skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many 100k image hits do you get on your personal website you made for fun? In the entire 20 years I've hosted my website on my comcast connection I have never had this issue. If you're going to post an image to reddit (which is kind of going backwards from the point of all this) then just mirror it onto some popular image host (or your VPS). This doesn't prevent you from also serving up a copy from your local disk to visitors.

1 megabit of upstream is plenty for a personal website. I can say this from long experience.
I'd arguably divide history into a pre-Bootstrap and a post-Bootstrap internet. Bootstrap made it easy for anybody to have a decent looking website, replacing the raw and chaotic and wonderful mess that came before, and bringing down an echoing sameness across huge swathes of the internet.

Another bright line is the Flash internet and the no-Flash internet. So much experimentation and uniqueness bloomed, and then died.
I very much agree with this, particularly the part regarding having active social media profiles. I can see the practicality of using active social media as a heuristic for "realness", but I'd go so far as to say that this is a borderline unethical hiring practice. When companies systematically preference candidates with active social media profiles they're applying a market force that literally coerces remote workers into being active on systems that we know for a fact use psychologically manipulative practices to drive addictive behavior (not to mention the privacy and potentially negative psychosocial implications).
I once developed data backup software and paid $500/mo to website owner who had great blog articles on backup tools and technologies to put on my gif banner ad.

This was win-win for all. I made tons of sales from there.

So my suggestion is to work not on website that is good for ads, but on website that is good to deliver information and answers on questions. Ads and referral sales will come after that.
If finding "the next iPhone" just required spending large enough sums of money, then Microsoft would have beat them to the punch before the iPhone came out.

In all of history there have only been a few iPhone class disruptors. They are rare, and they come based more on timing and the presence of enabling technologies than any particular company simply investing billions in R&D.
just last year I thought how much more can they grow now that they're over a trillion dollar market cap? Now I see people lining up for disposable $250 earbuds and now I know. (the same people that were happy with their terrible $15 ones btw)
One persons "suppression of speech" is another persons right to not publish and spread that persons bullshit.

This is why people always bring up that the "Free speech" is a concept that applies to governments(never-mind the historical origins in ancient Athens which was largely around protecting political discourse and dissent from prosecution..). Like many restrictions placed on the government it falls apart and becomes contradictory when applied to the individual.
> I often see these clean, easily provable anecdotes from those who support some kind of suppression of speech.

I had a bit of a different take. I actually think even this simple statement is incredibly difficult to verify.

First, we have to define what the Green New Deal even is. I don't mean this to be snarky, but even that is difficult.

Then we have to define what support means. Does it mean positive comments in the press? Do we need to go lookup in Lexis-Nexis every statement the candidate has made about the Green New Deal?

Even if we limit it to actual votes, it's still problematic. Did the candidate vote for the markup in committee? Did they vote to move it to the floor? In the Senate, did they vote for cloture, but vote against it on the floor? Did they vote for the bill out of conference?

Some might recall, we spent a good portion of the 2004 campaign arguing over whether John Kerry voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it.

This stuff is extremely subjective. It's probably something like a day's work for a seasoned reporter to accurately fact check a claim like this, and even then it's open to interpretation, which is easy enough to express in a fact check, but pretty hard in a binary judgement of truth.
It is still shocking to me that in 2019 people still view Fox News and CNN as having anywhere close a mirror level of political bias.
IPFS solves this. You only need to host an index of the content, plus the "seed" copy, for anyone else to download and mirror as they please.
Given how many fewer ads they have to deal with, that is probably true.
With each such iteration, the advertising punch is diluted. At this point, it's a stretch to imagine someone seeing the mirrored M-W logo and going "God, I need a smoke". In this way, we are all the better for it.
If you use the same JS frontend as everyone else it isn't very individual and form constrains content. The reason people use JS frontends is because they're at work being paid to do it. Time and the ability for your coworkers to contribute matters. You don't have to bring these compromises forced on you at work to home.
Agreed. It's such a strange statement I suspect he meant something else but I can't see what.
>automatically limits the suspects to US, Russia, Israel, Germany, UK and France.

given the reactors for that power plant were built in collaboration with Russia, and the sabotaged Indian nuclear submarine is a modified Russian "Akula" design, i think this is rare case when Russia can be stricken from the list :)
No, the government created the crisis by restricting supply of painkillers people desperately need. Purdue is a nice scapegoat though. Good job playing the same card as the drug warriors ("evil dealers").
This has always been the case. The majority of teachers are and have always been women.
I approve of the message that perhaps a 40 billion dollar particle accelerator is an unwise investment. Otherwise, I'm not sure there's useful information here.

"I try to explain to a cosmologist or particle physicists that we need smarter ways to share information and make decisions in large, like-minded communities."

