skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you nailed the core issue. The OP says the team is capable but is failing. Either they can do the work but don't want to; or the more likely scenario is that they can't do the work. The OP said most of the developers were straight out of school. If it is the former, then management will "motivate" by demanding more stringent agile processes aka more meetings. If it is the later, then management will need to admit their hiring and staffing practices are lacking which they are not likely to admit to.
It’s also a little ahistorical. Roll back the clock to the 1990’s, and NYT + your local paper + any magazines weren’t exactly cheap.

In those times, the “free” options were the same as they are today: broadcast news, NPR or the BBC.

It’s definitely a problem that the less engaged audience moved from their local news anchor to Facebook, but I can’t make that about paywalls.
I could never justify FT subscription price. It’s nice when employers provide it, though.
I can't point you to a single study that encompasses everything that forms the basis of my opinion. If you already acknowledge the existence of human-caused climate change to at least the extent accepted by the IPCC (which by all accounts represents a low bar, because of the political reality of the panel's makeup and process), then there should be enough of a basis for a few additional pieces of information to illustrate my line of thinking. I also assume you understand that individual weather events, while caused by climate, cannot be linked with 'concrete scientific evidence' to climate change. Yet when it comes to human displacement, individual weather events are more than enough to trigger mass migrations.

>show me one single movement of climate refugees to have occurred so far who moved place specifically because of human-related climate change.

Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought - CP Kelley (2015)

"worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers"

"Century-long observed trends in precipitation, temperature, and sea-level pressure, supported by climate model results, strongly suggest that anthropogenic forcing has increased the probability of severe and persistent droughts in this region, and made the occurrence of a 3-year drought as severe as that of 2007−2010 2 to 3 times more likely than by natural variability alone."

Regarding future climate migrations, the chain of events that looks set to play out in many places is quite clear. The Maldives, for example. Islanders (~300k) depend heavily (70% of GDP) on the coral reef for their sustenance and livelihood. Ocean warming is destroying the coral, and the life that goes with it. If that's not enough, sea-level rise will swamp the islands; the highest point is only two meters above sea level (100cm of base sea-level rise is anticipated by 2100, and that excludes storm surges). On top of that, intensificiation of extreme weather events will destroy homes, boats, and land infrastructure (what little even exists). Inhabitants will be displaced as their livelihood dies off and their land dissapears under the ocean, assuming they have the means to go anywhere else and that those places will allow them to relocate.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2010/04/06/climate...

This scenario or very similar repeats for most small island nations across the pacific (~2M), the carribean (44M), and elsewhere (~17M). Note that it's a distinct scenario from the historical example I linked above, which is a representation of the kind of climate-related displacements to be expected closer to the equater and on major land masses. Those are more representative of the shift expected to the 'habitable zone' of our planet, as it moves further away from the equator.
It used to be simpler to teach Unix
I think these kind of things should be taught in schools from young age, so that people would have some understanding why some things happen they way they happen (for example why could laptop that has worked perfectly fine become barely usable after few months) and strategies of critical thinking.
I am pretty sure there would be at least one person in the room when such decisions happen saying that, but there will be another person saying: What about the economy?
Some people unfortunately still believe in broken window parable - that if people could fix their own laptops, then economy would collapse, but they don't think how much people could get progress with their goals if they didn't have to spend money on a new laptop every time it slows down.
I would think the apparent leak of the president's tax info qualifies as "interesting new phenomenon" -- this has been anticipated for years, and de facto does not happen every day.
I for one would be happy to subscribe to 20+ distinct apps for TV & sports, if only it meant I could truly cancel cable and only consume internet service from the cable company.

But of course many apps require over the top extra cable-based subscriptions to channels to access content. So it’s not unbundling, it’s just regular cable bundling plus a ton of extra apps tacked on, the worst of both worlds.
there's definitely a market, but probably not at the revenue targets that newspapers have. I pay $12/mo for netflix, and $10/mo for spotify. i'd be happy to pay another ~$10/mo for a news service that gave me access to a similarly broad offering of newspaper articles.

but the way newspaper web-access subscriptions are priced, to get the same broad bundle of content as what i get from spotify or netflix i'd be paying thousands of dollars a month, which i'm absolutely not willing to do.
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Title is misleading, it's about third-party cookies being blocked by Apple and causing the NYT to do more first-party tracking and to build what sounds like their own first party ad exchange instead of relying on less effective third party implementations. They're even bragging about the new datapoints they are collecting in the article:

> To address that, the data science team created new contextual classifications of content, including the emotional tenor of a story, topic targeting and the motivations that audiences felt after reading an article.

