skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with the music Youtuber and Patreon world.

The "1000 true fans" essay is correct conceptually, it just needs to be updated to be more prescriptive for current social media.

The numbers for an artist to hit initially are 200,000+ yt subscribers (free equipment and self-perpetuating audience) and 150 - 200 Patrons (less if you live at home.) yt pays $1,000 - $3,000 per million views for monetized (eligible) videos.

1 million yt subscribers is a comfortable lifestyle.

But wearing many hats takes effort (weekly upload, social media, video production, being "your best self" online, etc.) If you don't like/want/afford touring though, yt is almost a perfect alternative - all the exposure, none of the costs.

(By contrast, Rick Beato says you only need 1,200 sales for a gold jazz single today.)

If you haven't watched the successful yt music performers and instructors, you should - freakish level of talent out there.

AMA.
Ask HN: Is it possible to make an open source cellular modem?
I have seen comments on HN that claim that an open source cellular modem is impossible.
After a quick search I found Hologram Nova, which is an open 4G modem. So what gives?
Yup! We changed it to MIT as AGPL actually limited a few people from using it in their companies (company wide license regulations) and I would rather promote adoption under a more permissive license.
Same here, I'd always pay off a little debt here and there and the busy-waiters would be circling my desk asking for status -- from the busy body product owners to the nitpicking directors at their weekly inquisitions, there's a whole class of parasites whose only contribution is to trumpet how late we are and insist on asking 'how long will this take?'
This just makes it look pixel perfect, and adds a clean frame around it... In case that somebody needs to share their code snippets on social media.
shrug each to their own, i really enjoy going to another city and grabbing an airbnb for a couple weeks. Work at coffee shops overlooking the ocean, grab lunch somewhere, explore some sites, checkout hawaii, then get some work done in the evening.

It's definitely not the same experience off taking a week off, which i also enjoy but usually reserve for camping/backcountry trips.
To make the term more useful to me I like to extend the analogy and think in terms of interest paid on technical debt.

So you took a shortcut because of pressure to ship but now you’re spending loads more time providing tech support. That’s the interest you’re paying on the technical debt.

So in terms of choosing what technical debt to pay off first consider which ones have the highest interest payments. And remember that like financial debt, technical debt also sometimes comes with introductory interest free periods.
The culprit is unequal distribution of wealth. The working class is affected by low minimum wage, limited access to healthcare, cost of education, and broken social security (AFP).
I think that a lack of a simple identity and authentication solution is a problem. In some sense, it makes no sense that file permissions and website logins are two different authentication schemes.
How do you propose that an security vulnerability in an iOS app that doesn’t result in a jailbreak will allow someone to copy the app from an iOS device on to another device?

Also, are you claiming that using C == “not striving for quality” or that it is not “best practice” to use C?

And on a side note, most corporations don’t care about “quality” or “best practice”, they care about shipping and selling software. Two decades in the industry has shown that those two things aren’t as highly correlated as you wish.
Come live in Tasmania. We double-tick the top 4 on that list imho
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Chantel Jeffries Thinks So [video]
ModuleInterface is really cool, I have a couple of projects where I will for sure apply it! Compliments!
Generally, the biggest problem is that many companies just don't see updates as all that important unless they're offering a computer program or internet service. Many smart devices, IoT devices, etc don't get updates at all, which leaves them wide open to anyone with the technical knowhow to attack them. Especially if they're internet connected, like many of them are.

Getting companies to issue updates and fix security problems in these devices seems like one of the most important issues we're dealing with security wise.
Yes, that chat bubble even the notification noise it makes drives me crazy.
I don't get it. You have a source file. It has your store procedures and what not. You deploy it. You have the server startup load it. Done.

What's the problem?

Well, you might complain that some schema changes are hard to make this way, and that's true, but for stored procedures it's straightforward, and even for other things you can manage and make the update atomic (though it'd be nicer to have better SQL language support for schema changes).

As with everything, you need to mind backwards compatibility. This is true for C, C++, Rust, Java, and SQL/PlPgSQL. There's nothing special about this case.
Age of Entanglement
- Liquibase expects the scemea to be modeled in its schema language. This makes it possible to compute changes between the database and the new schema and apply those changes, or to just create old-fashioned migration scripts.

- Th. Doctrine and Hibernate ORMs can do similar things.

- Flyway expects developers to write migrations by themselves, either in Java or in SQL, and just executes them and records state information. It's not too bad to write migrations yourself because the data you work with is usually valuable.
Move that logic into a stored procedure and suddenly
your business logic can run in less than the time of
a couple round trips to the database. Lock contention
drops, number of concurrent transactions drops, and
performance could actually increase

Yes! A thousand times yes. This is especially important for write-heavy workloads. Releasing those locks and finishing those transactions ASAP is crucial.

