skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn’t take much investigation to prove you broke the rules, and for a million dollars I bet you they will do the investigation.
A lot of people browse Reddit. The site/app shows them ads. Users click on those ads, and Reddit gets a cut. Reddit can also personalize the ads with information they collect about users as they use the site, thus getting more ad clicks and more revenue.

It is a pretty straightforward business model. Reddit is far from the first company with that valuation to successfully capitalize on it.
My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor (2020)
Probably the same way Americans and English can trade despite their gallons being different. Or the Australians and the Americans despite their dollar being different. It was only last century that for the English, a billion was 1e12 while it was 1e9 for Americans. I'm sure it was a pain but humans can manage details like that.
Kevin Rose had a pretty epic Tweet about wanting to buy Digg and bring it back to its pre-redesign phase [1]. Mark Cuban wanted in on it and I seem to remember Alexis Ohanian responded in a new tweet. I don’t feel like going through his old posts to link to it.

I’d love a return to the old. Even if its just the social web version of reruns.

[1] https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/1347747289511563265?s=2...
Apologies, what I meant was "I think this ought to be added", not "hey, go do this thing I want!" :-)
The shrinkage is all just Sales and Marketing ignoring engineering sensibilities in the quest for a bigger number on the box.

The underlying storage cell arrangement is still (typically) 4096 bytes in size. (or 65536 (64KB) for many embedded devices).

The device probably has about 10% of it's real storage capacity dedicated to ECC and other 'administrative' uses for provisioning the user facing storage.
Islands Architecture – when SSR meet micro front end
You're really swinging to the opposite end of credibility, bending over backwards to put on blinders and assert that gayness has absolutely no relation to some effeminate qualities. It goes against people's own ability to observe facts and undermines your position. Maybe it's not true for every gay male, but it is certainly an observable phenomenon.
I think that the amount of gilded awards that are ironically given to posts on r/conservative from members of r/politics largely disproves the idea that people are unwilling to spend stupid amounts of money on what amount to shiny baubles. How much that makes of their revenue however, is only known by reddit.
The funny thing is that in my italian eyes, De Cecco is in the "meh" quality of pasta...

btw: the "fortified pasta" is something I cannot stand. You american should lobby to make "normal pasta" the only one available.
It was actually a YC listacle posted on here that brought to my attention the fact that Reddit is a YC seed(spring '05 I think)..and while reading that it all weirdly made sense. Though they may only coicidentally both be orange-banner headed forums...there is an uncanny,hmm, hackernews-iness to discourse on reddit.
There're so many screenshots of GUIs. But there is a heavy path dependence on customer-facing GUI systems. A starting over on OS seems more likely to happen on cloud OS.
In any case, the question is do we really need the existing OS abstractions if we implement everything in managed languages?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/singula...
Emacs minor mode for d20 tabletop roleplaying games
You need inspiration somewhere.

Many people read hundreds of ideas before generating their own high quality ideas.

The best part is you don’t need to read high quality ideas to generate one.

You can read any idea. Even lame ones would inspire you.

The imagination in the idea will allow you to come up with higher quality ideas.

If you read a lame idea, it’s your opportunity here to make it a better idea.

If you want to read different business ideas, i’ve collected some in a nice ebook.
Zuck buys (and cripples) products that are a threat to Facebook, and Reddit doesn't operate in the same space.
Netflix increases price
„ We’re updating our prices to bring you more great entertainment. Your monthly price will increase by €2 to €17.99 on 9 March 2021“
Eternal September continues unslowed across decades.
Definitely. There was even a documentary about it on Netflix about how crimelab technicians were pushed for results rather than accuracy. A couple major scandals involved intentional faking of tests and resulting in countless people going to prison and the judicial consequences it caused as well as the friction involved to seek justice. Like, oh no, all these people convicted for life on flimsy grounds is such a burden of our time.
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 spike 69/70 deletion, E484K and N501Y by BNT162b2
It is trial if wrong to convince one's self that accused are probably guilty and that actions that convict them are moral even the proof is insufficient or weak or the procedure flawed.

Most people want to do the right thing wherein right thing is almost entirely defined by norms and customs of their environment. If the norms and expectations are high ethical and correct standards people will follow them to the degree they are able.

To what degree are such standards broken or defective in America though?

Lest we forget the head lawyer of Texas a state home to aprox 27 million people or around 8% of the nation is a man whose own prosecution has for years only been stymied by the difficulty of prosecuting the man at the head of the states justice department. Either 8 or 9 (I've lost track) directly beneath him have resigned and accused him of corruption.

This isn't even an isolated instance corruption is found in fact all over the united states.

Even when in theory we would like to do the right thing we have a hard time establishing what standards are even real. Look at the fact. For proof of that look no further than the science of hair analysis which the FBI spent decades using to convict the accused before we realized that they were incapable of differentiating dog hair from human hair.

