skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised they didn't look at Walt Disney for how to run a successful creative company. His ideas apply equally well to software as they do to the arts.

I've been watching the documentaries on Disney+, particularly The Imagineering Story (great doc BTW). They talk about the history of the creative side of Disneyland.

What you learn is that when they are simply given a budget and told "build" they thrive. When a CFO type gets involved with Disney, suddenly their output drops, because that CEO is asking what the ROI is for everything they do. A lot of what they do fails and has no ROI, and the people that work there start to worry about what their ROI will be before they start working.

When the CEO just says "We're going to spend X% on research, here is the budget" then they thrive again.

I think this is applicable to software. When an engineer isn't asked to think about the ROI ahead of time, they are left free to come up with novel innovations. But if they know they will be judged on ROI, they will take fewer risks.

This of course is all predicated on being a profitable company. You have to already have a good cashflow to have the freedom to say "just go create".
In the next 15 years, we'll say the same thing with RISC-V.
When I experienced somewhat similar symptoms, I ended up stopping to consume any caffeine (was mostly tea for me), and significantly reduced sugar - and started feeling much better.

Other things that helped was regular exercise, with good cardio load, and getting enough sleep.

Hoping in God and the eternal life definitely helped with the anxiety part.

Hope you feel better.
Ask HN: Is it legal to build an educational course on a specific book?
I want to build an online educational course on a specific book (written in the early 20th century) to help others consume the valuable content.

I don't have plans to charge for the course, just build it and host it so others can benefit from it.

I need to use the name of the book in my app to make it easier to find people who know about the book, but have never actually read it or absorbed its content.

Do you think I am breaking any laws by calling it something like "Book X Educational Course" or similar?
One unfortunate side effect of this is that methane leaks are growing due to the switch from coal to natural gas, and we don't know how much. The impact of that natural gas may make this switch net negative in terms of its climate impact, and we just don't know.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/12/climate/texas...
I wrote out a longer post, but decided to delete it because it wasn't as charitable as I wanted it to be. Simply put I disagree. What is considered to be divisive is also political.
I think the illusion of "cheap" confuses most marketers. Marketers are left with an unbalanced sense that they are getting higher bang for their buck, ignoring centuries of marketing best practices about expanding reach and exploring non-traditional targets for secondary/tertiary effects. But I think it works well for the ad platforms themselves in the way that it encourages whales just like microtransactions in games. A marketer has an easier time considering opportunity cost for one big ad spend, versus not even paying attention to opportunity cost as they buy a lot of individual micro-targets. (And relatedly not paying attention to how much they are over-spending on people that already have their message versus missing opportunities on greater reach.)
Thanks! I wouldn't say Stencil's option is low. It's being used in some pretty major apps today, like Apple Music, Amazon music, and powering the next version of AWS Amplify components. Not to mention powering every Ionic Framework component which is upwards of 15% of the app stores (not all use latest w/ WCs however). One downside to that is npm stats won't show dependency network effects with stencil because it is compiled out for component collections like framework.
A thing is good for someone for something and dropping this context is a mistake that causes superficial contradictions or an illusion of subjectivity. A picture of two cars racing on a public road can be good for the newspaper for attracting readers and bad for the police for identifying the drivers at the same time. Once we consider WHO and FOR WHAT the problem of being good becomes objective.
Can confirm, Tweetbot never has "all" the replies.
Except for the pure HTML5 solutions, everything else uses a JS framework.
This will be tried as 1st degree murder for sure. Unless he cooperates and maybe that ll be the deal, to drop the 1st degree.
the concept of strong inner connections between top politicians and top businesses applies for almost every country regardless of the political system. so corruption in that sense is everywhere in every layer of society.
NYC was going through a decline in population even before this, but the other midsized urban areas like Denver and Austin have been experiencing a boom. Unfortunately I think the policy response to Covid has killed all of that. I just moved out of my inner city apartment there. Everything I pay higher rent for is shut down.
I presume kids die in accidents at school at the moment. if 1 kid dies a year falling down steps at school should all schools be forced to be only 1 level? there needs to be a sensible look at the cost and benefits and zero deaths should not be a a hard requirement.
Exactly. I’d argue what makes modern PHP less awful is almost entirely in what it lacks. Checking a bunch of random OOP boxes is not going to make it a good language. People love plenty of programming languages that don’t check those boxes. (Lua, C, Go are all languages that lack many of those OOP features, for example.)

