skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches.

Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles?

Curated search (domains chosen by a set of humans with no financial conflicts of interests, with some grokkable categorization and full-text search) might be the nirvana we're searching for. I think the GP has a point, that the need for a sustaining business model tends to strongly conflict with this equilibrium.

Wikipedia has sort of evolved to partially fill this niche, but it periodically struggles with funding. I agree there's not a similar filling for blogs, yet: maybe GitHub will evolve there, but it will face the same pressure of other platforms owned by public for-profit companies.
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I don't remember the source of these:

a) Few ideas are actually novel.

b) Someone else doing the same idea is validation of your idea.

c) The more time you spend actually developing your idea, the further ahead you will be of anyone else who has the same idea.
Sorry, obviously "full control" is the wrong expression. But you get my point I guess.
Qt Design Studio 1.5
I checked out your articles and I like your writing style!

I thought about doing batch export but ended up being too lazy to integrate it in my release flow. My compromise is to use this snippet:

(defun make-blogging-mode ()
(interactive)
(toggle-word-wrap)
(toggle-truncate-lines)
(flycheck-mode)
(flycheck-vale-toggle-enabled)
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'org-mode-export-hook)
)

And this find-file hook in my blog template:

# -*- find-file-hook: make-blogging-mode -*-

My new computer is beefy enough that I barely notice the export on save. I wouldn't recommend this on slower boxes as it freezes emacs for a bit.
What they said wasn't wrong. Their mental model was absolutely correct.

"One third of this and one third of that is two-sixths of everything" is absolutely right. Telling them "No, you're wrong" is counter-productive. "You have to look at the whole" isn't a helpful statement because, in this case, there are THREE 'wholes.'

Their written representation of the mental model was incorrect because their instruction was focused only on abstract numbers instead of concrete labels. If those fractions (or ratios or whatever) are labeled properly the equation is completely correct.
I agree totally
previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182232 (AmA)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23194178 (TC article)
Why would they be press-releasing this other than to drive public opinion against China?
I do not entirely disagree with you, I just don't have your certainty of the outcome. Predicting non-linear curves is next to impossible. A tiny movement in the beginning of the curve produces wildly different results. What I stated is different: 5-8 years for the market flipping towards EVs is _plausible_.

In other words, I can't prove with certainty that the market will flip, but I wouldn't bet on the contrary.
How to map Texas ports using R [part 1]
So by that reasoning, if Guido said he'd never mentor females that wouldn't be sexist? Because if you think that I bet you're alone...
If a feature is missing from Windows it’s a bad thing, it should be in the default installation because it’s not bloat, and users are viewed as helpless to remedy the issue.

If a feature is missing from MacOS or Linux it’s a good thing, it was rightly left out of the default installation to avoid bloat, and users are viewed as empowered to install software themselves.

Can’t win.
tcp over hackernews comments?
> A 20% improvement on a microbenchmark (say float to string conversion) when only 0.01% of your application run-time was spent converting floats to strings nets you fuck all.

Your logic is incorrect. A typical REST API might make millions of float<->string conversions in one request. Making it twice as fast might mean shaving many milliseconds from your median response time, which is a huge deal.
I'm a huge fan of this kind of practice, where the code for a paper is all located in a single public repository with build instructions, along with directions for how to cite it. Obviously, it's a little tough to do with some more data-intensive sources (besides GH hosting limits, no one really wants to download 100G of data if they're just trying to clone a repository), but this kind of thing sets a high standard for reproducibility of published results.
Safeus App: Promotes social-distancing – token system
Then why didn’t they just say “zero fees”? Marketing around financial products is usually pretty clear when the answer is simple. They’re definitely leaving an opening here.
I'm in the camp that Babel 6 was "useless by default" in the bad sense. It's great that when you use tsc you know exactly what features are supported or not, and don't have to change anything, or worry about compatibility between things. And I'm starting to all the babel-preset-* packages have just created a bunch of busywork for the maintainers.

Then there's the issue of tooling requiring Babel. react-hot-loader should not require Babel. graphql tooling should not require Babel.

I'd argue when you're knee-deep in Babel, you're no longer writing JS, you're writing BabelScript. Only your BS capabilities are different than Jane's BS capabilities, which are also different from Bob's setup over there.
Make them pluggable into the car (vs. towable) and standardize on the interface, and there could be market for renting the generators (like e.g. you do with city bikes - take them from one station, drop off on another).
Shouldn't all countries be working together openly on fighting the pandemic? Given that it's hurting the whole world.
I think the ideal stack is one where you don't maintain the stack and instead use someone else's managed service. Otherwise it can turn into a huge distraction and a rabbit hole, keeping you from operating the blog itself.
I went in thinking, "probably a static github io page, right?".

