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Ask HN: How much do you pay for news media?
On HN wsj.com submissions, I’ve noticed that at least one person posts a free link to the article content to avoid the WSJ paywall, and it got me thinking about how much folks pay for their news media, if at all.

I have an annual Atlantic subscription (print) that is around $24 a year, and am I member of the Masthead ($100 a year). I listen to a lot of WNYC podcasts (On the Media, Radiolab), and have considered donating $7 a month, but haven’t yet. Besides that, the rest of my media consumption is ad supported.

My current monthly budget would therefore be around $10 a month, which doesn’t seem like much, but I’m not sure what others spend.
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For what? As a map provider API? As a geocoding API? As a consumer map app?
It is surprising in the age of Internet where one expect information flows in seconds and things spread fast. The East and West is still very separated as it is.
How about people are allowed to choose what works best for them and their families?
I was in a similar situation as yours and I started learning Sanskrit as my hobby. It is a beautiful and a very logical language. I have been working towards improving my Sanskrit speaking ability more so than the grammar itself. It felt a lot more rewarding when I was able to hold a conversation using in my broken Sanskrit. If you haven't yet found a group to I would highly recommend finding one and practice your Sanskrit.
Unfortunately no public transport data in Switzerland in Apple Maps. Google Maps is hard to beat here
Don’t enforce it. Just start with making it tax funded, not employer funded. Next make part of the parental leave shared between parents be allocated to the father. Now if they don’t use it they will lose a benefit they already paid taxes for. The last and most important step is to keep this system in place for a generation or more, after which any parent not doing a fair chunk of the parental leave will be considered a bad parent by their peers.
> A good environment helps people without the right genetics; but this does not mean that this group can beat another set with right genetics in the same good environment.

I think that's backwards from what Plomin is saying in that quote. He's saying that, regardless of genetics, a better environment will cause the average performance of the group experiencing it to outperform the average performance of a group experiencing a worse environment. And he's saying that DNA influences the amount of each group's variation around that average performance. For example, if we were looking at height,

* There are two groups, 1 and 2; people in Group 1 have one kind of tallness DNA (tDNA, something I just made up), and people in Group 2 have another kind of tDNA; also, Group 1 grows up in an environment with better nutrition and exercise than Group 2. Both groups are one gender, let's say women, to simplify height statistics.

* Group 1 averages a height of 5'7" due to their relatively better environment, and due to their tDNA their variance is that 50% are between 5'5" and 5'8", a 3-inch range, and 95% are between 5'3" and 5'10", a 7-inch range.

* Group 2 averages a height of 5'5" due to their relatively worse environment, and due to their different tDNA their variance is larger: 50% score between 5'3" and 5'9", a 6-inch range, and 95% are between 5'0" and 5'11", an 11-inch range.
Or lack of real software ownership e.g. no root allowed!)
You’re assuming a lot.

I’m assuming your OP thinks “better safe than sorry” is stupid because it doesn’t actually help you make decisions.

I would much rather drive on a bridge of someone whose motto is “do it right.”

This isn’t the Apollo program. We know how to make safe bridges. It’s not a matter of being cautious and talking to every stakeholder. It’s a matter of hiring actual
engineers,* letting them work, believing them, and then giving them the resources to monitor construction properly.

It means sometimes rejecting a lot of bad material and holding the project up for 8 months.

It does not mean “lean safe” and cross your fingers.

* meaning licensed engineers. The word engineer has I guess been made meaningless by thousands of people writing code and calling it “engineering”. It used to mean someone had completed training as an engineer.
In the modern era, we have Roger Penrose masquerade religion as physics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
HERE[0] or OpenStreetMap[1] are both pretty complete and good for a user and developer usage.

[0] https://www.here.com

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org
Imposter syndrome is where even though qualified, people have a fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

This site is to help people overcome their anxieties by learning from others who battled imposter syndrome.

Here's the link if you missed it (I made an error submitting): http://impostersyndrome.life
We western economies have to figure this out or we'll gradually depopulate, or live under fascist governments, or worse.

Much of the gains of two-income parents goes into house prices to be closer to good schools - i.e. zero sum competition, while company incentives are to encourage people not to have children, or defer children until too late to maintain population, and essentially stopping the next generation of employees from being born.

And then you mix migration driven by climate change into the mix, and it's very easy for populist politicians to whip up narratives of being overrun, not least because on a historical scale it's true (and of course it's always been true, everywhere has always been in the state of being overrun, with ebbs and flows).

The dynamics here aren't good and it's hard to see how they're going to change any time soon, short of a crisis.
> I have no idea what that plus is for, other than making it longer by branding each tag

You can safely omit the first few charcters when the context is clear. Plus there essentially acts as a decimal point (to the point that less significant plus codes should be padded to `+` with zeroes, which is the only occurrence of zeroes in this scheme).
Every single user story on that website uses concepts that make absolutely no sense to me. And I’m a power user.