And to be sure, modern PHP is better. The beginnings of typing, the fixing of horrible standard library behaviors, and an ecosystem with package management are game changers. But to me, all of that means nothing if the ecosystem is primarily running legacy apps. There are clearly proponents of modern PHP that embrace the new PHP, but what really gives it any modern relevance is old school apps like Mediawiki, phpBB, etc. and I feel like they all underscore what I dislike about PHP: not a single problem but a mindset that is incompatible with modern internet. There is no assumption of shared nothing; most apps assume the disk can be used for persistence. And it’s tricky to dockerize a PHP app effectively since you typically need multiple processes; I know there’s work on an app server in PHP itself but last I checked it was for development, and rather I ended up using uWSGIs embedded PHP support as the only solution I could even find that could do this in a way that wasn’t horrifically ugly or intensive.

It still has its issues. For me the prime issue with PHP is the execution model. I am not in for my document root being my source dir. This weird behavior comes from the CGI era and to this day it doesn’t really feel like there is intent to move away from it. Rather, the age old front controller pattern is poised as a “solution,” entangling web server, PHP and application configuration together in some unholy mess, versus the modern pattern of having an app server.
In regards to the difficulty of using WebRTC, the API was created by Ericsson which also invented Erlang, a language renowned for its concurrency capabilities but also its otherworldly syntax, so it shares that same uncannily foreign design and syntax. If there was any one company that was employing technology from an advanced alien civilization, my suspicions would immediately fall on Ericsson.
Classic liberalism as the founding principal was alluded to by the parent post.

I agree, it holds rentier activity on par with wealth creation, which Adam Smith would never have done.

https://www.prosper.org.au/geoists-in-history/adam-smith-on-...

It is massively incompatible.
Some years ago in Bethesda, Maryland, the manager of a Lululemon store was murdered by her assistant after she confronted the woman about money gone missing. The assistant gave herself some minor injuries and tried to sell the police a story of a man breaking in and attacking them. The story fell apart pretty quickly.
What a great assumption: one goes outside the scope of the article, therefore the same hasn't read the article, and then other perspectives cannot be brought in. It is only naïve to think this discussion isn't scoped in a broader perspective since the very phenomena is happening elsewhere as well, and the obvious impacts linguistics have in it.
Newpipe does not use Youtube APIs.

https://newpipe.schabi.org/FAQ/
I don't think ViewPure counts as a YouTube client. It just embeds a YouTube video, which is enough to strip away the YouTube clutter, but it's not reimplementing the YouTube player's JavaScript code the way invidio.us does, for instance.

I could be mistaken but I don't think YouTube officially permits third-party clients of any sort. Perhaps that's a good litmus test.
I'm not doubting the effectiveness of advertising, quite the opposite. Of course that if some players are advertising, anyone who isn't is at a major disadvantage.

But cigarettes were a very good study in what happens if you remove advertising from an industry - nothing much. They get to save a lot of advertising money, and the industry itself may shrink if there is no real need for it (for cigarettes, it reduces the rate at which people start smoking, even if it doesn't significantly reduce the rate at which smokers buy cigarettes).

Of course, people would still buy clothes and consumer electronics and cars if there were no advertising - these are all useful products. But most likely, the contrary of what you are claiming would actually happen: all these huge players would find themselves competing much more on price with small "no-name" producers if they couldn't sell an image of exclusivity, particularly in the case of Nike and Apple. Especially in fashion, most non-luxury brands are built entirely on advertising, as there is no real quality or style difference between them and by-the-pound clothing you get at thrift stores.

So yes, prices may fall like dominoes, but only because the market would become more efficient, bringing prices more in-line with costs, quality, and utility, rather than "prestige".
Well yeah but it also removes ads... which are how content creators and the people who build and maintain the platform infrastructure make a living.
Me too, started to wonder what they could have done wrong
Politicians Who Say Black Lives Matter: Put Your Budget Where Your Mouth Is
The question would be which plugins exactly? because there are tons of plugins spread over GitHub, more or less working, and they're constantly shifting. I've had maybe 15 integrations working perfectly on datadog in 2 weeks of work. The same on prometheus/grafana could have taken 6 months easily (with few exporters to write from scratch).

The cloud does make a difference. Just seeing the daily S3 usage per bucket was life changing. Immediately found that backups were not expiring after a while as they should, costing more and more money. ^^

Do you know how many metrics you are ingesting in prometheus? storage size? and how many tags per host? We were reaching 1 TB of memory usage (mmap) on our server with 1500 hosts. Prometheus was literally grinding to a halt or crashing, was forced to cut down some metrics and stick to the absolute minimum tags.

Try prometheus_tsdb_head_series and prometheus_tsdb_storage_blocks_bytes or du command on the directory.
I don't think it is that simple. When it comes to not playing the ads, I agree that is a problem. When it comes to the features, I think it is different.

One of the features is background playback of audio from videos. On the desktop, that's a feature that exists thanks to your window manager. Is that unethical?

It isn't stealing to use another method to get a feature someone is selling you, any more than using a third party DVR is stealing from a company offering you one as part of a more expensive package.

