skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good questions.

To answer the burn-out point: I think this is something writers have to take into account when they're starting their publishing businesses. Running a publication is definitely a demanding exercise and it is often under-estimated. That said, I think Ben Thompson, for example, handles this problem well: he makes it clear to Stratechery's subscribers that he regularly takes some time off to recharge, and he lets them know well in advance when he's going to take a break.

This is one of the areas we hope Substack can be helpful in, actually. We are building up a knowledge base of best practices, informed by the people who are publishing with our tools, so we can help all kinds of writers succeed. Part of the advice we offer relates to content strategy, pricing, cadence, etc, and part of it relates to less tangible stuff, like how to manage your own time and expectations.

And yes, converting readers from free to paid is a huge and unending challenge! We focus a lot of our effort on solving this very problem. One small piece of advice we offer is for a writer who is contemplating going paid to clearly signal the transition in advance to their readers, then give them incentives to subscribe early – like a special charter price, for instance. More broadly, Neil Cybart from Above Avalon shared some useful thoughts on the subscriber model recently. This comment stood out:

"Going from a scenario in which all content was public to one in which only a fraction of content is public can be jarring. Most sites have handled this transition by keeping content free and instead giving paid subscribers a very marginal amount of exclusive content. In essence, sites are treating subscriptions and memberships like donations. This is not sustainable for or attractive to subscription-based models."

What Neil is saying there is that it is better to set the expectation that the bulk of your content be available only for paying subscribers.
That's a lot of overhead when you just want one of something.

But even then someone needs to know a lot about chemistry, glass, and glass manufacturing to understand if something is both feasible to build and useful.
I'm working on a "learn to code & play with robots" app and that uses the phone or tablet's camera to read in paper-printed emoji flash cards. It's like an AR version of Logo/Scratch/ScrathJr. The flashcards will then be used to move an AR-version of the classic Logo turtle around the floor or desktop.

Demo of the card reader prototype: https://youtu.be/dSOfMSS9aFY

I got the idea for this as a First Lego League coach at my kids' school. I'm trying to come up a with a similar environment to FLL but without needing an 4x8 ft table and $500 Lego set. The hope is that the kids can try out ideas using the AR app at home, then implement them "for real" at school when they have access to the full tournament table and complete Lego sets. Yeah, a phone or tablet is required, but the demo runs well on $50 Android or Amazon Fire tablets.
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This is odd to me because Certbot and Boulder, the projects I have the most connection with for my job, both have paid contributors, in each case paid by 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations (EFF and ISRG)¹. Both are free software projects with "standard open source licenses" and neither project ever charges fees to any user, although Certbot displays messages soliciting optional donations to the non-profits in question.

Is this really what the author of the definition intended?

¹ Also, three for-profit companies have "seconded" developers or documentation writers to Certbot at various points and at least one other one was planning to and then didn't go through with it.

... also, no project that takes advantage of this offer can participate in GSOC because then it would have a paid developer?
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But it's exactly this 'ignorance' that is the major part of every software project. There are unknown unknowns, and there is no way from a standing start to grasp either their number or their nature. I'm happy if people are saying that this exploratory work should be done (in part or in total) before estimating, but in my experience that's just not palatable to most organisations.

I envy _hugely_ anyone who builds software that is even 50% the same as what they were working on six months ago.
>If you've worked in the mobile app business you might get that this could mean almost 0 in revenues.

It could, but it didn't. It meant revenues in the tens of millions.
Or, someone could just hire a contractor to start contributing to the project, and now it has paid contributors. :-)
Some decades ago, my first year college chemistry course included a lab that exercised a simple example of this. Make your own, much finer dropper, and then properly calibrate it.

I mention this, because the calibration was an essential aspect. Each result, of itself, was to some degree a one-off. You weren't getting production replication to set high degree of precision; there was variability. You then measured/calibrated how your individual unit performed.

I've seen that a lot, in subsequent life. There may be variability in whatever device or process; if you learn what it is and understand it, you can then use the device or process precisely in light of that knowledge.

But, a lot of people don't know how to do this.

Not just with glassware. With accounting. Tools. Programming. Scientific formulae (simplest example of this: people who could never generalize, but instead tried to memorize all the "plug-and-chug" instances for all the specific test problems they would be presented). Etc.

So, aside from having the resulting glassware, I think making it -- and calibrating it -- is a useful lesson, in itself.
> We may not have a good understanding of human consciousness but we have a pretty good understanding of fundamental physics and human consciousness can not sidestep the laws of physics.

