skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I'd say that for any new information, there does need to be an initial 'smell test' threshold. When confronted with something so outlandish, I typically switch to making a judgment about the person and how their thought processes work. I.e., ask them to explain the basis of their claim and look for overt logical fallacies, which we all get better at identifying over time.

It's also got to be a matter of sufficient consequence to be worth the time.
One of the best (and most prolific) HPR hosts is Klaatu. He has his own podcast at http://gnuworldorder.info/ .
I went on the BTC forums for the first time in years because of this thread; it used to be filled with wide-eyed people that wanted to change the world in a way before all the regulation hit, with at least somewhat interesting libertarian discussion.

The entire market subforum is illegal, except for one or two. It's gone to literal shit.

Hacked server credentials, "cheap server for mining!!" VMs purchased via stolen credit cards and resold for spam, attacks, and crypto mining until they get shut down for abuse or chargeback, hacked .edu emails, hacked MSDN credentials, cracked software for money (it's a 50% chance they're offering stolen-credit-card-acquired keys, and a 50% chance they'll just send you probably_trojan_crack_keygen.exe and tell you the software needs this patched to work and to not download it from the official source).

Plenty of abusive services on offer, like "we'll upgrade your dropbox to pro for life" where the instructions are to send them your email and password and they just add a stolen credit card to pay annually.

The usual shitty "buy likes and followers on social media" scammers where their own account has 9 obviously bot followers with half naked women profile images, and nothing else.

Random half page selection: https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png
Mystery Surrounds $7B Outflow From Vanguard S&P 500 Fund
No, but there is WSL which for terminal-based apps works pretty well.
I have a cookie delivery company[1] that I started with my sister. It’s doing well but I personally only take out $50k/yr. completely supplemental to my main job.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/166-sam-eaton-of-crave-...
The second device can be as cheap as $17 known as a “Streaming Stick” and treated as a throwaway component.
blog site is very readable, even without enabling reader mode. The main problem for usability are sites that mess up with the zoom, so that when you enlarge the view the formatting breaks and the text becomes unreadable.
https://fastcomments.com

Started Jan 2020, looks like will be at 4.5k ARR by end of year.
Budgie 10.5.2 Released
OK, let's reformulate that: would people be opposed to just scrapping or to the illegal republishing and adding ads?

Another similar trick: "If someone will block ads and then murder the publicist and burn his house, most people would find that it should be illegal".
If you're into machine learning and work with notebooks, take a look at the machine learning platform[0] we're making. We've been profitably shipping complete ML products for enterprise clients for many years now. Throughout these years, we've discovered patterns and inefficiencies that slowed us down, threatened the success of our projects, and overall made them more expensive than they ought to be.

It has collaborative notebooks, long-running notebook scheduling that survives network disruptions and closed tabs (you can view them while running without opening Jupyter), automatic experiment tracking for metrics, parameters, and models, and seamless deployment into a REST API. It also enables you to publish a notebook into a parametrized AppBook to allow domain experts to interact with it without being overwhelmed by the notebook interface, and to change parameters without mutating the notebook. Their runs are also tracked.

We're focused on solving actual problems we have faced on paid projects, as opposed to the infinity of features one can build to solve imaginary problems.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
I think I'm going to appreciate the native pipes, it will likely improve the readability of my data.table chains.
When the XDR came out it was competing with monitors that were 40,000 USD and up. (With some compromises like the stand which is just an art piece and the viewing angles being squiff). If the competition is now priced competitively then that’s very good for consumers.
Time to setup a pihole and experiment with vyatta config settings on my Ubiquiti security gateway. This will be fun
So to solve overly large C++ complexity I will add further layer increasing complexity?

And add critical third-party dependence?

And learn one more programming language that is rarely used?
Hawaii will pay for the flights of remote workers who relocate to Honolulu
A few years ago I started a niche healthcare case management SaaS. While I sometimes add new features, upgrade software, or fix bugs, it mostly runs itself. There's currently a handful of clients each paying ~$8k annually.
Measuring Page Abandonment in Chrome
Before the pandemic I wrote a scraper for web-based data related to crowds and put the code on GitHub with a permissive license. At the start of the pandemic here in Europe I posted a Tweet with an interesting dataviz based on the scraped data - and someone who saw that Tweet is paying me to run a customized scraper for the past 9 months.
But how would they track everything you watch on it then?

Can't have you throwing a Heat (1995) DVD without it being recorded in a database, can we? Sure, your smartphone probably pics up the audio, but it may just report that you're listening to Moby.
I second this. I couldn't understand if it was important to the setup or just a nice-to-have feature. There's no context.
Wrote a book a few years ago.

Still make between $10 and $50 a month.
Is Charles Koch? is Jim Walton?

