skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People love to complain about giving up money when they don't understand the value they'll get from something. Make it clear what you're selling and why it's worth $10 / month, and people will pay you. It's not as big of a problem as you think.

We can still create a world of free products that enable what your forum has -- it just needs a simple business model like, Hey, do you enjoy writing here? Send me $5! Then subsidize your free users with paid ones. If you have a day job, you can consider it a success when the servers are paid for every month.

There is nothing inherent about the internet that says it must be run on ads. That's just what ad-powered platforms want you to think, to justify their own terrible existence. Get creative, put on the tiniest of marketing hats, and just ask people. There is no quick and easy lunch, but I think you'll be surprised by what you find.
Welcome to HN.

Submitting the same 4 times (last 3 hours) will you only get flagged. Use https://news.ycombinator.com/show to present your business. It helps to add a comment like "Hi, I build <x> because ..." indicating you're active on HN and would like feedback, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19097132
Hopefully Spotify doesn't ban my paid for account because I'm using an Android wide ad blocking solution.
> After graduating from university, he wants to create affordable prosthetic solutions for people who need them.

Builds them out of Lego.

Hmm.

But seriously, this is super cool. Prosthetics are usually ultra-expensive because they get the double whammy of being bespoke and medical devices. There's a real opportunity for the hacker community to do a lot of good here.
Actually, there's an awful lot of debate about that.

There are almost certainly more claims made about/against the Clintons than there are about/against the Trumps. But many of the claims against the Clintons haven't had enough "there" there for anyone but, well, conspiracy theorists to run with them. There have been, as far as I know, considerably fewer actual legal investigations against the Clintons, their associates, and their businesses than against the Trumps, their associates, and their businesses, and certainly far fewer actual charges and indictments.

There's a lot of political history behind the campaign against the Clintons, and a lot of it's fascinating -- but it's not actually a history of a corrupt criminal enterprise, at least on the part of the Clintons. It's the history of personal vendettas and rich conservative ideologues, and the history of the birth of the modern right-wing media movement, starting with the Arkansas Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project

The Trump Organization also has a lot of fascinating history, but you know what? From all appearances, it may well be a history of a corrupt criminal enterprise.
Not a fan of PHP, but people argued convincingly that server costs are very low compared to developers.
Apparently there are accuracy problems when testing other sites (though they can be used).

> "The downside to using alternative test sites is that the readings may not be as accurate under certain circumstances. In particular, if blood glucose levels are changing rapidly — as would be expected after a meal, after an insulin injection, or during exercise — there may be a significant difference in the blood glucose level measured in a fingertip sample and in an alternative site sample. Therefore, using a fingertip sample is recommended if you are monitoring at these times."

(source: https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/managing-diabetes/blo...)

Better source, WebMD:

> "When the amount of sugar in the blood was rising or dropping rapidly, only the finger prick testing accurately caught these rapid changes. It took about 30 minutes for the forearm values to catch up to those reported by the finger prick tests."

(https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20010709/accurate-blood-...)
Sales have very specific laws. When you buy a coffee you are entering in a contract.

Walking in a Starbucks and using the free WiFi without buying anything is a better example.
Marin Supervisors Urged to Reject 5G
>> I honestly believe that regulation is the root of all evil and most social ills

Well we can just end the conversation here then. "Regulations" are what prevent child labor. They're what help curb pollution. They're how we kept plaster of paris out of milk. The fact that you're somehow assuming that ALL regulation is evil shows a willful ignorance to the evils committed when they weren't in place.

There is good and bad regulation, just as there are all kinds of good and bad laws. You're going with a whole LOT of really terrible generalizations here.
>..We had a much larger economy and resource potential than germany and japan. Just like we do today. It was a race neither had a chance of winning.

Germany spent about an equivalent amount of money in the V1 and V2 rocket programs that the US spent on the Manhattan project. Though Heisenburg later claimed he had sabotaged the German effort, the evidence seems to be a bit in favor of saying that he just miscalculated the amount of uranium needed so that it looked like it would be impractical as a weapon:

>...The largest piece of evidence was that Heisenberg had miscalculated the critical mass needed to achieve an atomic bomb, and thus still believed that tons of U-235 was necessary to create the bomb.

http://holbert.faculty.asu.edu/eee460/anv/Why%20the%20German...

>...Most military leaders saw it as serving no military purpose. So ultimately, hiroshima and nagasaki were the largest human experimentation in ww2.

