skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but what we need is you to be able to be competitive serving ads yourselves from your own domain. Ideally, showing the exact same ads to everyone, just like a newspaper should.

It's not a criticism of you if you can't do that. It's where we need to be. Nobody opted in for all this surveillance. And there does also seem to be a lot of fraud in online advertising. Get everyone's phones and home routers running something like pi-hole and the whole advertising lanscape would change for the better. Google would hate it, sure, but so what? You might find your ads are more valuable too because seeing an ad in a genuine news source as context has more influence on a potential purchaser than seeing the exact same ad on john-does-racist-blog. Even if they are the exact same 2 eyeballs seeing both copies of the same ad.

Ads, sure. We're all basically fine with ads per se. Just not the current advertising arrangements involving reaming us with surveillance and all the other nasties as well. Didn't agree to it, don't want it, will block it and will prosletyse ad blocking.
Hey there, that was https://trennd.co/ which I recently built and launched on Show HN.

We're tackling the same problem just in different ways!
Torqueedo do offer a range of outboard and inboard motors that can be retrofitted into existing boats. https://www.torqeedo.com/us/en-us/products/inboards
> What's not exploitable is when you don't have a frontend at all, or your frontend isn't doing any kind of request parsing

I think that’s exactly what he was trying to say in the first point. Anyway thanks for stressing that, it helped me understand better what is happening.
"on board" in this case means producing a full line of servers with the AMD chips, not just being interested in them.

People can't buy interesting ideas, and businesses aren't going to change system vendors overnight.
I don’t think many people realize how long ago was the era when the USA was special. The USA economy grew faster than any other country for most of the period from 1848 to 1929. A huge gap opened up between the USA and the rest of the world. By 1929, the USA produced more steel than all of Europe combined. But the USA has not been the #1 fastest growing nation in any year since 1929.
just be sure to allocate enough swap space for the gigabytes of bloat.
or they could turn off all tracking because they're not evil. Just a thought.

I promise to stop punching you in the face if you pay me is not something I think is all that great to be honest. And then I'd have to trust them. But yeah, Ars Technica is not what it used to be since being bought by Conde Nast, right?
Only for tiny boats, though, and they're quite expensive.

My boat needs two 150kW plus engines to move at speed. I might be able to get by at displacement speed with two 50kW engines, but something that like isn't available, and neither is the needed battery pack (Li-Ion, lead is too heavy to work).
China has a population of more than a billion people, the 3rd largest landmass controlled by a single sovereign entity. The only question is how they managed to fall so low that they weren't a competitive superpower.

It is entirely possible that we don't know what the reason for China's rise is over the short term. I wouldn't trust any article written in English to understand the ins and outs of China's special economic zones, special administrative regions and historical norms and customs.

It is very likely that governance is connected to their success and it is also unlikely that the government is wholly responsible for their success. The situation is complicated. Even deciding if they have achieved 'success' is complicated; I'm not envious of the people who live there.
Very nice! I might give it another try sometime soon, then!
Yeah, that's what I looked for right away. I mean, I'd read it if someone could tell me if explains the structure of (international) bond markets so at least I can come to my own conclusions about the 'imminent collapse.' Authors frequently bow to editors/publishers as far as the title goes. So maybe Pento didn't want to call it that.

But then the blurb talks about how he "accurately predicted the housing bubble" so then I think, nah, Pento also wants us to buy into his new prediction.

Though the folks on Goodreads that read it are sort of 50/50: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16719321-the-coming-bond...

This guy liked the parts where the book introduces you to specific macro concepts/schools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSJ429r9mk But the comments are pretty negative.
Why is this comment (above) getting down voted? This is a factually true comment.
More precisely, the peak [insert resource] arguments boil down to "at the current price and level of technology, there is X amount of this resource left." Of course, as the supply diminishes, the price goes up, and it becomes cost-effective to harvest that resource from more expensive places and with more expensive means, AND the incentive to improve the technology for extraction/identification or invent new technology for new types of extraction is increased.
Ask HN: Does a bootcamp make sense for someone with 20 years experience?
I had a conversation this weekend that made me think a little. It was with someone who had just finished a 12 week bootcamp and had received offers in the range of 100k-150k without much prior experience. I have >20 years experience and at the moment I work at a medical device company making a little more than 150k without much prospect for advancement.

I have applied at a few jobs lately but I don't have much to show for the currently fashionable technologies and it seems saying "I can catch up in a few weeks/months" doesn't cut it anymore these days. Being 50 years old doesn't help much either probably.

I am wondering now if I did a bootcamp myself if that would get me up to speed with current stuff and open up new job opportunities. If people without experience are employable after 12 weeks I think I should do even better because I will understand the material quicker and should be able to go deeper.

i work a lot with younger people and I don't think the stereotype of young people being innovative and old people being conservative applies to me. Usually I am the one pushing my team to try new stuff and doing creative things. Unfortunately in medical progress is very slow so you pretty much always are 5-10 years behind state of the art.

