skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evils of ads and the brokenness of pay walls are a lot more nuanced than that.

Ads have created an ecosystem where no one is willing to pay for media because we have gotten it free in exchange for our privacy. This hurts you, small publications, large publications. No one wants to pay for shit and we are tracked everywhere we go.

Paywalls are broken because of the credit card system. Publishers can not charge a reasonable rate for an article. Due to minimums, our financial system really only makes sense to have subscriptions. I do not want to pay $5 per month recurring. I want to pay 25 cents per article. That is not possible though. Pop up a pay wall for 25 cents and I will pay it. Good luck having that make sense with Stripe fees though.

I try to monetize my work with Patreon as well. It is difficult work. Fuck ads though. That's not the world I want. I have other income though.
What was the deal? You pay 5,000, the owner gave you back your 5,000 and kept the 15,000 as profit from door dash? The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?
Most open-source software is written by people who are paid by large corporations.

For example, Everybody on the Open-JDK program is on the Oracle payroll.

Yes, that's right. Large Corporations are the biggest contributors to open-source software. I know that might burst a bubble of people thinking we all sit in mommies basement coding the best software around for free, the reality is different. Microsoft, for example, is one of the biggest contributors to the Open Source community on the planet.
It's only tax free if you're stupid enough not to launder the money.
I might be outlier, but I like my software interfaces to be in English. Keeps them all the same ('save all', etc)

But I would rather consume content of a website in my native language. While I'm not complaining if it it will serve me English.
I have sponsors on Github and rake in a cool $2 per month. It's obviously less after taxes so I also have a day job.

https://github.com/sponsors/Lemmih
Great to read about someone in a similar situation to me. I work as the developer and maintainer of a niche-market financial / real-estate application. This application has been developed and supported since the late 80s, first being done in Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, and then under my stewardship we moved to C#. I refactored the calculation and report production code into a library, and since that time we've built a Mac version and Web version, all utilising the same 'core' library. This means that for critical calculations and data output we - my business partner, who is the 'domain brains', and I - can do all the hard work on the Windows version (with which we are most familiar and comfortable, and IMO VS on Windows is still miles ahead of VS on Mac), and then 'just' do the GUI work for the other versions.

We did look at doing exactly as you said, i.e. using a web view within Windows and Mac, however I couldn't really get things working well enough at the time (as TBH I am bit of a noob WRT web development, and just pick things up as necessary as we go along).

For our market, there is strong demand for the desktop versions, and this is even with a subscription model; people get access to the most recent major and minor versions of the software as well as phone and email support while under subscription. When their sub runs out they are entitled to minor version updates, but nothing else. My biz partner is very good with people and very knowledgeable in the domain we operate, so this kind of arrangement suits everybody. Oh, and I get to work remote, and have done with him for ~15 years. The current situation really makes one appreciate fortunate arrangements such as this.
I don't have any use for it either, but this package is not important by itself. It happens that this package is (was) at the very bottom of the dependency chain for some huge packages (like Babel, Webpack, popular frameworks, ...).

When its creator removed it, they literally destroyed the foundation of those popular packages. That's what made it suddenly important.
What if you set up a fake Pizza website "Super Pizzas", that advertises the Pizza for $16. That site then places the order with DoorDash automatically.

Then Doordash will scrape "Super Pizzas" and sell those for say $12.

Then set up another site "Supper Pizzas 2" selling the $12 Pizzas, buying from Doordash, and then Doordash will scrape that and sell them for $9.

Repeat until you have a site selling $1 Pizzas, then get that posted on Lifehacker!
Hobbyist almost hits Navy Blue Angels with a drone during Detroit flyover
I often ponder about the current push towards federation in tech such as Mastodon, and wonder if the issue isn't more around the issue of finding the sites in the first place, rather than being able to access sites via RSS. RSS is usually a default in many web publishing tools (wordpress, hugo etc).

As someone getting into RSS more recently, I've definitely struggled to find decent sites to follow (though trawling hackernews totally helps:)).
China has finite resources to throw at this problem and their track record so far is less than stellar. There is a lot of concern that pursuing this now is wasting resources better put to use elsewhere. But now the nationalists will be able to point to this and say 'see, we were right all along, now we need to make up for lost time' and then they'll demand even more resources.

Which is interesting because it probably (not 100% sure about that) wasn't a resource issue to begin with (see below), the amount of money thrown at this so far has resulted in precious little in terms of concrete returns.

China is still stuck at 28 nm and a rough 6% or so of global capacity, technologically that's well over a decade behind TSMC, Samsung and GF, they also almost exclusively sell into their own market.

Whether this will be the push they needed to start moving remains to be seen but it will certainly add to the total weight of evidence that independence from US controlled manufacturing is a strategic goal.

