skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This shows why it wouldn't work. What someone may expect to pay is something like $50/month.

In the US, the Fed did a study to figure out how much they would have to pay users to stop using products like Facebook, YouTube, or to stop using search engines altogether.

The median value for Facebook was $48/month, YouTube $1,173/month, and search $17,530/month. [1]

I think many people might pay $50/month to use Google Search, GMail, Maps, and YouTube. But what if they were to pay $18,703/month, just for Google Search and YouTube? Because that's the median price that US users valued these at.

This shows that the advertising model is way better than paid subscriptions, because users are getting much more value out of them (>$18,000/month) than they would realistically pay for them. If all these services were subscription-based and there was no advertising or data collection, almost nobody would pay for them and then the business model wouldn't be scalable so the service wouldn't work. TLDR: The advertising business model is awesome!!

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/fed-tries-to-figure-out-valu...
HFT firms make a lot of money...but space launch is even more costly. :(
Good question! We build separate products (that use DVC) for monetization. No plans to monetize DVC.

Some analogy - Git is free for versioning, GitHub/GitLab as monetization.
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Data fog: Why some countries' coronavirus numbers do not add up
Yes, and getting the tracking/data collection to stop is more valuable than the amounts of money being floated around in this thread.

Money doesn't solve every issue, especially when your adversaries have so much more money (and power) than you.
> Having a huge population doesn't help much.

The article highlights this by saying "India currently punches below its weight on the world stage" and it's true if we go by the numbers. Also, if we go by the numbers the country is in the best state ever compared to its past. Modernization in manufacturing or agriculture will surely increase the country's output which I believe should be the target of governance.
APIs Are Social Norms for Computers – and They're Ripe for Disruption
Tracy, I haven't participated in HN for about two years. This article hit me so hard I had to log in to say thank you and express my sincere appreciation.

I remember seeing an interview with you when you first started PlanGrid and it was clear you were going places. Telling this part of the story is deeply important and takes incredible courage.
Would they refuse co brand clothing with a community bank or a fintech focusing on serving the underserved, or a bank that finances initiatives that help the environment while avoiding financing initiatives that hurt the environment? Its possible to be a socially conscious fintech with net good generated in the world, since financial services isn't tied to something as fundamentally environmentally complicated as the energy sector.
Oh Sorry no. Im fortunate enough to be born in Tamil Nadu, South India where caste system was fiercely fought against starting from the 50s. It has helped our society to grow more or less equally. Not just upper castes.

Millions of Indians have criticised this in the past and continue to do so. To deny casteism in India is like denying racism in the USA. The systems/power structure has not changed. The same old rotten filth continues to decide our lives and sorry we are not privileged enough to be free from caste oppression if we hang out with upper caste friends.
When Will We Run Out of Fossil Fuels? Likely, Never
Didn't the supreme court basically rule otherwise, that the 1st amendment rights of the merchant supersede the discrimination of the recipient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

It does make sense somewhat, as to do otherwise would be compelled speech.
Throwing in a bunch of complaints (sometimes valid) doesn't mean India is not a democracy. Do the people still choose the government via elections or not? If you don't like policies of the current government, organize the opposition and vote them out. That's not being curtailed by anyone.
Reddit is a collection of communities. I like several of them, and think they are generally good and uplifting, /r/pixelart for instance. Some communities have some pretty bad people in them, but it is impossible to create a social media site at scale without like-minded bad users creating and/or flocking to bad communities.

People are in different stages of life and seek solace in other people having similar experiences. Thus, the sexually frustrated congregate, the depressed congregate, drug enthusiasts (and abusers) congregate, disgruntled ex-<insert organization> congregate, you name it, and angry/sad/anxious people with a shared condition will congregate in search of validation/confidence.

But the opposite is also true - people with a shared hobby/passion/vision congregate as well and create some really fun and uplifting communities.
We don't need go through communism (which caused massive famines) to irradiate poverty.

Social reforms combined with capitalism has been working nicely for us.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/india-lifted-27...
Use qemu user mode with a chroot, it's much faster.
I’m about 3/4 the way through Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ after having already read ‘The Black Swan’ coincidentally only a few months before Covid hit. Must read material for understanding the world we are living in / entering right now in my opinion.
No it didn't, just click next when it asks for an email adddress.
I agree the values are created by developers. Why don't we (developer) deliver our software to multiple platforms equally? Why do we feed the wolf?

Web is a really great platform, both Google and Apple app store allow hybrid app, which is mainly built with web technology and is widely portable.
Furthermore, downloading the Ethereum Blockchain, going through shady exchanges to buy ether coins, and maintaining a secure wallet is a much bigger headache than simply paying for Amazon Prime.