They have implemented the feature independently, and are providing it as a way of doing the same thing as something YouTube is selling you, I don't see that as a problem.

(NewPipe also has features that YouTube's app just doesn't support at all, like higher speed playback than 2x).
My friend at Pixar says they've slowly dismantled all the good things and benefits at Pixar after Disney bought them. Disney+ was built by the acquisition of BAMTech I believe. Maybe they have more autonomy like AWS does inside of Amazon.
AR/XR will be one, check out the MixedRealityToolkit and the experience in the HoloLens 2
Exchanges May Know the Twitter Hacker's ID
Yes. Don't make any assumptions about a pandemic sweeping the world until you have done triple blind studies for 4 years. Obviously.
Realtors make money either way...so it is a great time for either.

Just as always follow the money.
> I'd never pay a dime for YT itself due to their policies and overall platform.

You're supporting them just by using them, whether they are showing you ads or tracking you or not. You're reducing demand on other platforms for this content because you're letting YouTube provide it for you. If you really want to stand against YouTube, don't use it. Otherwise, you're still supporting their platform, you've just decided to do so in a way that saves you time, money and convenience at the expense of YouTube and the content creators on YouTube.

If you're going to do it, you might as well own it.
Many university lectures subsidise their salary via a slight variation on this.
Wow, thanks for that article. I wasn't aware. I guess it's just people then, not exactly related to the current political climate then, really. It's quite amazing how similar the pictures in 1918 look to today w/respect to mask wearing. I'm curious if anti-mask sentiment is more of an American thing or worldwide...
politics is verboten here
yes everything is easy now, except for things that aren't/
Why do I care about the advertisers efficiency?

If you were talking about some sort of imagined strong AI personalization I might prefer that assuming ad free wasn’t an option, but this absurd, deep from within the uncanny valley personalization is worse than generic advertising.

The only place I am exposed to generic ads are when watching sporting events at a bar or at someone’s house. Everywhere else I get ads blocked or get “targeted” ads that mildly (at best) offend me that that is what the algorithm thinks I’d be interested in buying. I prefer the generic ads.
No, because it's not really used for new things anymore. That's why Cobol isn't hated either.
I'd see a high probability it's for retargeting customers in ad-spend that Doordash itself uses. So what often happens is people have an interest in using Doordash, don't complete and then pay facebook to "retarget" the user to try and keep them top of mind until they complete the transaction.
And maybe someone could talk about native alternatives!
Hunting dangerous and/or delicious animals notwithstanding, a gun is a tool that we invented for killing our fellow man with good efficiency and effectiveness.

I'm curious about what aspects of the state of affairs in America has citizens deciding that they now need to improve their ability to kill their neighbors and countrymen.
> I imagine this will be an unpopular opinion here though.

I don't like it one bit -> down vote
yes it is.

Source: consulted at two companies that survived dot com crash recently, which were PHP shops. They are a node/java shop now. And mentioning PHP will get you fired.
Still the same problems after 20 years tbh...
Yeah, what ppl mean by collecting DMs is getting copies of years' worth of private conversations that the accounts likely engaged in over Twitter DMs (not so much about continued surveiling of new DMs)
The difference is that people aren't saying not to go after the bad actors in on tor.
I don't think they mean this as power storage, rather, shifting the location of power usage to the place where power prices could be ridiculously low. Smelting bauxite is an energy-intensive process. If you do it in China, you need to import the energy to do it. If you instead send bauxite to KSA they could use their cheap energy and send the resulting aluminum to China.

It's not storing the energy, it's making energy storage and transport a redundant step.
We have a government customer with PHP in their list of technologies that we are prohibited from employing in service of their contract. I thought it was kind of random to single out something that we never intend to use, but in their minds PHP is right up there with Flash as a pariah of the web.

So yeah, there are some people out there who really really hate PHP.
Would advertising $49 as the base price and a time limited offer/discount for a group of customers be acceptable?
Problem here is CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. You might use variables, functions or attributes, styles, tags, that would interfere with other components.

That's why you want an additional layer like Angular2+ taking care of that.
A new iPhone SE has flagship specs for $400-500, and Androids cheaper than that (and even much costlier ones) struggle to last 2-3 years - an iPhone easily lasts 4+.

I don't want to turn this into an Android vs iOS debate, but want to highlight that one of the main complaints against getting an iPhone (cost) no longer really applies - it could even be considered a strongsuit. I agree that the walled garden can be annoying, but I've rarely found myself longing for Android customisation, and have very much noticed how some apps work much better on my iPhone. This is completely down to preference though.

I also care deeply about privacy, but even with 0 consideration for it, I think I still would've switched - I am super happy seeing Apple pushing it this hard.

