skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have essentially replaced my morning commute with reading time. I read almost entirely non-fiction and textbooks/technical books. I had a backlog that had been growing over the years that I am now nearly through. On the rare occasions I read fiction, I sometimes have to remember that the story is actually made up! (obviously more for "realistic" fiction and not sci-fi/fantasy stuff)
> You're an American

Not so, but like I said: one team’s goodies are another team’s baddies.
When the headline is so obviously clickbait, it's probably more interesting than the actual article... And the comments here are likely more interesting as well, just based on the title.

So I no longer worry about people who haven't read the article. I just enjoy the discussions.
I didn’t say that they weren’t. I’m simply saying that some do think that. Whether I do or don’t is irrelevant as I’m only speculating on the reason why.
So out law web scrapping entirely?
See figure I.4 on page 24 of this UK government report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5efb1db6e90e0...

Additional evidence here: https://knuckleheads.club/the-evidence-we-found-so-far/
I pretty much only read fiction. I've never really got in to reading much non-fiction, though I'd like to try to get into it more. I get my technical content during the day from the internet so don't really feel the need to read technical books, though I'll make the odd exception.

I usually read for about 30-60 minutes a day before bed, I find it helps me switch off and sleep well. I've recently been working my way through some classics which have been reissued, properly typeset etc., by Amazon on Kindle for free: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=18660703011. The best one I've read so far is Count of Monte Cristo - it's long but it's one of those books where you get really engrossed in its world and you're really sad when it is over!
> Say you budget $100 for dinner tonight and you go out and it costs $75. Do you owe the restaurant $25?

No, but if you accurately forecast that dinner will cost $100 on average, and this time it only happened to cost $75, you should put most of the savings aside for the other times when it will cost $125 and not reallocate it to be spent on something else.

Consistent over-budgeting is still an issue which would need to be addressed, of course, but a system where any annual cost underrun is treated as over-budgeting and punished by reallocating that part of the budget to other groups ignores the inevitable presence of risk in the budget forecast.
You are the only one using the words autism and ASD in this thread. There was no such prior context.
There are companies that do pretty well in this space, like ahrefs, for example. They do resort to trickery, like proxy clients that look like home computers or cell phones. But, if a small entity like ahrefs can do it, anyone can do it.

In a nutshell, though, I don't see equal access for all crawlers changing anything. Maybe that's the first barrier they hit, but it isn't the biggest or hardest one by far. Bing has good crawler access, but shit market share.
This is the reason why I don’t like playing factorio. I’d rather make real software and get paid or build something usable vs a game version of it. I spend a lot of time already doing it as my job, and it stresses me out in a similar way.
I have worked at companies where there was an expectation that you sign on at 9:00AM and leave at 9:00PM. And I have worked at some where my boss regularly took us out for burgers and beers for lunch on Friday if the weather was nice and then sent us all home for the day. And sometimes, those were the same company, with different managers.

I have had really amazing growth with managers who worked my butt off with some unreasonable hours. And I've had some managers who really encouraged me to take more time off. At different phases in your life you might want one or the other. Aligning company, manager, and where you are and what you want in life is a super important thing that should be done with a lot of intentionality. (And regularly re-assessed)
Not as much as I'd like, always seems like there's something else more important to do, or when I do take downtime something more convenient (video games, etc).

Mostly SciFi, the harder the better. Entertainment value aside it's where I draw inspiration from, I'm basically an engineer because I watched/read a lot of sci-fi as a kid and thought it would be awesome if we could build all the stuff shown. In 5th grade when asked to "come up with an invention" I drew my best 5th grader blueprints of a probe to explore under the ice of Europa :P

Turns out there are a few pesky laws of physics in the way of some of the cooler stuff, but just because we can't build it directly doesn't mean we can't move the ball closer, and new physics is always a possibility. In the meantime there's plenty of awesome things we can do with the tech we have.

When I do read non-fiction it's almost always history, particularly military history. Aside from simply finding it more engaging I find the strategic aspects of war to be highly applicable to daily life and decision-making. Much like engineering, dishonesty about one's capabilities is not rewarded for long. If you can't code effectively your program won't run, if you can't fight effectively you lose the war, and more things are decided by superior logistics than superior warriors, among many other lessons that can be drawn.

I probably differ from a lot of the HN crowd in that I don't spend much time reading about abstract theoretical science. For instance, for all the talk about "mental models" I've yet to see any way of productively integrating such things into my life, or found one that would lead me to make superior decisions when applied to real-world circumstances. Clearly others have and that's fine, I just don't personally find it a useful/enjoyable way to spend my time. Likewise I once read about "Optimal Stopping Theory" as applied to relationships, the idea being using mathematics/statistics to maximize one's odds of a successful marriage. The methodology was actually impressively in-depth, I forget the precise numbers, but it was something like you should skip the first few people you seriously date, then pick number 4-7 or something, and that gave you like a 40-something percent chance of success, which was the maximum. Well my wife is the first person I ever dated more than once and I have no regrets there, so if I strictly followed that formula it would have been a huge mistake.

