skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Douglas Tallamy, an entomologist at the University of Delaware, makes a convincing case that one factor is the replacement of native plants with (often showier) aliens which local insect populations can't eat. This then reduces the populations of birds which feed on those insects. Site for his books: http://www.bringingnaturehome.net/
I have been struggling to differentiate "Sales" and "Business development". I always assumed they both to be same

> you could be making a lot of sales but not a lot of profit in the long term

This line made the difference very clear for me.

Right now I find Sales development much cooler than sales. I can actually feel the weight people with this title carry.

I think I can modify this Mindmap with the new insights that you've provided here. Thanks Paul
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I think the reasoning is people type in "01/02" to actually mean Jan 2nd more often than they import CSVs into Excel. So Microsoft favored one over the other

I don't see a problem with that, as it's not undefined behavior – you know exactly how Excel will treat those values
This looks super cool! I like the fact that, like you said, the focus is on the data and not on preparing the chart configuration stuff. I can definitely use this in my project where I had to write to write an algorithm to parse the data to a valid configuration for ChartJS. I bookmarked this and definitely gonna try it soon. Will let you guys know.
My project is also open-source if you wanna check it out https://chartbrew.com
> Cable boxes do not typically have bidirectional connections

This hasn't been true in many places since the takeover of digital cable in the 2000s. Without a bidirectional data link, how do you think cable internet works? Or cable telephony? Or pay-per-view for that matter? It's all on the same line into the same box.

> Cable systems don't...

Don't isn't couldn't. When talking about solutions to problems, merely describing a problem isn't where the conversation ends.

> Sending some out of order I-frame every time a channel was changed means every stream has to be decoded in real-time at the head end

That's what I described. The cost of doing it is epsilon.

> Cable is a shared medium so every channel flip by every user on a node will to be sent to everyone.

If you can stream Netflix while watching TV without hurting your neighbors, then you can receive one single I-frame.
I have a cyst on my spine. It doesn't keep me from walking.

But, many days, it keeps me awake and makes it very difficult for me to do physical tasks that I was once able to accomplish with ease.

I used to be able to squat 545lbs. I can hardly lift 100 lbs without assistance. If I do a moderate day of yard work, I am unable to take a shower upright.

All because of a pea-sized cyst.

Just because something isn't fatal, or debilitating to the point of it putting you in a wheel chair, doesn't mean it can't have a massive impact on not only your quality of life and your relationships, it can keep you from being able to adequately care for yourself or be a productive member of society.
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> Which companies are you referring to?

None specifically - I'm just interested in pivot points where companies decided to switch from technology x to technology z, and what made them do it.

> When did that happen? If everyone did "leave PHP", what will happen to all those websites:

Sorry, bad phrasing. I meant, "When did people stop deciding to greenlight new projects using PHP?"

> Here's an article you may find interesting:

Thanks!

> A chart like this does not exist.

Would you be interested in such a chart? or perhaps a tweaked version?
I live in a dense suburb (Fairfax county) of a major metropolitan area (D.C.) and like the combo of easy access to both open spaces and city amenities. There are plenty of commuters in my neighborhood, so we have easy access to reliable power, water, and high-speed internet that I couldn't do without.

I have previously lived in both dense urban settings (NYC) and rural areas (Wimberley, TX and Soultz, France) and would not consider moving to an area where I had to deal with septic tanks and satellite internet, even for 100% remote work.
Do you remember the time when you had to clean your windshield after driving into holidays?
We're really excited about this image format -- for the same image quality .AVIF compresses 50% smaller than JPEG, 20% smaller than WebP and is free to use.
I'm pretty sure services like pika.dev/skypack.dev/jspm.io are trying to solve the CJS to ESM problem so you can use it directly in the browser (or deno).

Last time I checked they seemed to lean into using rollup to take care of the translation under the covers.
> Your first point may be true, but it completely ignores the reality of a vast number of WordPress sites that don't use a plugin to generate a separate, static, site.

For the record, I would never run WordPress as non-static unless I had no other option. I'm not defending WordPress in any way. I just didn't see the need to mention its flaws because the parent comment already had.

I would personally prefer not to use WordPress at all, but it is the de facto standard for marketing websites, and marketers don't know or care about the performance and security nightmare that is standard WordPress. Since that is the reality, I felt that it was helpful to let people know how to deal with it constructively instead of just deploying insecure, slow websites.

> As to your second point, what do you imagine that "well-designed theme[s]" have to do with sites taking well over a second to start returning HTML?

That was stated in the context of static websites. If you're running non-static WP, you're just fucked.
And then you consider a game like blackjack where you often have six decks in play, 312! combinations instead of 52!.

