skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but this is possibly the most important patent of the last 30 years

It is an interesting struggle to figure out what my objection to that point is. I think it is that we know exactly how hard it is to apply linear algebra to a problem - not everyone's cup of tea, but easily 10% of software engineers would be able to do it.

The truly groundbreaking part of Google was never the indexing - that was a problem that was going to get solved one way or another. The groundbreaking part is figuring out that search + low latency + advertising is a money printing machine and that tech favours the winner.

The mechanism to achieve search + low latency + advertising is important but to some degree unimpressive. If the other search engines at the time had realised the payoffs and how important latency was they'd have gone short text-only ads too and put more engineering time into the problem - maybe someone other than Google would be the search engine of the day.

And even if PageRank was the difference between Google and a hypothetical runner up, the difference of a better algorithm would be marginal. Decisive, but ultimately marginal.
What happens with all the comments? Are they migrated as well? It should at least be mentioned somewhere. Obviously, it is harder to set up dynamic content (like comments) for static sites. I've blogged about many solutions to this problem [1].

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
> I wonder what other metaphors we can use, which would be more appropriate/insightful to describe and understand the software development process.

Herding cats?
but on the other hand mob guys when they wanted to discuss something private would often walk and talk, because walking down the street having a private conversation is better than doing it in your office that the FBI has tapped.
> any of the platforms I might use - ... - can kill an income stream at any time

Being able to access the internet at a competitive rate is more important IMO. FANG platforms depend on your ability to reach them.

Net neutrality, I'm convinced, is one of the only unifying political issues today. Breaking up Google isn't going to make people forget the expensive, low quality service from monopolistic taxpayer-funded broadband networks.
> Disregarding any problems we might have with specific companies, I think ridesharing companies are a benefit to consumers.

I am all for ridesharing. But Uber and Lyft, as an example, has nothing to do with that concept. It is not like your Uber driver was coincidentally going to the exact place that you were going.

Ridesharing, as understood before the gig economy, was someone in the company realizing that there were more employees in her neighbourhood and providing a ride for them for a price (some times just sharing gas expenses).

That is a really good approach. Uber/Lyft and others hide their business model calling themselves ridesharing when they are not, calling their employees contractors, when they are not, etc.
Surely you're not arguing that adults have the same degree of agency and consent as children.
An easier way to make fractals in PowerPoint (5:18)
Oh I wasn't aware such a rule existed. Thanks for the heads up. Edited the title.
Clickbait title, register-walled article. Not sure it's even new news:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2165462/drive...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90294948/what-happened-when-oslo...
> Let's posit as a hypothetical that 1% of the workforce is deplorably bad at the notion of being employed (let's define that as: It'll take them 100s+ of trying things until they find a job where the employer is better off employing them vs. not employing them). Let's say a further 1% is rated as 'quite bad' (defined as: More than half the jobs they would on paper qualify for, they'd do such a bad job the employer is better off not employing them).

This is an overly coarse grained depiction of the situation. An individual is not blanket "bad employee" who can't be productive. I'm a good software developer, but if you hired me to be a concert pianist I'd suck at it. I'd say probably 5-10% of employees end up being under productive or non-productive at their jobs. This is consistent with the performance review scores I've seen.

When firing an employee is easy, employers are much more willing to hire because they know that they will be able to terminate employees that are not productive. When firing an employee is hard, employers will be reluctant to hire employees and will only hire the ones that they are confident will do well. This usually makes it very hard to get started in an industry, because companies are leery of workers without experience.

> Why employ these people? In western europe the common song and dance routine is a calvinistic 'because work is good for you, otherwise they'd be lazy gits'... at which point apparently the argument becomes: The employers of the notion must carry the burden of dealing with these folks, for the good of society.

This doesn't seem to be the case seeing as how most of Western Europe has a higher unemployment rate than the US.

> In the US and a lot of right wing euro parties the sentiment is more: Well, they are lazy! I don't wanna pay taxes to enable these morons. Except that is an economic falsehood; they drag society down no matter what you do. I guess unless you're willing to take the moral position of just casually killing them in a way that is really cheap and easy (and thus, probably quite imprecise – few to no people are morally okay with this I assume), you just have to grin and bear it. Yeah, they drag a bit. It's fine; the economy can easily accomodate them.

You're seriously saying that if we don't employ people who are incapable of doing their jobs, then the only other option is summary execution? This is absurd to the point that I can only assume this is a bad joke.

The much more likely approach is to let them continue to be unemployed and search for a job that they are capable of doing.

> The point is: A system that does let such people be employed here and there for a while is not inherently better than one that does not, and, 0% unemployment is a crazy goal.

