skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a perfect example of pseudoscience, the article linked is anecdotal interview with two people working in one hospital. It never mentions anything about the rate.
I think this kind of technology would have an amazing impact on palliative care. A lot of people end up suffering in the last days, weeks, months of their lives, and, with some types of disease, easing out the patient with as little pain as possible is the best we can hope for.
While I get this is frustrating - the bands don't matter. What matters if you are fundamentally being paid your worth. The bands are just an excuse for them to say "see we're paying you enough" - they are not truth in and of themselves. And if you are not being paid enough, no matter what the bands, HR, or BS of the week says, you should advocate for yourself and probably leave.
Yes, absolutely. THPS is just more of a personal wish.
But why? What will that accomplish?
Bold statement (and I admire the act for its own sake). Let’s see how it ages, but it would be helpful to define how you measure his place in popular culture.
Listeners per month?
I get where you’re coming from. Just know that at least in Germany, no company will ever use or support your library/product publicly with a name like that.
If you don’t care, that’s fine.
Yes but personally my enjoyment of ads outweighs things I don’t care about at all.
Devils advocate here but If you extrapolate this argument to 1600s medical advice then surely you'd be correct and I think for good reason.

I'm not sure what exactly you're suggesting (if anything).
Regarding your last sentence, I'm thinking back to my differential geometry course, and I'm not even sure if we ever calculated an integral that wasn't equal to 0. Totally agree with the rest of the sentence though: I don't think I quite got it right away, but I felt better off for the experience.
I’ve been told it’s because I was never taught correct form for holding pens. shrug
If anybody lives their life exactly the way they want to live, then it's Rogan. His goals may be different from the writer's goals but I am 100% sure he got exactly what he wanted.
Whoever wrote this doesnt have a clue as to the inner-workings of this deal.
I don't have a ton of experience with other options, but 2 weeks in and tumbleweed has been pretty plug and play! 0 issues getting my netcore/python/golang/docker dev stack up. I get a weird popping noise in my usb dac at the login screen but that's the only issue I've had so far. Teams screen sharing even works perfectly! I chose it over Ubuntu 20 because I knew I wanted kde and it seems like a first class citizen in tumbleweed, while still being vaguely stable. Not-quite-bleeding edge! I ran freebsd/kde for fun back in the halycon days of lamp stack and gnome never felt...right to me when I would test drive Ubuntu desktop.
Today i finally disabled Adblock for Twitter.com because scrolling the Timeline is way too wonky as Twitter and Adblock fight over dynamically adding and removing ads as I scroll.
The Germs That Transformed History (Jared Diamond)
NIST Researchers Boost Microwave Signal Stability a Hundredfold
Any views on Magic Lasso for iOS/Mac? Seen it mentioned recently. I’m on 1Blocker Legacy, it’s fine, but I’m aware it must be getting out of date.
Updated without any issues, thanks.
Despite my joke, the homeless are not in my top 10 reasons not to live in SF. (And sadly, there are plenty where I live.)
>It just occurred to me that this is because programming is, so far as social pecking order, perceived as blue-collar.

Because 99.9% of the population have no clue what the job entails. For an average person,the best they could expect to see is the WordPress admin panel with a few lines in html.And for an average Joe, that's what the programming is. Who on earth goes to social gatherings and cracks a joke about how they write code for some controllers that are used in nuclear plants and some shot gone wrong? I never,ever talk or bring up anything technical unless they love that kind of stuff. People don't understand what you talking about and either think you are weird,or they feel so embarrassed by the fact that they have no clue, that they can't wait to get out. For the ones running/owning the companies, especially the large ones,the developers are merely an expensive nuisance that is needed run the business.
Sure, Rogan gave up hypothetical 10s of millions for this. But those millions required work and marketing and sponsor management, and those 10s of millions weren't guaranteed.

With Spotify he just secured a guaranteed paycheck and a guarantee that he (and his team) don't need to work nearly as hard.

And what audience does he really lose? Non-paying customers via YouTube and podcast apps can be non-paying customers on Spotify and it makes no difference to him.
take pride in your downvotes :) your comment must have offended someone :)
If this had happened at some of the other places I have worked, the CEO would have made all the developers stay in the office until the problem was fixed. Why did no one care?
Why LaTeX's still the coolest tool for typesetting math
AdGuard is very good. I use it on all my devices: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android.
Tips to avoid getting Blocked while Scraping Websites – Codementor
> How many people actually disable their adblockers when sites don't allow you to access them if you have one enabled? It's just much easier to close the tab.

Some sites intentionally break if you're using an adblocker. It's really easy to argue to not use those sites.

But...

