skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be curious to see the numbers and whether they truly mean "diversity" or if it is being used as code for non-white. For example, would an all Latinx workforce be more or less likely to unionize? If they are using the dictionary definition of "diversity", that indicates something interesting about people's ability to empathize and work together with people of other races. If "diversity" is just a code for non-white, it might simply be a substitute for a variety of other socioeconomic factors that we know correlate with race that might impact an employees' likelihood to unionize.
> That was exactly my point. We are currently seeing the whole thing looping.

If Gatsby is exactly the format you like, what's the problem? The fact that it uses React as a dependency? Because... it uses 'npm', the worst package manager of all history?

> But let's face it, for most of the websites, you don't need those tools.

I'm pretty sure asking this is against the guidelines, but I just can't resist - have you ever worked with jQuery/vanilla JS and React?

If you ever, ever worked with them, one can easily see that the component model React provides gives a great productivity boost.

For example, consider this[0] code from the old version of this blog: it defines a 'Code' component that allows live previews of JS code. It would be super tedious to do that every time you embed a JS example in your post.

> It's even worst most of the time regarding browser performances, accessibility , SEO, navigation.

No, it isn't. Gatsby is a 'static site generator', with most of the advantages and disadvantages that they provide. Navigation is faster, not slower if you've turned on JS (due to progressive enhancement) and accessibility has nothing to do with React - it's the matter of proper markup (which React can do pretty well).

[0] https://github.com/joshwcomeau/blog/blob/master/src/componen...
> Why is the goal to maintain employment? Seems like the government wants to keep people on their little hamster wheels.

Well, common sense seems to suggest that we would want to have an operational economy again at some point. That generally requires there to be jobs available to people.

What is the alternative to "their little hamster wheels", exactly?
Well, if you have an Android device with Android 9+ you can use built-in DNS-over-TLS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/enable-private-dns-with-1-1-1-1-... It works for both Wi-Fi and LTE and it's how I use NextDNS on my Pixel.
This is a great write-up, thanks!

I've been punting on making a dark/light mode selector on the new TypeScript website for a few months specifically so I don't have to be certain of this route first-hand. This was exactly what I was expecting. Good work.
Ask HN: Paid traffic to parked domains, does any provider allow?
So, I've figured out how to make a positive ROI through ad arbitrage between AdSense for Domains (via GoDaddy cash parking) and native ads.

However, GoDaddy just shut down my account because their cash parking provider doesn't allow purchasing traffic to parked domains.

However, I see a large private equity company has been doing exactly this for at least a year.

Are any of you aware of a domain parking provider that DOES allow buying traffic to parked domains?

I've tested this process, and I absolutely see positive ROI by purchasing native ads to parked domains.

I'm just stuck without a provider to allow me to purchase traffic to my parked domains, even though I see this private equity company doing it.

So I know that somewhere some parked domain provider is allowing paid traffic to parked domains.

Unless the private equity company is so connected, that they've found a loophole that the average business owner doesn't have access to. Which sadly, is not far fetched...

Any thoughts?
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Because your competitor who ploughs all their money into growth and rewarding shareholders would crush you within a year. Everyone loves to watch their 401k go up every quarter but hates the reality of how that happens. Sort of like people who love cooking meat but are disgusted by an image of a slaughterhouse.
> Why should tax payers bail out a tax avoiding company?

Because every company optimizes its tax burden. “Tax Avoidance” is an arbitrary political clap trap to drum up outrage.
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What's strange to me is how the insecure the child free crowd seems to be regarding their choice.

Why would it be strange? The ones with kids have the same issue.

"It's the most important job in the world."

"Children are our future."

Just as touchy is religion. Oh, my, the mental hoops I see folks jumping through just to maintain a narrative.

Etc. People sometimes go to great lengths to rationalize their choices, and though you might find it strange, unusual it is not. If there is anything to be learned, be flexible and give up on that narrative when it no longer works for you. Feeling obligation to a 25 year-old you from ten years ago is unwise.
If groby_b were arguing for bans on cruise ships, I could see your objection. But they are perfectly free to spend their own money in different ways.

