skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who is now the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

and

> The details of the rollback about to be proposed would also represent a victory for Mr. Wheeler’s former boss, Robert E. Murray, the chief executive of the Murray Energy Corporation, one of the nation’s largest coal companies. Mr. Murray, who was a major donor to President Trump’s inauguration fund, personally requested the rollback of the mercury rule soon after Mr. Trump took office, in a written “wish list” he handed to Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

It's difficult for me to imagine how this cartoon-level villainy could get any worse, but I guess I'm numb at this point.
This is why we created Brave Rewards (formerly Brave Payments) in the Brave browser. Today more than 4 million monthly active users are able to support YouTubers, Twitch streamers, and other content creators via pro-rata contributions of Basic Attention Token. Via the ANONIZE2 protocol and ad-hoc VPN connections, users are able to support online content in a low-friction, anonymous, and private manner.

We're working on Brave Ads too, which will be an opt-in component of the browser which leverages client-side machine-learning to match ads, reduce fraud, and pay more to content creators. Further, Brave Ads will pay the user for their attention—as much as 70% of the ad revenue.

This study is great, follows years of evidence that the web runs on advertising, and that ad-blocking is becoming the new norm. Brave is looking at the horizon, and working on the long-term sustainability problem. Brave Rewards and Brave Ads is showing promise.
So this is literally monetisation [1] based on the work of Homebrew [2]?

[1] https://github.com/feramhq/cli-apps/blob/master/git/main.yam...
[2] https://github.com/feramhq/cli-apps/blob/master/git/main.yam...
Sure, but the parking requiments mentioned above only really an issue in high density cities. I don't think requiring adequate parking is an issue in the lower density areas.

Hopefully this will encourage people to consider other options if parking becomes to difficult or expensive.
> 62,176 lines of code

then I watched the youtube video demo in 2017.

A 2D gaming scroller that requires 62,126 lines of code written from scratch? There's tons of libraries out there, game engines you could adopt, etc.

I would argue you could be an awful programmer and use prebuilt tools but have great design aesthetics, vision, music composition, and storytelling, and deliver something far better
> x86s always get the latest semiconductor processes, while FPGAs always lag

Two issues with this:

1) You cannot compare an FPGA architecture to a general purpose CPU. FPGAs are massively parallel by design and have near zero overhead, so 100 MHz in an FPGA != a 100 MHz CPU.

2) FPGAs do not lag that far behind and are moving to 16 nm and beyond for higher end products. Besides, due to 1), there really is no real need to move to lower nodes yet.
As a German who had to take US-americans to the ER twice, once in Germany, once on Curacao, my observation can be summarized as "WTF?".

In both cases the patient initially refused treatment out of fear to receive a high bill. Both bills ended up being about 50 USD (a few stitches in the first case, lab analysis to confirm it were kidney stones in the second case).

In the first case, the patient's spouse told me not to worry, it ain't too bad. But she would stay with him to make sure he does not fall unconscious ("uhm.. ok...."; I got a taxi to pick them up for a trip to the ER); in the second case I ate my dinner while watching the guy scream in pain - being a doctor's child helps with that .. he finally agreed to let me take him to the ER.

Dear US-americans doctors, you lost me. Where again was the exit ethics took during your education?
It is not a tax, it is starting to treat the web like a market and not a state subsidized experimental project. Something that has been going on for far too long.

If you're worried about poor people do something to increase their standard of living. Access to cat gifs is a lot priority when your the only drinking water you have is filled with lead.

Setting the cost of using a website by traffic makes about as much sense as deciding how much things in the super market cost by weight. A liter of water being 10 times as expensive as a 100g stake.

Websites and services should have the freedom of setting their prices to whatever they want. Just like how every other market works.
From a marketing standpoint, the game "feels" amateur in the way it's presented ( very insecure narrative, etc )

But when you watch the demo the game itself "seems cool" but in a way that realizes immediately this is Super Mario Bros reinvented.

Also this blog post was from February 2018 and has sat on the Dev Blog "above the fold" for most of this year. It seems like the game has a dark cloud over it.

If something isn't a labor of love, you should end it. But then there's that quote "you cannot excel at something you do not love" ... which seems like the real thing here. It seems excellent in its own ways, just not entirely original or well marketed. So ask why are you doing it and measure by some other metric than sales and usage.
Green threads are still far faster mainly because of context switching overhead. This allows you to have many green threads per request without problems. Green threads will probably always be much faster unless we develop a way to speed up context switching.
Change needs to happen to the U.S. Healthcare system so that these incidents just stop. This change is not going to happen on its own without people driving change.

So you and I agree that change is needed, and action is necesary but what should be the course of action?

