skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a snowboarding instructor (I don't ski though). I'd say you can quickly be able to go on all kind of slopes. Beginner/intermediate skiers tend to have a harder time in powder or steep slopes. However, snowboarding beginners tend to fall much more often, the first days can be very tiring. I'd recommend avoiding learning on hard snow. If you can, make sure you you go in the mountain when the snow is fresh. And much much better to have an instructor.
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Hopefully some cheap servers will hit ebay then...
>I’ve never imagined link farms to be so profitable an enterprise that they could afford a team of phds and come out ahead; but if they could, then its an arm race, and google would be at a much greater disadvantaged if they didn’t have their own.

Go on a blackhat SEO forum. Look at the number of sellers, the number of listings, the number of positive feedback and the cost of some packages (you can easily go on and spend 50$ or a 1000$+ for a single package). There's a LOT of money in blackhat SEO. That's just the people offering to do it for you.

Then look at the dozens of software packages for sell that are constantly being updated and have both one-time fees and ongoing subscription pricing.

Then go look at the people selling just various social media accounts which mass-creation of gets harder and harder.

Then there's people that sell VPS access. They'll buy the software tools and host them all on a VPS and rent to you weekly or monthly so you can shell out tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars a month instead of needing to cough up thousands just to get all of the software for the month.

And that's just what's readily available with paypal or a credit card on the clearnet.
It's just a sign of corporate rot. Yahoo doesn't do anything nearly complicated enough to warrant that many employees. And I'd be willing to bet more than 1/3 of them are "managers". Cull the non-engineer/product/design people I say.
They literally could have bought both Google and Facebook if they shelled out more money. They tried to acquire both companies.

You are right though. They would not have been as successful.
Aside from the discussion on to what extent are these pictures actually representative of the overall conditions of the era, it's worth noting that the 1980s in Poland were particularly gloomy even by communist standards.

The system was clearly in the final phase of decline, and the crisis had struck hard.

The living standard had deteriorated considerably in comparison to the much more cheerful 1970s (when foreign credits helped to boost the consumption).

This shows in numerous statistics such as eg. alcohol or nicotine consumption, which peaked in the 1980s.
> Is anyone else wondering how the 7th most popular website in the US is floundering financially?

Popularity is more closely related to operating cost than profit or even revenue.

Popularity is fine if you've effectively monetized your visitors, otherwise it's just how fast you are burning through money serving them.

1. Acquire lots of users

2.

3. Profit

Can be a viable model, but only if you fill in Step 2 right.
It is not illegal to spy on users, you just need to call it "metadata".
An alternative would be a country full of people so similar to you that the average person would feel like their countrymen might as well be them. If the entire US was 100% aligned with your own politics then taxes wouldn't be very burdensome.

If my political faction ran the country like a dictatorship, I wouldn't mind them taking my money, because they'd spend it on getting me what I want (which may include "a better world," prioritized according to my subjective view of which world problems are the worst). However because there is more than one political faction in power, the money taken from me will sometimes be spent on things I don't want, including things that I am actually opposed to. Clearly the solution is either cough "greater unity," or the more practical answer which is having minimal taxes to fund only the lowest common denominator of services that everyone wants.
While you're at it, why not be less invasive and neuter some of the data you send across? Does Google need to know about screen colordepth, language settings and text encodings, or fine-grained viewport dimensions, or is that stuff just bits of entropy to fingerprint users? Hardcode it!
Reading the first sentence of the article would’ve cleared that up:

> Only a year and a half after it built Oath from the assets of the communications giants Yahoo and AOL, Verizon now says they're virtually worthless.
Let's build a Sega Dreamcast game from scratch
> once [a reboot] occurs, constant rebalance happening because it puts the load to the rest of system and eventually bring them down, all around

I have this same problem with a 3 node cluster, no Kubernetes. This was using Elasticsearch 2.3 and it worked for a year or two and then all of a sudden, any network interruptions would cause the thing to get split brain and all indices would go red. It would take 8+ hours to go back to green and usually required a reboot of all servers or else it would never recover.

It was happening often enough that the decision was just run a single ES node since the total data was only 25GB :(
I'd say this summarizes post-recession America pretty well. A demand for jobs that no one seems qualified and willing to do, and a bloated paycheck to the keepers of some "analysts" who scramble to keep doing what doesn't work.
> vitriol – cruel and bitter criticism.

Really strange name choice.
You don't have to pay for that. You can just turn it off.
Desktop PCs have about 35 GB/s of memory bandwidth and can do compute at ~200 Gflops, so this is just ~10% of peak bw and leaves you a budget of 200 flops computation per float value. If all 4 columns are accessed, there is still enough bandwidth (no idea of the data here was columnar layout or not).

