skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always liked Gumroad as a product and service but this line kind of bothers me:

> There is, of course, the $178,000,000 we have sent to creators

This money wasn't sent to creators. They sold products worth $178M + Gumroad fees through the service. The creators made the products, marketed the products, acquired the customers, etc. When I use Paypal to sell something they aren't "sending me money".
Not the OP, but from my point of view, the podcasting arena has been blooming with diversity for the past years, while simultaneously becoming much more popular. It's kind of analogous to the early-yahoo era of "the internet", early YouTube, or early hip-hop. The technological/capital barrier to entry is quite low (for most podcasts, a microphone and an internet connection will do).

This article is basically saying that Spotify wants to do to the podcast scene what AdSense did to "the internet", what Google did to YouTube, and what major record labels did to hip-hop. To me, that might mean, among other things: higher production-value (read: higher cost-of-entry), SEO-y tactics by content producers and publishers, all of which leads to a general homogenization of content.

In general, thus far, the primary focus of most producers has been on content and community (think early Yahoo, NPR, Mos Def) -- not on monetization. If this industry grows an order of magnitude beyond the current $300m, it's easy to imagine that the prospect of money will be a powerful incentive to narrow the scope of content.

It's a trade-off, for sure, but from some points of view such a move could definitely be seen as a decline. Ending a golden age, if you will.
> DoC

Surely you mean DoH?

> I actually run my own recursive resolver locally

As do I.

> I trust Sonic to not data mine or game my DNS queries much more than I trust Google or Cloudflare. […] And centralization makes censorship easier.

Oh, I agree. When you can't trust the single point of failure to not actually fail or not to be already fundamentally failed, then everything about centralization is bad.
I wonder if this issue they had is why they went from charging 5% per sale to a monthly flat fee instead.
Is that reasonable when heath-care costs, at 20% of the economy, are increasing at 10+% a year? The economy is not growing even close to fast enough to offset this. Our productivity is not increasing even close to fast enough.
Are you sure that it was not prepared with Szechuan peppercorns? It certainly is numbing, and I've never experienced that from jellyfish.
Let's say python is adding a new builtin function, like "filter".

I already have a "filter" function defined in my program, so it will shadow the builtin function, and my program will still work as intended.
When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Sure. In the meantime, please leave the bay area since you hate it so much. If you're not from here, please don't visit, you'll be happier.
See this graph:

http://www.smashcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Scree...

A few other graphs I collected on my weblog are here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/is-it-useful-to-have-a-...

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/do-men-become-warlike...

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/marriage-peaked-in-19...
you can sell your own personal data all day long, how could it be otherwise? Finding a buyer is another story but there's zero barrier to putting it up for sale.
Open-Sourcing ClusterFuzz
A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future
Another friend of mine found this article: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/widespread-wells-far...

Looks like a DC in Shoreview MN
I'm sure it's been a very tough experience and the author learned a lot during the time. But I would expect that if you fail to build a billion dollar company you end up at least with a $100 million company...
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Most things that people now call drones have pilots on the ground. Fully autonomous drones are very rare.
Im a fan of third party, open-source Reddit apps on Android. Joey for Reddit is cleaner, leaner, and fairly intuitive.
I'm thinking that it's easy to make a mistake that would prevent the optimization from happening, so I'd personally much rather be explicit about mutability than betting on having satisfied the optimizer.

This looks like a really interesting project, and I look forward to trying it out!
I’m incredibly grateful for Gumroad - Lambda School (YC S17) wouldn’t exist without it.

We threw up a my book on Gumroad because why not/it was easy, and now I believe we’re sitting north of $100k in sales. I don’t think we would have put it anywhere else - wasn’t worth the effort. I often think about how important it is to remove even the slightest amount of friction as a result.

I also find the move from KPCB admirable. They gave up their interest in the company (it was a loss for them anyway) and allowed the company to flourish. Hats off for that.
Lots of good advice here. Just to add my two cents:

- Stay (get?) fit.

- Dress well.

- Avoid public displays of curmudgeonliness.

- Mentor the young, high-speed people.
On Being an Octopus (2013)
I'm headed up to NYC for the first time and I will find out for myself. I met a beautiful blonde woman from Melbourne while exploring SF, we were at Fisherman's Wharf and started laughing at the seals as they pushed each other into the water. She had just got stood up by some 'financial advisor' dude, so she had 2 tickets to the Aquarium. We spent a week together before going our own ways. Magic happens in big cities like SF and NYC. Yet, SF still felt like a pre-dystopia to me. NYC seems like the center of civilization now and for years to come.

