skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was attempting to make the point that our perception of past realities is mostly shaped by the media. Estimates vary but from 75 to 120 million people perished in WWII with many more gravely injured physically and mentally. Now that generation has died and TV and film have taken over 'dramatizing' events...

https://vimeo.com/128373915
Mine takes 21 seconds to fully load, including the tasks and calendar sidebar from a fresh browser start with no caches and cookies, but only timing from clicking the sign in button.
Ask HN: What's the best private budgeting app?
Is there a budgeting app that respects user's privacy? (Doesn't store data, track transactions, etc)

For example, Mint is a popular budgeting tool, but they explicitly state that they share your information [0].

[0]: https://security.intuit.com/index.php/privacy
It seems that mkdocs is a generator that requires a build step. Docute does all of that work clientside at render time, according to TFA. That makes it compatible with ipfs with no additional build step, which I think is super cool.
Fear of overpopulation is not misanthropy. Personal attacks are veboten here. Please stop.
I use separate files for separate topics. Org mode is pretty good at linking between files. I've even done coding projects where a TODO list links to lines of code inside of a source file (by grep, not by line number, otherwise they'd go outdated every time I committed).

Getting into Org-mode, I would occasionally run into people who would say, "there's one right way to do this. You should be using Org-agenda view for all of your TODOs, you should be setting up tags with this specific system..." Over time, I have learned to ignore those people.

The main benefit of Org-mode is that it is really, really, stinking flexible. You should use whatever system you're most comfortable with (probably whatever you were using before with Markdown) and then slowly adapt features like auto-archiving TODOs, time-tracking, tags, Org-capture, as you need them.

You should look into them, because sometimes you see something cool like Org-capture and you're like, "woah, I could just hit one keypress, type in a sentence, and it'll get auto-filed for me based on the content." But let that "coolness" factor be the thing that guides you. Org-mode is really big and really adaptable, so if you try to grab everything in one go, you'll end up turning your notes into a chore again.

I started using Org-mode specifically because I hated having to adapt a very personal notetaking style to more rigid commercial apps. And my notetaking style evolves based on what I'm going through in life anyway. Org-mode allows it to be more rigid or more flexible based on life circumstances.
Definitely. My company requires the use of standard Windows applications - no apps on mobile devices - that have fairly intuitive interfaces for me (a late 30's former software developer), and while they have quirks, I get around them decently enough.

Many of my younger employees have never owned a computer. Literally. They use mobile for everything and only used the computer labs to do word processing and the like in college, or had work computers. And they are incredibly inefficient and basically useless when they encounter these applications for the first time; it is a huge training cost that I didn't expect going into it.

But it makes sense, of course. My industry doesn't make applications for today's end users, it makes them for the people that suffered through the DOS/Windows 3.1/Novell Networking era, because most of their consumers are 30-50 years old in academia or large business.

This split is happening in more than just my industry; it's happening in a lot of others due to the fast pace of mobile adoption and abandonment of the traditional PC. The real fear is that my employees are no better at using mobile devices than I am; in theory they should be, but in reality they're just technologically far worse than anyone else who had to grow up using complex systems. I have long-term fears about what this will do to the population; many people have long assumed that generations continue to get smarter and more tech-savvy, but I have found this to be very, very false in my limited experience.
Yep search, search across attachments and web page capture means that Evernote rules in this space for me.

Evernote has traditionally been marketed as a note-taking app but for me it is a personal database/encyclopaedia. The ease of finding anything without having to worry about structure or links (though I have a bit of both) is fantastic.
"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."

I actually agree. And to make this work insurers should stop negotiating individual rates with providers and instead providers should have a set price they charge no matter who pays. It's nuts that if you don't have insurance you pay 30k but with insurance suddenly the provider is OK with 7.5k.
Something has to be done about the sustainability problem though, otherwise you'll have fewer and fewer sites to visit in the future.

Brave is working on an alternative digital advertising platform based on explicit user buy-in. If the user does not consent, the user does not see these third party ads and trackers.

As part of an incentive to get user consent, Brave's model pays the user for their attention (as much as 70% of ad revenue). After all, attention is a limited commodity, and you should get paid for yours.

In the Brave model, ads are matched locally, on the user's device via machine learning. This reduces complexity, thus reducing opportunity for fraud and abuse. As such, we expect to see more revenue for the content creators themselves (in addition to the users).
Public catalogue of city issues
Should we have a public issue catalogue of the city? Can the Government treat as powerful tool or as the enemy?
It would be worse without it. Google would be liable for copyrighted material, and likely would preemptively ban suspected material to avoid liability.
He must have meant "spending per student per year has increased by 2-3X".
> I do love "sensible policy changes" that work by extracting money from physicians to cover patient bills rather than actually fixing the systemic dysfunction.

