skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is a safer, cheaper, faster language to use, someone would be using it. For another language to take C's place, it needs to be at least two of those--maybe all three and more. Market dominance, if there is such a thing in this area, has nothing to do with it.
The CPU choice is restricted by their ability to disable Intel ME. If you don't care about that, you probably don't care about what Purism is trying to achieve, so it's not for you.
Ask HN: Do Authority Niche Site as side project still work?
I kept toying with the idea of starting an authority niche site, but I am not really sure if it makes sense anymore and wanted to get some opinions.

I spend my career as an EE/manager developing all kind of hardware products. In the last years I work as a Hardware Director for a robotics company and before that, I founded a startup here in Silicon Valley, which was again in hardware space. At my startup, I expanded my experience beyond development to fundraising, team building, marketing/sales etc all the way to building/maintaining website.

Reading this article about Authority Niche Site https://woorkup.com/niche-site/ I kept asking myself if one still can have a side project in 2019 purely on content and make some money on the side?

I don’t mind putting in some hours in the first months to get such a niche site up and running as well as maintaining the project with several hours a week. Also, my time frame is more of a long term meaning I can iterate, pivot and work on that for a half year, year or two, that is not a show stopper. As I have domain expertise in robotics I am sure I can add some value here to a niche site.

What I can not really gauge is how viable and how likely such an approach nowadays still is to make $200/m to $2000/m later on as income just with creating some content?
Any thoughts or questions are welcome?

Thanks.
So the equivalent of the US median household spending ~$8/week on coffee.
I think this is at least a little dishonest, since I have a hard time believing you are unaware of, if not the details of, at least the existence of his legal and moral controversies and his antagonistic personality. It's not a "bold claim" - it's a very common claim rooted in understandable human reactions. Whether or not it is justified in all contexts is a legitimate question that should be discussed.
I have used HotelTonight several times and I loved it. In general I found cheaper deals. Now with AirBnB, it will be interesting to see if hotel chains that partner with HotelTonight continue working as there is no love lost between Airbnb and hoteling industry. I guess Airbnb will try to make HT as an hybrid app of hotels and Airbnb bookings.
> There are plenty of code jockeys like you churning out low-quality Java/Python/PHP/C/C#/JS/whatever.

OK, I landed #1 spot on HackerNews with a product I mostly developed (under a different nick) some time ago. You know everything about me as well. It was also competitor of one of your products.

All I am saying is that these are assumptions/metrics with which VCs/owners run/structure their companies and what actually matters to them. I have experienced it dozen times. I have also experienced when I had to fix somebody's horrible code in production developed in high velocity/high stress/low quality mode that was bringing one famous tech company down (lawsuits etc.), and had to correct spots I'd never seen before in some of the most complicated areas of the product dealing with provably infeasible problems (distributed systems). I'd also experienced an environment in a relaxed top company (rated higher than either of FAANGs) where we discussed ad infinitum just individual names of functions, their parameters and if they perfectly capture their meaning and refactored them daily; I don't have to say that project wasn't having much of a velocity and its market share reflected that.
It says they are hiring "auto technicians". That isn't the same skillset as body repair.
Thanks for the links! I have some commentary on some of the pieces that I found most interesting:

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures063.jpg

Dreamlike imagery, sleeping position, very vertical, contrasting colors, a strange bit of peace in war and imminent death, jagged fields that the man is hurdling towards.

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures041.jpg

The men seem to melt into the trenches and become part of the mud. The warm colors evoke a feeling of sunlight, yet feel horrific. The muted faces are reminiscent of Edvard Munch's Scream. little explosions, or are they grasses, pop off everywhere. Chaos

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures055.jpg

Good historical view of the hardships that women underwent in the absence of men. The little boy's face is almost plastic and is the only one seen in the painting. A lot of subtle commentary on the soviet system in here, as it ended up just like the old ways of the Czars

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures069.jpg

Just like a Degas, at least to me. Not seeing the face of the player leaves you guessing as to how this solider got to be where he is. Was he a pianist before the draft? How did he learn to play? The gun is on his back and prominently central to the painting. The scattered papers tell a story of a battle and fleeing in panic. The highlighter colors give a waviness to it all, a sense of uncertainty and serenity pervades the piece

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures057.jpg

Great use of sky, water and man. A private returns home, but to what? The war is over for him, but the peace is just as uncertain. Will the clouds of this spring day pour on him, or will it stay sunny?

