skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pub servers are very much considered a temporary workaround in the Scuttleverse, and there is a lot of ongoing work to make onboarding both more directly user-friendly, and also less dependent on "having an anarchist sysadmin in your friend group".

Right now, without pub servers you can:

1. find friends in your immediate vicinity over WiFi/Bluetooth/etc.-type nearby protocols.

2. if you have a friend (see #1), you can connect to friends-of-friends

(#1 may seem extremely limiting at first, but it's actually only limiting for a technology which is not popular in your local area—network effect problems—so "in theory" it's not really so bad when you think about it. I've probably added a good portion of my FB friends in their presence)

However, one of the main alternatives being actively worked on is DHT invites. This is basically the "torrent magnet link" equivalent for SSB. See various links to work on this below:

[0] https://gitlab.com/staltz/ssb-dht-invite

[1] https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/issues/186

[2] https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/pull/862

[3] %r6dTZ4WG7kuLFfGlUR1DAhyat7YEuX682mGI9UJXlc4=.sha256
Dangerous. OTOH if someone did the "buy the day after the dip" and "sell the day after the next peak" then they'd bought Netflix stock on Dec 27, 2018 at 250.11 and sold at Jan 09, 2019 at 317.71 -- it's 25% in two weeks...
Of all the potential announcements, the gaming service is the most curious. Like the just-announced Google Stadia, this 100% depends on the games offered, and the cost of the service itself. $10/month for $5 premium iOS games (which go on sale very frequently) is a hard value proposition to other services like Xbox Game Pass which have $60 games for the same monthly price.

If they do bundle it with News/Music, now that would be interesting.
These are my personal observations:

When I first moved to the SF Bay area, I was surprised by the amount of visible homelessness and by the number of service economy workers who drove nearly two hours to and from work.

I also had my first experiences with the "campuses" of major technology companies, where money was made hand-over-fist. I think the recent widening income gap is a natural consequence of the technology we have invented. A relatively small number of people are able to generate a relatively large amount of profit; this is the nature of the software industry.

But that relatively small number is still enough to dominate the economy of a major metropolitan area, and so it has, and the demand for labor routinely outstrips the supply of housing for those laborers (artificially constricted, but also geographically constrained), and so those who work in software and electrical engineering and cetera can afford to live in the area. Those who do not, can not.

I look at the cities where this is an issue and I see similar threads: industries where money from everywhere flows to a relative few. Technology skims off the top in San Francisco. Finance skims off the top in New York. Government skims off the top in Washington, DC.

So the rise in visible homelessness is perhaps the expected result. Cities are economic systems, and it is easy and myopic to cater only to the demands of the prime mover. But the prime mover has auxiliaries it needs to function, without which the system will collapse.

And my experience with collapses is that they are not gradual, but rather, they are sudden.

Last night, a fire raged through abandoned vehicles parked under Interstate 280. Black smoke poured out from under the freeway and choked Portrero Hill. I watched fire crews advance on the flames and extinguish them. What will happen when the people we rely on to extinguish our flames cannot afford to live in our cities?
Germany only "forced" Greece in the sense that they didn't pay Greece's debts for them.
AFAIK Texture was doing quite well.
Done

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

Android may be “81%” of the market but then you have to subtract China and you have to take into account where the paying customers are.

Apple has more than half the number of paying customers with a much smaller phone market share (https://www.cultofmac.com/605166/spotify-now-has-96-million-...)

It’s well known that Android users don’t spend nearly as much as iOS users.
It means a different thing.
Clojure REBL: Exploring all of a project's namespaces and source code
Reading your site on my phone and it reloads every 10 seconds. Annoying.
I feel like KOMO being owned by Sinclair is not relevant. This documentary was really well done and on the whole, realistic. Mentioning that KOMO is owned by Sinclair or claiming they are increasingly "rabidly" right-wing (which I've not observed thus far) will only serve to keep people from watching the documentary and making up their own mind, since they will 'pre-judge' it. I don't feel that's what this video deserves given that it is bringing light to a problem Seattle residents have seen right in front of their eyes, building up over the last 10 years.

If anything, local publications like The Stranger are skewed towards the far-left and keep playing up a misplaced "compassion" angle that serves to stifle any pragmatic counter-arguments through a vague moral argument. And of course, the city council (literally all its current members) is completely inept and has been gas-lighting residents this entire time, as if we can't see the trash, the drug abuse, the usurping of public spaces by transient campers, the rise of crime, etc.

