skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ten thousand people pay ten cents to read an article. Yay, that's $1000!

The aggregator takes his cut, so now it's $900.

Taxes, $700.

So about $18 per hour pay for a single reporter assuming it only takes 40 hours to write the article.

And to be blunt, no one is going to pay more than ten cents.

The spotify model does not work to support creation of new works; it only causes monetization of an older back catalog or "gift" works where people essentially give it away while working their day job.
The incentives of capitalism suggest otherwise.
Apple introduces new $399 iPhone SE with Touch ID and 4.7″ screen
I mean, there’s still time for George Hotz to enter the ring and win that title.

A lament, I wish it were possible to convince tech people that they are not the only clever people in the world: regulatory bodies and medtech and pharma companies are packed with equally clever people, who are quite capable of moving fast but without breaking things, that have an unmatched advantage in having domain experience (part of which is a healthy respect/fear of the unknown in medicine, like you say, regulations are written in blood). It would be a lot more productive to support those people than to do these hackathon projects.
TL;DR: frontotemporal dementia

>Holloway received his death sentence with pure calm. While his family cried beside him, he complimented a doctor for having a nice wedding ring.

xD
I love the demoscene. I’ve been trying to get into it for some time now but it’s actually hard in terms of that are very little if any resources aimed at beginners and demo examples and tutorials.

The resources I’ve found are either incomplete or assume one is already familiar with the domain.

I understand graphics to the extent I’ve written a raytacer and a “semi-caster”, but can’t find my foot in demos, especially translating my existing graphics knowledge to ASM.

Anyone have any resources or information I may have missed?
> Emacs changes that. You can stay with Emacs for a whole career, because it's so malleable and extensible it can adapt to new trends, languages, etc.

If you are at the point where you use emacs for everythings, then it doesn't matter anymore how alien emacs is. But until then it's a long path, and not many are willing to walk it.

But even then you must accept some sacrifies and ignore that what emacs can't do. If you are with it for so long, you likely don't know and miss all the fancy new stuff, and at this point you don't need it anymore. But new user are differnt there.

> You say fresh blood and concepts are spreading their influence: I don't see that as new, that's always been the case.

I would not say always, there were times when development of emacs was much much more worse then today. I jsut think those darkest times are completly gone and what in the past were single drops of blood is now a steady river for the next decacde.
GuixSD does not work without making changes within a LXD container (not VM). One of the details on how to do it is in mailing list. [1]

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-10/msg0006...
Saving your time and your mental health with Open Source content curation
If France wants compliance, they have a duty to produce an order that's possible to comply with. It seems legitimate for a company to not want to be subject to an impossible order.
New iPhone SE
Anyone used Gloo and have any experience with it they can share? I've used Ambassador a bunch and they are pretty comparable, but curious what others think.
I don't understand what Walmart has to do with France? They don't have any operations there...
This is similar to asking why there isn't a SaaS subscription service aggregating all of the SaaS products that lets you pay $1 to use any SaaS product for a day. It's not really sustainable to run a business by having people pay you smaller amounts and more sporadically.

Microtransactions in that way don't generate enough revenue to pay for the up-front work required to create a story like the oxycontin one mentioned in a separate thread here. A story like that costs thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work to create. It's not feasible to spend all that up-front work all for the possibility someone will maybe pay $1 to read it.

How about this. If you read, say, 10 articles in a month from a publication, go ahead and purchase a subscription. Financially, it should cost you the same as your proposed microtransaction scheme, but it is much more sustainable for the business you're supporting.
Nah, it's the same code. There would be no need to create a new derivative work.

It's a pipe dream anyway, of course.
The workplace and managers made me so miserable I would drink every night and be sick every morning. Vomiting was routine.

Not only was it an awful workplace, but I was capable enough to work alone, and therefore did, so I had no colleagues to build strong comradery with.

We tried to hire myself a senior developer to mentor me and make me happy, but to put it simply, if you were capable of doing that you were simply overqualified for the company in the first place.

Imagine that, hiring your own boss...

Edit: I'm talking about 1 job because thats as many as I got through in this industry. All my applications are custom made, so after a couple dozen with no responses, I've kind of given up and have stopped looking.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm – 1968 Meta-Documentary
This one might be relevant too: https://despair.com/products/consequence
For the record, I've written customizations in most major text editors, here's how I'd rank them in ease of customization, from easiest to hardest:

Emacs = Vim > Atom > BBEdit > TextMate > Visual Studio Code

It mainly comes down to whether a text editor has a built-in place to quickly add customizations, and whether there's a DSL to quickly wrap shell commands. Visual Studio Code has neither.