So the question is: Would doing a bootcamp increase employability and possible open up higher salary ranges? Are there any that cater to experienced people? And what area to go into? I would love doing something around AI or large scale systems. Is it possible get a jumpstart there with a bootcamp?

Hope this makes sense.

PS: Trying too anticipate responses. Usually the advice is to have a network. This used to work for me but the last 10 years it slowly has dwindled because a lot of people left or had to leave the industry in the 2008 crisis.
Advanced Bootstrap Blocks – WordPress Plugin
Don't underestimate pjax/turbolinks as a first approach. This way you get to render on the server without refreshing the whole page. For most business websites this is more than enough to keep rendering snappy.
The Dollop (390) – Rob Rhinehard and Soylent
Well, thanks for posting it then.
> No, for God’s sake, no, the Cultural Revolution was not devestating to the economy. Where did you read that? During the worst year of the Cultural Revolution, China still managed to grow 8%.

I'm afraid the data doesn't back you up at all. The Chinese cultural revolution is considered the years 1966-1976. Here is the data for those years in real per capita GDP growth[0]:

7.7, -8.1, -6.6, 13.7, 16.1, 4.2, 1.3, 5.4, 0.2, 6.8, -3.1

Average: 3.4%

Here are the numbers for the 1980s (1980-1990):

6.5, 3.8, 7.4, 9.2, 13.7, 11.9, 7.3, 9.9, 9.4, 2.6, 2.4

Average: 7.6%

7.6% is more than double 3.4%. So, as you can see, all of your assertions are wrong.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China
No marine boat has a muffler. Guess what they use instead?
That was a great article. I learned a lot about encryption in group chats, which I've always been curious about.
They're selling a 25-40 hp equivalent.

My boat needs something like two 75 HP motors to run safely at displacement speeds, and much more to get on plane.

In case you're curious, it's about 10M long. You have to have a larger boat to travel away from shore with any safety... small boats have to stick to the coast. My boat isn't actually very big, and doesn't have the range or stability to travel between continents away from shore, either.

Electric scooters and electric outboards have been around for a while, they're okay for what they do.

However, what I would need (and most of the people who own boats larger than 5M long) is the equivalent of a tesla battery pack and motors... which aren't available.
Just tried to find out some information on their Outboard motor. The video there has got to be up there with one of the worst marketing pieces I've seen in a long time. There's nothing that gives me any info on the product, what it is, why it's different, nothing. Looks like somebody had a fun day at the lake shooting, but had no idea what the footage was to be used for, and then some poor guy in the edit bay had to make something (maybe the same person?). It's right up there with the Fyre festival promos. They might as well have shots of a cheese sandwich rather than the guys in the row boats.
Very similar thing is happening for me as well, only for a large property management company.

Their old sites were weighed down with an incredible amount of confusing technology.

I redid the whole thing with PHP/HTML/CSS/JS/MySQL as well, and it's incredibly easy for them to update and work with now. Super simple admin interface, attractive front-end, and the top brass at the company has taken notice.
Do this. Do pi-hole too. But we shouldn't have to. If enough of us do maybe they'll stop all this 3rd party crap.

It shouldn't be up to users to audit every damn 3rd party url to protect themselves. You went to a single url the publisher of which should be completely responsible both morally and legally for all content. The end.
I’d argue that it depends mostly on the organization. A great developer is still going to produce shit if the organization doesn’t work with them.
i think we need more native browser UIs like marquee. Look at AMP, it understands that but is impleemnted in JS.
Any usage of Helium could be described as "running out" as it's not renewable without expensive reclamation from the air.
Uber and lyft are both on the way down. The price at which they need to operate to be profitable is not a price that most americans are ready to pay. As simple as that.

For now they delay this reality by subsidizing rides in order to generate business. In some cities like San Francisco, most incentives were removed and among my friends we all stopped using Uber (unless we really have to). It simply became way too expensive.
> We don't know which ones of those are real and which signify you live in a zone which has bad records for birth certificates.

While that is true, many of those things (regular physical activity, stress reduction, engagement in family/social life, moderate alcohol intake) improve your quality of life regardless of whether it makes you live longer.
True. But lots of third-party tracking is harder, right?
The IMF Today and Tomorrow
If your air purifier has a screen and shows the air quality, it's most probably using a PM sensor like the one I write about here.

