skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thomas Edison State University
It's pretty bad to see Alex Stamos defending these programs that put minors in harms way considering they are entirely voluntary and extrajudicial (no court orders).

The companies involved are literally handing over personal data to criminals and his response is "well the underfunded police department in Brazil should get better security to fix this". How about you don't give out data without a court order?

I don't buy the argument there's ever anything that critical that you can't wake up a judge at 3am to sign an emergency warrant. If it's life and death, it's worth waking someone up, right? And if it's not life and death, it's not an emergency.

This whole system is a mess.
"Passive" has truly gone down the path of "literally".
I'm curious why this approach was chosen for GTK, whereas Qt was ported directly. Is there some detail about GTK that made the approach taken with Qt infeasible?
In a UTF-16 string, as implemented in java, you can end up with a char that represents only half a surrogate pair, that's not a full unicode scalar. In order to build the unicode scalar, you need the other half of the surrogate pair, which is another java "char".
Depends on who’s making money, how much money, etc… could be that if you don’t require having Yahoo build this but a small open source protocol with people tipping to cover electrical costs it’s far cheaper :)
Big fan of the $4000 Porsche 911 muffler soundbar.

https://shop.porsche.com/us/en/911-soundbar--limited-edition...
Not a single professional investor does so on the basis of “change the world”. Maybe “create a monopolized market”, that’s a changed world.
If you got Spotify on desktop you could just select all your liked songs and drag them onto some other playlist.

Should work multiple times, just click „don’t add“ when it asks you if you want to add duplicate tracks.
Explorer doesn’t integrate with ZFS. Instead, Samba lies and says that the files have shadow copies which Explorer can then show you.
Is this opinion just Stockholm syndrome since we were all forced to go through it? What other models do we have to compare it to?

I would argue that segregating children by age for schooling purposes is a relatively modern idea that probably runs counter to tens if not hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
Interesting concept but I'd just like to add that the UI is a complete rip-off of Logic Pro's plugin UI. You can compare the two:

Logic Pro: https://i.imgur.com/A7el6vh.png

And Kia: https://i.imgur.com/bEhz7S2.jpg
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I had an art teacher who was very philosophical. One day he described to the class what entropy was. I took a lot of physics and even astrophysics. Little did i know he had a better conceptual understanding and explanation than i've ever heard before. Too bad i don't remember exactly what he said.
Exactly. They need to be able to pull some rough estimate off in near-realtime. Customers won't care if the rough estimate is off by a few bucks, but "you think you're on a free tier account but you just spun up a thing that costs $5 an hour" needs to be flagged in-flight.
You'll be surprised to learn that the UK still participates in quite a few EU schemes. Europol for example, the UK helps drive policy and is still a founding member.
I'm not exactly sure what this is doing.

I've made a service that scratches my own itch of wanting a way to sort a collection of playlists by the last time they were updated. I've got that running here, and I use it often.

https://playlists.mohiohio.com/
Run out of the village, into the forest, to fend against actual wolves, preferably.
Many languages have support for REPL driven development (Haskell, F#, …) It isn’t unique to LISP. Remember Basic programming on the old C64/ZX Spectrum computers? REPL driven development :)
Thanks for sharing Timelinize and Timeliner. It's always great to meet other people in this space.

My own take on this problem is Chronomize [0], which I've been working on since 2020. It's interesting how we independently came up with similar names.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat about personal data management.

[0]: https://chronomize.com
It's not given that the queue backlog is staying even, but you would also have to factor the externalities of better or worse performing offices into the queueing analysis. Slower government workers have consequences like the public giving up and bothering to add to the queue, and occasionally, lawsuits due to failure to perform a required task, legal cases being a less desirable budget spend than bureaucratic staffing.
+1 for mailinabox from me. Easy to use, reasonably complete and secure, works from a data-centre or home (you'll need a sensible ISP and to manage your network yourself). Can send to gmail ok (after a receiving a couple of emails from a gmail account) and to microsoft (after going through their I'm-ok process). And like jeroenhd, I receive much more than I send.
passive in the sense that I wrote it once, and it continues to collect royalties for a long time after, without me having to do much :)
No. I feel you're looking at it from a somewhat one sided, merchantilist, nay Malthusian angle.

As well as having two sides, consumer as well as producer, it creates new possibilities.

