skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've continued running my Elixir screencast business, and added on a 2nd product, which is a starter template for apps built with the Phoenix Framework. Neither is 100% passive.

The screen casting business means continuing to make a few new tutorials per month and making occasional improvements to its site. It sure pays a lot more per hour of my time than it did 18 months ago, though!

The starter kit is still in alpha, so there's a considerable amount of work to do. I'll be raising the price as it hits various milestones, though. Once it's "done", it will be mostly passive other than updating libraries.

Elixir is a rough market since it's very niche but still has a surprising number of authors, conferences and screen casters in its ecosystem who are also creating educational materials.

My MRR is fairly low, but it's just enough to cover my expenses living in Taiwan.

When I have the bandwidth, I'll launch another product which will be still more passive and it won't be limited to only Elixir devs. After that, the plan is to spend some money on outsourcing the editing of my videos and some routine social media tasks.

1) https://alchemist.camp

2) https://phoenixigniter.com
There would be no point. The information would be immediately disavowed by Trump. If you wanted to usefully manipulate people, you'd need to be a little more subtle.
No, you are right :)
Proactively? Was that after the other massive hack or after this one?
But twitter supports this feature. Why is it their responsibility to enforce this?
MIT Scientists developed a face mask to kill coronavirus with heat
Which is trivial to fake by going to your own profile and using your browser's inspector to swap out a few images and change a few text boxes.

I kind of think it's a toss-up if this is true. I can believe Trump would use a very weak password and not apply 2fa, but I'm very surprised that Twitter's additional guard-rails for important accounts didn't prevent this.
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> You can be required to wear a mask just like you’re required to wear other clothing. You do not have the freedom to walk around naked, for example.

This depends on where you live. In Seattle, for example, the freedom to walk around naked in public is explicitly recognized as a 1st Amendment right, both in theory and in practice. The question of if the government could force you to wear a specific article of clothing in public places was decided by the courts in the negative many decades ago, and people take advantage of this recognized Constitutional right to wear nothing at all.
Kinda feel like people should stop using Medium for anything.
There's been repeated claims that Trump has - up until recently - used personal Android and iPhone devices to make calls and tweet. Not clear if that's true or not.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-securi...
Why pay the performance price of a full kernel in your machine if you are only going to run one application?

I'm not the author, but running on bare metal is more fun than running in a hypervisor. And removing layers from your stack lets you see what the cost and value of the layers are. I've only done bootstrapping on x86 and 8-bit processors (which is just set your reset vector), but x86 has a lot of isoterric setup stuff, and learning about the magic is interesting, if not totally useful.

Also, some runtime environments have a lot of manageability within; probably less than an OS, but maybe enough. Not sure about Go.
But when trump says "no", what can they do?
Ah, that is good to know and unfortunate.
Donald actively fights measures of reason and anyone who opposes him doesn't stay in their position for long.
I assume it's the "60 miles per hour (97 kph) in 3 seconds." factor..?
>The problem with the lockdown is that we cannot know what would’ve happened without it. Now was it too extreme, for too long? Probably. Again we can’t know the counter factual.

Actually, while we can't be precise about the number of deaths that would have occurred from doing nothing, we can use the number of cases as a proxy for that. Since the case fatality rate (CFR) is correlated with the number of cases, it's actually a pretty good proxy.

As to whether or not restrictions have been "too extreme" or gone on "too long," I'd say that's a function of the number of cases reported in specific areas.

In some places where there has been widespread testing/tracing, lockdowns have been eased when the spread has been significantly reduced.

In fact, NY state[0] sets specific case rates (IIRC, >3% rolling average over seven days) in very small and specific geographical areas as a determinant of the need for specific, localized restrictions and increased testing/tracing to limit the spread of the virus.

[0] https://forward.ny.gov/
People somehow manage to compile code in a way that works everywhere. I guess the trick is to compile against debian stable.
At one point I was trying to get emacs server to work, so that I wouldn't have to wait a long time for emacs to start (to be fair, part of the problem was that my config file had a pile of stuff in it that I didn't really need). After spending waaay more time on it than I really wanted to I got it working here on MS Windows.

Of course, since MS Windows doesn't have emacs daemon processes one needs to keep the emacs window open in order for it to be used to open more files in the future.

In other words, I spent a ton of time to set up emacs so that when it's already open new files will be opened in that already running instance.

On the one hand it was kinda fun to fiddle with and I was happy when it was done. On the other hand I spent a ton of time getting something to work that most other editors do automatically out of the box.

In a way that kinda sums up my experience with emacs - fun to fiddle with, but takes a lot of time to set anything up.

