skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been a "managed partner" with Udemy for 5 years now (600k enrollments) and I have never once been asked to sign a contract

Just because you haven't doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I know 2 instructors who have and have seen the contract in 1 of the cases. I've also chatted with popular instructors who have showed me emails back and forth between them and Udemy that doesn't leave me thinking too highly of Udemy in terms of how fair they are with how they rank courses in their search results.

> If your course didn't do well on Udemy

They did ok (around 30-50 sign ups a day for years) within ~60 days of being on Udemy until one day a light switch was flipped and my traffic started to plummet. Not just sales but page views to the landing page. Nothing changed. There weren't too many new courses and I kept mine up to date. There were no emails or anything. Funny enough for the longest time one of my courses had a rating of 4.8 with a bunch of sign ups (highest rating in a niche with hundreds of courses) but the course barely hangs on the bottom of page 2 and now gets about 30 sign ups a month. Every metric that Udemy gives to instructors to determine if a course is good was nearly maxed out (high retention, good reviews, 100% watch rate on nearly every video and back when they showed those metrics with the bars every bar was nearly 100 / 100).

I've also emailed Udemy about this a few times and usually within a day or 2 of emailing them my course(s) will magically end up on the first page of the search results for very broad and good keywords (often the name of the tech) for a day or 2, I'll get a sales spike and then within a few days it'll drop back to the bottom of page 2. This pattern has repeated multiple times over the years.

I don't think there's a massive conspiracy. It's painfully obvious that Udemy has special deals with certain instructors and they heavily manipulate search rankings based on courses that align with whatever they think is best. Of course you do need a good course and landing page but it's not close to enough to get ranked well.

> It's the same dynamic on YouTube

I'm on YouTube too and I never once thought the algorithm was against me. I think YouTube is a great platform. I'm not affiliated with them in any way and I have no monetary incentive to promote them over another platform. Despite having the ability to monetize my videos with ads I choose not to. I make $0 dollars from YouTube and have 13k+ subs. It's been a gradual incline over the years. I don't care about views, subs or money. I post videos there because I love making videos.

Likewise I don't have a competing marketplace to Udemy and while I do sell my courses on my own site I'm not mentioning that here because this isn't a case of trying to bad mouth a platform to profit on my own thing. I'm just giving my honest assessment after having sold tech courses for the last 5 years on Udemy, other marketplaces and my own site.
It s already the case and actually a big fight we re having (company of 70k employees spread everywhere) because we cant reverse engineer our upstream and downstream systems and it leads to huge bottlenecks trying to understand them when issues arise, as we need other teams etc.
https://archive.is/d9Axl
NASA to crash spacecraft into asteroid in 'Armageddon' test of defences
Not just fortified with vitamin D, but also the things that contain it naturally. Like seafood.
You can check the real data.

https://bitcoinblocks.live
https://whatsonchain.com

There is no problem with practical use.
Once you know "peer-to-peer transaction protocol," you will understand that it can work without any problems.
https://blog.moneybutton.com/2020/03/30/handcash-and-money-b...

This was Satoshi's original Bitcoin design and is the key to the scalability solution.
Keep in mind this is just what they make which Twitch knows about. Plenty of sponsorships, tournaments and other income streams exist for a majority of these people.

On top of that, besides their eceleb status, most of these people aren't that professional. Plenty of them are a combination of variety or casual, often to a degree the person isn't even that good in games in general.

Their production quality also isn't anywhere near amazing (note it can be both organic and high quality), and other parties (e.g. Hololive) have shown how easily the space can be disrupted. For those curious, notice how many top streamers still lack actual high quality audio (mostly from their own lack of voice training rather than equipment), proper schedules and sticking to those schedules, high quality video when applicable (e.g. bad light), allow themselves to get devolved in politics, allow their streams to go majorly off-track in general, etc. It's not like these guys don't have the means to drastically improve it.

And the obvious: we don't have anywhere as much of a shortage of people willing to play games in an extremely dedicated manner as doing software development.
> Trezor - I've been using one for years and it's great. Also you can backup/restore the seed (so you don't need to register multiple devices).

Trezor does not make use of a secure element https://blog.trezor.io/is-banking-grade-security-good-enough...
Same experience here. Software quality outside pure software houses is often better, but the companies pay less. Sure, the scope is completely different in most cases.
> Did your sleep schedule naturally shift to become more more regular? If it did, then light therapy has a very high chance of helping you.

You just made me feel I might be on the brink of a startling discovery. Holy hell, I have tried a lot to improve sleep. I haven't tried this. And while there was one confounding variable in my case with camping, it did indeed shift my sleep rhythm to the day/night cycle of the country I was in!
does any1 have the link to the leaked password hashes? askin for a friend
In my city during winter the Sun rises at 8:30am... so I'm afraid that won't be possible for people wanting (or needing) to wake up too early.