The type of women you describe are not my cup of tea, I like women who love the outdoors, bookstores, and are into a mindful, peaceful way of life that challenges materialism and consumerism. They are out there, they tend to like weirdos like me because they don't want the GQ cover guy who loves to drink. I'm not much of a drinker either, even weed is not as appealing to me as it was a few years ago. I like clarity of mind and I value 'the lightness of being' more than anything external.

Portland - one of my favorite cities all around. Felt so clean, people were friendly, I felt welcome because I am a bit strange looking from the outside. Yet, 'creative weird' is cool in Oregon. Of course, 'sketchy weird' is a red flag most places in the world though.

Any tips for NYC? I'm a little intimidated but I'm gonna go anyways.
Widespread Wells Fargo outage blamed on data center fire
Per David Benatar, there's an excellent case to be made that being born is one of the ultimate wrongs. Like so many of them, though, there is really nothing a court of law can do about the situation.
SEU in this context refers to Shoot 'em Up (or shmups), 2D scrolling shooter games like Gradius or TwinBee.
Reminds me a lot of Bandcamp, which serves a similar market and has a similar and very refreshing ethos: in it for the long haul, dedicated to serve their audience because (likely) nobody else will, because there's not and never will be VC-sized 100x upside.
Nice story, but:

> It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth.

This is just a cop-out. The market will limit, not determine, your growth. It's up to you to hit that maximum, and use marketing/sales to extend that maximum. That is called creating a market. And overall it's called execution.

OTOH, Sahil isn't wrong. Some markets are either not that ripe (timing is important), don't have enough support, are too niche, and a thousand other factors. But as a generalization, "Product doesn't matter" is just wrong.
Fallout, or its predecessor Wasteland, was probably inspired in part by works like Canticle for Liebowitz, which were just normal (dystopian) futurism at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

I don't know what we do when a subgenre starts out as normal futurism, but hangs on to tropes long enough to age into retro futurism.
Yes I’ve used RS and Farnell in the past. Hoping for someplace that I could easily reach same day to buy parts, rather than wait for delivery etc. Last one I needed was some small screws to attach a mSATA, but pointless to wait a day and was preventing me from working on the project. Could imagine the same thing with SATA adapters, power cables, etc.
Why Finance Matters and How It Helps the World
A "clean look" means not having the inventory, not having a vast selection on the shelves. It means selling packages, clean boxes of parts, rather than individual bit. I wouldn't walk into a "clean look" to replace a broken connector or motor accessory. And it isn't just because I don't think they will have the part. I don't want to be upsold the newest model. I don't want to be told my device is out of date. I wouldn't walk into the apple store asking for a new headphone jack.
GitHub open sources action parser
In the internet of the future, DNS will move from UDP to TCP because it's better, and HTTP/3 will move from TCP to UDP because it's better.

Web 4.0 will consolidate these improvements, producing DNS over HTTP over QUIC over UDP.
here is her proposal:
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729033-Gree...

if after reading it you dont think she is a moron with zero real world experience or an semblance of rational thought you scare me too
On the other hand, if podcasts find a model where they are able to charge subscriptions more easily, it might really benefit the creators. They say that, due to the subscription model of netflix and co, we are living in 'peak tv' these days and I agree. There are so many great shows getting made now.

I do hate exclusives though... I still have not played bloodbourne or demon souls because of that crap
I think the earlier post you're referring to was a review of Tim Wu's "The Curse of Bigness" in the Los Angeles Review of Books [0][1]. It's a great overview of antitrust issues with respect to technology.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079526

[1] https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/trust-busting-as-the...
They shouldn't be installing anything. Don't tell them the root password, turn on automatic updates, and forget about it.

My non-techie father has been using an Ubuntu 1604 LTS workstation for years with no trouble.
Thanks, I'll look into it. That region of the country is great because of the quiet life that is possible, the sight of the stars at night, without giving up creature comforts like fast wi-fi (which I need to feed myself!).

SLC is a great city too. I have some good friends there right now. Outdoor access is a higher priority to me than bars and clubs.
How exactly does "SF: dirty, and full of angry people with extremist positions who've never had to reflect on their own opinions." add anything to this conversation? This is just typical right-wing bias complaining that the bay area isn't new york, or dallas, or whatever.
What do you mean by 'over'?
I missed this. Thanks for pointing it out.
> More than 10 years ago we founded Spotify to give consumers something they couldn’t get

And now they're planning to take away something consumers have. I have little doubt that they'll succeed in turning what is currently an open ecosystem where users have choice into a closed system of fiefdoms like video streaming is increasingly becoming.

Spotify is a bad podcast app. In no particular order:

* There seems to be an inconsistent restriction in the number of episodes you can see. Daily podcasts suffer particularly from this.

* I need three gestures just to get to podcasts on their app, and then more to start digging into genres.

* Available podcasts seem to be curated - the selection is very small.