> With the absence of the third-party cookie, Murphy said that data will become more important, but the methodologies behind understanding the data and pin-pointing accuracy will change from the previous model.

If anything their tracking and collection of personal data and preferences is increasing.

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As a funny anecdote my American father refuses to to visit many European sites because "they have cookies". The difference between those sites and the American sites he spends most of his time on? The ones in the EU have a footer telling him about it. Cookies as a tool are being demonized as a distraction from the industry moving towards a first-party model that collects even more data, as demonstrated by this article.
By "eviction" here, I mean permanently not being able to return to your home, regardless of the exact mechanism.

Historically, the evictions are eminent domain. There's no returning. The local government simply forces you off your property, nominally paying you something, but often pennies on the dollar. At a broad brush, national-level, this is a good start: https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=756342 I'll try to find some gulf-coast specific historical summaries in a bit.

The land usually then gets sold, often to developers. Here, the rationale is "flood control". Elsewhere it's "urban renewal". The end result is the same: "You can't stay here. Go to some other state/county".

Next, there's development. The real culprit in a lot of urban flooding is more urbanization than climate change. When you pave over more and more of the watershed, water reaches the streams more quickly. This leads to more flash floods, as more water reaches the trunk stream quickly (or reaches a drain that can't handle the volume in a lot of cases). Zoning doesn't help with this much. Buildings, roads, and parking lots just don't slow down and trap water the way trees and winding bayous do.

The main issue is that the poor communities are in the lower-lying / downstream areas, usually. Development happens upstream / in higher areas. Places downstream that _never_ flooded before now flood multiple times a year, because everything upstream is paved. The community that paved things over does great, the community downstream suddenly has to deal with all kinds of issues.

The community that paved things over then complains about the "taxpayer dollars that are going to support those stupid people that built where it floods". The folks downstream are forced out, and their property is sold to developers, and the cycle repeats.

This is the historical pattern that explains a lot of why people get _really_ touchy about the whole "why would you live here" part.

At present, the main controversy is around targeted buyouts, which can be a very reasonable way of handling things overall. They're voluntary (we'll give you X for your house, will you take it?), and only offered if a property has flooded multiple times or is deemed at extremely high risk of flooding. They're supposed to be held by govt and kept in an undeveloped state. In practice, it often gets more murky, with the properties quickly being sold, yet again, to developers. Targeted buyouts are a very good way to handle things -- it's the execution that folks often object to. Again, history plays a role.

One thing to end on: Nowhere is particularly immune to disasters. There are certainly lower-risk and higher-risk areas, but trying to mark _vast_ swaths off-limits will end poorly. My point is, saying all of the broader Houston-Beaumont region is uninhabitable is just silly. We have floods due to hurricanes. Other places have fires, or droughts, or earthquakes, etc. It's a game of "pick your poison". We're higher risk than, say, Denver, sure. We're lower risk than say, SF, or Seattle, or Miami though.
Idea is not new and it was actually implemented here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruonis_Pumped_Storage_Plant :-)
> good luck understanding [Swift] without encyclopedic knowledge.

> I prefer C++11

C++ is like the prototypical example for "languages that require encyclopedic knowledge" so this seems like a weird comparison
The idea that the inputs to an industrial process could go so negative in price that the outputs would also go negative in price is a fantasy.

Let's say A is running a desalinated water giveaway and B is storing the excess electricity as potential energy, which can be sold as electricity when the price goes positive.

B can afford to take the energy for a less-negative price, so outbids A by accepting less money with the juice.

Sure, if things get ridiculous enough, it might be a race to see who can afford to give away the most water / aluminium / nighttime power / Funko Pops.

But, it won't.
You should use https://10minutemail.com/ for those obnoxious sites
> ...there is only one primary metric that matters to me: loyal readers. I don't publish for the occasional visitor.

Okay, good luck with that. I don't know how somebody becomes a “loyal reader” if they can't even read your website to begin with. Especially with how many of these subscription rags play outrageous frame games and use facts to tell lies and half truths, it's insulting enough without half the article disappearing when you scroll, or a modal prompt.

I usually just don't open links to sites that I know work like this.
After looking at some of the setup guides for some of the games it doesn't look like it is using any fancy isolation tricks. So far it looks like it works with games that either allow the user to run multiple instances or the program somehow modifies the game to allow it to run a separate instance. Although I don't know what is being changed that allows the games to run multiple instances.