The relevance to big data or out-of-core computation is left hazy, which would make this I/O bound in most cases? 4 GB fits easily in memory and is just mmap'ed from the OS disk cache if the data was recently touched. I guess with 4 columns you get to 16 GB which might be pushing it on a laptop.
Morally wrong to sell untested and unregulated drugs. Alcohol kills.

To me, doesn't sound like this guy was at all on the same level of soft law breaking as Mr. Schwartz.

Do you believe this distiller's actions to be just and moral? Are you opposed to laws or something?
If I opt for Google One, does Google stop using my Drive contents for ad targeting?
Are you sure it circumvents it? My uBlock Origin is still properly blocking the API call to google analytics. But since the Add-on is from Google itself it could work in different ways indeed.
How does this differ from IPFS?
A few years back I had mail to an address forwarding to a team at a different company. It was used to cc them on tickets, basically so they could make changes on their side when certain requests came in. At some point they decided to forward these directly into their own ticket system. Each email from our ticket system would forward and land in their own ticket system that would strip off the identifiers from our ticket system and create a new ticket which would reply to our ticket system, creating a new ticket on our side and so on. Unfortunately that queue on our side wasn’t in use by humans so no one saw the exponential mail storm building. Many mail servers have relay loop detection based on IDs in the headers but reply loops are a different beast. Once we realized what was going on it was simple enough to black hole the various addresses involved but it was pretty cool to watch our ticket and mail systems DOSing each other in real time.
If you're organising a union on Facebook, and you're under American-style at-will employment, and it wasn't banned under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_concerted_activity , then the employer would simply immediately fire whichever people were seen to be the ringleaders.
How much money has Verizon wasted trying to create revenue from outside their core competency. Every venture has been an epic failure.
A prior maintainer of that lib here - that library is a behemoth.

Unfortunately I ran out of time to be able to continue to maintain it, and now work for one of those big tech companies that requires a lot of approvals to participate in open source anymore unfortunately :( . There are a lot of good fixes pre-2.0 though if you can upgrade to it!

Probably one of the biggest disincentives for continuing to me though were some of the users - some were outright abusive.
Yea, Figma is incredible. I love seeing all the designers' cursors moving around, and being able to ask questions directly on the art board. There have been many cases where I've been trying to line up some buttons only to have the designer come in and move them around as I'm writing code.

I also love the "infinite canvas" design, it feels great to have everything on one screen and just zoom in/zoom out to see details.
If half of the country who didnt vote at all voted for Cilton she'd be president. Don't yell at people who cast their vote for who they wanted to win. Work on getting the half of our country who didnt vote to vote.
Well, the way I see it, when you teach applied science you often want to sacrifice some rigor so that your students could focus on what was intended to be learned in the first place.
There is also Affinity Designer.

Sketch became a good enough default very quickly, but there are starting to be several competitors that are just as good if not way better.
Typically DIY and/or family in the West (or possibly Western charities).

Also trade trips to some other socialist countries that would happen to be better off at the moment. Depending on when exactly, it could be Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia etc.
uhh... duh

I'm amazed that they haven't had massive layoffs. They're both popular enough to the point where they could turn a profit with a significant shift in how they operate.
Seems that this is the problem empathy was meant to solve.
But it will have changed the quality of how you lived these 3 months,

The remembering isn’t the important part, the living itself is the important part
We need to grow out of this culture of attributing any value to “caring”. The fact that Americans “care” that 1 million Iraqis died is not only meaningless, but also facetious.

We elected a government and enabled a system that led to this. How can we judge China as worse? More importantly why do these judgements fundamentally even matter?

The real question Americans should ask themselves is : what is our vision for the future? How can we regain our glory?

Anything else assumes authority without investment. A strategy that is destined for failure.
MIT and Carmen Ortiz share responsibility for the death of Aaron Schwartz. Threatening the guy with life in prison for downloading academic journals? It's absurd. Never forgive either, let it haunt them wherever they go.
What about: "Previously Classified Story About Legendary Shipwreck in ‘Titanic: The Untold Story’"

In the unofficial extended guidelines, the recommendation is to use a part of the title, the subtitle or a relevant sentence of the text.
Eloquently put but I do not appreciate the conclusion the rhetoric is driving. It is not impossible to structure these efforts in way which maintains effeciency and performance:$. How? Accountability and a payout which rewards good performance and punishes bad performance.
> The internet was a wild and amazing place back then.

was aol even connected to the internet at that point?
I clearly missed the boat on that one, when did they start doing that? Mine is still swipe + chip only.
Hey, it is a neat game. Definitely loved the art-style and the music. I would love to see where it goes.