It may also cause them to become more serious about Taiwan being a 'part of China' which may result in the longer term in the US shooting it's own foot. That would be a major game changer, TSMC is 50% of the global chip production.

From what I know about this the major roadblock from a tech perspective is the gear required to set up the fabs, specifically EUVL equipment, which is not the kind of equipment you make from scratch without having seen the intermediate stages. To what extent more money will be able to accelerate this is the big question.
and for those that ask why didn't Qualcomm sue Huawei to oblivion, just like they did to Apple in US and China?

Qualcomm did. China's antitrust body proceeded to fine them for 1B and forced them to offer reasonable IP licencing deal to local tech companies.
Thanks to pointing that out! I will edit it.
Have you read this short story by Andy Weir? [0]

To me, it's like life is a conglomeration of matter built in such a fashion that it can act as an antenna, or a lens, attenuating and focusing consciousness such that it can be experienced.

[0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html)?
Then why does tuition increase so much every year even though numbers of international students increases every year?
I agree with the abstract idea of fairness, having rules, etc. But the devil lies in the implementation. A dogmatic free trade order mainly benefits the establishment: the western powers. If China adopts free trade principles in a dogmatic manner then they will be tremendously hurt by it. And it's not like the US plays very fair either: the US outright rejects a lot of international rules. For example there is a US law that declares they will invade the Netherlands if a US person is ever judged by the International Court of Justice. http://www.diplomatmagazine.eu/2019/02/09/william-pace-the-h...

Having ideals is a fine thing but we need to stay realistic. Is it at all possible to create rules that benefit everybody, given that countries differ in development status, culture, values, etc? I have no idea. We can try, we should try, but don't get too surprised if things fall apart sometimes, and when things fall apart it's unhelpful to point fingers.
Yeah, this doesn’t seem to have any definition up front of capitalism. If I defined it it would involve mostly wage labor by people who don’t own enough property to support themselves, as well as predominantly private investment of capital for profit by employing more wage laborers. Which makes clear that we’re still right in it. Seems like a spurious thesis based on a lack of examination of previously existing thought about this.
Jokes aside, blockchain w/zero knowledge proofs could actually help here a lot.
Any complex system eventually breaks down. If not this rebellion then the next. Or the one after that.

The system accumulates damage over time, maintenance can't fix everything, eventually it's not worth it to keep it operational. Looking at Trump and Biden I'd say that time is near.
I love to share the text:
http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
The Product Manager role doesn't mention anything about talking to users. I guess you can't make people say things in interviews, but that is really weird.
I came here to say this as well. Couldn't stop laughing.
If you draw 3 in a row, she keeps saying all sorts of insults while drawing penises!
This really makes me happy but I hope you delete this before it becomes mainstream and DD catches on.
Thoughts on Ecommerce: The Status Quo
Everything is conscious and nothing is conscious, are equally valid as hypothesis.

Who is it, that is trying to establish a definitive answer to something unanswerable?
On Going Bitcoin Scam
http://btc-cham.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTMphmMHG8
By the way, shouldn't you at least disclose you work at Microsoft in threads like these? It would help to put your comments in perspective.
>wanting kids ... doesn't make sense in our current times

I don't think you actually believe this. If you really believed society was at this point, you would do everything in your power to reverse it, including war upon and genocide of those who are imposing such conditions on your people. That would be rational.

So I don't believe you. You're one of those who thinks he's too smart for kids.

In 50 years, you will be dust while some 70-IQ welfare cheat will have dozens of grandchildren. Who's the smart one?
I have been wondering lately what motivated Japan to join the Plaza Accord. (Germany seems clear: a strong DM made reunification cheaper) A hypothesis of mine is that the "Lost Decades" are only apparent aggregating over the GDP of JP, but that if we slice japanese society finer we would find that some japanese have indeed seen higher growth. Anyone have suggestions on how to go about checking this hypothesis?
From what I understand, couchsurfing in the beginning was mostly western college students trying to travel. As such, the chance of meeting someone similar to yourself was very high. By now, not so much.
No, the point was that administrator salaries are not the primary reason for tuition increases.

Running a college is expensive. Everything costs more, including the blue-collar work force, so tuition correspondingly costs more. Public schools must also deal with drastic cuts in state support--the UC system, for example, only receives 10% of its budget from the state of CA (but used to receive more than 90% of its budget from the state).
> In the past those views (which I have not changed) aligned me much more firmly with the "left" than the "right", and the reverse is true today.

Yeah, same here.

But arguably the "right" just talks that way because they're recruiting. If they had a lock on the government, and the mass media bagged, they'd be far less tolerant.

But in any case, that's why I'm an anonymous coward. In meatspace, I just keep my head down. Nothing to see here, move along.
> In the grand scheme of things kids are way more important than any career.

So, you're not a utilitarian?

