skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was supposed to be a weekend project consisting of re-grouting bathroom shower tile turned out to be a two-month side project replacement of wall from the studs out. It was the kind of project that got worse at every step.

The contractors who built the bathroom cut corners by creating a bathroom in a single day. They didn't sufficiently mortar each tile to the wall (back butter) and wait a couple of days to set prior to grouting, as they should have. As I cleared out grout between the tile using a multi tool, vibrations agitated the tile, causing several to fall from the wall, crashing into pieces in the bathtub. Evidently, many of the tile were hardly, if at all, mortared to the substrate. Some tile weren't even fastened to the wall at all but were rather being held in place by grout.

For those unfamiliar with the business of ceramic bathroom tile, the industry does not make standard tile in perpetuity. Consequently, the odds that you will find a match for 10 year old tile are extremely low. I could not find an even remotely close style of tile to match against.

So, realizing the futility of this work, it seemed that I had no other option but to remove the three walls of tile surrounding the bath area and start new.

I did all of this from a condominium unit four flights from ground. I cut tile from the ground floor, outside, without appropriate workspace nor wet tile cutting machine but rather an angle grinder and some buckets. If you're not laughing, you really ought to try this some time.

Lessons learned:

1. Never, ever, regrout anything beyond a very small area. Avoid re-grouting entirely if possible.
2. Buy at least twenty extra tile for any new project and store them somewhere safe for the long term.
3. Professional contractors who tile for a living are worth their fee. Same applies for mortar and stone specialists.
4. DIY projects are a great distraction from cerebral day jobs but are minefields

This isn't the hardest problem I ever solved, by a stretch, but it's a horror story I like to share.
I'm very excited for bcachefs, I've been trying it out on my personal laptop for a while (until I was forced to reinstall).

It was a very pleasant experience and I hope that it gets mainlined in the close future. Linux desperately needs ZFS with better integration and more flexibility.
i do. on the bus i can read, reply to messages or even sleep. if i had a car, i'd have to pay attention to traffic.

it's half an hour wasted vs an hour doing something productive.

greetings, eMBee.
Falcon 9 doesn't have parachutes as far as I know. The fairings do, but not the first stage.
Walmart Overtakes Apple as No. 3 Online Retailer in US
We need to ban production of fossil fuels immediately. Tax the sale of reserves so that people can’t afford to depend on this existential threat for daily life. Subsidize the production of green electricity and fund the transition to a fossil-free world. If the market can’t handle this, nationalize whatever industry nessecary and bring under a central plan to accomplish the goal. The alternative of runaway climate change is far worse.
>Can't simply blame it on stupid Northerners.

As one myself, that was not my intention at all.

30+ years of anti-EU propaganda, lots of lies leading up to the referendum. Catchy soundbites like "project fear" to dispel any attempts at reasoning potential downsides.

It all adds up, and even then it was a very slim vote to leave.

But my original post still stands; EU has pretty poor PR in the UK (and likely elsewhere) but an attempt to improve it would likely give ammunition to the very tabloids who despise the EU today.
zfs is also getting zstandard: e.g. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11124?id=30301

Doesn't appear to be merged yet, but it's coming.
Sorry for the dry reply, but only thing I can come up with is sheesh.
'Likely be mostly' is not that reassuring.

Given that fear is a weapon, I don't trust people on a battlefield to not use meat eating robots for psychological effect, if they happen to have them around. If it is possible for people to be fed into the meat eating robot, then they will be.
One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/
I made few more similiar sites, but they all failed.
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We don't know nearly enough about neurons to make any claim either way. We do know that neurons operate by means of ion pumps which are clearly influenced by EM fields and there is evidence that exposure to these fields causes changes in cognition (see transcranial magnetic stimulation). It remains to be seen whether the field is strong enough/with enough structure to meaningfully influence cognition through self-sustaining processes.

We know certain analogues of brain-based cognition have certain properties related to information processing but to say we know anything about how neurons process information is way too naive to be taken seriously.
Interestingly, the movie poster halfway through the article seems to have filtered out the needle the man is using.
> Turns out I needed a code 437 emulator! [1]

So that… just converts from cp437 (output by the subprocess) to whatever the "system encoding" (assumed to be the terminal's) is?

I'm surprised iconv or the like doesn't handle that natively. Or is the issue that you still need to interact with the subprocess and iconv(1) only does piping/non-interactive conversions?
Given the link between the US and the KSA, from a pure analyst view, if the CIA is giving away conclusion like that publicly, it's highly probable that something is brewing and under preparation somewhere.
Yeah, let's die by 1000 cuts, it's all fine.
Dr Chuck Tingle???
Talk Review: Deep Learning: Practice and Trends, NIPS 2017 – Part I
It's always important to know when someone is out of their specialty. The researcher I practically worship on a particular subject once wrote a defence of something I personally know to be complete nonsense because I was there and know what happened.

