skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company took VC money, growing in a sensible and sustainable way isn't an option. They're targeting an IPO according to the former CEO and co-founder Joel Spolsky, which means they need to grow 10X in the near future.

They're making around 70 million a year now, 44 million from the job platform, 16 million from ads and the rest from the private SO Teams/Enterprise software (28 large corporations are paying 1 million+, I know this doesn't add up entirely, but that's the only information publicly available that I know of). The numbers are all from the following interview with Joel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1275&v=zMfxd9y0c...
You could throttle (or even drop) connections from non-donor users, calculated to just be enough keep a manageable load on the servers.

Then, if users don't like it, they can pay for it. But with the throttling it actually has a direct affect; they can immediately see an improvement, rather than just an abstract 'vote with your wallet', 'oh if everyone thought like that [why pay, SEP] there would be no server' payment.
Crystal Geyser Bottler Pleads Guilty to Dumping Arsenic into Ecosystem
I guess Khashoggi must have really annoyed MBS. This has now cost the Saudis at least ten times as much goodwill as all anti-Saudi editorials in the Post and everywhere else together.

That, or it was a favour to MBS American friends. The other people involved (David Pecker et al) and MBS do share a few friends in the White House, who also seem obsessed with the Washington Post and Bezos himself.
define “major pandemic”. By % of humans affected the trend was very clearly towards almost 0.

By absolute number of people affected it also has been trending down since around 1900 despite the population growth
I would always pick the most valuable to me side

Of course, when you know nothing about the would-be victims.
But on a pure numbers theoretical basis, you autodrive veers out away from the three killers fleeing police by driving on the wrong side of the road in favor of running down two kids in a crosswalk.

Real life is complicated.
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Just according to superficial stats, it looks like the flu kills orders of magnitude more people than SARS and MERS. Is the public health response to these diseases really so effective as to account for most of this difference? I don't pay close attention but also wouldn't off the top of my head be able to describe anything that, say, Washington State does to effectively respond to CoV incidents to keep it from propagating rapidly through the population the way the flu does.

(I'm asking because I'm curious and seriously have no clue how this stuff works).
This may strike some as silly, but before the iPhone was invented, there were ZERO searches for the term "iPhone". (I assume, ha!) By all means, do market analysis, but remember that demand is not static—it can be shaped by what you offer. I co-founded a firm 13 years ago that now employees 50 people that most certainly would have been killed by this type of analysis.
Sure, but you still get memory safety.
Honest question. Given that RCE's are extremely rare, can't FB and AAPL announce 100M USD bounty to get them first and patch them, avoiding bad PR and brand impact? Damn, make it 200M?! Or bad actors can easily pay 5x more to exploit said 0 day on a few targets, so hackers will sell to them instead?
Muslims Are Being “Slaughtered on Demand” for Their Organs in China
Doesn't that just drive you nuts?

Cabbages just sneak up on you like that.

I've had plenty of genuinely unique questions marked as "duplicate".
Even if the mask doesn't actually protect you, it will prevent you from touching your face and mouth absent-mindlessly.
It no longer makes sense to be able serve our own content without it being pushed down in search results?

We were talking about CDNs because your collegue mentioned AMP CDNs, but the main point doesn't change: we cannot serve our own content from our own servers and get the same placement in search results as AMP content, even if our content loads verifiably fast and is as performant as an AMP page on the client.
You're right, good catch.

One could argue the words surrounding the carousel on DGG ("Shopping" and "Ad") are slightly more transparent than Google's "Sponsored" heading, but that's splitting hairs I guess.

In either case, I find both carousels pretty obvious in their intent. Maybe it's because the prices are being shown? I think more sophisticated internet users are trained to know that when you see a $xx.xx price on the internet, along with a link to purchase the item, there's probably some kind of commercial relationship happening behind the scenes.

