skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, funding individual pieces.

Instead of a freelance writer pitching a story to an editor of the NYT, throw it up on a site where the pitches can be seen and funded directly by their potential audience.

If the NYT was going to pay a few hundred dollars for the article, that's a very low threshold for funding.

Obviously writers with a portfolio of past work will have an advantage in that system, but even fresh talent could build up a portfolio with interesting pitches at low funding goals.

A lot of content curation is built around a paradigm where the editors speculate about what their audience actually wants, and that's not always very accurate.

I recall a friend who wrote about sexual politics for major publications who had a hard time getting a pitch for a story on child free attitudes sold to the editor, and yet that piece ended up the most read and shared for the year.

Remove the middleman and allow writers to sell the pitch directly to the audience - who if they care about it enough will fund it and read it when finished. And then don't care about trying to control or hinder further distribution or handicapping the piece/headline to optimize clicks or ads.

Monetize the creation and not the distribution.
> What can we do?

Perhaps try to scale back our reliance on running massive great piles of untrusted code we pull from god-knows-where, just because some web page said to?
(I’m a Linux kernel dev)

Tools like windbg probably work great until you are debugging the code that runs when windbg tries to take over. Or you’re debugging something sensitive to interrupts and it’s literally impossible to keep up with a tool like windbg. Or you a debugging something that overwrites windbg in memory because you have a corrupt pointer. Or you triple-fault the machine and it reboots with so much prejudice that windbg doesn’t have a chance. Or you’re poking at hardware that the debugger can’t usefully interact with. Etc.

Basically, in the kernel, a lot of the things that a working kernel does to hold your hand aren’t available. So there’s a lot of time spent just thinking or adding logging statements or otherwise using low tech tools. (Or using high tech instrumentation or sanitizers!)

Kernel development is great :)
Site Reliability Engineer. Broadly speaking, Google divides software engineering into two categories:

- software engineers, who create, initially maintain, and develop long term maintenance plans for software

- site reliability engineers, who keep existing products healthy, deal with unexpected complications in realtime, and continuously engineer improvements on how to do their jobs so they can carry more and more active software per SRE.
Is Face ID so terrible? I'm still on iPhone 8 with fingerprint reader and unlocking is not something I notice, it's absolutely smooth.
>does not need to be on crypto/blockchain.

Not only don't you need blockchains you can phrase it more strongly, it renders the entire thing impossible. A social network needs a messaging protocol, data ownership should be private and state local or else it doesn't even scale.

Pushing the entire history of a what is p2p, private communication through a global state machine is entirely antithetical to the use case. Imagine every time you talk to your neighbor you inform the entire country first, there's no point.
If Zen 3 is already not vulnerable, don't even have to wait for the next round of designs.
I have worked on it and debugged it in the past. It’s probably some of the cleanest code at Microsoft if I were to guess.

It’s very readable, if a bit idiosyncratic. I would work on it again, given the right opportunity.
How is 2 years flipping a house?
NASA's Alt Text
Tor’s been selling their stuff DRM-free for about as long as ebooks have existed.
When i said tracking, it's not just logging. They know nothing except for all browser information.
Compilers implement tail calls on architectures where you can JMP with impunity. Wasm is not such an architecture - it deals with calls and returns and call stack as concepts.
Most of my family gets a "you have a virus" ad on their smartphones while using YT.

I guess the guys at Google are having problems paying their bills and are allowing these kind of ads.
Or a directory of text files, or a relational DB like postgres...

The options are many. It doesn't really matter, just do whatever will meet your needs!
I find few people wait around to be re-hired for near or at minimum wage jobs - usually because there is no way they can afford to.
Alt link: https://archive.ph/42l8J
Surely this is desirable while away from home too?
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-sre
Have you considered paying half to only keep one butt cheek warm?
But in most environments, you as a user are not in total control of what is running. If you are in the cloud, other users in unrelated virtual machines can steal your junk.

Also, if you are running a web browser with JavaScript turned on, that is effectively another user able to steal your junk.
My point is that if you disable speculation on the insecure core then the websites can share without this class of exploit being a risk factor. There my be other vectors for accessing the data of colocated processes.
I would suggest reviewing the landing page for spelling and grammar.

Most people I know who run their own gitlab runners do it because they don't want their code run/available on servers outside of their control. From a price perspective, running gitlab runners on more powerful shared servers for $100/month is less appealing when I can run a swarm of on-demand spot instances for a lot less.
> I spent 22 hours, 18 minutes, and 47 seconds writing and editing “India World” across 42 sessions in Google Docs. (Not including hours more spent editing on paper, revising the story at workshops, or reading critiques.)

Given the quality of the work, I suspect that 2x-5x that many hours were spent on developing and revising the story (the parenthetical part). So let's call it 66 hours total.