They weren't chosen at random. For example, the original target for Nagasaki was supposed to be Kokura:

>...The American bomber was a B-29 named Bock's Car, and it was supposed to drop the world's first plutonium bomb on Kokura. Three times, Bock's Car passed over Kokura, bomb bays open, a hum in the cockpit signaling that the bomb was ready for release, the crew wearing the special goggles that were supposed to protect them from the flash of the atomic explosion.

>But although the radar scope was locked on to Kokura, the orders were to drop the bomb only on visual identification of the huge arms factory that was the target.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/07/world/kokura-japan-bypass...

The use of the atomic bomb was both a military and political statement.
> Politicians carving out special considerations for the powerful and other people who lobby extra well is not "capitalism".

The mercantile class gaining the power previously held by the feudal aristocracy, including that of directing government, is exactly capitalism.

It's not the fiction invented by defenders of capitalism in response to socialist critiques of real-world capitalism, but that fiction isn't what the term “capitalism” was coined to refer to, nor is it something ever demonstrated to be practical anywhere.
I had one of those for a while, and it does say you should only use each lancet once. Realistically, I don't know if there are any real risks to reusing them though?
> Apart from the state/city taxes

That’s a pretty big difference though! I suppose with NYC you don’t have the cost of owning and operating a car, though.
There's a limit? I stream a good bit off Bandcamp and I've never once hit it.
>Only she knows what's best for her property. There's nothing irrational about doing what you want with what you got.

Wait, so is it supposed to be the market deciding or this one lady?
Pennies on which dollar, exactly?
> There are many propositions that cannot be doubted, so that's insufficiently precise.

I can even doubt that 1 + 1 = 2, because I cannot prove to myself that I am not completely crazy. This is not a new idea at all, it's the "cogito ergo sum" of Descartes.

> Your attempted definition would seem to assume that only conscious entities can "doubt", but is that really true?

It is not necessary to assume that. It is enough to assume that a conscious entity cannot doubt its own consciousness in good faith.
Oh I don't. I expect Apple to hold their bug reporters to those standards, though, so it's interesting to see that they are giving a "bounty" to this "irresponsible disclosure".
I would agree about the 'monopolistic tendencies' but I don't think that's necessarily bad. Monopolies are not inherently bad. Being anti competitive and trying to coerce consumers is bad. But, by and large, Amazon is a "monopoly" because they offer a better product/service than everyone else at a better price.

In other words, bad behavior that's bad for the consumer is highly correlated with monopolies, but not synonymous. Sometimes companies grow large exactly because they are good for the consumer and so consumers prefer them.

Related to that, I think a lot of the negative feelings toward Amazon come from a fear about the power that Amazon holds as such a huge company without substantial competition. And while they do have a lot of power, I've not seen abuses from them that would warrant such fear.
How is Wisconsin on the hook for billions of dollars if all they did was _not_ collect taxes? They shouldn't be able to be on the hook for anything if that's all they did. You sure they didn't get some kind of kickbacks as well?
> [Bose QuietComfort] It's not the best headset in town but it should be more than enough to hear the difference.

This is when I suspect the differences must be minuscule even without hearing the comparison. Bose headphones are way better (and pricier) than what most people use. The sound canceling alone should make significant differences evident.
For some journals part of the submission process waives your personal copyright.
Gladly. Its not an option.
If the ticket price was bumped up by $20 and popcorn was included free you might rationally object to the fact that you didn't want their overpriced air anyways, but it doesn't mean you'd have any inherent right to utilize the service at the old cost - competition might fix that problem (a new theatre with slightly more expensive tickets than the old one originally offered, but far cheaper than the new tickets to movie + popcorn) or regulation might (especially if movie theatres don't scale well (and they don't, a mall with 20 movie theatres isn't going to be rolling in money)).
Berkeley to be granted long-sought CRISPR patent, reviving dispute with Harvard
> Frankly I think PHP doesn't have as strong a fan club as ruby/python, which are decent languages but they too come with their own quirks.

The reason quite possibly is that those are joy to use where PHP isn't. In my mind the developer happiness should be on top of the list, also the syntax is still ugly however you look at it. The versatility of Python is unmatched. Ruby allows me to do things I could only dream of in other languages, in PHP those dreams are nightmares.
I really enjoy the improvements to Plex, I've been able to put all of my media consumption into one app (I even have youtube videos automatically downloading and added to my collection) so I can pick up where I left off on any of my devices.
Just wondering, is there anyone here who lived in socialism (or in single communist party regime) and honestly believe that UBI can work?
Also:
>If Amazon didn’t get any tax breaks, they would have gone somewhere else.