Perhaps they would use the money saved on cruises instead to buy more cheap goods from China and Bangladesh? Those factory workers benefit from demand for their wares, too.
Similarly, it would be good to compare vs co-op.
Somebody someone will developer a hipster AI capable of deciphering lefty twitter.
Since childhood, Mozart is my big idol in classical music. Then, some people told me the opposite: you like Mozart now, but later you will discover better music. I listen to a lot of other composers, and like many of them, but nobody gives me the same kinds of feelings as Mozart.
They don't want that to happen, of course, which means that their business objectives for our economy are very different than a working person's.
My brother has kids. My girlfriend's brother may have kids in the future. We have plenty of ways to pay it forward. Meanwhile, my parents are already retired. I'd like to retire as well, someday.
Really? Believing that your entitled to externalize as much damage onto the world as you feel like is psychopathic
I don't think there's a way to watch a video on YT without the count being incremented. Actually, the only way is if you watch your own videos with some frequency (not defined anywhere I could find).
It might depend on the person, but sound can be a powerful way to perceive the world. When I was living in another country and learning the language, I found that the difference between a lot of bad or mediocre language learners and those that were really good, was that those that were good eventually stopped thinking in terms of grammar rules and dictionary words and started remembering phrases by how they sounded.

If you say something that is grammatically incorrect in your own language, most native speakers will tell you it just "sounds" wrong. They can't even explain the rules of why it is wrong, but they know it sounds wrong.
Static site generators are superior to server-side includes/dynamic server frameworks + caching in some aspects (in other aspects, dynamic server frameworks w/caching are better).

One example: there are security advantages of static site compilation, since it's typically done off-server, on the developer's machine or a CI build machine. This means they can dramatically reduce the attack surface, either by having a server with a single HTTP server running, or (more often) using a service like S3 or Github Pages.

Statically-rendered React pages isn't a recent innovation, even in the context of static site generators. They are just the latest iteration in a long-line of such static site generators, starting most prominently with generators such as Jekyll and Hyde back in the late 2000s.
Keep in mind that Amazon pays their blue collar workers far more than Kroger/Safeway
I love both Google, and Facebook. I'm constantly blown away that something like Youtube exists, I love my Oculus Quest and use it daily, I keep in touch with friends on WhatsApp, and use Google Search more than any other website.

I'm not trying to imply they are above jurisdiction, I am quite tired of hearing the "No one likes these guys" narrative though.
You'd need to argue that they did it faster because of communism. In fact, China starting growing when opening up to markets. Oh and tens millions dead each. And the pollution & resource use is worse too. See https://www.amazon.com/More-Less-Surprising-Learned-Resource...
Yes, that exact sequence of words isn't particularly common. And yet a child, even if they have hey have never been exposed to it, has no problem understanding what it means.

Whereas all these services seem to be processing the input in such a superficial way that they give the searcher results that aren't just inaccurate but are the opposite of what was asked for.
How to increase team safety and reduce mistakes
> "shirt without stripes" is an unusual word choice

Lol what? These are words a toddler would understand.
Is that actually technically possible? I don’t think so
>A look at the page shows that long term ads are not as useful as they first seem.

what a depressing graveyard
Where would you draw the line?
These jobs don’t have to be eliminated. They can be improved.
This submission broke HN's rules by editorializing the title. Doing that eventually causes your account to lose submission privileges on HN, so please don't do that.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Cherry-picking a detail from an article and making that the title is editorializing—in fact it's the leading form of editorializing. Titles are by far the biggest influence on threads, so this is a big deal. On HN, being the first to submit an article doesn't confer any special rights to frame it for everybody else.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do so in a comment. Then your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It was such a problem in the past we added laws around it https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accumulatedearningstax....
Aphantasia is real and there have been discussions on this topic on HN. Also covered in the media for example https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47830256
How to Negotiate a VC Term Sheet in the COVID-19 Era
Have you read the article that you are commenting on? Because the very first paragraph starts explaining things that Andreeson appears to be ignorant of.
5% revenue sales and revenue increase? Why indeed!
A key point missing is defining that criteria in advance. If your market economy rewards buybacks heavily and you didn't know it was a moral hazard, why should your company (and its employees & shareholders) suffer? I can see banning future buybacks until the gov't loan is repaid though.
Cognizant hit by 'Maze' ransomware attack – Reuters
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
The rules:

1. You can incorporate in a tax-advantaged state ("tax haven") and not get benefits ("bail outs")

2. You can incorporate in a non-tax-advantaged state (eg. Denkmark) and get benefits ("bail outs")

Your company has chosen option 1 but you are claiming that your company is being penalized because you can't get the benefits of both options.
I don't think the analysis gets completed before the decision gets made.
If the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear "imagine a non-pink elephant" isn't either a pink elephant or "WTF, how is a pink elephant?", then you are in a very small minority.
Sometimes it even seems counter-intuitive. The one and only time I ever bought a new car, I ended up with an "import", because it was one of the few ones I could find that was assembled by union labor, and at a factory reasonably close to where I live.

