skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, the causes for slowness can be divided into two categories:
1. A slow server.
2. A heavy page.

A slow connection, a slow computer, a computer busy running other processes, a slow browser, a browser with hundreds of open tabs... the list goes on and on.
I'm a millennial and drop means abandon to me except in the context of music.
Replacing BiOS in a ThinkPad with GPL CoreBoot (former LinuxBios)
Like all "theories" of art and music this model is no good as it isn't predictive. There are plenty of good art with brightly saturated color. Deciding spontaneously that muted colors are the one true way and then that preference for saturation is some sort of retardation in development is just laughable at best. I have a friend who prefers muted colors precisely because he's color blind.
Filenames are a good example to show people why forcing an encoding onto all strings simply doesn't work.
The usual reaction from people is to ignore that and they'll shout: "fix your filenames!"

Here is another example:
Substrings of unicodestrings. Just split a unicodestring into chunks of 1024 bytes. Forcing an encoding here and allowing automatic conversions will be a mess. People will shout: "Your're splitting your Strings wrong!"

The first language I knew that fell for encoding aware strings was Delphi - people there called it "Frankenstrings" and meanwhile that language is pretty dead.

As a professional who has to handle a lot of different scenarios (barcodes, Edifact, Filenames, String-buffers, ...) - in the end you'll have to write all code using byte-strings. Then you'll have to write a lot of GUI-Libraries to be able to work with byte-strings... and in the end you'll be at the point where the old Python was... (In fact you'll never reach that point because just going elsewhere will be a lot easier)
Considering they rigged up some Heath Robinson outside step for bathing, I figure they opened the door and went "over the edge".

I've also been in a 172, there's about as much room as an old Mini. Two months would be torture.
Same can be said for not having the individual choice to destroy the climate for the next generation. Right?
> To resolve the mess in Python 3, choose what you actually want to do...

The thing is that this is not actually going to happen. Programs are simply broken across the board, because few people can be bothered to deal with all these peculiarities.

The difference is, in Python 2, output would be corrupted in some edge cases, but generally it would "just work". In Python 3, the program falls flat on its face even in cases that would've ended up working fine in Python 2.

I don't think there's a general answer on which behavior causes less real-world problems total, but the idea that Python 3 makes less of a mess is not something I can agree with.
I think you'll find that there are many individuals who share his opinion. And we're not interested in having your ilk dictate anything.
You should start your own and do it without venture capital. Those evil blood sucking parasites only want to use you for your ideas and when you can't give them anymore they'll throw you out on your *ss!
> Python 3, on the other hand, if you ever treat bytes as a string, forces you to have an opinion about the encoding.

Of course. How else can you translate the bytes into a meaningful textual representation without an encoding?

Python 3 requires you to consider the real world, and that’s a good thing.

(Apart from when you want to port sloppily written Python on 2.x code)
Value is created by production: someone has to make something before it can be consumed. To increase productivity, to increase the ability to produce more things, investment is needed, be it in research, infrastructure or education. If everything that is produced (the $100k worth of value) is consumed, there's nothing left to invest.

More empirically, the fact that people are willing to pay the saver interest for his saving/investment demonstrates that it must be creating some value. That interest is essentially payment to the saver for refraining from consumption.
in most states you can file to open an LLC online (or by printing and mailing a form and a check) - 2nd step is to apply to the IRS for an EIN (tax id) for the new entity. then you need to do annual filings with the secretary of states office of the state your in (This is all applicable to the U.S)
> why today we have a larger schism between "programmers" and "users" than we did in the 90s.

Because we do more with computers (adding complexity to programming as a task) and the amount of money and people involved have both increased (making that complexity hard or impossible to reduce).
Yeah, you should incorporate. Not only that, keep separate accounts such as hosting, email, payment gateway, etc.

Incorporating abroad spares you of a hassle dealing with German bureaucracy as a company. Not as an individual. Same goes for tax liabilities. Whatever you draw from a company either as income or dividends gets taxed wherever you happen to be a resident.

What many of my Germany-based friends, relatives, business associates do. They incorporate abroad and pay income to their Germany registered gewerbe (for those unfamiliar with German system, it's like sole trader).

A cousin is a steuerberater in Hamburg while a close friend is a wealth manager in Berlin. If you think they could be of any help, feel free to reach out to me.
That's a very interesting point.

I think there are some subtle, but important, differences though.

Brave users by default block all ads. So those users won't see the ads on content creators sites anyway. Content creators shouldn't feel outraged towards those more than they can feel outraged about any other ad-blocking users.

Some of those Brave users might opt-in for ads that are promised not to compromise their privacy.

So I totally understand that some creators might feel strong-armed if they already use ads. But they shouldn't feel any worse than when faced with ad-blocking users. They do have the chance to opt-in and rely on privacy-respecting ads and get some revenue that they otherwise wouldn't get.

