skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I maintain three forums, and it's harder and harder to get new users and get those new users to post useful stuff. People is getting used to post shallow content that contributes nothing.

>I discussed it with my older users and we tried different strategies, but maybe 1/30 new <30yo users is worth it. I had to ban some of them just because they posted too much noise.

I didn't mention the fact that I was a Admin/Mod in my earlier post, but my biggest issue was fending off being spammed by bots. We had tons of traffic to the site/forum without the need of SEO as we were always on top of the search engines, and member registration was good but like you we had limited 'good' user activity, and the few that was good was hard to filter through at times that I made post approval a thing until we just disbanded the forum as the newsletter and conferences/workshops/irregularly scheduled weekly calls had more impact on the core business.

Ultimately, I think this is a struggle that will only be mitigated by a migration to a new form of the Internet, one in which we are not encumbered by the ad driven, panopticon business model, and shallow click-bait sensationalism to keep it running.

It became clear to me sometime after 2010-11 that Internet culture had entered into an obvious decline to some of the more critical parts of it that made it worth spending time on, I often relate it to how the early monolithic structures of Egypt were far superior to the later versions as it declined: something very critical was lost along the way.

Can it be recovered, with a great deal of sacrifice and hardwork I'm sure it can as HN is a constant reminder that many of those very same people who valued that spirit of the early days entered the Industry and went on be a part to build this system and are equally as disgusted and tired of this perverse abomination, that no amount of viral 4k streaming videos of an influencer showing off on holiday that 'breaks the Internet' was worth what was lost along the way.
There's a really big power law for this though. Some of my code has been running for close to 15 years now and I fully expect it to run at least that long into the future. At the same time I also have written software that got decommissioned after a year because the business division was spun down.

The highest value code I ever wrote was probably a 50-100 line script that collected some data requested for due diligence and which eventually clinched a >200 million USD investment round for the company. That script was never used again after that.
You may also want to consider at this point that social gatherings of people do not represent a random sample of the population but are instead self-selecting for higher exposure to covid.
I had a discussion on the complexity of service mesh with a friend 2 days ago. Both of us working in cluster management (google etc.).

I feel service mesh provides good value in application layer policy control traffic management (routing, rate limiting etc.), security, deep observability. But it nonetheless still only provide the mechanisms at this point. I.e., one can implement to a high degree of flexibility whatever policy for their applications running on k8s clusters. But the complexity is exposed naked to the user.

A solution is to provide more abstraction, but it's not clear what that abstraction would be.

My friend said similar thing. And he said unless there are thousands of applications to manage, service meshes does not worth the investment. Or the break-even point for service mesh today is very high, probably only makes sense for orgs that is at or beyond Uber's size.

Would love to see how others view the value prop of service mesh, and what additional investment could make it easier to get value from service mesh.
I have a humble channel with 3,281 subs and 108 videos. My boycott starts today. Deleting all content from YouTube.
There have been counterexamples, such as federal dietary guidelines that promoted margarine as healthier than butter.

In any case, almond farming in particular is just awful.
Nvidia's big market is in servers and big training projects that train 10s or 100s gb of data or more. Almost all of these environment the data are stored in a Hadoop store, or cloud storage or big sql servers. No one is going to hook up a mac to the network add it to part of the data processing pipeline. And cloud is the natural place where this happens. Until apple releases a dedicated gpu/neural network processor in pcie card, Nvidia has nothing to fear. Nvidia is more concerned about amd or other machine learning processor startup. Apple is going to keep apple silicon running only on apple personal devices because that is being used as a competitive advantage to apple devices.
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This looks really interesting! What sort of outputs do you generally use it for?
I wouldn't be surprised. Operation Gladio was in full force in Italy at the time.
Google announces changes to AMP placement
Indeed, I remember running QNX from a floppy disk (1.44MB) complete with windowing system and utilities.
Yep this is basically why people need to not gather.
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Git executable is good for one off commands.

Ideally, an in-language git implementation would also let you model & compute on git in a more enduring fashion.

I don't think isomoprhic-get is particularly set up to allow folks to do incremental-computation, but one could imagine having the git tree in memory, & manipulating it there across a series of operations, & then generating a diff or what not, without needing to touch the file system or re-read the tree while multiple operations are happening.

This is a bit of a leap of topics, but I think one of the main things missing in JS is a good representation, an abstraction for files. Node has an api for opening files & reading & writing, very normal stuff, but it relies entirely on the platform. There's no abstract concept of a file at a path. Because of this, one can not easily substitute in something powered by S3 or something powered by WebDAV, since there is no abstraction in the language.