There are lots of other reasons this is a questionable
idea at best, but performance is not necessarily one of
them.

When it comes to scalability.... yeah I think the 90/10 rule applies here. Probably the bulk of one's code can comfortably live up at the app layer. And the 10% of your code that's causing 90% of the bottlenecks is a candidate for solutions such as moving it down into the data layer, when feasible.
Only the first few paragraphs talk about digital nomadism, after that he says
"The obvious alternative to traveling the world while working, is working from home. But that can be equally isolating in its own way." after which most of the article is about regular remote working
Yes, the difference is that in the US you don't get to 'self-certify' for a lot of cases where in the EU you can. That puts the burden on the authorities to get it right, whereas in the EU you can expect a retro-active smackdown if you fuck up.
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And only their data in the app in question or any data that the user allowed the app to have would be vulnerable. If not, that’s an issue with the sandbox on the mobile OS.
It depends on how much of it you want to recreate. Like, do you want to create the servers, or are you happy letting a CDN do the heavy lifting? If it's the latter, you can deploy to GitHub pages, and then use CloudFlare's CDN. I don't think I need to post it here since it's HN, but I documented this technique in a comprehensive article once[0].

On the other end, though, you can buy small storage units and put Raspberry Pi 4s all around the world, and to mimic the CDN-ness of it. You'd need a central build server, which doesn't matter where it physically is, but it'd push JAM builds to your CDN network, and then a DNS server that routes requests to the right CDN node depending on the Geolookup of the IP address.

[0]: https://www.toptal.com/github/unlimited-scale-web-hosting-gi...
"no obligation" is not the same as "no tipping", and certainly not "you never tip", as GP claimed.

FWIW I certainly feel the obligation to leave a small tip (few euros) when eating out, but that may just be my upbringing.
Users will be at best confused, and at worst insulted by this.

However... Don't assume that a user has an exclusive affinity with one platform at a time. Users will load the app on different phones, sometimes at the same time, so if there are any differences in the way the apps handle data you'll soon see things getting corrupted. Make sure you have lots, and lots, and LOTS of tests.
This is great. I am new to Piano and have a rough time reading music (I basically count from middle C, G, or B on the treble clef or from D or G on the bass clef). I plugged in my keyboard today and spent about 20 minutes on it and already feel faster.
Sounds like Elon Musk's next company! He'll call it "The Small Boring Company"
>> "That's possible, but a bad argument. And it's insulting."

Firstly, there are people smarter than me, it's not insulting, especially if a person makes a real improvement. Or maybe I made a mistake.

Secondly, original designer had to make a decision with limited information and time. Now we have the benefit of hindsight, so coming up with a better one is hardly surprising.
When your previous post said that "rich people were excluded from the political process entirely. You could either become rich or participate in politics, not both — in a direct democracy, no less" I took your claim to be that the rich weren't even allowed to vote in the direct democracy, not that they would be ostracised for being percieved to conspire with other rich people to influence that democracy using their extra power/wealth.

Edit: I just read your other fact-checking-yourself comment (currently under this one) and wanted to note that I wasn't trying to beat a dead horse. I appreciate your willingness to accept that your recollection/phrasing was incorrect.
What you're doing is the equivilent of a journalist taking selective quotes out of context in attempt to divert discussion from the actual topic at hand. What you're doing isn't 'journalism', it's diversion.

You've managed to bury the lede in your argument by trying to make it about a personal affair ('i would be pissed if my bike was stolen') while ignoring the issues the article brings up related to police racially profiling people (because they believe the minorities are more likely to steal) along with Facebook encouraging a stringent crackdown on people in the area by abusing its size.

Do people steal bikes from Facebook? Yes. But you've managed to miss the entire point of the article, which is the racial profiling of people and children over bicycles. Some of these bikes might not even be stolen, just abandoned by Facebook employees treating them as disposable. And regardless, you're treating a multi-billion dollar corporation threatening residents over something that's a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of costs to them as being acceptable.
> How about you actually name some competent people who suggest this?

As I don't remember the name of everybody I read about, it would take significant effort to go find the source.

It's much simpler to prove the concept logically:

Any time you're communicating on a service provided, programmed, and updated by at least one third party, it is fundamentally impossible to guarantee E2EE without being omniscient of what they're doing.

This is simply because the unen/decrypted data is in the software at some point in time, and the third party controls the software.

> Oh, this is a downright insane, dishonest argument. Perfection is impossible, so we shouldn't even try!

