skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Starry-eyed idealism.)

Her work on this closed hardware might define it for the future - practicalities matter. If Linux de-facto runs and even better, if it's in wise use, that makes the hardware more open and it might help bend this new platform towards openness. Getting in this early might be a benefit there too.
The P in Pakistan (a majority Muslim country) arguably stands for Punjab,

From wikipedia:

> using it as an acronym .., and referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.

That said, there are a non-trivial number of Sikhs in the area, at least one Sikh holy site is very near the Pakistan-India border in the Punjab region.
On the topic of "reversing outsourcing", a few French shoe brands have decided to bring back production to France, and stop outsourcing.

One of them was Le Coq Sportif.

It was challenging because they realized that manufacturing sport shoes is actually difficult, requires expertise that was completely lost in France because it have been outsourced for 30 years. So they had to re-learn everything.
> it is far more interesting than 90% of the stuff a lot of your FAANG companies are spending R&D dollars on

It’s not really about interesting for most people, it’s about is there a market for this and ultimately can I pay my mortage with this? I’m all for noble pursuits but don’t put down the trillion dollar smartphone, social media, PC markets that have long established themselves for the product we don’t even know is possible yet
> All of these are just half-assed, incomplete attempts to solve problems that were already solved by private offices.

That's it right there. First 15+ years of my career always had private office. It's the perfect solution to everything you list and more.

The last decade has been a nightmare of wandering around the buildings trying to find somewhere to work that doesn't have all the problems you list, occasionally succeeding mostly failing. Failing means I've had to work my full workday in the evening at home, since couldn't get anything done during the day in the cursed open office. Effectively working two jobs, getting paid once.

In this respect the pandemic has been a blessing. Finally back to a private office, away from the physical office. The level of relief is life-changing.
Why does this seem to "confirm" that AMP is dead?

The article just "hopes" it will die, it doesn't point to any specific source that it will.

Quite the opposite, it says "Google will continue to support AMP" on the Google Page Experience update.
I am so happy I have been able to avoid AMP my entire career and this ensures that I will probably will never have to bother with it in the future. This 'web inside the web' stuff is so antithetical to what the web is supposed to be, I hope Google will just pull the plug like they do with just about everything else that isn't the search engine or G-mail.
However, would those 10s or 100s of MBs be something web sites would just like to share in their entirety to the client to query as they wish? At least many commercial services would prefer to keep most of the data secret and even gain insight from the access requests.

But for a more open or a hobbyist project where minimizing amounts of data transfer is less important than minimizing the amount of doing more work (server-side code), then this seems like a decent solution.

It is also worth reminding that this solution only practically works for read-only databases.
Wow, was picturing a perfectly ripe avocado reading this :)

One place I know has great avocados are fruit stands in San Diego, particularly North County during summer. They grow them all over the hillsides and sell for cheap by the roadside.

Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I do run and this is another trigger, because I’m “feeling good” I will download apps like Strava, Nike running, Garmin app (linked to running watch) - I also illustrate and not being able to have apps like Instagram to promote work is annoying
Apologies dang, you are right. Won't do this again. I really appreciate the work you're doing here.
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Something I genuinely don't understand "buttery smooth 3D game"s are created with C++ too but why isn't C++ an issue for games?

Seems to contradict the premise which is that programming languages were designed in the past and hence not efficient for modern computers.
My money is on all the Indian-Canadians going back and forth between the two countries. Canda has a substantial amount of Indian immigrants
It's sure is a sign of the horrors of open offices when cubicles, the original terrible workplace, is now the good old times we miss!

But, agreed. Even cubicles (with at least 5ft walls), while terrible, are 1000x better than the dreadful open office.
+1 for hetzner
Or youtube, although that makes a lot of money so probably not anytime soon.
> like this is some law of physics.

And I don't think it can be. Economics is ultimately the study of people's behaviour, and that is subject to irrationality, emotions, culture, and times.
Office 365 leaking BCC domain name
(a) that assumes the dev wants to. Plenty of developers still see Google as the all-knowing all-loving mother titty that can do no wrong.

Even for those who acknowledge Google may do shitty things, but are more interested in pulling their dick or what have you, rather than doing the work to make a great $thing, AMP gives them an easy out. No interpretation required, no need to worry about timings or what a "core web vital" is. Just follow this bouncing ball. Monkey see, monkey do.

(b) that assumes the dev is allowed to. Plenty of middle and upper management will always defer to "the industry" over any amount developer insight - particularly when the pitch is essentially "lets remove this thing so we can do some more work ourselves to achieve the same result".

(c) even if the dev wants to, and management OK it - maintenance is literally that: maintaining the status quo. Evolution, particularly on the scale of large sites, is a long term thing.