The once-well-known Node.js build tool Gulp is based very much around one of the libraries out there filling this gap, called vinyl-fs[1]. From the start of it's readme, "Vinyl is a very simple metadata object that describes a file. When you think of a file, two attributes come to mind: path and contents. These are the main attributes on a Vinyl object." By defining a file in an abstract manner, it allows for non-platform implementations, like S3, or WebDAV, or in-memory. It allows talking about files, without having to actually do unto files.

It's a bit hard to connect back to the discussion on git and git executable's run-to-completion model, but this idea, of the language having it's own abstractions & being able to do computing inside the runtime without having to keep going back to the platform as the one & only source of truth, allows a lot of flexibility for manipulating the system that is otherwise often cumbersome & involves redundant back & forth work.

Getting away from git's normal run-and-execute command model, & comprehending git is the sort of thing that's super useful if you're writing editors, ides, github-like systems, & gitops tools.

[1] https://github.com/gulpjs/vinyl-fs
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demo link / video?
https://www.hifiveinventor.com/

The theming looks fantastic, basically making a game out of it all. Are there examples of the narration anywhere?
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wix?

Safari, auto-filled 'strong' password.

"validation error" and console shows...

{
"message": "Password is too long",
"details": {
"errorcode": "-19988"
}
}
Securing the fight against Covid-19 through open source
Being eligible to monetize doesn't look that intimidating? https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?hl=en

Not sure how many small creators both can't manage that but can manage external monetization?
Setting up Tailwind 2.0 with Rails 6
Do you want things that children do to follow them for the rest of their lives?
I am wondering why humanity was able to learn from two world wars to never have one again, but was not able to learn from past respiratory pandemics (e.g. Spanish Flu) how to deal with and shape societies, how to educate people into infection prevention in order mitigate widespread.
I share many of the sentiments in the comments here and thought I'd share that if anyone is interested, I'm working on a new hybrid aggregator/real time discussion site for a general audience. I started it to scratch my own itch after spending lots of time on r/worldnews but yearning to have a way to chat with other readers in real-time in a more "slack-like" experience.

It's focused on simplicity, readability, and low-friction. Anyone can view posts/conversations simply by going to the url. There's also no voting and ranking is by conversation activity etc.

It's small but have had some great people stop by so far & you're welcome to check it out. (https://sqwok.im)
If you don't care enough about them to consider the risk that you might carry the virus to them, why would you even consider going?
So it copies the information you enter into a table? That's no what "scheduling" is generally understood to mean.

Here's what someone interested in scheduling would expect:

Given a task / due date / priority, tell me when I should work on the task so I can complete it before the due date, satisfying other constraints (dependencies, minimize/smooth workload, etc.).

What you're doing here is more like prioritizing / ordering based on an opaque algorithm.
Giving Characters Life with GPT3
Lucy is the charmed hero of Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean’s Wolves in the Walls, adapted by Fable. The dialogue in this video was generated by Artificial Intelligence.
> Better than a warlord forcing their values on us, even if the majority often seems lacking and with the exception that you are the warlord.

I agree that its better. Would you say its a coincidence that if that question was posed to the warlord he would give a similar answer? "better than starving to death, growing up in a chaotic anarchistic hellhole with no stable values imposed, or being murdered by a warlord because of who you are rather than what you did"
I just checked in San Francisco and they gave me a warning that they've never done before. I've had tests on a regular cadence earlier so I know this is fresh (last test was last week).

So it looks like your friends are right and I was one week out of date!
From a "Why, who cares" perspective website (and app) speed are highly correlated with conversion and engagement.

Google's headline research on the subject says "Improving your load time by 0.1s can boost conversion rates by 8%."

Some add'l data, sourced by Neilsen Group below:

- Google found that increasing the load time of its SERPs by half a second resulted in a 20% higher bounce rate.

- Google found 53% of mobile visits ended if a page took longer than 3 seconds to load.

- Akamai aggregated data from 17 retailers (7 billion pageviews) and found that conversion rates were highest for pages that loaded in less than 2 seconds; longer load times correlated with 50% drops in conversion rates and increased bounce rates, especially for mobile visitors.

- BBC found that for every extra second of page load time, 10% of users will leave.

Want to sell / fix this?

Here's the best three simple resource illustrating objective third party results from increasing site speed:

- https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/page-load-time-conversion...

- https://wpostats.com/

- https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/performance/more/website...

Here is a more compelling deeper look from a leader in the UX space:

- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/

Here's a really well written article about how to PROVE to the powers that be that site speed is worth testing:

https://web.dev/site-speed-and-business-metrics/
I'm afraid lots of comments are missing the key point in the original post: Do not conflate “the best you can” with “perfect”.