The list of billionaires is expansive at this point in time. While there are some like Elon Musk who are directing the economy in ways that would be perceived to some like myself as positive. For the ~262 million people in the US who would be unable to afford a Tesla, will never go to the Moon or Mars, live paycheck to paycheck and may lack the education ( or interest ) in space to appreciate the science and technology advancements being made, These activities can best be summed up with this song inspired by the 1969 landings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
> scientific software ... where interfaces are notoriously bad.

I think the problem here is two fold: bad UIs and bad APIs. In the science world, there doesn't seem to be any abstraction between backend and frotnend -- the whole thing is one intertwined mess.

Scientists don't always write great software; they write scripts that get the job done quickly in a very specific way. Pair that with the lack of time that they have to wrap things in a GUI and you get a Tkinter/Qt app that is unmaintanable.

I'm currently volunteering with the NZ Department of Conservation. Here is a tiny preview [0] of an app that I have just started making for them. It's purpose is to aid scientists with processing camera trap images using machine learning. I'm building the UI using ElectronJS and Svelte, whilst the backend is a separate Python project.

[0] https://streamable.com/0ji1ii
Protect Google.
I notice you don’t get specific. Is the vague language designed to obfuscate what you really mean?
You might be interested in the "operational logics and playable models" section on this page:

https://eis.ucsc.edu/analyses-and-approaches/
I'm not 100% certain but I think often times people who are the biggest assholes are usually that way precisely because they're afraid of being themselves
“Scholars and translators at the library also took great pains to ensure that their work was accessible to the reading public. ”

This point cannot be stressed enough.
The US is a good example of that. The US has existed for 150 years with stable peace (not to say there has been 0 conflict, but it has existed as a single coherent unit) and freedom to say and publish whatever you want. In contrast, every single nation that has a "stable peace" with speech restrictions has only been in this state since the end of world war 2, when they all destroyed each other, a defining characteristic of their evolution out of that state was freedom of expression, and many of the speech restrictions in many of those countries are relatively new or only recently enforced. Some countries with restrictions that claim to have a stable peace are currently involved in ethnic cleansing and internal armed conflict.
There is/was SamyGo, a (partial?) OSS firmware for Samsung TVs...

Not sure how relevant or up-to-date their support is, but at least there is _something_ :)

https://www.samygo.tv
You REALLY want to get rid of smoking?

1. Outlaw tobacco production and importation.
2. Pay smokers to stop - with regular drug testing.

Of course this plan is politically impossible in a country that cannot even agree on face masks during a pandemic. And that is why smoking will be here for a very long time.
https://isitketo.org

It's just a content site about the keto diet. It runs in the background and earns money from Google AdSense and Amazon Affiliate links, the latter of which are dwindling because I haven't had time to fix dead product links. It's a plain static site, so it doesn't need any server maintenance or software upgrades.

Not totally passive because I actively tried to grow it for three months when I had to cancel my main business due to COVID.[0]

Jan: $786.71

Feb: $682.62

Mar: $362.28 (Amazon slashes affiliate payouts + drop in traffic due to COVID)

Apr: $220.48

May: $221.53

Jun: $180.66

Jul: $369.91

Aug: $486.22

Sep: $362.18

Oct: $510.86

Nov: $431.52

Total: $4,614.97

If you're interested in the details, I write retrospectives every month sharing stats and thinking through strategy.[1]

[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2020/04/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2020/07/
I've seen this sentiment a lot in the Apex Legends community, and without any data to back this up, I think in some cases this is true.

Live Service games' primary interest is to keep you playing for as long as possible so they have as much time as possible to sell you in-game purchases.

It's gonna be really interesting if the suspicion turns out to be true in the next couple of years when we'll maybe get some more concrete info on it.
Note that malware of various sorts has done all of this for years. It used to be reasonably common to get command/control server info via IRC, basically DNS over IRC. DNS blocking has never been an effective network management strategy, and it never will be.
The entire field is larger than movie studio post production. Apple wasn’t trying to get in that space until recently but their displays were well above average for less demanding users for decades. There was an entire business getting this setup for Windows print/design/photography shops during the era where support was tedious and error prone.
What is the app if you don't mind sharing?
Pro tip: you can Google for part numbers and find people who sell things.
i’m new to R but I really prefer the |> to %>%

Much better to use the OCaml, F# syntax.

Think Julia uses it too.
Agreed but |> instead of %>% is certainly easier to type! I’ll be interested in trying it out at least
Whoa. That would give you one day of laundry washing per month in the IoT age.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/k72lzq/sowh...
Since data is stored permanently on Arweave, there's no way to remove it from the blockchain. However, you could force push your repo which would remove your concerned commit from Gitopia repository view.
Who do you think you’re fooling with this dog whistle nonesense?
We recently released our podcast (keeping it non-technical), discussing all sorts of topics related to privacy and security, and providing simple tips. If anyone's interested feel free to check out and let me know what you think!
https://www.conversationwithahacker.com/
This is incredible. Bravo.

