skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of why the overhead doesn't matter here is because bitcoin wouldn't be used: It'd be some other crypto, like BAT (which is what Brave uses).

The goal would be to make this a ubiquitous system (which is what Brave is trying) where users would have a wallet of BAT where each "coin" represents a small easy to exchange tip.

Users can buy BAT wherever, recharge their wallet and tip micro amounts to websites.

Brave currently just has a BAT wallet with recharging that doles out a percentage of each token to whatever websites you visited based on amount of time spent there.

If the system is ubiquitous enough, the volatility will go down as more people are seeking to purchase the coins.

The coins will have a limited supply which is subject to a minimal amount of inflation as defined by the group which works on it.
In principle, BuzzFeed could just be a site with deep news coverage alongside fluff, not much different than a newspaper with real news, comics, and 'society' pages. To some extent, Buzzfeed even managed that: their BuzzFeed News subheader has lots of award-winning content without garbage listicles.

Of course, the BuzzFeed News imprint has a whole section devoted to R. Kelly right now, and seems to be aiming no higher than a CNN or USA Today mix of hard news and fluff. Add to that the occasional bout of serious hackwork written in their "real news" style, and I'm not overflowing with hope.

Perhaps more to the point, it looks like this composite approach didn't actually balance the books, or we wouldn't be seeing layoffs right now.
As a European this whole American microwaved cheese on noodles thing was always a prime cliché example of classless American quisine (I think for Americans too).

Boy am I happy to have gotten over that snobbishness! Apart from many American dishes that blew me away macaroni and cheese wasn’t one of it (since it’s not served in US diners ... i think). So I tried it out at home (leftover noodles and some cheese) and I have to say: it was really good. The melt is perfect. I don’t know of any technique capable of merging noodles with melted cheese in such an immersive way other than with a microwave (radiating oven heat will have a different effect).
> will often argue against standard terms

What's that like? Are you competing with other investors? Or do founders agree to forgo funding because they don't like anything on offer?
For a non-pdf source of development stats:

https://lwn.net/Articles/775440/
>Over 1 million people legally immigrate annually. What do you propose to improve things?

How about we really punish people who benefit from this? That is, punish people who hire illegal immigrants with prison terms.

The only reason no other country comes close is that our country allows that to happen on purpose by not going after people who benefit from it.
I'm not looking forward to the heat wave this weekend. Either this large accumulation of snow will cause flooding, or it will melt a bit and then turn solid when the temperature drops again.
India still has a number of people comparable in size to the entire US population living without any electricity, and that's arguably a failure on India's part. I agree that this should be understood.

I'd also take it another step and point out as India makes progress on pulling its overpopulated disaster out of poverty it will quickly surpass the US in absolute CO2 emissions because of how many people there are. This is especially true should they utilize their abundant coal reserves in the process.

Just look to China's CO2 emissions. It's already nearly double the US as of 2013 [1], while they still have plenty of room for growth on the quality of life axis.

All this crap is only problematic because of overpopulation across the planet. It requires the huge numbers of people to produce such volumes of emissions that we're altering the global climate. We can bicker and finger-point all we want about which group arrived at the western high-consumption lifestyle first and enjoyed more of it before everyone else got there, but it's ignoring the elephant in the room; that there's far too many people to simultaneously live this gluttonous party globally. The more people there are, the less equal things must be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
This reaction is really frustrating. fwiw, little everyday acts of empathy make the world work.

EDIT: decided against knee-jerk labelling of comment as a--h--- one.
I have the Bekant and it is very well built. I have a monitor arm with 2 monitors on it and the desk doesn't wobble at all.
> And browsers will unceremoniously delete IndexedDB, LocalStorage, and/or SessionStorage without warning under storage pressure.

I get why it's doing this, but it strikes me as fairly user-hostile to react to the browser deleting data under storage pressure by duplicating the data so it now takes up 4x the space it used to.
I wonder if domain names are not overvalued... I know your domain name is part of a brand but isn't it better to pick an original name than a common name to have people remember you? Especially now that the URL bar is also a search bar in most browsers.

How many books a year are sold books.com? How many requests does search.com serves daily?
Ditto! I didn't even know that existed.
At the really low MMR end, you're not even looking for something that is difficult to solve for but something that has an attractive ratio of easy for technical person to solve / annoying but important for others.

It's easy to read about a lot of the things in this thread and think, "I could easily hack that together in a weekend learning a new technology, why would I pay for it?". There's plenty of people for whom automating a simple repetitive task is both valuable and basically magic and there are so many niches to be had.
Windows also collects what pirated software you run and - on buisness success sells you out to the vendor of said software. Guess the crack did not work..
Trees are carbon neutral, not carbon sinks. You grow it, and it's a carbon sink. But then it dies. If by fire it's releases the CO2 quickly, if not it rots slowly and reduces the CO2 slowly. Neither are a fix for our short term problems.

