skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small-time niche creators largely can't cut out the middleman, because consumers are (quite understandably) reluctant to give payment information to some random person with no real reputation.
And India's fight against Facebook's walled garden, the Round 1 of which, it had won so admirably in 2016, now faces a setback. With this, and the crumbling of BSNL, a good part of India's telecom infrastrucure is now controlled by foreign players. Anyone who remembers Marc Andreesen's execrable remark on colonialism should be concerned.
Yes, but if the number of deaths is 0 it might also mean that the sickness hasn't sufficiently progressed in any of the inmates, yet.
No, but there is an effort to recreate it with the Otter Browser: https://otter-browser.org/
Patreon makes more sense as a medium-sized business than an epic-scale corporation. Unfortunately reliable recurring revenue is a tough pill for "To The Moon!" investors to swallow.
Isn't it a bit ridiculous that we need to do this in the first place? Shouldn't clear 3D controls on a neutral gray background be the default user-agent appearance, with no need for custom CSS of any sort?
I am not very familiar with these schools, I am in CA. I think the biggest factor for me during my high school years was several hours per week of 1-1 discussions with currently active mathematicians and grad students. While formal math is really hard to read, a lot of ideas are very elegant and actually simple. It’s hard to find these ideas in a formal math text, but you can explain a lot of things in 1-1 setting while still allow student to “discover” core concepts on their own. Mathematics is not about solving 100 problems of one type ;)
The reason is because someone hasn't worked on it yet. The reality is that Windows leaves glob expansion up to the CLI tool itself, where as the shell in a Unix environment does glob expansion before invoking the executable. On top of that, there appears to be no consensus on whether ripgrep should use standard Windows APIs to expand globs (which are much much less expressive than Unix-style globs), or to just implement its own globbing. There is a ticket tracking it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/234

I've done a lot of work to make ripgrep work well on Windows. But haven't done this. You can usually work around it pretty easily with the -g flag. e.g.,

rg foo -g '*.{c,h}'

or even shorter

rg foo -tc
The air was “smoggy” driving through Texas? Uh huh... I’m going to go ahead and put that on the same level as your claim about Texas being lax on litter penalties.

By the way, Texas has more acres of forest land than every state you mentioned as being nature-y and forest-y and having more incentive to care about the environment. The only state with more forest than Texas is Alaska.

Like someone else said, Texas is too big to make generalizations.
Good luck proving that they were aware of the consequences. It took years to prove that cigarette manufacturers actually knew that tobacco caused cancer.
> > Ugh.
> Today's mood

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> Claire Saffitz

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> Brad Leone

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> Chris Morocco

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> Carla Lalli Music

I just wanted to let the author know that at least one other person appreciates this though tbh most of the time for me it's Sohla.
Because in the start, google had Allo and Duo. and Allo was for chat and Duo for calling. And then they killed Allo, but not Duo.
Canada spends disproportionately low compared to the US. It's been a source of major compliants in NATO.

1.2526% vs 3+%

Canada does join many more conflicts than it should. But sometimes doesn't have the equipment to get there/back to survive (wearing green camo instead of brown in the desert is a major disadvantage).
Yes -- pricing. Just for reference, the i7+ costs 140.000 yen here in Japan, that's $1300 USD, while the competition costs the same as everywhere else. In the US the same product costs $700 and often has some discounts available. (I just imported mine because I ain't gonna pay that much). It's also currently 'sold out' on their JP online store.
To be fair "these things are difficult" if your ABI is terribly designed.

If you've used modern libpng you can thank people like me for the fact you don't need to recompile or even sometimes rewrite code after every micro version release.

Example of something libpng did before we "gently" explained that it's stupid: re-order the public data structures in a "bug fix" release. Because the old order looked untidy see, and so long as every program is recompiled with the new version of the library it won't break...
No, CA gas is always $1 more because Californians will pay it. It's not a true free market that responds to supply and demand. Even when it's refined locally and should benefit from savings in transportation cost, it's always more. The CA market is broken out by CA-EPA requiring CA-specific formulations for inauthentic "environmental" reasons.

For example, CA "winter" gas adds oxygenates to "reduce CO and soot" by 10%. However, the resulting fuel has 10% less energy, so you have to burn about 110% of it to go the same distance.

One of the early oxygenates was MTBE[0]. Genius move, that. Save the environment by poisoning groundwater!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBE_controversy
With this FB becomes largest investor in any single India tech company - so largest player in this segment.

Previously Softbank was the largest because of its $2.5B investment in Flipkart (which was India's answer to Amazon.. last year Walmart bought it and Softbank had a successful exit).
For me it somehow feels like my donations are being received in a more meaningful way via Patreon than anywhere else, even if the creator has no rewards set up. Like, a "Donate" button on a creator's website just feels like sending my money into a black hole. But sending it in Patreon makes me feel like a real supporter.

