skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blatant plug: That time I accidentally discovered my text terminal had a graphics mode.

https://hackensplat.com/falco-t310-unleashed/
Each of these tasks, or ongoing commitments, has a clear price when you run an organization the Internal Economics way.

Whoever consistently "earns" more than their salary this way, deserves a raise.
ActivityPub didn't exist in 2010, and wasn't used by Diaspora, StatusNet nor Friendica.
> I have over 40,000 students taking my online courses and they have generated a few thousand in gross revenues.

I have 400, and I made a living out of it for the past couple of years.

Sure, I was earning more when I was a freelancer. So, I guess his point stands, I am losing money in that sense. And if money was the only metric, he would be spot on. But money is not the only reason.

It's also true that most people just wing it, thinking they will make easy money online. And then, fail.

But well, guess what. Business is hard work. Any business. Creating educational material is not any different. A lot of work goes into positioning, copywriting, marketing, and sales. I would like to see his.

I know many people making excellent money with online courses. A couple of them are in the bi-weekly business mastermind I attend. Heck, if Apple didn't introduce SwiftUI two years ago, forcing me to re-do my courses from scratch, I too would be doing great, instead of just OK. But well, that's just "cost of doing business".

So, saying "you are going to lose money with online courses" is the same as saying "you are going to lose money if you start a business". I don't think that's a sentiment shared here on HN.
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Actually if pessimistic estimate is taken as lower bound for rise speed, it does. Though that really shouldn't surprise anyone.
So you buy a PS2 the month it was launched to play PS1 games? K
They should definetly take action and comply asap since it puts delicate but biggest democracy is danger. As if they haven't learned anything from the 4 years.
Well, we need to do both. There's no way to avoid some pretty painful consequences, and we need to be prepared for that, but we still need to clamp down hard on emissions to mitigate the worst effects down the line.

I don't think it's fair to say we have no intention of stoping it. We were never going to prevent every consequence of climate change. It looks like we are not going to meet our targets, and even if we do the consequences are probably going to be worse than projected, but I think it's vitally important to stress that the steps we have taken so far were worthwhile and do matter.

There's a real risk of complacency leading to resistance to further action, because it doesn't matter anymore because we've already lost. I see this on the denier side already, a lot of skeptics are switching from "it's a hoax" to, "well we can't stop it anyway so why bother trying?". That attitude can be given no quarter, comfort or succour. The positive steps we have taken have had a real, valuable positive effect, and we need to do more.

I'm no fundamentalist on this, I'm a pragmatist. We do need to balance mitigation with prevention, and we're not going to be able to do as much prevention in practice than we'd like. This is the art of the possible, but there is a lot that we have done and a lot more that we can practically do, and it's all worthwhile. We need to convert those former skeptics into allies.
Stupid question: Why not RSS? User publishes a text, image, video. The feed gets updated. There are already a lot of services that can make you a newsfeed from following a bunch of RSS Feeds.

PeerTube already allows me to follow a channel using RSS: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/d8bf70c8-4de4-4110-a375-217... (Click on Subscribe -> RSS Feed)

What feature does ActivityPub have that is essential for building something like Mastodon?
Before the Internet, there was Fidonet, and before that, there were mailboxes.
And you know what?
All that shoot that's going on today was already happening back then: Shitstorms, Bullying, Doxxing, it all happened. Only that it was a small community of nerds, with no celebrities, politicians and influencers, so all it was was a storm in a teacup, that could easily be ignored.

So when 'Social' Media appeared, I instantly knew that this was a bad idea, and never used it.

I did indeed try Mastodon a few years back, and found it to be the same pile of steaming manure that I had expected.

The solution? Except better education, I don't have one.

I keep to small communities of decent people with the same interests, and that's it for me.
There are so many messed up implementations of Product roles/jobs.

Agile/Scrum Alliance just has the concept of a Product Owner (it is the same thing as a Product Manager). This is OK.

SAFe breaks up the role in terms of PM and PO. This is not OK.
SAFe is fake Agile and simply the application of 'agile' labels to top-down, waterfall ways of working.

If you have both a PM and a PO in your organisation, I'm afraid they've had a drink of the SAFe cool-aid.

One last thing... a Product Manager/Owner is NOT a Delivery Manager.

Product should be responsible for the What and Why, delivery/tech for the How, When, Who.
When I worked integrating payment gateways I learned to love state machines. They make code easier to maintain.

State machines helped me get rid of the chainsaw juggling with 10 different boolean flags that was responsible for countless bugs and bad customer experience.

