skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's strange. The article completely acknowledges this was a normal practice, but the title makes it sound sneaky. I guess it's just to make it more clickbaity.
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Really feeling this, got so much work done last year by just continuously smoothing out all kinds of small little details in my parametric design software tools. Which individually are all quite insignificant but now it really starts to feel like an ecosystem (garden!) of functions, classes & objects working together in concert for beautiful effects.
Rules are written on their submit page [1]. They prefer non-commercial, content-focused websites with lightweight HTML. The submit page also suggests they don't do link crawling, but only allow submission of individual URLs.

[1] https://wiby.org/submit/
Hey! Author of the piece here

Thanks for the feedback, this prompted me to add an afterword to the piece about the dangers of optimising too hard.

To me there's a pretty important difference between 'it is systematically bad to do anything about inefficiency' and 'sometimes inefficiency is protecting something important'. I strongly agree with the second one, but strongly disagree with the first one. I think that, empirically, there often are free wins, such as making learning more efficient. And sometimes inefficiency and balance is important, but sometimes it's not, and the skill is telling the difference.

For example, I think leisure time is great, but this is because it's time to relax, take breaks and do what I enjoy. Not just because it's time that I spend not being productive. If I notice a bunch of time in my schedule not being productive, but also not enjoying myself, eg commuting to work, finding ways to swap that for more true leisure time is a good way to reduce wasted motion

You might enjoy a post I wrote on the importance of leaving Slack and spare capacity in your life: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/38-slack - essentially on the importance of leaving some inefficiency, so you can be flexible and reactive, and seize new opportunities.
No, it's a cover they're using for pushing the extreme-right agenda of the Mercer family (Brietbart, Cambridge Analytica, etc).
It's in Edge/Chrome, in a flag in Firefox (so soon) but Safari is trailing the field right now.
Not only economic damage, but environmental damage as well. According to an anecdote I read by someone who works with wildlife-conversation efforts in East Africa, the loss of income from tourism in 2020 and 2021 is going to impact those efforts. If leaving the land untouched isn't generating income from tourists, then poaching and illegal landuse increase.

Similarly, if Chilean Patagonia isn't doing well from tourism to its natural beauty, there is less resistance to industries coming down from Santiago and building hydro infrastructure all over the region.
I’m not sure there’s a difference between them like you make out. I would argue the social depends on the technical and vice versa.

Do you have an example to help me understand what you see or mean?
For whoever interested, I'm talking about my product https://remoteleaf.com
Agreed. But I've also encountered quite a few "podcast" websites that only let you listen to the episodes in web players. Sooo annoying.
Expectations. In Europe we expect the waiter/etc to be a fellow person with good days and bad days and we don't expect hand holding.

In the US you have cashiers bagging stuff for you and not being allowed to sit down (!!!).
No, I created my own empty list then tried to add extensions to it as described in the Firefox dev blog post.
>>"Don't be evil" is a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct, which it also formerly preceded as a motto.<<

Well well. That was typo right?. Okay Google!
I worry about a new wave of nationalism and loss of solidarity. Over the recent decades Europeans have been encouraged to visit their neighbors, see what's there, meet people. But now all those opportunities for cross-border interaction will be prevented for up to two years, and the economic fallout from the crisis might be an end to the cheap transportation that allowed that travel to even the lower middle class. That can't be good.
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The sender owns the copyright, but there is always language in the platform’s TOS to grant them a worldwide licence to do as they please with content shared on their service.
I did answer, because the internet started off as your proposed experiment. It didn't work. They didn't get diluted, they just got louder, circumvented, harassed and escalated. They aren't accidentally toxic, they are actively / aggressively toxic.

Moderation didn't come before toxicity it came in response to it. Therefore, moderation doesn't cause / focus toxicity.

If you want to address this, you need to look at education.
As a Colemak user, where do I submit a PR to rename this project to Arst? For usability sake.
Then architect should tell the purpose of the tool to the documentation writer, otherwise the documentation will read "press Ok button to install %toolname%" that tells nothing how to decide what the tool is and does and whether the user needs this tool. That's the problem at hand.
Pipenv is problematic in a number of ways, succinctly summarised in this article: https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-l...
Hey! Author of the piece here.

I somewhat disagree, I think experiments are a great way to overcome wasted motion. Sure, only 20% will succeed. But there's a major asymmetry with trying new things - you can drop the failures after trying it once, but can keep doing the successes again and again.

For example, if I want to find a new hobby, I should try lots of things. 80% will be boring and I can drop it after one session, but 20% could be incredibly fun, and worth doing for the rest of my life.

