skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, now that I look into it more closely, most of these authors are making less than I expected. I've never actually visited most of their patreons to actually check, but yes most of them aren't making that much from it.

It doesn't actually counter your main point, but I do think I have dug up more than 1 making more than $5000/month.

https://www.patreon.com/RhaegarRRL has 3317 patrons with a minimum donation of $3 per month, so even though the actual number is hidden that should be more than $5000

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4240617 is similar, but with more patrons and a lower minimum.

https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow is simply at more than $5000 per month.

Where did you get those stats you quoted?
> Why not take it literally? That's a totally valid interpretation of the writing.

She's a fantasy writer. Do you take her fantasy novels literally as well? Do you think she is actually riding around in her "animal" body like that alien in "Men in Black"?

> Also, it's entirely your perception that it is "hounding any joy and meaning out of the words".

Ummm, yes, of course it is.

> For me, the idea of myself and my body being inseparable is much more joyful than the original post

I also feel my body and mind are inseparable. But I don't think that Robb is proposing mind/body disassociation because I didn't read her literally. And, for all I know, maybe Robb does have mind/body disassociation and this is how she copes.

In fact, because I didn't read her literally, I think she may actually be in agreement with you.

Feel free to express your opinion!

> I'll take the interpretation of the comment you replied to, thanks!

Ok. I'm glad for you.
It's cherry-picking to suit an agenda.

Where are the articles on the devastating effects of under-regulation?
I'm CTO for a small startup. 10K seems like a wildly high estimate for such a simple feature that you could have known for years that you are required to offer. You do need a certain level of competence on your team to do it. But then perhaps lacking that competence, why should people trust you with their data?
Yes, meds don't solve the underlying issue. There is no happy pill. They just give you the boost you need to fix your life. This is shown by studies that show depression comes back after discontinuing meds, but not after discontinuing therapy.
Have you found any problems with them being left out of all the in-jokes and culture? I don't think kids culture (esp. for boys) really exists anywhere online outside of YouTube. That's part of why gaming is so popular on that site. I no longer watch TV because YouTube has way better stuff.
Heard about Dopamine fasting? It could be the way to make your brain work hard
> Did markets incentive the development of agriculture, or was its invention largely independent?

Obviously not. Most agriculture until very recently was of the subsistence variety. People want food to eat before they want trade goods.
so when will I be able to log onto an iphone or android with a facebook account?
No, I am calling what armies and navies do "murder", as they kill people.
Thats a load of dung. We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning, but we are by no means going extinct.

Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN

https://www.drawdown.org/
https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
> Ordering a server at Hetzner can take anywhere between a few minutes and a few days

At the start of the pandemic, ordering bare metal servers anywhere was faster than getting a new EC2 VM up and running...

The cloud doesn't even fulfil the value proposition of the cloud. It's significantly more expensive, and when you actually need the flexibility, none of it is available.
GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring remote (US) Sr engineers passionate about education
I think you might be able to do a good job if you had a depth map of the image. You could use ML to guess them. Computation without that treats incident angles that vary by the distance ratios as the same.
By passive I'll assume you mean less effort and risk than starting a new business that requires daily attention.

The nice things about the property market are:
1. High leverage - to a very high amount when you put down payments greater than 30-50%.
2. Managed or protected by some governments. Gives a more consistent rate of growth in many fast growth cities.
3. Cashflow and appreciation.

The details matter and there's obviously skill involved in making it work. At some point like other businesses you will need to hire others to manage the day-to-day if you choose to keep growing.
I actually had crypto in an online Russian exchange that DHS seized and lost basically everything I had in it as a result.

Not sure what I am supposed to do about that.
That's true although the best smartphones have made pretty significant gains. I've been slowly working my way through my catalog of photos to clean it up and go back to a lot of my older phone photos taken in dim restaurants and the like and the photos were generally pretty awful.
It's a thread about a Linux distro and further a thread about some complications one might run into versus others. If someone's concerned about a problem with pre-compiled proprietary software, particularly one you know they'd rather not have either, jumping in with a Har Har try not to have that problem isn't ... well it's just flat humor. Nothing mean or bad just, downvotably flat?

I don't think it's any sort of Mac generation downvoting, I think it's more the opposite: they're preaching to the choir. Yea. We Know.
Admittedly it was rather snarky, but the main takeaways remain the same: don't use safe deposit boxes and don't make it trivial to get your assets seized.
I have been part of feinternational for sometime and saw their prospectuses. In general, if there is an existing user base, then the price factors it in already. You must have a plan and ability to increase the userbase in order to get a return on investment. Otherwise, some competitor may simply attract your customers and you are doomed.
His lens tests are excellent. The lens rentals blog is the best place to find them [0].
If you're in market for high quality lenses, lens rental blog is a great resource.