Big news sites are some of the worst offenders for junking up a page. Google could have "fixed" that by using the metrics discussed in the article to determine "carousel" results, from the start. But then they'd just have made a bunch of websites load faster, and wouldn't have added yet another tentacle around the web.
Same in Greece (tax rules) apparently, and there you’ll also see lots and lots of unfinished buildings.
But you're super limited if you're trying to make a GUI inside a browser, how is this a good example ?
The article title is miss leading, it’s someone arguing that it should be shelved

So long as google strongly influences page views it lives
My (and every other) Swedish social security number uses this format plus 4 more digits. It ends up being the format I usually default to when writing a date. I feel like it is the least likely to be misconstrued, when I start with the full year. Would many people ever mistake it for yyyy-dd-mm?
Conceptually it seems simpler to add a column to table rather than adding a property to some serialized structure. I wonder if it isn't a question of process and tooling encouraging the wrong thing?

At least in other contexts I have seen JSON or XML fields used as a trick to circumvent a heavyweight process for adding new columns. But IMHO the process should be improved rather than circumvented. Some times you need to quickly add a column, but adding a column is also a pretty safe operation. Doing the same thing "one level" up does not improve safety or convenience.

In more traditional organizations I have seen the DBA act as a gatekeeper, which lead to developers inventing all kinds of hack to get around the barrier. I can understand the thinking which lead to this, but it is dysfunctional.
If you've got a suggestion for an alternative way to build Skynet, I'm all ears.
Those that work for him call it "the impossible ask": Musk will basically spin through the engineering floors of SpaceX and push the team for something that's functionally impossible. Whether this strategy motivates brilliance to emerge is probably not _terribly_ in dispute: they do get results. The "at what cost" element and the burnout and other impacts... those are more tricky to weigh.
This is nice. Thanks for sharing!
Was Dodgecoin ever called anything else the first year?

I remember having them on my computer, but can't find them.
Haha, that's how I always feel. For another example, SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol.

Feels the same way like horrible regimes usually have a lot of positive words in their name.

Although I understand most of them are relatively simple compared to their predecessors rather than being truly simple or minimalistic.
Wow so it actually does something! I wish programs would use such vague descriptions. (Or more of them had helpful instant tooltips.)
>With mechanical keyboards made for gaming (Razer and Corsair) I've had the caps start to fall apart and break after ~2 years of regular usage. The most frequently used switches also tend to start showing signs of wear and tear after a while.

That's why a lot of people into this hobby get pcb's where they don't have to solder in the switches and if ever a switch breaks they just pop in a replacement or pull the switch apart to see what's wrong.
Similarly if a keycap `falls apart and breaks` although i don't quite know how this managed to happen for you
> They don't need to build brand new office buildings from the ground up.

Some (many? most?) of those buildings were private offices back in the day anyway, so definitely no new buildings needed.
“.. the whole point of crypto currencies is to do away with central banks due to a strange paranoia..”

I agree there are a lot of people involved with Bitcoin that have trust issues (justified or unjustified... you be the judge) but this statement is a generalisation.

Currently cryptocurrencies are the only way for me to be the custodian of my money in a digital form.

If I leave money in the bank while I save up for a deposit for a home loan at the moment I get basically no interest and the bank gets to loan around 17x that money to others to buy residential property.

Meanwhile the cost of housing is increasing because those who have sufficient funds in their account are better off parking that money in the property market (with or without an accompanying loan)

Can you see why people want out of this perverse system?
When I talked to someone running a "work & travel" agency in Europe that was mostly frequented by young people looking to do "something meaningful" in poorer countries he mentioned that an open secret was that frequently these kids would end up helping "construct" buildings only for those to be torn down again afterwards because they weren't up to spec and local craftspeople would then rebuild them properly on their own.
i.reddit.com FTW!
But why 3 words? Why not 4?

Here is crazy idea: take the standard long/lat system and trim it down to numbers that can point to any 20m2 square in the world. Now translate each number to two words.

Now you have a much simpler 4-word system that can be translated back to the standard system. Furthermore, since you use 4 identifiers instead of 3 you may be able to exclude many similar sounding words.

Now, is this covered by their patent?
The biggest problem is most fruit is picked before it's ripe. It keeps longer on the ship and gets ripened with gas when it is unloaded at the destination. We pay lots of money to get fooled here in north europe.
"Kenyan" is not a language. I see Swahili in the list of languages, which along with English is one of the lingua franca of Kenya.
What about the time you spent telling someone else how to spend their time? Wouldn't that have been better spent playing instead?
SkyTransfer has the benefit of being "infrastruture-less". Rather than needing someone (the developer or someone else) to run a server, it can sit on top of the same Skynet infrasturcture that runs everything else.

