skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Targeted” ads almost never show me anything of interest and insist on compromising my privacy. “Generic” ads are more likely to be interesting to me and don't attack my privacy.

I think these terms are misleading though. Traditional advertising is targeted: at the audience of some particular media which takes advertising. And that kind of advertising is actually very effective, and still is. What do viewers of a technology YouTube channel perhaps have an interest in? Technology! What might readers of a gardening magazine want to buy? Gardening tools!

And traditional advertising also advertises to people things at the time they are most receptive to it: when am I thinking most about buying video games? Perhaps when I'm watching others playing them.
You think YC/VC's are searching for a solution to income inequality? Check @pg's twitter feed...

The government is already stricken with profit-seekers extracting value from the public. SV wants its piece too. And it will, if it can make VC money out-impact the status quo of entrenched lobby money.
You could make the same argument about anything. No product is worth the money it costs if you never put it to use.
I agree - it would be great for the government to tackle these problems. But looking at the current US government that doesn't look likely. I agree it feels almost impossible for a startup to actually fix some of these problems. But we fund startups who try to do the almost impossible all the time. And sometimes they succeed :)
> “Economists need to stop optimizing for growth and start optimizing for fixed size.”

this is too abstract, general, and more importantly, unsupported. we have no idea what the future holds, especially about what markets will open up and where capital (which is a proxy for human focus and effort) will flow. we don’t know how many people the world can hold, especially as we solve the problems we create while growing (a principle challenge of civilizations), and whether we will eventually colonize other worlds. humans are ingenious and continually defy such simple characterizations.

in any case, i do agree we citizens should constantly monitor and assess the effects of monetary policy on the wider world. the govt’s interest in inflation is principally for growth (money devalues unless you keep making more) and our central control of interest rates is in service of making sure we grow faster than our neighbor to preserve our economic lead and the global political power that confers. it’s ok to sometimes slow down and enjoy the fruits of our collective labor.
These folks have excellent marketing: Last week they had segments on CNN, this week it's PM. Atom might be the world's first UL listed digital circuit breaker, but it's absolutely not the first digital breaker ( http://www.eaton.eu/Europe/Electrical/ProductsServices/Circu... popped up as result #2 on DDG for ex) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_buttress perhaps
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What you say is true.

Likewise government unrestrained appears to lead to the few accumulating more and more and increasing their power.
The 15h (Bulldozer to Excavator) series had pretty lousy efficiency, with most desktop parts having a TDP of 95W or 125W. The FX-9590 achieved some level of notoriety for having a 220W TDP despite only having four real cores.
Why would I create an indie production of some kind for no money? Are you saying now if I want to make something I have to setup a gofundme and get it funded before I even make the product. That's fine for something, and ruins the artistic intent for other things. Imagine Star Wars being crowdfunded before it was made.

If we reach 100k we'll make sure Han Solo shoots first.

It doesn't make sense. People should be paid for providing a service, whether it's a hamburger or a movie. You don't pay someone before the goods are delivered. The modern system of pre-funding and patronization is absurd for many projects.
It's been forever since I've fired up a torrent client besides grabbing the latest iso of this distro or that distro. Where do the cool kids grab their torrents from these days?
Old? That's where I got all of my GoT episodes as they aired.
However, within a function, avoiding mutation seems pointless as you should have no trouble reasoning about it. At some point you really are just throwing away performance with significantly diminishing benefits

Ok, but here you are doing all the manual work of creating a copy as to avoid mutating the arg/returning a new one and, it may be less peformant because of whole copy, knowing your programming language automtically defaults and does this for you in a performant way is a big win for reducing cognitive overhead in large programs.
1i is a bit more difficult to read than 1n in many fonts. I don't think any numeral is plausibly confused with n, so 'iNt' makes some sense as a suffix IMO.
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That's true only if this somehow replaces the current paradigm. New technology generally supplements existing methodologies rather than replacing it.
> The media is one example

Read (at least an outline of) manufacturing consent. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky pointed out 40 years ago that the media is complicit in propaganda dissemination for the government without any active coercion taking place.

> so are internet providers

This is directly at odds with reality, when internet providers are allowed to run rampant we get anti-consumer behavior that requires things like net neutrality to fix. The fact that state mandated monopolies make problems like this worse is not an argument against the state, but against unregulated/poorly regulated monopolies. Telecom at some level does require actual lines to be run; it's a natural monopoly so we don't have a comcast line, an at&t line, a spectrum line, etc all right next to each other. The alternative is forcing them to work together, which we also could do much better on.