Here is an example of the program modifying Left 4 Dead 2 so that it can run a separate instance. https://youtu.be/1RHWgHh2Q6M?t=120
weird, I'm well above that threshold but didn't notice the option. Not usually in the business of of flagging/vouching
Crazy people will say sane approaches are crazy. They refuse to think for themselves and don't deserve to decide anything but lunch.
Well, I hope so. My reaction to choice fatigue is to say "forget it". I'll do something else instead.
> It sounds like this could be used to trigger complex lighting scenes and effects by listening in on the MIDI for a hardware-only music set, is that the case?

Yep, that's the idea - and to be honest one of the reason I've originally involved myself in this project is because I wanted to score lightings from Ableton Live with my band and that just did not work as well as I wanted it to. 6 years later the band hasn't released a single thing but at least we have our DAW now :-)

Note that the DMX editing is fairly bare-bones - my recommendation for advanced shows is to design the light scenes in e.g. QLC+ (https://www.qlcplus.org/) and then control them from ossia score at a higher level through OSC messages. But it's possible to bang raw ArtNet bytes if you want - we had a small exhibit doing just that a couple days ago.
What I find funny on that chart is that retirement is default at 62. I don't think that will be the average when I want to retire in 30 years.
I am not talking about whether I want society overall to embrace this framing. From a selfish perspective, of course I do not want that.

I'm talking about myself only. I can act purely self-maximizing and reap the gains while society pays the cost (an externality). I can feign kindness etc to extract the prosocial benefit to myself when it's required. I am a small fish in a big pond, I can take take take from society without fundamentally altering the way society treats me.

If I am a psychopath why should I not act in this manner?
I use dark colour schemes when programming because otherwise I get distracted by my floaters. That overrides any other theoretical justification to me.
This is a landmark article revealing information that people have been calling on for years to be released in a hotly contested presidential race. We are literally watching history be created and we should have the ability to discuss it.
I'm not really disputing the 4k not being toxic. Just the way I understand it, even though you can produce up to 10kUI through the skin should have no relation to the toxicity level being below or above 10kUI.
The universe might be better off without wave function collapse.This is the premise of the Greg Egan novel Quarantine. Totally recommended.
Without me having RTFM... Looks like two are buried? Did both have mismatched titles? If so that's probably the most innocuous possible reason.
Becoming [dead] is automatic based on number of flags, right?

That said, we know ~30 percent of US voters believe the 45th presidental administration is doing a _good_ job. I'm guessing it's a similar percentage of HN users (plus or minus a few percent).

I'd similarly guess that same 30 percent would reflexively flag any evidence which doesn't agree with their worldviews. Then I'd further guess the HN flagging and burying system relies on actors acting in good faith in aggregate. If 30 percent of HN users reflexively act one way or another ignoring newsworthyness and noteworthyness, I imagine that messes up the tuning of the abuse system.
that's what I meant actually—I just forgot it was trailing
This will be the onlyfans to bangbros. The model works as long as they are not popular enough to pirate if it even works at all. The cost of subscription is not high for the WP or many for a trial, so it's more likely someone pays $1 to subscribe with a temporary card than to buy the articles.
Think of the news articles similar to the commodity of porn. What would you do? Buy one video, or download the whole catalog every few trials?
Text is cheap. It's everywhere. It'a small. You will not be able to guard secret information easily. The disposable nature of news makes it very hard to value by article, I have NEVER once found a news article worth paying for. I wonder if anyone here has a counter to that point, an article that was worth subscribe for.
The failed ones were known to be dangerous. Mostly that big problem was kept under radar of the public, oversight failed big time or was complicit. The other big problem is, we keep running old rustbuckets and dubious designs. More than half of the worlds reactors should probably be shut down immediately, and most of the rest is also due for a replacement very very soon.
This also seems to be a problem because the US seems to have gotten much worse at building fixed structures (bridges, buildints &c.) over the last 100 year.

Some of that cost is probably due to better workplace safety, but some of that cost has come in the past 40 years, and I don't feel like OSHA has tightened the screws that much in the psat 40 years.
Agreed. But interesting how the "American tourists are the worst!" comment is currently upvoted and the "Nope, actually the Chinese are the worst" is downvoted.

Even if you believe it true that a pattern of a grouping of people is more often true than not doesn't mean it's something you should go around proudly stating.
Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.
Mac isn't losing its lunch. We're just not their target users base anymore.

Why sell to these demanding power users wanting complex stuff when you can sell to the rich consumer who just wants to dick around on Facebook and play with their iDevices all day :P
you’re right about materialism.

the issue is, there is a mountain of marginalized evidence and experience suggesting we are not in a materialistic universe.

when we behave in accordance with materialism, we create suffering.

there is no logic to refute your argument at its face.

what we should doubt is the premise of the reality of materialism.

i understand my message may not come across clearly
Well I use a Debian virtual machine on my Acer Chromebook, I completely avoided this by not updating Chrome OS. Still, it appears as though this could have been solved with a C program in Crosh? Actually a comment referenced this, nevermind.
Plug for Presspatron [1].

