skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But most good passive income ideas are good because of how easy they are, and because they're the perfect size for a small market. Usually even one more competitor entering the market is enough to significantly disrupt them. If you are sitting on one of those, why would you post about it in an HN thread that will be archived and trawled by capable competitors specifically looking for ideas? If it only takes one competitor to disrupt your golden goose, why would you post about it here?

While there are many interesting ideas in this thread, I expect there are a fair amount of people lurking with much more profitable and higher leverage products. So maybe just take the thread with a grain of salt and don't think of it representative of a ceiling on what's possible to build in 2019.
An old-school shell hack on a line printer
The downside is that also means a lot of the core APIs are a huge pain in the ass to work with, especially relative to something like Python, and the “solution” to this problem ends up being something like Spring which has to use so much reflection and metaprogramming to accomplish what it does that it also relies heavily on exceptions for control flow. So without even getting into the other issues, debugging becomes a lot more complicated than it would be otherwise.

Personally I would second Go as a good answer for this. It has its limitations, but it’s simplicity and it’s standard library more than make up for that from a pragmatic standpoint imo
It's interesting how stuff like this works out - this looks like it was resolved in a fairly simple way, no epic lawsuits, just an analysis, and then a fix.
That's only really possible when there's a company behind it. It's much harder to buy out a whole OSS project, the only real option is to buy out the main contributors.
When this first happened it seemed that the media was pushing the idea that be was killed as a crank conspiracy theory.

They failed and now a majority believe he was. Including me.
Competitive moats are evil.

Learn a trade. Be useful. Save your money. You don’t need a moat if you’re useful and have savings.

By building moats you are selling our children’s future to corporate scavengers.
> I'm fascinated by the idea that someone could have killed and successfully covered up a murder this high profile.

What reasons could there be to cover up non high profile murders? High profile is where all the covering up happens.
I live in downtown of a capital and the airport is 40 minutes away with a taxi. I still hear clearly the aircrafts from my balcony as they take off on their route.

I'd imagine that a Starship would be orders of magnitude louder and once in the air, nothing would stop the low rumbling noise.

It would be a fun math exercise to calculate an acceptable distance.
These headlines should all read “says 85 year old man who didn’t examine his body.”
Thx for the kind words. I thank, but will not accept financial contributions from individuals. Feel free to use it, modify it, or talk about it to your colleagues :)
Have you ever been touched by writing outside of poetry?
Our team uses a Q&A system called Scoold for knowledge sharing. It's basically a Stack Overflow clone and has great team support. https://scoold.com
I'm always amazed by the obsession of mac users with "just closing the lid for sleep".

I simply don't want that. If I close the lid then to move the laptop more easily to the next room/next floor for a meeting, I might not want it to go to sleep. When I want to suspend I run a single command. I could put that command on a key combo, so it's not like I can't fix it. I want to control what happens when I close the lid, and more often I want nothing to happen. I have a shell open anyway, so I can run my command...

But I've had that close-lid-for-suspend fail on Windows so many times, so maybe my Linux stance is too muddled anyway :P

Also both of my ThinkPads stay with power for days when suspended (ok, not weeks, I admit that) so in this case Dell is to blame I guess.
Not really.

Reddit doesn't claim ownership of the subreddits.

A subreddit is something 1 user creates, getting ownership of that subreddit, and then that 1 user is free to appoint other mods.

This is more akin to a facebook group.
I think we've just gotten used to higher-resolution displays where those UI elements can be made smaller: https://zdnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/08/09/5d4189d0-20...
He examined the body. Re-read the article.
> It's slower to write in touch-screen. From objective engineering perspective it's backwards in ergonomy.

I've seen this idea a lot on Hacker News and similarly-minded sites ever since the iPhone came out. It's a myth--touchscreen keyboards with good software are faster than physical ones. The Guinness world record for phone typing speed has gone to touchscreen keyboard users for years, and it doesn't even allow autocorrect or predictive text [1]. The average typing speed on touchscreens is only 14wpm less than on full computer keyboards, and some people get up to 85wpm [2]. Software buttons are larger than physical ones and they change activation area based on the predicted next character, among other advantages. Even if screen space weren't an issue, touchscreen keyboards would still be better.

[1] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/5/fastest-tou...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49933204
> And being mindful sets a lot of things straight.

Like what?
It's not weird at all. It's also called the "Must Have" Metric which defines if your product is a Must Have vs. Nice-to-Have. Must Have means your users can't live without it. This is the first state of Product/Market Fit. If you have can find a scalable channel then you have the second stage of Product/Market Fit.