Interesting question just popped into my head, if the orientation of the card matters, how do people randomize that?
Although he says "able to compress our data", he means that the uncompressed representation is smaller. In addition to memory savings, iteration could theoretically be faster due to fewer missed branches (imagine iterating through mostly similar width characters vs iterating through characters of varying widths).
In regards to JS, any reasons for a sync await seems to be rationalization.

Node is built on V8, which is built for browsers. Browsers have a single threaded execution model that also hides an event loop that runs the entire tab.
> I don’t want food to be cheap, fast, or efficient, and rarely — if ever — to be prepared by strangers I will never meet.

This is a mode of existence available to only the extremely privileged. It's a great luxury to be this picky about what you eat.
That's wrong everywhere with cable internet. See my response to your other similar comment.
The dongle referenced in this article has broken on three sets of Jabra 75’s I’ve been issued rendering the headset useles for PC use. You cannot just replace the dongle and resync the headset

Purchase at your own peril.
Here's hoping they can keep the culture from being as toxic as Uber's was under his tenure.
Ideally, JS would have been based on S expressions and consistency would naturally flow from the syntax. But that ship has sailed, and occasionally it makes sense to add a new infix operator for succinctness. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-exponentiation-operator#inf...

With prettier, one can make an old style go away.
Good eye and good question!

When I first joined, the existing codebase was already built out in PHP on a LAMP stack. I was really opposed to it at first but I've learned to love it since. The safety, speed, and size of a compiled language on the web is something most modern frameworks can't compete with.

I, personally, have built a ton of in-house APIs here aiming to "modernise" php and am really proud of the outcome. It's nowhere as safe, readable, or dynamic as something like a Rust or Swift but PHP is definitely a strong competitor for the modern web (IMO).

This article https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology also really helped me come around early on.
> What's the point of staying in big cities if most people are now working from home

WFH won't be permanent for most people. Cities won't be attractive for the next 6-12 months but eventually people's incentives to live in a big city will be back to where they were pre-COVID19.
I'm not really sure the existence of a thing really indicates efficiency or usefulness, that's not a high bar.
Hehehe...on my machine that selects "Emacs (Terminal)". Good luck with those key combos...
Fwiw, the guy who wrote this article is ex-Uber and was involved in Policy and Strategy for Uber India. Probably has privileged access to Kalanick’s new venture.
Estimating the energy of the Beirut Explosion using a wedding dress
I actually was sitting outside a few nights ago and realized that there was no more fireflies, and I couldn't remember the last time I had seen one. I used to go out all the time during summer as a kid to catch them, they would light up whole fields. That was just like 15 years ago. Pretty sobering realization
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Confirms Trump's assertions about fake news.

If a publication receives money for publishing anything at all it should be considered an advertisement and clearly labeled as such at the beginning of the article.
I think Interlingua is better as a Spanish speaker.
> Why wouldn't they take it?

Because the pool of Java devs is only marginally wider than the pool of C++ devs? 5.4M C++ devs vs 7.1M Java devs is not a massive difference in pools:

https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...

And while I don't have numbers for it, my experience has been that the vast majority of Java devs have very little experience with the kind of specialized use of the JVM that low latency programming requires. On the contrary, I've found it difficult to hire for high-performance Java codebases, because the way they are written is completely different from how "normal" Java is written, so you need to retrain devs used to writing "normal" Java.
Thank you for asking! It's pretty awesome to get a reply from someone at Mozilla itself!

I actually never filed a bug report. I didn't think of the slowness as a bug per se. I thought it was just that Firefox was slower.

One thing I should note is that I've been using an ancient Firefox profile. I copy the profile onto new installs, and I've got bookmarks going all the way back to 2008 or 2009 (my bookmarks are organized into 50 or 100 folders). I also have a bunch of extensions.

I typically have well over a hundred tabs. I used to use the extension Tree Style Tabs, and sometime get close to a thousand tabs (with like 5 to 10 windows, with between 100 to 200 tabs per window).

Also, Firefox was slow on every laptop I used, but not on my desktop. I have a desktop that's fast by 2015 standards. It's got a i7-5280K, 32 GB RAM quad-channel, etc. The few laptops I've had have had far slower CPUs (the fastest one being an 8th Gen Intel i7 "U" processor). While on my desktop, I might average 700 tabs, on my laptop I try to have under 200 tabs.

I've always been on the newest versions of Firefox. For my laptops, I was on Aurora / the Developer Edition. On my desktop (which has an Ubuntu-based Linux distro), I'm on Firefox nightly.

