skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you go to gmetrix.com and generate page speed reports for both Google and DDG, you will see some interesting differences.

Of biggest importance to the OP is that DDG doesn't appear to be using any kind of CDN.

For DDG, their web page is the same size (384 KB), and the score pretty well on most subjects, except they don't defer parsing of Javascript (noted on the first tab of the Page Speed report), and on the second tab of the page speed report, you will note they don't use a CDN and they don't have "Expires" headers.

But for someone on a mobile device in a country that might have slow connectivity to the main web site for DDG, I think the lack of the CDN is probably the biggest factor.
I could never work for a company that wanted me to implement anything like that.
I gave some feedback on an earlier draft of this paper and I'm happy to see it on HN, it's a great read!
Why can't we just tax people and let the government fix stuff like this? Isn't that how its supposed to work? What was wrong with that idea?
Yup, Turkey is swimming in debt... and the water is getting deeper.
I really like the mail client, since I have 5 different email addresses I use that would otherwise be difficult to coordinate by just forwarding everything to one gmail inbox.

Also I big fan of the messages app, if you use an iPhone it’s very convenient.
Haha this reads like some Ministry of Truth release.

> Through the bravery and foresight of Chairman Pai, freedom is preserved despite our enemies growing ever desperate.
A lot of people would consider this a positive and obvious outcome. (For the record, I do not.)
Having a paypal account with an Venezuelan adress allows you to receive payments and to spend the USD of those payments within the paypal network (any site that takes paypal payments).

You can also have other services like payoneer, paxum, skrill, neterller, etc...

Plus, as you should know since you are expat, around 20% of the population has left the country so everyone knows or have a close family/friend who is living outside who can perfectly handle payments for a person in need to receive payments.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯:'Dual commits' to the rescue! -pun intended
That is why social skills and good analysts are important.
That works really well in most of the US. It failed in Flint for many reasons, including corruption and the fact that poor people are not given as much consideration in a money-soaked political system.
i agree. but baby steps would be welcome at this pace.
I think you are aiming at this result, but to spell it out:

Because most cryptocurrencies are not suitable for use as a currency. They are not stable units of account, are not as easy to exchange on an everyday in-person basis as cash, and are only a stable store of value by comparison to complete disasters like the bolívar. There are attempts (e.g. https://basis.io/ or https://tether.to/) to make a crypto-currency that fills this niche, but they have flaws (Basis isn't deployed yet, and Tether is a bit scary - it's backed by a single company that theoretically owns one dollar for every Tether coin issued).
Seems like a private individual rather than a corporation. But your point still stands.
This is old news, no?
It's really pretty nuts - 25 years ago, New England still was studded with shoe shops and textiles and other consumer manufacturing that has since all been outsourced to Bangalesh or Vietnam or wherever. Likewise, there used to be so many paper mills on the major rivers, like the Androscoggin in Maine, that you wouldn't be surprised if you pulled out fish looking like the one on The Simpsons... Or on the Merrimac river, where they are still pulling old cars off the bottom with mafiosos in the trunk.

Now most of those old 19th century mill buildings are transitioning into dorm-like hipster studio apartments.
Twitter cares about its bottom line.

If otherwise, they'd have suspended Trump's account for ToS violations long ago.
They can do that with the website, though. Not too hard to read a scroll position in JS, or to warehouse page view records.
If only there was an open to mass 'unfollow' I could have used it. Instead you have to manually do it individually while confirming 'unfollow'

I hardly use it but i checked my account last evening skimmed through my feed and saw nothing productive. What caught my attention though was a Forbes tweet projecting one of the Kardashians becoming a billionaire because of some cosmetic empire?

I dont even follow anything fashionable except Thomas H. Ptacek and Paul Graham.

I instantly deactivated my account pending deletion. Twitter is as much of a cesspit as Facebook.
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Got any sources for this? Anybody know if these claims are substantial?
Focus!

Where's the crewed Dragon?[1] How come Model 3 production is down again?[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17509988
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
This is on point. If you need to change USD -> VEF or back you hit up a cousin on WhatsApp. I actually met someone recently who ran an informal alcohol delivery service back in ~2013-14 who offered discounts if you paid him in USD.
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I must've read "The Tale of The Unknown Island" at least 30-40 times. A 30 minutes read that you take for your whole life.
I’ve learned many things throughout this journey. One of them is that modern user interfaces are absolutely gigantic compared to the user interfaces of the earlier days.