If you can’t make it understandable to me. I just don’t believe that you’ll ever get anyone to use it.
It seems hard, but maybe there is a way to guarantee privacy. Yes, once you try to redeem your lost $0.02 from conman.com people will get to know you; If you just swallow your loss it should be possible to stay anonymous. (Not with BC, so we need a little invention)
In the modern world, a physical book is nothing more than a mere printout of a PDF file or a photocopy of an old edition. People print web pages all the time, but nobody in their right mind would think much about these printouts, let alone philosophize about their tangibility, endurance etc.

On the other hand, old books, with their high-quality paper, binding and letter-press print do seem have some kind of personality...
That's awful. Why bother with a program if it's only there as a trap? Ok, so a few people take it in good faith; then the company lays those people off so as teach others not to take the leave... So they're back to square one where no one takes parental leave.

It's not mandated (yet) by law, so why bother to set-up bad goodwill? Just to bait people into joining?

It seems a very poisonous scheme with little benefit for anyone.
The barista's vocal chords are hijacked to parley an advertisement? And tell me workers' rights have not all but died on this continent.
Nah, you'll just see the insurance cost spike to the point where driving is a weekend activity for rich weirdos. Give it a generation and it will be as strange and morally suspect as smoking.
Inside the Secret Courts of Massachusetts
Google has been caught serving malware / malicious ads numerous times, IIRC. Here are a couple incidents I found with a quick search:

https://www.wired.com/2010/12/doubleclick/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3062867/overlay-malware-google-a...
I've personally used the Samskrita Bharati books to learn
Please don't. Per RFC, an MX RR cannot point to a CNAME.
so in the future - you can "war pop-up" random wifi's owners - by simply attempting to connect to the wifi and forcing a pop-up that says "Share wifi password with 'Save 15% of Geico's iPhone?"
I don’t think this is legal. Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, so, if women are not also forced to take such leave, how can men be?
This has already been tried and tested for a decade. Blendle is arguably the best version of it today and Google has the Contributor program.

I put together a small team to create an adblocker/payment solution a few years ago that used a flat rate with payments proportional to engagement (combination of time and depth) per domain, similar to systems like Spotify (number of plays vs total). It failed because people fundamentally don't want to pay for website content this way. You can't just wave away things like "too many decisions" when that's a serious blocker, especially for something that the entire world has been trained to consider as free.

You need to change behavior first. Until then, ads (putting aside implementation and UX issues) are still the most fair, fast, and scalable payments system around.
Yes for the sake of independent content creators please introduce such a system, Mozilla. People might run to Firefox, the first ad-less browser. Other vendors can adopt it later.
As the child of tenured research faculty (before they left for greener pastures), I'm well aware of the systemic dysfunction.

But throwing up our hands and saying "We can't do anything perfect about this problem, so it's better to do nothing" doesn't make progress either.

To the GP's "Projects like this pilot are a much better idea [than explicit incentives]", my comment was in continuation of the sentiment that "It doesn't matter if you have excellent, free materials, if economic incentives (for-profit publishers) dissuade faculty from using them."

Will any system be gamed? Invariably. So we tweak it. And tweak it again.

Weaning academia (and I'm specifically looking at community colleges and technical schools, who I know are far worse offenders given their lesser resources) off for-profit course material seems a just deployment of incentives and government resources, because it's a barrier to entry market rather than an ongoing investment.

After materials of marketable quality are produced, the system is likely to be self-sustaining with the correct revenue direction.

The only reason it hasn't been done is the cost of producing the initial materials, and the unwillingness of any one user to bear that entire cost.
You transpile TS at build time, i.e. when the library itself is built, not when your project is built.
It would have been a more interesting article had it also went into the downsides of this approach.

One specific concern is that mandatory paternity leave may discourage men from becoming fathers, further decreasing the birth rate which is already quite low in many advanced economies.

Another is that if taking paternity leave impacts men's careers, then in many cases both parents will suffer such an impact, further disadvantaging couples from having children.

Overall, it's an interesting idea, and definitely worth discussing.
That’s a silly abuse of the idea of least surprise. Documented, long-lived built-in data structures like generators that support behavior like exhaustion and mutation in a time-tested way are _clearly_ not some kind of surprising and useless or pedantic quirk.

I mean, consider implicits in Scala. It’s hard to think of a worse violation of least surprise, but because it’s documented and time-tested and becomes a de facto standard in that language, the argument of least surprise becomes nothing but a preference debate.