> far more valuable than a mere product like 2+ living beings continuing your bloodline and thus making the world better,safer and one step closer to the future

I'm not seeing how leaving more people in the world is necessarily making it a better place. Why should it be better that way? Why should OP's offsprings be making the world a safer place? What does "one step closer to the future" even mean in this context?

The concrete negative impact of producing more humans: more consumption (even if they're non-consumptionist), more global warming, more destabilized ecosystem.

> When you are old and sick who will be there to hand you a glass of water? [...] Who will defend you against bad people when you are too old?

People often worry about securing help for their old age. Can't raise a glass of water and can't defend against bad people? Perhaps one led a good life - what issue is there with just letting go? Alan Watts said the second half of life was all about preparing to die.

Fwiw, I'm planning to have children, for my own selfish reasons. The reasons you cited don't speak to me much.
You're exactly right. Everyone has been so quick to not only accept, but actually promote and socially shame others into accepting, a massive authoritarian shift to remove everyone's basic freedoms. It's completely unprecedented and has massive negative effects for a large part of the population. Even straying from the accepted lockdown narrative leads to furious mob attacks.

It kind of blows my mind that it's come to this. But then again, I shouldn't be surprised given the last 5 years of outrage culture.
Damn I have a draft about RSS languishing in my TODO for weeks. Great stuff though. RSS FTW!
>The unspoken assumption is that there never will be a "real" war with China or Russia or any other 'near peer'.

Yes, because despite Wikipedia saying that the Cold War ended in the 20th century, we still have thousands of nukes ready to launch at each other in five minutes. There may someday be unconventional war, proxy war, or cyber war, but there will not be a great war unless it begins and ends with a nuclear holocaust.
Zoom Data
There is already plenty enough built-in momentum to not properly educate the public - "if we fuck up they don't get to vote" is some next level shit.
"storage is cheap"

"memory are cheap"

"cpus are cheap"

Say the same people who spend a million on AWS every year
In some contexts, yes it can be. If that involves, for example, unwanted physical contact. A broader term is harassment, but either is bad. IANAL, and the legal definition may vary by location and situation.

See: https://theconversation.com/whats-the-difference-between-sex...
This is addressed in the article:

> In contrast, BeWelcome, a similar but much less popular platform, covered their finances with less than $10,000.

The costs of running such a platform are not high. And Couchsurfing operated for free for at least a decade: they relied on donations and volunteer work.

In the end, some of the founding volunteers decided to sell out the Couchsurfing code and community to investors. These investors want their money back. Of course Couchsurfing now has paid staff, but it's not required for operating the website: it's required for userbase growth. And neither the new user fee is about the operating costs: it's about investors getting their money back.
There is always still the _subjective experience_ of paying attention to whatever I'm paying attention to, of "being the one that sees my visual field", and so on.

There must be fundamental difference between the subjective experience I have of vision and that of a computer with a camera and processing software, I can't imagine that it has a similar experience.

How come there _is_ a subjective "me" that experiences things and can pay attention to them? Given that we are clearly bags full of extremely fancy chemical reactions.
There seems to be more going on here.

The Tesla California plant has a very bad record when it comes to safety issues. California helped Tesla by looking the other way because they knew the company was starting and that they are very valuable for California.

And then Elon called them fascist because he could not open up the factory due to the virus. Of course officials then would like to approve the safety standards before opening up the factory again.

On the other hand nothing is going on here. The county already wanted to open up the businesses.

Elon lost a lot respect in all this. Maybe he has a lot on his mind like becoming a father again, the virus, selling all his properties, wanting to go to mars earlier than possible, his brain implant project, and so on. To me he sounds a little exhausted. In the latest Joe Rogan he also looks very tired and dim.
No I didn't, that's part of mileage.
So, tying this into your previous comment, you've said that society is better off when "parents scrimp, save, and sacrifice" for their children, but many should expect their children to have average or even subpar/unenjoyable lives, regardless of that sacrifice.

Doesn't sound like a desirable society.
can you please add this to your css, i cant see all the other career fair posts

.job_list {

overflow-y: scroll;
}
Halfway correctly ;-)

There were a handful of pointers to the routines to use for BASIC execution in RAM starting at address $300, which could be pointed elsewhere for BASIC extenders or to redirect IRQs. Apart from that, most syscall addresses where in ROM.

It allowed disabling parts of the ROM though to access the full RAM. That way you could rewrite the real jump addresses, bypassing the ROM completely.
Facebook has now got a foot into its competitor's data.
Retrieving unique device ID from Android phones(below Android 11 of course) is a cakewalk and Giphy requires that for its client SDK
Ask HN: Have you changed your cell plan due to quarantine?
Since we spend most of our time at home where there's WiFi, I'm considering to switch from my current $45/mo plan to something much cheaper. Have you done that? What options do we have in the US? I've heard mixed things about smaller MVNOs.
Firefox 84 removes support for Flash
Have a look at Trustroots, the management of the project is quite different and doesn't put the same emphasis on formal democratic processes as BeWelcome does, but it makes for a community that's closer to what seems to me the authentic couchsurfing spirit. All of these hospex networks brought me a lot anyway.
RSS is very much alive and aggregators like Feedly are way more powerful than Google Reader. All media website still use them, and even some major ones post full-text, The Verge does that, for example.