This is a nice tech demo but not of any practical significance.
It astounds me that Apple is still pushing privacy as a big differentiator when most of the iCloud data (such as all of your photos and notes) is not end to end encrypted, and the iCloud Backup provides every single piece of information on your phone to Apple effectively unencrypted, including all of your previously-end-to-end-encrypted iMessages (in the chat history).

Until this is fixed, Apple's privacy messaging is just lip service. Do they think people just won't notice or care?

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
You probably can.
> The 2016 US Election in particular showed us what happens when a platform takes a "hands off" approach - the platform is absolutely saturated with false, hateful information...

And yet, presumably you were able to employ critical thinking, see past all this, and vote the "right" way despite an alleged deluge of hateful misinformation, as were 48%, a majority, of your fellow voters.

Where is the evidence that the level of misinformation is any higher now than in the past, or that censorship (whether by public or private entities) is suddenly a desirable thing?

History has shown that we didn't need to censor and oppress Communist thought in the US during the Cold War because of its alleged threat, and even because Communist thought was being supported by foreign actors. In the upshot, communism discredited itself just fine, and in the meantime, our censorship made us intellectually and morally poorer. Why should things be any different with the new far right?
Taleb's message has been consistent. His offhand remark about pandemics overlooked how many of those old family owned businesses would be wiped out by one though. Leveraged and globalized companies are still doing fine. His prediction on gold backed currency still has some runway left, as the de-dollarization of the global economy is well underway, and last I checked some 5-7 years ago, China had accumulated enough physical gold to launch a gold backed international settlement and reserve currency with only about 30x leverage.
Correct, but have you thought about what that 7% serves ?
Most of it goes to manage real businesses in US and other countries Chase, Walmart, Maersk etc.
From an offline chat with the original author,

The ELF OpenGo paper[1], which is an open implementation of AlphaGo Zero developed by Facebook AI:

"First, we train a superhuman model for ELF OpenGo. Af-ter running our AlphaZero-style training software on 2,000GPUs for 9 days, our 20-block model has achieved super-human performance that is arguably comparable to the 20-block models described in Silver et al. (2017) and Silveret al. (2018)."

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04522.pdf
If we don't facilitate them, they'll never use alternative platforms.
This article is basically a conspiracy theory
So no rebuttal to anything I actually wrote? Are you sure you're not the troll, because I'm just trying to have a discussion and what you've replied with is bad-faith snark.
Can you elaborate on that? What about this story is scary to you?
Yeah, the main problem is that HR encourages much more intense character specialization than the original game. The latter half of Deus Ex has a lot of situations where you're expected to fight (although you can generally cheese your way through, run past enemies, etc.) but there's a limit to how much you can overinvest in non-combat skills, and the inventory is spacious enough that you can afford to tote around heavy weaponry to get through tough spots (any character can effectively use mines/grenades and they take up very little space).
Widgets are the only way I can stand having smart home things. Whenever I want to control a light it's always right now and widgets give me that.
There appears to be a LogitBoost tree that does what you say, if I understand you correctly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogitBoost
The term has evolved over time. The people going by tankies now are likely not the same as decades ago. So, it's unclear what you think it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/hb0xep/wtf_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/hb0xep/wtf_...
Sounds like the police are useless if this is the situation they're supposed to be preventing. True, your neighbors don't "help themselves" -- but do they have the resources to do so?

Say you're the kid left at mom's boyfriend's place. Who's gonna take you in and be your role model? The kid with a knife, who will teach you to mug people on their doorsteps.

Alternatively, we could take funding from the admittedly ineffective police, and put those resources into service work. Fund support structures, and provide better role models to the neighborhoods that need them so badly. They're probably there already, but they keep their heads down and act tough when needed, because that's a survival tactic.

It's not that people want to live a life of crime, but when it's all you've ever known, it's nigh impossible to break that cycle on their own.
> I'm not sure how this works out, considering we have one party whose entire stated goal is to defund the government and reduce government size. They are also the ones pulling the levers right now and have admitted over and over again to slash-and-burn styles of governing. Our government is fundamentally broken because we elect people who break the government and then say it's broken, so we need less of it.

I agree with this assessment to the extent that we keep electing poor officials, but I don't think it's a "one party is amazing and the other is terrible". In particular, the CDC's issues were around a long time before the prior administration (again, SARS was in 2003 and we scarcely made preparations in the intervening years). To the extent that the problem is the officials we elect, I think that's partially true--I think the government is an emergent property of the health of our body politic, but our body politic is highly partisan (as evidenced by your comment). This is partly due to a divisive media but also probably to our two party system. We will keep electing worse officials because those officials can make a plausible argument that they are at least marginally better than the officials in the other party. The bar keeps getting lower; it's a race to the bottom.

