skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this is true, the ceiling is very high. Look at the current top earners on Patreon, with a known per month figure:

https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators

* Chapo Trap House, 3 hosts - 170k/month

* The Tim Dillon Show, 1 host - 121k/month

* AdeptusSteve (I couldn't figure out how many people, possibly 1 guy making some sort of porn game?) - 103k/month

* Flagrant 2, 2 hosts - 98k/month

* Tiny Meat Gang, 2 hosts - 82k/month

* Cum Town, 3 hosts - 81k/month

Note that the dollar amounts of most of the people on that list aren't visible and I cut them off at 80k/month.

People are willingly chipping in to help creators making 1M/year, not including sponsorships, live shows, etc.

And there are some multimillionaires that could likely make it work. If the Spotify deal hadn't happened, Joe Rogan almost certainly could have.

Unrelated comment about the list: of the Patreon categories, podcasters are predictably over-represented. But I am surprised by the number of "adult games" on the list. I didn't realize how popular these were.
I may be able to answer your question. I only watched the video on the landing page and glanced at the docs, but it reminds me of what a saga system would do (like redux-saga perhaps), meaning that much of the side effects, such as networking, are abstracted away from the business logic, and there is the concept of compensation when things don't go as planned. Very neat!
Good to know : PG is not alone
It's not conspiracy, but an observation that hamburgers, cars, houses and yachts inflate at different rates. The gov inflation concerns hamburgers, but someone's making 200k really needs housing and that inflates much faster.
> so that we don't look exactly like them?

How about not be like them at all? People are stupid, but they can learn from their mistakes, and society can help them by accepting an apology rather than shunning them forever.
Because this time politicians need a permanent pandemic. Reality* has a funny way of always serving the needs of politicians.

*As reported by popular media.
Turns out that was developed by Amazon according to Wikipedia. So maybe they’re merging that usage into this offering (since that is a spec for search results)?
Except for perhaps C, Which "proper" programming language has been ported to more systems and architectures than bash?
> The way they operate their cloud service leaves a lot to be desired and encourages maximum spend

Pretty sure this is the definition of SAAS and IAAS
The fork announcement was announced as a response to the Elastic stuff. I don't think they made any predictions about when it'd be ready in that blog post, so I'm not sure why they would've underestimated anything?
The political messaging has also changed from “people in poverty have specific material needs that we need money to fix” (war on poverty) to “actually, people having or making different amounts of money is inherently wrong” (war on inequality).

The war on poverty can be waged with a modest tax on the PGs of the world. The war on inequality is different. Venture capital always seeks to create wealth that will flow to some more than others; a very efficient way to fight inequality is to simply abolish venture capital. Along with anything else that facilitates creation of personal (rather than societal) wealth.
Cost of living has gone absolutely through the roof, and shows no signs of stopping. That's, least in the northeast, the main reason $400k sounds rich but for a family of 4, with a $5k/mo mortgage, child care, etc. it really isn't.
There are three direct quotes from women who attended MIT in the linked article.
There's certainly an endless amount of content on the internet, but it's not an endless amount of content you enjoy or seek out, so paying for the content you like is a way to incentivize the creation of more content that you like in a sea of content that you don't.

720,000 hours of new content is uploaded to Youtube every day, and none of it is the 90 minute movie I want to watch right now.
> fund managers discovered new ways to generate high returns, and more investors were willing to trust them with their money.

Is the first part of this true? Most funds underperform the S&P.
Thanks! We have all of these except for the Inigo book, I'll check it out
if you happen to run a script that executes "python3"

Funny thing is, this is actually wrong on Windows and always has been. Unless I'm missing something. I recently traced back the earliest python3 installer on the official ftp site of python.org and even that one didn't have a python3 command. No official installers seem to have had it. Nor does an Anaconda install. So I don't really know why the 'official' (that is, the one on the MS store) is pushing python3 as a command (apart from 'other OS do have this'). Anyone has any insight on this?

Yes, the command line itself has ads

Technically it's just an executable in the PATH so anything, including any terminal application, which uses that gets it.

helpfully adds an explorer shell link to "Open in Visual Studio

Care to post the link to that installer? Never saw that, curious to see which one that is.
IPFS and WASM - Combined they let you build apps that don't need a cloud provider, and can effectively be immortal.
They won't remove it outright but we will get the option to collapse it. I've been using this mode on Canary ever since it landed and I honestly love it. Currently it's hidden behind a flag in pre-release builds but Stable should get it too in a matter of weeks.
I once worked with a guy who said "I don't know how Facebook can even be making money, like they don't charge for anything." Seriously.