These days, whenever I see a product mentioned anywhere on the web with links to purchase it, I default to assuming it's an affiliate link.
Generally, the DDOS protection even at layers 3 and 4 is a blessing. For a layer 3/4 attack, all a malicious actor really needs is a bunch of average internet connections anywhere; and depending on your server hardware, it might be inexpensive to keep it down since those IPs are cheap. CF just drops all packets from these "literally 99% of traffic is malware" IPs on the network layer.

But a layer 7 DDOS attack, when going through Cloudflare, means the malicious actor needs to have IP addresses that are at least not complete trash in terms of IP reputation. Getting access to a botnet and access to these IP addresses isn't exactly prohibitively expensive, but it's a much larger barrier to entry.

It's even harder to get taken down by a layer 7 DDOS attack on Cloudflare if you use "im under attack" mode, assuming your attacker isn't paying even more for the botnet to run something like Chromium or node to hit your website.

Finally, while Cloudflare doesn't actively do this for small-scale DDOS attacks (since it might just be a spike of users), they do have Gatebot for the larger scale ones https://blog.cloudflare.com/meet-gatebot-a-bot-that-allows-u....
Rest assured that jalousy and envy are actually often confused my many people, even in one's own language. ;-)

> The word in my language would literally translate as desire but it's more than that, it would mean more like I would like to have that and it feels bad that I don't even have the opportunity to have it.

Yeah, OK, I get it. That's a very good word (the one in your language). I think it's a rather universal feeling, this "invisible ceiling". Many people feel that for various reasons.

There's a certain school of thought, somewhere between philosophy and spirituality, that speaks of "abundance", and beyond (or perhaps before, on the way) of "inner peace" or "inner happiness". The oldest forms I know are Stoicism (western cultures) and Zen (eastern cultures), and you'll find it nowadays in e.g. Tony Robbins, that kind of field. I think there's truth in it that just works, at least it did for me (took me about 35 years to figure it out though, as it's just totally outside the realm of "education" nowadays¹, unfortunately IMHO).

One mechanism that I've always found to be true, is that from the depth of our biggest despair comes our symmetrical potential for joy, and vice-versa. It takes knowing how good/bad it gets to really feel how worse/better it is, or rather goes.

It's certainly trying on one side, but invaluably rewarding on the other.

[1]: at least in most of the western world, afaik.
I'd love an invite!
Ads on this webpage

https://imgur.com/11hpqgN
Worm really opened up a whole new section of "books" for me. Previously I thought that most web serials were on par with fan fiction in quality and subject matter. That being said another free audio book that is also a web serial (not sure if it's complete just yet) is Mother of Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjR6qnMXU9o&list=PL1R6q3pUbd...
If observing just the plot of "each September in each year" one still misses the whole picture which is (all extents through the time, not only Septembers:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/1999/10/Figure3.png

Specifically, 2012 was such an extreme year that the following years seldom compete with it, but they still do, and the trend to decrease is still obvious.
Somewhat to my surprise, my SiteTruth system is allowed to read "bakadesuyo.com", the site with which the article author had a problem. Sitetruth uses a user-agent like "Sitetruth rating system", and makes no attempt to pretend to be a browser. Cloudflare let it through. No capcha. No error messages.

Can't conclude much from this; Sitetruth has been reading sites openly for years in a well defined way from a well known IP address, examining them for ownership info about once a month. Although it looks at millions of sites, it never hits any one site very often. From Cloudflare's perspective, that's harmless.
I'm mostly Frontend developer recently so I haven't been much up to date with Backend technologies. If I need a CMS for my frontend, what technology(-ies) can I use?
Why is nobody reading the damn article?

>I hope I was able to show you that PHP has evolved tremendously over the past years, and you're perfectly able to write clean and maintainable code with it.
>Everything I say on HN reflects my own opinion and not any organizations, which is what my profile states

Sorry, but I agree with dessant. Your profile doesn't disclose your affiliation and nor do your comments. It's absolutely relevant to the discussion, because whether you want to admit it or not (or try your best to act neutral), your day job will have some influence over your opinions on these sort of projects.

