skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, we know what impact has the Coronavirus had on our lives, we also know how cryptocurrencies shaped a new world economy, so, why not use the power of Crypto and help the world heal from the ongoing crisis? We started Covid19 Coin as an experiment to build a self sustaining ecosystem of charitable giving, a platform that can produce monies for charity automatically. Sounds absurd? Don’t worry, we too thought so in the beginning :-)

Blockchain industry has witnessed several projects that were deemed unrealistic in the beginning but which turned out to be groundbreaking and paved way for creativity. Covid19 Coin is one such attempt to build a system that augments the current methods used for charities.

Having followed one great project called the bombtoken, we witnessed that self destructing economy was a real thing and that we could build the whole ecosystem on a similar model. So, there is ‘‘COVX’’ for the world, an ERC20 based cryptocurrency built on Ethereum. Every time someone makes a transaction with COVX, 2% equivalent of the transaction is donated to Covid19 related causes.

We are giving away 200 million COVX absolutely free to all the users who sign up before 15th-Aug-2020. Get started -> http://covid19coin.io/join-airdrop/

Visit us at https://covid19coin.io/
> Well, this is easy: remove the news. Also deals with all accusations of bias at the same time.

Not so easy, since if you do that, you've just given an opening to a competitor that people will start using when they want to search for a news article.
The tele providers would love that the play store went offline and get replacements. It is quite silly that they ship with Google Play as default actually I guess they are forced by Google.

Youtube on the other hand would be a caltural loss due to the network effect even if replacements would be plenty.
That's true, but much fewer use the dot as the thousands separator. Very often it's a space instead.
I'm not sure one can generalize from a pandemic economy. Macroeconomics beats microeconomics.

I'd /never/ use GCP in any sort of business setting. Too high odds an automated Google algorithm would take out my business.

Googley automation worked well enough for B2C, and when Google hired the best people. When Google has a mid-tier workforce, buggy algorithms, and bugs can take out entire businesses, you run into problems. Combined with the old culture of arrogance, I don't see GCP ever competing with Amazon, or even Azure.
It's best to just assume that all acronyms are obscure and spell them out the first time you use them, especially ones related to a specific field of interest, hobby, profession, or culture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648060
Sooner or later Google will just "AI-parse" the same news story from many sources and generate a new headline plus snippet.
Could you set up a little example and submit a bug or two?
Prices would go up for everyone, making the value prop worse for everyone.
turn off the animations for the love of sweet baby jesus !!! I'm dizzy already
That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier)
Thanks, looks like the full paper is for paid members only, but i will look into this further.
Having spent much time there I've encountered plenty of people who haven't been bored in retirement.

That's the beauty of being FI anyways, if you want to work then work. If you don't want to work then don't work. Simple as that.
Yeah I agree that the chances of that are slim at the very best, especially after this covid situation. It really showed how straight up stupid and retarded people can be.
Search can get eaten almost overnight. No stickiness. I switched to DDG when Google annoyed me.

With Android, we're already seeing forks in China. A bit more stickiness, but not great stickiness.

Ads is still a big two-sided market.
I appreciate Pine trees even more now. I am in Canada and have access to many pine trees. One time I wanted to do a bit of soldering but could not find my flux. Small town had nothing anywhere near me so decided to see if I could make it. Quick DDG search shows rosin flux you can make from pine sap so I went to a tree, they all have gobs of sap dripping from some point, and collected some dirty sap. Took this home and soaked and stir it in pure isopropyl alcohol. Ran through a coffee filter and just let most of the alcohol air dry away. I love my flux it smells great works perfect and I know where that puff of smoke is coming from now. Felt rewarding as well 10/10 will keep doing this.
And on mobile, just add .compact to the end of the URL. Like https://reddit.com/r/programming.compact
My understanding of the evolution of Earth flora is that prior to plants being green, the dominant plant life was red (think of red algae blooms) and that the current dominant green plant life likely evolved to use different photons along the EM spectrum where there was less competition.

Funny enough as I understand visible light and the EMR spectrum there is no "green" (color/wave length/energy) rather the color green is a construct originating not in the light spectrum but in the mind of the observer.
That article had a link to the study.

> Because climate-model simulations of the sea-ice loss differ substantially, we used a robust linear relationship between monthly-mean September sea-ice area and cumulative carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to infer the future evolution of Arctic summer sea ice directly from the observational record.
> The snap store / backend is also not open source

A direct attack on user freedom. If Canonical can do this to enough components of Ubuntu, they can prevent forks, since a useful OS would require that infrastructure.
I used to use a gel wrist rest but the one I bought disappeared. I tried a plain foam one (glorious gaming), but it was too hard.
It's almost as if different people have different circadian rhythms. Weird! I'm glad Forbes was able to clear that up.