Later:

> 8/27/2020 - RUOXI FROM TOR.COM EMAILED TO BUY THE STORY! They offered $1422.80 for exclusive digital, audio, and ebook rights for one year, non-exclusive afterward. Likely publication: early 2021. I said yes!

So, ballpark $20/hr. Some commenters have noted the low pay for this kind of work. How it's a labor of love rather than a living. And Tor apparently pays top dollar. On top of the fee, there's a profit sharing program, which starts to sound pretty good. But again, this looks to be the ceiling.

What's more interesting are the non-financial terms. The author can sell the work to others after one year. Depending on whether the author retains copyright (seems to be implied), this could be a pretty interesting way to go. I'm thinking about things like expansion into a novel, movie or other derivative works, for example. The acceptance letter doesn't quite make it clear how this works. How does it work?
A healthy ego is helpful in design, but he lost me around the time he started being chauffeured to and from work in a Maybach, like some head of state.
> I'm sure you were well intentioned, but this comment read all kinds of rude and negative.

Pot, meet kettle. Except you are flat out an arse while GP was mostly innocent in their action I feel.
the pelicans themselves are nice but I find they are theif magnets - people assume whats inside is expensive and you are conspicuous when using them.
Are you saying windows runs 28% slower than Linux systems?

“Intel has worked with the Linux community and VMM vendors to provide customers with software mitigation guidance which should be available on or around today's public disclosure date,” Intel wrote in a blog post. “Note that Windows systems are not affected given that these systems use Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) by default which is also the mitigation being made available to Linux users. Intel is not aware of this issue being exploited outside of a controlled lab environment.”

There’s also other mitigations that don’t have that penalty that are working on employing: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
> The very fact that such a desirable outcome drives you to Google and nowhere else should suggest the complexity of the problem they’re solving and how there isn’t really anything else out there doing so well.

Yes and I'm not impressed.

> > Ideally as few as possible should profit from this process.

> Why?

> When you accepted a job offer in the software industry, did you stipulate that your mission is to write code for your employer and you will be charging as little as possible for that privilege? Minimum wage should get you by just fine, right?

I'm not a good example as I indeed live wonderfully on minimum wage and write software for free.

> I hate fully grown adults behaving as though anyone except them making a profit is somehow evil.

Don't worry, my philosophy is not that superficial. We have people who make things, people who organize the making of things and people who organize the things made.

It can be true that the meta data is more valuable than the data it self and organizing an effort can be much more intense than any of the tasks involved. But lets not pretend that is always the case.

Before money and before the written word we had the exchange of thoughts, observations and ideas. I believe this to be somewhat like the foundation on which everything else we did is build. I want to see this process benefit from technology.

You wrote your comment perhaps a bit limited by the ropes of the platform but sincerely, free from any agenda, you wrote pretty much what you think.

Now if we [beyond HN] add additional layers of agendas between our exchange, each interested in maximizing their profit from it perhaps not you but many others will resort to self-moderation.

You wont be able to state it simply like: "I hate fully grown adults behaving as though anyone except them making a profit is somehow evil."

It could become something like "I don't understand why some people don't like others making money" stripped from how strong you feel about the subject. You could also chose not to say anything.

At that point we are messing with the very fabric of our collective reality.

If I had to chose between freely communicating and the economy it wouldn't be a hard choice.
How many proposals from outsiders get accepted?
When you said "ontological" I was reminded of a phrase I often encountered in leftist circles, the assertion some people are "ontologically evil". Precisely because they operate from a different set of axioms.

> therefore we have little to learn from arguing with each other

In a way I agree but at the same time I can't help but think exploring the axioms underlying moral foundations is important. Either to come to a shared set as a society or to construct a societal machanism that will allow people with a contradictory sense of morality to co-exist. To be honest, reaching a shared set of moral axioms seems to be a lost cause to me. But, perhaps the co-existance mechanism is still possible.
Lake mead is hydro. It’s just not being fed so much Rocky Mountain snow melt anymore.
The side gig used by many "writers" is to establish yourself as one of many mentors that offers guidance for get rich quick schemes such as the blacklist.

In reality, for most writing is a fading interest. It's a skill that anyone can really pick up if they wanted to but doing so is easy to learn and hard to master. You can go long periods of time writing and never improve.

Due to how the system as whole is designed most writers never improve. It's just how it works in the end because of the lack of a coherent structure or guidance system. Only if you belong to pre-established writing groups will you even really have a chance at learning it.