Granted, this was a decade ago but even then all of us tried not to laugh and I just said something along the lines of "Do you know how they have ads for wedding venues right after you were engaged? That's how."
As someone who grew up with well water, it tasted fine, but (at least for me based on local conditions), it was a huge pain in the ass.

Low pressure, extremely hard to the point where soap is useless and we had to replace things regularly from scale build up, the UV filter thing we had to run in the basement, the worry that one day you could randomly lose the prime on the pump and they'd have to dig to get it back (which happened once), no fluoride so my teeth aren't the best.

Give me that carbon filtered (removes the chlorine taste) city water any day :)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-...
> google can push chrome on people in their search results. and google pushed HARD.

And still push hard. I use whichever browser is most "native" to the platform I'm using at the moment (Safari on macOS, Edge on Windows, Firefox on Linux) so I see prompts to install Chrome constantly. Very irritating.
Commie bastard, got what he deserves.
Thanks! We have a big stack of Richard Scarry books, they're excellent.
Unless it's changed recently, I believe there is exactly one person on the billionaires list that started life in the bottom quintile -- Oprah.

So you have a good question is all I'm trying to say.
I think the comparison with Linus is apt. Linus used this same kind of non apology style defense initially, but someone clearly got through to him and his behavior has changed visibly as a result. RMS's letter reads as justification/excusing him staying exactly the same.
Recently I accidentally found a very cool SaaS project https://audext.com/
It will come down entirely to who can sustain a good CPU core.

Currently Apple is the only company making performance-competitive ARM cores that can make a reasonable justification for an architecture switch.

Otherwise AMD's CPUs are still ahead of everyone else, including all other ARM CPU cores not made by Apple. And even Intel is still faster in places where performance matters more than power efficiency (eg, desktop & PC gaming)
Depends on how big you want to make it. If they're willing to go four inches, that'd do it with existing per-pin speeds from NVLink 3.
It's impossible to know for certain, of course, but it seems highly unlikely that any of those writers will be quoted beyond the lifespan of contemporary readers (except potentially in scholarly books about rationalism/startups/etc). How many authors from the 1940s are still widely read, especially for essays/non-fiction?
The original masters led to the song sounding "the right way" when you hear it on the radio, instead of sounding different. Sometimes that difference sounds good too, like your favorite live album from some band. But other times that song doesn't sound right, the live version or alternative take just loses that magic. So the original has a lot of value if it hits.

But I think you missed another aspect, the real value is the original master plus the tweaks and additions to make it into what became popular. That production of the song probably wouldn't sound the same if you applied those processes to a slightly different version, say the singer or band's best efforts later.
Kakoune is aimed at multicursor stuff and has relatively sane defaults. It shows help dialogues when pressing key combos too.
Many janitors are unionized and paid quite well. I think you're the out of touch one here.
Apple has had some decent ones. P.A. Semi, notably. And for $278 million dollars, the ROI on that was ludicrous.

But overall, yes. I can think of so many large-scale acquisitions that didn't go so swimmingly.

- AOL/Time-Warner
- Ford/its stable of luxury brands like Jaguar and Land Rover
- Compaq/HP
- Daimler/Chrysler

It seems like these “big” mergers tend to now show the synergies people promise. Maybe it’s just too much culture to integrate.
Innocent until proven guilty? The accusation were neither proven to be true, so what is up with your really flawed reasoning?
I have a similar background, and also miss the 90s where the people playing with tech were not thinking about the money but actually enjoyed the coding.

What I find hopeful about Paul's essay and the current state of the world is that I can start my own company for next to nothing. And I only have to find a couple customers to cover my living expenses. I'm not going to be the CEO of a billion dollar company and that is fine. I don't want to have those responsibilities.
And yet the US and Europe have lost millions of jobs to China over the last several decades.

The fact that you bring up Japan tells me you don't really understand what has been going on. Which is fine. I get it. Most people don't. I wish I didn't. I have no choice but to see reality across my desk each and every single day. I can buy semiconductors from China for a third of the best price I can get in the US. Asking "Why?" you start navigating the many layers of the multivariate business equation in order to understand.

Insulting me isn't going to change reality. Insulting me does not explain how we are where we are...a moment in time when we can't even make simple masks because we don't make the thread, cloth, rubber and machinery in the US and Europe. That's not a fantasy. And that didn't happen because of some imaginary character in a novel. And that will not stop because people like you prefer to respond to someone like me by insulting and ignoring them.

Remember what you said here and re-evaluate in a decade or so. I don't see anything changing any time soon. Sadly, you'll have the opportunity to understand. It will likely be too late to do much about it.

Just look at what happened to almost every single country in Latin America for a convenient time machine. My father used to manufacture products at scale in Latin America. In fact, I was with him this weekend and he told me the story again. The Chinese came in and made it impossible to operate at anything resembling a profit. Every single factory in his industry shuttered. That was about four decades ago. None of these industries have returned.

