skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it bother anyone else that this is a phone app only? Why can't it be a normal web app? One of the bad habits people have is being glued to their phones. And the permissions it requires seem pretty skeptical as well.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14296470/1/americans-spend-b...

so the average american doesn't have $400 saved up, _and_ spends $206 per year on lotto tickets.

if we're in society collapsing danger, maybe we could look at the organizations running the lottos?
Moralizing is its own reward. It feels good to look down on people.
We live in a world where you can find a web page with "statistics" on anything. At some point you just realize that people don't care about the truth.
Don’t think a place that has a blocked internet can ever achieve that. Silicon Valley is built by liberals.
Does anyone know of a datasource that analyzes this as the number of people living paycheck to paycheck vs. spending habits?
Sadly, instead of Flatpak or Appimage, they decided to use Ubuntu Snap for packaging their Linux app.
The thing is, not all content in a channel is created equal, so maybe one day we’ll see a more granular approach.

But a more granular approach means more complex configuration.

Instagram should notify me about my fiancee’s feed. FB messenger should notify me when I get a message from my company’s page or one containing a family emergency. When I leave the office priorities would swap.

I should be able to easily schedule office hours, and notify people when I’d be available, similar to some of the features related to driving right now.

And, a powerful AI will read my mind and tweak the settings for me ;)
> could care less about your proposed benefits.

Could they? Oh well, that is at least something then.
... said schaefer, on a site that calls its comment scoring "karma."
Even with dedicated servers, the new hosting site would have to find a source of revenue. The creators typically don't want to shell out. The sites with premium hosting are still kind of terrible too. They offer very little in the way of discovery of new content or moderation.

https://vimeo.com/upgrade
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Capitalism is the primary reason we're out of medieval times, thank you very much.
Ironically you're posting this to a website where people are sharing content for free.
I'd recommend reading this blog post we put out. It explains better than I can in a short comment: https://blog.dharma.io/dharma-an-open-protocol-for-generic-t...
People wonder why payday loan companies are becoming more popular. It might be kicking the can down the road, but when $400 is a killer then people will kick the can.
They're not basing it on the context. It's just the result of using 4 character indents while also using tabs, which is definitely ugly, but at least likely intentional and consistent, unlike alternating tabs and spaces in the same line, as you mentioned.
As far as AI, I suspect the limits of neural nets will become obvious and there will be an AI slump as investors pull back. R&D will continue, but often there's a lemming effect where if enough pull out at the same time, investors in general get spooked and follow. There is too much R&D money in it right now.

Neural nets will probably need to be combined with rule-bases, simulators, etc. to give AI more "common sense". Powerful pattern-matching alone is not enough, only part of the AI puzzle. There will be a slump until somebody figures out how to combine these well.
Then you should dutifully put the blame on the users, not the system.
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Do they? I'm fairly certain they don't. Otherwise everyone would just be torrenting and stripping commercials.
Some other people had mentioned some services available but I'd like to add self-hosted options https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge and https://github.com/taroved/pol into the mix.

I use rss-bridge in combination with rss2email to follow instagram feeds after leaving instagram.
Wyden is a treasure, plus he's a fan of oshpark[1]!

[1] https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/896012835448381441
I'm surprised that's worth millions.
They live on Social Security. Sometimes I tell people this and they seem surprised. It’s not surprising to poor people. My grandparents never had more than Social Security in retirement. It’s all my mother has (or all she would have if not for me). My uncle just died a few months ago, but he had been living on Social Security, too.

Poor people don’t have retirement money. They live off their Social Security checks. It’s that simple.
Pretty much my thoughts: if you want RSS to live, turn it into the platform for content micropayment. If you just want it to be a better adblocker, don't act surprised if nobody wants to play along.
Yes, but all of them being commodities (what I said) is not the same as inflation only being accurate when someone purchases every commodity available in the marketplace (what you said).
I’ll definitely try it, thanks! I’ve been “on” grayscale on my phone for a few months now and I’ve enjoyed it very much.

One “proof” that I have of grayscale’s benefits is that when I switch back to color (which happens at most once every 2 weeks), I find the colors to be extremely (visually) “loud”.

Is it reasonable to think that we get desensitized to color, and that using grayscale re-sensitizes us? i.e. can this be compared to avoiding sugar or salt as much as possible, and then noticing how much the “old”, “normal food” was actually sweetened / salty?
No it's not. Poor people live in food deserts and buy 5000 calorie dinners for $2 at Dollar General. It's hardly discretionary to try to feed yourself real food. Now let's tie in the cost of healthcare associated with eating cheap junk food and you've got a problem. This is like an argument with someone who denies global warming.
But then you miss out on html syntax highlighting and jsx eslint.