SkyTransfer was built in the absence of any devops. No costs to the developer, no servers that need to be run by the developer, and users can perpetuate the service after the developer leaves without having to do any devops themselves.

SkyTransfer also gets to leverage the identity and authentication infrastructure of the Skynet ecosystem. Building an equivalent service off of Skynet would probably take 5-10x as many developer hours.
Swahili, which they do support, is the national language of Kenya and a lingua franca in the region. They also have Amharic (Ethiopia), Xhosa and Zulu (South Africa).

I agree that supporting a finite set of languages isn't accessible enough, though.
Yup double yup !

> numerous lives it would save

If you want to save lives, work on malnutrition, reducing coal energy, water access, basic vaccines, etc. You'll have a much greater impact.
> The other big feature of social media is that it brings diffuse minorities together. Before social media, outliers were unlikely to meet those with similar inclinations. Social media powered cohesion of groups from gays to Proud Boys to flat-earthers.

And this is mostly a great thing. Like the internet started this, but Facebook (and Twitter I suppose) made it mainstream.

We're essentially in another time period like the one after the invention of the printing press, where the mechanisms for controlling the spread of information break down, and something new is born.

Unfortunately, it's much easier for journalists/policymakers et al to blame "Big Tech" rather than realise that to some extent, we are all to blame.
> the most efficient way to convert the power of the sun into forward movement

Very inefficient, and the difference is several orders of magnitude.

A horse needs 2-40 acres of land: https://horses.extension.org/how-much-land-do-i-need-for-a-h...

Photovoltaic panels can generate 500 kilowatts on 2 acres. Tesla's V3 supersharger is 250 kilowatt, adds 170 miles in 15 minutes of charging.

If the sun is shining for 6 hours, photovoltaic panels on 2 acres charge Teslas to drive 8000 miles. For a horse, the figure is like 40 miles per day.
Even if the electrical signals that are measured are only echos of the triggering signal, it can be utilised as a control signal.

The problem comes when you want to send a signal back into the brain - but even then there's a chance that the brain could rewire itself to take care of redirecting and reprocessing the fuzzy and inaccurate input.

Reasonably accurate output has the potential to revolutionise prosthetics (feedback aside).
Well, not exactly. For instance, if you see gold as money, it is inflationary because of its increasing supply, which is not decided by a governing body, but by the supply created by gold mining.

Bitcoin adjusts its supply automatically and without interference from a governing body. It is deflationary since it's supply is capped and because it's purchasing power increases continually.
Similar list: https://free-for.dev/ with previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26239711
Cookies being more difficult to reject than to accept. Sure that's an EU thing but still
> Similarly all your social instincts like FOMO are baked in, and [TV/radio/books] targets them ruthlessly.

Are my rephrasings of your statement any less true, or is FB somehow different?
A Telegram Chatbot for Covid Resources in India
Repeating what I wrote in the other HN thread:

Wouldn't a 4-word system be much easier to implement, be reversible and probably avoid their patent?
Extempore – An audiovisual live programming environment
Can you give an example of such a site?
" a total disregard for safety of both his customers and his workers"

At least in the case of SpaceX, they do not seem to be as reckless as you paint them. After 20 years in space industry, they have 0 fatalities on record, which is uncommon for a corporation of this size and history.

And they scrub launches whenever they are concerned about weather or anything off-nominal that their sensors indicate. Which led to an excellent safety record for Falcon 9s once the technology matured.
Google has done that in the past, I worked through the whole PageSpeed introduction, measurements, dumb decisions made to products just for SEO sake, etc.

They had this before, they could have just expanded it, they preferred to introduce AMP instead. Worse, introduced AMP with the whole corporate backing of it, they knew what they were doing.
Sounds interesting but the website doesn't talk at all about how it is done. I'm left wondering if they have something or are just doing research?
>where the Galactic civilization has forgotten how their technology works.

this reminds of a recent article on the Tartarian empire conspiracy theory I posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013834 - no discussion - actual article https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-ar...

In a few generations of nobody knowing how their technology works anymore will there be conspiracy theories regarding how that technology came to be and then became impossible to replicate.
It's an interesting observation. Personally, when I look back at giants and read their biographies, I find the most interesting bits usually about how they were motivated, what drove them, how they overcame challenges and hopelessness, how they forged business relations - I think the least interesting part is their personal life and what they did to piss someone off or what they tweeted/told publicly. The latter is just typical soap opera of details that provide little value to me. The latest Steve Jobs movie primarily focused on the melodrama of his personal relationships and offered literally nothing about what made Apple succesful.
Oracle and it's products have been a big NONO for me and my customers for a long time.
That's actually super cool; I wish I had more reasons to reach for Rust on a regular basis but this is definitely something I'll keep in mind should I ever get the opportunity to use Rust in any capacity.
The S Stands for Simple
You're talking like ECS and OOP are separate, while ECS is actually relational OOP :
https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265481-oop-is-dead-long...
They do, when competition forces them to.