Whole Foods seems particularly difficult, though. In my area, there aren't a whole lot of places that occupy "that" corner of the market. (Organic, sure, but the main thing I'm looking for is clearly labeled local produce, bulk bins, and some harder-to-find ingredients such as vital wheat gluten.) The only ones I can get to by public transit in less than 60 minutes are Whole Foods, and a grocery co-op. And I'm inclined to guess that, however crappy Whole Foods may be about this sort of thing, their compensation is still way better than the "15% off your groceries as a thanks for volunteering, and the satisfaction of being more involved in our community" that the co-op is offering to the people who work their registers.
Amazon makes the front page because of a variety of reasons, but there are thousands of large employers that are worse in every way. We have a loooong way to go before Amazon's policies are an actual disqualifier for people who work these jobs. Walmart is still training employees on how to file for public assistance. Many large chains still won't employ you based on your sexual orientation. So many small and large employers steal wages, deny benefits, pay under the table and more. All of that and unemployment is hitting record numbers right now.
SEO'd garbage often contains ads, including Google ads. There's no incentive for Google to fix this problem.

Google's job is not to give you great search results, it's to keep you clicking on ads. Ideally it would be the ads on the search results page directly, but if that doesn't work then a blogspam website with Google ads is the next best thing.

If Google was a paid service this problem would be solved the next day. Oh, and Pinterest would completely disappear from Google too. :)
Please write about some of these UI features, I would love to hear about it! I never got to play with it, because it demanded a much better computer than I had.
why not ? :)
There're a lot of talented people out there, who inspire the world!

It all starts with a dream...

Waiting for other people to fail won't make you any better.

If you've built or shared something that helped, inspired, motivated somebody, that's a good start! Try not to focus on negativity and projecting that to other people, that'll keep you in the darkness...

The success of those "temporary technologies" comes from very bright minds and solves problems some people have, you're not forced to use it.

Use whatever is best for you and support the tools and communities that you enjoy working with and it'll last!
Make that calculation too many times, though, and the guillotines start to come out.
This should be the next captcha model.
What are you going to do with the oil after one month?

No one needs oil right now so if you take physical delivery it’s going to be sitting there for longer than a month.
Do you feel penalized every time you can't park in a convenient parking spot because it's reserved for people with mobility issues?
Those “hamster wheels” are the reason we get to eat, have internet, have shelter with heat/AC. It’s gonna get pretty miserable if we just pay everyone to stay home and do nothing.
I've been thinking about a concept that I'm calling "building up vs buiding down". Building up is adding abstractions. Building down is dropping down to the lower level abstraction to implement something (as opposed to removing functionality altogether to simplify the codebase).

I think it's interesting to see people complaining about React: it seems people assume we're always building up and that any complexity comes from using whatever tools we're using. What you did here though is _building down_: you're talking about how the browser deals with the order of script loading and painting, which is decidedly not something that is in the React vocabulary at all, and which one absolutely needs to understand and be able to reason about when dealing w/ client-side state to manage FOUC.

The only (minor) complaint I have is that you're framing the knowledge of browser rendering priorities as "tricks" and "tomfoolery". If we want to collectively build better products, it behooves us to understand the technologies we use and when it makes sense to "break" 5 year old dogmas (e.g. the ones saying not to put scripts in <head>).
Given that they also mention needing embedding to be enabled, I suspect they're using an inline player on another site. IIRC, only plays on youtube.com are counted towards video view counts.
On the long run yes, on the sort run they could do some money printing to fill the hole. (which is what we're seeing now)
Thanks. [1] contains an interesting discussion of Sequoia, and why it was considered a failed experiment, leading to Legion ][2], its successor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18009581

[2] https://legion.stanford.edu/
I'm curious if stereo vision and eyepoint movement has a benefit for humans in distinguishing shape vs texture, and perhaps that could be a promising approach for ML, but are there any databases for that? There are car focused ones like KITTI, but any more generalist ones?
Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend
Agreed - repayment of the loan/bailout should be the contingency. Your business has wild post-COVID success? Great! Pay back your bailout and start issuing dividends! No moral hazard in returning capital in a successful business.
A Riveting Advancement in Steel Production
If pensions stop paying tons of people will go hungry. What do you think backs these massive programs?
Not necessarily. Their population survey had 1.5% positive results. The false positive rate of the test is not known for certain but I believe the 95% confidence interval goes up to 1.7%. If that were the case, all the positive tests could even be false positives.