* There are no ratings

* There is no way to see what's trending, or it is non-obvious

* Downloading is locked behind a paywall, which is a big deal for a medium where individual episodes can be several hundred megabytes

* Subscribing is an afterthought. Three interactions to see what's new in a podcast I'm subscribed to.

In summation: terrible discoverability, slim selection, cumbersome ui, and basic features missing or locked behind a paywall.

I, for one, do not welcome our new overlords.
Sure, I read it. The author discusses the trade offs, and the fact that they went with a raster approach in my mind doesn’t diminish this awesome project / post.

My point was simply that a generation of people who’ve never seen vector graphics in real life might be wondering what the big deal is. It’s worth trying to find an arcade where you can see an old working cabinet up close.
This is why I feel the high street is failing. It is assumed that a single store’s value is in the products it directly sells. And if it’s making a loss... shut it down!

A store itself should be an “experience”. You go in, play with products, be inspired and get an appetite for them.

Sure you may leave the store empty handed — just like 99% of people that walk into an Apple store. But if the store convinces you that you want... no _need_ their product, you can then buy later from their online store.

People and businesses really need to think of all sales and PR channels of a business as a whole, not a subset of each part. Only then will we see initiatives like this Pi store start to revive the high street.
The story gives the impression that they were perfectly capable of opening the WWW browser that they wanted, and managed to out-smart their IT person, who was continually mucking around with their system to try to force them to use the one that xe liked instead. They might do well with a Linux operating system, especially if it makes that interfering IT person give up in horror because it isn't Windows, and thereby stop continually mucking around with their computer and user settings. (-:

Remember that sometimes grandma manned a crew-served grenade launcher.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667485
Interesting, RS indeed has some physics stores, one close enough to me! Thanks!
Of late there has been a lot of discussion about vendor lock in (notably wrt Lambda on AWS). I’m interested in how folks feel about this.
Wouldn't a Chromebook be a better option for non-technical users who only need to use the Internet and websites?
It should be noted that some questions have been raised about the underlying theory of "moral licensing" and there have been replication failures of key studies:
https://psyarxiv.com/wynjb/

The article imho does a poor job of evaluating how reliable the research that it quotes is.
Because macOS doesn't know when files and directories are moved on other devices, network drives, etc.

Nor can it preserve that metadata across other devices, network drives, etc. without copying it across somehow; the easiest solution was to store that data in hidden files and let Finder handle their automatic transfer.

Failure of your imagination isn't failure on someone else's part.
Python library to convert OFS NetCDF to geospatial format for use w OFS_Viewer
I've found linux mint to be fairly friendly, and heard good things about elementary and budgie (if you prefer the more osx oriented flavors).

Additionally, peppermint os was designed around a web-centric OS experience some time before chromebooks became a thing: https://peppermintos.com/guide/ice/

Finally, Chromebooks. Got one for my wife, who is about as computer illiterate as it gets (only computer she'd previously owned was a mobile phone) and it Just Works for her. Aside from being pretty locked down, it's about as friendly of a linux OS as linux gets.
If Alphabet makes a move, it might as well be Blue
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106780
Based on the revenue and growth rates of Gumroad my guess is Sahil will make more money from it than he would have at Pinterest. It will take longer but it will be on his terms.
Hire this dude.
I'm asking this seriously: Is rolling up one cuff a trend now? I have not noticed this.
Honda secures battery supply contract for 1M electric vehicles with CATL
Indeed... someone is facing criminal charges for pointing a laser pointer at a football player.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/report-chiefs-pushing-for...

>According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, who cited league sources in his report, not only has the fan been banned from Arrowhead Stadium for life, he'll also be charged by the Kansas City district attorney. Schefter reported that Kansas City police only wanted to cite the man with disorderly conduct, but the Chiefs are pushing for "the harshest penalty possible" as they try to deter fans from using laser pointers in the future.
To Change the World, Claim the Blame
Stranger in a Strange Land has self-piloting flying cabs.

Not that I'd recommend it as a novel.
However, if you consider liberty as a social construct that means you're allowed to do things as defined by society

In fact, you have just demonstrated that liberty can't exist permanently as a social construct. Therefore, liberty needs to be based on something apart from and beyond society. For example, we could have a society which is based on universal and inviolate principles of personal liberty. (The United States gets laudably close to it.)

There are things which are beyond social constructs, like math, science, and nature. People who claim otherwise are just trying to use a social construct to get you to act as if all those other things are ours to define arbitrarily, because ultimately they want to have power over you and other people.