I guess if there was an alternative ad model that was less intrusive, and content creators relied on it, they might have a much stronger reason to be upset. I'm not aware of many creators that use privacy-friendly ads, and it seems like Brave is at least attempting to create this model?

No affiliation with Brave whatsoever. Only found out about it a couple of weeks ago.
There’s adaway for Android (needs root) that downloads, merges and replace /etc/hosts with your favorite hosts blacklists, working system wide and not consuming extra battery: https://adaway.org
40mg is normal. 60mg is high dose. 80-120 is absolutely abuse except in 0.1% of the population that just doesn't respond.

20mg XR has me uneasily wired for 18+ hours. Rarely take it because of that.
> - only if your idea is already profitable beyond ramen profitability, i.e. you can quit the job and survive from the income, and you have a financial buffer for ~1-2 years

But how would you make it there without being incorporated? Or does this applies to have an LLC only? How would you issue invoices to your first customers without having a legal entity?
Agreed and confirmed. I’m a GenXer, and my instant interpretation of this headline (before I read your comment) was the abandonment of the bill by the Democrats.
There is so much negativity about this update or windows updates. I must tell you that they roll out the same update to more than million machines within Microsoft even before its released to public.
Seems like a good example.
I left a negative review on Glassdoor once that was entirely merited and it didn't even make it past moderation
Because there’s too much overhead, it’s too hard to share, and the benefits don’t show up until the problem is more complex than most people ever need.
> Thousands of people can create this kind of paintings

But you didn’t.
> So if Apple found a batch of 7,000 manipulated boards a year earlier, why would that not cause them to drop Super Micro as a supplier?

You don't want to tie the two events together. If the article is accurate, the hope would be that by waiting, the could garner support with comments like yours.

e.g. Let's wait 6 months before you do something in response to something today so you can say that this has nothing to do with the even 6 months ago.
The original Bloomberg article mentions subcontractor use in this paragraph, but not names:

“As recently as 2016, according to DigiTimes, a news site specializing in supply chain research, Supermicro had three primary manufacturers constructing its motherboards, two headquartered in Taiwan and one in Shanghai. When such suppliers are choked with big orders, they sometimes parcel out work to subcontractors. In order to get further down the trail, U.S. spy agencies drew on the prodigious tools at their disposal. They sifted through communications intercepts, tapped informants in Taiwan and China, even tracked key individuals through their phones, according to the person briefed on evidence gathered during the probe. Eventually, that person says, they traced the malicious chips to four subcontracting factories that had been building Supermicro motherboards for at least two years.”
This bug only effects proofs that use types with more than 256 constructors. Also, it involves a command that is meant to optimize proofs so it isn't neccessary to ever use it. Personally, I still trust the implementation despite this edge case.
Here's a picture from Banksy's instagram account at the moment the picture was shredded. Just look at the reactions of the onlookers.

https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/c01d91bf8f623d18...

Original entry on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bokt2sEhlsu/
Illustrated version: https://youtu.be/3TDk34hnSXc
Not really, it's very easy to game glassdoor reviews. My previous employer had 90 or so fake 5 star reviews to have an outstanding profile.

One good thing about glassdoor reviews is the Helpful button, this gives us some authenticity for negative or positive reviews.
I've been using Firefox on mobile and have no issues with it. I'd try it out again now, with quantum under the hood it's purring along smoothly for me.

Also (to anyone who doesn't know) you can install Firefox addons on Firefox mobile, so uBlock Origin works (can personally confirm it) to block ads.
Our experience was somewhat different. Most of the reviews were initially posted. One was rejected for a reason that did actually make sense, but was approved with changes. It wasn't until later that they were rejected and quietly removed.
I hear that. In King County (Seattle), we desperately need more public transit and funding for the homeless problem. The county decided that giving a $135 million handout to the Mariners to build a bigger beer garden (among other things) was a higher priority. Not only is this a flagrant waste of money, but it is highly unpopular.
bake means to turn on the bottom heat element, broil turns on only the top element, and toast turns on both elements.
You have it. There's a "scene" not really different from the SF scene that existed since the beat days (at least). The Valley is more square; this is more SF, some Marin, some down the coast to La Honda/Pescadero.

The person writing it up is just trying to make it seem a bit more exotic. "Underground"? My friends invite me to parties. People who aren't my friends don't. Does this make one of the set of parties "underground"?
> They should hire me

The brilliance of creating a utility token like BAT is so that the creator (Brave) can get rich off speculation, and a horde of people will defend the creator online because they have a couple bucks invested.

It's one of the most insufferable parts of anything to do with cryptocurrency and it's why it's hard to have honest discussion.

