skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some reasons you can use:

1. Better alignment of incentives. Since your company now needs them to keep renewing a subscription on some regular basis, there's even more of an impetus for you to deliver great value to them.

2. Paying in inflated future dollars, which are less valuable than today's dollars. (This is assuming you let them "lock in" today's price by signing up for a lengthier subscription. Whether or not you require some degree of pre-payment here is a knob you can tune. See #5 below)

3. More predictable costs for the customer

4. May allow customer to move something from being a capex to an opex, which can be advantageous in some circumstances (getting approvals for capital expenditures is often lengthy, difficult, etc.)

5. You can create a lot of flexibility by fiddling with the length of the subscriptions, discounts for pre-payment, different rebate strategies for early cancellation (in the case of pre-payment), etc. So in theory you should be able to compose a model that will be palatable to most customers.

I'm sure there are many more, but those are the top ones that come to my mind.
Well, there's snapcast that allows you to relatively simply build an alternative, but I don't know if anyone builds and sells ready-made products.

You can probably go by using a couple raspberry pis (or any ARM board with a jack output), a preconfigured SD card image, and some external speakers. I don't know the price of Sonos speakers, but I don't think it would be much higher.
I guess someone could even create a business out of this, especially if tailoring the PCBs to the task.
You also can't bail yourself out. If taken in, you can't just hand them a credit card, and be done. You have to have someone else pay for your bail, assuming you can convince someone to do so. Forgot every phone number because it's 2019 and we all have our contacts in an app? Too bad. You're not allowed to use your iPhone either. It's a very well thought out system to keep you in jail as long as possible. Unless of course, you're rich.
They just get recycled. I've worked on projects with the same code name at different companies.

By the way, if your company is in desperate financial difficulty, circling the drain with increasing speed, and the management cobbles up a "save the company" project and they name it "Falcon" it is WELL past time to polish your resume and bug out. I've seen that code name several times, and it's spelled utter doom (two bankruptcies and one buyout that was worse than going bankrupt).

In my head the conversation goes something like this:

----

[Int. meeting of High Management]

MARKETING HONCHO: "This is it. We're going to save the company with this new product. We're calling it Project Phoenix. Rise from the ashes! When can engineering start?"

ENGINEERING DIRECTOR: "Uh, don't Phoenixes burn themselves to death? Isn't that kind of a negative thing? The teams are a little burned out from the last save-the-company death march."

"You have a point. Let's call it something like . . . Fee-- no, um, Fun--, no . . . um, Falcon. That's it. Project Falcon."

"I guess that's better."

"Go save the company."

"Right. I'll just pop down to engineering and cancel all the vacations. When can you tell us about the product?"

"Later, when we decide what color it should be."

----

I have insufficient data, so it's possible that any project named after a large bird is bad juju. Stay safe :-)
Neoliberalism is a word that is used to describe policymakers who seem ignorant of the fact that indiscriminately resorting to "market forces" often leads to undesirable outcomes.
Defining this real variation as disordered seems a fundamental problem.

This has been recognized in medicine and mental health for so long that I don't know if you could find someone still practicing who wasn't taught it in school. If you go to a mental health care provider and tell them that your family thinks you have a disorder because you prefer not to socialize and get everything you need delivered so you don't need to leave the house again after work, they're going to ask you if you're unhappy about it or if you feel your life is diminished in some way by an inability to leave the house when you want to. If your kid has six fingers, a doctor's concern will be whether all the fingers are developing in a healthy way or one needs to be removed because it isn't functional and will be a source of pain and injury.

The principle hasn't been a panacea for prejudice, of course, notably in the case of homosexuality, but difference itself is not automatically treated as pathology in the absence of social prejudice. Doctors aren't treating people for having red hair or 20/10 vision or thinking stamp collecting is fascinating.
Check back here on 1st March, there's a couple threads that comes up on the first of each month -- one for seeking work and one for seeking candidates.

Or just look at the one from 1 Feb.

https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ has search features for these HN posts.
> the market-driven ideals of 1980s economics... they're kinda fails

On what basis? The share of people living in extreme poverty globally has gone down from 43% to less than 10% since 1980. Global literacy rates have climbed from 70% to 86% in the same period. Global child mortality has gone down from 11% to 4% in the same period. Global life expectancy has climbed from 63 to 72 in the same period.

It's ironic that you claim they're failing on a "scientific" basis.
> Today, if you use a cell phone on a train in Japan, literally everyone around you will leap towards you to scold you for using your phone

Use your cell phone to call, that is. Using your phone for anything else is perfectly fine.
Certainly it varies a lot. But back in 2017 they had 1.5 billion monthly active users (20% of the world population). The US is probably an outlier here (I hear SMS is still popular in the US whereas I literally can't remember the last time I sent an SMS, it must be over 5 years ago)
On the surface this would seem to be a way to get to the processing fees and etc that occur with any transaction when it comes to Apple's systems. Considering the amount of money going through Apple for various things, this is probabbly a cheap deal to make with a lot of upside.

