skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> had no incentive to make them lighter

Didn't they? I mean, I figure everybody read the case studies about page load time and user abandonment. My experience is that those who built a leaner mobile version of their desktop site were also mostly the ones that built an AMP version (WP + "I'll just install a plugin and see what happens" left aside), while those that never cared about mobile users still don't.

Does AMP deliver better rankings? I haven't seen that on sites that I'm affiliated with, but that may be niche specific or the improvement wasn't big enough to go from 4 to 3 etc.
OctoLinker: a browser extension for GitHub
So how do people now see whales or dolphins?
"Northeast Philly is the new Williamsburg"

That's a bit of a stretch...
Who exactly is buying Android phones based on the premise of openness vs "they're cheaper", "it was a subsidized new phone from my carrier"?
I'm not sure. bitL deleted his/her earlier response saying we had to test it for ourselves
Mouse+PS/2+via+Serial+Port+C#
In Arizona, every stick-and-stucco house has (or will have) termites. The inspector already knows the answer before he shows up. You pay for "treatment" each time the places changes owners.

When I sold my first house, The buyer's inspector "discovered" termites which would need treatment. However, I had preemptively paid a professional to do treatment just two weeks earlier. When I told the new inspector this, he called the previous inspector. After talking on the phone for 2 minutes, they agreed that I was termite free!

As long as someone got paid for treatment, they were happy. I doubt the buyer knew it went down that way.
The housing boom of the last few decades is a 'very specific unusual market condition'. Is it realistic for housing prices to keep rising at their current rate?

Also in your cost calculation did you include the rate of return you would've made of your principal by putting it into equities? I imagine if you bought in 2006 and held you would be very happy right now.
> If other people did this, but ended up doing it from an insecure machine and lost the credentials / got hacked, I can see why at least some orgs might want to prevent people from doing this.

The measure is not really about protecting the user that is using the payment form, it is meant to "protect" the system that is validating the payment data. The payment form may be a target for attacker which has gotten a large batch of credit cards from somewhere else, and wants to validate the data. They then regularly exploit such forms, or other naive payment system to check if the credit card data is valid.

CandyJapan owner wrote some blog posts about the subject.

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi...

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/candy-japan-hit...

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/fraudulent-tran...
so, a headsoup approved dopamine rewards system? Which is of course different from all other types, 'because'.
Oh, it definitely feels annoying and invasive. Without sandboxing, the options are invasive MDM (because that's the only kind possible) and no MDM at all.

I once watched an employer go from unwilling to adopt MDM to requiring it for accessing substantive systems on personal devices. The CEO lost his phone, and suddenly appreciated what MDM was good for.

Users were given a choice: MDM, sandboxed if they had a device with modern technology, or no significant access on personal devices. A lot of users had phones that didn't offer sandboxing, so myself and several others found ourselves explaining quite often that there literally was no option available where remote wipe wasn't possible. If they didn't like that, well, they didn't actually need access from their phones, so...

Anyway. I'm quite glad Apple is starting to actually catch up a bit.
India has the highest rates of depression and one of the highest rates of heart disease, I posit this is because their exceptionally low intake of nutrition from animals.

Hong Kong, with the highest consumption of meat per capita, has the highest life expectancy in the world.
Ya don't
Smartphones rob users of the ability to communicate person-to-person.

Visit any restaurant and you'll find example after example of people worshiping at their private electronic altars despite the presence of friends and family.

Or try having a conversation with almost anyone with a smartphone. The minute a notification goes off, they're gone. Master calls, bye.

It's a vicious cycle. Greater isolation leads to greater dependence on the fake bullshit being spewed.

It's kind of comical to see geezers doing this. But to see it in young adults is terrifying. They're going to fight this addiction until the day they die. Most won't even know what's wrong with their lives because they've never seen anything else.
9-year-old pays off lunch debt for his class after saving his allowance
I believe it will one day be possible to use AI techniques to communicate directly with these animals.

I have often thought about running whale song through a RNN and broadcasting underwater to listen for responses.

We don't need to go to other planets to find intelligent nonhuman life, it is already here and we are wiping them out and enslaving them.

Our grandchildren will learn about this genocide in the same way we learn about the holocaust and conquering of the Americas.
What websites need to not only regularly preload+prerender other webpages but also webpages outside their trustzone? And when does the performance of half a millisecond matter?
Automats were a thing until the 1970s or so.

And you also had delivery services before the Internet. Delivery services would hand a book full of menus along with a page containing their phone number. You call the number, order off the menus, food gets to your door, and you pay. Works just like ordering a pizza used to.
> Novels have been written on smartphones.

