skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many donors may simply never have considered the distinction between restricted and unrestricted donations. They may believe that donating money for some specific purpose is just how donation works.
And to be fair, nonprofits don't try very hard to discourage such illusions. They can't afford to. People running nonprofits are almost always anxious about money. They can't afford to talk back to big donors.

In other words they smartly are thinking they don't want to kill 'the sale'. When businesses sell products do they typically list all the potential downsides or defects in their product or service when doing so might discourage the purchase?

Maybe as I said in my other comment they realize that less money would come in because they would rain on a parade going on in someone's mind.

Example let's say someone wants for vanity purposes (an entirely valid reason) to have a building named after them. The non profit (could be a school or some research institution) then says to them 'well you know we can do that but why don't we put the money toward this cause instead after all why does it have to be about you and your family name being perpetuated!!!?'.

That's an exaggeration sure (in terms of how the words would go. However principle is that the person donating would then have a negative ie 'the wrong reasons' attached to what they were convincing themselves was a selfless act.
Even better is “The Attention Merchants.” Pair that with Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” and you’ll have a good foundation for how dangerous Facebook is. Something needs to be done. Monopoly is a means to an end here, but it might not get the job done. What need is a ban on behavioral advertising full stop.
The problem is for all the situations where the error payload isn't needed. You now need to carry around the extra syntactic complexity and/or the extra wasted memory (unless you have a strategy to elide all of this stuff when error payloads are not needed).

I think it's not trivial to find a good alternative to status quo.
For some reason the pilots are still confident enough to fly the new planes, though they don’t have many options now that a big part of them have been laid off because of the coronavirus.

It seems that now the Boeing hopes that those complex interactions are rare enough that they don’t pose a serious problem. We’ll see in a few years.
Most startups fail, and we often talk about how that's a good thing. Absent capital constraints, why is that different for charitable initiatives?

Gates is devoting resources towards nuclear (Terrapower) and nuclear has a terrible track record in effeciency (LCOE) and generation as a total percent of fleet capacity. Should he stop trying there? I would argue it isn't. I would argue the same for trying to improve education.
I worked in Accounting (the dept that did it, not the one that taught it) IT at a major public university for several years. Something like half of the software complexity was in keeping track of each dollar's origin, and making sure that it was spent on only what the source approved it to be spent on. Whether the source was the federal government, the state, corporate donors, or wealthy individuals, they all had strong opinions on what the money could be spent on. It was much easier to get money donated for a new building, than to maintain an old one, so you can have a situation in which new buildings are being built while old ones fall apart.

The most surprising thing to me was how small a percentage of the budget was under the control of the president of the university; it was only a tiny amount. Virtually all of the money was controlled by the source, not by the administration.
Never thought I would even see the "Starwars Musquito Defense System" being actually developed :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
It's a popular option because it is the only way to watch some content, especially sport. It's not that people like them, it's just that between paying to watch football with ads and not watching football, they prefer the former.
10% sounds like a lot.
Breathing through the nose is ideal. The mouth is a poor substitute.
Expected Utility Theory (EUT) is wrong and Ergodicity Economics (EE) is an alternative.

EUT is claiming there are parallel universes not EE. And your right EUT is delusional to make that claim.

About your opinion:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
I can think of an alternative, not sure whether that would be practical, but it's possibly safer than laser: instead of shooting laser, make a turret that shoots (biodegradable, edible) soap water at the mosquitoes, in the smallest dose necessary to make the mosquito's wings stick. It would require some fluid-aerodynamics and projectile motion calculation, however.
The system designed and built by Intellectual Ventures uses lasers for ranging and discrimination.

https://photonicsentry.com/

https://www.wired.com/2010/02/death-star-laser-zaps-mosqitoe...
Probably. I'm guessing that a currency that's permanently free from government interference is a pipe dream. Or perhaps more likely, a cat and mouse game like trying to keep a computer system from getting hacked. Each currency will have a honeymoon period before people figure out how to corrupt it, so the solution may be to live with a constant evolution of currencies.
As someone who works in automotive on interface and infotainment, and can tell you it’s not continuing unchecked. We’re constantly looking at whether or not it makes sense to put something on a screen and why, and what other options exist for interacting with a feature.
> Ahead of his planned retirement from the FAA at the end of this month.

Free at last to speak hard truth.
It wouldn't be DNS blocking. The feature request on the project is about adding an HTTPS MITM Proxy that would then do the cosmetic filters among other things.

