skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s differences between talk therapy and simply taking psychiatric medication, though.
Anyone else wanted more on the car covered in slime on a highway?
Remove the ads bit out of the equation and push this a payment platform for content creators.

Ads on the web are not going away for a long time to come.
What’s a digital currency without mining, and how does it differ from regular fiat money today?
Not runescape, it was an old MMO that got abandoned, we modded the game kept it alive for almost 8 years before most of the Admins quit and we started our own company, last I heard the game is still running.

As for the DDoS tools, after writing the parent comment just did a quick ddg search and you can still find several websites advertising services to DDoS. Some I recognize from back then.

On a side-note doing a nslookup shows some of these sites are behind cloudflare haha.

>>Also there was another kind of attack where you would start thousands of bot clients at once that would spam messages. The hopes would be that you would (a) shut down the server, (b) attract the players to the server your bots were advertising

Oh man.. some people..
Trill Flex: A sensor that bends to your project
Electron lowers barriers for people who know web development already. Not generally.

Lotus apps were known for being unusually slow. Visual Studio Code is known for being unusually fast for an Electron app. And it still chokes on files Sublime Text handles easily.
That sort of pomodoro stuff only works on unpleasant tasks that don't require too much thought or creativity
I remember when the web used to be (mostly) free, with no ads nor any expectation of payment from others. Sites were simpler then, sure, but costs were very manageable even if the barrier to entry was higher.

People deserve to get paid, for sure, but I think many overestimate the value of what they put out, and I'd argue much of the web has negative value these days due to the flagrant violations of privacy that come with the raw tripe I have to sift through if I'm seeking to be informed in a particular topic.
Those are the EUT criteria not Ole Peters.

The maths you are looking for is here:
https://ergodicityeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/ergo...
There's really nothing unique or "differentiating" about nodes.io Plenty of other visual scripting environments offer power users the ability to code their own nodes: cables.gl, TouchDesigner, vvvv, Grasshopper, Houdini.....
Oh, I would have thought that they'd at least get something like massively improved latency, if not something comparable to what dedicated GPU cards do (using completely different memory standards, and likely sacrificing latency for bandwidth). If the M1 units only integrate the RAM for the form factor and to avoid all the hassle supporting a wide range of RAM modules (or the hassle of communicating that they are almost all unsupported) then it's probably not much of a deal just building a bigger module.

A "cluster of MacBooks" style board might still be an interesting approach to offer something to the market segment that hungers for an Apple workstation without relegating the MacBook to a second class device. "For up to four threads it's just as fast as the mighty stationary monstrosity" would be a much better sales pitch than "if the mobile isn't fast enough for you you might be interested in or stationary offering".
> People will never pay for what people now derisively call "content" nowadays.

Correct, but would you pay for better content? I started a subscription to the local business journal over the holidays. I'm genuinely glad I bought it. About once a week, I see some headline -first- there. For a few weeks, I thought they were repeating articles, but it turns out they were doing more in-depth reporting on a story as time progressed. How rare is that? By the time the headline shows up elsewhere, the biz journal is on their 2nd or 3rd story with more in-depth reporting.

This is really, really nice. For local stuff (land development drama, businesses opening/closing, and general goings-on around town) things are relevant to me, because they're happening where I live/work/play. That is subtly different than me picking up a subscription to the New York Times or Washington Post to get reporting on national news which has to cater to a national or international audience.
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The cost of small (128x32) OLED displays with integrated drivers has absolutely plummeted in recent years. They are now cheaper than 7 segments unless you only have 2 digits to display. On top of that the oled display modules are typically 2 wire serial or something similarly economical, while 7 segments require more connections and external components. It's hard to imagine them coming back in small devices.
I see. Now that makes it worse.
I guess, but that seems weird because then it'd be your brain wanting to change how it thinks itself through speech
http://psyarxiv.com/5c2ej/download says the Unpaywall extension (works on Firefox, probably also on Chrome). Great thing to have installed.

However, before getting carried away, let's not forget the results are based on made-up scales, bad, unbalanced alternatives and online surveys, Mechanical Turk in this case. The sample is guaranteed to be unrepresentative, because "[o]nly those who had completed a minimum of 500 surveys and had at least a 97% MTurk HIT approval rating were eligible to participate" and 62% had at least a bachelor degree.

Best r they report is .39.
I hadn't seen that. Thanks.
It’s interesting, but the finale of WandaVision had Vision debating this very thing with his doppelgänger.
Getting something $ out of it and turning into a career sure sounds like business to me.
Really great to see alternatives to plaid! A few years ago I looked to setup an online finance tracker for personal finance and eventually dropped the idea of connecting with Banks using Plaid or Salt due to the excessive costs - especially for just a side project idea.

