skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had to look up "submarine pieces" are, but they don't seem at all related to the effects of advertising on what editorial teams write about. In my experience that just sounds like shoddy journalism, and editors shouldn't be letting that pass (even though it happens).

What did you find? I assumed the term meant something like a sponsored-content advertorial, but after actually Googling it, it looks like the term isn't a common one. All I get are hits about Grand Theft Auto V and Peter Madsen.

It seems like the term stems from this article (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html). If that's correct, I'm inclined to agree that it's just shoddy journalism, and the better publications don't let it through:

> Different publications vary greatly in their reliance on PR firms. At the bottom of the heap are the trade press, who make most of their money from advertising and would give the magazines away for free if advertisers would let them. [2] The average trade publication is a bunch of ads, glued together by just enough articles to make it look like a magazine. They're so desperate for "content" that some will print your press releases almost verbatim, if you take the trouble to write them to read like articles.

> At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Their reporters do go out and find their own stories, at least some of the time. They'll listen to PR firms, but briefly and skeptically. We managed to get press hits in almost every publication we wanted, but we never managed to crack the print edition of the Times. [3]

> [3] Different sections of the Times vary so much in their standards that they're practically different papers. Whoever fed the style section reporter this story about suits coming back would have been sent packing by the regular news reporters.

One of the anecdotes later in the article really emphasizes to me how public relations is literally propaganda with a PR makeover:

> Our greatest PR coup was a two-part one. We estimated, based on some fairly informal math, that there were about 5000 stores on the Web. We got one paper to print this number, which seemed neutral enough. But once this "fact" was out there in print, we could quote it to other publications, and claim that with 1000 users we had 20% of the online store market.

It the mechanics sound similar to the Soviet propaganda/disinformation campaign that pushed the idea that the US military created AIDS/HIV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo.
Thanks for advice, I’ll improve!
Oy, she wasn’t fired. She was removed from her position much like a high school principal removed toward middle-school math teacher. But she wasn’t let go, much less fired.
I'd say this is a new phenomenon, to the extent people no longer read whole newspapers, but individual articles. Previously, there was no point in clickbait beyond optimizing the front page. If a reader bought the paper, that's about all the money you could get from them. In the Internet era, every single article is its own earning unit, so every one has to be optimized to maximize ad impressions. Hence clickbait, chumboxes, slideshows, and countless other forms of crap replacing actual journalism.
Wow, your setup sounds very similar to what I've converged on. Except I wrote a fairly substantial pipeline that preprocesses the data before giving it to beancount and Fava.

Maybe I missed something, but it seemed like beancount wants everything to live in One Giant Journal file. I really wanted a pipeline where each bank statement PDF would output one file with a corresponding list of transactions (this stage can run completely in parallel and I use "ninja" to make it very fast).

Then another process can run over these files looking for matches (+$X, -$X), and spit out "transaction groups", where each transaction group is a set of transaction ids that sum to zero. And then a different interactive tool lets you categorize transactions and spits out transaction groups with embedded "expense" transactions. It's all non-destructive; each tool only adds data, and nothing ever modifies existing files. Then a final step can combine all these files and spit out a beancount file for Fava.

How does this compare with the way beancount's importer does it? How does its importer handle transfers and categorization? Is it destructive or non-destructive?
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Tyson Foods After Employee Covid-19 Death
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When unsupervised training pays off in NLP
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If she said "yeah they asked me to do a big privacy violation", with no details about what the privacy violation was, I think people would still be pretty skeptical.
Sherman was very open about how he intended to treat the South for a long time before -

https://pando.com/2014/11/20/the-war-nerd-why-sherman-was-ri...

https://books.google.com/books?id=FkD26KVW6LQC&pg=PA337&lpg=...
We already have micro-payments, and it's called ads.

It is pretty transparent to the user, there is no per-transaction fixed cost (though the margin taken by Ad provider is pretty huge), and some people are living pretty nicely with it.

I agree with the various points this article makes, but it doesn't mean micro-payments are a no go. Just make it as seamless as ads!

The article mentions subscription, but doesn't mention the possibility of subscription-based micro-payments?

