skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search Engine Roundtable conducted a survey after the medic update, here are the
categories of websites that were affected: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.seroundtable.com/google-medi... (Health accounted for the biggest percentage but there were many other verticals that were impacted as well.)

There has also been several core algorithm updates since then that have caused ranking drops and volatility across the board.
Yes, we're giving a new name "to purposefully learning a bunch of easy-to-learn skills, that require smaller time investment, to boost confidence and use as a nice flow-inducing hobby".

The full phrase was a mouthful.

Seriously, the parent comment reads like the "Dropbox" comment (so they've just turned running curlftpfs, cvs, and ftp into a company now?)
Ok, we've shortened the title. Please let's all step away from the flamebait now.

Edit: since some people are arguing that it's an essential element of the story, I'm happy to put it back. The issue here is trying to get the content of the article the most interesting, substantial discussion the community can give it. That requires minimizing the things that push discussions in nasty, stupid directions, which we do routinely on this site all day.
Its job is to deliver a fission warhead without being intercepted by current or future antimissile defences, the dirty bomb inside is comparatively unimportant.
That's a Toyota which he explicitly excludes
It cost me <$200 to install a 110V outlet in my rented condo's garage to charge my car and this is in SF where everything costs 2x as elsewhere.

For someone in the UK, this is an even better deal since their car will charge twice as fast at 220V.
Amazon creating a for-profit national surveilance system
This is spot-on. HN has generally massively over-estimated the amount of porn on Tumblr, in terms of percentage of total content. I say this as a primary source with first-hand factual knowledge.
>I've never made an omelet that is very good and I've tried a bunch of variations. I've had lots of omelets in restaurants that are great.

Did you add lotsa butter? That (and good ingredients) is the main secret (even if the restaurant wont admit it).
Tumblr's audience(s) were: adult, fandoms, teens, artists

Artists use it less and less, mainly to bait and switch (patreon). Adult content is out. Fandoms wither because well teenagers grow and abandon this slowly - until the next/new fandom pops up.

Curating is one thing. Make "chinese walls" and prevent teens to access the hard adult stuff, but let them free and it will organically grow again.

We are past the years where teens needed a journal, they've gone to FB/IG for that.

Tumblr is fun if let free. If not, then it will wither further and die.

I can only see Automattic using it as another wordpress, a bit more hip. But still the user geneated content needs to be the free driver, not the gagged driver.
Doesn't matter if that's the original title, the mention of "black" makes many in HN's userbase uncomfortable.
I don't get the push to add static typing to dynamic languages. If you don't want to use a dynamic language, then use one of the statically typed ones, like Java, Typescript or Go. If it's a case of dynamic languages not scaling well beyond a certain point because of the lack of static typing, then right tool for the job should apply. Don't scale a dynamic language to that size.
Around two weeks back chrome hid its address bar.

Could it be a coincidence or both are related?
Makes me think of Rupert Sheldrake and his book "The Sense of Being Stared At".
It has happened multiple times.

NULL, NV, XXX, MISSING, NO PLATE
At my work, we use Teams a fair bit, and I'll go out on the limb to defend it (a limb I'm quite familiar with at this point ;) ). Thinking of it as a Slack alternative is, IMO, the wrong starting point. We barely use it for chat (as we have Slack as well). Instead, we use it as a file share and central information home. Each group within a team has a channel and we use the tabs to track meeting notes, embed external calendars, and more.

And importantly, we use it for file sharing. Each channel is a root point for a team-specific folder. This is helpful because storing common docs there means they are perpetually available to collaborators, as opposed to OneDrive storage, which in my experience has been very hit or miss (sahre links expiring, etc. ). People can trust that team content is there.