There's no accounting for masochists I suppose. That's like saying its possible to beat Dark Souls with a Guitar Hero controller. It may be technically true but that doesn't mean anyone should ever do it.
That's exactly what time zones are supposed to solve. Sounds like your country has multiple time zones, but doesn't want to call them that.
Just something like a Blackberry is decent.. Where you have a screen, that you look at, and buttons that you press with your fingers. Not a screen that you cover with your fingers and also a haptically featureless screen that you press with your fingers.

Handheld gaming devices are actually often well designed, eg. Gameboy, PSP.

Gaming consoles have a long heritage of being able to navigate complex menus and perform complex tasks on with just a controller (eg. Mario-maker, LittleBigPlanet)

Phones / tablets are fine for just faffing about on, but that is all they have been designed for imo.

I think a pocket computer designed for actually doing stuff on might resemble a weird Blackberry / PSP hybrid.
It’s works exactly the same way on Linux. Neither kernel nor file system changes the bytes passed from userspace to kernel, regardless whether they are valid UTF-8 or not.

Pass invalid UTF-8 file name, and these exact bytes will be written to the drive. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/ext4.html says “the file name provided by userspace is a byte-per-byte match to what is actually written in the disk”

Also try this test: https://gist.github.com/Const-me/dcdc40b206fe41ba200fa46b2e1... Runs just fine on my system.
You just have to buy one of them. But grabbing one for yourself you may decide that thin is better after all.
Nothing is in the same ballpark as red meat in terms of nutrition density and bioavailability.
I grew up with zoos and aquariums, and I have fond memories of them. But of course, I wasn't kept in one. And furthermore... Zoos and aquariums are not nature. They are exhibits in a kind of museum.

If we want people to see nature, we have to preserve actual nature and encourage people to visit it. Visiting a zoo is not visiting nature, and I personally worry that equivocating the two is dangerous.

I would not want people to get the impression that as long as we keep a few breeding pairs of every animal in our museums, there is no need to preserve places for them to live in actual nature.
Hypercard...just that name brings back a flood of almost forgotten memories that harken back to the 1990-1991. At that time, unless your parents were rich or you sold drugs or something, you couldn't afford to pay the $5/hr that The Source or Compuserve charged, so of course, you called your local BBSs.

I was deeply involved with BBS software development at the time, and after 2 years of futzing with ANSI graphics, the whole BBS community was looking for a new terminal paradigm, something that would (finally!) allows us to display pictures (porn?), change fonts, and even stream video (oh, the raw ambition).

Back then, your modem dialer was also your software terminal (yeah, makes perfect sense right?). Soft terminals emulated popular-but-limited UNIX-based hard terminals like VT52 or VT100 etc. Remember, software used to be EXPENSIVE because, of course, memory was expensive!

Oh yeah, Hypercard...so I remember discussing the problem with my partner, Tim Stark, and the folks at Galacticomm, the BBS company we worked with. Someone mentioned Hypercard as an almost ideal paradigm for building a frontend that allowed for hot-linking of text, graphics, and sound.

We actually built basic hypercard functionality into our flagship product, Magisearch, that I still contend was one of the very first online search engines ever created for general purpose online searching. We quickly realized that since we already had the indexes built for all the documents, or pages, we could quickly scan the returned text and highlight any already indexed words and "link" them.

Then one day, a true programming genius (I unfortunately cannot remember his name this morning, and thats a shame because he deserves full credit for his efforts) dropped a floppy on my desk and said "run it"...and up came a hybrid dialer/BROWSER!

This guy had done it!! I can't remember what he called the product, but I'll never forget the date...January 19th, 1993...my mom's birthday. Our BBSes were finally going to have rich text capabilities...hyperstacks!

And then came January 23rd and I product I DO remember the name of, Mosaic, dropped, signalling the end for BBS's and my software business.
James Lovelock: “in 20 years global warming will hit the fan” (2008)
I work on an older project with some folks that never got the memo about tables being evil for layout. In my experience, they've actually been quite easy to work with. Granted, we develop for a fixed screen width. Why were tables declared evil?
Show HN: Welcome Makes Travel Easier
Let’s hope this will soon be extended to other animals like bears, mountain lions and other who have huge ranges they usually live in. They develop a lot of psychotic behavior in captivity like constant pacing and others. Not sure if it’s much better but at a minimum they should be kept in large areas like parks where you then drive through so they have some area to roam.
Using the "web" thing takes me here:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/living-on-the-wrong-side-of-a-...

You can see there are huge cultural differences in a couple of places that could account for all of it. I agree, checking the local difference is a decent way to falsify this stinker. Bootstrapping a few states in and out of the data set would do so also.
The math might not work out as poorly as you imagine. I don't know the exact numbers for Sweden, but in Canada (where insurance is required for downpayment less than 20%), putting 5% is actually not a bad move, even if you have 20% down ready, because, similar to the arguments for rent, you can invest the difference and make similar returns to the extra costs for the mortgage.
Now I almost feel less disturbed about a prison that puts on a rodeo in my state.
I dont really get notification mania either. We switched from voice calls to text to avoid constant distractions and now this. Thankfully they are easy to turn off
I think this is a blatantly false statement. Ask anyone who actually requires accessibility features how they feel about the modern web.
The limits do seem low (one doc every 4 seconds for synchronous calls). However, from the doc you linked:

"Amazon Textract has the following limits that you can change."