I did not say or imply this in any way, and no it is neither an insane nor dishonest argument, it's just a consequence of allowing a third party to control your data.
Warhol's art is transformative, so there's no copyright issue. Straight photographs of art are generally not considered transformative by courts.
I've had phones stolen and found them on eBay. I have had the buyer of said phone give me the identity info of the seller (when they refused a refund). I've gone to the local, quiet, PD with this information, along with the seller's eBay shop which had over 100 laptops and phones, almost all listed as "activation locked", "unknown PIN", "no charger/no case/no accessories".

"Well, he probably didn't know that they were stolen". "Other than the message on the screen of mine at least that says "Stolen phone, please call, reward offered...?"

They couldn't care less.
To an inexperienced reader it is highly confusing. I myself had to take pause and look up the date of FAA approval of the MAX.
You can escape the Android monoculture in different ways.

Creating the clone of the whole business model as MS tried may be one way.

But I think a single lone dev can probably manage to make an app that will provide UI to call/sms/manage contacts, stream some frames from camera to display, and generally anything s/he dreams up on top. It can be as simple as a single app, that allows to play with interesting concepts like running everything on a PostgreSQL database runing on the phone and replicated to VPS or whatever.

There's nothing all that time intensive/insurmountable about that.

And if single dev can do that, more can be done by a community. I certainly don't care about creating a generic app ecosystem or some such. What I care about is experimenting with reducing the bloat as much as possible, and very tight integration of everything, even as much as having things that are typically in separate apps integrated in a single UI app, with all the possibilities that come from that.
Shhh! The church of climate change has found a witch and is conducting an inquisition here! Who needs the law when a company is literally causing climate armegeddon?!?!?!??
Change the laws that allow businesses to count tips as part of minimum wage and I bet you'd seem them change their tune on the subject right quick.
What do you mean? Isolating network and isolate processes view is what FreeBSD jail was always doing. The most common use of freebsd jails was providing VPS servers to users.
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What's open about the Hologram Nova is the part they made: the board adapting the used cellular modem chip to USB, and a software SDK around it. All the cellular functions are in that chip, whose design and firmware aren't open.

Open implementations of cellular tech and protocol stacks exist, so yes, it's possible to do it. Making a consumer product from them would be a massive extra step though, and might very well be not feasible in practice.
If you pay for something it means that your value for the money is less than the value of the satisfaction you believe you will get out of it. Money does not magically create an equivalence class of value across all items of the same price.
Most people believe (at least as far as I know them), that google results are better than bing.

Plus star page has super useful anonimized view. It's essentially anon proxy built into search page. It's useful if you have to go look trough doggy websites.
No, I think that any time posters on HN want the government to intervene and dictate what others can do with their content would be horrified if the same policies applied to their sacred cows. Whether it be GPL or the right for companies like ElasticCo and Mongo to forbid cloud providers from offering their software as a service.

What’s the difference between Disney not allowing their content on Netflix or in theaters so they can exclusively use it on Disney+ and ElasticCo not allowing third party cloud providers to allow their software to be sold as a service so that they can exclusively offer managed services?

Do you want the government to step in and tell you how you can distribute your work?
Industry is young, but thankfully returning goods on app stores and suing companies for delivering bad software is starting to happen.

I am claiming both when using a language whose security reports from Google, Apple, Microsoft, ARM, Linux kernel just increase in size every year with the amount of memory corruption and UB induced security exploits.

Like those reports advise, usage of C should be constrained to environments where no other safer alternative is made available, or due to constraints on already deployed software.
Ask HN: What products or services do you wish existed for your startup?
What products or services (software or not) do you wish existed for your startup?

I'm taking 6 months off and looking for projects to work on (most of my experience is in B2B software, so ideally would work on a project in that space). Any ideas like "I wish someone produced X or Y" would be helpful!
It feels like you are supposed to blindly believe them, and if you are left with questions, well, you are just a nerd so they don't care.
Some Economics of Abundance
The cylindrical shaped ones were just crippled, de facto, according to Apple's own admission.
Huh, I have to say, I have much better supervisor then that. Most of them were better then that.

No boardgames needed.

And also, much better strategy is to tell what I think, bease then supervisors personality shows soon and I can figure it out and leave soon. If it takes courage and pretending to disagree, then it is good idea to work elsewhere.

It sounds like horrible way to do code reviews.
Or dependencies.
The 3 most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary
It's very possible.

If I gave my customers a gift it would be an illegal bribe and I could go to jail. My customers are government.

When I was a teenager I worked at a hospital. One of my coworkers was fired for accepting a $1 tip from a patient, we were not allowed to accept any money or gifts from patients or families.
I got it too the point where the standard changes took a fraction of the time to implement compared to what it would've been operating on the initial code base.

