skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally impossible for Ecosia to donate significantly more to tre planting and other initiatives. 80% of profits always go to the ecological projects, or go to the"tree fund". This tree fund can be used in a (sometimes literal) rainy day. It was, for example, possible to support some of the organizations during the pandemic while their countries suffered total lockdowns. Those communities might have struggled much more otherwise.

The only way to donate much more is... Well, increase revenue. But Ecosia wants that as much as anyone else. If you want to learn more, the financial reports are public... [0]

Source: dev at Ecosia.

[0] https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti...
Not free that I was ever aware – it was a fixed-price app when I first got it – but you could store your vault on any network drive, and later Dropbox became the way to sync between mobile & desktop. But it was a bit tricky to set up with the extra auth & auth hassle and "now where did I put my vault?" issues. As much as I liked that approach, it's hard to deny the current cloud-based service is easier to get going with.
The US has more spending power than most of the rest of the world.
Your tool could use a UX designer to make it look better.
> He did not realize it because, someone stole his brain ?

Daaaaang, I never considered that.
India is 7.7% of total traffic and China is 5%. It is night now, but still these numbers are surprisingly high.
It might seem to you but producers care about data and I do not find it hard to believe people prefer dubbing to subtitles. I believe most people prefer audio input to text because it requires far less of their attention. You would be surprised how many people watch / listen to shows while doing something else and thus not giving the show their full attention. I'm guilty of this with podcasts.
For what it's worth, Linux is over represented in the (fake) User-agent strings of the bots that attack my web servers. Most probably are indeed on linux, since they are predominantly scripts running on cloud providers. :)
As most of PKD’s best novels are.
Reddit Founder Says 90% of Games Will Pay You to Play Them in 5 Years
You can setup an external smtp to prevent that, using amazon ses or another provider (eg where you register your domain, like gandi)
I really wanted to like Dendron, but dealing with tables in markdown is a bit of a headache.

Also, I wanted a way to just show the markdown preview without also showing the source view.

The author has mentioned a planned WYSIWYG feature, so maybe that will solve these issues.

I wish zim had a proper Mac app!
You know, I want to agree but technology is not the only policy area where Russian policymakers seem to be less-than-rational. Economic development is another. Why hasn't anyone in Russia since the 1990s tried to pull a Deng Xiaoping move and create the right policy environment for broad-based economic growth? Most of the non-policy prerequisites are there already, and yet right now Russia is only falling further behind China.
Even as a native English speaker, I prefer watching English speaking shows with English subtitles.

I find I don’t need the volume as loud and I get retain more of the dialogue.
Deviation from 60 hz is a measure of overloaded or oversupplied grid.

They were "dialing up" the turbines to compensate for overload but it was insufficient and causing the turbines to redline/exceed operating allowances.
That's maybe like 2-3% of the worlds population.
Same here, its the domain I care about. Its my fiancees last name in our countries TLD. Here name is really short and nice, so it has been awesome. This is a bummer, since her sister and fiancee are also using it. Thank god I have not been using it for more than an email alias, and the kids too.
Right, but I think the overarching point is that 3% is awfully close to the 1% that is Internet Explorer, which many would consider dead. If usage decline continues, it just wouldn’t take much for no people to stop supporting it.

This is from someone who uses Firefox
I was once hired to photograph a teacher for a magazine or the like. It was a music class at about the 3rd grade level. There was a student in the class that clearly had no idea what was going on and just moaned the entire time. They had an aide that stayed with them the entire time and presumably the entire day.

I understand that as a parent you’d want to do what you can for your child to give them a normal experience. I’d probably do the same in their shoes. As a society we should probably place limits on that. As far as I could tell he was one step above “vegetable” and gained nothing from the experience and it took an insane amount of potential resources away from the rest of the students.
Back in my day, the mantra was "Information wants to be free", and laws limiting freedom on the internet and freedom of information were looked down upon.
A friend of mine is an engineering manager overseeing winterization of gas generators for a utility company in a southern state. His utility hired a company from Texas to do the winterization. My friend commented to his counterpart at the winterization company that they must be getting a ton of business close to home after what happened last year.

His counterpart said nope—the Texas utility companies are very much treating it as a one-off event, and the winterization company is not seeing an increase in business there.
As long as you don't have a UK company...
Next step is directing attention of society to these systems and education as to why they're important.
I love that you guys are monitoring this :-)
> But Anglo countries like Canada or Australia or New Zealand make many fewer. UK makes slightly less than the US.

No surprise there. Same language (no translation barrier) and a shared background as former British colonies (well, or being British) really seals the deal there. But also there's really no language aspect to analyze here; we can't say that America's media culture undermined the local non-English speaking of say, New Zealand, because most of the people there already spoke English already.

