skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That applies to other kinds of reliability testing too, especially everything that goes through a network.

It's easy to handle when something is completely unavailable (i.e. instant error), but when something, be it a database or some endpoint, is available but horribly slow, that's a whole different thing.
I have ordered Lepin from AliExpress, which is a Lego knockoff—the sets are the same, but the prices are 25%, and the quality is 90%.
If I vote for a state government that maintains higher state taxes, why should that decrease what I owe to the nation? Am I getting less benefit from the federal government? Also, those states can always lower their taxes in the future.
Is there an performance gain in using WASM?
Yep, most of the centralized web is a massive direct marketing platform.
Yellow Ants from Madagascar Establish First Colonies in US
This is fine for most people; the "interaction" nowadays (likes, retweets, ...) doesn't really represent support but a lack of communication skill from the consumer.

When someone likes something without anything to say it's just a metric, doesn't bring value to a discussion.
Welcome to .com bubble v2.0

The only things I ever used (and heard of) for used cars that look legit are mobile.de and autoscout24.de. Auto1? This sounds very new - they're not known in Germany or Poland (disclaimer: I'm Polish working in Germany).

Edit: looking a bit more into their website - they do B2B auto1.com and B2C autohero.com. Why everyone insist on calling a simple company a "start-up"? It's just normal company, nothing interesting there ;)
> Would this be likely to hold up in court at all?

Ask Oracle customers, they are tied by the same prohibition.
It works on my phone's browser (which is a fork of Chrome for Android). No crashes. I even have 34 tabs open.
I don’t have any bad memories with chalkboards and school. I was a very good student and enjoyed school.

I always remember feeling this way, even when I was very young. I also hated doing projects with construction paper as a kid, too, because of the texture of the paper.
I believe Flexible SSL is a good thing if you're not doing user sessions, storing private user data or anything like that. It's good for information-only sites, as you'll save your visitor from their network administrator, ISP and lower-profile hackers.

For more serious things it shouldn't be used, but I like the fact that it is there.

Maybe browsers should distinguish it somehow for the user: "your connection with this site is safe from everybody except the site's administrators" versus "your connection with this site is safe from your neighbor, ISP and network administrator".

But perhaps that would be meaningless, as all servers may be hosted anywhere, and their SSL private keys may be anywhere also -- for example, if you're serving SSL from Heroku you must upload your keys to Heroku, which means Heroku folks can see your connections if they want. Am I wrong?
As far as I know, those were not the points of the joke.

I noticed them for the first time yesterday too, after not noticing them for decades!

As a teen, I'd printed it out, pinned it up on my wall next to the Cray-1 centerfold, and scribbled a bunch of modem phone numbers, user names and passwords all over it, and never even noticed.

I did a quick search for other A's and B's and found that it used those characters as much as any other character for shading, but that sure seems like something some mischievous student, lab member, turist or sentient TECO script at the MIT-AI Lab might have done.

There was no file security so anyone could have edited them in.

Maybe one of Minsky's grad students was performing some A/B testing or eye tracking experiments.

Somebody should ask RMS if EMACS had some special mode for editing line printer porn.
SQL Server is way cheaper than Oracle and very fast. The features it has built-in now across all editions make it very compelling compared to Postgres, even if it's free.
Can you change the title to something other than a yes/no question? The subtitle is more informative.

"In Silicon Valley, a growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created."
Crashes in latest Chrome and Safari on latest iOS (11.1.1). Will have to try on desktop later.
Same. This is HN and I was hoping for an in-depth look at how the whole thing works between the client & server, how credits are handled, what checks are in place to prevent cheating, etc.
I've been using Feedly ever since Google Reader went away. It's easy to add my own sources. I don't know anything about force-fed news sources; I've never seen anything like that.
Don't start it. Use both, but the format wars was enough once.
Looks neat. Thanks!
I think they were hoping one of the "other bets" (Waymo, etc) would take that pressure off. No luck thus far though.
It's difficult to find out how much money podcasts make, so here are some data points about my podcast, which I started in February of this year.

I released 5 episodes of the newly-created Indie Hackers podcast[0] in March and made about $1000 from sponsors. That's one sponsor per episode at ~$200 each.

Today new episodes get over 20k downloads within their first week, but back then each episode got about 2-3k downloads, tops.

One could make the argument that a business/tech podcast like Indie Hackers can land more lucrative advertisers than a basketball-focused podcast. But on the flip side, I was also completely new to selling sponsorships, editing and promoting the show, etc., and the podcast was just one of many things I was doing on my own.

Regardless, if they're doing multiple episodes per week, each receiving 50k downloads at minimum, and each with multiple sponsors, I'd guess they're making a much more comfortable living than their Patreon numbers suggest.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast
Well, violence is a pretty good metric. And that has not budged one bit since the introduction of the internet or violent games for that matter.