I said, out loud, at the first heading: "are you insane?"
Yes, it's pretty malicious, both against the targets of his sexist policy and the broader movement towards inclusion. If young men come to understand that "inclusivity" means blocking them from certain opportunities, they're not going to be on board with proposals to make hiring or promotions more inclusive.
I can't comment on 1 but for 2, I'm seeing a lot more merchants (probably Shopify merchants) support mobile payments on their websites (yes websites, not mobile apps) these days.

I can now go to a vendor's website (say jrwatkins.com, etc.) on my phone, checkout, do a fingerprint/face scan on Apple Pay and the transaction is done in under 5 seconds.

I assume the experience with Google Pay is similar.

There's no longer a need to create an account on the website. The delivery address defaults to the one on Apple Pay (and can be modified at time of payment). Delivery method can also be selected on the Apple Pay screen. My credit card number is never transmitted. This type of frictionless checkout that was once the domain of companies like Hoteltonight is now becoming more common on ecommerce sites.
Also from Wikipedia: Genetic studies of the virus suggested in 2008 that the most recent common ancestor of the HIV-1 M group dates back to the Belgian Congo city of Léopoldville (modern Kinshasa), circa 1910. Proponents of this dating link the HIV epidemic with the emergence of colonialism and growth of large colonial African cities, leading to social changes, including a higher degree of non-monogamous sexual activity, the spread of prostitution, and the concomitant high frequency of genital ulcer diseases (such as syphilis) in nascent colonial cities.
Actually Spotify does more than collaborative filtering. Here’s a superb blog post on using convolutional filters on the spectrograms to build content-based recommendations: https://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html
I don't think the writer of this blog post would accept "Netflix for ebooks." Netflix still has DRM, and you definitely don't own any of the content you watch on Netflix. For someone whose whole point is that they won't buy anything but a DRM-free epub to load into Calibre, I doubt that a such an alternative (which already exists, by the way, in the form of Kindle Unlimited, Scribd, or any number of library apps) would be an acceptable solution.
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I wonder if the hosting fees might be negligible…
No, it can’t. You can get 100 for €100. In addition, the check-out talks of shipping costs. I didn’t check whether those might be zero for ‘normal’ addresses.
But not as much as it would seem, since road damage is a quadratic function of weight and one truck does as much damage as 9600 1 ton cars. Doubling the weight of the car would maybe narrow that by a few percentage points, but vehicle miles for any personal vehicle at essentially any weight is a rounding error compared to one truck.
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And Mozilla recently stated they are moving comms to Matrix. Talking about fixing the internet while using slack is an oxymoron.
> The data is slowly erring towards his (low) estimates

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Two months ago he estimated[1] that the total death count in the U.S. would be 10,000, and we're already 10x that.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
Hi Thorrez, that's nice
Glad Kiba has been useful to you ^_^
I will whole heartedly disagree. I set up a Meets for my whole family, no one had any issues connecting (and they used an array of devices from phones to laptops) just using the link in the calendar invite. I've used Blue jeans across several companies, not a single issue using just links.

Zoom has the worst UX of any of them. Here's what it looks like when I join a Zoom meeting:

Paste URL into browser (URL has company subdomain). Get redirected to a generic login page that asks how I want to log in, as if they have no way of knowing that my company has SSO enabled. Click SSO, get redirected to a new page asking me for my company's subdomain despite the fact that they already have it from the original URL. Get redirected to my company's SSO login and login. Redirected back, where they ask for my name, every time, even though it's on my profile. Finally, type in the meeting password and join.

It's literally awful. I can't think of a worse way to implement that flow. And I'm not installing their desktop app. Given their horrendous security track record, the fact that they shouldn't need a thick app to begin with, and that it has to run on my desktop because corporate VDI has terrible performance in video calls.
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To publicize the fact that these sort of attacks can be tracked. Similar to when they publish information about particularly crafty drug houses they bust: so that people planning on building a drug house think "well, if they got that house, then they'll definitely find out the one I'm planning, so maybe I'd better not."
> services like Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc

Which are all subscription-based and not unit-based. There is no cost to explore and listen to random songs when you've already paid your subscription anyway. Switch to unit-based and suddenly way less exploration. So it's unit-less pricing + convenience.
>I don't know if it'll require upgrades to the power grid. You've already got 240v in Europe, so that's only ~10 hours to charge a Tesla. But could it handle thousands of EVs charging simultaneously?

Rest assured it will, and not only on the power grid.

