skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this worth it?
I recently had a site audit knowing that it wasn't originally put together professionally, and just got this proposal:

1. I will rebuild the website on a wordpress theme called Uncode. Will create a child theme that lives on top of the theme and I (and future devs) can have a resource for professionally editing and customizing the website. A child theme allows for customization that will not change when the parent theme is updated.

2. I estimate the build and the documentation for the site will take me about 60-70 hours. Usually a build would be around 100 hours but I don't have to worry about redoing assets. I'll modernize some of the design of course with your design approvals on them. But mostly going to keep your style as is.

3. 20 hours of redoing some copy writing, I will research the correct SEO needed for each page and help you create and setup the CDN with cloudflare.

4. If you decide to have me host your site within my dedicated server, you will have your website on a private independent system with 1g RAM, 25gb SSD, 2core CPU.

5. The goal here is to take your site that takes 17s to load and bring it down under 2secs. Which I feel confident I can do after all the changes and if I can write the code instead of using 20+ plugins that are installed then we can have a really fast site that can start ranking better on Google and I personally really want to see your site grow.

Total Hours: 80-90 hours or about 2-3 weeks.
Cost: Same Hourly Rate that Upwork has. (of course I don't get all that money since they take such a huge amount in fees)- Roughly 3600 + the 30 for the server hosting if you want to do that option.

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Is this worth it?
If there's ever been a dispute about what a comment ever said prior to an edit, that anyone who worked at reddit cared about, there's a good chance they store all comment revisions even if they didn't at first. I would be very surprised if they do not store all comment revisions.
Did you have time budgets or quotas? I’m curious how these companies used the measured time, what made it feel so oppressive. (I have no doubt it feels oppressive, just interested in the details.)

When I’ve done contract work, and when I ran a startup, I started tracking my own time. I find it helps me focus and account for my time and understand my own habits. It’s not very good for open problems or exploratory work, other than to find that they take a lot of time. ;)

Other than tracking myself, I’ve never had a job that measured my time directly. I had one job that did measure when employees were at work, but they didn’t show it to employees nor set any quotas, they just wanted to understand work patterns.
What did you expect from MS, they made Windows updates which wiped your fucking documents
Computing Pioneer Stephen Wolfram Creates Data-Analysis Tool for Business
Explaining Dependency Injection
I think this is a different red language.
I suppose they're good if you really do need to escape the reality you're in. But I regret the amount of time I spent playing MMO's as a child/teenager. I invested all my time in virtual worlds instead of the real one, and had no friends because of it. I grew out of it, but I wonder how different my life would be now if I had done so earlier.
If the government wants to use them to pressure Reddit, they can and will.

In this instance, Tencent and the government are functionally equivalent.
there is no such thing as "SEO". Also, everything on the list has nothing to do with Search Engine Optimization.

For example "SERVER STABILITY AND DOWNTIME".

How come taking case of your server stability is SEO???
Technically correct best correct!
Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?
craigslist???
And having two developers pair programming instead of them both working on separate releasable features is more efficient?
Because you (customers in the US) cannot stop that practice without businesses pro-actively ending that practice en-masse. Some idealists have tried to run their business without tipping and paying a fair wage, but those initiatives tend to remain marginal (if they endure at all) because the average US customer dislikes paying the full (and naturally higher) price of a product or service up-front without the tip.

Some countries don't do it at all (e.g., Japan), and in a lot of countries people tip only in a few cases — exceptional service that went above and beyond, or rounding up the bill in a restaurant after a good meal. For foreigners the practice of tipping to ensure an employee gets at least a living wage in the US is quite strange.

Tipping is deeply cultural, you will be fighting against a phenomenon that is as American as apple pie (metaphorically speaking, it is Dutch in origin of course). Good luck in these days of ongoing identity wars.

Do you know of any good ideas to actually make that shift away from tipping happen?
I think tipping is a bit more interesting than that. It’s an equilibrium for the businesses and possibly for the workers, but often not for the customers. One of the strange things about tipping is they people usually still do it even when there’s no need to. It’s rational to tip at a neighborhood restaurant where they might remember you the next time around, but it’s conpletely irrational to tip for a one-off meal in a strange city or at an airport restaurant or whatever. Most of us tip anyway in those situations.
No, it is the same. This article says to install from red-lang.org (which is what my link discusses).
Maybe you would have gotten into drugs, been seduced by a crazy person and ended up with a baby, or become rich. Cest la vie.
What direct, trustworthy evidence is there of Russia political interference? Not a criminal charge, but the most convincing evidence?
> What you can do with Red language

The actual title is "Getting started with ReAdable Human Format".
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A very touching story. Yet somehow I feel happy for him, that he had found his friends online.