I flesh this point out in this post: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/33-upside-risk
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It's not binary. There are thousands of variants, thousands of paths to matestasis. Some cancers are already, for most intents and purposes, "cured" (prostate, thyroid, testicular etc.)
I think you can find it in the crossover towards more artistic/design/science focussed communities.
Generative art, data visualisation etc. Of course there are hustlers there as well but to me it does feel to be more about the creativity, techniques, ideas.
Attention craving lunatic being fed attention by social media algos. Nothing to see.
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Ha, glad I'm not the only one, I went directly to Wiktionary after finishing the article, which doesn't mark it 'chiefly US' or anything, and gives RP IPA.

Which contains another surprise, for me anyway - it's not pronounced like the golf club, but starting like 'put' (that over there) or 'foot'.
Not speech, they don't speak
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And yes, it’s CC-BY 3.0
CloudFlare has supported sites with child pornography (8chan) and neo-Nazis.
Ask HN: Old British watch manufacturer now owned by Chinese company
Asking fellow horologist here.

A few days ago, I read about a British watch manufacturer (defuncted in 1920/1930s?) that is now owned by Chinese company, producing fashion brand watches.

I couldn't find the name at this:
https://www.watchitallabout.com/a-complete-list-of-british-watchmakers-a-to-z/

Unfortunately, I cleared my browser history yesterday, so couldn't find it.

Maybe someone can help?
> “If we grab a few percentage points of the browser market, then maybe we can be paid by Google. That’s a long shot, but that’s the thing I’m hoping for.”

A well capitalized competitor who only aspires to reach a strong enough position to eventually be paid by the dominant player. This clear and irrefutable evidence of a severely unhealthy market and a textbook case of the impact of monopoly power on consumers. Where's the choice if pretty much all the competitors are aiming to attract Google's business and comply with their vision for the internet?
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> If people aren't willing to do the job for the hourly wage alone with no tips, raise the wage until they are.

Agree with the first part, but would rephrase this second part as:
If people aren't able to live off a minimum wage salary to do the job for the hourly with no tips, raise the minimum wage until they are.

This isn’t an issue people can solve on their own by changing jobs. It’s a systemic problem where the minimum wage has been stagnating for years, while the cost of living has been skyrocketing, and thus felt most by non-knowledge workers.
>That 53 feet 60-0 is a Ferrari race car, which has aerodynamics that sucks it down to the ground, more than 1g of additional downforce.

That downforce drops to zero long before the car stops.

>Also, as far as the 53 feet goes, remember that this car was extremely light, 1400lbs. The Tesla Model S weighs almost 5Klbs for comparison.

It doesn't matter how much something weighs... the kinetic energy scales linearly with weight. The F-16 fighter can pull 9gs, and it weighs 20,300 lbs.
The larger your SSD the more flash cells you have, so the more data you can write to it before it fails.

You can see this from the warranty for example, which for the Samsung 970 EVO[1] goes linearly from 150TBW for the 250GB model up to 1200TBW for the 2000GB model.

So if you take the 1000GB model with its 600TBW warranty, you can write 50BG of data per day for over 32 years before you're exhausted the drive write warranty.

[1]: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/c... (under "MORE SPECS")
Literally used it to make digital grass as well:

https://twitter.com/hoogerwoord/status/1348394004413620224?s...
Hashing is better than storing it in the clear, but many email addresses have too low entropy to make hashing an effective anonymization.
Absolutely. They aggressively removed adult and blasphemous content

If anything it was less free speech than Twitter
I thought the whole point of RSS was as an index to new content. It never occurred to me to put the whole article in the feed... surely a good summary and a link gives the consumer the choice to load the article or not, rather than having to load all the articles all the time?
Yeah I regret the snark. Stay safe/employed.
Take a step back. Let the time pass like sand through the hour glass. Don't try to savior it, don't try to appreciate it. Waste it, it's a luxury, you'll never have this time again. Don't feel anxious. Your anxiety is trying to pry the time out of your hands, trying to spin up your brain, let it burn some calories. Think of things to do, more better, faster. What you are doesn't matter, what you do does. Fight back, take some time for yourself. You can only ever be in the now, you are not what you've done, you are not what they tell you you are, you are not what you think you are. Nothing really matters. But there is you, and there is now. And you can observe. You need to breathe. Let it all go. You're going nowhere. You're secure in this moment. Dunes may shift and the wind will blow around you. Rain will fall on your head. Your value does not diminish. Not less or more. Feel it, you're close. It courses through you, time. Appreciate it for what it is, not for what can be done with it. Just a bit. Let go. You'll end up doing soon. Thinking. Parading some words into a line, beating them into submission for a service they don't care for. But for just one moment, utterly and completely waste time, know it's gone, you had it. It won't come back again. It's at it's most valuable in this passed form.
> Can we talk about why service is astronomically better in the US than countries with very high worker protections and base wages like Denmark?