What about government sites? Government sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

What about bank sites? Bank sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

What about your work related sites? My employer's HR site doesn't work with strong ad blockers. Many of my employer's internal sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

Yeah it's much easier to just close the tab. Unless the site is literally required for your continued living.
Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests
Maybe you'd feel way worse if you didn't do it.
I’d bet there is already substantial crossover between Spotify subs and JRE listeners. In hierarchy of importance Spotify is higher for me than many paid video streaming services.
They drive for ferrari because its a great way to win championships. Ferrari and mercedes put 10x the budget into sport the closest rival, red bull does.

The analogy doesnt work. Rogan built a ferrari brand and now he's letting it be bought out by a midtier team with deep pockets like Stroll's dad.
High ph is my understanding from what I've read, but I am not a chemist.
You gotta fight! For your right! To misssssleeeeead.

It might be more prudent to be careful about accepting what you read at first glance; why would google allow someone to stream data (against policy for the product), let alone when that content violates their policies on their content streaming networks? Do you think they should leave up public to other content that violates their policies, just because it's tied to a private account?
Redis replaces Mongodb as default db in Edgex
This is missing what in my opinion is the biggest reason: advertisers create perverse incentives where pages are rewarded based on visits and ad-clicks rather than quality of content. This results in extreme forms of clickbait, misleading extreme headlines, and shallow low-information-density content.
> micropayments aren't accessible, at all, to younger people, or the poor.

This is a purely technological problem, not some sort of fundamental problem with the concept of micropayments.

If advertising were really the only way young or poor people could generate value (this is not actually true, but for the sake of argument I'll go along with it), there could be dedicated websites where people intentionally look at ads in exchange for credit in their micropayment accounts (whatever that looks like, be it Bitcoin Lightning or some service from Square). Of course, once you phrase it this way, it becomes more clear that using ads as an indirect monetization strategy kind of doesn't make sense. It's better to have people perform mechanical turk style tasks (the monetization strategy of Captcha clones).

As a parent, I'd be happy to put a few cents in my child's micropayment account so they don't have to get their brain flooded with garbage whenever they use the internet.
Bayesian inference and forecast of Covid-19 in Germany by a Max-Planck-Institute
Web site owners brought the wrath of ad blockers upon themselves.

If ads were limited to a simple image, MAYBE a non-obtrusive animated GIF, it'd be fine. Honestly, I thought Project Wonderful[0]'s ads were fine and even had an exception in my blocker for them.

But no, advertising networks allow advertisements to run JavaScript, auto-playing videos with sound, and create malvertising that hijacks my browser and even attempts to install malware or exploit browser vulnerabilities.

In short, fuck 'em. If your business isn't viable without being hostile to your users, then it isn't viable.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Wonderful
Your imperfect recall of the brand name "Kodak" makes your cautionary message about the insidious effects of ads deliciously ironic. Or is that repeated misspelling actually part of an astroturf campaign to ensure that the notoriously detail-oriented minds of Hacker News readers latch onto the apparent typo, firmly embedding it in the forefront of awareness?
Anybody an idea what sidekick Jamie's cut is from this enterprise?

Can't imagine Jamie doesn't have equity in the show and remained just a employee. On this kind of level of earnings, an important part is choosing who you share with.

Cheap debt influences the cashflow multiplier in a great way when doing a discounted cash flow analysis. The estimated financial gains are off by at least a factor 2 or 3. It doesn't make sense to make a deal of 100 million when you received 30 million last year.

> Joe Rogan's podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience' earned a staggering $30 million in revenue across 190 million downloads per month in 2019.
I disagree with the premise here that "America" describes the continents of North and South America. That is in and of itself the issue here, so I don't agree that the USA is a subset of America because I would refer to the continents as "the Americas" or similar.
There are a few things that genuinely please me in web development and one of them is how stupid-easy Netlify makes things.
Adblockers stop sites from making money from those third-party ads.

They obviously don't stop a shopping site from selling products or from GitLab.com registering users for GitLab services etc.

If the way a site makes money is by abusing the visitors, adblockers stop the abuse and the money from that* side of things, which may be all the income they get, but not necessarily.

So, this is not a simple yes/no situation.
I don't think he got ripped off, I for one, prefer that some audience is taken away from YouTube.

Also would like to see alternative opinions that contrast the consensus / mainstream narrative.

Also hope the video is still about on Spotify.
We took great effort to try to draw a clear line within the actual Timescale License language [0].

Usage is permitted, as long as:

the [end-]customer is prohibited, either contractually or technically, from
defining, redefining, or modifying the database schema or other
structural aspects of database objects, such as through use of the
Timescale Data Definition Interfaces, in a Timescale Database utilized by
such Value Added Products or Services.

