skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard many times that the difference in public advertising between East and West Germany (or East Germany before and after '89) is striking.

But you are right, there may be more to it. I couldn't find a period American photo magazine on archive.org. There are old issues of a magazine called "Art Photography"[1], which sounds right, but turns out to be more pornography than photography, so I'm not sure it counts (there are only a few ads, for what it's worth).

On the other hand, popular mechanics is on archive.org ([2], featured previously on HN), and it's chock full of ads; the ads vastly outweigh the editorial content. I guess that's a feature, not a bug: in the 80s and 90s my dad bought computer magazines as much for the ads (ie. as a monthly product catalogue) as for the actual content. Like popular mechanics, they were pretty cheap (PM was 35 cents in 1965, around $2.50 in 2017).

The Soviet Photography magazine could serve as a case study. It wouldn't take forever to tally up the amount of ads in each issue, or even a sample of them. The 89/7 issue had zero ads. One of the last available issues is from around '94[3]. There is a bit of advertising, but not a lot.

The final (outer) page is a full page ad for a Canon EOS 1.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ArtPhotography1952Vol03No08 NSFW, obviously

[2] https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1960

[3] https://archive.org/details/sovphoto_v1_1994_02

Edit/PS: I expanded my sample size to 3. The second to last page of a 1975 edition[4] has a full page ad for a Practica LTL[5]. No ads, apart from that.

[4] https://ia801505.us.archive.org/10/items/sovphoto_v1_1975_12...

[5] http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Praktica_LTL I'm sure the advertised 1.8/50 lens made for fun shooting. Better image quality than an iPhone! Both camera and lens fetch ~50 bucks on ebay, today.
No clue, haven't used vuex yet :/ .
You think it's harder to enforce tax collection on businesses than individuals? With a significantly lower number of business you can audit their books more often. Additionally you can more easily monitor their bank account activity to detect tax evasion. Sure, cash-only businesses could try and avoid taxes, but they have a lot more to lose than a single individual that under-reports their income.

Not sure how you think individuals are the easy ones to enforce.

Also, in this world the tax code is tiny in comparison and loopholes are removed (mostly?).
Cool story. While not the same thing, the last line reminds me of exponential backoff.

BTW, the term "missed call" may not be familiar to people outside India. For those not familiar, it's ringing a number and them disconnecting before they pick up. Serves to notify them that you called :)
This is were most goes wrong and you fall in the same trap.

You seem to assume there are jobs which 1) AI won't be able to do and sooner or later 2) that the things that humans will be able to do for a while yet which AI wont requires specialized education.

But thats not how things work.

As I mentioned somewhere else. A cleaning lady is going to have her job longer than a radiologist. Everyone can become a cleaning lady and thus there is going to be oversupply of people who can clean.
A flat tax hurts people with lower income more, because they have less disposable income to begin with - a lower proportion of their income is discretionary.
Would it drop? Yes.

Would just about any bank be willing to write a multi-million dollar loan to Bezos? Also yes, so there's no need for him to sell. He can take out a loan and collateralize it with AMZN stock and thus spend as much as he likes without selling the stock.
No, I don't think he is at all. Linearly proportional taxes are regressive both because of the declining marginal utility of income, and the lower proportion of income that's discretionary at the bottom end of the income distribution.
Elon Musk is Chicken Little when it comes to A.I. We are very early even with ANI and are stretching reality with examples of Alexa, Self driving, AlphaGO, facial recognition etc. I want to start seeing more ANI in day to day improvements before we can even say ANI is good. But, I agree with the larger point, AI has arrived.
I know one person who ran a listing so far and they are very happy. It's about putting the right sort of "ad" in the right place. Advertising podcasts in an ad where people are listening to podcasts is a no-brainer and engagement should be high.

Advertising arbitrary services, even if they're good, on arbitrary blogs seems trickier to price and sell. But with the quality of the sites in the network, I'm sure they could all individually find the right, complementary type of advertising to continue to fund them.
The author lost me when it left out the mention of Ancel Keys cherry picking data to support his hypothesis that fat is bad, and then noting off-hand that he lived to be 100 (somehow validating his hypothesis?)

Poorly written article that felt more like a defensive hit piece (e.g., dedicating eight paragraphs to destroying the credibility of Sylvia Tara) than something that sought to answer the question posed by its title.
In London, they simply close the station entrances (at street level) before it becomes so overcrowded. It can be a daily occurrence, e.g. at rush hour during a month of upgrade work on a particular line.

