skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
browse goodreads! go to local author talks! go to a local book club ran by someone well-read! totally agree with the above supporting long form review publications like the new york/ london/ paris review of books; they typically will write about a general topic whose sources are 1-3 books that are listed. If the long form piece peaks your interest you know exactly where to dig in for more information.

Best seller lists skew towards "branded" writers typically pushing (in my opinion) a diluted version of an existing thought that is re-marketed for our time. There is nothing new under the sun, so stick to the classics. Life is much too short to read mediocre books. (:
Let's split the difference:

They make profit from some rides. And the amount of profit matters, too.
You probably won't have the option to store your playlists locally though, and streaming music with mobile net could get expensive. The other big apps without good mobile web versions are Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram. Those could be show-stoppers for some people.
By useful, I mean saving the US military hundreds of millions of dollars. It's not perfect, and I would argue it's not even very good, but it does work. Which among several reasons is why it's been outlawed for US companies.
The best way to understand this is to look at their financial statements:

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

Generally, you would go to the 10-K to get a quick snap shot.

I direct you to look at the "CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS"

You can see that they made about 1.4B (in Q1) after paying the drivers but then they spent 2.2B on:

Operations and support, Sales and marketing, Research and development, General and administrative

Note, of these categories, Sales and Marketing was the largest and eliminating it completely (not recommending this) would get them to break even.
Love the model, thanks! Will let you know what I build with it
Why exactly it's an anathema for those groups?

Every state, city, country has a lot of favored sectors and grant opportunities, it's then up to investors to come up with projects that actually turn a profit.

VC/startup investors do this by simply doing a semi-blind search, funding everything they think is at least minimally sound.

If investors are still unable to turn a profit they are not taking on enough risk. (They are not thinking big enough.) And that might be okay. There's no moral imperative to keep every investment fund alive, every investor happy. And the only difference between business as usual periods and now is that the numbers are now scary (negative yields!).

But the fundamentals haven't changed.

Negative yields just mean that too many investors are risk averse, too many people (pension funds, passive funds, low-risk funds, inflation tracking funds, basic savings accounts) just want to park money. And that's okay. Eventually one of the following will happen: the fund managers will take on more risk, the people behind the funds will use the money for something else (eg spend it), or the people behind the funds will pester Congress to spend more and finance it all from debt.
80 years, or 700,000 hours.

At $10 an hour that would be $7m a day, $2.5b a year.

Alphabet's revenue is arround $144b a year, so it would cost 2% of revenue to review every single uploaded video. Clearly that's not going to be needed -- you only need to review those which

1) Have a claim by $BIG_CORP

2) Have a counter claim
They are also very smart, which made them read/like interesting books.

If they read books ofc, in these cases they obviously do
You can send it to France right now, AFAIK they can even sell the power back to you.
Url changed from https://neurosciencenews.com/visual-reality-14590/, which points to this (but doesn't link to it).

Submitted title was ""The case against reality: A new theory argues consciousness creates neural ac..." " which our software rewrote to "The case against reality: A new theory argues consciousness creates neural AC", since AC usually means alternating current.
Note to self next time I go backpacking in the Rockies.
Uber's marketing / customer acquisition cost is their highest non-driver line item by a significant multiple.

They spent ~$3,200,000,000 ($3.2 billion) on sales & marketing in 2018 of which ~$1,800,000,000 is direct media / HR cost to drive customer acquisition.

In 2019 this number, as of the first quarter, has gone up substantially to a >$4b run rate.

With a burdened cost of $150k/yr for every single member of the 1,200 marketing team that makes up $180m of the total.

Uber operates in 600+ international major markets.

1200 employees (5% of organization total) covering and executing nuanced marketplace approaches for a budget of that scale is not out of range.

(1) https://qz.com/1592971/uber-ipo-filling-reveals-how-it-spend...
So true. Feels good to have hard won skills be utilized.
"...the kingdom of heaven is near."

The very first Christians were told the same 2000 years ago.

