skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worked at a journal. Basically, its a few dollars per page if you outsource all the production steps. It can be good money if you have the connections, although for most connected people - power over their peers on academia is more important.

As a former industry insider, the discussion about public/private is really a debate between new and old research groups and communities. The underlying problem, that most research is bullshit is a much more interesting discussion. Indeed, academic publishing fees are the "tip of the iceberg", and rarely represent a substantial challenge to any PI I've met. Most people would eagerly pay 2x more if the system actually worked.
The thing everyone is missing is that you CANNOT do $1 credit card payment at scale. Patreon has been taking a hit for every single dollar pledge made. They dont want your $1, it costs them too much!

Patreon decided that they were SICK of supplementing all the $1 pledges, and added a new fee schedule.
The internet, was too short sighted to care about this economic reality, and so they were forced to burn with fees once more.
The article mentions that Tesla wants to do batch manufacturing and frames it as somehow bad thing in comparison to JIT used by other car makers. In fact JIT outsources the logistics chaos caused by inconsistencies of planned order betweeen different production steps to component manufacturers which does not make much sense with vertical integration.

Commonly used metric for out-of-orderness (ie. number of times when next serial number is smaller than previous one) usualy works out to single digit percents, which looks good on paper but in actual logistics reality means that order of components picked from warehouse is essentialy random (measured by edit distance between stored and picked order) and automating that is more expensive than doing manual picking.
> It's not his fault that the school makes assumptions about the lifestyle that he has chosen for his children.

I'm not sure they see it as a lifestyle choice. It's just another thing that they expect kids to have. It's been added to the list of binder, paper, pens, laptop, and gym clothes.
So Patreon doesn't want to be in the money aggregation business where they have to front a little bit of money and do some time matching finance? Then what is their business that's possibly worth 5%? A marketing platform?
Can I buy you a coffee and pick your brain a little bit? I'm not looking for your secret sauce, just looking to hear some of your war stories and learn about how you got started. If you are interested, my email address is in my profile.
Not batching charges would be so needlessly wasteful that I refuse to believe that was really their intent.
That's actually how the UK and the Netherlands have been pushing for Open Access: by paying the publishers for publishing an article.

The problem is that this keeps the barrier to participate high - instead of paying to read research, you're paying to publish it.

Now, this isn't necessarily a problem: research costs money, and publishing that research is just part of that. However, the prices are widely considered disproportionate: ranging from $3000 to $5000 per article in the traditional journals (that researchers feel obliged to publish in because that helps their careers), with profit margins of 30% to 40% (comparable to Apple's, which sells luxury products).

Considering how technology has drastically lowered the prices of most other types of media publishing, it's suspicious that prices of academic articles have only risen.

There's a huge movement to improve this situation, but it's a pretty difficult market with many different actors with different incentives. I've written some about why it is difficult to change this at [1].

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
hey! let me illustrate with an (oversimplified) example:

– we tweak eyes to be larger-than-real and observe the reaction by letting users pick from several options or just observing usage frequency. that way we find the optimal point and then slice it down by age, sex, ethnic etc. groups; as well as to personal preference.
- do that with a large amount of data + genetic algos that do much less-obvious things than eye size.
- when a user wants a World of Warcraft orc avatar, we can use the data to make the orc look both like an orc and like he wants to see himself.

you can't do this with generic emoji – you actually have to keep tweaking and seeing user reactions to understand how people truly want to see themselves and others. and then you can use this to other contexts.

thanks for the feedback, i agree this is not explained clearly enough in the post.
I was employee #2 at Shipt and the early CTO. Was really great seeing us go from absolutely nothing to a strong platform, great team and lots of customers.

In telling our story early on I would talk about how Lyft was #2 in the ride-hailing space and was a billion dollar company. If we could be #2 in the grocery delivery space we should command a comparable valuation to Instacart (meaning we'd be worth a fraction of their valuation, but it would still be great by any standard).

And we did exactly this [1]. With much less cash (60M vs 800M+) and in a very short period of time (we literally hadn't started building this three years ago from today).

I haven't been involved in the past couple years, but am still friends with the founder and several on the team; and had a bit of equity (whohoo! :-).

Really happy for everyone involved and for Birmingham and Alabama!

[1] Here are my ratios based on recent valuations:

Lyft/Uber, 11B/70B = .16

Shipt/Instacart, 550M/3.4B = .16

Astonishingly accurate! :-)
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Actually that's not a bad idea.