Not all products need or have retention. Some amazing businesses are 1-time or products people pay for but don't need to use or actively engage with.

e.g.
Universities, Courses = 1-time use
Stocks/Investments = buy them and don't touch them until you sell
Insurance = buy it and don't touch it until you renew 1 yr later
Plenty of other examples

But every product should be a "Must Have" if it's going to grow.
Thing is, Upwork's "premium" rates are still super low compared to rates of "normal" programmers. Hence the quality. $50 is definitely a premium rate on Upwork, but it's rock bottom offline. So you get someone "premium by Upwork standards".

You have to pay $100-$200 an hour for good contractors. These, are simply not on Upwork.
Bike through it :) It's certainly quite rainy and windy some days, though.
Especially given that launches become cheaper - even without SpaceX.

In USA there is obviously BlueOrigin (well, they have to get to orbit; will they in 5 years?), so no too much worries.
> The prison where Epstein died was understaffed, and the guards tasked with watching him had no training on suicide watches.

This could have been intentional, fyi.
Very interesting. I probably should have clarified that I was talking about popular music and not niche genres. I actually think the effect is often less about sparseness bringing the composer's vision to light and more to do with the trend toward group songwriting.

For instance Beyonce had 72 songwriters [1] listed on her Lemonade album. Compare that with Madonna [2] (and other contemporaries) who often write their own music or co-write a song with one other person.

1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-beyonce-write-her-own-mus...

2. https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-her-music-does-Madonna-act...
> putting your child on the backseat of a bike on a rainy day is not frowned upon

This is the best thing you can do for your child.
People kill themselves when under observation all the time.

The people observing are negligent, the systems don't work, people think 5 minute of 15 minute obs are sufficient.

It's not in any way uncommon.

Statistical methodology hides the true numbers. People talk about "suicide" when they should be asking about "suspected self inflicted death".
If your bike has fenders and you dress as you normally would in the rain, it's not that bad!

http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/2014/11/its-raining-its-p...
Especially like in the case of KiCad, some of the main contributors are CERN :D
Sometimes these are "sleepers" accounts, and they are very valuable in astroturfing and trolling business. Not all of them - I suspect some people are real, and upset about "some developer teaching us how to live".

I wouldn't surprised if there is a quite significant chunk of accounts on any soc media sites that are dormant until "the call" comes in.
Well intention doesn't help you if the execution sucks.
Every administration has its share of corruption. This one has it deeply embedded and comes from the very top. I welcome refutations from supporters of the current administration.
You can't say that for sure until you've read the document that allows PG and E to utilize the land. Each and every agreement is different.
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Yes, definitely a good approach as well. One point in favour of the Python-first way is that you can prototype and test much quicker in Python than in languages that are closer to the metal.

On my team, we've been successful with this rough approach:

1. write a prototype in Python to explore the idea/ensure correctness

2. extract the core library and re-implement it in Rust

3. consume the core from Javascript via WASM and Python via pyo3 (Python/Rust bindings)
HN is for articles that are intellectually interesting. Please don't take threads onto generic tangents and flamewars. Other CIA-related topics have had interesting discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I used `async` as the name of a function decorator in some Python3.4 code, which then broke in 3.6 which introduced `async` as a keyword.
>How is this a "different question"?

Because most businesses make profits so it's perfectly possible to raise input prices without them closing.

>We can argue about how many of those businesses there are

That's what we were doing. The answer was "not a statistically significant amount".

>If you've ever run a small business yourself, you'll understand how small changes in the cost of labour can be painful.

I understand all too well the kind of caterwauling that happens when you do something that could threaten the profits of any business.

>Again, we have social programs in my country to alleviate these issues.

And a historically high % of profit to GDP, so maybe we can give some of those programs a break and take the money from a sector of the economy that is actually flush with cash.

>So businesses optimize for the number of people employed, regardless of prevailing wages?

Absolutely they do, yes!
> without explicit knowledge about structure

That's why XML Schema exists. So, everything you listed is possible in XML if you don't put aside some specifications on purpose.

And JSON is so self-describing that someone came with... JSON Schema.
This description matches better many countries in Africa than Finland. Finland is not that rich in natural resources, they have no coal, no oil. Have a lot of wood and some minerals.
You're right, I was incorrect there - I was confused because he wasn't on the medical team for the autopsy. Looks like he was there as an observer, being paid by Epstein's family - which also introduces a fairly significant conflict of interest.
I do happen to know that for me to ignore murder took nothing more than the implied threat that I would be murdered myself by the team doing the murder. I learned my lesson; getting away with murder is not hard for people that are good at it.
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Hell, I fixed something in Turing last week. My eyes are still bleeding.
Epstein’s death seems the most overt taunt about ruling class impunity in my lifetime. Not only in its circumstances, but in the kind of shifting, threadbare cover stories about everyone with whom he was associated. Bill Gates, for example, had staff overlap between his foundation and Epstein, (including one who was named in Epstein’s will!) and was able to diminish these connections in major media outlets with almost no pushback.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
mass =/= moles. While it's stronger it's not 2x as strong. The nicotine salt which is either nicotine benzoate or (haven't seen it myself personally), nicotine salicylate, has, by nature of being a salt, more mass per mole of nicotine and these two salts are about 55% nicotine/45% salt by mass.

