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Packt and Next Tech partner to bring interactive tech education to developers
Hey HN, some exciting news! We just partnered with Packt Publishers to build a massive library of interactive courses for programming, web development, SQL, data science, and so on.

Our goal is to offer low cost (cheaper than Netflix) access to a large library of these courses, which includes Packt's content almost verbatim alongside our online development environment.

I'm really excited about this partnership and what it means for the developer community, especially those who have mastered the basics but want to continue to grow their skill set. There's a lot of interactive content out there for introductory concepts, but not much for anything beyond the basics, and that's what we're working to change.

Packt has over 6,000 ebooks we're starting to import, so if there are any titles you're particularly interested in, just let me know and we can get it imported!

If you want to read more about the partnership, there's a short press release here: https://medium.com/nextdottech/packt-and-next-tech-partner-to-bring-interactive-tech-education-to-developers-da6e2f33cd5d
Ha, that is so true. I picked up an area rug there for cheap the other day.
Well Amazon offers CloudSearch which is a proprietary full-text search engine native to the AWS cloud.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/

EDIT:

Just to expand on this, I also found that Google Cloud and Azure both have similar proprietary services.

https://cloud.google.com/products/search/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/
Given that lose is pronounced looze and loose is pronounced looce I can see why it’s confusing.
My personal, probably disagreeable opinion, but... The narrative that Amazon is somehow screwing over open source is getting old. I don't really think anything is 'screwing over open source', but if it's anything, it is the notion that we should severely restrict the licenses to ensure only the right people can monetize it. To me, the original spirit of open source is "I don't care what happens to this after I release it," like Linus releasing Linux so long ago. To that end, Amazon has certainly leveraged hundreds or thousands of FOSS projects over the years, but only a few have cried foul about it, and they happen to be startups releasing open source software.

I'm totally supportive of developers and their rights to release software under whatever license they feel appropriate, but if you release open source software, benefit from your software being open source, for probably years, and then someone else monetizes it... I'd argue you really ought to have seen that coming from the get-go. The license explicitly allowed it, it's not a loop hole that nobody knew about, it's absolutely intentional.

If people want to move over to shared source licenses like SSPL, or heck, even just close the source... that's fine too. But please don't try to call it open source or defending open source. It's defending a profit model that stopped working. Totally reasonable thing to do, but it's nothing to do with open source being corrupted.
That's kind of what I was going for, but I guess the bay area has become the same as SV for most people.
The https://contractfortheweb.org/ is so bland as to be impotent. The principles are vague enough to be a Rorschach test. Presumably it has had all sharp edged filed down to gain consensus. As an engineer Sir Berners-Lee wants to bring a solution along with the problems he's found, and this is presumably his best shot. Given his capability that's depressing confirmation that these are hard problems.
How is this on Nvidia? I'm on KDE neon and so no Wayland due to Nvidia's lack of APIs
Dissecting the company along those lines does nothing to curb their cumulative potential effect on controlling what ads a user sees. They all hook into the same ad backend anyways.
1: How did you export? and did you try to import into a different unit?

4: In over 10 years of using F5 never seen a reboot break a config. The part about needing reboot to make a config change apply might be https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13253. In short F5 keeps the old config in RAM and applies it to existing connections. when the latter expire, the old config is gone. Can be very annoying indeed when you are not aware of it. You can delete connections manually though. No need for reboot.

3/5: Yes, all their releases have a list of all known issues. It's a bit odd indeed, but I think it's a good thing. Plan your upgrades carefully.
It would be good if there were a standard format for referencing private keys in code, like "pk_*". Then NPM could say,

> "it looks like your package might have a private key in file xyz.js on line 27. Please type "no it doesn't" into the box below if you're sure this is not the case".
Harry Potter and the GPL Violator of Azkaban
I'm sure amazon sells books that say that the moon is made of cheese and that people can fly if they put their minds to it and an endless list of other absurdities. Where is the faux outrage trying to hold them accountable for these views?

Of course, no one fights to censor these views because it's an unachievable(and undesirable) task to review and censor every book ever made and more importantly there is no audience for virtue signaling on those topics. Amazon has millions of books for sale and obviously does not claim to endorse all of them.

