skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a translation of the interview this article was derived from. It became clear to me that this was not an old man with inside information finally agreeing to disclose it (as is kind of implied by the headline) but rather, is just a normal guy who's read some stuff, and believes it. Very different thing.
For NASA, It Should Be Mars or Bust
You've done great stuff with FusionAuth! I ended up using ORY [0] at my startup as we had slightly different auth needs, but FusionAuth was a top contender.

It's strange to me that Auth0 has so much market dominance. Are they a case of VCs subsidizing a subpar product, combined with aggressive (and bordering on false) marketing, or do they really have some unique product? Their pricing seems ridiculous to me; I can't imagine someone doing an analysis between Auth0 and alternatives, and choosing Auth0.

But seeing Atlassian switch to them made me think I may be missing something... It would be interesting to hear your analysis of why Auth0 is so prevalent!

[0]: https://www.ory.sh/
I just don’t see how this can be the reality that we’re living in. These things were $1/per at retail before the pandemic. People are ready to pay many multiples ($10/day? Sure. $20/day? Yeah) of that now, how are the economic incentives not aligned to make these things be extremely common and easy for everyone to buy.
https://archive.vn/Zd7Dc
everyone talks about the death rate, but for survivors there's evidence of severe permanent damage in some cases.
> Property is not afforded the rights of humans and cases can be levied against property directly.

This is accurate insofar as it represents the current jurisprudence, but absolutely false in the moral or straightforward reading of the constitution.

The 'takings' clause of the 5th amendment, for example:

"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"

That seems to clearly establish that humans have a right to their private property not being taken from them. Whether the legal fiction is a case against my car, or "a Toyota Corolla" doesn't have any practical difference on the outcome. The government can seize my car without due process,

Civil asset forfeiture is flat-out unconstitutional. The fact that is exists without due process or just compensation is wrong, and the current jurisprudence on it is simply wrong. It's rare for me to be willing to step out on a limb and say the courts are simply wrong on an issue, but civil asset forfeiture is a limb I will happily step out onto.
How would a news website do this though?

If all their content is behind a paywall, people won't read it and they'll make no money.

If they try to limit you to 3 articles a day then ask you to pay for a subscription, sites which aggregate news articles make it easy for users to skirt around that restriction.

What other alternatives are there? I've genuinely not thought about it enough to come up with another one that works.

EDIT: Actually the Buzzfeed model might be the best one for newsrooms. Pump out tons of free, clickbaity content. Solicit paid sponsorships for lots of that content (e.g. "We try snacks from around the world" then solicit snack companies in that niche to sponsor the video) and use the profits to run a successful investigative journalism section as well.
In the x86 ring, AMD has clearly trounced Intel in vision and execution.

Apple has trounced them both at the system level. Whatever M2 is will make x86 an embarassment.

I'm looking forward to running Linux on Apple's RISC-V hardware in another 10 years.
I'm surprised(?) that the article doesn't mention Ghost [https://ghost.org/].
In this comment I want to provide three basic thoughts, that I think are having the potential to be helpful for Rukshan in his blogging endeavour.

The first one is about due diligence and the two times we have to make a first impression.

In the last section headline Rukshan has made a typo. He wrote "statistics" when he obviously meant to say "static." Now, typos happen, but they don't help with that first impression. A blog is a written thing, which means the art an craft of writing is essential to it.

The second time we make a first impression is when we open our mouth. Translated to the blog this means, the first impression the reader gets of the quality of the writing.

Obvious carelessness like typos in headlines are not helpful.

In the mentioned section headline there seems to be a typographic glitch as well, since "site" is not set in bold, unlike the other two words there.

If you state that it has become more difficult to start a blog, well, then even more so would it suit you well to get the basic polishing right.

The second thought I want to provide is a comment about the overall perspective on blogging presented here. When I read the headline, I thought: this must be about writing, about gaining traction in linkage, about building readership. Since it is on HN, maybe even about how to build a business around a blog. Instead it is about the one thing that doesn't count at all: what kind of blogging engine you are going to use.

Now, nearly every new blog has this reflection, I guess because the new blogger just went to the process of choosing a blog engine, decided on a theme and all that. But it's hardly important. Why do I say so?

Because, let's see, what is the work in a blog?

If I write 1k of blog posts and submit 25 of them to HN, have 100 of them on reddit and design my own theme. Compared to that workload, installing the engine and theme amounts to virtually nothing.

What I am trying to say is this: ultimately it is more helpful to see a blog as something else then just a piece of software.

This brings me to the third thought I want to offer.