In other words, if your service just provides DML access (read/write/modify), then that is permitted, while DDL access (modifying/creating schemas) is not permitted.

And in fact we already have thousands of companies building commercial applications on top of Timescale Licensed software (while adhering to the license).

[0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
That's fair, let's not call it nuking.

I think a starting point for discussion is to get past equating antitrust issues with monopoly status. In the previous century, these things went together coincidentally, but the scale of our economy has grown to a point where it is no longer necessary for the largest companies to have monopoly power in their market to engage in damaging anti-competitive practices. We instead see cartel-like cooperation between these companies instead of competition, such as apple-google wage fixing that was revealed years ago. Or their complete insulation from consumer feedback necessary for healthy capitalist markets to function, because their economies of scale insulate them by making consumer choices insignificant signals lost in the noise.
It still has ads, but it is also a better experience.

The web ads tend to bed more intrusive and outside the UX, more irrelevant, and more malware like.

I don't like those apps either, but the UI is definitely better.

I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding?

All of the "ad-supported business model supports creators, ad-supported businesses allow more people to access to the content" just feels like after the fact rationalization.

The same with how good targeting is because the ads are relevant.

If your content is valuable then charge for it. If browsers actually blocked all the ads like users wanted (and made a better product) then sites that couldn't support themselves without ads would die.

Wouldn't that be nice.
Firefox running add-ons on Android made me switch to it on the mobile phone.
It makes the mobile experience way better than Chrome and Brave.
> Facebook, YouTube, Google, Reddit, StackOverflow, and countless other sites are fundamentally based on advertising and can't survive without it.

Can’t wait! Did you mean for this to talk me out of it?

For the most part, the ad industry is toxic. If their service isn’t worth anything to it’s users, why prop it up by through ads?

First party advertising is more acceptable in my mind. Eg. Facebook selling ads to other businesses to show on Facebook. Where it tends to go wrong is that they are incentivized to track everyone everywhere through pixels on other sites, in mobile apps with Facebook logins, and buying credit card data. Some companies manage to sell high quality ads on their site without resorting to this behavior. If that was the norm, I’d turn my blocker back off.
Does anyone know if we can combine knowledge from different domains when training to play games? Example: have a language model read pieces of text about the game, then feed the output of that into a model that's doing normal reinforcement learning. Maybe train them both at the same time?

The hope is that the model can combine inputs from different domains and generalize better.
Oh I see what they mean now. Lack of varied developer preference leads to things like hard coded paths instead of configuration files, for example.
Rogan has also said he doesnt like paywalls because your growth figures drop substantially. We have no idea about his churn figures, being free might be a requirement or a long term growth play.
Yes, but the "ads bad" arguments hold up to scrutiny as well, even though it's not what this site focused on.
Mississippi Delta marshes in a state of irreversible collapse
Hundreds of millions or billions, not 10s of millions.
I would rather look at the data than the narrative: https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/12638990598378987...

Georgia seems to be flat for hospitalizations, at best. I know people want good news, but... if people are being more active and less concerned AND we are nowhere near saturation, why wouldn't the virus continue to spread?

I don't know why everyone expects things to explode exactly two weeks after opening things up and that we are fine if it doesn't. The flip side of exponential growth is a relatively slow ramp up in the beginning, we don't just linearly double every week but may still see 4x in Georgia a month from now.
To many, there are life changing effects, from being generally more aware to being more calm or sleeping better. Clearly, if for you it doesn't do any of that, you're one of those who cannot benefit from meditation. But you may never know if you're inadvertently not doing it right. So many times in my life I thought I was doing something right only to discover much much later that somehow I was doing it the wrong way.
I used to use AdGuard until they switched to an Electron app that needs to constantly run in the background…now I just have a homegrown content blocker I whipped up once and should polish and release someday but am just too lazy to finish.
They certainly aren't given Joe Rogan very much credit, that's for sure.
EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities
Study: Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Are No Longer Infectious
I was cleaning up my mums computer (malware, crapware, virus scan) a few years ago and she got annoyed when I removed the emoji toolbar for Internet Explorer. It was quite a facepalm moment, I assumed it had installed itself without her asking for it, but no she wanted it there.
He typically has no idea what they're talking about and thus lobs softball after softball at them, even when he pretends to disagree for devil's advocate sake. Most of his bigger named guests have carved out echo chambers for themselves, and Rogan lends them credibility.
Anecdotally, I can't recall a single time my adblocker (uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus before that) ever interfered with any of my online banking websites, ANY government website, or employers' websites.