In fact, some of the functionality that I ultimately implemented would not simply have taken longer, it would have been impossible to implement without introducing world ending bugs.

None of that mattered. Nothing that I ever said or did in that place meant a fucking thing to anyone.
That's needed for the Auto-Type to find windows.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/3675
I get that you're being flippant, but yeah, it does sound a little strange at first blush: work remotely, but without working from home?

The secret is that spending all your time alone actually sucks for a lot of people (and for those whom it doesn't, great! Working from home may serve you well).

It so happens that coworking strikes a good balance for many of us. My location and that of my employer are fully decoupled, and my coworkers don't have any overlapping office politics. When I change jobs, I don't stop seeing my friends. It's pretty ideal.
While I think what you want is understandable - it's also extremely dangerous. You'd no longer be absolutely certain you're executing the same migration in production as on the testing environments.

That's exactly why I think Django's migrations are insanely good.
Simple ones are autogenerated and everything else is possible as well, with either python code or direct sql queries
Manifold in the sense of a low dimensional locally flat object, in a high dime sional space. An autoencoder has a manifold at the bottleneck layer, for example.
For example it is easier to avoid buffer overflows with std::string than with C-style strings.
And if Disney closed shop Netflix would still have content to sell. Do you think Netflix is going to go out of business once all Disney content is removed?
> There are also dangers with ninja patching stored procs without corresponding code deploys.

This just means that modifying sprocs has to be treated with the same caution as deploments. Unit testing is truly difficult though. It doesn't help that many DBMS products (looking at you, Postgres) don't offer an embedded mode.
There are already many truck only zones. They typically are in effect during business hours. Swift deliveries can also be done in the 30 ft zones around fire hydrants. The drivers already ignore them and double park wherever they want, causing mayhem when there is no way to get by on narrower streets.
You also move incredibly, absurdly fast. Play half-life 2 in VR and you will get very motion sick, but you will also realize how insanely fast you are moving.
stagit. Especially cool since it does not depend on FastCGI/CGI but merely generates a static site on every push: https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/
Algorithmic echo chambers are a new development.
>the harmonic movement, the intervals, the tones of the instruments

Are you a boomer? These days nobody respectable listens to music where those things are present and IMO that's a good thing.
> Didn't stop the court case of US government wanting data from Microsoft Ireland and trying to force Microsoft US, (empahsis added)

The trying to bit is important. The US tried to compel Microsoft to hand over data, and Microsoft went to the US courts and (we think) prevented it. MS can now go to European governments and say that both willing and able obey the European law in this regard.

Now this might not be true. Perhaps the US Govt. has used its leverage to force MS to MS slyly leak the data anyway. And perhaps European governments are quietly doing the same. But if the rule of law is uncertain restraint on western governments, it is no restraint at all on the Chinese government. A company straightforwardly will be compelled to hand info over to the Chinese government, and Chinese courts will not even consider trying to stop it.
If they like their bikes, secure them.
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>something much simpler than it really is

dude tipping is not complicated
When the tickets start to run up into the tens of thousands of dollars, it's got a twofold impact on the overwhelming nature of these tickets. First, if some of the proceeds are diverted back to the court, then the court can afford to hire more folks to deal with the paperwork. Second, when a single ticket gets to be more expensive than a day's profits, the cost/benefit analysis will shift accordingly. If lots of businesses continue breaking the law, the system funds itself -- if not, then mission accomplished.
That's what it means here, too. The idea is that if you take the N-dimensional state-space of neural activity --- each dimension being the activity of a neuron or electrode or voxel or whatever --- and look at how the state evolves through time, you discover that it "lives" in a manifold, k, of much smaller dimension than the full space, N.

This is, I think, simply a restatement of the fact that neurons exhibit correlations in their activity patterns. That is, not all vectors of activity are "allowed". Still, it has implications for everything from learning to brain-machine interfaces.
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I mean if you are somewhere 1/3 of the whole day you naturally get to know the people you are around everyday. As well as the fact that you already have a filter of commonality, everyone I work with already has been filtered to live in the same town, at the same company and is also a fellow engineer. No one's harassing someone into dating them due to being around them a lot and if they did that sounds like some type of #metoo situation and probably would get you fired pretty quickly nowadays. If you don't want to date a coworker you are free to not date them but I don't see how, for example my coworkers that just got married have an inferior relationship because they didn't meet 'naturally'. In fact I would consider getting to know someone by talking to them everyday one of the most natural forms vs meeting someone online.
Only kill them. Otherwise not interfere.