Lots of squeeze, not much juice in the theoretical stuff for me.
It should be. Our recruiters haven't found any good for months.
Box Drive and OneDrive apps for desktop do this now, but with cached files from the "cloud".

It looks to you like everything is there, but in reality it downloads as you click on things, and empties cache if the free space begins to drop below a set amount.
I'm a voracious consumer of audiobooks. I listen to them while doing almost any mundane task. Cleaning house, doing dishes, yard work, commuting, eating lunch, etc.
Minimum 8 since i am working in IT and everything has shifted to remote work.

Depending on the day even more, if i am hacking, designing or gaming or something.

Man, now i feel bad.
The nice thing about 1-bit music is that you automatically win the loudness war
> and the whole scene reminds me how far we have come.

Yeah, overcomplicating every single thing, piling tens of layers of ever more generalized and inefficient abstractions on top of each other, and so on.

Imagine not needing several gigabytes of RAM just to browse the web or use instant messaging. Imagine software developers actually understanding what exactly they're doing and what consequences their choices have.

I love old offline-first software. It was never rushed and was not made to be constantly updated. It just did its job.
> heating/cooling my house is half my energy bill. Time shifting that could easily cut that by a third. All I need to make that work is variable rates.

This isn't as simple as you make it sound. You can't just cool your house once when electricity is cheap and then have it stay cool all day. Keeping your house at a different temperature than outside is a constant, active process.

There are industrial systems that "store" cold by making large blocks of ice when electricity is cheap, and then using that ice as part of the HVAC system to cool the building throughout the day. This could be adapted to home use, but I have no idea the relative cost of the machinery vs electricity savings.
Microsoft's Quantum Boast Went Bust
Imagine if Donald Trump decided to tax campaign donations to Joe Biden's campaign at 100%.

I am unconvinced by the "slippery slope" argument being deployed by default to any governmental attempt to combat tech monopolies.
This is a good point - and makes my REI example irrelevant, thanks.
Yup. My opinion has long been that the only thing that will take down google is a massive increase in NLP, such that the historical click data can be outperformed by a straight up really good NLP model
I am perplexed by the downvotes. Which part of my statement is "wrong" enough to get downvotes? I am trying to understand if I have an opinion that's incorrect, or that people don't like it?
Hopefully businesses will start to learn that investing in China leaves you at the whim of the CCP.
At some point I realized I was missing out a ton of learning that my business parter was getting, and I decided to get over myself and accept that audiobooks do actually count as "reading"

8 years later I have read over 100 books (at 2X speed), mostly nonfiction business and self help books and I have retained a ton and applied lessons from those books in my business and everyday life.

Since the pandemic, I've lost my commute reading time so it's slowed way down, but I'm currently enjoying President Obama's book. I typically give myself 1 fiction book as a treat for every 3-4 nonfiction books I read.
Trade itself is used for political goals: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300031
You can also keep bunches of grapes fresh for months in an attic by plunging the stems in a bottle of water. That's a method that has been used for centuries in Europe.

See https://jardinage.lemonde.fr/dossier-2305-conserver-raisin-n...
In regards to airlines, Google and Amadeus have a partnership I believe. Amadeus is the main source of data for many of these airline websites. If Google gets the data from Amadeus directly and not these websites, they are just cutting out the middleman. I don't shed a tear for any of these middleman (together with their Dark Pattern UX design).
Mostly fiction and of that mostly speculative fiction. The non-fiction part is mostly economy, history and social philosophy.
Play Store IDs use the "domain" style naming scheme, purely as a relic of Android apps being written in Java. Neither Java nor Play Store have ever mandated domain checking, and the IDs are up to the developer.
> There Should Be A Public Cache Of The Web

This might be closest to it: https://commoncrawl.org/
>How the EU member states act towards parties outside the EU seems a bit beside the main point[...]

It isn't beside the point. It is contradictory to your narrative. Big difference.
Common Crawl is attempting to offer this as a non-profit: https://commoncrawl.org
Why not? You clear out the part you don't like, and build anew

No, code refactoring does not fit perfectly in this analogy. And your ability to do so is somewhat dependent on how you build. But I think all those factors are simply part of the puzzle in refactoring a factory
HN curiosity: I post the most practical gun-control things I can think of that veer rather draconian yet get down-voted because they're not enough? If you disagree, perhaps state why?
They can still believe in the leadership of the project. After all, many investors invest without themselves having a majority stake. If you own 3% of a company, the other 97% might be other investors, or might be some other investors and some worker-owners, you still only own 3%. Not everyone thinks worker-owners are any less capable of making good decisions towards the success of the endeavor than investors, although I gather you do.

