skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a more accurate description is that the elite narrative is paywalled but the one for the proles is free - and the elite are absolutely convinced their narrative is the truth. The contents of, say, New York Times or Washington Post reporting on the state of US Covid-19 testing and contact tracing and how it compares to the rest of the world, the evidence on mask wearing, or anything to do with Trump or protests in no way resembles the truth.

Reading them leaves people absolutely convinced that - for example - the US is behind South Korea in per-capita coronavirus testing, despite this not having been true for a long time. Seriously, the number of people I've seen on here and in the Times comment section pointing to this one specific, untrue thing as clear proof Trump must've sabotaged Covid testing because there was no way that the US could have remained behind South Korea for so long otherwise was astounding - and even more astounding was the cleverness of the articles worded to trick people into believing this, or the boldness of the Times in literally printing a news headline accusing Trump of being the liar for pointing out the exact opposite was true.
I would not recommend /r/sino if you're looking for good discussions. It's an echo chamber. Most of the guys there are blindly pro-China, blindly anti-American. For better discussions and analysis, check my recommendations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035638
There is one supplier, but they almost function like a stock exchange or an auction house. You place per unit bids for actions/types of people and depending on what you bid, your ad gets shown to to different people.

You would think that bids would eventually become quite economically efficient simply because of how easily conversion can be tracked.
> I want somebody to just report and not tilt it in one direction.

No one on this planet is 100% unbiased. It doesn't matter if it's free or $100 per article, it's still written by a human being with personal opinions, experiences, prejudices, &c.

The easiest way to get close to the "truth", which is subjective in many cases anyways, is to read from many sources and cross check the facts between them.
>instead of building out all the components yourself

One of the reasons I bought Tailwind UI is _because_ Adam & Steve knew what they were doing, had good attention to detail and because I'd already purchased Refactoring UI. I'd worry that with a marketplace the quality would drop, no matter how much guidance you give.
There is a standard format for data exchange [1], what became BIM didn't have to be different to it but at least they kept the geometry definitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
Exactly, but the the environment different as well.
I don't have a stat to support my arguments but I bet that the quarantine measurements have lower the number of death from car accidents or from cardiovascular-disease.
Also given the dramatic economical consequences of quarantine people have become more stressful than usual.
Twitter confirms spear-phishing attack on employees
Respectfully, I have talked to hundreds of brexiteers and looked at everything they claim. Then dismissed it. It's exposure, not a lack of exposure that makes me dismiss them. As far as I can tell (I am no social scientist) they'd be flat-earthers or anti-vaxers but they got got caught up in brexit first...
Quick solution to your problems:

1. Find the genuine productive people you are interested in following and follow them.

2. Don't use/ignore the fediverse timeline, especially if you are on a big instance. That would be like trying to use twitter by checking the firehose.

3. Profit.
This article misses existing revenue streams for "Ring&Sing" where you pay for your calling party to hear the song of your choice instad of a ringing sound until you pickup. These subscriptions are huge earners in big markets like India some claim it makes up for lost sms revenues.

But I also spent many hours on GoldWave 4.x mixing my own mp3 ringtones for years and still enjoy picking out a good riff when I hear it. I have a nice section of Eric Clapton's Layla looped as well as some Chilli Peppers, the Doors intro to Love me 2 Times, the sax on Born to Run + Quite a few more.
Ah. That joke completely went over my head since my knowledge of Martin pretty much amounts to him being the author of Game of Thrones and his use of Wordstar.
/r/china is exclusively western expats. They're the opposite of what mainstream Chinese thought is.

And based off what I see on the actual Chinese net in Chinese, /r/sino stays completely in line with the common consensus.
But did he consider that Jerome Powell has a money printer that goes brrrrr?
there's a difference between

<div style="padding: 20px;" />

and

<div class="p-2"/>

it's like variables for styling. Instead of throwing some random numbers developers can bump the numbers up p-3, p-4 or text-red-200, text-red-300. It helps to keep things consistent.

For a simple website semantic HTML or SMACSS can work, but for any semi-large scale websites with many variations of components it'll quickly descend into specificity hell. Using atomic classes keeps the specificity flat, and it avoids an entire category of errors that haunts many large projects just by making the styles sort of self-contained (you still need the stylesheet).

Of course there are other approaches to this problem such as "namespacing" your CSS using BEM and dynamically generating class names using CSS-in-JS, but using atomic classes is a very maintainable way to style HTML, if a little hard to read.
Yeah, GRRM is definitely not a poster-boy for productivity, lol.
Mechanical CAD doesn't have to use binary files.
I only know 2 parallels, one is Blender, which is really gaining traction. Lots of huge sponsorships, increasing adoption. Thats the open source road.