Having said that, technology is the new capital, from a somewhat Marxist angle, and has been for ages, barriers to entry being what you make of them for whatever technology or product. It is worth making sure you're invested in whatever's needed to hedge your future liabilities. That investment may be financial, skills, side projects, land, family, other that applies to you.
Congratulations. Most people get stuck at the procrastination phase you mention. Just getting a book to published is a huge achievement let alone making significant revenue from it. This is not only good advice, but also an inspiring tale.
Does it need to be statistically faithful or can it just fuzz the data type? Maybe that’s better for testing anyway?
It’s a little surprising to me that this is a browser extension instead of a native menu bar app that posts notifications to the system
What cool things?
Seems like a fair definition of passive income. Not sure why the commenter feels it's not.
Ah gitlab. I tried two whole days to do something, I assumed CI was created for: compiling a binary artifact, and distributing it with some sort of URL where I can always get the latest version.

Guess what: it cannot be done nicely without going back and forth with the API uploading that artifact via curl (?!) from Gitlab to Gitlab etc.

If even such a fundamental thing is not straightforward, I don't want to know about complicated things..
Private Search and Browser for Android
I don't think blockchain or cryptocurrency is the future of the Internet and I think they will remain as niche interests and a lot of the hype will wane. Perhaps they'll have some considerably sized niches, but for the most part what's called 'web3' I don't think is actually web3.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

That's a good one to keep in mind while sailing the seas of information. A little experience will help as well - for example, a video 'promising to teach you quantum physics in 15 minutes' is surely utter nonsense. Given fifteen months of uninterrupted study, assuming you had a solid grasp of the relevant mathematics already, and a good instructor, then you'd perhaps have a decent grasp of the basics.

This doesn't mean you can't find an interesting article on quantum physics online without having a grasp of the basic mathematical approaches... but search engines really are garbage these days. I really can't believe half the autocompletes delivered from 'quantum physics of...' in the search box. QM of love? consciousness? manifestation? WTF. You have to know a little bit and make the searches more explicit. For example, 'quantum physics of beta decay' will return a lot of interesting articles, some even well-written.

In general, it's much more rewarding to go narrow but deep than broad but shallow when digging into a subject. As far as finding reliable sources for things like learning a programming language, generally the loudest opinionators are the least reliable, and Reddit programming language subreddits are often best avoided entirely - that only leads to anxiety paralysis (not a bad description as you put it). Again, often upping the specificity of the search leads to good results. For example, 'Learning the C programming language' can be way too broad. "Learning how to use C for network programming" gets better results, but you still have to dig through them. Sometimes the same thing keeps getting referenced, in this case "Beej's Guide To Network Programming Using Internet Sockets". I like it, everyone seems to think it's great, go with that.

This kind of background research takes time and effort, but then once you've got something that seems good, stop there. Browsing time is over. Now it's time for single-pointed concentration on a single text, that's the way to actually learn new things.
I suggest running mailinabox. It installs all that stuff and configures appropriately. Only downside is that it wants Ubuntu 18.04 (for the moment) and doesn't cooperate well with other software - put anything else on a different machine.
Available for me on iOS when you just pull down while at the top of a playlist.
If you want to learn a truly powerful language then learn Assembler programming ;)
It turns out that zoom hides the notification if it comes from the notification center which defeated the whole point hahah
I've had good rapport with those who are honest about their startups being businesses, as they're usually also the same types who understand that working for them is just a job, and that a job at a startup comes with its own risks, as well.

People that go out of their way to say that their startups have a higher mission make me uneasy. I don't know if they're just trying to convince others that they're running something other than for-profit businesses driven by expected returns on investment for investors, or if they truly believe it themselves. It's either borderline manipulation or delusion, and neither are something I want to hitch myself to.
Feels weird to call the entire profession of being an author passive income.

Or put another way, If I give you two options:

(1) Work 100 hours and I pay you $10,000 lump sum.

(2) Work 100 hours and I pay you $100 a year (inflation adjusted) over 100 years

Is one of those passive income while the other isn't?
> you didn't magic those 3W out of thin air.

No magic, but you are pulling those 3W out of the outside air.

You can use the industry term 'Co-efficient of performance' to avoid any possible ambiguity, but it's just the same thing with a different name.
Maybe, but the Kia UI looks so much nicer and more polished
San Francisco spends in excess of $34,000 per homeless per year already, with nothing to show for it except needles on streets.

Where's the money going? Who knows, probably a mix of graft and incompetence.
Thank you so much Chris!
already planning my next holiday around this...
A late optimistic note: The Labor party has stated that they will be increasing the budget for ABC transmissions to the Pacific, and in particular will be looking at reinstating Radio Australia on SW, and even our inland SW broadcasts.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/04/26/pacific-...
True, but it seems like it would be nice to know where to draw the lines. More sleep is good, but how much more? Etc.