Think of entire people going in to work producing work product about imaginary science they were pretending to do competently and sending people to death row in part because of their fake work product.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

The justice system in America is a bad joke that is primarily differentiated from say Cuba in that bribes are paid to your lawyer instead of directly to government officials.
Fair enough. I'm going to be over here hodling my mysticism and $GME.
There was the use case at one point that serving a version of a popular 3rd party JS framework from a CDN would result in the likelihood of that file being able to be served from the browser's cache, because there would be a decent chance the end user had visited some other site that used the same popular framework.

That no longer works, see https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca... and https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...
Beautiful. The internet was a truly different place back then...
Yes, discoverability of "good" subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like /r/pics good.

Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn't have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe with, when they don't share my TV show preferences at home.

Formula1 is a must for an F1 fan. Wow, I've learnt so much and the community is now part of watching F1. Pre-race chats, post-race, pre-qualification, post-qualification, haha... The behind the scenes racing drama...

MechanicalKeyboards can look over the top and elitist at first sight, until you realize they have self-distance and generally pretty relaxed (and it's very inspiring, dangerously so for my pocket...)
The fix is to use alternative consensus mechanisms like PoS. It's not "killing combustion engines is an easy fix: Just don't drive" it's "killing combustion engines is an easy fix: Use more efficient types of engines such as electric or sterling motors".
Those "standards" likely don't mean very much. As the original article (from December) points out, the standards were developed in the 1940s to make it harder for Japanese noodles to compete, not because of any real nutritional lack. People in other countries eat pasta that doesn't meet American "standards" and they seem to do just fine.
I’ve wondered about this. Can you tell when it’s a marketer?
I made goode experiences with Lektor (a static site generator). If you run it locally using "lektor server" you see your page plus admin backend. Once you click (or type) deploy the page gets statically built and copied somewhere via rsync.

You can still have the sources in a git for quick rollbacks.

What I like about lektor over most CMS solutions is that it is more easily adjustable. Basically Jinja2 and python held together with glue
Does the pasta really taste different because of the iron fortification?
I fine it super interesting that when you zoom out it appears a lot of the galleries are all horizontal across the image.
This page links to a physically unremarkable Soviet slide rule used for calculating things like the volumetric flow rate in irrigation canals used in Uzbek SSR for growing cotton, their primary cash crop [1].

Unfortunately, there are no scales on it for "evaporation" and "shitty construction", or the Aral Sea[2] might still be there.

[1] https://osgalleries.org/collectors/davis/info_and_image.cgi?...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
Are you referring to the NuBus boards mentioned here[0], the Symbolic MicroExplorer or MacIvory? Those look interesting!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus
I don't understand how you compute that estimate.

I doubt you store the history of all searches ever? People don't need a google account to query the engine, others disable history, etc.

Are you saying you still have all searches ever made ever? Because you would need this to say a query hasn't been made before wouldn't you?
That and the related bits - hashing out nebulous requirements, agreeing on an approach, pinning down an estimate, coming to a consensus on what color to paint the bikeshed.
> I think the tide has turned.

Old people eventually retire and die.

But it took BTC to go to 46k for the tide to turn!

And given what I keep noticing every now and then here on HN, the moon seems to control the tide :)
It's probably too much of a hassle. I would imagine FB is not focused on getting more anti trust scrutiny.
Parler’s ownership offer to Trump and possible Russian ties probed by Congress
Same as Dogecoin
Brexit was always gonna be a net loss to the UK. But it could have been managed so much better.

Instead of focusing on what was a far more important industry to the UK, the finance industry, during negotiations, the UK leadership chose to focus on symbolism through its insistence on expanding British fishing rights.

The irony, of course, is that they did not even get too many concessions there, and focused on the completely wrong stuff (the British were negotiating greater access to fish, instead of trying to earn frictionless transport of fish into the continent, where the majority of their fish customers lie). As a result British fishermen currently don’t have enough business to even fish the catchment areas they did while the UK areas still in the EU.
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment
> I don't see how it stands up to scrutiny.

That would be premature. Nobody is in a position to know how the "extinguish" portion of the plan will turn out because it hasn't happened yet. All we can say is that the plan looks quite robust in theory and would be a significant coup for Apple if they can pull it off.

Obviously there will always be some unethical operators, but that is true of all major platforms. Apple has the benefit of top-down control and some amount of market incentive to get it right.

> For example, in the web browser ecosystem

...there is precious little to block effective fingerprinting of 99%+ of installs and little prospect of that changing.
The image of Spock using a "whiz weel" in TOS is somewhat famous amongst aviation instructors...
I think in Germany it would be legal for businesses. B2B contracts allow most things that are illegal in a B2C context.
Not sure what you mean by 'part'. I reproduced this across the following CPUs, which I think are fairly representative:

- intel xeon e3-1246

- intel core i3-5005u

- amd ryzen 3960X

- amd epyc 7402p

Comparing my own[0] memset implementation, glibc's, and bionic's.

