skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannot recommend this enough. Life becomes a lot easier once you leave that failing state.
In 2010-2012, google results were peak content farm stuff too. Then they fought it actively, in 2013 they announced that they changed a lot in their relevance calculations (did they call it “project Panda”? For some reason I remembered it being called that) and it really helped, and in 2013-2015 it was a golden age of search results. Content farms that worked by stuffing keywords and working in rings to boost their page rank went away almost overnight.

And then dark SEO found its way around it again. And now we have a new cesspit, but it looks like Google doesn’t give a shit anymore. They only change the number of ads interspersed among search results.

Time to build a good bookmark collection, I guess.
Does Germany not have fast bank transfers? In the UK, people used to use PayPal for this until the Faster Payments system came in, which meant that you can instantly transfer money to anyone with a UK bank account via your normal banking app.

I think it technically takes 24-48 hours to clear, but that doesn't tend to be an issue in practice. You'll get the push notification telling you the money has arrived and your balance will update in seconds.
For money that could work. For other assets (e.g. art, anything that has an environmental cost to create it) society may benefit from them being preserved. I guess you could still auction them off and burn the money.
thanks for the feedback. I should have asked, what questions do you ask when hiring a jr developer.
I would not go to my neighbour and beat her up if she has a different understanding of medicine than me.

The same principle applies when doing it through the proxy of the state and the vote.
Then exercise some personal responsibility and caution. Keep your passwords carefully and don't trust certain crypto insitutions. The crypto world is indeed loaded with cases of fraud, but underneath that, here is a system of systems that lets people who do indeed get locked out of conventional financial systems send and receive funds without the permission of a central regulatory authority or some dysfunctional, corrupt political control mechanism, It doesn't always work at that, but it offers one strong further alternative. Also, how is it upending the lives of billions of people? The two things you compare at the end are not directly related and definitely not in a causative way. Wanting a further means of avoiding being a victim of dumb banking accidents doesn't make you culpable in whatever defects crypto has.

It's not just the rampantly emotional and repetivie crypto hate on HN that's absurd, it's also the sheer narrow follishness of so many of the arguments that's rather galling.
what I personally would like to see is a tool that helps me to undererstand the codebase. Maybe a sourcecode visualizer.

When I need to start on new projects with existing codebase I would love a visual map or something of all the components in the source code (before I dive into the sourcecode itself and spend hours or days to understand how everything works together. Personally I need this for php and javascript. I use xdebug profiler for php but thats too much info and I need to run the webapp. I need something that is able to anazyle and visualize the code without executing it.
I think this is ironic writing this in English. In Portuguese, Deutsch or Italian, even Spanish why not, but in a language with like 10 diphthong and 5 triphthong, 15 ways to pronounce the letter 'a', that even native speaker can't really pronounce (at least Scotts and Irish, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same for blue collar English workers) should not be used to make fun of another idiotic language. At least we have the excuse that a conservative, non elected body is keeping our language difficult and dumb for conservative reasons.
The site is full of Markov chain garble using random products as seeds to useless copy in order to sell ad space and affiliate links. There's no person who would even want to update the site.
Well, one of the Romanian welfare system's biggest long-term risks is low natality leading to an aging population. So, reducing benefits for new-born children seems penny wise but pound foolish.

Still, given that the welfare system is mostly financed out of current taxes, if the population can be stabilized (or even increased), it can be self-sustaining. We are not in a good place right now, but we were in a much worse place 10 or 20 years ago, so there are reasons to be hopeful things can be turned around.

Also, lots of people are leaving exactly because welfare is not good enough in the country (while the legal benefits are nice, often times the quality of the actual services is well below par). So again, I don't think reducing welfare will have a positive impact, in the longer term.
It also comes from a comment by Joe Armstrong, author of erlang, upon trying tiddlywiki. https://joearms.github.io/#Index

Rip Joe
I'm not sure it's framed like that, it's specifically talking about production patterns
It's the same everywhere. Amazon and Google are absolutely worhtless for anything that is slightly not mainstream.

What I personally do is, when I need some hardware I go to a local hardware shop for professionals and ask/buy from them. I am probably not getting the best deal, but it's better than no deal whatsoever or exhausting myself searching for a solution, or buying something in the internet that is not worth it.

I've done this succesfully for thousends of items. This is a lot of time and headaches I did not have to endure in front of my PC.

If I was him I would look for some distributor or just go where these laser printers are used and ask.

A phone call is more useful than a search engine.
copying zeroes is much less work for the controller and SLC cache.

is it possible that the controller is over-heated? Do you have the NVME drive under a GPU?
> It's been downhill since all the subreddit bans a couple years ago.

Out of the list on Wikipedia [1], the utter majority of banned popular subreddits were far-right, terrorist, violence-oriented or dealt with questionably or outright illegal sexual material (jailbait, fappening).