Although the impact on accents is another matter, I am sure.

> There must be more to this; places like Nigeria, India, China, Japan all make more feature films compared to the US. Countries like Spain, France, Germany, UK make about half as many. Mexico, Brazil are in the top 15..

Some of those other countries definitely fall under my criteria. Japan and India both have their own traditions to preserve (Bollywood is a thing), and my understanding is that the CCP has made resisting Hollywood's influence an explicit goal.

The rest of it? Dunno. There's clearly just some other factor at play here that I don't have my thumb on. I can't explain why Brazil and Mexico produce that many movies, this is the first time I've heard that.

> Population size probably matters more and gdp less

I think that's really close, but not quite it. I think the real thing here is having the cultural and economic circumstances that allow people to go and produce media and art for consumption. For some forms of media (especially movies) this is going to largely be a factor of money and population, since that is expensive. But that might not be true for all types of national media. Manga in particular is a fairly small industry, with roughly 40,000 workers and a mere 4,000 artists. Hollywood alone is 10x bigger.

My mind also jumps here to Russia, and how important its literature scene is to both the country and the language. Population is certainly a factor, producing great literature at the country level is often about giving a lot of people the chance to try and seeing what happens, but money really isn't as much a factor given that novels are cheap to produce. Funding great novels is pretty cheap once you've identified worthwhile novelists, since it involves paying maybe the living expenses of a few people.

Perhaps my takeaway here is that Movies are the national media of America (and India too, to be fair), and what we're seeing in some countries is the competition between American movies providing pressure to move to English, and other forms of local media grounding the country in question in its native tongue. That idea might need more fleshing out.

> but having some unique to say helps.

Oh yes, that is certainly very important.

0 - Although for a short while the UK definitely punched above its weight, from the 60s until the 80s or so. The theory I've heard is that this was a side effect of having a really good welfare system; people were able to quit their jobs easily and create music and art, and some of it was really good.
75th percentile is pretty mediocre when you realize how low the bar for the 50th percentile really is.
Why not both? :-)
I’m in the “pro subtitles” camp, too, but they too have disadvantages. By changing part of the screen, they don’t preserve the original performance, either (but IMO, that’s a lesser problem than dubbing) and their timing often is off. You’ll read a joke before or after it’s made, may know somebody gets shot before it happens, etc. I think aster readers will have a larger problem there.

They (obviously) also work less well for slower readers.
> The computer system that runs the market, though, interpreted this as an oversupply (in the middle of blackouts!) and dropped prices

Ah yes, the intelligence of automated systems with limited visibility

Looks like someone forgot to add grid frequency as an input to the price engines
> Letting people use handles has been a thing since way before modern gamer and it is probably the only right way if you want interesting people to share stuff.

The issue is being unable to have, under a single login, completely isolated identities for each server (or group of servers).

> It works really nice for non gaming too.

IMHO the Discord branding (specifically the copy) works great for a gaming audience but is slightly off-putting for a non-geeky audience (think non-tech business types).
The alleged Ehrlichman quote is brought up often but it should be taken with at least some skepticism. The surviving members of his family don't believe he made the quote:

>...Multiple family members of Ehrlichman (who died in 1999) challenge the veracity of the quote: The 1994 alleged 'quote' we saw repeated in social media for the first time today does not square with what we know of our father...We do not subscribe to the alleged racist point of view that this writer now implies 22 years following the so-called interview of John and 16 years following our father's death, when dad can no longer respond.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman

This is a very explosive quote - if Baum had included it in his book in 1996 I am sure it would have garnered a huge amount of attention for the book. Instead Baum did not include it in his book, but instead would wait for many years before making the claim when Ehrlichman was no longer around to dispute the quote.
If the quote was actually said by Ehrlichman, it isn't a very accurate description of the overall drug polices of the Nixon administration. While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs" rhetoric, the actual substance of his policies is a bit different than what people think it was:

>...I have been fortunate over the years to discuss the distorted memory of Nixon's drug policies with almost all of his key advisors as well as with historians. Their consensus is that because he was dramatically expanding the U.S. treatment system (by 350% in just 18 months!) and cutting criminal penalties, he had to reassure his right wing that he hadn’t gone soft. So he laid on some of the toughest anti-drug rhetoric in history, including making a White House speech declaring a “war on drugs” and calling drugs “public enemy number one”. It worked so well as cover that many people remember that “tough” press event and forget that what Nixon did at it was introduce not a general or a cop or a preacher to be his drug policy chief but…a medical doctor (Jerry Jaffe, a sweet, bookish man who had longish hair and sideburns and often wore the Mickey Mouse tie his kids had given him).

https://www.samefacts.com/who-started-the-war-on-drugs/

>..."Enforcement must be coupled with a rational approach to the reclamation of the drug user himself," Nixon told Congress in 1971. "We must rehabilitate the drug user if we are to eliminate drug abuse and all the antisocial activities that flow from drug abuse."