And that clock visualization, especially with the hands included, is such a poor way to deliver information. After several minutes of parsing them, I finally think I deciphered what they meant.

Especially when the first clock is using hands at 8 to mean 8 hours, and the second is using hands at 8 to mean 8pm, and the third is using hands at 8 to mean 8 am.
I think most of the time when I'm searching for a video, my starting point is on YouTube itself, not Google. So in the case of a competitor, the site itself would be my search engine. Your point is still valid though.
Show HN: Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer
Powerful Programming Languages for Winning Web Solutions
An amusing angle on this situation. If you go back thirty or twenty years, it is hard to think of an industry better-positioned to capture the momentum of the internet than the news media.

(1) They had teams of people producing regular fresh content, to a high quality.

(2) They had existing subscriber bases, which could have been converted to other purposes (consider the online dating services offered by some of the UK newspapers.)

(3) They had existing economies of scale from business lines which were not dependent on the internet, buffering them against dot com downturns and the like.

(4) Several of them had other divisions producing other good content. e.g. motion picture rights.

(5) They had international presence, and internal connectivity.

(6) Many had existing consumer-connectivity through cable relationships.

Yet. None created geek-friendly workplaces, they were too tied to their cash cows, and they have done badly.
> paid premium (ad-free, tracker-free, priority support) tiers

Does that risk making privacy only available for those with the means to pay for it?
The ability to run code on the web is neither an aberration nor a corruption of its intent, but a logical evolution of integrating new media types following from improvements in computing, browser and infrastructure technology. Furthermore, running code on the web serves the same purpose as the hypertext/media web of decentralizing access to information and platforms to publish information.
You must be a strong and special founder. In general, I think its pretty hard to raise vc$ (Seed to Series....) just with the right combination of personality, intelligence, and conviction.
This is true. No one was ever helper just because society said to him "do it".

Which is why it must proceed through "understanding": you must clearly see the sitation for what it is, from both perspectives: yours and theirs.

The ego can get locked in a victim mentality and this will blind you from being able to see the truth about the situation.
Often, counterpoints used to cast doubt on someone's state of consciousness take current societal norms as the bar to cross, e.g.

'he couldn’t hold down a job' or 'he was divorced twice'

I feel this is an apples/oranges situation. Living up to society's current standards is no indication of evolved consciousness.
Dr. Osterholm: Americans will be living with the coronavirus for decades
This is one of the images that loaded for me, but not captured by archive.org. It is a line graph of global monthly active users using mobile adblocking browsers. It is supposed to be the second article image (between the two bar graphs).

https://imgur.com/L0EPxOQ

(Side note, can anyone suggest a better site than imgur? They are pushing mobile users to their app instead of website.)
Superscript decimals are pretty common in the US for handwritten money amounts (like on checks or price tags) but outside that context it does seem weird!
One theory is that yellow-green wavelengths don't pass through water as readily, hence ancestral sea-dwelling plants adapted to absorb red and blue wavelengths and that adaptation remains "good enough" for contemporary land plants.

Highly recommend the book "How the Earth Turned Green"

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo164656...
How to (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind
fwiw I’ve seen the term “hug of death” term used for years but that did not cross my mind when I saw “HoD”.
> Why does that suddenly come into question once they have been successful

Because people don't have a choice. If you want to build a successful software as a service offering in 2020, chances are you need to offer apps for it. Those apps have to be available for iOS and Android else they're dead on arrival, especially for iOS.

While Android lets you easily sideload apps (but even that is rarely enough as most users won't deal with that), iOS is a very strict walled garden. You have to play by the rules, and the rules are finicky and vague.

Like in the Hey mail saga, Apple's whim can make or break an entire business. That's not okay.
I miss the powerful metrics and logging systems that I used in Amazon.

> Processing/streaming logs to get metrics is a terrible waste of time, energy and money.
> Spend that producing high quality metrics directly from the apps

Absolutely not. Most application metric systems generate metrics as text strings with a simple format that is parsed by the metric collector.

This is what we also call a structured log. Parsing such text strings takes very little CPU.

All logs and metrics represent events. A good approach is to prefer numerical values where possible, but only for quantities that are comparable. Metrics are for the "how many?" question.

But never forget to log text events, because you need to answer the "what happened?" question.

Don't be afraid of generating too many different metrics but avoid too frequent datapoints and unnecessary verbosity in logs.

Never dump complex objects "just in case". Treat overlogging and underlogging as a bug.

Spend time every day in reviewing the metric dashboards and improve them constantly.

If it takes more that 10 seconds do add a new non-obvious chart (e.g. to calculate a ratio between 2 metrics or a percentile or other computation) throw away your charting system.

Lying with numbers is very easy: always look at distributions, not just instant values. Some metrics must be represented as percentiles and min/avg/max are meaningless.

