skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To prove our goals are realistic we released this beta.

We had much more attention than we expected today. You can follow us on twitter to stay informed about the future updates :) https://twitter.com/bloom42
>How much would people pay for a trips app?

TripIt Pro is the standard and costs $49 per year. It's not really for leisure travel but for business/productivity.
At the risk of ending up at a black site. A literature review suggests that when it is used as an interstage material - FOGBANK acts as a lens i.e. it directs and focuses the neutron flux from the primary device and does something with the X-Rays produced to help trigger the secondary.

Whatever it does, it is an extremely critical component worth spending god knows how much money on.
Remember the audience is doctors. Doctors make bank but work hard and don't have the time to participate in the political process.

A small/mid time real estate guy with a similar net worth will have much more political clout because he has the time to do political events and interact with that strata of people.
This is how I view the universe. We make attempts to interpret it and probably never will fully comprehend it. The perceived boundaries of our universe is the edge of our consciousness and what we understand as humans. As we evolve so will our understanding and interpretations.

For me it is more of a humbling feeling than disturbing.
I am sure that other patterns of interaction happen on medium, but I know of no one for whom this isn’t their entire interaction with the service: it’s literally a hosting site that people are vaguely aware of because their modal has their name on it.
No offense, but you clearly did not read the article.
Alexa, Alex, or Al? 3 Suggestions to Fight Gender Biases in AI Assistants
Anybody is still using WordPress? From the picture left on top of my head, WP is/was a good option.
Perception as Controlled Hallucination
If those direct links sent me somewhere else tomorrow I would care, because odds are the alternative would be better. Medium is seriously annoying with its sign-in nags and large amounts of the screen taken up with unnecessary bars.

I just want to read an article. Medium is a worse experience than average in that regard.
I don't know if it's just teens. Unfortunately it's pervs too.

First time I ever got a random AirDrop was a dick pic while I riding the subway in NYC. Somebody just sending dick pics to strangers on the subway.

I hadn't realized Apple had created a whole new avenue for sexual harassment. Great. Apparently at some point in the past I'd changed from the default "contacts only" to "everyone" without realizing what it would open me up to.

Obviously it seems like technologically there ought to be a way to identify the sending phone and pass it to the police to find the perp and charge them with a hefty fine at a minimum... but I'd already deleted it (of course) and didn't have the time.

Still, seems like Apple ought to provide a kind of "report abuse" mechanism that would disable it from your Apple ID, or something.

Also, maybe when an image is from someone not in your contacts... don't show a preview??? Or make it super-super blurry, so you can reject it without being subjected to it?
Exactly - this works for notion.so, who allow 1000 "blocks" of data before requiring a paid account.
Being rich is a measure of assets generating income relative to future expenses.

Once your passive income can cover your monthly expenses, you are already veering into rich territory.
I think the questions following 'are we rich' can be harder to answer, because the answer may produce a different (bad/good) lesson in a child. Like...

why are we rich? / why are we not rich?

or maybe...

if we are rich, what are we doing for those who are not?

etc...
You made me laugh, thanks! I do have three blankets (on which I sleep) that I store in my closet during the day. Most of the time I put my bed on the same spot, but sometimes I move it slightly (towards the windows on hot days, etc.), although not that much.
There's lots of $1000 phones now. As with most Apple phone changes, the other OEMs and users complain at first ("no more headphone jack!", the iPhone-X front screen bevel) then end up doing it themselves.

And let's not forget some go higher than the iPhones like the $2000 Samsung Galaxy Fold.

Also, Apple always makes older gen phones available if you're price sensitive -- the iPhone 7 (and 8) is available starting at $300 on their site for example.
SEO is definitely a big part of this problem
$4M in wealth is certainly enough to get a lawmaker to pass a "pet law" - some minor change to a zoning code or regulatory infrastructure that matters for your business. At least, if there's no concerted opposition to your pet law.
Schools in certain parts of the US, usually with more unruly students from lower income backgrounds, are pretty much set up like prisons. You can't leave the premises as the exits are heavily guarded, there are cops present, there are various sorts of checkpoints where things are searched. Now it looks like the prison follows you home into your private life where you might be planning something nefarious. It's a bit of a mess.
Thanks for sharing! :-)

Inspiration for the rest of us to keep at it with our side-projects.
You are totally right. Today's announcement was to explain THE why: https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/the-just-cause-and-the-infinite-...

We had very good feedback and a lot of people would love to contribute :)

The what is an ongoing process.
>Getting banned from YouTube doesn't prevent you from voting.

Right, it prevents you from taking part in the public political debate that tens of millions of voters are participating in.

It's like telling someone "You can't talk about your political message on this popular street corner where there are actually people to hear you. You are welcome to go stand on the street corners way outside of town, though, where practically no one is listening. Those other people are fine to spread their message on this street corner, though, because I agree with them."