I understand that a certain blogging engine prompts you for a stupid slogan. So Rushkan goes like "Rushkan's brain on the internet", which prompts me to ponder what he means with that. Is this meant to say, he sees his blog as a sort of external brain online? Or does it mean that he shared thoughts about the internet? Not hard to guess, but not clear either.

Then he has the double mention of his name there: "Rushkan's blog" above "Rushkan's brain."

So, a bit of polish there would be good as well. Now, I personally think that it was a wrong path, that a certain bloggin engine took us on, with requiring titles for every entry and having that slogan prominently there. But it is what it is, how could a good slogan be written?

It should be written as such, that the right people want to immediately read it because it rings a bell.

Think about how the mother of all tech blogs did it so well: "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
They co-found to make money. It's just not as fast paced as the VC option but it's the same thing as any business. The founder thinks that with more than 1 person, each person would make more money than if only the founder worked.
Aren't those all more of the same though?

My take away from the post was that what is missing is a user-friendly (noob friendly) static site generator.
Have you tried overclocking the everloving shit out of your current card? I mean throw everything at it, best thermal paste/pads, cooling, hardware mods. Genuine question, as that's what I do before deciding to buy a new, well, anything :D

Surprisingly, it works pretty well... A few burned out GPUs and motherboards over two decades seems like a good risk/reward ratio.
What is a Deus Ex game like?

I 100% have assumed this was going to be an RDR/GTA5 style open world game that I could just ignore the story of and go around exploring.

The games I've liked have been skyrim, and GTA5 (I hated RDR), and in both of those I didn't really pay any attention to the story (except as a way of getting money to buy more gear). It was just more about driving/riding around and looking at stuff for me.
The mentality comes from people in the more recent generations having to deal with harsher competition and lower economic prospects, and not having certain expensive pieces of paper lock you out of many opportunities. The problem is that trade schools need to be reformed/expanded, or employers have to reevaluate how they evaluate things.
"I think they think that he’s ruining their lives and hope to deter him."

Yeah, that's the War on Drugs in a nutshell. People imposing life-ruining penalties on strangers because they are afraid "something bad" might happen. But as decades of embarrassing failure have taught us, the "something bad" is far more likely to be a consequence of the laws than the drugs.
No mention of Write.as. I'm sad. It's such a good platform!
Warning signs would be company centered on a person or owner not ideas or mission. Hiring for personal loyally not qualified people

Lack of responsibility in leadership. Does the leadership own their responsibility or do they abuse their positions

Focus on appearances and selling an image of the company. Focus of superficial and short term. Not long term difficult goals
Thanks! Just letting you know (no big deal clearly).
what is non-linear logic?
The "Get started!" button at the bottom does not work for me :) The idea sounds awesome, but I'm not sure that I get it. Static blog generated by a dynamic backend?
Overall, I think Google does prefer to rank faster-loading sites higher.

With that said, as far as I can tell, the difference between two sites is almost never a simple as a single factor. There are hundreds of things that influence rankings. So companies can and do worry more about other concerns, including squeezing more ad income out of each pageview and getting into more search results in the first place.

AMP took away a lot of the other things that companies would invest developer time in.
> It was being taught by a substitute teacher from the art department who knew some programming. The class was 5 assignments (...)

I guess you were unlucky! Teacher from the art department, and a class with only 5 assignments?! Didn't your university had a CS department with CS-competent people to substitute? For instance, the CS department of my college has at least 40 teachers, and it's a polytechnic school (more like a vocational school than a theoretical university)..

What I want to say with this is that maybe your university is also questionable for delivering CS courses like that..
Why one startup CEO lets employees cash out every year
That's how consensus works on the internet.

Users use consensus as a proxy for accuracy, but it has no way of accomplishing that.
Is this capable of doing hardware transcoding?
Read what I said more carefully before replying. You’re largely reiterating what I’ve already said.

Yes, 1% CFR is a lot of deaths, which is why ~3k Americans are dying per day. But 1% of personal risk is perceived as a low risk thing, hence the low compliance.

Transmissibility is also a factor, of course.
> why does pijul decide that the correct merge is only adding the X line after the second instance of AB?

It doesn't decide, it only guarantees that the order between lines is preserved in all cases. Also, since you seem to have "thought a lot about the problem", you probably noticed that what Git does is totally wrong, since what it does depends on whether you merge both commits at once, or one at a time!

> the same person will often want different algebraic operations in different settings.

I doubt that when Alice adds line at the top of the file, while Bob edits the bottom of the file, anyone would ever want Bob's new lines merged in the middle of Alice's new lines.

Yet, that is what Git does.

> it is quite clear from this pijul example that they haven't really thought about the problem much.

Or maybe they have, and they have thought enough about it to notice that 3-way merge is doing the wrong thing, and that trying to merge snapshot doesn't even make any sense. They might have also thought enough about Git to understand that rebase is turning commits into patches, one by one, in order to "replay them on top of the current version".

