skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It started off strong, nicely illustrating the background leading to this mess, but then the conclusion falters, in particular the accusation of: "Don’t the makers of Search Engines know this? Of course they do. It’s just not in their interest to bring clarity." without any suggestions on what they could be doing to achieve that clarity.

To me, it sadly seems like a losing war between the SEO-spammers and the search engine developers. There's no law of nature making it possible to separate fake content from true content. If The spam is good enough, I'm not even sure a human can do it.

Maybe the concept of trust-less content distribution will have to come to an end at some point and we will start ranking searches based on more or less manually maintained trust graphs?
> Planting a tree does capture carbon. However, when it dies and rots, all the carbon gets re-released over time back into the atmosphere.

Unless you build something out of the wood, instead of using cement, for example.

Even if the tree is just left to rot or is burned, this is 50-100 years in the future. Giving the world 50-100 years of buffer time to figure out how to solve the technical and political problems around climate change is close enough to a solution that I'd take it in a heart beat!
And yet, this site had two pages made — I suspect — primarily for SEO purposes: Mailchimp Alternative and Sendgrid Alternative.

Organic search is the highest or second-highest source of traffic for every startup I know. Yes there are too many SEO charlatans, but to ignore such a large traffic source is not smart.
Edit: replied to wrong comment

Yeah this is exactly the problem.
> I recently commissioned a lab test for my drinking water and the filters appear to be very effective, although it may be the case that my city water is already high quality and arsenic-free (for now).

The wording makes it sound like you only tested your filtered water. Seems like you'd want to test both the pre-filtered and post-filtered water to really know if your filters are "very effective."
I dont know if it will be a good thing or not, but one possible consequence is that people will be less reactionary to videos, and thus videos that are taken out of context will do less harm.
No, WebKit is an engine. It ships with small demo browsers for some platforms (minibrowser for gtk, at least) but that's it.

You might be confused by Apple calling its nightly Safari builds "WebKit technical preview" or whatever. It (used to) show up as "WebKit.app", but it's literally Apple Safari.
I believe they've u-turned on it now but I was thinking of this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/...

(from Google AMP because I'm on mobile and haven't made the switch on mobile yet)

As I say I'm not particularly concerned personally about not being able to use ad-blocking but it points to an abuse of monopoly power.
It also is not comfortable, nor ergonomic (using the laptop without external peripherals).
A similar language is used for kdb+.
> I don't think you understand the urgency. Runaway heating has started. We don't have 20 years. A draconianly high CO2 tax is our only hope.

If you believe that I don’t understand the urgency I was being unclear. What I’m saying is that when I’m been reading more on the subject I have started to believe less in a co2 tax. I much rather have for example draconian building standards because I believe that will give more bang for the buck than co2 taxes.
A new type of employment fund for the knowledge workers of tomorrow
Parent is almost certainly referring to KDB https://kx.com/
I don't think that's right. At least according to [0] it's neither sufficient nor even necessary to use volatile for concurrent code. My understanding is that it's really only useful for memory-mapped IO, and to get setjmp/longjmp to play nice.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/2485177
Has that changed? You are not getting an amazon domain. Names like .forest usually cost 10x more than .coms the trust in .forest is as high as .info
Yeah, I think it would need to be a language feature. Otherwise the memoization function itself, with state and conditional execution based on the state, isn't very straightforward.
I assume tor browser bundle.
Show HN:Linear algebra in F# with type-level dimension sizes and static checking
I suppose people upvoted this for the refreshing quality of a candid rant.
60% of America is overweight or obese, and America throws out enough food to feed .. a lot of people, every day. Shame me for eating meat when you stop them from overeating food full stop - and all the farm machinery and transport and packaging involved in that.

I don't have children, I don't drive them to school in a SUV or to a holiday in DisneyWorld, I have never launched a SpaceX rocket, or lived on my own in a full size house. I have never been on a cruise. I don't live or work in an air-conditioned place.

To put it bluntly, f' off about calling people "the most severe cause of climate change" for eating a beef sandwich without considering anything else. It's unhelpful, provocative, and completely incorrect.

I didn't attend an international destination wedding this year, which a lot of my family did. How many bacon sandwiches does that earn me compared to my family?

If your answer is none because climate change is a global catastrophe and everyone has to pitch in, then what incentive does that give anyone? If any carbon slack of my reduced comfort is just getting eaten up by other people's indifference, aren't I better off being indifferent as well?
My first job I accepted was a help desk tech. In 8 weeks I was a sr engineer. Why? I was the only person who stood up and suggested a way to test and isolate a problem that was happening on a few Sun servers. Mind you I had zero exp with sun at this point, but I showed initiative. This was circa 2000
Firefox is excellent on FreeBSD :P
Google any recipe, and there are at least 5 paragraphs (usually a lot more) of copy that no one will ever read, and isn't even meant for human consumption. Google "How to learn x", and you'll usually get copy written by people who know nothing about the subject, and maybe browsed Amazon for 30 minutes as research. Real, useful results that used to be the norm for Google are becoming more and more rare as time goes by.