It's completely irrational but there it is. And I suspect a lot of people feel the same way too for some reason.
Re: Future Work: I didn’t think about the particular predicates in detail, but the author could consider using the cut predicate (!) to prevent some unnecessary backtracking. Without more thought I can’t guarantee that actually could be effectively applied here, though
”The old behavior was the bad one; the new behavior is good”

If you’re a human, yes. If you’re a script, it breaks you in half. If you’re a script that has to run on various versions, then maybe it’s time fix yourself and use find. You’re a sophisticated script after all, not one of these who require a human with a debugger. Modern culture may not appreciate that little ‘compat’ thing, but it is essential if you want something to continue to work and not just stop and wait for someone’s educated guesses. Good software doesn’t point fingers at you, it just works. I remember how recently I wanted to check network interfaces on some machine and commanded ‘ifconfig’. Now it’s called ‘ip a’, and there is no ifconfig. I can guess the reason – ifconfig was bad and ip is good. There is also an eternal “FAT” label issue in unetbootin app, which resurrects every time Apple changes its fdisk output format (in every release, as it seems). The workaround is to run it with a cli option – a very thing that unetbootin was created for to skip. This is what makes systems so much fun. Without all these cool things, we would just sit there and cry over our uselessness.

ed: I read below that ls does that in interactive mode only, maybe it’s not that bad then.
The Jobs to Be Done Theory of Marketing
U.S. Supreme Court rules that jury verdicts must be unanimous
The software is released, but I would like to see the actual encode instead of the phony looking side-by-side GIF.
I never thought I would see something about my hometown of 300 people in rural Iowa on Hackernews. There are several Dvořák murals in town as well as a museum for handmade grandfather clocks made by the Bily brothers. One of their descendants was my bus driver growing up and my grandfather grew up speaking Czech and English in the home. Kolaches are also a town staple and there are many fundraisers for Schools/Churches that include baking obscene amounts of them.
I think this would be a great reference for teaching introductory UI design; with the 3D-ness you can clearly see the different states that each UI element requires.

I also really like the quotes about each component! Is there an online copy of this Microsoft Windows User Experience manual somewhere?
I get PTSD everytime I go to my local library and see this book in the hands of JEE aspirants.
This is too much control for one company.

This is really bad for democracy.

JIO is deeply embedded into the rural populace. Exactly the ones who are vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.

And facebook just bought a key to the gates.
Exactly this.

A lot of people don't seem to realize, when you're dealing with communities -- especially communities that involve money flying around -- there's tons of work in managing it.

You've got employees trying to grow the community in different areas (genres?) and different geographies, reaching out to people, giving advice to get them on board. You've got employees giving support. You've got employees looking for irregularities and fraud among all the finances.

Sales, marketing and operation are huge parts of businesses that many engineers don't often think about.
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Top Ways to Quit Smoking Cigarettes
Patreon is about to eat itself (2019)
I somehow enjoyed the ride to css3 and full fledged responsive multi layer dom presentations but I do miss the wintel days GUI concept. Something about the simplicity, clarity.. makes it more to the point than the hyper capable yet systems of today.
Facebook and Google have very deep pockets and are taking lots of steps to comply with the letter, but arguably not the full spirit of GDPR.

I think it would be unsafe to assume that there is zero risk of significant GDPR fines on the basis that the regulatory bodies have not picked a battle with google and Facebook.

Smaller organisations that seem to be doing less to respect GDPR are probably an easier starting point for regulators to begin enforcing the law.
> point of textbooks is to educate people on some topic so making them as easy as possible seems like the correct choice

It is not possible to “educate” someone about mathematics or math-heavy technical fields without convincing them to put in some serious time and effort thinking deeply about hard problems.

Many US high school (and even undergraduate) textbooks are more or less analogous to taking a look-out-from-the-bus tour of rock climbing sites, or maybe like teaching an advanced wood shop class by making students assemble IKEA furniture.

Textbooks should be exciting and fun, but “as easy as possible” is a terrible goal.
Very nice, thanks.

Shades of Bumblebee Labs' "The Evaporative Cooling Effect": https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/blog.bumblebeelab...
This is exactly what Intel did to the Pentium line. Remember when that brand was synonymous with high-performance consumer CPUs?
I think it would be hilarious to use this in a desktop Electron app and come full circle.
I didn't know that Debian was such a robust environment for Rust.
I’ve got one, build the windows desktop with an IE link, basically a div with an iframe, and a text box.

I wonder how many windows apps we can build out in a few lines of JS.
Did anyone else think this was a joke language at first? My initial impression was that it was an esoteric language which was tongue-in-cheek passing of its oddities as language features.

Firstly, there's the name: chaos, which evokes the opposite of what my code to look like.