So 50mg/ml nicotine salt is 'equivalent' in concentration to ~27mg/ml nicotine freebase and likewise 25ml/ml is 'only' as strong as 13.5ml/ml nicotine freebase. You also inhale a LOT less from salt vapes typically compared to traditional vapes. Prior to the popularity of nicotine salts, I remember having friends who switch from cigarettes needing high concentrations; ~20mg/ml nicotine freebase which has a intense throat hit.
Only if you want to downshift to an even lower value area (or smaller place in the same area), or if the higher value properties maintain their value better than yours.

If you were trying to move from a 150K place to a 200K place, you are now moving from a 60K place to an 80K place.

You never had that 90K that you just "lost". Your net worth didn't really drop from 150K+savings to 60K+savings, it was always 1house+savings.
>”it had toolbars with custom icons"

This would be pretty cool, actually. Specially the AWS services where the icons are more or less divorced from what they’re supposed to represent.
If your timeframe goes back to PHP4, this most certainly isn't true. Just one glance of https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php should prove this - every new keyword is a backwards incompatible change. And I mention this because I used to support software that used, as a variable name, something which became a reserved word...
Lithium ion battery design can charge an electric vehicle in 10 minutes
Interesting that RL-10 descendants are quite reusable. Guess they solved the embrittlement problem :) .
"I think Reddit moderators are less restricted/directed by Reddit"

Several former mods have gone public with how the Admins basically told them "Do this or we remove your community and ban you."
It's likely Epstein was tied up with CIA. Once they enter the picture, everything's fair game.

https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...
Delphi still lets you build programs that used to run on Windows 3 with minimal changes, and definitely anything 32-bit.

It's part of the value proposition: the language and libraries are planned for forward compatibility and stability for use ten years in the future, as well as now.
Steel is funny stuff; you do everything right but one thing, and that bites you. But unlike the FIU bridge disaster the building was designed with proper safeguards so that one flaw would not knock the whole thing down. Read the FIU report, it's very interesting. I always try to write code assuming something somewhere will break, at least you want it to do nothing harmful not matter what. With large real world projects, failure can kill people very easily, and being redundant is a real requirement, not a nice to have. From a steel standpoint I marvel at the Brooklyn Bridge, almost 150 years old, and has less issues than any other NY bridge.
I'd like to remind people that "conspiracy theory" was a propaganda term coined and spread by the CIA in order to discredit people skeptical of the United States.
That's not the issue with regards to the parent comment. The parent said he couldn't believe someone could kill themselves in a bare cell meant to stop people from suicide, but that's not where he was.
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I would wager that those same conditions were true long before Epstein ever set foot in there as well.
Cat, cat, why do you meow?

I bend down to pet you now,

but then you dart away.
> One can speculate why he specifically chose Schleswig-Holstein, but it’s the only region in Europe where, 1920, due to a peaceful referendum

How was the split of Czechoslovakia done?
Reading through the list, it seems like the author is aiming for an audience of "people like me", which isn't really the worst thing.

I glanced through the website homepage and didn't really understand what the site was all about, but I'm also not the target audience based on those criteria, so maybe that's okay.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/37891437
And how is that supposed to work in reality if your project takes more then 100 days to build?
I'm guessing at least the sponsors of the OCaml software foundation: https://ocaml-sf.org/sponsors/
Also, recommended: “The Happiest Kids in the World: Bringing up Children the Dutch Way” https://www.amazon.com/Happiest-Kids-World-Bringing-Children...
Absolutely - rather predictably, but only within the segment I use. If you're an HFT trader you can't win. But if you have patterns you've noticed, can act on and encode... well quite frankly it's incredibly consistent on baskets of stocks (not daily), but very much based on a variety of characteristics.

Over the last year I've met two to three traders (as in big bank) who literally do this for weeks.
> And they see this people is using P2P technology which is almost impossible to control, so they use all legal means at their disposal. I'm not a legal expert but I'd bet that going through the terrorism route is the only way they have to do something about it.

Framing it another way they're using trumped up terrorism charges to invoke powers that were not meant to be used against protests. Police powers are intentionally limited so that the full force of the state doesn't come crushing down on people speeding and using over blown charges to access those additional powers is very reminiscent of past slides away from democracy.

> I don't think it's reasonable to expect the police forces to do nothing.