>The numbers back this up. According to the federal government's budget numbers for anti-drug programs, the "demand" side of the war on drugs (treatment, education, and prevention) consistently got more funding during Nixon's time in office (1969 to 1974) than the "supply" side (law enforcement and interdiction).

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs
> without IP you can’t get capital behind ideas and then everything grinds to a halt

Citation needed. Open source development proves that IP restrictions are not necessary to produce engineering development. And look at 3D printers. Their price went from $50k to $25k after the first ten years on the market, when they were under patent. When the patent expired, development exploded and ten years later the price had dropped to $250. One of the most popular 3D printers in the world, the Prusa i3, is completely open source. Certainly one cannot say that "without IP... everything grinds to a halt" when faced with these examples.
> I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the company which controls the intellectual property chooses to make it a low volume, high cost product.

I've only read that here (repeatedly!) on HN and blogs that then cited throwaway HN posts which never respond to my requests for at least some verifiable evidence. Have a look through my comment history.
Not quite means-tested, since it was related to losing your job, but yes, similar. My hunch is that UBI would not really affect behavior at the upper end of the scale (a millionaire wouldn't change consumption much after getting a UBI check), so for all practical purposes, it was a worthwhile experiment.
The author might want to read some Coase.
Indeed, as I look now 42% of all traffic is international.
> Right. So you're now you're not just saying that the subscription model is bad, you're saying that you've decided what a full retail paycheck for their software is.

Did you forget that they used to sell it that way? And there are competitors with similar prices. We know what retail price is.

> "Why are they doing what they did to reach that point???"

I never asked that.

They raised their prices so they'd make more money, obviously.

When I say it's too expensive for me, that's not me being confused about why they charge that much.

I'd rather pay for a product plus some profits plus some scaling, and not pay for a product plus some profits plus extremely aggressive scaling.

They can both keep a company around for a long time, and the former might even be better for that.

Like you said a couple comments up, I want "confidence I'm not relying on 1password having indefinite growth to have people work there". The more they focus on very fast growth, the less I have of that confidence.

> I mean how do you think 1Password reached the size where you're essentially calling them "too big to fail"?

They reached a safe size before they switched to forcing subscriptions.
Insufficiently discussed? Please read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergier_commission
Their final report is 11000 page long…
That is true, and while these bans had a huge historical impact, they didn't change the language that was used in villages and farms.

Until the 1920s Ukraine was a mostly rural country and in the countryside Ukrainian was alive and well. After the wars and insurgency the Soviet government felt compelled to create a Ukrainian SSR and allow widespread use of Ukrainian. Most towns and cities spoke Russian (and also German, Yiddish and Polish), but then as industrialisation forced many peasants into urban areas, they quickly became Ukrainian-speaking. In this context a new wave of language repression began, which became really intense only in the 1960s and 1970s. Of course there other forms of repression besides language
I’ve coined the term “microlith,” but I’m probably not the only one and it may not be what you’re thinking of. I wrote about it in the new edition of my book, and also discussed it here: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/lunch-and-learn/micro...
Use old phone as a second display: USB GUD with PostmarketOS
> I suspect what’s happening from here is that API Gateway is in front of a Lambda function (indeed, this is a common design pattern that AWS documents) that does minimal-to-no processing of the JSON blob and puts it in a database, likely DynamoDB given the overall managed services flavor of this implementation. At that point, backend processes can take over...

A bit of an aside, but since this is an article about architecture, wouldn't the more common pattern here be APIGateway->Lambda->MessageQueue->BackendServices rather than APIGateway->Lambda->Database->BackendServices? Or does DynamoDB have something like a queue that backend processes can subscribe to? (Non-AWS user here).
Hard coercion did not work in India. They are doing pretty serious strong-arming now. Want a job in the central government? Gotta know Hindi. A lot of money is getting poured into Hindi promotion schemes. Hindi is definitely a dominant language now. Native speakers just assume everyone else in India will just play along. There was a minor scandal last year when a customer in Tamil Nadu was mocked by the customer service rep of a food delivery service. That particular issue got resolved, but Hindi hegemony remains.
We've got to flip the narrative on this. Google deliverability is poor, users should switch providers if they'd like to get their messages.
After having a look at your page, I am confused.