(Admittedly wrapping shell commands is just the approach to writing customizations that I personally prefer.)
Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020
/rant trump card /
until a lot of the sites go belly up, as well as many of their content creators.
True! Hence my, "most of the time". I recently had to heavily customize a SCADA event engine with my plugins due to the particular requirements of the system; come to think of it, I might have as well rewritten the whole thing, but I had some "non-technological" limitations. :)
My problem with Nix was not the language, but the very confusing CLI and the way updates were done (nix-channel) and the difficulty of pinning dependencies or documenting how to do that. However, they have been hard at work at a nix CLI 2.0 which is much better, and a new uddating mechanism that is way easier to understand: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49

This gives me hope things are getting better.

Also recently I funded a project for improving error messages in Nix https://opencollective.com/nix-errors-enhancement

Ther is also now a dedicated Nix Marketing team which are working on improving the website and the documentation
Not to be a buzzkill, but I'd like the exact opposite. An operating system with no asm, no C. Processors are over 1,000x what they were when I was young, I wish I could trade some of that 1000x for fewer security holes.
>AFAIK the main problem is that Unix's file permissions do not cover Windows' permission model.

Well, since Microsoft has been borrowing more and more ideas from the Linux ecosystem, it would not surprise me that a Windows 10 successor would include some kind of compatibility layers for different file systems.

We can dream...
Most of the time, most of us don't want to hurt others, or the consequences of doing so are harsh enough to deter you.

I like to believe that means that there are more of the former, and less of the latter.
> Granted we don't have a boss who would beat us over the head with that.

For every boss that wouldn't, there are a hundred bosses that would, with very little understanding of what is even being measured. Sure, the "guns don't kill people, gun users kill people" argument applies, but maybe don't hand people free guns with their milk purchase?
GitLab Developer Evangelist here.

They are commitments. Each feature has its own issue for the engineering effort behind moving it to Core with various milestones based on team capacity and complexity of the move.

You can track each with the table in the post that relates the feature to “GitLab issue” that represents the move.
Quantum Computing Milestone: Researchers Compute with ‘Hot’ Silicon Qubits
The word fucking? or featured?

Remember they're only words... snowflakes will melt
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm asking around to see if there are any projects open to reduce the number of pages, but I do know for sure that reducing page load times is an issue we're working on. Here is our handbook page that outlines our current metrics and goals, our primary goal is to have a speed index of less than 2 seconds per each page on .com: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/
No kidding! It’s as if you could create the most ridiculous rumor you can possibly imagine and you would gain a following. It’s astonishing. How about this one: if we don’t start getting cars back on the road, the roads will break up and float away into space! Pot holes are proof it’s already happening!
That's not true. I was working on a system to do (not on subs, but the techniques are applicable) that a few years ago. With a big enough array, anything is possible, see the entire field of radio-astronomy. This includes sparse arrays, as long as you have good enough time sync to do coherent integration.
A Rant on Reusability (Reusability Is Dead)
From my professor:

>Consider this. What if the repository in which we craft our products is configured with cost estimates in mind? At the moment our logged hours reaches the total we projected, the repo would freeze and we grade the work. How would this affect our work?

>Do you have confidence in your plan? Would you bet your course grade on the quality of a project frozen at that point?
You can theme the Keycloak UI to be similar to your app's one, particularly the login/registration screens so the user experience is very smooth.
But you can also define the user/account UI and logic in your app and just delegate the authn and authz data through the Keycloak APIs.
Luxury consignment The RealReal lays off 10% of workforce, furloughs 15%
I moved to NixOS the other week and love it. Being able to play about and roll back to previous configurations is honestly amazing once you get into a position that you need it. I tinker with my OS and this happens more often than I’d care to admit!

Nix as a build tool is also quite nice, but honestly NixOS is the main attraction for me.
Which two? On ACID, I hear the arguments on Mongo Atlas since they integrated the wiredtiger tech (to basically become a RDBMS), but still not ACID. The other is cloud native I suppose? Again, have moved along and we gave the a balanced score.
Its been thought of, but I think these kinds of things aren't considered acceptable today. I do wonder if there is some variant of Coronavirus that has been in circulation for a while that causes some immunity, though. There are some strange things in the data, IMO, but there are lots of other possible explanations too.
Not defending Amazon's petty childish antics when they deal with government, but "essential" has a relative meeting. What is essential to you, may not be essential to me, and vice versa. Two small examples:

My friend started a new remote job last week after about 6 months of unemployment...a feat that was amazing considering the fact that most companies are laying off. He was required to buy a laptop, which was to be reimbursed. He had extensive difficulty buying a laptop that met the required specs because most computer stores are considered non-essential, and amazon had delivery times that were too long.

