skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's much less work to just make fast pages using the HTML we already have. The problem is that fast isn't what google wants, they want their special HTML fork called AMP.
> but at the same time there isn't realistically a way for them to "safely" adjust which exchanges they include in the averages.

this is a very solved problem in financial markets: you source quotes from a set list of contributors, ditch a set number of the highs and lows and average rest, possibly weighted in some way, e.g trade volume.
Has there been a rash of failures? Not a meteorologist, but I usually hear that ECMWF & GFS have generally been trading blows, and have different strengths.
Having been living in LA for the last few years, and as such becoming much more car dependent, stories like these make me dearly miss the days of having reliable trains and buses available at all hours to take me everywhere I needed to go.
maybe we should call the police?
Google can display the results they want in any fashion they see fit, it's their website/apps and their publishing/curation is protected by the first amendment.
It seems like forks, smart contracts and related complexities (most recently noticed ETH -> WETH on radarrelay.com), coins/tokens that function in different ways (minting), all seem like they can affect record keeping for taxes in interesting ways... at the very least making it difficult to point to transactions and call them simple trades.
> why shouldn't we teach people their position in life is largely predetermined?

Because it isn't and history is full of examples showing it isn't.

Circumstances (social, economic, etc) might sway things in certain directions, but in the same way we can't predict the weather a year out with 100% certainty, it's impossible to predict the course of a human being's life a year from now, let alone 10 or 20.

And that isn't even taking into account changing environments. Ask someone in the 1950's if Obama would become president and most would probably have said "no way"

It's also detrimental and discouraging to people even attempting to achieve their potential. It's like the photo of the horse tied to a chair by a rope. The horse only believes it can't move because it's been trained to think that is its reality.

Philosophies are really only important and useful in as much as they produce a certain result. History is also full of examples of those philosophies being used by the ruling class to suppress their "inferiors" in order to maintain their positions of privilege. Then you get things like the French Revolution.
I see that as a way to learn how humans work (social engineering. :)
Are you comparing plugging in a USB fob to soldering a connector to pins, and that's what you're referring to as "not that much different"?

I would consider any time you have to solder a custom connector onto the device to fix it as being bricked. The equipment, knowledge and capability to do that are very rare.
We get over a million users per day looking to download OSS. If you have binaries on SF you can reach these people through our very robust discovery tools and strength of our search results in Google. We also give project admins detailed download statistics.
If price is any measure of value, yes.
yeah, as a user AMP is awesome.

Dear website owners who wrote this letter: yes, amp has it's downsides but the reason we have amp is that the internet as a whole failed to make fast sites. you had your chance for the previous ~30 years, and it's clear you couldn't be bothered to make speed a priority. I'm glad you're angry that AMP is eating your lunch, because maybe you'll actually start trying to compete now. But you aren't getting my sympathy.
Because the user isn't sitting at a datacenter.

An user in Indonesia isn't at the closest datacenter in Singapore. It doesn't matter what you do, you can't, from Singapore, try to emulate what an user on a particular ISP in a particular city in Indonesia will face.

In case it isn't clear:

Consider 2 websites, both have hosting in Singapore, but one also uses a CDN in Jakarta.

The Google crawler running on the Singapore datacenter connects to both websites, speeds are great because they are sitting just next to the datacenter. Both get great ratings.

An user is in Jakarta, and tries to connect to both websites. One of them takes a century to load, because it has to load everything from Singapore, and international cables from Singapore to Jakarta are expensive, so connections are capped. Experience sucks.

The second website uses a CDN in Jakarta, located at the local coloc facility to which the user's ISP is also connected to. The website loads instantly.

CDNs today are located in every single small ISP, in all countries, in all medium-sized cities in the world.
That would only work if the knockoff image is registered on-chain after the real image. If I'm going to rip off an image, I'm not going to submit it back to the entity that created it.

Hashes don't verify the date that something was created. The blockchain provides a date for the hash, but it provides no guarantee that the hashed item didn't exist long before when it first appeared on chain. If I simply modify the image metadata to say that my knockoff photo was taken at an earlier date and flip some bits, I can still claim that mine is the original and that I didn't submit it to the blockchain when I created it.
It can tell if my neighborhood is liberal or conservative based on the average of the cars. Headline's a bit clickbaity.
Search engines work by not just improving the benchmark but also making the benchmark a trade secret. That's what I was saying. And if it's a trade secret I would say that the word "benchmark" is a misnomer. Broadly speaking, a benchmark is a standardized way of measuring something, and if only one company can perform the measurement then it's not really a standard.
Dice.com is who acquired SourceForge a handful of years ago. My company (BIZX) acquired SourceForge from DICE.
People write these things because on a message board, other human beings are just an abstraction. Please, though, try to remember that to family and friends and even acquaintances, victims of suicide are not abstractions. I don't know James Dolan, but I know other well-known people in the industry who've died, and their families and friends did not take comfort in this kind of fantasizing. Rather, it was deeply upsetting to them.
That is an interesting one!
yeah. this is why i abandonded Google a couple years ago. it became clear to me that they werent trying to provide me with search results that satisfied my curiosity, everything was tailored to draw me in and keep me searching. it wont send you to a page that is rich with content, itll send you to one stub article after another.

