skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Think about it - tabs are simply a crutch to have a small set of webpages ready-loaded and quick to switch to!

Usually not because the page takes long to load, but because we need to quickly switch between contexts. The biggest slow down here is not the page load speed, but the _human_ interactions required to get to that other context. Tabs exist because we don't have enough screen real estate to display all the multiple contexts we need at the same time.

Frankly I don't perceive a performance difference between AMP results and regular results. There are abysmally slow pages, but those are the minority of pages I visit, and they often do not invest in AMPifying their page.

I mean really, if AMP was so valued by users, Google wouldn't have to artificially pin all AMP results at the top of their search results. They wouldn't have to limit the ability to opt-out. They could offer an AMP sibling result and see which one wins out the SEO war. But by forcing AMP links to the top, they force publishers to give over their content to Google's servers or be dropped from search results. This is a monopolizing play, not an openness play.
DDG is deceptive about their sources.

For example, DDG says they aggregate search results from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex. Well, Yahoo switched to Bing search results about a decade ago, and Yandex is only really useful for Russian websites. So unless you're searching in Russian, you're getting Bing search results.

DDG also claims they index hundreds of independent sources - by which it means individual web pages. By that logic, Google and Bing index billions of sources compared to DDG's four hundred or so, which end up being redundant to Bing's indexed results anyways.
Big data is mainly a marketing term to me. I've been involved in a Big Data project that wasn't because someone wanted to massage their CV with fancy tech. With current multicore machines and SSDs or cheap spinny disks you can hold and process incredible amounts of data.

So, serious question, how do you define big data? By some size threshold, or "it can't possibly be done on a single box", or something else?

And If I may, what is the BD work that you do (feel free to decline that one).

TIA
This article comparing SOM and COM was written by Don Box. (first archived in January 1999, but doesn't say when published):

The Component Object Model and Some Other Model:
A comparison of technologies revisited yet again:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990127184653/http://www.develo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

It was in response to IBM's somewhat misleading article comparing their SOM with Microsoft COM, last updated July 1994:

The System Object Model (SOM) and the Component Object Model (COM): A comparison of technologies summarized

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117055950/http://www.develo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model

Don Box wrote an excellent in-depth book about COM: "Essential COM": "Nobody explains COM better than Don Box" -Charlie Kindel, COM Guy, Microsoft Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Box

https://archive.org/details/essentialcom00boxd

Unfortunately COM had the most un-googlable name possible (even before there was a Google), so Microsoft renamed it ActiveX.

For more comtext, here are some notes I wrote about Win32, COM, OLE, OLE Controls, and ActiveX in 1996:

https://donhopkins.com/home/interval/pluggers/win32.html

https://donhopkins.com/home/interval/pluggers/com.html

https://donhopkins.com/home/interval/pluggers/ole.html

https://donhopkins.com/home/interval/pluggers/olecontrols.ht...

https://donhopkins.com/home/interval/pluggers/activex.html

Here's a synopsis of COM I wrote in response to "Can someone link to a synopsis describing what "COM" is? It's hard to search for. (e.g. microsoft com visual studio)":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975257

Don't get me wrong: I'm not advocating everybody jump on the COM bandwagon! I just think it's interesting and useful to know where it came from, how it evolved, what different layers were built on top of it, and how it compared to the alternatives at the time it was designed. And it's still pretty widely used, and will probably never go away.

It certainly had a lot of problems and limitations, and OLE/ActiveX/DCOM/DirectX/etc took it way too far, then Mozilla XP/COM cloned it and also took it way too far (and then back again: see "decomification" and "decomtamination"), but it really was a pretty elegant and successful solution to the problems it was designed to address at the time.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:DeCOMtamination

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12968830

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specif...

It's always good to study history to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past!

WebAssembly is going through a similar evolution, and might benefit from some of the lessons of COM and SOM.
Do they need it, or just try to use it?
John Simerlink | Columbus, OH.