The behavior where max raises an exception on an exhausted generator is not at all surprising, from the point of view of language documentation, ubiquitous and popular advice on that data structure, etc. etc.

And besides all that: if you did happen to find a serious design bug that created a surprise problem, there are tons of ways to solve that problem in a dynamically typed language that wouldn’t require static typing or borrow checking or any explicit state management. It still would not be evidence that those things are a superior way to solve it.
If gasoline theft was to become prevelant in the US, surely the authorities and regulators would be in a much better position to take action than those in Mexico? (Mexico less so, largely because the cartels were borne into existence because of the prohibition of drugs)

Also, isn't being an owner-operator a good reason to play by the rules? By using stolen fuel you'd be risking a very expensive asset, and indeed your livelihood.
"This fits in with the kernel's policy of attempting to keep the system running as much as possible by default; if an accidental use-after-free bug occurs here for some reason, the kernel can probably heuristically mitigate its effects and keep the process working."

That's a pretty bad design decision. I'd much rather have a kernel panic than a kernel that continues to run with known bad datastructures. Like that the bugs will never really shake out, silent failures like that are super dangerous because essentially the system is running in an undefined state past that point.
It's hard to explain. I know how the web works. I used to write HTML in Notepad many years ago. With Vue I just didn't know how the stuff I was writing was turning into the stuff that the web browser actually sees. React is just a JS library that you can add on to your HTML and CSS and makes sense in the standard model.

I guess with Vue I just don't feel in control any more, and that's a big no for me.
I was also curious about this. There are high levels of disparity in all three of those places. Hong Kong has both some of the most expensive property in the world and people living in cage homes.
Eh. Yes, we can only use known information and especially with little info, the patterns we perceive won't always be perfect. But applying those labels seems to have enormous value anyway. Reddit recently likes to compare Musk to Trump. And while i disagree with that comparison on most aspects, it did help me realize their social media usage patterns are a lot more similar than I'd like. Of cause this particular comparison got a lot harder to do, now, since the US seems to hold a CEO & Chairman to higher standards...
They are likely an affiliate for every site they recommend. My default for online shopping has been Amazon for a while, but I'm more and more frequently being pulled to Walmart and other sites. Tools like this plugin are a big reason for that.
"We have found that AWDL connections do not feature any security mechanism. All action and data frames are sent in plain and without authentication. AWDL delegates security functions to the transport and application layer, e. g., AirDrop uses TLS 1.2. The approach appears to be an informed decision to implement application dependant[sic] policies: a device might be trusted for sending an image file via AirDrop, but not for remote-controlling a Keynote presentation."
I didn't say anything about formal education or credentialling.

The original and still key purpose of universities is to gather academics together.

Teaching was a by-product of that origin. Would-be students flocked to the cities where scholars had clustered and eventually, folks started to organise.

The word "university" means "of one", or "guild", or "group". That reflects its origin as a club for academics.

Literally people whose reason for being at university is to be in a club of people focusing on these sorts of questions consistently.

The closest alternative are the many and various think-tanks, most of which are intertwined with academia.
I'm not sure there's a real distinction. You make predictions based on evidence, and you're either right or wrong.

Equally flawed is taking on faith that technology will save us from ourselves.
The opening paragraph is puzzling as it breezily mentions that NB, "even in his youth", was familiar with deep questions regarding the relationship between biology and physics. Neil's Bohr's father was an accomplished and famous physician [1][2]. No doubt father and son had quite interesting discussions over dinner regarding this very topic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bohr

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect
4 billion was a lot when I first got into programming, but it just isn't that much any more. Always start out by making your sequence numbers 64 bits: 2^64 nanoseconds = ~585 years. (I have in the past stolen a few bits for other uses, but I'm less certain of the wisdom of that these days.)

32 bits is suitable for things that can only happen once a frame - (2^32/60) seconds = 2.26 years - but not much more than that.

But there's a flip side to computers being able to wrap a uint32_t so quickly: if you've got 32 bits'-worth of combinations, then you can might actually be able to do an exhaustive test. 2^32 microseconds = 71 minutes. Work in C++, run on all threads, and you probably won't even need to wait that long.

Good example: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou... - runs in 90 seconds.

I did something similar a few years ago, prototyping a 16x16 multiply routine for an 8-bit CPU. It took about 5 minutes running on both threads on my 2.5GHz dual core laptop, and found some interesting cases I'd got completely wrong.
> And why should a woman who doesn't want children have to pay a penalty for the choices of those who do?

For the same reason that men do. After all, society as a whole has decided for some reason that children are a good thing, and that the cost of having them should be born by all, even those without.
>We western economies have to figure this out or we'll gradually depopulate

Except for Japan (probably China when it comes to it), most will import labor. Globalization (in terms of corporations) isn't just about taking jobs overseas it's also about brining people from overseas in (in the US H1Bs for professionals, for example).
“What’s valuable for men...”