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures019.jpg

The structure of the colors here is stark, obvious, yet wonderful. Black enemy, white allies, red sky of soviet victory. The use of triangular imagery. Very Picasso-y

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/008/SovietPictures065.jpg

The news arrives and it is bad. Just like the immigrant-farmer mother picture of the US depression. The woman shines in the dark room, her child tries to support her, her back is straight all the same despite the news. She faces off-stage and is nearly pushed off the bench by her child, who is in the center. The little window, her former existence, is full of things and life, she faces her new darker life with what appears to be a shroud and a rifle leaned up against the wall. The letter still hangs brightly in her right hand.
They don't really though, I have called and they told me they were unable to do it and once got a sure they'll price match, but I'll have to pay the much higher rate and then file paperwork for a refund of the differnce... Like that will ever work!
Financial Times, their weekend supplement can be quite interesting at times.
I've never actually found this to be true. I go through Kayak, and I always check the hotel directly just to be sure. I've done this 9 times in the last 4 months for Loew's, Ramada, Best Western, and Hilton.
You can even search the absolute lowest rewards membership pricing for all the chains at www.roomkey.com, which is owned by all the chains together.

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

Edit: I'm going to have to retract my comments about cheapest price being on official hotel brand websites. I did a cursory search and find many cheaper options on Hotel Tonight (and expedia) for same day reservations than the brands, and while I haven't looked at all the brand's best price guarantees, at least IHG's exempts them from having to provide the lowest price within 24 hours of checkin, so it seems like a loophole to let them dump rooms for cheaper on third party websites day of arrival.
The _second_ time it's done! The way I see it, the first person to hang an all white canvas in an art gallery is a genius. The second, third, and fourth, not so much.
In principle an aggregator is showing customers multiple hotels at once, so each vendor has to discount to be competitive. If you are going specifically to a single one they could exploit your lack of information to charge a higher price.

People at some point realized this though and the individual hotel sites had to promise to be the cheapest to hope to get visitors at all.
Just compared this exact hotel for tonight on hoteltonight.com and hotels.com and travelocity.com

Same price across all 3 sites.

Chances are, if you see a price lower than the major travel sites, they're losing money. In this case, they're the same price.
The 2015 MBP runs amazingly well out of the box. The Touchbar generation not so much, but it's getting better.
1. correct; 2. correct; 3. Kinda but Not quite the only way -- you can convert the values in the coins into another chain, ideally something like monero in which 1. applies, but 2. does not. (Monero uses a different transaction format called RingCT, it hides the true inputs/outputs among decoys and signs the set with a ring sig. It also hides the true amount transacted via Confidential Transaction encoding using a commitment and a range proof). Its much easier to tumble the value when the source/destination and magnitude is obscured.

How feasible to do this with $130 million? Yesterdays trade volume for monero was 75 million (thus actual on chain tx's are much less). So it would take a while to do this without drawing attention. I don't have a lot of faith in pure bitcoin tumblers. Possibly scams or fraud. Im yet to see one that works as expected.
For code I usually use

~/Code

~/projects # for projects that span multiple languages

~/courses # For the various programming courses

~/valet # PHP projects using Valet+

~/devilbox # For Dockerized

~/elixir

~/node

etc...

For notes I use Inkdrop and split things by hobbies/projects.

One thing I've been having trouble organising is photos. More specifically, organising original and retouched versions. I've come across one solution which is to do this:

~/Photos/

2018/

SpringOriginals/ # Keep original photos here.

SpringAffinity/ # Save Affinity Photo files here

SpringExports/ # Save exported re-touched photos here

I quite like this solution, but I'd be interested in knowing if there's anything better.
that does nothing to resolve the fact that many air bnb situations involve a bedroom in someone’s occupied house
Are you in the industry by any chance?

On your position, I don't agree. Purpose built cores are there to stay. There is certainly no definite optimal cache configuration. And even inside ARM space, approaches vary dramatically (in part because cache algos is a patent minefield second only to wireless:) Samsung went on largely to non-determenistic algos for oop machinery, cache, and branch prediction; Qualcomm more or less went the Intel way by making fever, but faster execution units, and adapting cache for that; ARM always had size and cost in mind; and Apple did as aforementioned.

Even very minimal changes to performance profile of execution side may turn things upside down for people engineering caches.
> I don’t see the benefit of convergence.

