skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing a reverse IP lookup you can see there are more than 1000 domains hosted in a single IP address (the domain has four IPv4 addresses). Search engines will sometimes lower ranking based on your "neighbours" - perhaps the OP could start using a service such as Cloudflare (which still have multiple domains per IP but would automatically get a bunch of new IPs, so perhaps "start fresh" on that aspect.

Even on the free plan you can create "Firewall rules" (up to five). Create one that just logs the traffic from known bots. Claim the domain in Google Search Console (no script needed on page) and see the stats for that domain and match those with the Cloudflare traffic. This will help identify if there's something going on - are the Bingbot and Googlebot visiting or not at all? What pages are they looking at?

The robots.txt file is complex - repeated paths that shouldn't really be there. Perhaps create a Cloudflare rule to block access to those paths to everyone but the owner on a static IP address?

After this is done then the OP would know a bit more about what's going on.
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> don’t you think it would be a good idea to match the tone of your post to your true amount of confidence in what you’re saying, so as not to misinform people who might read your comment?

IMO, this should be part of the HN guidelines. HN would certainly be a better place if everyone followed this rule.
i dont think anyone is arguing that grocery stores should run their own delivery service. the problem is that these delivery drivers / gig workers should be getting benefits and fair wages for essentially working full time jobs.
I worked at a different defense contractor/research place with a union and was making a decent chunk of change more than the numbers above without much seniority (not FAANG money, but enough to buy a place in a high COL area). IMO my company's union also did a better job protecting retirement benefits than Boeing's.
They're a monopoly, so yes?
Right - that's the reason to offer both.
How on earth can you say prop22 has provided any stability, when we are literally discussing an article bashing it, and with there being multiple ways of it being still repealed?
Explain yourself.
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I answer point one here[1].

Point two is why I threw a "basically" in that sentence. Yes, you are technically correct that the state can change it with a 7/8ths majority. However requiring a supermajority that high is a nearly unprecedented requirement for the legislature and it is one that is going to be nearly impossible to achieve.

I honestly don't know what you consider "false information" here beyond me saying "basically no way" for something to happen when it is realistically unfeasible.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641377
I love qsort! It's easy to use.

When I once tested std::sort against qsort (sorting 4-byte integer) I measure a 2x difference. So yes, definitely non-trivial, but it won't get much worse than that.

Have you ever seen a program that was slow because of a slow sorting routine?

If you ever need a fast sort (~ never) then the last thing you should do is use std::sort anyway. You should figure out what your data looks like and hand roll an implementation. For example, a radix sort is often possible to use, easy to implement, and much faster than std::sort.
I wholeheartedly agree, I guess I was expressing shock that someone with such connections, privilege and wealth wouldn't have been more careful.
Yeah, I think you're right.

"Less performant" seems like a less clear (so to speak) way of saying "slower" (or maybe "less efficient" or simply "worse" in some instances.)
They shouldn't be identical systems, common mode failures will get you.
No they shouldn’t. That will perpetuate the issue. Healthcare needs to move in the direction of being provided by the state or at least needs to be decoupled from your profession and affordable.

The status quo is what needs to change. Gig economy work is going to take over. People need to insure and protect themselves. And it needs to be possible.
In fairness to Google, the one mechanism that isn't vulnerable to phishing is the one that Google put a lot of work into designing, implementing, standardizing, and evangelizing, and the others were existing and easy-to-implement options.
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"We are all equals, some are more equal than others" - Mao Zedong
My general point is that I'd be up for unionizing to make things better for employees. Not for social justice. Another big one would be moving to a 32 hour work week.

I want specific objectives that make life better for employees including me (although I don't work at Google, I mean hypothetically, if I did). I don't want generic platitudes.
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I think it's more than just stuff being cheap and available. It was also a very special time, the internet was new and not everyone had access to it or knew how to use it. Showing off your modded case was a huge accomplishment - not only because you spend so much time and money on creating something unique, but also because you had very isolated communities with only people who had the same interests as you.

Nowadays, where do you share? Reddit? Twitter? Facebook? It's so public and you have to compete with people who spend 3k on their PC, 1k on a keyboard, nice periphery, table, monitors and room LED lighting.

I'm sure there is more to it, but that's at least how I feel about it now.