We did learn from the study that the population rate isn't outrageously high, like 30%, but I'm not sure what more we can confidently say beyond that.
Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign
Hello!

I am also a coder in the professional world with Ushers. I have Type 2A. I have found some employers don't answer back if vision loss is mentioned. I try not to mention in during the interview process, but I made sure to discuss it before accepting an offer. You will likely have to quit driving at some point with Ushers. You'll still be able to stay active, but you may decide that you don't want to wield 2 tons of steel when you could easily miss a cyclist or jaywalking pedestrian. Driving is something you have to prepare for exception not the rule. Long term, you will likely have to look in cities with good public transportation or a walkable commute to work.

Besides learning to manipulate screen readers at a rapid pace. One skill to practice is reading braille. When I was receiving assistive training at the Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center, I met MANY instructors who had personal experience coding without much vision at all. While they themselves chose to transition to a career helping others of all skill levels improve their access to computers, they reassured me that I would be able to be productive in a work environment with the right tools. The reason why I encourage learning braille is that in place of or paired with a screen reader, you could use a braille display connected to your computer. This allows you to employ more rapid mobility parsing a document than you might with a screen reader. I have not gotten fast enough at reading braille that I have justified the expensive purchase of a braille display nor has the need arrived currently, however, that is part of my long term plans for dealing with the situation.
Almost all of them. No one is trading May anymore.
The 'misreads' are usually dead ends to discussion unless qualified back to original topic. I would not consider downvotes here personal, they simply steer the conversation to remain on track.
> But you mentioned a systematic way of tracking tech debt and the cost of each item per year. How is that different from a backlog after a while?

Backlogs I've seen have tended to evolve into a graveyard of wish list items. But there is rarely even an attempt at quantifying the organizational cost of putting off tackling the debt until it ties into some obvious, acute measure that usually is some capex, typically software licensing, or some really way off opex, like hundreds of operations staff manually addressing issues that could be automated.

I'm wondering with so many organizations now tracking software engineering effort at a relatively granular level now with various degrees of agile projects, whether or not I could leverage the mere fact that we're seeing the effort listed out now.

Example: my team has a bunch of servers all mounting an NFS file share. Neither the OS or NAS teams ensure the mounts stay up. For a few years before I arrived, the mounts across the landscape just deteriorate, handled by individual support tickets until the degradation becomes too large to ignore, and then a task is tacked onto the current sprint for some poor schmoe to log into each server and ensure the mount works.

A quick scan of the incident tickets and the historical tasks gave me a defensible estimate of an average of 50 man-hours per year spent on this issue alone, not even counting any meetings to discuss it with customers.

In the real world, I had to use my personal Emacs Org mode agenda to keep attempting (until I succeeded) to add a task to an upcoming sprint to put in requests to automate monitoring, mounting, and alerting the OS and NAS teams when the mount fails. In "systematic technical debt management" world, when I see the incident pattern I would create a backlog task. The backlog item sinks to the graveyard/tech debt status, and every time a new incident or task comes up that would not if we resolve that debt, the time it takes to address the incident or task gets added to the debt.

The problem I'm wrestling with implementing such a mechanism is it relies upon people to remember and care about the debt in the first place, to associate it with a current work effort. That doesn't work in my experience; it's hard enough to get people to share what they are working on in such ticketing systems in the first place.
I'm teaching the kids coding for the web
Beautiful sounding Roland Juno-60 Emulation on iOS
The GP didn't come across as ill-intended to me; it outlined an issue, gave a solution, and hopefully everyone who viewed it thought about context for half a second. I do agree with it that adding context to the comment is better than assuming random readers are going to actually look up capitalized names.

Your comment, on the other hand, comes off as the one that's disparaging and includes a personal attack.
> Did you read the second sentence, though? It seems like it applies here

I guess I didn't! :)

That's interesting because I looked around to see if that was possible and did not find it to be so. I wonder if they have some back door access to YT videos due to, well, being YC?

Interesting.
exactly what exhilaration says below! I work in the oil and gas business. U.S. independent oil companies are survivors. If I have to pick between the U.S. shale producer or Saudi kingdrom, I'll pick the U.S. shale producer every time.
I guess the video count is updated by the player and youtube-dl does not use this player.

Also, YT view counts may not be as straightforward as you imagine, as they are a hot metric for advertisers.