Do you think one of those "simulates natural light" LED lamps are actually equivalent in terms of faking real sunlight?
There are so many fallacies & misunderstanding there it's hard to know where to start, so I won't...
Never rename your Windows user account
Something like this comes along every so often, hot to trot in its genesis. Typically, experiences it’s exodus, when folks fall back in line.
> Critical Role did a Kickstarter to turn the first season of the live DnD campaign into an animated show, which finished at over 10 million.

Sounds like how Record of Lodoss War got started - RPG session gets recorded and it went from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_of_Lodoss_War
Companies tracking and profiting from your every move are everywhere. If you’re not live-blogging your entire life on Facebook it’s really quite far from the worst offender in the surveillance economy.
Not to mention sponsors, sponsored streams, etc.
tl;dr: I understand the arguments for HTTPS, and I don't care.

This is totally reasonable. It's just a hobby blog. There's not much that can go wrong here.
The use of the international communist star for the logo seems like bad optics (the people who claim Yang is a socialist will latch in the that).
But no one can make you remove connections from an existing social media account.
Just use Cloudflare and terminate SSL there
The Forgotten City Hall Riot
Ideally they aren't different, but in practice they are.
Wagies donating to millionaires is probably the funniest thing i can imagine.
One of those is a need. The other is a want. Everything is a tradeoff.
You don't actually believe in democracy if you think that regular people shouldn't get to talk to each other to make political decisions and that some central committee gets to decide which ideas become popular.
Because it's only the correct version of the web site that comprises "HTML, CSS, and JPG". The problem isn't about what the correct version of site contains, it's about what the intercepted version contains.

Anyone in the middle can change the web site into anything they like. They could add a "donate link", saying that the author needs money to sustain the site.
I've been given the "we're a small start-up so can't afford to pay what you're currently on" line. I believed it at the time, and told them that's ok, I understand but I'm not willing to take such a big cut.

Then they multiplied the offer salary by 2.5X.

This dishonesty left me with such a bad taste in my mouth I no longer wanted to work for them and declined.

I've personally found honesty to be the most effective way to negotiate. Identify what you want, and what they want, then you've got nothing to hide and can have a grown up conversation to see if you can find a mutually beneficial agreement.
No, the problem is victim blaming and criminalizing nudity.
If you have 1M writes per second, you have a data collection problem, no matter the technology. Doing it on a single node is not a great idea just because it'd be a huge SPOF.

In most cases, you have colossally fewer than 1M writes per second, and you usually distribute them over several boxes. the IoT avalanche of writes in particular is naturally sharded, that is, all these writes can occur independently, and then you can replicate statistics into an analytical RDBMS.

It's a large write load that needs to be transactionally ordered, like a stream of purchases in a large online store, that can be a hard(er) problem for an RDBMS.
The M1 bus fabric is very picky about access modes. We had to add a whole new ioremap_np() to the kernel, because it requires nGnRnE mappings for on-die peripherals, while Linux used nGnRE for everything on ARM64 until now. For PCIe BARs it wants nGnRE instead, and I'll be very surprised if it'll take a normal mapping...
"disabling" until later is the opposite of immediate deletion. Please stop spreading disinformation.
I don’t think this is not a likely enough situation to affect design. I think the author is stating that it is an acceptable risk, and users shouldn’t care.
While I can understand the concerns about added complexity, he won‘t be able to keep this up forever. Browsers will deprecate plain HTTP sooner or later.
Kind of worrying considering my twitch is linked to my Amazon account, and all my banking credentials are linked to Amazon.
Why pretend you don't see the false equivalency you're drawing here? A limited amount of free storage/transfer or a consumer cloud product is not equivalent to what Cloudflare are offering here, or what S3 is. If you need S3, Office 365 or Google Drive are simply not alternatives. Google and Microsoft offer viable alternatives, and hey, they cost money: [0], [1]. If there is a completely free alternative to S3, I would love for you to send a link, because Googling doesn't show any reasonable alternative.

0: https://cloud.google.com/storage#section-10

1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/storage/bl...
Author point out that he don't want an extra point of failure and outside control. He already have domain registar and whatever his server require.
I got to the fifth insurance of'industry leading' and had to stop reading. The general sentiment recorded makes sense but the language used at various points reads as if it were run through a PR ML bot.
I get a feeling this is targeting the war gamer faction of pen and paper RPG players. For them knowing exactly where all the pieces are in 3D space is very important.
Google to turn on two-factor authentication by default for millions of users
When new scope is found, you update the plan of the project and provide new estimates.

I don't expect my team to know everything about a project on day 1. I just want them to know enough to start and provide a "good enough" estimate.