Edit: Oh wow, thanks, didn't know bit-tech is still active!
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> The game rewarded you if you tried to make a California town.

Probably because it was developed in Walnut Creek, CA. I used to work nearby. I was always curious why they didn't include the BART train that runs directly next to Cal Plaza (up at like the 5th floor) as the track's curve there makes BART deafeningly loud. The whole Diablo Valley is pretty Levittown-y, possibly causing the lack of zonal diversity in the game.

https://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=California_...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/California+Plaza-Walnut+Cr...
Money buys votes at the margin. Everyone agrees on this including the people who supported Prop 22 otherwise they wouldn't have spent some $175m more than their opponents.
This is insightful.

I imagine that the horrors of such violence would weigh heavily on the mindset of scared decision makers.

Maybe it all comes down to fear. Fear of death during an uprising, for one.
Do you have 2FA enabled? I suspect that if you have either an authenticator app or a security key, it will use that instead of random heuristics.

(This isn't a defense of Google's behavior, just a comment on things that are actually within the end user's control.)
What reason are you talking about?

The only message that I can find which might qualify is, *“Due to repeated Page violations, you can’t post to any Pages eligible for monetization.”

That doesn't explain what the violations might have been. And in the dashboard where they were supposed to see said violations, no pages were marked as having any violations.

Which boils down to, "Due to repeated violations that we won't tell you about..."

Yeah, in their position I wouldn't consider that an explanation either.
Taking a look at your site, it seems quite clear where all your traffic went. You have a pretty great backlink profile compared to other affiliate sites ive seen but the content is incredibly thin. Based on this, me or anyone else who visits the site just sees an advertising site. There are no personal experiences with the products, the products are not related and the UX does not make the user want to continue exploring the page they landed on. The content here seems more like a statistics site for products than it is a reviews site.

The other comments here mentioning cheap as a flag word are somewhat accurate but not entirely. Its possible to rank a site using the word cheap assuming you're supporting it correctly with related content about a specific product and proper explanation as to what makes it cheap.

Honestly, I am very sorry that you lost all your traffic and your revenue but this seems like a VERY fixable problem considering your backlinks. Take your best performing posts, and dramatically increase the word count, add more photos, add overviews of each product instead of just a single line or two pulled from reviews.

Happy to help with additional pointers if you want to shoot me a PM.
They're free to fire you whenever, for no reason, unless a (union?) contract says differently.
Not everyone is me. Lots of people would do equally well outside the crucible, and some people have mental health issues due to the crucible. But for me, it was really useful. (On the other hand, the rate of mental breakdowns and suicides/suspicious deaths did seem alarmingly high at MIT around the turn of the millennium.) For many people, finally learning to fail and pick yourself back up is useful.

In high school, I took 6 trimesters of honors-level math at one of the "Public Ivys"[0], and my senior year of high school I was taking a full course load there plus 1/4 course load (band class) at high school. I got all As, except for a B+ in Intro to World Politics, without working very hard, driving 45 minutes each way to and from school. It was a good education, and I could have gone there on a full ride scholarship, but I still feel MIT was worth it.

At the "public ivy", I would have gotten better grades, and probably would have put more effort into personal projects, but focusing on personal projects is very different from focusing on things you have to do, and I didn't really have to focus on my school work at the "public ivy" in order to get above a 4.0 GPA. I probably would have had to have waited until after school to learn how to pick myself back up after failure.

On the other hand, I don't think I would have found some other top schools as valuable. I have a friend who graduated with a CS degree from an Ivy League school and then came to MIT. In his experience, that Ivy treated students like they already worked very hard to get into school and deserved high grades, but it seemed to him that at MIT the culture was very different, seemingly even for undergrads. What I've read about the grading curves (median GPAs, percentage graduating with highest honors) at some of the Ivys seems to match up with his observations from that one Ivy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy
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Let's suppose AB 5 provided cloudy outlook... before AB 5 that was not the case. There was no such law... did they somehow secretly know what was happening 5 years down the road and said, uhh, let's wait this out.

No, they could have done this before AB 5. They did not. This seems to say that this move would have happened if conditions allowed it and the situation was right for business.

What that means is sure AB 5 would have nixed this option. However, the trend before AB 5 was to off-load "non-core" competencies. Prop 22 re-instated the previous status, it did not introduce an altogether new status.

