skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and this simple model worked quite well up until the great depression. "But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again" - Keynes
I bet more cars are assholes to pedestrians than bikers and I know that cars cause more pedestrian deaths than bikers. Why aren't people more outraged about cars?
I guess people who are vehemently in support of affirmative action feel the need to downvote my comment, not to point out that it's unproductive or doesn't add to the discussion, but simply to reflect that they disagree.

I'm a moderate liberal, and even I can see that this smacks of what conservatives accuse the left of doing.
Nothing on the Laserlike website indicates how they plan to make money from their service, but I wouldn't bet on it not being overridden with advertising, corporate messaging, politics and other moneyed interests.
I would think that would be generally harmful for the point of thoughtful discussion as you are essentially labeling a person from the get-go with a certain bias.
Ask HN: Vesting suggestions if one co-founder moves from part to full-time
Both co-founders working part-time on a "side-hustle".

If one of us wants to transition to full-time later? What vesting provisions could we make now to fairly account for this if it happens down-the-line?

Suggestions appreciated.
My take:

In this thread: people writing a blog post's worth of text on why they don't have enough time to write blog post's worth of text THAT comes up to their standard for publishing.
There are no changes to the free tier[1] or to apps running using the existing Python 2.7 runtime in the standard environment.

[1] You can use the free tier with the new Python 3.7 runtime.
"...The home dialect of most African American speakers has developed a grammar that is more and more different from that of the white mainstream dialects in the major cities studied and yet highly homogeneous throughout the United States..."

Is there a difference between a "dialect" and an "accent"?

Because having been in the military, I can definitely tell you that different black people have different accents. I think anyone who's been in the military could tell you that. So I'm wondering if this guy means that blacks speak the same language, which is AAVE, but the accent of a black person from Jackson, Mississippi could still be significantly different from the accent of a black person from Lincoln, Nebraska? (Because their accents are, in fact, significantly different.)
Sounds great to me. The other day I was wondering why they don't mount traffic cameras on MTA busses for massive city coverage… but the short version is that traffic laws are determined by the state, not NYC, and the rest of the state is ruled by automobile drivers who don't want to vote themselves into traffic tickets.

[edit] btw, I was referring to issues like "blocking the box," double parking, parking in bike lanes, generally unsafe driving. Cameras track speeding, which (I believe) is actually the least of the problems we have around here. Generally traffic is so terrible that speeding is impossible.
Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products
Old man Zappa comes to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0
That time Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
Pretty cool! If you want to speed your script up, consider implementing VIPs as a Set() so lookups are approx. O(1) rather than O(n).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
This is generally true of many types of content.

A lot of the technical obstacles to taking technically-solid photos and videos have been removed and the barriers to making them available to everyone are essentially non-existent.

Writing hasn't been made easier to the same degree (although research is easier in many cases) but you no longer need to get a publisher to sign on--although there are some advantages to doing so.

And it's very hard to make money off of doing those things unless they're in support of some other commercial activity.
agreed, probably due to amount of youth in the city. growing up in the burbs of chicago i heard my family talk like this, mainly the men. Dad, uncles, you would hear a lot of 'trow some sausage on der' type phrases. Also instead of Jewel (grocery store) you hear "the Jewels".
> Only the strongest content will push through.

I think it has surprisingly little about content but with marketing and connections. I feel it is especially apparent on youtube where crappy content can thrive and excellent content can be buried where only a handful will see it.

Not terribly different from the old days.
p5.js is also a decent library for this kinda stuff. I'm wondering if they knew about p5.js, and if they did -- what are the main benefits of this library over p5.js?
There are other optimizations AMP implements that aren't currently possible with regular web pages, notably [their ability to be automatically preloaded by the browser without compromising the user's privacy][1].

Once [cross-origin server push][2] becomes standardized, regular webpages will be able to take advantage of similar functionality.

[1]: https://medium.com/@pbakaus/why-amp-caches-exist-cd7938da245...

[2]: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...
> The original Clang/LLVM runtime is written in C++ with features that are not available in libc and in the NetBSD kernel
While I won't take away from your opinion, I want to warn others to be aware that this is a hotly debated topic, and YMMV.

There's no accounting for preference when it comes to switches or keyboards. Some people quite like Cherry switches.
> spatial computing
> People should just follow some of these restrictions to get speed without AMP

It's easier for a dev at a newspaper to say "sorry marketing, Google AMP doesn't allow your javascript" than to actually argue with marketing.
>I don't think that virality being required is a problem

Look what that has done to "Online Content-with-a-capital-C" at large.