While I do agree that full versions are important for storage (and all version control systems, including patch-based ones, are able to recover full versions), they are not very useful to merge work, or to solve conflicts.
The article seems bogus. The state is in the process of getting masks out to people:

"""
As of Dec. 7, the state's PPE stockpile included:

178.7 million N95 respirators
339 million surgical masks
63.8 million procedure gowns
19.5 million face shields
152.2 million sets of protective gloves

https://www.desertsun.com/story/money/business/2020/12/09/fr...
"""

That ain't half a billion N95 masks.
Some of it is just the unknown unknowns I guess. I can only look at things I think I may not know or know well enough. Whereas a directed course might guide me to what I don't know better. But perhaps you are right, I should probably start there.
They said in an investors call that there was no pressure to release for the holidays. They could have spent more time fixing this but choose not to
School in the Pandemic
We don't need to factor that in; CDPR does. If the game requires PS5 they should have released it that way.
I don't think Carmack has ever been "hired" for a job since he was a teenager.

So you're right, he's talking about "this makes you desirable in my eyes", not "practical employability through the lens of HR".
Yes but they were terrible. Just being ARM isn't some kind of magic dust. It has to actually be fast.
Wow, I hope to never work with you. You value things that should not be valued in tech. We care about competence, not credentials.

I've interviewed dozens of engineers. Never once looked at their education or gave it any weight. I assess them myself, no need to defer.

Selecting for people from schools you've heard of is probably the wildest thing I've heard in my career.
It might be the moderation overhead. AFAIK dang does most of the moderation and that's already a handful; adding and modifying tags seems like a lot more workload.
This is a non-issue with modern browsers.
IBM used to be that freight train too. It used to be "Noone got fired for buying IBM." They made a lot of decisions like this on their way to becoming a consulting company.
At the risk of more down votes, I'll disagree with you. There are certainly smarter people than me who are less lucky than me. However, its a much smaller subset than many would believe. Many claim unlucky when in reality their luck is a consequence of their past choices. They've taken risks and those risks didn't work out.
Living and Working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica (2013)
Really? I would think that most of the really valuable work happens at JPL, what we need are more probes not ridiculously wasteful and expensive manned missions. In the face of vast social need we shouldn't let the rich go there either they need to pay their fair share so we all can be healthy and secure together. You get far more scientific value from sending inexpensive probes compared to these vastly wasteful manned PR stunts.
I did mine based far from the University (a very good one) but travelling down every few months to meet with my supervisors. I learnt tons, and it has helped my career. It also meant a lot of work over 6 years (part time). Time well spent! I effectively swapped TV and movies for statistics, and have no regrets. Over the period we had 2 kids.

You could probably do it faster / easier with a pro forma type place, but it would be a debasement of standards - it might tick a box but you probably wouldn't learn the skills. What I really like about the author's post is that they are detailing it all, and it is about getting a formal qualification to recognise the knowledge they have.
> I don't value seeing most content at more than penny per view in general and fixed transactional costs make it impractical to send that to each creator.

I find this interesting. What about books? A quick search yields average paperback novels are 300-400 pages long and between $14-18. That's between 2.1-2.9c/page, roughly.

Many articles from quality content creators are > 1 page long. So applying the book pricing, between 5-25c per worthwhile article, give or take. Seems like a penny is pretty heavily undervaluing the product you're getting, then.

As for the impractability of actually distributing those monies to each creator, well, no argument there.
most articles are bought, so...
I have done similar research on mental distress detection using NLP and it works reasonably well.
Correct, there are limited ways to argue on behalf of property.

The court cases are filed like

US v. $124,700 in US Currency

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=677960395272430...
I've been using write.as for several months now and it's worked great as a blog-only platform. They have a self hosted option called writefreely as well.

I think some folks feel a blog needs a ton of branding and fancy javascript widgets everywhere to be a "blog" when all you need is a block of easily read text.
A nerd should have understood that for a game with finite search space, a sufficiently fast brute-force solution will always beat (or not lose to) a smart person. It's the nature of brute-force solution.
The problem with this is that the opioid crisis has shown a large majority of people simply can't handle "hard" drugs. They either get physiologically addicted or psychologically dependent and rapidly enter downward spirals as a result. So even if you legalized and regulated the distribution of cocaine, for example, many people would still turn into addicts and pursue the black market to get their fix after their monthly allowed amount runs out. I don't think there really is a good answer in the near-term, honestly. You either go the Portugal route and trade massive spending on anti-drug policing for massive spending on rehab and mental healthcare or you get one opioid crisis after another. Long-term I personally think the solution would be to invent recreational drugs that are non-dependency forming and distribute those in the same way some states are now handling marijuana.
I highly doubt that there's a "friendship" in relationship with a drug dealer
Didn't read the hn guidelines did you?
The other side of this is that "average" living expense has little meaning when applied to a place as big and varied as the U.S., much less the world. In some areas, the cost of living is much higher. The commonly provided solution to living somewhere the cost of living is too high is move. Unfortunately, moving comes with all sorts of other constraints that are rarely considered.