Prop 22 indicated the people preferred the original status to the new status introduced by AB 5, so we're back to where we started before AB 5.
Yes, it was clearly unethical to rob these employees of the freedom of being piecework contractors.

Only through pulling bootstraps and making lemonade from lemons will these uneducated wretches be able to bask in the sunshine of freedom. Back in the glory days of Victorian England you could flip a boy a farthing for grocery delivery... I for one and pleased the make these opportunities available.
> Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences, status updates, and print optimized profiles.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I think your definition of legibility is maybe a bit off, the font is too small to be considered legible by any accessibility standard. I have 20/20 vision but I struggle to read some of it. The color contrast is also failing in some cases, and since the font is so small and thin, the contrast needs to be increased above what color contrast would suggest.

Also, when I wanted to check the size of the font (which is set at 14px but that seems equivalent to 11-12px for the common fonts like Arial) I realized I can't actually select any of the text, which I think might be important a website like this. You are creating some mask with a different div that might be blocking the clicks. You can create a mask like that with simpler html and css that won't have a problem with clicks.

Otherwise it's a nice project and it looks like you got a good traction already. I hope this helps.
This is a good one as well with some more explanation.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
Is there any way to do this besides uploading or mailing your government ID to Twitter?
Idea: Svc that connects you to people “recently recovered” from Covid for hire
The only people who can truly claim to be safe from contracting or exposing the virus are those who have tested positive and then recently tested negative. They could provide necessary services for up to 3 months. I can't find anyone offering this sort of service yet.

There was an article back in April 2020 that mentioned that the "recently recovered" could be critical in fixing the economy [1]. I know I would personally pay a premuim for this service for a high risk family member.

Use cases:
- drive at risk people to testing sites or medical appointments
- work in high risk positions like delivering supplies to nursing homes and homes of high risk people

It would require very good tracking of both the positive and negative tests and you'd have to have a way of certifying people.

However, it seems like something people could try on a small scale in their local communities via NextDoor or Facebook.

[1] - https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/the-certified-recovered-from-covid-19-could-lead-the-economic-recovery/
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This is a story about a grocery store chain replacing their own employees who perform a job at the company, with "independent contractors" from a 3rd-party service. I'm not sure what case you're trying to make, whose dignity are you saying is violated? Who said anything about taxis?

Why are you arguing to me against raising minimum wage, when all I said was that people deserve a living wage?
Everyone wants it fixed but nobody wants to lose money.
And if the team doesn't get the desired result there will be a different team next time.
One of those ideas that are both super clever, and incredible obvious once someone else is doing it. Super cool!
Prop 22 is much more stable than AB5 because the requirements to change it are much more difficult to reach.
I don't want 2FA and I have it disabled but they often ask me for more than my password which is like forcing 2FA on me (but what you say may be true).
Yeah, it's a tradeoff they have to make. A lot of "knowledge worker" unions decide to do this, hoping it's worth it for the institutional support they'll get. Some grad student unions were formed under United Auto Workers in recent years, oddly enough. I'm not an organizer, and I don't really have an informed opinion about whether it's worth it.

One hopes that these old unions could be revived with a bunch of new membership. What I described above is how they are now, not how they have to be.

Worth noting also that even unions with totally screwed up leadership often have passionate and talented organizers with a lot of experience and institutional know-how at the lower levels, just like tech companies.
For anyone unfamiliar and curious, this is how the Tails OS works.

https://tails.boum.org/
Hello Alex! I'd be happy to work with you on this.

I've built a custom JavaScript sandbox and corresponding electron based IDE (with syntax highlighting, full "intellisense", type hinting etc) in the recent past. Lots of experience walking abstract syntax trees and modifying output. Happy to discuss in more detail. While not exactly the same, the techniques are very transferable to this project!

Fixed fee is preferred, but happy to jump into details in PM.

Let me know!
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It also looks like this version is using an algorithm that none of the others use: it precomputes the distance pairs for all bodies. Some of the others precompute the vectors between the pairs, but that's not the expensive part of computing the distance.