Neither of these companies are necessarily fundamentally evil, but without oversight and accountability can, will, and have done bad things. That's the crux of it all, you can't rely on private companies to self-regulate, they're ultimately only beholden to their shareholders.
People for whom forgetfulness is the reason they'd miss a court date are likely solve their problem with a normal calendar reminder.

Literally nobody is probably close to accurate.
YC didn't invent this term.
Hahhhh. In LA tech there's a similar look with a muted pattern print button down, but maybe a short-sleeved work shirt with ditsy prints.
No, this incentivizes different models to reward content creators. Torrents are technologically a super efficient way to promote discovery. Off the top of my head, artists can make money off live events, live streams, interacting with their community, sponsorships, patronage, etc.
The article has a good diagram of the roof that provides the counterbalancing force to be discharged through the walls and buttresses.

On an unrelated note, a sibling post, though also summarizing the article, seems to be correct. How did it get killed within a minute of posting?
Nextstep and 95 both had a thin ~1px emboss depth. Also note the window decorations. Windows 3.1 looked more like Motif.
There are forprofits and nonprofits on our list.
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$5 means a lot more to someone who earns $5 in a day.

Look, if the companies are willing to look into a minimum wage and median salary when crafting prices for different countries, we might be easily convinced.

Do you know how much stuff you have available in Netflix? Now imagine having a choice between pirating and paying the same price as you do in a developed country for like 30% of the US catalogue. All that while earning much, much less.
Okay I just posted some code: https://github.com/breck7/jefferson

I have a toddler in my arms and have to head to work soon but will answer questions/emails as they come.
That's why we need balance.
Washington DC actually does use Github as the source for the city's legal code (and not just as a copy). I remember seeing this article on HN a while back: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...
Nobody starting a venture-backed company is doing so on the premise that their product will be only useful in a few edge cases.
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"The "Uber of Live Music" will charge you $1100-1600 to book a house show, pay musicians $100"

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/dont-pay-the-piper.html

This is, once again, the ethic of the existing model.
its their money, they paid in to the social security system and funded it, got robbed by taxes throughout their lifetime, paid taxes to build all the roads, govt services, forces, paid for the entire country and more with help abroad to build everything and on and on, whereas the younger generation socialist kids want to take even more from some elderly that also don't have 2 cents to rub together for retirement, partially at fault by the govt robbing them blind throughout the years
You want to reduce ambiguity as much as possible, but not eliminate it entirely. Still want judges!
The strangest thing is that certain software is ransomware/fake seed bombed to the point where you literally cannot access the legitimate software torrents. Around page 40 in the search results, TPB stops loading entries in the search pages.

I think I recall this with Adobe PhotoShop...
Maybe for your use case, but there are plenty of basic applications for which it works fine, if a little slow. The WSL2 implementation should make it fully competitive option for lightweight tasks like frontend web dev and introductory programming - if MS's figures on performance improvements are accurate.

WSL replacing Linux in the near future is, as you say, not a serious concern. But it being a viable alternative for a portion of the people who would normally use desktop Linux is quite realistic, I think. What say?
This whole thing usually goes in circles but I think I've observed a few consistent facts in the discussions on HN:

* People believe that you shouldn't be able to remix art to make money off it.

* People believe that you should be able to pirate games for free, often because they feel that the games makers are exploiting them (via DLCs, in-game purchases, whatever)

* People believe that essays, books, etc. should be pirateable

* People believe that business software shouldn't be pirateable because software engineers need to make money. You'll usually be downvoted if you suggest this on, say, a Jetbrains release or something.

All this taken together, to me, provides some amount of evidence to me that this stuff is just characteristic of the kinds of employment that most people on this forum have, rather than some sort of philosophical position people have on this issue. Hope this saves you some time in discussion.
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> This is how it should be - there is simply no rational case for mindless entertainment ("TV/Movies/Music") that costs on the order of $10M or $100M to make!

How is this not just outright snobbery about what people should enjoy?

I like high-scale, ambitious entertainment.
> And yet those big budget films/TV shows are one of the few things remaining that provide a common cultural experience.

For some people. Believe me, there are lots and lots of people who do not share that experience.
Strongly disagree.

The title and article constantly refer to higher self-expectations as "an exaggerated belief that they are better than others", with the first sentence of the page stating "Overconfidence can be misinterpreted by others as greater competence, perpetuating social hierarchies, study says".

The authors take every chance they can to attempt to convince the reader that there is no actual positive correlation: "Those from a higher social class thought that they did better than others; however, when the researchers examined actual performance, it was not the case", "these inequalities will continue to perpetuate if people do not correct for their natural human tendency to conflate impressions of confidence with evidence of ability."

