skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So with obfuscation you can still decompile the binary into source code, but that version of the source code is much less human-readable and it would take more effort for a human to go through and understand it?
You are so wrong. Software is both a craft and engineering. All software fits your definition of cost and quality optimization. It is a craft in that a software engineer isn’t taught how to write the software you want, they’ve built a toolbox from crafting different types of solutions because their existing tools didn’t fit.
Were they infamous for it before 1948?
I agree. It is inevitable I think. I am glad the US is pulling out - there is no way we can fund the war anymore and regardless of what happens in Afghanistan, I would vote for no-more-war at every opportunity, including ending all the current ones.
This. Most finance people who live by Excel have ninja level skills with Excel. I have had to unpack logic from some excel sheets into webapps and they had so much sophisticated programming embedded into it. And it is so much easier intuitive to use Solver for linear equations in Excel than any web application.

Regarding the graphing ability , R may have more power but plotting the graphs in Excel is so much more WYSIWYG.
Vermont's groceries aren't dirt-cheap, but they're cheaper than, say, Seattle.

Downtown Burlington's only grocery store is a natural-foods co-op, so maybe that skews the price data? Most of the mainstream, less-expensive grocery stores "in Burlington" are actually in South Burlington, which is a different city.
Now this is pretty cool!
"USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools."

Yeah, the 2 stools nobody flushed yet.
You can block remote fonts with uBO in its per-site menu, left of the disable JS button.
Excel files are shareable and everyone's able to inspect them. (drops mike)
Houston (rather how nice of a place is to live) is probably one of the best kept secrets in the US. Despite some of the well-known shortcomings, mostly related to extreme weather events, for the most part is a kind, diverse, healthy and all in all super friendly place for new comers. Food is awesome and being lucky enough to have a good paying job, things like rent or groceries are incredibly affordable, esp. when comparing to neighboring cities (I’m personally in love with Austin but living there has plenty of issues too).
One issue is that the newspapers believe that they are providing a service by allowing search engines to link to their page.

From the perspective of the search engine (and us readers), it feels like a bait-and-switch to present the full article to a crawler robot in exchange for a better search ranking, only to hide it and demand payment from a human.

But over in Australia, old media organizations have successfully lobbied for a "link tax" which allows them to demand payment from search providers who link to them. We've still got a long way to go before we reach a consensus on the independence of search platforms and the idea that human viewers should be served the same content as web spiders.
What suggests to you that the people of Afghanistan want the Taliban?

> should leave immediately

Would be a good idea, yes. Slight problem with that is that the western militaries seem to have forgotten all promises about that now...
Choosing a name like "Kerberos" for a new project will make it very difficult to search for anything related to it. Kerberos is an old concept in many operating systems with 8.4 million google search results(and none of them are related to this video product). Pick a new name IMO.
Google actively encourages hard paywalling in lieu of other ways of gating media (like incognito detection) .
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-ini...

Also strange that some people would care more about a clean search result than the survival of media being consumed.
It seems like more right-leaning sites have it easier to remain funded by advertisements while the more left-leaning sites, which I believe includes USA Today, more often than not have to go for subscriptions. And since most people are cheapskates and not willing to pay for news, left-wing voices are heard by fewer and fewer.
I think it's fascinating how many people want:

- Current, high quality news sources

- For free

- With no ads

Lots of people say the content isn't worth paying for, but see enough value to want to consume it.
Is this you? [0]

> Please sir, only Elon Musk is allowed to declare people pedo guys.

No need to tell us that you're not a fan of Virgin Galactic.

They still went to space and you're still hate-watching the event. So what is your point?

I bet you will also sit down and hate-watch Blue Origin's launch.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22355491
>I personally do not derive any benefits from them

Any article is plastered all over the internet in hundreds of websites. Same topic, different headline.

>I want to be able to read them

I want to be able to read ANY of those "free non-paywalled" articles instead of the one that's paywalled. I have no loyalty to NYT, USA Today or The Blaze.
I wanted to watch Downtown Rocket with my family, but it's just not available anywhere outside Japan. So I actually ordered the DVDs from Japan, but they don't have English subtitles so my family can't understand them. There are plenty of pirate sites that have the show subtitled, but I don't want to use them. So my family just never watched it.
Here we go again. Inb4 ISIS 2.0
I’d be curious how they define religion. I consider politics a religion these days.
> Many people think they have coverage, so they might as well use it. This can happen extremely often and for minor things. Think people going into the doctor or urgent care because they have cold symptoms (for less than a week) and want antibiotics. Most people want the easiest, most beneficial thing, like why diet and exercise when you can just take a pill for your type 2 diabetes, cholesterol, or blood pressure?