Sometimes worker-owned businesses do well in fact because the worker-owners are willing to put in more energy and sacrifice for their business than typical employees, worker-ownership can be a plus. (Obviously plenty fail too, not saying it's some kind of magic invulnerability).

But also investors sometimes invest in worker coops because they want to support a worker-owned business in addition to make money, some kind of values-based investing: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/worker-cooperatives-are-fin...

Look, all I can say is this is an actual thing that happens, there are hybrid ownership worker coops taht also have investors, it literally exists in reality.

Here's more info, including targetted at potential investors: https://project-equity.org/about-us/publications/coop-invest...

As I keep saying, I agree there are reasons some investors rae reluctant to invest, and the government could provide subsidy or incentives to change that calculus somewhat, the same way the government does for all sorts of economic activity that is considered socially desirable. It's true that worker coops have barriers to raising capital, but this really is one way some have done it, despite the challenges, it literally happens in reality, so if you're trying to argue that it doesn't, that's a weird argument.
We've had the Bing crawler make a obscene number of requests quite often but fortunately it doesn't bring us down.
Is the DJI Osmos Mobile 4 worth it? What makes it a good gimbal for iPhones?
I am a senior engineer and have been programming for close to two decades. I picked up Factorio a few months ago and felt overwhelmed. I couldn't finish the tutorial. I think my problem is spatial relations--it is something I've always struggled with (how to arrange furniture in a room, solve a jigsaw, etc).

I don't think this is a detriment to my programming ability at all--spatial relations really never enters into architecting a large system. Of course you need to think about design constraints but none of them exist on a physical plane.

Factorio, on the other hand, requires actual spatial relation ability. You need to visualize how belts intersect and how to best position things so they dont interfere with each other. This is where I struggled.
Amadeus isn't a source of flight status. It is a source for (some) planned schedules and fares. Global distribution systems are a complex topic that's hard to sum up on HN. For flight status, Google is pulling from OAG and Flight Aware, and also from airline websites. Though they don't show airline sites as a source.
> Um, what? F22 program cost about $334 million per aircraft and is roughly $60k per hour of flight.

> F-35 is a comparative bargain at $95 million and $35k/hour.

But that might not be a fair comparison. IIRC, the F-22 project was ended far earlier than originally planned, so development costs were amortized over far fewer planes.

According to Wikipedia, there were only 187 non-test F-22s built in total (out of an originally planned 750) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor), but there are already "620+" F-35s and production continues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...).
Amazon argues it’s not liable for product that severely injured toddler
+100 to any business that reduces capabilities of employers to defraud and discriminate employees based on location.
I've gotten a lot of good book referrals through HN, including "Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training" by Mark Rippetoe. So cutting out online stuff is just a bad idea (significantly reduces my "surface area").

OTOH, I really need to get back into a habit of reading books, every day. I used to go through a goodly number of non-fiction books on a regular basis (another good book, "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" says you should read at least one non-fiction book in your field a quarter), but recently I've just lacked the discipline and habit to do so. I find myself reading a lot online, but so much of it is so low information and not in-depth enough.

That said, I also try to partake of fiction, although in that regard I'm not doing great either, as I opt for a lot of passive fiction in the form of video. Fiction can be just as good for expanding the mind, even exercising empathy. Just reading speculative fiction (to give a broader term to science fiction) can exercise one's mind in visualizing things or give one new ideas. Heck, Google Earth was supposedly inspired by a technology in "Snow Crash".

ETA: There's some great "forgotten" fiction out there, which hasn't been turned into other formats yet. "The Stars my Destination" and "Lord of Light" are excellent. Which reminds me, another good source I've found for books is /usr/games/fortune
The way to look at this from Google’s point of view is to realise that most websites are slow and bad[1], so if Google sent you there you would have a bad experience with a bad slow website trying to find the information you want. Google want to make it better for you.

[1] it feels like Google have contributed a lot to websites being slow and bad with eg ads, amp, angular, and probably more things for the other 25 letters of the alphabet.
I have been learning. Have help. Mostly buying others kits, but have exchanged boards and collaborated a few times.

That is another fun electronics / retro thing. It is cheap to get, say 10 of something. Mail 'em off to friends for group tinkering.
You might have to be comfortable letting the void exist, and let your managers deal with the resulting failure. If you continue doing two jobs without escalating the issue, your employer is getting a great deal and has no incentive to correct the situation.
I read mostly fiction and occasionally non-fiction. See my list at https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/9357863-kishor?shelf=%...
haha thanks man!
I suppose it depends on your language.