The subtext here is: so let's form some kind of committee so we can all gather around and vote on what's acceptable to publish and what isn't. This is an incomparably more dangerous scenario than some nutcase writing a ridiculous book that is likely to be read by a handful of people.
I think this was very well played by Warren. You are probably technically correct but it is what their campaign wanted to have happen, so they have good talking points around the control Facebook can assert around the globe, at scale, at will.
> but you cannot really cut up an array of bytes into 5-bit chunks easily

But you can do RGB 565, which is exactly what mobile GPUs do (or used to do, back when memory cost and bandwidth were more limited).
Can you mention some of the interesting parts of Borg that are missing in k8s?
Have you tried data engineering jobs rather than data scientist?
Npm should have a forced arbitration clause for anyone posting code under US jurisdiction. Then they can pull a procedural power play.
Gonna just chime in and mention Yahoo for Hadoop (yes I know Big Table was Google), and Zookeeper. Great tech started at Yahoo, but they didn’t (unlike today) make too much of a fuss/self-pat-on-the-back about it
The banks employee granted NPM a (probably) valid license to distribute the code (quoted below - from the tos). Submitting a DMCA request claiming requires claiming under penalty of perjury that no such license exists. That's (probably) incorrect, any lawyer reasonably knows that a license would have been granted, and as such (probably) criminal. Unfortunately (?) this sort of perjury is never prosecuted in practice.

> (From npm tos) Your Content belongs to you. You decide whether and how to license it. But at a minimum, you license npm to provide Your Content to users of npm Services when you share Your Content. That special license allows npm to copy, publish, and analyze Your Content, and to share its analyses with others. npm may run computer code in Your Content to analyze it, but npm's special license alone does not give npm the right to run code for its functionality in npm products or services
> it seems almost impossible to not use company equipement

Why? Just don't do it. If its not work related, stop. If you need to kill some time to stay sane, get up and take a walk to do whatever on your device. I've worked at places where the computer that I used was connected to the production network. It was not connected to the internet at all which meant no email. To get to email, we had to log into a remote system to view email. Attachments could be saved to a folder that put it up for review of relevance and virus/malware/etc. If it wasn't approved, it was silently deleted with no notification.

At another location, we blocked FB at the firewall for the day, and the employees about lost their mind. It was very telling about how much time was wasted throughout the day. It was also surprising the number of people that complained like it was their right to use the company's resources to update their friends.
These are what I use, https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/hearing-protection/er20.ht...

They're pretty good, not perfect. They remove the screechy it's too loud feeling I get at concerts but there is a little degradation in sound quality.
I worked at a government research organization similar to JPL much more recently than 2002, the pace was far too slow and industry did all the interesting things. The operational staff seemed to exist as part of a jobs program.
Outlawing all the shitty data collection, or GDPR'ing it to the point so at least it's much harder and more under control, would go a long way toward fixing things, including off the web (medical providers, credit card companies, credit reporting agencies, and so on).
I have clean air and water where I live, largely due to regulation.

If "rent seekers" are benefiting from such regulations, they're certainly far from the only ones who benefit.
> The probability that two crashes are both 737 Max is 0.00875 * 0.00875 = 0.0000766

You need to multiply this by every combination of two crashes in the observed time period with starting and endpoints not cherry picked to include 737 max crashes though.
APIs. I documented my journey with them over here when I encountered them the first time art university https://www.robinwieruch.de/what-is-an-api-javascript They just empower you to build things.
This is the actual problem, not regulation itself.

Regulation should be designed to scale with the size and age of the participating operator (of business or service).

Regulations should be about controlling the outsize influence of any individual player/entity in any direction, in addition to restriction malicious activity.

If these were equally important in regulation design, they would be far less harmful for new small players and better manage incumbents.
I saw Motorhead about 10 years ago with the cheap foam ones and my ears were still ringing the next day. And Lemmy warned us it would be loud. The volume some bands play at is astounding, and foam plugs, full-ear headphones (like the kind Roger Miller used to use when playing for Mission of Burma back in the 80s) and other devices may only be of limited use.

I read somewhere that The Who played an outdoor concert in London in the 70s that was so loud fish in a nearby park went belly-up in the ponds they inhabited. I wonder how the kids at that show are faring now, hearing-wise.
Yup. Lost of successful companies are "forks". Ubuntu & Debian. Pfsense & freebsd. Linux & SCO Group.
Yo thanks for taking the time to write this.

Obviously hard to complain too much about a free product - I'm sharing my personal experience for others.

So the thing I like about AWS is that they can give you a cert before pointing the DNS A record at your site. Really fool-proof and excellent. Much better than the let's encrypt flow by design.

In fact on some of my sites I now run Caddy on AWS behind a load balancer with the AWS load balancer providing HTTPS. Works much better and I can sleep at night with less fear.
Why would I want to register to read that?
Wouldn't the point of breaking those into separate companies be to _prevent_ them from hooking into the same backend?
Oh boy, just skimming through that license and I can see a bunch of lawyers having a good giggle and a field day over it.

> you must contribute all software that invokes this software's functionality..