In Adobeland, slowly Affinity Photo and Designer are gaining foothold. I don’t think at this point it is any danger to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. But a Affinity version 2 might be pushing the monopoly back.
Lots of downvotes, but no answer. I guess that's the answer then.
I'd like more microtransactions and would gladly pay a few cents or even a dollar to read a good article.

The business model is to bundle everything together, for a long subscription - most want at least a month, perhaps a year, full subscription.
And adding after market vibration motors to the 3210 since they decided to leave it out of the UK model. I still have mine.
I sure hope actual Chinese netizens aren't as polarized as the guys on /r/sino. We need the east and the west to come together, and not merely to contend on who can be the biggest bully.
The VisionFS SMB server referenced in the article has some interesting history: http://www.rogerbinns.com/visionfs.html
Which license change? Last year? Blender technical and financial situation has changed very much since then.

Last year was the transition period to the new UI, new renderer and everything else. 2.80 was not polished at all.

Since then they got access to way more funds from major FAANGs (NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Intel...) and announced and release the first LTS which are the ones intended to be used by commercial studios for long-term projects.

Now they need the time to use that money to hire and speed up things. Future looks very, very bright for Blender.
> We'd hate to be treated ourselves as we treat our kids

Sounds like people should treat their kids better
After watching that video, I decided to relocate my portable air conditioner. The exhaust tube is now super short, directly mounted to a hole in the wall, and insulated to compensate for the inefficiency of these type of devices. It made all the difference.
> Essentially Musk resold the exiting RnD, and work of US government's engineers to US government.

What Musk/SpaceX do is a tiny bit different - they're taking politics out of the equation, because unlike ULA they have a boatload of private customers willing to launch satellites for cheap and not have a major problem if one or two launches go bust. If NASA/ULA manage to fuck up a mission there will be political consequences.

Not to mention that SpaceX is staff lean which means they have the freedom to do whatever they want to keep costs low, while NASA/ULA is under Congressional pressure to dole out money across the country, even if this is completely against efficiency (and for what it's worth the ESA/Ariane/EADS/Airbus complex suffers from the same problem).
The NYT has a tracker for this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

A few countries are close enough to be considered accurate. Some are off by over 100%.
Conservatism, progressive, regressive change: framing in Openstreetmap politics
Absolutely, just look at the numbers coming from China.
If these things concern you:

Soapbox is developed by a massive TERF, boyfriend/husband to the founder, and co-founder of the transphobic, radical "feminist" hate-platform spinster.xyz. This is where all the TERFs migrated after the reddit ban of /r/gendercritical, /r/LGBdroptheT, ...

I think in this case, it's really hard to separate the product from the person, since it's all over the place; he's at the core of organized transphobia, harassment and hate.
I think this is just a beginning. Word is out you can extort millions with internet connection and some scripts, no guns and police chase involved. And it looks like chances of getting away with the money are quite high. Compare it with Getty III ransom story.
Must be pretty disorienting if you're an EU lawmaker who loves these products and have to make these calls.

Apple products are beloved the way sports teams are.

Now you have to decide if those products should be tarnished (because that's what Apple would see it as) or not.
For non-UK readers looking for context, The Sun "newspaper" is basically Fox News with tits.
> There's no any scientific reason to believe that "the virus" changed in any way biologically.

Viruses don’t mutate?
Friend, I just finished listening to the podcast after seeing this comment. It is genuinely relevant. The episode is full of useful information related to brain plasticity that OP would benefit from. Don't dismiss all of a creator's content as spam.
OP only said they want more free speech, not the extremism that you’re quick to assume, which is why they probably want that freedom in the first place.
I highly disagree. Rupert Murdoch is surely one of the most elite of the elites and his vast media empire has managed to brainwash certain folks into calling his vision "populism" due strictly to his outreach efforts.

It would also appear that you didn't read the article, as your point is not the topic of the article.

The article is about copyright law running counter to information accessibility, running counter to an interpretation of "freedom of speech".

The article is about economic rather than technological barriers to information sharing.

That's the problem with knee-jerk first-paragraph-read comments.
An interesting counterpoint comes from Autodesk Life Sciences which outlines the need for Bio/Nano software development: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-018-2009-5

Abstract: "There is a digital revolution taking place and biotechnology companies are slow to adapt. Many pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and industrial bio-production companies believe that software must be developed and maintained in-house and that data are more secure on internal servers than on the cloud. In fact, most companies in this space continue to employ large IT and software teams and acquire computational infrastructure in the form of in-house servers. This is due to a fear of the cloud not sufficiently protecting in-house resources and the belief that their software is valuable IP. Over the next decade, the ability to quickly adapt to changing market conditions, with agile software teams, will quickly become a compelling competitive advantage. Biotechnology companies that do not adopt the new regime may lose on key business metrics such as return on invested capital, revenue, profitability, and eventually market share."
It doesn't work.