As for r/consumeproduct, there's a Google doc floating around detailing its links to the far-right and transphobes [2]. Doesn't sound surprising to me that they got banned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IdBsrh8FS6k85XsrpqDjmqPe...
You can use cat for that:

mysqldump -u mysql db | ssh user@rsync.net "cat > db_dump"
Thanks for the clarification, it has been a while, :)
Hey HN,

I built a little-side project that tries to use GPT-3 to find and describe novel business ideas at the intersection of two existing projects. Was a fun little experiment to build so wanted to share it here :)

I wrote a longer piece with background and context on the project here: https://www.notion.so/Possible-Intro-Blog-Post-b4a588a48a034...
When you say "anglo" are you mostly referring to north Americans?

I've never heard a british person call is a Fres-nell.

A fresnel is a commonly used form of light in theatres and studios and everyone I've ever worked with in the theatre has pronounced it the French way.

I assume it's that we are simply exposed to French much more (and learn it badly in school).
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I was reading the code thinking this seems like a different language to the one I use (albeit I'm not too experienced).

That seems obtuse to me in the extreme. Maybe I'm just not used to that style however.
> which is the fact that horses of the time were smaller

Driving a 30kg chariot must have been a frightening fast experience, even on a small pony.

The lack of bearing, brakes, suspension, … on wooden wheels.
Taleb has a paper arguing Bitcoins expected long term value is infact 0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204
> Also, PHEVs stink

We've had a BEV for three years now. Last Christmas we had a loaner as it was for repair, and the loaner was a regular ICE. One of the first things that struck me was the smell of fuel and exhaust. The next thing was how noisy it was.

Hope I don't have to get another ICE, BEVs are just so much nicer to drive overall.
Detaxing land (e.g. prop 13) deliberately created incentives to inhibit higher density housing. This plus growing wealth inequality kicked off the NIMBY revolution.
It wouldn’t generally, but productivity increases are not even across the entire population/workforce and, furthe, some of the productivity gains may be captured by organized groups.

Let’s say you have a population of software developers and cleaners and that the productivity of software developers doubles while the productivity of cleaners remains the same. Developers may demand higher salaries and increase the demand for some goods or services, say housing, whose price may increase, leaving the cleaners worse off. Providers of such services may organise (explicitly or otherwise) to capture part of this productivity increase (say blocking the construction of new apartment blocks), making the situation for cleaners even worse.
Show |How did my first launch on ProductHunt go? Things I did on the launch day
Product: https://freshenv.io
Launch date: 7th May
Category:

I started off with posting about the product on HackerNews ( my first post on HackerNews, Karma points: 2) , Reddit (first post on reddit), IndieHackers ( 26 followers ) and twitter (41 followers).
The product did very well and I was super happy. It was 5th product of the day and it went way better then I expected (107 upvotes) . The github repository got 61 stars and is growing. The website itself got 40K requests, 4.8k unique visitors. Most of the traffic came from HackerNews and ProductHunt. I did not do any marketing other than posting on these social media channels.
For anyone interested: When removing the dialogue audio channel from Twin Peaks episodes, it is nice to discover the rich tapestry of sound design hidden underneath. Listen to the sounds extracts these layers for you personal enjoyment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ZMZEaK4lQ
These were probably before most of our times, but I definitely played a lot of other text based games during the 90-00's. For example the classic ship trading game where you are buying/selling cannons, food, men etc. and fighting while traveling to different ports (there were may variations of this game type).

Also during the MUD era, I played a lot of actual MUD, then some Star Trek variations where you have a whole big crew piloting a ship, a Doom type arena shooter game, etc.

For a short time there were a lot of different text games coming out.
It was used exactly for that application.

Not that long ago, typesetting math formulas was extremely expensive, unless you used TeX. It was not very commercial and companies were not interested but certain individuals were.

The same happened when you wanted your Hebrew or Arabic or Japanese just to look right. Japanese uses at least four scripts plus latin words in the same place.

Over time, commercial entities added support for those, most of them just incorporating TeX source code (as it was public domain). They added the visual interfaces and the easiness of use that TeX lacks.
If you're talking about kubernetes service IP, it's virtual IP provided by your KubeDNS / CoreDNS which has multiple endpoints. Endpoints are actual pod IP.

https://www.dinarguru.biz/
Given how they have behaved until now, they won't care.

Answer about OEM changes regarding killing background jobs, at this year's Google IO Android Fireside, paraphrasing, "Android is a rich environment that depends on its OEMs, and the inovations that they bring into the picture, so it is always a balance that we need to strive for".

Video is available in case you want to cross check the exact words.
Then it’s not like that. Swish is literally the best and only option and it is better than people exchanging cash.

In Singapore there’s also PayNow/PayLah
I don’t understand why this is so hard for google. Allow end users to flag links as SEO spam. It’s very easy for a human to figure out. I can tell in maybe 1/4 a second that a page is just SEO shit. The keyword stuffing, the irrelevant fluff before and after any relevant content (if it’s there at all), the annoying ads that take up the whole screen, etc. Let us flag it, remove it from the index. Take a snapshot of the page at the time it was removed so if the owner wants to appeal Google can say why it was removed.
People who used to die from smallpox tended to end up with little in the way of autonomy or liberty and generally did not have a choice in the matter.
I'll admit to being one of those people. My brain still spells it out as eXtract Ze Files every time :-P
I find it odd things like this, Venmo, Square cash even need to exist. There’s a reason none of them get used much (or even exist) outside the US. Just fix banking in the US and they problems they solve disappear. In the UK (and the EU I believe too) bank transfers and instant and free. Digital banks like Monzo make it even easier (through contact syncing, better UI). Third party apps need not get involved.
Launched 2019. Still no sign of it in the UK
Exactly, the doctrine (function/use) vs design/structure (look/physicals) tension found in the memes in the linked article.

edit: meant this other article by the same author: https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not...
> article about top 10 laser printers that contains only ink jet printers

The top non-ad article I get on DDG is a top-10 article that includes 5 lasers, 1 LED printer: Canon MF741Cdw, Brother HL-L8360CDWT, HP M182, HP M479fdn, Brother MFC-L3710CW (LED), HP M404dn.

https://plumbaroakland.com/best-large-format-laser-printer/
If you can completely fix a hernia with 99% success at the first try without a hospital stay, you are significantly more productive than somebody that has a 50% success rate and that requires patients to stay in hospital for a week, even if you operate on the same number of patients.
Ask HN: Can someone tell me how to become a successful indie app developer?
I'll be 40 this year, hate my job and want to become an independent app developer. The income from my own apps should be enough for everyday life.
I've been learning app development since 2019 and have already successfully published 2 apps.
Is it coincidence? Luck? Hard work?
What do I have to do to make it work?
> when I need some hardware I go to a local hardware shop for professionals and ask/buy from them

I don't think that I would get good buying advice that way. E.g. I was looking at eink Android tablets. The information I got from reddit, HN and youtube reviews was so niche that I'd have been suprised if a random electronics store salesman would have had it.
MC eventually leaks the database of handprints, yours is used to make a fake rubber handprint that ends up on a gun involved in a crime. Police has evidence, your weak argument that you were in a bar that night gets dismissed by the judge, nobody believes you.
I'm not a fan of Bitcoin but this statement is nonsense.
A Bitcoin is worth something because some people are willing to pay for it, just like a car is worth something for that same reason.

You might say that a car has 'real value' because it can help you to travel from place A to B. But similarly a Bitcoin has real value, at least for some people, because it can help you transfer or store money.
One might say that there are better alternatives for Bitcoin, which might make Bitcoin eventually obsolete and worthless. But again similarly, for every car on the market right now, there will be probably a better alternative in the future.

It's amazing to hear the chief of ECB make a statement so obviously and fundamentally wrong.
(In theory at least,) kernel should take care of aggregating write blocks and those will be plenty big enough by the time it reaches target drive, all thanks to the very same page cache GP is talking about - unless you specify "oflag=direct" to dd.

That being said, probably don't use too small of a block-size - this will eat up CPU in system call overhead and slow down copy regardless of target media type.
iOS/Android duopoly, wiping out the remaining fragmentation.
I prefer the first way, as you can read it left to right and each step is meaningful. "Take the contents of file, process it through somecmd, then save the result to file2."

I would hope both commands boil down to exactly the same action. Any overhead from invoking cat (isn't that a shell built-in?) should be negligible.
It's worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. Simple as that.

Bureaucrats like Lagarde, or anyone for that matter, don't get to declare from their perch what does and doesn't have worth to others.

Her statements are... well, worthless... to millions of other people.
Because a newcomer has to sell its vaccines. Although the other Smallpox vaccines are ok.

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/15489723-bavarian...
Or her commitment to the American oligarchy.
It is true that bank transfers are fast, instant most of the time these days. However, when people want to quickly send me money, they still usually ask for paypal, simply because it’s easier to tell someone a nickname or email address than my IBAN. not that this is an unsolvable issue, just sharing my experience from Germany.
what to do to prevent ransomware attacks?
We have our children pay us using a card payment terminal. Ours is from SumUp, I know plenty of other brands do them too. I'm happy to eat the transaction costs for the ease of use.

A terminal should work with any product that functions as a debit card, pre-pay or not. As it happens, my children do have actual current accounts behind the cards they use. But it seems like UK banking is becoming less willing to issue full-spec debit cards to younger teens :(.
> Not really, it’s in line with the battery warranty with more or less all EV manufacturers

My BMW i3 battery warranty was 80% remaining capacity after 8 years.

I checked the raw data, and they actually did he 80/20 rule, so when it reported 100% charged in the user interface, the battery was 80% full. Based on this I think it would have lasted a long time (it got totalled by some dofus, entirely unrelated).
I'm concerned about how many people lie to themselves to feel better, and then expect me to support their delusions.
I can't believe that tweet threads are a preferred way to disseminate information. They're a backwards step from plain HTML and even newspapers. There's no context given around the mentioned events and little to derive from the tweets unless you're well versed in the Terra collapse.
Few native English speakers learn grammar formally these days. Partner is a retired proofreader and these last 20 years has killed her, watching teachers and lecturers fail to understand their mother tongue.

Also, the Spanish equivalent of academie francais is at least talking about ending gender for inanimate objects I believe. In english, lack of a definitional body makes this very hard (actor/actress chairman &c, not having gendered inanimate objects makes it hard to find a direct equivalent)
I never understood the problem with food commodity speculation. When bankers buy wheat in anticipation of higher prices and the prices in fact go up, the bankers successfully buffered supply by decreasing supply when there was more wheat and increasing supply when there is less wheat.

So for the banker’s actions to have a negative impact on the world, they necessarily must lose money on their trades.

And if the price should only increase because of the bankers, it will decrease again when they sell, it’s a zero-sum game minus trading and storage fees.
Having replicas could allow for some reconstruction work too, which, depending on the execution, and while I'm skeptical, could turn out quite cool.
> one of the Romanian welfare system's biggest long-term risks is low natality leading to an aging population.

That is true for every welfare system based on social responsibility structure. Society pools money to pay for retirement of everyone at a fixed rate. Young people are entered into the system to fund old people's retirement today and promised that they would get funded by young people tomorrow.

This works as long as enough young people enter the system at intervals to continue the payouts except when that doesn't happen due to demographic collapse or some other reason. Think of a legal pyramid scheme.

> if the population can be stabilized (or even increased), it can be self-sustaining

Not necessarily. Many countries underestimated the life expectancy of people retired and had to run on a deficit as a result so they are taking money from pensioners of future today. They had to fix this by increasing the retirement age, cutting down benefits, removing benefits for people with private savings, etc.

They will only keep cutting. If not, it will fall.

> lots of people are leaving exactly because welfare is not good enough in the country

I see unemployment among youth as the major reason. Welfare won't be funded by unemployed.

> So again, I don't think reducing welfare will have a positive impact, in the longer term.

Reducing unsustainable welfare will because money can be used elsewhere to create jobs, attract businesses, increase employment, etc.
I think the problem is that there is no other way to provide feedback to Google other than clicking on links.

I used to search on Google without an account. Then I created a phony account at work to see if there is an improvement in my searches (because it should be "learning", right?). And after some months... nope, or at least it's not noticeable.

How does Google know what I like, what I search or the content I want to see? Some combination of clicks and time-spent in a page through Google Analytics?

I would rather add a couple of buttons after each search result to provide feedback and the feedback I provide is valid just for my user (so it cannot be gamed). Two buttons with "this is crap" / "this is fine". Then Google can learn from that feedback instead of guessing through AI.

That, plus a "I'm not joe-six-pack" mode toggle, where Tools->Verbatim is enabled
and finds exactly what I am looking for, without assuming I'm misspelling or confused.
This is oversimplifying things. Bluetooth devices are typically much closer than WiFi devices, and need less bandwidth. The protocol has less overhead (on modern BT devices). It's true that implementation quality of BT devices is typically severely lacking, but with a good quality implementation (e.g. Apple AirPods with a Mac or iOS device), the WiFi is far more likely to be the weak link in a home videoconferencing setup.
“Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?”

“No.”
This is a valid point. If a buyback has been announced then the share is worth at least what the company buying back the share has agreed to.
> But similarly a Bitcoin has real value, at least for some people, because it can help you transfer or store money.

It does that function just as well (not that well, really) at 30’000 dollars per bitcoin as it does at 30’000 bitcoins per dollar.
I like this idea. So how would you prevent company X from flagging all their competitors as spam sites - and just in general how do you deal with the abuse of such a feature?
There is a lot of competition in the uk/eu I guess. Everyone has Revolut etc already.
not every parent has the time or experience to do that. banning smartphones is easier than constantly supervising their use. to much supervising may also breed resentment from the kids, especially when they get older.
i feel it's better to first deny them and later give them the phone on trust. like they are old enough to handle a phone now. that should lead to a better relationship with the kids