Or is there tooling that works for the tagged template approach?
Snowden proved this was false.
On a planet the size of Earth, or a few Earths, it seems the habitable zone should be large enough to develop a major civilization, no?
The problem with personal responsibility, which I am very much in favour of and wish we promoted a bit more, is that the deck is so stacked against people who don't have assets that I'm not sure average person can keep up.

I keep saying it; the amount of money in the system has increased +50% since 2008 [1], and worker compensation has gone up +25% (the BLS publishes a lot of series, I use [2]; hope it is right). So someone is getting a lot of money and it isn't obvious to what end - it isn't helping the workers or the poor, and nobody can make up that sort of difference by working harder. Workers are reaping a smaller percentage of society's bounty.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A033RC1A027NBEA
Am I missing something in the wide gap between those figures - Children who got intervention X stayed in school for ~7 months longer and were also three times more likely to start college

The 5% more and the 300% more just seem wildly out of kilter

(It kind of makes sense - if all your peers stop school at 16 and you stay for 7 months or more, suddenly getting to college is a much easier step.) I think i am just surprised by how surprised i am
Some fancy rice cookers do more than just use a thermocouple. You'll see them advertised as using "fuzzy logic". The brown rice setting uses a lower temperature and takes quite a bit more time than the same amount of white rice. There is also a timer, you can it to have the rice done at a certain time.

See this popular model for an example:

https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-TSC10-Uncooked-Cooker-1-...
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Used to work in the Senate and have always admired Senator Wyden and his staff when it comes to being up to date on important technical issues like net neutrality, domain name governance, data breach law, cybersecurity standards, and now this.

If you have specialized technical knowledge that can inform policy of importance (your call on how to judge that), I encourage you to engage your senators/reps on such issues, or at least connect with the legislative assistants in the offices who cover these issues. Give your senators/rep's DC office a call and ask for the LA (aka legislative assistant) and to brief him/her on the issue at hand. Or at least offer yourself as a resource if needed.

The best part about working in the Senate was being able to call up someone and ask for a briefing on an issue, and most would help out. Those that reached out proactively made life much easier, and, seriously, the squeaky wheel gets the grease in the policy world. Groups like I Am The Cavalry have done great work bringing together cybersecurity experts to raise awareness of, and push action, toward addressing vulnerabilities in systems that, if compromised, could cause major harm (think cars, medical devices, etc.). If you can form a group like that in your area of expertise, you can be more effective. Okay, off my soapbox for now.
USD per lb of green beans in bulk. According to one finva I visited at some point.

On some quick research, apparently on the extreme high end, lots can go for as high as $600 per lb.

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2017/07/26/record-coffee-earns-6...
I bet it was Croatia, or possibly Albania. ;-)
The number of allowed bad decisions drops dramatically as you slide down the wealth scale. Saying you need to be correct 99.999% of the time is simply not a viable strategy. Especially when people are actively trying to get you to make bad decisions like enrolling in a for profit collage.

The vast US homeless population suggests we don't really have a safety net, so much as a safety rope you need to hold on tight and pray. Consider, if all the homeless people showed up in the same place that would instantly be in the top 10 US cities.
Are my receipts shared with advertisers? The app actually looks pretty useful, but I'm a little worried about that.
Last I heard, it got mired in legal issues, and was recently tossed out by the courts [0]. (Something that's not quite as likely in the US due to the EU being more privacy-conscious, and would require mass outrage and an act of congress to deflect)

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/uk-mass-digi...
Very interesting. Were you implementing to a spec with the Windows version, or was it simply just 'make the Windows version do what the Mac version does'?
If you have Netflix, watch the documentary "Dirty Money". Then come back and tell us you wouldn't have been in the same situation had some event in your past not gone your favor.
We (https://mightyscout.com) started off on Stripe Atlas when they first launched in 2016. We started as a C-corp, as was the default at the time, but since we never wanted to raise money and didn't want to incur double-taxation, we converted to an S-corp. Nowadays they offer an LLC and that's the option we'd take if we started today.

Since 2016, we've had to interface multiple times with lawyers, accountants, the State of Delaware. Let me be honest: I absolutely loathe dealing with this kind of crap, I just want to build awesome products.

Stripe Atlas has integrations with various accounting and law firms/services, to the point where you can email atlas@${firmname}.com and expect a real human to carefully read your problem and forward it to the right entity. I _love_ that. We recently filed our Delaware taxes incorrectly and received a scary-sounding notice from the State. I emailed Atlas for help and they figured it out, pointed me in the right direction, and the person on that end didn't charge us to make the amendment.