It's not over-engineering, it's about keeping things predictable and under control.
It’s just a way of breaking the “business model” for this companies.

If you pay up, there’s nothing preventing them from trying to hit you again with more demands (in fact it makes economic sense since they don’t need to generate new “content”). If you go and hire a SEO company, you’ve broken the economic reward for the scammers, or at least you’ve reduce it.
I'm talking about the predecessor that has a similar name and originated ActivityPub. I clarified it in my edit.
When you praise the software your team wrote you don't pay respects to how hard transistors work to make the whole thing possible.

Lowest workers for Jeff are just cogs in the machine.
For a moment I was hoping there was a replacement for the wonderful (and ancient) Microsoft Trackball Explorer.

If you are right-handed then it is ergonomically shaped to fit your hand. Use your fingers to move the (large) ball and your thumb to press the buttons. Comfortable and natural to use.

The fact that refurbished models sell for very high prices shows just how good they are.
I would very much recommend reading this essay, where a reporter goes to Miami, looks at property, and talks about this issue with real estate agents: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
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> To play devils advocate why should someone learn marketing and and sales from someone that doesn't have real world experience? The noise to signal ratio is already so high in the field.

The same way you can't become a programmer, if all you have is knowledge gained from reading a book on the topic; you have to put in the work by learning from your mistakes in a programming environment.

My goal with the guide is to help a technical audience gain a basic, but clear understanding of the concepts that constitute sales & marketing that they can build upon. The guide is not promising readers that they'll become a highly-sought after sales person or marketer, overnight.

> Good luck regardless.

Thanks
Not addressing your question, but the Yoneda Lemma is kind of a charlatan.

On first reading, it seems magical and deep, but once you grok the proof, it feels like a relatively trivial observation. The whole thing is just about arrow composition!

In a way, once you're on the other side, the Yoneda Lemma feels a bit like a checkpoint during the accimatization period where your brain gets used to thinking in categories and commutative diagrams.

Not quite sure it's exactly the style you're talking about, but Bartosz Milewski has a nice series of video lectures going all the way from nothing up to Coend stuff. IIRC the series gets to the Yoneda Lemma somewhere in the second series:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC8BtBl8PNgd3vWKtm2yJ7...
Agreed all those factors go into the value and it's important to understand what you are purchasing.

At the same time it is a leveraged position. If winds tilt in your favor you have the option for 100 shares of the underlying for only the cost of the premium.
Shorting call options also has a nice feature: there is no limit to how much you can lose.

But really, what this article misses is a tip about leverage!

Whatever your plan to lose money is, make sure you're leveraged. So that you can lose X time the amount you would lose if you only put your own money on the line. Eventually, you'll quickly lose much more than you had in the first place!
Were you dropped on your head as a baby? This might be the only explanation you'd think that.
> Buy some $GME swag from me right now to lose money instantly.

Paper hands, smh.
> as totalitarian as it gets

Either you don't know what you're talking about, or you're consciously lying.

If this govt was "as totalitarian as it gets", we would be seeing Tiananmen Square kind of things happening. We would see gulags. Opposition parties would be banned, and all opposition leaders jailed / killed.

India is a thriving democracy. It's not perfect, or even well functioning, but it is most certainly democratic.
So basically pivot into what became whatsapp[0]?

My recollection of Blackberry from that time was the "killer app" was email on the go -- hence the term Crackberry and the publicity from Obama [1]

I didn't personally hear about BBM until the 2011 London riots [2]

I guess blackberry was aimed at two distinct types of customers -- teenagers using BBM, and white collars wanting to read their email on holiday

[0] https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/42072...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-f...
to challenge your world views and grow as person? Yes i know some people with differing views can be arseholes but that should not stop you from putting your world views up to the test by having a discussions with the opposing side.
So what's your point? Mind you, we're discussing an article on engineering productivity in business.

Nothing is happening without funding.

Business can't run producing things which are not valuable in the moment, it will go bankrupt.

Government can sponsor such things as it sees fit, best if guided by a clear hypothesis that funding it makes the outcomes probabilistically better than not funding it.

When nobody is paying you but you're tinkering with some stuff, then it's you who is sponsoring it with your time and other resources.
> - flood low-lying areas during storms (see New Orleans, parts of the Netherlands, and Maldives now).

I fully agree with your concerns regarding climate but specifically in the Netherlands the flooding of designated flood areas is actually by design, with well in advance warnings, these areas are pretty much designed to be escape valves.