Sure there are several references openly available online, but all it can teach you is syntax. What you need to be a good writer is experience, training and mentoring which most people will never gain the opportunity of having. And even to those that do, it's a lifelong endeavor and one that requires complex knowledge in a variety of fields. It's one that most that pick it up will never be able to comprehend themselves or when they do, it's too late and trying to do so is fundamentally impossible for them due to their situation.
Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
Will it run Doom?
Fwiw, Suse is a public company again and Novell is split up into various different places like NetIq (eDirectory) then Microfocus for most of the "dead-ish" products like Groupwise and File/Print services.
Why is this even a thing? Totally wrong, in every way on every level.
High security systems don’t allow even 1 bit per second as it can leak keys.
You can QoS tag by whitelisted mac addresses if it's just priority to known devices generally. At best your router may be able to slightly shape devices on the network (strategically dropped packets). QoS over the air doesn't really work as there's zero control of any devices tying up RF spectrum, and zero ability to defend against DoS attacks (E.G. neighbor trying to stream 4K over wifi).
This isn't my experience at all. Imperative code with side effects is harrowing to debug because it may do different things depending on what execution path got you there.

Pure functions are easy to debug. Run it, check the result against expectations. Step in if necessary.
Ah of course you meant in a word processor...

$ never mind
-bash: never: command not found

Thought I was about to learn about a new utility for a moment.
I'm glad someone here said this about them. I grew up seeing Hubble style images (non-IR) so I get the warm fuzziness they have. For me the one thing that gets me are the big shiny stars that seem to have big streaks going everywhere. They feel like lens flare in the photos.
If you accept the job pay attention to what the Hyper-V team does. They were the best kernel team that I personally worked with and were eager to do things the best way possible.
while possible, those are hard to develop to be a reliable pub/sub messaging though.
I did this in a field in Hirafu Village, Japan[1] near the end of April about 8 years ago . We didn't know about the spiral part, and so we just did it in layers. The spiral approach does seem like it would add a whole lot more stability that was hard to get without the first two bricks in each layer being a bit precarious. Our tools were mainly an avalanche shovel and a few snowboards.

When it was done, we managed to fit about 11-12 people inside, and had a small fire on a table fashioned in the middle of the igloo (as well as way too much Saki). If you ever get a chance to do this, it's tough work, but well worth it.

[1]: Somewhere around 42.86131738850902, 140.70182135196615 on a map.
> In Q2 alone, we added approximately 10,000 Googlers...

Maybe it is okay to slow hiring if 'normal' is ten thousand new hires in three months
Found it in my .bashrc once. That was a good trick. Now any time a buddy and I share have a login on one another's machine, the ssh motd is an ASCII train that says "toot toot".
Except that now Facebook has been messing with Instagram, and the feed is basically exactly the same as Facebook. More than half of my feed is content from accounts I haven't followed, and it's mostly the same short-video format that makes Facebook's feed awful to use.
Literally was just watching something on this from the excellent Breaking Points show https://youtu.be/Tdnr3wOzymE
It's all hard to make reliable, there are tradeoffs and dark spots around every corner.

When it's a personal project, I suggest settling for "good enough".
Because of Islamophobia people elected known corrupt leaders, who made all the bad decisions possible. The pandemic and Ukraine war unraveled it all.
I'm in the same camp as the two of you!

Sure, I've had mine replaced 5 times, but I love the actuation/feel of the keys. It was/is light years ahead of any other 2mm or less keyboard I've tried.

I'm legitimately considering buying an M2 Macbook Pro 13 so I can have the final iteration.
haha I just viewed this tethered to my phone. Oops
> That's why the only email subscription service on my site is completely transparent

Sorry, but honestly speaking even checking your profile does not reveal what your web site is. Probably you are marketing person from your words, but that's not clear.

Hope this feedback helps!
Here's a Sri Lankan giving an in-depth analysis about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZ5oiUGqW4. I like this guy, think he's got good opinions.
It doesn't matter what "good" endless surveillance does because it is the most potent tool of authoritarianism and should be illegal.
and how his position is supposedly that "we dont care about what people want"

Except their comment literally starts with
I don't care.

And you don't have to go to extremes of either bending over backwards for every request a person could have, or ignoring everything. It's very simple, if someone has a name, and you don't call them by that name even though they requested it, then you are being disrespectful. If someone is doing something considered too far outside the boundaries of the norm (changing their name every 5 minutes), then we can start putting limits. Otherwise I think it's very natural for someone to be want to be referred to themselves by the name they told you they prefer
I'm not stuck in the 90s ... which model of Sony Minidisc?
The reason why games are tens or hundreds of gigabytes in size is that modern textures are high-resolution and models are high in detail; if you took away high-capacity storage, then you'd just end up with worse-looking games. The reason why Web sites are big is largely images, videos, JS, and CSS; if you took away broadband, you'd end up with worse-looking and less functional Web sites. It's like the broken window fallacy in economics: the fact that having limitations gives smart developers an opportunity to work cleverly within them doesn't change the fact that limitations leave everybody worse off overall.
I've met people who've worked at these. They pay more than 25 dollars. Around a couple hundred. If you don't live in a third world country you can't afford this lifestyle, which leads to the poor quality you see due to lack of English proficiency.