I also like cameralabs' lens tests [1]. Not as scientific as lensrentals, however, it has real samples and images of charts for comparison, so you can get a sense for what the different resolution means in image resolution. It also tests things beyond resolution. Such as out of focus rendering, coma, sun stars, etc.

[0] https://www.lensrentals.com/blog
[1] https://www.cameralabs.com/camera-lens-reviews/
Video games and super hero movies. They start on them young.
I'm not so surprised that they got such good results in Japan, where traditionally the business culture has been extremely demanding compared to most places. It would be interesting to know whether they did ever try similar experiments in other parts of the world with more "normal" working hours, and if so, whether they managed to repeat the successful result.
Dfinity is finally launching its 'Internet Computer'
Maybe because this whole blockchain/cryptocurrency area is probably the only topic that's even more overhyped than Machine Learning.

> Bitcoin was actually super cool just on a technical level

How so? It's a fundamentally flawed design where the whole system has to be inefficient to be safe from attacks(51%). And the underlying blockchain is praised as immutable storage, which also means it can be abused by malicious actors to upload questionable data that would be very hard to get rid of again(e.g. it's already being abused as FBI-safe decentralized control instance for botnets).

Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding something, but so far I don't get why I should be ecstatic about a currency that's rather unstable and is mostly famous for emptying the GPU market. It had nice ideas and good intentions, but I don't think it turned out to be a good solution for anything.
Each fact in the document may be true, but the document is so overbroad as to be useless. Who is it intended for? I mean, it is almosth philosophical in starting from how senses actually work from science.

Each lesson included could / should be broken out for Joe to make the desired outcomes practical and achievable.
App Tracking Transparency review process lottery
Just compare Bardeen to Shockley.
Well, 10% is great, and he's diversified. I don't think it's that cut and dry.
Emergency Waiver While Colonial Pipeline Is Down
Search HN, there have been a number of threads on this topic with lots of discussion.

Also, consider that it may be pycho-somatic. No, that doesn't mean you are crazy or the pain is not real it just means your subc mind has zeroed in on your wrists to express conflict (my take). The best book in this area is by John Sarno, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection. You can ignore his Freudian rage theory (he wasn't a psychologist) but learn his techniques and you may have success as many people have using his advice, myself included. I completely cured my "RSI" in about a month and can type for hours now without problems.
If I am given the choice of making something which I will enjoy making, but that will be used to kill a single human being, and not making it, I will choose not making it every single time.
Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
What bankruptcy? That's the most preposterous thing I've ever heard. California has a massive budget surplus, despite going through a pandemic.

There's such a massive surplus that it is overflowing the rainy day fund. And due to spending limits set back in 1979, a bunch is being refunded:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11872910/flush-with-cash-californi...

You should think back to whatever source told you such a silly thing and remember to never believe them.
Which has better odds, the smoldering remains having actually flushed the write to disk or the flushed to the upstream log aggregator?
I can add one new line into procedural code that does exact same thing.

It wont increase reading complexity either. It wont even force me to think about what hidden map parameters. It will all be visible directly.
A magic moment for me was writing a sorting algorithm that was horrifically inefficient (I think it was like bubble sort but worse), and then later finding out about recursive sorting and making what I now know to be merge sort. It was really special to realize that you can make code that does the same thing but faster if you're clever.
Not quite what you ask, but very related: http://yedlin.net/ResDemo/
VAR could be used in situations where it is quicker.

For example, in basketball, it should be able to do goal-tending in near real time. Also 3s in the key.

The holy grail though is if it can help charge/block calls. Or we should consider changing the rule so that it can be consistently called, but that's a topic for a basketball forum.
Garbage Collection – the silent enemy of data recovery
Rote memorization enough to pass the exams, and situational training enough to memorize key behaviors.

100% memorization is neither achieved nor expected.
> DPReview seems to have rather balanced reporting

It's big enough and has a diverse enough community that it can avoid the worst excesses of pay-per-review.
Diversity is useful though. Stocks have crashed in the past, and they will in the future. As has real estate and every other investment. You thus need a backup plan in case your investment fails. I make no attempt to predict WHEN these crashes will happen, or how big they will be.
Selling a million copies would put them in the top 0.00003% of their profession - merely being in the top 1% only puts you in the ramen-eating 1k-10k sales bracket.
Not really, they just want you to realize what a scam it is and that cops/feds are stealing from people for no reason other than personal and departmental gains to flex their power. It's rather common in certain states. Along with basically illegal search by K9 cops on false triggers of vehicles. This happened to me in Texas. I refused them searching my car (had a brake light out), the cop got in a huff, said I had to wait until they brought a k9 out (thought he "smelled marijuana"). Full disclosure, I've never smoked pot or done any narcotic of any kind but I did have a pot brownie in college once. They search my car, the dog "triggered on something" and found absolutely zero as I knew they would (although I was a bit afraid it would be dirty cops who'd drop a dime bag somewhere). It was a complete waste of time and I'm pretty sure the cop set it all up because he was bored and I didn't submit to a voluntary search. This turned me a pretty big supporter of the cops into someone who realize they really need to be reigned in from their current fascist/military mentality.
Would love some feedback if it is helpful or not.
750 dollars in 1949 is about $9,000 in 2021.