> Here's a sensible solution: when it comes to emergency-based care, insurers must accept all comers as in-network. There's no such thing as "out of network" emergency-related care.

Ah. I see you have good intentions but what you are saying is "Hospitals should be allowed to get paid whatever they charge and insurance companies should pay it"

Do you see the problem?

An example: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/15/17474/profit-hosp...

As a person who's extremely passionate about driving change in the U.S. Healthcare system, I communicate a lot with people who have falled on hard times due to a medical bill.

Here are two scenarios for you:

https://www.quora.com/Recently-my-husband-visited-the-ER-in-...
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-doctor-charge-me-3600-hr-t...

When people ask me what I think is "wrong" with the health care in the USA, my answer surprises them:

Nothing is wrong with the health care in the USA. It is one of the very best in the world for those who can afford it.

The issue is that one should not have to look unexpectedly to a life completely ruined because they suddenly fell sick or got into an accident - they should be able to pick up their lives when they need to do it the most and go on from there.

I invite your feedback on:

https://www.quora.com/Would-a-completely-free-market-healthc...

https://www.quora.com/In-the-US-the-majority-of-people-under...
Reading this stuff makes me borderline suicidal, and the only thing that stops me is that I have young children who would be worse off without me.

I've gone from hoping science will save them, to hoping we have a decade to make a few happy memories before things get truly awful.

The only way I've been able to find peace lately is to think about how the universe will eventually collapse on itself in a few billion years, and to try to put human history and my family's lives in context with that. Both are tiny points of data on a chart.
That's a good question, because the numbers game is only imaginary if your populations survival isn't dependant on it. If we start diverting enough effort to rocketry, food prices may rise and the poorest can afford even less kcal per day...

But you are completely underlining my argument. I don't know if the rocket would get built.
So refreshing to see a new Python web framework that isn't trying to hoist more event-based non-blocking IO on us.
but you have to be upfront with yourself about the fact that you're not taking moral responsibility for your actions.

My concern isn't so much the nature or purpose of the tool I'm building, as it is with whose hands the tool will ultimately end up in.

I'd be OK working on military drones, for instance, if I knew they wouldn't end up in the hands of avaricious neoconservatives, LBJ-school paleoliberals, religious nuts, or basically anyone who isn't someone whose judgment I personally trust.

So in practice I wouldn't want to work on a military weapons project with no valid civilian uses. But it's not because I believe drones or land mines or atomic bombs are inherently evil. It's because I have no idea who will eventually end up in control of those products, and because history suggests that they will be used in ways I don't approve of.

I have the same attitude towards patents, basically, but that's a different debate.
1) We're talking about paid leave.

2) Historically, no one bought insurance on the individual market. It's been absurdly expensive. That was why the individual mandate under Obamacare is/was important. It forced healthy people to buy insurance, and thus drive down the price.

3) It's illegal discriminate based on parental status.
> My preference would be for the hospitals to hold the bag.

Fair enough.

How about everyone needing to pay the same rate regardless of whether they are insured or not:
https://www.quora.com/Would-a-completely-free-market-healthc...
The review panels that score grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are comprised of professors. (Mostly; being a professor isn't technically required.) If a proposal is scored well by the review panel, it is almost always funded. The National Science Foundation (NSF) works similarly. If (a) the review panels were on board with duplication and (b) people started submitting proposals for duplication research, those proposals would probably get funded.

Edit to clarify: The point is that professors, as a group, already have the power to allocate funds to duplication research if they wished to do so. Blame for a lack of duplication research cannot be pinned solely on the funding agencies.
What's the back story?
You can make some tweaks to org to get images to display nicely: https://lepisma.github.io/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
NarraScope: a conference celebrating narrative games
Monthly Costco run can be covered by a carshare or just planning on a rental one weekend a month and planning certain chores around it.

The carseat thing is a real missing piece in the puzzle though.
this plagues my sleep. yes, spreadsheets! I always wonder: what's so special about spreadsheets?
We took our family dog to a vet in London when it seemed unwell, the vet told us that our dog was depressed and recommended a prescription of expensive canine antidepressants.

Skeptical of this diagnosis, we took the dog to rural vet closer to home. This vet quickly diagnosed a physical ailment (anal gland compaction) and treated the dog - who was very happy by the time we got home.
Soon surgery will be free while my doctor sings the Sears Roebuck
My dad was a programmer and I'm a programmer. I don't think I'll ever make a salary as high as he did[1], and that's in absolute dollars. Yet, my quality of life is definitely better. I take vacations all over the world. I can look up any fact I want instantly on the internet. I work from home 3 days a week. I've easily cured maladies that were huge nuisances when he was my age.

You're right that macroeconomic indicators don't seem to tell the story, but I can't square my experience with your claim.