AGH already supports adding AdGuard filters, but for obvious reasons it only applies domain based filters. Adding the MITM proxy would allow for processing of the cosmetic filters too.

More info:

- https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/391

- https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1228
True, I’ve always thought of electron as phonegap/Cordova for desktops.
How to manage an open source project
Being coders ourselves we focused on a programmer-first approach indeed. The idea came naturally from a gap we identified in our day-to-day practice at Variable.io (data-art, installations, generative systems, ...). It enables some collaboration with designers (through exposing some parameters of the UI) but still focus on the coding experience to bring our projects to life.
I share your concern, but mosquitoes do currently kill an awful lot of people.
"Let us show you more ads and we will stop harassing you with last generation advertising tech so much..."

-- No, I don't negotiate with terrorists.
Why does he write like an SAT reading comprehension passage
When IBM Was the Center of Gravity (2021)
It is difficult for the Scrum Master to be impartial in a situation where the management ultimately decides who will be the Scrum Master and whether Scrum will be used at all.

I am not sure what would be the right solution. One possibility is to fire the management, or never even hire them at first place -- if you want to have a software company that uses Scrum, do it from start. Another possibility is to have a Scrum Master with strong political skils... which more or less means, it cannot be a former developer.

Probably the fatal mistake is having too many managers in the company. At that moment, it is practically guaranteed that they will try to interfere with everything. They have to, because that is how they protect their own jobs. And they will hire more managers, because that is one way to get higher on the company ladder (hire more people into positions below you). And at that moment, everything is doomed, because now the company serves the managers instead of the other way round.

I guess this means that Scrum can work as intended only in small companies. Where the Scrum Master is not below several layers of management, but on the same level as the few managers, right below the company owner.
>Nothing is being gobbled.

I mean, I disagree with your opinion here. It's entirely possible that we end up in a world where corporations use all of the unlicensed spectrum to operate their corporate networks (on "user-owned hardware" that is centrally coordinated and controlled), leaving very little of it to alternative uses. There is only so much unlicensed spectrum so this is very much a realistic outcome, especially if the "user-owned devices" are coordinated and designed to maximize the company's use of the spectrum. I think "gobbling" is a pretty accurate description of this.

What you are saying is that our current legislation around these bands permits that use, in the same way that it might be legal for Amazon to house all of its workers on public land in some states. The question to ask is whether this is actually good.
Indeed I would.
I think the question above is whether nonprofits are playing a zero-sum game - if donors have set aside some budget, and you "acquire" a donation by competing another equally worthy non-profit (instead of competing against the donor's savings account), it's not clear that this is good for the high-level goals of society.

In the long run, it will turn into the same arms race as political donations. At the end of the day, every candidate is trying to win over the same voters, so the net effect of Party X spending $100 million on ads and Party Y spending $50 million isn't terribly different from Party X spending $10 million on ads and Party Y spending $5 million - it certainly does not yield an election that is ten times better at reflecting the voters' preferences. And it may well yield an election that's about how well the parties can market themselves and not how well they can govern.

If cystic fibrosis is a problem that needs ten times the spending of muscular dystrophy, but the muscular dystrophy folks are ten times better at fundraising, the effect of that is to divert funds from cystic fibrosis into getting them to be one hundred times better at fundraising than they used to be.

(I don't have an answer here, any more than I have an answer to how to curtail campaign spending.)
Fair point. But Europe is also a bit of a mess -
6,000 banks with unique banking APIs. And the large open banking incumbents are charging for access to banking data that's available via PSD2 for free. We're trying to make it a little less messy, by providing free access to data that's actually free (it's weird how it's a thing, I know).
Paleolithic diet may not have been that 'paleo', scientists say
Do people own the mona lisa in their home or do they have a curator hold it for them and their ownership is backed by a contract in the current legal system?
The mouth works great when you're working out hard enough that it's physically impossible to exchange enough air through your narrow nostrils.

The mouth isn't a poor substitute. It's an adaptive advantage to be used as required.
> MaidSAFE is not a cryptocurrency

Mmhm. Well, they raised money using an ICO, so apparently they felt their coin was worth people speculating on. Market cap is above $200 million.

Maybe the technology is great, but it's built and operates like any other get-rich-quick crypto scheme. Their mission, if genuine, would be better served by a different approach. Avoid the appearance of impropriety and all that.