Lastly, claiming that folks in Amazon's pockets shouted down the head tax is not a balanced evaluation. My read of discussions online were that many people were against it, from all walks of life, from all parts of the political spectrum except perhaps the far-left. Construction workers, who don't have the easiest or the most well-compensated job, were the ones shouting down Kshama Sawant's head tax (see their counter-protest at https://youtu.be/ycEa1l01_A0). And it's not just the Amazon ecosystem - over 100 businesses signed a letter to the council against the head tax (https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/policy/more-100-seattle-b...).
Show HN: Functional Programming in PHP with 89% CodeCov
Isn't that because it is fairly hydrophobic so it doesn't make good contact with the water?
It is not a matter of "refusing shelter" it is a matter of refusing the strings that come with the Shelter.

Like the story says most shelters have a litany of rules that most reasonable people would find objectionable. Some even require you to attend religious services, or preform some other act.

Then you have the one that refuse pets (homeless people will not and should not have to give up their pets)

then you have a Single Sex only shelters where couples would be split

Then you have the fact that in many cities there is an extreme lack of Men's shelters as most of the funding goes to Women and Children shelters.

I could probably list a dozen or more other facts more than "the damn homeless just refuse help"
This is definitely true for autism. It’s clearly somewhat heritable, but no one has found a gene or mutation that all people with autism share. Study A picks out this gene from one set of families, Study B picks out a totally different gene (and can’t replicate A’s findings).

Alzheimer’s is a little odd in that most (maybe all) patients seem to have the plaques. Removing the plaques seems to do nothing though so it might be a side effect of something else going wrong.
I also had a similar issue, but then it became like a habit – every night I would check my accounts and add day's expenses (it's difficult if you have a lot of cash transactions). For the tip, wouldn't you round off to nearest full digit? You can just add that as an expense.
I thought the fact that GitBooks has search is a nice and necessary touch. I'm going to have to revisit the static site / blog generators. It's prefer to publish to GL or GH, as well as (for that I have in mind) be able to accept PRs.
This whole imbroglio was a painful learning experience for me. For several years before I bought my used jetta TDI, I started looking into Bio Diesel. I still have 12 Jatropha Curcas trees in my back yard, which were to be the start of a possible startup. I am greatful for the learning experience, but I keep waiting for the wisdom that is supposed to make up a little for the aggravation of aging.
I loved watching golf, curling and bowling on the weekends as a kid. I’d read math and physics books with those programs running in the background. The announcing for curling was like holding the event in the reference section of the library.
Ask HN: Inbound marketing with just LinkedIn and GitHub? (freelancer)
Freelancers, have you done any marketing just through these two channels? And what has worked for you?

I've been freelancing on and off for about 4 years now. Usually it's more famine than feast, but I had a consistent freelance job that lasted about 7 months and just ended at the end of February.

Now I'm trying to find more work. In the past, I tended to go on Reddit or Slack channels related to my programming field. But I need to build a bigger pipeline of clients and referrals.

Also have been browsing the Who's Hiring/Freelancer monthly threads, although none of the interviews from my responses have converted into offers so far.

I rarely meet my clients in person, nor do I network. But I've heard of people who don't do this anyways but leverage inbound marketing in other ways. I want to know if this is possible with just LinkedIn and my Github account. But should I be carving out a niche first? I guess web development is still too broad to start contacting people on LinkedIn.
Maybe... one other possibility here: https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/14/how-much-can-apple-charge...

> But there’s always the possibility that Apple starts with an “all you can eat monthly magazines” tier, then adds a pricier “all you can eat monthly magazines plus daily paywalled news” tier. This could give newspapers a way to make more money from the service — a reported sticking point to participation from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
That could work, although most services (gamepass, ps now) just buys the game for a period with upfront cash. A performance element would most likely reduce the former.
They could even bundle in a MacBook, iPad, and watch at a higher price tier so that the hard core Apple fans could pay a single monthly subscription fee and always have the latest model of every device.
I would point you to the following expose on Homelessness.

https://komonews.com/news/local/komo-news-special-seattle-is...

It is an excellent discussion on the causes and remedies.
> I could probably list a dozen or more other facts more than "the damn homeless just refuse help"

I never said that. It is an unfair misrepresentation of my argument.
To me the article evokes the existential futility of trying to achieve anything everlasting. Living humans cannot carry the past history of all those gone before -- at best, there is a continuing process of loss and compression.

From the article:

> "Before he died, he told me: 'The collection is going on forever. It has to go on,'"

How cruel.
He just used his account ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
I guess a troll is going to troll, but the idea that some coded message was in my comment is just insane.

I unequivocally deny any use of “triple parens”. Full stop.
sounds good, fair judgement
How Do You Solve a Quadratic Equation? (1966) [pdf]
Buying and selling a home has huge transaction fees which destroy this argument. Worse, economy of scale still applies with apartment complexes paying less for the same services than condo owners.
Yeah, so the market will be filled with never-ending grindy games. Not my kind of thing.