i think its kinda hilarious how there is this fixation with load speeds amongst web devs. most people i know are far more concerned with everything other than the load time.
Not quite a Netflix category, but there's https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ tracks a few other things in addition to dog deaths.
> This seems tragic to me. I can't believe someone would "order" him back into the silo to turn on an exhaust fan. First, starting a fan motor inside of an explosive environment can be dangerous. Second, how could someone have such disregard for another person's life, that they send him into a room full of explosive gas?

This is the military: it’s sad but not out of scope to order someone to do something dangerous, or even likely fatal, in order to accomplish an objective. Consider “you stay here with this machine gun while the rest of us go back the way we came.”
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It's astounding to me that you find "creeps, weirdos, nerds and morons without friends" to be a worse fate than "On a bad day he just sits and pretends he is a transit driver, going through the routes in his mind, for 10 or 12 hours at a time".

You don't?

The kid sitting there for 10-12 hours, who knows how he experiences that. It's externally sad, but we don't know if he's okay with how he experiences things.

The other guy who sits at home contemplating suicide, we know how horrible that is.
Predicting customer needs is part of making a good product. Especially in a space so focused on speed and iteration.

Slower build times? That definitely isn't the norm for most projects which have transitioned over. Have you had anyone look over your config with you yet?
Probably a buggy publishing system that rounds date/time, or something similar. It says "Today" for me.

Or a major conspiracy. My money's with Occam's razor, though.
You can do this with an application called patchwork that uses a p2p protocol called ssb (secure-scuttlebutt)

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
But I don't have to go get them installed myself. So it's Audi's problem, not mine.
We have an IRC server that lives in private IP space and is only accessible by VPN. It was not rocket science to set up. If you think that running ircd-hybrid on debian requires "rare" expertise, then your definition of rare and mine do not exactly match.
Why not track the owners eyes and only render the part of the screen they are looking at? Instant security.
Says today for me, maybe something to do with timezones?
Is this a landing page that was put together last minute? It seems like it. Look a the teams page, the same two people are the placeholder image for every team member. How serious is Kodak about this really?

https://www.kodakcoin.com
Fuck that, it's really obvious this is another Google attempt at getting as much traffic to themselves as possible.

For example, Reddit loads extremely fast, and AMP pages are absolute shit, I don't know why they decided to use it.

And I'd rather view the website as intended (minus the ads, sorry), than in a shitty cut down version that takes 3 seconds less to load.
I really like the spinner. Clever.
And what would the effect on property value be for an asphalt roof with garish panels vs. the Tesla option?
> If you owned a significant portion of all the coins in the world, and tried to sell them all at once, you wouldn't end up with number_of_coins * price

Note that the same would happen if everybody started dumping their wealth in whatever form: shares, real estate, and fiat money, even hard bills.
What we call value is just the promise that somebody, at some future moment, will be willing to exchange what we have for something else (food, goods, houses, or of course any other different store of value). If everybody is trying to get rid of something, the value of that something just drops to zero.
Careful Now
> Do you have a reference for that?

Google's dictionary in search defines it as “a commercial business”, dictionary.com defines it as “a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business”;

Wiktionary has both a business definition “Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture” and a law definition “An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.”

FindLaw’s law dictionary gives “an association of persons for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise”

> It's not clear to me what a "business organization" means if it's not defined under law

It's a vague, broad category; the law mostly concerns itself with more specific categories.
Create user manuals, guides, onboarding videos way faster than ever before
If you're on the same network you can use multicast-dns (like what Chromecast uses)
It certainly does happen already without having to opt-in for the many sites that collaborate with Google, reporting your interactions with their site to GA.
It is, at least on face value. However gathering enough evidence to show some relationship or cause... that's a whole different ballgame that we probably won't get to ever watch.
My first time using Rinkeby Testnet. A little rough to use with the faucet but amazing to be able to use the demo.
Slack has a native Mac app. But it is notoriously bad at maintaining a network connection or handling connection breaks.
Actual title: "Powermat joins the Wireless Power Consortium to help take inductive wireless charging to the next level"
I don't think saying "find a mate" on hacker news is the problem.

