skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, this is a major issue that non-academics always miss when talking about OA. The replacement to charging readers seems to have become a shift of costs to researchers, with an expectation they'll have lots of grants that are willing to pay huge publishing fees.

The only effective way I see to get around this is for granting agencies to start putting massive caps on what they are willing to pay for journal articles. If they mandate $200 max per article, no one is going to be able to afford a $5000 article anymore. Journals would be forced to adapt.
What role were you interviewing for? Also, did they offer you the job?
Looks like the dispute is over, Unity is doing some damage control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAvhij2_70Y
Yes, they are and they have been doing that before. But that was not the claim you made. You said it affect our ability to get water.
I'd really like to see a startup that can turn buying a house into something more like buying a car - buying a house is really more complex than it has to be.
I have a friend who is a doctor pharmacist. Every time we meet I feel genuinely bad for her. She works 12 hour days, in what basically is retail. She is required to push vaccinations and meet quotas. Stands all day, can't step out for lunch. It gets insanely repetitive.

Honestly, I would not be able to do it.

I was on friendly terms with my primary physician and he was also miserable. Insurance kept fighting his decisions to save money. He was getting pushed to see more patients and become more efficient. He often told me he is not happy in medicine and was jealous of me getting a CS degree and considered it himself, but felt too old.

I've had health issues over the years and only met one passionate doctor in Palo Alto, that was wealthy enough to pursue whatever he wanted in medicine.

However, I feel as we push for more efficiency people everywhere will have a lower satisfaction and higher burnout. They may initially be excited to work harder for higher pay but eventually they will realize they miss being able to have a slower day and chat with other people.
What are some of your favorite topics from 17th century astronomy, you would recommend to anyone interested in learning more about it. Sounds fascinating thanks!
Realtors currently have a virtual monopoly on accessing properties in real life. That is their current cartel/guild barrier. Even a 4k tour video won't let you get a feel for a place or check out the places they didn't put on video to look for damage.

Granted this service could be performed by a real estate website and they simply employ a cheaper access work force, but again you run into pro-guild red tape at the state and local levels.
Show HN: Audiobooks for Movies and Shows
The AMT's top rate is 28%, a far cry from the proposed new 70% bracket.
That's fair, but the argument about Electron is how wasteful it is. Devs should just know better than to be that blatantly wasteful of resources. I know, we live in a world of abundance, but that just isn't any excuse.
A comment in the 2nd article implies that Loop quantum gravity is being referred to there:

"Quantum gravitation occurs at a scale of 10^{14} to 10^{16}TeV and the 10 TeV work we can do is 13 or more orders of magnitude too low."
I don't know what the rate of false or overblown allegations is. I wrote above about my intuition and not my judgment after a considered study of the issues and evidence. It's just what I expected.

As for why my intuition went that way, I suspect it's because, from the title, I felt like Lin was wronged by the VPN company which misled him, I generally distrust the FBI, deanonymizing VPN traffic seems troubling to me, "cyberharassment" sounds more like being mean to people online than the things Lin did and I don't think sending rude words to people should be criminal, and I suppose that I personally am more likely to be (falsely) accused of cyberharassment than I am to be victimized by it which probably results in implicitly identifying more with the attacker than the victim.
And Apple can have COMPLETELY open books for transparency if they choose to donate or fund political advertising and/or support. Individuals have rights. Corporations are a bargain for limited liability and should have limited rights as a result.
Weirdly I kinda think it should go the other way. Does it require twice as much work (or expertise) to sell a million dollar house than a 500k house? If not, why do agents get paid twice as much?
Just FYI, a few years ago, I went through the due diligence process for an acquisition. The AGPL on MongoDB (at the time) was the single biggest sticking point for the lawyers. I had to do a lot of work to demonstrate that we had sufficient separation that our proprietary IP wasn't at risk due to the license. This was complicated by the fact that I was a major contributor to one of the drivers and the maintainer of one of the popular ODMs.

I would not make the choice to build a startup on MongoDB today given the expansion of the license's virality. Even if my business model wasn't in the SSPL's immediate crosshairs, the direction the license is moving gives me no confidence that MongoDB won't make my life harder down the road. It's just not worth the eventual headache. Lawyers make things hard enough, I'm not going to take on any more legal exposure than I absolutely need to in order to ship my product.
They can and they do, that's what ad networks are. There are plenty of ways to group sites by category and readership without individual targeting but middlemen add percentage costs to the ad spend which the industry has been slowly pushing out.