We're bombarding ourselves with walls of human-unreadable English that we're supposed to ignore. It's like something from a stupid old sci-fi story.
I've given FF several chances and each has been awful.

Performance on my Macbook Pro is horrible. It will often peg the cpu so badly that the laptop appears to be locked up. This is a known issue which Mozilla has chosen not to address and instead seems to hope the switch to webrender will fix. I say "seems to hope" because the bug for the issue doesn't give confidence that the full cause is truly understood and specify exactly how a switch to webrender will fix it. Maybe Mozilla knows and has done testing but it certainly isn't reflected in the bug report.

Firefox on Android is bloated, slow and is a terrible UX experience. Mozilla obviously recognizes this because they have already announced an effort to completely replace it. There are other Mozilla provided browsers for Android which do perform better but they have a limited feature set compared to Firefox and don't meet my needs.
I think Tor Browser Bundle. This looks to be a dark-web page, since the TLD is .onion.
>Someone did the math and showed that a 10x return on those successful investments is the minimum for the fund as a whole to provide a good return for its LPs.

And they were called ten-baggers before they were called unicorns - roughly speaking.
I think it’s possible, it just doesn’t get a lot of attention because the scale is small.

I have friends who run small businesses and just have simple sites and blogs about their customers and they have more business than they can handle. Granted it’s just a living, but it’s almost all traffic through google through organic results.

Interestingly, their competitors frequently have these bullshit, SEO sites that come in below and able their organic results. They come and go but my friend has been around for 10 years.

Customers do mention that they like a “real” site.
It is a stereotypical "MBA" mentality of trying to cut costs with commoditized and cheap lower skilled workers even if two with an annual salary of $60k could do a far better job than outsourcing to a group which hires 50 for $20k each.

As far as I can tell it is a misguided sense of greed that paying for skill of any sort except management is a mark of failure that leaves money on the table.
Why F# syntax is not c like? That would have increased the adoption
The Polar Bear as Image of Climate Change
Mainstream OSs are good at what they do.

I think we are talking about a different niche.

If so, no need to think in terms of catch-up. Rather: work out the design values of this niche.

Lots of ideas, but this thread is already deep. I have created #dinghy on irc.freenode.org, would be interested to discuss further.
You can easily containerize dotnet core apps using Docker and host them anywhere; it's trivially easy to do so (a checkbox on your project setup page).
A carbon tax on gasoline would be smaller than existing taxes. Wood's carbon neutral. A slight increase in the price of natural gas and propane would not have a very big impact.

No comment on PM 2.5 restrictions, entirely different topic.
The irony is that this page will help improve the SEO of this domain.
YouTube feels very fast for me in Firefox. The v0 polyfill is not slow, you shouldn't notice any slowdown from it unless your hardware is really really bad.
> privileged people

I don't eat a ton of beef, but no, beef is relatively affordable (at least in America). But I do eat a lot more chicken, and not a ton of beef. With that said, I want a good steak once every few months and a burger once a week. More importantly, I don't want the government saying "thou shalt" about my beef consumption, nor do I want people finger-wagging at me about it.

America can sustainably raise cattle. She has requisite land. It seems that people are saying that because everyone else can't do it, we need to change.

This is also the tragedy of the commons. If I emit less, others will feel they can emit more. I refuse to be "the sucker" that loses this game theory problem. With that said, I don't emit that much (all things considered). My biggest carbon outputs are driving (which I have to do) and air conditioning (I will not give this up; come live in hundred-degree Texas summers without it and then tell me to give it up). So I don't consider myself to be a catastrophic contributor to any thing. Besides, would money not be better spent curing cancer? I'm not sure that I believe the "impending doom" stuff about global warming. Humans are the most remarkably adaptable species on the planet; we will adapt to a hotter earth if need be.
This is a direct effect of using search engines to navigate the web. If we'd stuck to following links curated by actual people (link-rings and other nice inventions) then we'd have never had this problem in the first place. Unfortunately the garbage is here to stay and the good content is totally drowned in a sea of trash.
Search results are so heavily weighted toward commerce, products and services because those are the people that can spend money on SEO. It's made the internet, seen through the eyes of search results, seem like an aggressive, shady market bazaar.