So I think you can just file a support ticket and get these limits changed.

Here's limits that can't be changed:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/limits.html
>I bet Mr. Tim Cook has not said more than a few sentences regarding this case.

Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmd9a5/tim-cook-to-invest...
I will go even further... I had the original “Kodak Gallery”...

Amazing how I still have photos from “way back when”
I've had this idea of starting a SaaS of sorts which delivers a bunch of functionality supplied by apps and web pages over SMS. Back in the early 2000's using my Blackberry 7290 I was able to access all kinds of information by texting to various short codes.

Does anyone here think there's a demand for this type of service anymore. It seems a lot of folks just want talk and text with access to some information like news headlines, weather reports, sports scores etc. All doable over SMS.
My pragmatic way is to make one design/markup for small screens and one for big screens, and toggle the visibility of those two with media queries.

Often we want a completely different layout for mobile, and to focus on different data. Shoehorning the same markup for both cases just makes it harder to work with.
And even if WE did implement it quickly and efficiency, and it works as intended, how do you convinced the other countries responsible for the other 85% of global carbon emissions to care?
Over the years the film industry has suffered enormous losses as well, in part because early movies used nitrocellulose based film stock which is highly flammable and susceptible to spontaneous combustion. The 1937 Fox vault fire is one of many examples of film loss that has continued to the present [0]. Sadly, the existence of a large number of silent movies is only known through reviews, film posters and past recollections of participants. Similarly, a great deal of video has been discarded, lost or reused. If I recall correctly some of the earliest Dr. Who episodes have been lost because the media on which they were recorded was reused.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire
Adapting Alexa to Regional Language Variations
That was a great article. I wonder if fixing the reliability of their performance counters to work with rr ( https://rr-project.org/ ) is anywhere on their radar.

Sadly, until that happens, AMD CPUs are dead to me. For a C++ (or C or Rust) developer, rr is just too much of a productivity boost to give up.
Nice reference - https://youtu.be/g789wC9YhCw
Rodeo is animal abuse so I don’t support that. But otherwise it’s good for prisoners to have something to do. I have read about programs where they train dogs. If i was in prison I’d be happy to do that.
I understand your point, but I guess I just wish it wasn't an "either or" world, so we both could enjoy the web how we would respectively like. Why won't Google let us have both? Right now, I don't believe there is a way to disable AMP (unless you use like a Firefox mobile extension for that specific use case). That's what bothers me the most, personally. Google shoving it down our throats, and force feeding us AMP is so user hostile. Let the user decide, even if it was hidden under a super obscure setting in something like chrome://flags/, that'd be better. It's a simple win-win for everyone.
The battery limitation is pretty much inherent to portable devices. I took liberty to interpret the article as "how could smartphones be better". If the point is literally "smartphones suck", then I guess, okay, they do. Case closed, we all can go home now.
finally.

it's a thrice-removed description, but at a surface level it sounds better than android profiles, at least for work/home device sharing.

for sharing with family members (parents/kids, eg) it doesn't sound so awesome. hey, if it means kids have to have their own tablet, well more power to apple then!
Studios used to give discounts to movie rental companies. An old girlfriend of mine managed one about $15 years ago and I seem to remember the prices for new DVDs being $4-6 on the order form. This was for movies that retailed in the $15-20 range.

I think what happened is they started selling to Walmart et al for the same price.
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This is obviously a bad idea. It costs nothing for an attacker to send 3 http requests, every minute, every hour, all day. They could lock your account basically forever. IP filtering and locking accounts are terrible ways of preventing password spraying.
I like the idea of getting rid of my smart phone, and I don't really have the "addiction" a lot of people seem to have, but every time I think about getting rid of it, I'm stopped because:

1) Maps/GPS for driving

2) Ride Sharing apps

3) Web browser for quick googling when I'm out

I can live without access to phone games or the reddit app, but it would be enough of a burden for me to not have access to these three things that I don't see myself dropping a smart phone any time soon.
The "power in another industry" part. What part of that wasn't clear to you?

Which market is Google unfairly benefiting/profiting in, by leveraging its market share in search?
Grasshoppers are pretty nutritious, and didn't the UN want people to use more micro-livestock?
Instead of spraying poison everywhere, develop a new market.
The friend referenced gave the strong impression that things did not appear above board. This was a late career individual and stated that they had never seen anything like it.

