skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an admirable response, but I feel like Patreon is just one of the first approaches towards getting rid of the advertising revenue models so prevalent on the internet today, which should definitely be our goal. We can't allow greedy advertisers to hijack online services, as is the current case for YouTube.

I hope that in the future content creators won't have to depend on a single company which takes decisions purely based on their own profit. The marketing team can spin this anyway they want, but ultimately as a company that is their goal.

For lack of a better term, microtransactions and some form of digital currency should solve this problem.

I'm not a fan of the Brave browser, but they introduced a micropayment system last year[0]. It seems to have been launched with Bitcoin support, but maybe this has expanded (as it should) towards other currencies.

Can someone share their experience with Brave Payments, or with similar systems?

This seems like the only logical way to go, from a technology standpoint, and we're not that far off from reaching it.

Creators have their digital wallets, payments are made in the background (with very limited user interaction, or none whatsoever) after a certain smart contract is fulfilled between creator and consumer, and the funds are transferred with very little latency.

The content creation service that launches with this will be huge in the near future. Bonus points for open sourcing it and making an open system that all content creation sites can reuse.

[0]: https://www.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
huh what does 'emoji' mean in this context -- are you using some combination of Unicode characters?
Microsoft has an incentive to sell licenses, though. If you're violating their license, they're much happier if you pay them for sufficient licenses than if you stop using Microsoft. So a business will understand this, and say that while in theory Microsoft could demand something unreasonable, in practice you'll be able to negotiate something (possibly even paying less than sticker cost) for the right to keep using the software you were using, so there's no realistic risk that you'll lose your ability to use MS software at all.

The average GPL software has nobody who's even in a position to be negotiated with, because it has multiple authors who aren't communicating with each other. If I violate the Linux kernel's license, who do I offer to pay to get the license reinstated? How do I make sure some individual contributor I haven't paid who disagrees with me ideologically (say I'm Northrop Grumman, or Planned Parenthood, or something) won't sue me and refuse to settle for anything short of shutting down all my infrastructure and starting from scratch?
Yeah exactly — it lets you grab content/data/images via the WordPress API.
Does this apply for people looking for internships?
Patreon lost my support when they banned Lauren Southern. They have every right to do so but I don’t want to support a company that refuses to work with people based on their political leanings.
The developer is showing off an experiment he made using a bleeding edge web development framework. It has loads to do with web developers.
create-react-app now uses some kind of extensible build scripts in form of react-scripts: webpack files which you can clone and modify and use without ejecting.

here's one for less:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-react-scripts-less

also here are the official docs:
https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
Something on the order of 50% of all research funding goes to the academic publishing industry.

edit:
Downvote if you want, but it is true, maybe not at every institution, but some Latin American countries the budget for access to the literature is greater than what they spend on supporting basic research [0].

0. https://www.slideshare.net/biodiego88/force2017-ppt-diegogom...
> with every click you contribute to the driverless cars vision improvement

Interesting I hadn't heard that. Supporting links:

--neural nets captcha analysis--

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-inte...

--obligatory XKCD--

https://xkcd.com/1897/
Totally. The point is that the Patreon folks made the stupid decisions about the new fee because they were blindly thinking about effective paywalls. If they had been thinking holistically about things, they wouldn't have been so dumb. Of course, there are better ways to handle even the paywall issue.

The stupidity was clear when they wrote “if you’re a creator on the monthly plan without the benefit of charge up front, you are constantly worried that your patrons are going to delete their pledges before they’ve paid”. From that, we can see how they were just hearing irrational paywall worries from people and responding irrationally around just trying to please those requests / address those worries.

Those worries should have been recognized as irrational. Patreon ought to be saying that this is about honesty and people who want to support you and that they aren't in the business to try to stop all possible freeriding, they are working to help everyone who actually wants to support the creators etc.
Most things, if not everything, comes down to economics and not goodwill.
this is a big deal for a lot of people. I was always under the impression (I'm pretty sure I had someone at GCP tell me at one point too) that basically all network communication was encrypted behind the scenes, even within your infrastructure. This is clearly not correct.

