skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, making shit up. With added cut'n'paste, for filler! Who do you imagine is not onto you yet?

Obviously the reporter this was done to tried everything. Obviously it did not work. He is in fact dead. Police did in fact refuse to investigate.
Or you can just bet on the many apps where this is already legal and you don’t have to code anything or pay gas fees.
Of all of physics, entropy is the most depressing part.
I don't know how much work it was to do what waddlesplash has already done, but it seems like it's enough for GTK3, and almost enough for Xnest. If they get Xnest to work, then they can use that for anything that is doesn't use xlib, which sadly isn't a lot[1].

Maybe GTK4 would be easier to build a Haiku backend for (as was done for QT), but that doesn't help anybody run GTK3 applications on Haiku does it.

[1] xlib is kind of terrible IMHO; it adds mandatory abstractions that are superfluous at best and in many cases (again IMHO) harmfully force synchronicity on the asynchronous protocol that is X11. Lots of xlib based programs wait for a response when they have other things they could be doing, and the result is poor experiences blamed on X, when xlib's fault. sigh
George Costanza becomes rich off this exact app idea on curb's Seinfeld
org-mode, if you don’t mind using emacs.
It's just clickbait for engagement, this is the author's new job in writing the ebooks.

Better title: Earned $26,000 per year writing 20,000–30,000 word books and selling them for $9.99.

Subtitle: Split book into another $9.99 book if there is more to say. Here's why.
After installing it from source, it doesn't appear to be functional. Running from main could be unstable though, so hard to determine if broken vs missing.

As one of the core team has mentioned, they didn't post it themselves, but rather a community member posted it.

It's definitely something that I'll be bookmarking for later though. It's a tool I could see myself using.
Ooo. I signed up for updates. (Your website looks a lot nicer than mine ever will!)

I like your projects' name better too... would still like to see if I can find a better one for mine that is available.
Just ms word for me
And that seems to speak to his point exactly. The problem isn't that there isn't enough staff. It's the management is performing badly at scheduling or some other process. The internal problem needs to be fixed before hiring is increased.
I tend to agree with majority of this but it’s another can of worms altogether. It’s also an alternative reality nowhere near existing. In reality, no profit means no healthcare at all so these happen to be important considerations.
We don’t know each other - how would we trade or bet or do something that requires trusting each other? For example what would be your current solution to have a $10 bet on the outcome of a sports game tomorrow, between me and you?
The factory doesn't necessarily have it easy.

Downstream impact in a JIT environment. Shipping cost, logistics, what can and cannot be swallowed or negotiated up and down. Worker or plant availability, cost, to make up. Tax, tax rebates, pollution offsets, constant or marginal utility pricing, fees for non consumption, incentive pricing.

A whole bunch more. Corrective action in a factory may take quite a lot of off the back of a napkin calculations.
Technical book writers seem to gravitate toward Latex or Microsoft Word.
Awesome, well done! Which book was the easiest to write, and why?
yes yes. i gave up hope on this article having submitted it months ago.

just tried it again today and hack, it went up #1.
The claim that DB's Trump loans had Russian counterparties is unproven speculation. That's the bottom line. There isn't a single piece of evidence to support the claim.
This is as hardcore pointless fanboy-ism as the speculative JPEG trading nutters. How can you be so emotional about tech? Maybe there’s a middle ground?
If it talks via FastCGI you could have individual containers per whatever unit of segmentation you'd like.
Thank you for helpful tips! Solid advice:

Write Short and Concise Books.

Instead of writing a 500-page book selling for $50 (which probably few will buy), write a 100-page book and sell it for lesser which greatly increases the number of buyers! ...It fits in Amazon’s price range of $2.99 — $9.99 (gets 70% royalties for ebooks). Anything lesser or more gets 35% royalty. This is for the ebook version. Paperbacks have a different price structure. You can price them higher with higher royalty rates.
The author wrote many technology introduction books over a period of six years. They probably have a limited lifespan. I think the comment is somewhat fair if overly snippish - “How I earn $27k per year writing books in my spare time” would have been more informative and accurate than calling this passive income. If the author stops writing books, will they earn another 160k over the next six years?

I still think it’s a cool and fascinating article - congrats to the author on their success!
Is LaTeX still a good choice for "modern" ebooks? Do folks still want PDFs?
I’ve been doing it for years and never had a problem but people write bugs! The trick, as a beginner, is to use well tested contracts and compose them. But fuzzing/static analysis tools are helping move the industry forward leaps and bounds too! So give it a few years and the space will mature.
Nina Jankowicz is well known for being among the first and most vocal people involved in the Hunter Biden laptop story, reinforcing the DNC narrative that it was Russian disinformation.