I used to play a lot of MMO games when I was a teenager, not WoW exactly. I wish more kids played that genre nowadays. I think all the competitive games nowadays like dota2/lol/fortnite don't have the same feeling like MMOs. Obviously, you can find many friends in them too, but the culture is so much different. In MMO games you could just spend hours chatting with people and doing nothing else.

I'm sure there are many more cases like that and I think that MMO games are really one of the best experience in gaming. You can meet people from all over the world. It's a bit like traveling, but focused solely on people not on food/history, etc. Ofc, that's my opinion.
I'm confused on the timeline. Was Bezos actually negotiating with AMI, or did AMI make the threat and claim to be negotiating?

I have trouble imagining that Bezos was actively considering ending washington post coverage against the enquirer or negotiating as such.
https://outline.com/rfMDxt
I am reading a newly published book "Company of One" that promotes a mindset of serving a smaller number of customers very well vs. growing and going for quality in everything your business does. Recommended.
It is funny because your comment is slightly grey (I assume because a trusted community member downvoted you).
Thanks. The only downside is that you can expect twice the number of requests to your pages (only the pages themselves, not their assets).
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And you're using a lot more of the users'bandwidth
> I guess it'd be the instant death of the network.

You think a critical mass of HN users would band together to bring down a social media site because the company participates in censorship?
This is a feature available on most web frameworks today (for example Link's prefetch on Next.js), but still could be very useful for smaller website and other static pages not using such frameworks.

I'd be a little wary of using a script from an unknown person without being able to look at the code - I'd rather see this open source before using. Especially being free and MIT licensed, I don't see why it wouldn't be open.
If a designer or marketer is forgetting the end user then they don't deserve the title "designer" or "marketer".

And to counter your point, I often see sites built by engineers that ignore the end user by not employing any of the best practices the UX/UI and marketing communities have uncovered over the years.
Layman logic dictates that math-related anything lowers clickbait potential.
Unfortunately, the author has a vested interest in getting as many people to _read_ their story as possible - especially so if they're a self-described "freelance writer" like this one.
The way it's been explained to me, a company stock that pays regular dividends is basically the company saying "you investors deserve these profits rather than us trying to reinvest it in the company and grow". An example of the exact opposite would be Amazon, who notoriously almost never makes a profit on paper.
Perhaps this something that a browser should be doing, instead of websites themselves?
Increased load on your web server, but other than that zero! (You might even be able to mitigate the load with caching). It progressively enhances existing links if JavaScript is enabled.

There are other libraries that do similar things, such as InstantClick: http://instantclick.io/
People that won’t let that prank go have no business in any discussion about the platform. It’s a completely disingenuous argument.
You’re only preloading HTML, so it’s negligible compared to what trackers and ads do for instance.
What if it was a user insulting a member of ycombinator, and it was edited to leave everything the same except changing the target to a mod? Principles matter, and that level of dishonesty is not acceptable.
I did not read the post, but the title reminded me of "Limit Theory". People have been waiting years for him to release the game, then in September he said he would release the source code, but sadly nothing happened ever since. I hope we will not have to wait years for that, too.

That being said, the game already looks amazing as it is, the graphics are phenomenal. I am pretty sure people would be willing to pick it up after he open sources it.

As far as I can tell, everything is written from scratch, in C++.

http://ltheory.com

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theor...
This was for fxp sites. I was a mod on a fxp board. We would make locked directories eg with deep paths and Lots of Whitespace that ftp clients couldent handle easy and Hence not Enter without knowing the tricks. Also using reserved Windows names like aux would prevent owner to delete or even crash his server trying anything. Later came tricks like undeletable files as different sites would fight over the same ftps. I did however find a way to make the undeletable files 0 bytes to reclaim space. Later we just started to hack servers and install our own protecteed ftp server but by that time i has moved into the Real scene and running multi TB top rated sites in unis in US, netherlands and Korea with affiliation to top traders and release groups. Thats how my programming interrest started being the guy who set up glftpd servers and bots for IRC. After a few big FBI operations in 99 and 2001 i had enough excitement and left the scene.
Respectfully, I have to disagree.

While it's true that deep learning reduces to "curve-fitting with stochastic gradient descent," in practice, working with deep neural nets is and feels qualitatively different, even when they are used as universal function approximators within a commonly used Bayesian framework, as is the case here.

Unlike the simpler statistical models of yore that identify easy-to-understand (e.g., monotonic) relationships between variables, deep neural nets can find relationships that in practice cannot be articulated except on their own terms -- that is, they can be articulated only as long sequences of non-linear transformations.