I certainly don't think it's necessary nor useful to try and label you as a shill. It's just that BAT is one of the reasons why it's hard to take Brave seriously, and it's why you shouldn't be so dismissive of people who raise issues with Brave much less call them shills of ad-tech or rival browsers (as you did).
This comment reads like you’ve never actually used Prime Video. The UI is not at all similar to their retail shopping UI, not even in the browser and certainly not in apps on other devices.

I would say I have a very generic use case of these services:

- I want to rent / buy content when it’s not part of what’s already in the streaming service.

- I don’t want algorithmically personalized results. I want “exact search” to always work.

- I want the top panel area when I log in to always have the content I’ve been actively watching, so that the easiest thing to do is to resume.

The video player, connectivity, lack of bugs, subtitles, non-Western content, ability to directly integrate premium add ons, etc., are all just superior to Netflix.

Netflix literally has one advantage: some of its original shows are good enough that I still want to watch them despite the Netflix app environment being unpleasant to use. I wish I could do even that through Amazon.
I just don't want to sit through a video, period, even ignoring ads etc. Then I have to make sure my volume is actually on, make sure I'm not disturbing anyone, and potentially be judged by the people around me for whatever I'm watching. How these kids just click on videos willy-nilly without a care in the world is mind-boggling for me.
Ask HN: Can you authentically make the front page anymore?
Years ago I was able to make the front page by having my friends upvote an article/side project I'd post, but I've even been posting articles from big publications lately and they don't seem to make the front page at all.

I've seen these unnecessary articles about gaming the front page: have you friends use an IP proxy, time your article at some crazy hour...has it really come to this?

As a personal example, I had an article I worked pretty hard on about web performance[1] with very tactical examples aimed to help an audience like HN. I tried posting at the right time, getting friends to upvote: nothing. Now I see this article[2] ranked on the front page (ranked no. 5, in fact) which is very much lacking in substance, doesn't really offer anything new or novel, and it's just climbing to the top.

I'm just kind of beside myself. I don't want to have to game HackerNews to get relevant content to this audience, an audience I've been a part of for over 8 years. I have a decent amount of karma, I participate in the community, and I'm not just trying to peddle my own content. And yet, I just don't even know how to engage this audience anymore. Am I doing something wrong?

[1] https://userinterfacing.com/the-fastest-way-to-increase-your-sites-performance-now/

[2] https://kiboit.com/performance
That RISC and CISC, nobody mentioned until yours. Why are people only caring about Perf/watt or the SoC beating out the ST perf of the Skylake uarch. RISC based processor with that level of cache is always having an advantage due to the Load and Store at register level (esp in this A12 case of having HUGE L$) vs the CISC's more transistor level perf + DRAM to exec instructions, causing higher TDP requirements PLUS the multi instruction execution parallelism capabilities. And entirely different code of AArch64 and x86_64.

Add the GPU and Direct X, and Encode/Decode functionality I know this is not the subject, the ARM processors simply cannot keep up. The author did also mention the limitations of the comparison also as mentioned above the Skylake Xeon is capable of running Hex channel ECC Memory with huge capacity that alone will outpace everything on ARM it's not a fair share of comparison at all. GB is an OS level optimized bench. There's simply no comparison point that exists.

Like I'd say to the author do a 4D render bench like Cinebench then we talk on this. He should at-least have mentioned the uarch part. Also on a side note, Apple underselling the chips ? That's really first, since Apple always over promises. Their latest meltdown on the MacBooks with low quality/specced VRM throttling the CFL machines is a joke.
Great performance art. I've always thought about ridiculously expensive art self-destructing at point of sale, which is often auctions. I don't think art should be that inaccessible and I'm not asserting a specific threshold is but beyond a certain pricing level, art does become ridiculous. It would be interesting to see this incident repeat itself but with complete destruction - would the auctioneers argue that ashes or molten remains are still art?
In Europe most people do not drive in the cities.

That's quite a generalisation. People in major cities like London and Paris would obviously like to clean up the pollution and reduce the noise and disruption, but the simple fact is that the existing public transport systems are not even close to having enough capacity to replace private motor transport entirely, and there zero chance of them having it any time soon. And those are the ideal cases, where there is enough demand to make a reasonably efficient and close-to-24/7 public transport network viable. Those in smaller cities have much worse options in terms of efficiency, availability and reliability, as do those travelling between or outside the bigger cities.

You can't just ban cars to fix this, or price them off the roads with congestion charging or the equivalent. It would take a huge programme of investment in developing new mass transit alternatives and redesigning large parts of the overall transport infrastructure within cities to make forcible elimination of cars in favour of public transport a viable option, and any such plan would probably have to be implemented over a 50-100 year timescale, with those footing much of the bill never living to see the benefits. That's a tough sell for any political administration.