Again. Fantasy vs. reality. Living in the former does not change the latter.
Don't you have to pay extra for the movie anyways? I recall Disney recently charged a movie ticket price for the showing of their latest princess movie.

At that point, you are really only saving on snacks. I agree that that's not thing, but its not as if buying the TV grants you the cost of admission to the movie as well.

I don't own a TV and I still go to theaters for the occasional movie. I've always felt that I got my moneys worth when going out to the theater. Plus, having a large TV mounted somewhere is just another piece of furniture that I have to account for.

I think a home theater system makes sense for a diminishing segment of the population. A theater is cheaper if you are only interested in major releases.
> He wants to have a discussion about what makes sex between people of varying ages wrong

Wtf does that have to do with free software?

And why does he keep doing this over and over again? There's no smoke without fire
It means that one introduction becomes the difference between a talented, motivated, hard working person who is successful vs who is not.
One thing which surprised me: Elastic has a market capitalization of ~$11B.

I think that changes some of the more floaty ethical concerns. This is not a David vs Goliath situation. This is Goliath vs Super-Goliath.

At this point, I'm much less interested in the drama of which mega-corp is screwing over the other. I'm more interested in: how does it affect me? When the titans are done trampling over the rest of us, which side benefits me the most?

Its too early to tell, but it seems like it'll be Amazon. The product is more open. They have a demonstrated history of great support. Yeah, they gouge us on networking and everything else, but at least they're the devil we know, and buying into the OpenSearch ecosystem has a greater probability of being the more open solution into the next decade.
Perfect, ordered, thanks!
Again, that's not the claim that RMS made, is it? RMS started from the position that she was 17, and trafficked, and that Minsky had sex with her. He then defended that behaviour.

What actually happened isn't particularly relevant. We're not talking about what happened, we're talking about the behaviours that RMS will defend.

RMS defended the concept of someone having sex with a trafficked coerced 17 year old girl.
He didn't just say it could have happened. He said that the girl "present[ing] herself to him as entirely willing" was "the most plausible scenario". While he doesn't explicitly claim that it's 'most plausible' that Minsky believed it, this seems to be implied, given that he spends the rest of the email criticizing the use of the term "sexual assault". In this, he is not technically correct.
They all give you levers. I'm more referring to being required to overspend to overcome Elastic's incompetence (i.e., you're already aware of the levers, they're maxed out and the provider doesn't have a way forward).

Referring to my other example, in more detail: Elastic Cloud suggests operating your cluster across 3 datacenters for redundancy. This is a good idea. Then Elastic does maintenance in all three datacenters that your infrastructure is in at once and takes your clusters hard down. This is fucking stupid. Elastic's suggested solution to the problem: Operate a _duplicate_ cluster in 3 datacenters in a different region/provider. No guarantees that they won't do the same there either so it's not actually a solution.
This has happened in the past and liberals and leftists have complained rightfully.

If anything, I'd say the last decade or so has been right-wingers sticking their fingers in their ears and pretending the oncoming train liberals were warning them about didn't exist, right before getting hit by said oncoming train.

You are correct that "big tech is controlled by liberals" (I'd also include libertarians here as well), but in order to be anywhere close to consistent and get what you want you need to also embrace at least some left-wing or libertarian ideas about money and power. Any one of the following viewpoints are reasonable:

Left-wing: Ideological diversity should be allowed up to intersectionality and social media companies should be regulated like common carriers

That Mozilla blog post: Somewhere between the "left-wing" and "left-libertarian" viewpoints.

Left-libertarian: People should switch to federated Mastodon instances run on the basis of mutual aid (e.g. recurring donations or P2P technology) and centralized social media platforms should be recognized as harmful and shut down

Center-libertarian: Something like NearlyFreeSpeech's "Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons" policy, in which we sell server hosting to neo-Nazis and then donate all the profits we made off them to organizations that fight neo-Nazis.

Right-libertarian: People should outcompete monopolistic social media platforms with less paracensored versions and the government should take no action (This appears to be what you're advocating for, although in practice I've seen this tried and fail multiple times)

What isn't reasonable is the right-authoritarian approach, which is to just complain about "being censored" when it happens to only you, and then threaten to repeal CDA 230 if the platforms don't change their mind. (Don't get me started on left-authoritarians, or I'll be here all damned day.) That's not free speech by any definition - either the strict "Congress shall make no law" approach or the more general considerations of paracensorship that I'm trying to build a theory of speech rules around.
> you have to do

Technically you'd have to do

console.log("some label: ", JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(someObj)))

> In the second version, if someObj changes after it was logged, when you'll expand it you'll see the updated value

Yes, this is something to be aware of (and is getting beaten to death throughout this comments section), but if like me you mostly use plain objects in an immutable way, you generally don't have to bother with cloning. Just keep this in the back of your head and know when it won't do what you want in a particular context.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into this.
We've got the Napping House, I'll check out the others, thanks!
> However, I don't feel autism should be used as an excuse for bad behavior. I take responsibility for my actions and words, and so should RMS.