I wonder what they would think if they were told that they should wait at least 2000 years.
> Marketing Manager

> Average: $67,935

And that's for a manager. 40k may be a little low, perhaps they're making 50 or 55, but it's not unreasonable for a normal marketing job.
Cool, thanks for sharing this post!
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/07/better-tools...
Forget Al Qaeda and consider Saudi Arabia on its own. Is it congruent to support it while bombing freedom in other countries? Is USA becoming the pillar of its own axis of evil?
> they are a gesture of financial commitment

So spend the money on something that's actually useful in a marriage. A house, college fund for kids, car, rainy day fund, vacation etc.
I hope to see a tiger in the wild when I go to India. Looking into how to make this possible.
Better to say No and fail the test than say Yes and show consistent polygraphs but still fail the clearance and position.
Aside from the plastics vs. paper issue, how do you pack these things into a shipping container or trailer? Can you imagine the logistics of every order Amazon packs being a (nearly) unique size?
You can work around this by running Firefox Developer, which is able to disable Mozilla's signing requirements. That edition of the browser actually respects xpinstall.signatures.required, so just toggle that, zip your extension, rename to .xpi, and install. It'll warn you once, proceed, and persist through browser restarts just like any other extension.

Obviously that's no help if you want to distribute the extension (we have to jump through hoops at our organization to push out a manifest) but for personal use I find it to be a good workaround.
There is an entire class of people who are living paycheck to paycheck. And have a lifetime of part-time, minimum wage work. How much do you think they have in savings and 401k?
Learn a little jq, Awk and sed
Agreed, I've spent my whole life in the Boston area and never heard it called a spa. But water fountains are "bubblas" and those things you put on your ice cream are "jimmies".

But now that I think about it, I grew up in a town that, at least forty years ago was rural. The local shop was simply referred to as, "Clyde's" after the man who owned it.
> Also, you haven't really defined what "makes sense" means for you. Does that mean being able to refactor it, maintain or just evaluate it?
I meant to be able to understand the components that make up the software, so to be able to maintain it and contribute to code base.

thank you for the reply.
And I can assure you that reading the story is quite far from actually living the experience of walking through these tunnels. Sometimes insane (like « get me out of there ! »), and sometimes it just make you think about your own mortality, thanks to the writings.

Disturbing, but in a constructive, human way. Well, at least for me.

And profit-making, btw.

Edit: added missing « mortality »
When I lived in the southeastern US, these places typically also had gas pumps.

So we usually called them "gas stations," even if they didn't actually sell fuel.
Sometimes I like to inspect the code of existing addons to look for malicious code. My first sweep is regexing through the code for any URLs which means checking for (http?s://) and the next step is looking for any code that is deliberately obfuscated.
i think you nailed every point. best answer in this thread.
Whatever you do ... do not read the guts of PonyORM (python db orm). Also I would strongly urge anyone who has ever considered it to run, not walk, in the opposite direction.
Which would mean they do _not_ make a profit on each ride.
Top users of California's allocation of Colorado River water are [1]:

~61% Imperial Irrigation District;

~20% Metropolitan Water District of Southern California;

~8% Palo Verde Irrigation District;

~8% Coachella Valley Water District;

Out of these, only the Palo Verde Irrigation District is inside the Colorado River basin. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has access to the coastline, so it can mix in desalinated water directly. It currently mixes in local water sources and water delivered from Northern California [2].

The Imperial and Coachella valleys require an interbasin transfer in either case, but despite the presence of canals and pipelines from the lower Colorado River to these sites, supplying them with additional water from the coast would require significantly less infrastructure than pumping said coastal water all the way up to Lake Mead.

[1] https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/4200Rpts/DecreeRpt/2018... [2] http://www.mwdh2o.com/AboutYourWater/Sources%20Of%20Supply/P...
There is one thing I really like about story points: Disagreement about them drives a whole lot of useful conversation, and can reveal communication problems and misunderstandings that are difficult to root out otherwise. That, in turn, should give the PO useful feedback to help with refining the requirements. Which means that story pointing meetings should, in theory, have a huge multiplier effect on productivity, where every hour spent on activities like story pointing saves many hours effort wasted on building unnecessary or mis-scoped or miscommunicated features.

But that requires a very engaged PO who really gets what grooming is really about. Also, I don't know what it is with MBA types, but it really seems like anything that can be turned into a KPI, will be turned into a KPI, without ever pausing to think about whether it makes any sense to do so. And that makes story points radioactive: In the absence of intense and intelligent regulatory oversight, their potential value is more-or-less negated by their potential for abuse and misuse.

Incidentally, this is what fascinates me about the Forth approach: The unflinching dedication to stripping the system down to only the things that you actually need. The problem I see is, the Forth way of doing it seems to assume you're working with an army of one. How do you scale that up to a modern product team that may comprise 10, 50, 100, even 1000 people?
Hacker News is not in control of the content on its own site. There's nothing intellectually stimulating about this article at all.
The website operator is deciding what data is sent to Facebook my implementing the button.

