skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total spending on digital ads in the United States, a reasonably proxy for the value of the ads to advertisers, has been cited at about $111B[1]. There are about 280 million Internet users in the U.S.[2] (averaging the 2018 measurement of 275M and the 2019 projection of 285M). That works out to about $33 per user per month—which is a decent chunk of change, but much less than $200/month.

[1] https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/325645/usa-number-of-int...
This is nice, but I don't see the pricing after the free trials. The Pitney Bowes data [1] they used as an example in linked article only shows $0 for the free trial, not what it's going to cost you afterwards. It'd be nice to know the long term cost before tying this data into your business.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-bwf7mapyyjzom...
We are already at a couple people being 100 billionaires. Inflation alone is enough to get us there by then.
We haven't even begun to see the ceiling for experienced engineers imo. We hit $500k TC not being a completely-unthinkable offer for anyone other than extreme domain experts way earlier than I expected.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it more than once. We're trying to avoid that here, and especially to avoid flamebait and name-calling.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

> Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"

A very long time indeed!

I think the key source of confusion (both in 1864 and today) is that non-technical people hope that the machine has some wisdom correlated with its arithmetic prowess. Charles Babbage's mechanical calculator did not have wisdom. Even when you give a bleeding-edge algorithm Big Data and lots of processing power, it doesn't yet have wisdom. But hope springs eternal.
Yea, but in my comment I didn't care about Google. We were talking about money going directly to content providers, to compensate for the fact that they don't make ad money off of me.
i run security at Brave and here's the answer from Taylor, our lead Tor dev:

Using the Tor network is one part of internet anonymity, serving to conceal where you are. But using the Tor network does no good if the application helpfully adds
X-My-Actual-IP-Address: 123.45.67.8
to every HTTP request, and browsers tend to do a lot of things like that which we have to play whack-a-mole with.
What we implement in Brave is somewhere between (a) naively just setting a SOCKS proxy, like you can do in vanilla Firefox or Chromium, and (b) mimicking everything about the Tor Browser and following the Tor Browser Design Document to the letter (https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/).
So, while you are right that there's more to Tor and that we're not the Tor Browser (and that's why we are careful to say 'private windows with Tor' and not 'Tor windows', per agreement with the Tor Project about branding), there's also more to what Brave does than just setting a SOCKS proxy like in Firefox or Chromium and leaving it at that.
Many people mention they avoid commenting on downvoted questions for fear of the wrath of the asker. People seem to feel differently about close voting, perhaps since they are collected and presented as a group.

I don't really get the point of the vigilance toward bad but not intentionally spam questions. The question # has been used, derank it and call it a day until someone sees a reason to revive it.or the asker ASKS for help improving their question.
For a given sensor size, increased pixel density has to decrease low light performance, because each pixel will get less light. Since this camera will be almost exclusively used for online video confrerencing, frequently in low light, I bet it will lead to an overall better user experience.
What it is doing is not really cloning, but because it was trained on 18k different voices, it actually finds one that is closest to yours, and uses that one. It can do a bit of interpolation to create an embedding which is closer to your own, but only if it is well represented by a mix of other voices. Real voice cloning like at https://replicastudios.com/ can take just a minute or two of audio, and it does a fairly good job, and it is always improving. With more audio you start being able to also play with emotion and styles, which is very cool!
Sold by Amazon. My comment has been corrected.
Thats great news, GitHawk has been one of my favorite apps since I found it a couple months ago
Tor Browser does more than just proxying. See my response above.
This is a critical point, but the definition of “sell” is fairly broad:

“ “Sell,” “selling,” “sale,” or “sold,” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.”
> What is wrong with downvotes?

They don't tell the person what they did wrong. Its incredibly frustrating to get downvoted and not have any idea why. For example, here on HN, I generally couldn't care less about what my score is, but when I write something based on my personal experience (ie something completely subjective from my life) and I get downvoted (it has happened!), I find find that incredibly frustrating because I don't understand why someone found my experience worthy of a downvote.

I imagine its similar on SO. If you're new and don't yet know the finer points of the rules, getting downvoted without an explanation is a surefire way of turning that person off the site.

> please spend some time doing it all: 1) asking questions; 2) answering questions; 3) volunteering for moderation

I have. At least, I've done the review queue a ton of times.
Worst is certainly removal of 32-bit support. I'll personally never be using anything past Mojave. It would literally cost me from purchased software that is now incompatible and will not be updated.

To say Apple has lost its way would be an understatement. Apple is actively detrimenting those who have stayed in its ecosystem for decades. As a professional audio engineer, I refuse to lose several of my plugins to a quote-unquote 'upgrade.'

