skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: View restaurants in your NYC neighborhood with poor health inspections
Sure they did. They created page and site metrics that then tied to search engine placement. All the "garbage" is an effort to improve their "performance" within these specific metric categories. It's the same story with "AMP." Publishers had zero incentive to create AMP versions of their site, but they did anyways, because they saw that they lost placement if they didn't comply.

I'm not "blaming" Google, nor should you be "defending" them. What I'm attempting to do here is show that they definitely, perhaps indirectly, played a significant part in the shape of the modern web. While simultaneously decrying the laziness of publishers that led them to this late stage outcome.

I mean.. did you want to discuss how things might improve, or did you just want to score points?
Damn I guess we shouldn't do any small step to improve society somewhat unless we can overhaul systems entirely all at once!

Personally, I'd prefer to see us fight for successively smaller and smaller blast radii than simply hoping and praying the blasts disappeared entirely.
Ideally in the future Ripl could support features like server-rendered SVGs and Offscreen Canvas. I already have a plan on how to go about tackling these two, I just sadly don't have the time...
Consider it rephrased in a way that doesn’t upset you

Consider not projecting emotional states on people you expect to reply to you.

“what do you think the advantages of your new library are that outweigh the years of development behind existing libraries?”

Like the sibling comment says, that's an obviously loaded question. But more importantly - Show HN is for all kinds of projects - from polished commercial offerings to learning projects or scratch-an-itch projects in their early stages of development. It doesn't make sense (nor is it particularly respectful of the author or inviting to new authors) to treat the posts of personal projects like a sales call and present them a list of generic, reflexive checkmarks and requirements questions. A Show HN of that sort is an invitation to take a look at something, provide feedback, chitchat with the developer if you have an interest in the particular topic. If fully-baked things are more your speed, you can just find a Show HN that showhns that.
GDPR is not just for business that "sells data". Like the above said, you would need a GDPR expert consultant to go through your whole process. It will also correlate to your country's law, not something "you can do what you think it's true".

You can check Mullvad's privacy policy to see how they are handling GDPR. It's not written in "corporate words" and is very clear to me. For example, they don't even need email address to sign up but once payment comes to the table, GDPR comes - depending on which method of payment, regardless of how you insist on "no data collect": https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy

The correct thing to do is transparenting that process with your legal/GDPR person.
Do you mind me asking how your vocabulary is so good? Mine has shrunken over time and I'm looking for ways to help expand it.
Same issue here. At least on firefox initially the bare domain shows the error, but if you visit www and then try to load the bare domain it will then redirect to www on subsequent loads. I was able to replicate in a private window.
Your comment resonates with me, and is better worded than I would have.
Recent and related:

The UX of UUIDs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39974465 - April 2024 (196 comments)
Yes, zoning should absolutely be federalized. Until people from Mississippi can force land use policy on my urban real estate, I know they will never truly be satisfied.
From the UK.

Put simply: if a (large) US company wants to employ me, will they take care of the visa alongside a job offer? Or is there some preparation that I should do myself before I even start trying to get an offer?
https://github.com/swyxio/brain/commit/5d978d9b12723f7cb2432...
Twilio is registered on the PSTN as an IPES, if your making the effort to block non-wireless OCNs, then your gonna block Twilio.
I'm in the process of moving the sidebar in the docs examples to the top so it can render properly in portrait on mobile. Should be fixed in the near future.
My startup currently does this. Not as an API. I have different sheets set to populate different firebase relatime databases on a build script. I think it's the right way to go for early startups because then everyone can help build the product. I will be setting it up for our translation dictionaries.
Fair enough. I suppose understanding why any individual reacts the way they do would be a good starting point too, though.
This would explain the OP being annoyed to the point of asking for a ban on it.

I’ve also never seen it in the many users of (mostly many times daily) visiting HN.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016985, which is currently on the front page
Yesterday I realized I had 75 tabs open on my mobile web browser and decided to do some trimming. Anything I was confident would come up again and didn’t need to be held onto got closed, including a tab for Kagi. And now I find Kagi has come up again, and I really liked reading this message so now I’m opening the tab again and almost certainly subscribing
>and as a business you should listen little to what people say they want and listen much to how they spend their money.

yeah well if I never pay money for kagi and never speak about anything how the hell is kagi supposed to know what they could do to get me to pay for them?
If I want to keep living in Europe but work for a US company, is there some visa work necessary? Do they have to have offices in Europe?
I'm guessing 100% of the downvotes are from the "global superpower".
Heat related deaths are not uncommon. And likely undercounted[1].

It's one thing to not put in place protections. It's another to actively prevent protections from being put in place. Truly shows lack of compassion for laborers.