It begins with “Mandatory paternity leave would help close the wage gap”. Not, what would be valuable for men.

A woman who just gave birth just spent an increasingly personally costly, and completely requisite (so long as the pregnancy is wanted), nine months simply getting to the maternity leave portion of the process. I can’t immagi how a woman would perceive for men to gawk at it even being suggested they be forced to take maternity leave. If a man won’t take maternity leave the woman must and that is after the pregnancy they just sacrificed during.

Given the SCOTUS hearing at the moment, for such a tone deaf comment to be on HN says all you need to know.
HERE was flagged for me by Disconnect Malvertising filter in uBlock Origin.
I've used the Apple Maps navigation during the last vacation in Spain (rental car did only support Apple car play), and the navigation desperately needs some love. The worst things are:

- no support for roundabouts: it's really hard to determine where you have to leave, and the spoken hints are not helping. Why not displaying a top view of the intersection/roundabout like other navigation devices do?

- no good support for leaving a highway. If the connection is non-standard the speech commands seem off/hard to understand. Top view again would help.
I tried OSM yesterday and it couldn't find my friend's house address in the map. Not that it couldn't navigate there - it said the location didn't exist. Google maps finds it right away.
I think the point is moreso that 23 seconds is abnormal, not the experience of most users, and therefore likely either not consistent for you (maybe your WiFi connection dropped) or due to some wierd configuration on your end.

(Technically speaking, I work on Gmail, but unrelated to this)
I like seeing creative uses of the GraphQL library that shows that it can be much more than a simple SQL alternative.
SLOWLY- meet pen friends from your smartphone
It has to be done by browser vendors, otherwise it will not be adopted.
Shades of Bergeron.
How does your fiance, the person you presumably love and care about most in the world, feel about you doing that to her parents? I wonder how it affects her too; is it some kind of cultural statement that your fiance isn't worth anything? Hope not!

It could be a pretty big insult to her parents that would affect her relationship with them (and possibly with the rest of her family as well) for the rest of her parents' lives, and depending on how she feels about it and how the rest of her family feels about it, could affect her for the rest of her life as well.

If she's fine with it, sure, great plan. If it's going to make her miserable, perhaps not so great.
Very important for things like video codecs, since this is an inherently serial process and (as mentioned in the article) attempting to parallelise it is not really possible nor gives much gain.

Also interesting to note that the ultra-naive "pull one bit at a time and accumulate them until you have enough" method which often taught in CS courses when they cover Huffman compression and the like is basically a useless dead-end. In practice, no one decodes variable-length-codes that way because it is far too slow.
I think it matters a lot. If I develop an application that's supposed to be in development for many years I want to use a framework that has a forward path to the latest OS features.
The Journal of C Language Translation
I think the primary point of the article is that this flexible planning is not functioning as an equalizer in the workplace (Title: Want Equality? Make New Dads Stay Home...) and that it could, and should. To turn it into more direct phrasing; a woman has to take a significant chunk of time off during a pregnancy by virtue of the condition, and this has a net effect on her career.

When a woman takes off for pregnancy it is known up front it is for several months, and she is also indisposed during that time (can't answer questions or take quick phone calls, because she is not able to perform at peak levels while convalescing). So an employer accounts for the loss of that duty in different ways such as shifting responsibilities. And many of these ways become a limit to career success. Imagine she is closing a large sales deal but has to leave before close due to pregnancy - so she is no longer the clear performer in that sale, as it is closed by someone else. This reduces her effectiveness on paper (becomes a detractor) due to gender differences (becomes unequal).

A man has been given flexibility to give and take that same time in a way that permits some juggling of work and family supporting efforts - i.e your example case. You worked part time, she could really not do that in her case. This lets you stay active in your role (little effect on your responsibilities) when she could not.
Waze is pretty cool, especially with alerting to the presence of nearby speedgunning cops, but the battery drain is too much for me to tolerate, not to mention the obnoxious "integration" with Spotify.
Why can't I connect my editor to a running program and hover over values to see what they last were?...Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

When he learns about Visual Studio his mind is going to be blown.
Another option is to use the attributes directly.

Routines have been made to deliver 64 x scanline "pixels", essentially creating an Apple 2 like lowres display.
On a tangential note, there is an Italian proverb about questions and answers.
It's left hand not talking to the right. The HR people put the system in place as a way of promoting equality, hiring more easily and generally doing a decent thing. Individual managers of teams, with fixed budgets, high workloads and bonus targets around completing those workloads are probably not internally compensated for the cost of HR's policy, thus they look for ways to get rid of such people.