No. No they wouldn't. The tax breaks are only part of the equation. If it was only about money, other locations offered more. New York is arguable one of the 3 most important cities on the planet, and pretending that multinational business scoff at it unless they get paid to bring their businesses into town is laughable.
100% agree when dealing with non-fiction. It shows a lack of respect for the book as an art form or information resource. It shows the author is writing for exposure and money and not to produce something of true value.

> it works for fiction too.

Nonfiction authors usually write on a small handful of subjects, and chances are you're looking for a book on a particular subject and will compile a list of contenders, then do some light research on each author to gauge their authority on a subject.

But with fiction, you aren't likely to know the general contents of a book before you read it. You may be looking for a particular genre, but not a particular story. If someone like Stephen King or Isaac Asimov have proven that they are capable writers within their genres, it's actually beneficial sales-wise for these names to stand out in a book rack. If I see a bunch of books on a rack and one of them says Asimov then I'm honing in on that book first.
to be fair, the claim is, "supported by...". this is not the same as equality.
Isn't this (sort of) what the remote desktop protocols do? That may actually be feasible!
So in a nutshell, "Imagine if instead of normal pics they were of weird shit that might be illegal?" There isn't enough time in the world for me to think about that line of inquiry.

"Imagine if instead of simply walking down the street you punched everybody you passed."
Twitter should charge ~$1 for every new account. Since Twitter is no longer a growing product, they are way past the stage where a nominal charge for new accounts would hurt their KPIs.
That percent changes by field.
> Then you can't target the ads to those who most likely will buy, then each impression is worth less in most ad marketplaces. I don't think you will be able to suggest a solution if you ignore the true desires of the buyers and sellers of ads.

Their desires aren't the only factor in the equation here. If they want to satisfy their desire to have their ads seen at all, they're going to have to sacrifice some of their other desires. If they expect the user make all the sacrifices, then they shouldn't complain when users like me mercilessly block them, encourage others to do so, and do what I can to encourage regulation that would destroy them.
Do you mean you test your blood glucose levels, or are you really testing your insulin levels somehow? (I don't know if that's a thing?)
Seems very odd to exclude Java and C# entirely.

I'm also not at all sure how "MS BASIC for the Macintosh" is listed as a predecessor of Applesoft BASIC. Microsoft used the threat of pulling Apple's Applesoft license as a way to get the leverage required for their Macintosh BASIC to be released instead of MacBasic.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt

(That article also shows that Apple's Integer BASIC was an entirely separate implementation of BASIC from Applesoft, so the arrow from Integer BASIC to Applesoft is a little weird too. But some of this comes down to the fact that the meaning of the arrows on charts like this is a little loose to begin with.)
What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us About Medical Abuse
Dang, it's pretty telling that they don't provide their paid offerings to users due to the consumer protection laws in the respective region...
>Go ahead and try walking into starbucks, paying for half of a tall americano and walking out the door with half of a tall americano.

I have watched people do exactly this as well as many variations on this theme...at Starbucks.
This is mostly caused by both manufacturers and footprint library authors/EDA vendors using their own nomenclature for packages instead of the JEDEC standard names. This is especially apparent with gullwing SMD packages (anything from SO(IC) to LQFP) which are mostly same across manufacturers but vary widely in what they are called.
Even if the housing is not luxury condos for the rich, as long as real estate is appreciating, the economic incentive is for rich people to buy them and leave them empty, like a bar of gold sitting in a vault.

This is happening a little bit in my working class neighborhood. House goes on the market. It’s listed as sold, family moves out, nobody moves in. Likely some millionaire’s 8th empty investment house.
Are they still going to take all sorts of telemetry and 'share' (read:sell) it to third parties if I pay for the service? Yes? Okay, then I'll continue to support the most dastardly peglegs to ever sail the seven seas. I value my personal data at twice the value of their service, so technically I'm paying more than my fair share by not collecting on it. I'm saving THEM money - they would owe me the cost of their service if I didn't block ads. And just like Spotify, I don't have an opt-out option, so I don't take it personally if they cease to provide service. I mean, technically, I DO require a 3 month notice and reserve the right to collect a $50,000 early termination fee, but I'm a nice guy.