I this case, we're talking about a family, so what if one or both of the the spouses needs to work but can't find work or is paid much less in the new location? Is it still a net win if the family income is reduced to a large degree?

What if there is family in the current location but not any target location? Beyond any help they may be able to provide (child care, if not regularly, in special circumstances), they may provide a real tangible mental health benefit compared to living in a new location where you know few if any people. Or what if you're providing help to that family member, and leaving would be problematic?

The bottom line is that is that some people are stuck in or around places like SF making very little compared to the cost of living in the area, but also don't feel like they are in a position they can leave. If you made $80k in SF and lived in SF or close enough to commute, you might find that a large portion of that goes purely to housing. For a family, probably $24k a year minimum, even if you commute in from an hour away.
> But then why pay for a certificate? Four figures, no less. You could go through a bunch of free programming courses in 3 months and print your own certificate, same thing as long as you can actually do a job...

My understanding is a lot of these boot camps have parterships with companies and help place the people who complete them.
It was a summer class, and I don't know what their staffing situation was like.

> What I want to say with this is that maybe your university is also questionable for delivering CS courses like that.

Yes, it was. My point is that most CS degrees come with questionable quality. We should not knock WGU for its flaws while ignoring the widespread flaws of traditional universities.

> Even having 7h of classes per day, things had to be really succinct, and in 4 months, although they were capable of doing some web apps, there was a lot of confusion in their heads because of the fast pace.

If I'm reading that right you taught 7 hour per day for 4 months? 16 weeks * 5 days a week * 7 hours = ~500 hours?

If I were to spend just 100 hours doing (WGU style) self study of any topic I would expect to come away with a clear view: not knowing everything, but at least knowing what I know, and knowing how to learn more as needed. I think the traditional style of teaching (large class, one teacher) isn't very time efficient, so it makes me sad to see something like WGU dismissed solely because of the time spent.
Sure, then why are people upset when others rightfully point out that so much of "the media" has a specific bias and that that's affecting us in negative ways as a society?
Too bad the legal precedent isn't here to defend itself isn't it?
Upsource (the code review/analytics thingy) probably?
the extrajudicial execution of American's abroad by using drones was by far the most glaring change in US policy during that Administration
I agree that this seems predicated on growing ad revenue:
1. strangle the effectiveness of FB/Google targeting and MMP attribution by removing IDFA
2. Build out ASA to fill the targeting void, which can be done via AppleID
3. Search Ads becomes more effective and useful, growing value

This is a pretty dicey strategy from an antitrust perspective, but the separation of the opt-in for tracking, and the focus on growing service revenue, suggests to me it’s the direction Apple is going
I agree, although I think putting harsh limits will just continue to drive addicts and users with high tolerances to a black market. We don't place limits on alcohol, I'm not sure why we should on these things either. If there are legal, regulated places to buy them the "black market" would be mostly crushed anyway, just like the black market for alcohol is today.
I suspect the gray area and disagreement comes out of the word "unreasonable", which looks much different to the suspect, the police, and the judicial system.
Somebody will always tell you that you are unprofessional and unethical if you strike, in my experience.

Source: years as a workplace rep in UK school under austerity government cutting public sector pay and pensions, plus 3 years as a branch secretary.
> Justin Amash is the only principled person in Congress.

I get the sentiment, believe me. But "being principled" is a matter of degree and perspective.

Clearly, there is a gap between what a particular individual wants of their elected representatives ("reps") versus what they get. Why?

Sure, there are charitable explanations. First, reps have to balance competing interests. Second, some reps may make 'principled' compromises in order to prioritize certain values over others.

There are less charitable explanations, too. First, many reps seek power as an ends unto itself, but doing so pulls them into a system where 'principled' decisions (e.g. ones directly for the benefit of voters) become harder. Second, some reps have questionable ethics and are willing to take money at the expense of their proper responsibilities. And so on.

All of interpretations are true, to some degree.

If people in a (more or less) democratic system want to change it from within, it is not effective to simply hope for reps to behave more ethically. We have to: (1) adjust the rules; (2) change our expectations; and (3) get involved: run for office, volunteer for campaigns, give money and resources, and vote. (Tell me if I've left anything out!)
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