Why nitpick trivial things like this on someone you have never met?
> it's just Kodak trying to ride the free money wave of cryptocurrency speculation

Can we blame them? Their stock is up 125% today [1]. 44 million shares traded on the NYSE on 43 million of these shares outstanding (Kodak has a weird cap structure). Literally every owner of Kodak Common New had the opportunity to cash out, simply on the coattails of management penning a press release. (Including management!)

[1] https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AKODK&ei=2yJVWuiB...
Had no idea it was bought.

Look, I think the brand has a lot of baggage with the tech community. You just can't put ads in downloads and expect it to all blow over.

I don't know how you go about re-building trust after something like that.

Bug: The floating bar on the right side, "Recent Posts" etc. I can never see the last box. When I get to the bottom of the page it's still covered.
Are there any companies in particular that specialize in the implementation of such blockchain use cases?
? Paper and computers can be converted into gold or land.
Content creators can not justly be called "beggars", because they provide services and create goods that people value. Most people recognize this and want these creatives to be rewarded. Sometimes it's done through donations, other times through commissions. Patronage of the arts through these means has been going on for most of human history.
I think it's sort of intended to be insidery. Everyone scratches each other's back. It's kind of similar to the dynamic of investors in hot tech companies, where people have a network of contacts they can leverage, etc.
Well, you and them can keep loving them until Google and Facebook are the internet. Everyone has played Monopoly - we know how this story ends.
They pay for other stuff in life, why should online services be any different?

It is like some devs that contrary to other professionals, don't want to pay for their tools.
> "I passed a little outpost of houses whose mailboxes were on the opposite side of the street."

I used to live on a road like this, it's not exactly a neighborhood like in most cities (so "residential neighborhood" may not have been accurate) - it's a linear neighborhood along the road. We were lucky enough to have our mailbox at the end of our driveway, not across the street; if our mailbox had been across the street, it would have been unsafe to walk and get the mail.
It already happens with every site using Google Analytics, which is nearly every site you visit...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ora
I'm sorry to be the party pooper here, but it looks like the relevance war to Github was lost ~7 years ago:

https://trends.google.ca/trends/explore?date=all&q=github,so...
it's not just about speed, it's about quality as well. AMP has more restrictions than just that the site is fast: amp pages have to have all the image sizes defined and the content loaded in the initial load - no fast page loads followed by spinners or lazy-loaded content, or page blocks that jump around as loads. It's a better user experience all around, not just a faster page.
You can do this with an application called patchwork that uses a p2p protocol called ssb (secure-scuttlebutt).

It doesn't use a global blockchain, but there is a more fractal internal append-only log structure that logs data from peers you've connected with.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
I think it's what in french we call a <i>fausse bonne idée</i>, or good idea at first sight only.

I scrapped many site, and making an api out of a site is really similar to web scrapping. Despite having tried many time to create an universal scrapper, or at least a helper class for scrapping, I found out that restarting from scratch at each site was the best strategy.

There is a lot of info on stackoverflow about that, and there was a post specifically on this issue but i can't find it.

Maybe one third of the time, everything is ok and I use my favorite tools : python-requests with requests_cache for connection and lxml for parsing. Then, Toapi should work. But there is so much variety in internet site that most of the time, i end up doing something else : Use other way to get the data (websocket, phantomjs, chromeheadless, or going through proxy or Tor or anything ...). Use other data extraction methods, because xpath does not works (parsing json, making screenshot then ocr to get position of text, even fasttext !). Some time there is encoding issue. Some time html is malformated. In this 2/3 of the case, Toapi won't work out of the box. So you will trying to fix it, improve it, etc, and the code base of Toapi will grow but it will never handle all the case.
What is meant by an "unspecified dependency"?
You did actually have them once.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talk

* http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?talkd

(-:
Is there insurance for these things? A billion-dollar satellite costs each person in the USA ~ $3.10.
Is Slack's status page down as well? I can't reach https://status.slack.com/
I'm curious if someone can point me to any source that discusses how the next generation of CPUs that Intel, AMD, ARM might be working on is actually going to address this & the Spectre issue architecturally.. It's great that we have a potentially performance killing fix but the real "fix" or rather, solution, is to alter the architecture. Since I'm not an EE/CE dude... is anyone aware of where such discussions on the WWW might be taking place?

by the way, that PoC was intense. Makes you wonder if the NSA knew about it all along :)
I have a spreadsheet, I want to make it into a website. What is the best tool?
I have a list of items, with categories and data. I want people to be able to search and filter on those categories and data on a public website. What would be the best tool for this?
Fine by me, the guy at the newspaper stand doesn't give me the magazines and books for free.
build it, you'll have a hit
It's blocked by 90% of corporate firewalls. So trying to get started on using IRC requires big buy in from the network admins.
This one really got to me, my confidence is shot when I see people I really respect struggling and succumbing to the same despair I feel sometimes. On an even darker note, anyone hear anything suspicious about this... ?
Yes I sure hope that before you sell shares of your company you have some product. Why is this even impressive?