Doing real estate + full-stack consulting and once I get some more passive income, am going to transition fully to making ed tech products

https://edtechshop.co

Would love to chat with you. I visit Chicago every once in a while
1 runs RISCOS so I can run old beeb games on and emulator;

1 keeps a log of temperature/pressure/humidity using sense hat;

1 has a backup of my photos on an external hd (and also has an sds011 dust sensor (https://github.com/glgraca/sds011).

But my best project has been a picture frame using a Pi Zero W that receives photos via Telegram. My kids' grandparents have this also and they love it (https://github.com/glgraca/PiFrame).

I once took one on a holiday to watch Netflix at night.
Frankly, I am waiting for the five. Basically, I prefer prime numbered versions of things. ;)
The US is a big place, and schools vary wildly.
It's not just one random counterexample. Knowing how code relates to a business has a lot more to do with how long you have been in that particular business or vertical than your general experience.

That 25 year old who was at the company since they started 3 years ago is going to know a lot more than that 40 year old who just came in yesterday.

Besides that, I did say 10+ years. The whole point is diminishing returns from experience.
It's more that Everest is the highest peak in the world. If there was another mountain 10m higher than Everest, Everest would get 5-10% of the traffic it currently does.

How many people know the second highest mountain in the world? It's K2, most people have at least heard of it. How about the third highest? Kangchenjunga. Never heard of it, had to Google it.

So for people who want a recognizable achievement, Everest is pretty much the top. Not just in climbing, but any physical achievement. Unless Nepal restricts the number of climbers, it will only get worse.
It's an energy thing. These schools were built in the 70s with 70s tech. Big windows meant lots of energy lost in heating and cooling. Or you got a school built in the 40s that did have big windows, but no AC that was sweltering for the first and last weeks/months of school.
I have seen this in Germany, people usually scavenge the rubbish at airports and stations for plastic bottles.
I have a Pi3 in a case that looks like a NES. I'm running RetroPie on it with a few ROMs I've found around the internet. It works pretty flawlessly.

When the pre-order frenzy for the Pi4 has died down, I'm going to buy a 2 or 4GB model and use it to replace the old and slow crappy Windows 10 box we're using to stream Amazon Prime stuff to our TV.
I was having this very conversation a couple of months ago with a colleague.

She is of Mexican descent and grew up relatively poor in Stockton, CA. I'm of Scot descent and grew up in a relatively poor area of rural AR. We mentioned that I acquired most of my vocabulary in my teen years through reading, and as a result sometimes use words that I've never heard spoken and am therefore apt to mispronounce them. It was much more of an issue when I was younger, but it still happens occasionally. She said she had much the same experience, and called it "code switching". I had heard the term before and knew approximately what it meant, but until then had never considered that it applied to my own experience. It absolutely does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

I'd say that it applies to Cajun and Creole as well, only more so.
I use it to take up space in my drawer of useless electronic stuff because I can never find a combination of power supply and SD card that doesn't eventually end up corrupt and unbootable.
I have one set up with the RetroPi distribution, that I carry around with me, along with two USB game-pad controllers, so I can engage in retro-gaming wherever I'm at (assuming there's an HDMI display available).

I'm also dabbling with embedding one in the gutted out shell of an old boom-box, and making it a portable Alexa-like "smart speaker" of sorts. Looking at using something like Mycroft[1] or something of that ilk.

But outside of running Mycroft or whatever, I want to load this thing down with sensors (microphone, webcam, GPS, SDR, accelerometer, temperature, humidity, ultrasonic, infrared, whatever I can) and stream the data to a server where I can do more intensive AI related work. The idea is that this thing is the front-end to experimenting with "embodied AI" and having an AI "thing" that can really sense and experience it's environment.

This whole thing is very incipient, but I'm looking at seeing what I can do with something like OpenCOG, or SOAR or ACT-R, coupled with various ML techniques, to give this thing some level of smarts.