The advice is not about perfection, but challenge YOURSELF to do the best you within the constraints such as budget, deadlines, available resources, etc.
The government does not cut the budget. It is ever-growing.

Republicans lower taxes sometimes.

They re-allocate budget from one thing to another.

They don't cut the budget.
In what way is that out of context? Out of date, yes, but I don't see its out of context.
Corporate IT is often an even bigger pain for it's users since things like VPNs are often bought to meet the need of Corporate IT and not the users :p
FAST doesn't have some of the more interesting capabilities of Arecibo (most notably, the ability to perform radar astronomy).
Trade deficit increased > 50%... Bad execution as usual.

I think Obama's strategy of a trading block with Asia was much smarter/efficient.
> 900 ton instrument platform

Is that weight accurate? Sounds too heavy.
It's especially frustrating if you generally agree with the goals but think the aggressive messaging is a bad look.

Any constructive feedback is generally received as "this person must be a closet white supremacist". Better to grit your teeth and remain silent.
IMO, there's reason to think that COVID-19 has negative mental health effects even on people who never get the disease.
Very useful.. Thanks for making this! Will be trying it out!

It doesn't have any tracking or phoning home does it?
If you zoom out 200 years, this year's mortality looks awesome!

Yes, the world has become a safer place to live in over the years.

Given the downward trend in age adjusted deaths per million over time, it makes a lot of sense to compare only the most recent years to 2020.

See here to compare monthly mortality rates for every country in 2020 to the the prior 5 year period: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Probably depends on where you work? I've worked in startups for most of my career (15 years) and I find the GP's comment more true. 2 companies I've worked for no longer exist (including my own startup), and 1 company I worked for turned into a unicorn -- I left that co 7 years ago and I'm fairly certain none of the code I wrote during my 6 years of work there is still operating anymore now.
I had always assumed it was for a technical reason around not having to keep old threads in hot storage.
Speak for yourself “Captain Barf”, plenty of us millennials have been adults in every sense of the word for almost 20 years. Nothing’s keeping you from growing up if that’s what you want. In fact, if you’re from a poor family in America you don’t have a choice—it’s sink or swim.
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I hear my users constantly yelling for more features. Not one has complained about the page load (5mb uncompressed, plus a delay for auth to initialize).

I'll keep listening to my users.
I actually have seen some artists use this aesthetics, but on the top of my head I can only think of Vulfpeck's site [0]

[0] https://vulfpeck.com/
The carousel setup it enabled was certainly a (soft) walled garden. It hijacked the top portion of a publisher's page, the back button, and swipe actions, resulting in more time spent on Google.
I think this great if you have the luxury of not doing certain things. I often envy people who can focus on one thing and if they are good at it then they are set. People like athletes, artists or actors. A lot of normal workers don’t have that luxury. In a lot of jobs it doesn’t really matter how good you are as long as you fulfill some minimum requirements. Or you have a ton of tasks you aren’t good at but can’t get rid of. I became tech lead because I am a good programmer but now I have to do a lot of stuff I don’t like and am not good at as much as I try. Focusing only on programming would unfortunately cause a significant pay cut because you are not paid by excellence but by job title.
Fantastic that you're able to track down your health issues. One day I really want to get into making health tracking sensors.

Oh I've read about the ESP32 ADC being pretty non-linear, but the racey issues are new to me. Do you have example code/repo for how you use the I2S to read the ADC? I'd like to add it to my ESP32 wrapper library (see `elcritch/Nesper` on GitHub)). It's mostly started as Nim wrapper's for the ESP-IDF api's, but it is letting me wrap certain errors conditions in the ESP-IDF and configure workarounds. Mostly small stuff, but handy.
1:30 is way too long.
Hundreds of companies launched on Product Hunt (October'20). Check who they are
Is a "family office" well defined? $5M seems too small for what is normally considered a "family office." Also if you have a "family office" with $5M in it you'd meet the old standards for an accredited investor anyway.
> This is a bad precedent. The biggest danger with investment is lack of diversity. Investing in your employer severely increases your risks

Depends on the investment firm in question. There are many prop trading and HFT firms that essentially never lose money and consistently return 100%+ on invested capital. Junior employees often can't invest in the strategy because they don't meet the accredited threshold. It'd be pretty to hard to argue that this is doing them a favor.
Holidays are usually more stressful family events for myriad reasons. I'm more comfortable spending considerable quality time with a few different family members throughout the year (not this year obvs), than I am spending a small amount of time with all of them at once.

I love my family, but despise family gatherings. Although, admittedly, I'm a happily introverted hermit most of the time.
Yeah and the low light performance isn’t great either
Of course Yahoo--like many other dot-com stocks that IPOd--would have been a great investment if you got in early-on and got out before the crash.