The bigger issue is that fine-grained targeting is still wanted so if you remove 3rd-party tracking then advertisers will go towards the biggest sites that can supply it via their own 1st-party tracking. Even then it's still hard to work with many vendors so even more of the money is now going to Google and Facebook who can just do it all with better data than anyone else.
Over the last two years I've bought a couple of properties and I see the value of realtors as professional negotiators and experts on real estate laws and contracts.

That being said, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and their local branches are the definition of a cartel. My parents owned a real estate agency when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. Back then, the cost of selling and marketing real estate was much higher. Most real estate advertising was done in print which the broker paid for out of pocket. Cameras used film back then which meant multiple trips to the property to take nice pictures. Someone had to always be manning the telephone because there were no mobile phones. The listing broker would have to arrange a showing with interested buyers and their broker. MLS was a huge printed catalog you would flip through to look for houses your clients may be interested in.

Nowadays, the cost of listing a house is nominal for a brokerage. Advertising is free because all of the real estate sites that consumers visit (realtor.com, zillow) pull directly from MLS. All cameras are digital so you can take that perfect picture the first time. There are now phone apps that automate broker access to houses to show their clients.

There are all of these productivity improvements for real estate agents on both sides of the negotiating table but the commission structure is almost identical to what it was 30 years ago. I believe the standard commission structure has gone from 7% to 6% in thirty years.
The government is currently shut down over a $5B disagreement, so I'd say $72B isn't something to scoff at.
I had a similar issue after moving from Illinois to Wisconsin and getting new plates - but forgetting to update the plates within I-Pass. (So, I had a valid I-Pass, it was just on the same old car with new plates.)

A few years later I received a collections notice for $1,400 for ~$30 worth of tolls. (This was the first notice they'd sent me. No one could explain why.)

After spending hours on the phone with I-Pass the best they could do was reduce the fine to $300 while making the snarky offer that I could go to court if I didn't like it.

This was effectively a customer service issue (I was a valid customer in good standing), and I still wound up paying 10x the actual cost just to avoid missing work and traveling.
Networking on AWS (2018)
I applaud this effort, but it's still not hitting the right notes, eg:

> how to show the changes of a file in the staging area: git diff --staged

Ok, but this shows the diff against what: the file in the working directory, the file in the local repo, or the file in the remote repo?
Don't you think calling out somebody as having BPD based on a couple comments discredits your BPD anecdote somewhat?
Interesting when you read this and have just started a real estate startup [1].

There are many segments in real estate that are ripe for disruption, Zillow is not the end all be all of real estate. Take cap rate calculation for instance, this is something very important to real estate investors, but Zillow hardly has a product that addresses it and tries to predict it accurately. Their strategy seems to be let's go after mom-and-pop buyers who just learnt how the internet works. If Zillow could bring in a fraction of tech you see in a product like Facebook or Github for instance to the broken industry of real estate instead of just showing pictures of properties with a few other metrics next them then the industry could be disrupted.

[1] https://caproi.com
It reminded me more of the Visitors logo from the TV miniseries "V".
I find the poll kind of funny. Of course it is going to be in favor of taxing people who make more that $10 million. Odds are if you polled for 70% tax rate for people over $1 million it would swing the same way. Why?Because it does not (directly) affect most of us as most dont make that much money. So it is easier to let the people above us do the heavy lifting.

The estimates i have read online say that it should raise like $70 to $100 billion a year. However does anyone here really believe someone making $40 or $50 million a year are not going to find tax shelters for their income and are going to stand paying 70 cents on the dollar in taxes.

Also when the article states they make more they should give more. What about a lottery ticket winner. Like the one who won $1.6 billion, so like $1.1 billion of that would be paid in tax. That is a great scheme for the governement.

I just dont think it will generate the money people think it will and will incite more class warfare.
It seems as thought cause and effect are reversed here. It’s really capitalism that corrupted Google and Facebook:

> In Google’s early days, Page and Brin were wary of exploiting the data they collected for monetary gain, fearing it would corrupt their project. They limited themselves to using the information to improve search results, for the benefit of users. That changed after the dot-com bust. Google’s once-patient investors grew restive, demanding that the founders figure out a way to make money, preferably lots of it.
Unhelpful and mean-spirited. Not a comment worth posting on hacker news.
And what risk was the agent mitigating for you exactly?