Because what if you pay 0.5$ for an article, and then you find out it's not what you expected/badly written/...

You basically are not happy and less likely to do it again.
If you put payment to the end, then people are less willing to pay, because they already consumed the article. You can't take the information out of the head again if he's not willing to pay.

It's a tricky thing
The bit on internet advertising not working that well is interesting given that all the startups I know can tell you (to the cent) what it costs to acquire a customer.

Perhaps that number provides a false sense of understanding and control and there is an information bias towards it over harder to analyze types of advertising such as radio, but it seems like the ROI for internet advertising would be the most clear.
Out of interest : did you try 2.7x or 2.8x , the latter is a major step up.

That said, C4D has always been pretty performant when I still used it, more than Maya or Max.
My grandmother was born at around the peak of the British Empire, and in her funeral there was a story of her childhood in a military base in the British Raj.

The pound was the world reserve currency, India was the jewel in the largest empire the world has ever seen and upon which the sun would never set, and Westminster ruled directly and indirectly over more than a third of the world GDP — roughly equivalent to $30 trillion/year against the world of 2018.

When my brother was a child, that same great empire had been so reduced that it found itself forced to make a series of humiliating fishing rights concessions to Iceland, total population ~350,000.

The world can become unrecognisable in even just a few years; that just gets more likely when you assume nothing can ever change.
Federation tech is cool from a software-engineering perspective, but almost useless from an average Joe perspective.

Centralized services have much better UX, i.e. due to a universal search mechanism and aren't as confusing. Try explaining to a non-techie that there's that cool thing called Mastodon, but there's also Pleroma that works with mastodon, but there is not one instance but many people hosting many servers, oh, and to use this whole thing, you don't get the Mastodon app, but you have multiple apps for multiple platforms, each with a different name etc. Oh, and the whole thing is also sometimes called Fediverse. Also, each instance has a completely different website and rules, most of those are small and can disappear any day, and your whole account will disappear with them. If they grow large enough, the monetization issue will eventually become evident. There are two solutions, forcing users to pay, making most of them unhappy, or selling their data, and now we are back to square one. Also remember a lot of admins push their political views on all users of the instance, much more aggressively than any mainstream platform. Blocking Gab, an instance often associated with racist content, is very common, nevermind the non-racist users on there. Same for basically blocking off Japan as a whole, just because the japanese sometimes post their anime child porn, which is legal over there. Oh, and what are those weird addresses? Well, they're kind of like email... So if they're like email, why don't we use email instead? And so it goes.

Most non-techies don't really care about privacy in the "now I see more personalized ads" sense. They don't want their future employers / partners / parents to see their messages, that's why Snapchat and sending content that automatically disappears has become so popular. The Fediverse actually sacrifices those "important" kinds of privacy. Basically, As long as you let open source clients in, your recipient can do anything with your messages with little friction, and that's not what users usually want.

For most users, Facebook spying on their stuff won't really have a material impact on their lives. However, if they get into an argument with the admin of the instance (assuming a friend is hosting it for them), the consequences can be severe. Imagine if i.e. your techy friend hosted all your social data and then discovered you had an affair with his wife. He could, as revenge, publish all your embarassing photos and direct messages. This sort of thing just can't happen with Facebook.

Matrix is quite different, the UX is much better, it's great for enterprises/education/govt, so it doesn't matter that much anyway, it's filling a previously unfilled niche (easy, realtime chats between organizations) and lets governments control their data. I think it has a moderate chance of success. Mastodon, however, is, quite frankly, a failure.

There's definitely a need for a free-speech-respecting, censorship-resistant social network, but the fediverse is not the right approach.
>When I left the UK, there was a large & growing political/economic divide, unaffordable housing and poor/declining public services.

None of those are particular to Brexit. House prices have been unaffordable to many in Britain since the 80s, and even more so, in the 90s. Houses prices are also supply and demand. Since Britain's population has increased by almost 10 million since 1997, demand vastly outstrips supply, especially in the south-east. This affects public services too.

Political divide is an interesting one. Given the two party politics in the UK, plus fringes, and the rise of social media (and Warhol's prophecy), this would also be a problem. Brexit made it worse, but without a crystal ball, it's impossible to say how much worse.
CLIU, The mask taken to another level
amazing that the truth gets flagged. shame be upon the flagger. objectivity speaks :D

Interestingly, both sides of the subject of an attempted "neutral" reporting will report bias against their side.

It would appear that humans avoid seeing their own implicit biases.