Making decisions in large, like-minded communities? When has that ever been successful? Isn't that pretty much the opposite of what has led to physics breakthroughs, up and to this point?

"And please spare me the complaints that I supposedly do not have anything better to suggest, because that is a false accusation. I have said many times that looking at the history of physics teaches us that resolving inconsistencies has been a reliable path to breakthroughs, so that’s what we should focus on."

If I was a physicists and some random other physicist of little renown was to suggest that I (and everyone else) need to "focus more on the inconsistencies", I wouldn't exactly be swayed. I would be rolling my eyes. It's just not a very useful suggestion to make.
And why is a copout bad?

If we a society decide that Twitter shouldn't be the arbiter of valid and invalid political advertising, why is them avoiding the issue entirely a bad thing?
What point are you trying to make? The system seems working as intended if Ferrari is going to such great lengths to avoid explicit advertisement.

There will always be those who break laws, doesn’t mean that we should stop making laws.
> It’s certainly not what the first amendment is about.

Only one country has the first amendment, and this decision from twitter is globally applicable, so it shouldn't factor into the decision.
Might there be a future version which can be embedded in a larger web site or app? In other words, being able to drop in contact management features within a mobile app or React/Vue site?
Maybe it has changed since I was last there. But while living there I watched the nightlife scene explode in Paris. I'm from the 18eme which has had an interesting history as far as the nightlife. Since moving there I watched the bar scene grow in Bastille, Pigalle, Belleville, and Montmartre. Maybe this is super local and it was just the areas I frequented.

> Paris is becoming a big sleepy museum where only real Parisians do appreciate the lifestyle.

Funny they were saying this 10 years ago as well. Commerce has increased as companies exit the UK due to Brexit.
No, not at all. Freedom of expression is the right to say your piece to willing listeners. It's a guarantee the state won't interfere in most speech, not a guarantee that rich people can buy an audience.

Cellphones and internet connections are content-neutral pipes that convey content between a willing listener/reader and a speaker they select. So paying for those is a very different case than buying ads, and especially buying false ads.

Especially now that we're 25+ years into the web era, I don't think there's a strong argument for the legal necessity of paid political advertising at all. If I'm curious about candidate or an issue, I can find out anything I want from anybody who can use two thumbs to type something into a box on Facebook or Twitter. I can also get vetted content from a variety of aggregators, from commercial media to non-profit election guides to Wikipedia-style references to my friends sharing things on social media.

Given that, a law saying, "Nobody can pay for reach," certainly wouldn't harm democracy any. And it might help. So I think this is a great step forward on Twitter's part.
There's no need to be rude.

History has shown that the making of laws is the only way to curtail the negative side-effects of the free market.

I am not a congressman or even a lawyer, so no, as any sane person could infer, I am not proposing that "Private schools are illegal" be written on a piece of paper and submitted to the legislature as a new bill.

But I am proposing that weakening the circular mechanisms by which the powerful increase their own power could be a better - indeed, less "lazy and narrow-minded" - strategy for decreasing economic inequality than some other strategies that people propose and even enact.

The only two purposes I can think of for having private grade-schools are a) allowing the rich to isolate themselves from the public school system, and b) religious schools. And to be honest - as someone who went to a religious elementary school and learned in my "science class" that evolution is fake and dinosaurs walked alongside humans - the latter probably shouldn't be allowed either.
Put it behind cloudflare, problem solved.
A lot of the time, yes. Not always. In this case, hopefully not.
Because getting content on the web is only as difficult as people make it, and beneath all the bloat of "modern front end development practices" there is still a simple set of tools to work with.
> one would expect in a modern database.

Can’t resist I should thou, access is in my mind an embedded dB that added some features sits closer to SQLite than MySQL. Out of interest why do people choose to use access than SQL express is it the GUI driven development?
Yeah! You better use your mind than loose it lol
I'm seeing a lot of discussion relating to US laws, but this tweet says the decision is globally applicable. How are the US laws relevant to the decision?
The MGTOW movement is a thing.
I think you may have inadvertently proved my point. The web interface is one of the least used interfaces. It probably doesn’t get used by many execs or engineers in the company.
I mean "users" exactly the same way "used" was meant in the author's statement. So yes, the developers, who are the people who are using XML.
There will never be a successful community without some level of moderation. It is better for us to define the levels of moderation than have a organization start adjudicating truth.
Because he is the 20th prisoner in federal custody to commit suicide in a year? Because people routinely kill themselves even in supermax jails? Because 4-5 people attempt suicide in that prison every year and it'd be even more surprising if they were perfect at preventing it? Because they weren't allowed to hire new staff since Sessions froze hiring in 2017, until April, and their staffing levels went well down over that time?

