skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does being an individual author have to do with doing it as a hobby?

The comment I'm replying to talks about ways to make money with your hobby online.

Why can't you report from Aleppo as long as you get the money to pay your salary and expenses?

It's a warzone.
The website says there's a 10 year warranty.
Speaking from experience. The PTO is given up-front. (Say by quarter.) There may be a grace period into the next calendar before the previous year's PTO is zeroed out. And you can potentially, by policy, go negative.

It's not uncommon for companies to have some variant of this.

I agree that it's not all that different from accrual caps in practice but does need a little more management to avoid losing time.

ADDED: Accrual caps are also typically more along the lines of vacation earned over 18-24 months in my experience.
Neat. I've used HelloSign for several things over the years, with their fax support saving me a ton of time on numerous occasions. They've always been very easy to deal with.
Impostor syndrome is just impostor syndrome until suddenly you do 20 interviews and nobody will hire you and you don't understand why.
I don't doubt it, but it comes to specific spaces a lot of them have been correct.

Appointment Reminder, for example, is now in competition with at least a half-dozen similar products, just from my personal experiences. And many of those integrate reminders with account creation, customer tracking, online bookings/cancellations, and even followup marketing.

That's just one example, and it's not a surprise that small services are followed by larger, integrated ones. There are still good, untapped ideas out there. But it's also true that new technologies create lots of first-mover opportunities and then slowly become less accessible to small providers as the simplest value propositions are consumed. Actually, video games seem like a particularly clear demonstration of the pattern. A solo developer can make a good and successful game, even today. But a successful solo game these days is usually either fun but very shallow (Flappy Bird) or a niche game that skips many elements (Dwarf Fortress). Twenty years ago, it was RollerCoaster Tycoon. On the other hand, solo VR projects are going strong because there are lots of unexplored ideas and a low bar for depth and polish.

I suppose there's a force in the other direction, too; improving tools and services mean that the same number of development hours provide more features to users, or open up new categories of problem. (RollerCoaster Tycoon was written in assembly, after all.) As PG puts it, the simple tasks no longer require a schlep. But that leverage is open to everyone, and it doesn't seem to break the broad pattern that newer technologies are more accommodating for small-scale projects.
The main change would be to the power supply, as the esp8266 has a far higher (~300mA) peak current than the ATTiny814 used (~3mA).
Currently, an LDO provides 3.3V from the 24-35V motor supply.
This would need to be changed to a buck DC/DC regulator, as a larger LDO at this voltage would need too big a heatsink for the case.
You're describing the sort of operation a nation-state's intelligence services would plan, and I'm describing the sort of thing anyone from a crazy ex-lover to an unethical competitor might do.

Your scenario is obviously more likely to succeed and less likely to be detected, but mine works more often than not. Being sure I have not done anything to attract the attention of an intelligence agency is not sufficient to be sure nobody has gained physical access to my laptop and installed malware.
It really doesn't save anything, and makes some operations like finding the physical address for a virtual address more complicated. His description of "identity mapping" is also a bit too focused on page-tables and kinda misses the bigger picture. x86_64 has a 48-bit memory space, so you can literally get away with identity-mapping all of your physical memory into a higher-half location with no issues, because the virtual-address space is much larger then the amount of physical memory a 64-bit computer is going to have. Ergo, even if you went with his described approach and just made a single identity mapping for each page table, it would still use so little virtual memory space you could just allocate from elsewhere for your memory-mapped files and such with no worry of them touching eachother. And by doing a single large allocation of all of physical memory, you can use very large page sizes to setup the identity map, significantly reducing the number of pages required.

There is also a presumption that you can only choose one mapping technique, which isn't the case with x86_64 since it has such a large virtual address space and you can map the same page in more then one location. So, as long as you keep track of what's happening with your pages, you can have an allocator that just allocates contiguous pages in the identity mapping, and also have an allocator that maps separate physical pages into a contiguous virtual mapping, and both allocators can coexist perfectly fine as long as you ensure pages are only allocated to one purpose at a time (Which isn't very hard to do. You can even have your virtual allocator just call your physical allocator).
Sorry, used wrong word. "Skywave" is a better term.
Falacy Falacy. It's not nice that the meanie head called you names, but where is your actual citation? Where are actual studies to back up your claims?

You just repeat yourself here, as elsewhere, that somehow an "ad hominem" by your opponite supports your view? That's not how this works and is in fact, ironically, an ad hominem attack.
Product link: https://www.tindie.com/products/gcormier/megadesk/

Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/87cqz9/megadesk_a_...

Github link: https://github.com/gcormier/megadesk
Shortwave radio with big-ass yagis and dipoles, aimed at each other in point-to-point links. Very low data rates, carrying custom messaging protocols, but also measurably less latency on critical paths such as NY-Chicago or London-Tokyo.