That's what scroll.com, and I believe there solution has none of the issues mentioned in this article, even though it would still make sense as a 402 Payment Required! Of course you can't generalize scroll.com everywhere, for many reasons. But I believe /that/ idea is a start of making micro-payments a thing.
I really need a better index of all my notes, right now it's just too overwhelming without a better way of organizing everything, especially since it automatically collapses all my workspace trees when I close the app. Really gets in the way of using it beyond a handful of pages.
Ah thank you, that makes a lot of sense!
+1 for full-fledged hledger! I just got it set up last week, and putting together the small scripts for parsing all of the CSVs was (to me) a fun programming exercise that reaped huge visibility into how I spend my money :)

It's hugely valuable to have all of your financial data in one, human-readable place. Not only to you, but to whomever might be executing your will ;)
weren't a lot of the remaining artifacts just getting destroyed recently anyway?
That's kinda weird timing. Signal's been asking me for a PIN for about 2 weeks now. Did Aurora screw up and give me an early version? Or did they just roll this out to users weeks ahead of publishing an announcement?
Please elaborate what you mean by discovery ?
Shakespeare and Company Project: Recreating the World of the Lost Generation
> podcast

If it's exclusive to Spotify, it's not a podcast anymore. That's fine, but it's just not a podcast, it's a show on Spotify.
> "Make Python faster" is just a losing game imo. It is fundamentally never going to be as fast as other languages, it's far too dynamic (and that's a huge appeal of the language).

This cannot be overstated. Unfortunately python is especially perversely dynamic. After all Javascript and Ruby are highly dynamic, but for a number of reasons have avenues that allow more meaningful optimization gains without changing language semantics. (And although it is true that Google had tremendous resources to pour into V8, it's not like this point doesn't stand - luajit as an example).

Python imho took the performance/productivity trade off way too far. You can get some very effective dynamism with some minimal restrictions that won't so badly shoot yourself in the foot for performance opportunities later. Frankly, for mainstream development, Kotlin or C# gives very pleasant, productive languages with strong ecosystems without paying such a penalty. Swift is good. Go isn't personally my cup of tea, but sure.

Python sort of got a foothold in science.. but that's never been known for being a field of quality software engineering.
Through a world wars I and II, the various rebellions and coups, a civil war? No, very likely someone would have 'harvested' them to sell for food.

Come on! The Nazis systematically plundered art treasures across Europe. After the war much of that was lost. There is not really much doubt on this.
I purchased an item directly from a manufacturer's own website, so there's no middle-man and no fees lost to selling on another platform.
The price difference between that and Amazon was so staggering, I returned the original purchase and re-purchased, this time from Amazon. Same product, but it was significantly cheaper on Amazon.
FWIW, if you opt in, any profile that Brave builds (for ad matching purposes) never leaves your machine. You can inspect or delete it any time.

That's one part of the appeal — that this stuff stays local.
One could say the same thing about a lot of conquerors including the Arab armies. For example, when the Arab armies conquered North Africa, it was one of the richest and most developed areas in the Mediterranean. After the Arab conquest, it became a backwater and never achieved the prominence it had before. Also, in Egypt, the Great Pyramid was once covered with gleaming white limestone, but this was removed and used to build mosques.

The pattern of civilization, destruction, new civilization is a repeating motif in history. Yes the Mongols caused a lot of destruction, but they also facilitated the East-West exchange of ideas and goods on a hithero unknown scale.
Looking at this sales site for Lists, the biggest thing that stands out for me is the JPG compression they're using for the app screenshots...in 2020, it's anything but acceptable!
The Government was stable, until the US of A decided to bless them with freedom and democracy.

Your logic is absurd. Should a rich and stable nation steal all things of historical value from a poorer nation, in the name of history preservation?

> The Elgin marbles are safe in the British Museum. Would they have been safe, left where they were found, for 100 years?

It frankly doesn't matter. It was the right of the native people to decide what to do with them.
This seems to be my (management) take on it. The agile environments I've been involved in, all I see are the 'scrum masters' flogging everyone to clear all the tickets by some arbitrary date, no matter what they are. I've had to step in and say 'I'd rather this get done right than get done on your timeline' more than once. Pretty much why I've never bought into it...
True, but it sometimes helps to get you started. We wrote a simple "Get started" article for Emvi [1] which can be deleted quickly. But users send us mails asking for documentation, which we will add after beta. It's nice to have this documentation inside your workspace, but can get in your way too. I haven't decided what to prever.

[1] https://emvi.com/
I wouldn't say that about Phil Jackson. Over and over I have heard about how incredibly manipulative he was, playing games with his players' heads. Sure, he's doing it to try to get 1% more out of them, which is also good for the player, but... I wouldn't put him in the non-a-hole category.
Agreed. I don't think people appreciate how unique podcasting is as a distribution medium in that it has lasted so long as a completely open ecosystem. Nobody needs anyone's permission to write a podcasting app or launch a new podcast.

Sad to see that start to change, but I'm also kind of optimistic for one reason: there's just so damned much audio content out there that it is people's attention, not audio content, that is scarce. I don't think platforms have the upper hand in audio content the way that, say, Netflix does. I think that's why platforms like Luminary haven't really taken off.
The last time I used GnuCash, it was not able to import it's own export. Does anyone know if this has been fixed?
Mark Zuckerberg shares some new product updates and launches Facebook Shops
Joe Rohan fans are a hoot is what I've learned reading the reaction to this
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole...or so I’ve heard.
Firefly[1][2] is also a really useful personal finance app.