0% unemployment is a crazy goal and I don't know why you seem to think that making it harder or easier to fire employees will ever bring it closer to zero. Even in fields where the number of job openings vastly exceed the available positions, unemployment is still usually at 1-2%.
Close ties are suspicious, strong swings in prosecution policy are also suspicious.
What's the point of the economic strength of the US, if the results of that strength disproportionately go to the so-called elites and building war machines? Healthcare, homelessness, massive inequality are perennial awkward topics for an allegedly rich country like the US.

If anything, the US should scale back profits and rebuild its social supports structures, the same structures which were torn down in the name of profit.
How does one find a cofounder?
The Story of Two boys: What remains of Napster, 20 years later
In Denmark and Germany public transportation is not always that good, they rely heavily on bikes. For instance in Madrid you can rely 100% on a nice, on time, metro system. I hope it’s different in Norway and that they also have public transport that can compete with cars. Of course bikes are good, but not all of us are ready to bike 20-30 mins to work every day in the snow during winter, or hot days during summer.
Should we be concern about our 40+ droplets with DO now? We built our business on DO, we really can go bankrupt as well as our 30+ clients if anything like this happens to us. Please change your support system ASAP otherwise we will be switching to another platform. We are expecting a very serious response from you.
Early puberty is linked to shorter adult height. A vicious cycle of poor genetic profiles eliminating themselves via offspring from the gene pool after natural selection?
"How about the ridesharing companies should provide - by law - for food and shelter "

so basically making gig workers even more dependent on the company?
for pw|lazy: https://qz.com/africa/1632111/huawei-african-union-sign-deal...
Are you sure that's the connector you mean? Most phones started using micro-USB around 2010.
Even better, categorize your app as a game. Now they're players.

Pokémon Go players don't even get paid, yet they drive from pokestop to pokestop just to earn virtual items.
It doesn't do anything directly about this. It makes it easier for you to choose other CPU's in the future. I guess Dagger as it is may _technically_ be invulnerable to spectre given it has no time reading support at all currently, but honestly part of the security here is done by the WebAssembly VM being slow enough the time spookiness doesn't happen as easily.

I think a lot of this is limited by existing OS mechanisms. I've been digging into seL4 to create a platform for WebAssembly code, but moving internationally eats up all your time. :(
It's not a problem unless you object to having your oven in a room with a toilet.
Are you dreaming?
this is exactly what some people are arguing about. they treat other people like children, and then wonder why they aren't getting votes.
Categorizing contract workers as employees and forbidding or limiting child labor are vastly different situations. I can only assume that this is some failed attempt at a joke.

Child labor laws prevented parents from sacrificing their children' educations to use them for immediate economic gain. This is not at all related to extending employee benefits to contract workers that set their own hours.
What we need is more billionaires interested in dealing with climate change.

And by 'dealing with', I don't mean 'flying off, and leaving the rest of us to deal with the shit.'
Search is just one big example. If you say search hasn't improved humanity then you're a delusional troll.
Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
"war on cars" ? It's returning the streets to the people!

> Late last year, the government removed some 700 parking spaces from the city centre, replacing them with benches, bicycle docks and more pavement.

Great! The average parking space is 2*6 metres, so they've regained 8,400 sqm of public space!
So why don't they go work there then? Come back when you have an answer.
How did you know 30mph is the right average speed? For instance, average driving speed in Manhattan in 2016 was 7.1mph.

Your working time calculation also needs to consider loading and unloading passengers, gaps between fares, time for comfort breaks, refueling, vehicle cleaning and maintenance, etc.
Okay, if this is real, I am concerned. We have 40+ droplets with many clients. If anything happens like this we will lose our entire operation, as well as all of our client's confidential ecommerce data.
Micro-USB was only introduced in 2007, and was uncommon before 2010 or so. Before it was available, most phones either used mini-USB or proprietary connectors.
Jeez this is scary! This very much sounds like the domain blocking incident [1] that Zoho faced sometime back.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792
Back then google loaded in a few seconds whilst the competition could take over a minute for the 99% of users who were on a 28.8k dial-up.