Nowadays, the content farm has become websites like Webcomics and Webnovels which offer a variety of tools for authors to be able to make a living. In reality like the pre-existing mangaka business, you will never be able to have a stable amount of money each year as you struggle to keep afloat you cannot improve or get better. The game has been rigged by the publishers since the 80s. And only the very elite are given the opportunity to succeed in the correct social circles. For which most people will never be given the opportunity to even partake in. You can apply for workshops and the naught but if you aren't from the right family or friends with the right people your chances are close to none. It's the same in the music industry and pervades everywhere even in technology.
It's irrelevant how many hours a specific work takes down to the second

I am a professional artist and I have found it very helpful to track my work at the resolution of a half an hour. I can quote prices with confidence that I’ll make a decent wage for the time I expect them to take. I can look at how much time I’ve spent so far and decide it’s time to stop noodling on one part and make sure other parts don’t get neglected before I do a final polish pass. I can experiment with new working methods and see if the get me to something that meets my standards faster, once I get used to them. It helps me keep my life from being dominated by projects that sprawl out of control, too.

It may not be relevant to anyone looking at the final art how long it took, but it’s super relevant to me. And keeping similar data is relevant to anyone who wants to try and make a serious go at doing a thing.
Password managers for every other password seem vulnerable?
Past HN thread on a similar project that had a lot of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026
You can do that in uBlock Origin, just enable advanced mode then you can block 1st + 3rd party scripts across all domains in two clicks..
Maybe if enough mega corporations complain, these cities will rethink their stance on crime.
It's not that much better. Apparently at least some of the idiosyncracies in the design of wasm, such as the lack of regular unstructured branches, is due to the internal implementation details of V8.
Comment 2: filled up the disk on my first computer and had to find an actual hard drive since none of my SSDs have 330GB. It seems more like 500+GB on disk. Haven't gotten to inference yet.
> But the most boneheaded, bizarre mistake that the Sri Lankan government made was a disastrous plan to shift the entire country to organic agriculture. In April of 2021 the government banned the import and use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. This devastated Sri Lankan agriculture, since, as it turns out, fertilizer is really really important. Production of tea — Sri Lanka’s main cash crop — fell by 18% in a year. Production of rice — the main food crop — fell by even more.

From https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi... :

> By 2020, the total cost of fertilizer imports and subsidies was close to $500 million each year. With fertilizer prices rising, the tab was likely to increase further in 2021. Banning synthetic fertilizers seemingly allowed Rajapaksa to kill two birds with one stone: improving the nation’s foreign exchange situation while also cutting a massive expenditure on subsidies from the pandemic-hit public budget.

> But when it comes to agricultural practices and yields, there is no free lunch. Agricultural inputs—chemicals, nutrients, land, labor, and irrigation—bear a critical relationship to agricultural output. From the moment the plan was announced, agronomists in Sri Lanka and around the world warned that agricultural yields would fall substantially. The government claimed it would increase the production of manure and other organic fertilizers in place of imported synthetic fertilizers. But there was no conceivable way the nation could produce enough fertilizer domestically to make up for the shortfall.

You don't get anything "for free", and cutting supports like this will inevitably doom a sputtering economy, when the actual solution was almost certainly more government spending, not less.

The US is actually lucky to understand this at the deepest levels of policy and law making, with massive aid packages to prevent total collapse. Even Europe tried harsh austerity in the wake of 2008, and the fad lasted way too long there.

The Sri Lankan leader's hostile attitude towards the Sri Lankan population is what made protesters storm the leader's home.
As much as necessary.
90% sure these are Malaysian soft drinks
In recent years this has changed to screenplays and sites like the blacklist, where every unexperienced writer posts a script for their chance at the megamillions. The reality is that for the most part the site is rigged in favour of those already in the industry and rating are chosen by those with the largest wallets.
Different wavelengths. The JWST also cannot see the shorter wavelengths that Hubble excels at.
> Without imports, many Sri Lankans will quickly find themselves hungry, stranded

How did these island nations sustain themselves before ? In other words, what has changed that they can’t live off the land anymore? And by that, I mean the sea.

Has Sri Lanka’s fish been pillaged? Is it being exported to wealthier nations that command higher prices, even as there is a domestic food crisis?

How much of this is because of globalism and developing hard dependencies? I’ve traveled to all 47 of Japan’s prefectures and I still see bountiful agriculture in the countryside. Even as developed and wealthy as Japan is, with many global dependencies in imports/exports, it is still heavily invested in agriculture.