Growing algae or plankton on the ocean, where most of them die and land on the (mostly inert) deep ocean floor would help. Not perfect, but at least the CO2 is likely be consumed on the ocean floor slower than it's produced on the surface thanks to the cold, dark, high pressure environment on the ocean floor.

One research claims that the limit for growth in many places in the ocean is a lack of iron. So spreading iron would lead to a huge increase in life. Unfortunately the impact seems to last days.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. I don't mean that a therapist will snitch on you, but there's always a chance. Maybe a cop doesn't like you and sniffs around for this stuff. Furthermore, there are a lot more people involved in therapy than just you and your therapist.
I was ignorant of that, my bad.

However, took a look at BuzzFeed News and its front page wasn't much better.
You are an extreme outlier. American workers have on average nearly half as many vacation days as are legally mandated in the EU,[1] while EU member states have more public holidays than the United States.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave...
How could an average person actually prove this? Particularly with opaque and/or feeling based decisions?
Have the Bekant and as others have mentioned the build quality is very good. I have 2 monitors mounted via an arm and it really doesn't wobble.
Unsecured MongoDB databases expose Kremlin's backdoor into Russian businesses
Wyoming lawmakers look to sue Washington state over coal
It rattles the content back and forth and when it's done calculating, the content is likely off-screen in lower resolutions.
More screen time for toddlers is tied to poorer development a few years later
I was surprised by the % being included as I figured that would be decided by the board at the time a divindend is approved. I have no idea why a % which would be defined before knowing the details of the companies financial situation.

I wonder if this is more of a protection against the board deciding on a dividend when it is in the best interest in the near term for the company to keep money in the bank. So defining 6% might mean "this company has so much cash that they can return a 6% dividend without harming the long-term potential". Perhaps if you aren't able to return 6%, you aren't ready to return a dividend at all?
30 months in prison is about 11 years of full time work (40h a week, 50 weeks a year). Not only will he be extremely rich but his family and children will never have to work again in their lives. Totally worth it.

If a family member dies while you're in prison you're usually allowed to attend their funeral unless you're an extreme risk.
This here might be some of the laziest attribution work in the history of the internet, really makes you question the sanity of the author.
How many homeless people in the US are dying per day under such conditions?
Living in Ohio, we're well equipped to handle this. Will be thinking about everyone else who may not be use to these types of conditions. Stay smart, safe, and somehow warm everyone!
The handwriting is pretty sloppy on at least the first few pages from what I see. A lot of the letters become so small that they're little more than bumps on a line. Being in cursive certainly doesn't help either. Some of the words use alternate spellings which makes them a little more difficult to recognize.

But really, cursive is optimized for reducing the possibility of failure (inkblots) on primitive quill pens, not for readability. Even the best most precise cursive tends to be more difficult to read than modestly competent print.
The benefits of productivity growth are normed to the size of the economy, so the relevant comparison is R&D spending as a percentage of GDP to productivity growth. As fas as I know, R&D spending as a percentage of GDP has been relatively flat for a long time. See [1] for data for a bunch of countries going back to 1996. So this is much less dramatic than the claims of, e.g., 50x growth in spending on scientific research that he mentions in the podcast.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS
Didn't help Snowden much.
The problem is likely that they have no leverage. If they were a company owner employing hundreds or thousands of people, with the power to fire them all and relocate, I'm not sure they would see the same outcome.

One must remember that (cross-border) tax law is highly ambiguous. Since you can arrange your own affairs in the most tax efficient way, everyone always tries to get a beneficial outcome. If you add an international component to that, you'll quickly end up in situations where there often is no clear right or wrong answer because tax systems don't look at certain things in the same way.

Spain isn't the best place to live if you have money, in particular due to the wealth tax.
As a counterpoint, if a talk lacks the natural "kind of"s and "ummm"s, my charlatan radar turns on--people who are too polished often get megaphones because of their polish rather than substance. Most of the smartest people I know lean on these verbal crutches and I don't fault them one bit for it.
Even if you can read it, the language of the time can be hard to understand.
Agreed! Wish there was a way to give active feedback to the team that made this a thing. I guess just usage metrics do more than anything else.
Probably raise from elsewhere. We got a term sheet that included all the bad things mentioned about control in there. They wanted a 2-2-1 board + a whole bunch of protective provisions about requiring their approval for almost anything. Overall wasn't a pleasant experience and we would have saved months of our time had we not bothered working with them.