Here's the story of a death, not suicide, in an equivalent facility in Chicago - Solebo. He wasn't taking his meds, and nobody knew because the blood samples they'd taken from him were contaminated. Coincidence? And although a judge had ordered twice, six months apart, that he be transferred for proper medical examinations, he wasn't. Coincidence? And every staff member with a medical license was on leave or away the day he was found dead. Coincidence? Does the federal DoC just actually fail that much in that many ways? Yes. All the time.
Rule of thumb for reddit: You want a small community or a heavily moderated community and never a (former, I don’t think this concept exists anymore) default subreddit.

Besides some intra-reddit jokes, the site is more like a directory of forums with a unified interface.
Not just services. It'd also theoretically break (if taken to an extreme):

Wikis, since most wikis don't pay their admins/bureaucrats. Like most of the ones on Wikia, Gamepedia, the NIWA, etc.

Old school fan sites, which often went with volunteer staff teams

Quite a few media/fan run/gaming news sites, which also often have volunteer writers.

etc
I miss the old internet, but if I had the magic to go back to 1997 to browse for a bit I'd be over it in about 30 minutes. Just like I'd be over Mac OS System 7.5 in about 10 minutes, or my SNES, or Darkwing Duck, and on and on.

...member chewbacca
It might, yes, but that doesn't mean that making that modification is illegal (it's not).

It could be brought up in court as piece of a larger effort to show negligence or actual lawbreaking.

For instance, in my state it's entirely legal to have a video system that is capable of showing video that is visible to the driver, but it's entirely illegal to use that system in a way that makes the video visible to the driver. So while having the system installed is legal, it could also be a piece of a larger collection of evidence showing wrongdoing.
Glassdoor.ca Dirty Technique and Lies
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
Don't underestimate how complicated modern high bypass turbofan jet engines are. Way more R&D money had gone into the latest designs than went into e.g. the Raptor engine.

A crazy random fact is that there are entire turbine parts that are a single molecule, yet are bigger around than you are tall.
> The Internet of those days were limited to the extreme minority of people who were aware of the Internet and had access to a connected computer, nevermind took the time to figure out how to create for it.

Exclusivity makes things cool.
Sounds like Egyptian emperors and pyramids
Counter-strike trading found to be 'nearly all' money laundering
It's mentioned in the "Future" section.
This appears to bother the people that live outside Paris rather than most Parisians. I'm all for it. I've watched my balcony become unusable from pollution. I imagine if half the stuff that was collecting on the balcony floor was going into my lungs my lungs would look like a 50 year heavy smoker.
Why does orientation matter? Just throw up enough dumb sunshades. It costs a lot more in station-keeping to get the orientation correct than to just let it be random.

And keep in mind that, absent active station-keeping, you need a mix of many different orientations to block out the Sun throughout the year. And you're not going to perfectly remove any spin anyway.
I'm sure there are lists like these and we just don't know about them.
There is politics in everything, but when we say "political ad" we really mean ads primarily intended to influence voters in elections.
Depends what the curve is, doesn't it? If the worst 1% of drivers cause 90% of the accidents, then replacing all drivers with vehicles at the 2nd percentile would drop the accident rate.
Have you tried Ruby? It's the most "what you describe" language I've used.

I don't use it because Python's more popular and I'm a slave to fashion and critical mass, but it's so much more easy and expressive than even Python's syntax.

for i in 0..5

I can't believe Python didn't adopt that syntax, which comes from Bash... I surmise it didn't because Python is actually something of the philosophical opposite of Ruby. In Python, there is one way to do things. You use the range() call, so we only use the range() call. In Ruby, the same thing can be done in many different ways. More expressive although a little wild.
An old friend and myself have had some extremely heated debates about whether the genomic sequence data his company collects from people and sells to everyone is biomedical data. I say that it is and is covered under HIPAA. He claims that is absurd and unreasonable and that genome sequences are simply not personal private medical data regulated under HIPAA. Many others in these debates have also disagreed with me and rebuked me claiming that even complete genomic data is not covered under HIPAA and is simply not personal medical information. I don't recall ever having a single supporter in my claim that a person's genome is private medical data.

Yet perhaps some of these happy to hate on me in the past and denounce my unreasonable opinion that genomes are medical data would now criticize me for monitoring conditions and levels of gases in my own private home as well as that of waste disposed of. Courts have repeatedly ruled that in disposing of cellular materials such as blood and sperm one gives up any rights to privacy. These materials can be collected from trash without a warrant. The reasonable expectation of privacy simply does not apply to things one has thrown away.
Another biased way of seeing your professors is usually as indisputable authority figures. It's even harder to not fall for that as a lot of high performing academics paint themselves like that when teaching, which is ironic given that they usually underperform at the latter because of how they stand in that position of authority.