That said, org mode is awesome, and like single-handedly keeps me using emacs :)
"Emissions-free" is a lie anyway. Tire rubber dust/oil/windshield wiper fluid etc. There is no such thing as an emission-free car. Also gray energy emission (embodied energy) is completely ignore as allays. If we compare average emission per mileage per car over the whole lifetime EVs are just as bad as any other car. The only way to change that is if cars stop being parked 99% of their lifetime. Environmentally the worst thing for a car to do is not being in use. It means more cars are build than work is there for them. Thats how we actually waste resources and pollute completely unnecessary.
Three things to address:

1) This doesn't have to be a two-step process. Specialized tools like kubecfg for Jsonnet will directly take a Jsonnet top-level config and instantiate it, traverse the tree, and apply the configuration intelligently to your Kubernetes Cluster.

2) General purpose languages are at a disadvantage, because most of them are impure. Languages that limit all filesystem imports to be local to a repository and disallow any I/O ensure that you can safely instantiate configuration on CI hosts, in production programs, etc. The fact that languages like Jsonnet also ship as a single binary (or simple library) that requires no environment setup, etc. also make them super easy to integrate to any stack.

3) Configuration languages tend to be functional, lazily evaluated and declarative, vastly simplifying building abstractions that feel more in-line with your data. This allows for progressive building of abstraction, from just a raw data representation, through removal of repeated fields, to anything you could imagine makes sense for your application.

Related reading: https://landing.google.com/sre/workbook/chapters/configurati...
Is it allowed to keep pets in Islam? Buying pets in Islam
I run https://www.checkbot.io/ myself while doing consulting.

It's a Chrome extension that checks multiple pages at a time for common SEO, speed and security issues. I started working on it initially to automate checks I was often doing manually while developing websites for others. Developers I worked with found it useful so I spun it out into its own product. I wrote the online guide on the website too that explains all the web best practices Checkbot tests which I'm trying to turn into an ebook as well.
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All the good luck to you sir. Maybe reach out to people like Rich Rebuilds and such, to market your stuff.
>> If you say none [...]

Maybe I should have used: In case you say none

> I didn't say anything even approaching that. Please don't try to put words in my mouth.

Neither did GP umvi say anything approaching

>>> [...] 200,000+ deaths in the US doesn't constitute something serious and worthy of attention and efforts to mitigate/minimize the impact [...]

Since we all now agree that no mitigation measures are bad and total measures are bad, we’re back to arguing what is the right middle ground.
I frequently used spaced repition in my maths/physics courses to great success. The types of things I would memorize:

- Key theorems

- Proofs

- Any kind of visualizations (e.g. statistical distributions)

- Properties

- Trig identities

A lot of time in math or math heavy fields, there are a lot of tiny details and nuances. Using an SRS properly really solidifies those concepts in your head (See my comment below on manufacturing 'aha' moments). It also helped because a lot of those key concepts were immediately available in my mind and I was 100% I had them correct. Memorization reduces a lot of mental friciton.
I can't wait to get merc'd by the ACT because my cheating coefficient is over 300.
Well, I recently received a payout of $11.99 for products sold via Amazon affiliate links. It nearly covers my domain registration fees.
Normally the idea is presented as "short-lived branches", with short meaning "as short as possible" e.g. days instead of weeks. At that point it's non-controversial and the argument about peer-review vs. no-peer-review can be separated from "how do i get this back into the mainline without breaking everything?"

Also I merge master into my branch several times a day just as a matter of habit, because yeah it's usually better to discover conflicts ASAP instead of two weeks after they've happened. Keeping your branch short-lived also helps prevent conflicts in the first place.
I live in NYC and yes, during March and April you constantly heard ambulances, but I think describing it as "bodies piling up" is hyperbole. The vast majority of us survived.

> if 200,000+ deaths in the US doesn't constitute something serious and worthy of attention and efforts to mitigate/minimize the impact of COVID-19

Nobody said they don't. There's a difference between something being serious and worthy of attention, and it being the sort of existential threat that would justify disrupting civilization to the extent we have.
This is mind-boggling, but it also makes you think why no one has tried it before.
generally in these situations you'd be replacing all the cells at once, so they are reasonably matched. Nobody tears apart a battery and resolders everything just for one cell, that's a waste of time.

and if you're really concerned about it, you can match cells for impedence yourself, but it's generally not a problem if you replace all the cells at once with cells of the same kind/batch/etc.
How long are you expecting asymptomatic people to wear masks in public? What are the exit criteria?
A somewhat educated guess: Probably the "cost-to-serve" metrics that Twitter considers when making these changes.

