skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Patreon is that it is the opposite of micropayments. It's handful of people paying a small selection of people. It helps of course but I'm subscribed to well over a hundred Youtube channels (many of which have Patreon accounts) and I'm simply not able to pay all of them a significant amount because that would be too expensive and I'm reluctant to cherry pick just a few because that would be unfair to the others. And I don't want to micromanage a hundred plus micro payments assuming that's even possible. But I'd have no trouble to have say 10$ per month distributed among them. It would have to be easy, fair, transparent, and automated. Even if it's just 1 cent; that adds up to interesting money if you get thousands to millions of views per month.

I had never heard of Liberapay. But it definitely looks very interesting. And they seem to be handling some non trivial amounts of cash despite being relatively small.

I noticed Aurelien Pierre is on it apparently and I actually do enjoy his content and work (he works on and publishes about Darktable). Something like that with millions of users paying every month would sustain quite a few content creators; even if the individual payments are small. It's one of those things where a critical mass of content creators need to join for this to start working.
-- Just an update, too late to edit my reply --

I responded to the assertion "Every student debtor is 7.5% less in debt in real terms than they were last year." because I found it intriguing. It's a cool writing prompt.

I found that I don't disagree with this assertion, if I'm getting it right. But it's interesting...

In our household of four people, both kids and spouse are attending college. So far, we are holding no student debt, but that could change dramatically next year if kid changes school.

And there has been a lot of talk about addressing huge burden of student debt, with politicians crowing about debt forgiveness that they can bring home to constituents.

But as with any matter of publicly-funded policy, the money only exists if you know how to ask for it. There are usually complicated procedures in place, and of those who would otherwise be qualified, many will lack the ability to follow through to actually discharging their debt via one of these programs.

So I decided to look it up: how do I get this free money?

It was worth looking into, but it's complicated.

The most straightforward free money from debt relief has been, indeed, a 14(?) month interest-free deferment of student loan payments during this COVID crisis.
I agree that it's not a law of nature or economics, but it is a trap that we can fall into and that is why we have to be sceptical when we talk about technological solutions. Any efforts that try to make a harmful process less harmful can give a worse end result, because the improved processes will be used more than before because of efficiency gains.
I've done exactly this and it works well. However, I've tweaked a couple things over time.

1. Tasks not completed may carry over to the next day, or a backlog if the next day already had something planned in my calendar.

2. Minimal markup to backlog tasks, such as a hard due date (i.e. other people expect it done by this date) and/or an urgency marking.

3. Keep the list on my phone so it is always with me. Having it digital reduces busy work (such as moving tasks between today and the backlog). I don't like using my phone so I don't tend to get sidetracked, thus YMMV with this.
I clapped !
Remember that Bitcoin started out as digital currency and then moved the goalposts to "store of value". Source: archive of bitcoin.org

Second: every year I check the state of Lightning Network and it is not pretty:

I assume this is best that it can currently offer?

https://lightningnetworkstores.com/?tags=shipped%20goods

On random I checked the Domino middleman store and of course the store locator showed the stores but was grayed out...

This is the story with crypto e-commerce over and over again. Seemingly grand claims which fall apart on closer inspection - barely functional stores at best.

Show me the money! That is show me a bustling e-commerce operation that is using crypto for non-crypto items/services. Preferably legitimate goods/services too.

I am leaving out the technical problems of actually using LN.

PS I bought my old laptop for BTC in 2013 and it seemed so much easier back then.
The UK uses both metric and Imperial measurements, depending on the circumstances. And you will see more of it: the government is very proud that Brexit means ditching the metric system.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-plans...
I thought so, thanks!
Lesson 6: No one cares about your unit test coverage

Unit tests are often the only way I can puzzle out how a feature in a library is supposed to work, given that documentation is often either out of date or nonexistent.
> I'll take a professional Software Engineer over an academic Computer Scientist any day — especially to have on my team when working on entirely-novel problems.