Dave's Laurel Canyon piece is meticulously researched and he's in his specialty. He's wrong about the moon landings.
This was really painful. Back when I was a Debian developer tracking unstable, I would update every evening and it would sometimes take multiple hours to complete. The fsync performance is a truly awful design flaw, and while eatmydata does make it faster, it's a terrible and dangerious hack! (Which everyone used!)

I even had to add eatmydata support to the schroot tool as a command-prefix option to allow every command to be run via eatmydata when using btrfs snapshots. (I've since dropped btrfs support entirely; it was too unreliable with large snapshot turnover rapidly unbalancing the filesystem. Unusable in production.)
> Defence from whom? From system administrator?

From the user, since SGX is also used/intended for DRM purposes.
The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]
How does btrfs keep data intact when the memory is broken better than ZFS and other filesystems?
Stamos says the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from misinformation
Children should be heard not just seen
>Why do so many modern projects feel the need to include the language and/or the tech stack used as part of the project name?

Because that was a great motivation for them being written in the first place. "Let me write X in Y, to have Y easily used from Y or as a learning exercise or because Y is fun or bring benefits (e.g. Rust and safety, Go and easily parallelizable/static build).

>Does “Go” or “JS” or “Swift” or “Node” make these project more attractive somehow to an end-user (even if the end-user is a programmer)?

Yes, very much. I prefer Go and Rust utilities now whenever I can find them over an equally good alternative.

(Plus, you seem to have forgotten that "if the end-user is a programmer" they might be interested to play with the source, and there the language is very important).
I appreciate you clarifying the incorrect representation of the system. People tend to assume everything in China is communism, it really is not. This is a capitalistic change.
Nope, just Chuck Testa.
its not work if its fun, which im sure this was
> Imagine trying to rent a house or get a loan without a credit check or police check.

You mean like how it usually is? (UK)

None of the places I've rented ever required a credit check. That includes a couple relatively recently when I was briefly nomadic thanks to recession. When I was a landlord for a few years I did not credit check. I've only rented once in the South East, perhaps it's different for letting agencies and landlords down there.

Police check? For what? Only potential employers can ask for a criminal record check, and only some of those are allowed fuller details.

Loans check credit history, for sure, but before loans were pushed credit checks were not a thing. You had to rely on the local bank manager, who would usually try and dissuade you from borrowing too much. Quite the reverse of what we have now.

So perhaps all Western nations are not as far ahead as you appear to believe.
I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
Alright. I'll be that guy. I look at your list of side projects and I see nothing that's remotely passive. They all look like tons of work! My best passive income this year is my index funds -- for instance, the S&P 500 is up 3.9% year-to-date, and I've cumulatively spent under an hour this year thinking about it. Hard to imagine what else besides investments qualifies as passive. Maybe real estate? But how passive that is is questionable and very dependent on your particular circumstances.
From ads?
The quality of writing in America has really fallen off. NYMag, NYT, etc. used to publish at least mediocre journalism & opinions. I guess the death of print means talented people just work elsewhere, the incentives are skewed, or some combination of factors.
I think it's already pretty clear that crypto doesn't need bailouts.

The total cryptocurrency market size is at 1/4th of what it was at the beginning of the year, and there haven't been any significant results because of that. I would wager that the remaining 1/4th could be wiped out and it's still pretty much the same. Crypto projects were always very removed from the real world, both in valuation and usage (so if crypto vanishes it doesn't impact other companies).

The biggest result of the crypto market correcting will probably be software engineer salaries becoming a bit lower again (outside of SF).
You should write an ebook on how to make money publishing erotic stories, including publishing and maintaining anonymity.
4 year old MacBook running Windows 10. VS Code opens in a second and is smooth as silk.

I love it.
I think programing in the future needs to:

- treat a program as a database

- allow programs to be visualised in many formats (visually as graphs, textually as code etc)

- allow programs to be manipulated through many interfaces (visually, textually, programatically)

It’s not that text and syntax should die, it’s that different visualization and manipulation paradigms are appropriate for different levels of abstractions within programs.

2c
Nice. Did the domain cost you too much ?
I can't tell you what motivates others, but I know what motivated me with GoAWK: intellectual curiosity, and the desire to learn how to use Go's profiling tools on a non-trivial project.
like the simplicity and ux. what is the business model?
Some people use the archaic spelling "shew" but only the senses "to prove or demonstrate". Or again in mathematics "rng" to mean a ring that does not necessarily have an identity. Or "iff" to mean "if and only if". These would look like inconsistent typos to nonmathematicians.

Or "referer" in HTTP because that's what the standard uses. Or "creat" when discussing the UNIX system call or a function with the same purpose on another platform.
Yes. Only ads.
>First, this also describes Ventura.