You're right that it doesn't change objective facts about the specification, but I think it's misleading to suggest that, in general, external third-party CDNs are first class citizens in the AMP ecosystem when they're not treated the same within search.
Anecdotal, but a lot of times phrases similar to that are used because the real answer is "We don't have any way of knowing if users were actually impacted" and it's obviously far better for PR to phrase it that way.
The slots needed be so limited.

MIT has takes 3,000 students, Canadian universities take 30,000 students. (Remember Canada has 30 million people and US has 300 million.)

- https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html

- https://www.univcan.ca/universities/facts-and-stats/enrolmen...
I hate how hard it would be for a competitor to come into the market now and attempt to build the same knowledge bank StackOverflow can now gatekeep. We've commercialized data hoarding and segregation... is the end game for StackOverflow to become Elsevier for programming?
I don't mean the MPF. Also the answer to your question is yes.
This startup also faces a fatal problem when users find a great music teacher, and then they just cut out the startup for future dealings with the teacher. They lose both the parents and the best teachers. Similar to those startups that pair you with a maid.
> Is it literally just the language invisibly adding the parent-scope variables and their values to the top of my function?

Pretty much. When implementing closures, the variables that are going to be used by the nested functions are allocated on the heap instead of on the stack. The nested function is then set up to receive a pointer to the outer variables as an additional parameter.

If you want to read more about it, the word to search for would be "closure conversion"

http://matt.might.net/articles/closure-conversion/

It's unfortunate the the Wikipedia article for closure conversion now redirects to the article about Lambda Lifting. They are related but aren't quite the same thing.
Uh, I don't think I can answer that question objectively. My opinion about outsourcing companies is heavily influenced by the fact that I am from one of those cheap outsourcing destinations, and it's anything but positive. (Edit: to clarify -- I have first-hand experience with outsourcing so yeah. Not positive.)

I guess -- but take it with a grain of salt, given what I've said above -- that it's something which shouldn't even play a role in deciding whether to outsource something or not. There are infinitely many ways to introduce critical bugs, and Rust -- any language, in fact -- helps with only a tiny subset of these. It won't help you against misusing crypto primitives, or failing to validate paths, or a bunch of other things.

(Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that, if you don't trust a development team to get something done in a language, you shouldn't trust them to get something done in any language. Bugs can happen in any language, and some languages make it easier than others to introduce some types of bugs. But good developers should be able to write good software in any good language, it's not like we're comparing Rust and INTERCAL).

Also, Rust is pretty complex, and it attempts to solve a lot of non-trivial problems. In my experience, attempts to handle this kind of complexity by organizations that focus on nothing but price and headcount misfire very, very badly.
Agreed.

Learning to do what you are told by your manager is an important skill at the start of your career and some people find it hard to learn.

I once had a new employee at the start of his career and he simply could not bring himself to do as he was told to do.

After his first 8 weeks or so I said “you’ve got a week to start doing what you’re asked or you’re fired”.

He started doing what he was asked and became a star employee.
> This, of course, it part of the reason for these laws; to starve sectors (for example, legal marijuana dispensaries) that can't be explicitly made illegal and have to be made "uncomfortable" instead.

No, it's not, because:

1. These laws were in place long before half the country legalized marijuana.

2. The dispensaries just pass the costs of being shut out of the banking sector to the customer, and if we know anything about drugs, cost and a bit of inconvenience are not going to stop people from using them.
Did Greenwald ever say he doubts Russian involvement? I know he on the side of "Trump didn't conspire" and feels that the rest of the media is mishandling the matter, but I don't think he's ever disputed the actual meddling.