So that rules out all proprietary operating systems, databases, 3rd party services, but why stop there? give us your CPU microcode.
I'd definitely be willing to try this if it was open source.
Leraxandria: A library of functions, macros and apps in Common Lisp
> Dissecting the company along those lines does nothing to curb their cumulative potential effect on controlling what ads a user sees

If I can reach my audience through Facebook or Instagram, that’s more competition than Facebook properties alone.

> They all hook into the same ad backend anyways

Hence the call to break them up.
> Okay, first of all, due to the Fletcher Munson curves, the perception of bass versus treble is affected by volume.

This is one reason using dBA for everything is silly. They work at about 60dB SPL. They used to have a dB(B) for about 80dB, and then you use dBC for levels above 100dB. Even worse, dBA as a measure for sound limits for heavy machinery, which is a complete abuse, as this hides the power of lower and higher frequencies, and hearing damage is not interested in hearing sensitivity.
I know how hooks work, but what you describe has nothing to do with closures.
"today's web / internet seems to have given up on open standards and cooperation. Instead most of the money and effort is going into figuring out how to capture people in a walled garden such as Facebook etc.. so you can mine their data and advertise to them."

How are open standards and cooperation supposed to stop tracking and advertising?

Tracking and unsolicited advertising should be tackled head on: by banning them.
> In the past the scene would adopt whatever codec gave the highest compression efficiency with little regard for anything else

> Today compatibility with set-top boxes is much more of a consideration than it used to be

My experience was the opposite, they seemingly stuck to Xvid in AVI containers for the longest time to support those divx-compatible DVD players even when newer codecs were more performant. Whereas these days while not the most common codec, most things do end up getting a release in h265.
Honest question, who could claim to be damaged by someone running ZFS on linux? The closest I can get is 'unlicensed derivative work' regarding implementing a struct of function pointers, which is really contentious and unsettled (oracle v google, APIs copyrightable, etc).

I'm not a lawyer or anything close, but who would possibly have standing and motive to sue? There's, what, a dozen people at most who have copyright on those struct definitions? And API copyrightability is still unsettled?

Maybe the lawyers were too conservative, and the engineers who listened to them were applying the wrong model?

Someone tell me why I'm wrong.
This is smart politics. Rather than simply telling people FB is a monopoly, she runs a limited experiment that had it been left alone, would have limited effect since the budget was so small ($100).
Now this puts FB in a bind. If they really are a middleman for content, then these ads don't violate any laws and shouldn't be blocked. However, FB as a company with a product should block it just like coffee shop wouldn't allow a banner on the wall saying "better coffee down the street".

This sort of overreaction to a small calculated provocation just proves the point that FB is a company first, platform second. This was obvious already to many people, but now there's a clear illustration that'll make it harder for FB to simply say they are a neutral platform.
Their ad-targeting infrastructure likely has some secret subtleties to it.
I frequently go to stupid loud EDM shows.. I’m very curious what will happen to my generation since even with earplugs my ears can be funny after shows, probably from all the sub bass (which is much more prominent than at rock shows).

I try to compensate by pretty much never listening to music otherwise, but I feel like I’m going to be struggling in 20 years.
I did my part in preventing such outcomes because I own goldmansachs

npm install goldmansachs
> it throws out all of the interesting parts of Borg

This is not true. It throws out the Google-specific parts of Borg (like integration with Google's service discovery, load balancing, and monitoring systems) and improves a number of things compared to Borg. For a good reference on the evolution of Borg into Kubernetes, I recommend the recent Kubernetes Podcast interview with Brian Grant: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/043-borg-omega-kuberne...

> Google themselves don't use it

This is not true, and the reasons why it hasn't replaced Borg are related to the integrations I mentioned above (which will take time to integrate or replace) and the zillions of lines of borg config that have built up over the years, rather than concerns that people outside of Google would have (production-worthiness, reliability, etc.)

(Disclaimer: I worked on Borg at Google, and now work on Kubernetes at Google.)
I would say that statement holds true for most countries. The Nordic model [1] is an exception, and why I said California should invest more in its public welfare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
I just started Vyvanse today, maybe give it a try? It's not a "magic pill" but rather a supplement to help.
Yeah, my phrasing was sloppy: you're not guaranteed to win whenever you're in the right. But being in the right is a precondition of being guaranteed to win (along with having competent lawyers, a competent judge, etc.).
Fully homomorphic encryption modulo Fermat numbers
Those other things you list...newspapers, television, networks...they all have a Facebook page and distribute their content through FB.

These traditional forms of media are scrambling for likes/comments just as much as the next influencer.
Teaching Kids to Control Their Anger
FB gonna FB......how many times do people need to learn this lesson....
I think I could adjust to a MacBook running some A* SOC device. It might make the MacBook less able to run some POSIX compatible applications, but probably Apple could get everything that runs with a `brew install, and more, running just fine.

