skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they initially arrived to Russia they paid for quite a lot of offline ads space all around the city and I suppose their ads was there for at least a year. I don't watch TV for last 12 years so have no clue if there was any ads there.

And since back then we already had multiple taxi services (mostly without mobile apps though) with quite low price they likely spend a lot on underbidding them.
I just can't see wikinews doing serious investigative journalism, though, which is one of the major reasons that news corps like WaPo are worth supporting. A talented journalist can work on a major story for months (like in the Theranos bombshell), and you need to be paying someone a salary as well as money for flights/hotels.

Wikinews is a nice idea, but the vast majority of its news is just wikipedia-style sourcing of other news organizations. The original research it does seems to be mostly Q&A interviews.
But this is all negative. What do you do in an interview to predict how effective they'll really be?

I don't think anyone is especially fond of judging candidates by using riddles, trivia questions, and unrealistic tasks, but the constraints of the interview process rule out a lengthy and thorough assessment.
Traffic in residential Tokyo streets is also super slow, because drivers are well aware that they're full of kids, grannies, cats, etc. And you're pretty much automatically at fault if you hit a pedestrian.
Someone needs to make a "Netflix for news", where you pay one monthly subscription and get access to almost everything. Then distribute the money to the sites I visit, just like Netflix or Spotify.

I see two challenges:

* Getting news sites on board. The more "premium" sites may be unwilling to give away access for cheap, but in general news orgs are desperate for a reliable income stream. Maybe a 20/articles per month limit would be fine for some sites.

* Unlike Netflix etc, it needs to work in more than one app: Each news sites own app, in the browser, and the mini-browsers inside social media apps. I don't want to type in passwords all the time just to read an article someone shared.

Apple is in a great position to do this. They have the experience with iTunes/Apple Music, and they have the leverage to make one subscription work in all apps. I just hope they don't intentionally break it on Android or Windows.
It's not "creepshot" in my opinion. But even it is, the answer is "Why not?". Each artist has it's own interest/style.
How do you handle paste from word? Could you share some code? :)
Me neither. My whole life I've been told to "be informed". For all sorts of reasons, including having something to talk about when on a date. And all those reasons are bullshit. Being informed has had zero positive impact on me. In fact the impact was negative. Constant worry, depression and frustration.

Been news free for about 5 of my 50 years and never happier.
Those who use Pocket or Reader views or similar tools will skew the results.
Erlang's bit syntax is indeed brilliant, but it's a bit different from C's bit fields: bit fields are both mapping and storage, Erlang's bit syntax is only mapping (parsing and serialisation) e.g. your bit-wide flag is going to expand to a full integer (erlang so infinite precision & heap allocated) at runtime, which may or may not be desirable.

Furthermore IIRC an Erlang pattern can be either matching or creation, you can't "abstract" a pattern to do both, so if you need to both parse and generate your binary thing will need to be written twice (at least).

This may or may not be an issue, but at the end of the day it's not quite equivalent to C's bitfields. It's very convenient though.
I had progressive hearing loss from the age of 3, had severe hearing loss by 6, and profound hearing loss shortly thereafter. I got a cochlear implant at 16.

So I wasn't Deaf, but I was certainly deaf. I'd lost my hearing at an advanced enough age to be verbal, but early enough to not really remember what I was "supposed" to be hearing.

After I got my cochlear implant, the thing that surprised me (and continues to surprise me to this day) is that there was just so much noise I couldn't even have begun to imagine. "people hearing something I couldn't" was just an abstract concept, like being taller than me.

If every sound were given a loudness on a scale from 1 to 10, I could only hear the 9s and 10s... but after the cochlear implant, I could hear everything from four to 10. The variety of sounds out there were just ridiculous -- I remember being startled at the sound of my mother cutting vegetables because I'd never heard a knife on a cutting board before.

Even today, about 17 years later, I still find that there are lots of things I can hear but not categorize. I thought my coworker sighed in frustration earlier, but when I asked him what was wrong, he said he hadn't sighed -- we figured out that I'd actually heard someone sneezing a few offices away.

I wonder how long it'll take me to build a filter to categorize and ignore that kind of thing. I know that the cochlear implant processors can filter out noise, but I really don't want them to -- it's skill I'd rather have for my own so I can enjoy hearing sounds and making my own judgments.

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If anyone wants to ask anything, I'm certainly up for answering. If it's a private question (say, if you're trying to decide about a cochlear implant), then please feel free to e-mail me (my address is in my profile).
The Guardian defending Soros directly? Now, that... that couldn't be.
Detailed use case how I reduce CSS size to be under 50KB when building AMP pages
We're using Slate to for a mid-sized react application where content editing is the core. I don't want to link/plug a product video showing you how it works but imagine dropbox paper, medium editor, CKeditor 5, ...