(EDIT: The fact that the US and Britain have had something like universal principles of individual rights is precisely what allowed societies to eventually reject their socially constructed acceptability of slavery. So also beware of people who advocate reducing or infringing on individual rights. We know that things like freedom of speech, property rights, and judicial due process are important for liberty, precisely because in the historical record, authoritarians have suppressed speech, taken property, and manipulated judicial processes to squash political opposition.)
You could say the same thing about Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Etsy, TaskRabbit, etc..

When you sit down and think about it you start to realize just how “temporary” all these so-called unicorns are, as they are just middleware services with no real differentiating benefits other than size and brand recognition and maybe some vague “guarantee” to the customer. You’ve got to get big fast, because what you actually do is easily replicated.
>We share our resources so that... our air space protected from Russian invasion

The US subsidizing more than 70% of NATO probably helps a bit there.
Thanks for sharing your story, Sahil. Something I was wondering: do you think that Gumroad could have gotten to where it was without raising money to begin with? You mentioned sales not really changing with or whithout a sales team, but do you think you could have developed Gumroad in the beginning with a smaller group of developers, or even just by yourself?
I've been searching for this for years! Never could figure out what people would call it, but I knew it must exist. Goodbye Ctrl+R x 100.
It was still a lifesaver when I wanted resistors, LEDs or other components ASAP.

$3 is still cheaper than digikey shipping.
Interesting result, but seems to answer a different question: do naive native speakers find those examples acceptable?

The first problem is that asking people how they speak or what is acceptable does not accurately represent how they actually speak when not observed/asked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%27s_paradox

The second problem is that, even if the first isn't an issue, the most this can demonstrate is that linguistic example sentences are a subset of actual language.
Maybe I missed it, but did the article completely neglect to actually describe what kind of arithmetic the bees were doing beyond a basic mention of addition and subtraction? How large were the numbers? What was the success rate? Am I expecting too much from PBS?
U. of California now allows high-school compsci as core curriculum credit
One definition of capitalism is simply the re-investment of profits into improvements - better tools, for example. That in no way implies poverty as a structural element.
Based on complaints I've heard (mostly from Marco Arment, on podcasts he guests on), the ad-injection platforms are often responsible for horribly mangling the mp3 format. They tend to not update the mp3 file's stated length, resulting in time-remaining being off if you trust it.

Plus, of course, dynamic ad lengths completely break the ability to share timestamps for podcasts -- no "you should really listen to the bit starting at 17:52"...
destiny 2, for one, will run over 4GB VRAM on high settings.
the new resident evil easily runs over 4GB VRAM on high settings.

Apex Legends recommends an 8GB card because on max textures it will use more than 4GB.

there are a lot of modern titles that will allocate/use more than 4GB VRAM.
According to the metric of Social Media.

The Metric you have to meet now is Facebook's growth rate in the first few years of launching with high gross. 500% first year, 250% next year etc...
Probably, yes. The key from that perspective is to have it in the same format as the content traffic.
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a. isn't krugman arguing FOR inflation?

b. why is low unemployment bad? let's say we have a deflationary economy, doesn't that lead to high unemployment which is a feedback to more deflation? how is that not a bad thing?

excuse my naivete
fzf does the same thing, but with more integrations: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments here?
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Unfortunately failing to build a billion dollar company often means ending up with a $0 company. Like the OP said, VC too often comes with the pressure to either succeed in a big way or pack everything up and go home. And when your liquidation preferences are greater than the current value of your company, as a founder it's not very compelling to keep moving forward.
No one cares about my C programming experience on mainframes in the mid 90s nor my C++/MFC/COM programming up until 2008.

In my current job, I'm working with C++/MFC.
> Spotify is a bad podcast app.

Over the last 18 months it has become a bad music app too. Two years ago it only took one or two clicks to load your music and your downloaded music remained.. downloaded.

Nowadays you have to fight through several screens of "promotional feeds" to get to your playlists which will then be half empty because the downloaded songs have been removed.

They're clearly being driven as a new music marketing service by their record company overlords.
> To this day, I have no idea how.

Have you tried asking them?
This is weird because... I've noticed the opposite. Often markets are way bigger than you think; or rather, 1000 users for a product seems small but is actually quite a decent size depending on how much effort has been put in.

What it comes down to is being content that you will not always make a billion dollar product. With that in mind, a big market has many definitions. Maybe you should have paid attention to the emotional aspect.
Google open sources ClusterFuzz
Jesus this part sucks:

"In those nine months, when the whole team knew that we were fighting for our company’s life, not a single person left Gumroad. From “this is gonna be hard,” to “yep, turns out it was,” every single person worked harder than ever."

Did everyone one of these people have significant equity in the company?

I'd expect people who love their jobs and who work on something crucial, such as researching new medicines or making more efficient batteries to want and be able to do this. No offense, but if this ultimatum was handed out and I wasn't vested like the top guys I'd bail.