skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I turned part of my personal site into a membership site for aspiring remote workers.

On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career.

The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid.

I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service (especially if there are no video testimonials).

I’m confident that if I persevered this could have become something but I lost interest. Many people are still registering for the membership. I may return to the project soon and find a way to turn the content into a paid, self-paced course—-without paying for SaaS.
Linux's decentralization is both its major strength and its major weakness. The differences between distros can be so large that you might as well be talking about two entirely different operating system. There is little consistency in design of tools. Many tools used to follow the UNIX Philosophy ("do one thing well"), but that no longer seems to be the case.

We (as in Linux users) used to make fun of Windows for how stupid everything was. You need a GUI for configuration because many options are hidden away in some kind of cryptic registry, deploying services is a PITA etc. Now we have somehow (d)evolved to that same mess. For instance, SystemD and SELinux are such a pain to work with (each for different reasons) that it feels like I have to fight my OS. Wanting an OS that works for me, instead of against me, was one of the major reasons why I switched from Windows to BSD and then Linux back in the 90s.

There's definitely something to be said for *BSD's boring, predictable simplicity. But perhaps there's some kind of force that automatically drives operating systems to bewildering compelxity as their user base grows?
Disclaimer: I offer this in good faith, and I don't disagree with your broader points.

I had to visit Stockholm twice in September to go to an Embassy. I caught the train from Copenhagen, where it was mandatory to wear masks on public transport (though not outside this).

As the train crossed the bridge into Sweden an announcement came over the intercom saying that we could now take our masks off.

As an outsider, I have had the chance to compare the way that a bunch of countries and populations have handled the pandemic. Perhaps the most stark shocks were actually in Copenhagen where I watched people queuing to get into pubs and sitting at densely packed tables at restaurants (September).

I'm always hesitant to judge because there are such complex dynamics at play and there is such and opportunity for biases to creep into what you see. But walking past it, it was hard not to wonder if it would come back to haunt them.

While visiting Sweden it was pretty clear that, aside from the masks, there was absolutely a change in behaviour (social distancing, hand hygiene). Compared to pre-pandemic visits.

The Radisson Blu had packaged up it's buffet breakfast into little containers for safety (that was a truly surreal breakfast -- tiny little glass jars of cheese).

I'm not saying Sweden's approach is right or wrong. The rest of the world hasn't been in any way consistent in their approach(es). But Sweden has definitely taken a different path on several issues.
Thanks, I'm glad!
yeah there are sooo many, you are right to be sceptical, basically we partnered with this Prof. from Stanford (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charle...) and used his model that measures what's important to people at work (aka Mindset Norms) instead of using a generic personality test.

That way it is actually saying something about your priorities at work and is more directly linked to your behavior at work.
I've heard that it's a good rule of thumb to not develop something that is just an extra feature of an existing behemoth (e.g. Atlassian plugins etc., but also the thing you built). If you're failure, then you've wasted time and money and if you're a success, the behemoth will just reimplement your work as a part of their platform.

Pretty much the only way to win it so make something that provides marginal revenue, which makes reimplementation not worth it for the giant (but potentially worth it for you). I suspect a lot of Unity and Unreal plugins and authoring tools reside in that niche.
Don't, it's not worth it.
Not comparable. Android explicitly allows third-party software (even if you have to toggle a setting first.)

Jailbreaking falls under a legal gray area, which is debatably covered by the "right to repair" section of the DMCA.

Breaking a console's DRM explicitly to play non-approved software is violating the DMCA and against the law.

As I said, not really comparable.
A million or two allows you to live without working for your money. Five or ten million allow you to have people do anything you don't like doing yourself for you. But beyond that I don't really know what to do with money.
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What is the purpose of acquiring wealth perpetually until death? The implication by the author is that non-essential purchases are a complete waste of money.

Going out for a nice meal with friends is an experience. Experiences are valuable. Saving a giant pile of money for your 70s and beyond accomplishes very little.

Sure, we don't want to ever run out of money. But we also don't want to avoid experiences in our lives to build up a pile of money in old age.

Enjoying experiences while you are young and healthy is important for a fulfilling life. You're going to have more fun with $100 at 25 years old than $100 at 65 years old, inflation adjusted.

Enjoy your youth and find a balance between spending and saving. Lifestyle creep absolutely can be a problem, but so can living so frugally that you avoid valuable and unique experiences.
Lead designer of Perplex City here! Perplex City was an ARG (alternate reality game) produced by Mind Candy in 2004. Unlike almost all ARGs at the time, it wasn’t promoting a movie or TV or associated product - instead, we sold packs of puzzle cards that tied into the game’s story.

