and some pitch events here in Dallas.
We haven't go live yet, but we already do have paying customers :)
Lovely idea, and I can't wait until it gains super deep-learning smarts and gets everything perfect :-)

For now, it's hard to read: https://docushow.com/viewdoc?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fp...
I really like the idea of sharing snippets of code. I'm so tired of implementing common functions, especially the ones that are tricky to get right.
>I wonder who they are

It's a bit dated (2010), but Netflix has a highly engaging documentary[0] on exactly this question.

[0] https://www.netflix.com/title/70129457
I spent two terrible years in Mountain View for a work opportunity I couldn't turn down and it was horrible. Our rent went up 20% during that time. It felt completely unsustainable, ecologically and financially to live there.

We moved back to Boston and have been overjoyed with fleeing the peninsula. I'd still love to visit north of San Francisco of south of Monterrey on vacation but they literally couldn't pay me enough to live there.
The first game to feature (pseudo) HDR was actually Shadow of the Colossus, and it's still a beautiful game despite its washed out colors, super high contrast, and "that dynamic exposure adjustment effect nobody likes". It may have been the template for most or all of the "bad" games in the article.

These effects are beautiful in Colossus because they were chosen for artistic reasons and they are artistically used. The lack of color saturation complements the game's lush, but somehow bleak and foreboding, natural environment. The extreme contrast highlights the differences between the dark and dank indoor environments of the various ruins and temples, and the raw untamed wilderness that lies outside them. And the dynamic exposure adjustment effect is, vaguely, supposed to parallel the main character's eyes adjusting as he moves from one kind of environment to another. (Either that or just "hey look, we can do this on a PS2!")

It's kinda like how the parallax line-scrolling effects in Shadow of the Beast were amazing in that particular game at that particular time, but take the same effect in a shitty game -- like, say, Bubsy -- and it just looks awful and tiresome.
Remember fireflies? They've all but disappeared in cities because of mosquito spraying.
> they can live in condos/apartments

How much do those cost in the Bay Area?
The mask isn't independant of the silicon this isn't something that is put between the silicon and the lightsource like in a slide projector (that would be the master but today the masters are no longer physical objects).

Masks are "written" on the silicon in layers and then etched out, most IC manufacturing processes use multi-patterning which means that multiple masks are printed on the silicon, exposed and then etched out.

The longer it takes to make an IC the lower the yields which bring up costs considerably.

Edit: well I was partially incorrect Photomasks are still used maskless manufacturing aka MAGIC isn’t there yet a combination of hard masks which are printed on the silicon and Photomasks are used to create the pattern.

Intel currently uses quadruple patterning so 4 masks in total are needed to create the final pattern.

There is a bit more complexity for 2.5 designs such as wall masking but this is beyond me.
Correct. By Stage 3, the proposal is supposed to be stable enough to start shipping it in stable browsers.
TLDR
Loser manager thinks everyone else is a loser. Loser manager probably buys loser branded glasses.
Why I believe Medium should get rid of the green ring of money
Those were just 3 of the more mainstream games with semi-limited graphics I could think of, but you're right they do share a sandbox style. Overwatch would be another example of a game where they put "good enough" graphics combined with much more refined mechanics (depending on who you ask, this last patch...eh) to achieve success

Anyway, the point I was going for the last thing we need is having them spend even more effort trying to make pretty looking but mediocre playing games.
Tera also brought along many of the employees that were part of Cray Research. The Cray Inc that exists now isn't exactly CRI, but it started with the same code and same people, plus a few SGI defectors. It should be considered the spiritual successor.
I'm tempted to look at it the other way - it's amazing that it has been a success for the last 15 years despite low frame rates and janky loading. Suggests the user base don't care much.
OK but that doesn't explain this sentence from the original blog post :

In the real world, the total contrast ratio between the brightest highlights
and darkest shadows during a sunny day is on the order of 1,000,000:1.
We would need 20 bits of just luminance to represent those illumination ranges
We first need data to be distributed in a way that preserves semantics (i.e., not HTML).
Ask HN: How do i find a stick?
There are nice, cheap places all over NorCal, but the expensive part is where the jobs are. Fort Bragg and Redding are absolutely gorgeous but they do not have a dense tech job market.
DevOps’ish 046: Docker Reverses K8s Course, Scoble Sucks, HQ2, Is DevOps Dying?
When the call a wormhole "traversable" does this mean that an macroscopic object can actually survive a wormhole intact? Or are the referring to something more along the lines of a sub-atomic particle?

edit: the article eventually starts talking about "qubits" explicitly, so I am assuming this is sub-atomic particles only unless someone knows more.

