skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what this is telling you is that users don’t value giving you their email address for your free tools. They know why you want their email address, and they don’t want that, but they do want your tools. Maybe it’s time to charge money for those tools or change models? Maybe not give access until the email address is confirmed? Worth considering I guess. Idk the details. I do this all the time. Ads and malpractice have made giving out your email address risky business. If a user can give you a fake email and get what they want without giving you anything (subject to your ads or whatever you’re using their email for) that’s the logical thing for them to do.

Not judging or anything though I know my tone might seem that way.
> The fact that places like Seattle, suburban Los Angeles, rural Maine, most of Nebraska, and Miami are in the same country seems almost absurd.

Why? I can drive an hour away from where I currently work and experience more linguistic diversity (in terms of dialect intelligibility and actual language spoken) than I can in almost any region in the United States. And this is not, in any way, unique to where I live. Drive an hour outside of Taichung, Abu Dhabi, or Bangkok, and compare the differences in how people speak, live, &c. against Atlanta and rural Georgia.

The truth is that America is incredibly, incredibly homogeneous.
Cue supporting taxing Tech companies and protectionism from US Big Tech becoming "extremist".
It seems more like mimicry to me than actual “creativity”; although I am pretty certain there will be a whole trend of artists doing this for the next ten years and we will get someone really big out of it. It could be someone like Andy Warhol who would democratise the “fine” art and not just pop art? For example, imagine a combination of 3D printers with brushes and deep learning inspired paintings? These will not be as unique as the original inspirations for these paintings; however they would be a cheap alternative to what you can only get as a very cheap looking art print.
The concept is mentioned. The author doesn’t call it that, but the last part of the article discusses it.
I will propose decentralized Domain Registration system which can overcome all monopoly, sensors and bureaucracy related to ICANN.
wow you all should read the laws, specifically the consequences

not registering your out of state entity basically has no consequences, its a lower consequence than failing to return a book to the library and has the same level of resources set aside to enforce it

reach the same conclusion yourself as this is obviously not condoning anything, but anyone can run circles around you with the same runway and resource prioritization by ignoring these states

you might end up paying the same registration fees eventually just later, and depending on the state you get retroactive limited liability in the courts.

Remember tell things:

1) municipalities are in competition with each other to attract business

2) asking them if a certain level of compliance is necessary is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. It’s like asking the oil changer if they noticed anything else. Learn the consequences yourself and you’ll be able to make objective decisions.
The often quoted New Yorker cartoon is a prophecy, not satire.
I wonder whether there would be any capillary action on the resin during printing, potentially ruining the print?
Ah sounds like you are looking at it other way round !! Enjoy whatever your hobby is , desktop, web, batch , cron job, api make it a beast and if its good it might sell. If you start a new hobby ( ahem !!) for profit its not a hobby.
There's an article in Wired arguing it's helped fix the economics of that https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-vaccines-economics
Mandatory fanboi mention, and IMO a gross omission of the article:

https://enso.org/ (née Luna)

- an open-source language & IDE which aims to insta-kill all the "vs. textual programming" arguments by keeping a strict 1:1 visual<->textual representation translation as a core feature of the language. A 2.0 alpha was recently released, go check it out!
Thank you for your critique.

If now you have something to add to the points made after "Foremost:" and "Second:" your post could have added something to the discussion as well, instead of just attacking my form.
Yes. My first x86 computer was a 25MHz 386 bought in 1991. Even though 486's were available, it was still the envy of the kids at school. (For a very short time.) I remember seeing some 486 systems advertised for $4-5k, which in 1991 dollars was out of reach of most people. So I can completely believe a 286 would have been a fine laptop in 1989.

It wasn't like today, where if you're going to buy a new computer, you might as well always get the latest and greatest.
Clickbait. She went home and slept after.
Hence the genius of E=mc^2 in that the units did line up but nobody would accept the obvious, until Einstein.
Banning Payday Loans Harms Borrowers
Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse
Chemical-Visual art criticism ... Could be a whole new field.
Ask HN: How to make international app pricing fair?
TL;DR
Is pricing my app (iOS/Android) based on PPP (purchasing power parity)[0] or the Big-Mac-Index[1] a good idea to mitigate the overpricing in poorer countries resulting from Apples/Googles currency based conversion?

Background:
Hey, I'm Maximilian, the solo founder of boost (shameless plug: https://boost.fit). Even though my app is currently completely free to use i investigated how to size my pricing tiers in the future. In the process i came across a number of app ratings of competitor apps coming from poorer countries saying the respective app is nice but way too expensive for a local.