There are very good reasons why we don't allow that sort of thing on street corners. The very same reasons apply to the major social media platforms.

>this site has catered to an audience that is wealthy and well-connected relative to the YouTube audience and the political discussions on this site have a ripple effect in the tech community and thus the tech industry and people's livelihoods.

Ah, so middle/low class people should grovel to the elites that gather here, even though those people don't share their interests, and hope that they somehow convince elites to act against their own interests, and do some ripple effect thing on behalf of people that have interests opposed to theirs.

>My only point here is to illustrate that "popular" doesn't necessarily mean "important".

And you've forgotten not everyone has the same interests. If some low skilled workers feel that some policy is driving down their wages, they're not going to go grovel to a bunch of engineers who probably want their wages to go down so they get cheaper vegetables.

People want to be heard by people that have, or may have, similar interests to them.

>The primary function of the site is a business built around video entertainment,

So? The primary function of sidewalks is so people can walk on them.

>just because some fraction of the site's users decided to have political discussions on YouTube doesn't mean that the fundamental nature of YouTube has changed into something that should now be owned by the commons.

Right, it's the fact that said fraction represents a huge number of people.

>The creators and owners of YouTube still have rights to, and creative control over the product they created, even if that control resulted in a blatantly partisan culling of political content.

Subject to the limits that the government puts on that control.

>If YouTube's behavior displeases the people they should seek redress with the platform's owners or abandon it.

"Feel free to go talk on that street corner a mile outside of town. Only people who say things we like can talk on this one."

You really think that's going to be satisfactory?

>The reasoning you describe is a strange kind of mob tyranny where a corporation becomes obligated to give up creative control over its products because a bunch of people decided to start squatting political banners on the front lawn.

When you become "the commons", you lose some of your "creative control". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
I would keep beating medium until their traffic drops to MySpace levels.
There are quality platforms that have communities - see micro.blog, see news.indieweb.org, see my own directory to the modern web at href.cool. These are smaller communities - but they are all outside of the login walls, so there is a lot of crosstalk. There is even a strong community of TiddlyWiki users who congregate around philosopher.life. There are fantastic options out there, if you are able to shift your gaze away from the clickstreams.
Yes definitely, I meant ADTs and GADTS -- Algebraic Data Types

They're a super good idea, so I'm glad that other languages are adopting it, but this is the kind of thing that haskell has had for a long time and is just second nature.
> My previous job banned vertical monitors

Wow. I get a "don't plug random stuff into your machine's USB ports" policy, but "don't rotate your monitor"? "one approved config with a non-fixed-width font"?

I can't imagine a sane rationale for this. Do they force lefties to write with their right hand, too?
I know you mean well, but people tend to want to fit in with their milieu.
if you've ever been to a middle school or a high school as a student, you know that these surveillance systems are probably already being used to crush innocent dissent.

imagine how many times you made a snide remark about a teacher or a principal to your peers in confidence. now, the target of your jeer will know that you're talking shit -- and, much like if they were to overhear trash talk about them in the hallways, they won't tolerate it. and so a bunch of harmless children will be caught in the surveillance net, and punished for normal behavior.

even worse, down the line you can be certain that state actors will gain access to the data sets produced by surveillance. then, in these kids' dossiers, they'll be marked as having anti-authoritarian tendencies as a result of their childhood discussions which were snooped on. throw in a social credit system, and someone may have a childhood remark following them for life.
I don’t think that mentality is limited to rich people. If you went back in time to each of the last 20 years and asked me how much savings I think I’m going to need in order to retire, the answer I’d give you (regardless of my current savings in that year) would have been “about 10X what I already have saved.”

At this point I’ve admitted to myself that I will need to work until I die!
I'm not sure it's about community. But I am sure we are beating a dead horse with all this Medium sucks posts.

We all know why. Everyone does. If they chose to use it, it's because they still feel its better than the alternative. I'm not really sure what else there is to be said at this point

I don't use Medium. But honestly, why do I care if anyone else does? Could someone maybe explain the negative to the world at large? There are thousands of low friction options to publish content on the web. I'm not really too scared of Medium forcing anyone into something they do not want to do.
I’m writing from a bus and found giving my car up to be great for my pocketbook. Gas was more expensive for affordable vehicles and efficient vehicles were still pricy.

It’s a pain to park, doesn’t necessarily move faster than public transit, and is one of the largest safety concerns to city dwellers.

The blog post can’t be written-off by stating “Chicago”.
Because they would just hit Ctrl+Z and rollback their mistakes.
People pick the strangest ways of resisting the system.
> I'm thankful this kind of stuff didnt exist when I grew up.

