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Show HN: Forth – Rethinking (and improving) News
Hi HN --

After a thread a couple of weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866242) got more attention than I expected, and someone even suggested doing a Show HN (thanks wanderingmind)-- so, here goes:

We're building a network of local journalists, along with others in national verticals. Our incentive structure exists in a way to promote news people want to come back to read, not clickbait headlines, divisive or anger driving hot takes, or lowest common denominator coverage. All geared to 18-34 year olds, who are less likely to consume local news in the traditional forms, like subscribing to a local paper or watching broadcast TV.

It's still early stages; but we're proving out the concept. Newsrooms are infamously understaffed, so asking them to take on another platform is usually a nonstarter. Instead, we offer free, proprietary communication tools to help the staff communicate (https://www.nillium.com/newsrooms) and that syndicates updates out automatically.

As we're onboarding traditional newsroom partners, we're also pushing forward with college students (see Ithaca, NY: https://www.forthapp.com/locale/6174d42a63b3f0d8dbef92dc) and also automatically publishing White House Pool Reports (https://www.forthapp.com/dl/whitehouse) which are public, but difficult to obtain if you aren't in the media.

I'd love to hear what you think. And as an aside/shameless plug, if you work for a newsroom or cover local news, please reach out -- we'd love to have you on board -- jared at nillium dot com.
Years ago I read someone express the maxim "the computer you want is always around $5k". This has stuck with me. It's been approximately true throughout my life.
Mostly. Docker for Mac's internal VM consistently kernel panics the first time I launch it after a reboot. I also have containers freeze up every now and then, something that never happened on my Intel machine.
Done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28989779
> Some are unable to work in IT or as programmers because of it.

This point is very forced. Just don't buy the most expensive laptop on the market.

I have never had any apple devices, and yet I'm a software developer.
> it does not give you "absolute freedom of movement". It gives you hours of your day siting in traffic.

Talk about hyperbole - Having a car in America does in fact you can get to pretty much anywhere else in the country within a couple days. That's facts. Most of that time will be crusing too - not traffic.
A field is, by definition, a physical quantity in space and time. The key idea of GR is that gravity is the curvature of space time. The electromagnetic field is not bent, light for example always travels in perfect "straight lines" in the curbed space time created by mass/energy (more specifically, light always follows the shortest possible length of space-time between two points, which, in un-curved space-time is a straight line, but is a curved line if space-time is curved).

Do note that current quantum field theories do not work in curved space-time, so this may turn out to be wrong in certain crucial ways.
People who choose to attempt to understand bitcoin are either loud zealots, or stay quiet because why would they expose themselves? So the superficial criticism of volatility or "how do I reverse a fraudulent payment" is left to those who don't even bother to explore the subject.
Maybe the elites aren't lizard people, but cat-people (khajit?). So subservience to cats has an adaptive function in the business world?

/s
You're right that our streets are designed to encourage dangerous driving, and therefore the planners should bear at least as much blame as the individual drivers. But they are designed that way because of toxic individualism. This is a country run by people who heard Thatcher's "there is no such thing as society" speech and agreed with it.
Yep. Predicted by Einstein in 1912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring
> Higher quantity of ideas == More engineers. Higher quality of ideas == Fewer engineers.

Part 1: By definition: more engineers = more ideas.

Part 2: Not so much.

On the one hand, mediocre engineers are sometimes sequestered into small teams where they can't interfere with the important projects that all the smart people and other resources are being thrown at. They just sit there and churn out crappy ideas and crappy non-vital tools. Like daily indicators.

On the other hand, I can see that as more of a tautology: ideas come from one person and are grown by a team. So be definition a quality idea comes from one person, and turns into a team.
Products also take "years" to design and develop, so I'd say the statement may still hold true.
And (if true), I wonder if it's due to the average size of cars, and safety features that prioritize the vehicle's occupants over that of squishy and brittle street users not inside steel cocoons.
I'm assuming the "source" is something they saw on a Facebook group
I really can't fathom how anyone would even consider wearing noise-canceling headphones while in traffic in any active role (ie. not a passive passenger).
99.9% of Software professionals probably don't make $300k
It crossed my mind while considering this that a figure like this doesn’t mean the same as it would have pre-cloud infrastructure.

My team is fairly experienced but not so much in infrastructure. Even so, we build and deploy on Google cloud with fairly excellent scalability and ease. Ten years or longer ago I suspect the story would be different - the infrastructure and scale constraints could have pinned us at times. We would have needed to hire more to support that effort.

And what I’m getting to is that yes, they had 50 engineers in their pay roll, but many more supporting various SaaS products and infrastructure they use and pay for.

