skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Left a comment on the IndieHackers page. Keeping a copy here for those who aren't reading the comments section. I have noticed this a lot in various websites I have helped in ad campaigns. Their biggest problem is their landing page. Just like this article uses lots of jargons to explain simple concepts, their landing page reflects the same. For those of you wanting to know more about landing page optimization just watch Isaac Rudansky's excellent videos on Udemy. One of the most important rules is the 5 second test. Show your landing page to your colleagues/friends/family depending on your target audience. If they can't understand what your business proposition is in 5 seconds you have failed landing page optimization. As simple as that.

The comment I posted on the IndieHackers page:

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The landing page is too complex. Like what does "Full stack adaptive delivery" even mean? I am sure 90% of your paid visitors are just bouncing because that landing page tagline is alien to them. Dumb it down. Make it simple.

Surprisingly, the description in the Indiehackers page makes so much more sense than the one you put up: "File-system-as-a-service that does uploads, storage, and media processing for Web and mobile apps, so you can ship products faster and scale them painlessly"

If you told me that the first time I would have understood your value proposition. Don't get too fancy with your taglines. People don't have time to understand what you are saying. People don't like fancy terminologies except for what is popular. There are too many jargons already. Don't complicate it further.

Instead of "Full stack adaptive delivery" just try: "File-system-as-service". Instead of "Serve ultimate UX with better images on any website. One script to rule them all." just have: "Ship products faster with better images on any website". That's it. You will get 50+% higher conversion rates with just this one change.
Isn't Pareto a power law distribution?
If the US wants to apply US law globally then US constitutional rights should apply to you if the US wants to prosecute you. I imagine if this goes forward it will end up at the US Supreme Court. Also if Assange is on US soil at the time of prosecution then the 1st amendment should apply and it should be retroactive.
Chidambaram and his entire family are a bunch of amoral kleptocrats. He laid the roots of the current Indian security state before Modi was elected. He is now being prosecuted for arm twisting and even blackmailing corporates into giving him money, shares etc. If there were any justice in this world, that man would die in a jail cell along with his son. Now your comment is implying that he is some persecuted liberal rights activist. This is either pretty clueless or a malicious attempt to sway opinions of people, who being outsiders, know nothing.
Yes, scalpers swoop them up in all online stores. They are even sold out on Amazon US, Canada, UK and DE. I was told only the ones with a N95 rating can be effective against this virus.

https://www.amazon.com/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210-Pack/d...
"Full stack adaptive delivery" - wut ?

Wouldn't surprise me if bounce rates are high. Took quite a bit of reading to figure out what industries and use cases are
But the context in those countries is too different to ours to come to any meaningful conclusion about what should be allowed "here" (I'm assuming UK + US mainly).
Related to the concept of a Dunning-Kruger "test": Shibboleths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
That doesn't sound bad at all. Having a webcam pointed at my face all day and showing on some monitor would be very discomforting.
You should expect the anti-white sentiment to formally mutate to include Chinese/Japanese/Koreans in the future, as they aren't global south enough. (I mean, it already has in college admissions.)
"I've never understood why people don't prefer desktop email clients"

I used to, but these days I switch between a work desktop, my phone, my home desktop, etc. So consistency of features matters. Also things like a "draft" I did on my mobile shows up on the web client on my Linux desktop, custom filters, signatures, are the same everywhere, etc.

The web and mobile-native clients for Gmail, Outlook, etc, work more the same than switching between something like Thunderbird and something else.
Yeah there’s a lot of rhetoric at play here. Very little in the realm of hard details.
I can:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/One-MacArthur-freeway...

This was an impressive thing to live through too...
Everyone in China who can afford to buy masks has scrambled to buy them. Of course they're sold out. Production is probably ramping up massively, but that's still not enough to satisfy demand right now.
I must be a bit older than you then, I'm gaining weight and forgetting things.
I've had a weird first time contributor for one of my projects. I had decided to not use any build system for the front end. This caused issues in a subset of browsers that do not support the latest features. I accepted the extra work of testing it in several browsers and chose Firefox ESR as the minimum platform I support. But I didn't expect that there are forks like palemoon which disabled the core feature the entire project was built on, namely WebRTC.

The contributer's idea was to use HLS/DASH as a fallback for passive viewers who aren't broadcasting their own video stream. He was enthusiastic and even willing to spend 4 days per week on the project but then I realized how inexperienced that contributor is. He has never written a web app, never used a relational database, no knowledge of js, css, html but clearly willing to learn. However since I just don't have the time for hand holding like that I asked him if he wants to acquire these skills to get a job as a software developer. That wasn't the case and the lack of ambition turned me off. I didn't feel like spending 100+ hours on training someone who will never use his skills outside of this project, especially when I can just tell him to go away and come back with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge, anything except Palemoon.
Playstation Now for PS4/PC (800+ games, PS4 / Windows)
> ... before thinking of space exploration.