It's more akin to a self-hosted version of Mint. Combined with the Plaid connector[3], I find it the easiest to use for my workflow. And despite the instructions, you don't need a paid dev account. The free Plaid account will let you access up to 100 live financial institutions.

[1] https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

[2] Live demo: https://demo.firefly-iii.org/

[3] https://gitlab.com/GeorgeHahn/firefly-plaid-connector
No way to categorize your expenses? Could you elaborate and compare to KMM? I've used both programs, so I'm curious which of us is missing something.
> amazing scientific advances which quickly spread throughout Muslim countries due to the cultural exchange at Mecca

A more important factor in their quick spread was the violent conquest of a huge swathe of the Middle East, North Africa, and part of Western Europe.
I wonder how many wars we would have if soldiers were allowed to pillage like they did back in the day ?

Civilized war is silly
?? 100ms? Why, is precomputing outlawed or anything and I didn't hear it? And "privacy freaks", really? I thought after Snowden the notion that only crazies care about privacy no longer flies as it did.
Imagining my will as a poorly-documented API makes me feel present stress on behalf of my unborn descendants :)
This might be a big thing. I think audio is kind of underused medium. We have podcasts, audio books and music, but there’s much more that could be done. Like radio theater, documentaries, talk shows. Professionally produced audio content can be really enjoyable experience.

Production costs for audio stuff are less than for video. Our busy lives have limits for video consumption, but I think there’s still room for more audio content. Audio you can consume while doing something else. Combine it with taking a walk and you feel good for yourself - compare that to spending a hour on sofa with Netflix.
I was very impressed with the mental fortitude of Mahomes overcoming the 24 point deficit against the Texans.

His body language betrayed no frustration or negativity, the very opposite of the asshole management mentality.
I can see Gtk stuff in the repo. Anyway, Scott Hanselman just told live that they'll look into Linux support after getting macOS and Windows running
Florida's FOIA is called a sunshine law request... takes about 3-5 days depending on what you ask for.
CUDA in WSL
Let's not forget when Howard Stern went to satellite radio. That deal was worth $500M.
I think that Green's whole deal is really bizarre and disturbing. This tablet sub-plot feels really on brand for him.
I think that's still kind of true; a lot of the infrastructure was lifted or fitted into Walmart's stack, and IIRC the algorithms for the web scraping and indexing team was used.

Disclaimer: The accuracy of this should be taken with a grain of salt, I wasn't involved with any of the decision making.
I kinda want to try it but just not convinced I will see a good return on my time esp with manual entry. I wish some of these features were baked into my main bank account though.
This really worries me: now the safety of my data hinges on Intel's remote attestation and a password I can remember.
Right, that's the PC line. Rational and reasonable. Sadly, likely to result in more lost antiquities.

None of that argument actually addresses the safety of the artifacts, which is my single point I'm making here.

Argue all we like about what 'should' be. The reality is, they were lost once and could be lost again. All in support of the 'native people', who in these cases would include hungry looters.
> Neither does the C# snippet. In fact, if you want to extract the result of the function call as well, you can still keep you API as is in C#, and use Task.wait() or something similar to block execution until the task is finished, and read its result.

You can't if you want to free the OS thread while waiting for result.
Random website demands Google or Facebook sign-in?

Goes with the topic I suppose...
Defold is not King anymore. A quote from the official web site:
"game engine, has been transferred to the Defold Foundation"
Good post. I really think a lot of people here either haven't run a small/medium business or are woefully out of touch with the needs of the people that run these kinds of businesses.

Your post helps ground and frame the discussion appropriately.
(Please clearly state you how you’re related to Brave in your profile if you don’t want me to repeatedly ask you when posting comments.)

Feel free to link to public documentation on Brave’s site showing the screenshots of Brave’s workflow, policies, etc.

As is, you’re comment assumes I understand a lot of things, which you say I don’t, then go on to not explain them; tip, comments, tweets, etc are a poor place to do this.

For example, what has happened before the 30th day; as in please list from start to finish everything that happens from me downloading Brave, finding myself, making a “payment” to myself, and nothing nothing. Also, if relevant, disclose any and all business policies & procedure; for example, is there a difference between a $5, $101, $1001, etc transaction.
It could also be because they had imperfect character escaping in the codebase at some previous point in time and didn't bother to migrate user credentials to work exclusively with the newer correctly-escaped code.

Fun fact: PHP used to escape some characters in some POSTed data by default before a specific version, then changed the default config:

> Prior to PHP 5.4.0, the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc was on by default and it essentially ran addslashes() on all GET, POST and COOKIE data.[1]

I know for a fact some of users of a previous site I worked on had stored their password (hash) with one escaping mechanism, only to start failing authentication after that function was no longer used upon data input (all escaping should be done upon output for more perfect control of different security contexts eg. escaped HTML versus escaped SQL versus escaped JSON).