The implementation includes mentions, pretty complex gallery/inline image functionality, galleries with size/output controls, embeds (iframely) and other inline elements.

First we had TinyMCE, Redactor, DraftJS and then switched to Slate.

I would not say it's smooth sailing from here, we're mostly struggling with pasting from word, tables, mobile support and overall performance with the number of plugins, but working on it.
Okay? So let's say each employee costs $10 pretax. We add two employees in the same scenario where we started with a company that has $250 in sales with costs of $100 in labor and $50 in other costs. All that has changed is that the company now has $120 in labor costs. Their net income with a tax rate of 30% is now $56. Their net income with a tax rate of 20% is $64.

Please do elaborate with any example that could make what you're saying seem reasonable.
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Microsoft were able to leverage their Office 365 cloud products that most companies are already using to gain momentum. Google have shifted their focus toward AI in their recent years and I believe once it is ready, Google will come out with a breakthrough AI application on its cloud platform that will make a lot of businesses flock to them. Right now they just really don't have a way to differentiate themselves among other providers yet. It's still early in the game but that time will come.
https://contributor.google.com/ is supposed to be this. You pay a monthly fee which is distributed to the sites you read according to your pageviews.
It is either this or a system for micropayments, IMHO, which would probably be less click bait-inviting (as you pay per item, rather than having already paid for admission to an all-you-can-eat-buffet.)

Let's say you have a subscription spanning X sites, and that after you have read the first paragraph or so, you click a button if you wish to read on, being charged, say, $0.02 for the privilege.

Prepaid, so you don't get a surprise when the credit card fees are 100x the cost of the reporting you read.
"Built on top of react", sorry at least for now it is too big of a dependency for most projects that are not react based. IMO that disqualifies it from being "framework for building rich text editors".
It says "Filmed in UltraHD 4K with Lumix GH4 camera, 7-14 f4 lene and Beholder DS-1 stabilizer." in the video description.
Alt + Backspace should work for the delete key.

I agree with you on the pricing and Crostini support though.
This is a very important point that cannot be emphasized enough.

My first developer-gig was working at a regional newspaper back in 98-99.

Back then, we talked about personalized experience, how we could tailor it to the individual based on preferences.

I would come to the website and see a tailored mix of articles suited to my need. Some based on my interests and preferences, but not too siloed off, so I would still see the very important general news. It would be run by an organization I trust to be reasonably objective.

That is the kind of news service I would pay to use TODAY. I would pay 10-20EUR/month for it.

Today, I don't think that product exists. If it does, I am not aware of it.
About second half 2016, iirc, Facebook changed the News Feed, so instead of showing first Pages content in your feed, they were showing what your friends posted/shared first. One could argue this was a good thing. What happened after is that many, if not all pages got a hit in reach/traffic. Who do you think has been hit the most by this? Media maybe? (less traffic redirected to their websites, less opportunities to show adds on said websites, less money for them). I think there even was a story about Murdoch trying to persuade Zucky to change his mind, found one: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...
The tide has really turned against Sheryl Sandberg internally. I think some of her entourage are either reading the tea leaves or trying to create them.
What was the main reason for switching from draftjs to slate? Just curious since we’ve been working on various tools in the space (not directly related to either). Was it an api design issue or more a plugin/ecosystem issue?
Both sides are 90% opinion 10% fact. We can just see the opinions more clearly in the side we disagree with. Personally I'd much rather subscribe to a news source that just provided the facts, but I don't know of one. I used to read the independent and the telegraph in the UK for a slight-left and slight-right perspective, but they've both drifted further apart in recent years.
We just had too many problems to modify it + it seemed facebook had completely abandoned the project.
This has nothing to do with labor. Lower tax rates simply mean you take home more of every dollar you earn. For instance if you cut your overhead by $10 now you take home (just looking at that value in a vacuum) $8 instead of $7. That obviously does not imply your overhead costs were lower when tax rates were higher.
Why is SQRL [1] not more popular?

[1] https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Hey man. Nice App. How did you created the Mascots ? Or Outsourced it? Any leads and cost related?
we're making good progress in a ground-up rewrite of the android app in kotlin with realm and Rx (https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android-redesign-PoC/tree/...), which is an unrecognisable improvement.

meanwhile on riot-web we're doing our best to track down the remaining Slate-related composer glitches!
Curious also about any gotchas, etc.
So, this is sexist, right?
Exactly. I only use Windows for gaming from time to time and I have to be careful about other things on it. No way to work though so I am happy that Steam is making lots of progress on their wine fork.
I'd love to know as well.
The Guardian talks about their experience here:

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/series/one-million-mi...