Even more specifically, it says that which falls into A comes out of B as Hawking radiation. You can then transfer an external message (at the speed of light) between A and B to turn that Hawking radiation into the original object via hand-wavy quantum teleportation. I get the feeling that you'd have to trap _all_ of the relevant, escaping radiation from B to actually reconstruct your object.
I wonder what the school principal will think it is to justify calling the police and having her arrested!
I'd be very surprised if any company purchased this without asking how much. That would be ridiculous.
Perhaps the recent Alien movies use CGI or something, but the original Alien from Alien (in the adult form) was the Nigerian actor Bolaji Badejo in a suit.
That’s not equivalent though — in the article’s example, imagine `element` is `undefined`, for example. `then()` wouldn’t be called in that case.
I think it doesn't seem as bad in tech/engineering due to the availability of industry jobs, at least you aren't unemployed. But in my opinion as a science/engineering PhD grad many of these positions don't require PhD they could just train undergrad engineers and be fine. The companies are taking advantage of the glut of PhD grads to get cheaply trained highly educated labor without incurring the cost to train them themselves.
There are basically three parts to the command

> dip

Delete in paragraph. Command+text object is probably the most frequent pattern in vim for me. It would also would work with other text objects like `di(`, `di{`, `di[` to delete between (...)/{...}/[...] bracket pairs for instance. Or other commands like `cip` for change, `yip` for yank(copy) and so on.

Plus custom text object and commands which give exponential combinations. My most used are `ii` or `ai` for in/around indentation, `s` for surrounding and `gc` for toggling commenting in an area.

`{`/`}` go up/down paragraphs. If the code isn't densely packed this works pretty well to jump between logical sections. For c-like languages there are a bunch of weird jumps like [[ and ]] which you were probably thinking of, they are configurable but don't seem very useful.

p means paste which you probably now anyway.
Cross-platform web UI for C and Go
It will be great if I can bookmark the position where I quit reading a paper.
I'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF.

PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system.

HTML doesn't really have that same benefit.

Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML formatted results, but I'm not understanding the complaint about PDF.

Could you expand on why you don't like PDF?
Death Row Phenomenon
Not a lot. They sold off their interconnect technology which was their last real secret sauce. Now they really just sell turnkey x86 HPC clusters with some mainframe-esque job dispatch software.
I'm not sure what part of that contradicts what I said. The OP said there are too many people and no places to live. That's not the same as "the weather isn't as nice in the cheaper places, I'm painted in to a corner"
Nothing stops this stuff from happening now on a different UI e.g. A phone. So if most of that info/control is not important/wanted on a phone, then why AR?
Well that sucks. Guess those videos are probably gone forever.
Oral histories are a big game of telephone. Ever hear a bunch of fishermen talk about their brother in laws cousins friends legendary catch?
That's totally fair. There are learning curves involved and sometimes tradeoffs aren't entirely obvious why they were made.

If you get a chance, particularly play with async/await code somewhere. There's a lot of misconception that async/await replaces Promises or is very different from Promises, but the reality is much closer that Promises were a necessary building block for async/await, and some of the trade-offs in Promise design are there to support async/await, based on work that had already been done in other languages.

Maybe if you try to write some of your work as async/await it might give you insights into your architecture and how to make it feel less brittle.
People pass me paw files like I'm supposed to have it installed. I don't understand it. "Here's the documentation of the API". OK thanks.
Delhi: Man beaten to death for objecting to public urination; three arrested
O_[D]SYNC is better than a separate call to fsync, since it is not supposed to suffer from the race condition inherent to fsync. Arguably pedantic.
"None of a selection of tested photos returned any matches from Google reverse image searches, implying that they were indeed obtained from a private source."
this doesn't sound like proper investigative process...
Yes, although Wikipedia says that the estimated lower bound is 45x10^15 years.
80/20 principle. They've put in 20% of the effort into most of the game's various parts and achieved 80% of the results they need. It's not perfect, or even good, but it's just enough to be playable.
Dies are one dimensional, making multi dimensional dies is the next challenge in IC manufacturing.

Today we do use 2.5D transistors AKA FinFets but that's still as single layer.

Multiple masks are used however as creating the feature size expected today with the wavelengths we have requires multiple patterning which means multiple masks are used.

14nm today still uses the same 193nm lithography from 65nm if not earlier, the only way to create features which are actually smaller than the wavelength of the light is by using multiple hard mask and resist layers.