How are they not a (joint) data controller in that respect?

BTW, the article didn't actually spell this out, but the website operator's "responsibility is, however, limited to the operation or the set of personal data processing operations for which it actually determines the purposes and means, namely the collection and communication by transmission of the data in question." (translated using Google Translate from the French-language version of the judgment)
It might be centralized, but not entirely automated, at least not yet. Thus each city requires headcount.
Explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20559224
If you can mix the two that’s great too. Creating a product and seeing people use it is an amazing feeling. Even if it’s not “perfect” and you’d love to have time to add another 10 features ;-)
Actually, it's Safe Harbor laws in the DMCA that have designed that power dynamic. And if there is no negative consequence for making a false claim, then yes, that's exactly what would happen - human reviewers looking at a huge amount of content.
> That system is abused by large companies who know how to exploit their algorithms

Not even this, but the algorithms are designed in way that is bias towards the person making the copyright claim. It isn't like neutral algorithm and the companies just figured out how to leverage it better than creators, it is literally built in their favor.
That's a weird statement. Why would they use a CC license, rather than a software license like the GPL?
> VLIW seems like a dead end.

VLIW has been amazingly successful in DSP. All the world's baseband processors use VLIW machines. Many of the accelerated video decoders are also VLIW machines under the covers.
> there's already likely a litany of felonies involved in turning a person into dog food

yes, it's a felony because of regulation, made by... regulators
I wonder if this is why meditation meetups skew to an aging demographic.
In a way that makes, people in lower incomes generally have more of a reliance on one another. Financial independence often means independence and people who are independent often struggle with asking for help.
Show HN: GraphMetrix Trinity – Reads/Understands PDFs (Construction AI/LISP)
It might require DRM? (Mystery binary blobs running in your browser to enable DRM is in the web standards.)

There is an open source client library for Spotify Premium though, it seems:

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/master/READM...
The very term "conspiracy theory" is frustratingly flawed in the first case, in practice being nothing more than a perjorative for anything that runs contrary to the official narrative, where 'official' is highly context sensitive.

In practice it means 'a theory about a conspiracy' with the implication that conspiracies aren't real and therefore the a theory involving a conspiracy is wacky bunk. But sometimes the official narrative is that there was in fact a conspiracy, and in those cases the term 'conspiracy theory' is not typically used. A prime example is the 9/11 Commission Report which describes in great detail a conspiracy to commit mass murder. When it comes to 9/11, everybody agrees there was a conspiracy. I've yet to even hear rumor of anybody who believes that day was a series of unlikely coincidences. Whether you think it was bin Laden or Dick Cheney, it's obvious somebody was doing some conspiring.

I think the difference between the logical and practical meanings of the term is rooted in a specific case in which popular theories were theories about conspiracies, but for which the official narrative is that the guilty party didn't conspire with anybody. Obviously I'm talking about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Lots of sites are driven by volunteer moderation - an admittedly risky prospect, but in most of those cases where it goes really wrong it seems like the site is functionally 100% volunteer driven.

A big corp could take a mixed approach. For every paid admin you can have dozens of volunteers whose authority and actions are supervised by the paid admins, and the admins and moderators would also have access to the AI tools to see flags on the content.

This could be a good model for Youtube Kids - whitelisting channels and individual videos as age-appropriate. If the admin sees a moderator abusing the privilege, let them revoke it and revert their entire history.
They often ask you explicitly if you know or have researched methods to defeat the polygraph. It's a lose/lose situation because most people have heard of such things or DID research out of curiosity facing taking a test, but admitting it makes you look bad. You generally don't get the chance to explain yourself, and if you do it just makes you look more guilty. The entire process is designed to give an excuse to arrive at the conclusions the entity administering the test wants to arrive at.
The ports/schedulers have quite different capabilities however:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...

Using the Intel Vtune tools you can see how each port is utilized, so you could in theory change your code to mix instructions for best utilization beyond what reordering the CPU can do itself, so I can see some analogy with building a VLIW instruction group.

There's a crazy amount of performance counters you can look at (the perf tool can do that too, but just try running "perf list" to view available counters).
Other than causing hundreds of people to lose their jobs?
> I also know that our lives our not our own. We do not choose to pick them up and we may not choose to lay them down ourselves. People are happier when they accept this (I assert, as an _ad contra_ to your assertion).