The only one I've gotten into of that nature is the binding of isaac which would undoubtedly do well under this scheme. But we need the story driven games too and they are going to have a hard time under these conditions.
Not only is Apple not doing this, but even much more services-focused companies aren't doing it, either. Why doesn't Amazon have a version of Kindle Unlimited where you get a free Kindle (with automatic replacement after depreciation, and required return if/when you unsubscribe)? (Maybe even bundle that into a higher tier of Amazon Prime.) Why doesn't Google's Stadia subscription come with free Chromecasts and a "Google Play Unlimited" access to games? Etc.
Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max
That's not true. It's trivial to create a game that will take arbitrarily long to win by just increasing the number of times the user has to perform the same task in order to advance.

That is a trade off against being boring, but having developers optimize games to explicitly be as time consuming as possible and just not-boring enough that you don't quit them in disgust is not really a helpful incentive.
> What made you think to write this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19469082

also, i wanted to see how fast something like this would be if i pulled together all libs that advertise/prove themselves to be "fastest" in their respective responsibilities amongst similar competing libs.

> P.s. When you slightly tweak MIT code you need to include the copyright and notice in your license, or ask the copyright holder to switch to 0BSD.

thanks, good to know. on the other hand, that adapter is so trivial that i don't think it quite warrants it. there are only so many ways to implement it against that small api surface. anyhow, first i want to see where the whole situation ends up:

https://github.com/nrkn/css-select-browser-adapter/pull/3

https://github.com/fb55/css-select/issues/118

i'm also glad that this [1] got merged and released quickly :)

[1] https://github.com/taoqf/node-html-parser/pull/5
Missing out on promotions is a concern for me. I don't think promotions exist in the context of contract workers, do they?

And I'm also concerned about the 1 year 10 times experience. The longest I have maintained a single project has been 2 years but again that was from working remotely for a startup. I'm supposed to be able to make a big impact at tiny startups but I didn't get that feeling there.
I've been using the app a bit since the beta came out. Much of the front page of WaPo and NYT are available without a subscription.
The erlang vm is explicitly designed for concurrency. I wrote the raft protocol in elixir in about 300 lines of code.

Rust is great, but it's pretty hard to argue that any language has more awesome support for concurrency than the beam languages.
There’s no lockin, regulatory or otherwise. This is just plane old offering something people want in exchange for money.
Apologizes if that is not what you meant, I have been following this issue for many years and I have encountered a large number of people that shift the blame on to homeless themselves because they believe the current programs that are out there should be more than enough to solve the problem is the homeless would just "accept the help"
Great. Thanks for giving me credit and for updating this. Good work, by the way.
> The motivation behind the "it's not a choice" argument is that society can't reasonably enforce a rule that people can't follow

I understand what you mean, but it doesn't seem to be the case. In regards to sexual preferences, for example, there are some that are, arguably, not a choice either, and still are considered absolutely forbidden.

> For example you and I are against Down's syndrome, but we can't make any progress by telling people to stop having it.

Nope, that would be ridiculous. But at the same time having Down's syndrome is not devoid of legal consequences. You'll probably be denied a driving license or the possibility to own guns, and you can argue as much as you want that your condition is perfectly natural and you didn't have a choice, it won't make any difference.
I’d be curious where you got that information. Everything I’ve read has sounded simliar to this: https://adage.com/article/digital/greedy-apple-half-publishi...

> The skeptical publishers point to the original Texture—it didn't work--as proof the concept is shaky. The publishers say the revenue was meager, and the app itself sputtered through several incarnations before being sold off to Apple.
Plan to, I agree with that. But "Expect to" as well?

I'm asking mostly rhetorically (since I know of a handful of people that applied as well as got their non-EB1 green cards within the span of my lifetime), but slightly curiously as well (if you know any recent trends, etc).

Plan to is absolutely the best advice as far as I'm concerned
>of course the rent will have to be higher to provide the necessary return on capital

Rent is set by supply and demand. There's no law - economic or otherwise - saying that it is necessary for landlords or anybody else to yield a return on capital.

In reality if the value of a home is falling or flat landlords do often try to raise rents in order to recoup losses and sometimes this leads to even greater losses as tenants leave and it goes unrented. It's a psychological trap caused by a feeling of entitlement to profit.

This "nightmare" has kind of faded in to distant memory as most governments around the world have decided to provide indirect wealth transfers to property owners via QE and low interest rates. In the last 10 years even an idiot could probably have made capital gains in most housing markets thanks to the government assistance lavished on them.

>Rental units that appreciate fast enough are just held vacant in some markets, so much so that Vancouver had to abundantly tax it to try to stop it.

Vancouver is as much about foreign money trying to find a home as it is about capital investments. A Chinese investor is often okay with a depreciation in capital provided they have A) assurances that their capital is not at risk of confiscation by the Chinese state and B) that they have a place to run away to in case some shit goes down in China.