There is no record of anyone being killed or severely injured through overcrowding.
As long as we have elected officials making the tax laws, good luck.
What would they have written the year as? ( what was their "zero point" as it were? )
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They were created to treat a symptom, not address the cause. Now that a viable way to eliminate the cause exists, they advocate the keep the root problem.
I think it's quite defensible to say: "The average person will have have better outcomes if they simplify their strategy to counting calories and making decisions on that basis, rather than a more complicated approach, which are unlikely to actually maintain."

It's basically like "ignore air resistance" for most day-to-day physics problems.
> it does not resolve the question of why and how we see one particular outcome.

agreed. dechoherence doesn't explain particular outcomes. It explains the scale & magnitude of mixing quantum states from different systems.

I thought "what kinds of physical interactions qualify as measurements" was referring to a different part of understanding QM. Decoherence doesn't explain which outcome, it does explains "part" of (or place constraints upon) the mechanism of measurement process.
The author is also ignoring Boston's 70-odd Green Line light rail stations, many of which are not accessible according to the agency's map: http://mbta.com/uploadedimages/Smart_Forms/News,_Events_and_...
Neither. He had money which he risked. Capitalism isn't about working harder, it's about getting a return on risk.
Actually, very large blocks of stock are often worth more than a simple (number of shares) * (most recent trading price per share) formula suggests because of the control premium [FN1].

As further proof, corporate-level transactions like mergers and acquisitions typically see prices exceed recent public trading prices.

It's true that selling a large block of stock without influencing price can be difficult, but that's actually a relatively 'solved' problem in modern finance - banks regularly enter into complex transactions with clients that need to liquidate large blocks of stock and are worried about the impact on share price.

So in a sense, his wealth is "all on paper" and somewhat abstract. But especially for a company like Amazon, it's certainly not predictably less value than a back-of-the-envelope calculation would suggest.

For large sums, you always run into expense and abstraction problems: real estate is highly iliquid, gold is expensive to transport and store plus subject to market volatility itself, banks sometimes charge fees for exceptionally large cash accounts... sovereign debt and high-quality short-term corporate debt are often used for holding huge sums of cash-like wealth.

Basically, it's risk and abstractions and hand waiving all the way down.

[FN1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_premium
The TV Industry by and large cannot survive without funding by advertisers. Check the P&L of any channel. Without ads, you'd be paying a lot more - or in other words, the content wouldn't exist because of lack of market
I think you forgot to provide your reference for [1].
Furthermore, people don't understand that decommissioning coal reactors is also time consuming and dangerous. Here in Toronto, the Richard L. Hearn Generating Station was decommissioned in 1983 and remains quite radioactive, despite not even burning coal in its later years. There is a 24 hour guard presence.
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I don't like how the movie makes her daughter to be dying of a disease. In the book, she dies in a climbing accident, which the protagonist knows full well will happen but does nothing to prevent it, thus demonstrating how committed she was to an immutable, deterministic future.

I liked the story better. I think it helped that the actress reading the story in the audiobook was excellent.
I can apply it against future gains, but its complicated. Since I was never able to sell the stock, the gain is entirely fictional, which is why ISOs suck so badly.
Hume actually goes farther than this list, and Heinlein is riffing on David Hume, and an old sheep joke. As for 5 I'm old enough to know that's actually a problem.
He could, but it would be at some healthy discount to the current price.

Normally what people like Bezos do when they want to cash out is take out a big loan using the stock as collateral. That way they don't flood the market with shares.
If you're in Disney World, it's safe to assume Disney is tracking you to some degree, Magic Band or no. They have staff. They have cameras everywhere. You sign up for Fast Pass and you buy their food. This isn't some government agency tracking you in your home or in the street where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

My guess is the vast majority of people appreciate the convenience of automatically getting a photo of themselves on a ride. To pull out another example of putting the tracker in the ears hats for kids, please tag my kid every way you can while we're there. My fear of losing them in a busy park far outweighs my concern that you know I took them on the Pooh Bear ride.
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I've spent time on LuaTeX, and I'd really like to understand changing the font.

For example I can list them with:
mtxrun --script font --list --all

But when I try to use "gonormal" ( \definefontfamily [myfam] [tf] [gornormal] ) I get: "The requested font 'gonormal' has no files for the 'tf' alternative, Latin Modern is used instead."
Kevin Morrill, what an idiot. Being a CTO and PM on Visual Studio sure don't mean much.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now the second richest man in the world (AMZN)
Only on the newest part of the newest line, the Jubilee Line Extension. (1999? something like that.)

There are no "platform edge curtain" doors on other lines, even though many other lines also have computer controlled trains. (The "driver" is still there to press a button to start the train, but many lines almost drive themselves.) Although, even on the fully manual lines, the driver is expected to stop the train precisely -- the platforms aren't long enough for inaccuracy.
I've never had to file US taxes so this might be a stupid question, but how exactly are the people in your example worse off with ReadyReturn?