We got very lucky that things didn't work out with them
Normal to the north; not normal to the south or west.

At least, temperatures that allow for snow to appear are not normal in the south or on the west coast. Spot temperatures below freezing are.

I'd believe it's normal for 75% of the land area.
You'd think by now that people would have learned the only TLD with real value is .com, and to avoid "gold rush" mentality on country codes or newly minted TLDs.

And if they didn't learn that, at least learn not to trust an entity that was willing to break contracts or change the terms whenever it was in their financial interest to do so.

What's even attractive about the letters .ro? That's not a common suffix for English words, and it's not particularly memorable.
Weather patterns the past week have been very all over the place. It looks like we'll be in an El Niño weather pattern this winter/spring which will make it feel a bit warmer. The polar vortex also is spilling out due to the higher temperatures, which will ironically lead to cooler temperatures in Canada/US like the article mentions.

I'm sure this was linked to HN because of larger climate change concerns. Average global temperatures are increasing, but short term periods of warming and cooling are pretty cyclical.
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And Windows
Does any of the meeting minutes contain a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz that you know of ?
Thank you. It even has https. Specific story: https://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_396c1cebaabf10f1f4e74fdae10...
Tons! Some examples show up in my dissertation, which is available here [1]. Best way to find them is to search "royal society" in the PDF.

One of the more interesting examples is Robert Boyle's list of "desiderata" for future scientific discoveries which includes entries like "Potent Druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory, and other functions, and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams" and "Freedom from Necessity of much Sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and what happens in Mad-Men."

[1] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/46...
There's a transcription available if you click the page-looking button in the sidebar.
So very impressive if you want to type exactly what they recommend in the demo app. And what's the copyright on that auto completed code?
The actual headline is "75% of the US population" - something really rather different indeed.
Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
I read the article from The Atlantic instead. While I disagree with their analysis, where I can't help thinking that they are just measuring the "wow-factor" which would diminish as more people are working on something in a more iterative fashion, the middle part of the article is quite interesting. I also appreciate that they left it rather open ended especially since I assume we wouldn't come to the same conclusion.

One thing they are at least implying, but I think they could have explored more is implementations. While you can argue whether there are less scientific breakthroughs or not, we certainly have less implementations. Were I assume I differ from their view is that I think this have to do with diminish returns for the implementations themselves.

To some extent it becomes meaningless to "cure cancer" when we have preventable diseases and situations killing people every day. So there can't realistically be a goal to do it. (Which isn't intended as an argument about the value of each). As I insinuated earlier I think a breakthrough is really in the eye of the beholder. Society these days doesn't really provide a platform for creating and implementing breakthroughs. The ambition get lost in the noise.

I think people assume when watching utopian science fiction that science resulted in society. Maybe in reality it is the other way around. Once you decide that everyone deserves e.g. housing the result becomes worth it and the science follows. That is certainly what happened in the ~60s in many parts of the world. If no one thinks that this is a worthy breakthrough why would anything happen in the first place today?

[What I really wanted to say was that I found the middle part of article surprisingly interesting].
That's the new normal friend. AGW means more unpredictable weather from now on.
Sun created CDDL in order to be Linux GPLv2 incompatible, even the person who was tasked by Sun management to write CDDL (Danese Cooper) said so.

And it's not as if that admission was needed, as anything else would have been insane from Sun.

They were losing badly to Linux, so in the eleventh hour they decided to go open source in an attempt at getting more mindshare = marketshare.

Solaris had some real technical advantages over Linux like ZFS and DTrace, however if they licensed Solaris with a GPLv2 compatible license, Linux could just incorporate their coveted tech, which would be business suicide. Hence CDDL.

You can't blame them given the situation they were in.
The URLs contain a long random string in them, no? This makes them unguessable. Public-by-default seems to enable easy sharing of documents. I would hope that corporate plans would impose stricter privacy controls, but for personal use, being able to share a document just by sharing its URL seems very convenient. Though I suppose defaulting the permissions such that anyone with the URL can edit the document seems maybe too permissive.
It is, or was 20yr ago. We've become used to the more mild weather.
well sure because that's what crypto advocates are paid for. States can very easily take legal action against businesses that circumvent trade sanctions through crypto currency. And with businesses and institutional investors out of the window, it's uninteresting.
Mine is rock solid as well.
I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and has a predisposition towards group think that very often will contrive ways in which 4chan users can exert influence on other parts of the internet through sheer numbers. (online polls, brigading vote based aggregators, DDOS attacks)
Care to elaborate? I currently am evaluating Mint and Lubuntu and would like to hear what you have to say.
Places with more favorable weather usually cost a premium :(. Seattle is pretty mild though if you're in the market.
Holy cow this is INCREDIBLE. Thank you.