If I lose access to my software, you are not 'upgrading' my OS, you are removing access to what worked perfectly before.

I also refuse to lose Adobe CS6, by which I've paid a full license for. No, I have no interest in updates. I had no interest in updates post-CS3, to be honest.

There is no benefit to the lack of 32-bit support that could be worth losing it. If they did this because they're moving to ARM, fuck them. Don't let your behind the scenes process fuck with my day-to-day ability to work.

I'm literally going to have to leave behind my career as an iOS developer - I refuse by principle to purchase new Apple products ('vote with your money') - and I certainly refuse to accept an 'upgrade' that annihilates the usability of some of my most important software, in the name of...what? What possible benefit does removing 32-bit support lend to the customer? None. It's literally just a fuck you to me for supporting them for years. What a damn shame.
The definition of bias used in Machine Learning is quite clear, as is the definition of training, validation and test data sets.
What do you think the average wage should be? I'm getting the impression that a lot of people think $100-200,000 a year should be the 'norm' for many jobs, but I'm not entirely sure myself.
It’s getting better now that USB3.1 SSD cases are dirt cheap.
On a Macbook Air, maybe, but they can definitely fit one on a 16" device.
I don't claim to be any kind of an expert. But to me, it seems a bit much to stick one company with all the expenses. Maybe have the one you interview with first pay the fare to get you out there, have the last one pay the fare to get you back, have the ones in the middle pay for your rooms.
So presumably in a whitespace-sensitive language you would always leave insert mode to declare the whitespace?
I'd say physics is a lot harder to do than your average SV developer's job. Even more so playing sports at a level that brings in real money.
> I can only imagine what I’d have done if I’d heard my fathers voice pleading for help.

Hm... that certainly gives me pause, and my first reaction was to be very afraid.

On the other hand-- it still doesn't hold a candle to pyramid scheme sales techniques. I mean in a lot of cases those involve your actual loved ones betraying your trust and love in order to sell merchandise for a third party. Yet somehow in the face of a rising tide of those we still have functioning communities in the U.S.
The 2k over a network latency really depends on the networking hardware in the computers and switches and how the software stack is set up. I wouldn't be surprised if it's easily 10x that in most real cases.
Is it still unsubstantive and ideological flamebait if it accurately portrays the GP's comment based on their comment history?
Slack just introduced a WYSIWYG editor that you can't opt out of
Please bother them on Twitter so they implement an opt out.

Their handle is @SlackHQ
I'm the creator of this site. The purpose of the site is to try and dissuade people from voting for the Conservatives or the Brexit party.

Social media is likely to be a key playground for the political parties. Back in July when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, there was a flurry of Boris Johnson adverts by the Conservatives on Facebook - over 500 variations.

The social media images I created are my tiny, low-impact attempt to hopefully dissuade at least a few people to not vote for the Conservative or Brexit party. I'm planning to add new images regularly.

Please post these social media images on Twitter and Facebook. It would be much appreciated. Thank you and feedback welcome (before this post is flagged and downvoted to hell ;-)

Note: for some more additional context, see this previous comment of mine from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17493623
Seconded, this is probably pretty cool.
Here is a relevant paper which may answer some of your questions: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126

I've been slowly writing a paper about how to move planets by using repeated gravitational assists from masses moving in orbits which repeatedly cycle between inner and outer planets, conveying momentum from one planet to another. Unfortunately, I just don't have time to finish it right now. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss this stuff in more depth.
I wrote:

> which for most users today still relies on Docker

Was that inaccurate? Are most users manually running Kubernetes clusters with an alternative runtime these days?
The Silk Road guy was using _GMail_ ? Heh. Interesting.
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I don't think that's supposed to be a comprehensive list
I've seen threads on r/relationship_advice and r/TwoXChromosomes where women are desperately distraught over issues having to do with the ring their fiancé/husband bought them, it really does seem like unnecessary hardship.

Though, as a man, figuring out your partner's expectations of rings and weddings (and family and children and ...) is part of the dating process. You really shouldn't be blindsided at the engagement phase.

I'm reminded of a friend from high school who is got divorced after finding out his wife of two years didn't want and never wanted children. His defense was "it just never came up!"
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It goes both ways: Even though you remove the sex/gender variables, the system could correlate football to identify men, and sockermoms!
Florida pedestrian bridge collapse result of bad math and ignoring giant cracks
"retailers with similar physical infrastructure (Walmart, Kroger, et al)"

There's a lot more to direct-to-consumer logistics than there is to "center-to-store" logistics. Distribution-center-to-store logistics can rely on largish shipments of any individual product, very large shipments for any DC to any store, and has a backup mini-warehouse (aka the back of that Kroger's) for each delivery site.