Sometimes, it feels like there's so much going on that it's hard to know if it was the sleep, the diet, the events, or something else. That's where the data might be nice.
I would imagine the problem to be very similar in spirit to developing a Huffman code given symbol probabilities. Given the distribution of file access probabilities, the number of scans+clicks in the folder hierarchy is captured by the encoding string length/cost. (But I’m being a bit loose)
I write on the side though (i have a full-time job). Just a hobby :)
Usually books include a bit about the author.
That doesn’t concern me as much as how our github access keys got accessed/leaked which Heroku has yet to answer.
> Guess, based on that I cannot really have a counter argument here :)

Hah, sorry. If you don't qualify a general statement, you'll get jumped on by people supplying the qualifier for you. I wish it weren't like that.

Relative size is a good point, certainly. We can look to several huge companies to see frustrating interaction points (hence my qualifier.)
There's nothing passive about writing 78 books. That's what, approx 2k per book?

If this were 20 years in the future since the books were written, sure.

This is more just a person writing a ton of books for relatively little money.

Please don't take it as any insult, I love the energy and drive. It's just not passive in any sense of the word.
> On what grounds would they sue for?

Negligent interference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
It isn't practical to write a port even for every major GTK version, much less for every other toolkit used with X11. Firefox for example is still on GTK3, and so are many other applications.

Haiku should want some form of generic compatibility, and this is one way to do it (I would have been lazy and used the embedded X server approach for it if I wanted to do it for some OS, but waddlesplash apparently has different tastes). Perhaps one day someone will want to do the work for a 'native' GTK4 port, but that does not degrade the important of this work for Haiku.
"no server costs" is blatantly false. Where do you think the data lives?
Web3 is yet another attempt of the Ethereum hammer in finding a nail, and is just another word for "blockchain" because even the crypto evangelists realize they've said it too many times and sound cringe.

I'm sorry, but until "Web3" manages to solve a real problem, people who actually believe that it will build a better internet with no evidence are misguided.
Years ago, I worked in a manufacturing facility for heavy machinery and there was an engineer on staff who spent most of their time redoing calculations for expensive parts that were machined incorrectly (e.g. an extra notch cut into the part because the machinist measured from the wrong end the first time). The updated calculations were then filed along with a new revision of the drawings that specified the part as built.

I have no idea what aircraft manufacturing is like, but the idea that a part might go out the door without matching its drawing is definitely concerning. The drawing and the associated calculations are supposed to be the proof that the matter was considered, and that an informed decision was made.
That’s just normal news flavor text, like “breaking news” or “storm watch”. There’s no semantic meaning, the words just boost engagement metrics.

Which would you click first? “Clock sales dip, wristwatches gain” or “Breaking News: storm watches PUMMEL bedside clock sales, is it cause for alarm?”
> none of them even noticed MCAS existed

The Lion Air jet had the same MCAS failure on its previous flight. If you dig through ASRS you'll find other reports of uncommanded pitch down events on the MAX. Just because MCAS hadn't yet crashed a plane doesn't mean that nobody noticed its presence.
Yeah, Edward Snowden was foiled by the Russian state firewall.

I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're exiled in Russia, especially with his wife and kid there.
I’m sure it’s simple to write a smart contract. Is it simple to write one that won’t accidentally lose or lock people’s money?
Wait until you hear about the music and movie industry.
We don't share preconceptions (I see multiple problems at multiple levels of public org charts, and in the electorate), but I see and appreciate why you might have that priority.
The entire world runs on third parties and trust. It works.
I gave up on LSP for a very long time because of how janky lsp-mode behaved; I've been using eglot for a few months now and it's been a revelation. In particular, eglot goes out of its way not to introduce new editor features, but rather to integrate with features that already exist, like xref.

If you've had problems getting this stuff to work, I highly recommend eglot.
Helium has actually re stimulated my interest in the space.

if you can come up with a set of proofs for a particular action/solution that you can boot strap a network without the need for a company, that’s huge if actually true.
Yes. Passive income can initially take work to build the income source. Most people consider rent to be passive income, yet people don't just magically own houses, they more often than not work to buy them.
My old phones with removable batteries fit in my pocket just fine.
Structured control flow is a thing to help people understand code.

The compiler's job is to emit instructions that do precisely the things the code says to do, as efficiently as possible. There is no need for chips to understand the purpose of the code; they just need to do what it says. They don't get confused.
This is not about business taxes more generally. Every company in SF is subject to this tax but most haven’t left.

It specifically affects payments companies more because of how the revenue subject to taxation is calculated.

Apparently city elected officials have acknowledged it’s broken but also know it is not viable to cut any tech company’s taxes in this political environment. So they’re all leaving instead.
A First Look at Total Return Swaps
>Over the years I've learned to a limited extent how to convey ideas without drawing on terminology which most people aren't familiar with, but that has taken decades of practice.