I asked questions about this exact same thing during a deep dive on EKS at reInvent a couple weeks ago; unsurprisingly the same issue exists there.
Google, Looking to Tiptoe Back into China, Announces A.I. Center
Does this have to be codified in the license though? I don't think so. All parties just agree on the outcome. That's the way it works. A "free pass" shouldn't be in the license proper.
no. a more accurate description is definitely "stickers." but everyone knows and searches "emoji" much more. this is more of a marketing naming decision, i agree that it isn't accurate.
It seems very likely that the change was motivated by payment processor fees. Patreon uses Stripe to process payments, which charges a flat rate of 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge. Compare that to the proposed fee patron fee structure of 2.9% + $0.35 — where presumably the extra $0.05 per transaction is the cut Patreon takes off the top for themselves.
Crowd fund a program to offer buy-outs of key employees in immoral enterprises. How much would it take to get half of the employees to resign?
You probably think I'm being pedantic. But the point of the article is to conceptually distinguish color from wavelength. If we're going to distiniguish them, we might as go all the way. There's no reason to bind yellow (and cyan) to a single wavelength, while magenta gets special status. All three are secondary colors and all three are composites.

This is important because privileging magenta does not generalize to higher-dimensional color-spaces, and therefore impedes to our understanding of phenomenology.
There's some good info on that here:

"Dissecting objc_msgSend on ARM64"
https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2017-06-30-dissecti...

"Let's Build objc_msgSend"
https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-11-16-lets-bui...

There's also the "Illustrated history of objc_msgSend", although it appears a bit dated, it has some nice commentary on the evolution of this very performance-critical part of the objective-c runtime:
http://sealiesoftware.com/msg/index.html
> Replacing Twitter -- Part of the appeal of Twitter is that it __is__ centralized. I can find and discover arbitrary tweets or threads by popular people all in one place. On Mastadon, I, presumably, have to explore several different servers in order to find the people I want to follow, which throws up barriers against something Twitter does really well.

Mastadon is a federated platform using the OStatus protocol, so you an interact with anyone on any server using that protocol (Mastadon, GNU social, etc.). That means you can follow anyone, boost (re-tweet) any message, and even see a feed from the whole fediverse.

Now, it is possible to block some servers from your server and vice versa, but this just allows you to find a community that shares the same values as you or even setup a server of your own if you can't find a server you like.
It makes intuitive sense that if there are costs generated by the arrangement, you go to the ones benefiting from the arrangement (creators) before you go to the ones already providing the funding (patrons). Maybe Jack's being a creator himself is what blinded him to this.
There are at least three different commonly used notations I'm aware of for division.... And that's not counting the long division process, for which I'm aware of at least two different notations (usage varies by country).
Most of the work is done by academics who receive no compensation from the publisher. Most importantly, it is expected that one participate in peer review. Fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with a reciprocal model of review, but why should publishers get to enjoy enormous profit margins on said work when they're not the ones doing it? Authors don't receive any money from subscriptions or access fees, either. Editors sometimes receive some compensation, but very little. There's just not a lot that the publishers do. It seems unfair that they should be the only ones to profit monetarily from academics' work.
Do you have any numbers from other products to show this is an issue with Windows Defender's performance, and not just with the general concept of scan-on-access antivirus?
Welcome to the community :) What would you like to see?
Yea, could have been a botched user study. I've also seen situations where user studies were carefully crafted (and the questions worded) with a desired conclusion in mind, often in order to justify an executive's already-made decision. Not at all saying this was the case here, but that happens too.
Excuse my (potential) ignornace, but isn’t this just Bitmoji (which has huge market share), just with slightly reduced setup from face scanning?
They've been around for more than a century! Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Electric_Truck
>Adam Simmons, the VP of content and marketing for DingIt, told BuzzFeed News that the site uses “4 independent traffic verification tools that monitor each view on our video player” and prevents any fraudulent traffic from viewing content or ads on the site.

I wonder what the hell a "traffic verification tool" is.
$18k is the limit for individual contribution. Employers have a separate contribution limit, I think around $55k. So they can freely give each employee $55k worth of cash or stock and that employee can freely contribute an additional $18k of their own money.

But, yes, as pointed out, you do pay taxes, but ONLY when withdraw from it, which you can do without a penalty when you reach a certain age. The capital gains are tax free. But I was saying distributing stock into a 401k is not a taxable event, not that you'd never pay taxes.

It's not abusive to fill up your 401k, that's what it is there for.
This appears to be a keyboard? What other data does your app have access to in that regard? Do you get to read the contents of SMS or email or anything else with that? Also, what data or images of mine are stored on your servers?
> but is hard because you have to identify the bad actors, or paths that lead to them.

It's worse than that. There are few truly "bad actors". Many BGP hijacks are performed by completely legitimate networks, which later claim that it was a configuration issue.
You mean "newbie" as in never programmed a single line of code before or "newbie" as in a programming background but just new to React Native?

I recently started to play around with React Native since I wanted to make a specific app. I first learned React and Redux for the web and then applied that knowledge to React Native.