~ sincerely, super critical HN person. Mind blown.
This may be a good place to start: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739436/

Conclusion: Our results indicate excessive mortality among the homeless as well as the weak and rather typical influence of atmospheric conditions on mortality rates in this subpopulation, except for a greater risk of cold related deaths than in the general population... Deaths caused by hypothermia were thirteen-fold more frequently recorded among the homeless than for the general population. A relative risk of death for a homeless person even in moderate cold stress conditions is higher (RR = 1.84) than in thermoneutral conditions.
No, it's actually undecidable. C++ templated have been determined to be turing complete, which means that template instantiations can encode the halting problem. Determining whether a program compiles or not therefore requires solving the halting problem.

In practice, compilers work around this by limiting template instantiation depth.
I'm not sour at all, I think it was brilliant... also, he was basically taking a 4 day weekend every other week.
Study of 25 yrs of AI research suggests era of deep learning is coming to an end
I've managed to divide my desk up into half-sit/half-stand, and I've made it easy to move my work from one to the other. If I had to "adjust" my workstation every time I wanted to stand up, I don't think I'd often do it. I don't want to devote anything more than muscle memory to a task like that while I'm working.
Central Illinois was my first time experiencing freezing rain. Leaving work, everyone had to spend 30+ minutes chiseling an inch of ice off their windshield with their car blasting heat, while being rained on and whipped with strong wind.
Ah, I saw they had moved to Netplan, I hadn't realized NetworkManager supported a Netplan interface.
Spain, or its tax agency cannot cover (or will not cover) all fraud areas. It will creat FUDs with big cases to have everyone in line from that moment on, but it is really difficult also to cover all ground.
This is sort of true - you can at least discern the listicles - but even their Pulitzer-nominated work has titles like "From Russia with Blood" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

I'm not inherently against those titles, even the NYT gets a bit cute with their longform stuff to draw in readers. But it is a bit more frustrating when there are lots of vacuous articles to sort through; it's still pretty hard to discern their investigative stuff from the fluffy longform pieces.
Indeed, below freezing really isn't very bad. I'm sure it was just chosen for the statistic.
>You feel like you are on the edge most of the time. You feel like you might go insane or die any minute (when the intensity gets high).

Mine's been far milder (thankfully) and the best way I could explain that feeling is like being a boat with it's anchor dropped. You're very much the anchor but, when you hit the DP/PR, you're also - very much - the boat, as well - being tossed about by the waves.

It's like events happen but you're kind of pedestrian to them, seing them after-the-fact, almost[0].

That's the best way that I can describe it but I'm not even doing it justice, overall; just from my own anecdotal experience(s) and it's a piss-poor analogy at that. Sorry.

[0] - https://media.giphy.com/media/UrO3di2UKs4qA/giphy.gif
The fees are usually hidden in the exchange rate that favors the bank
I think the way to read it is that, if any one of them is cleared (which happens involuntarily sometimes) it comes back, but if all are cleared at the same time then the data does go away.
Show HN: Send Anything Within 25 Miles from Your Door Step
and those companies are ...?
I'm not sure were the perception is coming from.. I think it was brilliant... not a complaint at all. Effectively was taking a 4-day weekend every other week and working 4-day weeks.

The unavailable thing came down to being reachable in case of a support issue... I have no gripes about it what so ever.
Ask HN: Companies selling consumer insights datasets
What are some companies selling consumer insights datasets? The more granular the better. Think Edison email receipt data (https://www.edison.tech/) or Yodlee credit card data
There's sort of 2 types of social proof. Fear of missing out and testimonial. My favorite examples of social proof (not fomo.com) are hotels.com and opentable.com. When looking at a hotel: "15 people have booked this hotel today," or while making a dinner reservation: "23 people have reserved a table at this restaurant today."

In these cases, you're being pressured to act fast before the hotel/restaurant is fully booked. Further, this "proof" that people are making all these reservations right now also could make you believe your choice is a popular recommendation, persuaded your decision making.
75% of the US Land Area would be kind of a snoozer headline since that would include Alaska.
.com domains are in a similar space as 1-800 numbers in terms of branding.
I'm not terribly concerned, and I live right on the banks of the Salt Creek in the western Chicago 'burbs. The creek level is pretty low currently and has plenty of capacity for run-off. I'm sure there are areas that might experience flooding, but I wouldn't expect any more than a heavy summer storm.

A thaw/freeze cycle also isn't that bad if you've already shoveled what you need to. If you haven't, yeah, it's going to suck when to get around to it.