1. He has a Master of Physics, I don't have a degree.
It is correlational, yes, but it's consistent with what we expect (surely no one expects ads to have zero or even positive effects on Internet usage?), the direction & size of the effect are consistent with the 2 most relevant randomized experiments (linked in my comment), and they have longitudinal data which lets them control for a decent number of baseline characteristics like, to quote from the propensity scoring section:

- Active hours: Total time the user spent interacting with the browser
- Session length: Total browser session time
- Number of subsessions: Total Telemetry reports
- Total tab open events: Number of tabs opened
- Total URI count: Total number of pages loaded
- Unique URI count: Number of unique websites (TLD+1) visited
- Address bar searches: Number of searches initiated from the address bar
- Search bar searches: Number of searches initiated from the dedicated search bar
- Total Yahoo searches: Number of searches made using the Yahoo search engine
- Total Google searches: Number of searches made using the Google search engine
- Total searches: Total number of searches overall initiated from one of the Firefox search bars
- Number of bookmarks: Total bookmarks added
- Length of history: Total number of pages visited

So everyone with an adblocker had normal activity levels at the start (compared to the non-adblock-user they are 'matched' with by the propensity scoring), but after installation, then the adblocker people saw large increases in activity that their non-adblock counterparts, who were web browsing just as much before hand, did not experience.

This largely rules out the reverse causation of 'browsing -> adblock installation'. It could still be driven by people forecasting that they will be doing a lot of web browsing in the future and installing adblock before they begin doing all the extra browsing, but this feels a lot less plausible to me.
There was no previous law with respect to the internet. The specific purpose of the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA was to exempt ISPs and content providers from liability for hosting copyright infringing material.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
None of this needs to be stored off-device. With Brave Rewards (in the Brave browser), the list of sites you visit remains on your device. Each month the ANONIZE2 protocol is leveraged to anonymously report time-spent on each domain (via an ad-hoc VPN connection to mask location) and pay those online-properties accordingly. The entire system remains opt-in, user-controlled, and secure. No private information is stored or shared with anybody else.
> Compare that to the various website side projects I've worked on over the years which have made me hundreds of thousands of dollars (over 10 years).

Was this orders from clients or did you create some SaaS?
Agreed (Disclaimer: I work on the Brave browser)
I saw Scottsdale, Arizona mentioned and straightaway remembered that GoDaddy is based there. Coincidence?

Edit: actually, answering my own question -- when a domain is reg'd at GoDaddy and privacy is enabled, it's then "owned" (in the whois sense) by DomainsByProxy at GoDaddy.
Ugh, please don't use Kosovo as an example of a "good" kind of intervention, without looking more deeply into historical context and consequences afterwards...
https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I wonder if the Wayback Machine people are using a (potentially more modern) version of the AOPIC algorithm to decide what to archive. I wrote an article about that algorithm (which is similar to the original PageRank, but simpler IMO), and stated that a service "like the Wayback Machine would probably use something like AOPIC." It would be nice to remove that first like from the sentence!

[1] https://intoli.com/blog/aopic-algorithm/
I mean, it's great that humanity is enjoying increasingly high standard of living, but that's at best non sequitur. Nobody's asking humanity to go back to pre-industrial times, at least nobody who's worth listening to.

Our "amazing creativity" might help us in the future, but there are much simpler and more effective things to do, right now, such as STOP BURNING COAL. What we really need now is more like political willpower.
The doctors don’t create the bills, or even really influence billing. The billing issues are caused by hospital administrators who are mostly MBAs or Policy masters, and they’re negotiating with MBAs in insurance companies.
That's why Freebsd lost it's technical lead 15 years ago.
In the gold rush days, it wasn't the miners who made money (other than a very few early miners). It was the people who supplied the miners.

It isn't surprising the internet has been called a gold rush.
I see - and thanks for the positively ancient SNL call-back! (dessert topping/floor wax). Being ancient myself, I spotted it right away.

Further question: I too work with real estate developers. You're suggesting they publish a link to assets where the browser depends upon a torrent application to complete download, no? Or, alternatively, did things progress while I wasn't looking and now torrents can be completed in-browser?
Hi, my name is Ivan and I made https://www.Photopea.com . After the first 7 000 hours of work, I made $0.

Now (after about 10 000 hours of work), Photopea is used by one million of people every month, and I have a decent income just from ads, even without working on it.
Humans work in cycles.

So, you already had the right hunch.

You don't really have a good direction on a random day and can't really get into the zone? Fix some small bugs for 2h and then call it quits, go to the gym, drink beer with your friends.

You got that one feature that you know exactly how you build it and you're on fire for it? Knock yourself out in a coding session of 2 x 20h and take 3 days off afterwards. Much bette than forcing yourself to quit at 6pm even though you're burning to do it.