I try searching for anything remotely bike related, bike community, mechanical information, or just general cool bike stuff and I can't find the human community underneath all the fluff articles trying to sell me shit. The internet, as free as it is, has been overflowed with commercial activity. Which pretty closely reflects the real world, but damn that's a shame.
One nice solution would be a search engine that throws out anything related to commerce or linking to commerce.
> Are you serious? The price of the reactor is an insubstantial part of the potential cost of a nuclear accident.

I don't really follow your complaint. Yes. I don't see how the cost of the accident is relevant to the incentives a plant operator works under; the odds of an accident are lower than the odds of being hit by a car (and the effects of a car impact are worse, because someone/several somebodies will likely be dead instead of mass inconvenience as is typical in the capitalist half of all nuclear accidents). So that isn't a major risk as the engineers see it and probably won't affect any individuals behavior as much as the fact that if someone owns an expensive thing they look after it because they are not stupid.

If someone owns an asset that cost >$100 million dollars to obtain they are not going to skimp on maintenance costs in a way that risks it breaking down. Owners who can afford to buy infrastructure are going to keep it in good condition.

If you think it is worth owning something that expensive then it is worth keeping it maintained. Capitalists have a lot of problems, but they are good at maintaining capital. The idea that capitalism can't maintain capital is absurd - what type of capitalist lets their capital decay? They would cease to be capitalist by virtue of having no capital. Doing a good job of maintaining capital is one of the core tenants of capitalism as practiced. The idea that capitalism will "makes the safest nuclear power plant unsafe" is so wrong that it just needs to be called out.

Nuclear is a great example of this because - as mentioned - under capitalism the disasters have been much tamer and required more to trigger them than under an alternative system such as communism.
Same as between national military and private military.
I am not a paedophile so my browser can't open onion links.
Time flies by, right? Here's your Google Glass pull request from November 2017 with photos and everything: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/957

(I just had to dig it up to see what you mean with "nearly two years", but given that this two years post is late by a month, and you started your porting work before making that pull request, I can see why you would write that now :) )
Maybe the mentioned “consultants” told him to write an SEO rant and post it on HN? Hmm...
Ymmv but as far as I’m concerned fixing a problem by hiding the evidence and pretending it doesn’t exist does not really count.

On the contrary, this makes the problem much, much worse by the url-bar no longer being a reliable indicator of the url actually fetched.

Can’t AMP just die already? That would actually solve the problem.
CNN’s OJ Simpson Trial Page (1996)
I agree, but the test was pretty expensive (about $400) so I only opted to test the "filtered" output since that's what I end up drinking and cooking with. I would definitely like to do a comparison test in the future.
There is an important difference between saying it is invalid html, and it is invalid amp markup. An img tag will work like normal. It just won't be a valid AMP page any longer.

>if your browser doesn't have JavaScript, it's not even going to know what any of those custom tags are, is it?

It wouldn't. <noscript> tags are needed for that. But Javascript is a web standard, and this is the correct way to create new elements.
I did address the ghosting in other comments. He decided not do the assignment. We should have been more explicit and outright say that we are not a good fit, which is our mistake.
So true. Whenever I look up something now I just add Reddit afterwards. It's been working well so far, but I guess that can be manipulated as well.
> My instincts say it’s not been done because it requires lots of custom manufacturing.

Yes, but OTOH: when has that kind of technical challenge stopped a bunch of nerds before? If anything I'd expect it to provoke them to try!
It's racist when the styles that are banned are what certain ethnic groups' hair does if you don't take any special effort to style it—you just let it grow out and tend it normally—or if they're a very culturally common style among that ethnic group.

Skinheads and mohawks are banned because they are strongly associated with violence and gang activity. Are you saying it's fine to associate traditional hairstyles of those of African heritage with violence and gang activity?
LSTM Patent
We actually asked. None of them used immutable.js before, two heard about it in the past.
I'm not sure you can licence how to do x in language or y with framework in a license as the code is not being copy/pasted but rather used as documentation on how to do things.
Cool! I'll do some reading. Might make for a good project next time I'm on vacation.
I said it might be, not that it is.

Besides that, people are just too plain gullible when it comes to media. It used to be said that if it is printed it must be true, now it is 'if it is on the internet, it must be true' leading to vast numbers of people being critically mis-informed about important issues.
That is an incorrect observation. There are people making a living out of selling exact similar scripts as the OP. (Sendy comes at the top of my mind)
This has likely a lot to do with a wave of 'new' experiences in tech that possibly required a whimsical and specific curiosity, and of course a degree of 'nativism'.

When someone said something about 'digital natives' - I think he had a point. I'm 'not quite digital native' and I've never liked FB, or anything 'social media'. I think that kind of disqualifies me for such work.

Instagram, FB, Snapchat, Kik - these are as much 'social' as they are 'tech' - they are more like media shops than tech shops in many ways (or were).

