skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of unfortunate that there's no easy way to scope the internet down to a smaller group of participants, for small time operations like local news sites.

Local news doesn't want to include audience participation from as far away as another time zone, or another state, but even then, geographic exclusions aren't an entirely correct exclusion criteria, since former residents of a local region may wish to participate from afar, because they still tune into home town news, after moving to new territory.

Real world names freeze out lots of participation, because taking ownership of an "incorrect" (contentious) opinion can have permanent consequences to one's reputation.

The real name and/or social credibility fix, is a blunt force trauma solution, to keep out obnoxious people, and isolate discourse to limited subgroups. But another problem is, even without being obnoxious, non-professional participants frequently go off-topic and off-script.

Pseudonyms almost certainly require painstaking, labor intensive moderation, and a skillful attention devoted to selectively ascribing relevance to conversation.

Most local operations just want to know there's an audience with a pulse, but providing that audience with a platform and a voice is another matter entirely.
Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain?
I'm in the same camp.

It seems the "news", in general, is a buffer overflow of malicious information that serves to override our logical thought processes with negative emotions and irrational tendencies.
This isn't true for mobile networks.
You realize we are talking about iOS / the App Store, right?
> getting their share of the company profits

Early-stage investors and dividend-collecting investors are not the same. They might be different parts of a single portfolio, but they're separate strategies. Switching from one mode to the other is something public markets are very good at. If a company wants to pay dividends instead of getting acquired, it should go public and start paying dividends.
What if I told you it was possible to have "odd little thrift shops" even in large towns and cities, because at that scale, neighborhoods replace small towns culturally?
Realistically: I agree, they don’t care and wouldn’t pay you off.
Of course a true leftist comment gets downvotes by a bunch of libertarian “classic Liberal” centrist cucked programmer bros. The petty bourgeoisie doing what it does, dismantling America in the name of centrist nonsense that only helps to make them feel more logical and “fair” while screwing over working class Americans.
Probiotics might not help your gut microbiome and could prevent return to health
Do you realize how spread apart farms are? They aren’t stackable.

My parent’s farm is in a town of 2000 people, their land is a 10 minute drive from town if direct. The nearest city is 2 hours driving. If you had to bus all the farmers to their different fields that would take all day. Oh, and these guys will have multiple properties scattered all over the map to attend to.

Really, the majority of America’s farm land is not near any city at all. Cities tend to push out and run farmers off. City planners see farm land as land that should be developed.

Then there are the small town people themselves. And the end of the day, none of those people want to live in a city. I live in a city, frankly, city life sucks.

If you switch to saying “we should do more urban farming”...which you should, please do. That works until you start talking about meat and dairy products. You probably don’t want animal operations inside a city (check out Chino, CA dairies), and even if you do, the feed for the animals will have to come from outside the city.
No because there isn't much to automate.

I takes me about 40 hours to do proper DD on a company.
It depends if I know the sector well, if not then even more.
The actual trade is just hitting the sell/buy button.

That's once in a month.

I don't think I could ever automate the DD process.

You can come up with good AI and amazing algos but at the end of the day, a doctor knows more about the ill person just by looking at him/her for a few seconds, I feel like it's the same with trading/investing.

If I automate the valuation, I lose the connection to a company and its numbers.
Another example would be insider transactions, there is a difference how you evaluate insider trading, it depends on the company and its market cap, the sector, and the management.

I don't even know how I could ever come up with good indicators for those issues.

Now there are also people who use TA, that's your clientele.
Show HN: CS textbooks top universities use
A hand curated collection of textbooks used by top universities, sorted by the amount of courses they are referenced on. It started as a personal list to see if there was any patterns on the books best-known CS universities recommended, and it has been very valuable to figure out what book to buy next. Hopefully its useful to others as well!

I included some initial universities and ~400 books, and I'm trying to grow this list even more, so please leave a comment if there is any book you know about! (please include the university name and the course if so)
No, it won’t many of the problematic apps that exist in the App Store have “paid“ versions that remove ads but probably continue to do all the other scummy stuff.

I think it’s a ratio thing. When it comes to good:scummy i’m guessing you’re more likely to end up on the good side of the scale by quite a bit for paid apps than free.
Soon to be found on passive aggressive notes from office managers everywhere.
Whenever I hear the latest issues with local news and various attempts to solve it, I am reminded of Grisham's book The Last Juror. For whatever reason, it dramatized the effect that local news can have on a small community that made me really appreciate its potential as a nice public service, if for nothing else than to keep the community talking about things together.
The paper doesn't have a conclusion, really. It describes a model and is supposedly intended to spur greater discussion. This is probably part of the reason the paper is written as it is: meant to be simple and easily accessible to people in other fields. The parent will need to work harder to dismiss the author...
Whenever I read salary comparisons between Europe and US (or between different countries in general) I never quite know what to make of the numbers. There are many different components to it (take-home pay, tax, pension, health insurance) and, for some reason, only some of those are considered your "gross salary", while other are considered to be "paid by employers" (which is pretty nonsensical distinction).