Isn't ReadyReturn just e.g. summing up their reported wages for the return, which they'd need to do accurately anyway if they were filling it in from scratch?

Yes, if you have a pre-filled in tax return nothing that the government doesn't know about & which might be deductible is going to be on there, but that's the situation you were in already, wasn't it? Now you'll have more time to fill that out, instead of doing menial work like manually summing up your monthly payslips to arrive at a yearly total.

Or is ReadyReturn somehow structurally flawed in allowing you to either file for a simplified pre-filled in return with no amendments, or having to do an old-style return from scratch?

When I file my taxes in The Netherlands all the concerns you've raised are addressed through a system where most of the information is pre-filled in. I.e. they know how much I make so that number is on there, but they might not know about a few other deductibles, those are established through a series of questions you answer.

E.g. "do you own a house" -> "what type of mortgage" -> "do you pay a land use fee?" -> that's a deductible (to cite one made-up example).

Most importantly it establishes a workflow where if something is a deductible (unless it's something really obscure, manual returns still exist), it's going to be on the online tax form.

So even if the initial implementation is bad just establishing that process is worthwhile, because there'll be political pressure to make it better next year, and the year after that.
edit #2: turns out im a dummy

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170329/13234837037/no-yo...
That's called TV. Cost per reach point on TV is a lot lower than the internet which charges advertisers extra for "targeting"

Can be done... rates would have to go down below TV to work and even so will be attractive only for big advertizers (think billions in sales).. Smaller advertisers would have no interest in the medium without targeting
Okay, but think of it this way.
Bill Gates is worth 90 Billion, sure fine.

What is the entire United States worth? GDP is 18 Trillion, expenditures are 4 trillion. So if you do something (admittedly kind of dumb), like take the GDP, subtract expenditures, let's pretend the earnings are 14 trillion?

Valuing the US at 10x earnings, that would put it at a valuation of 140 trillion dollars. This is horribly incorrect, but I think it still makes a very important point.

The richest person's entire net worth is orders of magnitude less than the yearly GDP of a moderately sized country.

The key thing in monarchial feudalism is that a single person is the state (Imagine a person worth 'only' 14 trillion dollars, he's got his own airforce, navy, army).

Jeff/Bill/Warren et al. aren't on that scale of wealth yet, and it seems that it would be difficult for them to get there without state intervention.
This is valid advice, as long as they pick "Eat less". Generically, you can't outrun a donut.

Well, some people can - I remember a period in my life when I was training about 10 times a week (4 BJJ sessions, 3 endurance sessions, 3 weights sessions) and having trouble maintaining my bodyweight. I was also living rent-free on a grad student stipend and nominally working on my thesis with very few other obligations and about zero social life. I was also in my 20s.

As a 'normal person' the only way I have ever lost weight is by eating less. The idea that you can exercise your way out of Fatfuckistan is absurd once you hit maturity or middle age. If I tried to train 10 times a week (the way I did) now my joints would disintegrate. Conversely, even running a small but consistent calorie deficit allowed me to lose 70 grams a day for a 15kg weight loss (mostly fat), with the same moderate training schedule that I had previously been getting fat on.
Young people's minds explode with ideas and see things out there to solve. The reality is most people don't have so many ideas, or they don't have the patience, or the don't have the hope/time/resource to do so.

Robots are the worst nightmare to those very people. Plus, for every great idea somebody has, there is another automation project following right behind.

Reminds me of what Fred from AVC said: company A comes out with technology B and it becomes a major success. Then company C makes a cheaper version of B and displaces the billion dollar company A. Then open source group D comes out with open source version of B, and relegates A and C into has-beens.

My addition: market collapses, new market with new idea is born on open source technology B. Cycle Repeats.

With automation, you have only certain players who will be playing the game.
I don't think money is a good proxy for "adding utility to people's lives". It's a good proxy for "good at playing the money game". A nurse won't be paid $1B if she saves a CEO's life, and he is able to go and make his company billions as a result. A clever business person might, if she saves the CEO in some other aspect, as she can setup a provision first.

That being said, I don't think money has much to do with merit, either. It's just the output of a function that you are either good at optimizing or not.
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The question isn't about absolute trust.

It's about who you trust more with your privacy.

So yeah, I think I'd trust almost anyone more than my ISP now because they have an incentive to profit off my lack of privacy.
I think your advice is naive and does not solve anything. Its like saying "Money in / money out" is as absolute a fact as it gets. so I say "You have two options: Earn more, spend less, pick the one you like".

That advice might be true, bit its also totally useless in solving poverty.

The hole argument for different diets is based on alternative theories of how different foods affect your body and/or mind.