With that said, a few things I would note:

1) The controls feel restrictive at times. When the enemy is right next to me, the enemy has a much easier hitting me. If the enemy corners me against a wall, they can easily land multiple hits before I can fight back (which is also how I died).

2) The sword can hit through walls. This is probably a bug, but when the enemy is another room but right next to the wall common to both rooms, I can easily hit him without taking damage.

3) This happened just once, but apparently, the command for move RIGHT got stuck. The player kept moving right, even when I lifted the key. I couldn't replicate this, so it might be one of the accidents that happen once every 100 times.
Wear a helmet! I had some nasty falls learning!
I pay $5/yr (a legacy plan that will disappear if I ever have a billing information imperfection) for 40GB Gmail storage, which is all I need. This announcement reminds me that Google has no respect for pricing, SLA, data mining transparency, consumer terms stability, support ("Google Expertsbutprobablynotouremployees!") or consistency. The future is easy to see: "Drive is now One!"

So this announcement is the thing that will finally get me to export all of my data and leave Gmail for personal use altogether. Congratulations, One Team!
EU Cybersecurity Act Was Agreed On
You might want to consider where you'll be learning - if the area has a lot of drag lifts then they can be miserable for snowboarders.
"The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials."
Elon Musk doesn’t respect the SEC, which is still investigating Tesla
I'd argue with some of the decisions made with regard to Tumblr, this is self-inflicted.

Has it not dawned on the Baby Bells that maybe content creation is an expensive endeavour and its maybe not worth the investment?
The (indirect) control they hold still gives them all the power they need without the cost entailed by ownership. You can hack capitalism just like you can hack software.
B25 sans titre Bernard Waechter
Honestly they should have abandoned it earlier. Instead of building monoliths of legacy features/code they need to build full-on replacements every 5-10 years. I can't believe they're still actively developing Dreamweaver to this day.

OF course, there's still not a replacement for Fireworks because they just rolled it into one of their other legacy products. XD is still not great.
Revolut have a banking license now: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/revolut-gets-european-bank...
Not only is it forced registration, it's unusable without a fuckin BROWSER EXTENSION that can watch all of your traffic to any site. HELL no.
I had a two+ hour commute per day (each way). Did it for _years_. The difference being that I really like my co-workers. A couple of thoughts:

Ask if you can go part time remote. Like two days. That made things so much better. I also was able to commute a large segment by train, and that helped. Eventually I went full remote, and miss my time in the office (bit really like my 30 second commute!).

Strive to get 360 reviews in place. It allows for anonymous feedback on stengths and areas where you can grow. You might get back some places where you can get better professionally and with interpersonal stuff and you might learn what people value about you.

Talk with your manager about your concerns. Y'all should be having regular one on ones.

Leverage the commute. Audiobooks for entertainment or something you want to learn more about. If you can do public transportation, work on something fun.

Realize life requires balance. Have fun. Do things. Be around and interact with people. Work on yourself, take up an exercise regiment involving lifting weights.

Know that a job is a job. Prioritize you and your family.
Yes, I understand. InkJets bring in the money via the ink and also, the market for dot-matrix must now be smaller, than it was, when that printing technique was the only affordable on the market.
Isn't there a consistent history of shady practices from such companies, like purposely ambiguous language in the Android location activity preferences, or similar stuff from Facebook when they try to make you share more data with them like contacts?
> And he physically broke into an IDF at MIT to do this.

Worse has been done for pranks with little to no consequence.
I skied for 15 years before I learned to snowboard. I have never fallen so hard as when I was first learning to snowboard!

The other downside is not being able to traverse flat terrain, which is more or less important depending on the resort you are at.
That is, what I guess, though I have no numbers. That dot-matrix ribbon ink is cheaper than toner.

Also, I'd like to have a A3 sized, colored dot matrix printer. That as Laser would be extremly expensive.
Find me a use for such footage.
<script async> does still block the document onload event from firing until it's been executed.
High-Performance Tree Wrangling, the APL Way
Would you say knowing how to skateboard makes snowboarding easier? I'm planning on trying one of these this winter for the first time and I'm hoping some biking/skateboarding balance transfers over.
I'm interested to know what part of this story sparked your comment about Libertarianism?

Was it the use of taxpayer dollars to expand a border force that didn't seem understaffed to anyone but the Pres?