> We had a pandemic response team and the previous admin did make plans in case of a future pandemic. Our current one decided to toss most of that out and downsize said response team. Additionally the US Government was literally seizing masks and undermining the CDC every step of the way.

The pandemic response team wasn't part of the CDC, but yes, disposing of that team was a bad idea in hindsight. It doesn't absolve the CDC; however, and it misses the point in the same way that the "but the government didn't properly fund the CDC!" argument misses the point.
You can thank Orrin Hatch for the current dumpster fire of a situation we find ourselves in. Lots of "supplement" MLMs and such in Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
The party in power runs on a slogon of "government is never the solution, I'll prove it" and people act surprised that this is the result.
The additional iOS privacy protections (camera & mic use, and Safari tracking sounds great). The developer self-reporting of data use is great, but can we trust self-reporting? What's to dis-incentivize the developers from lying?
Why should your (and their) definition of garbage be the only acceptable one?
> But it's probably a good idea to have some sort of oversight for a massive platform that censors and manipulates discussion of millions of people. You may think their policies are totally justified and correct (they aren't), but the specific opinions they choose to promote may change to something you are against.

Think through the mechanics of how this oversight would work.

Someone will have to decide "is this site sufficiently neutral in how they moderate UGC." So let's spin up a government department more that, maybe call it part of the FCC, maybe make it a new one, who knows.

Now let years, maybe even decades go by. Now let's say some site you like gets essentially taken out - since massive sites aren't going to be able to do manual moderation of everything - by a regulator who leans to the opposite side of the political spectrum you do.

Now you don't have much resource, since you aren't free to go off and try again - the regulator would just get that site too.

I have a hard time seeing how this is better.

And this is a weird stance for conservatives to be preaching, since the previous similar thing, the fairness doctrine, was no favorite thing of theirs.

This is one of those things where you can't say "only the government can solve this problem" unless the only speech you want to see protected is fairly-mainstream government-endorsed speech.
> There's a significant number of VCs and funds which only invest in female founders, which is a huge advantage.

I understand your reasoning in saying this, but please try to understand that being taken seriously as a female founder is much more difficult being taken seriously as a male.

These VCs exist to combat this preexisting inequality.
Need a citation? Get on twitter and see how right wingers get banned on heated discussions with left wingers where BOTH are aggressive to each other.

The left also mass report stuff they don't like as "hate speech" which automatically results in a ban.

Sorry, but the hate speech stuff is just a new way to censor stuff some people don't like and in the end it'll affect us all, no matter if left or right wing.
WatchOS 7 adds significant personalization, health, and fitness features to App
Unfortunately, I don't think you understand the extent to which you, as an individual user, would be under obligation if Section 230 wasn't in force. Section 230 protects you, the "user" as much as it protects the platform or "provider of interactive computer services". It is very likely that without the protections of Section 230 you, the "user", would have to decide whether my comments on your Reddit post, Youtube video, Facebook post, or even this post, do not bring you under undo liability, and thus would have to police those comments. If you are prepared to do so, then go ahead and remove Section 230 protections. I have a legal background and I am certainly not prepared to decide if all content related to my content is lawful content.
My wife and I spelunked quite a lot in the East, especially north GA and TN. I thought the cramped muddy passages were a lot of fun, ditto climbing up waterfalls. Prusiking straight up a 100', NBD. We're from FL and GA. Nice stable ground.

And then we lived through a dozen or so Bay Area earthquakes, including '89. I was able to get a ballpark estimate of the speed of the waves by counting the seconds it took them to move through the grasslands on the Bay side of NASA Ames (I was jogging, ground fell away from my feet). Measured the distance, and the result (I forget now), was within 20%.

Gotta different perspective now about how stable rocks are.
NASA wants you to help it navigate the surface of Mars
They are trying to train their user base to moderate content correctly. If it's against the sites policy, users should down-vote the content and report it.
Interesting. Use LSD by itself and as a festival drug and I definitely drink with it to only pleasant effects.
It's not a pay-wall; it's a beg-wall.
Nearly every iOS user has a folder called called "junk" to deal with apps they don't want on their home-screen but also can't uninstall. This isn't an edge case at all...
Title should include [2018]
India is what one calls a paperweight superpower. They like to think they’re a superpower, meddle in regional affairs, yet get bullied by China and Pakistan on the regular.
Time zones are still a thing. No matter how remote someone is, if they're more than a few times zones away it becomes problematic. More than nine timezones across the company is nearly impossible to do well.