So for the same reason MTV etc. (ha ha, dated reference!) are mostly young and hip, it might make sense that some companies have the same.

There's something to be said for 'doing things in a new way'.

Now, as many have noticed "there's nothing new under the sun" for the most part, and as the heady bubble bursts a little bit, I'm hoping that things become normative.

I started my career in the Valley, in Telecom, surrounded by 35-50 year old people, so brilliant, so experienced, I could barely keep up and I felt 'junior' on a daily basis.

Contrast that with my 'dot com' SF friends who were 27 and the 'oldest, most senior' folks at the company.

For the issues that I face in my work, I actually loathe to have to deal with 'fresh grads' because there's so much grindy material in the work, that one needs 'a couple of years' of experience just to be useful. For example, almost anything done in C++ ... there's so many ways to 'do it wrong', it takes some failure and good habits.

I think things will probably change as the materiality of experience becomes evident in some ways and managers catch on to that. I suggest there are probably enough companies around that do value experience.

One issue is however that 'experience' shouldn't be an excuse for complacency, nor should it excuse bad habits, not does it mean 'massive dollars' at every job. The pay scale probably starts to plateau at 5 years, maybe inching incrementally after that.
Similarly easy for Chrome - Settings -> Passwords then once OS password entered you can see each.
From what I know, one person planned to look into it, but not much has happened since then.
I end my day at 6pm, I don’t touch my laptop on most weekends, I say no to projects that I can easily solve but delays less user facing work, I get paid well into 6 figures.

Now if you asked me 20 years ago to do any of the above for a job that pays < $40k (about $65k today) I would have said yes in a heartbeat. Many late nights spent at work because they offered free pizza. Weekend work because without money what else can I do? I said yes to every project because of the fear of saying no and being replaced. And it wasn’t being replaced that bugged me out so much, it was having the find a new job.

Today I know my worth and I’ll leave a company in 30seconds if they treat me wrong. Amazing what 10+ years of experience (edit: and savings) does to your psyche. Still gotta play the game of dumb exploitable tech expert to get through interviews to negotiations, but once there get paid bruh
There was a lot of progress on the codec part by opendata27 but as you can read in the blogpost, he dissapeared sadly.

The same audio codec is also used for a bunch of sony phones with the same soc (like the Sony Xperia Z2) and Sony does contribute to the mainline kernel so there's hope there.
I believe that Onion Browser is the recommended app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448

Some discussion and notes from the Tor Project blog: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more...
Then the search engine itself would be probably thrown away :-D
Better headline would be, "Google to disguise AMP URLs"
The rule of thumb seems to be:

- If the website offers the data publicly (without authentication), it's free to scrape.

- If the data isn't protected by copyright or trademark, (e.g. public data, such as an address of a house), it's free to reuse.

- If you use the data to compete with a big company, they will sue you regardless.

Court resolutions will vary on the court and judge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues
I personally like the touchbar and I always map the Esc key to my Caps Lock key anyway, so the touchbar Esc key has never been an issue for me.
When the author says the email protocol is easy it's a pretty big giveaway that they've never actually built anything involving email. Just getting email messages to display properly on the screen is many years of work.
Can we at least not call it "dark-web" on HN? I get that media morons are trying to come up with a way to make tor sound more scary, but that's a meaningless term that IMO we should not use here.
> One of the things I don't like about webdev (among many) is that I even have to Google in the first place. Manpages are so much more immediate and accessible.

I don't really get this response. First there's the notion that "webdev" is the discipline where information is so fractured that you need to go googling around to figure out how to do everything. All the other disciplines have a magic thing called a man page that just gives you the answers. This is obviously not true, right?

The second thing is the idea that a man page for any one component, or even a set of components, could possibly contain enough information to allow you to build a complex system without consulting the experience of peers, colleagues and past practitioners, which is at least what we intend to do when we search google.
The usual answer is consulting companies. There the apperance is the opposite - you won't get hired as a consultant unless you have at least a little gray or white hair.
Vivaldi is excellent. There are so many little quality-of-life improvements that I can't imagine living without. The one single feature that had me hanging onto Firefox all these years was unlimited browser history. Chrome throws away your history after 3 months (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500239), which is insane. With Vivaldi I finally get unlimited history and the superior Chrome dev tools.

I'm not super pleased about Vivaldi being closed-source, but with the direction Mozilla has been going I didn't see it as too much of a betrayal.
Now give me the option to opt out of amp results in my search and it'll be perfect.
Well summarized. I'll add one twist plot:

It could have been launched by a different branch of the US military to test this system or their own ability deal with such as system.
Even Green parties don't really believe it, because they're opposed to the only workable plan that isn't "let's all live like third world peasants": massive scale-up of nuclear fission energy.