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php
I read a lot about marketplace startups & two-sided platforms, and I finally decided to make a list, which then turned into this, using Airtable & Carrd.co. I hope it's useful ;).
A friend’s company was doing something similar and I shared a link to their website on my Facebook. Not an advertisement, just a link to the homepage of a company I personally knew that is making and selling PPE (at normal/reasonable prices,
this wasn’t some shady operation). It got taken down for “going against community standards”. I tried to appeal but it was just a black box and I never heard anything back. I feel like tech companies are actively making this pandemic worse even if they think they are helping.
I've never used Notion before.

So I signed up and after looking around for a minute or two I still have no idea what Notion is. It seems to be a way to create lists of rich to do items with dates?

Can someone ELI5 Notion to me?
Does this product "exist" yet or is it vaporware we're putting our email addresses in for? Page seems very light on info or even pricing.
You could argue that one of the most famous proofs of last 30 years - proof of Fermat's Last Theorem used such approach. Andrew Wiles had proven that if this FLT was false, then certain theorem about elliptical curves (unrelated at first glance and from different area of mathematics) would have to be violated, and mathematicians already knew it was true.
> I'd be curious if anyone has used this and also used YNAB (and can compare them).

I'm a long-time user of both. YNAB wins hands-down in budgeting and basic usability.

When I got married, we integrated finances. I had been using GnuCash for years by then. Its interface was an immediate non-starter, even though as an application it's more powerful than YNAB (e.g., stocks and retirement planning, mortgage amortization, business expenses, easier splits--at least in my opinion). If it had a better budget and reporting system, I might have been able to swing it--but it didn't and doesn't, and that was that. The other killer feature YNAB offered was a mobile application.

Financial apps have to reduce friction. Interpersonal first (although that's a tall order for software), but also in delivering fast entry and a big-picture view of what you're doing with your money. GnuCash really isn't designed for any of that. And that's honestly fine for what it is, although I wish the database were easier to wrap your head around—it should be possible to build a cleaner and/or web UI around it than it seems to be.

As it is, I'm not really content with YNAB either, but if that's what it takes to get our internal financial reporting in order, it's a lot better than nothing.
This is all well and good. But the forced/unsilenceable pin reminders seems a bit obtuse to me.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...

"Can I turn off these reminders?

It is important to memorize your PIN, and the reminders cannot be disabled. We cannot recover your PIN if you forget it.
You will see the reminders less frequently if you consistently enter your PIN correctly. The reminders will become more frequent if multiple attempts are necessary."
I had the same thought. They talked about how for months before the shooter arrived in the US he was a member of AQ, but they seemed to have no idea and welcomed him onto a military base. Maybe it isn't Apple's fault for not revealing their own intelligence failure sooner...
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Not quite a tip but an advice to get eye tests regularly.

How Eye Doctors Are Adapting To Provide Safer Eye Exams Beyond PPE and Sterilization
Technology Enables Eye Doctors to be in Another Room or Another Location https://lnkd.in/enkEmK7
The “Zen 3” Architecture Is Coming to AMD X470 and B450
A macOS and iOS alternative: https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/

> No data is stored on servers, except when you enable Cloud Sync to keep your data up-to-date on all your devices. In this case the data is stored encrypted on iCloud.
All those things existed in the Roman Empire, which extended into the Middle East, until the early Muslim conquests destroyed most of the Roman Empire and all of the Persian Empire, sending the Middle East into a minor dark age.

Because the region had been extremely wealthy and advanced for centuries, with plenty of intra-Empire cultural exchange, itdid eventually recover. Most (not all) of the “advances” were translations of and commentaries on Greek/Roman and Persian works, and notably, most of them were from the pre-existing conquered strata population in pre-existing centers of learning. Of course, as time went on, people did build up higher, but the conquests were a major setback.

So let’s not hype it up too much - where would the world be, if, as Gibbon wrote, Mohammed had died in the cradle, and all those people hadn’t been killed, books burned, and cities sacked?

There’s no way to know - it might have been worse off in both cases.
I'm wondering how this impacts existing paying users. As far as I understand, by downgrading, we'd lose access to current 30-day revision history and access to an API that's still Coming Soon™.

I guess it makes sense to downgrade until API is actually released. "Coming soon" messaging seems promising, but yet again, it's been on their priority list for at least half a year now. Seems hardly justified to spend another $30 or so waiting for it.
Framing two sides as "open up now" and "panic now" does not help your case.
Yeah, you might still have a reason though, if you upgrade to Personal Pro which gives you 30 days of version history