To me the benefit is not to have a single application that works both with a touch screen and a mouse/keyboard. Rather, the benefit is to have a single filesystem that I can access with both touch screen apps and mouse/keyboard apps. This way I could for example create a grocery with a mouse/keyboard, then take my phone and check items off with a touchscreen. There are lots of things we rely on the cloud for that would be better served by a "convergent" environment imo.
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Especially for business travelers. The quality of the average listing has gone down quite a bit (lots of crappy quick flips with no amenities), combined with the inconsistent experience, means I've pretty much stopped considering airbnb for business travel (I did used to enjoy it compared to being stuck in a hotel for work which can get pretty depressing)
Cool, thanks! I think you'll be happy with Rust eventually; a lot of this is coming, likely this year. It's on the roadmap, though that has to be approved first. (The thing that isn't yet is variadrics, not sure when that'll happen.)

(And the reason it's taking such a while is that we are actually doing that...)
The phrase "end-to-end encryption" means very little when Facebook controls the clients on both ends, and when they control the encryption keys.

If the Facebook messenger app can launch and immediately display your messages, then they have the ability to read your messages. You just have to trust them when they say they won't.

The only way a messaging platform can guarantee true end-to-end security of your messages is if the message both enters and exits their control boundaries in an encrypted state. This means that you would have to use a third party tool to talk to their API, and then you would need to provide your key to it (not Facebook) to decrypt and encrypt messages.

Anything less than this is just security theater. As a side note, pretty much every single popular "encrypted messaging" app (such as Whatsapp and Signal) suffers from this same fundamental flaw. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from pushing out a code update that uploads your keys to their servers and gives them access to freely read your messages, and there's nothing stopping them from sending a copy of your un-encrypted messages to themselves. If they control the app, and it's not a fully open source, and if every release isn't audited, it's impossible for them to guarantee they can't read your messages.
But it works that way even if you book on the hotel's own website... Or Hotels.com, Booking, whatever you want.
We're well past those days, (un)fortunately. My 2015-built i4790k/1080/SSD that I use at home feels exactly the same as the more modern desktops I use at work. Even the SSD, which sees heavy use, has burned through less than 10% of its expected lifecycle. The only thing I've had to replace are the case fan and the CPU fan, just from age/use, but looking at the horizon, I see no reason I couldn't use the machine itself for another 4 years without issue.
Thanks for the reply, and I suppose you're right. In my review of the public understanding of this topic, they don't seem to understand or even realize the potential benefits from the free market approach.
Yes, not necessarily novel either. Some Hilton and Marriott hotels have “digital keys” that you’re granted through their app once you check in on the app to unlock your room.
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> The state should not be in the business of saving people from themselves

Then who should ?

You can blame everything on individuals: "they're lazy", "they're dumb", "they didn't work as hard as I did", "they could save themselves", that's very easy to do, and reassuring in a way. But that's also a very bleak view on our social organization.

Or you can admit that we're all infinitely small parts of a gigantic machinery, that we're all mutually responsible for the system we live in, and that some of the issues raised here are direct consequences of "the state" and its policies.

Just like some people are born in good conditions, probably a majority of hn readers are, a lot of people are not. You don't have to care, you don't have to help them, but at least don't criticize people trying to better society.

Even if you don't care about people and just think in numbers, getting these people out of misery/addiction is a net positive for society on purely a monetary perspective.
I use HT quite a bit. It used to be significantly cheaper 5 years ago since it was only last minute hotels. They've since expanded to work more similarly to other booking sites since you can book way in advance now.

You get decent discounts with their loyalty program, which doesn't work with points, but just tracks your spend on the platform and levels you up as you spend more.

I think a huge factor for me using it is their customer service. You can text them via the app over anything and they'll respond back pretty quick. You also get upgraded "concierge" service as you level up, though I didn't find this to be that much better.

I'm worried that AirBnb will ruin HT since they have such horrible customer service. Hopefully they don't. It's nice not planning your hotels far in advance, land in a city, and take it from there.
> Is there some benefit to having memory sitting around empty and idle?

Yes, modern operating systems use free RAM as cache for the HDD. If you have an I/O intensive process, having a large amount of RAM is really helpful.
If hotels aren't disclosing these fees to HotelTonight, that's hardly HT's fault.
> I can only think one or two examples of drugs that "sold themselves". The new HCV meds are a good example of a lot of pent up demand even prior to approval. That said, there were still physicians out there that were not aware of the approval, so marketing still had work to do.

Exactly - incredible demand for them, and even still Sovaldi didn't sell itself.
I’ve used Path Finder [1] myself in the past.