Lots more on Wikipedia here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplex_City

This is a puzzle card I thought would either be solved very quickly (within a year or two) or not at all. To have it solved after 14 years is very special.

Perplex City has had a lot of interesting alumni. It was made by Mind Candy, which was founded by Michael Acton Smith, who is also co-founder of Calm. The lead writer was Naomi Alderman, who became an award-winning novelist and whose novel The Power was one of Obama’s top books of the year and is being adapted into a $100m Amazon TV show.

I went on to co-found Six to Start with my brother Dan Hon (who you may know from his popular newsletter, and later left the company to do a lot of good work in the US government digital services realm and Code for America). Six to Start is best known for Zombies, Run!, which is the world’s most popular smartphone fitness game and is sort of like an ARG, if you squint at it.

I continue to do a lot of thinking and writing around ARGs (which are still fascinating) and gamification (which I mostly dislike). My blog post, What ARGs Can Teach Us About QAnon, went somewhat viral a few months ago: https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qan...

Edit: That blog post also gets into the confusion between the Perplex City Satoshi and the Bitcoin Satoshi (which conspiratorially-minded people DM me about regularly) along with my supposed involvement in Cicada 3301.
The thread is explicitly about side projects that don't make money
Software Freedom Conservancy's ContractPatch project has some exploration of this and other issues in employment contracts:

https://sfconservancy.org/contractpatch/
I'm currently taking stab #4 at an ebook writing app.

My first couple attempts sucked and never saw the light of day.

My 3rd attempt launched and was called Paperback Writer. No one was remotely interested in using it, so I eventually shuttered it. (Didn't even have any free users to be worried about.)

That was a few years ago, and my conviction about what would make for a good ebook writing app have only grown stronger. There are glaring shortcomings in all of the existing solutions: Scrivener, Vellum, Sigil, iBooks Author, Calibre... they all kinda suck for writing and publishing novels in particular.

So I'm now working on version 4 of the idea, this time rechristened as PaperbackAuthor: http://paperbackauthor.com

(I still like the name "Paperback Writer" better, but it's a nightmare SEO-wise. When you google "PaperbackAuthor", my twitter handle comes up first. So I consider that an early win.)

I have no idea if this one will attract any users, but I'm passionate about it and need to get it out there. If only so that I can stop thinking about it.
Exactly, thank you.

I understand there is often a reaction to seeing "copyright by Google"; but I researched it and it didn't seem to have any consequences of note.

The one thing I know of is that contributors to the project must sign a (one time only) CLA: https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

I hope this isn't an issue for you; if it is, please reach out -- or consider forking! :)

https://anagora.org/node/open-source
This business sounds like it would lend itself well to an ISA model.
Camera based AI for traffic control. With today's cheap computing hardware and sensors this really could be on every street light.

Credit card numbers that when given to a scammer trigger an investigation into the scammers finance network. Each person can be given a unique scamCatcher number.
Do you have plans on publishing an epub?
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DMCA only applies to the United States. It practically has no meaning elsewhere (I don't know the modder nationality, but the modder claims he/she has a PAL Nintendo console (european version)).
The Swedes have been misleading so much on this whole issue it’s hilarious.

First, Tegnell refused to believe in asymptomatic transmission.

Then he lied that herd immunity was never considered but we have emails from him to the broader scandinavian health directors saying that they should consider herd immunity through natural infection.

Then they insist that the only reason Sweden looks so bad is because of care homes (which, btw, is greatly affected by the fact that Tegnell didn’t believe in asymptomatic transmission well after every health department was officially basing policy on it). Well, care homes amounted to about 50% of Swedish deaths. So even if you completely excused Swedish care home deaths, while doing no such thing for its neighbors, it still had a death rate that was 2.5x that of Denmark and even worse compared to its other neighbors. So if we count Danish care home and old people deaths, but don’t count Swedish care home deaths, Sweden is still 2.5x worse in terms of death rates.

Finally, for all of that, Sweden was also close to the worst performing economy among its neighbors. Final economic numbers will take some time to really settle in, but what is clear is that Sweden didn’t get any economic benefit for not declaring an official lockdown.

Finally, let’s not compare for a moment. Sweden failed on its own terms. Here are some of the things Tegnell said we’re gonna be the benefits of the strategy:

1) Close to herd immunity in major parts of Sweden especially Stockholm after the first wave. This was absolutely destroyed when it was discovered that the worst parts of Stockholm had about 10% infected at most. It was nowhere close to the minimum 20-25% they were predicting.
2) Much better second wave than neighbors. Besides a couple of weeks lag (I’m not entirely clear why this lag existed, but Swedes have a summer tradition apparently of retreating to nature etc, which likely played a role in the improvement over summer as well as delaying the spread), Sweden has once again become the worst affected of its neighbors.
3) Better 2nd wave than 1st. It’s not worked out that way. The 2nd wave is worse than the first.

