skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has too much self-congratulatory tone that comes off as a bit disingenuous. A single person didn't invent 'serverless' and 'spread it all over the world'.

Also, most efforts are team-effort.
I see your point, but if the remaining problem to solve in our civilisation is what type of screw heads then we're doing pretty good :)
I thought progressive enhancement.

I think people expect much more interactivity now, (I think google maps was a driver and web based email as well), so it became harder to do pure back end. For example a lot of the queries I run now show a dynamically generated graph. I can do that on the back end, but much easier to use a javascript charting package. I guess I could just use javascript all the way down
Yes. So much of our economy is driven by marketing. Many of the smartest young people in our economy used to go to Wall Street, now many get MBAs and go into marketing.

Same thing with Google, Facebook - marketing and advertising control our economy. (And the danger western democracies face: It’s a natural switch from marketing to political influencing. Tools and methods are the same and the same infrastructure can be used.)
Just have to add that in circumstances like this a corporate death penalty seems appropriate. Equifax is an entity that you are not able to be removed from in any way. When you look at the financial and security ramifications of the breach and what was released and the response, seems appropriate. The kicker is that Equifax also offers credit monitoring for fraud prevention as a product to line their coffers.
I don't even give them the courtesy of a 403. That's more information than they deserve. HAproxy severely throttles their requests, at no cost to my web servers, and eventually stops responding entirely.

Converting our WordPress sites to static sites greatly simplified and improved our infrastructure.
For perspective that's approx. a quarter of the size of the original DooM. And it's probably minified. And it does little more than fetching info from a couple data sources, formatting and showing it.
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It does make development easier, and at some point it just doesn't make sense to support any longer.

If the number of people who visit your site with JavaScript disabled is less than the number of people who visit using the Opera browser, does it really make sense to add [number of supported browsers] x [JS on | JS off] permutations to your testing workload? Is spending the time and resources on creating a non-JS site worth it, or would it better spent somewhere else (usability, accessibility, etc.)? Everything is a trade-off.

I personally feel the JS ship has long sailed. I'm more worried about the recent trend of sites not even working in Firefox anymore, just Chrome. That is definitely a bit sad.
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I believe it's called "convergent evolution". But I am not a geneticist, biologist,...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/09/bats-and-dolphins-ev...
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There are plenty of examples of freshly failed companies in the sporting goods space.

It's not the optimization so much as the "If we give them 12.5 oz instead of 16 oz, and put it in a shiny box, we won't piss them off enough to stop buying our product!"
I'll be sure to tell all the Buddhists I meet who use the term that you said so.
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Ask HN: Ways to sell a failed business
Is there a way to sell a failed business? Are there common platforms for that?

I am talking about my own business but also the idea in general.

Are there platforms that allow you to sell your failed business? The idea is that the potential buyers are aware that what they are buying needs to be turned around and the sellers are aware that they are selling at a discount.

It is often the case that people have built their niche, invested money in domains, trademark, other IP etc. and then shutting everything down seems like a waste of money. Often the reasons for shutting down might not even be related to the business; maybe it is just lack of time or other incidents.

Any hint on this? One obvious obstacle is publicly admitting the failure and the resulting bad PR.
The gist of music theory: It sounds interesting when sounds with simple frequency ratios are played at the same time. E.g., playing a 440 Hz tone at the same time and 660 Hz tone has a 2:3 ratio. Some combinations of frequencies, when played before or after other combos can establish an expectation and then either fulfill it or negate it. E.g., if you take the ratio above and then play 440 + 587, it'll sound like it's moving forward and that the second combo has 'arrived' as you might have expected. The 587 is derived by fixing the first note but inverting the relationship from 2:3 to 3:2 (and then doubling the frequency of the second so you don't have to move so far from 660).

Most everything beyond is attaching labels to the frequencies and combos. Just as we have names for frequencies of light (red, yellow, blue) and patterns (gradient, checkerboard) there are names for frequencies of sound (A, C#, E) and their combinations (major, minor). There are also more esoteric terms (chiaroscuro in painting, neapolitan flat 9 in music) for people who've spent so much time on a subject that the basics have become boring.

Oh, and there's also divisions of and patterns for time in music theory. E.g., "hold this note for twice as many milliseconds as the previous one".

There have been some good resources here on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=music%20theory&sort=byPopulari...
What's wrong with a normal bank transfer? Or the many payment apps like pingit?
"Sure, there's a lot more strings on a piano, but they're all separate from each other, and once one is tuned, it's tuned and you can move on to the next one."