I mean, I guess it kind of has to be that way, in the age of high DPI monitors and bad eye sight, but WOW. Run Classic Finder just once and you’ll see what I mean.

Classic mac os ran at 72 dpi, compared to the modern 1x dpi of 96 to 110, so those controls were actually much bigger on screens of the day.
In the article, Musk says most houses in Flint have safe water. He doesn't propose a corporation fixing the water as an alternative to government, but rather using his own money to buy whole-home filters for the (according to him) small minority of families whose water still isn't considered safe.
I've read Dune at least 8 times, maybe 10. I could go on and on about how much I love this book.

I've read the Lord of the Rings 3 - 4 times, which I feel is a lot for a pretty thick series.

Lord of the Flies: 3 - 4 reads

1984: 3 - 4 reads

A Clockwork Orange: 3 reads

Brave New World: 4 reads

I really like dystopian fiction I guess.
While navigability of grids is nice, I kinda like it when cities have haphazard street layouts—older cities with chaotic street grids tend to be easier to walk around in (assuming you know where you're going) with slower traffic and smaller streets, not as loud since sound doesn't carry through all the buildings that block streets off (New York is loud almost everywhere, Tokyo has countless quiet neighborhoods seconds from even Shibuya Scramble), and as the author mentioned, instill a sense of adventure.

But maybe there's ways of getting these things while still maintaining street navigability—narrow streets with not necessarily rail straight, but still well-structured grids for the major streets, and maybe non-uniform/unstructred alleys could work to get both in one system.
The money gets taxed, but money goes elsewhere and the problem never fixed or it’s almost always over budget.

But yes. It’s suppose to work the way you described. Abuse and incompetence gets in the way.
>Why isn't he impeached for Bribery.

Man, this is reading a lot like Reddit all of a sudden. Citations please?
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I did try to see if I could generate some quick graphs with pingdom.com or runscope.com to highlight the importance of using a CDN, when sampled from various places around the world.

Sadly, while both pingdom and runscope do allow me to test sites and get HTTPS latency data on a per test basis, they don't make it easy to collect and graph that data -- on a per test basis. Sure, they can both give you uptime reports and tell you average response time across all tests, but I want more detail than that.

Still working on this.
Can't pay for trivial things like water when we have 5+ generations of pensions to fund
The title says "operators", not "operations", which I misread about three times :-(. I.e., there's still a sizable self-driving effort, but they've re-organized the humans doing the actual day-to-day driving of the cars:

> Uber confirmed it laid off about 100 autonomous vehicle operators in Pittsburgh and eliminated the position. The company plans to replace these jobs with about 55 “mission specialists”—specialists who are trained in both on-road and more advanced test-track operations, and who are expected to provide more technical feedback to self-driving car developers. Uber said affected operators could apply for these positions.
The endless debate about this man undertaking various projects that will improve society if they pan out is absolutely vapid. This doesn't belong here.
That's not even close to an accurate assessment. Yes, you can technically have a bank account in Venezuela denominated in USD. However, it would be completely useless for a few reasons.

You cannot withdraw USD in Venezuela. Only Bolivares. And when you withdraw Bolivares from a USD denominated account, the bank must do so at the official rate.

The official government rate is a complete farce and has no bearing on reality. If you were to pull out $1 USD from any bank in Venezuela, you would get about 10 Bolivares. The real rate on the street right now is about 3 million Bolivares to 1 USD. https://dolartoday.com/

In other words, with your USD denominated bank account, you would have to withdraw about $300k usd to buy a bottle of coke.

As for getting an overseas account, that is extremely difficult if not impossible without physically being in that country. In the US you cannot get a bank account without some type of US id, either a SSN or TIN/EIN.

There are very few ways to get money into venezuela. One is to be lucky enough to already have a foreign account or overseas family or friends with an account. You can then transact with other locals who also have a foreign account by transferring money to them electronically.

The other method is Western Union to an adjoining country like Colombia. They go across the border get the cash and come back to Venezuela. Crossing the border with cash is fraught with danger right now. The other option is simply to travel outside the country but getting a travel visa to fly is exceedingly difficult for most Venezuelans. Venezuelan officials have stopped issuing passports to most. And countries like the US are not quick to grant a visa considering the fact that the great majority of tourists from venezuela are going to stay in the US permanently/illegally.