The headache of renting out the apartment along with the instinctive desire to own something "brand new and untouched" means that they often leave these gold bar proxies/emergency safe houses empty.
Hubzilla[1] has a a feature called "Nomadic Identity" which seems to be a solution to your use case of carrying your identity to another server.

See the "Nomadic Identity and Cloning" paragraph on the Hubzilla homepage [2]. See also "Nomadic identity, brought to you by Hubzilla," by Andrew Manning, on Medium [3].

[1] [2] https://hubzilla.org/

[3] https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-yo...

Edit: Newline formatting.
Why we even have something like yaml? We already got JSON, same key value format, but more reliable. I remember my first docker experience was ruined because of yaml and wrong formatting.
> You could ask users what split between games they think is fair (feels like a lot to ask especially if you're playing a lot of games).

Generate a pie chart based on playtimes, and then let the user adjust it to match their subjective experience. Pre-bias the pie slices by multiplying the default percentage cut by their rating of the game if they've given one.
>The motivation behind the "it's not a choice" argument is that society can't reasonably enforce a rule that people can't follow.

The motivation is mostly religious.

Homosexuality must be a choice, otherwise God created homosexuals as they are, and homosexuality is just another part of Nature.

But if that's true, homosexuality can't be a sin, because sin is always a choice.

But homosexuality is a sin because the Bible says it is (even though it doesn't really,) therefore it must be a choice.
Already there :) K will look up docs for the symbol under the cursor. Pretty sure fireplace has this though...

Example of the doc output: https://imgur.com/vSB5Fv5.png
haha stupid ass Apple's 2 factor authentication, provides the pin number on the same machine that I'm authenticating on. These people do not know services.
Hi. That's quite a topic! I've been consulting as my primary source of income going on 13 years consecutively (and consulting / freelancing for far longer than that).

I occasionally post about my experiences. Perhaps you'll find something useful in my archives:
https://joshrichards.net/tag/self-employment/
The world of decentralized web (aka Web3) is witnessing both:

1) Transition of trust-translucent internet native centralized systems (social networks, file hosting services, instant messaging services) to decentralized systems using protocols like Dat, SSB, ActivityPub, IPFS, etc.

2) Onboarding of trust-opaque internet non-native centralized systems (legal tender, corporate law, legal citizenship) to digital decentralized systems using Bitcoin-born protocols like Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, etc.
These kinds of issues are why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision was widely used since the 80's, both in language implementations and FPUs/CPUs.

Python has Decimal for those who need correctness under all circumstances.
Keep in mind that this does not mean you have a 70% chance of getting prostate cancer if you take fish oil supplements.

Based on this[0], it's roughly an increase from about 0.02% chance to about 0.034% chance (given no other information to base your risk on)

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706483/
Cal Newport’s new book ‘Digital Minimalism’ offers a good viewpoint on why this is useful: how much time to you lose mindlessly clicking around on HN and Reddit each week? (Unfortunately, I keep track of this and it is disturbing.) With a quality news feed the hope would be that you would get information you need with spending less of your time.

I am taking a different track towards digital minimalism: I don’t count time spend reading eBooks and listening to audio books. But I am monitoring and reducing empty non-productive time on my devices.
considering the fight to break Apple from the App store this would be a politicians dream state. the current political climate is to demagogue any large corporation which does not bend to their will or more politely, contribute properly to the interest of the politicians and their supporters.

Any such program would instantly be set upon with demands for a low income version which in effect would be subsidized by those paying an elevate price. All the while the carriers and other phone makers would be off the hook and show no interest in following suit with similar programs
Elephants Took 24M Generations to Evolve from Mouse-Size
>Why wait for referrals? I found all of my contracting jobs by reaching out on Linkedin or various job sites.

Do you have a system in place for choosing people on LinkedIn to reach out to? I don't know what's a good starting point- seeking in local companies first or with companies that are just related to my developer niche. In job boards I tend to email blast a lot of applications.

And yeah, I haven't really felt part of a team since 2010. Contract jobs can wreck your visibility if you're not skilled in tailoring your connections.

Like I have been told I do great work but they never want to re-engage for more work. Not in six months, not in two or four years.
The article does not talk about alternatives. A great alternative for Omega-3s are ground flax seeds, one tablespoon a day mixed for example in your oatmeal is enough - https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/omega-3-fatty-acids

Also for the derived DHA/EPA, there are pollutant-free alternatives based on algae oil.
try reflex arena
The solution is likely the same here as it is elsewhere: not a permanent shelter bed where you are stripped of dignity and any facsimile of a normal life, but real homes and real independent lives surrounded by real people and the social connections that make permanent escape from poverty possible. And all of it, ideally, before destitution rather than after. But that's expensive, so we will continue to see handwringing about the deplorable plight of the homeless while the glittering lives of the wealthy grow ever more gilded.