Not to say this isn’t impressive still, I think it’s a great thing and worth aspiring to. I love small teams.
OP you been listening to the Meateater podcast?
Historically there’s been a mentality on HN to avoid these repetitive shallow jokes (sorry, but it’s true) since they don’t lead to much interesting discussions, but maybe times are changing.
Nice story. What are you doing now?
Yeah, the currently active paragraph seems to be always at the same position on the screen (seems to be somewhere in first 1/3 of the screen height). If I've finished reading paragraph i and the next one is i+1, i+1 will appear where i was and i will go up.

I'd want i to stay in place and i+1 appear under it (and become active). This way there is less movement on the screen and I don't have to scan the screen up identifying where the new active paragraph starts, just keep reading the new paragraph where the old one ended.

I imagine it like the difference between scrolling a text with mouse when reading it, or with page-down button. I prefer the latter, this way your eyes move through screen as they would do with paper instead of picture moving and your eyes staying on the same place, and you can also utilize location memory (“I remember that author said X at the bottom right of the page while the top of the page was saying Y”). The other thing is, it provides another way to split the text into “pages” and give you a natural feeling of how much you've read (location memory again, “author is introducing X, I remember that they've set up the scene for it two pages back”).

The current mouse-wheel-scrolling-like approach seems to be more like audiobook that gives you book contents in a continuous stream, while the page-down approach is more like paper split into pages. I think both must have some benefits and looks like your tool (with some change) can accommodate both types of readers.
Another way to think of it is she ensured none of the social media giants today (YouTube, TikTok, Snap) or those that come after will do this research.
Yeah, its easy to vote people that you don't know off the mortal coil. Classic case of the tragedy of the commons.

Canada has half the rate of the USA, Netherlands around third, and they have the same "near-absolute" freedoms.

(Canada vs. USA vs. NL rates) https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-detai...
> the minimalist design mid-2010s Apple, which achieved design simplicity by forcing complexity and frustration on users

This is a really insightful, succinct take on how they strayed from the path.
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> Under the “Billionaire Income Tax” proposal, the federal government would require billionaires to pay taxes on the increased value of assets such as stocks on an annual basis, regardless of whether they sell those assets.

> They could also take deductions for any annual loss in value of those assets.

> House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday the plan has plenty of appeal but that it may only bring in $200 billion to $250 billion, requiring fellow Democrats to rely on other revenue raisers to fully pay for their plan.

> "The billionaires tax ... has an appeal, but it doesn't produce that much money," she told CNN.

This whole idea is thoroughly underbaked. In an economic downturn, the government could end up losing money in this scheme. And it would take less money from the wealthy than a garden variety VAT would.
When you can show me internal discussions at FB where employees say things like:

"we should label stories about 'Russian collusion' as misinformation"

"we should censor stories celebrating the BLM riots"

"(April 2020) we should allow stories about the Wuhan Lab Leak theory"

Then you'll be correct. But when 100% of their executives' concern goes into monitoring only right-wing content and responding to left-wing employees, then the charge is justified.
HODL!!
Thank you for highlighting why I will never support government healthcare.

I do not wish to live in a world where the government is monitoring and regulating what I have for breakfast, "for my own good"

No thank you, I will pass on that kind of dystopia
Explaining web3 simply, accurately, and compellingly is not an easy task.

This man pulled it off.
Is it so difficult to understand that killing others involves a totally different moral equation than killing yourself?
Doctors can, and do, prescribe medications for off-label uses even if there is no proof that they work. Using acupuncture for an off-label use is the same thing.
Both cars and guns provide a concrete tangible benefit to society.
I actually like the throwback, personally. I'm guessing they did that to differentiate it in the market.

What I have trouble getting over is the flipping notch to the top. Just why. The bezel on my 2019 macbook looks the same, if not skinnier.

Do people really not watch fullscreen videos anymore or something?
Yeah Microsoft was too dysfunctional before, but they’ve improved a lot recently and are killing it in many areas
What benefits do guns provide?
If Facebook is not very good I'm wondering who, of any size, is good? As I understand it, Facebook is actually the best at this. It's just also the biggest.
This is good advice for Ancient Greek for the most part, although you would need to adjust your approach depending on the dialect you plan to study. Given its central place in the Greek canon, I've always advised starting with Homeric Greek. I would never advise starting with koine, even if you only plan to read the New Testament. It's limiting you to language only complicated enough to write a travel brochure (καὶ εὐθὺς ἀναβαίνων...), when you could be reading Greek in all of its beauty and complexity.

So what I would advise learning by rote is:

* The three noun declensions

* The present, imperfect, first and second aorist, perfect, and future indicative of regular verbs

* The active present optative, subjunctive, and imperative of regular verbs

* The full paradigms of εἰμί and φημί

From there, I'd pick up Owen and Goodspeed's Homeric Vocabularies and a good, generously annotated (but not translated) edition of the Iliad. Pharr's Homeric Greek could also help with a few forms like the dual that are important to be able to recognize, but far from necessary to memorize.