The Rijkswaterstaat even goes as far as monitoring upstream river flows from neighbouring countries to predict increased downstream river flow due to storms or alpine glaciar melts.
I prerecorded myself in video meetings for a week (and nobody knew) [video]
Oh wow. The quality is absolutely amazing though. Thank You. While there are less content to write purely just on DRAM, NAND and storage, some of those reporting still takes a long time to investigate and write. Never thought it was freelance.
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Staying Focused as a Developer in an Early-stage Tech Company [video]
Not just the three letter agency. Chances are, if it's a new company trying to create an MVP of a social network, they'll probably make mistakes like Parler did with security. Then the whole world can read the entire database and every piece of content ever uploaded, not just law enforcement.
I have some karma to burn, so let's do this again. Underpay compared to what?

There has to be some comparison here. You can't say "underpay" and leave it at that.

You might try and weasel and say "underpay compared to a decent living wage". Well, I have news for you - even that's relative.

A fair comparison would be "underpay compared to the rest of the warehouse industry". Which begs the question - why do people go work for Amazon, then? Are they trapped by not being able to leave the small towns where Amazon hires? Doesn't sound likely. Could it be that their overall conditions are more or less on par, or quite probably somewhat better than the rest of the industry?

I'm going to call your bullshit and say what I think directly: Amazon is a cheap target for young idealists simply because it's visible, it's fashionable to attack, makes a lot of money overall, and most people attacking it have no idea what's a good pay for that kind of work because they never did that kind of work.
No? My understanding is that the author implies people who believe the Fediverse is a "safe" place from bigots are misguided.
Thanks for clearing that up. Obvious now.
Invention is the lower rung. ATT is the much more inventive + innovative company. Innovation disrupts/transforms. Invention sparks anew. In fact, what makes Amazon so wildly successful is not even particularly inventive but optimization driven.
Several people -- and the article at the top -- talk about a "static" universe.

What this means is that the universe doesn't collapse into a point, even though it is filled with galaxies. Something had to offset the long-term tendency of masses to gravitate towards one another, and he introduced the most simple mathematical object to represent a plausible "something".

When it became apparent that distant quasars were moving away from our galaxy, he recognized that simple inertia from forces exerted on quasars in the distant past could push an eventual total collapse arbitrarily far into the future. This meant that the cosmological constant could be set to zero without observational conflict, and so he simply removed it as superfluous. He and a collaborator formulated the Einstein-de Sitter universe[1], which is a model of a universe that expands forever with zero cosmological constant. The model remains useful in teaching cosmology, as it is a good representation for the history of the universe back to the formation of the first galaxies to today.

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background after his death raised difficulties for the Einstein-de Sitter model, but it wasn't until the accelerating expansion of the universe was detected in the late 1990s that it became necessary to add a non-zero cosmological constant back in. In essence, if an Einstein-de Sitter like universe had galaxy clusters flying apart at some threshold speed they could still fly apart for arbitrary zillions of years, however they would still exert a drag on each other, particularly early on when they are relatively close together. No such drag can be found, so observations do not require explanations more complicated than a small positive Cosmological Constant on an otherwise Einstein-de Sitter universe (and most such more complicated explanations predict things we should see but don't, or mispredict things we do see).

I don't know why he called it a blunder. That seems overly dramatic. He thought evidence compelled an adjustment to his original field equations to avoid the universe collapsing; later observations made him think that adjustment was unnecessary, so he removed it. He died before even later observations made everyone else working in physical cosmology think that first adjustment was necessary after all, to avoid the universe's expansion slowing down at early times more than it did. That happens a lot to all sorts of physicists if they work in a particular area long enough, and Einstein himself proposed, modified, and abandoned numerous other models and theories over the course of his long career.

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[1] encyclopaedic and reasonable, rather than overwhelmingly technical : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93de_Sitter_uni...
> From my perspective though, the main point that I wanted to raise with you was the first one, that no-one is being forced to join, and no-one is losing any right to negotiate individually, so why shouldn't the people who want to unionise be allowed to do so?

Well I’m arguing that its not in some employees interest to unionize. I’m fine with people voluntarily agreeing to whatever, freedom of association and all. I just don’t like unions when they require people to join or hold a monopoly on labor.
Yes. But generally many software allow configuration in home directory. That's least of my problems with Linux.
I like the interaction ideas, and I think both 1 and 2 could work the way you describe, but 3 would probably be better solved inside the base. The bearing balls could be spring-loaded so when you press down, you engage with some other surface that acts like a brake?

