skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quick to bash out a simple site.

This is precisely why I don't think it's the appropriate tool for any substantial, serious, or long-lived projects. The language feels kludgey, and it attracts an ecosystem of beginners that don't necessarily have to learn much in the way of CS fundamentals or engineering to succeed. (Indeed, I've run into more than a few that don't know the difference between lists and dictionaries or the runtimes of the operations performed on them.)

It's not that I think that a language should be a barrier, but I've wasted so much time reading confusing and poorly-written PHP code, and it feels like the language actively empowers code to be written this way. A tool should also teach. There are other languages that have this problem as well (C++ comes to mind), but I think they tend to be hard enough to use that practitioners already understand the do's and don't's.

I know it's irrational of me to be so irate that this language is still active, but it bothers me that real engineering work and human productivity is spent on supporting one of so many scripting languages that are marginally different. I suppose I should be even more angry at all the cognitive effort being put into marketing and adtech, but PHP makes me sigh.
GM used to make a Tahoe Hybrid. It was okay, but I think the price premium was a bit much for the economy gain.

It also doesn’t help that the units of “miles per gallon” are not linear with consumption. A improvement from 10 to 15 mpg doesn’t sound nearly as impressive as an improvement from 20 to 60 mpg... but unintuitively, over 20,000 miles, it’s the same amount of fuel savings.
It's too bad, because I think people need to be able to make at least a simple version of the argument for themselves, from premises, rather than simply relying on "Scientists say..."

Edit: Another example. The source you listed says the world is emitting just under 10 GtC/year. Another source I've recently seen said we are emitting 37.1 GtC/year. I've also heard 54/year but don't remember where. I mean, these numbers aren't even close.
That choice boggles the mind.

If you're worried about cross-links between non-adult and adult content tarnishing the platform, add better features for user flagging.

They (before the Yahoo and Verizon cluster&#-1s) were essentially sitting on a gold mine of training data, and ongoing training data generation, for an industry-leading porn detection engine.

A subscription filtering product that would be worth $$$.

Throwing that away because of some overly prudish concept of brand identity is hilarious.
They have certainly peddled the idea that "the algorithm" is what drives page rank.
To your point if we look at the last 5 years:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

I will say though that the "final straw" dropped interest by half overnight.... so it certainly was detrimental but they certainly where losing interest over time.
Adult content is not our forte either, and it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... it's a problem area best suited for companies fully dedicated to creating a great experience there. I personally have very liberal views on these things, but supporting adult content as a business is very different.
In theory, the Yahoo acquisition held a lot of potential for Verizon. In reality, Verizon operationally mismanaged many parts of the business and destroyed most of the value. Tumblr is one visible example of that. It's unfortunate but not uncommon. Once the deal closes, internal politics rather than common sense and innovation rules and a small handful of bad leaders or a small set of perverse incentives can sink the whole ship.

I view the ability to successfully execute on acquisitions of Yahoo's size as one of the key differentiators between tech giants who will survive into the next generation and those who won't. Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all have a much better (by no means perfect) track record than the older more traditional businesses trying to catch up to them (telecoms like Verizon included). Telecom is a capital intensive business. Tech is a human capital intensive business. Just one extra word but a big difference.
I realize that, but there's no universal definition of "city infrastructure." It really doesn't mean anything consistent.

Many municipal projects that are accessible to non-residents of a city (e.g. roads but not typically schools) are partially funded by counties, states, and the federal government.
The Wordpress community is less tightly intertwingled than Reddit (or Twitter, for that matter) was.

The chance of negative social interactions occurring goes up with the number of interactions, not the number of participants. In a dense community, this is O(N^2). In a sparse community, where participants subdivide into cliques that have little or nothing to do with each other, it approaches O(N).

Specific social features all have different effects on the degree of interconnectedness on a site. In particular, things like unified user profiles, retweets, direct-link shortcuts to either user profiles or posts, navigational links, and real-time engagement increase the interconnectedness. Things like no-comment links (np.reddit), time delays, separate domain names for different subjects, subreddits, few links between different communities, separate user accounts, etc. reduce the interconnectness. Social sites exist on a spectrum from individual communities (4chan, HN, forums, etc.) to densely-connected but partitioned networks (Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and Facebook) to publishing platforms (YouTube and Wordpress) to sitebuilders (SquareSpace, Wix, etc.) The latter end has virtually no problem with miscreants because it has virtually no social interaction; the former has a big problem with miscreants but has enjoyed the benefits of higher growth, higher engagement, and more ad dollars, except that if you go too far toward the community end, the community self-limits its size through rules and customs before it becomes big enough to monetize.

