skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hobby project is https://random.surf (works better on desktop than mobile).

I share that same desire to visit the web less travelled. I want to discover interesting sites that deserve to be bookmarked because they will never show up in a search engine.
I don’t know what Twitter does with the gifs but it freezes my old netbook when I try to play them. I can play videos from youtube but I can not play a gif on Twitter!
> Flattening the curve kept the virus longer alive than necessary, it was only necessary for countries with not enough ICU beds. Not many countries were in that desperate situation.

Are you joking? Spain is hardly a third-world country and it not only was forced to comandeer hotels to serve as ICUs but also Spain's armed forces were forced to setup an emergency hospital with a capacity for 5k beds in Madrid's convention center just to be able to handle all the covid19 cases.

On top of that, Spain also had to comandeer an ice ring in Madrid to be able to have a spot to store all the dead bodies.

What exactly leads you to believe that "it was only necessary for countries with not enough ICU"?
This isn't about whether the hazard pay cut was justified. IMHO it wasn't justified.

The problem is that someone who didnt know hazard pay was in place could see the headline and infer that a reduction in pay from the normal rate happened. You could say that's unscrupulous on the reader's part, but it's equally unscrupulous of the publication to use a potentially misleading title.
Most common MP4 formats are patent encumbered. I guess you could serve DivX;-) format and be in the clear as far as that goes?
I hear same expression with different "strength". There is no play. No motion. Expression should change after response. It does not. There is no dialog. For me it sounds bald, boring. It'd better not to participate in such dialog.

We can express emotions without words:

xxx: Distress

yyy: Support

xxx: Hope

It maps on music and we have dictionary to describe it. The one I'm listening to is Sorrow and Hopeful - entire track. May be a good start. Write first (classification).

Examples you gave I feel live on same scale but extreme values. So even harder.

I'd imagine it work like autotune - enhance human input
In which way is Kafka broken?
The point of that is for people trying to figure out why streams are a useful abstraction at all what's needed to make them useful are some sort of aggregation, and of course tabular state is a common end point.

The article does not recommend writing this code yourself, it shows how to aggregate data into usable forms.

So I think your concerns may be a bit overblown. If you think that ksqlDB or Kafka Streams, the tools shown in this blog post, are are at risk for what you warn, this comment would be a valid criticism. But it's clear that the article isn't advocating for people to write their own versions of that...
At the moment blogs have been failed about a few things:

1. Walled gardens (this include medium). Basically they've self decided that content should be here and they keep your audience there. Also, they tend to self select what opinions the community is to keep. This is a huge concern for freedom of expression.

2. The networks aren't there. We need a way to have neutral aggrigation and federating against many other blogs for commenting, replying, and annotation of existing content. (Give people a reward for being in a community, reddit does this with karma, but they also try to wall off the users)

3. RSS has been badly treated. This is a great standard for syndicating updates to your channel.

4. Build good networks to remove the spam. Basically the baby was thrown out of the bathwater rather than to fix the problem.
Just say it, you think you are smarter than them, and therefore you want to make decisions for them by taking away their freedom to vote. It's textbook history.
It's hard to interpret: this one https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe shows an anomaly that began in mid 90s.

The inflation adjusted one could be interpreted simply as continuing concentration of capital and centralization. What about the overall market PE of all publicly listed companies (whose number is steadily declining by the way https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jp-startup-public-companies-f... )? I cannot find that data at the moment.
known to who though? I just told a long time C++ dev about Rust during a discussion about programming languages. He'd never heard of it before, and was quite interested.

There are still quite a few folks out there who don't know about Rust, Go, or anything else that's gotten popular over the past few years here.
For a long, long time, I have blogged without worrying about SEO or Google or even traffic. I write what I want. I don't look at analytics, and for my self-hosted sites, I don't have any analytics to look at.