[1]: https://mycroft.ai/
Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]
You know that the London Stock Exchange currently implements transaction taxes and that it generates billions (€3.8bn per year) yearly in revenue? [1]

How about all these other countries that have implemented or are currently implementing them? [2]

Looks like this clause is why the UK was successful while Sweden may not have been: "The tax is charged whether the transaction takes place in the UK or overseas, and whether either party is resident of the UK or not."

Clearly the UK being a much larger securities market is a much better parallel to the US than Sweden. It all probably comes down to the implementation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Unit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Unit...
It is true that Japan has different culture. Japanese Prefer returning it to police station than directly contacting owners. Guess what? CHINA HAS DIFFERENT CULTURE TOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Only a few Chinese use email in their daily life(According to the research on China Internet by government in 2018, more than 60% emails have been abondoned over a year), they prefer WeChat(An communication app like WhatsApp) and phone call. Also more than half Chinese prefer to return it to lost and found place or just wait at the original place in case the owner return back but can’t find his purse.
In what universe can researchers consider Japanese culture but ignore Chinese culture? Especially when both of them are Asia countries. Just like I can’t imagine a research have considered Canada culture but ignored U.S. culture. It is reasonable and logical to doubt the researchers are raciests. Shame on you, Science, for letting racists’ article being published.
Boo! Might have to reconsider then. I used the Pi Zero W for FullPageOS for a while but performance was absolutely terrible, recently switched it out with the Raspberry Pi 3.

The Pi Zero really has an awesome form factor, but many of the projects I come up with either require more performance (i.e. needing a Rasperry Pi 3) or are simply better suited for a microcontroller such an ESP32 or ESP8266.
Is it HTCPCP-enabled? Inquiring minds want to know!
More precisely, it is deaths per 100,000 people from the target group. I think the parent is interpreting it as "suicides by white people per 100,000 people in the general population", when it is actually "suicides per 100,000 white people."
3 rpi w 8mb camera to create a HD CCTV.
2 rpi to serving to 2 viewsonic touch screen
1 backing up PROD server
I have one running pi-hole and Ubiqiti controller (powered by my router's usb port), one sitting under the TV running Kodi connected to a NAS, avoiding the need for discs (big plus when you have small children), one sat next to an old hi-fi which also links to the NAS and lets me stream music to the hi-fi, and a couple of older ones which aren't connected to anything having been replaced with newer models. Oh, and a Zero, which I've never found a use for.
I have one with a DAC running shairport-sync to recieve audio from iPhone and one running pihole.
Deepfake Videos Could Destroy Trust in Society – Here’s How to Restore It
Also Seznam, which is basically the Czech Republic's Yandex.
One RPi 2 for RetroPi, one RPi 3 for PiHole & PiVPN and one RPi 3 running motioneye as a security camera.
My statement was referring specifically to an "individual contributor" and I said as much in the original post. If you are a team lead, by definition you aren't just an "individual contributor" and you're also not the "10x developer". Your increased effectiveness is because you have a team under you and you are a "force multiplier".

but "careful, paranoid engineering" does too. Almost by definition, your really junior employees don't really know how to do the latter. (They'll often be able to cargo cult it, which can be a start, but they won't really understand it.)

I also specifically said the difference between someone with 10 years of experience and someone with 20 years experience. If you have 10 years of experience -- you hopefully aren't a "really junior employee".
I love and hate this question! I've always been curious what others do with them, but I just convinced myself not to buy a 4 and I'm sure this thread will give me reason to reconsider.