Amazon can't store ten extra "diamond-coated Samsung Makeupsian-2" cases at your house when you order just the 1. Walmart often stores a few pallets of "nobody wants it" at their stores. Amazon doesn't drop of multiple pallets per deliver (usually, that is); Kroger's never gets less than several pallets at a time. Amazon can't predict what you're going to order months in advance; Target knows they need ten cases of "Fresh Bloom"-scented bleach per month, plus-or-minus 10%. Multi-pallet vs. singleton; buffered vs. just-in-time; predictable-load vs. "I want only one, once, randomly".... there are a lot of differences in the logistics that Amazon faces versus what Kroger/et. al. face.

I honestly do not think that most existing distribution systems could support an FBA-style system w/out massive overhaul. That's not to say that FBA is not replicable... it just requires a massive capital investment and a massive rethink of how to do product logistics. Even if they're good at tech, I don't think the old-school organizations could successfully pull it off.
I have to say that I agree with the parent post. I specifically haven't upgraded because:
1. no hdmi
2. no sd
3. escape key
4. keyboard
5. magsafe
6. usb a

I admit that maybe #6 is a little Luddite-like but there will be too many leads around which are usb-a which I'll need to use an adapter on. Right now, this is genuinely annoying that I need to carry around all these adapters which all cost quite a lot each.

Talking to one of my colleagues who has one of the 13" macbooks. He said that you just changed to be more careful about the lack of magsafe. Maybe I'll learn?

For HDMI. This is dumb for everyone who will ever have to do a presentation.

For SD. Tre-annoying, since my camera is usb-a. So I have to be $30 for an sd card reader. Yet another adapter.

Maybe someone should do some photos of a laptop with all the leads hanging off?! Then the designers might appreciate that it looks crap and do something about it....

Conclusion: you buy the MacBook Pro with max memory; upgrade the graphics card (why not... it isn't that much); up the disk size; buy a usb c adapter; buy a hdmi adapter; buy a sd card reader; buy a lightning cable converter too. That totals $5000. Ouch.
> The problem is that these systems are fundamentally unable to distinguish causation from correlation. Which is admittedly a hard prob even for humans, but at least we have some capacity to tease these out.

I'm not sure why causation vs. correlation is relevant here. When, say, someone is up for parole the judge will review their past criminal history, conduct in prison, whether or not they will have a support structure when they are released, etc. None of these factors are causal. A judge cannot point to a past crime, or to conduct in prison and say "this factor will cause you to reoffend". No, the decision is made based on factors that are correlated with higher rates of recidivism.
Your standard rate does not include the overhead created by the more complex relationships. Your standard rate doesn’t apply a discount for the lower probability of future work when you don’t own the client relationship. Your standard rate does not include a risk premium for the increased chance of payment problems, law suits, and misunderstandings.

If you think it’s bullshit, then it’s costing you. Here you are on HN fooling with “the deal” instead of doing billable work. And it’s just the honeymoon.

It takes a while to learn to trust your gut. It takes a while to learn avoiding bad projects is important.

If your friend can find someone else should you take a pass, then your friend can find someone else for the client’s next project, too.

My gut is “the deal” isn’t in the client’s interest. But I could be wrong. The test is your friend getting the client to sign a contract paying 25% of whatever the client pays you. That’s the test of a win-win-win.

Good luck.
>My understanding is that these services are paid for by ads but I've had an ad blocker most of that time.

Google makes money by collecting behavioral data generated by its users, which it then uses in the form of raw materials to create products for its actual paying customers: advertisers.

Whether you're using an ad-blocker or not, you're still contributing to the advertising machine by using its products, you can't stop Google from crunching your personal behavioral data on their platform.

I have no interest in Brave and I still use Google products (for now), I just wanted to point out that what's really happening is a bit more sophisticated than you may think.
I care about touch typing using the keys I frequently interact with in the editing experience. F-keys, as you say, may be used for adjusting brightness, or sound, but this is not in my editing experience. I’m not repeatedly adjusting sound or brightness unlike for instance the esc key in vim.

I would also say it’s worth saying a lot of developers don’t actually touch type, or have grown more used to GUI workflows. The idea of a hardcore developer building software with their mouse turned upside down is one that I find outdated.
Uninsured people don't typically foot the bill and don't go bankrupt, the hospital has to eat the costs because no one can be turned away from a hospital. They then pass that along to the insured by jacking up their prices.