The other was in Target. I saw someone buying a ton of furniture, while crying. I asked if they were okay, and they responded that their house burned down a month ago, and they had been staying in a hotel while insurance was processing everything, but their hotel time limit had passed and they were forced to move into an empty apartment because their furniture company shut down operations due to being non-essential. She had spent the night on a bare hardwood floor with her husband and toddler.
per day @ :
-Wake up slowly with easy sounds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIN27TRgUBI)
-Take
Mg (https://www.pipingrock.com/magnesium/magnesium-glycinate-665...)
+ Zinc (https://www.pipingrock.com/zinc/zinc-picolinate-high-absorpt...)
supplements @ noon after lunch (dont take Oxide versions arent absorbable)
-Stop coffee, replace it with herbs (ref - https://www.docdroid.net/FABYUMY) w/ 1 tsp real honey, Im doing 3 cups / day.
-Walking ~10km
-Morning & Before bed use :
CBD (https://www.enecta.com/products/3-cbd-oil-1)
or Propolis (https://www.healthline.com/health/propolis-an-ancient-healer), sold on pharmacies better find a beekeeper to buy it direct.
or Avena (https://www.avogel.ca/en/herbal-remedies/avenaforce.php)
, only one product / day dont mix it.

-Yoga Vinyasa, twice / week (https://bit.ly/2V8c6ei)
-wash your body with natural showergel & shampoo

+ following the instructions (3h read) @
https://bit.ly/2yh4Qnv

--

all the best!
Host managed SMR is similar to SSD in terms of what needs to be done.
Yup. I once worked for a startup that claimed to be doing DeepLearning, AI and other hyped stuff. The "machine learning" guy, once he allowed us to look at his code (took two years to convince him to do that), was basically doing point and click with Matlab dialog wizards. It was some horribly contrived linear regression that took about a month(!) to train on a couple of millions of data points. But he had a PhD (non-CS) and he could bullshit the clients and management for hours... When he talked about ML models he called it "AIs" like: "So we have a couple of AIs in production that generate predictions based on blah, blah..."
Hmm, I apologize for not wanting to give away my explicit employer. We have like... 13 engineers/techs, rest of our staff are admin or panel builders so I'd pretty much be doxing myself to give it away.

I'll just say that my business was started by the owner in his farm's shop rebuilding/selling motors. When he expanded to doing controls they were like 3 employees and his friend was the electrician who they hired on. Since then the Electrician partnered with his Son-in-law and they train the majority of their guys right from their apprenticeship.

As much as I keep using "My company" throughout these posts I'm still just a guy in a programming/integrator role.
We are using Continix[0] to package up regular NixOS modules in docker

[0] https://github.com/notgne2/continix
The privacy concerns you're pointing out can be overcome even without Blockchain. I am not sure I understand the use of blockchain here, even though I would be really happy to use one if I see a benefit.

Let's say we use a blockchain to store these user data in a decentralized way. Now, how will blocks get created (new blocks added) in the chain? How are you planning to get a consensus? Who decides?
You may already know this, but for the sake of others, it’s important to realize that many viruses cause what we refer to as ‘common cold’. Coronaviruses are only a minor component of this set of viruses, as low as 1-2% in a study I read (can’t find it now; this value also depends on lots of factors).
> I'm going to be downvoted for even admitting this?

Note that you're not downvoted anymore. Early downvotes are usually balanced out quite quickly if your comment is sincere and thoughtful.
I think it is $59.90 if I added correctly. All are digital only subscriptions and do not include additional tiered access they may offer. IE: NY Times crosswords, LA times in person events, etc. The Guardian is a yearly subscription promo and will increase to around $19 a month when it ends.

NY Times $8.00 (yearly promo)

LA Times $14.99

Washington Post $3.99 (prime discount)

Cincinnati Enquirer $7.59

St. Louis Post Dispatch $6.59

Las Vegas Review Journal $4.99

The Guardian US Edition $13.75 (yearly promo)

I find the subscriptions to be of great value.
its now a side gig instead of my main focus. i left because i hated selling ownership of my mind. also because the products i worked on were all stupid. absolutely no regrets, that industry brings out the worst in people. i do recycling and music now, and do random occasional software gigs when im running out of money. i keep following this website because its occasionally interesting, but also to kind of marvel at the bullshit and hypocracy. its not entirely healthy
I'm a PhD drop-out, and I'm reticent to give it another shot. Is it easy to find teaching jobs at the university level without a PhD?
I don't think that's a good metric either. We're in an unprecedented economic and social situation, so why should we expect death rates from previous years to serve as a reasonable baseline today?
>For instance, if you have a copyright law you might write it to apply to any "creative work" but leave that relatively undefined and left up to interpretation by a reasonable person (i.e. a judge). You don't want movies left unprotected, because the law was unambiguously written to only apply to writings.