Vonnegut had to convince at least two gatekeepers: his own agent and the editor at Colliers.

I spent a large chunk of time a few years back looking into the questions OP is asking, and the ultimate truth I came to is this: whether you're self publishing or going the traditional route, you're going to need some established gatekeepers to support you if you're going to make it.

In 1949, those gatekeepers were traditional publishers. In 2021, we still have traditional publishers, but we also have content curation algorithms, social media influencers, podcast hosts, and platforms like Substack and Patreon. If you can get any of them to put resources into promoting you, you'll have a real opportunity of making it - that is, if what you're offering is any good.

If you can't or don't want to get the attention of those gatekeepers, it doesn't matter how good your content is, no one will ever find you.
Yep. A lot of people here are talking as if it were bank safe deposits, but this was a whole different sort of thing.
They're not. Read the preface, while the intended audience is all soldiers, the manual is geared towards trainers.

The value isn't in the content of the publication (hence why it's public), it's in the training that soldiers undergo to make the information 1st-hand nature.

Example--you can read about the OODA loop. Reading about it doesn't make you good at using it. That takes training, and the Army has specific exercises that helps a baseline soldier know the fundamentals.

Like with nearly all skills, start with first principles, ingrain them with drills and repetation, then build advanced skills based on those fundamentals.
There’s perverts of every gender, and not limited to males. Instilling this sort of sexism in children from an early age is not great.
A hidden continent birthed a new subduction zone near New Zealand
If it's increasing because of a growing number of readers, then that's a winner take all scenario where Harry Potter sells more and more copies as each new reader hasn't read it yet.

If it's growing because of one extremely voracious reader buying up every book they can get their hands on, that's a scenario that favours more obscure authors.
>Pairing is optional at my employer.

Is collaboration / pairing part of employee evaluation in any way?
The Thing is probably my favorite movie and the practical creature effects are still largely considered the gold standard of the craft. But in 2K the artificiality is getting a lot more noticeable and while I will certainly be getting it in 4K I'm starting to realize that maybe 720p is the best way to view it for the sake of full immersion. YMMV.
Relationships with people can be considered as an investment. Off late I have noticed that any relationship will start degrading in the absence of communication. It's better to invest some time in people you really value and nurture the relationship over time.
Why is the EU trying to regulate outside it's jurisdiction?

Why doesn't the EU simply provide a 'core' set of servers, which they operate to a high degree of fidelity and robustness so that 'should something go wrong' ... then the EU still has these resilient services to reply upon?

I don't see how someone doing a public service should arbitrarily come under such scrutiny.
Wouldn't the NSA branch be "disciplined" if they were found out? Seems risky.
The OP said the child was a toddler. Depending on the exact age I'd suspect there wasn't much of a subsequent conversation given the lack of communication skills.

Aside from that, whether the child is enjoying them or not isn't all that relevant. My kid would enjoy eating ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day but I know what's good for them better than they do.
I'd kinda argue this article is a refutation of the fact check. If a rumor went around that the CIA is putting hidden cameras in random people's bedrooms, and it turned out that the NSA was putting hidden cameras in imprecisely-selected people's bedrooms, no way is that "pants on fire".
> Not to mention, an author would have to come out with one book a year to maintain that salary.

Your math looks odd to me. You look at the amount a book earns in a single year and extrapolate that to the author's annual salary, but seem to assume that once the first year is up, the book stops earning. Does books earning passive over multiple years affect the numbers?

For what its worth, my single non-fiction book has generated passive income for about seven years now.

I fully agree with your larger point that earning a living off fiction is exceedingly difficult these days. I hope fiction authors can find new revenue models like you're exploring that are successful. But I fear that fiction will go the way of poetry and theatre where it becomes a niche art beloved by some but rarely lucrative enough to devote yourself full time to it.
In fairness he did have a PhD in mathematical physics so characterizing him as an engineer instead of a physicist is not quite accurate. That said people in academia routinely downplay the qualifications and abilities of people who work in industry. It’s not hard to imagine colleagues dismissing his work as mere engineering and not real science before he won the Nobel prize. Perhaps calling him an engineer is fair in light of such practices.
She's WAY off with her data, because she's only going classic publishing and ignoring the fact that the 'new and untested' serialization model has many successful practitioners and has for a long time. To get to NK Jemisin's 5k per month on Patreon, she went down past 22 writers on the graphtreon rank.