Hopefully banks the world over will start to standardise their API's and we'll have access to more and more third party apps which can help people with their finances!
I am bringing some negative energy but I've been burned.

I don't understand the hype about flutter - putting aside that dart is a tool that made more sense in a different timeline, or that some of the examples seem really slow/buggy, or that it's rendering behavior is a nightmare to guarantee consistency - putting all that aside, I've yet to see anyone build anything non-trivial with flutter.

And then there's Ubuntu. Canonical is just all over the place. There was Unity, there was their weird mobile phone, there was their mobile OS, the weird ads in desktop searches. I am doubtful anytime I see anything Ubuntu related.
This is the source page of the graph[0].

The obvious parts are the progression of technology being added to cars over time, and the corresponding increase in cost. Some of the connectivity wasn't explained (V2I, V2V, V2P) but I assume Vehicle to Internet, Vehicle to Vehicle... OK I looked it up, and here's a full reference[1].

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/level-5-avs-unlikely-before-2035/

[1] https://www.auto-talks.com/technology/v2x-wiki/
I once argued with a colleague that this collection is akin to our software patterns. They are solutions to recurring sub-problems and are a mark of a mature engineering discipline.
Having been on the internet in the 90s and now, I disagree.
If all problems are emotional, then just the very act of a shared commitment, reccomended by an "expert" (e.g. to having "relationship meetings") may be enough to solve them, regardless of content.
I resonate with this sentiment. My current conclusion to fix prediction paralysis is that you have to let yourself accept the fact that your initial designs will be kinda crappy, instead focus on iteration. Don't aim at perfection, aim to maximize the value of each iteration.
the short answer is no, just no. it's time to move past the web v1 monetization model.

perpetuating a model that has lead to the cancers on our culture and species that are FB, Twitter, Insta, etc, etc. is not the answer.
https://twitter.com/ORStatePolice/status/885597812980711424
What is the libertarian argument against vaccination?
Well, for starters people will at least have the option to earn an income without ads. Right now this can be pretty tricky, depending on the type of site you run.

I've been working on a recipe website for a while; it's a slow burner project. I have a bunch of feature/UX ideas that I think will improve things a lot, and I also want a site that's not full of nonsense like ads and "oh, you scrolled to see the actual recipe description HAHA FUCK YOU, here's a newsletter popup first instead" and "allow us to send you our fucking notifications" popups and whatnot. It's always hard to be sure, but overall I think it would be pretty viable business.

But ... how do you monetize this without ads? Ask for donations? Things like Patreon have made this more common in the last few years and it could work, but it sure is starting a business on hard mode. The easier all of this becomes, the better there's a chance that a viable sustainable alternative will even exist in the first place.

A big reason why this is a slow burner project is because I just don't rate the chances of actually earning significant amount of money with this in 2-3 years as very high unless I resort to adding ads (and my bar for "signifiant" is really low by the way, maybe €1000/month of turnover). Even though this is very much a project that I built purely because it's the kind if site I want to use myself, it's just really hard to justify spending a lot of time on this right now in the current "internet economy".

So in short: no, it won't guarantee anything, but it does open up new possibilities.
Percival: Making In-Browser Perceptual Ad Blocking Practical with Deep Learning
Worked great with Cable
I'm not convinced… Think it becomes more important as drivers will be engaging less but it will become more important to do it quickly and easily when they need to
> But it's grating when you can't escape it.

Utterly exhausting.

Subscriptions, MITM, fees, advertising, loyalty programs, ...

All these unnecessary transaction costs absolutely deter me.

Mitch Hedberg captured it nicely: I give you cash, you give me donut. And done. No paper receipt needed.
> It's for regular people who post random stuff on the Internet that would like to get something out of it and maybe one day turn it into a career.

The more important point is that there are honest ways of making income; shoving memetic malware at people and exposing them to Internet surveillance isn't one of them. But even in purely economic terms, regular people get peanuts for showing ads. Which is why anyone expecting to learn anything from their side publishing has a donate button or a Patreon these days.
There is still violence, it’s just centralized in the government instead of distributed in the gangs.
Wikipedia doesn't show you ads from Burg3rking. And am also sure they'll do just fine with/out your donation.
Funny. I started at UCI in 1985 where they gave every student an email. 36 years later, the same exact email address still works. In fact, I think 1984 was one of the first years that email addresses standardized on the "natural" format everyone sees and uses today. We used the MH mail system that was developed at RAND and later adopted as an open source project there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
I asked for a TI-99/4A because that's what my best friend had and we would make games and share them with each other.

When I think back to the microcomputers of the early 80's, I'm kind of astounded that they sold in the numbers they did. They were pretty useless.
The thing is, say that you would be exempt by the blockers.