I guess one _can_ make some kind of argument about how adding government enforced monopolies, ie patents, increases that kind of competition. But it would have to be a somewhat sophisticated one.
Ha, Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes Benz?

Although W3W is a scumbag company, telling my car to set destination to some.three.words would be neat. And since it's a Mercedes it should drive me there.
I don't think so. Once people realise they can buy real stuff with cryptos without being on the darknet (obligatory mention to particl), they'll see that they actually are a real. useful currency that doesn't need to be converted back to fiat.
You might be talking about 'Bowl of Heaven', 'Shipstar', and 'Glorious' by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford perhaps?
That is brilliant. I am switching to en-CA now.
Yes, the Canadians of Convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians_of_convenience was my first thought. That can't be the only reason as the blog post explains—I agree that en-CA coming before en-GB is likely the most important factor—but I'd be surprised if CoCs don't make up a meaningful share of "Canadians" in India. I wonder if there has been a noticeable rush of CoCs out of India during the current COVID19 flareup?
Podcasts are pretty niche. Almost all codec use these days is from streaming services or video/phone calls - YouTube, Spotify, WhatsApp, etc. None of those use MP3.
https://github.com/Yamahari/struct_array

It uses C++20 features and macros. The macros limit it to a POD count of 8.
That's a lot of moving parts. To give me an idea of what's left over, how lightweight are we talking when you say, "2 or 3 light weight Go services"?
The key part of the article is this:

> I’ve had the pleasure of working with more than twenty thousand publishers in the five years since AMP’s launch, and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a single reason that a publisher uses AMP other than to obtain this priority placement.

If there's no reason to use AMP other than to waste money, it's very likely it will be used less and less. And then it's just a matter of time before Google pulls the plug.
That's significantly less required in most EU countries due to the social safety net, affordable healthcare, public transit, etc. There are fewer types of financial emergencies to cover ( like your house's roof collapsing) and even if you lose your job you get unemployment for up to years while you find a new one.

The advice i've heard for France is to have roughly 3 months, preferably in a liquid savings account which even has some interest (0.25% atm, so not much).
> It would just mean it didn't motivate their decision to leave.

Which again, is worse. Or do you have insight into what could be "motivating" enough to negate the aforementioned downside?
thanks for switching discourse like this. I think the defining problem of politics (and by extension change) nowadays is that people don't call out antisocial behavior anymore. Nearly every society in the past did this one way or another in the non-autocratic parts (farmers villages, soviet,...). Nowadays we have a system run by psycho- and sociopaths (aka the McKinseyan PMC) and we can't get at them because wokeness-brigade tells us: poor things, don't hurt them...
Very nice, thanks for sharing!

Speaking of free services, one thing I've been looking for with not much luck is a Google groups equivalent. It can be paid as well, just not hosted by Google because I don't trust them to not discontinue it in the (not so distant) future.
For anyone looking for really straightforward way to get cloud hosting credits, checkout out IBM cloud: https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ you can get a $1000/month credit for one year no commitment to continue using them after.
Yes, I already agree with the strict ability part.

But eg just giving companies cash would also trivially increase their ability to pay higher salaries. But obviously, that's not really something anyone advocates for.
These are political problems, it's a different skillset.
IIRC didn't it also raise the issue of the cartels getting into the avocado business and threatening/kidnapping owners of orchards etc? Was there any truth to that?
While that's certainly a good step on the way, I'll be holding my breath until it's official, It's the most annoyingly long-lived piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to work with.
How often should you beat your kids? [pdf]
2fa through SMS?
You don't need a smartphone for that.

I don't know about Ireland, but in Portugal most banks have a Web app and not just a mobile app.
There is a huge Indian diaspora in Canada obviously.

1m+ citizens, and few times more of that of PRs, and frequent visitors.

No wonder many of the go back, and forth for seasonal work.
That's true. When I was staying at a 5-star hotel in Egypt, top floors' some sides were left unfinished intentionally. There was also a lot of buildings without exterior primer and paint (bare bricks). Locals have said that it's for avoiding higher taxes in buildings.

Egypt is/was a strange country when I last visited it.
Btw, that defense means that other people will make less money (or that there is less consumer surplus).
Likewise, I cannot write "director" without extending it by a letter into "directory".
No, it would mean any entrant into the ISP market has a cost moat for each neighborhood that inevitably has to be paid by the end user, for no gain other than ISPs owning their own connection, which has no user benefit, and thus, only benefits ISPs in a consumer-hostile way.

Instead of just treating infrastructure like infrastructure.