Problem:
That got me thinking - Apple, as well as google are currently loosely converting each pricing tier based on currency and taxes. This makes apps overpriced per default when e.g. my yearly subscription of $89,99 in the US is ₹6,000 in India ($80.46 converted)

Question(s):
To price my app fair and in a way that it's perceived cost is equal in regards to local purchasing power i thought about factoring in PPP (Purchasing Power Parity index) or the Big-Mac-Index[1].
Has anyone experience with adjusting prices of a digital product to local purchasing power in general? Is the fear of arbitrage or people from richer countries buying products in foreign App-Stores the reason this is not done?

[0]Purchasing Power Parity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
[1]Big Max Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
[2]My app: https://boost.fit
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This isn't the case for any country that I know of. Nearly every country uses the WHO standards for death certificates and related statistics, which can include multiple contributing factors toward death but only if they actually contributed.

So if someone is a heart patient, but they got COVID and their condition suddenly worsened, the death certificate might state the cause of death as heart failure from the existing condition with COVID as a contributing factor.

People who had COVID but died in completely unrelated ways, such as from car accidents, are not counted in COVID death statistics and don't have it listed as a contributory cause in their death certificates.
Arguably he's not wrong?

I don't love LabVIEW but I make it work because their hardware is not bad compared with alternatives.

Dragging two loops is pretty easy compared to figuring out threads and thread-safe communications in C++.
Koka: A Functional Language with Effects
Everyone's talking about sharing how your own business operates (as OP asked). I think of that as onboarding. I work in B2B, and the question I was hoping to get answered is how to share how your customers' businesses operate. In my case domain knowledge means things like: What are the differences in how an OEM vs a Job Shop operates. What departments does a manufacturing organization of different sizes typically have? How is our product perceived as providing value in each of these scenarios? How does our product actually provide value in these scenarios? Who gets extra work in the company because of our product? What's the benefit to them? Knowing these things is what allows us to bring value to different kinds of customers. This is really hard knowledge to transfer though, because you aren't living it every day. That's the kind of knowledge that's going to make a developer (, or service staff, or sales person) highly effective though.
> which grates me to this day

You might be saddened to learn that languages are a living thing :), and only "owned" by the people speaking it. Dictionaries are always behind by definition, because they encode the words that have caught on sufficiently: there was never a new word created that was first put into a dictionary and people picked it up from there.

Basically, don't get stressed too much with language changes, because it does and always will. Or what are we to make of "brogrammers" (even "hipster" is relatively new, not to mention most of the computing jargon).
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
Is it just me, or do you believe your inbox is the worst place for newsletters? Any other medium would be preferable.
I was a paying Tutanota customer for two full years, but ended up cancelling recently. Reasons being lack of IMAP (ProtonMail does), slow development, [missing features](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/search?q=missing&restrict_...) yet their focus is on building quantum cryptography defense, and most importantly, their recent change in domain limit. It used to be unlimited on the 12 EUR plan, but without any announcement to the end-user, they limited that to 1. They [fixed that later](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/lwr2ag/important_...) but I no longer trust their business practices.
Thats what happened last time with encephalitis lethargica
One excellent example I learned of recently was Catherine of Valois. A queen dowager who, among other things, in a later relationship co-founded the Royal house of Tudor with a random Welshman.

By the by, the Wars of the Roses make for an explosive tabbed browsing experience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois
The article fails to mention that the “censored” outlets are state-owned. In that frame, this looks like standard proportional military action.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Unfortunately many people call out Obama specifically as a way to take a partisan political jab at the left especially on forums. Trump’s White House was full of crooks who really were there based 100% on who they knew since many were otherwise unqualified. It makes going back a president feel like cherry picking an example but I see you could have done it as Biden would draw from Obama’s sphere more.

I am not aware of the specific Dimon speech you mentioned. Ajit Pai had a close relationship with the ISPs and Telecommunications companies with all their attacks on net neutrality etc. so I do find that the argument that Democrats are so much cozier with tech to be a bit oversimplified.

I agree with your comment overall, just shedding some insights on my thinking
> Edit: answered my own question. So this is the obsolete segmentation isolation I’ve always read about!

Yep. It was amazing what you could do with it. 286 was a chip that outside Xenix, Coherent and a few other multiuser OSes never really was fully utilized.
Here, https://www.chromium.org/teams/web-capabilities-fugu

and their PWA partner,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/06/24/build...
Fire clouds spark 710,117 lightning strikes in western Canada in 15 hours
Influencers are useless parasites, they don't "create" anything if value.
I remember, when chatting was popular, we did exactly that. But right now, it is not worth it. I want to make computers disappear in my life, to support it invisibly. But these old machines, big, loud, moving parts, hm, not for me.
"Maybe eventually we'll arrive at a state where really good programming environments incorporate the advantages of both textual and visual tools in a powerful and dynamic way. "

Yes, I agree. But not surprisingly, this is not easy to solve. You need a visual language as a consistent concept and then you need a actual visual framework, rendering it all, and enabling user input. You need a compiler compiling forth and back, between text and visu.