I went to an okish school but my house and school were very authoritarian environments that constrained creativity. It took me a while to overcome that bias.
> If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to keep writing.

But don't use: "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy"
I am planning on building an API to make integrations with other systems easier. That feature however would be available in the Enterprise Plan ($100/month, unlimited users) which I plan to introduce once the API for third party integration is implemented.

A mobile app is also on the works
> I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries

On duck duck go you can use !r to search reddit if you're so inclined.
The default subreddits for sure. There are however some great interest specific subreddits with good moderation and quality posts/discussions. With that said even those good quality subreddits can suffer from the reddit plague which is minimal effort picture posts with a tangentially related subject.
I meant the capability of pulling off such an attack is quite limited.

Although, what if someone wanted to cover up their incompetence by blaming it on hackers. The classic Hanlon’s razor at work:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/india-did-major-damag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
More likely a video tape of someone grabbing an underage girl somewhere like that without their consent.
>> I'm from the 18eme which has had an interesting history as far as the nightlife.

Probably he lived in the South, we don't go that far North :-)
I want to write code
but my progress has really slowed.

It’s kind of a mess
without written tests.

I’ll just do my best
and implement the rest.
Would you care to give case law demonstrating otherwise? Because as best I can tell, it only applies to use of government power.
> Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down.

I'd like to clarify what actually happened here (throwaway for paranoia).

The actual bug was that the account signups flow was accidentally modified to automatically opt out new signups[1]. When Legal reviewed the ads targeting and discovered the opt out setting wasn't being respected, they made ads start doing so. Two this later they discovered the sign-ups bug.

[1] I know, a bunch of people would rather it was always like that.
Show HN: I created a (hopefully fast) C++ lib to find words in ASCII sequences
Hi,

to provide a bit context, I'm the author of a small causal android game called "Squabbel"[1] which is a modern take on a merge of tetris and scrabble.

Its core is based around the idea to find strings within a sequence of characters, which is accomplished by using a deterministic finite automaton.

Currently I'm working on the successor of Squabbel and I was optimizing the internal search engine and refactored the code to a c++ library which is now available on github

https://github.com/0x10/fastdict

The search times are to my needs pretty good and I would love to get some feedback on the performance.

Thanks.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.deadlock.squabbel.lite
> I believe 1st semiconductors were a science experiment.

I'm pretty sure the transistor [1] was invented specifically to solve a real engineering problem.

[1] I'm taking your use of "semiconductor" to mean transistor because my understanding is semiconductors are a kind of material that was discovered, not invented.
I had a feeling I wasn’t the only one who did this, but I’m glad to know for sure. I do the exact same thing, because otherwise it seems nigh impossible to actually find decent human conversations online that aren’t in some unindexed walled garden.
I should have added a /s
I kinda wondered if that was the thought process, but the extra length of the v6 address only adds 12 bytes to the DNS packet. There's still a bunch of other stuff in the packet; dig says the size for my test query goes from 361 bytes to 373 bytes, which is only a 3.3% increase. Even at a rather slow 1 Mbit/s that would only add 100µs to transmit a packet that takes in total ~3ms to transmit.

And that 3ms is likely smaller than the latency in the lookup, which is generally going to be the dominating factor.
It happens (no worries): We did see before; we do see forevermore.

( ~ might be putting the cart before the horse. ~ take it easy )
Yes, I explained that above. Again: in most European countries you will usually get put into a long-term unemployment program. More information: this benefit can and does get removed totally (if you refuse work, it stops), and in most European countries you will be required to essentially perform work in these programs (i.e. retraining). The only way to obtain money without performing work is to be disabled. That is it.

Why I have to tell you this is unclear? Just look on the internet. Too much like hard work, amirite comrade? Also, you are not only reasoning from your sample size of "people I know" but that is limited to one country...at least try to be serious.
Not really because bluetooth and wifi scanning can give you location, so it makes sense programmatically to put it under the "location" banner.
I'm guessing this is being downvoted because after all, for unpopular stuff, you're still going to be the one hosting your content.
I was evangelizing and pushing Python in 1992 (Version 0.9.4) where I worked. The main objection everyone had to even trying ("so spectacularly bad it's a non starter" - think I've heard this wording exactly more than once): Indentation for scoping. I still had to fight that notion in 2010. but thankfully not any more.

Now, that does not mean Nim's underscore insensitivity is a good idea, but excuse me for saying "if that's a non starter for you to even trying, I have no respect for your opinion on programming language design". If you actually try and and dislike it, we might be able to discuss merits or opinions. "Ugly" it may be, it is in the eyes of the beholder. But "bad" - what's your metric?