I do expect my team's estimate to get more accurate the further they get into a project.
you cant
But the details may differ. If you can generate the synthetic fuel near the energy source, let's say a wind, farm you can shift the cost of transportation from one medium to another. That opens up possibilities to optimize on a network scale. In Germany, there is a pipeline network to transport and store natural gas to many many places. That transport is happening without trucks or ships driving around, I assume there are some pumps involved. But you don't have to move overhead mass.
In Europe, people just assume that you have it. I often get the first contact from pensions and airbnbs on WhatsApp. I convinced a few people to switch to Telegram, but there are still a few stragglers on WhatsApp and even Facebook Messenger.
I needed better sleeping and tried various things. In the end I stopped drinking coffee and tea. For me its now just hot or cold water, sometimes a herbal tea, and an occasional beer or orange juice.

First caffeine-free weekend I had terrible headaches, than came weeks of strong urges (I felt I was an addict). In these weeks I just fell asleep on the couch or even at my desk at work. I slept a lot these weeks, during the day, early in the evening, like my body had catching up to do.

Now I'm fine, I sleep like a baby. I feel really good and have strong concentration.

On moments I have a 'coffee urge' I take a little walk outside, for 10-20minutes. My colleagues know by now, I'm the guy who goes out once or twice a day for a little walk...

Try it for a few months!
Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale
> There is a countable model of real numbers.

What exactly happens when you try to apply Cantor's diagonal argument to this model?

I guess that at some step, you get an answer like "outside of the model, yes this exists, but inside the model the answer is no", but I would like to see it precisely, how exactly the in-model reasoning diverges from the outside-model reasoning.
Not all that similar, the victim was not charged.
One thing to be careful about in selecting a supplement is the reputation/testing of the brand since they are loosely regulated. Specifically, how accurate and even are the doses in each batch and capsule? 50 micrograms is small quantity to measure accurately and consistently unless the right equipment and process is followed. There have been a number of supplements and manufacturers over the years who's doses from batch to batch or even capsule to capsule vary wildly.
I like this post as I run a simple, personal blog and don’t care about tls/https (my isp does it for me automagically so it’s less of an issue for me).

I get questions about why don’t I require or default to tls and I’ll point those folks to this post to explain my reasons.

I don’t like pointless security and, as a developer, get annoyed by many “security” requirements that just seem to increase complexity without any tangible benefits.

Yes, there is some benefit, but it’s not much. As the author says, MITM and isp snooping isn’t really applicable to simple web blogs. So who cares about protecting the content.

It’s like protecting against Martian attackers. Yes, it’s nice to be safe from Martian attackers but not worth a penny or second of time.
Isn't that the basis of the economy with the increasing wealth gap and so on? It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie.
It didn't. Now what?
I think I've read that THC usage can affect long term sleep quality...
Hey, that's me. I returned a few books a day late due to flooding and racked up an $0.80 charge. I can't pay it online because the minimum allowed online is a dollar. I'd pay the dollar if it allowed me, but it doesn't. I don't care enough to figure out how else to pay the fine, so I just don't go to the library anymore.
Here’s a great video on the same subject if you’re interested. This guy’s data-driven approach to these types of tests is awesome:
https://youtu.be/lHb-Tcvkn7M
Troy Hunt gives great argument about why every website needs to be HTTPS: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...
That's the standard type of wall, yes. Studs with a sheathing fixed over them. On the interior, drywall. On the exterior, plywood or specialty sheathing materials.
If your MacBook is still working by then. Looks like there is a lawsuit against Apple, because there are hardware issues with the screens of M1 Air and Pro. Before there was the USB-C PD to brick issue, but that may have been fixed now. Overall, not the best track record for longevity.
great rant, facts stand that people with HTTPS Everywhere never get a glimps. it might not be monetized but what's the point of putting your ideas out there if "out there" has low reachability?

also looking from security standpoint, anyone could mitm your website. that's bad for your name.
I certainly hope not. Blogs like this will help stop browsers from doing dumb things like deprecating HTTP where appropriate.
No, but that’s interesting. Doesn’t vitamin D have a relationship with Calcium?
Actually GDPR requires you to delete data when no longer needed. How long data is needed depends on what type of data it is. For example financial transactions are covered by other laws to be kept for certain amount of time. If data is linked to a survey that is completed then, by law, that data is no longer needed and should be deleted. How long should photo likes and comments be kept? I don't think there are good guidelines or judgements regarding this but it is nevertheless something to take into consideration and in most cases delete data based on age.
Benefits of having your own School Website
If you're going to download it, I would probably use a VPN or something before you do. Technically, this would be copyright infringement. I don't know if Amazon would go after people downloading this, but you just don't know.
That all just seems strangely perverse.

The author objects to outside control, yet is at the mercy of their domain registrar, to whom the same set of problems seems to apply, as well as their hosting provider.