A lot of claims, both in the original Medium article and in this thread, are made on the effects disturbing content has on humans.

I am not saying that these videos are something we should allow, but let's get our facts straight on its effects first.
3 options here, pick one:

- acknowledge the fact that ledger has value and therefore corresponding amount of resources are OK to be assigned to that valuable problem

- admit that no resources should be assigned to ledger problem because there are more important ones

- present your formulation of compound "important" and ledger problem such that it satisfies the conditions i mentioned above

am i missing anything?
The quality can still vary a great deal. There are many tiers for merchandise. For many items, there are very low quality versions that have the flaws described in the gp, that you might never see depending on where you shop or live.

For example, butane torches. You can go to Bed Bath and Beyond and buy a chinese made creme brûlée torch for $30 that lights well, smells clean, feels tight, doesn't leak butane and has a lifeime guatantee. Or you can go down the street to 'smoke shop' and pay $30 for a chinese made torch that leaks butane, has problems with the venturi lever, smells like vinegar, and lights on 3 out of 5 attempts.

The difference is that the second one is sold at the manufacturer level for a much lower price and has gone through more distributors and markup. When you order a random product online it's hard to know what tier you are receiving.
This is like saying, "why are you learning to play the piano when you could get the same results from listening to the track on Spotify?"
Eclipse Che might be worth looking into. I'm not sure how mature it is, but it gives you a web interface to Eclipse running on another machine.

https://www.eclipse.org/che/
lol the laptop you type on is likely made in laptop as is the phone you reach in your pocket. You keep typing "China Quality" Like it's a novel concept.. china is the world's manufacture. Your anecdote is just that...
This "Korean date & time format" appears similar to ISO 8601, an international standard for dates and times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
I think the intent is to say that there are no site-wide quality standards.
Yeah DuckDuckGo is awesome. I have been using them exclusively for the past couple of months for search. In that time I have found their results as good as Google's results for the topics I cluster around.
The safest solution would be to download a list of videos from Youtube and run them locally as a playlist. Of course, that's not a solution that would work for most parents, or Youtube, or content owners, or probably the law. Second best solution would be curating a personal playlist of videos and to make certain children are always watching under supervision. Third best solution would be, ironically, preferring children's television over the internet.

As I understand it, Youtube isn't profitable for Google, and a lot of their decisions wrt their algorithms seem focused on increasingly desperate attempts at wringing some semblance of solvency out of the platform, so I wouldn't expect them to be very willing to work against their interests right now.
Why WASM can't give native performance?? (games in a browser?).

All demos I saw only gives 8-10x performance boost?? (with respect to JS)
GNOME 2/3, Unity, Cinnamon, ElementaryOS (briefly), Xfce, whatever CentOS 7 is shipping. Also KDE (but not Plasma).
This is a great podcast. There are many people that don’t care about all the theatrics in a show. They just tolerate it. Podcasts like dunc’d on just go straight to the point. This started with Bill Simmons’ grant land which had very lengthy detailed articles with analysis that never got done before. It was a huge success. Nate Duncan just continues that. I believe a sports fan invariably will gravitate towards a nerdy analysis given time, no mater what the sport is.
They also run wirkaufendeinauto.de, which practically everybody in Germany knows due to their omnipresent marketing.
Homebrew works for me. It's unfortunate how behind Apple's toolchain is, but I interact with its GUI more than the terminal.
Harmful and dangerous?
I wonder how many blog sites have a large number of RSS users and don’t even know they have an RSS feed.
Most Wordpress sites have an RSS feed at ./feed, but many of the sites I follow don’t actually have an RSS link offered as an option.
You're paying your saved shipping fees in taxes. It still costs the postal services the same amount to deliver the package from the import warehouse to your door but they cannot charge you nor the seller according to international agreements.
You can do some quick estimates of ad revenue. (TLDR: their ad revenue likely crushes their Patreon by at least 5x.)

The article says they get between 50,000 and 140,000 listeners per episode. They publish 5 shows a week. Episodes start with a 10 second pre-roll, 90 second mid-episode, and 30 second post-roll. The rates calculator at AdvertiseCast [1] suggest industry averages of $6/CPM for the pre-roll, $15/CPM for the mid-episode ad, and $11/CPM for the post-roll. That's $32/CPM total, or $1600 ad revenue.

20 episodes a month at $1600 per episode gets you $32,000/mth in ad revenue.