It would be one thing if the Swedes were like “oh well, this is how we want to do it”. But Tegnell has relied on both Swedish exceptionalism “oh, we Swedes are better than everyone else and so don’t even need to declare lockdowns” and contradictorily has also criticized other governments any week things haven’t looke as bad in Sweden.
There's the 'school closures' lever still to pull.

Then there's things like only being allowed out of your house once a day for exercise.

And maybe if your work can't be done from home you're paid to stay home and not do it unless it's an essential service?

Key things are

1. This is only for a short and bounded time while we roll out vaccine
2. We need to get numbers down so that vaccine rollout isn't impinged
I live in Europe where the DMCA does not apply.
And it still hasn't got error correction?
What goal was Sweden pursuing by taking no real action in the beginning of the pandemic? The reasons might be unclear, but the lack of action has been properly documented.
Like the GP says, "overloaded to the point where treatable patients are given morphine and sent back to die" means "collapse" in my book.
An intrusive node has a getter for the next intrusive node. And the data structure would use that getter to organize the elements of the data structure.

Among other implications (different memory locality and allocation guarantees), you could have the same intrusive node object used in several container objects or even classes (though not at the same time). That is, pull an element from a doubly linked list and insert it into a binary tree without reallocation.
Cooley Go is a great resource for legal agreements and forms commonly required by start ups (particularly venture backed startups). The site includes both the form templates and documentation generators. The site also includes a number of posts related to start up FAQs such as allocating initial founder equity, tax issues associated with equity incentives, etc.

For a deeper dive into the legal issues frequently encountered by venture backed start ups - check out the Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law:

https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurs-Guide-Business-Law-eboo...
Well, fortunately not everyone lives in the United States. DMCA is not a thing and EULAs fortunately are mostly meaningless, or at the very least breaking them is not a crime.
> Why? I find this attitude curious the thought that all the academics would suddenly start just taking the money and twiddle thumbs.

Depends on how you define “academic”. There are suddenly going to be a lot of “academics” showing up for their free handouts once there is no bar.

>I can tell you that the vast majority of academics are not motivated by money. If that was the case they would move into industry where they could earn significantly more.

Selection bias. The academics you are thinking of are the ones willing to put all of the work into getting grants, teaching, etc. There are an order of magnitude more PhD holders that nope out of academia after graduation because of the grim prospects.
That's far too overreaching. I wouldn't work somewhere that had ownership over my free time like this.
Wow, this service finds photos of people with faces so similar to my own that I find it difficult to believe it isn't me in the pictures.
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I wasn't using an overly broad definition of capitalism; I was using the definition you bring up here.

Moreover, whether or not a market is perfectly competitive is irrelevant. The point is that no firm wants any competition, and in order to maximize profit they must actively fight competition, the very thing they claim to value.

What we have here is a fallacy of definition. If we define capitalism to be a system with no negative consequences (such as monopoly), then any real-world system with these negative consequences is, by definition, not capitalism. Thus we've protected the system that is precious to us. People do the same thing with communism ("That isn't real communism because..."). Economists don't really weigh in on what capitalism is very often; they discuss things in terms of markets, and any intro microecon class will tell you that monopolies occur in markets pretty frequently, with or without government intervention. Monopolies, competitive monopolies, natural monopolies.... These are all discussed early on in an econ program. Your capitalism definition is designed to make it infallible, and economists don't really use it.

Source: I have an MA in econ.
..and you've just described what management consultants do at scale.
rand() + rand() does not produce normal, but adding together a few thousand rands does start to approach it. Central limit theorem.
I've had the opposite complaints on my similar but verbose library. Some want short names and some want full explicit names.

I'm not sure which way is more popular. Paul Graham has mentioned in several essays how programmers are lazy and want to type the minimum number of characters possible. On the other hand Elon Musk has loudly complained about acronyms and contractions.

In the end you can't please everyone, so the developer just has to pick a style and go with it. If you dislike the short names, it's easy enough to put a comment above the template instantiation explaining what's going on.
What’s the difference between this and personality profiling? I know many of those personality tests aren't scientific, so how this one differs from, for example, tests like 16 personalities?
The original idea of UBI was to drop all welfare apparatus, add saved moneys to welfare budget and then give it away equally.

But now it's turning into a beast that doesn't remove much of existing complexity and adds additional welfare. Money source for a meaningful payout be damned.
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Because if you don't then you can be sure that they will never sell.