Fully, 100%, whole-heartedly agreed!

I'm leading a multi-disciplinary machine learning R&D team comprising multiple experienced Computer Scientists, Software Engineers and one Electrical Engineer who jumped from EE to SWE to ML research.

All of them are efficient in their own way, but the EE blows everyone else out of the water in sheer _effectiveness_. He may not be the strongest programmer, but his solutions have an elegant simplicity, take the right trade-offs and solve the damn problem.

The CS members are exact opposite: they care about the solution more than the problem, leading to hard-to-maintain / partial / sometimes outright wrong approaches. If they don't find the problem mentally stimulating, they redefine it to make it so, and then solve that problem instead.

Problem: display one point in an image

EE/SWE solution: calculate the xy pixel location and pass it to the renderer

CS solution: define a novel normalized coordinate space, so (0,0) and (1,0) are two specific locations in the image (not center, not corner, but two content-sensitive locations); for every image in the database, calculate a 4x4 "normalization" matrix to map pixel coordinates to normalized coordinates; now calculate a 4x4 "location" matrix with the location of the object in this normalized space; problem solved.

Note how this not only fails to solve the original problem, but it also creates multiple new ones.

Our team then had to point out that all of our user data, generated data, rendering code, user interface, user manual are standardized in pixel coordinates (_industry_ standard, with strict regulations), and that no, defining a new coordinate space, migrating terrabytes of data, and convincing the industry to switch over is not going to happen.

So yes, give me an EE/SWE problem-solver over a CS academic any day of the week!
"Language that adults think works on children but kids are smarter than you think and see through your bullshit"
It's a play on git, which is itself regional slang.
This isn't a dig at the submitter, far from it.

When did HN became a support page for multi-billion companies? It's not that they can't afford to pay people to provide support. Or is this a sort of hidden agreement where if you make more than a billion, you can fire all of your support staff and hope the HN community fixes things for you for free.
Thank you, I have not heard of Spintax before. Nevertheless, I will try to provide added value for readers in the texts.
you should not seek advice from the Internet for psychological issues. seeking advice from a know-it-all group like this site can be dangerous.
1) DRM absolutely improves appsec, one of the main things it does it allows you to ensure that the client software is running your unmodified code and protected from the OS.

2) Okay but a web client will get you 80% the way there.

3) Yes/No. Netflix doesn’t but that’s because Google does it for them for Widevine deployments.

4) Widevine has three, pretty complex, policy levels. No reason there couldn’t be more. Plus device authentication is just a metric used in authorization decisions. Nothing is stopping you from having arbitrarily complex authz.
Is there a requirement for this effect to work that you publish your writing, exposing it to external scrutiny?

Neither you nor pg explicitly say this, but it feels important.
I guess I don’t think of anti-cheat measures as

“ mess with the os of Linux users like we spy and fuck up users that are using Windows “

Maybe those worlds do overlap but anti cheat measures do seem like something you have to do to keep the game viable / people playing.
In IRC terminology that was a "network", not a "server"; multiple servers worked together as part of a network (which might have only had a single server in the degenerate case) to create a unified channel namespace and it didn't matter which server you used (and yes, I know that at some point server-local channels were added as a thing using ##, but despite using IRC for a quarter of a century I never once saw anyone use them except to be weird). The term "server" used in the way Discord decided to use it is awkward and even off-putting.
Of course you have watched Blade Runner all your life; they kept coming out with new versions!
I remember playing with CrackMes on this site back in the early 00s

What a time
Likely referring to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake that killed a reported 87,000 people (but likely far higher given what we know about the government of China).
this statement surpises me, because `git pull --rebase` is practically my most frequently used operation, besides commit, push and changing branches.