I agree. I'm not suggesting that it should be an excuse, just that it's a weird recommendation.

Some people find it easy to acknowledge their difficulties, others have a very hard time with that. It seems to me like RMS alludes to his difficulties, but doesn't get diagnosed, or doesn't share his diagnosis. That's his right, obviously. Other people then figure "hey, that guy is totally normal, he's just an asshole". Coupled with the fact that some get very emotionally invested when certain topics are touched, it's a recipe for disaster.
Not only that but that point people are just running things they don't even know what they are doing and not all or them are open source. I started working on a DSC to actually changed the LGPO instead of just changing a bunch of registry keys so people can at least see what was changed from gpedit.
Coining a term: *The Social Limit*

At any given moment, this is the income/wealth level of the medium social media account owner. Naturally, as those with fewer means come online, this limit decreases.

The purpose of this limit is to define the level of income/wealth, above which one will have to send an inordinate amount of time trying convincing everyone below the limit that it is not one's fault that the rest are currently below the limit. Everyone below that limit will be angry.

Once everyone in the world is online this limit will be defined as 0.
If you do read Roser's thread, please also read Hickel's response:

https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1380548416082735107
Every time I've had to go to the DMV in Oakland, CA, I've been able to make an appointment online and be in and out within 45 minutes.

More importantly, the efficiency with which the state handles DMV appointments is not necessarily correlated with how well they will handle rising sea levels for (probably) the rest of the century. Miami already suffers from regular flooding that causes a mixture of seawater and raw sewage to flow through its streets. I don't buy that a massive public works project is going to make all these problems go away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/08/analysis-s...
So Apple, right? We are talking about Steve Jobs here, no?
Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers
Thanks! We've got about half of these, I'll check out the other half.
GNU project contributions generally require copyright attribution to the FSF. This gives them standing to enforce any GPL violations, but it also makes them rather hard to replace when it comes to GPL enforcement.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
One tactic I've worked out with individual mods is I have them ban me, then unban me, which causes all of my posts to be erased from the public chat. Of course Discord probably still has them privately, but it's better than nothing.
If you want to run data analysis within a browser, almost native speed, check out

* https://pyodide.org/en/latest/

* https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook

* https://alpha.iodide.io/notebooks/222/
That's an interesting question, but it doesn't accurately describe the collection/transfer of data as far as FB or Google are concerned.

Millions of websites/apps/stores willingly deliver this information to Facebook/Google for free, and it's your relationship with each of those websites/apps/stores that governs the collection and sharing of that data.

GDPR, for instance, makes a distinction between "data controllers" and "data processors." The businesses are the controllers, and FB/Google are processors. Both have responsibilities regarding the handling of your data, but most of the requirements fall on the controller. The processors are able to assume that the controller had the right to share the data with them.
> What do they have that I don't?

The ability to do whatever they want whenever they want. If they want to see a live show in another country, they can get front row seats and be there. If they want to talk to the President, they can. If they want a new law that benefits their business, they can make a few calls and get that done.
I couldn't wait for this evening so poked around during lunch. dxdiag was fine, but the SATA driver was a generic AHCI SATA driver. Replacing that with a chipset-specific SATA driver dramatically improved the responsiveness of Explorer and general application launching.

I can't be 100% sure that solved everything, but it is perceptibly faster now. I'm not sure why Windows didn't auto-install those drivers. Perhaps it would have eventually done so during one of the Windows Update cycles, but your advice was very helpful, so thank you!
I'm interested in your thoughts on why this doesn't make a significant difference. From what I've read, the M1 has a lot of tricks up its sleeve that are next to impossible on X86. For example ARM instructions can be decoded in parallel.
I have taken the Stockholm and Gothenburg several time, both the black tin cans that are used as night trains and built somewhere around 1970, and the state of the art high speed train x2000 built during the 1990s. It takes me about a whole day to recover from the motion sickness, especially the x2000 which is well known for it lateral motion problem thanks to the non-straight rail and high speed.

The more rapid but shorter lateral movements on a plane does not trigger my motion sickness, and neither do turbulence. That could be a personal aspect. I have the same issue where if I am on a boat that goes up and down then I am usually fine, but not if the waves comes side to side.
True, I misread it.
Maybe one day, you'll even be confident enough to not make a throwaway account to say something like this.