But objectively speaking: when one political party literally rejects science, facts, and logic on a given topic, you can say that reality will be biased against them. This fact is nothing to debate, but is the intention (implicit or explicit) of such a stance.
Trumpkins objectively can be said to be painting the sky green rather than admit that the sky is blue.

We often go to great lengths to justify our beliefs.
Ask any prison psychologists about the rationalizations they have heard for various acts their patients have committed, etc.

Additionally, when "decency" and "compassion" have expressly been abandoned by the global right-wing, you can call them left-wing values by default.
This is akin to Trump calling anyone he doesn't agree with "far-left" but it's expressly defined by the rights expressed divergence from these values that created this "left-wing bias".

Downvoters are not using their logical brains, just knee-jerk reacting from a position of political tribalism.
I'm objectively correct, as I'm merely describing the SELF_EXPRESSED DELIBERATE SELF POSITIONING OF THE RIGHT WING when they portray THEMSELVES as mean ruffians.

Complain some more about people taking one at ones own word whydontcha
Nobody's getting chucked out if they decide to stay on British citizenship and permanent residence. People are taking citizenship now because if they wait they'll be required to renounce their British citizenship to naturalize.
But with all those things, beware of the recurring expense problem: I would agree with all those cliffs, for one-time expenses.

As soon as payments are recurring, things will be more complicated: Being bound to a contract beyond the current year is often subject to approval, at least when recurring payments are involved. Not yet paid but binding future obligations have to occur in various reports and need accounting involvement. Better have short contracts with autoextension or at least the possibility to pay up front for a fixed term.
India's political prisoners: UN calls for release of activists
ConanJs vs. Redux. Comparing a Simple Todo App
Well, it depends.

My point is that IMHO you should probably be more cautious and perhaps abstain from telling what type license is better and that they can just choose whatever they like.

There are good videos on the topic on Youtube (forgot which ones) by actual lawyers in the field that are more cautious than your article.
Interesting thought experiment though; if you’re not paying for the development and hosting- who is?
Only if you are clinging to the illusion of self :)
I remember that I decided to pay for a data-cable, of some kind (my memory is a little hazy), rather than paying to download/install ring-tones.

For years my ringtone was the sound of the TARDIS taking off.
Here's a video of him talking about it, for reference:

https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg
Did anyone realize that this article is free?
Show HN: Yuzu Metrix – Professional Campaign Reporting for Influencers
They maintain two lists. Official list is whomever they checked positive for COVID-19 before or after death.

Second list which has leaked now is people who had died with suspicious symptoms but not tested for COVID-19 for whatever reason.

They admitted way before this that they believe real death toll might be 3 times higher than official numbers, and real infected might be up to 5 times higher than official numbers by comparing average/expected death rate and clinics reports.

I think this is an issue in many countries right now. The numbers are real as much as they get to test their population and everyone knows that.
Lots of AEC users actually would prefer subscription model. The hand-wavy economic main reason is subscriptions go from opex and purchases would go from capex and companies generally prefer opex to capex.

The business model of large AEC companies is a bit different than that of hollywood VFX subcontractors. The projects for one are already expensive and the data itself is a critical part of the deliverables (instead of just a rendering of the data).
How does this relate to the JEDI contract?
The problem with many sites and free-to-use commercial products isn't that interfaces are designed around minimizing user interactions but instead that they're designed around minimizing the most profitable user interactions. This is what leads to email sign up forms and dark patterns taking precedence.
even if there were a bundle of that, people'll still find a way to complain about it and they'd still not want to pay for news.
How sad that people really believe that.
Everything you read, by anyone, whether it's from a Chinese or a western source, is propaganda in one way or another.

But maybe by reading Chinese sources, and seeing how different they are, will make us think more critically, and make us more immune to the propaganda we are fed at home.
"Consensus" among who? The UK has been lagging:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2019/03/22/uk-economy-sin...

"Relative to G7 countries, however, the UK has slipped from having the highest growth rate in the G7 before the vote, to the lowest now (OBR 2018)"

"Productivity has also suffered. "

"The sterling has depreciated and increased costs."

"Purchasing power has gone down."

"Finally, both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have dropped since the referendum."

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https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-will-cost-uk-more-tha...

"Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together"

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/12/02/three-years-on-the...

"Three years on: the UK is paying a high economic price for its decision to leave the EU"

"While the UK started with a steeper growth trajectory, it has fallen behind other G7 countries since the referendum "

"Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rose dramatically from 0.4 percent in June 2016 to 3 percent in January 2018. "

"Real wages dropped from a pre-referendum annual growth rate of 1.1% to less than 0.1% after the referendum"

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And not sure what you mean by "changing goalposts". Surely you agree that the effects of Brexit will primarily come into effect after Brexit has happened?