skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I helped my wife (a primary school teacher) start a social emotional development book & activity subscription service.

https://mybookbag.com.au/

It's slowly growing, but to be honest the pricing needs to be increased. Profit margins are paper thin (ha!). Still though, it's been fun putting together the website, integrating Stripe etc.

Biggest issue is book publishers. Wow their ordering systems are archaic!

We can't hold stock on hand because we don't know how many subscribers we'll have each month. The issue with not holding stock is that we can't get reliable stock levels from any publisher or distributor. Ordering is a matter of emailing asking for a stock list, waiting to receive the stock list, then sending an email placing the order as quickly as possible. Frequently we'll order only to have them tell us books we ordered are on back order and we'll receive them in a month or two. It doesn't matter how often we say we can't do this, they don't care. I just want to get in there and build real-time stock management and ordering for them!

This is made substantially harder by the fact my wife creates associated resources and activities for each book. We can't deliver different books to different subscribers because she'd then need to produce additional activities & resources for each of the books. There's already 8 different books each month.
This is a good point. It boggles the mind how slow some apps have become, when they are at their core glorified text editors.
As someone who has a tuned RS 5, you don't speak on behalf of any "entire community".
Gmail was the original heavy webmail interface. All its competitors at the time were basic html (and providing only 5mb of space). Heavy js to provide a smooth interface was what made gmail such a big deal other than high storage limits.
No, sorry for not having been clear.

I am saying that if the churches pay their taxes from their commercial activities, without trying to hide their income (using their completely unfair tax-free position for non-commercial activities) - in other words do not fraud, then the fact that their followers give them money is irrelevant.

This is an individual choice to give your money to whoever you want. For style this is Wikipedia or science, for others this is a church.

My comment about taxes was just because we hear about churches that hide commercial activities behind the facade of non-profit ones b that are not taxed.

Otherwise how they legally get their money is their program and choice.
This is a cop out. All they have to do is use rate limiting. GitHub, Google, Instagram and many others seem to manage it fine.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474067549574688768.html
How does chatstats make money?
Amazingly bad translation! That book just might be the inspiration for the Monty Python Hungarian phrasebook sketch, no?! "my hovercraft is full of eels"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sw0PDgHU4
I think that's the thing - Cloudflares metrics are flawed on premise.

If you owned a store at a mall, there are many decent thresholds for constituting foot traffic. But you should probably at least count people who step into the store and not just people who stop and look at it.
Is the current vaccination sort of editing as well?
> get me outside

This might not even be your safest move.
I made $700/year by selling on Ebay random stuff I found on the street (in Berkeley, California). Not a big deal, but at least is free money.
Also note that in Apple's largest market, China, iCloud is entirely managed by the government.

There is no reason to have any faith in Apple's endpoint or cloud security.
Right, which is suggested by “gamification”. If Billy and Bobby and Jimmy want to drive my car around because it’s part of the new Fast & Bicurious then everyone wins!
Smart home is a useful thing.

A cloud-connected, vendor-locked smart home is not such a smart move, to my mind, though.

A LAN of things, with a VPN to my phone and laptop is something I'm considering. An always-on third-party listening device, like Echo, I would never consider.
Just embed both CSS files and images in the HTML file.
Just did a search and it took 550ms. 1.5s and 2 seconds sounds like an exaggeration
This was perhaps the most beautiful book I read this year. Thanks for reminding me. The main character's take on life was inspiring.
But it is not just a cold start problem. Check your network tab on a "warm" search.

Here is what I get:

https://imgur.com/a/Dl2B5Zo

2 seconds to load and 1.12MB transferred, all on "warm" start.
[Edit: they haven't IPOd]

Seems to have been the worse flying chicken in recent years. But please tell me why how a service based on people chatting in real-time will scale?
> I had no idea he was even sick.

Unsure if I'm being 'whooshed', but coincidentally that's one of his most famous jokes as well - https://youtu.be/SVswkvCK6_0

Complex he was. Always full of deep thoughts and just kinda shooting from the hip, in that he seemed able to listen to reason and explore new ideas when challenged.

Back on the death topic, he had a lot of really deep thoughts on that as well, if you hadn't seen - https://youtu.be/WWpRCN46mi8

I think his death being a surprise is exactly what he wanted. RIP Norm.
I'm shocked they are allowed to report this. Interesting that they are allowed to be independent and not obfuscate the fact that the other Goog services are so slow.
There is nothing nuanced about what mafia-like organisations, which includes communist parties, turn to. They consume their members with life of fear, and strife. One wrong word to the boss, or something allowing others to set you up, and you are killed.

It's cutthroat, it's one sided, and is exactly as boringly simple as the history textbook tells. I lived in communist hellholes for 18 years of my life, and I will not be entertaining a wish of people wanting to rewrite these textbooks to say that black is white.