The way they work is not by downloading and checksumming scripts to see if they are allowed it not. They just downright refuse to download what is blocked.

So someone could use your special whitelist status to get their creepy tracking into visitor web browsers.

That does not make sense to allow for blockers.

Hence, you will continue to be blocked.

Great effort, though. I wish this were the future of analytics.
As both a Flutter dev and an Ubuntu user, I am thrilled by the news. Looking forward to seeing how it all works out.

In a nutshell, if anyone is interested how this works, the Flutter apps will be converted and compiled as GTK3 apps. Dart has the FFI package so it's fairly simple as a Flutter dev to do C system calls in Dart. This will of course stop your app from being cross platform out of the box (but I doubt this is a concern for the Ubuntu team).
Digital ownership expressed through blockchain could certainly make it more difficult for others to own the good. This would be dependent on the configuration of the NFT, but if done this way it certainly would meet the definition of a rivalrous good.

Music that requires you to present a private key in order to play it would meet that configuration, for example.
Rust took a lot of inspiration from the functional programming world (it has some heavy OCaml inspiration), which albeit very powerful and expressive, also come with a conceptual burden.

Rust is also in the unique position, being low level as well as functional, which means it will always be alien no matter what programming background you have.

In order to guarantee memory and thread safety, it also adds a few restrictions. Some are fundamental (mutable XOR shared, move semantic) others are/were temporary implementation limitations (like lexical lifetimes, or arrays being second class citizens, or the `impl` keyword being usable only in a few cases). In that regard, Rust has become much simpler since it was released 6 years ago, but it still has some margin for progress.
That was my first thought too - most the article is about remediation of the site - cabling, foundations, etc. It seems sensible to me that you'd refresh an existing site rather than paying for a full remediation and then developing a new site elsewhere. (Saving both the remediation costs, and the initial development/infrastructure/groundworks/planning at a replacement site)
As a confirmed loser, I appreciate the corollary!
Forth and Postscript are RPN computer languages that you can program in directly. (Likewise the JVM instruction set but most users don't program it directly or add new instructions.) Lisp is FPN ("Forward" Polish Notation).

One reason Lisp needs parentheses while Forth doesn't is that Lisp allows a variable number of arguments to functions; Forth generally does not. It's possible to build variadic Forth functions but you have to push the number of arguments as a parameter, which is usually not very convenient. With Lisp, the closing parenthesis delimits the last argument so the Lisp compiler always knows how many arguments were passed automatically.

Polish notation makes both Forth and Lisp very easy to parse compared to algebraic languages, and as the article points out it also makes expressing function composition very easy in both.
Probably something to do with promotions and career incentives. You need to design something novel and complex to demonstrate your value to the company and move ahead. Simply leaving things as they were doesn't demonstrate that you're actively creating new stuff as a project manager/engineer/designer. Also these designs tend to look good and futuristic and innovative on PowerPoint slides and tend to impress higher ups.

Similar to how introducing new tech and new dependencies, complicated architectures etc. in a software project seems to be rewarded as long as you jump ship quickly enough before the mess you created blows up.
Any taxi including Uber should be driving with the Nav visible and if the time/distance differs significantly from the nav (e.g Waze) your own phone then you direct them using your nav.

If your taxi doesn’t use a visible nav then I’d understand prefering an Uber. But this hasn’t happened to me for many years. How do taxi drivers get away with taking detours when every passenger has had their own navigation system in their pockets - which includes live traffic info - in their pocket!?

And what makes Uber drivers less likely to pull the same stunt? Your taxi should be gps tracked, app-booked and fares prepaid or at least pre-agreed/estimated in the taxi company’s app. I don’t want to negotiate prices with taxi drivers I want it clear in the taxi company’s app what I’m paying.
That's not what the article said: It said they considered them "long-tail" institutions (below even state schools) that they basically wouldn't hire from.
SEATBELT! - Yes, the car is stopped, I'm dropping my wife off at work and she clicked out one second too soon.
SEATBELT! - Hold on, she's trying to tell me something.
SEATBELT! - Ok, doing some destructive maintenance when we get home.
> ...unless the block rewards or coin market price also falls

At least one of these is guaranteed to happen, so that kind of makes your argument moot.
With default theme "Yaru" supported by community, Ubuntu is introducing whole new framework, that will require quite a bit of work to make it look similar to native applications.
They should stick with GTK, as GTK4 has made some really nice performance improvements and can be used with many different programming languages: C, Python, Javascript (GJS), Vala, just to name a few.
Developing on Windows with Rust
Yeah reply seems to be a bit buggy.

"strong philosophical stance on the meaning of probability"
???

It's taken directly from thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_hypothesis

You would be arguing directly with the laws of thermodynamics.
The KDE foundation is in the mix to ensure an open source path:
http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-...

however, https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...