There is a big crossover in tech with shortwave band military over the horizon communications systems, and also serious ham radio enthusiasts who use big yagis and antenna rotators to talk to each other from opposite sides of the planet.

Things like chained 6 and 11 GHz microwave between NY-Chicago, which was the "hot new thing" in HFT 7-8 years ago to achieve better than fiber latency on that route, seem quaint now.
Indeed, Mac did certainly see an increase in streams after his death. It just wasn't of the same magnitude: https://infogram.com/xxx-mac-miller-comparision-1hxr4zlxzp85...

(and again, note that this is only counts streams for songs that were in the Global Top 200 for a given day)
I clicked on the twitter link, I don't know why really, I probably shouldn't have

> "A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today."

I think this what people mean when they talk about Poe's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law. For a short while I thought I was reading a parody.

> "BuzzFeed changed the internet, for better or worse (if you say worse to me right now please eat my ass)," ... "They gave moral clarity, heart, and a mission that was never craven click-lust, but driven by serious consideration of humans"

It seems the team builders there failed on the moral clarity bit. At least there is more work to be done, but time has run out it seems.

It's interesting to observe how confident they are that they shaped the internet for the better. Something tells this is not an anomaly and most of them share that belief. This is a great example self and group brainwashing. And notice the part where if you disagree with them, you get immediately attacked. Clearly the qualities of a sophisticated investigative journalist, ready to report news in an unbiased and objective manner.
‘Everything is not going to be okay’
Well perhaps Buzzfeed News shouldn't have had the word 'Buzzfeed' in it. I mean, most large companies make sure their brand names are far more distinct than that...

(like Buzzfeed's equally dodgy counterpart, News Corp and its different newspaper/news site names).
Ethereum package deployment with ZeppelinOS
It’s not just NIMBYism, but also down right selfishness. My parents are retired and live in a house that backs on to an elementary school. What the hell are retired childless couples doing living next to schools?

I’m in the process of looking for my first house and my mother said to me the other day, “why don’t you try something out in the country”. I have 40 years left to work, why don’t YOU move out to the country!

At some point, we’re going to have a bunch of vacant schools because all these old farts won’t leave.
Adding schema metadata to protobuf messages is a pretty common pattern.
The Real-World AI Issue
I think the gripe was less about auto-updates than the fact that the OS allegedly un-set OP's attempt at opting out.

Forgetting certain settings is annoying. Forgetting that I want to manually control when my computer downloads gigs of data to apply a patch that- in recent times especially- may very well brick my system... well, I can certainly understand where OP's frustration comes in.

Even at one of my jobs a few years back (which was about 50/45/5 apple / windows / linux shop) we were cautioned against applying major updates from apple within the first month or so of their releases given past issues.
Ikea's standing desks aren't that great. They wobble a lot and then anything attached to it wobbles too.

Still looking for the perfect heavy-duty standing desk and heavy-duty VESA arm combo. I don't want anything on my desk moving unless I am moving it myself.

To put it this way: if a desk is $500 and wobbles slightly (meaning if I touch the desk or type, my coffee jiggles and waves are seen) or is $1000 and the desk does not transmit any energy from my keyboard into anything else ... I will pay the extra $500 without even batting an eye.
The lesson they learned is a perfect example of:

To sell something surprising, make it familiar; and to sell something familiar, make it surprising.

- Raymond Loewy

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/what-ma...
Blockchain Privacy: Equal Parts Theory and Theater
I've had both motorized and hand-crank. I much prefer a motorized one.

I have terrible knees because of a sports injury. I get uncomfortable both sitting and standing for extended periods of time. A handcrank is a complete pain to switch between sitting and standing. If I'm adjusting, I feel compelled to be committed to a different position.

With a motorized desk, I can switch pretty much on a whim. I can sit for a while, stand up for 5 or 10 minutes, then get right back in my chair.
When you start needing ultra low latency, you see many things very differently.

Take timestamping for example. NTP has unacceptable jitter.
The data is hugely skewed because they're only looking at the top 200 each day. There are 50m tracks on streaming services and the popularity of the long tail is growing.

The 500 most streamed tracks in the US received just 10.7% of total audio streams in 2018, down from 14.6% in 2017. There were 36.3m different tracks streamed across the year, up from 33.2m in 2017.

https://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2019/01/BuzzAngle-Music-20...
Nugistics moves into the seed to sale software marketplace
Does this controller fix the design flaw that seems to make this desk break down after few months? The Bekant has an overall 2 out of 5 stars on Ikea's own website. From https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022538/:

> We have 8 of these desk in our office. At first they were used a lot of standing, the use has lessen some, but the problem is the power source that allows them to go up and down has gone out on 6 of them. Ikea has replaced them, but not sure what will happen when the 365 days warranties expire. I would recommend a standing desk just not this brand.
I've had steve.org.uk for a good few years. Then I moved to Finland, and saw that steve.fi was due to expire in about four months.