I think this is not realistic, and it's the opposite of my experience in relation to all the people I've known.

I know far more people that _should_ go to the doctor and don't, or do it after a long time (sometimes too long) rather than people who go to the doctor's too much.

I actually can't think of anybody that goes to the doctor "too much".

I've known only one case of person going to ER for simple cold symptoms (excluding the epidemic problems), as one is going to briefly checked, then made to wait for a very long time.
Yep. After fighting this situation for about a year I leaned on Apple support and they were able to merge the accounts (unclear if they were generally willing to do that, or I just got lucky and assigned a friendly CS agent).
I wanted to add this link as an example of lifestyle and mentality effecting health costs in a population.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-...

Edit: why continue to downvote without comments?
Report by UCLA law professor Richard Sander is located here.

http://www.seaphe.org/pdf/uclaadmissions.pdf
After 2 atomic bombs you suddenly realize how cool the americans are.
One outlier is America of course. It has pretty high scores for importance in daily life and it's one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It does have very high differences in wealth distribution though, much more than the Nordic countries. But I think there's a large cultural aspect there too.
If we want quality content then these news sources need to be incentivized somehow.

When it comes to SEO, the content is all there but the paywalls are usually client side so it’s harder for crawlers to dock down paywalls.

Overall I agree that paywalls are annoying. But I do want quality publications to survive else we are going to be stuck with content like USA Today
So you want the news, and you don't want anyone to earn any money from spending the time to produce that news?
It’s pronounced about the same in either case. “Cerberus” in Latin is pronounced “Kerberus”, just like “cent” is actually pronounced “Kent”.
Do you deposit your paychecks in the bank or do you send them back to your employer ?
If yellow jounalism pays so much that Microsoft shoves it down every users throats in the name of being "current" and "updated"

Why do we have these paywalls then?
If you read the article, one of the first sentences has this to say about China:

_When analyzing the WIN/Gallup International polls' data, China is the least religious country. Less than 10% of residents stated that they feel religious in this nation, and over 60% are "convinced atheists." _
“He’s obviously skilled at all those different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as CTO,” or chief technology officer, Reisman said. “Basically his role as chief designer and chief engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths."

From that Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
Only a very low dose of Ivermectin was used. From the study limitations..

> Low percentage of hospitalization events, dose of ivermectin and not including only high-risk population.

I think one would at least use any of the protocols that were being used by the doctors who are seeing an efficacy.
So many central and west Asian countries less or equally religious to India? Yeah that doesn't make sense.
Thanks Sumit, Means a lot :)
Why would they bother though? All they have to do is pump oil and buy whatever they want with the proceeds :) It's one resource that only becomes more valuable (even after we move to 100% green energy oil is still used for production of plastics etc).
They need to make the price reasonable, and $9.99 month for a single paper is not reasonable IMO.

For $9.99 I month I can access to a library of thousands of hours of videos (netflix, prime, discovery+, etc) , thousands of hours of music (spofity, prime music, etc) , or thousands of hours of PC Games (Xbox Game Pass)

Sorry but the USA Today is not as valuable as these services... maybe $2.99 but more likely something like $9.99 a YEAR at most $1.99 a mo would be a price point I would consider.
openbox indeed is light-weight and more popular than icewm these days. I wonder what's the GUI stack behind each, some code on top of X11 windows?

Neither supports wayland though
>Those contents — the information on them — also mark it as a hyperobject. Like other hyperobjects, blockchains violate normal rules and transcend old paradoxes. For instance, some philosophers of mind have wondered how a physical object like the brain can contain information that isn’t read-out subjectively by an observer. But the information contents of blockchains seem fundamentally fixed and definite in a way most other information is not. The distributed ledger composed of wallets and their holdings has a particular consensus — it is agreed upon by all — and this consensus is enforced by proof-of-work. Perhaps one fanciful hypothesis is that the brain itself works kind of like an organic blockchain, replicating its model of self and world across its hemispheres and modules, with consciousness being the current decentralized neural consensus of the state of that model.

I get that the author is trying to make a connection between blockchains and the mind, but every step from one to the other is a non-sequitur. In the 3rd sentence, "For instance" does not actually refer to a generality from the preceding sentences of which the 3rd sentence gives an example. In the 4rd sentence, the "But" does not actually stand in opposition to anything from the preceding sentence. The final sentence formulates a hypothesis that does not really offer a potential solution to the preceding problem.