Anyway, for this to not just be a rant, I'll give you a break-down of what is considered a very good salary for developers in Croatia, an EU country (I took a nice round number of 15000 croatian KN for take-home monthly pay). Junior developer salaries can be half of that (even less in some companies). Take note that Croatia is doing pretty bad economically. For reference, average take-home monthly salary is around 970 USD (median is around 800 USD). All numbers are for monthly salary, in US dollars.

Take home pay - 2351,10 USD

Pension contributon for current retirees - 570,88 USD

Personal pension - 190,29 USD

Country tax - 587,77 USD

Local tax - 105,80 USD

Health insurance - 570,88 USD

Employment insurance - 64,70 USD

Work injury insurance - 19,03 USD

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Total cost for employer - 4460,44 USD

Out of these, take home pay, personal pension and health insurance could be considered you own pay and not some form of tax (total monthly - 3112,26 USD). That being said, health care is pretty bad (some stuff is decent) and no young person expects their personal pension fund to survive until retirement (government controls the pension investment funds). Also, education is mostly free but also not that great.

Yearly numbers:

Take home pay - 28213,17 USD

Take home pay with personal pension and health insurance - 37347,18 USD

Total cost for employer - 53525,32 USD

As a side note, first five items from the above list are considered your "gross salary" by law, while the last three (health, employment and work injury insurance) are considered to be "paid by employer".

I wonder how this compares to other countries.
I’m a little puzzled by the over-engineering. Wouldn’t fixing the road be much cheaper and benefit more people?

My information might be over a decade out of date, but the last time I read about it, the US and Italy did not require warranties on roads, but Germany did. As a result, companies are constantly charging money from the government in the US and Italy to repair mediocre roads, while German roads are overall excellent and do not require frequent repair.

Funny how that works.
These books are from the folks who stay at Travelodge - a budget chain. I wonder what books more high end chains are finding as demographics shift.
Plugins.

Go programs typically use RPC to communicate with plugins instead of loading dynamic libraries and calling functions in these libraries.
Nextdoor seems like the place where local papers can join up as news pages to reboot their traffic.
We want to feel better than others, and through that shore up our insecurities.

Being more 'extreme' is the easiest and most obvious way to do that, even if being more extreme means virtue signalling in more ways, or being more of a victim, or being richer, or having more cars.
Just a nitpick, but the example the man gives is of a hypothetical woman who over time had seven husbands --- just one at a time of course, but one husband would die and then she would get married again. The question was, which one will be her eternal husband?

> Jesus basically answered that that is a stupid question as nobody knows anything about Heaven.

Jesus said it was an ignorant question, yes, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." But he didn't say nobody knows. He said that she won't be married: "At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven" (Matthew 22:29).
You’re right. Xenaphobia was the word I meant to use.

The legal issue seems like a red herring. Selling an app in the American App Store makes you subject to American law.
This is what the upcoming Containers feature of Firefox is supposed to do, right?
>Yes, I should have been more clear that this is just my opinions/speculation.

I'd said it's unexpectedly insightful for a talk on an internet forum. That's a very subtle line that I think only one out of 50 academicians around picked up.

One fact that can be made for sure is that China been preparing for a scenario as bad as North Korean trade isolation for decades. Not puny tarrifs that they are under now.

The whole arrangement of political alliances, preferred classes of assets abroad, currency swaps, infrastructure planning confirms that.

May I know, what is your day job?
How is tying to "make people spend as much time on a site as possible" is a conspiratorial hypothesis?
> It’s amazing how much better your experience is if you just avoid free apps when possible.

It doesn't necessarily follow that because an app is free that it has a higher probability of being malicious. If anything developers will introduce malicious code into paid apps because those types of users typically have money in their iTunes account and are more interesting / have a better list of credentials to steal than 'freeloader' type users.
My point around the healthcare was that, yes it's an issue, no it's not really an issue for the HN crowd. If you are some sort of programmer/engineer, and want good healthcare, you can get it. And you will avoid making foolish decisions around it, and don't need people to make all your choices for you.

I ran my own small business, provided great healthcare for myself and a couple of employees, and managed to have good healthcare after I shut the company down and was unemployed for a while. I had to do a little research and make a couple good decisions, then it wasn't an issue. And that was before the Affordable Care Act, which provides free healthcare in many states for people who can't afford it.