In my view, the word "intelligent" is probably the best we have today for describing models that can learn to recognize patterns in data at such high levels of abstraction, even if this kind of intelligence is very narrow and only of a perceptual nature (i.e., there's no reasoning, planning, creativity, etc.).
I would like to second this. noisy environment is a major distraction. would like freedom is choosing how to get the things done. why to hire a talent and then tell them what to do ? as Jobs quoted
If this hypothesis where true couldn't you just build a niche Reddit clone that is run as a non-profit. People certainly would switch if it is so much better.
In my experience, cupping is able to pull muscles in ways that bending your body cannot. I never cared about the claims of detoxification, but the ability to effectively grab hold of a muscle and pull it is what I found helpful from my few experiences with cupping.
People can get an idea of what's used to prove ID and address from this list. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proof-of-identity...
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, while being pro legalization, they really need to ratchet down on how it happens and where it’s allowed. In Denver and other CO areas, it seems there are weed shops on every corner, and it reeks like tobacco, though less offensively.

My hope is in 10 years or so the hype has died down...
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It's in the linked page, but the story was not actually true
Directly equates controversy to offensiveness. Claims to not be part of the hive.
Because: To Persuade, Give a Reason
This is very nice idea, but isn't the problem initial liad time most of the time? How could we solve that?

Does this also work for all the outgoing links as well? I don't want to improve other sites rendering time at the expense of my own.

Very cool regardless.
That's what I was hoping what this link was about. I'd love to see a high level list of how to do keyword analytics and other things to have a better idea of what wording to use and try to rank better.
"Fuck /u/spez" is not libel, and is not even particularly offensive. And yes, he "owned up", but without apologizing.

EDIT: So actually on https://www.reddit.com/comments/5frg1n he did actually say that he was sorry and he wouldn't do it again. That's interesting, because I have a very strong memory of that not being the case. Weird. Either there was an initial acknowledgement that didn't have any sort of apology, or I missed something. I still stand by my minimization of the thing to which he reacted.
How many people do you think joined GitHub from Microsoft after the merger?

This is literally human oversight.
Editing comments to make it seem like people are saying things they didn't is basically never OK, no matter where the post was made.
In the technical details, he has a link to the open source on github. Here's the js that's actually doing the preloading: https://github.com/instantpage/instant.page/blob/master/inst...
Sleep is awesome, yes. I don't quite get how people like Jocko Willink (https://twitter.com/jockowillink) function... but at least for me, the hours I sleep are rarely the limiting factor regarding how much I get done, but rather how I use the hours I'm awake.
So you have a €100 bund that will yield €4 interest at the end of the year, plus the €100 of the original capital that will be sold back to you (it is a 19-year-old 20 years bund, so it will be paid back at the end of the year), so you will be paid €104 at the end of the year. At the same time, new 1 year bunds cost €100 and will be payed back only €99.9.

As a lucky owner of a luctrative bund, why would you sell it €100 on the market? In less than a millisecond, you could find people that would happily buy it €104.1 and get almost all their money back, guaranteed, at the end of the year.

As a client, you are as likely to find a fool that will sell a €104 check from the German treasury for less than €104 as to find a fool selling a €100 banknote for less than €100 (actually, the latter is more likely, for liquidity reasons).
Hundreds, thousands even.

They don't show up on HN, they aren't doing anything glamorous or cutting edge. Just small to mid-size businesses building and selling products that people use.

If you haven't found any, it's because you haven't looked in the right places.
This sounds like a computer processor's branch prediction algorithm.
The heuristics to exclude logout links and the like would be very disruptive. Those decisions need to be in the website author's hands.

However, I think if browsers had this, but off by default until seeing tags to enable it along with any exclusions, that would be great.
>but gov.uk has been near-universally lauded as “doing it right”

It would be rather disingenuous to heap any level of universal praise upon gov.uk projects, especially considering the high profile foobars reported on a regular basis. This is just one fresh example: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/08/ir35_tax_check_test...

Despite having a common UI/UX for the front-end, most of the development is conducted by different suppliers e.g. Capita, Cap Gemini, Fujitsu et al.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-supplie...
I attend crossfit daily for months, though distractions in my life will disrupt it for periods (like partying) and I have to get back into it. It takes 2-3 weeks to build up to daily practice from nothing depending on the hiatus. But there's a point where the daily soreness just goes away and I hit some equilibrium between body and training intensity.

It's a matter of finding a sustainable level of intensity. Daily crossfitters have more in common with daily 5km or 10km joggers.

One thing I never do though is the one-rep max.
The issue was that the "prank" demonstrated the amount of power the Reddit admins had over the site, and created discussion as to whether it could be abused.
Flask-boilerplate: A boilerplate project for Flask+CLI applications
Reddit’s value is in the user base, not the software or style of the site.
I think what you describe is actually common, but those companies tend to stay small and local so they don't make the news.
There have been a number of planned exoduses from Reddit over the years (the banning of FatPeopleHate, some kind of succession crisis with the CEO, and the banning of the AMA mod, to name some off the top of my head), but none of them has actually materialized into anything.