The article says insurers are required to pay:

> The doctors would instead have to work with patients’ insurance, which would pay the greater of the following two amounts:
>
> * The median in-network rate negotiated by health plans
> * 125 percent of the average amount paid to similar providers in the same geographic area

That seems more than reasonable to me. They will get greater than market rate, if you define "market rate" as rates negotiated between insurers and doctors and not whatever nonsense they can get away with charging when the patient does not have pricing information and often isn't in a position to make a decision anyway.

> 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.

They are already required to pay for out-of-network emergency care even if the plan ordinarily doesn't cover out-of-network services at all, but they are only required to pay the usual and customary rates for those services, not the inflated nonsense bills (unless it's a state-regulated plan where state law requires the insurer to pay the inflated bills).
It works like gambling. You play the game 100 times and you just lose most of them, but on the rare occasion you get very lucky... and you walk away with an unforgettable story about how you defied all the odds and did something wonderful and amazing. That's where procedural generation shines the brightest.
Normally, DMCA notices for non-infringing works can't trigger the perjury clause, because the lawyers really do represent the owner of the copyrighted work that's allegedly infringed, it's just the infringement claim itself that's bogus.

Here, if the article is correct, they're actually claiming to own works they do not own at all. So if they get called on it, they actually could end up having to answer perjury charges. The real question is who gets to enforce that? I'm not sure if it's the DoJ, you might have to bring a civil suit for slander to title first to get a criminal referral or something. I really don't know how that's supposed to play out because I think I've only seen one case where someone complained under the perjury clause and they settled, so it was never a criminal matter.
Saudi Arabia Shelves Work on SoftBank’s $200B Solar Project
This was a stat in "Indie Game: The Movie", IIRC at least.
As for Spotify and Kindles, the service is not that different ad supported or not. That means any savings is a much better trade-off. Youtube used to be 100% free, and $9.99 doesn't get you too much more than what you get for free + ads. In fact you can install uBlock and never see adds on Youtube for free.

Most people don't actively want ads. Ads are just too big of a revenue stream for most for-profit companies to ignore. A benefit of the original TV cable subscription was not having ads (which drove initial adoption!), but then networks saw they could charge people for cable AND show them ads with little recourse for the customer, so they did.

Also the Spotify and Youtube examples you presented are strictly subscription vs. no subscription. There can be no consumer enthusiasm for an option on the web that doesn't exist! Micropayments would add a different option with different trade-offs.

These are older examples, but they still exist. When you buy a newspaper for example, your options are not only free vs. monthly/yearly subscription, as is currently the case in your examples. They can pay a small amount for a single issue. When you buy a phone card, you can pay a small(?) amount for single calls vs. having a dedicated phone line subscription.

More recently, when you have a Starbucks card, you can use it for small purchases instead of "subscribing" to Starbucks. It's easy to use and works with the apps and online ordering. It also avoids the massive fees that payment processors collect which usually make <$1 contributions next to worthless.

Currently the most similar system to a "micropayment support infrastructure" I can think of is Patreon, which some people do actually use to work on projects full time.
http://archive.is/wLsRa

> An alternative plan is to be announced in late October 18.
Can you always recover all physical information?
How much does that plan actually cost? Your W-2 should include the value of the employer's subsidy.

You're still paying for inflated healthcare costs either way; in a competitive labor market (not always the case but certainly is in SV), reduced benefit costs would be expected to increase cash compensation.
Scraping Wordpress – Archiving Journalism Step by Step
By their actions, Americans show they want density. Otherwise, why are more Americans moving into big cities than moving out of them? Why do they clog up the freeways by driving to work in the same cities at the same time?

People might say they don't want density, but every current trend is toward more density, because of the actions people are taking.
I think you're putting too much stock in the steam reviews. Just because a game has the same % positive rating as another doesn't mean it's of the same quality or even that people like it the same amount.

It's like rotten tomatoes. 2001: A Space Odyssey [0] has 93% on RT, Pick of the Litter has 100%. I'm sure Pick of the Litter is a fine film, but clearly there's a sense in which it's a lesser movie compared to 2001 by general consensus, despite what the percentages would indicate. Now the case of stardew valley and "the other farming simulators on steam" is not so extreme but that's what I'm getting at.

[0] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000085_2001_a_space_odysse...?