Percentiles are good for ignoring meaningless outliers, but always count the outliers to ensure that you are not ignoring meaningful data. Especially during incidents.

Metrics and text logs tell a story together. Process, correlate and visualize them together as much as possible.
You can bookmark this

javascript:void function(){var e=window,a=document,b=encodeURIComponent,c=e.open("https://archive.is/"+b(a.location)+"%26title="+b(a.title),"td_popup","left="+((e.screenX||e.screenLeft)+10)+",top="+((e.screenY||e.screenTop)+10)+",height=510px,width=550px,resizable=1,alwaysRaised=1");e.setTimeout(function(){c.focus()},300)}();
Every VC funded tech startup is built to embark on the 'incredible journey' of the pursuit amassing troves of data in the name of surveillance capitalism; a long line of fake trojan horses proposed to customers like drugs, with the goal of bidding and courting for a 10x acquisition to the big tech companies, so that they can continue their rampant spying on their customers.

These startups have the same goals as cancer, growth at all costs.
It's been like that since 2016. People are thoroughly sick of it but those people are downvoted into the hundreds and don't get a voice.
Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm
The forgiveness is not always for them. It is sometimes for you. That was their point. Forgiveness is a part of a process to 'let go'. Not doing it ever can create distrust issues with total strangers. I have seen it a few times with my own eyes. I am a large believer in 'little things make big things'. Lots of little bad things can accumulate into one large bad thing. The opposite is also true. You can chose to have non-forgiveness in your life. That is your choice. I always ask myself do I want to be the happy dude at the retirement home talking about my good friends or the bitter cynical guy who holds a grudge. One dude I know still holds grudges from the mid 80s. He lives them over and over. Because he can not let go. It has harmed him in every aspect of his life.
GWEI is not buying ads, they are are displaying ads.
Katie Gamanji on Kubernetes Tooling DX, GitOps, and the Cluster API
the phrase "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" comes to mind...
Scaling a Live Battle Royale Game with No Budget
Honestly I don't get it. Media made a lot of money publishing dead bodies, but they don't pay a dime to victim's family.
> Maybe I’m missing out on some gems

Trust me, you're not
Search naturally tends towards monopoly; nobody wants to navigate to half a dozen separate sites to and parse through the results of each individually to find what they want.

All of them would be ad supported too, thanks to the fact that we in the software industry have conditioned users to expect things for "free" and advertisers would also want to put the bulk of their ad dollars toward the most effective search engine to get the most bang for the buck, again reinforcing the trend toward monopoly.

The only alternative that comes to mind is to make search a government run public utility but, as I'm sure a number of you are thinking rather loudly right now, that comes with its own set of problems.
I feel like this is going to backfire. What if Google just dualists Australian media from search results because they don't want to pay royalties? What if they start charging the media companies to be included in search results in order to cover the cost?
Aren't a lot of these newspaper sites funded with AdSense as opposed to direct buys/other ad networks?

So this would end up Google paying the publisher to send traffic to their site, so the publisher (potentially) earns money from Google for visitor Google has just paid for? Or something like that?!
I sure do. As a small web hosting provider AtlantaWebHost.com it was one of our proudest moments when our FreeBSD servers handled the Slackdot effect without complaint. This was the Pentium 3 Dell PowerEdge server era.

I am no longer affiliated with AtlantaWebHost.com. The company was bought in 2005 and is still running as a boutique provider.

To this day, I'm still pretty handy with crimping ethernet cables :-) I mostly just do it in my own home and homes of friends if asked for help.
Anyone can do this with a canceled check. If she didn’t authorize the withdrawal she calls the bank and they put the money back. And they start their own investigation. Our banking system is trash but it’s not lawless.

The company committed bank and wire fraud. They’ll get dealt with by the secret service and FBI.
No sympathy for music licensing bodies. Lacks any details about previous deals or how those compare world wide.
The press release is also quit unilateral. If Google wants a 70% discount and the others are not agreeing then clearly no agreement can be reached and removing that music is just the logical next step.

Maybe the negotiating party assumed Google will not even be technically capable of such a thing. Google is showing they can and giving them an opportunity to measure loses too.
Thanks very much - that sounds about right - given that the music was initially on Spotify (although the company that handles Spotify for him has no idea how this album has been uploaded).

Somewhat disingenuous that it's listed on his official channel, however!
> they effectively decide who wins the next election in countries like Australia and the UK

Big claims require big evidence, and here you haven't given any.
Until enough people do that, Google still has 90%+ of the general search traffic. De facto monopoly.
That's the wrong way to frame it.

A product has to be paid for somehow. You could just as easily think of "paid premium" as the default, similar to the way you pay for a physical newspaper, magazine, etc.

Or you can pay by giving up your privacy instead. It's your choice.