Force 2FA on your most high-profile customers, and your support costs skyrocket as a steady stream of these customers who didn't want this new and (relatively) complicated measure forget or lose their 2FA setup, and you find yourself constantly resetting it or changing it, which probably in the long term reduces the effectiveness of it since it becomes a routine for your support operation and it's easier for bad actors to fake it.
To me, the big story about the Cybertruck has always been that it's a Tesla that's being launched price competitive with equivalent ICE vehicles. A 2WD Tundra or F150 with King Cab style 4 doors is only a couple grand less than the Cybertruck. A year of gas savings puts you ahead of the game in the Cybertruck.

With the Hummer at $110,000? All that goes out the door. You can buy a loaded to the gills gas guzzler and pay for 10 years of gas and still have $10,000 in the bank.

Ultimately the Cybertruck is the sort of EV which might hit mass adoption. The price is decent, Tesla has the brand to carry it, so long as the truck delivers on it's promises, I can see the Cybertruck being a huge hit. The Hummer is destined to ship a few thousand in the first couple years, then gather dust in showrooms.
The big problems with just "listen to the experts" is we've never actually been in this situation, and it depends which type of expert you talk to. Talk to an epidemiologist and you'll get an idea of how a compliant society can stop the disease. Talk to an economist and you'll hear how to minimize economic impact. Talk to a psychologist and you'll hear about mental health, compliance, fatigue. Talk to a political scientist and you might hear about China making a move on Hong Kong.

This is a complex system, and there aren't really systemic experts.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858219
Apple started hiding the traffic of its own Mac apps
If this is true I'm deeply disappointed in the world's hackers that such a vulnerability on such a target went unexploited for such a long time. However, all that said, I doubt it's true just because I expect someone else would've discovered this long before now.
> masks are working — and working well.

One thing that I couldn't find and will re-read the article: seems that they are just concluding this from one airline that enforce masks.

Comparing the numbers from other companies would give better information.
This seems odd to me. I would assume that people would try to break into Trump's account hundreds or thousands of times a day - it's a high-profile (maybe the highest profile) account that billions of people are aware of and have the capability to attack.

If his password was that obvious, one would assume it would be guessed almost instantaneously. Maybe it had just been changed from something un-guessable minutes before, or some glitch disabled 2FA?
I was actually wondering how balance chargers work, do they really burn off excess voltage with resistors? I always assumed they applied extra voltage to charge the low cells, rather than discharge the high ones.
"Not bright red, more like muddy-red."

That's the giveaway, right there. Bright red blood on your toilet paper is usually just hemorrhoids. Uncomfortable but treatable and not life threatening.

Deep red or "muddy red" blood on your toilet paper means the blood came from deeper within your intestine, and it should always be checked out regardless of how young you are. If your doctor refuses to do so, get a new doctor.
> Can you recommend which tool they used?

From [0]:

> The software used for the conversion is a slightly modified fork of svn2git, as used by the KDE project.

> It requires a rules file to map svn trees and/or revisions to git branches or tags. The current rules don't make use of tags but simply store them as branches.

> See the project branch at http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/uqs/git_conv/ for extra patches, rules and the scripts used to do these conversions.

--

[0]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow
That seems fairly low given the fact that a mid-level programmer is pretty fortunate relatively
I appreciate this Spaceballs reference.
Julia isn't derived from Matlab either and was influenced as much by Ruby as by Matlab.
You have a 100% chance of dying.
I made a web app that turns Google sheets into beautiful web pages in 3 easy steps. https://sheetUI.com it's still lacking in many ways, but I'm working on a V2 with paid features that'll be launched soon.
A better password would have been "makeauthenticationgreatagain"
They can, but reading about Gevers shows a track record. It’s worth being skeptical, but keep his record in mind.
Apply the same skepticism to Twitter too, they haven’t got a great record.
It's mostly true... so far.

Although some elements of antifa are perfectly willing to use projectile weapons. Those are less dangerous than guns, but they aren't nothing.
Minetest is a good base for someone with the skills and will to make a Minecraft-esque game or to do something with interactive voxels. It's a long, long way from a replacement for Minecraft. And that's before considering the creative community around it.
I dropped in here to say this. There's a book that just came out related to this called Breathe. I looks at breath from a cultural perspective also.
In general I wish there were more kubernetes “distros” that came pre-installed with logging, monitoring, storage (block and object), ingress controllers, load balancers, cert management, secret encryption, etc. The things that every installation needs, but which everyone has to roll themselves.
Yeah that was worded badly, I didn't want to imply that it will outlive those languages. The thought was more about "it's a dead and obsolete language" uttered by developers that jump from one language/framework to another. Recent stuff will die out and is replaced quickly by design.