After unfortunately having read the article for a second time, its dishonesty is only saddening. There is actual science being done and yet it is reported on so inaccurately that it does a net-harm to peoples' beliefs (not to imply that this isn't the standard).
Facebook already knows who your friends are and what you've been up to even if you have never used the site, because it's seen you in the photos they uploaded.
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Conching chocolate: Frictionally jammed solid to solid content suspension
I was thinking jokingly that this is a chance to replace that old fashioned Gothic design with a nice Modern Brutalist one. Well sure enough, there is such a cathedral:

https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/brutalist-clifton-cat...

oh, and another: it looks like a nuclear power station:

https://www.e-architect.co.uk/liverpool/liverpool-catholic-c...
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I like to have downloaded files of movies I own. Thus I can watch them without and internet connection and also I don't have to trust the the streaming service will randomly delete my movie (as has happened).
But you don't see such news come out from UK, AU, NZ or most of europe.
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I think a monitoring service that notifies you when the certificate changes would be useful (although it's fine to rely on CAA records)
The response to this has been really wonderful, and my calendar is now almost full all the way out for the next four weeks.

If you have something urgent you'd like to discuss, please email me directly. My email is in my profile. If I can make time for a quick call, I will. Otherwise, I'll do my best to respond quickly over email, or refer you to another mentor that has offered up their time in the event I get overload (which isn't always the case but is the case at the moment courtesy of the HN hug).
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You're investing in these companies, right? You expect them to make themselves — and you — money?

The problem is what happens when we get to ways to solve the problems these companies are tackling, without the companies. If we enact universal healthcare, will Gusto pivot? If we structure our economy to remove the need for food stamps, will mRelief shut down?

Or will there be attempts to entrench these problems so these companies still have something to solve?
I didn't think about that. In that case, it's probably just planned obsolescence.
That's part of it, but the buttresses are all intact, the wooden roof is the only structural component that did not survive the fire.
Gothic architecture is fascinating because they are not only aesthetically appealing, but also very advanced (at their time) in terms of engineering. Stones are heavy, but the pointed arches and flying buttresses make Gothic churches feel light and nimble. Advanced structural design also allows Gothic churches to have larger windows as the structure is no longer solely supported by the walls, inviting more natural light into the church which contributes aesthetically and spiritually.

For me, the above statement is the reason why I would prefer the roof and spite of Notre Dame to be reconstructed in a modern design that utilizes all the advancements in architecture. The Gothic churches were built using state-of-the-art technologies hundreds of years ago, and they deserve to be rebuilt with the state-of-the-art technologies we have nowadays. If the medieval French could, they would certainly build Notre Dame with steel and glass.
> Do they really think that an app that sends reminders is going to help failure to appear rates?

Text reminders empirically reduce failure to appear by a huge amount[1]. Maybe you don’t understand the problem as well as you think?

[1] https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/text-message-rem...
>On an unrelated note, a sibling post, though also summarizing the article, seems to be correct. How did it get killed within a minute of posting?

Yeah. I noticed that too. I assume that the algorithm weights the time between down-votes and it got a couple real quick or something. It wasn't like it was even an opinionated comment so that's still odd.
From the pirate bay :)
Ahhh, yea, in that case I believe the bottom of the 1 is as well in the Financial District. Very small loop. Always interesting to get on there because I think it's the tightest curve I've found and the trains probably at a good 6 or 7 degree tilt there. Neat stuff.
Once I was working with a database with large integer ids loading them through json and showing them in the browser. There was a bug where ids didn't match when updating a record. The issue was that the json decoder for Javascript didn't handle large numbers, so an id like 12345678901234567 would show up as 12345678901234568. That was fun to debug.

I wonder if the interpreters will convert between BigInts and small ints automatically now? The backend side was PHP and it did so we never noticed the problem there.
>Any news on that situation improving?

This situation "improving" would be a performance regression, an afaik, no one is really looking to do anything about it. Managing its own caches are a feature, not a bug.

That memory is freeable if an application needs it so there's no harm in it being used, either.
One of the things I've learned is that a non-trivial number of people never acquired what some might consider basic life skills. Like keeping track of upcoming future events or adhering to a schedule.

For all the important systemic problems that parent rights points to as very important, most of them have also proven to be rather intractable. Helping a few people whose major problem is that they never learned how to schedule strikes me as much more tractable.