Not sure if all of that info helps. I haven't investigated too much into what's happening. The most probably culprit might be my ancient Firefox profile. Perhaps, if I go back into Firefox with a fresh profile, it'll be a lot faster.
That hasn’t been true at all in my experience. When my son got pneumonia, we were told he would be hospitalized at 92 when he was reading 94. He’s dark-skinned so who knows what the actual reading should have been.
Thanks for your help! Reading the article now.
I always wonder how much of the reduction in cleaning of glass can be attributed to better aerodynamics and better glass.
Wasn't Linux installable in early PS3s, and some labs (US military?) used stacks of PS3s as distributed superishcomputers? I wonder if anyone had analysed general computing performance in CELLs...
is there really much reasoning needed to state that life is more important than GDP?

Economic activity ought to exist to facilitate human flourishing, humans shouldn't be instrumentalized to build paperclip factories.
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Getting oxygen at home reimbursed by Medicare also requires diagnoses with certain conditions and specific testing. If oxygen at home is required the testing to satisfy Medicare requirements won't be conducted using the common finger tip pulse ox meter.
We did a comparison of our product with Gitlab CI
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The engineers probably implemented the latest design changes to the lines to fix the quality issues that occurred in the states.
I've noticed sharing one monitor with multiple computers has always been a pain point... over most of my life.

By the way, I've always found having a dumb usb switch (for each device) and a dumb video switch to be the best way to eliminate incompatibilities. But everyone wants to get fancy and "smarten up" their kvm to use hotkeys and it screws with latency or keyboard state or just adds weirdness.

So I think the smartest place to put kvm functionality is probably at the keyboard, in the mouse and the monitor.

Or we should have an open kvm solution
> I downloaded Instagram this morning and was presented with a wall to create an account. Nope

He thinks Reels won’t compete because it forces you to create an Instagram account, you don’t need an account to use TikTok
If you're in a position where you have to constantly twist a cofounder's arm to work hard you probably don't want to work with that person. Did you sign any paperwork with Mr X. yet; if so try to buy out his share? Probably talk to a lawyer about an IP release form in any case. I have dealt with this a few times before and a lawyer once told me "Money changes people" -- and that might be true once you start making money. Also, are you early on that you can just quit and rebuild with your friend who actually does work? Also 40% equity for 0% risk--imagine how far that equity can go in raising money rather than lining someone's pocket who does no work.
Maybe a registry edit?
I find that most passionate vim advocates have spent a lot of time learning, using, twiddling vim and the investment has paid off and now life is great. Is that a point for vim or his persistence? I'm unpersuaded that I should learn vim instead of $EDITOR, I just happened on vim first. Speaking as an inveterate vim user.
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Ahem... I seem to recall that the masts of most streetlights are rather thin. Which meant that one could kick them a few times in ways that make the mast swing. Which could be rather large and abrupt swings at the top, which led to "Wackelkontakt"/ loss of contact, and thus darkness. It was even reversible!

Your own personal kick switch for public street lights!
That's not the point here. It's about that a thin CJS wrapper to an ESM module isn't possible but the way around is.
The casual reader of his blogs (like many on HN apparently) is likely to get the impression that he had the original ideas for much of his software.

His software has very few tests (especially for floating point), there's no paper for the method but nevertheless it apparently gets used at Google almost instantly.

So it looks as if there are connections that regular OSS authors don't have.
I meant why do you think he's trying to make the web proprietary.

AFAICS he's doing the exact opposite:

https://contractfortheweb.org/
There are ways, but:

1. I need to run gitlab ci myself on my host(s)

2. My host must be logged in to docker hub

3. Gitlab CI must run as privileged container

4. There are more hacks required to let gitlabci build the image and push as me.

on github you just authorize docker-hub to get webhooks from github, and that's it, it does the rest itself.
That's simply not true. Even if one buys all his or her ingredients at bodegas he will still beat the prices of the delivered food, not to mention that the cheap delivery food is basically low quality junk food.
There are lots of great computational biologists, but being a computational biologist doesn't necessitate being good with computers. Plenty of PI's rely pretty much exclusively on grad students and post-docs to run all their analyses.

Not that I'm saying using excel is bad either. I use excel plenty to look at data. But scientists need to know how to use the tools that they have.
English as Lingua Franca (Language of Western Europe) is less than century old. My mother studied French, because it was dominant language of that time.
I feel like that would be nauseating for residents on heavily trafficked roads
Too lazy to do the setup on multiple computers
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If you don't believe institutional racism exists, or even Black neighborhoods, I'm not going to try to convince you. Sorry.
It’s clearly not a democratic process, but it doesn’t sound that different than US presidential elections. We say “chosen by the American people”, but that doesn’t assume 100% of people voted for him/her.
For those interested, Google’s Madison office has some openings for software and hardware engineers. Our office is downtown in the same building as The Sylvee, and Google has publicly announced that voluntary WFH has been extended through June 2021 to allow employees the confidence to commit to personal arrangements until then.
here is one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200708064647/https://www.howeq...
> but for journalists this is a problem because they're supposed to be providing information,

I do not expect journalists to use their twitter timeline as the foundation of all their reporting.
This reads to me big infrastructural problems in internet.
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> Some European countries, named here, only very recently cared more about insects than people.