There are downsides. It took me a few months to find my 'optimal' usage pattern, I can't have channel-specific sharing, and it takes me a while to explain the above to people on the team. It is far from perfect, but it is better than sharing a bunch of files in email threads or maintaining unofficial google docs in a Microsoft world.
Agreed. The much more blindingly obvious reason to me seems to be that Google, Facebook and Amazon are just really huge companies. Why would you write articles about something smaller?
This makes me wonder: How hard would it be for companies to offer slightly customized funds? For example if I wanted to invest in S&P500 minus XOM. I might need to pay higher fees, but it's probably doable.

(The reason I want that is partly boycotting environmentally unfriendly companies, partly a belief that they will not grow anymore, for the reasons mentioned in the article.)
I guess they're doing this only for the traffic. Because I don't recall any interesting Tumblr to visit. Everything interesting can be found in other places, like Medium or their own hosted websites.
Why many employees feel devalued even in booming job market
HN's discussion about part two of this series - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4387650
I used to use Enlightenment e16.

Then some months ago e16 was superseded by e17 (with the various versions 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22) => e17 is very nice but I never ever managed to run a bug-free version of it (they could rename the software to "Bug").

Desperate for an alternative, I tested other window managers and XFCE was the only one that provided some features that were similar to e16 and that I wanted to keep using => using since then XFCE on all my PCs and notebooks with no problems (and I'm since today a patron of Sean Davis, yo).

Really looking forward to the vsync of XFCE 4.14 :)

"Alternatives" is one of the main reasons of why I love Linux - everybody can choose in a huge number of areas the type of software that fits him/her best.
He says:

> 1. the color of the beekeepers' skin is irrelevant and appears to have been an addition made by the poster

It isn't an addition at all, regardless of our comfort.
The claim was 'degrees of freedom in your language's design'. It's an odd one because the history of a bunch of similar languages has been exactly the opposite. Compare, say, JS to Ruby and Python. Even with the seemingly crippling burden of browser compatibility, Javascript has evolved out of its various design and implementation ruts a lot more gracefully than either Ruby or Python.
> I'm reminded of all the jokes Jeremy Clarkson makes at Rolls Royce's expense...

Rolls-Royce Holdings only makes aero engines, the cars are made by BMW.
That's weird. I thought that there was a different title when I read the article. Even double checked the title.
YouTube Should Stop Recommending Video
I received a petition to sign protesting this:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/amazon-ring/

On the one hand, I'm all for catching criminals. On the other hand I'm all for limiting Big Brother. It's a paradox to some extent.

But having surveillance pass through Amazon to do with what they will seems like a really bad idea.
tumblx.com, surely.
Is Elon Wrong About Lidar?
Let me be clear - we have never bought a single link.

We get direct links similar to what wikipedia does - aka direct to a supplement.

For example, creatine: https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/

You will not find a more in-depth page on creatine anywhere on the net.

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/year-of-living-better/how-to-... - here's a simple example of direct links.

We're also considered the authoritative site, which is why so many sites (including spammers, sigh) link to us.
isn't this what 4chan did with 4channel.org?
But it also requires human attention. There's TONS of time in a day when your car is just hanging around somewhere. It doesn't need to be as fast if it's ubiquitous.
This is noted in the comments:

> Some have protested that "monster" has negative connotations, but anyone who grew up with Sesame Street or modern Disney movies knows that’s an unfair stereotype. And Monster is more fun. You like fun, don't you? Don't you?!?
PN just sold for roughly $250,000,000. Which they bootstrapped for the past 18 years.

JB used to do the nutrition for guys like GSP (the MMA fighter).

JB is an advisor to Nike, Apple, Equinox, and more.

It's literally the least of his problems that you don't know who he is.
> Not that you could detect it by inspecting decrypted HTTPS if a closed-source app really wanted to secretly upload your contact list.

In theory yes. If every app had their own hand-crafted binary format, scanners would be out of luck. However, in practice, developers value existing tooling and most of the actual data on the wire seems to be formatted in a manageable number of well-known formats (JSON, XML, url params, protocol buffers, etc). If nothing else, a scanner could at least find out with some reasonable certainty that an app is trying to obfuscate something.