It's a bad tendency I see more, and more: people drawing nuance when there is none, for a want of being "nuanced," "sophisticated," "succinct"
Why should we listen to this guy? Why is he more credible than any random hypercapitalist grifter trying to make a living doing interviews? Oh right, he defected from the soviet union, so that makes him incapable of exaggeration, hyperbole, and fabricated FUD?
Big discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29630293
As an engineer I've certainly never seen it in my past 3 jobs. In software that's especially the case, as your performance metrics aren't based on time spent but rather on your level of work completed.
So what is this 244KB JS taking 1300ms to execute on the simulated G4 actually doing? It contains mostly parts of the Closure Library (https://developers.google.com/closure/library/).
I also read The Library at Mount Char this year. I picked this up off the shelf at the library somewhat randomly. I didn't know anything about the book and so I was a bit skeptical. It took me a while to crack it. But wow, once I did...this is one of the strangest books I've ever read. Super messed up. But it was hard to put down.
> What if we were to co-locate the person monitoring the system within the car itself?

Why would we want to do that if it's not necessary?
3 years ago I started a newsletter about robotics (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) and about month ago I opened it to advertisers and started earning about $600 a month from ads.
I think it has more to do with simulating 3g network (which is being decommissioned now)
Apple workers staging Walkout December 24th
Of course it has value. Still a linked list. Stacks have more value, and I don't see anyone selling me systems cause they use stacks.
YA has been one of the more innovative genres of fiction for a good couple decades now. No shame in appreciating it for its evident qualities; you place yourself in good company by so doing.
Somebody hasn't seen the yoke.
That's why employment laws exist to protect workers. Wage theft is illegal, regardless of whatever agreements you signed.
I think you're allowed to ignore requests if they are obviously false or missing required info.

I know wikipedia ignores 75% of the dmca notices they get (source: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/transparency/2021-2/dm... )
What other hardware would be capable enough but is not supported?
Twitter and Facebook tend to make these "mistakes" all too often focusing on one side of the political spectrum.
Post it on r/hydrohomies and you might be able to retire early lol
How NASA's Webb Telescope Overcame Loose Screws, Budgets and Clamps
My God, you mean it's possible to build a site that doesn't require 10MB of compressed stupid ass frameworks and preprocessors to turn your code into, uh, slightly different code? You can just... write HTML and CSS yourself? By hand? The deuce you say. :-D
>Some abuse this by cancelling the subscription in the months they don't expect to use a tunnel...

I think I understand how the second case you list would be abuse. If I'm understanding correctly, they're having a tunnel active without a subscription. Is that right?

I don't understand why cancelling a subscription when you know you aren't going to use the service would be considered abuse though. I'm asking as someone who do that without considering it might be abusive until I read your post.

That short notice cancellation flexibility is something I look for in a service, and it enables to sign-up for things I'm unsure of without being tied to them, or I can't afford a commitment to. If there was a minimum contract length, there are services I wouldn't bother with at all.

I generally do it with larger companies though. I look at it as, "I'll pay for what I use, or I won't use your product." (Crunchyroll, the anime streaming with the worst stagnant platform being the example that springs immediately to mind.)

Is there something specific to the way they do it or to the nature of the product? Or is it just a dick move to do specifically to a lone dev or something?
Just put it to a vote, “Who thinks we should be able to use our phones, eat hamburgers and readjust our balls while driving? Okay, yup. And the nays?”

This is a democracy people.
More info at: https://appletogether.org/
What car manufacturer isn't a "more upper-crust brand" when compared to Daihatsu? Never mind that they were acquired by Toyota 5ish years ago.
It's nowhere near $500/month. But, my apps in total make 8$/month. It's not consistent though. https://apps.apple.com/mn/developer/usukhbayar-batbayar/id15...

Really need to make something better.
Fpga ?
A tie between two well known books: "The making of the atomic bomb" and "Manufacturing consent". Both great in very different ways.
Native New Yorkers on TikTok Are Pushing Back Against the “NYC Influencer” Trend
Yep sorry for that. We introduced query limit to prevent abuse and control cost during (free) beta but initially set it very low for our target userbase (50 queries/day). We increased it since to 200/day after receiving similar feedback and of course once we launch there will be no limit.

Kagi Maps is still work in progress (beta like everything else) and we just didn't get to shipping this feature. We are not using OSM only though, and many users have complimented the map to be better than Google maps already (for features that we have shipped).
"My Struggle" series by Karl Ove Knausgård [1]. The whole series is 3600 pages in six books, and I read four of them this year. Why on earth am I reading ridiculously detailed reports on some Norwegian guy's personal life, I thought. His divorce, parenting struggles, creative aspirations as a writer, sexual aspirations as an adolescent, in-depth descriptions on how his dad became an alcoholic, etc. Why am I reading this?