It's interesting inasmuch as the Guardian is trying to be reader-supported without a paywall. You can be a "supporter" for €50 per year which, if I think of it as buying a reporter a pint once a month, is basically nothing.

Of course, it's worth remembering that people on HN complain pretty loudly if a paywalled link is shared. Have we considered revisiting that policy given the vulnerabilities in primarily-advertiser-funded news sources?
Which framework (or non) are you using, if not react? Just curious, or what would be a better (web related) base?
Not at all. Don't eat excessively, and caloric restriction is the way to go and proven over the ages - Okinawans have a rule of how much to eat - read about it!

Diabetic people actually need carbs as if they use insulin shots, they often get hypoglycemic. If you have an active lifestyle, your BG actually just replenishes your glycogen depots and possibly you don't have much excess fat anyway. So, live a healthy lifestyle and then a moderate diet will work just perfectly!

Anyway, fat deposits in moderate size are not a bad thing. In fact, in many cases, they save lives - the evolution did not invent them without a solid reason. Yes, excessive fat is bad for men as it's feminizing, but doesn't have a huge impact on women when you look at the studies. There's also a good reason why fat is not so easily mobilized.
Ask HN: How can ML augment learning and education?
I’ve been building a really useful qa bot and search engine as part of my CS master’s thesis, with the intention of helping you automatically extend your study and learning process to your laptop. The system answers questions, asks you about progress, and has a pretty good internal search across notes, files, emails. Would this be useful to folks if I open sourced it, or is it better left as just a research project
You can not have a thread about Tokyo snapshots without mentioning Daido Moriyama[1][2]. :)

[1] https://www.moriyamadaido.com/en/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daid%C5%8D_Moriyama
I did that. I took the initial test for Japanese, where I answered correctly for sentences I already understood or where I was only missing a single word I could guess by elimination. Given multiple options I couldn't distinguish, I messed up as it should be.

Based on the test results, I was skipped past 23 of the 40 topics I can see in the course. Considering that I've been learning for only three months, that makes the course look a bit short.

When I then tried the next lesson, I did notice some questions repeating, but there was also some variety. So I don't know whether it's possible to just memorize all the sentences without learning grammar.

Based on me trying Duolingo a single time now, I'd now say that the biggest problem is the small amount of topics covered in a course, which limits the vocabulary you know how to use after completing it.

But that's not what the original complaint said, so maybe someone who's used Duolingo 5 minutes a day for several months is still in a better position to explain what the actual problem with Duolingo is.
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Doesn't surprise me at all. There are a multitude of opinions. But the question was "what will change", discussing those that accept the new findings and have no need to change is orthogonal to answering the question.
Disagree. In the past, “abroad” was physically closer and in what is now the same country. Londoners can pay the Welsh less, but they can’t go on literal slave-gathering raids c. 999 AD.

It’s all a matter of degree. Degree of progress, degree of wage difference, etc.
The mention plugins is easily fixable and simple functionality. We have that fixed for a long time now.

It should not be a reason not to consider slate
That’s an annoying workaround at best. It’s not necessary in C. It wouldn’t be necessary in C++ if you could declare incomplete class types but still declare their member functions. This would have zero performance impact and improve encapsulation.
in-depth questions

That is true, but time-consuming, and not objective. How, for example, would you evaluate whether they tell you the truth about their past project?
If you have to interview a large number of people and need to make decisions effectively, that's a disadvantage.
Are there any concepts for an engine that consists of a "classic" particle accelerator to achieve a high ISP?
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Fair enough. I guess I presumed the preference since he uses an iPhone.
>All that has changed is that the company now has $120 in labor costs. Their net income with a tax rate of 30% is now $56. Their net income with a tax rate of 20% is $64.

these 2 employees decreased the net income by $14 in 30% case and by $16 in 20%. Granted the high margin business in your example can absorb it. Without high margin the business must increase productivity to mitigate such a higher labor cost caused by the lower tax rate.
None of this moves the needle on anything that matters to me. I don’t want to pay another subscription for yet another business that doesn’t offer material benefit. I love the long form, but I want specific benefits that matter more than as a matter of discourse.

News is now asking for subscribers to pay for what advertisers no longer will. Ok. Why should I?
>For all sorts of reasons, including having something to talk about when on a date

If that's the reason they could come up with for one being informed, I'd hate to live in that society...

>And all those reasons are bullshit. Being informed has had zero positive impact on me.

Being informed is not about having impact on the person being informed. Is about the person being informed having an impact themselves, i.e. being an active member of society. Today this is reduced to voting once every few years (if that) for most people (which is a mockery of being a citizen), but being informed is important even for that.
Pasting from word and mobile support are two things I struggled with on draft. How much easier or difficult it is with slate in your experience?
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Could you give an example? E.g. if you have a 3 bits signed integer V followed by two 1-bit flags (F1 and F2), followed by a 3-bits unsigned integer L, followed by binary data D of length L bytes, followed by a little-endian signed integer I over two bytes, how do you parse it?