You don't have to learn Redux though but if you want to build anything beyond trivial you will have to do state management so you might as well pick the most popular way of doing that.

I've been at it for 7 or so weeks now (full-time) and I have a running iOS/Android app (this time also includes building an API the app talks to and an admin area for admins to login to for house keeping purposes). I still need to finish up "loads" of details but I'm over the major learning curve (I think).

If this book would have been any help to me? Looking through the chapter topics, I think not. To me, the real useful information would be more about the differences and similarities in how to implement good UI/UX for both iOS and Android, generating the required certificates, publishing to the app stores etc.

I have been developing software for 20+ years, if that makes a difference.
U2F demo for developers
Depends. Lawyers often do send cease and desist letters and nothing more. If a company discovers an infringement because of the letter they will stop as quickly as they can going to court probably isn't worth the lawyer fees so it most likely will end there.

MPAA and RIAA are not a good example - they were willing to lose a lot of money enforcing their legal rights because they believed that would send an example and in turn stop everybody else. That is they were willing to spend $100,000 to get your to pay a $1,000 fine.

This return on investment is generally something most companies are not willing for. Most companies would rather spend $200 and get nothing in return (other than the infringement stopped), then spend $100,000 or more to win $1,000. I think the reasons are obvious.

Also, you don't want to be seen as a jerk. Many companies pay people to contribute to open source in some way. Some are full time, some are just as needed. Any large project that is seen as a jerk to companies is likely to find less contributors.
By working at the foreign china office for 1 year they can move to the USA on L visas, which don't have the limits that H1B visas do.

Then they can offer them higher compensation in a country that is not polluted.
In southern Madagascar, local customs are perpetuating poverty
Didn't TP-Link backdoor one of their routers, additionally in a remotely-exploitable insecure way that they never patched?[0] Am I alone in that putting a company on my eternal shit-list? Looks like a good choice in retrospect if they're still coming up with things like this.

[0] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/15/1234217/backdoor-fo...
If you keep people's money and move it around for them, you start looking like a bank, and you get regulated like a bank. I think this is why online games let you buy tokens with real money, and the tokens sit in your account. (It's probably of critical importance that there exist no way for the tokens to be converted back into currency - which is why regulators were and are far more concerned about online gold farming than the game devs themselves. It's good to be the bank.)
Fossil hunters find bones of human-sized penguin on New Zealand beach
Sure. But Patreon as a platform encourages extra paywalling, and in this fee fiasco they had blinders on, looking at those who were most concerned about effective paywalls.

I happen to think that paywalls are fundamentally bad and that we should reject them on principle even when they are used modestly. Certainly the worst of that approach is not the folks you support.

I encourage people to donate to the people who don't hold anything at ransom behind a paywall, the ones who release everything non-rivalrous. There's still other perks like thanks or custom stuff that's inherently scarce and can be limited to patrons without using paywalls.
> male dominated

True, but shouldn't/doesn't matter, especially if the game has no voice chat required (or encouraged by the nature of the game). When I played WoW for a little over a year, the guild I was in had several women. LoL has lots of female players (mostly due to the size of its playerbase), Hearthstone even has a few popular female streamers.

> culture can be toxic

Also true, but most mainstream companies are responsive to feedback about negative players via reporting functionality or something of the like. You deal with negative interactions as a female just by being on social media, games are no different. The main difference is that being a dick to someone is a bannable offence in a lot of mainstream games.
Any chance you guys will support dual RSA+ECC custom certs on the HTTPS load balancer at some point? :)
Google's Advanced Protection Program with iPhone and iPad
This is discussed in the original announcement [0]

Essentially, some creators were having a problem where their donations dissapeared at the end of the month because the donator canceled before making the payment. To rectify this, Patreon introduced a pay up front system, where the first payment happens when you pledge, and all future payments happen at the beggining of the month.

This introduces a problem when you pledge at the end of the month. In this case you could pay on the 29th when you sign up, and again on the 1st when the monthly pledge ticks.

Charging seperatly would enable them to charge you when you first pledge, and monthly, starting with your pledge. So in the above example, they would charge you on the 29th of each month.

[0] https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
I feel like Patreon is trying to please everyone, which in the end pleases no one.

If Patreon came out and said hey, we've built a platform for years, this is incredibly expensive, we need to show a profit or shut this entire thing down. We're going to start charging a bit more, AND give you this thing you've been asking for in return.

Then everyone would be happy. They need to follow the shit sandwich strategy of good, shit news, some more good stuff for you guys.