That's the problem there's always more a police force can do, restricting that impulse to order and action is important to resist the slow slide towards police states.
fun fact, one of el chapo's attornies signed epstein's trust creation certificate in the days before epstein died.
That's my point. Saying engineering is the opposite of entropy doesn't make sense to me.
Bribe the two guards with cash. Threaten to kill them and their families if they talk. It's pretty straightforward. Most people think that they are good people and would do the right thing in this situation, even though most people have no reason whatsoever to believe that they would act morally right if it became a serious sacrifice.
Waiting lists and lotteries are simple solutions which have their own problems sure, but are significantly more fair than by wealth.
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For what it's worth, Mark wrote those comments in 2004, shortly after "The Facebook" was created. They didn't start monetizing until late 2007 [0].

[0]: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2007/11/facebook-unveils-facebo...
> I'm starting to long for a stack that doesn't constantly change.

I looked up "engraving marble" to find an example of the above, but no luck there: They use lasers for that now.
It sure was convenient for a lot of high profile people that this guy is dead.

The cameras happened to malfunction on that day... guy got taken off suicide watch. Also his cell mate was an ex-cop who looks like he could snap people in half without trying. I mean come on.
It was ordered by the "Juzgado Central de Instrucción número 6" of the "Audiencia Nacional" which is presided by Manuel Maria Garcia-Castellon. The police cannot request taking-down a website without a judicial order.
Jesus christ if something's wrong with your parents you can call them an Uber right? or an ambulance
Carbon Ads (https://www.carbonads.net/) are decent if you've got a developer or tech audience. I've seen them used on CodePen and Smashing Machine I think.

Big positives for me are:

- You can securely include them on your page without having to run third party JavaScript or inject third party HTML. They have an API that just provides a JSON feed of the ads to show (each ad is a heading + description + logo + tracking pixel, no HTML) so you can write your own (non-bloated) JavaScript for displaying them. This approach is good for Chrome extensions too as there you're not allowed to include external JavaScript files.

- This also means you can customise how the ads are displayed so they don't look out of place or bloat your pages. I was surprised they let you do this. My contact there pretty much told me I can make them look however I want (e.g. size, colours, fonts).

I'm using Carbon Ads on this page for example (see just above the first subheading, make sure you have adblock disabled):

https://www.checkbot.io/guide/
May be you could try it once again, I found that I couldn't get it too while I was younger.

The work that greatly helped me to appreciate poetry better was, "Understanding Poetry" by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brookes.
No, I don't. Could you be more specific, rather than just hinting?
But at least the laptop comes with a screen.
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That is a very reasonable question, and Brexit is also relevant in that discussion. Perhaps it would be a good idea to require a qualified majority for cases like this.
Then so be it? Seems better than having an entity so large that it's shutting power off to large chunks of the state.
> the rate of suicide is still pretty darn low,

What is being counted, and how is it being counted?

For example, what has to happen for it to be counted as a death by suicide in that prison? Is it enough for the self injurious act have to occur in the prison, or does the person have to die in the prison?
https://askgoose.com/ for a clickable link.
Yeah, this is the best one of these i've seen! Here's a SFW version too: https://www.goshdarnwebsite.com/
I just tried it and you're right, it works. Well, it didn't used to work so I stopped using Siri. I regret the error.
I'm looking at it the other way- the risks of such a project are that big.
That article was way above my head. I just glossed over it and have no other takeaway other than: Why are people not scared shitless of quantum computers? Are they even aware of the implications for privacy that quantum computers have? I am aware that intelligence agencies will be the first to possess such a computer, but what happens when it gets in the hands of hackers and bad actors? You could cause some serious violations of privacy when the day comes when you can fit a quantum computer into a laptop form factor.

But then I guess, by then, we would have suitable algorithms which are resistant to a quantum attack, so it's only a matter of switching over to new cipher suites.
Most of the work we want done is project based. Like "Build this API for us and afterwards we'll take it in-house". Mostly I hire for several weeks or even months of work. So yes interviews will occur.

As for tickets...well I don't know how someone can just drop into a complex system and resolve bugs or add features, without understanding how the wider system works. We don't have work of that nature really.
I cycle to work almost every day come rain or shine. I wear cycling shorts and vest, a light waterproof fluorescent jacket, a rucksack with a foldout waterproof covering, an underhelmet cap, and I've just invested in some overshoes to protect my shoes and socks. I change into that in the morning, and when I get to work I change into clothes from my rucksack and hang the cycling clothes somewhere to dry if need be. Only when it's absolutely bucketing it down will I consider taking the bus.
Hoping this critique extends calling all of one's political opponents "Russian assets".
If you are going to make the case for one being better than the other then show the same data in 2 different formats side by side.

The article only shows 1 example in 1 format and then moves onto another point.

The reader is left to imagine what the difference is in their head.
Is this the phenomena described in Neal Stephenson's _Atmosphaera Incognita_?
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