skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been blogging since 2004 with no real ads or affiliate revenue to speak of, and it's news to me that it's "unsustainable." But then, I guess it depends upon whether we mean "sustainable as in keeping me motivated to write," or if we mean, "financially sustainable as in keeping me in fresh sock garters and Camambert risotto."

I get maybe $500 a month from people buying my books, and another $20 a month in amazon affiliate revenues from links to other people's books. If I tried to live on this, I'd starve. But this is not unusual, and I suspect that I am making more money than most people who blog.

Let's be clear: It's very rare for someone to make their primary living from blogging. But that's true of most creative things, be it writing, music, art, custom bicycle frames. These are, by and large, terrible businesses from a venal point of view.

Most people are in it for the love, because writing scratches their own itch. It's an awful business to be in: Like pop music, it's mostly a few big winners scooping the lion's share of the revenues, with everyone else scraping by or having a day job to pay the rent.

I am ok with people paying me zero dollars, because I write for myself. If I tried to live off it, I'd have to make insane compromises, like putting out a new book every time a new language looked to become popular, or writing clickbait blog posts on a schedule. And even then, the odds are that I would just get by, and need to supplement that income with speaker's fees and consulting.

Writing for money is a questionable model for a vocation, and a terrible model for an avocation.

Writing for yourself is an excellent model for an avocation, but unsustainable as a vocation.
Well I use it and have found we watch Netflix in preference to terrestrial UK TV to the point we watch so little BBC now we might go back to streaming only and forgo the license fee.

A chacun son gout.
So instead look at the statistics. In many sectors they are dire.
If Brave / BAT actually catch on, this is the exact problem they're solving
wow, that seems really not much for a publication focused on business strategy.
You can request your products not be commingled, but by default, they are.
Amazon was first to pull Google products.
History here: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/02/amazon-still-isnt-s...
> Meanwhile there's always some new area of life that impacts health - spend on sport, then on encouraging sport by paying for teachers, then on improving colleges where the teachers train, ... before you know it the NHS is funding a deep mine in Siberia

In other words, central planning doesn't work[1]. NHS was a "special case" that tends towards the general case, as is the tendency of all untouchable mandates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Delete their cookies and there's no limit.
If someone makes a real name username and you don't do anything else about it, you should be fine.

However, if you take that username, look up the user in the real world and send spam without consent you are in deep shit.

It's all about consent of use and for what. The user has implicitly given consent to use their username as a username but nothing else.
My view, of course, every decision as a trade-off, everything i say is controversial

- The main ledger and smart contracts should be separated, everyone smart contract is public, why??

the smart contracts should be run on several specific sidechains.
Why if I buy a crypto kittie everyone as to know and store the transaction for all eternity.

Wait sharding is coming, yes but will reduce the security guarantees.
I haven't seen any follow-ups on capsule networks since their big splash half a year ago. I'm guessing follow-up projects have a research latency of a year.
We're going to get general AI the same way we get I: multi-sensory agents existing with agency, instincts, and guides in real 3D space. I cannot conceive of any other way to understand things deeply. Babies run experiments. How does AI play with a cat? How does it ever understand the concept of a cats mind without ever playing with it? If we want our AI to have conceptualization as we understand it we need AI to have similar sensory inputs and similar arrays of potential actions. And sure, we could copy the code from one AI to the next to have identical minds at t0, but I struggle with the ethics of that and really I'd rather have diversity in AIs than to have a bunch of clones running around thinking with the same types of thought patterns.

The problem I have once I think about it is that this line of thinking leads me to be much less sure of the nature of my own existence. Do we first let the mind of an AI develop to appreciate humanity before letting it know that it is an AI? Seems like it would solve a lot of possible problems since Ghandi wouldn't take the murder pill.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2vj/gandhi_murder_pills_and_mental_i...
Exactly, if you see this kind of rhetoric, run.
I'm really in love with just having v-if available. Ternary operators in React are ugly and the alternative of hoisting control flow makes things much more complicated to read through.
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The point about IP addresses and emails makes me wonder what would happen to spammer blacklists. If they're personal information, does that mean services like Stop Forum Spam and Akismet need to remove data when requested, even if it makes life harder for forum admins and community managers? What about those topics you see on admin forums where you're given a giant list of IPs and emails to copy into the ban settings page?
I think distinguishing consumer and producer monopolies might be valuable here. Google and Amazon can only be monopolistic and predatory towards producers on their platforms - the sites they rank in search, the ads they sell, the videos uploaded, the sellers of things. Because they have all the audience, anyone trying to get views online, buy ads, upload videos, sell things etc are throwing out a huge majority of the market by not using these two. There can definitely be a case against them there.