As for crypto... you still have to find someone else with money that is willing to pay cash for a crypto currency. But at least the barrier of entry for crypto currency is much lower right now that the difficulty of getting an overseas bank account.

Things are very, very bad in Venezuela right now. Of course, that doesn't mean scammers won't scam. But if the person is truly still in Venezuela, it is very likely they are in dire straits.
I assume you're getting downvoted because the Red Queen hypothesis actually applies to a scenario where neither wolves nor rabbits change their numbers significantly. Perhaps a better description would be along the lines of: Wolves get better eye sight, so rabbits get better at camouflage, so the wolves get better smell, so rabbits get better at hiding in inaccessible areas, so wolves get thicker coats to dig into the briar patch, etc. This year's model of wolf or rabbit is more fit than last year's model, but is never able to gain a lasting advantage over the wolves.

As the Red Queen said to Alice in Through the Looking Glass, "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
It's a shame that almost every decent website (this one being a notable exception) eventually succumbs to the temptation to go to war with their users on behalf of their advertisers. Radio stations and podcasts are doing it too by upping the percent of the *cast dedicated to ads in hopes of generating more revenue.

This never ends well, especially since so many cord-cutters are less tolerant of ads than people have ever been before.

Oh well. It's a nice opportunity for disruption, and the cycle repeats.
maybe they need some time to analyze the problem and find solution within the budget. and also think about the future cost of maintenance. Exactly where is the superhero necessary?
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New people will repeat most of original people mistakes too - many bad designs look good before you tried them.

But also, wtf is it with people that the first instinct in any kind of situation is to fire everyone.
I was engaging in a little hyperbole. Dijkstra has some compelling monographs on the value of choosing good syntax, it's true. You understood my meaning though as referring to the standard substandard discussion of the subject.

Yeah Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth, Lamport, and friends are basically my heroes. Algol 60 is fine work. It has a very readable syntax. It's easy to see why it's even now used for scholarly publication. Hadn't heard of Milner though, any suggested reading?
Can you tell me why you like it? I've been thinking about picking up any random Cherryh book for a while now but I haven't pulled the trigger.
I remember maybe 4-5 years ago looking at Medium’s CSS in order to emulate their readability.

Things change.
I disagree that he shouldn’t do all of it (which is what I think you’re implying). I think more people should push the boundaries of what’s possible to show the rest of us what humanity is capable of. It’s inspiring to watch someone who is sometimes flawed, sometimes brilliant, human-like-us, build teams and inspire them to greatness. His ambition shows the rest of us what we are capable of. It doesn’t matter if he fails in one or more of these endeavors. I think it’s more important that he sets a higher bar for the rest of us.

Edit: s/hat/that/
Did Links/eLinks/Lynx not provide a better benefit in terms of bandwidth? It seems like trying to process it the way you're doing would lead to more overall load, rather than less.
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Do you really think him tweeting something and having an assistant hire some private contractors with his personal money is affecting model 3 production rates?
The sibling comments give the top-level answer.

In addition, expanding on @Pissompons's note -- make gives you job-level parallelism for free with constructs like:

make -j 24 transform

which will (if possible/allowed by the dependence structure in the Makefile) run 24 jobs at once to bring "transform" up to date.

So for instance, if "transform" depends on a bunch of targets, one for each month across a decade, you get 24-way parallelism for free. It's kind of like gnu "xargs -P", but embedded within the make job-dispatcher.
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My immediate reaction is incredulity at the notion a city could spend hundreds of millions on its homeless population and still have a homeless population...

Are there further details/good articles you would be able to provide?
Yes Elon should stop tweeting and start welding. /s
I think you should hire him with a small salary, make his stake less than 50%, vesting over 4 years.
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And of course, only elite “experts” hired by a company can be trusted to figure out the context. A group of actual citizens working together on a wiki cannot possibly match the insight of a single pundit. Oh wait...

Like Britannica is so much better than Wikipedia.

Which do you think has less bias, wikinews or fox news or cnn?

And then of course there’s this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TrsayZ61v_c
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Can this be summarized as "competition is good for the marketplace"?
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I am going to choose a PhD on AI. What do you think about Prolog/ASP vs Machine Learning? Are the former still studied and used?
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Thanks!