intellij even comes with the concept of update, which is either a `pull` or a `pull --rebase`

it asks u once which of those should be the default behaviour, then all i do is cmd-t to updaTe (aka git pull --rebase) my current branch, then push my commits, after a potential 3-way merge, which intellij has the easiest-to-learn interface for, imho.
Yeah, OpenBSD's autoinstall is absolutely best in class (2nd place, IMO, goes to Red Hat's kickstart), and is the kind of thing where once you've used it you wonder why everybody didn't do it this way. Just... Have the installer take input in text prompts, and then let people record the question and the answer in a text file.
Is the procrastination affecting your job performance or only personal projects? If it's personal projects, then I would stop putting so much pressure on yourself to accomplish them. You don't have to be productive all the time.
And 20 years later .NET is finally catching up with Delphi on AOT support, as NGEN was only meant to improve startup times, while other toochains were dropped along the way (Singularity, Midori, .NET Native).

Happy birthday Delphi!
Try deep ketosis via ketogenic diet and try high fat carnivore diet. These things are super hyped up right now and seem like scams but they touch upon very real and very powerful metabolic pathways and mechanisms. They have helped many people with severe mental illness including myself.
A Brief History of Iron and Steel Production
A weird question, but I don't think so, because our current technological level is more than enough to achieve mutually assured destruction, so there wouldn't be any incentives for rapid innovation.

There would be incentives to feel secure, so military budgets would swell, and companies would be able to sell all kinds of defense systems. But we would be looking closer and not farther, especially not as far as Mars.

With the climate crisis I think we will end up losing space entirely. We will have so many urgent problems that we will stop looking for long-term solutions. It will be all short-term local solutions, every man for himself. It already is, most people are still or already disenfranchised, the rest no longer plants trees in whose shade they shall never sit. In a few decades we will be licking the boots of some war lord or another. Disenfranchisement and instability creates power vacuums.
I really wish D was used more widely by companies. Out of all "new C" propositions, this is the one that appeals to me the most.

But it seems a bit counter-productive to commit yourself to it, since it's not gonna help you get a good job.
Since the performance for array sizes <L1-size and <L2-size is similar , I would like to see an attempt to improve B.
B = L2-size / 2 / sizeof(int) - 16 might produce better results.

Note also that _mm_broadcast_ss() is faster on newer processors.
Fair point. I was just thinking about that myself. One big reason is to avoid being charged for outgoing data transfer; with OVH, that's unmetered, with a gigabit port. Also, the OVH box, with the specs I laid out above, costs ~$150 per month. For roughly that same price on EC2, we could get an m5ad.xlarge on-demand instance, with 2 cores, 16 GB of RAM, and a 150 GB SSD. We'd have to add EBS and/or S3 (non-Glacier) storage on top of that, and as noted above, outgoing data transfer.
A Network Analyzer is an instrument to analyze the performance of a network of electronic components. Vector means that it analyzes phase as well.

It can tell you the effective Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance of the network at various frequencies. This is useful for tuning radio antennas or filters, or identifying bad cables or connectors.

You can precisely measure the length of a cable from one end (by measuring the time for the signal to reflect).

You can use it as a signal generator to illegally jam your neighbors TV signal, as another commenter here noted.

Not many common uses for it unless you think amateur radio is common.
A neat follow up article would be "I was so excited about my dinner with Pete, it overwhelmed my ability to write about it and here's what I learned about myself and my needs"
Much too trivial. Not even an RTL marker? How about some of the more exotic blank steps? There are some interesting combining characters too!
It's probably worth noting the history. I think Tom Krcha ( https://twitter.com/tomkrcha ) led initial work of Adobe XD and is long gone from there.

I could argue XD has it's place in enterprise environments where it's more painful to purchase outside of Adobe and it's good enough to do basic UX visioning/mockup.
When I write documentation, I usually target it at an idiot. The idiot in question is me in six months when I've forgotten all this stuff. It's not an insult.
Certainly not to offend people. It also helps if one isn't actively looking for things to feel offended over.
We'll need a pi-hole like device, which does presence-detection to cut off electricity to the TV when you're not in the room, assuming that remains legal.

