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sixhobbits

7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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Yeah people are acting like everyone needs to scramble to take advantage of this, but it's mainly not actionable to improve your own rankings. If you're a black hat then I guess making your …
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I've been using Python since like 2011 and I still read PyPy and think PyPI. Naming things is hard but it would be nice if people tried a bit harder to avoid clashes at least within the same ecos…
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The Rand Fishkin article that this refers to is a much better source https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousa... …
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(2006)
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You forgot the part where you have to add your API key first
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It's hard to believe that some of these comments aren't trolling. Do they also consider the fact that iterm can call out to tools like `wget` and `curl` a privacy risk and slippery slope tha…
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This time is different
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This was already a story in 2015 when Google collected the SSID and location data as well as 'accidentally' storing the actual network data from open networks [0] https://www.theg…
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Looks nice but it is missing clarity on the pricing page about if the premium features are also open source or not, or is this open core? https://worklenz.com/pricing/ …
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I have tried a bunch and would love a free OSS option but honestly Leanpub is the best I have found for ebook and printing. For web, I went Mkdocs material (cos I like Python) to Docusaurus (because i…
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"with participation from existing investors" Probably "hey crazy times are over and everything was too highly valued your only options are to admit you f'd up and lost or to try pu…
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> Maintainers reneged on a promise[0] to provide an autopsy of the hack, a decision that has limited the public’s understanding of the incident. [0] https://arstechnica.com/informat…
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I found this section kind of interesting > Blog post authorship > Aidan Clark, Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Alex Carney, Alex Nichol, Alexander Kirillov, Alex Paino, Alexis Conneau, Allan Jabri, Anuj Go…
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the chain of command stuff gets very close to asimov without actually quoting him A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orde…
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This is one of those things that _seems_ really simple but the details make it pretty complicated. Not sure about Signoz and PagerDuty, but there are plenty freemium services like UpTimeRobot that wor…
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This is probably a better source as its not a video and has a bit more information https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/5/netanyahu-government... …
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Accountants thought spreadsheets would kill their profession, instead demand for them exploded. Compilers made it much easier to code compared to writing everything in Assembly. Python made it much ea…
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Would be great to see a comparison to some better known alternatives like - Dokku [0] - CapRover [1] [0] https://dokku.com/ [1] https://caprover.com/ …
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Not sure how 'successful' it is, but Netherlands government also started a Mastodon server https://social.overheid.nl/about and e.g. the tax office has over 2000 followers …
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The platform itself is "legit" in the sense that it has real people well known in the tech community behind it. I personally would be very surprised if they are running a blatant scam in tha…
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I could use the free trial / starter credits from EU, but the moment I tried to upgrade it said it wasn't available in my region.
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> However, the Ireland law firm expects these laws to become fully operational before the usual enforcement timeline.
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Reminds me of Impossibly Hungry Judges [0]. When an effect is _too_ strong your first instinct should be to question it. I seriously doubt that eating patterns could have an effect on heart attacks si…
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First time I have heard the term (and I have done quite a bit of llm benchmarking) but I love it! Similar to the xkcd "wtfs per minute" measure of code quality measure I guess. Everyone I kn…
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Sorry I am dumb and commented after clicking on the link. I would just add your hn text to the readme as that is exactly what I was looking for
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One of my favourite spaces and presentation in readme is clear and immediately told me what it is and most of the key information that I usually complain is missing. However I am still missing a secti…
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