Writing for SEO and trying to game Google is not interesting to me. There comes a point where the only think that keeps you going is the desire/compulsion to write.
unfortunately, mpeg4/h264 is still only common denominator for browser support, because of Apple Safari.
I don't subscribe, but I tend to binge read:

https://blog.scottlowe.org/ (anything and everything network related)

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ (anything 'pharma' but especially "Things I won't work with..")

I wonder if they're related ...

edit: fiddle with formatting / spelling
You're just choosing a definition that is convenient for you, and I might mention convenient for the wealthy establishment. The things ordinary people most need to buy with money have gotten more expensive — not as a blip, but durably and steadily for a decade. If you want to die on the hill of "this is not how I choose to use the word 'inflation'" then that's fine, I just don't see it as very persuasive.
Not just flying. South Korea is also connected to Russia, China and Japan by ferry.
It's true, message buses and work queues have different characteristics. It sounds like you want a work queue, not a message bus. I have very successful experience with using rabbitmq for work queueing, but as you mention there are others too.
This is me right now. I get the basics of Go, but I don't understand when i'm suppose to have something be a pointer, and when i'm suppose to use * or & . Anyone who has a good explanation in a EL5 way, would help me a lot!!
Fury in Germany with thousands protest across country over lockdown measures
> why am I expecting an error? Shouldn't that keyword be "on_exception" or something?

`expect` takes an input that is either an error or a value, then turns that input into just a value. The provided string is the error message if something goes wrong (i.e. the input was an error).
Wow, it looks like Iceland recovered from it pretty fast. Only 6 active cases
If you are on GCP I think the choice is simple, use Cloud Pub/Sub. Extremely simple, extremely reliable, extremely performant, fairly inexpensive, multi-region (global). No maintenance, no scaling, almost no tunables, it just works.

Google provides a Pub/Sub emulator for local development.

I don't really buy the vendor lock-in thing for Pub/Sub-like systems. The Cloud Pub/Sub usage pattern is basically the same as Kafka, you can have a library that abstracts away the differences. There are open source libraries that do that[1]. If you ever need to switch cloud providers, or want a messaging system to span cloud providers, you can switch without changing lots of code.

[1] https://github.com/google/go-cloud/tree/master/pubsub
This is both delightful and creepy at the same time.
MPEG LA holids patents for mp2/mp4/hevc/h.264. I'm not sure what the licensing terms are, but they are not as liberal as VP8.
The end result of any good writing process is a writer who does no longer need to write it in the first place.
That’s just the law of small countries (just made up that term). It’s easier for smaller entities to be an outlier. You’ll find about the same positive as negative ones, though.

If you were to split a large country such as the USA or China into parts with a third of a million people, chances are that, for any of these, there would be a parts that beats Iceland.

There may be exceptions such as the highest usage of hydro-power usage, as they have a rather unique geology. Vatican City won’t be beat on popes per km², either (it has just over two)
With modern forums the flow of discussion is different. If you have something for a dated discussion, you just open a new thread. Here on HN you often see those indirect responses happening.

Reddit on the other side used to have a better response-interface. You get a message for new responses and can discuss things over weeks and months if it just happen so. New redfit-interface killed yhis a bit.
> The remaining $2.7 trillion went to businesses.

Nope (and the total bill was 2.1 trillion not 3 trillion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_E...

> The fed has separately printed several trillion dollars lending to businesses, buying corporate bonds, and other actions.

Also not even remotely true, they are predominately buying U.S. Treasury securities and Mortgage-backed securities: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm

Got any sources to back up your claims?
Thanks for the explanation. Sounds pretty awful. I mostly read smaller unmonetized blogs, so I have not bumped into this.
> The blogs the author misses aren't written to make money off of ad traffic, they were just written to put down ideas.

This is what I've been pointing out for years as the lost core of the internet.
nushell is a better idea though - structured output, no text scraping.