Believe me I hammered their registrar the day the domain expired, looking to purchase it. Of course it then went into a redemption-state. But eventually, it became mine. Thankfully the previous-owner was willing to let it go.
I agree with this to this extent: if you have no dependents, no plans to save money for retirement, you own your house or have a free living arrangement, you don't need to travel between cities, you don't maintain a car, then this is absolutely possible in many countries.

I just wanted to point this out for any potential digital nomads out there - yes it's possible, but probably not in most people's cases, although I'd like to hear stories of people who've made it work. Personally I could never make it work with less than $1k/month - but much of that was due to housing costs.

Keep in mind though the costs of even bare bones laptop & internet connection business models start becoming significant as a percentage when you operate at revenues this low. Replacing one broken laptop is going to eat more than half your monthly revenue, for example - and laptops/desktops are generally even more expensive when you're not in the US or China.
I owned the Skarstra (actually bought 2 of them because I moved and got rid of my old one). Recently, spent the money on the motorized one. It is 100% worth the $250 price difference.

The hand crank is quite annoying - and if you're like me you are cranking it up and down a few times a day. Every day. It takes 30 seconds to crank it up. If you have a lot on your desk (2-3 monitors, computer, etc.) it can be quite heavy. Eventually, it got so annoying I found myself just leaving it in a seated position.

Spend the extra money and get the motorized version.
It seems like it. If there only goal was to move from Windows, they spent a lot of money rewriting their whole stack instead of just migrating to .Net Core.
I like to think of this view as jailbreaking your biological operating system. We are an aggregate of trillions of cells with one fundamental purpose, to propagate our DNA and ensure the survival of our species. Of course we grow into thinking that almost everything we do is under the influence of our own free will, but it is our DNA and the corresponding influence it has over us that dictates the propensity to choose one thing or another in the first place. Yuval Noah Harrari touches on this in his book, 'Sapiens'.

In a sense, our DNA is a biological form of a general artificial intelligence, but distributed over billions of lives and over the spans of time. The collective progress of humanity being handed down generation by generation. With each generation, unique mutations in the collective DNA of humanity gives birth unique individuals with their own talents, interests, and potential to move our species forward. As a collective whole, we will either survive and evolve, or perish.

Thinking about such things doesn't do much to make it more likely that your unique DNA will propagate... and so maybe by the reproductive success of these traits within humanity we are, as a species, quite comfortable being a meatbag who hallucinates that they are thinking thoughts without delving any deeper.
He should have moved to Iowa. Under Iowa Code 730, blacklisting has Civil and criminal penalties.
Freshworks Has Acquired Nine Capital Efficient Startups
Bad preferences happen when Founders are overoptimistic or focused on optics (like a postmoney of $1.00B). Even the standard 1x/nonparticipating reflects a mismatch in optimism. Few founders would accept the valuations that would come with an all-common investment, so it's rarely discussed.

Yes employees suffer along with the founders when bad preferences are chosen. But that's still the founders fault, not the investor.
Maybe we need more patient and stealth activism.
This is a different Squeak. The inspiration for Rob Pike was developed on the Bell Labs in the 80s. Squeak (smalltalk) was developed in the 90s as an open source version of the original Smalltalk engine from Xerox.
>In fact, I am pretty sure you can buy just the Skarsta hand crank mechanism.

i would love this, but a quick google search suggests it's not true.
Proof of space/capacity
I love this line:

Company: [_______], A Delaware Corporation.

Because no one is gonna incorp anywhere else. Despite 90% of SV companies starting in California.
The most advanced one is Redox https://www.redox-os.org/
Fuzzing is super powerful, but can be a bit complicated to set up - that's why I'm working on a fuzzing-as-a-service platform[1] that automates a bunch of the steps described here.

If you're interested in trying out fuzzing without having to learn the intricacies of AFL or set things up manually, let me know[2] and I can get you set up with an account to play around with.

Happy to answer any questions about AFL/Fuzzbuzz!

[1] https://fuzzbuzz.io

[2] everest [at] fuzzbuzz [dot] io
MIT 6.701: Introduction to Nanoelectronics (2011)[pdf]
Not the same squeak
Take a look at https://www.autonomous.ai

They offer the option to buy JUST the legs, and you can mount your own top. I went that route. Bought the legs with the strongest motor (can support 300lbs) and put a nice heavy desktop on there with a vesa mounted 34" curved monitor.

It's pretty damn sturdy. I never notice any wobble with normal use and I usually have it pretty high up.
- An investor's margin on appreciation of real estate will be much higher if it's rented out rather than empty.

- An investor who owns whole buildings/units has massive economies of scale from renting out.

- Hedging, money laundering or diversification are orthogonal to letting/leaving-empty, see also the original article.