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pick_of_the_litter
عملية انفصال الشبكية أمل جديد لفاقدى البصر
It seems to me like this study is looking at the correlation of heavy usage and ad blocker usage, and jumping to the conclusion that blocking ads is a cause for using the web more, and not the other way around.
I have found it difficult to track cash spending. I picked up using GNUCash this year, and that helped a bit. I at least can capture most cash spending to see if I'm within budget in different categories. But every few week's I still need to make a 'correction' transaction for ~$10, which is annoying.
Or you just let websites price their content as they please. Like every other business does.

Your though experiment makes about as much sense as pricing groceries by weight. Buying 10L of water and one 100g stake. With your method pay the water company x100 as much because reasons.
I feel like you're responding to the headline alone. Read the article. It lays out some rather compelling evidence that some behavioral disorders in dogs are analogous to OCD in humans, and can be treated in similar ways.
Fully agree, and would add

- make sure you're willing to accept breed traits.

Collies will "compulsively" herd things, it's what they're bred for, and it's wired in very strongly. So when your collie starts herding the cats, it's not a problem with the dog.

As you noted gun dogs will often carry or hold things.

It's ridiculous to see these traits, or a long evolved habit such as circling before lying, as OCD that should be treated.

It's a companion animal, not part of the decoration.
The reason doctors are in-network is the because they agreed to a discounted rate.

If you forced insurance companies to accept all-comers, you’ve just drastically increased the cost of ER care.

My preference would be for the hospitals to hold the bag.
That's not really true - take a look at the graphics from Factorio 0.1, released in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_a8_zxYLik

They've since sold about 20M copies at $20 (now $30) apiece. I started playing in 2017 with Factorio 0.14, when the graphics were better but still decidedly retro and they'd sold maybe 4M copies.

The difference is that Factorio has a unique gameplay concept that is both extremely addictive and not really found in any other games. People will overlook shitty graphics if the game has a compelling concept that they can't get elsewhere.
This is proving just as clearly that the more you use a web browser, the more likely it is that you will block ads.

The only evidence here is correlation.
> Give it a try, it’s good for you :-)

Can we actually try this though? 2019 appears to be the planned open source date.
You list examples but don’t cite any references to prove that these people didn’t make substantial philanthropic contributions. Nor do you cite counter-examples like those other commenters have mentioned.

Andrew Carnegie, the richest person of his era, donated 90% of his wealth to philanthropic causes, most notably to local libraries, universities and scientific reasearch. He implored his fellow wealthy people to to the same, believing the only worthwhile purpose for accumulating wealth was to reinvest it in improving society. The Rockefellers seemed to do the same, as have many others since.

In Patrick’s case, his company is still in growth phase and his wealth is mostly on paper, so he’s not able to give much time or money. I’m sure he will when his company’s success becomes more assured and he can spare the time and money. His friend, YC President Sam Altman, has donated $10M of his own money to YC Research to help find answers to hard questions he cares about, which I think is a lot for him (I was surprised to learn he even had that amount to spare as his own company wasn’t a huge success).
From that wiki page:

> A small fish, especially the three-spined stickleback

My wife, a neuroscientist researching three-spined stickleback, has never come across the term 'tiddler'. Midwestern US.

So, yes, I would say it is solitarily British slang.
Someone migrating to a big city generally wants to the last one in the door. People are much more interested in consuming density personally than in in allowing developers to produce more of it.
You could say OCD is a disease of the brain, and as dogs have brains as well, I don't think it's impossible that they'd suffer from a similar 'disease'.

Maybe I just misunderstood what you were trying to say though, but I do agree that you should not treat them as human children.

(I have OCD myself (2 decades+) and it is a horrible thing to live with.)
If you didn't go through the presentation, the plan is to release Sorbet as an open-source product in 2019.
Statement: CERN stands for diversity
Working on one right now, will be subscription based, but won't share your data with anyone.
I’m somewhat sad that there’s so much focus on HOW related improvements and less on the WHY. What I really like about Vue was that it was one of the first tools where it’s whole MO was to get out of the way of the process of creation instead of being very in-your-face about specific features and techniques . It was iOS while react was Android.

I hope that It’s initial success bringing it more mainstream doesn’t cause enterprise pressures to make the project lose focus on this core.

Not having to deal with weird tricks for certain types of data mutations is quite nice though.
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Thought I'd do a quick read...but the site starts with a pitch for the web site itself, then a bunch of author background, then what looks like a marketing pitch of some sort, then a big download button. Not my kind of site.
I've been doing that for years in one of my projects. Just reference the CSS and JS files in the .vue file (e.g. <script src='./file.js'></script>) instead of inlining them in their respective tags. How else would you want to do it?
I think that's misleading. I tested a few times this morning, and had clean-cache "load" times of 10-35 seconds, but I could use the app within 5 and chrome devtools showed ready in under 10.