My question is - What is preventing this? Is it just a matter of getting enough critical mass onto the new platform? Or is there some other logistical or engineering challenge that I'm not considering?

The way that Reddit is structured seems like it would be very vulnerable to a coordinated attempt to move users. In my experience, most subreddits have a heavily skewed distribution where a handful of users post most of the content, especially for the long-tail hobby and region-specific subreddits.

Intuitively, it feels like there are probably clusters of Reddit users who are subscribed to largely overlapping sets of subreddits, and who derive most of their utility from content generated by the same small-ish set of power users.

Depending on the terms of the investment, I wonder if some of these users might become very amenable to a migration to a new platform.

A quick aside. For those unfamiliar with Tencent, the Chinese government essentially has direct access to, and control over, all communication on Tencent's platforms. Nothing about the company in particular, its just part of doing business as a media company in China. But the fact of the matter is that you can be jailed for things you say in private group chats, and any chat can be arbitrarily censored, with no notification to the sender or recipient that the message was caught in a filter.
Ask HN: What real impact does AI/ML projects have at your work/industry?
At a lot of companies, the data science group is still analyzing data and providing support for business decisions. Do you have examples of projects in your workplace/industry where ML/AI has a big impact?
Just go directly to the script url: https://instant.page/1.0.0

The code is not obfuscated or minified, very easy to read.
the problem to be solved is how to tip cash and still expense it. At least my employer will not reimburse a tip above a small one-person amount which makes not tipping on the CC problematic.
"Perhaps those daily crossfitters had such a low-stress lifestyle outside of the gym? Based on their personalities and stories of only sleeping 4-6 hours, I think not. I think they just had a "power through it" attitude, but that doesn't seem like a good solution for the long run.
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When I trained much more I knew some of these types and most of them took a lot of painkillers and other drugs plus lived on caffeine or stronger stimulants. Daily hard training takes a toll on most people.
"the PM was shamed, " this does not sound right. does it ? why to shame, ignore it and move on. shaming has to be a private affair not public.
The 100% legal route would be to whois the IP address and send the contact an email; presumably they can identify a user and pass it on.
Forgive me if this seems obtuse but honestly seriously in each of our phones is an antenna, over that antenna is sent radiowaves, encoded in those radiowaves is information that must be decoded by the other side of the transmission.

Each layer of that has a specification, in that specification each side has implementations of that specification. To me, I fundamentally don't care what an individual corporation "can or can't do". I care what the spec says, because that's what the corporation can and can't do unless they have something completely 100% proprietary.

Speculation is worthless, show me the spec of what function calls enable the collection of this data, and what the structure of the message looks like over the wire.

Beyond that, on a rooted device that I have full control over, I should be able to work out the details of how that's happening and whether or not I want to fiddle with it to allow my carry around computer to do so or not.

If the implicit assumption that root access to my pocket computer makes it unable to turn off such a thing, then that's news. The rest are layers and layers of complexity as to what the defaults of the systems involved are allowed to do via permissions systems. We're either cool with those defaults, or we aren't.

So, imo. Start with the specs, if it's possible via them then it's surely happening whether or not it's "legal" to do so. My apologies if this comes across as harsh, but what else did we expect? We're fortunate enough to live in the cusp of the information age, but the first 50/100/200 years of this are bound to be messy before it either goes full dystopian forever, or enough outrage affects those defaults.
Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring
Ignorant people outraged by something they have no clue about.

This summarises Reddit and social media in 2019.
Is this a re-rebranding? I remember using something similar 4-5 years ago (instant.js/instantclick).

But quite an interesting little thing, especially useful for older websites to bring some life into them. The effect is very noticeable.
I don't think so. While they do have a feel-good narrative about space exploration, they're still focusing heavily on growth (and profits down the road). They definitely haven't said "this is enough, we don't need to grow anymore."
Attention developers: Google wants to pay you $15,000 to improve cloud security
It doesn’t work for outgoing links because the gain wouldn’t be as much as the CSS and scripts of the external site need to be loaded in addition to the HTML (only the HTML can be preloaded).

Also, there’s usually no incentive to improve other’s sites pages load.
AT&T sued by Sprint, must defend decision to tell users that 4G is “5G E”
Well in jurisdictions more likely to legalize any or all drugs they seem to have more social safety nets like Medicare. Drug users across the board use more resources so it makes sense to me to tax the hell out of it, be it tobacco, alcohol or marijuana