Back of the envelope calculation.

A modern lamp post (one every 30 mt or so) is (led based) 60-80-100W, if infrastructure (cables) are not so recent, previous generation of street lightning were 150-250W per post.

Cables are dimensioned accurately to carry that kind of current/power.

A charging every 30 mt needs to serve 6-7 cars, we are talking of 7-10KW, i.e. 7000-10000 W, something like 40 times the power the infrastructure was designed for.

And each 300 mt stretch of street will need something in the order of magnitude of 70-100KW, and since all cars will be charged at night, there are very little to be spared for non-contemporaneus power usage.
Sounds like a typical HN commenter.
Sans serifs are overused because they look better on low resolution screens. If you haven't had to use a low resolution screen in a while then you are one of the privileged few.
Ask HN: How to create a good blog title?
I write twice a week, but one of my biggest issues is creating compelling blog titles. I hate using clickbait titles, but they seem to have the best traffic. Any suggestions?

https://www.arilewis.com/
I think what you said have merits, which I'm in no position of judging, but a couple facts are incorrect:

- there are multiple play store equivalent, i.e. Mi Store, Baidu store, and several others.

There is actually more competition at app store level in China, as opposed to Google's monopoly on that front, which might be the reason why user behaviors are different.

- not sure how you define OS-like abstraction layer, but Chrome is also basically a super app. In fact, developing for Wechat is more similar to developing website than native app.
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Mozilla was heavily involved in the early development of Rust (and since there is no Rust Foundation, is the holder of the Rust trademarks etc.).

But at this point however you can't really call it a Mozilla project as active development is no longer dominated by Mozilla employees. Holding the trademark is just a formality owing to there not being a better way to do that without starting up a new Foundation.
I'd say that tsyringe is about the same level of "wiring" that one would see with a Nest.JS module. The major difference being it handles the implicit wiring a bit better. Nest.JS will freak out if you don't explicitly tell it what to do. (could be a good thing?)
Lesser known is Popper's meta-paradox which is that Popper's paradox is often quoted by people attempting to justify their own intolerance, the same sort of people that Popper's paradox tells us cannot be safely tolerated by a society.
Just ask a business person to get you a training set and it will be a while before you hear from them.
I'm not using "static" to imply "non-interactive", just that there shouldn't be a server that does any rendering/data loading.
Personally, many of my good reading suggestions come from a trusted network. I trust a few people to only recommend content of a type that is high-quality and interesting to me.

I do think it's important to have an element of discoverability for new content (otherwise there's no real way for a writer to bootstrap into visibility), but I think an important element is being able to follow and trust content aggregators. Maybe algorithmic curation will be trustable in a decade, but right now it feels too gameable, and too easy to degenerate into thinkbait.
Just name it the bible v2 and the patreon being a religion.
I like it. I actually built my own platform last year in a similar vein (https://senryu.pub) but made a few different trade-offs; I allowed myself a couple of fonts (which make up most of the page size), but I can very much appreciate going even further towards minimalism. Mine's a slow-burn project that I go back to every now and then and just add small daft features just for myself, as nobody else uses the bloody thing (probably because I put a paywall on it to stop spam). Poem formatting? Absolutely.

I'm all for more platforms like this existing, I'd love a return to a legible, lightweight internet.
My Samsung 3D television was awesome for playing PC video games on. The big downside was that playing PC games on a large television wasn't the most ergonomic experience. (And for movies, none of the streaming services offer 3D content.)

I wish smaller 3D computer monitors had caught on. At least VR headsets are still going strong and are even more immersive.
Not all sexism is a malicious use of inclusivity.
I think this is a perfect example of why people find math hard. Not because there's something inherently difficult, but because we have teachers like this one in charge of open and curious minds at a young age. You get a teacher who doesn't quite understand what it is she's trying to teach, and this confusion is multiplied over and over again for each batch of students that pass through. Not too long afterwards you get kids who think they don't understand math, when in fact it was a failing of the teachers who couldn't correctly explain it in the first place.
Google's IPv6 statistics show increase in working from home
Saving Science (2016)
Nah, I actually like the Garamond. I was referring more to adding a bit more line-height as mentioned in the (then) top comment.
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
Doubtful, I think for something to qualify as a tax-exempt donation the recipient has to qualify under 501(c) (aka charities/non-profits). These might be classified as "gifts" (which are exempt up to $15,000 per giver per year) but most likely it's considered a subscription (since the patrons get early access to content in return for their payments) and the author would have to pay income tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset
Los Balancer = HaProxy Serverless
Well, I can't read the paywalled article, but every solution I've ever seen has been to closely control the narrative to match one group's preferred spin. If that's what top executives nixed, then good for them for having principles.
The difficulty isn't with fractions. It's about understanding what "+" means.

