skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, what is "success"? Taking $350MM in investment and not showing profitability

That's an odd thing to say. Most companies that take investment aren't profitable- that's kind of the point of taking VC: you want the cash in order to greatly grow the business more than if you were sitting within profitability the entire time. There's a difference between "unprofitable" and "choosing not to be profitable".

What's more, GitHub wasn't profitable the last ~5 years or so, from the day they took VC. But they sold for $7.5B, so it doesn't seem that Microsoft has a problem with their "unprofitability". That's how many solid, foundational companies are created.
There is danger in being too productive while coworkers focus their efforts on 'shaping' the company.
> Why can't you include the agreement for the API as documentation of this?

If I understand correctly they are having a problem with the inclusion of third party pages. So he would have to provide permission from all the sources of articles, like WSJ, NPR, LA Times, any website linked, etc.
Husband and wife ordered to pay $12m to Nintendo for running ROM sites
> then the water will condense and when they open it again the entire system will hammer, forever, until the building engineer drains it

That's not true. I've had issues with my house steam system in the past where I added too much water to the furnace and draining the furnace did the trick. Any excess water will simply turn to steam and cycle itself out of the system.
I want them hackable by me and hardened to anyone else.
tbh, often when I get interrupted by the "sorry to interrupt you" I just close the tab.
and if I'm on mobile and link says "medium" I don't even bother to click.
but that's me.
> the maintenance burden

The key to avoid the burden is to restrict the scope of your services to what you actually need.

Let me elaborate.

I've been hosting my own email (plus something else) at home for the last five years or so. So far, so good: various services signup, job-related email exchanges, no problems.

I rarely touch my home server and I mostly do software upgrades. I run postfix, and when configuring virtual users on virtual domains, I invested an afternoon to actually go trough the documentation and came up with a reasonably simple configuration where all the data about users and domains is stored on simple text files: no SQL database to manage (not even SQLite).

Such a solution is easy to back up and easy to interact with.

For more adventurous testing, I just have another machine.
If only we had a tunnel from Seacaucus to Grand Central. Thanks Chris.
Sounds like a bad actor could easily attract as much traffic as they wanted by claiming to have the shortest route to all sorts of places.

With different data snooping/data protection policies in various countries, it would also be useful if you could order your traffic to avoid certain countries.
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Quite right, basically if you're an established company, the app store works with you to establish the guidelines
The hypocritical statement is on the part of the company, not the specific authors. The efforts represent the company, as do their efforts in standards organizations, browser implementations, and email user interfaces. It is completely logical to question their inconsistencies especially as one of the primary drivers of standards. If the company cannot present a consistent front, we can ask ourselves whether their attempts to help others do so are accurate much less well intentioned. This should be obviously clear and not about individuals or their feelings.
He took it way too far. Long lines are unreadable and 50 more bytes of CSS would fix it.

I humbly submit my own blog as being pretty darn readable without bloat. It’s responsive and simple. https://alanhogan.com

Edit: Here’s a relevant article: The problem with new blogging platforms https://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms
Yes, it would only be viable for local businesses that can compete because they use budget peering or bandwidth.

Not very “next YouTube” in nature.
Taking investment is not success though. Maybe one day Gitlab will exit (most likely outcome). Maybe one day they'll be profitable. Those days are not here, and that would be success. That has not occurred yet.
for what it's worth I thought it sounds fine. Maybe Milan sounds wrong to an Italian, but it sounds like how most Americans say Milan to me
On the other hand, I reboot my Windows 10 work computer nightly.

Up until this beauty reared it's head [0] I'd probably go months between reboots of my MBP. Protip: It doesn't happen any more since I stopped leaving Safari running in the background.

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8475586
As well, there are no negative consequences for an employee screwing over their company, so the balance of power remains.
It's a question of values. The Chinese government places a much higher value on things like social cohesion and modernization than they do on individual liberty.
Right. The article calls these things "fallacies", but that only strictly means that they're not slam-dunk arguments. Logical fallacies aren't necessarily bad heuristics, they just don't necessarily assure strict logical implication.

(Often they are actually decent Bayesian "evidence", though I don't want to make that argument for the cases in TFA.)
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Do you have a home office or rent office space? If home office, how is it being around family 24/7? What's the optimal remote working setup in your opinion?
Can't believe how many subsidies they got, to me it's a question of fairness, why should we subsidize them, but not others? I get that they are doing the community a service by creating high paying jobs, but there certainly have been negative sides to what they've done (gentrification, poor working conditions for many employees in their warehouses).
I've always been impressed with how far GitLab has come. At my previous job we switched to GitLab during the period where GitHub felt like it wasn't improving.