The laws of physics havn't been completely decided. The arrogance of this post is enraging.
Weird way to try to discredit someone...(?) Works fine on my 2017 XPS 15/Firefox Quantum.
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FWIW, found this useful thread 2011 HN thread about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056

Though it's not just about trying to grab rights. Here's a blog post the founder last year, which describes in detail what he was doing from 2016 to June 2017:

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-we-made-1m-in-3-months-the-s...

He sounds like a hard worker and seems to have been at enough places (Facebook and Uber) to know not to mix hobby with work. But it sounds like he really hustled over the year to the point of his startup being a second job. He doesn't say anything more about Tesla, but I guess I'm assuming his startup passion couldn't have been a total secret. And despite his likely well-paid role at Tesla, they seemed to have tolerated his work-life balance to the point that he got to pick the time of quitting.

Yes, I agree that's the way things should be, that companies don't have any influence what you do once you've put in your 40/week. But that doesn't seem to be the status quo in tech, especially at highly ambitious companies like Tesla
Im a subscriber to Matt's book. I generally like this delivery model- and feel like for his case the model works. There are 2 chapters available for free as well as some additional information around the project. Payment was pretty low drag and so far he has delivered in a very timely manner.

My struggle with this model is with other folks who may not deliver with such professionalism or decide that their inner thoughts deserve a paywall and a fancy click bait hook. Are there any safeguards or thoughts put into this?
Pretty much this. Universities would greatly benefit from having more staff scientists with deep xp, more core labs, more personnel such as these glass blowers, and dedicated IT and development teams made available to researchers.

They never make it happen because most people at a given institution don't really care about furthering the institution as a whole, and are instead focused exclusively on their own lab or personal career.
That's the "Formal Verification Working Group" https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-veri...

Participants range from "I'm interested in formal methods" to "my company uses formal methods and we're starting to apply them to Rust" to "The EU has given almost two million Euro for a university grant to prove Rust code" and everywhere in between :)
An ugly German luxury car is still a German luxury car.
With custom-built mechanical equipment it absolutely doesn't work that way. Doubtless, someone in China will build you your piece from drawings, and six weeks later it arrives, and you find that it needs modifications to work as intended. Wash, repeat. The slow feedback loop is the biggest problem with outsoucing. It already doesn't work particularly well with custom synthesis.
The NHTSA explicitly requires car makers to make this data public, so Tesla is flat-out wrong and needs to be heavily fined for breaking the regulation multiple times over.
Quotes:

Why was Blender not on @github? Simple: Github already accepted $350M (at least) from venture capitalists - who want it back with huge profits. And whatever Microsoft pays for it, they will want it back too. Who pays in the end? The users.[0]

About «users paying»: I don't mean the freemium model. I believe that in due time @github services slowly degrade to losing control and ownership of your work.[1]

© 2018, Ton Roosendaal, Chairman Blender Foundation

[0] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1003590417848455168

[1] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1003612019080286208
fantastic move. perfect timing and opportunity.
You’re lowering the bar here. If he actually did those things, he should be in jail. I didn’t say he should be in jail. Writing those things, which he undoubtedly did, is an indicator of being a misogynistic asshat. Which isn’t enough for jail, but surely enough to warrant our contempt and distance.

(I’m also not saying we should censor him. That’s different than giving him a platform.)
but it doesn't append with youtube for example
> I think we’ve entered a world where opting out of constant communication (like not answering your phone) is completely alien and in some cases unacceptable

I left my smartphone and my smartwatch in my smart home when I went to work today (guess I'm not that smart).

I hear through the grapevine that my wife is losing her coolant because she can't text me every ten minutes, or locate me with Find My Friends.

I think I'll stop at a tiki bar on the way home.
I think it's partly practical and partly cost savings.

Shorter walls are cheaper, but it also makes it easier to clean, easier to help someone in case of an emergency, and easier to tell if the stall is occupied.
Well, then let's call it what it is, because there are things that can be done to mitigate ignorance to some extent, if there is the will to do so from all parties.
Right now it seems like using Color to change anything will revert your overall theme from the Customize menu to the white theme. On Nightly this means the new tab page and hamburger menus revert to a white screen. Hopefully that gets changed later on.

Either way this is a very cool feature and Test Pilot is just another reason I like Firefox so much
This is the correct answer.

Ask yourself why Facebook counts "post-view" conversions instead of only post-click like AdWords and most others.

New client had been working off the assumption they were seeing ROAS of around 3 (not terrible). When we showed them how to see just the post-click, ROAS is now at 1. That means even if they are selling a product they received for free or stole, ie COGS = 0, they still only breakeven.