Amazon has their card, Costco, retailers, etc.
The Crispr Twins Had Their Brains Altered
"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom." - Naval[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103670400417792
That is simply a partnership where instead of cash back you get apple gift cards at rewards. So it's not rather notable Apple wise, since most cards you can redeem for Apple gift cards. Last year it was announced Apple is ending that card relationship and switching to Goldman. At that time it sounded like Goldman partnership would be similar but today's rumors suggest it maybe an actual Apple Branded credit card that is fully integrated into iOS which would be amazing. But of course there are so few details that it's hard to judge, but certainly interesting none the less to see what Apple could do in the credit card space.
Only if you're including the markup inline as opposed to as an image, which may or may not be desirable!
This is cool, but I think you need to add some clarity around the "project" tab. I thought I was adding some sort of link/info for a project that I've worked on that would be relevant in a signature. I deleted the default one and the entire signature was deleted. I think "Projects" is a really bad name for this.
I wish physics would explore the theory of a simulated universe a bit more. What if these incomplete laws of physics are flaws with the simulation, maybe dark matter is just a hardcoded variable or a hotfix to an existing problem. Is this something physics can tackle or does it lie more in the philosophy realm?
Can I ask how it works to protect my data from Sonos? Don't they still get all the same data?
I'd think that's highly unlikely as the geocorona is mostly sparse hydrogen atoms; I doubt even viruses can float in a hydrogen atmosphere, let alone micro-organisms.
How Do I Identify Bad Apples (Companies)?
> The first thing they do is even try to convince you that entrepreneurship isn't the most profitable path. The statistically best path is to work at an early stage company.

That's just them, being self-interested since they need employees for their founders' startups more than they need new founders.

Realistically, the most profitable path statistically is to work at a FLNG or decacorn.
The problem here is the dilemma when to go full-time. Its always a tough call.
Compared to a side-project building up a scalable business model is a different ball game altogether.
So brace for that once you go full time everything changes and without going fulltime you'll probably reach nowhere
Well they already work with Facebook.
The Distrust of Intellectual Authority
In principle, email is just exchanging TCP packets with a dumbed down interface.
Each more complex theory turns into its simpler predecessors jn certain cases. There’s no magic in that, it’s simple math: if v << c, then the equations of special reativity become much easier and we get Newton mechanics. The same applies to the rest. If you want to discuss why does our world have to obey the math — that’s a whole another story.
I agree. Edited :)
Believe me, there is way more friction in the EU system, especially due to the principle of subsidiarity. This copyright directive enjoys the benefit of only requiring a qualified majority in the Council (legislative chamber representing the national governments). Most sensitive issues require unanimity, meaning that every member state has the power to veto legislation.
Makes sense! Currently going through this right now. Got laid off, have maxed out all my credit cards, and spend my days studying for additional certs or spamming LinkedIn/Indeed/Angel. Nest egg is completely gone, and at this point, might just start applying for minimum wage jobs just to get some form of income coming in. That also means less time focusing on studies and applying for jobs, so it's a lose lose.
NAS-Generated Model Achieves SOTA in Super-Resolution
I think you're misusing the term 'evil' which implies malice.

Goldman is actually indifferent to humanity's wellbeing in their pursuit of wealth. They're no more evil than the AI in Universal Paperclips.
He's implying that this if this is the best that a company with 130,000 people could come up with, it's rather disappointing.
The next big vulnerability is not an if, but a when. And all software has flaws.. there is no exception to this rule.
I almost never listen to podcasts for this reason, and because it is vastly more efficient to read than it is to listen to a couple of people talking who may or may not be sticking to the topic.

It's funny the market effect, if you're, say, John Dolan, it's vastly more time efficient to spend an hour and a half talking to your buddy and get paid for it than it is to spend many hours researching and writing a 1000 or 2000 word essay on a topic that nobody wants to pay for. It's kind of interesting the psychology here: people will pay for things which take hours out of their week, but won't pay for the thing which takes 3 minutes to read, even if the 3 minute thing contains more information. From my perspective; the denser information is more valuable!
Any guess as to what type of network layer they use there?