While I think GitHub has picked up the slack pretty effectively, I still think GitLab offers a very compelling package. I didn't use the Kubernetes integration, but we definitely used GitLab CI and registry, and a lot of other features that GitHub didn't or still doesn't really have an equivalent for.
I just did a dive on that, too. I grew up in the area and I never heard that before.
Trump is another noted anti-vaxxer. It's only anecdata, but all the anti-vaxxers I've known have been wealthy GOP voters.
33.6 MB? to change the dns ?
It is a series based on the book The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan.
You are right, and not just technically. But the problem with walled gardens is that they're safe and easy for people unable to navigate the world outside of them. Most people are unable or unwilling to sideload apps onto their devices, and that is not their fault. So when the walled garden becomes too unfree and tyrannical, the companies maintaining those gardens are to blame.
> Hey, I like this chair, but it's too small, do you have one that is bigger?

> Just get a smaller house.

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> Hey, we are going to launch our product in a country that doesn't speak English but we don't have i18n ready.

> Just ask the users to use Google translate.

And you wonder why we can't have nice things.

Also, obligatory link: https://thebestmotherfucking.website
You could accomplish at least 99% of this by using a properly sized Couchbase cluster
Absolutely. ISPs, backbone providers etc can all manually filter out updates from specific ASs, and in theory habitual bad actors will have that happen to them. Filters will get put in place even as a temporary measure during incidents sometimes, depending on how responsive / capable the NOC is.
Manticore full-text search (Sphinx fork)
Vernon Blvd and some of the areas closer to Greenpoint are pretty lively, but you're mostly right about the emptiness. Biking through LIC can be kind of spooky (although not actually dangerous), and LIC is where a lot of "fight under abandoned bridge" scenes are filmed in NYC these days.

The M and E trains all go to LIC at Court Square or the station you take the moving sidewalk to. Depending on where the offices are, the N, Q, and R could all be closer than the 7. I feel worse for the renters in Greenpoint or Astoria, where many workers are going to go depending on the office location, than I do for the ones in LIC. Either way, this will hopefully also cause MTA to re-extend the G train to Jackson Heights.
At a very young age (I think teenage years), I learned to ask this question whenever I'm in an endless argument:

>What information will make you change your mind?

In reality, you'll either get something ridiculously hard to show, or you'll get "Nothing!" I used to think it was a good way to realize you're wasting your time in the argument.

Over the years, my view has become nuanced. Those people who say "Nothing" or something outrageous are merely saying it because they themselves don't know in the moment what it will take. In practice, people do change their minds. So I wouldn't read too much into that 45% figure - it's more of a sign they didn't have an answer when they were asked.

Now in reality, social influences usually trigger a change much more than factual reasoning. If someone is adamant about a position and won't listen to you, but then he finds that a close friend he views as having similar values shares your perspective, he is much more likely to start looking at the facts. He is also much more likely to listen to that person than you.

I strongly recommend the books Influence by Cialdini as well as various negotiation books. The first gives the science. The latter puts them into practice.

The biggest mistake pro-science people make is in declaring others' opinions as wrong, and then follow it up with all the objective evidence they have to support their position that it is wrong. In the other person, this triggers a deep human sentiment "This other person does not care about my opinion". You get much further by listening and understanding the other person's perspective, and then signalling that you understand. Once there, present your facts, but not forcefully. End it with "Based on this data, my opinion is ..." Focus on why you believe what you do without explicitly invalidating the other person's perspective (no matter how insane).
That's a neat suggestion to extend this approach. However a key consideration mentioned in the paper was speed and scale. Their approach requires 1 reverse DNS lookup, not running a traceroute to the IP to determine its location
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Cutting out carbs from my diet resolved my depression and cutting out plants in general resolved my anxiety. It still took more than a year to let the psychological setup change.
I believe ppl consume too many carbs and sugar generally, and some eat more of it when they cope with bad feelings thus worsening the psychological tax of a demanding or toxic job.
Buffalo soldiers - same story.

The big war thing used to be a thing of the past, now it's coming back. That frightens me. Anybody in with that?
I think you are misusing the term scientific method here.

Scientific method revolves around hypothesis and tests.

Global warming science is based on something else entirely.

Edit:
My wording seems to have provoked confusion as to my point. Apologies. My point is that not all science utilizes the scientific method.
I think it goes for any topic. I’ll use food as an example. I’ve been on a lot of food blogs, I end there from DuckDuckGo or google, mostly google.

I only remember a handful of them, one in particular that is now a regular bookmark of mine (it’s https://www.valdemarsro.dk and in Danish so likely uninteresting to most), and the one thing that the ones I remember have in common is that they are their own things.

I don’t think there is anything beneficial to being a medium blog for this exact reason. I may read your article, I may even really like it, but it takes more than one article to get me to stick around, and because every medium article looks the same I can easily end up reading more than one without noticing it.