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard an adult say this phrase lately, I'd be rich! Did adults used to say this phrase 30 years ago? What are we doing to ourselves and our kids?
They're obviously a search engine and not a publisher since the content is already published by definition.
Yes, the difference is that now Apple is shipping a new version that will have the same problem in a years time, so instead of one compatibility event there’s a new one.

The app developer also now has a problem - their binary only works on one OS revision so they have to start shipping the same code, just compiled separately. The only safe solution is to ship with their own embedded version. Which is also the correct solution to the interpreters not being part of the platform.
The point I was making above was that Nazis were concerned about German-ness (well, Aryan-ness) not whiteness. Classifying them as white supremacists is generally incorrect.
I almost feel like this is a straw man to make this controversial. I don't see why anyone, even a layman, would say this.
Total amateur here: how do we know that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe?
What was their win over AWS or GCE?
Thank you for this honest feedback!

Today is the WHY announcement: https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/the-just-cause-and-the-infinite-...

The what is an ongoing process :)
Switching from Evernote to Notion
that is not even a free software by definition https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

hahhahahah, the guy (author) thinks he will become next FB/Google 1984-style Orwellian by giving people possibility to make 5 notes for free, thus to reach and create demand and earn some serious money while spying on their private data.

Even Suckerberg is better than that.
If youre a tinkerer it's always possible to just use plain vim and a repository. Of you want that repo end to end encrypted, keybase could be an option.

You'd lose out on mobile though and this project looks pretty neat if you're willing to pay
Creating a decentralized art marketplace with JavaScript
As someone that commutes 80 km to work every weekday (i.e. one way) in a country where its the law to change tyres twice a year and the usual recommendation for oil changes are after every 10 or 15 thousand kilometers, I think its safe to say that your statement can't be applied generally even if its true for you...
I love my old-school TrackMan Marble Wheel. It's even better than the modern Logitech trackball.
With Bluetooth headphones being pretty widespread now it’ll probably be enabled most of the time for most people. Especially with the low energy version if doesn’t really matter any more too.
India has aggressive climate change commitments. It is setting long term expectations and providing guidelines to the biggest influencers [Uber/Ola]. It gives an indicator to the manufacturers, infra providers, service providers and the end consumers on what to expect. It is in line with their 2025 goals.
One thing that is really nice thou is the typography they have chosen to set on. Most blogs fail at this imo (to a lesser or ocasionally to a disastrous degree).
Here's the Dev.to piece on the FCC section that the author is talking about. I wouldn't take FCC's public posturing uncritically as it appears they stole a lot of people's articles on the way off of Medium and ruined a lot of author's SEO in the process.
https://dev.to/ben/i-m-concerned-with-the-move-that-freecode...
I'm 100% for progressive taxes (i.e. higher taxes on richer people). People should have decent lives even if they can't participate in the workforce/markets with great success.

Also taxes are a very successful way of dampening the inequality:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/04/13/american...

It's just that the top 50% or top 10% or top 1% or top 0.1% will always hold disproportionate amount of wealth, and no system will change that. Under USSR the select few in the communist party had that wealth, although it wasn't expressed in dollars (or any other currency), but in the power and unquestionability of their decisions.
I hear you! I was going to try and get the CountMin post done this weekend and update this but I guess I gotta let it roll with what I have already done:

One of my better Haskell posts is a series on writing REST APIs. It kind of gets off the rails type wise as I try to get more and more clever, but I rein it in:

https://vadosware.io/post/rest-ish-services-in-haskell-part-...
Sorry for the late reply. I don't pay for the app, it's included in my monthly service...not sure if there's a difference. I haven't received any Chinese calls recently...
I don’t thunk my brain could handle no beginning
Space X relies on government contracts and government funded research not the tax savings of tech billionaires. And yes I read the rest.
Yeah, it is really weird to want to educate your own children.
Before anyone mentions Kitty Genovese:

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

> An article published in American Psychologist in 2007 found that the story of Genovese's murder had been exaggerated by the media. There were far fewer than 38 eyewitnesses, the police were called at least once during the attack, and many of the bystanders who overheard the attack could not actually see the event. The story continues to be misrepresented in social psychology textbooks because it functions as a parable and serves as a dramatic example for students.[38] In 2016, The New York Times called its own reporting "flawed", stating that the original story "grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived".[39]
Probably syntax highlighting, as discussed in the article
Hash, Range and Geo Sharding in Distributed SQL Databases
Yup but OSX has a tonne of C (and unfortunately C++) APIs.