You can simulate 56k dialup speed on a router and the kids will probably avoid Facebook and other heavy sites and stick to WikiPedia as a Pavlovian response.

As a bonus they will have to masturbate to images, just like in the old days.

You can also disconnect them when they get out of line thus simulating the complete dialup experience.
In the meantime, Reed Elsevier stock is at an all time high https://www.nyse.com/quote/XXXX:RELX
It’s pretty personal by its nature. Basically every site I enjoy. Social networks, blogs, news aggregators, etc. One exception is that YouTube is allowed, since I never procrastinate by watching YouTube videos (thankfully it seems I’ve been spared from that particular vice).
Would that put any extra requirements on them? They're not just a middleman in that situation, they actually hold the funds. That sounds close to the PayPal for a long time: we've got accounts and transactions and deal with real money but we really really are not a bank, promise, please don't regulate us as one!
> I think governments should regularly perform live tests to check whether their countries' AS's can be hijacked.

That's a waste of money and effort. They should just write "yes" on a piece of paper, there's really no reason to check.
As far as I understand it, page charges are actually often charged for subscription journals as well upon publishing. The publication fees sometimes (but not always!) charged by Open Access journals are called Article Processing Charges.
They should put the executive payroll on patreon. That would prevent any future mishaps. :)
PVS-Studio contest: find and fix bugs, resume
Back in the day I used to use csh and tcsh, both of which had famously landmine-laden scripting gotchas. So, I wrote my scripts in sh or bash. Now that I use zsh mostly, same thing, I don't actually write my scripts in zsh--especially for production, I write them in sh or bash. zsh for me is an interactive CLI-only tool. Honestly, I think the problem here sounds more about not standardizing on a common denominator for shared scripts.

Where stuff like fish is a pain for me is with apps that for whatever reason need shell integration (virtualenv, for example). Non-POSIX shells end up being an afterthought there, so you end up with no or buggy support, and end up having to find some other custom variant (virtualfish, etc.) to get good behavior. Sticking with a more mainstream shell tends to be safer there, and zsh barely makes it over that line.
> Aggregation is highly-valued, and we underestimated that.

To me, at least, this is the core issue. Patreon is supposed to be the way to support creators in the internet age.

If they're going to make a strong many-to-many funding model impractical, then why should anyone put money into them as opposed to conventional charities? An NPR pledge drive will sign me up for a credit card monthly auto-payment, but that just doesn't really get me excited. Sure, it's a good cause, but good causes have always been around.

This is critical because of the fact that so many of the creators are actually doing bleeding-edge things. The tiny sub-categories of creators I fund didn't exist 3 years ago. A $1 donation isn't just a signal from the supporter to the creator. It's a signal to the media, it's a signal for potential book deals, all kinds of things. Those numbers have value. By making those contributions radically financially inefficient, they are risking a tipping point that undermines their core value proposition. Even worse, it hurts the frontiers of creation that we cared about in the first place.
But racism isn't defined by or limited to refusal to trade with certain individuals. That is to say economics is only one intersection in the set of racist behavior present in our society, eliminating those economic inequality does not solve structural inequality.

Furthermore, it's so important to demographics in the midwest that they're able to refuse service to individuals they perceive as 'others' that laws have been created protecting economic discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_...

Anecdotally, There's a pizza place in Indiana that went on the news and clearly stated they refuse to service to gay couples. The pizza store owners then raised $800,000 from kickstarter. While it's definitely an anecdote, I think it shows that discrimination can actually be quite profitable.
I fully understand the thoughts against the usage of mobiles for kids and early teenagers. Notwithstanding, to me it feels awfully wrong that the state, and not the parents, prohibit the usage of anything (that does not harm others directly).

Same with Germany banning smartwatches for kids... https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/20/germany-bans-kids-smartwat...

And then about enforcement. As technology progresses, I see little real room for no displays / smart everything anywhere. I practically see it as a lost battle.

Still, I don't have kids, so I do not fully comprehend the problems that parents' may have with this issue.
Note that it was not rare for some old DOS games to have bits of assembly in them.

This was usually done to overcome some performance bottleneck but with today's hardware you might not need that at all.
There are many people/organisations trying to fix it (a few examples at [1]). However, it's a system that keeps itself intact and is really hard to change, which I wrote about at [2].

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/these-trailblazers-are-paving...

[2] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
Good point - I'm in a similar situation.
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> Bitcoin inherently does not hold any value, it is a ledger.