But those are just because they made products consumers want to use. There is no opportunity cost to switching search engine or store website. It takes a line of text to move to duckduckgo, bing, startpage, etc from Google. It takes a moment to move over to walmart, target, ebay, overstock, newegg, etc from Amazon. Neither can be overtly predatory towards the consumers of their platforms because they have no way to lock them in without taking over the whole Internet (and yeah, Google is trying that with AMP, but I doubt they will ever have enough of the Internet under their control to start restricting / banning non-AMP sites in Chrome - if they ever did that its the most blatant monopoly abuse case since Comcast).

Speaking of Comcast, they are the other side of the coin. Comcast has sheer market dominance, uses their size to buy out and kill competition and bribe politicians, and leaves their "customers" with no alternatives while they abuse them. For about 95% of Comcasts market base your options are Comcast or move somewhere without Comcast. That is a blatant, consumer harming monopoly.

Online, Facebook is damn close to that. You cannot easily switch to Facebook competitors because social networking is defined by network effects - Facebook is infrastructure as much as search is, but one requires the people you want to be on it while the other just needs to index the sites you want to find. Anyone can index websites, only Facebook can have everyone in your extended family on it. And Facebook surely uses its monopoly position to exploit and abuse its consumers.

I just like making the distinction between the two. Both are dangerous, but for most of us the threat of Google and Amazon isn't direct, its to the businesses and services we want to use that we access through them. But it remains our choice to give Google and Amazon that power, choices you don't have with Comcast or even Facebook. As long as I can have a voice in the efficacy of their monopolies I simply feel less threatened by them.
Knotted Structures Called Skyrmions Seem to Mimic Ball Lighting
Nope; worse is better. It has to be recognized that a garbage collection scheme which can satisfy this idealist requirement has some disadvantages relative to one which doesn't.

Should it also be possible to successfully read any well-formed S-expression that we can create in a text stream? Oops, don't use recursion in the reader, then.
> After skimming the whole thing, I was relieved to see that the argument against Many Worlds was the only one I considered invalid.

You should consider the Bohmian criticisms invalid as well then. Many have argued that de Broglie-Bohm is "many worlds in disguise", so if the criticisms the author levels against Bohmian mechanics are true, then they apply to MWI, but if they don't apply to MWI, then they don't apply to Bohmian mechanics either.

Not because they are the same theory, because they are not ontologically the same, but the formalisms are interchangeable.
When I was ~12, the spacebar on the family computer broke. We didn't have a lot of money at the time and a new keyboard was a luxury we couldn't afford. The only way to enter a space was to paste it! So when booted into Windows, I'd find a space in a file name or a document, copy it and I'd paste it when it was needed (I just started learning how to code so I needed it often). Upshot of this was that nobody in my family wanted to bother with pasting a space every time, so I had a lot more time on the computer.
Instagram.com should be replaced with this page.
They could compile it to the JVM...
Ask HN: Will you pay $1 for the list?
I am aggregating excel formulas with examples. I would like to sell the list for $1. Will you buy it?
Imperative programming languages in a global machine state
Use forum software that already implements the required features.
Alternating Phone Models per Test Cycle
I already do for Ars Technica, Wikipedia, and NPR.
Venezuelan cash crisis: Where a coffee costs wads of banknotes
And Google was the first to modify the Chromecast protocol to prevent Amazon (and open source projects) from using it.

This is why all the pi-cast projects died down, after all. Google constantly eradicating third-party implementations to hurt Amazon.

That’s what started this fight.

If you wish to argue against this, please offer me a way to implement the Chromecast protocol on a raspberry pi, reliably, without it constantly being broken by Google’s updates.
LWN.net

It's not a blog or a newsletter but proper journalism and definitely worth the $5/mo I pay for it. I don't think there is any newsletter that just recycles other people's content would be worth the money.
> As long as QM is providing a means to achieve accurate predictions and precise language, it is doing its job perfectly. It is not responsible for satisfying a (potentially irrational) need for ontological interpretation.

What a strange position. Clearly some things exist, since we're here, we're discussing the subject itself, and so on. Defining what "to exist" actually means would seem to be the central rational pursuit of physics. This is an ontology.