And yet, I did. Whenever I had a free moment, a household issue I didn't want to solve, etc, I grabbed after this book to simply get lost.

I'm not sure if one can consider it a literary masterpiece, but it sure was impossible to put down. In one of the back-cover blurbs, a critic said something like that: this series makes it clear that a person's life is actually by no means a story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_no...
Instead of fixing our concentration camps of forced prison labor and torture, we should admonish other countries for alleged abhorrent behavior. The torture we did to this poor young black child at Rikers Island is unconscionable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
> This supports the theory that the "the science says race is a social construct" started primarily with sociologists.

Who? Dr Morning is the only sociologist here. And you're using her to support your argument.

You've obviously thought about this a lot and have some pretty strong opinions but I don't see how that aligns with the original article or anything geneticists are talking about?

Ignoring for a second the idea that "race is a social construct", will you at least concede that race *was* a social construct? And that it predated our understanding of genetics and was used to, among other things, justify slavery, eugenics and other human misery? And that perhaps we shouldn't be cavalier about attributing scientific observations about genetics to something like a 'race' of people? Because that's the discussion that's happening in the scientific community. It seems very divorced from your assertions about victimhood ideology.

Genetics are still important. Groups of related ancestors are, too. Take a personal example - I did "23 and me" maybe 10 years ago. I'm half Swedish and half Mexican (mestizo, basque and native). I have genetic markers that predispose me to having high iron in my blood. This is pretty common among Swedish ancestory.

How does attributing that to "white" help anything here?

And what the hell am I? Am I latino? Am I white?

Does any of that fucking matter? Who cares what the hell Johann Friedrich Blumenbach thought about the subject. My ancestory - my mix of Swedish and Mexican ancestors - is really only useful for explaining what I look like. The concept of "race", historically, takes it further to attempt to explain who I am. Am I lazy? Am I superior? Am I worthy of passing on my genes? From there it's a historical slided to the worst parts of our history: that maybe the world would be better off without certain people. Or that some were meant to be superior.
My favourite this year was “The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction”

It’s an incredibly fascinating book that runs through all the history, science and politics coming out of the most recent ice age. Highly recommend!

https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/...
Taylor did a great job
When these allegations first appeared, I waited cautiously for evidence. Maybe something happened around me that I didn't know?

When the BBC interviewed Xinjiang but failed to find evidence, and then only used video filters to render fear, I questioned the authenticity of these allegations.

Later, the "evidence" displayed by the Western media had a lot of traces of forgery. After that, I didn't believe these allegations even more.

It's a pity that people who have been immersed in Western media propaganda for a long time have been implanted with a concept: China is bad. This makes any news that is bad for China seem to be true. Whoever says China is good is the CCP propagandist.

But people living in China know that Western media reports are very biased.
yes, alas major exceptions like pytorch make this old xkcd still ring true today:
https://xkcd.com/1987/

also, a lot of python packages don't seem to follow the idea of semvar very well. Especially when you compare it to other communities like Go.
>>Who? Dr Morning is the only sociologist here. And you're using her to support your argument.

According to the paper:

The title:

"“Everyone Knows It's a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race"

The first line of the abstract:

"Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not biologically anchored."

I assume Dr. Morning's characterization is accurate, and could be easily corroborated.

I don't see how it's constructive to continue responding to you when you are being obtuse in assessing what I'm providing.

Just to clarify: are you claiming that the following assessments of Dr. Morning's, are not credible, or are incorrect:

* the dominant viewpoint amongst sociologists, as of 2007, was that "scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed"

* as of 2007, most biologists and anthropologists did not, indeed, see race as socially constructed

?

>>Ignoring for a second the idea that "race is a social construct", will you at least concede that race was a social construct? And that it predated our understanding of genetics and was used to, among other things, justify slavery, eugenics and other human misery? And that perhaps we shouldn't be cavalier about attributing scientific observations about genetics to something like a 'race' of people? Because that's the discussion that's happening in the scientific community. It seems very divorced from your assertions about victimhood ideology.

All of this is nonsense. It wasn't a social construct, and its emergence as a recognized concept wasn't motivated by a desire to justify doing horrible things to people. This is just standard victimhood narrative, to give the political left in the academic/scientific establishment moral authority.

And using race categories doesn't imply ignoring its limitations, or preclude the use of other ways of categorizing people.
That's $130,000 in 30 years if invested at a 6% annual return, compounded daily.

In other words, shave off a year of your career at least and retire instead.
I just heard about this book on the radio (maybe?) and just the title instantly transported me back to the 1990s. Thanks for recommendation, I will check it out.
https://m.youtube.com/user/eaterbc

Mature, technical, no delusion of grandeur. The only computer oriented YouTube channel that I've ever subscribed.
I started by making a simple timeline style logging / journaling app for personal use couple of years ago.