Wordpress has benefitted from slower growth - because they're basically a publishing platform rather than a community, they don't face the same problems that being a community has. (They didn't get the benefits, either, which is why Facebook is a $500B company and they're not.)
For me the most important aspect of this acquisition is that Automattic is a fully remote company. Tumblr's office space in New York City must be very expensive, I wonder if they're getting rid of it and transition everyone to remote.
They do have some big names sticking around like Taylor Swift (https://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/185958366550/for-years-i...).
There is a documentary on Netflix about it called Wild Wild Country that's almost entirely primary-source video (they recorded everything) and modern-day interviews with former members and government officials. It's fascinating.
If you state you are a US citizen, the onus is on them to prove you aren’t.

There is no law saying that Us citizens have to carry identification pricing they are citizens.

And yes, if they have reasonable suspicion that you’re lying, they can detain you.
Every time I go to visit Tumblr, it asks me to log in. If I can't lurk on a content site, I'm moving on.
I subscribe to the Wash Post. Not the NYT. Wish I could read it, though.
First thing you need to do is make sure it's yours? You don't want to be trapped taking care of someone else's child.
Actually of the few clients I've worked with who needed cloud help, the majority have been using Google Cloud. Between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Google seems to be (by far) more difficult to get logs out of and into your security monitoring tools.
We are planning to do the opposite: excited to invest into the platform. The web needs open and independent publishing and social media more than ever.
So much for "a lot of autonomy," then.
Sure, but that's not really a model, right? (Sorry, not to attack you.) I really hope the MBAs on the M&A team for Yahoo! didn't just say "Well, we used to be cool, but we're not anymore, so.."

Tumblr was growing, but it was extremely young (read: low HHI, difficult to target, resistant to advertising) and extremely brand un-safe (read: impossible to monetize). So they had to believe one of four things:

1. The brand would grow into an older demographic, despite being not designed as such

2. Users would not leave in mass once brand-safety initiatives were to be put in place and/or advertisers wouldn't care

3. Some other business model would emerge, despite that not happening to almost any other similar consumer product ever

4. Display advertising would reverse the trend of CPMs plummeting and being sucked up by Facebook and Google

I can't imagine any competent M&A analyst actually looking at Tumblr and the state of the Internet ultimately believing any of them, which is why the deal was hugely baffling then.
I don't have RSI, I have SFN (Small Fiber Neuropathy), as very different condition.

At some point after this happened to me, I switched to a low-carb diet (but not because of the SFN, because of a rare auto-immune condition; didn't make any different to the SFN pain, not that I expected it to).
I think examine.com needs to redouble their efforts on SEO, because if I search for something like "creatine benefits" on duckduckgo/bing, which is a more raw search than google, I see examine.com is way down the list at #26. Some of the other sites mentioned in this thread are high on duckduckgo/bing (selfhacked.com #4, lifextention.com #11)

So, I think examine.com's problems could be beyond google's search algorithm/de-ranking.

www.healthline.com must be winning the SEO game because they are showing up #1 on google, duckduckgo, bing, etc.

A very simple observation is that examine.com is not using good titles for their articles. "Summary of Creatine". It is too generic, and that is causing it to be ranked lower that these other websites which have more specific titles like "Anti-Aging Benefits of Creatine" (lifeextension), or "12 Creatine Benefits + Dosage & Side Effects" (selfhacked).

So, maybe a better title. Or , because this "Summary of Creatine" article is so long, maybe you need multiple summary pages tailored to different purposes, e.g. "Benefits of Creatine", "Side Effects of Creatine", which link into the Creatine research.

I have never been to this examine.com website before, but if every article is like "Summary of X", then I would say you have a problem. You need to match your articles titles to the most likely search phrases.
Depth. You should absolutely shrink your market size at first. You should go for demand shaped like a well, not a lake. You can always spread out later. But if your initial cohort of users absolutely loves your product, you will be in a great situation.

from pg:

When a startup launches, there have to be at least some users who really need what they're making — not just people who could see themselves using it one day, but who want it urgently. Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would probably already exist. Which means you have to compromise on one dimension: you can either build something a large number of people want a small amount, or something a small number of people want a large amount. Choose the latter. Not all ideas of that type are good startup ideas, but nearly all good startup ideas are of that type.

Imagine a graph whose x axis represents all the people who might want what you're making and whose y axis represents how much they want it. If you invert the scale on the y axis, you can envision companies as holes. Google is an immense crater: hundreds of millions of people use it, and they need it a lot. A startup just starting out can't expect to excavate that much volume. So you have two choices about the shape of hole you start with. You can either dig a hole that's broad but shallow, or one that's narrow and deep, like a well.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
He's the matt in Automattic.
Is that for all companies, or just publicly traded companies?
Apologies HN, off-topic.