Without space exploration we may not have had CMOS image sensors, in addition to a whole bunch of other things:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
> but we also need an aspirational target at the top, so as to inspire us to excellence, creativity and accomplishment.

Why do we need this? Is the author suggesting that without an externally provided target, none shall be inspired?

The status game is inherent to all socially cooperative creatures. It's not a morality thing; it's an evolutionary thing. It's nothing we can legislate or moralize or shame away; all you can do is push it underground (as in, "I'm so important that I don't even need to play" or "I disdain all who play, and am therefore superior to the rabble who do"), which doesn't solve anything.

In truth, we've already reached a pretty decent point in countering the game's worst effects. When someone demands "just who do you think you are?", I can simply respond "I am a free man." And that's that. They'll usually have no recourse to harm me for such insolence, and their bruised ego is of little concern in the majority of cases. Long gone are the days where insulting a Lord would get you run through.

Of course, if you want to enlist the work of others by means other than coercion or bribes, the status game (i.e. charisma, popularity, respect) is the only way to do it. So for some occupations, it is essential.
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are one such example. They’ve been pair programming since before Google.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
Mastercard announces half-billion-dollar cybersecurity centre for Vancouver
Antifa?

Ok
I'd like to add: Why does it have to be a project? For me atleast "project" usually implies too much upfront planning and not beeing very lean.
I would no longer put much in a line, even if it meant using a single use variable.

Monitors may be wide but your eye sight will never change and moving your eye sight left and right, worse, moving your neck left and right is tiring and vertically is easier to follow as the code is the one that moves around instead of you.

Same as sibling comment but I keep my apps' window size at about 70% of the display's width starting near the mid to right end, so I don't have to look way to the left when pretty much everything is leaned on the left side. This brings most of the text, be it code or web page that you read close to mid, which is easier on your neck.
Well if the brain holds a huge amount of information this could actually explain those experiments. weird to think about.
It was proven to work back in the 60's. With way worse material tech than we have today. The reinvigoration of Thorium research happened when that design was declassified and shared with some NASA folks.

EDIT: wrong decade
> CTR is the most important component of Quality Score

this is because that's how google gets paid.

you can create a great ad that's not terribly relevant to a specific audience, get good ctr but poor conversion.

some tips:

make sure to watch your search query reports and continuously refine your [hopefully shared] carefully-applied negative keywords lists.

avoid broad match like the plague. we use mostly phrase and modified broad with good negative phrase lists that have been continously honed over many months.

don't hyper-segment keyword or ad variations, it'll become a nightmare to manage with little-to-no benefit.

also, whether paid ads are worth it is highly dependent on your market, competitors, and your typical conversion value.

because our typical orders exceed $500, we see double-digit factor returns on ad spend even though we're an established, well-known mfg name in our market.

and yes, be ready to waste some money when dialing things in - $50k in a month of pure waste is quite a lot but that same amount "wasted" on tweaking over the course of 6mo-1yr is not out of the ballpark, assuming it yields progressively increasing ROI.

YMMV
The structure of the article is weird yes but the sections are entirely relevant to marketing analytics.

The writer establishes they have some baseline analytics and understanding of demand generation prior to embarking on paid.

Then they embark on paid.

Then they tell you what they learned.

FWIW for any organization new to paid, this article will probably save you some 10s of thousands in spend if you internalize it properly.
And the US at least has a long way to go before wind/solar even come close to being the majority sources of our energy production - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
The license on the Debug.Trace module says 2001... That's all I know.

I'm a big fan of the "Haskell Programming from First Principles" book. I read it on-and-off over the course of 2 years, and I think I'm an intermediate Haskell user at this point.

The most production-grade Haskell software I've ever played with would be Pandoc (document conversion) and the Yesod family of webdev libraries. Playing with Yesod is a bit scarier because it uses some Template Haskell magic. On the flip side, there's a great user guide (the "Yesod book").
Progressive Web Apps – Standard or Buzzword?
Hmm, but it is in stock on Amazon US right now?

I also went to tmall.com, Alibaba’s Chinese online marketplace, and it appears they are in stock too:

https://list.tmall.com/search_product.htm?q=%BF%DA%D5%D6n95&...
Also...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2018/01/25/more-...

https://www.fcltglobal.org/news/blog/article/2019/05/28/data...
They are just as time consuming as any other code you haven't written yourself.
He is an original source, as a person who saw the filings. Perhaps not unbiased though. And contra your statement, there is no reason to suspect that the DoJ's self-description of their filings would be in any way more accurate. (Do you trust the student's description of his essay, or the teacher's evaluation of it?)
We’ve spent ages working on the onboarding flows for Riot; which bit is unpolished?
The "product" didn't grow to $130M. It is a financial service, and that service processed that amount, charging some small percentage as a fee.
> A false choice you attempt to make true by ensuring the cycle of escalation never ends. No US war since 1945 has been undertaken for the purpose you ascribe.