And then it needs to scale.
And be performant enough to actually work with it and not just have a visual demo.

Sounds hard?
Trust me, it is.
The Cost of the Cloud
Indeed. Chromium feels very fast on Windows with a Ryzen 2600 and an R9 280X GPU (4 TFLOPS). On Linux it feels sluggish and a single zoom step can take up to a full second on some pages, and nothing I tried (Wayland vs X11, amdgpu vs radeon, experimental chromium flags vs defaults) seems to make any difference...
By which I mean: if we interbred with neanderthals so would our myths and folklore.

As a hypothetical example: if, say, a neanderthal mother brought up interbred children it would be her myths about monsters that would be likely to be passed on.
I disagree. The main problem is the way they calculate NNTV as if the risk of infection was linear. It's not since there is a positive loop. In the absence of a vaccine, rate of infection grows which in turn increases the risk of infection.
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
IOW, they went out of their way to create more jobs than they otherwise would. Job deskilling is good for the most marginalized workers, even when those with valuable skills would oppose it.
My understanding is that most particulate emission isn’t from brake pads, but from asphalt on the road. Regen braking should only have a de minims impact.
This might be just what I need. I used to run my own email server but don’t have time for that anymore. I run small sites with low budgets and finding a simple email server that costs next to nothing has been pretty hard, specially if I have more than one user. I use AWS SES free tier for sending emails from these sites but unfortunately forwarding email received at SES is not as straight forward.
Using this definition:

> Firstly, my working definition of "independently wealthy" is when you can stop working and keep living. I think this is the common definition, but it's possible you're using a different one.

You are independently wealthy in America at $1mm and do not need to work. It takes very little time to see that hit is the general case. You can buy a cheap house, and buy groceries and probably actually grow the principle amount.

Now from here you can say like it’s not enough money for you, or you don’t want to leave California (or wherever) but you can easily live off of that amount of money in the vast majority of America. You can also say that people accumulated that money in some distribution and all of that too. But even if you had that amount in a house + retirement you can sell the house and move to a different location or downsize or something. If you have a million in assets you’re making a choice to work. Period. There might be some thing you don’t want to give up, or some place you want to live. That’s fine, but you’re making a choice after you’ve become independently wealthy.
Using shodan.io you can search for Internet-facing db servers without authentication. Shodan has been around for 12 years already.
We do not learn from history, thus historys repeats.

In the first place history and the world is far to complex to learn everything and anything. Second, we all are constantly in the process of learning and everyone is at different stages in their process. And third: history often is the result of conditions, and these conditions often are unavoidable, leading to similar history unfolding.

It's a complex world with complex processes and complex problems. And we are just limited beings.
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It is! I now use Kill the Newsletter [0] for those newsletters that don't offer an RSS feed.

[0] https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Your search engine should be fixing that problem. It’s what they do. Or at least what they used to do. Google seems way more interested in serving up ads than good search results nowadays.
Ok, fair enough, but if that's all the water you drink than you will have to get a bunch of minerals elsewhere in your diet.

Here:
https://naturalhealthfundamentals.com/is-distilled-water-saf...

it says:

Those who may need to be cautious when drinking it:

* Anyone who is already deficient in minerals. You may be someone who would benefit from the little extra minerals water can give you. Although if you are already deficient in minerals, and have health issues, make sure to get your water from a good source to avoid all the chemical additives from most tap waters.

* There also isn’t much information on how well we absorb inorganic minerals from water. There is also the possibility that the minerals present in the water are not doing us much good. But since it could be helpful it probably doesn’t hurt to have the minerals there.

* Someone who has health issues or malabsorption problems.

* Anyone who has an extremely poor diet and doesn’t get many minerals from their food should remineralize distilled water if they are drinking it.
Even these numbers are too small if you're going to RO seawater. I suspect what you have in upstate NY isn't access to seawater but access to some kind of less than amazing mostly-not-saltwater.

The osmotic pressure you need to overcome to perform desal is directly proportional to the concentration. So 500-1000ppm water that you don't love is a lot less challenging than seawater which is about 3.5% or 35000ppm.