Sometimes helping people means having to choose between a minor-but-addressable aspect of a large problem and a major-but-intractable one. Just because someone thinks they've found somewhere small where they can make a difference doesn't mean they have earned scorn for not being intimidated by poverty and hopelessness.

Small changes can add up. They certainly do a lot more than giving in to despair.
YouTube probably has the best catalogue of electronic music too, but since they removed the 256Kbps AAC format, we're stuck with the audibly lousy, frequency-limited 128Kbps crap. Well, it was good till it lasted.
Note that none of those startups are currently tackling stagnant wages directly, which is really what would fix a lot of the other problems listed here.

I've worked for a company that paid millions for a contract and software that ultimately wasn't used. There was tons of corporate waste that could be solved by simple internal CRUD apps and a little user training, purchases that weren't used much (if at all), projects that were bad from the start, and apathetic leadership with a comfy golden parachute.

But why would I make a startup that encourages companies to pay their employees more? Or fire bad leadership and bad employees? Or stop making dumbass purchases? Or stop giving out golden parachutes and force leadership to actually have skin in the game?

No business would hire that startup.
I read an article [1] years ago about how exercising with a glove that had coolant flowing through it enabled both athletes and regular exercisers to have longer lasting sessions because they could cool down more efficiently.

Since then, I've thought that something like a simple strap for the hand which had a copper plate for the palm and a bunch of heat dispersal fins like on a GPU on back of the hand, with some sort of liquid running through it to help pull out the heat would probably help quite a lot to help cool you down while exercising...

1. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/12/27/cooling-glove-helps-ath...
That’s never been our (socialist) way. That’s the USA way.
The governments will go after companies no matter what legalese they get the customers to sign if it’s the best interest of the citizens.
You could flip the whole thing: why doesn’t Google just ban EU customers?
Just try to understand that we are culturally different from you guys and try to keep in mind both perspectives as if Google was not an American company.
"If you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix) by Sabres of Paradise on daytime Radio 1, turn the TV on"
> I have yet to see a camera with a color filter array which looks "sharp" at 1:1 pixels.

Check out Foveon sensors in Sigma cameras. They are really impressive.
I don't think the author is working remotely, he talks about reclaiming 2 hours of his day currently spent commuting.
Speaking of FUD:

> "the true meaning of SSL certificates"

The certificate fields for organisation, city, etc have existed and were expected to be verified since SSL was created in the nineties. Anyone who has ever made a CSR knows this.

Rolling back from checking the organisation to domain-only validation in 2003 was GeoTrust trying to increase profit margins. Again, Troy should already know this and it's surprising he doesn't seem to.

Oddly enough Troy also Tweets from a verified account, which seems somewhat unusual since a well known username should be enough according to his logic against verifying websites.

Heads up: I run CertSimple, a startup that does faster, simpler verification for EV.
Contributing to open source software has never been about money. I would be very interested in reading the economical analysis of the impact of this move by GitHub.

How will the money incentive align with the existing incentives.
I agree with you, I’m just hoping other people see it.
Micro-patronage seems to be a hard way to get by.

It'd be more lucrative for a patronage website to allow someone to go after big whales.

Just imagine if someone got a 1 million dollar grant. Even if it took a long time to secure it, it'd be a lot better than convincing 200,000 ppl for $5.
Too late. It was already dying a decade ago. Two decades ago might have made a difference.
Except that senators were not popularly elected, but elected by the state legislature (so corruption was easier). Sending the governors themselves to DC would shift powers back to the state (a good thing, imo), but governors wouldn't have much time left for governance.

I think we could improve upon on current system by adding a vice-governor to the governor's ticket, and subjecting the ticket to the popular vote. Then the governor could send the vice-governor, his popularly elected subordinate, to Congress, which would help shift power back to the states. As it currently stands, senators do not feel a need to pay heed to their states' governors.
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Or we can change bail laws as they exist now:

https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-officials-have-finally-release...

>Yet new data shows only modest increases in two of the main measurements of success since 2017.

In that year, 26.9 percent of defendants released from jail before their trials were charged with a new crime — either an indictable offense or a disorderly persons charge. That number increased from 24.2 percent in 2014.

Some 89.4 percent of defendants appeared for their court dates in 2017, down from 92.7 who showed up in 2014. Analysts cautioned that “small changes in outcome measures should be interpreted with caution and likely do not represent meaningful differences.”
That's what matters, right? I don't actually want to change my body temperature by 5 degrees, I'd die.
A lot of companies build CF apps internally but you’d never see
Copyright reform is not about burning copyright to the ground.
And it's down https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/archives/45293
What's the line between patronage and just hiring someone outright for a pet project?