skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been building & running a niche website since 2015 that requires around 20hrs/wk in support, social media, and continued software development (all code gpl on github). It's become one of the most (if not the most) used software resources in my community, and users seem appreciative of my efforts.

But I very rarely get donations. Previous appeals on social media for donations have resulted in small bumps that quickly fade, so I'm focused more on trying to get subscription donors. Lately I've had some luck finding two business sponsors and now my Patreon at least covers the server costs. I think it's true what others said- in order to persuade these businesses I had to add a "sponsored by" section on the site with their logos. Ads, basically.

The 'tragedy of the commons' is definitely a thing. I'd be happy if people at least contributed new entries, photos, reviews, and comments to the website, but less than 1% of users actually do so.

Anyway, my next steps are to cold-call more potential business sponsors as well as to try selling merchandise related to the domain. If I can't get to about $1k/mo. this year I might need to just pull myself away from the project for my own financial stability and sanity.
Steam _Stream_ can do 4K @ 60FPS.

You still have an idle graphics card, but you can enjoy the benefits of it from any laptop in your home network. My gaming desktop is wired, my Linux laptop is wifi, and I get 4K @ 60FPS flawlessly.

However, I would prefer not to have to upgrade in the future and offloading the intensive parts to Google would be highly preferable.
Umm... everywhere? It often gets anglicized to "Erdos" but the correct spelling is Erdős.
It's both. A social norm sustains itself because if most of the people I want to be like are doing it (correlation), then I will do it (causation) too, unless I've put a lot of extra thought in and made a conscious decision to do something else.

The social animal's default mode is to follow the herd. "The herd" could have even started out as the Texas Sharpshooter's Fallacy (random correlation), but now people are motivated to join in. To assemble. To copy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

They (potentially inadvertently) hired a dev team that was previously banned for malware, so Google terminated the account and banned these new partners of the malware team.

Did your partnership have the same problem?

What is missing from Play (or the ecosystem) is a way to ask if the people you just hired are on their ban list, before you register your app with Google.
Windows 7, 8.1 users reporting Security Essentials and Windows Defender problems
I wonder how the Google customer service experience here will be...
Yeah, it isn't really used much outside of webpages and web tech like Electron. The only applications where it has non-trivial usage are those that cater to webdevelopers.
Esketamine was approved by the FDA two weeks ago, here are the prescribing guidelines: http://www.janssenlabels.com/package-insert/product-monograp...
Random house in Concord CA easily commutable by bart to SF under $600K https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/18386554_zpid/globalre...
Outdated display tedhnology? Care to elaborate?
This is what I've seen everything trending towards for almost ten years now. The next step is to build hardware that utilize the full benefits of data center gaming. Vr headsets can shrink and are only limited by the method of getting light into your retina. Same goes with any kind of haptic feedback or audio feedback.
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Just FYI, but no one outside the tech scene knows about Google's reputation for dropping support of their products or their eroded reputation in regards to do no evil. I have tried talking to people about it and they really just don't give a shit.

Also Microsoft or Sony weren't companies known for gaming when they entered this space and now they are the leaders.
What about OSS as a talent acquisition and retainment strategy?
Had the same problem on my iPhone. I turned off Siri for app search (Settings / Siri & Search / Suggestions for Search) and now the results are instant. (And local to my phone, so no internet-sourced results, but I’m fine with that.)

How Microsoft managed to ruin the Start Menu, on the other hand, is amazing. I had to reinstall a computer because some Cortana corruption had made it impossible to launch apps from the Start Menu’s search results. Even though I disabled Cortana. Incredible.
> When you say facts be confirmed by experiments

I didn't say facts are confirmed by experiments. Facts are the experimental setup and results: what was done and what happened. Nothing has to be "confirmed"; the facts just are.

Theoretical models can be confirmed by experiments, but models are not facts. You appear to have the same confusion about this that MatrixMan has.
Curious: Why'd you go with a 2080Ti and not just a 2080 or 1080? Did you just want the RTX support or did you just want the absolute best possible GPU for gaming regardless of price?
This is a very different answer to the other one. How interesting.
smart people learn from their mistakes, and Really smart people learn from other peoples mistakes and stay away from Google
Hacked tornado sirens taken offline in two Texas cities ahead of major storm
Yep, if you did something where local controller input directly impacted the motion vectors for macroblocks in a video frame...you could maybe hide some of the latency, but that seems dubious...
> Doesn't seem like a great test to me unless it's about your reading comprehension and ability to decipher code with single-letter variable names.

Really? I mean, to first approximation, all software engineering work is debugging. And to first approximation, all debugging is about carefully reading results and the code that generated them. That sounds pretty spot-on to my eyes.