How accurate is PMS7003? If for example, you need to know the precise and exact concentration of particulate matter in the air - then currently available low-cost PM sensors are not to be considered accurate. But, if you need to know if the air quality in your home is good, fair, moderate, poor or very poor, then it's good enough.
The concept of hitchhiking is such an anachronism now that I had to suspend disbelief as I watched “once upon a time I Hollywood” that I spent most of the time reconciling being the hitchhiker and the driver and why either side would feel like this is a rational option.
Just what I need for my work commute, thanks! :)

As an aside, my worry with AI/ML is that we’re creating these giant, un-debuggable systems that can’t be fixed when specific problems arise. Every time I see complaints about YouTube/Facebook/<some other company> giving nonsense recommendations to people I think “How would they even fix that? Do they even know how their recommendation systems work?”.

One of the great things about software is that when something is broken, you can go right in there and fix it. With ML, I can imagine getting to a point where our only option is to take the black-box we’ve created to therapy and hope for the best.... :)
Are. this best august games for android?
> The only question is how they managed to fall so low that they weren't a competitive superpower.

In-fighting because they weren't a cohesive whole? It's like asking how "Europe" wasn't a competitive superpower pre-EU (if it even counts as one now).
It’s inherent to the way writing prose works. Documents are sequential, not modular. You can’t have 10 people all working on a novel at the same time. Maybe there are a few logical sections you can split up, but even then everything needs to be in the same voice so someone needs to massage the pieces during integration. Automatic merging provides little benefit over copying and pasting a couple of individual sections together. There are also very few documents being written. (The ratio of documents read to documents written is probably 100:1 between cases, discovery documents, etc.) You’re never editing dozens of files at the same time. Maybe 3-4, and often just one.
> population of more than a billion people, the 3rd largest landmass

> how they managed to fall so low

There are countries with even larger landmass, and countries with roughly the same population, whose economies are doing worse than China, so I'm not convinced that landmass and population are fundamental requirements for economic prosperity. I should add that I'm not an economist in any shape or form and I'm happy to be proven wrong since I believe this is an interesting topic.
Packages of uncooked chicken parts (breasts or thighs) at the grocery store in my experience vary a lot from day to day. I try to buy a large amount when it's on sale for under $2/lb, but depending on the day, brand, and size of package, you can easily spend double, maybe even triple without any particular benefit.
Your example is an extreme outlier.
Secretly leave the Android one React Native since it does a decent job of papering over Android's worst rough spots, despite how often React Native breaks and how LOLWTF its ecosystem and release management is?
For 90% of the cases that interest mainstream media, economics is not a science because proper experiments cannot be run. You cannot have clean counterfactuals and no "A/B testing" setup to validate hypothesis in most interesting cases of dramatic economic events (like a recession). Most theories end up being... theories, with weak validation based on dubious instrumental variables, if any are considered at all.
Why would they even have oil to leak? Oil is a lubricant for the extreme heat conditions of a combustion engine. This is just an electric motor. If you think about it, you don't put oil in a ceiling fan that runs 24/7.
It’s a bit of a stretch to think of Uber or Lyft drivers like startup entrepreneurs.
It makes cross-platform desktop development much easier.

It makes Linux, OSX, and Windows development marginally easier on x86 platforms. Electron leaves everything else out in the cold. Sorry, there's life beyond Linux.

Have you ever tried to build VS Code? It's not easy.

VSCode, Discord, and (the new) Slack are written in Electron, and those absolutely excel, even at the cost of a bit extra memory usage.

VS Code, Discord, and (especially) Slack are all slow resource hogs.

There's a circlejerk of Electron hate, but there's a reason it's so popular, the ease of development outweighs its weighty memory drawbacks for many companies and individuals.

There's a reason there's a lot of hate, because the "benefits" for the developers don't outweigh the benefits for the end users. Of course sunk cost fallacy being what it is, once an organization commits to Electron the resultant inertia pretty much guarantees they won't aim a bit higher and write a native app.
This is a huge component of my work, and in my industry truly underappreciated. I'm the only programmer in a manufacturing environment and as our business grows so does our exposure, attack surface, and potential bounty. Some days I feel like my co-workers think I'm goofing off or ignoring my other other hats by messing with obscure systems. Sometimes I feel guilty. It's one of those professions where nobody notices you when you're doing things right, and the only way you know for sure it's right is after it's gone horribly wrong.

> No amount of controls will stop someone truly motivated and skilled, so you're better off raising the fence a bit higher and hoping that it deters the truly malicious.

I also want to second this. As angering as this statement is its entirely true. You cannot stop someone forever. You can just increase the difficulty of their tasks to beyond a reasonable or obtainable threshold. A "secure" network with ineffective monitoring can quickly become worse than a terribly insecure network that is tirelessly monitored. Complacency is a killer.
But. Flash was faster than JavaScript for a long time.
In theory, yes. In practice, by the time you get your whole web-app game on, the full round trip is often at least as fast, and frequently faster.
Except to run Adobe Air applications you needed to install/distribute the proprietary closed-source Adobe Air runtime.