(Correct me if I'm wrong; if he's actually disputing the existence of the meddling he'd go down a few notches in my esteem).
> Second, in principle, there's nothing to enforce that a UNIX shell must have echo as a built-in, and therefore, it's important to have the external utility /bin/echo as a fallback.

I read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Overview that echo has been standardized for POSIX, can you elaborate further ?
Without knowing the op’s condition (so take this with a grain of salt), I’d advise against running 5km each & every day as it could wear out your knees, specially running on harder terrain (as most do).

For amateur practitioners it’s good to alternate different activities so that certain muscles get to recover.
OK, so what's better and why is it better?

There's a lot of criticism of PHP in here, but no real facts behind it... We always love the language that we know, and hate others we don't, it's something we should try to keep under control.
"wastes people’s time" that's Microsoft in a nutshell
> before the iPhone was invented, there were ZERO searches for the term "iPhone".

Before the Apple iPhone was invented, there were probably some searches for “iPhone” because infogear had a product with that name in 1998, and Cisco (who has purchased infogear) started using it for Linksys products not long before the Apple iPhone launch.
Germany has integrated immigrants from all over Europe and beyond, a large Turkish community, Italians, Syrians, and from many other European and non-European countries, so it is in fact heading towards more diversity instead of more homogeneity.

What you could say is that this trend is counter-acted by stronger, general cultural unification trend due to mass media (the Internet, mostly) and the influence of large, multi-national corporations. That trend is global, though, and has nothing to do with Germany in particular.

That Germany is a very young country is also obviously true, as it was united only in 1871. The fact that Germany as a nation played no substantial role in world politics earlier, but only varying fractions who were often opposed to each other and had many wars among each other, was in the end one of the many catalysts of WW1 and WW2. But that's another story, of course.

I agree with you if what you want to say is that the fact that Germany is very young has no particular bearing on its current economy. I don't see the connection either. But the rest of your post is moot.
> Could you wear your mask improperly because you haven't been fit tested, yeah.

It is next to impossible to wear an N95 mask correctly.
Recessions happen somewhat cyclically because imbalances build up in the economy that ultimately cause some sort of dislocation.

The same is not true in virology. There is no "pent up" mechanism that needs to periodically release an outbreak.

It is entirely random and in these types of outbreaks simply becomes more likely when many animal species exist in close proximity, allowing virus cross-over. It's no coincidence this happened in a live animal market.

One exception to cyclic nature is immunity. In cases where the same disease outbreaks because the human population is no longer immune - ie the Black Death which returned every couple generations in the old world. ...but that phenomenon only applies to SAME disease returning - not different ones.
Specifically GPLv3 is the sticking point - not the GPL in general. GPLv2 is a great license, and I use it for a lot of tools that I write. That's the license that the Linux kernel uses.

GPLv3 (which was written in 2007) has much tougher restrictions. It's the license for most of the GNU packages now, and GPLv3 packages are impractical to include in any firmware that also comes with secret sauce. So most of us in the embedded space have ditched the GNU tools in our production firmware (even if they're still used to _compile_ that firmware).
I've already started a course of Forsythia.
>I'm not aware of anyone, anywhere, debating that

The comment that I was replying to...
No one is allowed to leave Wuhan (10M residents) until the outbreak dies out
For those unaware of the context, StackExchange fired a (volunteer) moderator in September causing a wave of moderator resignations. Now in January they fired two Community Managers (ie. employees) and a third CM resigned.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-commu...
They could just rewrite the components which they didn't own, then. They would have to do that anyway.

I'm not sure what you mean with "didn't understand". It was their own code. They could just read it.
Something that's kind of related is that I feel I'm finding more and more duplicate websites and straight up malicious websites on google. They are often repeated across many domains and I usually see them on more literal search results (like searching with quotes).

By malicious I mean websites that destroy the back history, create alerts, flash the favicon, etc. By duplicate websites I mean websites that take content from something like stack overflow and puts it on a website with ads.