They are not on the hook for anything but a check from the title agency.
As for "peer review", this has no cost: reviewers are not paid.
$100-250k range given this includes logo, brand identity, motion design, comprehensive visual design system.
Something like that would probably be bright enough for us to see it by now if we looked, and we probably did because of our interest in Oumuamua.
All corporations have limited liability, the limits vary as do the requirements. The fact is, they only exist because the government permits them and assigns these rules, there's no practical reason that non-living entities cannot be restricted in exchange for those benefits assigned. Except now it would take a constitutional amendment to overcome supreme court precedent.
Boeing enlists Japan Inc. in pursuit of electric planes
That was the one at the top of my list, mainly because it's the first.
Startup idea: Create OpenDoor for the National Association of Realtors with the NAR as a significant owner in the venture. You'd probably need to be an insider to pull this off.

With their data advantage, they could kill or hobble OpenDoor the way AMC killed MoviePass.

I don't feel excited about suggesting this, as I love the OpenDoor model and hope they win.
it is, smokes, gambling, huka, beer, soda, weed, even caffine to some extent. <- none of that shit goes bad. You see this in super expensive places in cities. Everything is a bar or weed store, because the margins just don't allow people to sell only food and still pay rent.
When you say "This isn't going to do much but ..." in response to an article about a specific policy proposal, and don't say what you mean by "this", the common-sense interpretation is that you're referring to the policy proposal in the article, not some other policy you think is likely to be enacted as a result.
Or a competitor does and they are getting the agents on their side
So why exactly is it a swastika? I'll be launching an official investigation on Slack soon...seems like they're descending more and more into fascism everyday...not on my watch...
Sounds interesting from the summary - added to my Goodreads list.
> budget is way, way, WAY over the top. But the opposite, not having any of it, would be even stupider.

Who said anything about not having any of it?

Also, I don't quite grasp what you mean by your second claim. You mean to say that not spending money in military research doesn't mean we would spend it in other research?

I think a lot of what we have today would've been invented regardless of military conflict. Perhaps in a slower fashion, which would've perhaps also been better and more sustainable. Inventing to "save our lives" I think is a given, and assuming we didn't fear each other as much, perhaps we could focus more on our fear of disease, or climate catastrophe.
Alternative to nuking from orbit is taking a look at "Flight rules for git": https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
You are mixing multiple interrelated ideas (and to be fair so was the person you are replying to).

In most cases the "claim of negation" is the default position (related to the null hypothesis). If I claim there are invisible faeries that hold us to the earth. The negation of that claim is that there aren't. But this sort of reasoning only applies to things like debate and philosophy.

Science is fine with the unknown, claims must meet the burden of proof to be considered more than a speculation. Hence a "claim of negation" isn't scientific, because you instead present observation and calculation which makes the claim invalid in the first place. The default state being that no claim (we call these hypothesis) is valid. Sometimes this means that there are many competing partially valid hypothesis. One can't prove a negative, so instead science deals in hypothesis and only ever judges the positive claim against what we know. I can't emphasize this enough, there is no such thing as a negative claim in science: just a claim that we don't know the answer yet because no current hypothesis are convincingly valid.

People aren't claiming it's an asteroid, because that has a specific definition it doesn't match. Note in the article he talks about comets as one thing some people think it is. In the title of the article it's "Interstellar Object" which I don't think anyone is disputing.

The hypothesis he is putting forward is reasonable though. At least as well as any other hypothesis. We don't really have proof (observations) either way (and like a good scientist he spends a lot of time pointing out how we should be ready next time) so no hypothesis can meet a burden of proof at the moment. But then science doesn't really use a concept of "burden of proof", that's a legal concept. Instead we simply work with our least wrong models - even our best theories are not proven - which are judged by how well they predict the world.

And in this example the hypothesis "aliens did it" answers a lot of questions in a reasonable way. But then so does "nature did it" but some of the answers and mechanisms are less convincing in that case. And I think the point the interviewee is making is that we should be ready to better answer that question next time an object like this comes by because the answer "nature did it" is somewhat unconvincing for this object.
"Good" real estate agents are interested in moving as many houses as quickly as they can, to gain as much vig revenue as possible.

"Good" real estate agents from the buyers perspective would be slowing down sales, reducing the overall price they make a percentage on anyway (which is why fixed rate for a "class" of real estate would work better) as a disincentive.

Why would a real estate agent dissuade someone from buying something? They can compartmentalize/offload the moral responsibility to the inspector (which are pretty hit or miss too).
Can we block the latimes.com from HN until it's available in the EU again?
The owner of a reasonably busy restaurant/bar in my hometown said he makes more on the little slot corner per month than he does selling food.

That's the reason that every† bar, gas station, even supermarket in Nevada has a slot parlor.

I see these people playing slot machines at Albertson's and just shake my head.