What kind of traffic numbers are you seeing? Because I can't figure out how one would ever end up with spending more than a few dollars to host a site that rarely gets a post.
The Americans gave us Cartoon Network. If the Germans had better cartoons we probably would be speaking German a lot better. In my opinion there's actually great economic incentive to speak German fluently. For me personally I've had multiple meetings with friends and business relations where I sometimes felt left out because I can't understand German well when it's spoken at native speed. Besides that I know of multiple great universities where I would have liked to go, but can't really because I'm not fluent enough in German.

Obviously as a software engineer it would be ridiculous to not at least read English, but I know for a fact there's great German language forums and learning resources out there. I imagine there exist programmers out there working in some deep and dark VW or Siemens lab that have been able to work for years without reading a full English sentence.

I'm pretty sure Berlin is also the only city (or one of very few) in Germany where you can actually live and work happily and productively without learning German.
Apple is building new headquarters in Los Angeles, signaling Hollywood ambition
It's not a diversion to say that a password manager shouldn't cost as much as an operating system.

And if you don't like corrections then don't nitpick so much.
Web3 Economics: Washing Web3
I appreciate the neutral and factual explanation of the term, as a reader from Europe, with English as third language. And I do not understand the downvotes, both to your explanation or to the equally neutral question.
I'm always skeptical about these sorts of products. If the edge you have is real, why not just bet yourself? Theoretically each client you get lowers the edge of all other clients. If you have enough people following your tips, the lines will move. Sports betting is just another market after all.
My wife passed away after a long illness and much great suffering. The first month after she was gone, after the first few days passed, I was actually happy. Why? Because her suffering was over. My worry was over. I'd never have to see her suffer again or wail in pain again. I was free of the ordeal that stripped us of so much.

Then, one day, I lost it completely. My daughter (29) even thought she'd already grieved and that she was over it. I thought we were doing something wrong.

Nope.

We all grieve differently and your time will come when it will hit you so hard you won't know what to do . That will pass. Your family needs to understand that. Everyone goes through it differently. You'll get through it and so will they. But not all in the same fashion, and you'll all come out with a different set of scars.

Also, a friend gave me this and it helped me a lot. I hope it'll help you too. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/awake-no3-2018-nov-d...
www.bini.vision made us a few hundred quid before we went fulltime on it
Literally all categories describing real-world phenomena are fuzzy at their extremes. Reality itself is fuzzy at extremes
US obesity deaths per year: 300,000.[1]

US anorexia deaths per year: 145.[2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1448478/

[2] http://web.simmons.edu/~turnerg/MCC/Eating%20Disorders/Hewit...
This is not correct. Woke is about perception of disadvantage based on race, inequal opportunity based.
Sorry mate, but they're right. Murdoch owns and controls most of our media.
My grandmother was prescribed cigarettes for anxiety in the 1950s. She quit in the '80s after developing emphysema, but it was too late. After years on oxygen her lungs were unable to sustain her and she suffocated.
It may getting work with AR grasses. I can't wait.
Not knowing much about what constitutes a disorder my take is this. Eating is not a goal. It is a tool. Being healthy is the goal. So if you are healthy, your eating is fine
Where should I book a plane ticket to, so I can view this article?

edit: https://archive.is/aAf3K
A plumber with enough experience can do engineer-y things, e.g. design an appropriate plumbing system for a house or renovation.

Or a plumber can just be a guy following a plan and cutting and gluing pipes together.
The link between walking and all cause mortality seems less interesting than, say, stress levels. People don’t go for a walk to cheat death, it’s because they’re in need of a breather.
We can posit all kinds of fanciful things. But without evidence, your supposition has exactly as much weight as the supposition that he did it for COVID safety.

Don't "posit" an emotionally loaded claim without at least some shred of evidence. That's how you get heat, not light.
> Is there such a thing as foodhacking?

There should be! I've noticed that my energy levels / moods are really good the morning after I eat a salad only dinner (I'm a vegetarian anyway but it will surprise you the kind of veg things that can still screw up your health).

I wonder what other stuff have such impact..
I am currently at around $300/mo so still a bit off the $500 unfortunately. My side project, ErgStudio[0], allows people to use their rowing machine to do remote workouts together. I had the idea already a while before the pandemic started but when it hit I finally pushed myself to implement a MVP. My wife helped a lot doing the admin and as a photographer (we took all the promotion pictures ourselves to save money). This was also the first project for me which I took from greenfield to people-can-pay-for-this, which I am pretty thrilled about. At the moment, a bunch of university clubs in the US and smaller rowing clubs in Europe are using it. As a gimmick, when you see the meters rowed counter changing on the website, someone is actually working out somewhere in the world, using our app.

[0] https://erg.studio/
Methane Action is specifically focused on removing methane, a greenhouse gas 80X worse than CO2: methane alone is responsible for a global temperature rise of about 0.4 C.