(I recently went back to iOS after 2 phones and 5 years on Android)
It would be great to include metrics on:

1. size of framework javascript required to load first

2. tooling to compile. For example, the Vue.js works without tooling, but the React w/Class requires command line tools to build before the site is ready. That's a HUGE difference, IMHO.
China moves rocket into place for upcoming Mars mission
Yes, one of the issues with people who've recently learned the 2020 version of JS/CSS/frameworkX is that they assume what they've learned is the correct way to do things according to "the best, latest standard". It's a variation of Dunning-Kruger almost.

As you said, experienced engineers have been dealing with CSS browser support issues for years, so as a habit try to avoid using the latest shiny new features.

Also, experienced engineers do refresh their knowledge from time to time, but you might have caught them between refreshes. Remember that these engineers are also working 40-60 hours per week producing work output in addition to periodically refreshing their skillset. And depending on the environment they've worked in previously they may not have had the ability to use the latest features of whatever technology. Maybe they were working on a legacy app that didn't support ES6, for example. That would be less common now in the days of Babel, but there was a time a few years ago when it would have been reasonable for a working JS engineer not to be familiar with every detail of ES6, as an example.
As you scroll that's more opportunities to show you ads.
The other aspect of it is these ads are supposedly targeted yet they look like they were produced for a general audience like you'd get on TV. They target the lowest common denominator. They are so safe and inoffensive they end up being simply boring to watch.
it's really too early to know

I find myself wondering if we could see the opposite flight too. If you've been completely alone in your countryside manor for the last four months, might you start thinking fondly of living in closer quarters with others?
> though I think there is a YouTube video somewhere

"LibreSSL with Bob Beck" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
> he had this done so that he can claim that someone hacked his account

This is false for a number of reasons. After Trump’s Twitter was deleted briefly by a rogue contractor, they placed safeguards on his account to ensure that it never happened again.(1) As such, he was not affected by the hack.

(1): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/trump-twitter-...
What's the documentary called?
D+ was literally built by BAMTech using the same tech that powers HBOGo and MLB streaming.

I think the Pixar thing has more to do with their management, namely John Lassater, moving south to head up Disney Animation, which did extremely well when he took over. Apparently they're doing even better under Jennifer Lee, who took over for him when he left/was ousted.
Former Fed Chairs testified on Covid-19 and response to economic crisis
I think it's a very good question, and yes as far as we know, it's still shared. Information brokers aggregate whatever they find, and this includes data from other brokers as well. With Facebook in particular there's a concept called a "shadow profile", which are supposed to be people who haven't registered at Facebook, but some data is still associated to them.
Do you also think that any old person that falls for a cash scam deserves it?
Typical. Universal Hashing as a concept is only interesting to cryptographers, and people who are completely obsessed with obscure hashmap trivia (i.E. FAANG interviewers).
You mean the company paying for the storage, conversion, bandwidth, global availability and upkeep?

I mean, the creator should have its share, but it's not like YouTube does nothing.
That's not piracy. Youtube is sending you packets, out of their own choice. It's my own right to save those packets(without re-distributing) them and watch them in any form I like.

Playing in the background is not a "feature", it's a basic device capability, the fact that YouTube went out of their way to prevent it does not make it right, imagine if the browser client had stopped playing when you went out of focus - that'd be completely unacceptable. The fact that somehow this is accepted on smartphones probably says more about consumers lack of technological competence and awareness (and maybe historical reasons, as earlier versions of Android/iOS didn't have proper multi-tasking)
Awesome, glad to hear i don't have to change.
As a user I would like for Twitterrific for example to support polls and pinned tweets. So at least one user of a third partly client wants this, I bet that there are more.
The difference here is that you’re not downloading a copy of a video from one private user to another. You’re downloading the video from Google, using Google’s bandwidth and their servers.
I agree with your statement but there are other sides too.

Regarding ads:
Showing ads like "Girl Mobile Video Talk" with description "Girl Mobile Number Live Video Call" with "Install Link" in a youtube ads is unacceptable. And the worst thing is you cannot even turn off that ads without being turning on ads personalization.

Regarding Money:
10$ may be a cup of coffee for you but in other side of world people are earning 200$ of salary so they just can't afford it. So many people don't have privilege like average Americans have?

Regarding supporting creators.
Sure ads pay creator but showing ads every 10minute , beginning of video and end of video is total BS. And even creator are already using their own ads like "This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org" so I don't mind blocking ads.
That's what Svelte does. I can't recommend this framework enough, it's easy to learn, simple, fast and small.
Yes, they are using DynASM. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/opcache/jit/R...
The Imagineering Story

https://www.disneyplus.com/series/the-imagineering-story/6ry...
What does that have to do with long articles? Are you suggesting long articles move the market more?

Personally, I don't think paying journalists bonuses based on market moves a bad idea. Sure, there's sometimes misaligned incentives, but you could say the same about any compensation scheme.