IIRC in Erlang it's something along the lines of

<<V:3/signed, F1:1, F2:1, L:3, D:L/binary, I:16/signed-little>>
FYI there's a more recent, and much more in-depth official installation manual: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/

The documentation also includes various guides on horizontal scaling, using pgBouncer etc.
Learn to ask precise and concrete questions and then try to find precise and concrete answers. Thinking is just a loop of questions and answers.
What? kdb, K and Q are part of a renowned array processing toolkit/environment widely used by data scientists for decades.

Calling this command-line tool Q, which happens to be used for the same purpose as the Q programming language (i.e. querying data) begs for confusion and misunderstanding...
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It's not a coincidence, no, because Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.

This is also a factor for independent developers (who build airline reservation systems) who need to choose a RDBMS for their product - they'll choose oracle, because ... Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.

Which makes Oracle not a different class of product than Postgres, but a different class of support for the product. (which could be considered part of the product, so ... maybe you're right)
Sorry, I did not realize you meant to create a new software from scratch. I thought you were talking about supporting/extending/refactoring this old pile of madness. Thanks for the clarification!

I suppose you were referring to the statement "Customers in that space don't have many options". Your statement is reasonable and there might be market opportunities to create new software. But I somehow have the feeling that it would take a tremendous amount of time to recreate something that checks the same boxes as the old system. But I do not work in that sector so my judgement might be totally off.
There's a newish product out of Australia I just heard of called Inkl, that's seeking to solve this problem with a bundled subscription that includes the Economist, the Atlantic, the Guardian and the Independent, and a premium option that includes WSJ and Barrons.

https://www.inkl.com/

Don't know how well they're doing or how good the product actually is, but it seems like the right approach.

I don't have any affiliation with the company, but am acquainted with a guy who's advising them on marketing/growth, which is how I heard about it.
>I pay for the Guardian and WaPo, and I’m pretty happy with this so far: I use one for UK/EU/world news and the other for US/world. You see different perspectives from each side of the ocean,

Well, not that different.

Both are parts of the same echo bubble (the other-side analogue would be following e.g. Fox News and Daily Mail -- either bundles not only fail to get the other-side perspective, but miss tons of nuance not available to neither one or the other "mandatory" side of establishment sources).
Here are some of the popular array-based coding interview questions for your practice:

How do you find the missing number in a given integer array of 1 to 100? (solution) [1]

How do you land a job at "startups like Uber and Netflix; big organizations like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google; and service-based companies like Infosys or Luxsoft"?

Easy - by rote memorization. And a healthy sense that it's to best not question the basic idiocy behind cargo-cult interview tactics like these.

Because apparently genuinely useful critical thinking skills -- beyond such trivial matters such as how to get a better space-time tradeoff on that petabyte-scale fibanocci generator[2] our customer desperately needs you to design a viable POC for right now, on the whiteboard, before lunch -- basically aren't needed at these companies.

Notes:

[1] You think I'm just being snarky? It's famously common out in hedgefund-land for people to get hired more or less on the basis of being able to whip out a deadpan response to "gee-whiz" questions like these. And to get "flushed" for their inability to do the same. Startups aren't quite so naively reliant on shibboleth questions of this sort -- but but only slightly so.

[2] I'm being slightly hyperbolic with this example -- but only slightly. I've long since lost count of the number of times been asked "design" questions really only slightly more ridiculous than this example. And as a matter of fact I've been asked an "advanced fibanocci" question -- and apparently received a job offer to a large extent on the basis of my ability to "nail" it -- quite recently
Having a few poor countries is not enough to balance things. The global economy is currently balanced on having billions of very low wage workers, but low wage workers push an economy forward so it’s not a stable equilibrium. Either workers send money home via remittances, or work in their own country kick starting the economy.
Isnt this what Brave browser trying to solve?
Reference source in assembly, sponsor not particularly popular or known in the silicon valley. It's a pity because I think the concept is really smart and practical. I would not run it on a windows machine though.
>I try to read papers I feel distinctly oppositional to, mainly Rupert Murdoch press ones. Factual content is good but sparse and a lot of opinion masquerades as fact.

That's a great practice. But even better to step beyond both "oppositional" sides, and check alternative sources that are not partisan of the two parties that alternate in power in each country.
Absolutely no reason to switch, from reading up on Slate in the past few hours.
Or just use Volkswagen: https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
It is.
Isn't it the idea behind Brave.
Or maybe I didn't understood it, looking at browser's market share, looks like I was not the only one to not get it.

We pay premium for a lot of things, food, cars... but not for news.