They didn't provide any details beyond that. It's possible that the individual had just never experienced any legal compliance training, but based on their role I certainly expect they had.
Speaking as someone from a non changing timezone, (Phoenix area) I can tell you I am much better rested than I was living where the time changed. I dont care if you fix the time at DST or ST, not changing the time is better for you IMO.
>I am aware of the difference. If you look at their numbers, their literal unit economics are negative, if you employ normal EBITDA.

I don't think you are aware of the difference. EBITDA takes overhead into account and is not unit economics.
Here is a good guide to apply to tables used on the web

https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables/
This kind of e-scooter is illegal to use anywhere in the UK, because they don't comply with EN15194 - you can't use them on the road because they don't meet the standards for a motorcycle, nor can you use them on pavements or cycle lanes. The government has mooted creating new regulations to legalise e-scooters, but we're a bit preoccupied at the moment with, well, you know.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/09/electric-sco...
> AMP is my only option of getting de-bloated webpages

It isn't, though. Plenty of sites out there are de-bloated, and things like Reader Mode in browsers makes the rest work just fine.
I'm not so sure. Big brain not the same as 'intelligent'.

A story: every year a Japanese dog food company goes to a certain island lagoon where dolphins migrate to reproduce. They net and kill thousands and take them away.

Each year some dolphins escape, inevitably. They swim around for a year, and then the next year come back (with many other dolphins) to the lagoon, and likely get netted and killed.

Didn't they remember what happened? Didn't they communicate it to other dolphins? Don't they care?

I have to conclude either

Dolphins are not smart enough to remember from year to year,

or Dolphins can't communicate with other dolphins in a sophisticated enough way to say "danger! evil here!" which is pretty basic,

or Dolphins are dicks and don't care if other dolphins are killed,

or heck, maybe Dolphins, like Klingons, enjoy the challenge? "Today is a good day to die!"

I conclude that, in none of these scenarios, is there much wrong with killing dolphins for dog food. Not in a 'killing our sentient brothers!' way.
Indeed, and this article highlights a very thorny political issue - if a carbon tax was in place, would this finding mean it would have 100x the impact on food prices that was modeled?

If a carbon tax is so high that fertiliser becomes uneconomic to use (which is sorta the goal of a carbon tax at some point, to squeeze people who emit so they behave differently) that is maybe going to start impacting food prices. Somebody is going to feel that. As a political topic fertiliser needs careful handling.
Back then I used Hypercard to design UIs, made it really easy to prototype stuff so that product people could understand. I think Hypercard is Bill Atkinson's biggest gift to humanity (even more so than Quickdraw).
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After thinking about this over night I do believe that the difference between Zuckerberg and Gates is telling.

It used to be that having Harvard on your resume did not mean much in tech since it was not considered a tech school. The feel of the valley changed when John Sculley took over Apple since he was not at all a tech guy. This is just based on my gut, but I saw more Harvard alums after Sculley then before Sculley.

So I looked up the top schools for tech CEOs. This is the ranking of schools with the most CEOs with first round of funding. There were a few surprises for me.
1. Stanford
2. UC Berkeley
3. U of Pennsylvania
4. Harvard
5. MIT
6. Cornell
7. U of Michigan
8. U of Texas
9. Carnagie Mellon
10. IIT

Stanford and Berkeley were not a surprise since I have worked at a bunch of companies founded by Stanford and Berkeley alumni. IIT and MIT were also not surprises.

One thing that skews the results is that a bunch of schools provide masters programs to already successful professionals - so it is not clear that they actually contributed to the success of the alumni.
Pages being heavy is just the justification Google used to implement AMP. They should have prioritised search results based on page size (they have the data) instead to reach the same goal.

(AMP isn't even that light - Google preloads pages in its AMP carousel, using bandwidth whether you tap to view them or not)
Unfortunately, Google can rank by whatever criteria they want and we are forced to implement it. And it isn't always in the best interest of the end user.

E.g. at a company we had to add "useless" content on our shop pages, otherwise google ranked the pages lower due to having not enough content.
But do you want a 9 AM sunrise?
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Welcome's a travel app (iOS currently) which helps navigate new destinations on the fly. You can leave tips, ask your friends for tips, skip boring stuff, or lock in your favorites to have Welcome sweat the planning while you wander and enjoy. If you go off plan, no biggie. The app adjusts to wherever you are and picks out the best venues.

Here's a writeup on Techcrunch with more details https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/welcome-launch/
Gave this a try earlier - had to install their demo Python to get a "real" text file output (ie with words assembled into paragraphs); it was both slower and less correct than `tesseract` for my sample files (an alumni letter, a shopping receipt).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
Printed to PDF the piece runs 36 pages, about 12,000 words, or roughly an hour's read.

It is long.
> Why were tables declared evil?

If you use them for layout, you're not respecting the semantic meaning of tags.
Agree. I was screaming inside my head the whole time, "Where is it?" IMO, this article is very poorly written.