And the variable naming quip... are you serious? One of the worst mistakes you can make when trying to read code for understanding is to rely on documentation layers like comments and variable names. Those things lie. Read the code.

I mean, obviously people do rely on those things for understanding, so when writing code it's important to have good semantically and contextually clear names for stuff (which certainly can include single letter names for local symbols repeated often!). But for debugging, you really have to train yourself to read the code, not the names.
Ok, you're a YouTuber with no technical knowledge, how do you get a WordPress site? Pay for hosting, pay for someone to build you one, etc. Then you have to maintain that site, keep it secure etc. Again, you have no technical knowledge. Or you can sign up to a site like Patreon give x% of the money you're not even making yet for no hassle.
Is anybody from Prometheus here? Very curious about the tech and the unit economics. Is $3 a goal, or the price today?
But also, possibly, you'd have a lot more and a lot deeper interaction. This could be the kind of app Facebook was originally, where you added your friend and shared basically anything random without a focus on getting likes. Dumb inside jokes, unfiltered photos, etc.

Kinda like the texting groups friends often have these days. That's market that could potentially use some optimizaiton as texting isn't a great format to communicate with ~5-10 people.
The real problem is that our scarcity based economy wasn't designed to deal with intellectual property.
Im glad to hear that.
Hoping the younger staff will learn from the seniors, how to control the foundry and infrastructure.
Thumbs up!
> There's also the anecdote of one of the founders of AA, who quit alcohol through psychedelic therapy.

Bill Wilson quit drinking in the 1930s, and experienced LSD in the 1950s. While he talked about LSD therapy for alcoholics in positive light, he was already sober and started AA before trying LSD.
Wow, I've never heard someone complain about 2x generation-over-generation improvements before.
I would not be surprised if Google injected some ads into the games as soon as their service reached critical mass and thus killing immersion.

Maybe I'm super negative here but I don't see any pros to this development. Today's games are already dumbed down and steered towards profits only. The only games I play these days are indie games made by 1 person up to a handful of people.

We really don't need more but we need better. (This applies to many other areas too)
Real estate agents don't get to choose how long their clients' home is on the market.

Quite often real estate agents work with people who want to sell quickly, and therefore price their homes lower than if they had more time to sell.

Also, the advice that real estate agents give on setting prices is often ignored by their clients. Clients routinely think that they know better about how to price their own home than the agent -- even an agent who's been in the business for many decades and who's sold hundreds or thousands of homes.
I'm guessing you mean "minimal amounts" because B12 doses/levels are measured in micrograms. In fact a vegan diet provides no natural B12 (see note below). This is a serious gap that must be addressed by supplementation/fortification.

Supplements have challenges too (and in fact many studies show supplements to be of little value). In order to attain sufficient B12 via supplements, a person needs to consume many times the RDA value. For example, only 10 mcg of a 500 mcg oral supplement is absorbed by healthy people.

So while technically you may need minimal amounts of B12, it remains an essential vitamin. Getting it in a format which is both absorbable and bioavailable is not trivial and serves as a clue that human physiology evolved in an ecosystem which, to varying degrees, involved eating animals.

Note: For now I'll set aside probable/common deficiencies among vegans/vegetarians in B6, heme iron, the vitamins A, D3, K2, micronutrients and fatty acids DHA, CLA, Carnatine, Carnosine, Taurine, Creatine and others. In fairness, a western/standard american diet can also score poorly in many nutrients.
This does not just apply to shutting down accounts - this also applies to whether to refund money due to borderline fraud by Google. Google is hostile to all customers, I do not trust them when it comes to monetary transactions based on my own experience.
No, but there might be reason to doubt the translation on the basis that the intersection of the skillsets "fluent in Russian" and "total command of the relevant computer science material" might not have many people.

For a fair comparison, the translator would have to fully appreciate the relevant connotation of every significant word like "different" in every question, and successfully convey the same in Russian. You couldn't just go to a regular translation service and get a good result.
I don't see how their reasons are any more "inscrutable" than any other company who cans failed products (all of them).
Steam link games don't have latency compensation since the games are unmodified. I assume that stadia games will have latency compensation, so should be much more playable.
I'm skeptical they'll be able to overcome the latency problem. At some point there's a hard cap that only infrastructure can help with - not software - and Google's already given up on rolling out their own infrastructure.
Why Is Japanese Zoning More Liberal Than US Zoning?
https://liberapay.com no fees
> currently, it is illegal to pay anyone a commission for selling your house except a licensed real estate agent.

I think you are confused about a realtor not being able to pay a finder's fee to anyone but a licensed agent.