I can respect this kind of writing that the author is going for, but only if the argumentation actually makes sense.
why would your experience in UK make gp's canadian friends liars?
It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home
Have you seen the weather up here?!? For most of this country, growing things indoors in completely artificial environments is the only option. There may be regulatory issues at play, but mainly I would think it’s a climatic necessity.
Mheww, completely underwhelming. Didn't even see Richard when they reached apogee or "space". I really wanted this to be like a mind blowing space X moment, but it felt like a high altitude flight.
There is a place in San Diego that puts it on tacos. They're really good.

http://www.aquiestexcoco.com/what-is-huitlacoche/
Canada had a slightly higher cost of living than US. But we are a very very big country with low population density, so logistics are expensive.
Health care costs about 50/month if you have income. Simple. Cost never enters into medical decisions.
.(Some pharmaceuticals are a problem - expensive, if you have special needs.)
Regardless of their current downsides (which are indeed considerable!), ads by definition are there to make me want to buy things I wouldn’t otherwise want to buy. That’s not exactly noble, even if we pretend that they’re just showing me stuff I wasn’t aware of.
Youtube premium with kids pays for itself in the reduced spending/whining for things they saw on ads. Embedded advertising is another thing entirely. SponsorBlock is the way to go there.
I live in Burlington (#2 on the list).

Yes, we spend a lot on food but most of it is really high quality and from within 100 miles. The most convenient grocery in Burlington is City Market Co-op, which has the largest sales volume of any single-store food co-op in the country. That's probably skewing the data.
Use R when getting paid by the hour. Excel when you have dinner plans.
What regions are your experience in?
Those are interesting comparisons.

None of your comparisons get you actual, recent news. Do you see this all as simply entertainment?
The left is anti-democratic when they establish power. Not saying that the right is either.
Ghost, a Cyberpunk Theme for Discourse
Looks like he's still working on exactly this project 8 years later

https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/10/30/aa-sander/
Yeah I saw they mentioned it a few times, I'm just surprised they left it out of their own comparions. Because I would indeed imagine it's the least religous overall.

Of course in China a lot of religion is hidden because it's unwanted by the CCP. It was the same in Russia during Soviet rule but you can see the opposite happening now (very strict adherence to religious and traditional morals).
> I want to move a thousand files beginning with 'UTR-77' and ending with '.csv'

1. Use a file manager with stable sorting [1] (I use Thunar which does this, but I suspect lots of file managers keep the sort order stable).

2. Sort by type.

3. Sort by name.

4. Select the first file named UTR-77.

5. Scroll to the last file, and Shift+Click it.

6. Cut then paste to your desired directory.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Stability
> because Netflix took the episodes down for no reason.

Wow, what an entitled viewpoint. There was a very simple reason on why the episodes were removed: their license for those episodes expired. The content owner only allowed Netflix to display that content for a certain amount of time known as a licensing window. That window is now closed. Now that there are several other streaming vendors, the content owner of SG1 is more than likely to hoping to get more money from someone else.

So while you may be disappointed in you not getting what you want when you want it, you're ire is totally pointed at the wrong people. It is always the content owner, not the distributor. At least learn a little bit about what you are clearly passionate about.
I don't know the answer to the overall mess there, but the USA should have, at the very least, offered to take these Afghani patriots and their families away to a safe place of their choosing. But who am I kidding, the USA barely takes care of their own soldiers, and has a history of abandoning the people of foreign countries that no longer hold interest.
Doesn’t GMT follow daylight-saving time while UTC does not?

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboututc.shtml
Huge plug for Daniel Tiger, the successor to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

Our kids (4, 2) love it -- it has great lessons, talks about the topics relevant for them, and never uses the tactics discussed eg overexposed colors, rapid cuts, etc.
Good luck on your own, women of Afghanistan. You should be ready now, right? /s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women
Sure, if this was happening in Iran, there would be people on the streets and head on sticks.

Americans are all too ready to blame their individual selves for problems caused by the state and capital. A lot of people from other countries would make their voices heard.

Although this isn't by coincidence either. The government has been feeding this individual responsibility line with various forms of propaganda mixed with racism to the people. It's also been silencing anyone who dared to question the underlying system entirely.

Reminder that the FBI sent letters to JFK aimed to getting him to kill himself.
Why won't it? It's just scaling up bank air tubes. But that's almost irrelevant to my larger point:

Where would we be right now if [pick any inventor] had listened when the experts said, "it won't work"?

An inventor's job is to have a big imagination. A successful inventor usually has enough of an engineering background to test their hypothesis and refine as needed. Most of them also know how to gather highly educated minds to help them.

Many successful inventors do not have deep academic backgrounds, because often those educational backgrounds tell them only what is impossible, not what is possible.
The problem right now is that outside of select few publications you're expected to pay for a low quality content.
I doubt it's feasible, but I've always been hoping for some payment service that would allow me to pay by the article across all news sites.