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It is a certainty that larger vehicles are more likely to cause pedestrian injury and fatality, all else equal. This has approximately nothing to do with "climate change activism" - for example, nothing changes in terms of pedestrian safety if the huge SUV or truck in question is hybrid or electric, except perhaps becoming even more dangerous because it's quieter.

Above all else, speed* and bad road design kill pedestrians. Speeding is ubiquitous in North America, and roads/streets are absolutely terribly designed, with an almost singular focus to facilitate speeding and reduce cognitive load on drivers.

* - though if we exchange 'momentum' for 'speed' we can tie it back to the size/weight issue.
Does it seem a little strange that a startup would not hire someone who had solved a harder problem (big concurrent sharded DB system) for not knowing exactly how to solve an easier problem (keep the database in memory)?

OP seems to imply that is some kind of arrogance to believe that. Seems like, if you could figure out how to crack the first kind of problem, you could probably figure out how to crack the second. Maybe it's dismissive to say this, but it seems like this was a problem with the hiring org, not the author.
I'm not sure the point of the article is that we need to get rid of all forms of preventable death (and I think the "toxic individualism" is kind of a side point). As you rightly point out, it's unrealistic (and likely undesirable) to do that. I do think the article has a valid point in that we've structured many aspects of our society around one of the leading causes of preventable death, and that doesn't get enough attention.
You don't really even have to decide for the rest of the family. Basically all of my family migrated over to MacBooks after I bought my first MacBook Pro within like a two year span.
I presume you never leave your home? Everything you do has a nonzero risk to others. How did you determine it was acceptable?
We have few provinces (10) in Canada, so it is easier than working and coordinating with all the states the US has.

The QR code is provincial, but it only requires minor changes to have one provincial app, look at other validation sources.

I agree that sadly, restaurants may find some metrics too high/annoying to deal with, and opt for a lost sale.
Great, let me know and I'll do the same thing that I did for Zig: a ~two-day matching drive for HN-ers donating to Nim.

And I'll throw in some in doomroot's name because they are too cynical ;)
unfounded claims aside, $5000 on an office chair sounds like a startup to me :)
It's just a laptop in the same old rectangular shape, in the same old colors that is actually just catching up and there's nothing at all special about this one… Try to catch some breath.

Nobody anywhere likes the notch either. Triumph? No.
http://paulgraham.com/wtax.html

60 year timeframe is probably off for most billionaires but the underlying point still stands.
Manchin's days as a Democrat are largely over. He'll never win re-election in West Virginia in the Senate unless he sticks carefully to the center or goes right. And of course he is fully aware of it.

Arizona is more of a mixed right / left scenario, so Sinema should be slightly better positioned. She doesn't need to worry nearly so much about being voted out as Manchin.
Again, I'm using the supply it shipped with. Not that having to use their supply because they screwed up the spec is an acceptable situation, mind you.
https://archive.md/TnnTQ
Maybe Logitech will make a usb-c dongle one day, until then I'm stuck with an adapter that sticks out and is constantly in danger of being knocked and bent.
Quick link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/1719...

If you are interested in a deeper dive “Right of Way” by Angie Schmidt is good review of the current research. The biggest issue is the increasing market share of SUVs and trucks which are both more likely to hit and kill pedestrians. Other issues are an increase of poor residents in suburban areas that were not meant for walking, and road design that only considers car efficiency (consider the implications of setting walk sign duration to the average pace of an able bodied middle age male - wheel chair users and the elderly are heavily represented in fatalities).

Mixed use roads can mean a lot of things, but narrowing streets actually reduces fatalities because it serves as a traffic easing measure (see Vision zero).

My personal take is yes part of the problem is infrastructure, and academics who study systems will hone in on that, but the other problem is the complete abdication of personal responsibility in American society. Politicians are too afraid to hold middle class voters accountable for traffic violence or anything else really. The flip side of personal freedom is having to face the consequences of your actions. In some states a DUI conviction does not automatically suspend the drivers license. So I do appreciate left leaning politicians attempting to improve infrastructure, but my concern is these measures are being used to carefully avoid blaming individuals for their actions this laundering society’s terrible driving habits (which I really do think could be changed through social norming and enforcement.

I am very biased though. I’ve almost been hit by multiple cars this year who failed to yield to pedestrians in the cross walk.
I wish they’d follow the same with mandatory COVID vaccinations. While it reduces symptoms, the vaccines are doing a poor job against infection. I was listening to a paper review where the Moderna vaccine is down to a 5% efficacy after 6 months, with the others at 50%. So the government is protecting you against yourself.
I'd recommend keeping it at the COMEX gold warehouse.
I also use the CalDigit dock, but I am annoyed that it has compatibility issues with Catalina (I am holding out from Big Sur as long as I can). Unplug the dock and, on next plug-in, macOS can no longer see the dock's USB bus. External keyboard, mouse, backup drive, etc. won't work unless you reboot macOS.