Attribution is the key. All this assumes that ad companies and Facebook are honest in the first place about the number of views and clicks an ad has received. Their behavior does not engender much good will for a benefit of the doubt situation.
well, everybody already said shopify but if you want completely free then you can try Square. They are very limiting when it comes to design though.
This isn’t a new business model and plenty of people and organizations already charge money for newsletters or subscriptions for content.

There’s been plenty of academic papers from economists focusing on journalism detailing the issues, but put simply: There’s two ways to monetize, 1) Ads where businesses are the customer, 2) Pay per use (one time or subscriptions) where the reader is the customer.

The problem with subscriptions is that it disfavors the poor and massively reduces audience, which in the case of journalism and news the poor are arguably in most need and end up disenfranchised by editors and journalists because the need to write articles to please their upper and middle class customers (think the Economist for example).

The problem with ads on the Internet is that content can be copied and exfiltrated at no cost, so it’s difficult to prevent syndication of the content elsewhere (why RSS is not more successful, for example)

Substack doesn’t fundamentally fix anything with the problems of a subscription-based business model, even though it looks like a good product.
Also consider that the management or project is looking for just some vague white liquid and at the store you only see cans (powdered milk? Is that white?)
Reminds me of the guy who taught me to drive stick. On the last lesson, he had me drive a few miles from the parking lot we'd been practicing in, and then right as we turn around to head back he goes into, "So, Tom, I was wondering: have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior? ..."
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Can't see it because of gdpr
Depends on how "local" was defined in your area.

We had multiple independent local phone companies one place I lived. I could call into the next state for free (and by dialing just five numbers), but my friends two miles away in the same state were 35¢ a minute.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud!

Just kidding. Don't use this unless you truly hate yourself.
>I also like going back into my browser history.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Firefox has browsing history, if that's what you mean.

There is a different product Firefox Focus which erases your history when the browser closes, maybe you're thinking of that.
I'm happy the technical part of my work is boring because as a business owner I receive more than enough excitement delivering excellent service to my clients. I think it is important to be a stakeholder and have complete ownership of a problem. Then you might prefer boring because all you care about is delivering a good result.
You can afford ~5 preemptible instances for the cost of one full-time instance. I think you are severely overestimating the harm that is done by preempting/terminating instances in a prod Kubernetes cluster that is capably configured for full HA and distributed across zones. That's what it's made for – nodes are as disposable as pods. They may come and go as they please, and they'll be replaced as needed by the self-healing nature of the cluster and the scaling group.

(Why save a few dollars when you can get extra capacity instead? Especially when you have $100k of someone else's money to burn... so, for real though, anyone who has actually tried this configuration can chime in and confirm that it works as well as I imagine.)

I'm pretty sure that periodically shutting down some nodes is a boon for cluster utilization, too. One of the things that Kubernetes does not do on its own, is load rebalancing. You can configure the autoscaler to recognize when nodes are overprovisioned, and let it drain a few and shut them down... or you can let the preemptible nature of (some/all of your) nodes do it for you.

(Why not both? Some nodes are getting killed, or you're paying for resources you don't use, so... one way or another.)
> Git was around for years before, but Github made it accessible to a lot more people.

Implementation of Git began in April 2005. 1.0 was released in December. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History)

Github had 2000 users in March 1, 2008. [...] Development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2007 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Company_history)

So "for years" means "less than three years".

Github doesn't make Git accessible. You clone a local Git repo and it behooves you to know how to use it.
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Ask HN: I want to learn websockets. What are some good Websocket APIs?
I know about the GDAX API and Ripple's (XRP) websocket API. What other websocket API's are there that provide realtime data?
Oh god. Omniture is one of the worst software I've had the misfortune of being forced to implement.

I'm not surprised the same founder is running into issues here.
Yes, but it can also be an easy way to justify exploitative work conditions worse than industry standard.
> It's neither "moral panic" nor people oppose targeted ads because it will harm us

Then just don't access any ad-sponsored content. You are the one deciding to use it, just make that call.

I hate ads like anyone else, but I know that ads pay for the services and content I access. As much as I'd love for them to go away, I don't want it because I know the impact it would have on the availability of content and services.
It was called a BBS network. One example was ARBNet.
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How do you get the idea that pointing out a bug with a site is an attempt to discredit and not common courtesy among fellow community members, especially after the site owner has already thanked them and fixed the issue?
Yeah, I very clearly remember a "the sky is falling" sentiment when Steam launched a download only version of Half-Life 2.