As an aside: this made me notice this n-body simulation only has 5 bodies! This is a pretty strange case that makes these O(n^2) optimizations practical. The n-body simulations I've been familiar with in the past had thousands of bodies, where this approach probably isn't a good idea.
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Right, so I read a bit further and saw a comment about the view example button, which took me to the proper cv. So my comment isn't completely accurate, haha.
This is something that has made me a bit nervous to switch jobs. I don't live on the coasts, so prospects are already a bit more limited. I've spent the past decade more or less on a team of ~5 engineers as part of a ~10 person company.

I did interview at a different startup a couple years ago, which was I think around 100 employees at that point. They claimed to be very lean and quick on their feet, but I got the feeling that we were talking about different levels of volatility.

I suppose the thing that actually keeps me where I am is I have both a very long leash and a high degree of influence. Hard to level-set that against other positions I see listed.
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I think he means the thousands (and rising) of people shot by criminals every year, not the few dozen shot by police.
I will go one step further and say that in the developed nations, we need to abolish the concept of "contractors" at least in obvious cases where the contractors make minimum wage or even less for working fulltime jobs.

From my experience in most of the cases, companies (regardless of the country) use this window to circumvent employment regulation & protections.

A contract assumes that there is negotiating power from both ends. It is a joke to think that a poor Uber driver has any power to negotiate their "contract" with Uber to drive 14 hours per day for them.
The rideshare industry likely couldn't have supported this 5 years ago and it was clear that something like AB5 was going to happen for years. Prop 22 provides unprecedented clarity on how ridesharing will be legislated in California for the foreseeable future.
> Well, you want to do that anyways, but then you realize that instead of simply renaming a column, you'll probably do a rolling migration for the apps that use the DB, therefore you need to create a new column that the app will write data into, then migrate all of the app instances to the new version and then clean up the old column, god forbid validations use the wrong column while this is going on. I don't think it's possible to work around problems like this with technologies like MongoDB either, since then dealing with missing data in an "old" version of a document would still be annoying. I don't know of any good solutions to address how data evolves over time, regardless of technology.

IME the best way to do it is to build your system on stream transformation (i.e. Kafka) and then you can just produce the new representation in parallel, wait for it to catch up, migrate the readers over gradually and then eventually stop producing the old representation. That tends to be what you end up doing with a traditional RDBMS too, but if you're using something like Kafka then the pieces that you use are more normal parts of your workflow so it's less error-prone.

> It seems like this problem affects most distributed systems and i'm not sure how to address it, short of making each new data entry reference the previous state, like CouchDB does with revisions ( https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/intro/api.html#revisions ) and even that won't always help.

There are two approaches that I've known to work: 1. actual multiple concurrent versions as you say, with vector clocks or equivalent, forcing the clients to resolve conflicts if you're not using CRDTs - Riak was the best version of this approach, 2. having a clear shard key and allowing each partition to have its own "owner", making it clear what you do and don't guarantee across partitions - e.g. Kafka.

> Partially agreed, SQL is pretty reasonable for what it does, despite its dialects being somewhat inconsistent, many of the procedural extensions being clunky and most of the in-database processing heavy systems that i've encountered being a nightmare from a debugging and logging perspective, though i guess that's mostly the fault of the tooling surrounding them.

I wasn't talking about the fancy analytics so much as just the basic data model - e.g. having a collection-valued column is just way harder than it should be. Everything being nullable everywhere is also a significant pain.
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If the government can get universal healthcare done, it can enforce better labor policies around gig work, even if it makes it unprofitable or substantially destroys demand for it.

The gig economy is only going to take over if people keep voting for it. Lots of states and a federal government left to take up the issue.
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"Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab."

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Not really wanting to play devil's advocate too much longer ... but if this virus popped up in let's say Spain rather than China wouldn't we wonder how the fuck it got there, what's the vector? I'm not sure if these things can be fingerprinted, would intelligence anyway trace it to China? Perhaps (to China) a clear oops backstory is more preferable to a murky "this thing definitely came from China but how?" backstory.
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I agree on the benefits of varied workspaces. I work in the backyard, while walking the dog, sitting in the living room or sitting at my desk. I have a low cost bike desk that lets me exercise while working also.

Since the pandemic, I started spending some afternoons working from my car at the beach. Find a beach where you can park overlooking the ocean while working on the laptop. For breaks, you can take walks on the beach. Large bodies of water are very soothing.
I agree, but there is great risk in letting the norms of what is a "decent and fair" standard of living degrade until the universal basic income and healthcare arrive.
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