Secondly, the first three "features" all come across as deliberately goofy to me. The first two promise seeming implausible things: zero cyclomatic complexity and always 100% test coverage. The justifications for these promises seem bizarre: only function returns allow decision making? (A seemingly terrible place to make decisions) One test is always sufficient to have coverage? It isn't object-oriented? (Obviously, a lot more to functional then that)
Stop violating HN guidelines. Read what he wrote again with a generous interpretation. It's a joke.
India is a developing nation and it will have to depend on foreign investment unless zero corruption government help local business out. What is required to do that ministry keep a close eye before agreeing on such deals and afterwards like in case of internet.org initiatives.

>I am okay with small startups getting investment
They can also be worst. During the period April 2015-March 2020, of the 30 Indian unicorns (companies with over $1 billion valuation), 18 were funded by Chinese companies and we all know how much china firms is controlled by their government.

What India required is:
1. Company themselves don't sellout morality for money.
2. Regulators keep a close eyes.
3. Indian citizen too make their voice heard on wrong things.
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There are a few extra bugs: one should be able to style a 'default' button with an extra black border giving it a lightly "inset" appearance, as is usual in this style. And "disabled" buttons shouldn't react to a click by changing their appearance. It would also be nice to support tristate checkbox and radio buttons (the "3rd" state is basically a selection with lowered contrast, so this should be achievable) and "ON/OFF switch"-like controls, which appear as "sticky" buttons where the ON state also has a lighter background.
When I was there it was the official policy, as much as anything is “official”.
I find it hard to believe you live in an apartment that is too small to accomodate two work spaces. I can believe you live in an existing space that you could not have two workspaces added to it, but that's not the same thing. It may take sacrificing the normal living room/TV/kitchen/common area, but these aren't normal times we're living through.

Whether you want to, is a different matter.
This Website Will Self Destruct
We've come full circle. Thank you for this. It's so simple it's actually peaceful
Let’s please not generalize here. One does not need to deceive in order to be an executive. And we must make a moral example out of organizations and societies where this is considered necessary for profit.
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iPhone 12 facing mass production delays, iPhone SE Plus release postponed
Becoming a cyclical milestone. From 2004:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=166649...
Which is more demoralizing? Doing layoffs or cutting everyone's pay?

Doing a round of layoffs - especially done respectfully - can soften the blow a little while requiring only senior leadership's buy in and some input from managers. Convincing everyone to take a 15% pay cut takes a ton of coordination across the entire company and probably drives the rumor mill fast and furious. And imagine being one of the people who says "no"!?

Further, with layoffs, you can choose who to cut. If people get demoralized as you're negotiating pay cuts, the top people can pack up and leave.

I don't like any of it but it makes sense.
Windows has an option to use native notifications, idk if that's where their headed towards or just an experiment
Houzz lays off 155 employees, cuts executive salaries
The thinking is, if you do that the top performers will leave. If you lay people off then you have control over who leaves.
In iirc 8th grade, I've placed high in the final round of a Moscow-wide physics competition, incidentally hosted by MSU. My classmate, who placed even higher, and myself have received an invitation to enroll in the MSU-affiliated maths/physics focused school (#2, the schools in Moscow are all numbered semi arbitrarily).
As far as I recall, every time I'd go to one of those competitions bulk of the people in later rounds were from #2 and #57, another math-focused school. The kids from other schools who did well were, I assume, largely scooped up by those targeted schools.

EDIT:
Oh, and the maths/physics/etc. competitions started at neighborhood level, so every school would typically send at least a few kids, and encourage the kids who were better at the subjects to do well. I went to neighborhood biology/history/etc. competitions too, but never did very well. I assume whoever did well in those and went into next rounds could go on to enroll into a different set of specialized schools :)
Also, some parents did enroll their kids straight into those schools, but I dunno how prevalent that is. They are very ability focused, unlike US private schools that I've heard of where money and helicopter parenting seem to be a major factor.

As a side note, my friend did enroll into #2, and I didn't go because was too lazy to commute 40mins one way when my own school was a 3-minute walk (it was a subway trip for him as is, so I'd like to think that was the difference ;)). We've both done well for ourselves but he's definitely much better at math now.
Sounds like you should be doing PhD then?

At least in my university, MS students were usually paying full tuition, with the understanding that they'll take classes and leave for (presumably) high-paying job.

On the other hand, PhD students were usually paying no tuition at all -- instead, after getting their masters-equivalent, they were expected to do the research for a few years and therefore "pay back" by advancing the science.