The key distinction is building a synthesizer, not just a verifier. These systems are hard to use, and synthesized code is the key to making them accessible. Watch the demo videos. See if you agree.

On the verifier side: QSP is a protocol/marketplace for connecting people needing audits, with human auditors or free open source tools (Oyente and Mythril) [1]. My verifier is more comprehensive and future-proof at the expense of being compute intensive, as discussed on my FAQ [2].

[1] https://quantstamp.com/visual-guide-to-quantstamp

[2] FAQ: "How is this different from Ethereum's other tools ?" https://synthetic-minds.com/pages/faq.html
Christmas trees used to have candles. So a flock of flame-colored birds sitting in trees resembled Christmas trees with candle flames. Thus a (nick?)name, "Christmas-tree birds". My very fuzzy recollection is 1600's Manhattan. So perhaps I saw it in the Mannahatta exhibit/project/book? But I don't quickly see it on [1]. And Google/Bing are giving me nothing related.

Upon reflection, I'm now unsure the "yell to be heard in Manhattan" story was the same bird - I may well be folding together two stories there.

[1] https://welikia.org/
I'd definitely vote for PostgreSQL, it can handle large loads effortlessly, it's reliable, and yet they keep adding great features.

It could also function pretty much like a nosql db initially, to ease your transition, then you could migrate gradually to using it as a relational db. You need strong checks on data integrity before you start - you could consider double writing (to old orm using nosql + new orm using psql), and comparing data stored to be sure you don't miss anything at first, before you switch?
IIRC in Coders at Work, Brendan Eich talks about hiring a programmer who wrote an OS in OCaml.
WTF man?
I've read HHGTTG over and over. But I'm guessing anyone who has read it once has always wanted to do that.
I think the state of democracy can be a wide range of various forms and states and just declaring it "hardly democratic anymore" shows very little perspective and really favors the folks you think might be manipulating it....
Oh! I never thought of sending the escape codes over curl. Great idea, thank you.
There is a huge conflict of interest if the hospital can charge more when a surgery goes badly.

The incentive needs to go the other way. The better the outcome, the more money the hospital should get. Bad results should mean they get nothing or even pay out, even without clear malpractice. If the hospital gets less than normal pay because a procedure went badly, there are several options for where that money might go: to the patient, to an insurance company, to a government regulator... but it mustn't go to the hospital.
Tangent: I like that the logo for the organization 'adjoint' resembles the notation for adjoint functors.
Can we get a disclosure on your relation to Initialized?
You don't see it swamping thr competition for a bunch of reasons. You need capital in order to install solar, you also need to own your home and not be renting. A landlord has little incentive to install solar.

A state sized utility solar installation is non-trivial and that's why you don't yet see utilities providing solar themselves to the grid, and even if they did the price would be different.

So you don't see everyone using it because it's expensive to get started and because utility providers have yet to build solar plants capable of supplying a state. I don't think anyone has.

In time though, a combination of rooftop solar and utility scale battery/renewable systems to cover baseline load will probably be how we power the nation. Perhaps some gas or other generators will stick around to provide the baseline.
You may be greatly underappreciating how a large group of people, each contributing a small change, can manifest collective expertise far exceeding one or two hired experts. There is also far less bias in the final product.

Yes, it takes time and money. But it is not concentrated in a few individuals that are paid by someone. It is actually made up of thousands of small contributions, from people who know something.

CASE IN POINT

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_matrix

I started this article back in 2005 I believe, while I was a math grad student in NYU. I went on to do other things besides math. The article is now much more expanded, each diagram improved several times, the Talk page discusses various things, all over the span of years with dozens of experts contributing.

I still like to come back and see that a tiny bit of the original language and page structure I put together has remained, but a lot of it is simply beyond what I knew at the time and certainly what I know now about it.
Looks like old media is feeling threatened.
From the article:

“Three years ago you almost never saw batteries as part of a new solar or wind project,” Naam said. “In 2018, we’ve seen battery storage frequently show up as part of these bids. Energy storage is becoming the new normal with solar bids.”

So they are already working on it with some of the projects at least, and there's no reason to think they won't scale up and start becoming competitive before too long.
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Really? How do you do this? I continuously switch to reader mode for a few sites I read regularly, I would love to make this switch automatic.