I don't really know anything about Jesse Ventura, and still don't understand why you keep bringing him up. If he's done everything that Assange has done, then I don't like him either.

> I'm sure he'd take US money and appear on PBS too if given the opportunity.

Ah, the Captain Renault defense. (Sure, I collaborate with the Nazis, but I'd just as soon collaborate with the other side if they were winning!)
I think it's pretty well understood that passive means without requiring on-going work, support or maintenance.

Even investing takes up-front work in the form of research and to actually setup the investment.
If you enjoy the process of the Aeropress, you might try one of those manual lever espresso machines. I have a La Pavoni Europiccola, which can be had relatively cheaply used.

Ultimately I went with the manual lever because I got tired of trying to figure out the espresso machine market, and I knew that the limiting factor in my espresso would be me, not the fact that I didn’t buy a copper boiler, PID-enabled $6k monstrosity.

If the frothy milk thing isn’t something you care about, then these things look pretty amazing and get good reviews on Amazon: https://www.flairespresso.com/ I didn’t go this route because I wanted something that could make my morning latte in addition to espresso, but this looks amazing.

You’ll definitely want to get a decent quality (read consistent) burr grinder to get good espresso. I had a ~$80 Capresso grinder that was great for Aeropress, but didn’t deliver enough grind consistency or enough control over grind size. I broke down and bought a Breville grinder on a friend’s recommendation (listed for $400, got for $180 on sale).

I love the precise grind times, because I’m lazy. But, in the spirit of cheap and manual, I’ve heard good things about the handheld Kyocerra grinder. That plus a cheap digital scale should get you some amazing results.

To recap, you could get the Flair espresso maker for as little as ~$150, and a handheld grinder for <$50 and probably be making as good an espresso as an expensive machine.
Brexit uncertainty means UK is uninvestable
There was no business model. It was just to learn code few years back.
Then after a year I noticed there is some traffic on site.
So I put ads there, and that is basically everything.
One of those things that make you jealous because they seem so obvious in hindsight.
you could add additional checks in the code to make sure the data is correct. the impression i got was that ZFS didn't add those checks because it would trust the RAM.
.country domain is something like 20 to 30$ a year I think. It was free domain when I searched for it.
ZFS encryption works in a similar fashion, and ext4 also has encryption (which is used by default in Android).

Personally I'm not a huge fan of this because unlike the clear benefits of giving filesystems control over raw devices, full disk encryption has requirements that can't really be provided partially. You want to ensure no metadata about the filesystem structure or files will be known without knowing the encryption key but this is clearly not possible without having block device layer encryption. ZFS encryption allows for all sorts of useful operations on encrypted filesystems without having the key. This is cool, but also obviously provides a lot of information about the filesystem structure. Also dedup tables aren't encrypted in this setup. ext4 only encrypts filenames and contents, which is worse in some respects.
Some guesses: to alert nursing staff in a preemie ward immediately (instead of waiting for a scheduled round of checks) when a baby is in pain or hungry or needs a diaper change, etc.
Love Dependabot! Worth every penny.

Happy you can work on it full time.
Market making on various cryptocurrency exchanges. Not entirely passive, still a lot of work. But can’t really complain.
I take it these are short stories? How long does it take you to write and publish each one?
How Serverless Changes the IT Department
All this amazing music came out of one place. Is it possible part of that is connections in promotion? Especially in the gate keeper era? In other words there might be great music in many more places but unless it gets promoted by the right people no one ever hears it.
To be honest, I don't even know how to montize such small and simple site.
This is not service where you return every day, or every few days.
It's like you use this site for a minute, two, than you forget about it.
The fact that "finding more votes" is even technically possible highlights a problem.
IMO this is good engineering practice in general. It’s also super helpful for sighted programmers.
Try a subscription to Lapham's Quarterly, or just read it free online: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
fsync performance on ZFS on Linux isn't as performant as it should be either. On my Optane 900p I have almost 10x better fsync performance on FreeBSD compared to Linux.
thanks for the reply. didn't see the ads (blocker).

might also work to feature some amazon products (books, maps, globes, …).

i wonder how to drive more traffic. maybe a social (media) aspect like inviting friends/posting scores.
Distributed Tracing FAQ
Certainly the speed of it's execution. That could be difference enough to be concerning when shifting from dev to prod.
Show HN: Don't code your UI, draw it
No, and it's not a bad thing either. Each one has strengths and weaknesses. You need constant innovation in different languages in order to evolve the art of programming.
A DevOps Sundae: Is SRE the Cherry on Top?
For filesystems, it's a tough call. They are one of the most, if not the most, important parts of the system with respect to requiring absolute reliability. Being stable isn't necessarily a bad thing.