If you launched an ad-supported website today and wanted to make any real kind of money from it, how many page views would you need? And how would that number impact the type of content you created for that site?
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Well I'm mostly bringing up the worst of twitch because that's what this article is focusing on. In terms of watching e-sports, that's easily comparable to watching basketball on TV. I do the same thing.

What I'm bringing up is the IRL streams. If you're comparing the genius of Seinfeld to the mindnumbing garbage that you see on those streams, then I'm not sure what we're discussing here at all.

I'm also not sure why I can't bring up the Olympics since your initial point is exactly just that except using baseball as an example.

Watching someone put on makeup as an ASMR sort of thing like Bob Ross is also fine. You're missing the point of what I'm trying to say here. Bob Ross didn't wear skimpy clothes and share racist opinions all day on TV, either. He sat there and painted. There wasn't any romantic undertones with his viewers if they watched him long enough or paid him enough money. It's honestly crazy to me that I even have to have this argument and that this isn't objectively agreed upon.
Audius is building a decentralized Soundcloud to help musicians get paid faster
No, the capitalist market will come up with a solution that is most profitable for business. Occasionally that will line up with what's better for everyone else, but not often.
I suspect the same is true just about everywhere. In Seattle it’s not just crosswalks, technically cars have to stop for pedestrians at ALL unsignalized intersections. (Those without lights.)

Surprisingly many drivers here are pretty good about it too. Obviously it’s a bit of a negotiation depending on the intersection and visibility.
The biggest problems in my opinion are the drive-by downvotes. If you're not willing to fix the problem, you should not have the right to engage.

Downvotes should be tied to some sort of criterion that the asker/answerer can meet, like in a code review. If you get downvoted, you should have the ability to notify the downvoter "alright, I fixed the issue you had with my question/answer", and get the downvote undone. If the downvoter doesn't engage, undo the downvote automatically after a certain period. This process should be completely public, and have a log/history that everyone can see.

Same with flagging as duplicate. As the asker you should have the right to defend yourself against overzealous flagging, and be able to let the mods know why some other question is not actually a duplicate. Flagging as duplicate should be phrased as a question to the asker: Hey, did you see this question? Does this answer your question? And the asker should then be the one to decide whether or not it does.
I'm not aware of this issue. Can you point me to a public bug/GitHub issue?
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/pyt...

it doesn't.

"The ndb ORM library is not available for Python 3. You can access Cloud Datastore through the Cloud Datastore API. You can use the Google Cloud client libraries to store and retrieve data from Cloud Datastore."
I’m done with Twitter
A bit different though because you use code and you consume music. So code is a bit more active in terms of interaction.

This leads to the GI Joe phenomenon: https://www.drud.com/ddev-local/the-website-rfp-the-impossib...

"features are cheap and details are expensive". Music is all features, code is a mix.
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Lessons I Learned from Being Scammed (twice) in the Cryptocurrency Space
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a tool I built to scratch my own itch.

I call it Best Best List and the aim is to answer "what product should I buy?" in a similar way that Rotten Tomatoes answers "what should I watch?" i.e. by summarizing the opinions of lots of other critics/websites.

https://bestbestlist.com

It has been working really well for everyday, kind of "mundane" products that you would get on Amazon. Say for instance you're looking for a small blender. The way I would always go about it:

1. search google for "best small blender"

2. end up with 7 tabs open of various review sites

3. spot the 5 or so models they recommend

4. cross-check those products with their Amazon ratings/reviews/prices. I was never really interested in spending hours reading long-form reviews.

I realized I could write code to do this for me... so I did! It's very much a work in progress.

Based 100% on what the tool is spitting out, I've recently bought an EZ-curl bar (https://bestbestlist.com/best-ez-curl-bar) for my home gym, new tweezers (https://bestbestlist.com/best-tweezers), a small blender (https://bestbestlist.com/best-small-blender), and a cigar cutter (https://bestbestlist.com/best-cigar-cutters). I gotta say I've been extremely pleased with the recommendations.

Caveats: It might not be the best tool for very complicated items with tons of specs (e.g. a TV) or emotional purchases with brand loyalty (e.g. a guitar) - for those maybe you DO want to spend hours reading reviews. Also it's just Amazon for now.