My problem with paywalls is I don't want to buy a full NYTimes subscription just to finish reading one article.

I want to pay $.10 to finish reading that one article, then $.10 to finish an article on USA today, then $.10 for something on Wall Street Journal.
What forms can consciousness take and can we see it in our brains?
I've turned off the audio, it actually gets more informative this way...
Religion and Scientism: A Shared Cognitive Conundrum [pdf]
Lots of comments here are talking about lowering paywall site search results since you can not view them, however, I would actually consider raising them. Free content in journalism has a race to the bottom mentality when it comes to content quality. Free content often is incredibly bias or does not actually do any research. This gets you a lot of “fake news” that can spread like wildfire.

Having papers that are more reputable by having a sustainable business model that allows them to produce better quality content, to me would be worth it over fake news sites.
> It was a bad idea to go in.

It would've been a bad idea to not go in and maintain Afghanistan as the El Dorado for international terrorists. The Taliban got the message rather quickly though, the occupation was unnecessary.

However, only in hindsight is it obvious that Afghanistan could not be turned around, to reverse the decades-long descent into tribal mob rule. It was a mistake worth making.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/1960s-afghanistan
The difference is, in 2021 internet is a wildly different and heavily monetized place with lots or perverse incentives. It is not the internet we've checked APOD on nasa.com
Canadian here, that’s just not true, you only have to wait if you want to see a specific specialist and they are fully booked, then you have to decide if you would rather wait or see someone else.
There is something appealing about using a low-resource PC with a limited selection of software installed in order to be free from distractions that could otherwise stop me from being productive and write some code or learn something.

I know the problem is mine from not having discipline and not my modern desktop's fault for being able to run games, but still, I almost want a separate PC for this.
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Anything to advance spaceflight is something I want to see more of, but this doesn't feel like that, this feels like it's going to end with a number I can call to make my reservation and get an astronaut number. It's pretty damn bold to call oneself Astronaut 001, when none of this would have been possible without the work of dozens of other astronauts before.
That is one of the factors. The other factor can be that the least religious countries are the most homogeneous (with some exceptions).
Weird that didn't work for me.. FF + uBlock Origin. They have a really nasty paywall that checks if they can actually place a cookie.

Thankfully nathan_phoenix' archive.is link worked great.
I had to triple check the legend with the map and the price to make sure I had it right. It didn't need to be so bad.
I've experienced both.

That example I gave about wanting antibiotics for a cold was something I've seen in real life, multiple times. There are hypochondriacs and other people who do go too often. They even have a code/name for people like that to let other doctors know by reading the file. I personally know of a guy who would call 911 just to get a ride in an ambulance. Eventually they stopped responding to him.

I do know people who probably should have gone to the doctors sooner too. I don't know that many of them, but it's possible they are more common in other areas.

"I've known only one case of person going to ER for simple cold symptoms"

I said urgent care. Urgent care is not the same as the ER. I know of people who go to the ER just for the free ride (Medicaid transportation provisions).
You make a strong case for software not being engineering. Who should the client trust when every expert has something to sell, is not bound by an ethical code, and has experience that is incommensurable with every other expert's experience? Who are you to the client but another expert with a different solution to sell?
One of the ironies in banning right wing voices from popular platforms is that you teach their audiences that they have to more proactive in supporting their content.
Thanks for your input. And what about the territorial control and governmental system?
It’s not “with no ads,” really. It’s become that because ads are so intrusive now. Static ads, stitched into the page at the edge, with zero tracking would be acceptable by many. Those kind of ads have been around in print newspapers for decades. Ad blocking is in response to poor user experience in the same way that piracy was in response to the poor experience of physically buying a CD that had just one track you wanted.
Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn claims the largest sales volume for a food co-op at over $50 million per year. It's impressive that Burlington's is in that same range, given the relative sizes of the populations served. The US needs a lot more of these.
There are always going to be exceptions to the rule, usually due to a strong counfounding factor that can explain the difference pretty well...

For example, Saudia Arabia is wealthy and extremely religious... I hope I don't have to explain the counfounding factor in this case.

Regarding the USA: even though it scores high in religious people rates, it's also one of the free-est places in the world, so people who are not believers are still relatively free to go about their daily lives without problem, unlike in most other highly religious nations. The USA also happens to have the biggest military in the world, capable of taking over and applying pressure on its enemies in order to further its economical interests... I think these two factors should be sufficient to explain quite well why the USA is an exception to the rule.
There have been plenty of studies supporting this. Thanks for mentioning it