You, as a seller, are free to pay anyone any commission you like. Unless of course you've contracted that right away in an agreement with a seller's agent. But that's just normal contract law.
That is not a great comparison. IRS phone support is actually pretty good. I would be ecstatic if Google could get even halfway there.
Permutation without repetition.

The formula is:

n! / (n − r)!

Since there is 10 (n=10) total numbers, 0-9. And it can only be 3 (r=3) digits long. Then it would be,

10! / (10-3)!* which would result in,

10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 / (7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) = 10 * 9 * 8 = 720.
You're right. It's a relatively small, but persistent concern people have emailed me about. After a while, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I know this because I'm temporarily using a Chrome-based WebBrowser component for called EO.WebBrowser (for edge-case reasons). I'm working on going back to the native WebBrowser control after getting about a few emails a month of emails asking about RAM usage.

It also shows up in the uninstall comments. Quote from a real comment: "The app works, but it uses a lot of RAM."

Slack and Discord are used for work, which might make users think of it a necessary evil. Paying for software yourself that you don't absolutely need and having it use lots of your RAM is a different story.
Why would Patreon design to do that though?
Answer is same the answer for stifling housing numbers, and the argument is same too.

You want cheaper homes only till you buy a home, once you buy a home, you want homes to get expensive so that you can benefit. Similarly if you are building a company, or running a business(like a manager), you want H1B. Other wise you don't want it.

Basically people vote with their wallets.
Installing and Configuring Microsoft Laps: A Complete Guide – Part 1
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Maybe people are psychopaths because something goes wrong with their cells, and this research will cure that. Can’t know anything like what you or I are suggesting, but we shouldn’t always guess pessimistically.
More recently I’ve got into the habit of creating a new schema when I’m analysing / patching data so I can pull out the data I need into new tables and index accordingly. Because I do it from vim and have a plugin to execute the queries, I just create a record as I go (and I set the path to hit my new schema first so any new tables go there).
Microsoft already has project xCloud in the works.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/10/08/project-xcloud-g...
Installing and Configuring Microsoft Laps: A Complete Guide – Part 2
Yes, but except at the micro level you need capital to compete, and getting hold of capital means paying rent to those who already have it. If you are clever you can make more than you pay back in rent, perhaps so much that you are in a position to lend out a surplus and collect rents of your own. But once you join the rent-collecting set, your economic incentives change drastically and you'll start getting lots of offers for moat digging services.
He dances for free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t96m2ynKw0

I'd pay to watch him not sing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
No, no, NO!

I am actually speaking from personal experience as an ex-founder with a disability. My disability didn't stop me from founding a company (nor did it stop me from becoming a state championship athlete and being one of the first from my hometown to ever become admitted into a top-10 university), but an unrelated chronic health problem kept me from being as productive as I needed to in order to succeed in business.

A lot of health conditions can be worsened by overwork (remember Sam Altman got scurvy while building Loopt?), and founding a startup is one of the hardest things you could possibly do. I know plenty of otherwise healthy people who ended up damaging themselves while trying to start companies.

To this day, I'm still recovering. Overworking and putting yourself in overly-stressful situations is UNHEALTHY, full stop. I made necessary trade-offs (as any sensible founder would) by eating cheaper food, skipping doctors' visits, cutting back on sleep, falling behind on exercising, and getting bargain basement health insurance. In retrospect, I definitely regret it.

It's a bit offensive to me that you are on here virtue signaling as some champion of anti-able-ism even though you are likely perfectly able yourself.
So how is housing affordability in San Francisco working for you?

Is the higher density in SF bring all those supposed promised sustainablity benefits?
No, I agree. I think "physical dependence" would be a much better word. People don't keep taking Zoloft because they want the next hit.
Lessons in Vendor Lock-In: 3D Printers
Seven Black Students Got into NYC’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots
F2P games are the incarnation of grindy.. and more of them is the worst thing that could happen to gaming.
Thank you for the detail :)
Boston Terrier: The Standard and Does It Matter?
Deplatforming was always a bad idea that puts fundamental freedoms at risk. Now that it has come to telecoms, something has to be done to denounce this trend and stop it. When large privately-owned platforms (e.g. Twitter) or low-level utilities (telecom companies) take action to censor information, it has the same impact and carries the same risks as a government doing it. It stifles expression, exchange of ideas, and imposes personal morality on a broad set of people.
It's good advice for parents. Did a 14-year-old really write this?
> Some really quick unsolicited feedback

go for it... really appreciate it.

> You say your model is "freemium" but I don't see a way to pay for anything on your website? That's not freemium, that's donationware.

Most apps that are freemium allow the user to use the app for free first and then convert later.

Right now the app will prompt you to upgrade once you hit a threshold.