If the author objects so much to outside control, they might think on the fact that offering their content unencrypted allows it to be rewritten by ISPs to introduce ads or other content outside their editorial control while still inside the network.
I think it's hard but absolutely posssible, but the quality of statistics in nutrition research depresses me. Good work exists, but the publication incentives do not lead it to rise to the top, meaning the correlation between study quality and study size isn't good. AFAIK, and I am not up-to-date, there are no large studies that (i) are constructed to gather data on enough variables and (ii) do the data gathering well-enough that the data won't be too noisy.

I'd love to learn that I am wrong.
Eh, I think it is a good rule personally. At least for reddit-style low-effort one liner humor, not that I haven't been guilty of posting that myself.
We run all our databases in K8S, approx 80 DBs. We're a fintech that requires HA so all databases run with at least 3 notes. Maging DB clusters with K8S only requires 1 file.

If we need to increase storage this can be achieved in minutes, if we need to take one node down we basically can do it anytime during the day..

Every now and then we discuss moving DBs to AWS RDS (or equivalent) however for our transaction volume RDS costs are prohibitive.
A Git Implementation in Awk
One half-baked idea that came to my mind while watching the bot play on Lichess: You could maybe attempt something similar to how Lichess extracts puzzles. The puzzles generally revolve around sharp positions, so Lichess presumably has some metric for identifying those. They also have some auto-tagging for what kind of situation it is (Fork? Pin? Zugzwang?), although from what I gather these are community-corrected.

That's overall less general than "feed position network output into a transformer", but presumably less data-constrained.
There are animal models for depression.
Is it possible they sell a lower strength because the nordic diet tends to include a lot of seafood which has vitamin D? Or is it just a legal thing about selling weaker supplements?
Interoperability between these systems should be a public policy goal. I don't have to buy an AT&T phone anymore to call my friends; not sure why I have to buy iOS to chat with them.
Move to a European country and Sue there for GDPR violation.
Maybe if viewed in a cynical way yes.

At least when i donate to blue origin i get something tangible delivered to my door.

Where is the value exchange in being one of 10k people building a faux-relationship with a hot tub streamer?
Logic isn't your strong suit, aye?

A implies B does not mean it's contraposition is true. That is, that (not A) implies (not B.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox

On the contrary, studies show money up to a certain level certainly does *correlate with happiness, and abject poverty with stress and sadness. Kinda silly to even debate about something so obvious and backed by rigorous academic studies.

* Correlation is not absolution. Individuals (and outliers) exist. It merely means a strong coupling in the values of two different measurements in a population.
Damn, 15 minutes to fall asleep must be godly!
I want to answer trying to interpret the GP. For me, I want to be able to tinker with Plan 9. I love everything I have read about it. But I also need a practical environment where this is possible. I would love to be able to do minimal (frugal?) development work on a pi running Plan 9, but the lack of a browser, an editor that feels familiar (at least for a while, until I learn the ropes) and the languages I want to tinker with, it is very hard to get going.
> Languages treat this spectrum in different ways: Some have separate words for “green” and “blue,” others lump the two together. Some barely bother with color terms at all.

Although not mentioned in the article, in Japan the the street light for go is “blue light” (青信号) while in the US it’s a “green light” despite being virtually identical in color.

I’m not sure how this came to be but it’s s fun to dispute amongst international friends (particularly while drinking).
Break out of the IDE then -- run your unit tests from the command line. As an added bonus, it will be much easier to troubleshoot the headless CI builds too.
Yeah, I empathize but he's really not reading current trends at all if he thinks HTTP is still going to be around in 3 years.

I can't wait for the pure hell that is captive WiFi once browsers provide sufficient friction to accessing non-HTTPS sites. Most devices are good enough at popping up the portal but far too often I find myself pulling up http://neverssl.com to force things to start working.
> I can only say that if an imposter site encourages you to pay for something or download code, you will immediately know you are in the wrong place.

That is such a flawed argument. If someone makes an imposter site, they're not gonna keep that warning there. And first visitors would have never seen the previous warning.

Of course the chances of that happening are very low for a website like that, but the argument is still flawed.

The whole thing could be summed up "Because I don't want to", all of those other arguments seem weak at best. Which fine, do whatever you want with your blog, but it doesn't change the fact that the arguments brought up are bad under the disguise of being a big reason for not having https.
Prices for ads is very poor on twitch. The claim was that amouranth made "just" some ten thousand income with ads, which considering how many viewers she has is not that high. The majority of direct income on twitch comes from donations and subs. The bigger income comes indirectly from placements and cooperations outside of twitch, which of course are not part of the leak.

Twitch is not YouTube. For some reason they had for a long time big problems to get their ad-business running, especially outside the USA. It seems because of this the payment is low for streamers.
Why this comment? Zero relation whatsoever, in one case the one publishing another's nudes was punished, in the other the victim.