I just want you to be aware that those 2 sentiments are directly contradictory. A ledger has value -- an online, world-wide, decentralized, distributed, peer-to-peer ledger moreso. Estimate the value of the ledger (this is a significantly different endeavour than estimating market cap), divide that value by the total number of BTC in circulation, and you have estimated the value of a BTC.
> It's made worse by people thinking that anything about the content of the apology matters.

Is it inaccurate to think that they will not be enacting the fee structure change they had announced before? What are you even talking about? They said "sorry", and "we won't do the thing that made us have to apologize", what more are they supposed to do?
Apparently, increased service-fee flow.
The journals charge researchers. I literally paid thousands of dollars to have my papers published in journals, who did little in terms of editing or typesetting, so that they could turn around and sell those papers to other people and give me none of the proceeds.
The easy solution would be to tax all earnings worldwide equally, but that doesn't work either because then they will create a subsidiary in that country which will store the cash and the mother cooperation will have no earnings on it.

Actually thinking about it, this way of taxing is pretty much the same in every country in the world.
I understand your point of view but parents managed to do without cell phones for decades and it was not a problem. Apart from the 911 example, it seems to me that parents are buying them a convenience (not sure of this word) in not having to wait 5mn more if the practice is not over when they show up.

In fact, it’s like letting the tv rise your kids because it’s easier and give you time back.

On a last point, I agree with your last statement, and I think a téléphone with 3 buttons will be the best of both worlds :)
In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that applying game theory to real life situations is one instance of the ludic fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
I actually found this super confusing. I opened up the app on chrome on os-x and I could move the view around, nothing seemed broken. I don't have a VR headset attached to my mac so maybe that's where the problems arise?

It seems most of these browsers support webvr with their proprietary hardware, whether it be google daydream/cardboard or edge only supporting windows mixed reality headsets.

It will be interesting to see where this goes moving forward.
United States v. Cotterman, for example, declared a major piece of CBP's policy (forensic examination without probable cause) unconstitutional.

However you seem a bit confused. You started talking about due process, but now you appear to be shifting the goalposts to 4th amendment issues.

Your statement, "applying border controls is pretty well established as due process", doesn't really make sense. Due process is only one of the many thorny issues that embroil the border search exception, and the exception's constitutionality along due process lines has not been decided by the supreme court one way or the other. Perhaps I should ask you, how did you arrive at "pretty well established"? Can you provide a bit of case history?
Yes, quite a few: [1], [2], [3], [4], to name a few. Maintain a server and keeping software up to date is no small feat, however, so just making those available does not seem to be enough (although it helps!).

[1] https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

[2] https://janeway.systems/

[3] https://coko.foundation/

[4] https://cos.io/
So dozens of plant workers all have more or less the same told experience about the human indignities of labor in Tesla facilities but the untruth goes "either way"? That doesn't seem honest of you.
"speaking honestly is only acceptable if it fits the narrative"
we don't log your messages – in theory keyboard developers could do this, but Apple would wipe the floor with us if we did. we do plan to have a bag-of-words RNN that runs locally on the device to suggest emoji to you depending on context of your SMS etc without sending anything to a server.

we do send your images to our servers at this point, and we do store them + standard usage data about how you interact with app flows (conversions, retention etc).

in the future we'll try to have ML on the device and not even send your images to the cloud. both better for privacy and saves us money.

thanks for bringing this up. i have zero sense of privacy for myself so it helps when others point out how they feel about this.
It's really a question of specific-use vs. general-use vehicles.

The German postal service was looking for a manufacturer to produce electric delivery vehicles for them. None of them fit their requirements, so they just made their own (https://www.streetscooter.eu/en/).
Capital gains are tax free.
The friction of entering and it demanding so much information is a killer for me.

If you do make a decision that only vetted applicants should have access to apply, you should make it way more enticing to commit. Seeing some interesting jobs and then getting excited will get the user more willing to forkout so much information.

As it is, it felt like people harvesting and I just left the site.
I think I read it somewhere else too, but why does a company setup for community contributions need to raise money through venture capital?
Does it still run as SYSTEM? If so, fix that and come back later please.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Not yet, but that's coming in a future update.
That was technically an ad inside an ad. The article is clearly an example of content marketing.
oh and just to be clear – the reason it is a keyboard is that people are really used to having emoji in their keyboard. this is how bitmoji and other manual-custom-emoji products work too.
With what money will you buy the security unless you, yourself, have exerted an effort? You’re profiting from the money you’ve earned through exerting an effort, followed by foregoing consumption, resulting in surplus capital with which you can purchase the security.
There is a subset of creators who are trying to use Patreon as a paywall for their content. This change was entirely about trying to make sure that nobody could ever sign up to support a creator, get access, scrape all their paid content, then stop supporting that person without ever being charged.