No, most pianos use multiple strings per key. You tune one string, you need to tune its sisters before moving on, or you're not going to have a proper note.

"Try tuning a guitar that has a Floyd Rose locking tremelo system"

Oh, you mean like my Jackson Rhoads RX Custom? 8 minutes from new strings to stretched via whammy bar and ready to rock. They're far easier than the old Bigsby string knives.

" So every time you tighten or loosen one string, you're changing the tuning on the other 5!"

Uhh, we have what's called a bridge lock for that.

"And worse, to adjust the intonation on a Floyd Rose, you have to completely loosen the string so you can get to the tiny little hex screw to unlock the intonation adjustment"

That's how you should be doing it on ANY non-hardtail bridge in the first place.
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I thought I read Google is putting down $3B. So 20% stake at minimum.
For the low B on my 7 string, I get better intonation and tuning results by using power chords up and down the neck with distortion on rather than relying on a tuner. Fretting tension and picking intensity becomes a huge factor with low tension and high string gauges.
Just an FYI regarding thermal paper and highlighter pens.

At a former job some of the staff were printing some free product vouchers. On each they highlighted certain data to make it easy to spot. Well they soon found out that a highlighter on thermal paper will erase what is highlighted. It takes some time but it does a great job of erasing it. I don't know how or what the chemical process is but it does work, or fail, whatever your goal was I guess.
https://www.peiwei.com/orangechicken yep
I run uBlock Origin + NoScript. Makes the web run much much faster.
>think it will be fun, or high profit margin.

Quite possibly the complete opposite. Especially when today's asset / property prices are being pushed up to a ridiculous level by QE, rent eats into profits, And most restaurants owner I know has thin profits margin and lots of long hours working.

>The statistics thrown around are 75-80% of new restaurants won't last the first two years.

I guess it depends on location, but 50%+ of new restaurants changes hand within the first 3 years.
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Do you think the name "Boom" could become a liability if there are any accidents along the way?
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If the thing needs to burn go-juice, give it green go-juice. Isn't biofuel-derived avgas a thing yet? Startup idea...
And the rest of the UK :)
The web works much better without JS, sites load faster and browser takes less memory. But sadly many sites use preloaders or plugins that hide entire page content until JS is loaded. What an awful idea.
http://lite.cnn.io/en

https://text.npr.org/

Every site should have a plain html option. Or create their html so that it works fine without js or cnn.
Yikes, I hope people won't be doing any financial calculations in Excel JS. But I know they will.
To be fair: Restaurants are extremely likely to fail no matter what even under the best of circumstances.

If "Kitchen Nightmares" turns around even 1/4 of the restaurants they visit, that seems pretty good relatively (even if it's not good absolutely).
I'm thinking of all the places where I've seen Excel used in operations. Often it's the only software the company uses. Now we're going to get people who've done a little javascript in college using it to elaborate the Spreadsheet That Runs Our Business. In all likelihood, the resulting chimera will make an impenetrable tangle of VBA and Javascript.
None whatsoever. I'd rather read a book, go for a walk or learn to knit.
Shopify has some free templates:

https://www.shopify.com/tools/policy-generator/terms-and-con...
https://www.shopify.com/tools/policy-generator

(It's a marketing tool, just skip the account signup bit and you can still get it.)
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Same for me under Cisco Umbrella
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I live in Berlin too, and I do that a lot. I put my phone in my pocket, take random directions until I get loss, then slowly find my way back. I discovered a lot of things that way, and learned to orient myself in the city. I also saw lots of nice little gems that go unnoticed if you are not paying attention.

A useful one for Berlin: trains usually drive on the right, so you know which way a station is by looking at the train signs.
I also find the questions very helpful. I understand for many people who already have a good understanding, these questions might be interrupting the flow. Many a times the questions his students raised were things that I had not thought of, sometimes they even stumped Jeremy. Fortunately Jeremy in most cases gives answers which vary in length, according to whether it's a concept which he will clear later, or whether it is an important concept that needs to clarified then itself.

So I think this more effective way of learning/teaching even though there is a loss in efficiency.
Done. Thanks for the tip.
Browsable/downloadable version in the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4042m.ct000797/
Split-shaft (safety post) Klusons are my favorite tuners, if they're maintained correctly. A little dab of sewing machine oil in the gears can quickly loosen up stiff Klusons.

I'm always stabbing myself on sharp string ends sticking out of tuners. Safety posts really reduce the bleeding in my life.
"Does not work like that. It isn't a violin."