You don't understand deterrence.
No probably not... crammed homeless in city parks giving each other Hep, city streets disinfected from feces, leprosy being endemic in parts of the homeless population. People unable to afford life-saving medication or unable to take time off work due to lack of medical leave, choosing to carry their viruses to work. People also never eat Armadillo meet and come down with the plague. Large parts of the population distrusting science and government and rejecting vital vaccination to keep diseases from spreading.

Such things would never happen in any kind of first world country. let's focus on exotic animal markets in China to make us all feel superior
This bit us too. We use goodaddy's external secrets [1] to fetch secrets from AWS secrets manager and make them available to the cluster. It polls the secret every n seconds, but with many services consuming secrets, it can scale up pretty quickly and start to build up cost.

[1] https://github.com/godaddy/kubernetes-external-secrets
I maintain an Emacs package[1] that focuses on user interaction and hooks deeply into the internals of Emacs in potentially fragile ways (e.g. it sometimes needs to actually inspect the call stack in order to determine the correct behavior). For a long time, I had no way to test it in an automated fashion because it was an interactive package, so each release required me to laboriously test its functionality to make sure I hadn't broken anything. Beyond just the time required for manual testing, the mere need for manual testing discouraged me from making releases in a timely fashion. The manual testing also meant that my package was only tested on a single Emacs version (i.e. whatever I was running at the time).

Then I finally figured out how to simulate user interaction using Elisp[2], and used this to add a test suite to my package. My tests have caught a number of regressions, especially in older versions of Emacs that I no longer use but still want to support. In addition to being faster, development has been much easier and less stressful for me because I know I can experiment and rely on my test suite to catch almost any regression I introduce. And the stress factor is important, since this is an open source package that I maintain for free, and if it was too stressful, I would probably just stop working on it.

Was adding tests to this project a 10x improvement? I don't know, but it sure felt qualitatively like a silver bullet to me.

[1]: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-completing-read-plu...

[2]: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/with-simulated-input
12 year old issue tracker entry returns from the dead
Because if you want to solve a design problem, first you need to do other things instead going to Dribbble and get biased with other solutions. Dribbble is more a display of styles than complete design solutions.
<tin foil on> Supposedly democratic governments learned a few tricks on how they could manipulate the opinions of the governed to avoid being thrown out. Some fear works. Wars, too (that is, when at war people will cut their government extra slack), so they claim wars on {drugs,terrorism,...}.

They also leverage mass media. This is not a relationship of control, just symbiosis: fear is still pretty easy to sell. <tin foil off>
There's a lot of room for improvement in aerodynamics of modern sedans. The bulbous front bodywork and large wheels that are in style are not good for aerodynamics. If we went back to the low hoods and 24" diameter tires of the early 90s then that would be a substantial improvement. Most subcompact hatches already do this because their boxy form factor is not that great for aerodynamics and they need to make it up somewhere.
As someone who is trying to learn and some day launch something like this, thank you so much for this advice!

I've been known to complicate descriptions on my OSS packages but still achieved moderate success, so I'm thinking on how to convert this knowledge into revenue and these comments are super helpful.

Question: how do you manage to both keep it simple but relevant for SEO? Isn't SEO a lot about keyword stuffing?
>Democracy draws its power from the "consent of the governed"

OK. I believe I'm arguing for consent.

>not from the complacency of the subjects

That's a red-herring. It has nothing to do with anything.

>and if the people chose to not engage in the process, the government has no legitimate claim by which it can act on the people's behalf.

If they choose to not engage because they don't trust the system .. then sure, that's a problem. If they choose to not engage because they are fine with any outcome - I don't see the problem.

> Low voter turnout is an indicator of an illegitimate government

You can't just say things. Sometimes that may be the case. And sometimes it may not. Typically in western nations, low voter turnout stems from a comfortable, prosperous life.

>If people chose to not vote (or engage in other political actions) the question should be "do we need this part of the government" not "how do we get more people to vote in this part of the government"

Sure. And I'm not against either.
It says on that site "the user interface is a work in progress".

There a lots of these projects. They all sorts, kinda work if you are prepared to do work and ignore the faults.

For one, it doesn't do HDMI CEC. For another, no form of surround sound. No Spotify support. Etc etc.

I just don't think that trade-off is worthwhile.

One you buy active speakers (which have to be wired to the raspberry pi, sigh..) it isn't even much cheaper.
> If you look at the top 100 packages on Hackage, around a third of them have proper documentation showing the simple use cases for the library.