Java on the other hand has potential to become the next COBOL in the far future.
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That's 10 lakhs and 10 crores
I don't have a good feel for the geology of hot spots. But remember seeing a paper on hot springs. Typically you have a situation when water seeps down a deep fault and then comes back up. Would seem you are correct. Heat transfer via conduction will be really slow. Also know that the geothermal plants in The Geysers Geothermal plants in Sonoma County have lower output then they did decades ago because the rocks have cooled somewhat.
Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police
Hey, you only need about 200 200W solar panels to charge this during a typical clear day. You could build a farm like that on a Texas ranch and be a true 100% self-reliant individualist and drive a Hummer.

A 200KWh battery could also power a large (e.g. 4br+) house for at least a few days.
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If I got locked out from any of my accounts for just typing in the wrong password 5 times, a few seconds apart, I would get kinda pissed.
The guy showed tremendous restraint. Most of us would've posted something that wouldn't have been flattering.
previous discussion from 2016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12442048
I'm curious what made it so fiddly. I set up emacs server on Windows maybe 6-8 years ago so perhaps I've forgotten a lot. But as I recall I just made a shortcut that would send the right command line arguments to emacs on launch, and a second one that I used for the client.
Thanks for the response. Yeah, medical science is still so much limited when it comes to cancer. I did lot of research on Integrative cancer care post our experience and realized how positive changes to lifestyle impacts the mind and body. Now trying to help others going through similar challenges through self hosted support group sessions.

I've subscribed to your writings, looking forward to them. I'm also a Software Engineer professionally. :)
Traefik supports letsencrypt and DNS updates (via lego I think).
They could eventually but already having shipped Firefox in RHEL 8 for 10 years minimum guaranteed support makes it tough.
You are fighting conflicting constraints, though, and that's the underlying problem. Application developers won't use an IDP that protects user data. They want that data, that's why they wrote their app! Because nobody would use such an IDP (at least not without being forced to in order to be on a large platform), nobody will write such an IDP.

I'm actually working on an open-source IDP in my spare time, and to me this sounds like something to seriously consider doing right. I appreciate the idea and the discussion. I doubt anyone in the real world will care, though. (Sometimes you need to get the early adopters that do care about these things, though :)
I had some doubts about veracity and while still in two minds but https://www.vn.nl/trump-twitter-hacked-again/ provides enough details that if it does turn out to be bs then they are easy enough to prove or refute - " After logging in, he emailed US-CERT". But I agree with your sense of hesitancy since the sources of the story mostly originate from Yahoo News, a Dutch marketing company called DPG Media, TechCrunch rather than the usual broader sources.

It will be interesting to see how Victor Gevers responds.
ah. i'm not in either of those political bubbles and i'm not on twitter.

guess i'm not missing out if being against child trafficking is somehow either a) a conspiracy theory on the left or b) a conspiracy theory on the right.

child trafficking is wrong. full stop.
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| will give you back enough of your life that you can start to make other more long-lasting changes

This is it. It gave me enough of a bump to move forward in a positive direction. It's a good tool.
I will definitely reach out to Rich Rebuilds as well as other Tesla-fluencers. Thanks for the kind words!
Semi-related story: I flew to Uzbekistan through Dubai last year for vacation. Waiting for my backpack, I saw something that blew my mind: locals who arrived with me taking all kinds of TVs, ovens etc. from the conveyor belts.

It never occurred to me that you can fly somewhere, buy big stuff and have them checked in as your baggage. It's not something I ever saw in Europe's airports.

(Not sure if reason was more the price, or lack of availability of goods; probably a mix of the two.)
> Ultimately the Cybertruck is the sort of EV which might hit mass adoption.

This car is too big for European streets. Might sale well in parts of the US but that's it.
I think perhaps you are conflating no services for the upper 20% of society with no services. But the gulf is very wide in India and the population is massive. 354 million people in poverty!

India's food assistance programs, free education, and healthcare are amongst the most used on the planet.

Examples from Wikipedia:

- The Indian public health sector encompasses 18% of total outpatient care and 44% of total inpatient care

- Free lunch programs for underprivileged children: "Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world"

- Universal healthcare targeted at underprivileged: "PMJAY and the e-card provide a coverage of Rs. 5 lakh ($ 6860) per family, per year, thus helping the economically disadvantaged obtain easy access to healthcare services."

- 550,000 ration shops providing subsidized food

Please do not generalize your own experience to that of 1 billion people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_distribution_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Programs_in_India

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
Yes, and? Would you actually tell us what your point is, rather than making us guess?
Most insurance policies won't cover a colonoscopy without symptoms or family history, and most gastroenterologists won't recommend one in that situation anyways.
This is more of an example of: every problem is solved with a wrench (strong typing).

But the real thing that we should discuss is to understand the context, the requirements and only then select our tools.

But no, it’s always hammers vs. wrenches on hacker news.