I don't have much of an opinion and don't want to argue, but you did ask why people were downvoting. That's why.
> little kids in the middle of nowhere would run up to me and say hey DOLLAR, give me DOLLAR. They were trained for that.

And why not? It seems like rational behavior on the part of the kids/families given their circumstances and their incentive systems.
That remains to be seen. However it still doesn't inspire a lot of trust. Wondering what would the fallout be if another MAX crashed because of another ugly hack turned deadly.
Well in the US race is inextricably tied to class. We have a long history of limiting the economic opportunities of Black people that’s led to a pretty extreme black/white wealth gap.

So in the US at least, class issues are race issues.
This is why billionaire philanthropy is such a scam. It's just a tax-free way for oligarch to create societal infrastructure that further entrenches their hegemony.
Web monetization seems like a great way to create a two tiered internet. A high quality one full of usefull information for the wealthy that can afford to pay multiple subscriptions to websites for content.

Meanwhile, the poor plebs will be left with ad ridden useless garbage they can mindlessly consume.

Even better...why not do it like the Phillipines? Facebook can provide a free service for the poor people where they don't have to pay a subscription for certain sites as long as they browse the web through facebook?

This'll give access to sites partnered with facebook of course, but who needs the rest of that internet anyway?

What a great way to keep poor and uneducated people poor and uneducated. How dare they be able to just hop on the internet and learn whatever they want for nothing more than seeing an ad? Everyone should pay for everything.
I Built a Postgres FDW to Query Hacker News Using SQL
A Strategy for the '90s: Windows
Use a garden hose, cover the whole area
...of doom.
Greetings HN! Had some fun hacking together a Steampipe Plugin (https://steampipe.io) in Go to query the HN api with SQL. Let me know if you have any questions on usage.

Steampipe Repo: https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

HN Plugin Repo: https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-hackernews
My wife and I have given reasonably large donations to various groups and told them we're not interested in getting push communication from them. We'll donate again if and when we can.

The orgs that don't respect that (Medecins sans Frontieres comes to mind--multiple glossy mailings per year) get removed from the list. It's kind of harsh, but there are plenty of deserving orgs to support who are compatible with this stance. I understand why, in general, such outreach makes sense, but in my specific case, I find it annoying and it doesn't motivate me.

I've found the Against Malaria Foundation to be stellar in this regard. They were very responsive in getting set up to accept Canadian stock when I inquired about it. They did one unexpected followup communication, but it wasn't a solicitation. Instead, they were considering changing how stock donation would work in Canada in order to minimize their fees, and wanted feedback on whether it would be a good or bad change from the perspective of a donor. They were explicit that the feedback was optional, and that they weren't soliciting a donation, just effectively doing market research.
Writing numbers that way is common in various languages. For example, every day on the Polish news the number of newly detected COVID cases is written in the format "13 tys. 574", where "tys." is the abbreviation for “thousand”.

As native-English-speaking academics have become a minority of those publishing in international journals (and fewer journals are doing serious copyediting anyway), there seems to be more and more toleration in science of different ways of writing things based on the author’s own native language.
Well, except we forget that the _normal_ scenario for living systems is to constantly be replacing everything. Over the course of your life, my understanding is some cells are replaced every few days, and some live many years, but if you live a long life, very few will be intact from your early adulthood to your twilight years.

I think the distinguishing factor that people want to latch onto is that if "identity" applies to recognizable configurations or organization of parts, is replacing large chunks qualitatively different from replacing small ones (e.g. blood donation)?

Maybe another interesting comparison is virus recombination or reassortment -- where meaningfully large, recognizable chunks are put together in a new arrangement. We recognize this process as giving rise to a new strain, but you could just as easily view it as a successor to one strain, but with modifications.

Or changes among institutions or groups: we think the United States is a country with a ~245 year history, though its geography and population changed a lot, with sudden expansions.
> I have to relearn it every time I want to engage with it

That's my relation with regex.
not a bad idea… something manually controlled but otherwise similar already exists, the "bug-a-salt" gun. https://www.bugasalt.com
> Page 11: Ethical Approval: Not required.