If you wanna put it to the test I can run the tool on something you're thinking of buying, submit it here: https://bestbestlist.com/ask

What do you think? Does this help make buying decisions a little easier?
I am so glad you mention this!

I always heard that as well. Cinematographers love this phrase, but I totally agree. That saying leaves the concept less than dependent on personal experience. I still don’t understand why, but the purest of expressions seem to come as side effects of the engagement process; not as rewards for accomplishments. So, one must engage and be honest as they can with the act itself, which isn’t to say one must suffer, but just aim to be in touch with their own experience with the medium. I will admit I personally suffer, but it’s not helpful.
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Brave shows this on the "new tab" page. I was surprised with how much these numbers added up over time, though I do suppose they are reasonable estimations.
Yeah you really cannot find any good information about it without spending hours, google just surfaces terrible generic articles on equity. Real information is surprisingly hard to come by, some kind of SEO has pushed it elsewhere.
I'm a C# + Javascripter too. I learn a few languages on the side, plus some exposure in jobs. Java, Haskell, Ruby, Elm being the main ones.

I think it is worth dabbling to see how things are done on the other side. Learning Haskell makes dealing with Rx / Linq a bit easier - not directly but by flexing that functional-thinking brain muscle.

Having said that I still think of C# as my go-to language and enjoy programming in it, I think it is a great general purpose language and I am glad I am doing my production code in that. It's a nice mix of type safety (so prefer that to Ruby) but with plenty of escape hatches and meta-programming options (prefer that to the strictness of Haskell).

As a C#/JS-er the most useful languages might be Powershell and Typescript, and the most eye opening might be Lisp and Haskell.
The first line of the article is a link to the paper.
We both know none, and my comment didn't state otherwise. The NHTSA nevertheless has significant influence on traffic design (not just vehicle regulations):

> Another of NHTSA's major activities is the creation and maintenance of the data files maintained by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis. In particular, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), has become a resource for traffic safety research not only in the United States, but throughout the world. Research contributions using FARS by researchers from many countries appear in many non-U.S. technical publications,[8] and provide a significant database and knowledge bank on the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_Traffic_Safet...
In my experience using AWS, you can spin up new autoscaled instances pretty quickly. I don't even have a custom AMI, I use a generic image and run startup scripts to kick off my server software. Takes < 3 minutes to spin up a new one and start accepting requests.

If that's not fast enough, you can bake an AMI and scale more proactively (e.g. scale when your server is 70% utilized rather than 95%)
Yes. Accent is only about how speech sounds: pronunciation, emphasis, dynamic of speech during a sentence...

Dialect includes vocabulary and grammar too, and the quote says that the grammar they use is common.
How does the US institutionalize racism? If anything we implement tons of policies with the opposite goal.

The article is about tariffs on China, this is thread is all about China, you responded to a post about human rights violations in China.

I'm not saying the US is perfect, but compared to China right now the US is .
Here is an example, which is how most sex hormones work:

1. Your adult body produces enough testosterone to have 400-1200ng/dl testosterone in your blood stream.

2. You inject 100-150mg of testosterone ethanate into your muscles weekly.

3. Initially, that 100-150mg of exogenous testosterone puts your testosterone levels at around 1000-1800ng/dl.

4. Your pituitary detects this, and decreases the amount of luteinizing hormone released. This is a signaling hormone responsible for regulating the production of the testicles, among a few other things.

5. Your naturally testosterone production stops, dropping you to 400-1200ng/dl again. But now all exogenous. (this happened because your body detected you didn't need to make anymore)

6. Over time, since your testicles are not being used the cells atrophy and are catabolized.

7. You quit TRT, and are down to 0ng/dl

8. Over a few weeks of no testosterone, your body attempts to increase production but must regrow cells in the testicles.

9. Often this takes around 2 months to get up to a normal range again. You might get to 300-700ng/dl in those months, aka lower than before.

10. Over several more months nearly all men will recover full testosterone production and be back to normal.

Some men however, in a rare case will not begin secreting LH again (secondary hypo) or will not be able to regrow the cells in their testicles to produce enough t again (primary hypo).

The same feedback loops occur in progesterins, estrogens and other androgens. I believe the thyroid hormones T3 and T4 also have similar feedback loops.
Why would you need to know anything about stops? Just turn the dial up or down until the preview matches your experience. My phone's exposure dial doesn't even have markings.