[1]: https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2023-08-15/h...
I honestly don't see the problem. 5^2 = 3^2 + 4^2. Where is the error?
Very low-level work (OS kernels, firmware) and the more "product managery" high-level work at that requires speaking to customers. If models remain as unstable as they are rn, infrastructure and testing would be needed.
Seconding this, the only reasonable way to do this business is either fixed money or fixed output, you can't have both at the same time. You can give estimates, yes, but be very clear that this is an estimate, not a binding offer. If you're selling fixed money and fixed output at the same time you're always bidding against yourself.
Isn’t there some encoding that encodes bytes as words, or pronounceable letter groupings?
I’m pretty sure the restart server function in RunUO was from my contribution in highscool 2001 :)

I remember it wasn’t implemented and I asked if just starting a new process and stopping the old would work? Someone said try and see, it did and I shared the code and it made it into the next build.

Over 20 years later I owe a career in game development to RunUO.
The similarities really kinda end beyond the name :P
There are many things to dislike about a soviet republic, but lack of democratic representation isn't one of them. I wish we could recall MPs via a vote like they could.
I think they covered this pretty effectively in Whiplash

"not quite my tempo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvBu5ErSSo
While outcomes will be better, each interaction will be more painful. Taking your parent to an appointment need not take a full day, but if it is two hours’ travel each way….
Ugh, no.

Stopped using Renovate when I discovered that it will happily propose a PR update for completely incompatible and conflicting dependencies. It literally looks at the latest version of each dependency alone, without considering if this will make a conflict.

Author insists this is a problem with all package managers, that it's impossible to write a tool that doesn't behave like this, and that manually grouping dependencies or completely ignoring version updates until the next one is the only sensible approach.

This doesn't save me time.
Wiggy.

[1] https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=wiggy
That’s certainly a way to get a rise out of nerds lol
I thought it was in the water to rot your mind!
Wasn't there a link between flouride and lower IQ in children?
Why wouldn’t you just bundle your shared dependencies in libraries so you would only have to update them in one location anyway? We put all our shared utilities into service libraries which are injected into our microservices when they are build. Since the APIs they consume are build to be non-breaking on changes, any external packages that get updated will only need to have their breaking changes solved in one location.

95% of our changes are done by renovate. We rarely have to deal with breaking changes on anything backend related, though the frontend is a different story. But our frontends aren’t exactly “microservices” anyway, and they are always very much in active development.

I build a couple of services which collects a gazillion tonnes of solar inverter data from various plants over the world, and then does some fancy ML magic to figure out which solar cells need cleaning, and it has run for years with automated dependency updates with nothing breaking because of how it was build from the start.

I get that if your microservices are really just a bunch of tiny monoliths then it’s hell, but then you should probably prioritise your suggestion of merging it together somehow.
As someone who also has lived under state funded/controlled media I have to say that it is terrible and I hate paying for it. It produces almost nothing of value, but consumes enormous amounts of resources to do low effort entertainment, which is just as well provided by private companies. It also does extremely unfunny copies of American TV shows.
The best part of the whole thing is them streaming the government proceedings, which could easily be done on a comparatively miniscule budget.

They also are always biased in favor of what the government position is, which is completely obvious since the government is funding them and has oversight. Trusting them to fix anything is identical to trusting the government to fix it. There will not be a revolution forthcoming from them.
Products like this make the internet worse.
They sometimes do. And even otherwise, most "news" these days is snippets and summarization of existing online content, the exact thing they are complaining about.
Or, to change a phrase, if the proles have been convinced that they are temporarily embarrassed bourgeoisie.
The piccie has nuts at unit lengths and the first line of the article after the very short intro is:

"The artwork references the idea of relating the lengths of the sides of a 3-4-5 right triangle ..."

How on earth did you get 2-3-4 for a right angled triangle! I blame booze, drugs, a late night or perhaps a standard issue: "off by one" (this is HN after all) ...
It's pretty but not really ruggedized. It's not designed for water/moisture, dust or other environmental resistance, extended temperature range, impact or vibration resistance (I doubt it would survive as checked-in luggage on a flight, for example), longevity, etc. All you get is whatever protection that the Pelican case gives you. It's better than nothing but a prepper would probably be better off with an intentionally ruggedized computer.
Shadow API detection for your Google Cloud environments
At this point many in the US have experienced or heard about cities like Portland where removal of prohibition did not result in a utopia, but instead a city full of meth zombies. Granted Portland is probably the worst city to hold this experiment in*, but regardless at this point there are many people with first hand experience who definitely think prohibition is a lesser evil. Doesn't mean its the correct path, but I believe neither is it simple to say prohibition doesn't work. It clearly doesn't work as good as perfect treatment, but it remains to be seen if e.g. the US could actually execute on something better.