This part: There are thousands of paid fiction authors on Patreon but only 25 earn more than $1,000/month, only six earn more than $2,000/month, and only one earns more than the $5,000/month (and she’s already a bestselling author).

That's just wrong. Pirateaba, Zogarth, Kosnik4, Shirtaloon, Wildbow, SenescentSoul and more make more than $5,000 a month - there are a bunch. There's a model here and it's working.

She didn't have success on Patreon because she didn't use a platform like webnovel, royalroad, her own website or something similar to release the free tier and link to the patreon like everyone successfully using patreon to pay for their writing does.
Checkout the Combat Hunter program. It’s good example even though it predates this document.
Principle of Existential Validation
Yep. You are right. One thing that it helped me with is pickup a few managerial skills and have a nice diversion from day to day software stuff.
Several paragraphs in, and still hasn't defined "pairing."

NEXT
My child was pre-verbal. It was a cartoon of a baby with an outlandishly large head with its mouth held open by ravens’ claws being force fed various inanimate objects like doll heads and machine engines. I shut it down within seconds of seeing it.

Answering your questions in that context is sort of ridiculous, but I’ll give it a shot:

1. At that age, my kid would watch whatever was on the screen, basically slack jawed. No bandwidth for anything else, really.

2. See above

3. There was no conversation.

And to answer your comments accusative sibling comment, my kid found it by tapping “next” repeatedly, or whatever was in the sidebar. Fwiw, I know “the phone isn’t the parent,” but the grandparents don’t have the same sensibilities around tech.
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." -- George Eastman

The trick is knowing what can be made with available light.
While it might not make sense to give children smartphones, they will find a way to see what they want.

This is preferable to sheltering them until they go to college where it is all on display for obvious reasons.

One of my fondest childhood memories was figuring out how to get past the high school’s filtering software so we could get hotornot/MySpace/deviant art available.

Just remembered hotornot, kinda crowd sourced child/teen body-image shaming but it did help everyone develop a thick skin unlike today when parents try and micromanage their kids lives.
Out of curiosity: What causes them to currently not use social media? And what if they start doing so?
more BS than another CRUD app?
I don't believe this is a part of boot camp, this is advanced specialized training. This looks to be a course teaching these concepts: https://www.benning.army.mil/Armor/316thCav/ASA/index.html . It seems to be open only to Sergeants through Captains, many of those will have a college education. From the course schedule it looks like this takes a month. It's not clear but it sounds like it's an all day thing too.
Over the lifespan of owning the building, say a few decades, you can expect:

1. Rare but highly expensive major expenses like a new roof, new heating system, etc. It's like a tail risk- you don't pay for it most years, but when it comes up, it costs a lot.

2. Required renovations- just to stay at your current level of quality. I.e. let's say you rent to normal middle class tenants now. In 10-15 years, you'll need to install a new kitchen, new bathroom, overall maintenance- just to stay at a middle class level. The building is constantly depreciating! So unless you intend to move economically downscale and rent to lower income folks, to stay 'middle class' you'll need to refresh the building every decade or two. No one wants an ancient kitchen, a decrepit bathroom from three presidents ago, etc.

So you have to factor those two major expenses into your total rate of return over the decades. How much is a new roof, a new heating system, that new kitchen, that new bathroom.... You may not see these expenses every year, so you don't feel like they count, but over the decades they will.

Source, am actually familiar with the true rate of return for properties over a long enough time span to judge. A 1-3 year snapshot isn't sufficient!
It happened to me (an illegal search that violated my 4th amendment rights). I have family who are cops and I believe be genuinely great people. However if only 5% of cops are dirty that's still a lot of people who can shoot you in the face and most likely get away with it.
I help manage some rental units for my family and it's definitely not passive income. It's not full time work, but something requires your attention regularly. There are plenty of pitfalls where you can find yourself losing money instead of making a profit. For example, if turning your unit over between tenants ends up being costly and time consuming you will still need to pay taxes and maybe a mortgage in the interim.

It's not a bad way to earn an income, but it really requires a lot of capitol to get started and earn enough to be worth it. Once you have enough units to sustain yourself you'll invest a decent amount of time keeping the whole operation going.

Edit:

Some people are pointing out you can use a property manager as a middle man to keep your involvement to a minimum. This is true but they will cut into your profits, which may or may not work for you depending on your margins. But it might make sense to go this route if you have minimal time or many units to manage.