0. https://github.com/moon-chilled/fancy-memset
New for the day or new for the history of the engine?
You have to have credibility with engineers to manage them or they will not respect you. At least at leading companies with a Silicon Valley type culture.

It's about more than knowing how to program, but rather the ins and outs of development, architecture, technology.

Plenty of more typical Fortune 500 type companies and small, non VC funded companies let managers from non engineering backgrounds manage engineers.
Horace’s How-To: “Human” is the opening word of the ‘Ars Poetica' (2020)
Cloud sourcing the most efficient tech to convert CO2 to methane (on Mars)?
5. Plausible deniability.

I wanted to add this point, because lack of security measurements and the convenient existence of hackers allows a company plausible deniability.

As long as companies are not legally forced to take precautious security measurements, they won't.

And it plays into their advantage, because insurance providers have rarely clauses in them regarding minimum security measurements.
Husky JavaScript project drops MIT license with v5 release
> The last entry into the website was Monday, February 8 2021 4:25PM

Doesn’t specify a time zone, but it isn’t this time anywhere in the world right now, and assuming local time, that was over 5 hours ago.
I’m not so sure. There are many extremely active forums that exist, particularly for specific hobbies. In my case for example, if I google for “subaru brz forged wheels” I get nothing but vendors and product pages. But if I add “ft86club” to the query a great many forum posts appear. In the past those type of forum posts would appear ahead of vendor pages.
It doesn't matter the reason. At the end of the day, it's used inconsistently so you can't just treat GB as meaning GiB when it's to do with computers and the units have become a confused muddle.
Let's not.

This is a huge amount of unnecessary code just to add some whitespace.

Instead you could just directly add a whitespace character between the icon and the text, e.g. a non-breaking space (&nbsp;), and en-space (&ensp;), or an em-space (&emsp;). Or just add a right margin to the icon — there's no need for an extra wrapper element.
Someone needs to make a CCPA version of that.
One upvote on Reddit is worth 1,000 5 star reviews, for now at least.
so what is the app? I felt like I read a full blown novel, and the last sentence with the conclusion is missing!
Probably because most of reddit hates anything Facebook and Zuckerberg.

I think a majority of the userbase wouldn't mind leaving reddit for another reddit clone just so they can stick it to Zuckerberg.
Curious as to whether we'd see a lot of effeminate straight men if social norms permitted it. My guess is yes
Unfortunately this is all too common. I've run across many sites that simply do not have a function in their system for actually deleting an account. Renaming it to a fake email address? Sure. But deleting it? Nope. Not even forcibly logging you out.

Under CCPA this should be required. But even if you're a California resident, very very few companies care.
This reminds me of DROD (1996)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Rooms_of_Death
There’s another game being developed in a semi-3D hyperbolic geometry called Hyperbolica. The dev makes some fantastic videos [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/yY9GAyJtuJ0
Sales team uses downtime to upsell a plan with better SLAs.
It feels like the author has read a lot of very sound arguments against using margins in component systems (they leak, they collapse, etc) and has taken those arguments to mean "never use margins". I don't see a good reason to avoid margins in the specific "icon and label" example.
"environmental" doesn't mean it's a choice or that it can be effectively changed. For example environmental factors during pregnancy could have influence, but once someone is born it could be mostly determined. That would be entirely consistent with sexuality being somewhat genetic, mostly environmental, but unable to be changed after birth.
They're monetizing the app and forcing mobile users onto it. The desktop site is just a way for them to acquire mobile users.
Rust for CRUD is not a 'Yes with Caveats' - it's a 'No' in all but some very specific cases, and even then it's a 'maybe'.

It's outclassed by other stacks in almost every way for this purpose, and provides no material advantage most of these scenarios. Null safety never was a problem in CRUD apps, and, though performance usually is, it never boils down to 'speed of execution'. And of course, the long list of disadvantages, the most obvious of which is inflexible and slow development, especially in scenarios that require adaptation.

I can't think of a scenario wherein it would make sense for a CRUD app. Some associated micro-services, sure, but not for the core of the app.
If you were born between the early 1980's and the mid-1990's, you probably have more technical know-how than those born earlier or later.

That's because during the years 1990-2005, tech had penetrated much of the population, but it was rough around the edges enough that you had to understand it if you wanted to get it working.

Take modems. In the '90s have a dial-up modem that allowed a single computer to connect at a time over the phone line. You had to manually initiate and hang up your Internet connection, and you couldn't use it on more than one computer at a time. That process forced you to understand a bit of how the Internet works in order to use it.