Just a general question, what are the criteria for living organisms that do requires ethical approval? Is the threshold by organism size?
I think the solution is to integrate it at the build tool level. A Webpack plugin. They are much harder to block without having to actively rewrite the JavaScript codepaths. The requests should also be proxied back through your own middleware to side step DNS level blocks. I can see a model where a third party analytics platform can offer support for the most popular web frameworks.
Notably, certain types of organizations (i.e. CA public school PTAs) only accept unrestricted donations for some of these reasons.
It’s incredible how it runs on the web. CodeSandbox is an awesome tool because it’s the same thing you use on your desktop (if you use VSCode). Just the other day I saw some post here wondering why you can’t “code in the browser” and uh, you can! Just go to CodeSandbox.

I suspect MS will be selling VSCode premium, as I mentioned elsewhere on this thread, they are already maintaining closed components.
@kgwgk "Because optimizing asymptotic growth and maximizing logarithmic utilty are mathematically identical."

I'm afraid not. They are infact different. One includes the starting wealth of the gambler and the other does not.
I still breathe normally through both the nose and mouth when using it. And the effect is good enough from just warming the (bigger) airflow through the mouth. But it probably stings a bit more in the nose compared to the mask variants.

I don't feel it hampers my breathing at all, really. If anything, it allows me to take full breaths in conditions where that normally would hurt. I got the sports variant.
>Now it is funding anti-racist math: https://equitablemath.org/

In my limited experience, a lot of students seem to have specific weaknesses with the subjects that are traditionally taught in middle school. Manipulating fractions, applying the distributive property consistently, and simply understanding how to dereference a variable by inserting an equivalent number or expression -- I have multiple students messing these up pretty much every week.

With that said, this website is extremely discouraging. There are five "steps" on the front page but no specifics, and buzzwords everywhere, suffused with no-duh filler content and paraphrased repetition.
Not the same.

Try failed engineering wouldn't harm anybody (except wasting money).

Try bad social policy, could harm people you experimented on. It also has broad impact on the society.

Quote: "..., there is nothing inherently wrong with trying a reform and having it fail. The key is learning from failure so that we avoid repeating the same mistakes. It is pretty clear that the Gates effective teaching reform effort failed pretty badly. It cost a fortune. It produced significant political turmoil and distracted from other, more promising efforts. And it appears to have generally done more harm than good with respect to student achievement and attainment outcomes."

https://www.educationnext.org/gates-effective-teaching-initi...
You've taken a statement about SF and applied it to an area 140 times the size of SF. Obviously that will result in it being nonsense.
Cosmetics in games largely have value due to the game being online and multiplayer, which means NFTs aren't useful for them because there is already a central server to manage ownership.

They don't buy cosmetics just to show off their status, but to actually make their character look different when playing with a group of people who can see it. It's rarely "oh look - expensive" it's more "oh look - freaking Cowboy Ursa lmao"
Show HN: NiMH Battery Tester
There are other Arduino powerered battery testers, but this one is mine. I took some trouble with the documentation.
It's good to see people actually talking about this.

I simply cannot run in the winter because of this. It ruins my respiratory system for the rest of the day.

And I can't count the number of times I've had people insist it's all in my head because, they insist, it's only relative humidity that matters, and the relative humidity in the freezing air is still 70%. And they don't understand when I gently explain that the air gets heated by the time it makes it deep into your lungs, at which case the relative humidity has plummeted to something like 10%. And sure, your mucus membranes do their best to humidify that air a little, but when it's well below freezing they simply can't keep up at all. And it's not just your lungs but your throat and vocal cords too.
In the People’s House There Are Many Mansions
Uh, isn’t it Leetcode or bust? What’s the college you went to have anything to do with it?

In fact, I’d say it’s the only saving grace of Leetcode, that it doesn’t discriminate on any level. The great equalizer.
Am mid-founding a startup which will give 5% of its profits to charity from day 1. Customers won't have a choice about this - either the amount or the charities chosen - so this will be intrinsic to doing business with us. Trade with us if you like that, don't if you don't. Will be on a tiny scale compared to the donations PG refers to, but customers (who are donating indirectly) will have to trust us, while we trust the charities we give to. There's no meddling or options to choose from, by design, for the same reasons PG describes.
You should examine the nonprofit's Form 990 if you have concerns or look at their page on Guidestar.
The tone of these articles is really unfortunate.

Very much positions the donors as bad guys, their own admission of failure as proof that they’re bad guys, and that the problems are fundamentally unsolvable and that we shouldn’t do anything.

It’s fine to note programs that don’t work; but schadenfreude in fully-funded experiments with the goal to help children is counter-productive.
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