You can do "I want extra pure drinking water from 'normal' water RO" for a few hundred, sure because the pressures are in the range of 20-60 psi. Reasonably efficient seawater starts somewhere around 400-600psi and I've heard of plenty of systems that work at more like 800-1000psi. Different pumps, membranes, membrane housings, piping, all of it. It's a couple thousand dollars plus a fair amount of energy unless you buy even more expensive energy recycling pumps that use the pressure in the brine output to help on the input.
Workers have been working below market wages for decades. If wages had kept pace with productivity improvements and inflation, wages would be far higher today. Instead, the benefits of technology and other productivity improvements have all gone to the handful of people you relentlessly defend.
That's incomplete, see https://archive.ph/ABLkQ
Out of curiosity, are there notable journals for mathematics that are published by MDPI?
I use postale.io after I switched away from Migadu (got in while they had a free tier). Excellent and reliable service over the past year.
I use to have a active product DearEle.com an email reminder service. There was a feature to cc everyone in email, which is used by spammers to send junk products to everyone. The source emails were all fake. Email check prevent fake emails.
I asked you for examples. It was entirely in good faith for me to point out that your first example was not actually an example.

Fall was already anonymous, and her anonymity was protected by the editor, just as I described. So anonymous payment for a web presence, one that she didn't have, wouldn't have helped here. And as you point out, the anonymity didn't prevent her from getting criticism (not harassment as far as I know); indeed, one of the lessons of the Fall incident seems to be that poorly managed anonymity breeds unnecessary suspicion.

As to your last "might be", anything might be. What I'm looking for is an example of where the social harm that can come through anonymity, specifically anonymous payment, is worth putting up with to provide some social good. So far I'm still looking.

As it is, I'll note that even your well-performed outrage over fears of harassment doesn't is out of place here, as harassers often make vigorous use of anonymity. E.g., look at Near, the latest addition to the KiwiFarms kill count.
No no, that would be a Reduction In Pressure, RIP.
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Great example of a ad hominem fallacy. Well done. :-)
Depends on the type on newsletter I'd say.

I find a lot of newsletters now are just blog posts that yes, would be better served elsewhere (especially those with little or no web archive/presence). A lot of great writing hidden away I feel.

However, curated newsletters with round-ups/link lists, I feel are great in email. I can tag them, stick them in a folder, and peruse at my leisure. However, if you're big on RSS this too may have limited appeal.
Aren’t influencers simply popular people who are willing to sell their audience to advertisers? Some of them are content creators, others are popular for other reasons. But it isn’t really a job description or title.
> Dollar stores are to blame for shootings and crime in their vicinity or the store itself because they're understaffed and messy?

Sounds like the old broken windows theory, where a "messy" neighborhood sends undesirable signals about how much the people in it care for the public benefit. But a dollar store is not a neighborhood that's collectively taken care of; it's literally just a store.
While of course in theory you are correct, the fact remains that you are able to reset your password using email in many online applications, and that addressing this is out of control of the user. Using a secure email provider, however, is within control and can certainly go a long way in mitigating the risks here.
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What proof do you have? If you can't give a specific example, your argument might as well be corporate PR.
...cargo culting and misunderstanding it deeply.
No, not close, it's exactly what they do.

Delays are fine by the protocol, it's not a violation, it's not IM.
Is it that risky? Talking, at least, as a somewhat knowledgeable person, which is the target of such web tools.

I usually have no problem using my email address to sign up for things. And yes, I do know that emails will come.

Sometimes they are actually useful and I keep them. Often, I don't care and I just unsubscribe. I some not-so-common cases, it is spam, in which case I mark it as such and I am never bothered by it again.

Sure, it's a bit of extra work. But I would not classify it as risky business.
The Future of Analytics
> Dictionary definitions are for everyday meaning of words. Academic definitions are for academic discussions - which the article refers to. Both can diverge, and often do significantly (i.e. the meaning "crypto" right now in the general internet vs. its meaning in computer science).

Barrington 1997 (227 cites), the first result when you search "definition nation" in Google Scholar, defines a nation as "a collective united by shared cultural features and the belief in the right to territorial self-determination." The United States certainly falls into this definition.
>Suppose a proposal was on the ballot next year to add a monthly fee to consumers’ monthly electricity bill to combat climate change. If this proposal passes, it would cost your household $10 every month.

The article says people say no so they aren't will to stop climate change but $10 on the electricity bill is no way going to stop climate change!

I wish people would get real with this and say "We figure a global carbon price of $200 a ton would fix climate change. Would you be up for that?" Which might actually work. I mean you'd have to get global buy in but it would be a real solution rather than the dumb, ineffective, CO2 keeps going up anyway stuff they do now.