So if we're talking about a US company, if you want anyone on the west coast, hiring continental Europeans will be tough, unless one of those groups is willing to work outside normal hours.

Also, taxes can be hard. I'm sure as remote working gets more popular, services will pop up to help with this and maybe laws will change, but right now, it's really hard to hire someone outside the US, and it's fairly complex to hire someone inside the US in state that you aren't already in.

The most likely outcome of remote work is a lowering of salaries in the big cities and a raising of salaries in more rural areas, as salaries tend towards the national median.
This PBS documentary on sugar and diabetes was incredibly eye-opening for me: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/blood-sugar-rising/

I had no idea America was on track for 50% of the population to be pre-diabetic by 2025, and that a vast majority of americans would be overweight or obese in the next 20 years. Its really made clear to me that I need to be 100% about what I'm putting in my body, and if you look at the ingredients of most food in grocery stores, you find it has some level of sugar. Its also drawn my attention to my own sugar and carb addiction tendencies. As much as I know I should not eat that bar of chocolate, even having the option available sways me to buy it.

To round out my own opinions: sugar is the next tobacco and should be regulated as such.
> I don't really get reddit's efforts to clean their site.

That's easy - advertising.

The same reason YouTube cleaned up it's act. And Gifycat. And a dozen other sites who found themselves at the wrong end of their advertiser's ire.
Also, I wish they wouldn’t do the “trendy” side-of-head camera swaps. There is nothing useful about looking at someone’s ear while they appear to be talking to someone else and not to you.
I feel like people have forgotten what free speech is.
A better statement would be "until Facebook does X" instead of "at least until deadline". Clever use of language is not lost on their marketing/PR/legal teams
Came here to submit this – amazing discovery!
If you got paid for torrenting, a lot less people would torrent because of the much increased legal liability and massive increase in lawsuits.
Is the inequality between men and women, or between people on the inside who incidentally are mostly men, and people on the outside who are also mostly men but include a relatively higher fraction of women?
Do you have any data at all to show that the bar is much lower? Can you please provide it.
What Is a Safe Note
TL;DR I feel most folks aren't bothered about understanding these things (I'm not judging, but just the way it is)

I believe most actually take such kind of advanced tech for granted.

e.g I remember just 10 years ago the tech behind face swapping / Instagram and TikTok filters was purely the stuff of image processing/ ML papers . Today the average non-technical user seems to know nothing about how cutting edge this tech is, and doesn't really seem to care. I think it's a testament to how well this tech is packaged and made available to the end user. Call it UX or whatever you want.

Even if you just consider something like WiFi/mobile data, I personally find it a miracle that my devices are somehow communicating through the air; but the average user seems to take this for granted and hardly wonders about how it works. The frustration if any, only seems to kick in when something they have come to expect to "just work" doesn't work the way they are used to (and not sparing a thought for the fact that it somehow works in the first place).
I feel like its a weird stance to say that Patagonia jackets are overpriced and only justify their value due to their political opinions. Like they're some of the best $/quality on the market and they have great resale value. They turned up on my shortlist before I knew anything about their environmental/political stances.

I think people en masse are more price sensitive and lifestyle oriented than they are activist-by-proxy.
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Yep, it's an actual thing. Interviews, events, and travel to those events are all a form of consideration given to as a reward to favored reviewers. They're all given to reviewers specifically to give them an advantage over reviewers who are actually honest. If you want your own advantages, you'll have to create them yourself. I recommend looking at the business model of Consumer Reports; they're successful and have a good reputation for honesty. They sell subscriptions rather than advertising, so that they aren't beholden to advertisers either.
What is the distribution of land ownership based in caste, any citation?

> The main problem here is that it's not even in the mainstream public discourse cause the narrative is always set by the upper castes.

mainstream public discourse is set by whoever can set it, it is free for all. In my understanding it is generally the left leaning literate class, talking for suppressed classes. True, most of them have descended from upper-caste, but have since devowed their caste and have become caste-agnostic.

> This won't stop unless caste is uprooted from the society.

Caste is largely getting uprooted from society, I don't see this bringing social equality. In truth, now there is a upper-caste among lower-case -- the early beneficiaries of the reservation with whom others in the lower caste can't compete.
There was actual study conducted by the Fed and an MIT prof.

They surveyed how much they would have to pay users to stop using these services:

For the median US user: $48/month for Facebook, $1,173 for YouTube, and $17,530 for internet search altogether.

For a sample of students in Europe: €2.17/month for Snapchat, €1.52 for LinkedIn, €536 for Whatsapp.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/fed-tries-to-figure-out-valu...