And it's Rust! https://www.nushell.sh/
People who live or work on Staten Island used mta services, including subways, heavily.
That's not fair. They typically turn off visual adornments when the output is not a tty, thus automatically supporting consumption by both human eyes and scripts.
So much criticism here! I've read a lot about Kafka over the last few years and I wish I had read this article earlier -- even basic questions like "Can Kafka store data persistently?" are not adequately answered in many intros to it.

That said, I do find the tutorial flip-flops a bit in target audience. It's mainly "this is what Kafka is", but sometimes has weird asides like "This is how to optimise Kafka" (redundancy, number of partitions, etc) which are pretty distracting from the more fundamental points.
Unfortunately they are not listed, also no link to another article listing them. The farm the reporter visited is in West Virginia.
So why not write "fast and safe implementations of popular command line utilities" rather than focusing on the implementation language? If there were a safe and fast implementation of, for example, find in Ada why should it be excluded from this list?
> The issue with Reddit is that there's little to no user engagement with older content. Comments on posts older than a day in pretty much every reasonably active subreddit are ignored. This is also an issue on HN.

This is even worse with communities using live chat platforms like Discord and IRC. Live chat is an atrocious medium for community building as you constantly have to be involved to keep up or if you just check it for 5 mins you don't actually get anything if there is no conversation at the moment or the conversation isn't interesting.
Maybe ferries cause the same kinds of problems as subways do.
This approach, if you tried it, is just a one time copy/paste to impose an entire theme change, such as swapping CSS files.

There isn't a cross-browser one step way to swap CSS files on live pages that I am aware of, especially if CSP is enabled as is the case with HN.
> At the moment you more or less need to write a DBMS in your app code

Since we're discussing misunderstandings in the community, it should be pointed out that a Database Management System (DBMS) is not merely a database, to say nothing of a data store. Oracle, Postgres, et al are genuine "DBMS". ATM you are very likely putting together a data store in your app code.
it is intended to be read as “expect this to work”, or “expect this isn’t an error”
Why is the annoying.technology blog uses so much cpu?
old.reddit.com still works.
This doesn't even need a moralistic judgment: if the application owners don't change their practices, most restaurants are going to go under and then they'll lose revenue anyway.

So this is not only abuse of the restaurants, it's economical self-injury. Possibly self-destructive entirely.
For me to better understand your position, I have to ask you simple question: can you name single thing FDA did right?

Not exactly right now, but anywhere in history of FDA.
You may well be right! OTOH, the starter did come to life faster than ones I've made from scratch - it was very bubbly after three days.

I guess it will be a mystery...
>this is the most pointless comment genre on hn...who really has a problem disambiguating when searching with other keywords?

Why the snarky reply? Notifying a project of possible conflicts that would reduce its visibility is hardly pointless.

And in this specific case, if you spend a moment looking at Apache POI, you'll see that it contains an equation solver, so yes indeed when looking for one you could need to disambiguate the results.
This is exactly it!
It's kind of ironic, but a blog I follow recently said I'm moving everything into youtube and social media now, and the blog will just be a permalink archive with transcripts to those youtube and social media posts, because that where everyone is now.

If I want to find random rare opinion X from a casual person, now I have to search youtube to find something useful unfortunately. Youtube videos are a lot slower to digest than the equivalent blog article, and take more time to make. But since youtube can give you money, thats where people go.
I'll take dealing with toxic, aggressive blowhards for $300, Alex.
James Dyson interview: how I blew £500m on electric car to rival Tesla
We still require a 25% drop in P/E to bring us back to the historical mean. There are reasonable arguments as to why we may never mean revert, why this time is different (possibly permanently low interest rates, stocks as a leading indicator of future inflation due to Fed printing inflating asset prices , etc). But as a rule, I like to bet on mean reversion, not against it.
I'm not trying to claim that rising costs in health care, education and housing are not a problem.

I'm just saying that the nature of the problem isn't runaway inflation. It's a different problem than that.
Except Rust isn't a direct replacement for c. Rust's system requirements are perhaps acceptable for what'll be normal in computers five years from now.