This woman is a political hack and not a good faith operator. Now she leads the ministry of truth. Doubleplusgood, comrades!
It sounds like the point you want to make is that the implementation of bitfields is often buggy, therefore you should always avoid using them - does that sound right?

If so, I think that’s overly paranoid. The examples that are being given here are baroque usage that would immediately stand out in a code review - memory-mapped registers, conditional lvalues, volatile and atomic fields.

The point I wanted to make is that simple straightforward usage of bitfields, like the example I gave, works fine on any platform you’re likely to encounter.

There’s plenty of widely-used code out there that uses bitfields. I just did a code search to check that (the particular example I was thinking of comes from iOS) and found some in Clang - funnily enough, in its representation of lvalues!
* Data that is tightly clustered on certain keys and widely dispersed on other keys can hit some "fun" interactions with sharding regimes, indexes, etc. that random data doesn't.

* Brute forcing a whole bunch of invalid values can be a lot less interesting than lighting up unconventional combinations of valid values.

* Sometimes you're wrong about the validation rules, i.e. you think you know the allowable enum values here but in fact production systems that really exist and have customers behind them are setting other values. Rejecting those would itself be a bug.
> I wake up daily excited to write. When work is a dread, or when something unhappy pops up, some writing will always bring in positive energy into me. I don’t dread writing. In fact, I can’t stop myself from writing!

I fear we are built different.
i am really interested in history and i have spent a lot of time looking for a good book on a certain topic or time period and sometimes not finding anything. it turns out that its really hard to find books that are completely objective, well researched and also written well. there is a scarcity of these kinds of books especially for modern history. and so the idea struck me that maybe i ought to write a short history book. but then i thought that that sounds like a pipe dream. anyway, for anyone who likes that kind of thing i would recommend the binladen book that was published recently. havent read it yet but i cant wait to. it turns out the invasion wasnt so misguided after all.

https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300260632
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#a...

make_tarball:
script:
- tar cf dist/tarball.tar.gz project/

artifacts:
paths:
- dist/tarball.tar.gz

https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/username%2Fproject/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/dist/tarball.tar.gz?job=make_tarball
It amazes me how much everyone seems to eat up all the propaganda without even realizing it.

Every day, there are stories about how worthless the Russian military are, how hopeless their war is, how they're losing and Putin's in trouble, desperate, and idiotic.

And maybe that's all true, I dunno. It's actually pretty hard to tell how the war is actually going for any side, given all the propaganda.

But, Russia seems to be doing a lot of damage and holding at least some territory despite basically the entire world (except for Russia's apparent allies in this new Non-Western Axis, mostly China and Iran) providing historic amounts of military might. Sure, no troops (yet), but lots and lots of firepower.

I mean, maybe Putin is a dummy and maybe the Russian military is rotting from the inside, but they've been at this for two months and so far nobody's been able to make them stop. Even though every single day I read a story about how Russia is just about to lose.

Propaganda is powerful, but it's not healthy to believe your own side's propaganda any more than it is to believe the enemy's.
The web is only 30 years old, and it's moving so fast no one can tell what it'll be like more than a few years ahead. At any point in the past few decades people trying to predict what the future looks like were pretty much always wrong. In the 90s CGI scripts, table layouts, and more and more multimedia HTML tags were the big thing. They're essentially dead now. In the 2000s people thought browser plugins like Flash, VRML, and Wild Tangent were the future because people wanted fancier brochure sites. They were wrong too. In the 2010s it was Web 2.0, PHP, and jQuery, which are slowly becoming less popular in favor of SSR/SSG JavaScript frameworks now. No doubt in the 2030s we'll have moved from JS frameworks on servers to something else. Maybe Web3. Maybe WASM. Maybe WebGPU. Maybe something that hasn't been invented yet.

There is a rich history of developers saying something is the future and being wrong. Generally speaking, when a dev says something is Important or The Future of Tech, it means they think they can make a few bucks out of it or they enjoy working with it. We have no special insight into what's going to happen in 10 years time. Guessing is fun and there's no reason to stop, but there's no reason to believe anyone is right either, and that applies even more to groups.
As an active participant in Web2.0, I'm kinda offended that people appropriated the "Web3" term for blockchain, which has zero to do with the evolution of the web.
That's because shows like Frontline come up with all these lies.
K&R has two editions. In 46 years. It’s $60 on Amazon today.

It’s an outlier, sure. But it’s proof you can write on programming topics that are very sticky.
The author mentions Boltzman brains and that a human body could theoretically spontaneously form out of particles given a long enough time span. Of course, nothing like this can ever happen. It’s the fallacy of thinking infinite time means infinite possibilities.
Like with many jobs Covid revealed what society truly values and what not. Sure clapping for nurses, nice.
But these people should have propper working conditions and wages, otherwise nobody will want to do the job.