With the new iPad pluggable into USB-C monitors, which can have keyboards hanging off them, that seems like a better solution to me. Have an iPad able to run everything (in a pinch): XCode, VSCode, etc. but a docked iPad would do everything.

Then you could keep MacBooks they way they are/
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Aldi siphons away marketshare from other stores with large overheads and from brands which spend more on advertising than the products themselves. Personally I very rarely notice a difference in quality between Aldi-bought products and those from more expensive chains (e.g. Edeka or Rewe), though the latter are more hit-and-miss (never need to check the expiration date at Aldi, always have to at Edeka…) and much more chaotic. This second aspect, which makes it hard to shop quickly, combines with very slow people working the tills, meaning that the time it takes me to buy a single item in Edeka is longer than what I need to buy a whole week’s worth of food at Aldi.

The random collection of stuff is mostly useless, yes, though there are some items there with sufficient regularity and quality to be worthwhile, e.g. WD-40 and tape. Clothing is typically also ok though neither fashionable nor pretty.
Video Generation from a Single Labelled Image
Well, to be fair, I didn't do it because I had to, I did it because I wanted to. General purpose object frameworks are what I enjoy doing.

The (very complex and large) automation system built on top of it was really just because I needed something practical to do with all of the general purpose code I'd developed. Though that then drove the development of a lot more general purpose code.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/g...

Aldi only recently moved into those locations. Their US base is actually low income neighborhoods.
This documentary changed the way I see the world. It was great to meet all the people around the world from different chapters and some of them are still my friends today. I really thank it a lot even if most of it is just BS. Still made a huge impact in my life.
No business would fail if it didn't have a Facebook page. It's not necessary.

Now compare that with Google -- most businesses need to be listed on Google or they will lose significant amount of business. Facebook is nothing by comparison.

Being popular doesn't make something a monopoly.
That large groups of Americans have some 'concerns about privacy' is nowhere near enough impetus to think that they want Facebook and Google to be 'broken up'.

HN readers mostly live in bubbles, and 'breaking up Facebook' is definitely one of the things Republicans just hope the Dems will run on, because it's not going to fly.

Consider for a moment how separating Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook is going to fundamentally change privacy anyhow?

This is a political calculation by Warren: she needs to stake out her claim, make some noise, throw some red meat to the Dem primary voters, and take away the noise in the press about her registering as an Aboriginal while living in Texas.

It'll do well for her now, but it's not a winning formula for the general election.
Earthlings. It wasn't instant but couldn't get it out of my head until I started living in a different way.
I'm not sure I follow.

If determinism is correct, then given enough storage and computational power (or intelligence capable of doing this within their mind), an outside observer would be able to figure out every single action I would ever take before I took it.

If how my brain works is deterministic, and all of my encounters are able to be pre-determined, and those all deterministically shape my decisions and actions, then... how I can I possess libertarian free will?
What are you currently using to server ML models?
When I was 13, I used to wear a shirt that said "If it's too loud, you're too old!"

...lol, yeah well now I take care of my ears. 13 year old me played Slipknot as loud as possible and thought I was impressing everyone around me.

cringecringe yeahyeah
setting `public:true` would solve this problem
That isn't a general truth. Regulation usually favours larger players because regulation favours businesses who can demonstrate compliance with regulation, and that is usually expensive. It is also much easier to achieve compliance if it is an incremental change to an existing business rather than something to be absorbed from scratch - so regulations also favour established businesses.
Ideally, open standards would mean that the network effects, which today keep people trapped in walled gardens like Facebook, would create a more distributed / federated community instead of a winner-takes-all model.

I think this is largely true, since if you could still communicate with your friends and family on Facebook but be on a different paid platform which doesn't track or advertise products to you, most people would go for it.
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Same here, but playing in a band instead of just going to see them. Heavy metal, small practice space. Heavy-handed drummer. I too thought earplugs were “lame”, but eventually got sick of not being able to hear for 4 hours after band practice.

Today, my right ear “cringes” (only word I can use to describe the feeling) when anything loud like a restroom hand-dryer goes off for more than a few seconds.

I wear earplugs to all concerts now.
Thanks, that was useful
I strongly disagree. Political advertisement successfully worked long before internet existed yet alone Facebook. Voters still live in houses, walk on streets, drive cars on roads, use public transit, watch TV/Netflix/YT/whatever. There are still many ways to reach them. Even if other channels are more expensive it doesn't make Facebook a monopolist.
Insane we are talking about electrifying a train line in 2019 in the tech capital of America.