Works exactly like that and I can demonstrate all day - Go grab APTuner and just watch your tuning when you place your finger at beginning or end of fret. You can cause a 25 cent difference on that alone. Makes no difference on my fretted or fretless basses, or any of my guitars from a 1978 Ovation to a 1998 Rhoads King V.
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"Of all the genes in the human genome, 55 percent were already present in the first animal."

AFAIK, genes contain base pairs, and a base pair encodes 2 bits of information (computer engineering perspective here ;))

When they say 55% is the same, do they mean: 55% of genes have a similar structure and amount of basepairs, or do they mean: exact same values for the base pairs bit for bit?

Like for example gene rs4778138 has an effect on eye color (handwavy first search result of snpedia for the example here). So if in two humans, this rs4778138 has a different value, do they consider both humans to have the same gene (because it is one that encodes eye color to some value in each case), or a different gene (because it encodes a different eye color)?
I don't like being negative, and I applaud Stripe's initiative here, but this will never fly in Canada. We have Interac e-mail transfer up here which is easier and better at just about everything.
Robertson is excellent but they seem to be a uniquely Canadian phenomenon. My company ships robots to the US in big crates, and we've had to switch to building them with Philips screws instead because of issues with local availability.
If you look it up you’ll find various reports that strongly link home prices with homelessness. First hit on google, for instance: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/As-rents-rise-so-does-Cal...

To reinforce this with my own life experience, I lived in Houston for five years, and it was possible for me to buy a two bedroom condo in the core urban area for 100k. There were run down neighborhoods in some of the more industrial areas where you could buy a house for less than that, in some cases as low as 30-40k for run down housing. These neighborhoods had transit access and basic public services. There was essentially zero homelessness.

Those neighborhoods aren’t glamorous, and I’m not trying to idealize them. People got out when they could. Crime was not extreme but it was higher than the rest of the city.

But it turns out that even most people with mental problems could find a way to live with a roof over their head when the cost may be in the low hundreds per month. And just having a home makes the rest of the problems you’re struggling with a lot easier to tackle.

Houston isn’t a beautiful city, I moved there not because I wanted to but when the recession hit because it was the only place I had a job offer. But it gets an unfair bad wrap. It turned out to be quite a nice place to live, with tons of diversity and arts and culture, and the best food scene you can imagine.

It’s not the unregulated Wild West that people like to pretend it is, but in general the building codes are very simple and predictable, and for whatever reason the culture there is strongly anti-nimby (relative to the rest of the US). An extremely common pattern while I lived there was for old bungalows from the 1930’s to be bought up, demolished, and replaced by two modern townhomes.

People complained that they really liked the bungalows and that the townhomes weren’t as pretty. That was probably true. But the people buying those homes were ordinary folks, teachers and firefighters and mechanics and whatnot who could afford to raise a family in the nicer more walkable parts of the city without praying for a public housing assistance lottery or anything like that.

It’s bittersweet, but Houston being willing to let the cute old neighborhoods incrementally turns over into denser more modern neighborhoods is what made it a place that anyone could afford to live, and I think not coinicidentally there was a huge culture of entrepreneurship and loads of opportunity and upward mobility in the local economy.
I don't think these are all correct. But i'm not sure if this page will change after the GDPR comes into effect.
I'm just taking the Facebook one as an example; it links me to the official download page on Facebook itself. I downloaded this, but it didn't contain a whole lot of data. In fact, it contained nothing about the data it collects using its 'tracking cookie' / like buttons. I absolutely 100% expect them to have a database somewhere of the pages i've visited that have either a like button, or a tracking cookie.

Then again, maybe i'd just need to send them a data request after the GDPR comes into effect to be sure.
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That's whataboutism. I'm not interested in anyone who fails at giving proper arguments. Neither when tptacek is it or someone else.

The sense of giving rational arguments lies not only in the persuasion of the parent poster but also on the information of anybody else who is reading.
And simple "Don't do most of this." and "You almost certainly don't want to set up a WAF." are just crappy answers which are based on authority and therefore meaningless.
A lesson I learned the hard way: if random bots are causing significant resourcing issues, then you need to address that directly. And if their impact isn't significant, why are you spending time on it? The disk space my log files consume is trivial.
If you're serious about giving this a whirl, uMatrix is even better for fine-grained control. I disable everything except first-party images and CSS by default and it's like a whole new internet.

There's a bit of a dance you have to get used to when things don't work, but I've got it into muscle memory now so I don't even think about it. I tend to click around in there enabling the first few obvious things for about 3 seconds, which works 95% of the time, and for the the remaining 5% the URL gets copy-pasted into Chromium.