We don't need to re-stratify development so that only people with expensive computers with > 4 gigs of memory can compile what they run.
What percent is that? Also dont look just at manufacturing, but things like transport and raw inputs.
What I find amazing about Linux is how people get it to run on all kinds of devices.
Frankly, some of the most well educated people in my social media sphere are still guilty of distributing blatantly false and misleading information. It's just way easier to retween/share some twitter screenshot without even giving it even a small fact-check as long as it agrees with your political leanings.
Lambda launches Tesla V100 Cloud: 50% less than AWS
Even Safari doesn't support HEIF though (even on iOS), so for web, it's not even there yet.
Feels odd posting an article I can’t read due to the paywall.

But there’s a picture of his prototype car.
Preventing people from pasting Word HTML markup into documentEditable inputs (i.e. WYSIWYG editors)!
But one of those moving parts of Pulsar, BookKeeper, means that you're no longer storing data on message brokers. Worth the extra puzzle piece for a lot of use cases.
Tell HN: Namecheap monopolizes attractive domains for itself?
As of right now, Namecheap claims "safari.dev" was registered in 2019 and is unavailable for purchase, whereas it is available for purchase on Google and Godaddy and possibly other registrars.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/F2c1SQE

Or ... am I mistaken?
Cottage food laws differ per state. Here in WA it's pretty common sense. You can create things that don't require refrigeration or grease traps, so, granola or bread, for example. You are limited to $20,000 sales per annum. And your kitchen must follow certain regulations, such as no pets. IIRC an inspection may be required too.
The Costly Failure to Update Sky-Is-Falling Predictions – RealClearPolitics
Normally, yes. Today, I’m not even able to find isopropyl at many stores. I’m actually thinking about ordering flux cleaner for my soldering, for the first time in my life.
> After a couple months of speaking to an audience of 20 people, I decided it wasn't worth it

Your reasons were wrong. Blogs, the old blogs and hobby websitrs the OP is talking about were made for fun, not for followers.
ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits
A lossy 24-bit color webp image (which is encoded with VP8's intra-frame compression) is likely to look better than a 8-bit color palette lossless gif.
My GitHub Feature Wishlist for 2020
>we would say SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both strains of SARSr-CoV

Thank you for making my point, again.
It is beyond ironic for this comment to get downvoted.
IMO lock-in fears are overblown. Build stuff out quickly and prove your idea and then refactor when you have customers and revenue.
If I could bring one thing back to the internet, it would be to have people with little technical knowledge to be brave and listen less to [disparaging remarks from] geeks. Go to https://wordpress.com/start/user (or https://www.blogger.com/, nobody actually shut it down) and create your blog!
New Medicines #1
Well put. Another example is Floyd–Steinberg dithering which is also error-conserving.

My (effectively one-line) implementation above was derived from first-principle:

Given a desired target level 0 <= T <= 1, control the output O in {1,0}, such that O on on average is T. Do this by integrating the error T - O over time and switching O such that the sum of (T - O) is finite.

S = O = 0
loop:
S = S + (T - O)
O = (S >= 0)

In fixed point arithmetic this becomes even simpler (assume N-bit arith) S = Sf * 2^N = Sf << N. As |S| <= 1, N+2 bits is sufficient

S = O = 0
loop:
D = T + (~O + 1) << N === T + (O << N) + (O << (N+1))
S = S + D
O = 1 & ~(S >> (N+1))

and that's the Verilog below
An interesting twist would be to allow for an opt-in that collects guesses and uses that to source ranking.
This is essentially what Daring Fireball [1] is, and it's one of the biggest blogs out there.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/
Sounds like a microservice waiting to happen
That's the first time I'm hearing that problem, are you sure it's from the site? It's basically just a generated static html site with no JS except a tiny analytics snippet.