[1] https://www.advertisecast.com/podcast-advertising-rates

Edit: As a bonus, the Entrepreneur On Fire podcast has some similar math about CPM rates for their show, with the hint "now you can see why I love doing a daily show": https://www.eofire.com/podcast-sponsorships/
Replicating JavaScript's timer functions in Go
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Those images [0] inputs that were optimised to maximise a certain classification response were cool! Instead of going to this peak of the response function, is there a way to explore the shell where the actual images reside? Would such images look, to our eyes, more like real input than the optimised input? I suspect they won't, but I still would like to see what is between the dogs!

[0] http://www.inference.vc/content/images/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2...
I was quite excited when I heard of https://jsonfeed.org/. I was surprised at how much more pleasant it seemed, considering the major feature is a simple switch from XML encoding to JSON encoding and not much more.

So it’s a bummer to not see it mentioned (not at all in the article, not much in the comments). Does that mean it didn’t really catch on, or what is its status?
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Acknowledged, but I must be reluctant to their marketing - seriously never heard of it.
Turns out that the Target breach was caused by an insider threat
That it is MUCH easier to follow NBA than Baseball and Football due to sheer numbers of people is also a big plus. You actually can easily know every regular player (Usually 10 players or less) very quickly. It is also very easy to understand the impact of different players subing in and out.

Basketball is the most played sport in the world for the past 20+ years (Arguably) and I think in 30 years NBA will be the second biggest sport in the US and it already is 2nd in the world.
Interestingly, many readers of /r/politics never read more than the headline anyways.
I wonder if Firefox could help fix the problem by putting RSS/Atom discovery into the browser in a prominent way.
> Why WASM can't give native performance?

As with any language, it depends on how good the optimizations are; wasm is designed to be able to be JITted fast, but is still fairly new, so there's still stuff left on the table.

Additionally if you're compiling a language to wasm, you're also at the mercy of that compiler as well, so it always depends.

> only 8-10x performance boost

I'll take it ;)
Most of these jobs look very familiar. Is arbitrage and speculation so much different just because its about Bitcoin? For most of these examples there are very similar old-school equivalents.
you mean iPhone X Winter creators update? :P
Quality is actually a great illustration of your original point, though. Apple recently went to great lengths to redesign the MacBook keyboard for no good reason. As if compromising the key feel for many (most?) users just to shave a millimeter or two off an already very thin device wasn't enough, it turns out that the new keyboards have some serious reliability issues[1] and repairs cost $700. I think John Gruber said it best: "I find these keyboards — specifically, the tales of woe about keys getting stuck or ceasing to work properly — a deeply worrisome sign about Apple’s priorities today."

While the Surface line has had its reliability issues (especially Surface 4), rumor has it that the omission of USB-C from the latest Surfaces was part of a deliberate effort to focus on refining the current design (and improving its reliability) rather than adding new features and risking creating even more issues. They also have a point that USB-C isn't quite ready for prime time and I can't say I miss it having recently switched from a MacBook to a Surface Pro.

I'm not saying that these companies should stop trying to innovate (far from it). What I'm seeing is a big difference in priorities, and I'm not a fan of Apple's of late -- too much focus on design ideals and not enough on things that actually help me get my work done.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/17/johnston-macboo...
Once China reverses its mercantilist policy that % will plummet and the US will suffer very high levels of inflation.

That will probably happen once corruption in China becomes manageable, the Chinese stop moving their assets offshore and the US has no industrial technological advantage any more (i.e. once China can make equivalently good airplanes and microprocessors).
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In general, there should be, but it depends on what you're doing. For example, wasm can't access the DOM directly yet, so you have to call back into JS to do it, which is much slower than the eventual native API will be. For stuff like this, though, it should have much lower overhead.
One quick way to do that is by using NewPipe Android app. It has an RSS feed button. Plus, you get a lightweight YouTube frontend.
The math and algorithms behind a search library
Uber ‘Express POOL’ offers the cheapest fare if you’ll walk a little
That's funny, because I noticed something during a recent ~10k device audit.

Across the mobile IT we manage, the groups who covered or unplugged their webcams, internal or external, most consistently were middle to older age women, with the least common as women in their 30s or younger. Men covered randomly across all ages, but still less than women. And while they'll cover their laptop camera, most who didn't have a folding case did not also cover their tablet or phone cameras.

I don't know if it's comfort or awareness, but the ones who covered acted like it was common sense, and the ones who didn't hadn't considered it or felt like they weren't likely to be a target of interest. A few women said they chose their laptops because of the physical shutter over the camera.

I don't know if trust in electronics is more generational or age related, but it's definitely a gradient.
Personally, I'm not sure $4 million is enough to convince me to deal with anonymous internet gamers almost 24/7.

The guy works hard, and while I'm not a fan I don't begrudge him the wealth.
Yeah, that’s pretty egregious.
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It's possible to come up with a close result with JS, but with WASM you have a lot space to add more things on top than just moving a particle back to it's origin.
$4.4 million is close to the average Major League Baseball salary now (the median is closer to $1.5 million). A mediocre relief pitcher can yield that. 125 players are earning $10 million or more now.