And Linux is the only game platform without garden walls.
I like the BSD simplicity, but it's not just hardware, it's software. I want to spin up an X stack in docker? Can't do that, docker doesn't work. There's jails but without any image repositories I'm trading a lot of convenience for simplicity.

There's also software like dotnetcore which will just not build. The situation in the desktop is even more problematic. I wish it wasn't so, I like the separation of concerns quite a bit with FreeBSD but it's not something that unfortunately fits my use cases.
This is the way
That is a scary accurate facial search engine. Luckily no hits of my own face, but it all finds similar doppelgangers.

It's based in Seychelles now. probably for bad reasons.

https://hacked.wtf/privacy/pimeyes-ownership-moves-to-seyche...
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I don't claim to have all the answers, but these things could have been done and reduced the impact of the pandemic. How do I know this? Because it has been done by quite a few countries which did not have as much of a problem with the pandemic as the west had. Take Korea, Taiwan, New Sealand, Vietname, there are probably others. Japan also did much better than the west.

A few comments to the points you noted.

- Germany reacted at the end of February (I am from Germany), which was pretty late considering the international outbreaks, there were quite a few infections in Germany during February. But for the first wave, Germany reacted just in time to avoid a lot of deaths (<10k), but completely failed at preventing the 2nd wave. But even the first lockdown might have been prevented by acting in early february. Carnival was allowed to take place and it was one major outbreak, the other was Ischg in Austria.

- Borders to France and Swizerland had been eventually closed. When it was pretty late. But I was more referring to the US reaction, which banned travel from China only and much later (to late) from Europe, which is still in place, but allow travel via Turkey, which is what all Europeans going to the US are using.

- If you handle local outbreaks quickly, you can get infections down to 0 in the affected region.

- There is plenty of evidence, that masks reduce the transmission of Covid-19, but I was also speaking in a general sense, as I said "any infectious disease". There is no need to spread the cold or flu as quickly as we used to do. As far as I know, since the pandemic, the flu numbers are down a lot, as hygene works.
> Proprietary software is inherently unethical, so I support anyone teaching people how to pirate it.

If you consider proprietary software to be inherently unethical, how does it follow that pirating it is to be encouraged? Shouldn’t you be against the usage of such software, regardless of how it was obtained?
First the insane telemetry in Horizon and now this.

I learned to program writing GBA homebrew and absolutely love Nintendo games. The stuff they've done with the switch is so sad.
Yt doesn't help that there's a substantial number of "the best way to X is Y" (language varies) type signs that are not there because it's the best way, but because a semi truck once got stuck or because there's a turn involved that's terrible at rush hour or some other reason that boils down to the "wrong" way being the better option except for some edge cases.
>>which they could have done, according to the law

Why do Americans agree to have their rights limited this way? Don't you guys value freedom to do what you want with the devices that you bought legally?
In many places landlords cannot suddenly jack up the price, but can only increase it in small amounts year by year. One could similarly imagine rent controls on digital services, where sudden price hikes are simply not allowed, and terminating the rental agreement one-sided is similarly restricted. The practical downsides of that kind of legislation would probably end up quite similar to rent controls.
8-bit variants of BASIC introduced a generation of programmers (often kids/teenagers) to fundamental programming concepts - variables, loops, conditionals - and allowed them to easily experiment with early computer graphics and audio.

The benefits of this initial learning/experimentation vastly outweighed any bad habits picked up or 'unlearning' required.
With a germ you can kill a few million people -

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning...

https://www.genscript.com/gene_synthesis.html

https://www.idtdna.com/pages/products/genes-and-gene-fragmen...

https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services/Gene-Synthesis

If you want to see someone do cool stuff with the above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4
Assuming it's not your own door.
Thank you for the pointer! Noded: https://anagora.org/node/ecogwiki.

Will check it out this long weekend :)
> You've used the suggest a change feature within Maps? I've done that several times and I think it always worked for me.

My home address is wrong on Google Maps. It's correct on our national postal services' postcode system, but that only covers public post: most private couriers use Google for some reason. As do Uber/delivery drivers/taxis/etc. I live in an urban centre (Dublin, home of Google's EU HQ) so it's not some obscure rural farm.

I've used their suggest a change feature within Maps pretty much every month since I've lived here and even received automated responses telling me the suggestion has been "processed" or similar. No change to the map though.
That part of the law was written by and for corporations.
Sure, but the point of government funding is to encourage things we want for society. If some researcher wants to pour another 20 years of salary into more string theory, maybe we shouldn’t pay for that.

Perhaps rather than prescribing areas of research, we should just ban or severely limit areas that haven’t shown any promise.
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