Quote:

"PressPatron makes it easy to fund the future of journalism, via crowdfunding, membership payments and donations.

In a few simple steps, our platform allows supporters to make recurring and one-off contributions to their favourite media sites."

Easier cancellation, I believe, than many sites directly.

Edit: it's relevant to the question of "how does one ethically access news sites without submitting to all the Dark Patterns they use to force you to subscribe?"

Also, no relationahip at all between me and them, apart from me being an occasional user.

1. https://www.presspatron.com/
"It dawns at me that if I were still at AWS, I might propose offering Digital Content Volume Sales as a Service. “Simple Article Sales Service”, SASS. Maybe I should write a PR/FAQ."

Would that be legal? Buy a subscription and then sell access to individual articles (micro payments) to third-parties? Or does he mean something else?
It's not about justice, it's about pragmatic deterrents.
Come on guys, now we're flagging the discussion of flagging?

I specifically did not link the article in vain hope of avoiding this.
> especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles

Where does HN do that?!
It seems the class in question exists in Android 8 and not but not 10 or 11.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
The UK and USA both have common law systems, where judges have the freedom to establish precedence in regards to matters of law. I believe most of continental Europe operates on civil law systems where judges have much less room for interpretation.

On the matter of defamation the US is quite different from everywhere else though, because of the 1st amendment, and the 'actual malice' standards applied to 'public figures' in defamation cases. The confounding factors in the EU are the privacy clauses in the European Convention on Human Rights, so you see cases that would be related to defamation elsewhere being litigated on privacy in the EU.
If we had enough solar to power the world, would all of the solar cells actually lower the temperature of Earth due to being black?
I made a similar data-vizualization inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11467640

http://some1else.github.io/life/

http://github.com/some1else/life
>That's the way it works in our system, which finds wages through supply and demand, which is a law of nature.

Is this 8th grade economics? Consider a nation that has strong tariffs on imported goods. Consider another nation that has major obstacles to the investment of foreign capital, and lots of cheap labor. Now consider a political campaign (it doesn't look a campaign, but it is) to remove the tariffs and allow capital to move freely from the first nation to the second.

Result: dramatic changes in the first nation's wages, at least for work that gets moved to the second country.

Remind me again which law(s) of nature is involved here.
You never read an article behind a Paywall that showed a first portion asking you to subscribe?
Perhaps some limited utility for remote locations where methane is being flared off, because both capturing the methane and transmitting electrical power are too expensive.

Putting a generator in place to convert the methane to electricity, then crunching the value into bits on-site, might add up. I agree that it isn't going to be useful for periodic cheap energy, however; there's no scenario where intermittently running your ASICs is going to add up.
Every single tab I have open is on .com right now. Other tlds seem to only be used by blogs or small single page sites like .io games.
What a great phrase - "administratively incompetent." Gonna steal that. Just the idea of administrative competence in general.
Huh? I think Rob Pike et al. suck at language design, period, but had some decent ideas for systems. I think Go would suck with any employer, but they could do better work on non-programming language things.
very interesting! i worked briefly for a failed cad startup, and the dwg format was the bane of our existences. (we didn't try to reverse engineer it ourselves, we relied on an unfortunately buggy library we purchased)
I don't know why you brought up "don't be a dick". It's unrelated to the matter at hand.

We don't know whether they were a dick or not. Even if they were, they didn't deserve to be jailed.

What we know for sure is that they went to jail because of a bad online review.

This is like telling a rape victim to not be a dick. Like wtf. Why is it even related?

As a Thai, we hope foreigners will help Thailand come up with better consumer protection. Thailand don't protect consumer as much as it should, and that's fucking sad.
Brave browser is doing exactly what you described.
Like I said, your math is bad. You're using numbers from individual plans, not employer-sponsored plans. As individual plans are entirely separate pools from the employer-sponsored plan pools, the numbers aren't even remotely similar.
>but how many packages actually support it anymore?

99%? You won't get the most recent versions because a lot of packages started requiring v1.3 when the new AD and multhreading mechanisms came out, but you can still boot up the LTS and run any standard analysis that existed back when 1.0 was around, which is something like 3000+ packages. Where is your FUD coming from?
I feel like we're getting a bit silly at this point. But to continue that train of though: SCOTUS clerks are now unpaid, further ensuring that only those already wealthy can afford to take the position.
Word of mouth; the best advertising there is.
https://twitter.com/travelfish/status/1310107365077737472