It's funny how automated systems that are impossible to oversee operate. It's almost as if it shouldn't be allowed, but, hey, they have my info and could have contacted me.

You get my data or my money, not both. There was a time when I would be fine with data collection - when it actually improved the product - but now that it's another revenue stream to sell all that off to random third parties I have no control over, sorry, no dice. I have zero qualms with people not wanting advertising thrown at them 24/7 while their life is continuously data mined.

Advertising is mental pollution. It's not even junk food, since it offers no sustenance. It's predatory. People need to stop pretending it's an inconsequential option to throw it on a mediocre product no one would actually buy. If someone told me the apps/programs I paid for bumped their prices up by 10x, I would still buy them. If I installed your app and chose the ad-riddled version, it's because I barely care that it exists or didn't want to bother with sifting through 10,000 clones.

This is what we get for the mobile app race-to-the-bottom. Mentally, "$0.99 vs free" is much closer to "$20 vs free", than "$20 vs $40". But, now we're stuck. No one's going to up their price to something reasonable, and if stores eliminate the free tier, then the ads will just migrate to the lowest priced tier. I 100% expect that ads will require camera permissions and force you to look at them within 10 years, maybe 5. Are people still going to be singing the startup-saving praise of ads when Pepsi is permanently burned into their retinas? "I mean, you're already looking at your phone, and you get this neat flashlight button!"
The atomic bomb was the only reason given by the Emperor for the surrender in his address to the nation. Even after 2 atomic bombs were dropped there was an attempted military coup to prevent the Emperor from surrendering.

>...They were both racially driven war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Why do you say they were racially driven? The same types of civilian bombing was done in Germany as was done in Japan. If we had the atomic bomb before the war ended in Germany, I am sure it would have been used there.
Exactly. I don't remember the words but my parents were like "it's an ad, don't believe it." It was the time of TV commercials and little else but I think it's still a good piece of advice now.
Why... not?... It's pretty clear market forces haven't been strong enough to enforce privacy rights in terms of sleazy advertisers? Granted, the internet is pretty new when you look at the scale of history, but I think the role of advertisers in our internet has stabilized at this point, overt malware brings repercussions, user tracking causes privacy advocates to speak out and... the hordes on facebook keep on facebooking.
Some of Twitter's users are more equal than others when it comes to bans. I don't think they are concerned about blowback from false positives from spam accounts.

e.g.

"Learn to code" was tweeted at me by a sketchy account. I reported it as abusive behavior as part of targeted harassment. Twitter suspended the account within 20 minutes.

Journalists if they tweet "learn to code" at you don't stay silent, take a moment to report it. https://t.co/RXgqqV2ptw

— Ben Popken (@bpopken) February 1, 2019
Following @jefflombardjr example, I would like to share an example of my personal website: https://lukaszkups.net .

Why do I like it? Because I've literally built it by myself from scratch - starting on design (all the graphics, even the map in experience tab) to the static site generation tool that I use to manage content (will release it soon as my first truly open source project).

Btw. Any feedback will be highly appreciated.
> Land in the non-coastal western US or most of Canada or Australia is theoretically scarce too, but not so much in practice.

If the acquisition cost is >0, it is scarce in practice as well as theory.
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Yeah, your point is strongly supported by this experiment. The majority of the UBI recipient subjects switched to standard unemployment, which was of greater value.
I use this daily. Such a great implementation.
It was from a previous employer and I can't remember what I signed in my NDA, so I'd rather not put myself at risk. Sorry!
Making people looks at adverts is hurting them?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a uBlock user myself but come on.
The best defense is to manually enter the url of the domain you need to log on to and log on from there. Never follow links, that what will get you in trouble.
Newsflash: Facebook's customers are advertisers, not the honeypot victims stuck to their site.
This seems like the perfect job for a machine. Is there a reason CGMs and insulin pumps aren't more common? Cost?
I agree that Abraham Lincoln took some questionable measures but that smacks of "whataboutism" and has no bearing whatsoever on this situation. I have difficulty taking your comment in good faith because if there is truth to this (i.e. one of our spy agencies or a foreign gov't was spying on and leaking information about a U.S. citizen with the sitting president's knowledge and/or tacit endorsement) it is unprecedented.
Silicon Valley People: We need basic income because there aren't enough jobs for low-skilled workers.

Also Silicon Valley People: Let's have open borders and import unlimited numbers of low-skilled workers. Doing anything else is racist!