In the case of OpenZFS, where it's implemented by multiple operating systems with differing requirements, maybe the different priorities and goals of the different teams will result in cross-pollination of ideas and implementation details rather than it stagnating top-down. I.e. there's scope for some differences in features and details, while still adhering to the common design.
Customer support is an group insurence for the costumers. Most wont use it. Profit per customer is irrelevant. It's profit for all customers per support event that's the metric.

If the users are the product then the sites that shows the ads are the retailers or whatever. As a small reteiler 200 USD/month I got no support what so ever when Google closed our account for unspecific policy violations. Just autoreplys.

It would be nice with some law like the signs on ciggaret packets when signing up for a Google account.

"WE COLLCECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND SELLS A ANALYSIS OF IT. WE MAY DELETE YOUR SUBMITED FILES AND MAILS WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE AND WE PROVIDE NO SUPPORT TO USERS. WE MAY CHANGE THESE RULES WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE."

I don't think most users are aware.
Google's reputation with their paid services which paying customers pay them payments to use isn't stellar, either. Basically it's them and PayPal in the finals of the candidates tournament to see who takes on US cable companies for the worst-customer-service championship.
Some effect no doubt but not as much as might be imagined by it's pressure pump like appearance.

I think the main variable affected by pressure is what is forced through the filter. A faster push and more force means more oils which can have positive or negative taste changes depending on the coffee.

You see competitive aeropressers (yeah, I know...) do 60s long presses to reduce pressure.

> If the pressure has no effect, why does the Aeropress brew more quickly than a French press?

Typically a french press has a coarser grind and less agitation.
Peter Thiel said it in 0 to 1: China is one of those countries where it looks scary powerful from a foreigner’s perspective, but on the inside, people are panicking and really have no idea what they are doing most of the time. There’s this illusion of efficiency and order whereas the reality is inside China it is just as chaotic as any other country.
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I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?
> Pricing shouldn't be a political decision. It should be a rational decision based on merits and values," he said.

The money quote. A rational decision? Maybe. Exactly what merits? Exactly which values?

"Hundreds of millions of investor money has gone into the company"

But none of that led to the development of the drug.
OOBE on Windows 10 has gone to the dogs. Live Tiles on the default Windows 10 Start Menu — especially if you buy an OEM laptop — look gaudy and distract you from the task at hand. I just wish Microsoft realised that this is making Apple’s systems more attractive.
The New Yorker has long been one of the few outlets of long-form writing about interesting subjects. I can't tell whether you are criticizing the New Yorker or comparing it to other media.
What would be the difference between “enough” and “too many”?
It is hard to disagree with your sentiment, but to get the discussion going, it helps to complicate your position somewhat:

- who is 'we'? The policy-makers? The voters? They voted a climate-change-denier into the presidents chair. Not fair? Should've listened to those fear-mongerers telling you to stop using Facebook as a source of news.

- how to deal with the global economy? There is no 'central' plan. Funding green energy will just shift the balance to other countries.

- who is going to produce so many electric cars in such a short amount of time? Without transportation, you will risk civil unrest.

- how would you produce steel? How to prevent movement of steel production to developing countries?

- how will you transform the agricultural industry? Even if you start now, the transition to 0% fossil fuel usage will take at least a decade. The supply of lithium and the battery production capacity are simply too low.

- if you subsidise green energy, you will also promote the inefficient production of the goods necessary for this new market. The inefficient production can and may happen oversea, causing you to just shift the problem to China or elsewhere.

- "the alternative of runaway climate change is far worse". You cannot influence the global markets. If the nationalisation/taxation will cause civil unrest and an illegal usage and trade in fossil fuels, the alternative might be better! At least the (legal) usage and trade is subject to international oversight.
Concealed weapons: erectile claws in African frogs (2008)
That’s a fair criticism of the parent comment. Espresso != brewed coffee. But the author does quote the article stating that the Aeropress makes a better tasting (to some) drink than the expensive (presumably espresso) machines. When I bought my first Aeropress, I think the marketing and commentary by friends and acquaintances suggested that I’d be drinking something more similar to espresso at home on the cheap. Of course I did not, even though the coffee was good.

Lastly, for someone who wants espresso on the cheap, but doesn’t care about frothy milk, the Flair espresso maker looks like a winner, as I mentioned elsewhere: https://www.flairespresso.com/

To recap, yes they’re different beasts, both good. There are often disingenuous comparisons to espresso made on both “sides.”
I built https://www.docsapp.io/ while learning new programming language. Now DocsApp generating passive income for me, not a lot, but small profit. Next step is to build content around my product to generate more traffic.

Anyone know where to find good technical content writers?
Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing
Progressive Service Architecture Eng. And Feature Flags at Auth0
It's not income unless it's realised.
This is 50ms. This is 200ms. doesn't quite work as well. Depending on the situation there has to be some theshhold of diminishing returns.
Just wanted to say, that's a beautifully designed site. The colours, typography, and layout are fantastic. Really nice!