-1x Raspberry Pi Zero W in my garage running my drip irrigation (a relay board connects it to standard 24V irrigation solenoids)

-1x Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in my office running a dynamic dns script and sitting behind a forwarded port for easy sshing. I have also used this to play with pihole and Apache Guacamole, plus whatever other networking stuff sounds interesting

-1x Raspberry Pi Zero W hopping between my garage and car running a program that collects and displays OBDII and GPS data

-Nx of most other Pi revisions collecting dust in my closets and storage areas. They're cheap enough that I've compulsively over-purchased them over the years...
I have one set up as a sprinkler timer (https://github.com/callahanrts/sprinklers). Scheduling my sprinklers with cron jobs gives me a lot more flexibility over water times. It also runs a local webserver so I can turn a zone on for just a few seconds when I'm fixing a leak.
I wonder if this could be connected to Colin Woodard's argument in his book American Nations (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670022969/) that there are eleven basic regional cultures in North America. According to his map (https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/55b273a2371d2211008b9...), North Carolina sits right at the intersection of three of them -- Tidewater in the north, Deep South in the south, and Greater Appalachia in the west. You'd expect to see lots of linguistic diversity in a place where different cultures are rubbing up against each other.

Interestingly, Woodard's book echoes an earlier work, Joel Garreau's 1981 The Nine Nations of North America (https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Nations-North-America/dp/0380578...). Garreau, however, put all of NC inside his "Dixie" nation, the analogue to Woodard's "Deep South." I wonder how much of this can be chalked up to differences in methodology, and how much to demographic shifts in the three decades separating Woodard's work from Garreau's.
One raspberry pi to water the plants on my balcony every night at 4am
I have one hooked to a RTL-SDR that pulls down Earth snapshots from NOAA weather satellites.
What's the usual refrain we hear? (paraphrased) "You have no right to talk on another companies' platform." Of course, silencing, restrictions, bans, hellbans, and more are the answer by these profiteering owners.

You have have a right of speech (with very limited curtailments) in the USA... However given high density of people on limited technologies, if you're on the out, you have no effective right to speech.

And since political candidates are on there, you even lose the forum to talk with them. (AOC, Trump, other national politicians, local city councils, county councils). When the soapbox IS twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat - just how much power should the corps yield to decide who talks and who doesn't?

(I'm making an argument for a review on user density relating to a monopoly and thus significant oversight and access, esp when relating to politicians and their constituents.)
Login to Instagram(bypassing “IP secrurity”)
My problem is that i cant login to instagram accounts, because you can only login to them if you were logged in with the same ip once and i cant access the mail.
Perhaps they are in a remote location that doesn’t have data?
> If America had one of the lowest corporate tax rates many companies would locate headquarters here and bring that few percent of billions of dollar we wouldn't have otherwise.

I think the reality is that while corporations do some jurisdiction shopping, it's pretty clear that low taxes are only one part of the equation of where HQ locations are chosen.
> But interesting that there are 3G/4G differences. Have you tried to switch back?

(Luckily, I guess) I'm not on the KPN network. Just reporting what I'd read on nu.nl.
我认为这个测试存在多处可圈可点的地方。1:就很多中国人而言，实验中用到的所谓钱包更像是可以被回收的东西……2:在国内QQ 微信普及率极高的情况下，邮箱的存在逐渐无意义，用这种已经几乎被淘汰的方式来作为拾金不昧的证据实在是靠不住。3:想要得到真正的测试结果，抽样调查是不足以了解人性的，这需要融入不同的社会中，去观察，去体会，而不是站在一个道德制高点来评判其他社会如何如何。个人理解，如有相同，纯属巧合。
I didn't know about FullPageOS, very cool. For a full stack web developer, this can give you a wide range of use cases for a Pi. Thanks!
Yes, and the Show HN guidelines require a way for uses to try out the product or project. We've taken "Show HN" out of the title for now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
>When computer assistants reply in female voices, are they saying that women lack power in their world?

No.
If you don't mind me asking, which laser cutter do you have?
Excited too, but $55 + $13.95 shipping = $68.95 is inching closer to the $99 (free shipping) territory of the Jetson Nano.
The Sham of Shareholder Capitalism
>And since political candidates are on there, you even lose the forum to talk with them. (AOC, Trump, other national politicians, local city councils, county councils). When the soapbox IS twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat - just how much power should the corps yield to decide who talks and who doesn't?