Or another perspective on it. All NBA player salaries combined - roughly $3.2 billion for ~420 players - is higher than the total salaries (not total compensation) of all the Fortune 500 CEOs combined. Maybe ~1,200 NBA players total over the next ten years, will take home $35 to $40 billion in income combined.

The value of having any consequential spot in a massive platform.
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The cargo cult of versioning
I do not know anyone who writes in non-cursive. I live in France where cursive is the norm.

Everyone I know hand writes on a whiteboard of a piece of paper. Or when they make a note to the teacher. Or when they use a post-it.
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Same for me... if only they would bring back the + operator, it would make this a little less painful...
digg.com/reader is awesome
Google Search actually works really well for me, and I think it's been getting better over time. Just this week, a colleague asked me why the following code does not work:

void foo() {
cout << "global\n";
}

struct Foo {
void foo(int i) {
cout << "method " << i << "\n";
}

void bar() {
foo(); // <-- compiler error here
}
};

Even a few years ago, answering an arcane question like this, where it is not clear what keywords you need to search for, would take you hours of googling. Most people would just not bother. But in this case, it took me literally 30 s to find an answer on Stack Overflow.
I think you mean setuid bit. The sticky bit (on binaries) went away when we got VMM/swap.
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Foreign outsourced production to China SEZs (and therefore aren’t even considered domestic for tariff reasons) is hardly indicative of Chinese domestic goods quality.
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Fun with (User-Defined) Attributes
I've switched to Bing, which was a step I wouldn't have even entertained five years ago.

Google needs to get back to its minimalist beginnings. It's really apparent that the advertising department has taken over while the search department atrophies.

In retrospect, I think the turning point was when they murdered Labs and Reader.
Same in Poland where they ask you to "sign legibly". Which makes completely no sense, my name is already printed somewhere else on the form.
This isn't true, it can be a crowd source quality control. Not as good as a direct share from one of my trusted colleague's, but it does work as a quality control given the right community makeup, the right web of users.
> Google Search actually works really well for me, and I think it's been getting better over years. Just this week, a colleague asked me why the following code does not work:

I feel like you've posted this comment mid-thoughtstream. How is the compiler error relevant to Google Search?

Edit: > Even a few years ago, answering an arcane question like this, where it is not clear what keywords you need to search for, would take you hours of googling. Most people would just not bother. But in this case, it took me literally 30 s to find an answer on Stack Overflow.

Makes a bit more sense now you've edited that in.

Yeah, I'd totally agree. I've noticed it can help you find films based on description ("film with adam sandler and kate beckinsale") or code syntax ("c++ io operator") using terms that aren't really at all obviously connected to what you're trying to find out.
Most of these jobs sound exactly like the types of jobs AI will replace.
That's interesting, my subscriptions only update once or twice a week so I never felt that need.

How do you see it working? Create and play a playlist of currently unviewed videos?
WASM currently doesn't support SIMD and threading, other than that it is already close to single-threaded native performance (usually within 1.2x to 1.5x, there are some runtime checks happening after all).

Frankly, I would be surprised to see well-written Javascript code that's consistently 8x to 10x slower than (single-threaded, non-SIMD) native performance. You have spikes from GC and re-compilation, but JITed JS is not that slow.
This is a problem I can live with! So not all solutions to the centralized, monopolized social/tracking web lie in the future. We should also learn from the past, and it's encouraging to see some tools we need are already there, ready to use!
I think the jobs listed are simply ephemera of the current state of the internet, technology, and media rather than a reflection of 'the future'. Although, I do agree that with the thread that jobs of the future have little promise of widespread prosperity, which Tyler Cowen details very, very well in 'Average is Over'
Ask HN: If you were to design the RSS today, how would you do it?
I'm looking at discussing the current limitations, when RSS works and when it doesn't. More importantly how would you design a better (more powerful) system today - while maintaining the decentralised ethos of RSS.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money.

The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
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Google search does tend to still do well for areas where they see there's no money to be squeezed.

There's a stark difference if you try to search for something where Google can net a big cut of the outcome. Try searching for "vegas hotels". Once upon a time, google returned a healthy mix of results that directly benefited them, and ones that didn't.

Here's the portion of the page (yellow rectangle) that now appears to be presented to actually help visitors, and not directly pay Google: https://imgur.com/a/hAFas On my PC, you have to scroll down 2 pages to see that.
Recently I was looking for an RSS reader for Ubuntu. Eventually I settled on Liferea. Does anyone have a other suggestions?
You should. Their pod is BY far the best for hoops junkies.