The focus on prediction is merely a proxy to the ultimate goal.
An Outsider's Tour of Reinforcement Learning
Arthur starts over completely from scratch with each major release, and abhors drawing in dependencies. It's a good strategy for traveling light.
Does mapv not do exactly what the author needs? Ie an unlazy map?
https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/mapv
It's just speculation, but I would not be at all surprised if there are protocols designed to maintain HGH and testosterone near the allowed limits.

Combine that with moderate improvements in training and there you go, 35 year olds that can train like they are 20.
Just type the name of it, like “C Dorian”
Here is my embarassing personal website from the 2010s: https://gnu.moe/
Curious... are numbers open to extension ? so I can (1024 2) => 10
I would pay for a professionally edited newswire service that doesn't advertise and doesn't sell content to anyone other than end users.
Currently I don't pay for any blogs or newsletters. I'd be willing to pay for high quality content as long as it were still made freely available, ideally with a permissive license. It is my belief that knowledge should generally be accessible to society.

I support content creators that have used similar strategies in other mediums. Some examples:

1. Exploring ES6 [0]. The book is freely available online which means I can access it anywhere and easily share relevant sections if the need arises, such as when having an online discussion or explaining to a beginner how a specific feature works. I happily bought a copy and regularly recommend it to others.

2. Textual [1]. It's an open source IRC client which charges for the precompiled version. I like having the option to dig into the source and compile it myself if the need arose. Paying for it allows the developer to continue working on bug fixes and improving the tool.

If I were more involved in the topics they covered, I'd happily start paying for LWN.net [2]. They allow linking to articles without paywalls and seem to produce very high quality content.

[0] http://exploringjs.com/es6/

[1] https://www.codeux.com/textual/

[2] https://lwn.net/
I don’t think Bezos = Sauron... but this is just wrong:

This is absurd. When Bezos becomes the dark lord you imagine, just unplug your Echo and throw it away. Problem solved.

How much data will have been collected and stored by then? Let’s just put Bezos aside for a moment, and think about foreign and domestic intelligence orgs which will get their fingers into this. Let’s remember a bit of WWII, when harmless census data empowered the Nazis to track down people with Jewish ancestry.

It’s not about what you think Bezos or today’s govt will do with the information, but what the corporate raiders and govts will do with it for the rest of your life.
> It's very rare for someone to make their primary living from blogging. But that's true of most creative things, be it writing, music, art, custom bicycle frames

Some kinds of blogging/newsletter-writing is cheap. Other kinds, particularly the investigative kinds, are not.
And that's why we didn't test one ourselves back in the 60s. You need a special kind of attitude to be willing to fly one of these things over your own country.

Or perhaps just ready access to barely-populated Arctic regions where nobody's watching you drop nuclear reactors around.

These things are the most over-the-top method of beating missile defenses. A normal response would be to just deploy more missiles, which are cheaper and faster to build than defense, so it's easy to keep up. But no, apparently they went in this direction.
The former. Access to the majority of non-emergency care is gatewayed via your GP (primary care physician/family doctor) - if you need to see a specialist, you can only do so by asking your GP for a referral. You'll then wait weeks or months to see a specialist, although you may be sent for tests before then. We have a chronic shortage of GPs and the system as a whole is severely underfunded, meaning that many people have to wait weeks just to be seen by a doctor. The average wait to see a GP is 13 days, but can be much worse in some areas, especially in winter.

Some GP practices have reduced the strain by offering appointments with Nurse Practitioners, who can treat common and uncomplicated conditions. This solution is far from perfect, because there's a lot that Nurse Practitioners can't treat.

Some patients are just going to a hospital emergency department because they can't get a GP appointment in a reasonable time frame. This just increases the strain on the system, because care delivered in an ED is considerably more expensive. The four hour target is actively counterproductive; When ED managers are faced with a waiting room full of people with coughs, rashes and sprained ankles, they are forced to choose between prioritising clinical need or hitting their targets.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/practice-topics/ac...
Show HN: StickyDucky – browser extension that cleans up annoying sticky headers
To me that post seemed like an exercise in shifting the blame. The author should have fired himself.
Rails. Rails was basically designed to write CRUD apps. You will 99% never get big enough where rails' downsides become a problem.
So what's the alternative? Completely lose all of your privacy? It is only developers who can fix this massive PPI leaking.
Alibaba disagrees. Amazon should take a look.

https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/blockchain-based-qa-the-end...
chunk by chunk, and it's kinda the purpose, maybe they should have a "ready ? go" button ..
No, it wouldn't. At that point you already lost lots of information and your only option is to faithfully reproduce the behaviour of the x86 machine.