Matt, while you're here can you comment on John O'Nolan's tweet [0] from July accusing Automattic of anti-competitive behavior w.r.t. Ghost [1]?

>Can never decide if I’m flattered or horrified that a $1.1billion, 1,000 person company w/ a 83% share of CMS market seriously employs a full-time team dedicated to attacking a 12 person bootstrapped non-profit org with an open source product

[0] https://twitter.com/johnonolan/status/1146075173134618625

[1] https://twitter.com/Ghost

Edit: Matt's not taken the opportunity to rebut John's claim after 50 mins, even though he's replied to a couple of other comments in this thread. I guess that's his prerogative, but ...
Then why was Yahoo able to deal with it?
This is the equivalent of measuring a SV company's financials by the number of different snacks in its microkitchen.

Sure, it will be stable, or even improving, until one day (if we are unlucky) it will catastrophically collapse. If we want to figure out whether we'll be lucky, we'll have to look at actual figures (i.e., balance sheets) predicting the company's future, and it's not looking good.
Couple murder-suicide left notes saying they couldn't afford medical care
That was kinda my impression. Extended Validation is supposed to be complicated enough that you shouldn't be able to automate it, and Google hates anything that it can't automate.

Fundamentally I believe security doesn't scale, and that something you can automate is inherently inadequate for security. Which is perhaps why I have so many security problems with Google's approach.
Interesting. Did you have to pay any part of the settlement, hire a lawyer, or what?
> It was a self-help organization.

Of course. With some exceptions most cults are.

Do you see him approaching Allison Mack and saying "How about joining this cool organization where we'll brand you and then we'll have undocumented immigrant slaves doing labor for us, and produce blackmail and CP?". Of course it had to be some self-actualization or self-help bullshit.
>To be clear, There is no other site nearly as good as Examine for this subject matter.

To be clear, no one has presented any actual evidence to back that up yet.
i love cycling but never did a tour like that. That is already a thing though but i doubt it will catch on because of environment concerns. It's not for everyone
Last time I argued with someone who didn’t believe in evolution, I went home and wrote something which implemented it. It took me half an hour and worked first time. We’ve been using simulated evolution as one of several ways to train AI for quite a long time now.
How is this possible? Don’t seniors have Medicare?

If we are going to live longer, how is the cost of maintain senior quality of life going to be absorbed.

It seems to me that many things have to occur in parallel: 1. Anti ageing..not just palliative medicine. 2. How are we going to balance birth rates and death rates if people live longer? 3. Why aren’t we looking into healthy ageing? 4. Should we permit euthanizing (I can’t think of a more respectful word? Please advise) for those who feel that they have lived enough and are ready to die.

I have many more thoughts..but I will wait till I hear some others’
It does seem like a good idea. Happily, this already exists.

https://www.capitolcorridor.org
No offense, but as far as I can tell this doesn't even try to respond to the claim that there are great cheeses coming from the US today. It just propagates a largely irrelevant presumption that could be perfectly compatible with what it seems you're trying to disagree with.
Automattic has had offices in the past, so there is some precedent. The Tumblr team has a strong office culture, so we don't want to break anything that's working well. Simultaneously we believe the future of work is distributed, and over the next decade that's the direction we firmly want to head. If you want to learn more about this, including hybrid organizations, check out my new podcast at distributed.blog.
Nothing stops them. However, some VPN services do actually seem to protect their users' privacy. PIA, for example, has been subpoenaed a couple times in US courts. And they've just said "sorry, we don't log". And that's that, because VPNs aren't legally required to log in the US. But of course, that's not necessarily the case elsewhere.

Looking at it from the VPN provider's perspective, it's actually simpler not to log. Logs are like radioactive waste. They aren't necessary for management. You can do that in real time, and log nothing. All they can do is implicate you in legal bullshit, which hurts users and damages your reputation.

And even if there's a legal requirement to log, you can just ignore it. At least, if you have no legal presence in the country, beyond running a VPN server.

But more generally, users can use nested VPN chains to distribute trust among providers. That is, connect to VPN A. Then connect to VPN B through VPN A. Then connect to VPN C through VPN B. And so on. I do that using virtual networks of pfSense VMs. But you could do it in one machine, using routing and iptables.