Unfortunately changing the payment model for EVERY creator site-wide completely breaks aggregating multiple payments into one charge. Which, as a creator, is the entire reason I'm on Patreon in the first place - I could just set up a Paypal widget and try to get my fans to subscribe to that for about the same fees, minus the 5% to Patreon.

Or at least that was the argument they gave, there are multiple theories about why they were doing this (those new VC loans they were crowing about last month wanna see some profit, maybe aggregating micropayments is brushing perilously close to laws designed to fight money laundering, they're trying to look more profitable before selling themselves, they just want more money baths) that are rather less charitable than "they got obsessed with solving this one problem caused by people trying to use Patreon in ways it was never designed for and threw the baby out with the bathwater".
Or it's just data driven marketing.

"Research shows that sales and profits go up when we make girls' toys pink."

"Okay then, make girls' toys pink!"

Anyway, my guess is that whatever strategy would encourage the majority of women to go into programming isn't necessarily something women on hacker news would like, because women on hacker news are part of the self selected minority who already buck gender trends. You don't need pinkification because, if you were the type of person who did, you wouldn't be here.
What a ...relief?
I went through the trouble of actually logging into my Hacker News account just to say that the generated version of me looks exactly like me. O_o
Fair. It's true that they didn't announce the unbundling until after the initial wave of complaints.
I think most of those scenarios involve a person getting hurt and a cast iron skillet walking away unharmed.
Alternately they could have patrons pay in arrears: You give your donations and then you pay at the end of the month. One transaction on the card and then it gets divvied up.
> People don't move gold around.

Precisely, because it's slow and expensive. If you're going to hold out transfers of IOUs in place of actual gold, that can work for any commodity; a Bitcoin IOU would function just as well as a gold IOU. As a practical example, most Bitcoin exchanges allow transfers between members instantaneously and without any notable fees. Of course, that reintroduces a trust relationship. The point of having actual gold in-hand, or actual bitcoins recorded on the blockchain, is that the transfer is completed and effectively irreversible. You don't get that with IOUs.
Its ironic that the same people who keep saying cryptocurrency has no underlying value, that its just a speculative bubble, are saying that profits from its increase in price should be aggressively taxed.
I just hope I can still get a publix sub with my groceries.
Did you see the iron Man trilogy?

What you said is how I felt about those movies.. each time they produced material that could encourage the next generation

I've been meaning to do a long form on the subject

iM1: science as sexy then "in a cave, with a box of scraps"

iM2: discover a new element

iM3: hack hardware, hack the genome
Thanks for explaining it in more detail. This is very interesting (and if it doesn't pan out, you got the hottest skills in the market right now). All the best.
Thanks. I would say the former. I want to build a mobile app MVP but # of frameworks, languages out there can be daunting.
His abuse was a personal decision, but it wasn't made in isolation. The behavior that Hayek described doesn't fit into the traditional model of sexual misconduct. He didn't physically force himself on her, instead he used his power to emotionally degrade and control her. And that's the point- the traditional model of abuse utterly fails to protect victims. There's a reason the word "complicit" is so popular right now; abusers rely on a support network to minimize and cover up their actions. This network begins with knowledgable persons who turn a blind eye (like Tarantino) but extends all the way out to those who victim-shame on social media. And the fact that so many women suffer sexual abuse and so few abusers are held accountable shows that it is absolutely a larger social problem. "Isolated incidents" that affect 1/6 of a population must be viewed systemically.

https://www.rainn.org/sites/default/files/Out_Of_1000_Rapes%...
http://www.11thprincipleconsent.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
But whatever process the human eye uses to piece together a flickering image should itself be fairly simple, right?
I get the idea their trucks are also very easily serviceable.

Found this[1] after a quick Google: apparently they are called Long Life Vehicles precisely for that reason—but yes there are caveats and they might strongly benefit from EV versions.

[1] https://www.greatbusinessschools.org/usps-long-life-vehicle/
Ah gotcha. So is the idea to signal to future partner companies that the product is like a 3rd party version of "Animoji", using cool pictures to collect a big corpus of face feature data for future products?
I think you meant a "B" for the Lyft/Uber valuations. :)
My first thought was that comment would be easy to automate - visit site, if you detect a paywall, complain, easy way to pad out your upvote bot’s comment history. But you’d make the comment random right? And they have real looking histories. Huh.