I think this is one of the most remarkable lifeskills to have. Personally, I feel stupid when I find myself between a jargon laced conversation. On the other hand, I respond very well to clearly communicated (not ELI5, but simple) ideas.

Putting things across as simply as possible is very difficult to master IMO.
I quite like oracle based betting. Lots of sports/gaming/news apps have public APIs to see the results of something - aggregate them, plug them into a smart contract, and bet a total stranger on the outcome of an event with internet money held in an escrow account paid to the winner. Getting pretty simple to set up nowadays with drag and drop oracle creation a with some cool results, such as betting $10 on a 1v1 CoD game.
How deep does the rot in the Russian army go?
Web1 was fairly decentralized as you could just host your websites and even mail server on a small box yourself. Web2 seemed to have sucked everything into (semi-) walled platforms. I still don’t fully understand how the decentral web would work at any scale. I imagine it being like trying to use Youtube with the TOR-Browser. It feels like crypto is 90% fraud, fomo and false hope. I hope this is not yet another hype-bubble with little practical application. But then again I don’t really get what the whole web3 is supposed to be in the first place.
And not using the chaos of the real world to harden your software before it hits production probably violates their expectations of correctness. It's a real and interesting tension! Software that helps people walk this line well is valuable.
Having used both lsp-mode and eglot, I feel eglot is less bloated and gets out of my way even though it may lack some features.
Is anyone able to suggest software for writing technical books?
Agreed - I finished a book last year and it felt like the last 10% took 75% of the time.
Yeah I did pick the worst of the bunch, but in my defense it was the most prominently featured and like you said the others aren't that much better.
There's a lot of spelling errors in this article.
I've considered writing a book on how to grow software through different evolutions, and using different software paradigms that make sense for the different stages of growth. I don't think there's an audience for it though, or at least an audience that would respect the opinions of a non-credentialed author.
Passive income was never defined as "no work, receive income". It was, "work once, passive income later without extra work". As in, your full time employer will stop paying you if you stop working. Your books that you wrote some time ago will generate income in perpetuity without any extra work.

You still need to put in the upfront work of creating something. It just so happens that something can generate income for a long time without much, if any, upkeep. Think of it as a machine that prints money. You still have to build the machine, but afterwards you just have to change the oil once a year.
when I installed an ELK stack recently it took a fair bit of effort to get it secured but at least there were big scary warnings that it wasn't
It sounds even stupid to write programming books for passive income. You need to regularly update them in order to be able to sell them well.
I use HTML but it's not the best. Latex is probably a better option.
I would rather leave society than interact with blockchain / cryptocurrency technologies on a regular basis.
Bit of a false distinction to me.

Because how to get filthy rich is by changing (improving) the world.
Knob UI for sound applications are like what buttons are for web applications. I can't see it being a "complete rip-off".
People do magically own houses. It's called inheritance.
> When was the last time you used Linux?

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description: Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
Release: 35
Codename: ThirtyFive

> For a 'normal' desktop user, they will see the terminal as much as they would using Windows, basically not at all. Especially across most of the main user-focused distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Pop, MX, Zorin, etc.

This is blatantly false.

Anyways, this goes nowhere, so goodbye.
tl;dr Earned $26,000 per year writing 20,000–30,000 word books and selling them for $9.99. Split book into another $9.99 book if there is more to say.

This is actually pretty cool, if he didn't pick the maximum largest gross dollar figure they could find.

The primary takeaways are how to maximize Amazon's royalties and trend hopping. It actually does solve the problem of people publishing long-winded books in an area that has limited timespan of utility (programming, tech).

Helps people get to the point of what they are looking for and be in a mindframe to take it seriously, compared to ad garbage affiliate websites and long winded youtube videos or Udemy courses.
Samsung has a repair bus that come to your home or workplace and fixes the battery or anything else workout you having to drive into the city to a store or not having access for multiple days. (At least in Germany)
Just try it.

Action over procrastination.

You never know if you gonna hit success!
None of those articles back up the points made by the parent comment. It's a very big leap to go from "DB launders money for Russias" to "DB's loans to Trump had Russian counterparties" -- a completely unproven claim.

As for Trump receiving Russian money for run-of-the-mill apartment sales, isn't this a giant reach? The customers for those products are traditionally wealthy foreigners. Why is it fundamentally different if he sells an apartment decades ago to a wealthy Russian versus a wealthy Luxembourgian banker?

It's such a huge leap. Russians purchased apartments therefore he's backed by the Kremlin decades later? That's extraordinarily hard to believe, considering Trump was a major underdog when he announced and only became a frontrunner after Clinton's "pied piper strategy" elevated him deliberately. [1] Was HRC a Russian asset by providing priceless media attention to the underdog?

[1] https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaig...