skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest difference IMO is that Nebula is going with the Netflix-model for their network of content creators. I'm not sure how they're going revenue sharing, but I'm guessing it's based on proportional viewership.

Nebula is probably fine if you have a large pre-existing and engaged subscription base. However, it's probably more difficult for smaller to mid-sized creators. I would worry that they're not going to get enough revenue from their share of watch time to cover their own costs. Also given that Nebula is very heavily skewed education channels, you'd likely have trouble if you're outside of that realm.

Floatplane on the other hand seems more targeted: you pay for a specific content creator. This seems more similar to how places like Rooster Teeth operated in the early days, only it's now providing the video streaming as-a-service.

Nebula will likely provide discoverability within their catalog of creators in return for the shared revenue model. Floatplane is way more direct but you're left growing your subscriber base outside of the platform.

Edit: fixed some typos
Wishful thinking, but I do wish that Esperanto or Lojban has been successful in becoming a lingua franca. Ideally everyone would know the global language and whatever their local, mother tongue is, no matter how obscure. I think it’s a good solution to certain languages dying out as well as linguistic imperialism.
I agree. Although there are norms for the practice of selling large personal stakes, generally someone who is/has been a founder would announce their intent to diversify with a schedule — ie I’m going to sell x% over the next 3 years regardless of the price for purposes of diversification. Most investors accept that. I think in this case, his image is so tarnished that pretty much anything he does will be greeted with scorn.
Thanks for answering. For a moment I let my imagination run wild and pictured a spy hacking your barber to commit the perfect crime.

Edit: Since you mentioned it's an UR3, its payload is probably the same as the UR3e (3 Kg), so no neck breaking strength. Maybe strangulation if the user cooperates.
I can't get past this guy's Nazi aesthetic. I know gamers love Nazis but damn at least be subtle about it.
This doesn't negate the fact that I stated. You can throw more hardware at the problem to reach higher throughput if your problem domain allows for it (such as the use case you link to). It goes without saying that this is an inefficient approach, not to mention that this won't apply if you're running batch jobs for instance where you need high throughput (e.g. on individual nodes).
depends I've seen a pretty decent solution before using WebRTC to it amongst clients, can't remember the name of the company who had the solution tho...
It's also a little difficult to benchmark Go GC the way you can the JVM, because you can't set a maximum heap size in Go. So, if you create objects too fast you'll just run out of system memory.
Right, how about a flat fee subscription service where creators get paid on the backend per views? And then you can choose to support a channel separately.
No, there's no direct relationship: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/countries-netfl...
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I've followed them for a while now on youtube and it has been interesting to watch them evolve their format, content, and presentation to appease youtube's algorithms. They have been pretty open [1] about how they don't like some of the changes they have had to make to stay popular on youtube. I hope they roll back some of the more annoying changes. It appears that the ugly thumbnails sadly still persist in on floatplane [2]. It would also gladly pay for a return to 5 minute videos vs the now standard 15+ min length that gets a middle youtube ad-break and increased revenue.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA
[2] https://youtu.be/oOOOfZWXPu4?t=71
Show HN: Elist – Help your followers discover all your social media accounts
I'm pretty saddened a single report can bring down all the hardwork and dreams of founders. I'm glad people like Paul Graham weighed in in support.
Hi, I'm the creator of Elist.ch!

I have created Elist because I found the need to have a minimal personal page with all the possible information about myself.

Elist is mainly focused on social media, although it can be used as a portfolio.

This is my first real product created using Angular and PHP as backend. For now it is still in its infancy, I have planned to add many more services like analytics and other stuff.
I hope you like it!
Agreed - have seen at least 2 of these in the last couple of days, this is ridiculous.
Cat5 doesn't imply RJ45, so that confusion could be easily averted if people with brains developed that stuff. 2000w constant power transmission on a Cat5 sounds dubious, though. I don't know at what the voltage such a cable gives in and shorts wires. It would have to be pretty high to get the current to something the wire crossection can handle.
If I understand correctly you are talking about stuff like a debugger for an opaque wasm binary. The kind of tooling a system administrator could want to manage various wasm programs running on their servers.

I will assume so :)

There was a nice article detailing how for many application usage wasm today is less safe (under certain aspects) of x86, specifically due to the high quality level of tooling available for x86 and due to the fact that today debugging/inspection support of wasm is very low.

Other than that I would say that it is specific to the constraints you have in a browser. Two of which are the ability to run on minimal implementations requirement (as new optional features might be missing and might be running in a variety of environments) and the ability to safely run arbitrary untrusted code.

If you do not care about these then wasm does not offer much to you.

On the other hand it is perfect as a compilation target for plugins.

> application developers won't be touching it directly.

On the web it is meant to replace asm.js, it is not meant to be written by hand (unless you are a compiler developer).

The whole point of the article in this case is that it is a perfect interface for plugins over a specific and limited interface that allows running untrusted and opaque binaries.

For this specific usage only high-level languages where a viable choice up to now (two common choices were js and lua). wasm is comparatively closer to C than javascript/lua, but it is still safe to arbitrarily embed without using OS-level mechanisms.

It is a very specific use case, but also a relatively common one in applications.

One of the big sponsors (Fastly) in investing a lot in it due to the usefulness for them regarding lightweight sandboxing (for this reason they are also developing a debugger for wasm [1]).

On the other hand it is essentially useless if your application is something like a unix utility.

[1] I am not sure it is in this episode, but here the CTO of fastly explain why it is useful for their use case: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/09/25/webassembly-...
Seems great, trying it now. A good few of these comments and upvotes seem to be from ops friends. (Based off a quick twitter search). Nothing wrong with that
Cool stuff! How long until straight razor is released? ;)
Snake Game in Console with BGM
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Car connectors are ugly, oversized, and mechanically questionable. They do work though - I once used one to hook a solar cell to a 12V fan.
You must be using some awful services because my experience has been that piracy, and pirate streaming services, are better, easier, and more available than ever
I don't think looking good is relevant to it's goals or success in any way.
Those aren't scare quotes.

They're quote quotes.

The BBC follows a journalistic style guide that requires the use of quotes when directly quoting someone else when the attribution is not clear.

That makes it easier to determine, when reading an article, if the substance of an article is based on a journalist's own research and observations or those of another.

It is actually the right way to do things.

BBC News style guide: https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307021121335...
Yeah, seems to be his twitter friends and/or groups
Now if only we get a good web-oriented Python with a WASM backend, we'll finally be able to throw Javascript where it belongs: into the dustbin of history.
You have to protect yourself. If you get offensive content then your best course of action is to get rid of it asap.

Think of nazi propaganda, animal abuse or other freaky shit.

And yes, the lines are blurry.
That’s probably what I would do. They appear to be winding down anything new. Their future is all about cost cutting and optimizing, making the quarterly reports look good.
UMAP is, sadly, extraordinarily slow, plus the inverse mapping is not clear.
I think the passion of radicals should also be acknowledged and given credit, as it is often the catalyst to create the movement in the first place.

Creating change is always hard, especially larges changes affecting large groups of people. Historically, radicals often have lead change. Sometimes you do have to get in someone's face to help them understand why things should change, and IMO radicals deserve some credit for having the courage to fight unpopular battles, even if their extreme views do not represent the majority of their constituents.

I do think it's a shame that most of the debating we see these days seems to be between radicals on opposite ends of the debate. In previous times, when news was more about journalism than about profit and political influence, I think the news helped put things into context and give more balanced, objective presentations of debates and issues. Now, the news itself has become radicalized and instead of helping our society grapple with these complex issues, the news companies just want to keep things as polarized and confrontational as possible. It's not just the news of course: nearly all of politics has become radical, even though my guess is that most people are in the middle.
It was bad enough robots were taking over. Now they're gonna make us look bad before they do. /s

Interesting project. Good luck with it.
Read the post you are replying to again, you're not disagreeing with each other.
His use of others copyrighted content falls under fair use since he's doing reviews. It's YouTube and mega corporations fucking over and taking country the laws. Fair use does not mandate the original copyright owner be paid in anyway.
From the material it sounds interesting but I'd be leery of the 600 Hz switching generating a ton of electrical noise and relying on the upstream systems to keep everyone safe. The idea sounds good but I can see a lot of ways this can go wrong outside of very controlled environments.
Your choices are either, it’s coming eventually, or this time it’s different. Choose as you like but those are the choices.
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"Hey doc, my spleen is half hanging out of my body - is it sufficiently healed for me to leave yet, or does the fact that I haven't been discharged mean I should stick around?"

Are we not supposed to ask the advice of the expert? Tell a doctor you looked up symptoms on google and they'll get irritated. This example is odd to me.
I think people writing Esperanto will just understand you if you use the x system without IME. If you're doing something that's going to get published, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out a way to convert ASCII to the right letters.

(The x system is also supported e.g. on wiktionary and tujavortaro, so it's pretty easy to get started without ever touching an IME)
I think they're co-opting YouTube as the discovery wing of FloatPlane. Find channels to watch on YT, and if you like them head on over to GP and support them.
I see your smile but I thought I'd answer anyways :)

A while. We've had folks ask about it and we're going to stay away from it for now for the obvious reasons. Close to 50% of all haircuts are clipper cuts so we think there's a large enough market there.
Think he 100% did but nothing wrong with that.
This is excellent! I was thinking of making something like this myself (before I knew it already existed) for the exact same reasons.
You could counteract that with heavier wires, but house wiring is already awkward and expensive.
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I don’t have a list handy but I do intend to read a lot. Every year I make the same New Year’s Resolution: read one book a week. The closest I came to 52 was in 2011 when I read 36. I do this because I calculated that if I met my goal from the age of 16 to 90, I’d only read 3,900 books. I grew up an avid reader and the decline in my intake bums me out. So here’s to 52 in 2020!
Coliving company (Starcity) debut of largest SF project amid major expansion
I wish there could be, but thanks to the "street" definition, when people hear the word "hustle" used inside a startup, many of them take it to mean, "This is an environment where dishonest, predatory behavior will be celebrated as ambition."

"Hustle" was one of my favorite words growing up, because it described something I admired and wanted to embody myself, but I have retired it from my active vocabulary outside of sports contexts, because if it's misunderstood, it's going to be misunderstood as something that I loathe.
Well, there is less drop with more copper, so it's more about costs. Cost of cables, DC-DC converters, power supplies and their efficiency determine optimal configuration. Probably going as high as cheap mass market DC-DC converters and PSUs allow is good rule of thumb for low voltage, so like 20-24 V. Beyond that better to go with high voltage.
> However, the Gervais principle book is a very shallow version of lamrim that aims at explaining how the real world works. It also puts people into 3 categories: the clueless majority driven by forces, the small minority that's trying to escape these forces and the those who've largely escaped them and are now free. The sociopaths from the gervais principle are on the right track in general, but they make a common mistake on this path that lamrim discussed at length and so they slide into the nihilism dead end.

Bingo. That's also the best explanation of the concept I've seen.

It's a good read, in an entertainment sense, and there are some lesson to be gleaned -- but the same is true with the Bible, the Koran, or the Rig Vedas.
Its criticism, not solutionism.
some of the compute workload still needs to be on a backend because of security concerns.
if you offload too much stuff on a client-side, then any hacker can mess with it and break your system.

for example you can get angular debugger extension for chrome and mess with any online shop that uses this system to "adjust prices" for your cart during checkout
If someone is looking for a fun introduction to Esperanto, I'd recommend checking out this VN: https://www.gog.com/game/the_expression_amrilato

It's pretty short and you won't attain any sort of mastery, but I found it much more engaging than textbooks or video lessons.

There's a sequel, but only in Japanese for now (and unfortunately it has DRM, unlike the first title on GOG): https://sukerasparo.net/items/5c5a985268702449498fa1e1
We got bit by a dark pattern auto renewal clause by Quest
You must tell them not to auto renew 60 days prior to the renewal date and if you reduced the number of licenses you need (running fewer servers) you still must pay for renewing all the licenses. I can't recommend Quest software.

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After taking into account driver incentives (which should be classified as cost of revenue, not sales and marketing), their unit economics are unprofitable.
Impressive work. It'll be fascinating to see how fast these innovations can go. It does remind me of the Robot Tattoo Machine from a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLEG3kWSko
None of the examples you've given are 10 minute problems. It isn't reasonable to think of them as such and so it is a straw man.

10 minute problems are things like

is-odd - https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd
is-even - https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
leftpad - https://www.npmjs.com/package/pad

Or bringing in large libraries to use single methods or functions from them. Such as

Bringing in gauva for max
Bringing in apache commons for StringUtils.join.

I've seen both examples in my company's code base.

A library that does JSON parsing, date handling, etc is doing a lot more heavy lifting than "is-even".
I'm afraid that is a near-universally hated design choice
The United States doesn't have a wealth tax (yet). Once you have something, you pay no taxes on it forever.
We had some contractors in a Mexico office that would sometimes visit San Jose (CA). At a certain point, one of them decided to permanently relocate to the US. Most things were fine, but there was one social line he crossed that needed to be said. His computer desktop background was pretty much laden with boobs and asses. The background image was pretty much intensely horrible. Another co-worker and I just calmly explained to him that he can choose any background he wanted as long as it didn't potentially land him in trouble with sexual or racial discrimination issues. Definitely, in this case it was an easy conversation and he obviously fixed the issue immediately.
Would love any feedback you may have.

Happy holidays!
the tire pressure indicator light (and most of the other lights on a car dashboard) is one of those icons that isn't necessarily easy to decode, but it's ubiquitous enough that changing it to something new would be worse. Maybe your partner didn't know what it means, but enough other people do that odds are the first person they asked would have been able to tell them.
Somehow I didn't notice the article was paginated. Thanks for pointing that out.
I absolutely love the power broker - incredibly fascinating and so well researched. I can't praise it enough. You will love it
A company claiming copyright over fair use would be a violation of the derivatives legal rights and could easily be a lawsuit, YouTube would not be a party to it and it requires the content owner to have the money for a multi-year court case.
This work is just at the research stage right now and isn’t available as consumer software, but it probably won’t be long until similar services go public.
Is the arm a UR3e? How much does it cost?
Honest question, in what sense is python a so much better choice for web development?

syntax? subjective, and it would also mean all C-likes belong in the dustbin.

performance? Why would python, as a language, be significantly more performant? It's just as dynamic.

ecosystem? JS community is huge, JS package managers are huge (even though not flawless, but nothing their python counterparts do better)

I mean I can surely imagine there's better alternatives for JS, as a language. But python...?
Copy command button ends up not working, making the user retype the whole command by hand.

Good going.
Trouble in adobe SDK land CVE-2019-11554
You raised a very valid point here. How much difference will be between a canvas-painted web-app and a native Windows application? The line woll get increasingly blurry.
1/5 of your net worth isn't much to centralize especially if you have insider information in that asset.

Further, a lot of high net worth individuals that hold a large % of stock will announce their intention to diversity 6-12 months ahead of time to avoid this type of issue.

A rush liquidation usually isn't a good thing.
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It's part of making a Progressive Web App: the user should believe they're using a regular smartphone app, and being unable to simply select and copy text goes a long way towards maintaining the illusion.

/s
Sounds rad, love it already, thanks!
The GC spec has been stalled for a while with no clear path forward in sight (because the goals for WASM GC are incredibly hard to meet).

DOM access will be possible through the interface-types extension [0], but no host supports it yet AFAIK. Also still a very tricky problem.

[0] https://github.com/webassembly/interface-types
Arguably to everyone's benefit. It took Uber coming in and flouting those regulations to prove that the medallion laws and such were more about regulatory capture than safety, and as a bonus it provided a kick in the ass to the established players to start competing on serivce, if not price.
New Kind of Student Loan Gains Major Support. Is There a Downside?
rosettacode has plenty of APL and J solutions:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:APL

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:J
It looks like w3c is just late with the announcement. From https://webassembly.org:

--- quote ---

Developer reference documentation for Wasm can be found on MDN's WebAssembly pages. The open standards for WebAssembly are developed in a W3C Community Group (that includes representatives from all major browsers) as well as a W3C Working Group.

--- end quote ---
Yes, it's an ambitious list, Caro is my priority for 2020 so I don't mind spending a large portion of the year on his books. Are there any other books you'd recommend?