I shared it on Reddit and got great feedback. The app has completely changed since then and now it's a task management and organizer tool.

The app has premium add-ons where you can buy add-ons separately. It was getting complicated to manage it and the only scope to get more revenue was to add new features.

I moved the app to subscription based in May this year and it's been going great.

The app has $2.5K MRR and the only costs that I have is domain, server and Google Ads.

https://taskito.io/
could you explain what does "free-form languages" mean? wiki tells me C/C++ is "free form"
vim file.txt

....

:wq

git add file.txt
git commit -m "New stuff. Read it."
git push
Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a scifi novel so much.
Fusion drives would still need reaction mass.
Haha. Not even.

When I bought my car three months ago, the dealer said (and thought it was as insane as I did) that they had multiple lenders who would write 96 and 108 month loans.
What happens when it comes to taxes? Do you pay taxes if it's from side projects? Or it's done automatically e.g. Stripe?
> The static lease DHCP server logic in systemd-networkd may now serve IP addresses outside of the configured IP pool range for the server.

See, see, taking lessons from C++. So someone requested a bug, and they got it. How could that be useful?
If anyone has any questions about Sorbet or the Sorbet Compiler, I'm happy to answer them!
Really? You’re proposing that before the law was implemented in 2010, people were not hearing about the dangers? That the previous 30-odd years of MADD were not seen nor heard by the citizens of British Columbia? That the behaviour of BC drivers in 2020 is due to the burst of media activity in 2010? cORrELatioN DoES NOt IMpLY cAUSATion!!ELeVeNtyOnE!

Pull the other one, it has bells on.
How much is the Pro subscription please? I can't see it listed on the homepage, and if I go to the App Store page, the "yearly subscription" is listed multiple times at $30 or $15.
They said they tried and the car wouldn't let them. A quick test even if successful shouldn't count, and a failed test definitely doesn't count.
Serious question and would love to better my understanding : why do you say so? Any sources?
> I think bad trips are mostly just people who mix psychedelics with other drugs (weed is common) and freak out or aren't used to introspection (so is this really bad then?) or use irresponsibly.

Respectfully: this is dangerous speculation. You can have a bad trip even if you do everything right, and it’s an important risk that we should highlight rather than minimize.

I believe that many psychedelic experiences are net positive, but some can be very negative for a very long time.
Krita and GIMP serve different purposes, even though they have some overlapping functionality.

My understanding is that Krita is really for digital drawing, closer to Corel PaintShop Pro; whereas GIMP is for image editing, closer to Photoshop.
I really enjoyed this book. Probably my favorite of his books I've read so far. If you haven't read On Stranger Tides, check that out, it's great as well.
Sure, but this isn’t such a unique problem. Hue handles all of these reset scenarios with much more grace, as an example: https://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-reset-philips-h...
Sunk cost fallacy [1]? Or was there something actually interesting in the book?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
i actually made an updated version of css zen garden!

url: https://svelte-zengarden.netlify.app/?path=https://gist.gith...

video: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1220895891860676608

basically the major difference being that you have a css editor inline so you can prototype and see changes immediately, save it to gist and publish a URL so others can see your changes too. No PR process needed to some central authority!
For a brief window the used car yards of Brisbane had 2 year old and 18 month old ex rentals with up to 3 years warranty left, sub 20k milage at ridiculous prices. I came to the yards about a fortnight too late and decided to pay $5k more for 7 years of warranty and no klms bought new . But it was damn close.

They simply unloaded an entire two year window of car stock in one hit. Bam. Midrange and smalls, dumped.

Mind you across the same period a second hand 4wd probably increased in value: I truly heard of people selling on for more than they paid. 2nd hand car supplies dried up overnight. I have a feeling in part because a normal trickle of ex rentals vehicles hit in a surge and then stopped.

If EV were available, an entire market for short klm hire could shift over. Alas, not in Australia.
You are welcome. I feel people just should. We can normalize it, break inhibitions, anxieties and sort it all out for the longer haul; earth + Covid. Cheers and happy holidays!
Systemd is a matryoshka doll of bugs.

How could that be useful?
> Once infected, vaccinated people seem to transmit COVID similarly to unvaccinated people

There's are very important conditional here.
I think most carcinogens we are exposed to aren't even from corporate pollution, although it's also a big source, and connected to the products we use, but from products we buy and use voluntarily without doing adequate research.
Various XAML UI Platform!
I was very excited to read LHoD after hearing so many glowing reviews, but it didn't resonate with me at all. I kind of regret spending the time to read it. Curious what you took away from it?