Words have multiple meanings/senses. Addison knows the word "plus" already and knows it can mean summing up numbers ("2 plus 2 is 4") or it can mean combining things in other ways ("tonight, we'll eat pizza plus see a movie").

His teacher has introduced "+", and pronounced it "plus", so it's reasonable for him to apply what he knows about the word "plus" to the symbol. People even use "+" (rather than "plus") to mean combining things. Maybe Addison saw "Nature's Path Pumpkin Seed + Flax Granola" at the grocery store. So why shouldn't he try using it that way?

Somebody needs to communicate to Addison that, in math class, "+" always means something specific. He doesn't know that yet, but he has been asked to use the symbol anyway.

Math uses a whole lot of lingo. If it's not covered well enough, stumbling over the terminology can be an impediment to learning. This includes both new words ("quotient", "integer") and words that are used in everyday language but differently in math ("where" meaning condition or definition instead of place, "of" meaning multiplication, "real" numbers).
Tools that disobey their end users are unfit for purpose. They're bad tools, and should be replaced with useful ones.

Your peers' routers are allowed to drop your packets, but nobody is arguing that that's good or beneficial. There is a difference between "within rights" and "good".
thanks for posting that. it initally seemed unfair but sheds an important light to this other side to the story (and to the comment).
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I won't go so far as to say that's absurd, but you are neglecting value pricing. You aren't paying (say) 20% less than print cost and losing money over net value (which I would highly dispute your calculation). You are paying 20% less than print and gaining more value thanks the e-format.

I won't buy print books anymore, because they are too cumbersome vs digital. The 20% discount vs print, or 30% increase over net value of print, by your calculation, is worth the value I receive.

I exaggerate, because there are some print books I buy, specifically for the print format, because for those books so much of the value is in the packaging and physical form factor. The Apple hardware book, the Nasa Graphics Standards book, the recent Prince of Persia book, etc. For a couple, I buy both print and ebook because both formats have their own value; for the same book sometimes it's good to be able to page flip and sometimes it's good to be able to search. Brendan Gregg's BPF book is a recent one that comes to mind.

But for the most part (95%+), I buy only digital, and I am happy to pay "more" than the net print value.
For what it may be worth, our Church also has a very good, free 12-step program for overcoming addictions, with a bunch of online materials: https://addictionrecovery.churchofjesuschrist.org/steps?lang....
I think even just reading it, watching some videos, is worthwhile, but the complete program can be effective.
That thing is the natural continuation of 1960’s-era oscilloscopes. Those steeped in the industry find it familiar.

A bit puzzling that you criticize all from ancient knob proliferation to a single large flat screen. Only alternative is small screens with deep menus, it’s own he11.
It seems weird that this overrides the actual messaging from the groups themselves. NASA calls themselves NASA, not Nasa. English orthography is so removed from pronunciation that it seems quite arbitrary and useless to rework it for one specific case.

Also, it is irrelevant because this is the MIT reader press, not the BBC,and it is literally "AIDS" in the article title. BBC has their own standards. They don't set the standards for every article written in English.
This over-extrapolates though. Guido deciding to mentor women doesn't imply every Pythonista is or should be doing the same. And when the userbase is already mostly men, the existing pipelines are demonstrably working for men; making an effort to pull in women isn't shrinking anyone's pie.
Money doesn't get invested into projects that 'do things honestly', it gets invested into whatever is deemed to make the most profit. There's plenty of people who provide loads of value to those around them (emotional labor, child care, etc) and go largely unpaid. Unless you can generate massive profits, there's little incentive for capitalists to care, and it's capitalists who have all the money and political influence.
I've had my "no more DRM" experience when my ebook reader crashed on a vacation, required a reset and wouldn't let me read the DRM protected books afterwards.
I'm still buying eBooks without DRM. At least in Germany, it's common to only have a watermark instead.
DRM on eboos is utter trash, it just makes everyone's life harder but can easily be removed by anyone who puts some effort into installing the required tools.
Those powerful commercial influences should use their muscle to force the use of protocols other than TCP rather than the silliness of piling everything onto port 80/443.
30,000,000 unemployed people aren't going to just sit around with their thumbs up their bums forever.
I actually just wrote a blog post about this topic: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

In a nutshell, the paragraphs (<p> tags) do not contain enough text to contribute to the readability score. Reader view heuristics rewards paragraphs of at least 140 characters.
I wrote Windows Task Manager and I just remembered something