Or take Netflix, very few thought that would be the streaming juggernaut that it is into today. Alas poor Blockbuster, we knew you well.
The Soviet Union did espionage on the space shuttle even though the plans were public through foia because they are a civilian agency. They literally could have just asked.
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The time table is being pretty generous to Apple. Metal, Vulkan, and DX12 are reworked versions of Mantle.

The entire point of Mantle was to be a proof of concept that could be reworked into cross platform API (which became Vulkan), there was plenty of work already being done by Khronos in 2014 (and Apple knew this). And they just went out and released Metal anyway.

I also blame Microsoft for the same thing, early parts of the DX12 docs were taken word for word out of the Mantle docs, that's how similar they are. But Microsoft at least had couple decades of having a competing API, but Apple went out to create a new one for some reason.
I didn't see where the company built used bubble in the article?
An an European, GDPR is a horrible cancer.
I got excited I was about to read an AMA with substack.
> I'm all for it because the content the current advertising model enables is so bad we're not willing to pay for it

You're saying that you don't like the content, so you'd be ok with it going away.

What about people who like it and use the services?

Nobody is forcing you to consume ad-sponsored content.
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I work for a company called shopblocks (https://shopblocks.com) where you can create a e-commerce site and have full control over the layout. I can highly recommend!
as a regular drunk and consumer of large quantities of water when drunk and when sober I have to admit Gatorade is so much more effective in preventing hangover headache compared to water, I couldn't believe it myself
No paid contributors? So, projects like Vue would not qualify because Evan You gets paid through Patreon? What about open source contributors from companies like Facebook or Google? They get paid.

It's hard to imagine a single open source project that doesn't have some sort of commercial contribution or sponsorship!

edit, response to detaro:

FB and Google should definitely pay to host their own projects, but many of their engineers contribute to projects all across GitHub!
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Did you read the updated response? They are examples from different teams.
You can hate both. I'm challenging your values. I'm saying they're misdirected.

I also don't like snake oil, but I don't blame agents for acting in a fit manner.
So, yes and no. Let me lay out the bits for you.

The language currently knows nothing of coroutines. So, as you say, you chain Futures together, which is basically a monad. You submit that futures chain to an executor, like Tokio, and it basically moves the chain's stack to the heap, and then executes it. So, in some sense, Tokio is a stack-ful co-routine. It just so happens we know the stack's exact size at compile time, which has some nice properties compared to other stack-ful implementations.

Additionally, we have, in nightly, "generators." These are stack-less coroutines. On top of that, we have accepted (and there's a PR open in the compiler to implement) async/await. Async/await de-sugars to the whole Futures-chain shenanigans, but does it via generators. You then take that chain, and submit it to something like Tokio, making it stack-ful. Writing code with async/await is significantly more ergonomic than chaining futures together by hand, and feels more like goroutines, though suspension points are explicit rather than implicit.

Generators are likely to eventually be stable as well, so you can also write your own stack-less stuff if you want. But for now, they're an implementation detail of async/await, which has much less of a design surface area, and is what most people will want to do with this stuff, and so has priority.

Make sense?
Because people will pay for it and stick with AWS if SOMETHING is happening, rather than move Google or Azure

All the talk here about start small and grow

But somehow the big guys are supposed to push the final version of $newthing out Day-1?

They might have the resources but it’s the economics for new thing don’t change
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We have the full support of the network admin staff, so punching out is not an issue, we just want to keep it as clean as possible. My guess is our control channel will likely end up being some combination of WSS/Redis (if it plays nice w/ mutual auth and load balancing) or a variation of our current polling HTTP/REST solution. Thanks for the offer, I might take you up on it ;)
WhatsApp's $1/year charge only applied in certain (rich) countries.
They've been writing like that for the last 60 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/13/archives/electronic-brain...
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> What about open source projects from companies like Facebook or Google?

Why shouldn't Facebook or Google pay for code hosting if they want more than the free plan offers?
That was my thought, too. You can always build a portfolio piece, or construct a case study by having a side project (a good example is Ryan Stewart with LacesOut.com).
My full first sentence gave kudos for both being a company that allowed a sidegig and not being a jerk about demanding a cut. Yes, the law protects employees from a company seizing IP outright, or from pressuring them to work longer hours. But there's nothing stopping a company from being hostile -- either not taking the employee's word that he didn't use any company time/resources on his hobby, or pressuring/firing him for not staying late like his co-workers. By his account, he was able to pick a comfortable time to leave:

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-we-made-1m-in-3-months-the-s...
AI needs to start pulling its weight and controlling our shopping carts