Monetization is rather simple, people visit a website if they want to read more about the news. In exchange you get guaranteed access to their attention not intermediated by Facebook, Google or Twitter.
Apparently I can "purchase" an image of a "Mass Grave Site in Germany" filled with what I can imagine are Jewish bodies for as "little" as 150 euros, 475 euros if I want to "purchase" the large format. This is so wrong on so many levels, images like these should have been in the public domain since they were first taken, and you're completely right, it's morally reprehensible what a wealthy guy like Gates did.

Hell, I'm a collector of older photos myself, I'm orders of magnitude less wealthy than Gates but I'm pretty sure I've invested a greater percentage of my money in purchasing those old photos than Gates did, but I would never think of asking for money for people to access those old photos (I've started scanning and geo-locating some of them on this personal website [1], which is already 8-year old now, so it might not look so great but the photos do open).

[1] http://foto.maglina.ro/
South African English! :)
I guess I was going by book value, where JPmorgan and Citi alone are at about 2 trillion each.

I suppose tech is projected to get there soon enough (or not), we’ll see.

Market cap is based on share price, so the current share price could be reflecting that companies like Amazon would literally be worth more one day. That doesn’t mean Amazon is worth more than UBS if we straight up sold each company right now.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

So I guess my larger point would be that I personally don’t think something like a Netflix will be as valuable in 20 years (or certainly not attain the projected value), and even come close to sniffing the total worth of companies in other industries. Within perspective, tech is not as big as we are thinking it is (which is fine, it is and will be reasonably big).
> The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?

We’re in the midst of a pandemic. The restaurant stays afloat, nothing more. The shelter got a donation, and I got promises of comped deliveries and catering.

It cost me $5,000; it cost DoorDash over twenty thousand.
Can anyone explain this to me? Is it a sophisticated version of git-hooks?
What Is OKR?
Oops, sorry. I thought I made a typo that is why I corrected it. Thanks for pointing that out.
And yet, people stopped using it.

I used to use it all the time. Now I use Spotify instead. I'm not sure I want to go back to curating my own collection of mp3's again.
Revisiting the postcard pathtracer with CUDA and Optix
> campaign of cuts we have gotten the ratio of academic staff to non academic staff down to about 1:8 at one point. But at most large universities you'll find it in the range of 1:12 - 1:20

8 admin workers for each faculty member? Yeah that's a ridiculous number.

Maybe why US universities have ridiculous tuition as well.

But hey, you gotta convince the students that the 6 figures tuition and the "campus life" is worth it right? Oh and don't forget parking is not included nor are the "books" that require a "code" for you to pass the class.

Edit: University College London has 7700 academic staff and 5375 non-academic staff. (it's a bit annoying but the data is there) https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/working-in-he...
Reductionism is by definition less than a full perspective on life, humanism and depth of possibilities.
My friends traveled half of the world thanks to CS. In developing counties it's usually richest people that host, so it's sometimes better than hotel, but often just tent in backyard (I think when no "hosts" in area)
>You only need one big score where you get away clean and you're done

The laughable part is here. People bring their problems with them. The kind of person who would pull off a big score, such as a brilliant hack or a bank robbery, won't retire to the Oregon coast and drive at or below the speed limit for the rest of their lives. A lot of those traits are traits of antisocial personality disorder. People like that are magnets for trouble. They won't lie low and relax for the rest of their days.
>Many health care systems have been well below capacity throughout this. This includes most of the US (e.g. California), it includes places that have not shut down (Sweden), and it includes places that have reopened weeks ago (Georgia).

Sweden has been heavily criticized for its handling of the situation, and Europe is extremely wary of them right now. With good reason. The US does have the chance to be an extremely large country, so transmission is slightly less likely. California has not been overwhelmed through a mix of luck and, would you guess it, self quarantine.

>This is hysteria.

Pretending that doing nothing could not have catastrophic consequences is dangerous. Even with self quarantine (or imposed quarantine), this disease is the number one source of illness related deaths in the year in western countries. And this is only May.
Part of the reason tuition costs more is because the Baby Boomers and Generation X decided they didn't want to pay as much in taxes as their parents did, and so public education got less funding--in some places, as much as 90% less funding compared to 30 years ago.

For example, in the 1970s, the state of CA covered more than 90% of the UC system budget. In 2020, CA only covered around 10% of the UC budget.