The other day at midnight I was woken up by an Amber Alert for a somewhat nearby town. It's not possible to disable these notifications in this country, as far as I know.
Maybe this is petty, but any time the word "learnings" appears, my brain goes "this will be Business Blather, nothing of value will be said here, feel free to turn me off"
Most JITs have basic autovectorization support, but it's generally not that good.
I would love to hear more about the survival situations you did (I'm guessing intentionally) - and about the bear skins!
I believe in “death of the author” because I know how GIF should be pronounced!

I hope this comment is a gift of laughter to you in your day.
from what I understand, it doesn't have the same anti-pathogen properties as coir.
Very interesting article. I had no idea curling was big in New Zealand!

I played high school and a bit of college curling, playing every position, skip, vice, second, and lead. Curling's a wonderfully social and elegant game requiring simple but incredibly deep mechanical technique. If you're ever in the position to give it a try, I highly recommend it. You'd be surprised how short the learning curve is, and since you'll probably play lead, you'll mostly just end up doing a lot of sweeping!

Up in Canada, it's tradition and courtesy for the winning team to buy the losing team a drink after the game. There's a certain club camaraderie and sportsmanship you see in curling which makes it very different from our other traditional winter sport.
Evidence (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build a web framework for data teams
Fortunately Delta can fix this with a single ”Dear members”-email. The skymiles-to-travel conversion rate is completely arbitrary, and points can be devalued simply by adjusting the amounts needed for various services
I don't think all Ukrainians who'd flee in that case have the resources to get to Mars.
this seems cool, but... brittle? especially embedding build steps in python.

i've used check in the past and was happy enough with it, it didn't take long to learn. all unit test frameworks are basically the same at their core.

interop between c and python with ctypes is fun though.
Really? You’re going to diagnose someone over the Internet and tell them medicine to take? Dangerous.
A little trivia for those that don’t know, PGs site is hosted on Yahoo Store as that is what Viaweb (his first startup) became when it was acquired by Yahoo in the mid 90s.
One point of discontent for me: there seem to be no Orcish women mentioned ever, but Bolg is a son of Azog.
It had arrays of any n-arity. Come think of it, C++ also does
Ah sorry yes you're right! I edited my comment accordingly (but mentioned the edit so as to try to not confuse people more).
Also anecdotal but I've also had the unpleasant experience of them suspending an account on the free tier through some automated system (still not 100% why, they didn't respond to our email). Account suspension results in all your sites getting immediately taken down without warning, if you host DNS there that also gets taken down. I wasn't hosting anything critical there so not a huge deal for me but I will never recommend them for anything serious.
I think you should add a link button. When I highlight text, I can click the link button, then it should bring up an auto-complete search box for what I am trying to link.
That period from 10-14 sounds mindblowing! Magic. I'm guessing your folks had a summer house in Norway or something - I love that you had that freedom.
I see. That is caused by a prenegotiated comp plan and Teslas insane valuation as a meme stock relative to its profit.

I'm sure there is some shareholder regret, but they made out like bandits too

Here is some info:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2021/05/03/elon-mus...
Irene Lyon has lots of quality advice on her channel. She is a nervous system and trauma specialist.

Julie Yau has a "trauma workbook" with many exercises you can do on your own. She is also a very compassionate woman with deep knowledge about the nervous system, though her book is practical, not theory.

If you really want more theory about nervous system to "trust" the above advice, look into "Nurturing Resilience" by Kathy kain

All the best to you.
Agreed. They also do some black magic where even with my mic wide open it won’t pick up things I don’t want it to. I could eat potato chips right into the mic and it won’t turn the mic on, but as soon as I speak it does. The vox in discord always amazes me. It seems to always know what I want to transmit and what I don’t.
This was a great keyboard. I wrote most of the content for my first web site sitting on the roof of my building with one of these and a U.S. Robotics Palm III.