Covid just gave the realization that even if we face a global crisis where nurses are dying on the front, the rest of society is not willing to provide the bare minimum these people deserve.
Airline pilots not making good money don’t live in SF. Then your left with a tight distribution of pay. It’s more like $200k to $350k than the $0-$10m range of CEO.
Do you actually know what you’re talking about or trying to argue towards what a view you “feel” is the right thing?

I happen to work at a healthcare company that reports number of beds and did receive FEMA sourced labor during the pandemic in some of our rural hospitals that were short staffed and literally do not have the physical labor pool to tap into.

I think you’re discussing how you like to interpret the metrics of beds and occupancy but it’s not how it’s actually discussed in the industry.
Passive is the opposite of active, I get the definition. Something you're no longer really actively working on that keeps making money. I'm jealous, I'd love to have such an idea.

But this seems different -so far-. This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money. They may work forever, or die in 6 months, or not work at all.

I guess my entire point is that this is a monumental amount of seemingly continuing effort. It's simply too early to call it passive IMO.

However, dates are missing here. If OP wrote his last book 5 years ago and is collecting this income each year, I'll gladly eat crow.
Excellent video.

I like the ‘do’ advice.

> If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.
The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident
you’re spot on with how safe commercial air travel is today. it’s actually insane when you think about it.

but the reason its so safe is because there are so many redundancies built into so many different layers of the system.

once rot starts to happen, it’ll take the better part of several years or a decade for a wave of elevated fatalities to manifest themselves in these stats.
Pulications like NYRB and the New Yorker review books in many genres. Arguably, what defines 'literature' is quality (which I'll leave undefined), regardless of the genre. From that perspective, saying there is no difference between literature and non-literature is like saying there is no difference between NBA basketball players and those who couldn't make the NBA, or maybe more accurately, that there is no difference between typical developers at Google and those in the IT department of a mid-sized law firm (to pick an organization outside the tech field).

My experience is that there is, generally speaking, a clear qualitative difference between literature and non-literature.

It's an old trope to deny 'fine' arts have merit, but often such denials lack an assertion or evidence - they just deny someone else's. What do you think the state of such things is? All is equal? Everything is subjective? That would be pretty extreme.
Oh man, mention civ 2 and hit me in the heart strings.
General observation: no matter how distributed you make a system or protocol, it eventually becomes centralized.
@dang, madengr's insightful comment (sibling of this) seems to have been unfairly murdered? He's absolutely right.
if you want to self host, give my product a try https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver. It will auto-sync your static site from git repo.
I wrote a book for O'Reilly. It was grueling and I really struggled with it. The only thing that worked was following the Jerry Seinfeld "Don't break the chain" rule: promise yourself you will write every day, and mark it on your calendar each time you do, and never let there be a gap.

It doesn't matter from where you start. If you do this, you'll accomplish more than you ever thought you could.

You aren't built different.
Thanks!

I think it's worth giving a mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker as well. (The Allies were not sure if their encryption was secure, and attempted to find other means of securing their comms.)
I am a systems engineer and software developer, and I have worked on multiple healthcare related systems including one for a major hospital system.

I wish I had more access to nurses during the process. I was always told they were too busy. I just wanted to observe, as I do with any client I write systems for, and was denied. I can say that at least 2 other groups were working on the exact same project as I in the hospital system, and we "won". We all worked in isolation from one another, I discovered the others by accident.

The top of major healthcare systems is wasteful and full of "little kingdoms". The ideas that "AI is going to help" and "nurses need to feel heard" are basically incompatible. Throwing money at artificial brains is always to substitute real ones, and the concept itself is contradictory to employee development. Why train a bunch of nurses endlessly on a subject when you can train an AI once?

We're supposed to be improving & developing people's lives here, not improving a box. For centuries we've found new ways of thinking that have made us better at science and medicine. Computers could do that, but we're not using them to teach each other. We're using them to replace one another.

It may sound silly, but I've reached the point that the theory Dune puts forth seems right.
glad it helped!
Assume you were replying to my comment so will reply!

So for the first part - this isn’t as simple as you suggest. First off, you need to be in the same country as most require KYC for your specific location (SSN or NI numbers). Second, few let you make your own peer-to-peer bets! Third, they tend to have significant fees or minimum deposits etc… regarding your second point layer 2 chains solve that issue and have done for the last year or more, fees are far far lower and sometimes even non-existent.

Also we probably don’t get to pick our own oracles! I don’t know of any site anywhere that does.

In comparison this is a fairly simple DApp to build.
When you hire a celebrity programmer like that, what exactly do they end up doing?

Do they actually have responsibilities in their role or is it more just to slap the branding on to them while they continue to do their own thing, whatever it may be? (in Matz case I would think he has more than enough full time work on Ruby itself)
It's not a monetary good. It's a virtual scrip with mathematical basis.
I have noticed that with a few notable exceptions, it seems like enthusiasm for "Web3" seems inversely correlated with web development experience. The conclusion I draw from this is that the longer you've been building web apps, the more concerned you will be that nobody can explain how these "Web3" apps could possibly work at scale, or why you would choose a "Web3" stack when your problem case doesn't explicitly require it.