Wait, what are all these floating obstructions? I thought I disabled all JS... hang on, you mean CSS is now full of animations and distractions too? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unstickall/ and https://github.com/gagarine/no-transition.

What's that? Sticky sidebar full of chum? No problem - uBlock Origin's "right click, block element" to the rescue.

The internet doesn't have to be shit any more!
> That's why the general internet ideal was no censorship until fairly recently.

I disagree.

To point out the obvious, the Santa Clara Principles are being published now. Not 20 years ago.

Going all the way back to BBSs, it was common for there to exist many forums with varying levels of moderator involvement. I never, ever saw the EFF complain about BBSs or web forums that moderated user content. Can you provide one example of EFF complaining about censorship on a private discussion website from the pre-Google/Facebook era? They were much more focused on the freedom to host one's own forum/BBS, and preventing the government from compelling a BBS/forum to go offline. They never took explicit issue with a forum owner's choice to censor.

So, actually, I think it's the other way around. Network effects in the eternal September have caused EFF et al. to adopt a new stance on censorship in very large communities. Actually, this is kind of obvious; otherwise, why weren't the Santa Clara Principles published 20 years ago and applied to BBS/forums/newgroups?

> It feels like a betrayal of the core principles of the US in particular and the hopes we had for the internet in general.

Again, I disagree. It was the eternal September that killed many hopes for the internet in general. Many were hopelessly optimistic about what it would mean to have "everyone" online. Everything else is just the natural progression from that initial disappointment.
This is known as "subdomain takeover" and is definitely a common problem. It's probably one of the most frequently reported bug types on hackerone.

I wonder -- has anyone written code to spin up EC2 instances and check for subdomains pointing to the IP? Not sure how you could do that efficiently (does rdns work after the IP has been recycled?), but a starting point might be gathering as many NXDOMAIN subdomains as possible, filtering the ones at cloud providers, and starting instances until you get a match.
I've been lucky enough to fly business class with work - Virgin from Heathrow to New York.

A car collects you at your house and drives you to the airport. You are checked on to your flight whilst still in the car when you arrive, and your suitcases are taken out of the boot of the car. You then walk through security and passport control and into the lounge. I don't recall any queuing at all.

I'm not saying the aggravations you discuss don't exist, but at the price point for SST planes (which I imagine would be predominantly business class tickets), they are dramatically reduced.
Machine translation is not solved, but it's reached some surprisingly improved benchmarks for accuracy, so while it's a little presumptuous to call it solved, it's not the most egregious exaggeration I've heard about machine learning this week.
The problem is how many of our smart people go into marketing and persuasion. Not clear if that is good for our economy... or society.
VSCode has a ton of features that I like, so if not for performance I'd probably use that for most of my day to day work.
I think when you have a technology which creates the same amount of power demand as all the people and industry in Peru, and rewards people for locating this demand in the part of the world with the cheapest dirtiest coal fired power and zero energy tax, it's disingenuous in the extreme to pretend it's not a huge part of the problem because hypothetical global carbon taxes might solve wider problems.

Crypto mining is part of the externalities accounting problem, and for that matter one of the chief motivating factors behind crypto currency adoption has the idea of being able to avoid things like carbon taxes and energy quotas...
>"I'm all for "wait and see", but have we ever done that with a technology that is literally using more electricity than a medium sized nation? "

I keep seeing these types of posts every few months and they always seem very poorly thought out and presented. Almost like people did the actual analysis but didnt like the results...

Don't you need to compare this with the energy usage of the industries bitcoin is supposed to replace (banks, money transmitters, credit cards)? Also take into account the environmental benefits of a deflationary currency (people saving instead of buying crap they dont need)?

What about running web pages that are >99% ads, tracking, and other unwanted content by kb? Also blocking all that unwanted content. Did anyone set out before hand to calculate the energy usage of that?

It just seems so disingenuous to be concerned about the energy usage of this one thing (and its only possible because it happens to be particularly easy to estimate, an advantage!) every time I see it.
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I agree. I'm not even vegetarian buy I eat their mayo just because it tastes better.

And because they paid me to make this comment.
Thanks for the links, the interview was really interesting and enlightened me a bit more about how much work there is to do
Something like this will never work in Germany. 99% of business transactions are done via a simple SEPA transfer, which doesn't incur any fees.
So is this all an effort to combat amazon's dominance of the market? Because I see every competitor to them on this standard except for them.