You can still do it, of course and performance isn't even that bad. See Fabrice Bellard's x86 emulator using asm.js.

https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
> If the Born rule were found to be violated, it would invalidate Copenhagen but not MWI, which IMO means Copenhagen is more falsifiable.

All quantum mechanical interpretations depend upon the Born rule. A violation of the Born rule would rule them all out, except perhaps Bohmian mechanics which allows the possibility of non-equilibrium states, but we have no idea if those can be created.
> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> [...]

> (d) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) in so far as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing;

(emphasis mine)

I'd not say redacting a git repository does 'seriously impair' processing for archiving purposes. All the data (with the exception of the redacted e-mail) is still there, after all.

Still, the hashes will have changed, making the repo less useful for current users. But that has nothing to do with archival.
He is blaming the distros though and not the upstream libs for the problem.
Also, our grasp of sheep morphology is based on an abstract idea that the sheep is qualitatively different to and more significant than the surrounding fields and rocks which are roughly the same size, shape and colour as sheep. Unlike the ML process, this concept of sheep or more unfamiliar mammals as animate creatures which might be friend, foe or food exists independently of how many sheep I've seen before and the language used to classify them, and is probably instinctual rather than learned.

Show me a couple of images of fields full of sheep classified as oveja or Schafe and I might make the same learning error as the ML process and think the word refers to the [general pattern of] surrounding field or hills. But show me a further image of oveja outside a field - even a close up of an oveja that doesn't resemble those in field photos in any way - and I'll grasp the meaning of the term straight away. Needless to say I'm also less likely to stumble over conceptual links between the names of animals and tastes of food, types of clothing etc which are independent of the living animal's morphology
> Purchasing on amazon isn’t about getting a “deal”

No, it is, or at least it was. When online shopping got big, up until a few years ago, the prices were usually better than physical retail (but with higher latency due to shipping). It only got popular because you were getting a deal (if only dodging sales tax), and most people were conditioned to think that online shopping = good deal (compared to physical retail).

But you're right, in 2018 Amazon's for paying retail and gambling that you didn't get a counterfeit (the chance of which varys depending on the kind of product), and then waiting for it to arrive.

For me that doesn't make any sense, so I've stopped shopping there for anything I can find locally in a retail store.
That's true, and what we are witnessing in real time is those forms of journalism evaporate, as the web destroys their business models.

I think that blogging is not the same thing as journalism, in many, many ways.
By the way, on glibc/Linux, you need (main thread) stack space proportional to the complexity of your shared libraries (number of symbols). The ld.so memory manager uses alloca for data structures related to symbol resolution.
How far fetched would it be to assume that in the future, facebook would start building a neural network for each of its users, training it to like the same content as you ? With the amount of data generated by the endless scrolling, you could build a fairly accurate neural network of which content produce which emotion, and then generate adversarial images for targeted advertising.
I don't really see the point. PPP is typically measured by looking at actual prices for a basket of goods (e.g. prices in stores for various grains, flour, rice, legumes, cooking oil etc), and then using that to extrapolate for aggregate prices for types of goods (e.g. food), and then correcting income figures for price differences.

I agree that high inflation and temporarily-subsidised goods make measurement difficult, because it creates a highly volatile price, but that's true whether you want to measure nominal prices or real prices just the same. Stating a nominal price for food in Venezuela in March 2018 is difficult because sometimes it's available, sometimes not, sometimes it's subsidised via government channels, sometimes you need to buy it through market channels, and prices fluctuate due to inflation and currency swings. Nominal price measures have the same difficulties.

That having been said, there are only a few countries suffering these circumstances. Ghana has a relatively stable inflation around 10% to 20%, which sounds high (and it is), but is not much higher than inflation in the 60s-80s in the US or Europe (reaching 15%+) and is quite predictable and workable (unlike inflation of literally billions of percent in Zimbabwe in 2009).
The PsDoom version that is linked to on the page doesn't work.

Here's an actively maintained fork: https://github.com/orsonteodoro/psdoom-ng1
There's nothing new here but the packaging.
Thing is that he is blaming distros for the situation, when distros are trying their level best to make things usable while upstream keeps changing the "rules".
You should make it clear that this is on the merchant's side. Consumers are not allowed to choose where their purchases come from.
More importantly, the customer can't tell if there is commingling.