Electron may be open source in theory, but it's developed by a fairly insular group that actively rejects improvements to portability. Getting FreeBSD patches merged back into Node was hard enough, the Electron crew simply rejects them.

Have you ever tried to build something like Electron of VS Code on FreeBSD? It's horrendous.
Yes, but not in appreciable amounts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12r2s7/helium_i...
Great story! Couple of minor suggestions.

> Before you dig in, note that while sites built in Webflow work in all modern browsers, we don’t actively support use of the Designer in Mozilla Firefox.
Given all that has been said about BigTech, it will be awesome if firefox becomes a priority so that we dont need to use Chrome.

One feature suggestion - being able to import CSS and HTML and then work with them. Often I will buy wordpress themes and want to customize them a little bit. Or when I want to move an existing site to maintain it using webflow. This will also open up revenue channel, being able to buy themes from other marketplaces and use them in webflow.
What this article is really saying is "Two stroke engines are outrageously nasty". Which we knew. They really are dozens of times worse for immediate pollutants (soot/particulates, hydrocarbons, NOx) than a routine car engine and catalytic converter. And they're significantly less efficient, so even their CO2 output is quite a bit higher than a gas engine of the same power.

But they're a tiny market and no one has bothered to try to regulate it. This just isn't a big thing from a save-the-planet perspective. But it's a nifty product.
I've gone through the Portuguese language program on Duolingo twice, doing all the exercises at level 1, then level 2, and am now on level 3 (of 5 max). I agree the owl encouragement interstitials are very annoying and I wish they'd allow users to disable it. However, I don't let it bother me.

Duolingo does change the UI a lot. During the time I've been using it, various features have come and gone. Just in the past couple months, it has changed appearance on me 3 times. It's amazing that they'll do that but won't provide a setting to allow you to disable something that's clearly and understandably annoying some users.

All I can say is that I'm glad it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers some people. I appreciate Duolingo and benefit from it for free, so can't begrudge one or two boneheaded features.
https://austingwalters.com/backtesting-our-100-yoy-profit-ge...
So why are countries banning it then?
VSCode is generally considered to be the canonical example of an Electron app well optimized. They have put a significant amount of work (much moreso than your average company producing an Electron app) into making it very responsive.

And it's still significantly slower than something like Emacs or Sublime (or, dare I say, IntelliJ?). I like, and use, Visual Studio code but it's hardly performant.
In laptops, you can. Lenovo launched the T495 and T495s a couple of months ago. AMD being a part of the venerable T-series is a huge testament to their come back.

Not sure about desktops.
Awesome! I had quite the experience setting up a react app workflow with a friend. If you don't get your versions of tools to all line up or you use a tool which is slightly unconventional, or sometimes if you're developing on not-Mac, things can go very wrong very quickly. Nice to have a post overviewing how to pick and choose (and why you shouldn't do that anyways).
Even better if you integrate into something like a motorized standing desk, they'll plug it in for you.
Mexican physicist’s solution to 2,000-yo problem could lead to improved lenses
Cannot be further from truth than this. The timing doesn’t Evernote align...
Article 4 section 11 defines "consent" as something that must be freely given. [1]

Article 7 section 4 further clarifies that consent is not freely given if provision of a service is conditional on consent. [2]

Recital 43 is super clear: "Consent is presumed not to be freely given if... the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance." [3]

The gdpr.eu website unpacks the legalese: "“Freely given” consent essentially means you have not cornered the data subject into agreeing to you using their data. For one thing, that means you cannot require consent to data processing as a condition of using the service." [4]

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

[3] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/

[4] https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/
The word cyber is almost exclusively used when discussing security of computer systems. It's used very heavily by government and academic circles and it propagates to other industries from there.

In the 90s I used the word to describe an instant messenger version of "phone sex" and I haven't been able to take anyone that uses the term seriously after that, but I never really took the goverment or academia seriously to begin with.
The problem with hydrogen is that it is a much smaller molecule than helium and leaks from light, thin-walled containers like balloons. Heck, it can even leak along grain boundaries in metal containers.
Very saddened by this. I very much enjoyed LJ even though I didn't "deep dive" into many of the articles. Honestly the original appeal for me was the PAPER publication - I can't stand staring at a screen if I'm not working... Have spent enough of my life staring at the screens.

Even after LJ went online-only I kept the subscription going because I didn't want to lose a publication that was so focused on something that is so important to me, and hopefully, all of us: Pure Linux and cool new open source software.

Best wishes to Kyle and the rest of the team and thanks for giving it another go!!!
When I first added it to my account years ago it was $2CAD/mo through my carrier. Now they charge $5CAD/mo to add it to new plans. Ruthless.