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If you actually have a better price, then at least these brands will give you discounts or points. I don't see why they wouldn't hardcode it into their systems to not allow a cheaper priced to be reserved unless via their direct non commissionable channels, seems like a pretty easy thing to prevent.

https://www.ihg.com/hotels/us/en/customer-care/lowest-intern...

https://hiltonworldwide3.hilton.com/en/best-price-guarantee/...

https://www.marriott.com/online-hotel-booking.mi

https://www.choicehotels.com/deals/best-rate

https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/wyndham/hotel-deals/best-rate-...

https://www.hyatt.com/info/best-rate-guarantee

Edit: I'm going to have to retract my comments about cheapest price being on official hotel brand websites. I did a cursory search and find many cheaper options on Hotel Tonight (and expedia) for same day reservations than the brands, and while I haven't looked at all the brand's best price guarantees, at least IHG's exempts them from having to provide the lowest price within 24 hours of checkin, so it seems like a loophole to let them dump rooms for cheaper on third party websites day of arrival.
Is it k-software/Comodo/Sectigo by any chance?
Simple image vectorization explained piece by piece
Java has the Foo/IFoo pattern. It's not a direct equivalence, but if you want to separate interface from implementation, you have that option.
I use it a lot (several times each month for the past ~3 years).

I absolutely love it.

- You can trust that the hotels are good enough. Never had a bad experience

- Takes <15s to book

- They have their own rewards system which really starts to add up the more you use it

- They may never give you the absolute cheapest option available in that city for that night, but you'll get an amazing deal on a higher-quality hotel

- My experience using other booking sites for 'cheap deals' has been that you're often treated as a lower-tier customer, for example being given worse rooms (ground floor, no windows etc). The HotelTonight experience is the opposite. ~25% of the time, I receive a room upgrade without asking

- No hidden charges

I'm not a person who is loyal to a brand by nature. But HotelTonight is the closest I've come to feeling that way so far.
Or I book with a hotel directly and I (essentially) never have issues that require me to deal with the corporate support line. I realize I’m not as price sensitive as some but I mostly want to minimize lodging hassle when I travel.
That stuff already exists, albeit in less advanced forms (a lock box with a number code, for example). If hosts aren't using them I'm not sure that adding another layer of technical whatevers on top of it is going to change anything.
E2E doesn't actually matter that much in the end; it's far more interesting to advertisers (and therefore valuable to Facebook) to know who you're talking to than to know what you said. Three-letter agencies know this too - scanning encrypted traffic for keywords is going to get them a lot more chaff than wheat, but spotting that five suspected criminals/subversives/journalists (delete as appropriate to your political tastes...) are having an ongoing conversation is almost pure wheat in that it tells them to expend effort on finding out whether they're making nefarious plans or just sharing cat macros.
The regulations need to be reasonable (i.e., "no more cars allowed on the road" would prevent deaths, but isn't reasonable). And they should take previous regulations into account, to make sure that they don't cause more harm than good. For example, something I read a while ago is California auto shops are required by the fire department to not store used oil above ground (fire hazard), yet the EPA bans underground storage (risk of environmental leaks). So the fine you get from one agency or the other is now just a cost of doing business.
"the world's eight richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50%"

What exactly is objectively bad about that? (I don't condone nor condemn that level of inequality in any way, just curious.)
I'm pretty sure AirBnB acquired HotelTonight so they can legally speculate about owning a much larger share of overall travel booking, including traditional hotels, on their S-1.
One, this is completely off-topic for this article.

Not at all. If you want to look at how disadvantage is propagated, that is exactly what it is in the US.

I find the "I, an anonymous person, used to believe X, so you should believe me when I espouse political beliefs that are antithetical to X" school of debating incredibly tiring. Just make your case, skip the "as a ...." introduction.

Then just take my advice and start "following the money." If you believe there is systemic discrimination which has lasted decades, there must be a reason for it. Start ferreting out the incentives. Who profits in terms of money and power?

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-o...

Third, and this is important -- almost all school voucher programs are designed to take public money and put them into subpar schools with few to no standards. Voucher programs with standards get support, voucher programs that exempt private recipients of funds do not.

Feel free to link some articles about this. Standards could be used as a political tool to repress competitors, or there could be real concern about standards, or there could be a mixture of both.

Most voucher supporters are not.

Many voucher supporters are the very disadvantaged people we are supposed to be helping!
Not sure I see how, but it was only listed for 24 hours in any case.
Well unfortunately the world is divided into security zones so if you are in NATO or 5 eyes you’d be an idiot to use Chinese equipment
If you have have valuable intellectual property you’d be an idot if you don’t think China hacks steals and passes it to its companies
If you are neither then you are right
Or chances are it really depends on where you are and if they have properties they have negotiated with vs general inventory that all the travel bookers use. Sometimes there are deals, sometimes there aren't.