For me it's really quick and lightweight.
> Template metaprogramming (I don't understand what usage is distinct from STL-like usage) is exactly about identifying a particular pattern and literally lifting a concrete type into a type parameter so that now you have a related family of code.

I believe GP was referring to the myriad techniques for using templates not as containers, but as type-level functions, and composing compile-time programs that rely on SFINAE, variadic templates, andffunction overloading rules to express functional programs in the C++ template language. You can find examples in boost in various areas.

One somewhat spectacular example is boost::spirit/boost::qi, which allow you to define parsers with a DSL directly in C++ (e.g. using `*c` as '`c` 0 or more times').
At work we use Foodsby, and it's been difficult watching their offerings drop week over week. I think they have solved some of the major inefficiencies in the Grubhub/Doordash models [0], and I hope they make it.

[0] Foodsby delivers to company offices, not individuals. They coordinate orders with the restaurants, so that they aren't delivering single meals, and the restaurants can put a cap on the number of orders so they're not overwhelmed. The restaurant does the delivery so they control that cost (no hidden charges to them)
I remember having issues with the default Ethernet-adapter, but getting it booted was never an issue.

Maybe OP is misremembering his issues?
I always found it ironic that you get most of this for free if you design your sql updates and save/query the transaction log and/or history. A lot of relational dbs have functionality for that.

And if you don't want to use that, there's also products for this specifically, such as event store.
Yes, if we try to scale Unicode to everyone in the world we do end up a little like Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

I'd say the closest thing we have to a logo for everyone is in the Private Use Area plane, https://fontawesome.io
I've been working on something like this for my own use - I'm not a fan of browser-based history. My home-rolled solution is starting to be good enough where I can use it to easily find exactly what I'm looking for, assuming I've previously read it, by both searching the title and URL, as well as the content on that page (my major gripe with "History" in Chrome and Firefox is that it doesn't search the page content, and if it did, syncing it would have major privacy concerns).

The problem I'm running into is that I still have to use major search engines to find new content, way more than I'd like. I hope to make my local service available open source once I have 'federated' history search working, so that we can have a primitive search engine and share with people we trust. Also need to work out some security issues - it's scary having all the content you read and see on your home network, protected only by your hackily-patched-together security.

EDIT: Actually I'd like to elaborate a bit more in case anybody actually reads this and has any ideas. On the desktop side, it's pretty easy. Initially started out MITMing my own traffic with a self-signed cert added as a root cert to all my machines. This only works on my home network, so I did a VPN thing. This was way to clunky and the security concerns are innumerable. I ended up biting the bullet and writing a chrome extension which works wonderfully, except for some slight performance issues.

However, I wish to also archive my phone content - I read just as much on my phone as my computer. I can do it on Android with the MITM process, but the same issues as above still apply, and it doesn't work with iOS (at least I can't find a way).

I'm thinking of taking an open source project, like Firefox/Fennec and building it in to the app itself. In that case it may make sense to forgo the browser extension and just roll my own forked browser on every platform, even iOS. I don't know much about iOS dev though.
This article talks about some more states deregulating:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/03/29/west-vir...
> Those blogs from the time before were written for the purpose of writing, not for the purpose of getting lots of viewership.

Or, to put that another way: blogs are/were effectively people publicizing their diaries. (Or, in the case of a work blog, publicizing the contents of their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_notebook).

> Today that need is filled with Facebook/Twitter/

Not really? Facebook/Twitter/etc. are for "what you're thinking right now." Incomplete, out-of-context thoughts. Maybe conversations, where the thought plus access to the author for further questioning can "add up to" a complete, legible text.

I've never seen Facebook/Twitter used for "a breakthrough in understanding you've had, and want to preserve for posterity and your own future reference; where enough context is given that you (or someone else) can recapture the whole of the idea just from the words on the page, 10+ years down the line." That's the sole province of blogging. (Or of books, journal papers, and open letters. But blogs are a lot lower-overhead than any of those.)