† Except Boulder City, the one place in Nevada where gambling is illegal.
This is most likely the issue in question:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11436

Poettering seems to have offered a solution that doesn't break existing installs, but only after the maintainer had already thrown up his hands in frustration.
The goal here is to reach investors that can lead series As.
Doing that requires a fair amount of capital given that:

a) the average A last year was $8m and
b) the lead is expected to write a check for the majority of the round.

I think that seed rounds are generally a better fit for the types of funds you mentioned. It's possible that these funds will develop over time to be able to lead As. I look forward to that happening and having them participate in YCA.
I doubt they'd both close shop at the same time... leaving enough time to shift the data to a new second source.
Why is the staging area needed in such a case ? In more traditional systems, you'd just do, say, "svn commit library/" and then commit the rest. (and you could do just the same in git too without seeing the staging area)
Don't think so. Corporate boards still go with one person, one vote, not percentage weighted.
Frankly, if you're worried about 3% on the purchase price of the house, you can't afford that house, regardless of the amount of money.

Particularly in expensive markets in the Bay Area, the real estate agent is there to tell you when you're being stupid - unrealistic with your demands (under or _over_ paying) and keeping you from stomping away in a huff during the stressful negotiations.

This is buying and selling the most expensive asset most people will ever own. People hire in help to buy and sell their business, this is equivalent.
I assumed as much, but the title could definitely be better.
How I deal with it:
Make a list of things to be done, and a schedule.
Do the things.
Schedule in time off, relaxation, distraction, any of it.
And allow enough "give" to take moments if the head-against-wall moments get too much at a moment.

But always keep to the schedule.
Although a hint : if you need to work overtime to fit the plan, the plan is bad and needs to be fixed.
(although "need more people" is an acceptable excuse, and can be very enjoyable if you CAN get more people and if it works, it's an acceptable answer to fixing plan too)

I've worked several jobs through like this (all successful - moving on is good though too if you're doing the same frustrating thing too long). And I don't regret the work I did because in the long run the annoying parts were resolved.
>Because reading about content is self-selected disclosure of interest, the NYT already has all the information they need to target me — they know I read politics, and when I’m in that context.

This seems to me what "targeted advertising" should mean - NYT says "for all routes of nytimes.com/politics, show political ads. If it's local news, open it up to classifieds for local business." Etc.

If someone's on the page, is that not enough information?
I don't understand this attitude that politics is something you can put in or take out of art, as if you were sieving something tangible. Politics is intrinsic to and inextricable from art; the difference that's typically perceived is how explicit the work makes its politics and/or how prevalent the discussion is about those politics. The new Star Wars, for example, isn't any more "political" than A New Hope, although we're fortunate enough to live in a time when unpacking its politics (which, incidentally, is shorthand for unpacking how it converses with our world; an imperative aspect of art) is widely encouuraged.

Anime is an interesting example. I am an anime fan, but it's a fraught fandom. Let me tell you, anime is just as political, but its attitudes tend to be more conservative (and therefore less visible; they simply seem like the status quo.) Infantilising female characters, lionising masculinity, challenging authority, celebrating community -- even these widespread and conventional tropes of anime are part of its politics. There's increasingly mature criticism around this stuff via outlets like AniFem, the new VRV blog, etc. It's harder to find that criticism of English-speaking TV, though.

Of course, you should feel free to ignore all this. I'd argue that it's part of your privilege to be able to ignore the politics of art at will, but that aside, even the most dogmatic critics don't want to be writing a thesis in their heads every time they open Netflix.
As an aside, nothing is forever... there are a lot of points in history where records are gone for ever due to fire.
>Unless Wikipedia editors and European regulatory agencies are Monsanto shills.

If you saw how far Monsanto's reach was, you would know that Wikipedia is child's play. And they infiltrated other governments, so the European regulatory agencies are clearly within their wheelhouse.

Here is one example of when they corrupted a Harvard professor.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/01/harvard-profess...
Make your next C# project non-nullable
Because the $200-500k house will often (basically) sell itself.
On the contrary. Without the lure of an 8 figure income, a person might choose to go into research science, engineering, medicine, teaching, etc. instead of becoming a hedge fund manager.
>The work an average agent does is more or less cookie-cutter from my anecdotal experience

indeed majority are uneducated, there is a low/no barrier of entry with a similar shark mindset as it exists in recruiting - a lot of promises by your employer (profit sharing etc) but the competition is fierce. I doubt it's an industry that can easily be disrupted. at least to date I've seen no tech proposals/ideas that can compete with this setup because it's already a race to the bottom (and unlike recruiting) requires interfacing with old-school bureaucratic notaries, legal advise etc. In the end you still need a human making an appointment with another human to view the property and a robot doesn't cut it.