What are the future plans for the local business and the software?
They’re more expensive because they need to make up the lost revenue from advertising and the likes. Or something like that.

Of course, there’s also the simple thing of “enterprise stuff costs more for no reason.”
Nonsense. Implied contracts are still contracts - they wouldn't be worried about avoiding a "messy and costly legal fight" otherwise.
NIH is also a problem.
I haven't been able to verify this yet but I think my (2015) Samsung SmartTV tries to ping a specific Samsung domain to determine whether the device is connected to the Internet. Last weekend something must've happend to that domain because the TV told me it wasn't connected to the Internet and refused to start any app. The Internet connection (as well as the local Wifi connection), however, was perfectly fine.

So I expect the device (at least the "smart" functionality) to be bricked as soon as Samsung takes that domain down for good. In fact Samsung already removed 80 % of the gimmicks and remote features the TV came with, some of them didn't even last two years.
To me, passive means little or no ongoing time investment. If we are looking at "best" in terms of revenue, then dividends from investing in the stock market are by far the best source of passive income I can imagine.

I've got a 1.5x leveraged portfolio over on IBKR that is currently yielding ~2.9% dividends across a wide range of sectors. I am paying ~1% in margin fees at the moment, so I basically get to use their money for "free" on the growth side (of which there is plenty right now). It is turning into quite the comfortable safety blanket.

I almost feel like this is not in the spirit of the topic posed here because of how mundane and uninteresting stock investments are, relatively speaking. I am far more interested in reading through all of the tales of crazy side projects that have turned into something more.
Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
Fair, and I definitely get what you're saying, but I would still argue that for (Java)doc-style comments that one useful one outweighs the cost of the repetition.

And the reason is that you're not always just reading the header. When I'm looking at a `setWiz` call site, my IDE can pop up just that one docstring and save me a bunch of aggravation.
Also an older (February) 2020 thread with 4 answers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379662
Yes, and there are a lot of good reasons for that! The two functions become obsolete at different rates, and people have different needs for each of them, so it's the right place to put an abstraction layer.

When I buy a computer monitor, I can pair it with any computer I want. I can upgrade the graphics card or processor independently of the monitor. I'm not locked in to a particular computer based on the features of the monitor I want. TVs should be the same. It could be as simple as a USB stick you plug in the back.
Just look at the comments and realize you will not find that kind of advice here. It's like asking Microsoft in the last century how to make money with free software.

Look at what you already know and see how these skills are needed. If not sufficient, learn compatible skills to expand your skillset in a way to serve the market needs.

Defi is where the effort is. If you are a developer, knowing how to build then deploy smart contract on ETH is the 101.
Udemy Course Grabber: Script to add all udemy paid/free courses having coupons
You can already do all of that. Epub is just html in a wrapper file. I don't know what a supper node is. Is it anything like a breakfast node or dinner node? Seems like it would be quite messy to mix food with ink.

Writing free stuff works for a few people. Most people can't afford it. This means we'd end up with significantly fewer written works, and almost of what remained would be the highly-marketed James Patterson-type formulaic crap that sells well. In fact...James Patterson is the personification of your aggregation formula. He doesn't even write his own books anymore (and hasn't for almost a decade); he looks at trends in reader data and pays other writers to ghost-write his novels for him.

Middlemen exist because they provide valuable services: editing/proofreading, printing, distribution, and marketing. And in book publishing, they provide one of the most valuable services of all: discovery based on an author's talent, not their personal marketing abilities.
Sounds great! I'd love to connect. I've sent an email to the email address provided on your guitarml webpage.
WizTree is unbelievably fast (for NTFS volumes). Nothing else I've found comes close. I believe it reads NTFS metadata directly rather than going through the OS, which is why it needs admin access, but it's breathtakingly faster than WinDirStat etc.

The speed difference is less important when you have fewer files, but for people with packrat volumes that include a decade of personal documents, photos, and bits of defunct Windows installs that you need to prune, it's an absolute lifesaver.

Ed: on my 3 terabytes of poorly organized files, Diskitude takes about 5 minutes to index. WizTree finishes in 10 seconds. I can't say which is more accurate, but I know the tree view in WinDirStat is much more useful, it lets you search by filename, it colors by filetype, it exports to CSV, etc. It's better in every way that matters to me.
I'm from Montreal, home of Mindgeek :)

IANAL but laws exist in most of the world requiring that individuals in a pornographic video need to be above a certain age. My understanding is that, counter-intuitively, if all one has is the video to go by, the more ambiguous matter is not whether the video is pornographic, but whether the individuals in the video are legally of age. At the very least, that is the framing of this article.