(of course the fun fact was that one could drop out half-way from PhD program and get a MS degree.. but this did not happen very often)
Not only that, but the books are horrible! Authors are incentivized to throw as much verbiage as possible, and this makes students' lives more difficult. It is much preferable to have a more concise book that goes to the core of what you need to learn.
I work at Hero City, upstairs from Boost. The Boost team is awesome, I often hear them doing wacky chants and yells downstairs, their team is weird and hard working. Makes the whole office more fun.
Surprising how rough on the eyes nostalgia can be, between the small font size and low contrast colors.
They’re already bundled and sold on the Edly ISA Marketplace: https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/announcing-our-new-isa-..., https://edly.info/investors/
I kinda want to see a riff generator, searchable by chord base/tonality, time signature, and length. Also a scale exercise generator. Lot of space to explore in terms of permutations. I seem to recall some research on probability of usage of a particular set of notes/chords based on information entropy but I can't find that anywhere.
Practical limits can be placed on the advantage from 'grouping up'.
And another factor, also coming from 1-1 tutoring, is that nobody waits for others. You can move ahead as fast as you can and actually you get more attention if you are ahead of class. As the result, while everyone knows the same fundamental theorems, some students have a chance to learn A LOT more.
Yes, I will simply not donate if my only option is Patreon. I want a dumb pipe between myself and the person or organization who receives the money. I do not want the pipe making any decisions about who gets to use it.

The idea that I am going to have to navigate the ever-changing political sensibilities of different organizations is starting to bother me, and I am seeing in it more and more places.
excuse my hearsay, but this afternoon I spoke with a doctor in central Ohio who said that a majority(?) of patients admitted to their hospital today are prisoners, so yeah, 0 deaths is unlikely to last much longer
>the map never really matters to the story.

It's more about deepening the story I think and making it 'bigger' I guess or another type of story telling. You look at a fantasy map and there's typically places on the map not even mentioned in the actual story as you say, but that helps build the setting.

Look at the map for the lord of the rings for example. A good number of the places in that map are barely mentioned in the actual trilogy. Yet that map's become one of the most iconic in fantasy in general.

It's more about what the maps inspire in your imagination while you read. When some random fantasy city name gets mentioned, you can look at the map and get perspective about where it is in the world.

It's also helpful I think to keep the world consistent for authors. It gives them a frame of reference for scale and distance in their stories and likely helps keep track of all the random names and cultures and such that they make up for their stories.
Cutting everyone’s pay by 15% would likely lead to attrition of top performers, rather than bottom performers.
Small startups are not unicorns. Small startups don't have the ability to censor you as much as your ISP especially if all your friends and family use the same one. India's net neutrality laws are already a joke when nothing is enforced and you can't access normal sites on jio in some states. I am talking about reddit, github, and heck even stack.

What india needs is to invest in their own businesses and stop using imported goods just because they are cheap. They are cheap because their countries invested in infrastructure to make it possible while indian government continues to raise taxes on imported goods while doing nothing about the abysmal lack of infra and good education. It hinders those who need imported stuff because it's not available in india. The regulation is a joke too. We don't need more regulations than we already have. We need less but have them more strictly enforced and accessible so people can actually see stuff rather than hearing it from a lawyer who isn't updated on the issue themself
> In March, Patreon wrote in a blog post, “Not only are patrons not leaving the platform, we’ve even seen many of them upgrade their tiers to support their favorite creators during this challenging time.” Additionally, the average income for creators was 60% higher in March than in previous months, according to the company.

> Around that same time, however, Patreon said it saw patrons exiting the platform more than usual due to financial hardships. Still, Patreon said churn rates were stable.

These two paragraphs are one right after the other. How do you reconcile the two? How is it not at least a question posed to their spokesperson of which is the case?
See also Ad Reinhard's blue paintings, which are combinations of very subtly different blues. I like them a lot and recently learned about them in Edward Tufte's excellent book Visual Explanations. https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+reinhardt+blue&tbm=isch
My dad and his cousin got their deer processed at the Spillville Locker a couple times. Went to see the Bily clocks one time with my grandma. Good times. Small world.
Most American grad level math textbooks are as hardcore as it gets; undergrad, not so much, especially compared to such introductory texts as, say, Beginner's Course in Topology: Geometric Chapters by Rokhlin et al. which, I’d say, is extreme in its hard-coreness. (A popular text by Munkres, by comparison, is a children’s book.)
Critics vs. Creators (2018)
If you learned tomorrow that the mortality rate was less than 0.5%, what would your reaction be?
Patreon shouldn't have any more than half a dozen employees. But alas, they joined the VC exit cult.
Time to add Stripe to uBlock Origin...
Snap surges 17% after Q1 earnings beat and user gains
If 0.1% of your customers cause 80% of your effort maybe rethink that retention?
why is this comment showing up as grey? is it because it's politically incorrect?
Why does Zuck want India so bad? [this is rhetorical, we know the business potential] Is this some sort of ego-compensation ever since China sent him home?
You could just stay on 2.7 and let the others have their "Python"
Not the OP, but I would definitely pay that.
Why Is Harvard Getting $9M in Stimulus Money When It Has a $40B Endowment?