Imagine if health insurance was like car insurance, with radio adds telling you how much you can save. Imagine a world where you can get MRI's or CAT scans done for cheap in a strip mall with total price transparency, something like "MRI's are us", instead of requiring people to go through a primary or a specialist. No one company could sustain predatory practice without another company lowering their price to eat their market share.
Can you point to an example of a "well thought out and reasoned question" on SO that's at a negative score?

In my experience, that just doesn't happen. Most questions sit at a score of 0, and those which do receive votes are almost always upvoted. (The data supports this[1].) Questions rarely end up with a negative score, and when they do it's usually because there are obvious problems with their formatting or content. (Usually low effort, off topic, or an obvious duplicate.)

[1]: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1096887/q...
Low pay, long hours, difficulty of obtaining employment, low long term stability of employment for most places.

The state I used to live in had two newspapers employing maybe 1000 people between them.

Now, there is one newspaper that went bankrupt and lost the building they were in. For several months, there was no statewide newspaper. The bankrupt newspaper was resurrected and now employs less than 20 people, and is primarily an AP news reprinting service with two pages of local news on the weekend.

I worked there one summer in college and briefly after college. I filled in on the city desk a few times, and it was an interesting experience putting out a good daily rag that had excellent content for the most part.

The resurrected paper doesn't even have their own printing press anymore. A local print shop runs them out.
If you look closely, not only is there a physical escape key, there's a physical fingerprint key, and the touch bar is also elevated. You still might not to be able to use the touch bar without looking at it, but at least you can find it without looking at it.

I was half expecting them to use haptics on the touch bar. Still no luck there.
So it's a regular old run-of-the-mill courier service, except you send them a picture of the item you're sending instead of calling them or something.
It's decidedly inferior in its lack of hubs. If you don't have enough USB-C ports, you're SOL (and given I have a 2-port macbook pro, I feel this acutely).
Personal attacks are not ok on HN and we ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that—regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let me know when LXC and kernel namespaces are portable across Windows and macOS and I can use the same interface between all three with my coworkers.

You're being purposefully obtuse for snark points.
Also, by carrying the risk for you, there is an obligation for you to do solid work so that risk is minimized for everyone. Be prepared to make that commitment.

It is all about balance.
They don't cache them this way.

However, I'm not sure they really changed the engine underneath, and it was always designed as something that then was input to booking sites, often with filters on fares, because QPX (the engine) would show you fares that an agent with full view of GDSes would see - and sometimes the airlines don't want to sell certain fares (it already filtered the special unsellable ones of course, but it couldn't apply arbitrary policy decisions from airlines).
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Votes (both up and down) on questions are a way to prioritize questions that need answers. Upvotes should be welcomed from all (fellow users who want an answe), but downvotes should be welcomed only from reputable answerers who took time to read the question and decided it's poorly formed.

Answered questions would be fine having their vote button disabled.
I think downvoting answers is slightly less problematic than downvoting questions, although both suffer from the same issue if people don't explain why they did it. At least if an answer is downvited, its easy to assume "this is wrong", while if its a question its.. hard to know why unless explained.
Have you tried out Replica? I can hook you up with a beta account to see if it'll help with your voice acting.

https://replicastudios.com/
The furthest right column in the first table shows that they might be a long way off from getting timing right. The 5-second sample happens to have a comma, at which the speaker pauses; this pause is in most of the generated output, at seemingly random places in the sentence. The one sentence that does have a comma doesn't use the pause, either.
Yes that is how it works. I will add the deployment documentation in the github to make it more clear
Don’t forget - there are often many different levels of quality within the same brand name. Your Target Nike athletic shoes will not be the same as the ones you buy at a Nike flagship store. Lower quality, poorer materials, etc.
>> I would urge you, or anyone who thinks that downvoting is toxic for this matter, to volunteer in moderating questions written by new users for a day or two.
>> Once you see a constant flood of "I made app, here my 1000 lines of code (screenshot), I get error, where bug?" that the moderators have to defend the site against - you might just change your opinion about the value of downvotes.

My favorite is always when they dont get a response and then get angry at the community -- "i asked three days ago, STILL NO ANSWER, ANSWER NOW"
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Hmm, so they improved the keyboard? Kinda makes me wish I'd waited a bit longer to buy a MacBook Pro, since I think I would have preferred this version of the keyboard to the one on the version I'm using right now.

Still, the important thing is that Apple seemingly listened to feedback. Too many double down on bad decisions regardless of feedback.
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I am really surprised seeing posts like yours downvoted