Not super sure if that's what users would want, tough, it would probably make "throwing" the cursor harder.
> The best products are designed around how people work, not necessarily what people say about how they work.

This reflects a lot my experience: People actions >>>> People words.
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How about "underpay relative to the value they produce"?
I’m moderately smart at best, probably less, I didn’t mean it as an insult. I apologize if it came off that way.

I meant that it appealed to people that understand the value in peer reviewed research, but weren’t about to go actually get involved with the actual research mentioned or question it. That could be for a variety of reasons.
VS Code: How Microsoft's 'any OS, any language, any software' plan is paying off
You don't want them running for long on full power, but it's probably OK to use them for slowing down an emergency landing if the sea-level engines become otherwise unavailable. The alternative, as we (and SN10) saw with SN8 and SN9 is not great.
There are days when stern-faced Austarlian politicians sternly caution the supermarket CEOs that their absurdly low milk prices are only just in the realm of the tolerable. It's been years since I last watched one - the theatre has been going on since what, 2011? 2010? Damn the capitalists and their cheap milk.

I find it impressive when they maintain character all the way through the committee hearings. Nobody is going to do anything about very cheap milk.
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That was a 10k lesson I wish I didn't take.
> but if you include the cost of that higher salary reducing his value would that also reduce the salary you want to pay? Doesn't make sense.

It indeed doesn't. Where did you get that idea? It's not as complicated as you probably think.

If the engineer has rendered services which are worth his salary + his actual expenses to achieve that, he has earned exactly his salary, high or low.
I felt same after using one for 20 years, finally found Elecom Deft Pro which feels quite good: https://www.amazon.com/Trackball-M-DPT1MRXBK-Bluetooth-High-...
Building on this:

Engineer D spent months working on a project that was cancelled by management

Engineer E was tasked to build a feature that no customers ended up using

Productivity is a team effort. Even most brilliant engineer will be unproductive if they're given unproductive work
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A much better resource is at - https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/k1hfyi/farm_bills_20...

> In short, the bills aim to deregulate farming, which is good for the consumer,

Not necessarily. Corporates are not known to be benevolent and will act like cartels to dictate the market price. This bill will endanger India's food security for the poor as deregulation means that corporates will now increasingly dictate the price.

Farmers will suffer because this bill is a huge push to corporatise agriculture through contract farming, in the guise of "reforms".

Repeating what I said elsewhere - In both the US and Europe, contract farming has seen the consolidation of farms under few corporates. Many indian political parties understandably do not want that to happen in india too.

- 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland

- Contract farming as a means of ushering in corporatisation in agriculture: https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/fast-forward-to-co...

The new farm bills have now opened the gateway to corporates to take over indian farmlands, which will in time, invariably allow foreign corporates to take over them and control India's food security.
Yeah, Taiwan got that right - they had the military help with mask production even before any other country considered that this might spread beyond China.
Is this sarcasm? It's difficult to tell sometimes...

But one good reason for having discussions with people you disagree with is that you get to see things from a different perspective and maybe learn something too.

Depends what you're disagreeing about and whether all parties want to have a discussion in good faith, which seems to be in shorter supply these days.

Otherwise we just stay in our bubbles and enjoy the echo?
Kind of cool i was looking for colors yesterday :)

thx
> As I recall there was some serious doubt about whether anyone would get benefit from vaccination at all. Again if it was /known/ that it was likely to work that's not a bad decision - but I haven't seen that analysis. Have you? Please do link it if you have. I'm also not clear about what the upside for running that risk was. Are there better results for people contracting covid after only one jab? Do we have data? Or was that a flyer that it might turn out to be? Any links you have with an analysis of that is welcome.

It certainly wasn't known. And scientists used to working with statistically significant proof rightly called that out. That said, my understanding is that it works this way for most (but not all) vaccines. So unlike some of the other UK government decisions, it was a somewhat reasonable gamble with quite a high likelihood of working out.

The upside is being vaccinate twice as quickly (esp. valuable early on when supply is constrained).
I fear we're way past any form of commons, from land, sea, air, space, even radio wave frequencies are sliced up, sold, paid for and controlled. Even when stepping in 'nature', it's governed by laws that state what you can and can't do. I can't think of a thing we don't regulate and I don't think that'll ever go away.
Each year there is a HN thread, here is the one for 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537230
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What are your thoughts on the price? Should I purchase it?
I went through the video and exercises some time ago. I am _very_ glad that I did.
Legal standing is uncorrelated to genetics.

An adopted child has 0% of the genetics of their father, and they are still legally their descendant.