I thought cables are short enough in a car that they can attached the displays directly to rendering hardware. Are there other advantages? Provide a fallback in case one render process fails?
Yeah, I too will trust models built from statistical analysis over "thinking". As a side note, in the financial world -- where being right means making money and being wrong means losing money -- the quants now rule the trading floor because statistics based models run circles around people "thinking" all day long. Qualitative analysis and verbal theorizing.... lol
Look up man keyctl, sometimes used in disk crypto, or sharing secrets between userspace and kernel.
Explanation of Dual (Native) ISO We've Seen Yet
>and possibly their cut from apps/services

Cmon, we all know this won't happen.
I remember there was a case in the US where a girl was travelling to America, and the TSA took her phone and went through her email and found out about her previous drug addiction and refused her visa because of this.
WinRAR Patched 19-Year-Old Bug That Left Millions Vulnerable
> the country may be forced to create new energy sources to provide to the population

Do you have any evidence that this is happening and, if so, that its costs outweigh the utility of energy exported to the rest of the world?
What about Thunderbolt device plug into a laptop ?
If the device scans the memory using PCI-E ?
See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-934.html ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216781 )
Newton Mail Is Back
Making a strawman by quoting directly from the article where the author was criticizing traditional economists for relying on quantitative analysis as prescribed by the scientific method?
Upping the listening speed is the only cure I know of. Quite a few podcasters can be listened to exclusively at up to 2x the normal speed without significant impairment to their content.

Of course, some others talk so quickly that 1x is the best you can do.
There's a quote right in the Wikipedia article which talks about the practical reasoning and historical basis for the decision:

> Even respondents acknowledge the existence of an illicit market in marijuana; indeed, Raich has personally participated in that market, and Monson expresses a willingness to do so in the future. More concretely, one concern prompting inclusion of wheat grown for home consumption in the 1938 Act was that rising market prices could draw such wheat into the interstate market, resulting in lower market prices. Wickard, 317 U.S., at 128. The parallel concern making it appropriate to include marijuana grown for home consumption in the CSA is the likelihood that the high demand in the interstate market will draw such marijuana into that market. While the diversion of homegrown wheat tended to frustrate the federal interest in stabilizing prices by regulating the volume of commercial transactions in the interstate market, the diversion of homegrown marijuana tends to frustrate the federal interest in eliminating commercial transactions in the interstate market in their entirety. In both cases, the regulation is squarely within Congress' commerce power because production of the commodity meant for home consumption, be it wheat or marijuana, has a substantial effect on supply and demand in the national market for that commodity.
Tbh I imagine their edge is more likely to be better data and a secret theory.

Then the applied part of it is simple but different: different analysis, different theory, different data, extraordinary results.

Edit: just read your article ... kind of poo poos my theory if what he says is true ; at least at the level of the mega model.
The Truth About 1+2+3+...=-1/12 [video]
Better not to have an economy than to have a flawed economy
Pollution is a personal choice? Maybe people figured out that "personal choice" wad being used as a shield to freely destroy and exploit commons.
Here's a good one: All phone numbers can be reached using tone dialing. (I know of at least one phone number to which one can connect only using pulse dialing.)
Tardigrades beat us here
Yantra – Fault Tolerant, Horizontally Scalable Managed Scheduler Service
We have about 7bn total unique active (3 months) accounts in the world, 50-60% is Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and a few more, 40-50% are real IMAP servers, of which 76% use Dovecot. Very large deployments include companies like Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, 1&1, LGI (Ziggo, Virgin Media, UPC) with 10m+ user deployments, and yes, a veeery long tail of millions of small servers and anything in between. But COI will also play fine with GMail and friends.
Different Kinds of Stupid
What you do with the remote is between you and what you control. I store anonymous metrics that I use to gauge usage levels but you can turn that off. Sonos undoubtedly takes your listening habits and profits off that data but Turn Touch does not, even though it has access to that data.
I don't think the simulation theory is falsifiable therefore there's no practical reason to dig into that. You can explain almost anything with it, it's very close to religion and creationism in that sense.

And although we still haven't found the dark matter directly, we notice its effect in the stars motion, galaxies' gravitational lenses, large-scale structure of the Universe and even notice the coinciding data in the cosmic background radiation. Sounds like too much for a "hotfix".
“What if that’s not the point?”

Euclid will turn in his grave.
Another way to read "Difficult to replicate" would be "Use a skill most of the market doesn't have or doesn't have the tolerance/patience to use." Simple doesn't mean trivial.
I think that this is a bit of a fallacy, ever so slightly akin to the ideology behind "Make America Great Again". When was this fabled time where everyone was civil to each other? Does the popular usage of Mr./Mrs. really mean we are being civil? People may have called each other Mr. and Mrs. in the 50's but many people were also extremely judgemental based on religious choices, many people were racist, sexist, etc etc.... I am not really buying this argument. People have always been civil and people have always been bad to each other. One really need to just judge peoples emotional maturity on a case by case basis.
Ah, but it's precisely this types of assumptions/disregard of "just a few exceptions" that we as programmers should avoid, as per TFA.
it's difficult to read while walking your dog, or making dinner, or doing the dishes, etc. That's the value add of an audio-only format for me.
How to Provide and Procure True Support
Elon Musk Podcast
It is about the 1,5 million homeless children in the USA [1]