Honestly, breaking up the companies will come with the added blessing that public discourse can take place on platforms that are not, structurally speaking, race-to-the-bottom garbage.
Does wind-power help with removing some of the energy from the atmosphere that global warming is putting in? Or because electricity ends up converted back into heat, does it make no difference?
I guess Elixir is "done" then? What could be the downsides to this?
Ebay is your friend.
I think it's a lousy tactic, yes. I'd much rather they release it all up front. I'll do my part to promulgate the full footage should they release it.
I've been a proponent of radix sort since long before I'd heard of this package, but I think you've completely missed my point.
I was sort of with it until it seemed to pivot abruptly into poor reasoning for breaking up big tech companies.

The article seems to make contradictory arguments that (1) censorship is good, (2) big tech is the only way censorship can be enforced, (3) big tech must be broken up to enable smaller companies.

The article also only focuses on examples of obvious right-leaning types of inflammatory content and excuses itself and its equal weight in dividing us.

NYT also presents itself as the last beacon of hope, the only place such an article could be published in the future. Which is the biggest joke in the world for free speech; just read the paper daily and you will observe that it has one of the biggest self-applied filters anywhere.

Big media doesn't like that people don't need it anymore, and it sees breaking up competing large institutions as part of what will save it.

It is trying to use its weight and influence to squelch competition, which is what it accuses others of doing. But goes one step further by asking for it to be enforced politically.

Maybe the papers should be broken up.
Also there is Dr. Atul Gawande's "The Checklist Manifesto".
It is not so much new homes for young people, as increasing housing stock. It does not matter if the new homes are bought by the young, or if they are bought by existing homeowners; who then sell their old house. Either way the effect is an additional house on the market.
Actually, I would not limit it to cars and trucks. In my opinion, every consumer device that contains software should come with the source code for the software that is installed by default (aka required to use it).

But I doubt that any popular politician will have the guts to push such a bill against all the industry lobbies :-/
Pi3 runs piaware (aircraft tracking via rtl-sdr), pivpn, and pi-hole. Another Pi Zero runs an RF hotspot for ham radio stuff.
> Raspberry Pi 3 media center

Just read theverge review on how the Pi struggles to play a video full screen, even if resolution is 480p. How are then people using it as a media center?
Having had to deal with verizon, I can vouch that this is true.
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CISA Statement on Iranian Cybersecurity Threats
I mean, it's just a DNS server right? There are probably watches that could run it.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, especially in response to someone else's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You could require some kind of audit trail for software updates. That kind of thing is not a new problem, and there are definitely technical and regulatory solutions for that.
> Your level of management involvement scales (micro to macro) as your team member becomes more senior, and you’re able to trust their work, and they’re able to trust your direction. I’ve made this mistake where I had a junior employee, gave them tons of autonomy and freedom, and they floundered and felt “unmanaged”. To me, I was just “not micro-managing” them. To them, I just wasn’t managing at all.

At work, we have job grades basically on even numbers: '4' is a fresh-out-of-college new hire, '6' would be someone with a Master's degree or a couple years' experience, '8' would be 3-5 years' experience, and so forth.

The rule of thumb I was given when talking with managers was this: you always need to regularly meet with each employee to review their list of tasks and priorities and make sure they're on track. You should meet with a '4' once a day, a '6' once a week, an '8' once a month, and a '10' (senior engineer) once a quarter. It's a rough rule of thumb, but it sets the expectations: a new hire should require more consistent contact and direction-setting than someone senior, who should be able to set directions more independently and just check in.
Brexit would also be an argument against HQing there too though...
As someone has already stated, they recycle these notes as well. Even though they're plastic, they won't last forever. It doesn't help they're high denomination and therefore less used, but I wouldn't be surprised that after about 50 years, there will be a lot less of these.

They'll be even more rare in an un-circulated state.
Add a car and student loans, a reasonable food and fitness budget, and that's all of it gone.
I actually thought that by now, in 2019, that people doing big data work understood that big data covered a vast number of processing use cases and saying "can it process big data" has about as much semantic meaning as "can it process blue". I will certainly keep that in mind from hereon out.