And if they ever do, well, most people only use a small number of such sites. Whitelisting them would be easy enough.
Protecting Search and Browsing Data from Warrantless Access
Sometimes it is good to have some balance from official sources. WHO:

* Masks do not work on corona virus

* Taiwan is a Chinese province, not an independent country

* Corona virus does not transmit between people.
Well yes: it is a volume form certainly. Totally right.
This repo is maintained the Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (dynamics and self-organization).
The preprint is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01105
I had to disable adblocker to view my old Yahoo mail inbox. I didn't find a way yet to safely switch from Yahoo to Gmail without potentially missing out on emails or lose access to sites registered using that email.

I did disable it. I am not proud.
LTT did an episode about the pantheon of streaming services causing a resurgence in piracy. It is getting ridiculous. Everyone wants their $8-16/mo.
Thank you, apologies and I've edited my comment.
They've been doing that since at least 2014. Pewdiepie joked at several points he may aswell be a hat company because that (at the time) was the majority of his income.
It's contrarian if it cuts against the majority opinion, not if it comes from some obscure source from a lunatic. There are many legitimate contrarian opinions, many of which later become the mainstream opinion.
Let people decide for themselves what media to believe and what media to disbelieve. It's the only way to have a free society.

It may not work if too many people are too stupid. But it may work if enough people are smart enough. And it's the only way to have a free society.
> For the news at least, it'll likely just be the expensive megacorp publications that survive.

Says the guy working for one of the largest megacorps that would be most impacted...
Building your own thing is fine if you're solo. When you start having to collaborate with e.g. artists who expect their assets to render the same way they do in their editor, or a game designer who needs to edit levels in the engine, etc., then you introduce a bottleneck due to the fact that some people are working on the engine, and others on the game that depends on the engine.
Niche blogger here.

For some time I tried to fight the tide by continuing to publish ads and not using an adblock myself. By being an amateur blogger, I understand that even beer money helps to keep the moral high. However a couple of years ago I gave up and just embraced reality: deactivated adsense and started to use an adblock. I finally acknowledged that nobody likes ads - myself included - specially the ones not related with the content. Did my blogging suffered with it? Certainly it did.
The leather chair and the fish tank part wasn't about the cost. What I meant is that there's no need to go the radical way claiming everyone should get a private office, however even having only small number of people working in a room would be a huge improvement to open space planning.
You do realize that most podcasts will go away if they can't make money via advertising, right?
I try my best to send a polite email to sites that don't work but I need to use.
There's a lot of context that goes into this question. Almost all grown-ups understand time zones at least enough to know that somewhere far away (at the other side of the equator or longitudinally) is likely to have a different time of day at any given time. On the flip side, we understand that somewhere sufficiently close, like the next town over, is at least in general unlikely to have a different time of day. So for an intelligence (artificial or otherwise) to choose between London, a few kilometres away, and London, UK, would depend on at least these factors:

- How important is either London in your life? If you commute to London, Canada, then it's going to be infuriating to always get answers about London, UK.

- Is the answer for London, Canada different from "What time is it?"? If it's the same, then there's at least a fairly good chance that you knew it was in the same time zone, and you didn't intend to ask about it.

- Asking about the time is fundamentally different from asking about a whole lot of different things. Let's say you ask for the biggest manga book shop in London, which London depends on whether you're currently near any London, whether you've been to any specific London before, whether you've got tickets to go to a conference in London, whether London near you is even big enough to have a manga book shop.

All in all, no, it's not obvious that "London" always means the globally most important London.
Oh wow, I also forward that site around, and sometimes comment on the great minimal design and information density.

Just had a look at it with uBlock Origin disabled, and wow, how do people browse the internet like this?
I use DNS hijacking to redirect known adhosts to a black hole (basically a pi-hole, but done on OpenBSD with Unbound). You think disabling two ad-blockers is a chore, wait until you have to SSH into another box, tweak a .conf file, and reload a daemon...
The key part about having your own personal blog site is owning your own domain. As long as you own the domain, you can change your mind. As long as you own your domain name, you can self-host today, host elsewhere, or whatever you want.

If the domain name is owned by somebody else, then they own and control the site, not you.
The caching has worked great for me for Java / JVM languages, and decently for Go (but a proxy is usually better).

It is unusable for NPM or composer, or the version of yarn we use (maybe newer ones too but I know they were trying to improve their internal cache a while back). Anything with a ton of small files or entire git histories. It’s awful, and it’s not weird or specific.
> What about bank sites? Bank sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

For these sites I use anonymous mode in a different browser.

I don't disable my adblocker. I wouldn't go walking around dark alleys blind drunk in Mexico City at 2:30 in the morning either.