The only problem was that I could type way faster than the PDA could keep up. I guess hooking it up to something modern via Bluetooth removes that limitation.
HN thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165118
Nothing.
So, I'm testing multi-line text reply for my next HN app.

Here goes nothing.
I thought I was reading then introductory passage. And then the article/post was over! This is so pointless.
I'm confused why they would close over this, since what they're describing is essentially their core business and shouldn't come as a surprise to them. Could it be that they're in legal trouble?

One thing that seems important, but which is missing from the headline, is the fact that people were also selling bundles of existing NFTs on their platform.

> Hejazi highlighted three main problems: people selling unauthorised copies of other NFTs, people making NFTs of content which does not belong to them, and people selling sets of NFTs which resemble a security.
Discord Feels like a modern BBS from the 80’s.

.. with annoying notifications
> if you haven’t written about a topic, you can’t know it well.

Well, writing is encoding of ideas into a semi-precise format of written language. The intention is to communicate as precisely as you can to other humans. When you have ideas brewing in the amygdala + prefrontal cortex, they're hazy. Writing them down requires vetting of imprecise aspects of your hazy ideas.

Writing can be replaced by any other encoding format (talking to a friend, giving a lecture, etc), but that's still, for me, in the English language. May be just thinking more precisely about it? We still often 'think' in our home language even if no communication is involved, some interaction with the auditory region of the brain. The human brain is complex. Some people also find vizualization of ideas very powerful, probably involves activation of some regions of the occipital lobes.

Writing just forces you to be precise, it is not required to know something well. That seems like a bold, unsubstantiated claim. Very, ahem...modern artsy.
https://www.emacswiki.org/

That's a pretty good resource that turns up in a lot of my google searches on emacs topics when I do run into issues (rare these days, I've got my setup done and don't change much unless I add support for a new language).
Many seeds need a dormancy period before germinating, and frequently a husk or germination-inhibiting coating (Tomatoes) surrounds the seed as a delay mechanism: the coating/husk has to rot before the seed gets contact with soil and water. For many it's way of ensuring that seeds don't germinate at the start of Winter. For others there's a (sometimes long!) maturation process that happens within the seed (Macadamias) before they're ready to sprout. Other times the husk is there to protect the seed while it goes through the gut of some animal (often birds) so that it gets transported well away from the parent plant.

Nature is pretty clever, imho.
"Around that time" is referring to 2004.
With HTTP/2, the browser holds a TCP connection open that has various streams multiplexed on top. One of those streams would be your SSE stream. When the client makes an AJAX call to the server, it would be sent through the already-open HTTP/2 connection, so the latency is very comparable to websocket — no new connection is needed, no costly handshakes.

With the downsides of HTTP/1.1 being used with SSE, websockets actually made a lot of sense, but in many ways they were a kludge that was only needed until HTTP/2 came along. As you said, communicating back to the server in response to SSE wasn’t great with HTTP/1.1. That’s before mentioning the limited number of TCP connections that a browser will allow for any site, so you couldn’t use SSE on too many tabs without running out of connections altogether, breaking things.
1 in 4 Americans Thinks the Sun Revolves Around the Earth (2014)
And device authentication deployed by IT can be broken just as easily. You really believe that the device certs deployed on a laptop are going to fare any better than the Widevine decryption key?
Yeah I see the benefits too. At least we’re going to get immutable data structures.
Oh. I thought you were complaining about giving your phone number to Signal.
Did you read the datasheet or are you responding to your imagination?

Anyway, there's a litany of similar devices to fill whatever requirements you wish. SIM cards, for instance, are available in WSON8 MFF2 chips that you can directly solder to a board.
It really doesn't, because you can know HEADs and the working index and the Merkle tree works, and even know the how you want the internal state to be transformed, but still run into "ok what is the command for doing what I want? Is it git-stamp-log or git-execute-detached-head?"