I agree that tap-for-spot-expose is nice, but insufficient if your subject should be bright or dark. E.g. taking a picture of a high- or low-key mural.
In the USA, the landlord holds the bulk of the responsibility if shoddy electrical work injures or kills someone.

While it is certainly possible for an amateur to follow the right procedures and do safe work, it's also possible (and even quite likely) that they don't know everything they need to do, and end up doing something unsafe.

While you can easily destroy a house with a cigarette (though many landlords have non-smoking clauses here), a cigarette won't generally burn down the house a year from now after the tenant who did the work is long gone.
But the article is arguing the opposite of over-consumption, that there are not enough loans to small business.
Google actually deliberately makes the page blank with an 8 second animation to show it again. They remove this animation in JavaScript.

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec/amp-boiler...
Maybe.

However Amazon (et al) have trouble just getting good 2D images from Vendors and is not making much of a push at all to get vendors to build 3D content.

This is a long standing problem: Should retailers do the modeling or vendors? It's expensive and hard on infrastructure to do it, and CAD standards aren't consistent enough to use that avenue. Vendors aren't tech savvy and have questionable practices for investing in marketing/sales materials, including photography because it doesn't scale.

I could go all day on this, but I won't. Bottom line is, none of the major platforms are stepping up and being leaders in AR on the content side. It's pretty marginal efforts so the results are marginal. I think everyone is waiting around for the Apple glasses now.
So that's what has been happening! I've been so confused lately as to why Google links would fail to forward me to the website I clicked on, leaving a blank page and a massive google.com query string in my address bar. Sometimes refreshing the page has not worked, forcing me to manually copy and paste the address off of the search results. Someone should write a browser plugin that uses the little green URL instead of the <a> in all Google links.
I think that one of our biggest problems with UI is that it is immutable.

Users can't really change most UI. Developers have to make one ultimate one-size-fits-all UI for all of their users.
Hard to know for sure, but it might well have been more self-serving than that: good employees might have been hard to come by, and hard to re-acquire/retrain once lost, so maybe he just wanted to keep them around and occupied so that they'd still be available once demand rose again.
Nick Nguyen's post on Context Graph¹ touches on the motivation, but in short, we think the health of the Web is threatened by existing players building experiences that, like a casino, you can link into easily, but which are deliberately difficult to navigate away from. For example, Instagram has historically restricted² which users are allowed to include external links in their posts. That harms the Open Web and concentrates power over what you can see and discover online.

On the other hand, if the browser itself can offer links that break out of those walls, then we can sidestep the existing filter bubbles and make the Web a more competitive, plural medium.

Per the announcement post³, if this proves useful, we'll look at alternative means of generating the recommendations; the current implementation (sharing history) is an opt-in shortcut while we figure out if recommendations are worth pursuing at all.

While we are searching for privacy-respecting ways that we can diversify Firefox's revenue, and recommendations could play into that, that's not what this experiment is testing. Further, we will not pursue this outside of Test Pilot if we can't do it in a way that's private and which adds genuine end-user value.

¹: https://medium.com/firefox-context-graph/context-graph-its-t...

²: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/instagram-will-now-let-cre...

³: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/08/07/firefox-offers-reco...
> this is the market working as intended

Is it? I would love for a transparent market-driven motivation to be presented. But in its absence, we can only guess.

> mozilla is experimenting with a new way for users to find what they want

Why? Because they don't like the existing ways? Because they believe it fits their mission? Because there is money on the line? My TV vendor also experiments with new ways to host apps and use the internet too.

> it may work, it may not, but i’m glad they are trying

I personally am not glad they are trying. In fact, these trials help solidify my beliefs in the Mozilla's ideals regarding the role of a browser and can potentially alienate me or at the least prevent them from maintaining an air of righteousness in my eyes.
"It's great that what I want existsb but I want it by default and I don't want to lift a finger to do it". OSS doesn't work that way.
See also:

Facebook: https://code.fb.com/open-source/open-sourcing-katran-a-scala...

Google: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-shares-s...

The design of all 3 is very similar.
Hey Brad.

I like the site.

Try adding a bit of padding on the left and right side. When the browser is fullscreen on a laptop, it looks a bit stretched out.
Wait so they shipped the mono runtime with the app? Is this some kind of bloat contest?
>You can make methane gas from pure CO2 and hydrogen when you apply electric power as a catalyst.

You can make methane gas from pure CO2 and hydrogen period. The reaction is exothermic, it's just the Sabatier method. You could however use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.