I’m curious why ‘good service‘ is important for you? Have you worked a service job yourself? It’s long gruelling hours.
It reminds me of this typing test site: https://monkeytype.com/
What if the idea doesn't really matter? You need to start the journey and be ready to adapt along the way. I've been at it for 12 years now as a cofounder and you'll need to change your product every couple of years. Remember - even Microsoft is shipping Linux these days.
You're nuts if you think that giving Google (the largest web advertiser in the world) a proprietary monopoly on user tracking instead of having an open standard is somehow better.
This makes me feel like kind of decentralized social media. It is good, but we need a more general and well-established ecosystem. It would take lots of resource. Anyway, nice done!
Before coup, IMF sent Myanmar US$350m aid
On the flipside the constant airplane tourism is destroying nature on a global, not a local scale.

I would personally guess that the environmental impact of 0 tourism would be much better on the global scale.
Thank you. Can’t believe this has to be said.
Is it fair to say that the author would want us to read the first 20% of this post?
Yes, I said that, and that would mean "The fact that Germany has bad internet is completely unrelated to the manufacturers of equipment that German telcos use."

OP said:
> > No one would hesitate to use German communication infrastructure
> Maybe they would hesitate to use it because it's embarrassingly bad.

My intention was to note that the fact that German communication infrastructure is bad is not related at all to the manufacturer of ICT equipment, in the context of the quality of German (and European - in general) telco equipment manufacturers.

If Germany has bad infrastructure, and uses XYZ European ICT equipment manufacturer, this cannot be extrapolated to mean that XYZ is bad at making ICT equipment. The same applies to Huawei. The fact that some countries have good or bad infrastructure is not related to what equipment they use (at this point in time).

The end result being that quality of telco infrastructure is not an argument for or against any particular maker of equipment, because those two things are unrelated.

Any to underline why they are unrelated - simply because ISPs are profit-driven businesses and not tech playgrounds, so they will not invest in the latest and greatest equipment that XYZ/Huawei has to offer, instead they will milk the existing equipment and infrastructure dry and then switch to the cheapest new next-gen-access "thing" that exists for the next 20+ years. This does not mean that XYZ/Huawei doesn't have anything better to offer, it just means that the telcos do not want it.
Headless CMS Storyblok raises $8.5M Series A
Do you have details on how to enable this?
And to max out disk bandwidth before you max out your CPU cores you need a really terrible disk.

I don't think many 8-way Xeon Platinum boxes have eMMC storage.
Yäss! And use Chernobyl-II/Duga as rack frame for good air cooling!

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=chernobyl+2+Duga&iax=images...

Imagine how it would look at night, with all the blinking status LEDs.

And having a rave with psy-trance in front of it. With locally sourced magic mushrooms.

Oh my gawd! It's full of Starz!
Show HN: Dead simple quote sharing (Medium-style) for any website or blog
Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning
UK and EU to open probes into Nvidia’s $40bn acquisition of Arm
> the software equivalent of Peter Frampton

Can you clarify this? Just curious. Heard of him, but no idea what you mean.
> I'd be more than happy to work a job for 80% salary for 4 days per week...

This is a luxury and one that most people don't have which is the reason the 5 day work week still exists.

The only way to evolve to the 4 day work week for the same wages as now is if governments passed it into law which I don't think will happen anytime soon.
This is one thing that has made the transition to a larger company so hard for me. In smaller team, you can spend a bit of time cleaning up the codebase or tooling and know that investment will compound via increased velocity.

When you share a codebase with 200 others, trying to get anything tidy and readable is such a yak-shaving exercise, you feel like the main character from https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/

This is the actual emotional reason why I am now such a big fan of microservices (or rather, moderately-sized services): I want my own garden to tend alongside a moderately-sized team.
$12m Blockchain Project Gets Green Light in Canada
According to benchmarks [1] the older 905p destroys the best "normal" SSD (980 Pro) - it's more than 3 times faster in random reads. As I showed above, in the worst case I'm trying to get up to 2,000MB/s of random reads from my drive. How can you possibly believe a flash SSD can be a better drive for this use case?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16087/the-samsung-980-pro-pci...
These captchas must be contributing to the technological divide;
If I am met with an endless loop identifying busses and fire hydrants, I know the only solution to prove I am not a robot is to change my internet connection (ie. by vpn)

I can't imagine this being a pleasant experience for anyone who is not well versed in digital technologies. Especially when having to do something essential.
I love RSS but I also believe there's not enough innovation in the space. Feels like most developers are burnt by Facebook and don't ever want to do anything other than providing you with a chronological feed of all feeds.

And then you subscribe to too many feeds, get information overload and miss content because you just "Mark all as read" when you're tired. Or skim through the headlines too fast.

I'd like an algorithm to process those for me. But specifically the sources I need. And there's nothing like that on the market.