In 2011 I started a company and back then our only recourse was LegalZoom, which was an expensive and unhappy experience. Now that I've worked with Atlas for a year and a half, I hope incorporating companies will be just as easy (and inexpensive) as Atlas has made it.
None of this is different from our parents though. Landlords didn’t want dogs in the 70s/80s/90s either. Nor did dogs take care of themselves when their owners went on vacation.

Lifestyle expectations and the way we treat dogs is different. People who grew up with outdoor dogs in the suburbs now want to live in urban apartments with indoor dogs. But that’s kind of like saying cars are expensive because you have to rent a parking spot. You could see it that way, or recognize that as a cost of urban living instead.
Thats exactly how asset managers construct a portfolio thats suppose to track inflation.
Untrue. Get majorly sick or in a major accident and lose your insurance because your job finds a reason to restructure your department. Trust me, you will enter financial desperation very quickly while you wait for the social safety net to catch up, and by that time you're thousands of dollars in debt, likely already out of your house, and totally screwed.
IndieHackers, Slashdot
Really interesting concept, the site looks almost identical to what I would expect form stripe.
China also "blocks" people. Silicon Valley recruits the best from all over the world. China's gov't is not ready for that many "foreigners" tromping around; it goes against their controlling senses.

Openness of info and people is a key to SV, and one of the reasons SV fears Trump's curbs on imported experts. (The H-1B system is abused for rank-and-file workers, though. I agree with T on that one.)
It's so childish putting optimistic people down.

Our economy, habits, and mindset can change with a great deal of work and energy. People are becoming more connected than ever before, and with that we can build a new kind of social momentum.

Hey, you're right, things suck now, but it doesn't have to be like this.
In fact, poor spending habits could be caused by a poor life situation.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the first Perl project I started in 1999 in my dorm room had its latest, major release two days ago. I've never thought of maintaining your own Perl code as impossible. And I'm no wizard.

I've honestly wondered if maintaining someone else's forgotten Perl code, modernizing it, and getting it so that'll it'll run for another x years isn't all that bad of a niche job.
One of the commenters on that article wrote:

> Well, I think this works differently. The email just includes a link to a Google webpage with the email. It’s still just an email sitting in your inbox. It doesn’t remove itself automatically.

So it's not a standards issue at all.
Atom was an improvement, but not enough of an improvement to convince people to upgrade from a large installed base.
This college student I dated: the sex was great but she also had some quirks (and other thigs). One quirk was crazy, verbatim ABM. Good luck debating someone with a “CCTV footage” memory.
In ancient Athens only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military duties were able to vote, roughly 20% of the population. This seems pretty oligarchic today but it was a massive improvement in the council of elders that used to rule before that.

Historia civilis has a great video on the constitution of ancient Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgMTsQXg3Q
Can you explain why you feel NASA is a jobs program? There's certainly a much larger, constant-stream funding source going to national defense and national sciences. NASA is being paid to continue our usually unprofitable interests in space. Everything else falls under the non-compete restriction. Also, NASA employs some highly employable folks who would make much more in private industry.
Sure, as a broad absolutist statement there's plenty of practical, legal, metaphysical holes you could poke in it.

Not aware of any anti-user-made RSS laws, though.
Ah, I skimmed the description too fast then. Thanks you.

The colors on HN keep my attention quite well!
>This dreary state of affairs is due in part to the fact that "checking" an RSS just means downloading the entire file containing all posts the author would like to make public, regardless of how many are new to the reader. This insanely unnecessary bandwidth usage penalizes sites that have long (>10) feeds with complete posts. (The single RSS file on my blog takes up the majority of my bandwidth costs.)

Still, exceptionally low cost compared to running pretty much any website's massive CSS and JS files. A single image in most cases will take more than the entire RSS feed before compression.

That said, I would like to see a new standard (a new one would be needed [1]) that only gets the difference from what you last read - I think that would really take RSS feeds to new places of usefulness. There's no reason why you couldn't send the server an ID (not timestamp to avoid issues with timezones, clock stretching, forward/backward time setting, etc) of the last request and have it send back everything since (within reason).

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_rss.asp
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This is not as shocking as it sounds if you look at a globe though
Which includes blackbox modifiers like "hedonic adjustments". So if it costs you $800 to get a cast for your broken leg today as opposed to $400 a few years ago, but they claim the quality of the cast is twice as good, then they say there was 0% inflation as you are getting the same "value" even though its costing you twice as much to fix the same problem.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/home.htm
Try it. I will bet you a million dollars that you would not be able to do it in any meaningful amount of time.
Basically interchangeable, to the point where it is extremely rare that a tool will work with one and not the other.

(Not the same code path, just that a tool to work with RSS will usually end up also supporting ATOM and vice-versa.)
For your RSS issue, you can safely truncate your RSS feed to the latest N articles, where N is a random reasonable number you choose (10 is good, because it's so decimal). RSS reader software will know how to deal with it.