I've heard mixed reports on whether Big Sur has fixed this entirely.
As long as the $5000 is going to American hands only, that's probably a good thing. What we need to do is bolster companies that don't outsource the US $.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/golden-hamm...
Can you identify a system that doesn’t cause these issues for you?
We lift empty containers with smaller forklifts at my place of employment. The target for this problem space is stacking empty not full containers.
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Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sierra Space, Boeing
gwern is an amazing resource and has great articles on a range of topics, including productivity stuff; his posts on nicotine [1], modafinil [2], and melatonin [3] would be 3 highlights.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

[2] https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil

[3] https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
Something similar for nvim: https://github.com/APZelos/blamer.nvim
I am once again asking for a progressive tax on corporate revenue.

Scale breeds corruption, monopoly and power imbalances which lead to market distortions. If you love the free market, you should support a progressive tax on revenue that would allow small businesses to compete with megacorps by taxing revenue based on corp size - make it financially beneficial to spin off smaller companies to be independent entities.

Billionaires are largely a symptom of excessive corporate power in our nation.
>Do people really not watch fullscreen videos anymore or something?

How many of the videos you watch are taller than 16:10? Are any of them even taller than 16:9?
since these new machines come pre-installed with Monterrey I guess CSAM scanning is present from first boot?
FWIW I never had any issues with either Catalina or Big Sur
How is your assumption anything better than a FB group?

I Ducked 'epa expensive office chairs' and got this : https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2015/10/01/epa...
>This is a direct reduction in net welfare of the system

Mining rewards are incentive to secure the network. Security increases the net welfare of the system.

Let's compare apples to apples. If you're including mining rewards in the cost for a bitcoin transaction, you should also includes Wells Fargo's payroll in the costs for a "free" ACH
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a correlation. My quality of life increased significantly after I got my cat about 2 years ago (just before COVID!). I say to anyone who ask, getting a cat was likely the best decision I ever made. Since then I became a lot more entrepreneurial and productive. I don't believe neither me nor my car has Toxoplasmosis gondii (my cat was tested for this when I brought him home).

My cat is my friend, my roommate, my infant, the most precious thing I have and an endless source of entertainment due to weird stuff cats randomly do. He's also significant amount of responsibility, since he's a living conscious thing and I really want him to have a nice and long life. All these factors have been very useful to understand what it is that I want from life and focus on getting them.
My guess is that Apple bet on something that did not materialise, it wasn't about Jony Ive not caring about user feedback.

What was the bet you say? I think they bet that the shift to USB-C/Thunderbolt/Wireless will happen quickly and they can help with the push and increase their margins.

IMHO It wasn't a design decision but a business one and I think the removal of mag-safe is a giveaway. Every little thing that they add makes the thing more complicated to manufacture, thus more expensive.
Every non-off-the-shelf piece puts multiple teams in to work on multiple continents and this costs money. I think they aimed for the simplicity at management level and not at design level. They did some calculation based on how well people are locked in and how many will buy a new mac and went with the most profitable option up until the time for the great transition comes. Until very recently the PC industry was racing to the bottom and Apple did not have a reason to compete on features. Nice Windows laptops are a very new phenomenon, up until very recently the best trackpad on a PC laptop wasn't even on the same league with Apple's.
Lambda Calculus for Engineers [pdf]
It’s a joke about the volatility of Bitcoin, not a dismissal of donations.

I know Bitcoin proponents can be quite dismissive of anything that could potentially sound negative towards crypto, but I feel like we should not be having a discourse on HN where a joke like this has to be explained or which has people downvoting OP for making it. No matter your stance on Bitcoin it’s volatility is a matter of established fact, and it’s a fun joke, how the hell did humor die in the crowd of wallstreet bets HODL’rs screening yolo while betting their house on a stick because the ticket has high meme-value?
If you need performance take a look at the ThinkPad X13 AMD/Intel with good 13" display and probably the best keyboard available. Linux is supported very well. Replacement parts widely available (five years). With a docking station it is well usable stationary, too. The nice thing is, it fully usable and fits in every backpack. Drawback is - it is not fan-less and doesn't feature Coreboot.

PS: X13 is cheaper than X1, maybe more sturdy and you can get one USB/Thunderbolt port extra.
A lot of that is the move to bigger vehicals. Smaller vehicals are overall safer for everyone, minus sometimes the individual because of prisoners delema. That’s countered, or partially, with the ability to not get in an accident being higher due to lower mass though.
One could argue the M1 Air is essentially the replacement for the 2015+ MacBook (better perf, battery life, ports screen, but slightly bigger).
First they came for the billionaires…