I personally think that making private transport less intrusive and damaging has far more potential to improve the situation in the short to medium term. Infrastructure for electric vehicles is one obvious move in the right direction, but more generally, our road systems are still designed around the idea that one person making a journey with limited cargo needs a car-sized vehicle, which is horribly wasteful in road space, parking space, fuel consumption, etc. We have some very basic infrastructure in cities these days for bikes and we make some allowances for motorbikes, but these modes of transport have serious downsides for a lot of people. Crucially, the changes needed to improve those downsides would also allow, for example, smaller electric vehicles that are still fully enclosed and having space for carrying small loads in addition to their human occupant. Combine that with increasing automation over the next couple of decades for better safety and general efficiency, and most of us might at least still be alive to see the benefits.
It sounds like your father has a good support network in case he can no longer drive, but that isn't really so common nowadays. Most elderly folks in his situation would either:

A. Continue driving past the point they they are safely able to.

B. Become shut-ins due to lack of transportation, accelerating physical and mental decline.
As a German, I would strongly advise against incorporating too early (at least in Germany). I once made the mistake of founding a UG for a small side project and had to realize at some point that all the required bureaucracy was keeping me from doing the actual work. Let me break down the work for you because I hadn't been fully aware of what was awaiting me:

- double-entry bookkeeping: This is easier than it sounds because there're lots and lots of rules. I mean, even though I had learned this stuff in school for a bit and my mom actually used to teach bookkeeping, it was still hard. An Excel sheet won't cut it! (In fact, Excel is not allowed anymore as it can be manipulated after the fact, so you'll need actual bookkeeping software.) Sure, you could hire a bookkeeper but then you'd be spending even more (see below).

- Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung: monthly, for the first two years

- Umsatzsteuererklärung, Körperschaftsteuererklärung, Gewerbesteuererklärung, Handelsbilanz, Steuerbilanz/E-Bilanz: 6 months after the end of a fiscal year (usually May 31). Make no mistake, this is tons of work.

And then there're the costs:

- Founding: at least ~300€

- Mandatory IHK membership fee: ~160€/year

- Business bank account: at least 10€/month

- Bookkeeping software: at least 15€/month (unless you want to use pen & paper)

- Sending E-Bilanz & Handelsbilanz electronically to the tax authorities & the Handelsregister: ~50€/year

So yeah, unless your ramen-profitable as people call it, I'd say: Don't do it [in Germany]!
https://blog.teddyhyde.com/2017/10/11/take-back-your-blog-ju...
Good.

It's obviously a terrible choice by the journalist. Why spend time researching and writing an article, only to mess up the headline with an ambiguous meaning?!
Given enough information about an anonymous source, you can figure out how they are. Keeping it as senior insiders is a way to protect the individuals.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether you trust Bloomberg or not. If you trust them, then you trust that they did their due diligence. if you don't trust them, then nothing presented by them will get you to trust them.

I swear, it's like people don't know how investigative journalism works. Anonymous sources aren't anonymous to the journalists.

As for the companies denying this, this wouldn't be the first time they've lied in such a manner.
From my experience the people writing the most glowing positive reviews are doing it to get you to work there as they are somehow involved in hiring and do so to counter any of the genuine negative reviews. I have seen this happen first hand as a push by a recruitment team once a few honest negative reviews appeared.

There are enough people within a company with a vested interest in having a good image on glassdoor to create a strong inventive to make it look better than it is.
lol the Asian lady at the front with the big smile. Maybe she got outbid.
And minus interest expenses on the mortgage.
Sadly I was only hanging out at the live event (as the so-called “entertainment”).
Thanks for your comment, I'll cover this angle.

Of course, none of those factors can be influenced by the site itself, and all of those factors influence all sites at the same time. We're focusing on things we can improve.

Although it's a simplification, I believe it's broadly correct to categorize things this way. The main reason to highlight this is because oftentimes people (clients) will focus too much on the "heavy page" part, because that is what measurement tools like Google PageSpeed Insights mostly tell you to improve.
The Mary Queen of Scots Cipher
If you would be OK with a little DIY work, Google for things like "reflow soldering with toaster oven". There have been many conversion projects to adapt cheap toaster ovens for hobbyist reflow soldering.

This involves putting in some good temperature sensors, and bypassing the built-in controls to put the heating elements under the control of an Arduino or similar controller.

Some even add a cheap graphical LCD that can show a graph of temperature over time, and a simple interface to let you enter temperature profiles to follow.
> They are legally obligated to their shareholders (you)

They've lied in the past to their shareholders.
Maintaining our mass transit is (stupidly) a state responsibility, to be fair.
Incorporate when you have a sale set up. That is the same for any product, any industry.
You're right, interpreting whether a given price-to-rent ratio is overvalued or not is subjective, but calculating that ratio is (mostly) objective and can make for an apples-to-apples comparison between different locations.