Productivity means taking advantage of the human cycle, which is comprised of your mood, hormones, the characteristic of your problem and many more factors that you can't really control.
I like the idea of a universal addressing system but I don't think we've found the solution yet to this extremely difficult problem.

Street addressing is nice because the addresses with the same street name are on the same street organized by number. (generally at least--there are example of streets that stop/restart) And the numbering is collinear with the direction of travel. i.e. I walk along the street. And I know I'll pass 11XY to get to 12XY.

what3words was interesting but the words for the squares don't seem to be related to each other. From one square, I'd like to be able to generate the addresses of all the adjacent squares. (///jumped.spring.improving directly next to ///book.groups.hiking) and I can't generalize a larger square of w3w squares with an overarching set of words or something

playing around with the plus codes, they seem to increment in a consistent way but I haven't figured out how
e.g. (a random example)
W->E: _+HJV _+HJW _+HJX _+HMR
N->S: _+HMJ _+HMC _+HM6 _+HM2

I also like that I can change the address reference box size based on how many letters I have after the plus sign. In case I want to reference my front door versus my entire city.

It'd be much easier filling out addresses in forms because I could type less info. But it'd be hard for me to associate a string on number letters to an area just in everyday life. Market St or Powell st carries more with it. And is streets aren't directly aligned with the boxes then that poses a difficulty.

Edit: found their doc evaluating other methods [link](https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...)
If many of the 'adblock users' are still being exposed to occasional ads which are 'acceptable', then presumably the true effect of ads is even worse than estimated.
I don't disagree that it could be easier to understand.

My point is presentation doesn't wipe out the initial or potential long term relevance of the tech, only accessibility and approachability to create beginners. Bitcoin comes to mind.

Maybe some experienced power users helping tell some more stories.
Excellent! This is action.

Not the best action (more below) but anything else is wildly better than the situation we have in the current U.S. Healthcare system

Change needs to happen to the U.S. Healthcare system so that surprise billings just stop. This change is not going to happen on its own without people driving change.

The issue at hand is that Healthcare costs in the U.S. are all over the place.

Same place, same doctor, same procedure on the same person on the same day can yield massively different invoices depending on whether the person is insured, where they work, what kind of insurance they carry!

Hospitals wield a lot more power than you and I would guess.

An example: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/15/17474/profit-hosp...

As a person who's extremely passionate about driving change in the U.S. Healthcare system, I communicate a lot with people who have fallen on hard times due to an enormous medical bill.

Here are two scenarios for you:

https://www.quora.com/Recently-my-husband-visited-the-ER-in-...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-doctor-charge-me-3600-hr-t...

When people ask me what I think is "wrong" with the health care in the USA, my answer surprises them:

Nothing is wrong with the health care in the USA. It is one of the very best in the world for those who can afford it.

The issue is that one should not have to look unexpectedly to a life completely ruined because they suddenly fell sick or got into an accident - they should be able to pick up their lives when they need to do it the most and go on from there.

My hypothesis is that a system where everyone pays the same rate regardless of whether they are insured or not would head us off to a much better direction.

I invite your feedback on:

https://www.quora.com/Would-a-completely-free-market-healthc...

https://www.quora.com/In-the-US-the-majority-of-people-under...
I think you are overestimating how big a difference a bedside US will make in my hands. If I think I'm going to change management on a pt based on US I'm ordering it done right by the right person. The usefulness of bedside US is still in its childhood, most of the time I'm using it to learn or confirm what I already know. Eventually I hope we get to a point where it's a standard of care that makes a large difference in pts.
Stardew Valley is insane. The developer did everything. Art, music, sound effects, engine, gameplay, design, writing... everything.
Serious question - where would you start if you wanted to learn about how to do find/diagnose this types of issues and maybe one day work for project zero. Everytime I see these posts it blows my mind, maybe because I have never done any kernel development, but I tend to get the feeling these guys/girls must be the best of the best.
On crimes I disagree, because committing violent crimes and being caught for them tend to be fairly correlated; crime is rarely a one-time thing, and criminals get unlucky or are stupid too.

As for elites -> more children, since there were various routes into "elite" for smart/competent/etc. people (the church in various roles, not all of which precluded reproduction; skilled trades/guilds, etc.), it did have a positive effect in amplifying traits (intelligence, etc.) which I think people broadly support (I do). Similar to the assortative mating issues with colleges and elite workplaces today.
China is actually very liberal in that it believes the future must be better than the present. (Vs the present being the maximum with the future only having downside potential) Technology and new ways of thinking are embraced very quickly. (Unfortunately, the new cultures are only what the market can provide, consumerism)

Tradition and culture has too much negative associations for conservatist views to have much sway. (Great leap forward, cultural revolution, etc...)