How is it "more about than"? What are the costs to people by mandating dimming the light?
Is there a good reason that ^ is not used as an exponent operator in most (all?) languages. Its used in every calculator Ive seen.

2^5 = 32
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Please be true.
Excel is the 2020s technological progress stunting equivalent of the fax machine.
Is there a way to make it here? Is it community building or sg else?
what happens once the market
for software developers
becomes saturated.

This was being predicted for as long as I can remember (at least since the 90s).

And yet despite short term fluctuations there has only been more and more demand of programmers for decades now.

There has also not seem to have ever been saturation for electrical engineers despite this being a much older profession.
My company won't publish the different salary zones, so we have to keep asking HR / our managers... it's practically impossible to optimize in that condition.
Sure, but it’s a lot easier to make a list of accounts to follow that suggests you’re impartial or well-rounded. It’s a lot tougher to spend every day ensuring your replies and retweets do the same.
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Time spent making meals is a dead time. Those that do not consider that to be a dead time simply buy instapots, slow cookers and rice cookers.
I just wish console games supported keyboard/mouse controls. Playing FPS games on a controller is painful.
Exactly.. I work in food tech and batching is a MASSIVE focus for both delivery products and ghost kitchens (colocating many restaurants) because of the kind of efficiencies you can squeeze out of it.
This seems like it could be really useful for text entry in VR! Using a keyboard is impractical in that scenario, but you typically are holding two controllers with joysticks. A system like this could make VR workspaces more practical.
You can buy card shufflers on Amazon for under twenty dollars. I've only used one once and geez was it loud - hopefully they do not all have that issue.

https://www.amazon.com/card-shuffler-automatic-card-shuffler...
I've used this successfully for years.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

While not your traditional ad blocker done via browser extension, it does the job quite well and blocks the requests at the OS level.

I'm not the author or maintainer, just a very happy user.
Kill Sticky kills tons of animations, many unexpectedly.

Ultimately, modern animations are just as distracting as animated Gifs were. They're somewhere between an ideal reading experience and wholly unwanted autoplay videos.

If autoplay videos are a swarm of angry hornets, animations are summertime gnats. We live with them but they're hardly something we asked for.
Look at the graph in 2012 - it spiked UP a huge percent in a very short time. Then again in 2015 - looks like visibility doubled in 6 months. Was that 'deserved'? Was that 'censoring' other sites?
you shouldn't. Your own industry is totally dysfunctional, scaled beyond reason, little accountability beyond profits, and morally bankrupt. Why shouldn't every other industry be too?
I am more a fan of jpop but also enjoy kpop, and I have looked into this.

Japan is the second largest music market in the world. They don't need to export their music to sustain itself and through a combination of region locked music and less focus on worldwide appeal it hasn't had the same global reach as south korea's music industry, which is smaller and relies on worldwide consumption
You are equating books and guns. They are not the same.
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I avoid using one on smaller sites so I can support content creators
Never claimed I could or wanted to, just pointing out that it's disingenuous to claim these systems fail in a vacuum because they are inherently flawed.
I think outside the worrying mechanics of the situation here with you and Y working for free and etc.

It's pretty clear communication just isn't working out either. It doesn't seem like you trust X to do what he says / he isn't doing it ... if there isn't trust and communication, I think this venture may be doomed to conflict and the usual bad things that come of it.
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Hey guys!

I wanted to let you know a good friend of mine (Lior Vexler) is hosting a Zoom webinar/presentation about Native advertising next week.
If anyone wants to jump in (it's for free for all of you guys), please email me at Itay.forer@gmail.com. I will send you all the details.

Here is some more info:

In this one hour session, Lior Vexler will share different strategies and tactics of effectively acquiring new users. He will explore, including content platforms such as Taboola & Outbrain.

Why:

Every founder who just got funding knows how challenging it can be to focus the right time and energy for the right marketing efforts. There are many platforms out there, many strategies. Which one should you choose? Should the marketing efforts stay in-house or be leveraged to an agency? So many questions and decisions to be answered.

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Native advertising is the use of paid ads that match the look, feel, and function of the media format in which they appear. Content advertising is merely advertising your content. It's an effective strategy because the competition for organic reach is off the charts.
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