Why shouldn't people who want to give up their privacy in exchange for personalized ads be allowed to?
What you mentioned is rEFInd’s auto detect feature which by design doesn’t work with encrypted disks. rEFInd will automatically detect other .efi binaries so you can just install your other bootloaders alongside rEFInd, make rEFInd the default and chainload into your other bootloaders when you need to boot an encrypted disk.

I have a setup where I moved /boot of the encrypted luks partition to the esp and boot from there using a custom entry in rEFInd
Canadian here. Some areas of the forest are thick and dense and would be hard but the pine trees are a little higher up and not as much ground cover. You could in some areas quite easily gather pine needles. It would likely have to be done by hand but I can promise you this. There are lots of people who struggle to get by with no opportunity around here. But every year we get several months where chanterelle mushrooms grow and people head off into the woods to gather them. The buyers always pay cash so the people do not have to claim this money which is critical as most already collect social assistance and any money is just deducted from their check. So if pine needles have a value I could have people collect it for me.
Wow. I don't intend to be inflammatory, but I am continually shocked by how far behind Europe the US appears to be in terms of personal banking and payments.
Isn't that a cultivar though, artificially maintained in horticulture. Does it occur in significant numbers in wild populations?
In many scenarios you do become a victim by looking at things a certain way. Suppose I get in a nasty fight with a close friend, where she yells at me and calls me all sorts of nasty names and shoves me a bit before running away. There are two different ways I could process that:

* That conversation really spiraled out of control. We should get together, understand what went wrong, and make up.

* I'm an abuse victim! She emotionally abused me and then lightly physically abused me. She'd better apologize for the trauma she put me through.

The first attitude is especially important when I might be misremembering how things went or forgetting about what I was yelling back. But even if I'm 100% confident that my summary is fair and accurate, I don't think the second strategy is healthy, and I'd call the idea that I should embrace it "victim mindset".
Nakhchivan: The world’s most sustainable ‘nation’?
So this basically comes down to TSMC having some sorta advantage in chip design that no one else has discovered yet. And AMD was able to capitalize on that by not having its own chip maker, so when GF failed to produce good enough chips AMD just shopped around.
The "e" in your ecmascript username stands for "European".

The currency formatting you have a question about is European formatting.

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/international-cu...
How is it aggressive? If an agreement to do Thing is necessary, and you don’t have an agreement, you just stop doing the Thing.

Koda is just starting from a weaker position than YouTube.
They were hacked by kids on Discord.
Plenty of famous writers started out holding odd jobs to make ends meet.

Kurt Vonnegut sold cars, John Grishman worked at a nursery watering bushes, George Orwell was a police officer in Burma, Herman Melville was a cabin boy, T.S. Eliot was a banker, Philip Glass was a plumber and a taxi driver, Richer Serra was a furniture remover, Rothko was an elementary school teacher, Ai WeiWei did street portraits, house painting and carpentry, Keith Haring was a busboy at a night club, the same club where Madonna worked as a coat-check girl, Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jackson Pollock was a babysitter, Stephen King worked as a teacher, janitor, gas pump attendant and worker at an industrial laundry...

I could go on...

And for every of those names there are plenty of anonymous artists who produced awesome work which never attained the same level of widespread impact on mainstream culture.

As Vonnegut would write: so it goes.

See, digital technology seemingly lowered the bar to reach an audience of millions. It largely has cut out the middle man, the distributor. However, so many young content creators discover now that content doesn't create itself. It still takes time and effort to produce anything worthwhile.

Moreover, artistic or creative freedom is only within reach if you are able to attain financial independence. Or, more succinctly put, someone is willing to pay your living expenses for your privilege to create whatever. Usually that only happens if you find a wealthy philanthropist or patron. And usually, these are people who support budding artists for the sole purpose of showing that their wealth and power is so massive that they can.

Your other option, as creator or artist, is to live as frugally and - hopefully - make smart financial decisions. Like, try and work part time, apply for grants and public funding, try to do work on commission, freelancing,... All in hopes that your work and your name, at long last, gets valued on the market to make a proper living income... which, essentially, is just as much a risky proposition as quitting a job and getting into the start up game.

If you have an artistic vision and you want to execute that vision by pouring in all your time into it, well, you also have to be prepared to face the challenges and consequences that come with that desire. So, you better make sure it's something you genuinely want for yourself.
It's a sad state of affairs. There are far more resources available these days to combat the information asymmetry that drives the "financial planning" industry, but it's not nearly enough to help the people who actually NEED it.

I began my career in private wealth management (minimum $5M investable assets).

I ditched that to try to help real people...joined a brokerage where I discovered sales targets still required $250K, at the very least, in investable assets (this excludes include home and any assets that cannot be held by the brokerage, so the net worth of these people was usually $500K+).

I finally gave up and attempted to run a business on a different fee model to educate lower/lower-middle class people on their finances. The Great Recession and my youthful idealism & naivete destroyed that.