For example, if you're working in Java 8 where everything's just one big jumbled globally visible classpath, sure. If, on the other hand, you're working in Java 9 or later, you have the ability to control your public interface. People can get around that with reflection, so it's technically more permeable than a service boundary, but, if you're letting shenanigans like that sail past code review, you get what you deserve.
Try telling Panama they don't have a right to create their own tax laws. If they want to incentivize ships to register in their country, they're a sovereign nation and can do that.
I try to read two books in parallel: one fiction (sci-fi or fantasy, usually) and one non-fiction (history, philosophy, economics, or psychology).

I’ve found that this approach keeps things fresh, and allows me “cooldown” and let my imagination flow periodically. I used to read even more books in parallel (3-5), but 2 books has been the sweet spot for me.

Right now, I’m switching between “Oathbringer” (Stormlight Archive series) and “Capital in the 21st Century”.

I also used to listen to a lot of audiobooks and I’m trying to get back into that.
You’re not alone. I do read fiction, but not a lot. If I read non-techically books, it’s mostly biografy or history.

It’s a little irritating that language education focuses solely on fiction. I believe I would have had a better appreciation of language, if the school had noticed that some students just don’t like fiction that much.
And that's a great explanation of the theory behind that :) and it delights me, every time. But the question, alas, remains unanswered: "would everything work well anyway without such a framework?"

Basically I'm curious about this: we're all applying this framework, taking it for granted. It was there, we accepted it. But I wonder: what if it wasn't there?

I'm building a machine, I know the minimum requirements to make it work. I build it like that and then I think: should I also add to it this other cog as well? Would it improve _somehow_ the machine? Well, the other folks are doing it, heck, I'll do it as well!

Now you have a heavier, more complex, machine, with one more cog, and you don't even know if you really need it.

Sorry for the brutally simple example, but I'm still missing an evidence we really need these frameworks.
> run [by] a private company and accessed for a small fee

That is exactly the opposite of a public cache.
For me, the new "read aloud" narration in Google Assistant crossed the threshold into good enough. It'll only narrate a web page about three hours long but I've split a couple books into pieces and had it read them into Audacity to make audiobooks of novels that didn't have them. I wish there was an easier way to do it.
Storage and bandwidth are pretty negligible. I'm under Digital Ocean's quota for bandwidth and NewsBlur is pretty aggressive in keeping feeds up to date. I don't keep an archive of every story ever published, but most feeds don't publish all that much and I could probably invest in storing everything with a cheaper archival DB.

Although the 80/20 rule is in effect, and when I query the DB I find that 80% of feeds have only a single active subscriber and 20% of feeds have 2+ active subscribers (activity in the past 30 days). But that's still quite a bit one-to-many fetching savings. And the majority of fetches are 304s.
They didn't do it voluntarily. If they used China cotton, they would be the target of western campaigners and boycotts. If they don't, they get the same in China.

They were in a lose lose situation. They lost.

Could they have done better? I think so. They could have made a claim that all items would be labelled so consumers could choose. Or they could have said nothing sold in Europe/the west contained Chinese cotton.

But that compromise might have just gotten them boycotted in both places.
I also find it fascinating that many owls have evolved silent flight to avoid giving themselves away to prey with good hearing, even if the lack of preen-oil required makes them vulnerable to waterlogging in wet weather.

(Thank you for introducing me to the Laughing Owl, although I was saddened to read that it's now extinct)
Yeah exactly, those games really bring out the "programmer" mindset out of everyone :D
Discord is capable of organic growth. Teams isn't.
I wonder whether Microsoft would try and tie Discord accounts to Microsoft accounts. I think it'd be a bad call, as unlike Mojang (to be fair, it took years for Microsoft to actually migrate them), Discord does have a proper accounts infrastructure built up, one which is used as an authentication service of its own. Easier integration and auto signup with MSFT accounts, sure, but I think it would be a mistake to do a migration.

LinkedIn and Github are good examples to show that they wouldn't.
I've noticed that when you put a bag of potatoes in the fridge, they will still keep far shorter than if you had them in a dedicated potato cellar. Likewise, most of the old houses around the farmstead I grew up had unheated walk-in pantries next to the entrance. Often vegetables keep for far longer in those pantries than in the fridge. But of course the fridge beats out storing the veggies on the counter every time. Many of those farms also had standalone earthen cellars that served as "fridges" during the summer, often in conjunction with a small brook flowing with cold mountain water, where perishable things such as milk pails could be sunk into during warm summer days. Really wish I could have something like that in the city lol.
Here's my goodreads list if interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33532141-eric-skiff?re...
I just got it recently and I enjoyed the heck out of it.
They really missed an opportunity to get creative with their own `robots.txt` implementation.
I can't get past the cookie banner. Can someone explain the ancient method for me please? Thank you :)
The saved story feature does a great job of that, since it also allows you to filter saved stories by feed and by tag, so saved stories are easy to find again.