The one thing is, if you are not working for a decent company, yes, you have to think about it and prepare for it before hand, it isn't all taken care for you without you doing anything. So I say, for the vast majority of people on HN it's not that bad.

And worst comes to worst, you are being irresponsible or have fallen through the cracks, and you get into a car accident, the hospital is going to take care of you anyway.
Yup, this.

Same song and dance as USB 1.1, USB 3, USB C, Lightning Cables (relative to iPod dock connectors), and all of our evolving standards. It sucks for a year or two and we move on.

For the purposes of WPA transitions, I’m willing to bet slick dual hand routers will support WPA2/3 split between each channel.
IMO local radio has the most potential to augment local news services. It’s a more natural fit.
I don't remember where, but I had once heard that the film is a metaphor for white flight and red-lining, where the zombies represent an influx of black people to urban areas and the film shows the terror and anxiety that white people felt over this. I hadn't realised this came out in '68, which makes a lot of sense, with MLK and the Parisian and other rebellions posing a more ominous threat to the privileged classes. The point made in the article about the comfort and dependence the characters have with the television also makes me wonder whether there is some allusion to the "Society of the Spectacle" from Guy Debord, which was becoming a popular idea at the time.

Incidentally, I also recently read how 1968 was the year the Olympics were held in Mexico and there were also massive protests against it, which were violently suppressed (Tlatelolco massacre). Truly a climactic year for civil unrest and people's power but ultimately a victory for brutal states and entrenched power structures. Interesting as well, the point in the piece on how no mainstream outlets at the time ever mentioned the war in relation to their critiques - it suggests the film was indeed also perceived as a challenge to the choices of those in power.
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There have been no corroborating reports of this other than that single article, and there are miles of yellow all over the factory which now has a better safety record than when it was under previous ownership.
Why Functional Programming Matters (1990) [pdf]
More affluent readers probably use e-ink devices and therefore are probably less likely to leave anything behind.
> If riders can't get a good snooze in, they're way less willing to pay $178 to $228 per round-trip. (A savvy flier who buys their ticket at the right time can usually snag a trip between SFO and LAX for about $115).

Can someone explain why you'd pay more for an 8h bus ride than a 1h flight?
That's his "activism" getting in the way of reality. Seems to be a common thread for people brought up in abusive "Christian" households.
> It’s still a loud, shaky and smelly diesel bus.

Modern diesel engines are not smelly or sooty. Most coach buses are quiet and reasonably smooth.

> Even with curtains on, you can still hear and smell your neighbours snore, vidya, movie, etc.

This is a $200 bus ride. Your neighbors aren't going to smell.
MathPad2: A System for the Creation and Exploration of Mathematical Sketches
The article is not fit for publication in a mathematical journal

And yet actual real some mathematical journal editors apparently thought otherwise before they got pushed into a purely political retraction.
> Installing Smelvetica on your system (mac only, at the moment) means that all renderings of Helvetica will use Smelvetica, including websites and applications

Wow, that's evil
It's in the article > "Cabin’s idea is that people would rather spend eight hours asleep while traveling than four hours getting to and from an airport and in a cramped seat in the air."

Most people do not have upgrades or priority access and have to spend a lot of time dealing with checkin, security, luggage and general uncomfort which makes small trips much longer than just flight time.

Also many travelers arrive the day before an event to get a hotel and sleep, so perhaps this extra time and cost can be avoided with the bus.
I get that as well and I tunnel all my web traffic through a cheap VPS. I get captcha challenges often since my IP address comes from commercial instead of residential range.
So you can sleep.
Not when the password is hashed with a nonce from the server.
Automation and mechanisation is increasing in all of those three examples. Give it a generation and they may well run themselves.

Trade in the output of farms and mines literally predates writing, and whether or not the same can be said for factories depends entirely on what you count as a factory.

The very same thing which allows rural farms in America to sell to American cities also allows rural farms outside America to sell to American cities. Likewise factories and mines.
Nope, and I have ublock running. Do you have javascript disabled?
What is the relevance of this comment? The article isn't about Amazon's retail operations; it's about everything in Amazon's operations except that.
Where did he mention buses?
The bus company isn't in charge of the roads. They have little ability to change the quality of the road, all they can do is improve their buses.
There's also many roads (that are reasonably considered highways) that are maintained using state and local funds.