- I don't see empirical evidence of buildings/units are are owned outright and left empty in London and a substantial scale. Please supply quantitative evidence to the contrary if you have any. Where are all those empty building in London?

- Regarding landlord/slumlord. As far as I'm aware, most large
developments are done by investment funds insurance etc. Names like Trump and Kushner are too emotionally charged to lead to a serious discussion, and I'd appreciate if you could quantify what fraction of the London property market is left empty for speculative purposes.
Agreed we're only looking at the top 200! Tried to be upfront about that :)
Are the services really very hard to automate? It seems a lot of the staff time is spent administering medication, helping patients move around and monitoring. All of these sound amenable to automation within today's state of the art.
Music from Testimonies – Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
I love TransferWise:

- separate business and personal accounts with the same login details

- own account details for US, UK and Germany (6 unique account numbers in total: 3 for personal, 3 for business)

- low transaction fees (e.g. 1 USD for domestic US transfers vs. the 25 USD that most US banks charge for wire transfers)

- low and transparent exchange costs for moving money between USD/GBP/etc. accounts

- very simple and easy UX

- instant push notifications for transactions

People have complained for years about the fat and hidden margins charged by banks for sending money abroad, or receiving money from abroad. People have observed how simple it would be to fix, except for the regulatory difficulties of getting set up.

I'm sure others have tried. These guys actually did it and made something that works well for large groups of people.
Yes, I was so intrigued by their story. I feel like the right person could pull it off. I've thought about this documentary non-stop for the past couple of days.
There is an anthill in Brazil. If you pour honey near it, the ants will make more ants. The number of ants in the anthill is proportional to the amount of honey. If you pour pesticide near it, some of the ants will die. The number of ants in the anthill is inversely proportional to the amount of pesticide. If you pour honey and pesticide near the anthill, and the number of ants stays the same, you haven't disproven either of these things, they're both still true, you're just adding the lines together.

If you kill all the bears in Montana, or add a thousand more, the number of ants in Brazil doesn't change. They are not proportional, they're completely unrelated.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. With combined sick + vacation, usually called PTO, workers are more likely to try to save PTO for vacation and work when they are sick, and they end up transmitting infections to other workers. Personally, I am a big fan of separate vacation + sick leave.
>a turn based game drastically reduces the action space compared to a real time game,

That's the primary benefit imo. The bigger action space is largely composed of non-strategic elements, at least in the sense of long-term strategies, eg micro and mini-skirmish tactics, that I don't think are as interesting. Ofc its clearly a conflict of interest, but my feeling was the most interesting aspect of Go/Chess is the AI making unintuitive discoveries that benefit the long-term. The human-collective machine is pretty good on its own at finding the shorter-term strategies; I don't think AI will make much significant impact in that space.

games as a medium to study upcoming real-world applications (eg cars), RTS makes sense; but as a medium to study AI beating humans, TBS is more appropriate (their ability to explore large search-spaces is far more interesting/potentially impactful). Studying both would be ideal ofc, but in a pick-one situation, TBS is better imo. But only RTS are even really viable atm, which is disappointing.
I've started using Hypothesis for testing my code when I'm working on Kattis problems, if I get a runtime exception of some form. It's especially valuable considering that the official execution environment is essentially a black box. I don't know the actual inputs that fail, and I don't know the exception raised to figure out what it is. In almost every case, I just have hypothesis be the test input and soon discover my bugs.
You seem to be assuming that modelling payments as sub-types is appropriate. It may not be, or not stay that way over time. Often one needs a buffet of independent or semi-independent features to be flexible. Hierarchy-centric ontologies, such as "types", are limiting.

Yes, I know types don't "have to" be hierarchical, but they are usually messy to manage as non-hierarchies.
Windows is not admitting defeat as such, rather taking advantage of those unhappy Apple customers that just want a POSIX shell and don't care about writing Objective-C and Swift based software, the actual customer base Apple cares about.
While I think learning to code would be a great option for lots of these folks if they want to make a career change (both the journalists and coal miners). It does not need to be specifically triggered by a layoff.

With that said, "people on Twitter are saying" is somewhat disingenuous when there was an active and coordinated effort to target journalists that had been laid off with exactly this phrase "learn to code" by 4chan users.

You can even see them coming out of the woodwork in the green posters below. They want to doxx and harass others online but don't have the stones to even voice support to such behavior under their actual tags.
Also, mrs_angemi is coroner who posts interesting autopsy pics on instragam if people are interested in it.

Also, it's odd how modern society wants to shield people from reality. Instead of reality and truth, we get disney.
We have "UpliftDesk" standing desks and they seem pretty solid. I haven't used it standing but I can't wiggle the desk up/down at all.
Interesting, I definitely have not tried those yet. The Sandisk cards performed consistently worse in my experience, but I figured that could be anecdotal, and I had plenty of issues with Samsung as well.