Maybe in the anglo-saxon law system, this is true. In countries with napoleonic or roman law system judge's role is generally considered to be to apply the law as it is written, with the assumption that the law in most cases is sufficiently clear in itself.
Incentives are really messed up here. Tacking the letters "AI" on the end of your company name will increase it's multiple. It will force your engineers to call their rules engine "AI" when on calls with customers. It's really unfortunate.
I guess what I’d like is for the gov to provide methods that would allow business to remain open if they complied with certain measures. They shouldn’t need their own expert, the gov should be able to provide measures.
You might be interested in this discussion about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830320
make lots of hardtack
The Startup Employee's Real Guide to Stock Options
Ask HN: There An App For That? (Send a Three-Way) Want to Build?
Why don't they just replace Windows with their own Linux distro? :D WSL2 cannibalizes Windows from the inside out, and all that's left is Sphere. Seems like the most efficient solution.
An upgraded iPhone 8 with a starting storage of 64 Gb at only $399. Seems like a great deal. Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead of spending $1200 on an iPhone 11 Max.
What are the advantages of saving the end as a pointer? Genuinely curious. Seems like a length allows the end pointer to be quickly calculated (data + len), while being more useful for comparisons, etc.
Good point. It just seemed odd to me they would subsidize a print edition, but I guess it was for the advertising. We never opened the blue bag except to recycle the paper.
On a different note, Isn't it weird to see companies launching new phones when the whole world is fighting a pandemic?

It's not like an essential that we can't live without. OnePlus just did a few days back. Do these companies expect people to buy new phones when they're are being laid off or is it just an annual ritual or a desparate move to be the first to capture the market when things become normal?

Any insights please!
This is going to turn into a debate about the definition of the tech industry.

For example, are you in tech if your employer has been around for 20 years and your employee number is five digits? If the business model has nothing to do with technology, or are technology companies like microprocessor manufacturers inherently disqualified because their business model is technological as opposed to financialization? Can you only be in "tech" if you live in SV? Or is it just voting for Democrats that makes one a tech worker as opposed to a typical engineer?
Can you elaborate more on how you got into the teaching position? This is a path that intrigues me as well but I also had mediocre grades and I never even tried to go to grad school. However I have been quite successful in my career (worked for the NYT and currently for a FAANG) but like you I am getting burnt out by the daily realities of the industry.
Why couldn't they have kept the flat sides of the 'current' SE... ? That form factor is still the best.
24 hour deadline is a middle finger by itself.

Mission impossible really.

So court had set them up to break the law.
I think it is not so clear that they are any more reliable than other sources. The media in the UK seems to have been candid about the low risk to younger people, but that's not the point is it? The governmental responses at least in the UK and US changed as it became clear it was more serious than we (or they, at least) thought, not less [1]. And this became quite apparent when it started occurring on the ground in Italy.

>We are going to get hyperinflation now, US dollars will become worthless soon

Now that, is sensationalism.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/16764a22-69ca-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc...
RIP to Apple's single greatest design, the iPhone 5 form factor.
Create web apps with faste with this Webpack boilerplate
I would say Nix's cloud native story is "best in class".

you can take any nixos configuration and turn it into a cloud image
https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

You can take any nix package and turn it into a docker image
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20720922
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111954

You can even use Nix to create and deploy cloud resources ala Terraform:

github.com/nixos/nixops

Some other notable uses of Nix in cloud native landscape:

https://github.com/saschagrunert/kubernix - a KIND alternative

https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix a Nix DSL for defining and deploying entire kubernetes clusters + deployments (combines nix's docker image building support and deployment support for and end to end cloud-native solution)

I personally think Nix should heavily market itself to the CLoud Native buzzword hype train. as it's my favourite weapon in this space
GitLab Developer Evangelist here.

You can host NPM registries in your GitLab projects. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/npm_registry/

Moving to Core (free AND open source) soon along with 17 other features: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-cor...
I just wrote about this exact progression from TextMate to Visual Studio Code (and why I think VSCode is the end of the road) here https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/04/13/is-visual-studio-cod...
>(PRODUCT)RED

What about ";blue?
Tedros has been an disaster and this pandemic is just the nail in the coffin.

https://www.politico.eu/article/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-g...
Which chat platform do you use?
Which chatting platform do you use? Which one is the most secure? (Whatsapp, Telegram etc...)
Correct, you can’t remote control a submerged submarine, you get maybe a few characters per minute rate of transmission. There are a few ELF stations throughout the world, the US, Russia and India all having some.

Some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency which has my favorite quote. “ ... few nations have built naval ELF transmitters to communicate with their submarines while submerged. China has recently constructed the world's largest ELF facility roughly the size of New York City in order to communicate with its submarine forces without having them to surface. ...”

The antenna needed for these transmissions requires a lot of land.
Quite arguably in our mythos, the car effectively replaced the horse.
Quibi to Let People Watch on Their TVs After Viewers Complain
Thought this was a great piece on options worth reading in a time where many are getting laid off and/or options are under water.