To take absurd example, maybe carrots move energy from building fat cells into a process that converts your blood to carrot juice. You could eat the same amount (in calories) of carrots and something else, spend all the energy and still end up with a different body.

That's what the debate is about. Just telling people to run more or eat less will simply not work. Running (Sports) by it self, is essentially proven to not be effective for weight lost. You can actually train fat people to run marathons.
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That is a very glib answer. The economic effects of automation are a very serious issue. A wage economy based on veblen goods is not a good outcome for the vast majority of people.

The invention of photography vastly reduced the demand for painters, first by allowing a photographer to produce vast numbers of portraits quickly and cheaply, then by allowing consumers to make their own photographs. People still make paintings for money, but there is a power-law distribution of the rewards - the vast majority are amateurs or barely scrape a living, while a tiny handful of artists sell paintings for tens of millions of dollars.

There is a growing economic consensus that automation will lead to substantial polarization of the labour market. The jobs most threatened by automation are the skilled but routine jobs that characterise most of the middle class. Some of the displaced factory workers, truck drivers and clerical workers might find a good career as an artisanal baker or a professional YouTuber; I suspect that many more will end up falling into poorly paid and precarious work at the bottom of the labour market, or dropping out of the labour market entirely.

Ultimately, we're talking about people's lives and livelihoods. It's simply not good enough to assume that everything will be OK, to hand-wave away serious doubts being raised by sensible and informed people. There is a strong possibility that the wave of populism spreading across the western world is being stoked by increasing economic insecurity resulting from automation. We on HN are the people responsible for automation; it is incumbent on us to seriously examine the risks posed by it. If we are not prepared for these risks, the results could be catastrophic.
Did you read the article? It's actually well put together. The ability to identify what's being browsed by the path taken through the network is pretty interesting.
Robots can do a better job of cleaning.
"The richest person's entire net worth is orders of magnitude less than the yearly GDP of a moderately sized country."

Economically speaking, the US is not a "moderately sized country". It is the richest country in the world.

There are several moderately sized countries with lower GDP than Bill Gates net worth.
in the /r/conspiracy realm - it is widely believed that the reason for Gaddafi's execution was to go after the billions he had - and to take him down. The idea is that the Benghazi fiasco was let loose by the state dept so that HRC could loot Libya... its not provable - but the fact is that Gaddafi was one of the worlds richest ppl - and the rumor is that HRC and cabal stole all his loot.

He was worth a reportable 70 billion.... and unknown amount off-books...

He was murdered for his money. And anyone who says that is not true is fucking clueless about what the fuck is actually happening in this world at that level.

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/573aeac75632a39...
Welsh independence has generally been supported by less than 10% of the population.
Sorry, why is it concerning? It seems concerning to me but only if you choose not to really engage with what it means.
1. Install TeX Live and TeXstudio

2. Start writing your master main.tex file

3. Search a bunch of StackExchange forums, edit main.tex appropriately

4. Now you have to edit /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht so your epub converter renders images properly

5. Finish your book. You will never touch that main.tex again, you will use it for everything from now on and take it to the grave
I guess being humane doesn't really work in the advertising industry.
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Tech companies can only produce what their employees output. If people were so miserable in Seattle there's no way that any company based there would thrive enough to be a top company in the world.
If you want more blue whales you need more ocean.

And if the ocean don't have its few blues, krill and algae explode and the whole system, sooner or later collapses. Nature has had a long time to find alternate ways of keeping ecosystems temporarily stable and everywhere you look in nature you see hierarchies prop up.

The only difference with humans is we can "choose" who to collectively prop up.
The motivation for many clones is the Facebook patent clause in the react license. My company said "no way" to using react because of it, and I'm sure many others do as well.
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I'm experiencing something that I'm not sure about.

I'm noticing a huge performance gain between concatenating commands with && and running the commands one by one.

None of the commands fail, so I'm not sure why that would be.

Is this normal?
What makes podcast ads so much better? I'm not referring to overcast ads.

I think the only thing I've ever bought based on a podcast ad is BackBlaze, but I do find podcast ads for the podcasts I listen to much better, more relevant, etc., I've just never been in the market for most of what they are selling.
Wales didn't largely want to remain.

Efforts to paint this as purely an English problem are bizare, even in Scotland around a.third of voters voted to leave the EU. Surely that pojnts to huge dissatisfaction even without a majority for leaving?
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I don't think that's the entirely the case. True it's not zero sum, but it's not free either. There is absolutely wealth transfer. For example, if he were poor, many middle class Seattle residents would have far more purchasing power in their current real estate market. Amazon have expanded rapidly and transplanted most of the cogs who are building the Bezos empire.

The many displaced multi-generational residents of Seattle and San Francisco might not refer to this phenomenon as beautiful.