I ask because the other part, namely government contracting work to the "more efficient" private sector sounds perfectly in keeping with Libertarian principles.
Omnigraffle is very bad for visual design
> yet Tesla pushed the entire world to electrify transport

Oil prices, pollution laws and incentives did, Tesla was the only one in position to profit for it timely

Every company has an electric car in their blueprints, Tesla is the right size to benefit for the small demand that the market created on its own

They turned a hundred million so profit this year right? That's not even enough to consider ending the market for the larger companies. Comparatively they could earn those profit just by tweaking a decimal on their car financing services interest.
Thanks for the great tutorial, just wanted to point out a typo in your homepage (permieter)
Its not a rip off, its just a very generic name. Tons of products do this, I assume because its relatively safe play when you can't (or don't want) a more standout branding.
Indeed. The government process will often spend $10 to save $1 - because doing otherwise would be condemned as "waste" by the Friedmanites from the sidelines.

Edit: in fact downthread we have someone literally arguing that it would be good to cut the IRS budget despite every $1 cut costing $7 in tax evasion.
I absolutely blame the prosecutors, but I'd want to include the university in this. Aaron's motives (from my outside perspective) were to make information freely available. It's frustrating that the university is happy to partner with organizations that restrict research papers like this. It's not in the spirit of scholarly work, in my opinion.. I don't know what the university could have done different.
>"An alternative would be a country full of people so similar to you that the average person would feel like their countrymen might as well be them."

What? If people really felt that way there would be no need for taxes.

If you have a lack of self-interest (or the sense of "self" is altered to refer to the group) you would freely give money to each other.

The only time taxes are required is when people will not freely give money for a project. That is literally the only reason taxes exist. Nothing is stopping people from donating to the government.

In fact, I was just thinking the other day that 50 million trump voters could donate $100 each to "build the wall" and be done with it. You could probably even donate $25/year for four years. $5 billion is nothing at those scales yet there is all this bickering (supposedly) about it.
I'll wait for Google One Lollipop.
If you push out the asshole "savants", you must also say farewell to all great things our civilization has to offer today: art, architecture, literature, technology and so on. Great achievers have rarely been driven by compassion.
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Step away from the keyboard, get outside, go somewhere you enjoy that isn't related to work or the computer. I for one feel spending a few days without tech is a good way to clear my head and refocus and get some motivation back. Disconnecting to me has a way of helping me reboot essentially.

When I say disconnecting too, I mean seriously disconnecting. No phone, no social media, no laptop etc. I usually have my phone of course for emergencies etc, but it stays only for phone or emergencies and nothing else.

Usually my motivation loss is related to burnout, so this works really well for me.

Why do you feel burned out? That can help figure out ways to adjust.
Federated Byzantine Agreement – An Absolutely STELLAR Consensus Protocol
Is there a reason you are not using the beacon API for this work?
Our small design firm has used Figma a few times on large apps with hundreds of screens, and we prefer it to Sketch.

It's smooth in the browser, although we use the desktop version which runs remarkably well on Electron. Files auto-save instantly and you can do all of the fancy animations and effects that Sketch offers.

The killer feature for us is inviting clients or other designers into the document whilst editing it in real-time like Google Docs. Clients can lock themselves to your viewport so you can talk them through the design (huge win for me, the clients love it), or they can browse around freely and edit the document if you allow them.

Figma should have more market share IMO.
At a first glace our ownershipless future is not
necessarily bad, there’s just something unsettling
about it, but I just can’t put my finger on it.

The author gives away the answer to this last sentence in the sentence directly before: "the trend where we actually own as fewer things and are going toward permanent renting of everything is definitely here." Under the model we're working toward, we're not actually going to an "ownerless" future, but a future where fewer and fewer people own more and more of the property, leaving the rest of us to pay them rent. An actually "ownerless" society wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. It's the renting that worries me.
Most professional designers are still using Macs.
A general rule of thumb I've heard many times is:

'Skiing is easy to learn but hard to master, Snowboarding is hard to learn but easier to master'.

You're likely to fall over more learning to snowboard but will become competent and able to carve down the mountain faster.

Other elements to consider, Skiers are usually able to go faster than snowboarders down the hill. Snowboarders will have to unstrap and strap into their back binding when entering and exiting the chairlifts. Snowboarders have many more easy trick options available. I know hardly any skiers that can do any tricks, most of my competent snowboarding friends are able to at least do small jumps of sidehits (mounds of snow on the sides of the slope).

I'm a passionate snowboarder and cannot recommend the sport highly enough, there is just no feeling like riding down fresh powder snow on a cool winters morning!