Instead they dropped the shit on the community, arrogantly hoping they'll simply eat it.
No, another advantage is that you can do UDP entirely in userland without privilege.

What allocating a new IP protocol says is pretty close to "all bets are off, and we're carefully taking responsibility for how every system that interacts with TCP/IP headers will handle these packets". Since SCTP doesn't need that, there's no upside. It's vanity and bloody-mindedness.
In Germany universities have joined efforts to at least bargain with Elsevier & others for overall cost reductions:

https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/

Of course in the US with basically unlimited student loan money, no one seems to be in a particular hurry to cut costs.
It's not just the public, it's professionals too.

There are probably more brain surgeons on earth than people who understand how BGP works.
> Someone explained me quantum mechanics that it supports more states, not just on (1) and off (0), that it can have dozens or hundreds of states. Is this correct / state-of-the-art understanding?

No, that's not really correct. Being able to put states in superposition is very different from having more classical states.

> I imagine how cool it would be to have more states, not just 0 and 1. A computer running on more states could encode machine code in fewer instructions, so it could calculate more with the same frequency.

That doesn't really make any sense. A cycle is still a cycle. How many instructions you can encode with a given length doesn't tell you anything about how fast they execute.

Even going with an extremely charitable reading, I don't think there's any way anything that you're talking about could lead to anything better than a constant-factor speedup (and not a large one). The point of quantum computing isn't to get mere constant-factor speedups. Such a thing would be insignificant in comparison to what quantum computers can actually do.
Serious question, Keynes was born in the late 1880 and didnt publish anything until 1900s... we had boom and bust cycles long before this. How do you explain that?
Correction: found an issue with bean validation.

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/11343
What do you mean by SRO?

The ones we have here in NH are merely rooms for rent - just like apartments except they don't have a private kitchen or bath, and I believe the rent is collected weekly and without a long term lease.
Have you considered carbon steel skillets? They're not as worry free and have less heat retention than cast iron, but they're also much lighter and can be seasoned to a non-stick finish.
NFL Craziest Fan Distractions of All-Time [video]
> either collapsing a global economy

Barely anyone uses bitcoin as a percentage of the world's total population, this isn't even remotely feasible today, or likely even in five years.
My gut reaction is that this creates a moral hazard. Social pressure seems generally more viable and robust.

Perhaps something like this could work under certain limited circumstances... but I'm skeptical.
The most relevant quote in the article:

> the research community uses historical journal reputation to
> evaluate researchers, making it harder for new, better run
> journals to enter the market.

This problem would be solved tomorrow if those allocating public money
to science made funding contingent on the research being published in
open access journals.

Scientists can't have their cake and eat it too. Either they fund
their own research and publish in prestigious expensive journals that
cost the public money, or they take public money and make the research
available for all.

But it's not easy to migrate to that because scientist aren't just
using journals as a publication platform, but as a reputation platform
as a function of their exclusivity and reputation.
The question is why was there ever a dilemma in the first place. We were the only country to tax corporations this way, which made us incredibly uncompetitive -- but worse kept money from being invested in the US. This is great news for the USA and bad news for everywhere else in the world that would have otherwise received the investment. We should be doing everything possible to bring that money home.
Show HN: Hiding code from Git diff
Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation
Not to say whether they are a good idea or bad idea in general, but on thing worth considering is that publishing fees also act as a barrier to entry for less well-funded groups. Some journals even charge fees to submit (even if you are rejected in the end). This can be especially problematic for interdiscinplinary work -- in my field (applied math) grants are generally smaller, and if I submitting a paper to a biology journal that charges a submission fee up front is not always a triial decision.
Frankly, man, I'm already "persuasive outside of niche sites," my comment was meant specifically to engage you personally.
Patreon originally aggregated all payments into a monthly lump transaction to Patreon. The new fee structure is consistent with them desegregating the payments but it is not clear why they would do that.

One theory going around is that having individual payments reduces their chargeback rate because the number in the credit card bill matches the individual contributions instead of the lump sum. Another theory going around is that separate payments would allow payments to be immediately sent to the creator instead of waiting until the end of the month. But Patreon hasn't been clear if one of these is the reason or if it was something else.
This is amazing!! I'm so glad I checked this out. Thank you for linking it. I've already found so many artists that I otherwise wouldn't have found via Spotify, and I already know this is gonna be hurting my wallet in the next few months. :D I'm seriously so happy right now!
Pardon me? I have no choice to make here. This is the way our society is currently structured. He is a ~30 year old man with an illness. I can't force him to take his medication and, under normal circumstances, neither can the state. Hence, he is responsible for himself.