Having a unique domain helps as much as having a unique look.
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> why people continue to believe in things when there is much scientific evidence to the contrary

No, it's not though. It's cherry-picked political. Most instances of believing this contrary to evidence aren't just political.

They are individual (e.g. thinking one is smarter than they are), religious, social (glorifying founding fathers), or even ethical
My unscientific observation has been that the opposite holds for French wine. They seem to ship the US their worst, but it hits our shelves marked up 4x what it'd be in France.

Maybe it's a branding thing, and French wine's got enough power in that department that they don't need to send us good stuff to move product, at least at the lower end. Maybe with some French writing on the label low-price-shopping consumers are equally likely to buy it whether or not it tastes good, so there's no reason to send anything but the worst they have. Other European countries seem to have no trouble shipping us nice wine in the lower price tiers, but then they're not France.
Anyone want to start a web ring?

I'd love to self-host, but without some audience from Medium I'd probably just be blogging to myself.
Haha. I just refuse to click on anything like that. Much like with Flash, if they want me to look they'll have to use something proper.
Nigerian ISP: Google BGP hijack was “an error” due to “misconfiguration”
The E/M/F/R tunnels are already some of the most congested, most delayed, least pleasant segments in the entire city. As much as I welcome Amazon's move, I don't envy the poor suckers who have to ride in and out of Queens.
"Nothing happens until someone picks up a hammer"
> before the price hikes you weren't willing to pay a dollar more for name brand (or premium drugs etc), but after the price hike you are?

Imagine that 10 normal people and Bill Gates want to buy bottles of wine. Bill goes for a bottle of $6000 Richebourg Grand Cru, and the 10 normal people always go for Shitscreek Red, sold for $4. So about 9% of the buyers are willing to pay extra for the name brand.

After the Great Wine Tax Bill of 2021, the prices are both increased by a fixed per-bottle amount of $6000. So now the Richebourg costs $12000, and the Shitscreek costs $6004. The 10 normal people migrate to beer, and Bill Gates still buys Richebourg. So about 100% of the buyers are willing to pay extra for the name brand.
The reverse effect works too. When an overhead cost drops, people consume crappier versions. Free online news is a striking example. If you walked down to the news stand and paid $0.75 for a physical newspaper and the content was all Clickhole listicles you'd never buy it again. But people consume plenty for free.
No, Safari doesn't have this problem. One remedy the OP was offered was to require the user to choose the third-party content to display. That's just what Safari does.

(BTW, I don't think it's an appropriate remedy in this situation. I'm just saying this isn't inconsistent with Safari.)
Imagine, for instance, manipulating medical images to make a prominent politician (and their doctors) believe they have a dangerous tumor in their amygdala, making them undergo radiotherapy that fries half their amygdala, turning that politician into a liberal.

Moral implications aside, I can see a reason to explore that idea ;-)

Note: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/
Thanks! Apologies for taking this so far down the rabbit hole, but if dogs are unable to metabolize theobromine, then how does it leave their system?
The Spanish silver mines actually ended up bankrupting Spain by causing runaway inflation. Not really a good example!
How exactly? I mean this is what he says:

[Colonial subjects] also go largely uncommemorated by the hallowed rituals of Remembrance Day.

Here is the BBC recording, the first hour or so is preamble before the ceremony.

The last post finished at about 1:04:00 and the commonwealth countries start laying their wreathes at 1:11:10, straight after the Royal family and the UK political party heads:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brgkgt/remembrance-s...

It's a recorded fact they were included significantly in the Remembrance Day rituals. You can go and see all the previous years too.

David Dimbleby even says "And now the high commissioners of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India who played such a huge part in both world wars. 3 million soldiers and laborers from across the empire and the commonwealth served in the first world war, in the 2nd world war 5 million men and women.". It then carries on with the wreath laying of all the other commonwealth countries, all of which are named.
None of them they took advantage of. To what end?
Opposition to synthetic herbicides (in fact, opposition specifically to glyphosate formulations like RoundUp) form the bedrock of the organic movement.

To be certified organic, a formerly non-certified field must have been under an organic plan for a minimum of three years, which specifically must not be marketed as organic, and must not use any synthetic herbicides (again, explicitly, glyphosate is called out as the most common herbicide which must be completely eschewed on that plot of land [0]).

I can’t tell, from a distance, whether the owner of the farm you worked on was concealing their glyphosate usage from their certifier (surprisingly hard, the certification process is pretty intense), or if this farmer was doing uncertified work which is often marketed as “pesticide free” or “no spray”.

Alternatively, some people market crops as “organic (uncertified)”, which doesn’t really mean anything legally, and so a farmer can pretty much do whatever they want as long as they’re not poisoning their customers.