It's almost as if the people behind Lycos/Excite/Altavista were all using the internet via a T1 connection from their unis..
> Madrid could become first European city to scrap low-emissions zone

> Region’s likely new president Isabel Díaz Ayuso believes congestion is part of city’s cultural identity

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/31/madrid-set-to...

you win some, you lose some.
You end up with denser development.
Bless the overclockers: In the data center, liquid cooling is becoming king
Population growth is not a constant in the equation.
Yes it could if implemented properly, because land would get allocated more efficiently. For example more high rises in central locations so people could stay closer to their work. A good subreddit devoted to this subject is /r/georgism.
"Finding balance" might be a pipe dream and a trap when someone is struggling with addiction...
Is the State Department Funding Attacks on Activists?
Both as a user and as a site operator, I would much rather have a site perform poorly than have it fail to work at all.
Physicists Reverse the Flow of Time Using Quantum Computer
I think they were asking: Are they sponsoring you via "hard cash" or "merely" via services provided (e.g. DO probably via server resources)?
How does that work in the real world - do google simply not care, or it's "fair use" somehow?
Thanks for the two links. I will have a look.
I think there is big value in continuity of store of value. People will be easier to convince if they do not lose stake when forking. One would not be buying BTC if one would fear that it can be replaced easily while destroying one's savings.
HTC Hero and many other phones from that era had a mini-USB port.
> No line of JavaScript may execute more than 200 milliseconds after the last user touch/tap.

This is how Opera Mini "implements" JavaScript. The Opera Mini server will run whatever JavaScript code there is in the page for ~2 seconds. Whatever can be seen on the screen at that point is sent to the Opera Mini client.

It works good enough for things like SPAs and "click here to show more".
Arcing and corrosion isn't contagious. Humidity causes arcing and corrosion; corrosion would prevent arcing for the same reason it would prevent charging -- it increases resistance.
How does it handle transactions and locking? It seem to support multiple databases, does it handle distributed transactions?
Google has monopoly power [0] even though consumers can choose to use other search providers. They just don’t.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
CyberInt Reports: TA505 Threat Actors Strike Again with New Malware
I don't know how to put it politely, but you may be creating a problem out of nothing. If you didn't know you had a traumatic childhood, then most likely you didn't have one. No families are perfect and most parents try to do best they can, occasionally failing. Growing up is not without problems, and things turn out mostly OK most of the time. Not knowing your specifics it sounds like you try to find someone to blame and try to find some exotic condition you can identify with.
" did not validate my emotions at all growing up " -- what about giving life to you and feeding you though? What does "validating emotions" even mean. I encourage you to let this resentment go and move on with life.
Which is the most expensive watch in the world HTTP://annews24.com
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I will open source it soon!
I wonder if he really meant that though, he basically defined the terms of the cold war and the subsequent decades spanning arms race.

Not that someone can't regret having to do something they don't see an alternative to, I just wonder how sincere he was.
It appears they denied the previous petition from Google in 2015. Why is this one different?
To my knowledge, PR has long been succeeded by more sophisticated models. At one time, perhaps even now, Google had a team of mathematicians constantly tuning its ranking algorithm.

PR itself might be the foundation, but it definitely wouldn't be enough to build another Google scale system.
If you are talking about landlords as in people who own apartment buildings, Norway has had a war on those for decades, primarily via making the interest paid on your mortgage being tax deductible. Even for people below the official poverty line, owning your apartment is cheaper than renting, and there is not really the concept of a subprime mortgage, you get a good interest rate.

To wit, home ownership rate is 83%. The US and the UK are around 65%.
Yeah, that’s how it work! Will need to add help/tutorial there..
It is done on server-side
I was speaking to relative economic strength, It's not that I think the US employment rate means much either: without government debt financing deficits, US gdp would be in contraction (like nearly other OECD economy).

>If anything, the US should scale back profits and rebuild its social supports structures, the same structures which were torn down in the name of profit.

All of this sounds like more debt, which if we learned (we haven't) anything from 2008, will not solve the problems, just exacerbate it more when it blows up (again).
Not possible, client-side doesn’t have the information
A lot of words to say the obvious answer: micro is smaller, and phones are thinner now.
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I’m sorry I don’t have any link to hand that would help with writing.
What would be different today had NN passed?
This is all the more frustrating because there’s no way to have google remember “no thanks.”

Every time I see that pop up, I think “does it block pop ups like this?”
Currently in Spain for a month vacation and I was considering if I should visit Madrid.. this makes me have little interest.
What I remember reading was that Apple’s engineers did most of the design work on the physical connector itself, and were the ones pushing for it to be reversible, be usable as a laptop charging port, etc.
Other than Spain, I think the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and most of the Scandinavian countries are ones where you could get by with English while you learn the local language. Oh and of course, the UK and Ireland (if you consider those as European). Though because of that, I think its likely you will never really learn the local language because you will have no need to. In most big cities in those countries people will probably talk back to you in English even if you try and speak the local language. But it really depends on what kind of experience you want.
Was just about to comment that. They should fix the text to data oriented, not data driven.
check it http://com-me.com
The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.
Maybe they should revert back to PR to yield better Search results
Well are there any data on how much more fuzz there is to learn a domain specific language compared to a domain specific library?