Right now one of the challenges (with freemium) is that since we're a new app many people haven't fully integrated it into their work flow so asking them to pay for something which they are unsure about or uncommitted is a tough sell.

> nstead look for real-life examples of products like yours that people are paying an amount for that you'd be satisfied with (if you have examples like these I'd love to see them, I'd love for the model you're trying to actually be viable, I've just never seen it succeed).

Freemium has succeeded (github, evernote, etc) and OSS + freemium has too (Wordpress.org vs Wordpress.com).

> Finally, the business model for this product seems obvious to me: Charge a subscription for users that want to use sync more X than some threshold Y.

Yes... right now most of the users are still early so aren't actively using the sync feature.

I might step this up though and require more users to pay earlier than later.

Honestly the biggest challenge right now is distribution and user base.

We have a smaller user base (1500 active users, 4-5k monthly users) and I need to get this 10x at least. This is my goal for now. Without the larger user base all this other discussion is worthless honestly.

The challenges there have been around distribution. Improving our SEO, getting into the app stores, etc.

It's not as easy as it would seem. Takes a lot of science and testing unless you've had a ton of experience here before.
I recently discovered that Umatrix has something like this. One of the buttons gives you the ability to click to enable common subsets e.g. "GitHub" , "reCAPTCHA" etc.
It's all the same, the idea is limited supply leads to increased value. The problem with both arguments is that it's too elementary to mirror real life.

More housing might actually increase existing values because the ability to convert a SFH to a multi-tenant building means that a property developer can extract much more value out of the land than is possible under current conditions. So while per-unit prices go down, aggregate housing value goes up and those with existing SFH will probably see their net worth skyrocket.

Of course, certain less desirable areas may see a decline (read: normalization) in value, but that's unlikely.

A similar thing happens with developers: more software leads to more economic value in software, which increases demand for developers. However, more developers mean more automation in certain areas, so some people may see the value of their skillset decline.
It's not just homeowners, it's the entire real estate and banking sector as well, quite posibly with other players.

With floating and fractional reserve banking, bank assets (incluing mortgage) literally underpin the money supply. Reductions in asset values decrease that, and the impacts are felt throughout the system. From individual homeowners to banks and assetbmanagers to national policymakers and central bankers, rising prices are "free money", and anything which might decrease market value is seen as a threat. That's effectively what 2007-2008 was.

The modern homeless crise was co-emergent with floating the U.S. dollar, the 1970s oil crises, and the Volker inflation and recession (intentionally triggered).

Housing and real estate now function principally as asset classes rather than as a service good. When financial assets serve only (or principally) as assets, the social disruption is low: gold, siilver, gems, fine art, rare wines, etc.. When assets perform vital functions in the real economy, their store-of-wealth function can become quite problematic.
Sure, but a real estate agent who has a "seller" client has a pretty easy time finding "buyer" clients -- run an open house on a property you're selling and prospective buyers (specifically the ones that decide they don't want to buy the property being shown) come to you without even knowing that you exist.
I don't have a dog in the fight, so I have no reason to disagree. To me the video seemed relevant to the question. What I found useful in Blank's presentation are the ideas that we now have some language to talk about these events and that these events are ordinary results of the way some companies are structured.
There is a lot of paperwork for a soldier committing suicide. But there is even more paperwork for investigating and prosecuting a drug ring.
>Do we really want some political committee sitting around and arguing the merits of these people's writing?

Are white supremacist and Nazis ideas still up for debate? Because that's essentially what you're arguing. Since that is what is being filtered.

>Any time you get into individual selection of what is acceptable thought and what isn't you are crossing a very dangerous line.

This is essentially using the term "free speech" as a thought terminating cliche. We've always filtered and editorialized information. It wasn't until recently we became a bit lax on the subject. And we can see the effects of our choices.
Try and look at it another way...

It's not that they MUST live in the most expensive city. Rather, they MUST live with (and work) the most bright minds. That creates a geographic pooling problem.

I don't think that's an entirely dismissible goal, by the way. Humans are social beings and more often than not we're better off working with other smart people. Collaboration of bright minds is responsible for some of the incredible achievements of humanity.
How would you compensate for that?
Isn't it kind of a self-inflicted problem though? As an organization, Realtors guard listings jealously, control access to house viewings, and bind themselves to clients with exclusivity contracts. It shouldn't be surprising their time gets wasted by people who are just window-shopping, because they're essentially standing in front of all the windows.
That's called "Check out the candidate's GitHub and see how willing they are to give away work for free and then hire that one and when they ask for a raise, say no and let them quit."

Rinse and repeat.
I'd like to highlight this comment for everyone who is saying the question can only be gotten wrong by someone who misreads it.

It can be easy for people to forget that many people (even coders) have never done this type of math before.