Organize the entries by their importance so I could skim the top when I'm busy. Bundle the posts on the same topic. Create digest for high-frequency repetitive content. Combine RSS feeds, Twitter lists, and email newsletters in a single heap of organized content.
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Why is there no common place where people can see names that have been used already? It could make us avoid such nuissance.
You need some sort of captcha or you will get a million spams for seo services. I found that putting a select dropdown list on forms cuts out a lot of form spam.
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I'm a native French speaker, watched dubbed English movies since childhood but started hating it and being disturbed by dubs when I was a teen (didn't really notice or care about it when I was a child). Lips not moving in sync with the audio break immersion for me. Plus, more often than not, voice actors for dubs are just not very good and that destroys the actor's performance.

So, I transitioned to only watching subtitled movies around 16 once I could just buy dvds and have access to the original version.
If you dedicate all your time to the 20% you found - at one time in some context - to be fun it means you don't have any more time for experimenting. And the world changes and your data is no longer relevant.

There is no escaping the trial and error loop. If you could then science for example would go uninterrupted from one success to another. Or organizations would achieve 100% efficiency after some experimenting.

You can see in history people, organizations, societies, etc that have tried to stick to what they found efficient at some point. But that led to rigidity and gradual loss of touch with the evolving reality, the exact opposite of what was desired.
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Whenever I think about upgrading my system these days, I start looking at processors and graphics cards and find it just so hard to understand the differences I end up giving up. (Plus I've got no spare cash, but, you know...)
I have the same problem with any "bonuses". Everyone who is paid a bonus inevitably starts thinking about it as part of their income. Banks don't help this as many of them will take bonuses into account when supplying loans. But your employer doesn't think of bonuses this way. Your employer thinks of a bonus as part of your pay they can take away at a moment's notice for any reason at all. Many of them will try to put workers on a lower salary and claim that the bonus makes up for it. Say no to bonuses! Agree what your time is worth and stick to it!
HMS ML Kit with Product Visual Search API Using Xamarin-Huawei Developers
Thanks for explaining.

And jesus, if this is not late capitalism then I’m not sure what is. Through the phenomenon of tipping everyone becomes a Caeser-like philanthropist, making life or death choices based on the perceived suffering and performance of their precarious underlings. Meaning waiters, and other service industry workers, compete for crumbs by trying to make other people feel like "the golden child of their day", in a system that systemically undervalues and underpays them (that's putting it very lightly).

David Graeber has a great name for service workers, he calls them 'the caring classes'. [1]

In another article he writes about the British working class:

"In other words, the historical defeat and humiliation of the British working classes is now the island’s primary export product. By organizing the entire economy around the resultant housing bubble, the Tories have ensured that the bulk of the British population is aware" [2]

In a talk he gave he says despite technology increasing the productivity and therefore some wages, "in the caring sector the exact opposite has happened. Digitization is being used as an excuse to make lower productivity so as to justify the existence of this army of administrators" [3], in Britain this has created a "cheerful, creative, and subservient working-class population who, drawing on centuries of tradition, know exactly how to be butlers" [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring...

[2] https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber

[3] http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-r...
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> If Google were a book shop..

On the Amazon-CEO news yesterday, someone posted an interview of JB from 1997 [0]. In the first 2-3 minutes he explained exactly that (but for books). There are X million titles on books, they keep a tiny fraction of that in stock for 'next day delivery'. Kinda what Google does (or many search engines). Usually you find the 'most popular' answers on the first page. But when I have a tech problem, I have usually tried the 'first 5 pages' of solutions before I even try to duck it (DDG) for a solution (dear wikihow, yes I did restart my PC!).

I assume HN has the type of readers that already KNOW the first 10 pages of solutions, and thus need that tiny level of detail that one gets after digging deep (stackexchange, forums, etc.)

Question if anyone who knows: does Google search engine give preference to websites that display Google ads, or it is agnostic? I assume Google's crawlers can 'read' if a website is using X, Y, or Z advertiser's ads. (I haven't used Google for many many years and I usually block any google search and ads related IPs and URLs)(and ads in general).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
I suggest you spend the 5mins to watch this video. He made it sound so easy..
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There are other offerings for a package distribution use case - https://cloudsmith.com being the most clear alternative. Support for 23+ package types, comprehensive API and CLI, package signing support, global PoP's etc.

Full Disclosure - I work at Cloudsmith, and I genuinely think it's awesome. If anyone has any questions feel free to reach out to me - dan at cloudsmith dot com
I think for most cases "google calibre talent" is overrated. Most companies run fine on 87 octane.
I think BaseCamp is the best you can hope for with this mindset, so in an "aim high" kind of way, it's a good ideal.
61.7M. It's a shame that the opportunity costs aren't included, fairly unjust.