So, yes, it can be all about the timing.
> But our civilisation does require large-scale infrastructure. Dams, railways, airports, highways. I doubt any of these have ever been built without compulsory purchase of land.

The point of the article is to question whether "our civilization" is worth treating people this way, or whether it would be better to craft a different civilization that treated people better.
Yes, I agree, and that is what I am recommending. Ignore the CDC since they have demonstrated inability to determine the truth. The right reaction to that isn't "do the opposite of the CDC recommendation", it's "use a reliable information source".

After all, an unreliable information source should contribute near zero to your priors.
1MB.

When I started writing Web sites (late '90s), we'd get spanked for 50K pages.

I'm not sure it's possible, anymore, with a lot of the CSS and JS libraries; let alone the content.

But back then, we didn't have content delivery networks. CDNs make a huge difference.
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I'm surprised they didn't do this long ago. Hosting videos is expensive.
I think looking at the last 20 years is pretty reasonable. All the years are within my lifetime. I agree we should not zoom out for the last 200 years.

If the data only looks bad when you look at 5 year window, and not 20 year window, that seems like a pretty fragile argument.
> You think that removing 2 F-35s from the budget will significantly alter that calculus?

you think that the "don't buy 2 F-35s and fix arecibo" train of thought ends at fixing arecibo? like, if the military hawks would just give up enough budget to fix it, all the other cries to reduce their budget would cease?

come on.
I know exactly what this service is, but it still took me a minute to figure out what the use case is, and why I'd want it (off site backup; I struggled initially because the focus is on ZFS) - I like the text-based content, but like you I think the copy could clearer.
Amp pages aren't websites, they are google content.
Because anyone who complains is given this treatment. We don't complain to everybody we just bounce.
> In these situations all I want to say is "Who cares".

This list has a second hidden benefit: Typically, I find that those who have very lightweight pages have more interesting things to say.

That being said, that's not a hard and fast rule, as I both have a lightweight page, and not much that's interesting to say.
Staying away from the proprietary software is already hard in practice (I'm trying hard, works in 95% cases). Not sure if staying away from those licenses will help more.
It is Wix, that's a bummer. Looks like 15 characters is the limit. That's odd. I'll open a ticket with them.
Yet government space travel is dead, and private space travel (SpaceX) is booming. So there's that. Just because it doesn't happen on your timeline doesn't mean private is inferior to government. It means private is waiting for it to be financially feasible. Which if the government did things that way, we wouldn't be $136 trillion dollars in debt.
Oh, thank you for a useful link.
> We don't complain to everybody

Except on forum's. We complain there :P
It still has occasional inappropriate or dumb content and surveillance. Also unclear what % of parents bother with yt kids.
I don't know about fixing it in other countries, but in the U.S. the First Amendment doesn't allow for a regulatory fix.

Doesn't mean it's unfixable, but it means that any fix would have to come from the private sector and be embraced organically rather than via regulatory fiat.
totally crazy! there has to be more to the story
One thing I got from the Bhagavad Gita is the quote “you are entitled to your actions but not the results”. To me this means you should do your best but should into expect specific results. Once you have done your best you did all you could do. The results are out of your hands.
From what I understand, the warehouse was a collection of confiscated goods by customs at the port. So I can easily see that the managers at the warehouse didn't know and didn't care about proper safety storage procedures for these hazardous goods, since they hadn't been planning to acquire them in the first place. (In US legal terms, this would be recklessness).

However, evidently some people (their affiliation is not clear to me) were aware of the major risks this caused and pleaded with the judiciary to do something about it, to no avail. I'm somewhat mystified as to who exactly it is that recklessly put the ammonium nitrate where it is, and I think that the desire to avoid blame here is strong enough (and the blame itself widespread enough) that a proper investigation will only end in stonewalling or scapegoating.
I wonder if this applies to “made for kids” content which traditionally has not had ads
The channels do seem to split into other services on groups. Educational/explainer creators went to nebula (not sure who led that one), comedy/entertainment went to dropout.tv (from CollegeHumor), tech went to floatplane (from ltt), etc. There will be more of those and I can't wait to see who embraces/monetizes p2p first.
Reddit is still a good alternative, a lot of hate groups were banned, various watchpeopledie, piracy subreddits sure. What subreddit bans led you to this belief?
I hope I'll be able to choose where the ads appear in my own videos. Ads playing in the middle of a sentence are really annoying.
In Germany the number of deaths from COVID-19 is below the number of people who died from influenza in 2017/2018. So far COVID-19 klilled about 13000 people, while the official numbers for influenza 2017/18 is between 20000 and 25000.