End of last year they did release 6.0, so it looks like they're not hiding their releases for a year. You won't get the LTS fixes, for a year though.

For me, this means I have to stay on 5.15 until 6.2( because of location module) is one year released -- summer 2022.
Houses are meant to stay upright, but relationships are meant to end. Consider all your relationships (romantic or platonic) from middle school, high school, uni, first job, moving to a new city, cofounder etc. the expected, healthy, and natural conclusion for 90% of your lifetime relationships is to end to make room for the next ones. You learn from each one and try to apply from the best to the rest. Sometimes, very few times in life, an end is a failure - but the baseline is that it’s natural and desirable. Unlike your house collapsing.
I suspect that the morality of digital vs analog platforms depends on the platform and situation. Amazon comes to mind.

Uber drivers might be more honest for now because they haven't figured out how to fiddle the system, what they can get away with, or would get lost if they strayed from the directions given by Google Maps.

But I've read about plenty of fiddles involving the decision of whether or not to pick up a customer, based on neighborhood, destination, whatever. So they might just be using a different fiddle -- one that is easier to hide.
I have no conception of how many ads should or shouldn't be on the web, I mostly just want to be left alone in my digital travels. I also don't think any monetisation model that hinges on users making micro donations and deciding how much is a fair donation themselves will be a sustainable model for most people except outliers.

The situation is interesting because we have had simple monetisations channels for over a decade it's just that the majority of the content available on the web is low value and in the majority of consumers eyes not worth paying for. Hence if you put this content behind a paywall no one pays for it. I don't think micro-donations will solve this in any way. Not that they don't serve some use case in the bigger picture. There are certainly niches that have benefited. I just don't see it taking off beyond that.

I believe the majority of people have no urge to compensate "content creators" (small businesses marketed differently) for giving away content for free. If a business wants to venture into a market in which there is evidence of there not being a demand above a price point of zero any work done to extract compensation for the effort feels counter productive. I see a lot of arguments about creators "deserving" to be compensated, because they've put in the graft and produced...something. I wish anyone luck with their chosen enterprise and don't want to see anyone's hard work dissipate in vein but people don't deserve to be compensated for pursuing a business idea. I think that's seen as common sense outside of the digital realm.
Oh just an FYI - I'm getting a 403 error when trying to subscribe to your mailing list, it looks like a CSRF error: "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted."
It’s a major step forward if it fixes one of the huge problems with Lisps: adoption.
Ask HN: Why are the most MOOCs videos showing the lecturer in the video?
For me, HN has a positive attitude toward MOOCs overall.
Since I'm talking about videos on programming, why do so many videos show part of the screen the trainer during the whole time while they teach or write code?

What is the point of that?

I assume that's relatively something new, since KhanAcademy old tutorials are not like this?
NFT appraisal is a grey area if it is anything like the art market, and yes it can be used to defraud.

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-irs2mar02-story.html
A 2 m x 1.2 m table costs almost 3000 USD !

https://vention.io/designs/lab-workstation-2-m-x-12-m-123900

This is extremely costly. A standard table, with square steel tubes, fabricated, would cost probably much less.
Sure, there is always the possibility of new physics being discovered. But we know A LOT about the universe, and the fact that we can explain so much about how things work, from the atomic to the galactic level, without any kind of a time-stable identity being necessary does suggest that we shouldn't hold our breath hoping for one to be discovered.

Also note, a hash or a mind in a higher-level universe is exactly a transcendent soul: it transcends what we call physical reality (or it transcends 'the simulation' in that story). Just because it's framed in scientific concepts doesn't make it any more or less scientific than Brahman or Christian souls.
Presumably, less secure applications could derive random data very quickly via existing means by dropping the cryptographically-secure constraint.

As noted in other comments, if you seed a reasonable cryptographic scheme with enough entropy up-front (and protect it well), you shouldn't constantly need to produce more.

So, what practical application would this have?
Let's ask the more important questions, will this allow centralized control of information access and make deplatforming easier? Will creators and consumers in every part of the world have equal access to the monetization system?
UK and Europe has already done this. Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Japan are all working towards this. It's happening.
What does +$0.25 each mean?
I grew up on the Apple ][ but I can certainly relate to some of the stories here.

Except now I hate Apple for turning into such a snob company :(
I think this is misleading.

If people think content is not worth paying for, they won't pay for it anyway.

If content creators think they can make enough money with ads they'll keep putting ads on their content, they won't give up on the income stream ads provide for a theoretical ROI based on subscriptions

And even if they did, it's still more profitable to sell subscriptions and cry that you don't make enough money and have to put ads on your website, against your will
n.b.: Taleb in this chapter cites Ole Peters, who is the author of the featured article.