I think it depends on how you view the importance of your feelings. Dying of a heart attack on the toilet is pretty common (I think?) and probable majorly sucks. But... you also die immediately after so you don’t really dwell on it. Conversely dying peacefully surrounded by friends and family with a celebration of your life is pretty cool. One could argue that the moment of death doesn’t matter because it’s shortish and final, or you could argue that your final thoughts are going to be important to you and thus desire for them to be controlled. I’m going to bet that while people generally want to maximize time alive, they also like the idea of a warm and peaceful exit- and would value that over the assumption that you will have more days of life but a sudden and frightening exit.

And while I think your point of view is also reasonable, my contention is that nobody has the ability to pick my point of view.

> Why do you say that "for 99% of people only with medical circumstances is it okay to die"? Is it just that you think most people _will not_ choose death? Or that they _should not_ choose death?

I’m saying 99% of people would probably not choose to end their life without a medical problem as the alternative. But there’s nothing saying you can’t decide you’ve had enough while healthy. Differentiating this from impulsive decisions made in stress and grief.

Edit: I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. This seems like a good post.
I could see there being localization challenges, especially when you start talking about multiple countries. Not just languages; cultural nuance, idioms, and political awareness all matter.
Does Comcast support the Linux and "privacy" ecosystems?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554806
Have you got the right number of zeroes there? Three billion per year?
Article elides over the fact that in the US, suicide may be the result of rational analysis, including consideration of pros and cons, in response to specific and relevant factors. Particularly economic factors.

Looming large is the idea that healthcare costs can burn down an entire lifetime of toil, saving, and planning in a matter of months. Some people would prefer to leave something of value to their survivors, rather than give everything that's left to their last physician, and then be a charity case or family burden for all their remaining days.

Gen X and Millennial cohorts are even less secure than Boomers financially as they age, so the problem will only grow worse. If you have a tiny nest egg, and a fixed income, it doesn't take much math to calculate the amount of time one can afford to continue to live, given a certain expense profile. When the choices come down to the number of additional weeks you can eke out by switching from Spam to store-brand cat food, it may also become attractive to look into eating a nice steak dinner, saving the last big chunk of meat to be aspirated, so your survivors don't know, for certain, that you committed suicide.

If you were staring down the barrel of a life where nothing joyful or worthwhile will ever happen to you again, and every day will be slightly worse than the last, and is marked only by the angle of the shadows and the color of the pills, with no hope of reversal, I can't reasonably argue against suicide. In that sense, denying the methods and opportunities for suicide without addressing the root causes of motive, as the facility is paid for every day the person lives, seems a bit like torture for profit.

I have personally changed domicile cities four times in my career, looking for gainful employment, and each time I came away with fewer people that would even notice if I die this evening. I expect that my children will soon leave me, hopefully to find work that allows them to support themselves, and if I don't die first, I will one day lose my spouse as well. I see no way to avoid this. I can't afford now to worry about whether I will be lonely later.

My lack of lifetime financial security has translated into a smaller social support network of friends, and has definitely resulted in choosing to have fewer children. And it has reduced the amount of time I can spend renewing family relationships. My parents see less of me when I am 400 miles away than they did when I was 150 miles away. I'm certainly not alleviating their loneliness. If either committed suicide, I'm not certain how I would even find out about it.
That’s like me taking your wallet, but still offering to let you use your debit card once in a while. At the end of the day, it's a colonizer dictating the terms of governance over territory obtained through coercive means.
That's really interesting, if you know how to find a dataset from those communities that could be a great model to build in the next weeks
>Is it even possible to scale a human operation to this level, even with youtube's checkbook?

YT probably doesn't make money. We don't know because Alphabet doesn't put it as a separate line item in their earnings reports. Insiders say it about "breaks even".
From Hieroglyphics to APL (1991) [pdf]
So nice to see a phone that doesn't look like every other new phone with an edge to edge screen.

Contactless gestures could indeed be an interesting feature. At least fresh and different one.
sorry it probabaly me
You're describing an inspection of work associated with a permit. I don't think anyone reasonably objects to that.

It sounded in your earlier post that you were suggesting (or lamenting the lack of) periodic inspections for the purposes of finding unpermitted work, which I (and probably many others) would find unreasonable and likely contrary to the 4th Amendment.
Taking your question at face value, yes, and it’s true of every private news company. They are first and foremost entertainers, and even those who hold themselves out as agents of change require a large audience.