[0] https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/GuideForO...
That's not what is being claimed. The _ratio_ of high quality to low quality products shifts in favor of higher quality as the prices of the two equalize due to fixed costs.
> It's funny, because some years ago when Medium blogs were starting to be posted left and right, people were praising the interface, and nobody listened to the few who objected.

Your memory is very, very different from mine. I remember Medium being heavily criticized by (sorry, lack of a better term) "tech nerds" for stuff like the article brings up when it first came out. People complained about it not working when Javascript was disabled and bloat for a text website, load times, etc., all sorts of stuff. People said they refused to visit Medium. In fact, it was so negative I'm a bit surprised it got as popular as it did with tech blogs.

>Now, we need all kinds of tricks, add-ons and blocks to just read five-minute posts during our commute.

Only "tech nerds" care about those sorts of things. Joe User reads Medium just fine without any tricks, add-ons and blocks.
a way to automatically enter reader mode on some URLs, such as medium.com

Safari has this built-in.

Enter reader mode on a web page, then right-click on the reader icon and you can set every page in the domain to automatically display in reader mode.

Safari isn't usually the first with new features, so it might be available in other browsers, as well.
I tested one of my websites which is a simple Flask app, and where the front page is just text, images and links.

My score was 500: Lighthouse Internal Server Error.
It actually is the best time to be a human in general, that doesn't mean every person has a perfect life.

Things are better now than they've ever been. There's still poverty, war, famine, disease, etc. but way fewer people die to those things than at any point in history. 80% of the world's children get their vaccines. Girls go to school almost as long as boys. Child mortality is dropping sharply in the world, etc.

So does things still suck for the person who gets terminal cancer? Of course it does. But humanity is doing great.
You can post self-hosted articles on HN, reddit, etc. I doubt that "You might like this..." clicks on Medium would add significant eyeballs to an independent author's articles.
From the title, I didn't know which direction the post was going to go in.

This one: grow with your job title.
Alternate version: how to keep doing the same tasks you enjoy and not be forced into a different (likely managerial) role.
RAMCloud sounds cool and superfast, but why is the documentation so slow? Why does it need to be a site with heavy javascript with 482 ajax requests instead of plain old HTML?
You should not have to choose, Elsevier is taking advantage of you.
When I was a kid (30+ years ago), there was an article about puzzle contests and combinations in one of the two magazines we would get - either 321Contact (probably) or Highlights (I doubt it).

One of the images they showed was a Hamburger with cats eyes, that was so eerie I can still remember the details.

The article mentioned that there are a limited number of cuts used by Ravensburger, which is printed somewhere on the box (I think part of the UPC code). You can go shopping and choose any two puzzles with the same cut, and be able to mix and create.

As an aside, I still get print magazines for my own kids, but get the feeling that this is sorta becoming a thing of the past (Eg. 321Contact is no longer in print), which IMO is a shame.
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Great comment, and totally agree.

And this exactly why an enterprising software engineer would be well served to be familiar with how to do basic machine learning. You don't have to be great at it, you just need to know how to copy somebody else's notebook or whatever and get it to work on your simple data set.
Yeah they can get fired.
I'm sorry what?

A dog isn't a reasoning human being. Using the dog, this way, in the argument is irrelevant and distracting to any of the issues.

I think we can say that EVERY person around Hitler was in fact a bad person regardless of whether they loved dogs.

It may be that people used fallacious reasoning to justify their own support of Hitler (ignoring his other qualities conveniently) for such reasons as "he likes dogs therefore he is a good person".

"I like X because he agrees with me in this narrow way therefore I'll support X doing terrible terrible things but justify it with this narrow reason."

That's a bad person supporting a bad person.
But unlike most modern drm, you have to do it without network access. You cannot even assume the ability to deliver updates.
Imho it speaks way too fast.
Apple pays dividends, and makes huge buy backs.
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> The correct approach to variable heat is an adjustable exit air valve.

I always wondered why the radiators in some buildings had two apparent temperature controls, one at the bottom of one side (generally a big gate valve) and another at the top of the other side (which I presume is the "exit air valve").

As a student, nobody ever told us how to actually regulate the heat, so there was a lot of randomly opening and closing valves until the thing either got hot or cooled down as needed. Or, more commonly, you just ran the thing full blast all the time and opened a window when it got too hot, titrating the cold air from outside against the overwhelming heat from the radiator.

A couple of laminated instructions stapled to the wall near each radiator probably would have made the system perform much better.
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When I drive across Germany, England, and Ireland, I rarely ever see a billboard.

Are there any tools online to see billboard density maps per country?
> Hiring at both the new headquarters will begin in 2019.

Do they have buildings leased? I presumed they were going to build. How can they start hiring already?