Arduino "whatever it is called but really c++"-language or Warcraft 3 scenario language are kinda nice for what they are.
Thank you. I wondered if my phrasing was that bad.
"if you didn't know you had a traumatic childhood, then most likely you didn't have one."

Not sure I follow this logic.
It is a bigger deal in the developing world where these phones will end up in 5 years.
Server is the single-source-of-truth and only share the info about card value/suit when clicking your own card or common cards
Off topic : Publication should really stop using such extreme expressions for what is essentially simple progressive policies.

"War on cars" really? Are they banning cars from ever entering the capital?

The whole thing is more like "Govt. is actively discouraging usage of cars"
i present you with an 18th century australian shield being claimed:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/aboriginal-m...

> An Aboriginal man demanding the return of an ancestral shield seized by James Cook in 1770 has become the first living member of his clan to hold it after being invited to a private viewing by the British Museum.

> Mr Kelly said repatriation was important in light of “all the stuff that’s happened in the past” and it would be a “huge moment in time to have the British Museum and others actually return things to the Aboriginal people because it would be a great step towards the healing process.”

> Mr Kelly’s claim to the artefacts has been backed by a motion passed in 2016 by New South Wales’ parliament, which acknowledged his clan as the shield’s rightful owners; Australia’s Senate followed suit two months later.

I would love to read how they came to that conclusion.
Maybe, let’s see..
i did include an install.sh, so you just have to run that.
what do you suggest to do to make it more simpler and easy?
I thought that was called carpooling.
Thanks! Here’s how they’re done:
https://medium.com/@pakastin/javascript-playing-cards-part-3...
I completely redesigned the card faces – 3 and J was hard to distinguish..

https://deck.of.cards
From the UK. Whereas if he had he gone to face trial in Sweden in the first place, he would have to be extradited from Sweden.
node.js + express + MongoDB + socket.io
Sure, SQL is powerful and I agree that any alternative would also bring its own complexity. However, my concerns are more about encapsulation rather than expressiveness and conciseness. Even if a watermark is used the same way in different queries, I will have to use the same query clause again and again; as I already have to with the join conditions. Not a fundamental issue, but something which makes me more difficult to focus on the kernel of a query.
So, to be clear, you are saying they were being altruistic and purely motivated by the desire to push forward web standards, and that this is entirely unrelated to the business they run?
>Misleading sales is bad sales.

True, unfortunately it’s also the majority of sales.
This “eat your own dog food” myth at Microsoft never dies, does it?
Sadly enough, yes. I'm sure that it's covered in DO's ToS.

But the DO CTO did basically admit fault in a public forum.
> How did you know 30mph is the right average speed? For instance, average driving speed in Manhattan in 2016 was 7.1mph.

And on the highway, it's 60-80 MPH. It could very well be under 160 hours.

> Your working time calculation also needs to consider loading and unloading passengers, gaps between fares, time for comfort breaks, refueling, vehicle cleaning and maintenance, etc.

True, and the 5000 mile count also needs to subtract driving for personal reasons. Judging by the previous comment the figure of 5000 was not limited to miles specifically driven for Uber.
Source is probably controversial, but I'm interested in refutations: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
And gig labor laws could prevent people from sacrificing their healthcare and other benefits for immediate economic gain. Uber's, cause the drivers aren't gaining much, apparently.
I see that Vox is hyperventilating again.
Except we never called that "ridesharing". It was just "carpooling".

As much as I hate the term ridesharing, since it doesn't actually describe what these companies and drivers do, it's not like it was a widely-used term that's been redefined over the past decade.
Could be that there is a kind of developmental switch. If life is tough as a child, it makes sense to speed up development to improve odds of survival. If you find yourself in a safe, loving and caring place, then you have the option of spending more time and energy developing the brain.

> life was hardship and adversity

Not necessarily. Many argue that hunters and gatherers lived a much better life than during most of recorded history. There is plenty of evidence for this. It's entirely possible that a child would find itself in a small, well functioning group of people, without any major adversity during childhood.
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You're arguing here against something I didn't say. You took one word from my statement -- "illiterate" -- and built a whole new argument around it which was never mine to begin with. I don't think you're doing it intentionally, I suspect it's just because you have a particular sensitivity on this subject. Either way I don't think I can say anything here that'll get a fair treatment from you.
spoken like a true bureaucrat
Wait a few decades and see if it exuberant growth ... What I think is that we might price natural resources much more expensively. Higher Price and thus growth is not always synonymous with more resources. It is an approximation but better means higher price not more resources.