I think the amount of detection and analysis tools that exist give some hinds that even if you cannot analyze everything, there is a lot of things you can find out.

> In that sense, security best practice is minimal app permissions and reproducible builds.

Reproducible builds of what? We haven't even got this to work for most open-source software and with closed-source software, you per defintion doesn't even have anything to build in the first place.
It matters that the person theyre responding to is literally asserting, and I quote, “the color of the beekeepers' skin is irrelevant and appears to have been an addition made by the poster.”

It’s ... the point under discussion in this sub-thread.
It's interesting that Teams is often compared to email or chat. It's much more akin to a forum or bulletin board system. I've found this to be a pretty powerful thing to have at work. However, it does happen to fit my work groups use case very well. We work on lots of short term projects. Each of these we spin up a "team" for. These are 3D projects that require a lot of media sharing from a cross disciplinary which works fairly well in Teams. It's been a pretty happy addition over Outlook (barf) and Skype for Business aka Lync.

Full disclosure, I work at MS. And I have never used Slack though would be glad to try it.
It is nowhere near that easy.

http://100parkingtickets.com/
Ask HN: What was the hardest problem that you solved in Backend ?
My team were using HipChat and had to find an alternative when they sold off to Slack. They actually offered a really good discount to move over. But as the company already recently moved to O365 and Teams is free within that, I thought I'd give it a try. My team hated it, I tolerated it. Until one day I'd just had enough of the UX that Teams brings. The biggest issue was the threading; it truly beggars belief. We ended up using multi user IM messages instead of channels. Moving (and paying) for Slack was the best decision I made.

That being said, the Teams UX will slowly and steadily improve. It will be interesting to see where we are in a few years. I hope to see both Teams and Slack support SIP, they surely must already be working on it.
Why did you shadow ban my account?
I know that almost all the SFW content creators I know who had a Tumblr blog, have gradually left the platform over the last year. The NSFW content-creators left, and with them dragged away most of the audience for SFW content. The platform is a "dead network" now; the SFW content creators are getting 10x less likes/reblogs than before for their SFW content, because none of their followers (who presumably have both SFW and NSFW interests) checks Tumblr any more, instead having moved onto whatever platform the NSFW content is on (Twitter, I think.)

Think of it this way: a pharmacy sells both prescription drugs and OTC drugs. You can buy OTC drugs from anywhere (e.g. a grocery store, a convenience store, etc.) but you can only get prescription drugs from a pharmacy, so people tend to buy their OTC drugs from pharmacies while they're there for prescription drugs. If your neighbourhood pharmacy decides to stop selling prescription drugs, would you still bother to go there for your OTC drugs? Or would you just buy your OTC drugs from whatever pharmacy you end up now having to go to for your prescription drugs?
> [1]HTTPS encryption itself doesn't meaningfully require public key infrastructure, it's just that without PKI, you don't know who sent the encrypted traffic.

It really does though, because without PKI a MitM attack is totally undetectable. That means any ISP can tamper with and read all your stuff. Any public WiFi can trivially read all traffic over the wire. Any temporary and intermittent manipulation of DNS comes with immediate compromise. And on a LAN, that affects IP or name resolution is compromised.

The only thing you would defend against are constrained infrastructure managers (those who could MitM but don't have the resources) and people sniffing the line but not able / willing to modify data on the line. That would be really covert agencies and people with a WiFi sniffer.

I agree that for PKI in general, something like EV would be great. But that is a lot more useful for something like S/MIME or a replacement of PGP, not in the case of HTTPS.
It's mostly from companies with existing codebases built using dynamic languages. Plus everybody's standards for tooling are going up and one of the best ways to improve tooling is through types.
Good idea!