WRT scraping, it is getting harder because funny websites w/ no static content where everything is generated via Angular or Perpendicular or sth. are really hard to deal with. Recently my uni switched from an army of Wordpress websites to an homegrown AJAX-MVC-Reactive abomination where the links are reimplemented via some funny black magic where the actual link items (which are not anchors btw) don't have encoded in them the link targets, but only an onclick event that knows somehow where to go. And because they just killed all the RSS feeds, I wrote up sth. to revive them for me via phantomjs, but could not figure how to find the link targets, I cannot link the RSS items to anywhere but the main announcements page, and I can't add any description from the link target.

RSS should be kept, those who don't know the job they are doing should be replaced.
I've heard that before, but it puzzles me. Any tesla doesn't seem particularly attractive unless you can charge it at home. After all who wants to visit superchargers often when they are radically slower than a gas station?

So assuming you mostly charge at home (with a 300 mile range each day), seems like needing supercharging would be pretty rare, like say the occasional (over 300 mile) roadtrip.

So you buy a $100k car instead of a $50-$60k car to occasionally save $10?
anything is better than facebooks sandboxes
I miss Yahoo Pipes so much! Thanks for creating this service, I'll try it out soon and leave some feedback here!
Yeah, that's what I want to know too. I'd rather not my purchase data be shared with advertisers.
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Irvy Gitlis talking about his Stradivarius, 1713. Note his awe of the instrument builder even though it is only a "piece of wood with a string attached..." he says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRxtDaMei8Q
Sometimes founders keep a home city alive despite being unprofitable as a symbol if nothing else. Like when clothing companies have expensive flagships in NYC that are more about marketing than being stores.
Dharma Protocol doesn't require that the value of collateral be greater than the principal of the loan, but we do expect the market will demand full- or over-collateralization.
According to that link you provided, hedonic adjustments don't apply to healthcare services.
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Is this due to QE? edit: I am wondering about why the money supply has increased 50%. Wouldn't that require a massive printing of money?
Also related: if your browser can not do this, view source, and look for a <link> with rel=alternate.
I'm amazed RSS has lasted this long.

In terms of technology, it's a dog. Beyond the problems associated with malformed XML, and crazy namespaces (I once went through several hundred thousand feeds and found over 100 different tags), the process of polling for new content is inefficient and wasteful. I recently moved my personal blog from one server to another and was amazed at the amount of bot traffic I get - over 5 years after I stopped blogging regularly.

In terms of business sense - why would a publisher ever want to create an RSS feed in the first place? I'm still surprised they bother. RSS feeds don't drive sufficient traffic to justify their existence, and allows easy copying/republishing. There's zero financial incentive.

I'm a news junkie and loved blogs in their heyday, but those days are over and they aren't coming back.
I'm actually not going to do this. If you want to have this conversation go read up on it. Not trying to be rude but your question makes it sound like you've never heard the idea before. Given that, I feel like you're not ready to have this conversation. ...I'm trying not to sound rude but it isn't working. I am not expressing malice towards you.
Why do I have the feeling that most posters on HN who consider themselves the "middle class", actually fall well above of the middle quintile of household income and most are in the 5th quintile.

The true Middle Class probably don't make any distinction between anyone who is in the top 20% (household income over $116,000) or especially the top 10% ($161,000).

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator-201...
Inflation of a portfolio of iPhones is completely different than inflation that an average American pays due to cost of living changes in the economy. You're cherrypicking a hypothetical scenario that doesn't apply at all to the example at hand, which is the average person's ability to pay for emergencies that arise related to living expenses.
We discuss our business model a bit in this blog post: https://blog.dharma.io/dharma-isnt-currently-doing-a-token-s...

Happy to discuss more, but that's a good start
Not sure why you're getting down voted. An otherwise identical resume with the first name changed from Tyrone to Brad receives 3x callbacks for interviews.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873.pdf
Unless someone is starving, spending more on food as income rises is discretionary. A proper food budget is stable, it should not change as someone earns more money.

As someone who ate well on minimum wage, you’re not going to convince me low-income families can’t afford food in America if they’re properly budgeting.
What's your experience like
The “every hour of the day” argument is a bs argument. You need to sleep, for starters. And a majority of the working class has decided that it’s great to have a life outside of work, hence the two particular phenomenons we know as “9-5” and “weekend”. Nobody works every hour of the day.

With that being said, my $50/hr figure is a full-employment all-things-considered figure. In fact if someone is a freelancer, their invoice rate is likely twice or thrice that rate. But my figure even takes downtime into account.

If you’re making $50/hr, then 4 hours of work time spent troubleshooting a router is not worth it financially. It’s also up to you decide whether it’s worth it emotionally or spiritually.
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