For example here's how I found it as I was writing this:

I wrote "stack trace" in search to get some auto complete results for something to test.

I see "stack trace #0 main thrown in" as one of the suggestions and search for that with quotes.

I get 2 results, one website that looks legit, and one website that's malicious website, something that redirects me to a website that looks like facebook telling me I won something. It also destroys my back history.
Bazilian dude here. The problem is the hacker was asking him "who should we get the telegram messages from next". If a journalist know before hand about crimes that WILL BE committed and instructs the guy to continue, this is way beyond simply keeping your sources secret. And he also was instructing the guys on how to respond in case police came asking WHEN he hacked his victims, since if he hacked them after or during the time he was already in contact with Greenwald it would be a little bit strange to explain. Glen is a lefty, he hates Bolsonaro, ok. But he absolutely did commit various crimes here, conspiration, electronic fraud etc.
This makes me close to switching my default search engine to Duck.com. If it stays it will push harder.
I would pay a subscription fee to my search engine to implement this feature. Currently use duckduckgo with a add-on to filter blacklisted sites but would love for this to be integrated.
How to Continuously Profile Tens of Thousands of Production Servers
Why exactly bother with anything else than PHP?
Pinboard.in + Shiori on mac for easy access and saving bookmarks in an Alfred-like way.
If the competitor was smaller with more money to spend or let's say had higher margins, it was stupid of them to agree to this type of (possible?) collusion.
Hugo and Gatsby come to mind. They are based of tech like react, go, and graphQL.
Funny how things go! I had been using Arch Linux for about 4 years and recently I switched to PopOS.

I never had problems with updates, but had a lot of problems with non-standard locations. For example, getting Vim to work inside of Tmux with eslint and auto complete just wouldn't work perfectly no matter what I tried.

It's a different world with Gnome and PopOS, and I really miss the AUR and Pacman but other than that I feel like I'm spending more time on my system than before.
Top ads in fact came first, in 2000, and were there through the launch of AdWords. History: https://searchengineland.com/google-adwords-turns-15-a-look-...
Haha, I remember when they announced chrome like 15 years ago, hyper excited 13 year old me literally emailed ceo@google.com with how excited I was. I uninstalled Firefox and installed chrome.

And now I exclusively use Firefox again.
Recent return to Amazon, my wife got me a Legos Creator kit (one with six sets of bags, probably 2500-3000 pieces). I started working on it, and was missing a piece. Now I'm pretty organized with my Legos. I open all of the bags for each step and keep the contents separate. I searched through all of the opened bags, the box, the floor and could not find it. Finally gave up, figuring it wasnt a critical piece and skipping for now wouldn't hurt anything. Started finding more and more missing pieces before realizing, I was missing a piece or two, but an entire bag of pieces.

My wife returned it and Amazon sent a replacement the next day. All my wife has to do for the return is drop it of at Kohls next time shes out running errands. Pretty painless really.
It would be so great if awk had a csv mode. For whatever reason (Excel), CSV seems to be the default text format for field oriented data.

Maybe I’m dumb but I’ve never come up with a separator regex that is quite right.
Well, MBS certainly has his own reasons to not like the owner of the Washington Post.
> How would you ensure you haven't missed anything?

This probably isn't of much help now, but adding accounts as they are created to a list, like a password manager, helps to ensure you don't miss any in situations like this.
If you must use Google, I suggest you use a couple of settings in uBlock/Adblock as detailed in this 4 day old Lifehacker article [1]

From the article,

- To remove the favicon: google.com##.xA33Gc

- To remove the URL: google.com##.iUh30.bc.rpCHfe

- To remove the arrow next to the URL: google.com###am-b0 and google.com##.GHDvEf.ab_button

- To remove everything: google.com##.TbwUpd and google.com###am-b0 and google.com##.GHDvEf.ab_button

[1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/how-to-fix-googles-ugl...
How so? Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested
Google is now an “ads search engine”. Eek!