Here's Kamal's thorough bio page: https://examine.com/user/kamalpatel/

Here's Kamal verified on twitter: https://twitter.com/zenkamal

Here's him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Patel_(researcher)

Here's Examine.com on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examine.com
Is that for mobile only? I can access different tumblr sites w/o login walls.
Intent is absolutely relevant in criminal law. The phrase "with the intent of" or "for the purposes of" appears everywhere in the field. Go browse through the quoted text of the CFAA here and see what you can find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

I'm not interested in getting involved in a philosophical discussion about whether anarchic hacking "should" be a crime. I'm saying that given the text of that article, an enterprising prosecutor could probably get a conviction for one.

Don't fuck with other people's systems. Even (and especially) when they're running shit code.
My gut reaction is, we already tried that and it didn't work the first time so it probably won't work if we try it again. Though MS is a different company than it was back then. Back then I would've been ecstatic to see MS be broken up and greatly humbled because of all their destructive abuses. But now... meh.
Here in Norway the cities and government offer(ed) subsidies to build EV chargers where it’s needed. (About $3000 for a public dual AC charger, or $22000 per triple DC fast charger)

We’re slowly but surely moving towards “chargers literally everywhere”.
To increase retention, The Financial Times is using newsletter polls
I can manipulate my Lisp-program as a set of nested lists, which is the same structure as I see in my source-code-editor.

What I see in the editor is the same structure of nested lists as when I program and execute my macro-definition. My source-code has a 1-to-1 correspondence to the data-structure which is the internal representation of my program (when I execute the macro).

The internal (what I manipulate in my code) and external (what I manipulate in my text-editor) representations have the same structure. They are not the "same". But they have the same structure. That is a pretty fantastic property for the language since it makes it simple, I don't need to do a mental translation from the source-code to the structure I can manipulate in my program.

Now it seems to me that someone somewhere came up with the name 'homoiconity' for this property. I think that is a much better name than anything else I can think of.

'homo' refers to the self/man/human in Latin and icon refers to “likeness, image, portrait”. So source-code of a Lisp-program is a "picture of the program itself, a picture of itself". Very homo-iconic.

> One can define a meaning for homoiconicity, though.

It's not like we have words for which we must "define a meaning". It is that we have important concepts which deserve to have a word denoting them. We don't need to "define" a meaning for the word 'homoiconic', we need a word for the generally interesting property of languages like Lisp discussed above. Ah but we already have a word for that: "Homoiconic".
For years I'd thought it was "like bullets on tin".

Most lyrics sites seem to have the lyrics you said, but there's still some with the version I thought. I can't find any official source of lyrics either.

I've now listened to the video clip[1] a dozen times trying to figure out which it is, and honestly I'm no closer.

[1] https://youtu.be/NdZHZZtJacg?t=25
Tim Armstrong somehow convinced Verizon leadership that by combining Yahoo with AOL, they would create a 3rd major player in the ad world that could compete with Google and Facebook.

I will refrain from adding my personal opinion of that plan, but you can probably guess.

In any case, all of the Verizon execs involved in that deal are long gone, and the new Verizon CEO is said to be focused entirely on 5G.
.ac.uk is reserved only for education.

Simply having an e-mail on one of these domains implies access to e.g. free GitHub accounts.

We could have something akin to .bank.uk for banking purposes (you are only allowed go have one if you have a banking license).
Impossible in Switzerland at least
I never said there was. The public, on the other hand, isn't necessarily interested in sifting through those kinds of content on a dying platform that many people have long since moved away from. If they want to bring people back to Tumblr at this point, they either need to get rid of the perception that they're a dumping ground for porn, or they've got to completely own it. But that won't happen, because enough people remember that Tumblr tried to expunge all that stuff.
Are you worried that there's not enough porn on the internet already?
While I mostly I agree, your post also reminds me of the "dissolve the people and elect a new one" quote. How do we equip the citizenry to navigate the rapidly changing media and propaganda landscape?
you write PHP right in the HTML.

I hope this comment was meant to be ironic. Because that mindset demonstrates everything that is wrong with PHP and its community regarding engineering practices and security.
They actually have published guidelines, and we meet them 100%.
#3 Skype is discontinued and Teams is the replacement. That's likely why.
And Microsoft thinks it's a good idea to add an advert to use Teams into Windows (added to the autostarted program list, so you see the popup every time you restart Windows).