Now the Internet's just this magic thing that you have all the time if you just plug in a thing and pay the bill. I've noticed a lot of people use the words "Wifi," "router," "modem," and "Internet connection" interchangeably. The details are hidden from a user in a way they weren't in the days of dialup.

Likewise, DOS. Before Windows moved away from DOS, you sometimes needed to work with the command line. Occasionally you had to create boot disks for your software that would load different drivers and stuff. Again, you had to know something about the command line and system configuration in order to use the computer effectively.

I guess what it really boils down to: In my day we walked to school in a blizzard every day, uphill both ways. Now get off my lawn, whippersnappers.

(Although when I was a student one professor regaled the class with tales of his first computer, some early home computer -- I don't think he ever told us the model, but it may have been Z80-based -- whose unboxing procedure involved some quality time with a soldering iron, and if you wanted to use permanent tape storage you had to toggle in a tape driver using a switch panel directly connected to the bus lines. Maybe every generation of tech enthusiasts has its own "kids these days are soft, in my day we walked uphill both ways" story.)
Digg never had individual communities on Reddit's scale. Reddit has subreddits for every obscure hobby, niche and fetish imaginable, and it's much harder to convince the users already there to jump ship.

Also, once you're logged into Reddit, the friction of exploring a new subreddit is essentially zero. Compare this with needing to sign up and email verify etc every time you want to join some random phpBB forum.
Interesting idea! Is there any research in this direction?
Context is everything and I’m fine with that.

I can handle the base2 / base10 problem by using context. I don’t need a clumsy new prefix.

If someone on the street asked you how much memory your computer has, how would you answer? “Seven gigs”? “Seven gibs”? “Seven gibibytes”?
Agree that you want those things too. But when you are choosing between two different frameworks of similar maturity and you have to choose a tech stack it can tip the decision somewhat, especially if you don't have the time to POC a stack and you need to make a decision.

An example scenario could be if a company has a choice between Java (Spring) and .NET (ASP.NET Core). Both are quite popular, have documentation, a big ecosystem around them, etc as you mentioned. If you might need to do low level/advanced web code at any stage the plaintext benchmarks may sway them to use .NET over Java; all else being equal. In that benchmark ASP.NET Core trumps Spring by a very large factor (Spring's 2% vs AspCore's 100%); you then obviously look into the benchmark to compare and contrast as you shouldn't trust them at face value. Although having said that if the .NET one is better tailored than the Spring one it does send a signal that the .NET one has a more performance orientated community willing to maintain the benchmark which IMO is a positive still.
My city sub is full of alt right trolls.
Would be hilarious if eventually we just had a slow stable oscillation where Digg and Reddit continue repeatedly raising money and relaunching as “old” whatever, stealing back each others users like some slow motion pendulum or sands in a spinning hourglass..
Perfect example I found the other day... the main post is clearly a bot, and all the replies are bots pretending to be users too.

Reddit USED to be amazing for finding recommendations for products/services but these days it’s just another bot-filled and paid-content dumping ground like the Google search results.

https://www.reddit.com/user/amily95/comments/fkm1rn/how_to_c...
North Korean hackers stole more than $300M to pay for nuclear weapons
Show HN: PHP Laravel logging and payload in the same format
At the first encounter I find this game very aesthetically pleasing and groundbreaking in an original dimension. I see it's been around for a while but I missed it before. I personally am a bit saturated with the mainstream 3d game mechanics, somehow 2d games captivate me more.
Every square millimeter on a silicon wafer has fit tens of millions of transistors for a while. Since the wafer is a under a millimeter thick that's about one grain of sand. So we wouldn't have run out even with those numbers.

Also it doesn't have to be sand, exactly, and more than half the earth's crust is silica.

But more importantly, that number is very wrong. https://web.archive.org/web/20150310025854/http://www.hawaii...

Leaving aside the issue of whether 1mm cubed is a good estimate for an 'average' grain, this is only an estimate of beach sand. Also it seems to be underestimating shore length by a lot, 200 million meters when other sources say 1.2 or 1.6 billion meters.

His estimate for beach surface area is 6000 square kilometers.

The sahara alone is 9 million square kilometers, with sand much deeper too. The first estimate I see, just for that one desert, is 1.5e24 grains of sand.

Another way to look at it is that we apparently use 50 billion tons of sand per year. That's less than a thousand square kilometers worth of sahara. And making 10^22 transistors with 2012 tech would take only 750 thousand tons of sand.
I've found that reddit tends to get pretty cargo culty around particular products/brands, like Sony mirrorless and the Olympus mju II for cameras, Denon DJ equipment, or Starting Strength for weightlifting. So many recommendations basically follow the form "I'm new to this hobby and bought one of these a week ago, I swear it's the best thing ever"
As far as I can tell the rules apply only to imports, because they were explicitly designed to keep foreign noodles (ramen etc) from encroaching on "pasta".