So I'm curious what your metric is. Is it until the last resource is fully rendered in devtools, until the ready action fires, or until you can actually do things?
They built vta and no one uses it.
Ask your Representative and Senators to sign on to HR 676 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676) and S 1804 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/180...), if they haven't already.
I always find it laughable when people talk about how much it'll cost to take carbon out of the atmosphere. It's farcical to me that our imaginary numbers game stops us from trying to prevent the end of the world.

If there was an asteroid heading for earth and we could stop it but the rocket was going to cost 100 trillion dollars, would it be built?
As great as Web Payments is, there are obvious problems with the system (largely around privacy and anonymity). At Brave we launched a similar system on the BAT (ERC20) token. In Brave Rewards (formerly Brave Payments), users are able to (via ANONIZE2 and ad-hoc VPN connections) anonymously contribute to content creators based on attention distribution. If the browser spent 10% of it's time viewing the content from one particular YouTuber, 10% of the user's monthly BAT budget would go to the content creator. This system leverages the pseudononymous nature of the blockchain to offset the cost of user an ad-blocker. Low friction, privacy, and secure.
You can’t fix climate change with money.
> “Unbundling makes parking more transparent,” a researcher from Sightline told Next City at the time. “When people realize they’re paying $200 a month for parking they might opt out or get by with one car instead of two, then the market builds less of it which is what we want.”

What is "it" in this sentence? Parking? Why do you want less parking?
You are so right. Let's attack both of the challenges you identified, and solve them

> Only a handful of cities have remotely passable public transit systems.

> Only a tiny portion of most metro area populations can live in the zoned housing capacity of central business districts
Ask HN: Modern self-hosted IMAP webmail client?
In light of recent Gmail changes (see the recent prominent thread), which, like many others, I'm also not totally happy with (mostly because of being slower than before), I'd like to explore options of a self hosted webmail client that uses IMAP to receive emails at my Gmail account.

Let's say I'm not against Google/Gmail and don't mind emails going through their servers (privacy concerns etc. that many others here have), but am just not happy with their latest redesign. I'd also like to not use Thunderbird or other desktop clients because I have several laptops and desktops and don't wish to spend time downloading new emails when I don't use a laptop for a month and open it up. Webmail in concept sounds great, if I can control what client to use and have a good lightweight one.

What are some modern options for one? I did some googling around and found lists including ones like Squirrelmail which screams of late 90s web hosts to me. The ideal client is something like old school Gmail without all the Hangouts integration and such that slows it down.
What exactly are you basing that on? The previous law said nothing about hosters being liable for any copyright.
You're confusing inflation with rising real prices. Inflation doesn't discriminate -- the price of everything rises by the same proportion.
This was the only thing I missed when I moved over from React 2 years ago. Vue's error messages are relatively useless, and they haven't ever improved much.
Its probably hard to see this right now but any code you wrote was not a waste of time. You learned something that will become invaluable two years down the line in another role and probably will boost your salary more than the opportunity cost of washing dishes and thus repay itself every year.

Everyone who tackles a project like this should keep this in mind. Its almost certainly not going to make you immediate money, but you'll learn a lot doing it, and that will repay itself down the line.

I've done this twice to myself and it was hard at the time to watch them fail but I now make $500k+/yr at one of the FAANGs and a lot of that salary I attribute to trying build these things, end to end, myself. I just have a much broader context on the industry, on technical stacks, and on software development than if I hadn't.

So, congrats. :)
Couldn't have said it better, but even taking this into account the FCC still would say the former definition would be illegal if the radio is 'capable' of transmitting outside the ham bands. Even a crystal based radio is capable of transmitting outside the ham bands by simply swapping the crystal.
I do think that people have lower expectations for more obscure games, and tend to review higher when they're pleasantly surprised.
And they and their companies can pay for it. There should be more parking garages and less parking lots and on-street parking. It's important to get make all the costs transparent so people can make good decisions. Maybe the office will move from downtown to somewhere closer to their workers -- reducing congestion and commute time.
The unacceptable slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...
I have read that hospitals actually tell providers to not be in network so they can make more money.
Wow, this is beautiful and so simple to start using, I will give it a try.
The Torrence Boone thing is quite remarkable.

Considering a fake DMCA carries the same penalty as perjury (correct me if I'm wrong) then I would have expected Google to have taken some action. A suspension pending an internal investigation or something similar.

Have they made any public statements on the matter?