But yeah having most of the system apis being in a language that has built in dynamic resolution makes a world of difference in the difficulty of maintaining abi compat
For retrofit, I think it is more common to cut 1-2 inch openings through the ceiling or wall face (i.e. cut through plaster or remove pieces of paneling), blow the insulation, and finally patch those holes. And, this pattern will repeat every 5-10 feet, since the bays should be physically divided along their length by fire-blocking if built to code. Each blocked section will have to be filled as a separate step.
> Scrabulous had run out of money ...buried their competitor with legal fees.

that's pretty fucked. I wonder if there's any lending mechanism which would front the legal fees, and then recoupe it back from the judgement (if won).

It seems that the method of burying a competitor with a suite that lacks real merit would only work if the fees become unpayable. So closing this loophole would fix the problem!
Works with Nest had issues.
Thank you,
You can check frequently the issue list to see if something might interest you: https://gitlab.com/groups/bloom42/-/issues
> Of course, that would require persisting in my current lifestyle in the face of a massive increase in wealth, which takes nontrivial self-discipline.

And you must maintain that self-discipline in a world where you are constantly bombarded with messages to "spoil yourself" because "you're worth it" and "you can afford it". It's not easy.
Planes did not exist before humans built them. Radium did.
No, freedom to get away from a stinking, dangerous tenement and have access to work.
So you are likely to PAY to GIVE your data AWAY...

Mamma mia!

Why not pay US $5 to Digital Ocean and run your own NextCloud and you have all the notes in your own server. Encrypted.
E85 pumps are clearly marked. It's E15 that is the threat.
In terms of expansion we have little data to extrapolate thousands of times the current age of the universe. The reasons behind said expansion are unknown making extrapolation have meaningless error bars.

Current estimates for heat death are vastly beyond a few trillion years. With another universe possibly randomly showing, though the odds of that depend on the unknowable size of this universe.
For the those new to the hobby and terminology, a layer is when you hold/lock one key (or a combination of keys) and then all of the other keys do something different than they did before.

The keyboard you're using right now probably has a second layer that is activated when you hold SHIFT. When you hold SHIFT, the letter keys will now be capitalized and the numbers will produce symbols.

Many programmable keyboards allow you to have more than two layers. For example, I remapped caps lock to activate a third layer, so now my home row and the nearby keys, can act like my arrow keys and common editing keys like home, end, delete, etc. I also mapped media keys to that layer, so "m" is mute and < > are prev/next song. Now I can do pretty much everything without my fingers leaving the home row. This is great for speed and fluidity as a programmer. I can also use a much smaller keyboard for better ergonomics and a more minimalist look.

I actually got into mechs for the ergonomics... I was having fatigue in my right (mouse hand) shoulder. Once I moved to a smaller keyboard (tenkeyless) and my shoulder wasn't turned as far out to use the mouse, my shoulder healed within a couple weeks.

Now I'm on a 60% keyboard. It took about two months to fully get used to my third layer, but I feel it was well worth it for the improved speed and flow.
It's even worse with the second of these gifs: if I look at it frame by frame, with ample pauses, the scene still keeps rotating in the same direction. I know that two of the four frames must return to the other position, but I can't see it.
There were a lot in the UK in 1976. We had a huge growth in aphids after a warm spring, the ladybirds followed on. I remember seeing a boat at our local reservoir that was covered in them, even the sails, it had turned from white to read.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35603972
The way I look at it is that there is a significant difference between being 1%-er by income, and 1%-er by net worth. The former is not terribly uncommon in the tech industry, but the latter is what counts as real wealth.
I would love to see Medium profiles untethered from the actual medium site itself.

I love that you can post on your "personal" page, another publisher and not need to make a new account.

Are there any solutions out there that let you keep a consistent profile across multiple blogs?
And this is happening the same day they show off their brand new Stadia product? Oops.
And even then it's only the American public; NASA development is in metric.

(Part of the Mars orbiter fiasco was that it was being developed during the transition.)
I can say without a doubt, if it weren’t for Joyent, my fantastic coworkers, and the experience and opportunity they granted me I wouldn’t be where I am today. I fondly remember debugging issues and learning so much with my talented coworkers. Congratulations Joyeurs on everything you’ve done to forward the Public Cloud and Systems Engineering.
The team just posted a blog post about this live open call https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/live-join-us-to-discuss-...
>I may be one of the folks not part of the Medium community.

The majority of people on earth are not part of the Medium community.

The problem is Medium still has a community of say a hundred million readers, and nothing else (which is a blogging aggregator) has a community just as large.
How do you think Google should order search results?
I grew up with an engineer's family income, and 250k still seems pretty wealthy. That puts you in the top 5% of US earners.
It's not the cost of birthing/feeding/clothing/daycaring. It's the cost of having a house in the best school district you can afford, sending your kids on ski trips or international vacations with their friends who also have higher income parents, and various other activities that are involved with being in the "up and coming" social group.
The Fallacy of Techno-Optimism
With all respect, I think we generally live in a human society that has been built around that very constraint.