It is about the income inequality which has increased since the '70s in the USA [2]

It is about tax avoidance in the USA, and increasing taxation for the very rich, and how the discussion about it is being avoided as recently happened on Fox News or at the conference in Davos, Switzerland [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

[3] https://twitter.com/rcbregman
There's no reason to think it's the best thing they'll do in 2019. It's February.
I'm not sure if these variations are nearly as popular, at least in epitaphia. But I'm not a native English speaker, so I can't really argue about it. In my first language (Polish) people die "after a long battle with cancer", and I feel like it's very rare to come across the same phrase in reference to some other illness.
I just said that there ARE people who enjoy brutalist architecture.

Just not the majority of us. If it were otherwise, Moldova would be overflowing with tourists. As it stands, it's by far the least visited country on the planet. Sure, there are other reasons for that as well (political, cultural, economic), but to fight me on this point is ludicrous, in my opinion.

Do the vast majority of people go to Moscow to visit the Kremlin, or do they go to visit a random Brutalist neighbourhood. You and I both know that most tourists just don't do that. Why? Because they find it unattractive.

Therefore, people do make value judgements about beauty, and when a vast number of them say something is beautiful, and something else is ugly, I'd say there's objective data to be extracted from that.
It's a complicated tradeoff. It's not just performance, the main thing is clear code. Another factor was support across a wide variety of languages, which was thinner for things like flatbuffers at the time we adopted JSON. Also, "clever implementations" like simdjson don't have a high cost, if they're nice open source libraries.
Just reminded me of someone's quote. Startup life is somewhat like leap of faiths on infinite recursion.
Build.ship.pivot.repeat
When the stranger works for you and you literally own the business and part of the business's PR strategy is environmentalism and the stranger's job is PR and they're talking to s reporter, I would say it's your business and this is appropriate minding.
So, how is this different from the previous attempts to turn unpaid podcasts into paid podcasts? Given the amount of content in the podcast space, people seem to find other shows.

Plus, the whole idea really suffers when you talk about people like Joe Rogan or any other big name. They can get money from advertisers themselves. We see some of this with YouTube and how "networks" are working or not working. An honest business person willing to create a low-overhead agency to hook creators up with sponsors would probably go far. This whole thing reminds me of the MC Hammer story about the economics of a record deal versus selling records out of the trunk of his car.
Yes, you will definitely become a better developer by studying algorithms! Whether it will help you in your career or not I can't answer.
I've used Athena really effectively to solve similar problems. If your data storage is relatively small and/or your queries relatively infrequent, JSON can be a good fit. As one of those dimensions expands, you can decrease costs/increase performance by converting to Parquet and compressing.
My Turo Claim Horror Story
Chat messages will land in a separate folder for the servers that support COI. For the others they will be collated into normal mail messages with a small delay, but yes, it may end up being many.
I just looked at the reviews on Amazon. One reader wrote, "If you're looking for everyday examples of the felonies you and I unwittingly commit each day, you won't find them here."

I guess I won't be buying it.
Running your own server is not a hassle for "anyone". I wish people would stop stating this like it's a fact. Having maintained communal SMTP/IMAP servers for the last 20+ years I can tell you that sometimes a year goes by where I don't have to touch it at all.
Privacy vs. “I Have Nothing to Hide”
You may enjoy this:

The best way to not lose messages is to minimize the work done by your log receiver. So we did. It receives the uploaded log file chunk and appends it to a file, and that's it. The "file" is actually in a cloud storage system that's more-or-less like S3. When I explained this to someone, they asked why we didn't put it in a Bigtable-like thing or some other database, because isn't a filesystem kinda cheesy? No, it's not cheesy, it's simple. Simple things don't break.

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216
It's worth noting that that's not all types of podcasts.

Just like you get radio shows that are talk radio or on a specific subject you get podcasts that are more akin to radio plays, like welcome to night Vale.
> According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests

You might need a bigger napkin.

For 1 million requests, S3 will cost you $0.40, excluding storage or other transfer costs. 5 million would be $2.

It's not free, but also '5c/month for millions of requests' is a tad bit off.
Consider adding a new tier of value. As a customer, suddenly having to pay more (forever) for something will feel like a bitter prospect, unless it is positioned as something better I am opting into. I don't know what your product is or your target market (can you share more details?), but consider adding "Pro" features, or a service tier that adds warranty or enterprise support.

(I have no personal experience with this except as a customer of things that have subscription vs free tiers.)

Patrick McKenzie (known here as 'patio11) has blogged extensively about SAAS-related things, including pricing [0], [1]. If you haven't read his stuff, you may find them helpful.

0: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
1: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...