Do I get to vote? Do I get dividends? I'm personally a big fan of securities regulation. Are you going to have open financials and reporting? Why is this better?
Sure, but that doesn't mean it's based in logic and reason rather than fashion.

It means it's based in your best reasoning given your known lack of data about the issue.

You've now been given explicit data in the form of responses in this thread about why one avenue is preferable to the other. Now, with that data on your doorstep, you get to decide to act upon it, or intentionally ignore it.

Best of luck!

(Just to be clear - my only nitpick here was with the Logic vs. Fashion dichotomy, but you've edited your post and added a number of conflating assertions re: Liberal fashion.)
> a user experience with IRC

Probably, but the OPs case was that they were trying to get work done.

> doing so requires so much relatively rare expertise [..] support investment [..] not cost-effective

"apt-get install ircd"?

That's Debian for, "I'm getting too old for this shit."
The ones I used and can recommend:

“hypothesis” package in Python (+pytest plugin)

“rapidcheck” in C++

“quickcheck” in Rust
Yeah, had problems all day today!
Yep, I remember a thread on HN during that time where we were all signing up. Finding them now is a welcome surprise.
What do you think is holding Firefox back from doing the same?
I was trying to avoid making a controversial statement. I didn't mean to imply that you were explicitly opting in, just that you are opted in.
> Do you ever use WhatsApp? Gone. Google Maps? Gone. Oh, that Guardian article we're discussing right now? Gone

Fine! iMessage and Telegram doesn’t show any adds to me so they go nowhere. If telegram tomorrow says to me - 10$ a year or ads, I gladly pay. Google Maps? Screw this burp of evil anyway, Apple Maps and Here We Go maps are go nowhere any time soon. Guardian? Well, I have adblocker enabled anyway and donate 10$ when I happen to read something well written.

I had an experience recently. One of podcasters that I’m listening to created website and started to treat his podcast more seriously. Also he created a Patreon account with clearly defined goals. I went and had my Patreon account created as soon as I had seen his and now I’m doing a monthly contribution. That guy went to 4K$ in two days.

Why I’m saying this? Well, because all other subscriptions that I have doesn’t provide _that_ value for me so if they all are gone tomorrow, I won’t even notice that.

So, if being free is the only reason people use something to kill time that means that th thing has no value for them ang can and should go away.
I have never disabled my Adblock at Forbes and never payed for anything paywalled. I simply didn’t read those articles and I don’t feel like I’ve lost much.

I think it actually for the best if many of tools/services/publishers will go away and people will have more incentive to actually pay for things if they consider th m valuable. And if people are not ready to give a way a cup of coffee for monthly subscription then well.... nobody needs that service then.

I was really happy about WhatsApp at first, that it is a payed service - 30$ a year or something and then Facebook bought it...
You would be missed. Stay strong. If you need to talk please reach out to me or anyone.
I'm glad you say that, because I have always viewed sourceforge as slightly sketchy, but without any real justification. I just knew that I was supposed to have mixed feelings about it.
> I don't give a damn't about site owners.

But aren't they the ones creating the content you are enjoying? Seems strange to care so little about them, as without them, there would be no content to enjoy.
same here (mid-Atlantic, Verizon)
edit: although I am now able to chat on Slack with some colleagues, the status page is still down for me
I'm not talking about chaff, I'm talking about low reflectivity paint (to reduce spotting via visual observation) and stealth to prevent radar detection (ala F-117 or B2). Maybe you even mosey on up to a known piece of debris and attach to it.

Chaff's handy for making it look like the launcher had an issue, but you need something else for ongoing evasion.
The silly thing is that Slack is perfectly shardable, as teams cannot communicate with other teams, so a global failure like this isn't necessary.
Who leads Japan? Rakuten? They were first movers but Amazon has made huge share gains there in the last 10 years and they're in the common vernacular now. They outmaneuvered the publisher coalition and are now the only real e reader player in town. If there's a factor blocking Amazon from dominance there, it's the continued strength of brick and mortar powered by the high standard of service and support provided by those stores as well as strong infrastructure that prevents Amazon from developing competitive advantages with.
Any time there's a Facebook widget in a page, they're siphoning off your info, whether you use it or not. That's why they were freaking out over Safari's third party cookie expiration change.
Google registered a domain just to host a letter?
I'm sure that your search engine with no websites on it will be a huge success.
I hate it on mobile, it makes Google unusable to me. I had to switch to DDG just because of AMP.

Google, please allow me to opt-out of AMP.