(for example, in Michigan, counties, townships and incorporated municipalities all fund work on roads)

I don't mean that as an argument against your point about spending money in the wrong spot, just pointing out that the trust fund isn't the only spending.
There's really no point in climbing over 60k/y in Sweden since you start to pay upwards 50% tax on that. Perks are also taxed, so better condition/more vacation is better way of "raising" the salary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden
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At the point when you recognize this and then choose to proceed apace, you become a “mustache twirling villain.” YouTube crossed that threshold a long, long time ago.
I doubt that the general mass of people with "extreme" political beliefs do so out of thinking that "their side" is better. It is that some positions are so fundamentally indefensible for them that there is no middle ground, no compromise possible since they are contradicting and irreconcilable. And there are some of those fundamental issues. Basic human rights are not up for discussion or compromise for a lot of people.

This comic summed it up rather well
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHQGsnPUQAAfMgB.jpg:large

What are you willing to compromise when it comes to the right to exist? Only some get killed?

Its of course a hyperbole, but I think thats the mechanic that leads to ever increasing factions that are completely opposed with extreme positions. You always had issues you were not willing to compromise on, but you rarely came into contact with people holding the completely opposing position. Of course there was the city whack job, but he was just that. Some guy. The point of reference was on representatives of "the other side". Politicians and so on. Which had to press (ideally of course) for a position that was the middle ground of his constituency, which was generally not the most extreme one to not scare away more moderate voters. Real conflict here came from fundamentally opposing that consensus of a large group.

With the death of political parties and movements you dont have that representation of the found consensus of the other side anylonger. Everyone can get a platform on the internet and the most extreme positions get the biggest coverage. If you hear often enough about extremist whackjobs in some group, you will sooner or later look for a group opposing those whackjobs.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/poll-americans-fear-e...

I think we can witness that for a while now. You dont think "your side is right", its just that the perceived alternative is absolute horror.
Rei also has better support. I often buy stuff from bed bath and beyond over Amazon due to it's return policy and no knock offs
Thanks, I didn't know about it.
I checked: Paris-Bordeaux toll is 55€ (US$63 with tax) for 563km (350 miles) of highway, 583km total. Add 34L (9 US gal., 39MPG!) of fuel @1.5€/L (US$6.6 per gallon) that is 51€ of fuel. So toll+fuel total, that's at least 106€ ($122) one way. Now you have to take into account the car rent/lease/depreciation+maintenance. You're likely better off with the train (2 hours and 8 minutes) unless you carpool.
The thing is, the observer is the one determining what is fundamental.

If the God, sitting on his throne in eternity, determines the fundamental to be eternity, then from that framed perspective, there is only eternity.

If the man, sitting on his porcelain throne in the bathroom, determines the fundamental to be a here-and-now framed by a past and future, then from that perspective, that is the truth.

It is all illusion, including eternity. There are only frames we may peer at infinity through.
One option is to do what illicit sites have done forever: require an invite, such that the bad deeds of the invitee reflect on the inviter. Doesn't require real names on the site, but the inviter knows who they are inviting.
It's been said before, "If it's free, you are the product".
In the East the Political Class holds the power, whereas in the West it's the Business Class that holds the power
On the flip side, the market prices for most of these tracked data are not very high. It's only lucrative to sell this data if you have a very large user base. For paid apps with smaller user bases, the incremental revenue is likely negligible.
The DAC was a tool used to edit sound.

Now the DAC is an instrument.

That's the difference.

From a classical producer's perspective, we could say that the 'new music' now is a function of production.

A slightly different view would simply be to say that the Engineer/Producer is the artist.

Someone made a comment about rock/jazz not evolving much ... well, you need people who can actually play instruments! It takes massive work, talent, skill. People who isolate themselves for long periods. I know being a DAC/artists requires work ... but it's altogether of a different kind.

I appreciate soundscape art, but not not as much as live music.

FYI though maybe Brian Eno et. al. were the first to really take advantage of the tech, I have to think of DJ Sasha's album, Airdrawndagger as kind of seminal. It was a fully a producers album.
IMHO, the author doesn't understand the subject domain deeply enough to address it.
as a chinese, we barely rely on export as you may already aware of. domestic economy doesn't change even a bit during trade war. simply because we are LARGE in many perpective. the cost of renting the house or buy one are on a up-hill. you may felt we should be affected, but the fact is that we use your tech(computer engineering) and change our life without much expense of research and development.
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Nintendo DS is the first example that cames to my mind.
Yeah, seriously, I don’t get this. I understand the argument that commuting to the airport, security theater etc is a huge pain. And maybe sleeping on the bus would be nice. But I would only take the bus as an alternative if it’s also cheaper than the flight. Otherwise, it seems like the tradeoffs cancel each other out.
Even if that were to make economic sense (it doesn't), you'd still have a major defence issue relying entirely on external food supply.
Really? Are you saying comparative advantage doesn't exist?