It's the same strategy that Tor uses, routing circuits through multiple relays. With three nodes in a nested chain, no one node knows both who you are, and what you're doing. So adversaries would need to obtain data from multiple nodes.
More info and photos.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb6a09d&opt=0
Why do you think that hosting porn for random people will make Automattic money?
PCSX2: PS2 Emulator AMA
But many regulations come about as knee-jerk reactions and end up doing more harm than good because they were ill-considered and implemented in haste.
> Maybe, or maybe they'll just be as narrow-minded as before,

Maybe, but less likely than those who stayed home...

It's not just about traveling, it applies to all aspects of our social interactions... in order to change your perspective on things you need to have your presumptions challenged, and that will not happen if you're always in the same social bubble that reinforces your existing beliefs...
Are people burning through a lot of money buying Overwatch loot boxes? They are just so easy to get by playing, and they serve no in-game purpose. I really think it's a great monetization model. I paid $30 once, I get a new update every month. If you really want some cosmetic, you pay for loot boxes, and either get the item you want, or enough duplicates to get enough credits to get the item you want. I dunno, it all seems very fair to me.

I will admit that some people really do want cosmetics and will go out of their way to get them. I have a friend who really likes collecting "everything". The end result is us playing mystery heroes with remarks from her like "I hate mystery heroes so much" because it means 3 extra loot boxes a week. (I like mystery heroes, though. That's why I play it.) But maybe that's the beginning of a problem.
http://archive.li/BKq3S
Comprehensive and exhaustive JavaScript and Node.js testing best practices
> Why are you giving away your hard earned money to feeding your child? There is no GDP output from the child.

There will be, eventually; and I get to glorify my selfish genes.
They arguably weren’t: they no longer have tumblr.
And yet business owners aren't rushing to install chargers, even in places where I'll regularly see a bunch of EVs on my way through the parking lot. So that theory doesn't seem to pan out.
Another way to say this that wouldn't rile so many people up is "In order to achieve the same size search space, you'd have to use ~10% more alphanumeric characters than all of printable ASCII."
They could just as easily add the same code to setup.py, and then pip would run it as soon as you run pip install. There's generally no security difference between curl | python and pip install.
That's why the healthcare system is what it is. You cannot do it your way without their doctors.
CBP databases for travel surveillance and profiling
If your government is not willing to step up and protect you, who do you expect to prevent these abuses? I think you know the answer to all these questions. Might makes right.
I feel bad for the guy; had to be horrible watching your life's work being destroyed.

Chaining buildings shut is a fire hazard at the minimum, but felony trespassing + breaking & entering in reality. I understand the university officials desire to not make a scene, but not doing anything is just as bad.
This is based on the metal injection molding materials already available. BASF manufactures them for MIM (Think die casting). This process is very well understood and used to make many mass produced metal parts in products we use every day. Using a 3d printer to form the green part is new, but the process and materials aren't.

The main hurdle here is the quality of the processing from the green part to the final part. BASF provides it as a service, you print the green part then ship it to them for processing in the same plant that does the processing for the metal injection molded parts. This takes a couple weeks to get your part back.

I evaluated both the BASF and virtual foundry materials and processes for use in my product design consultancy and found that neither provided a significant benefit over other 3d metal printing options (sls, investment casting of a 3d print, etc).

I have full rolls of several of the virtual foundry materials as well as the BASF SS material if anyone is interested in experimenting more.

I really wanted these materials to be more useful than they have turned out to be in relation to product design.
Well, yeah. My point is the syntax itself is very (too) clever. This syntax is probably possible in C# but you’d be a monster to write it (lots of operator overloads.)

The whole implementation is from an implementation of an extended isolation forest. It’s easy enough to find on GitHub if you’re interested.
>> 2. I see click-bait titles like "The top 19 nutrition myths of 2019".

> It's 2019. EVERYONE does this to get attention from people

Even Google themselves
https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/8-tips-stress-fre...
> And, as an entity more powerful than any living thing on this planet (with the power to kill or support nearly any online business), they owe the world quite a bit of fairness: Otherwise, they can watch as their search business drops to nothing overnight.

So are they powerful or aren't they? How can they be so powerful if they are one night away from ruin?
Welp, can't get worse. Good luck.
Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)
The idea they're having, which is hidden in the article, is that she crashed in the shallow water around the island, and the wreckage slipped down the underwater slope, out of sight. At a later time, landing gear was pictured on the beach, broken loose from the rest of the debris, still underwater.
It's a common myth, and may be for certain states, but in general it doesn't appear to true in the US [1, 2].

1: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
2: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/guess-who-is-respons...
Why we're saying no to Google
Because it drives multiples of traffic?
Thanks! Hope you guys can turn it around. Good blogging platforms are better for evolving ideas than Twitter.
The problem is that a much, much higher percentage of the UK fits under protected, iconic, or difficult to adapt.