Just shows that the OS is for Microsoft's benefit, not for your productivity.
A cross-platform Reddit client built in SwiftUI
Chain. Norwegian to the people hurt and property damaged, they will in turn sue Boeing who in turn will sue Rolls Royce.
As long as there is still something where you can install that browser. Most interesting new hardware is itself increasingly locked down.
Build docker images without docker using kaniko, jenkins and, kubernetes
Voyeur – Disorganized Screensharing Portal
Does anyone else think that angel investing seems like an odd concept in that it implies a single person investing a large amount in a very early stage business.

Most people with sub 9 figure net worth should probably steer towards investing in larger derisked businesses as they are unlikely to back the 100+ startups required to get the 1 really big winner.

In contrast, large VCs who have the capacity to invest in several hundred startups are much better suited to this form of investing as they can derisk by having a large portfolio size?
I remember when it happened. HK citizens felt betrayed.

There is also catch that Wikipedia does not explain: BN(O)s of Chinese ethnic origin are entitled to Chinese nationality and do not qualify for British citizenship. The BNO to British citizenship is mainly for BNO holders who are otherwise stateless persons.

BNO is only visa free entry for ethnically Chinese. It has been easier to get Canadian citizenship than British.
Facebook bought Instagram for $1B. About a year later, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1B.
Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization
Edit: I since looked at the MSG page linked as there first example in the OP, which was exactly what I expected based on the "for" comments. My original comment below:

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Well I read a few comments here saying it was click-baity and such, and other comments pushing back hard against that saying it's a detailed, trustworthy, researched site with citations.

So, I visited via an "about" link, then clicked through the menu to supplements (arbitrarily) then randomly to "creatine": lots of links in the claim-heavy content, but the two links I followed were to definitions, not to proof of the claims being made.

At the head it gives a researchers name, says their work was reviewed. Looks great so far.

>"Our evidence-based analysis on creatine features 746 unique references to scientific papers. " //

Wow, I'm expecting a massive citation section.

But, nothing, it's just a sales page, it doesn't _have_ citation supported information but it tells me it sells such information ...

Am I missing something, people Googling "creatine" are looking for the info, not a sales page offering to hook them up to the info. If other sources have the info directly then that would be a huge reason that Google wouldn't rank this examine.com site highly?

How many people google something looking for a for-pay resource that they, it seems, can't even sample first?

I'm not googling looking for a site to sign-up with to get emailed a factsheet either, even if it's free (which is a common fraud that I'm hugely wary of).

Ok, so now I'm looking at the questions, cool, click through - something about caffeine interactions with creatine, surely the link is to the cited scientific paper, nope just to another uncited page by the same person.

I'm not impressed upon that this is a site that should be high in google rankings; it seems low value unless you're looking to sign up to a resource -- like if I search online for "Steven King novels" I actually want the list, not a link to a library I can sign up to in order to find out at some time in the future some of the novels that could be on that list.

FWIW the summary given was good, readable, seemed like it might be true, but there's no reason to trust it at all. I'd rank it below even Wikipedia for the content I was presented. Whatever content they're selling behind those pages could be incredibly good, but that's not what SERPs are linking to so of course they don't rank for that, they rank for the shallow sales page with the same generic info on a million other pages.
Yes, then imagine a trade war in that situation, involving your grain needs. The day that the protectionists anticipated has come, and it's quite sad.
That's a good point. I support:

- Using trademarks (this fixes the US issue of per-state homonym attacks).

- Not including the domain in the certificate at all. If an identity is verified, it's verified. Why limit where it can be used, or try and assert some unrelated fact?

The SSL Store (Computer Services) [US]

This has been suggested to Google, who indicated they were not interested.
I'm sure they would have gotten plenty of activity even if it only went up $2500-5000 per subsequent hire, rather than doubling.