Perhaps I'm naive in thinking so, but I don't imagine "entering an agreement" with a distributor to share your content need be more complicated than an OAUTH flow to a gov't website and checking a box.

I do get that this can be abused by gov'ts and big tech to force individuals to identify themselves before using major platforms but I have two thoughts on that:

1) You can have a safe-harbor clause, similar to DMCA, where websites that host user content need not register as distributors of pornography if they have a take-down method whereby reported pornographic can be removed. Of course, the DMCA Safe-Harbor clause has its own problems and we'd need need to learn from our mistakes there

2) From a more fundamental perspective and perhaps veering off-topic, reliance on huge centralised platforms of the ilk of FB/Twitter/etc.. will always result in chilling effects and abuses of power. Until that problem is solved, distributors will make their gains at the cost of users.

EDIT: Thinking about this some more, obscenity laws have been used for ages to oppress minorities and suppress speech through selective enforcement. The only way something like this would work is through a very narrow definition of pornography, I suppose.

Abuse of individuals is far from evident in most cases, particularly from a given video, so naturally individuals would fall through even the widest definitions of obscenity. Only a very narrow definition would make sense here, assuring that speech is not unnecessarily stifled while a narrow category of blatant abuses are disallowed.

All this to say, this isn't indeed cut-and-dried, and I regret any comment I've made to make it seem like it is.
> the Turing test, in the "standard" interpretation (rather than Turing's original formulation)

Goalposts: moved!

This is exactly my point.
truthfully i think that many people would rather live in a monarchical or even fascist state just as long as it their ideology always aligned with the extant power.
democracy is messy and chaotic, it means more often than not you have to spend a painful amount of time re litigating the bad ideas of absolute morons. but it also is the only form of governance that you can troubleshoot without resorting to considerable violence.
So fire people with mental illness, once it’s “discovered”? You say that like it’s some monstrous character fault.

Conflict in the workplace happens, including things that crop up due to people’s neuroses. You’d have to fire most people.

I agree you should distance from anyone that appears dishonest or abusive, but that has nothing to do with mental illness. People that just do it to get what they want are if anything worse.
As much as it pains me to say it - lack of demand is probably one, as much as it seems like a hot topic on HN, as it stands the vast majority of people don't care.
I'm just arguing that it's not as big of a problem as some make it seem.
Any discussion of Freedom Speeches™ must also account for inauthentic speech.

Trolls, bots, socket puppets, propaganda, gaming the algorithmic recommenders, flooding the zone with bullshit, etc.
IMHO alternative solutions are possible.

All effects aren't caused by a single factor. Free speech as a causal factor may enable an unfortunate causal path, but we can weaken this path by attenuating or removing its enabling antecedents, or by adding or amplifying its mitigating decedents. As such, multiple solutions to a problem that corresponds to a causal path exist.

Our values and understanding decide what solutions we seek. If a person doesn't recognize or underestimate the benefits of free speech, this person may accept or prefer a large degree of censorship as the straightforward solution.

Of course, finding an alternative solution needs insight and broad knowledge, which perhaps isn't that commonplace, even in academia.
How did you earn the money to invest?
There's something nice about having a single device you can chromecast to, play Netflix on, etc. I mostly just wish there were open-source firmwares for TVs.
Just be specific about those ideas. I have no idea what those ideas are, I just see “Daily Mail”-esque rubbish.
Now browsers will have to be modified to support colors in excess of 255. Flashing ads will be brighter than ever!
>In her 1971 essay, “Raising Kane,” Pauline Kael made the case for Kane not as a brazen, important directorial statement but the high-point of a rich 1930s tradition of tough-minded, satirical newspaper pictures, some of which Mankiewicz, himself a former newspaper man, had worked on. “Raising Kane” is a phenomenal work of criticism:

Except "Raising Kane" is a long-discredited hatchet job, having been thoroughly debunked by Peter Bogdanovich (or, if rumors are to be believed, Welles himself) in the 1972 Esquire article "The Kane Mutiny", film scholars such as Robert L. Carringer in "The Making of Citizen Kane" or Jonathan Rosenbaum in various books and articles, and even Kael's own biographer Brian Kellow. Not to mention the credible accusation that Kael stole credit for much of the research for the piece from fellow UCLA faculty member Howard Suber. It's unfortunate that Kael's fame and prominence means that her worthless falsehoods stay in print and are much better known to the public (or even casually interested film fans) than all the later work showing its errors.

Any article that only discusses "Raising Kane", and not the response and scholarship showing it to be bunk, is garbage.
> You can buy that TV. It still exists.

It does, but only just. There are still a few models around, but the category of large-format dumb displays has virtually disappeared over the past decade. Commercial displays have almost entirely turned into smart TVs that run business apps instead of consumer apps.