This is still very very poor, and one of the biggest problems faced by newcomers to the language (speaking as one myself...)
Haskellers are in a rough spot, then, aren't they?

All of the pretension that comes with knowing one of the functional languages that has a community that pretends to know math, and they end up working retail. Ow.

Joking diss aside, though, I definitely feel for people who love languages with limited reach.

(Also, I think GitHub hired a few people explicitly for Haskell, which is worth mentioning because Microsoft is vaguely more reputable than most of the companies listed in this thread.)
BTW, ADTs are coming to Java real soon: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html
(Engineered) Food. It’s What’s for Dinner
Poodles don't get to disobey their masters
What I would find better as well is if a websearch could use this bookmarking as an additional flag to rank search results in a personal/social context. I imagine this was an ideal behind google+ plus marker thing.
Of course, it can run on Wordpress and any other CMS/platform.
That $130m figure is not revenue, but rather they're counting the total amount people donated using the product. A bit misleading IMO.

They don't mention what the actual revenue numbers are, but the fees are around 0.25-0.5% which is what the product pricing page says. That's $650k in revenue for $130m in donations.
Ooof. Added a redirect. Thanks for the catch!
I feel like if I applied this reasoning I wouldn't give any money to any cause. There is always waste, no organization is perfectly managed. To be fair, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be open to criticism.
Slight clarification: they targeted keywords that they didn't have a specific landing page for, this might be like sending people to a landing page that generically talks about "file uploads" instead of a landing page that hyper-specifically talks about "file uploads for laravel".

They were saying they should have held off on targeting those more specific terms until they had those matching and more specific landing pages in place.
You could measure that. As far as I can tell, this whole movement of gender and sexual diversity being a key indicator of success in a workplace is entirely devoid of evidence. When did we stop caring about who was good at their job? It is just plainly discrimination against straight white males, isn't that illegal?
Oh, I didn't realize all people are Americans.
Apologies if my comment felt offending. I've just seen a few stories about companies using non mainstream tools for important matter without making a product out of it. Caring only about known programs made in <lang> is shallow IMO
There's no solar energy in the Sahara at night. And then as people mentioned, there is energy lost in transmission through resistance in power lines. There's also the fact that not too many of the world's 8 billion people live within serviceable range of the Sahara, assuming you can get past the geopolitical instability in that region to construct and maintain such things. The solar cells would need constant cleaning from dust storms to keep them running at high efficiency.

No, running solar on rooftops isn't the most practical use either. Depending on latitude, weather, cost of solar installation and battery installation, orientation and layout of roof to the sun, the problems with snow, rain, and hail, the lack of solar at night, the fact that none of this generates enough power for those times when you need it most like in the middle of winter in northern climates, etc. Solar and wind will never meet the growing needs of modern economy. Period. It's a pipe dream.

They are great supplemental sources of electricity. They cannot power a first world economy.
For what I understand, the proposal- with its suggestion that it may account for dark matter- seems to imply that two different arrangements of exactly the same particles can have different mass, depending on how much information those arrangements encode. Because otherwise, if "information" is intrinsic to each particle and not a collective property, then I don't see how its mass wouldn't be already accounted for by the particles' mass.
I work in a JVM shop and I don't see Clojure making much head way. Unlike say, Apache Spark, there's no killer app (datomic notwithstanding) that requires Clojure over Scala.

Scala also offer the advantage of static type checking, and a less alien syntax. Yeah, I know Clojure is just s-expressions, but all the brackets don't help its uptake.

Oh, and Clojure stack traces make Scala stack traces look positively brief and informative.
Well allow me to climb down from my ivory tower and offer the following in way of explanation:

Here is a reasonably good overview of safety (aka dynamic typing) vs types: https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/safety-soundness.html

Put another way, the standard programming language theory is that types are constraints that are uncovered (via type inference) and checked at compile-time. If type information is found at run-time these are known as tags. In Haskell, for example, you can declare a type like

newtype SecretKey = Int

This creates a new type (SecretKey) that has a run-time representation that is just an Int. I.e. it has no additional information associated with it at run-time that you could use to distinguish it from an Int. At compile-time it is distinguished, however. You cannot use a SecretKey where an Int is expected and vice-versa. This could prevent you leaking secrets to other parts of your program, for example. This is one way you can reclaim performance in a statically typed language, vs dynamic types, without degenerating to passing around uninformative primitive types like Int (which introduces the possibility for errors).
I was wondering if perhaps they could make it easy for me to handle responsive images & formats.

"Easily implement our Bi-Directional CDN© to personalize on-demand adaptive delivery of UX-relevant content. Engage your target audiences"

Slowly backs away