For the optimists, I really want you to think about this when you go to sleep tonight: if larger smart contracts cost more than smaller smart contracts, it's a forgone conclusion that developers will skip type and boundary checks. Do you really want to bet on a future where developers are perversely incentivized to write code that is easier to exploit?
Interesting question: Maybe the barrier to entry for directors is much higher than authors. The budget required for a film greatly limits the output; any critic can try writing a book.

But I wonder how many film critics try making short film? With modern digital video and YouTube, it's possible.
Huge frameworks exist in the crypto world too (huge in relation to the EVM's miniscule capabilities). Frameworkization is a software phenomenon that is orthogonal to trust or anything like that
Here in Australia, only citizens can work for the Commonwealth (federal) government. The end result is that, due to a lack of competition from immigrants, the public sector is basically just a jobs program for those too incompetent to work in the private sector.
you couldn’t even physically even do that in a boeing plane, because of sensible hmi choices that boeing made early in their history.

so i think your point is completely invalid.
What is perfect information?

I understood perfect information to include infinite precision knowledge of non-quantized values like position and momentum. To store that information we'd almost always need infinite bits to express the state of even one particle.

(...and cough ignoring uncertainty...)

Using a finite number of bits was described in the comment above as "lumping positions into pixels".
Not if they are competent at building moats.
Not to discourage the Show HN on your IMO excellent project, but I want to point to the non-Show HN discussion from the other day¹. A bunch of interesting comments, plus the expected diversions ;)

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31163083
Impressive results
Hey Curtise!

The initial books were harder to write as I hadn't flexed my writing muscles yet.
but as i wrote more books, and get greater technical knowledge, subsequent books got easier and easier.

I would say the easiest book I got to write is my current on on Svelte (yet to be published) as i can leverage much of the content from my previous React, Angular books.
The middle ground is not always the right choice. If you say we have to participate in 100 scams and I say that we shouldn't participate in any scam, the right answer isn't to say "Let's just do 50 scams then"
By giving recognition for good work, which can go into their resume and/or elevate their status among industry peers.
Sure, I was imprecise, I mean, they do not necessarily go bust. And even if they do, it can be delayed by decades, even centuries, by techniques that are too numerous and well known to list here.

I've known a few Smith's in my time, one thing they all had in common was the protection of a manager who had no interest in the quality of Smith's work, as long as Smith would take his side in any disputes. When the consequences became too great, the manager would suddenly understand the problem and approve the minimum of changes to fix it, while taking credit for the work. Smith would not complain about this slight because he understood the nature of the transaction.

Edit: btw. congrats getting rid of your Smith, these people can be very difficult to dislodge. Presumably your guy did not have the protection of a manager.
Gotta sell it right? =)
I second this. lsp-mode was the main recommendation when I started looking into LSP for Emacs, and it was ok, but I switched to eglot a few months ago and I’m very happy with it. It’s more Emcas-y, IMO.
Growing Potatoes in Crates or Pens (1918)
It would be amazing if that $34k was just handed out as cash for a month. I heard LA was spending $900k per person to build housing.

I'm a bit skeptical it is graft but imagine it is just the long tax inside a big bureaucracy that siphons a penny here and a penny there, all in service of codes and permits, and there you go, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars gone before it reaches the streets.

Imagine if those tax dollars were just handed back to people as cash. Starting to sound like basic income.
May depend on your market, it amazon sells the vast majority of ebooks in the world.

So, neither of those.
The NYT is constantly using the words "scary", "terrifying", "afraid", "catastrophe". The sun is still shining and my kids are still playing outside. You can ignore the news for years and live care-free without psychological consequences.
I've never seen that design but I have seen lots of shuttered airplane windows get quite hot due to the sun shining on them.
Drinking soda is also more dangerous than drinking water but nobody mandates me about when I should drink what.

Imagine if I had a heart attack while behind the wheel and hurt someone?? Soda should be banned for this reason.
By now, the first.
Its mainly jsut about eight books that bring in majority of the income. Amazon doesn't allow authors to delete unpublished books, thus showing 80.

you can check out the active books here:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=greg+lim&ref=nb_sb_noss
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see why fully functional runtime tests are required. The only purpose of a runtime tests is to test things that could vary, at runtime, like architectural incompatibilities, with memory layout things like endianness and bitfields being an example. These are trivial to implement in a few dozen bytes. If you have a ROM soldered into boards, then absolutely none of this would be a concern since the architecture would be intimately known, so I'm now completely lost on your point. Anyways, cheers!