> stop trying to police what they do in the privacy of their own home

I think if most folks used in their own home Portland's experiment would have been a smashing success. Yet nobody really uses fentanyl, meth, etc, without their life and home situation falling apart. Thus the idea of hard-drug users doing so in the privacy of their own home feels a bit unrealistic.

*Mental health care / services are among the worst here, and there are insufficient treatment centers and methods of enforcement, on top of the general lack of quality execution plans the local gov't has demonstrated as of late. The complete lack of any enforcement has led to predictable droves of addicts wondering the streets.
Never give fixed prices for hourly development time, as the history of estimates should have already shown your teams competence quoting.

The simple reason is many larger firms simply will not pay their scheduled final installment for a fixed price contract, lawsuits are tax deductible for large firms, and so you should adjust your initial service pricing to offset this phenomena.

Note many mid-sized companies will simply never allow customer specific development time, as it exposes more risk the longer it persists.

Seriously, whatever deal you think you signed is often wishful BS once the incentive to pay is gone.
I made a completely graphical representation of this game in P5.js - it turned out quite intuitive I think.

The integers are represented by the number of edges in each straight section.

https://editor.p5js.org/semi-extrinsic/sketches/IKOjwE7Vb
The bridge was built during a trend to build wooden apartment houses here in Sweden, and probably all over Scandinavia.

This fad has now passed and there have been several news stories about what a bad idea it was. I guess they were trying to get back to using more natural materials.
A support desk/ticketing or sales pipeline service feels like the way to go here. Zendesk is a good low cost ticketing/support and Hubspot is marketing/sales. You could set it up so emails go through the service so you have the full history of the conversation in a single easy to read thread.

You could then attach an SOW contract to the ticket and update the contract as the client’s needs evolve.
> "Software Stalins," managers who grab onto one indicator and think that driving it to zero (or 100, or 11 for you Spinal Tap Fans) will resolve all other problems.

Paul O’Neill famously did exactly this at Alcoa starting in 1987, focusing solely on worker safety resolved many other problems and multiplied profitability.

>The company's market value increased from $3 billion in 1986 to $27.53 billion in 2000, while net income increased from $200 million to $1.484 billion.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roddwagner/2019/01/22/have-we-l...
Sure but you need to be careful not to reflexively reach for modern-style revanchist individualism as the solution. All of our notable achievements have been the result of people acting together, and maintaining a collaborative, even collectivist approach is reconcilable with deeply private individual inner lives.

Not that, reading your comment, I think you're approaching it that way. But I could easily imagine someone reading this and being like "yes exactly that's why libertarianism" or whatever.
Pricing is a funny thing. You'd think lower prices would lead to more demand.
I think they are actually (intentionally) pushing the definition of "isn't their best self", where "not best self" may means things like "yells racial slurs", "stabs stranger" (etc), "shoots random people", etc.
Okay, for some reason they took down that one but the original (but not maintained) fork is gone. Fascinating...
You can choose other skill levels for bigger grids
Oh yes the one I mean is Bypass Paywalls Clean (D). But this also seems to have been kicked out of the Mozilla store. It was just a resubmit by someone else after the original got kicked out when a French newspaper complained.

We really need sideloading capability in mobile firefox :(
Wow, the nostalgia I just got... Idk how it is now, but back in the day, you could easily get 15 players by hosting one these repacks and posting on reddit and ac-web. Ran a shitty level 60 twink server one summer of one these repacks, made a donation item similar to hearthstone packs, where you would get 5 random items. I surprisingly got a few donations... I had to shut it down due to school starting, but man, that was such a fun summer.

Its an incredibly fun learning experience to be honest. This really sparked my interest in programming. The freedom to create I felt! To think all i wanted to do was recreate swifty PVP videos... Private WoW Servers Hold an incredibly special place in my heart.
You need to write tests against your libraries, not just your own code!
> "terror at the thought of never being alone"

Yea, I think the very concept of this will be very difficult for anyone who's childhood was in the internet era.

I mean, imagine the horror of turning the cell phone off 8-)
I was talking about game experience, not game engine's capabilities. There wasn't anything like Descent before Descent.
I really hope they succeed with this. However, the fact that they are publicly offering $5M to someone, ANYONE, who can think of a real world use case for these things as they currently exist does not inspire confidence. And Google has certainly acquired a reputation for killing projects these days.
If only there was a way to make the third use case illegal... Users should be treated as GODS on the machine they own. They should be the one holding all the keys to the kingdom. There should not be any hardware/firmware feature that can subvert this authority by either concealing things, or snitching on the user. My machine should not work against me.
Labor Notes is pro workers. It's a very well-established and highly respected publication that advocates for strong unions (controlled by workers) over weak unions (controlled by bureaucrats).
I disagree on T&M. Billing by the hour penalizes those that have developed the patterns and skills to go faster. Fixed price is the only way to be better than the other firm and have that lead to an advantage on your bottom line.
That's my point, but the copyright belongs to the guy who derived it, not the original creator, why turn that upside down for generative AI?
It's a joke..
It's more of a camouflage I think: the theatric "management" role is fulfilled by having a random event on the calendar, but actual work doesn't have to abide to any set date and will take whatever time it needs to finish.
If Hawaii were overpopulated, we would see people leaving for other areas because there are too many people. Instead we only see people leaving because it's too expensive.

Agreed that housing on vacant land isn't the answer. The answer is to build up, in more socially-orinted ways.
We need a kind of Kagi but it should be user-owned and controlled.
I’m not saying your comment wasn’t relevant context, just that (a) your assertion that GPS can be used on the Moon is not currently true and (b) the future possibility doesn’t answer my original question for reasons mentioned.
Google is DEEPLY and directly involved in the ecosystems that:

* pay publishers more for showing video ads than showing text or image ads

* encourages and creates invasive tracking Javascript and cookies-and-similar tricks

* rewards SEO/spam tricks with higher placements in search
On the whole they may be better built, but the same design in steel would likely not have failed?

I guess that’s what they’re going for when they say aesthetics had too much of a focus?
If you read much Orwell, you'll see most of the elements that went into 1984 are present in his earlier writing as well.

"Such, Such Were the Joys" is obvious; other influences I recall are bits of "You and the Atomic Bomb", Down and Out.., Homage..., "Notes on Nationalism", "The Spike" and probably a few I'm forgetting.

What surprises me is how many people think Smith is meant as a sympathetic character; recall what crimes he's willing to commit!
I don't know why you think the market would reward me for this.

The market is the result of regulation, and the regulations right now do not permit more housing, but do allow the highest bidder clear the market.

The market has been set up to only serve those with the most money, through a conscious choice of how the regulations were chosen.
You're implying TikTok wasn't already garbage.
Did you make incremental changes to these pages over time, too? It seems that unchanging content is an anti-signal these days, and might account for what you're seeing. There are also hundreds of changes to the ranking algo every year so it could be something else.
I’ll throw my hat into the ring and agree that this phrasing makes no sense.

To help the AI with its clickbait generation for next time: “Workers at Ford EV battery plant marred by mold”, “Foibles at Ford battery plant! Mold infestation takes down workforce”
That may be true, but that wasn't the claim. The claim was changes in upstream systemd would limit the timeline for them. Not that they had interaction with each other.

The podcast is interesting either way.
Can't you make the screenshots svg themselves?
This advice feels very US-specific. I've delivered 7-8 fixed projects for giant corps in Germany/Belgium/NL/UK, ranging between 70k and 350k (eur) in project value, and never ever felt that this was a risk.
There used to be audience caps that prevented news outlets from holding a monopoly over news in any given market.

Those should be brought back and applied to content moderation platforms.
Wow, 2 days for a fix, over a weekend.
This is great. Reminds me of the "Flow Free" game on the Apple App Store.
preferably with a descriptive voice-over track.
United Airlines Developing Premium Business Class, "Push Button for Champagne
In all communities, your gonna have churn and only a small percentage that is gonna continue contributing.

In Belgium, we've done some active community building. A chat channel helps, but regular meetups too - often these are just sitting in a bar or in a cozy place and discussing everything that is related to OpenStreetMap.

It also helps that quite a few have jobs in or at least using OpenStreetMap.
As far as I know, there is no good way to process transactions on the order of a few cents. Micropayments are hard.
Exactly right. Refreshing to see someone in this thread knows their history.
You are*

https://youryoure.com/
The quality of life of the poorest members of society is also much higher than it has ever been, indeed, much higher than historical kings and lords.

Unfortunately, people do tend to be happier if they're miserable among other miserable people, than if they were living comfortably among people with cooler things than them.
Which (as controversial as it sounds in this kind of forum) is a sensible pricing model to recover and fund R&D and finance operations.
That might work - an interesting take. I haven't really thought about the pre loop to the older boiler.

I think the challenge is determining how much energy you save. I guess we could run the calculations and back out nat gas savings.

Managing the microcontrollers might be a bit of a pain though.
Cool - Any details on how it done behind the scenes?
Hi Peter,

I have an offer to study a CS Masters in the US. I have two questions:

1) What are my options after my 3 year STEM OPT ends? Can you comment on the likelihood of being able to stay in the US after? Do I need to be working for a company capable of sponsoring me (e.g. FAANG)?

2) Let's say I don't do my Masters in the US – what is the process of getting a visa if I raise from a US VC?

Thank you for helping us all! :)

* For anyone wanting to search through Peter's past AMAs, this might be of interest: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Uhh, how does that get you dependency tracking?