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That’s...that’s some petty fucking shit. I didn’t go through your comments but considering your email is in your profile, someone really had to have a hard-on to report you for leaks.

I would love to understand the though process of someone going out of their way to remove someone’s livelihood from them because of a comment on HN (when applied in a normal circumstance of adding additional information or correcting a misconception — I’m clearly not saying that bonehead comments shouldn’t have consequences.)
Instead of using the Calibre GUI, which is nightmare fuel, I recommend Calibre's command line conversion tool `ebook-convert`: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....

It's kind of like pandoc, except pandoc only supports epubs.
Water filled everything will be all the rage later this century.
do they not have extra hands on staff to dedup the messages? what's with the identical messages at 14:31, :44, :48? This happened last time too.
That is a pretty cool idea but I can't see it being fast enough to dynamically update the video stream could it? Very cool idea though.
According to their landing page, it works over email too.
Video streaming is too slow to adapt, but I see a way for advertisers to check if you watched an ad even if you didn't interact. Specially if the site already uses the webcam.
Yeah I specifically called this out as a stopgap not a solution. For reasons of ergonomics and suggestibility (see also the primacy effect) you are more likely to make a bad judgement call when prompted into it than if you have to reason it out for yourself.
I bought AMZN stock in 1996. Rode it up to $420 ($60 at today's prices), then back down to $14. In 2004, it was around $55. Quarter after quarter, AMZN was reporting massive losses and massive borrowing. Debt climbed to $2BB or thereabouts. I was sitting on a modest profit, and I lost faith and sold.

It turns out that the massive losses and debt were because AMZN was building a monster company. Building a monster, capital-intensive company, and bringing it up fast, requires huge debt.

The question at this point in TSLA's life is the growth rate. At the time I sold, AMZN's revenue were also growing at a huge rate, 40-50% annually.

Write TSLA off if you want, but I've seen this movie before and those who invest for the long haul are going to be very well rewarded.
They already do exactly this in Europe. Model 3 ships with CCS, and the super chargers have now 2 cables, one of them is CCS.
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I've seen structures where they pay ~$50k in cash and then you get ~$150k in stock. But the stock is restricted such that you only can sell it in ~3 years time. Good incentive to keep the stock price up, as you 'bought' it at ~150k but could sell it in 3 years for much more than 150k.
> different languages encode different thought patterns

I find this so interesting and I want it to be true. The Guugu Ymithirr come to mind, whose directional prepositions are based on cardinal directions. This difference, when compared to English for example, is thought to be the main factor in why the people have such a strong "internal compass".

http://nautil.us/blog/5-languages-that-could-change-the-way-...

[paywall] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-language-shape...
> The area is organized under state law as a community development district. As a result, voting is restricted to local landowners.

wow, how is that constitutional?
> In general if you've got a working site and working queries, there are two possible outcomes to changing the query plan. Either nobody notices because the plan was already good enough.

This assumes a use-case where there is a "site" (i.e. a business layer in front of PG that can abstract away deficiencies in the query plan by adding e.g. caching.)

If you're directly working with PG, interactively writing OLAP reporting queries, you can have "working queries" that take ~300s (still practical enough to build your report) switch to taking milliseconds after an autovacuum (if, for example, a table being joined against was recently populated via ETL and hadn't been vacuumed yet.) People do notice that.
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Vulkan (MoltenVK) also works very well.
Famous/extremely popular sights are often less rewarding because they are so famous/popular: for example, it's highly unlikely you'll be genuinely astonished by the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, because a) you've already seen it a million times and b) there's a jostling mob of other tourists five rows deep around it, so you can barely see the damned thing.

This is why the "traveller" (vs tourist) holy grail is to find places that are genuinely impressive and spacious enough to still be enjoyable.
Waters has hated this from the start.
I overread and I thought you were being sarcastic with "[..], then close your eyes when you're done with the demo".
That's more or less inevitable. As complexity increases (which it does naturally, if there's no effort to decrease it) at some point it begins to outstrip the limits of human understanding.

I've been saying this repeatedly (and downvoted for it repeatedly): if you want truly reliable systems, use simple, boring technology, and don't fuck with it after it's set up, and run it yourself. 99.99% of all these outages are due to screwing up something that already works, something that if it was in your own rack you could just leave alone and not touch at all.
mobi<->epub conversion is rarely problematic in practice. However mobi is not a wrapper around epub as some are claiming. They merely have low impedance mismatch.
> [Mac Mini] seemed to improve overall OSX responsiveness

I'm betting that's due to the boot drive being PCIe-based storage.
Logitech’s?
I would absolutely vote to do comment state saving in local storage. The need to have synced collapsed comments across devices is pretty minimal, compared to the performance increase that everybody will experience.
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The way you characterize D's metaprogrammability is exactly how I would put it too. It's hard to describe but D just makes metaprogramming so fun and easy compared to anything besides Lisp and I find it sorely missing when working with most other languages.
I agree. But also wonder why it’s taken google so long to do anything commercialized at scale in this space. Assuming Elon is collecting data from every mile one of his cars drives, it’s not too hard to believe that he could be making significant progress and have the means to commercialize it
I periodically go through and back up my Kindle to Calibre.

I have a fairly enormous ebook library, and I don't care to have it exploded due to, e.g., some error in the kindle software api.
Yeah, but the OP only offered to work for half their salary; he didn't say anything about the golden handcuffs.
But "just plugging in one USB device" wasn't even what happened in this post. The amount of steps described inside literally were 10x what it takes to just build a PC, boot it, install games and play ️
I feel like one of the nice things about the US, at least the urban areas, is you can present yourself however you'd like. There is no dress code. This may be why Americans sometimes fail to present themselves properly in other countries - we can get away with virtually anything here. Though I may be biased to the West Coast.
>Netflix shows that there's an appetite towards paying for content

Content that was originally created with advertising money (The Office). Whether or not Netflix will last the next 5 years is debatable and unknown.
That was my exact thought the first time I saw Beats headphones.
Jumping on the hype bandwagon. Don't question it or you get downvoted... oops.
> The speed of light is a killer here. In the best case, you are talking about ~1000 cycles if you hit main memory

Nitpick: this isn't really a speed-of-light issue. The time taken for an electrical signal to make a round-trip between CPU and RAM on the same motherboard is closer to 10 clock cycles than 1000. Any latency beyond that is a result of delays within the CPU or memory modules themselves, not the time spent traveling between them.
This anonymous comment is definitely not from a person with knowledge of the company. Here's some evidence to show that they're just making things up:

1. The comment says open tracking was added as a last ditch act of desperation...here's a 2017 article that talks about the feature: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/rapportive-founders-new-st...

2. The comment says the high-touch onboarding was also added out of desperation. here's an old-ish tweet talking about it: https://twitter.com/josephcohen/status/1034189170003070976

3. The comment also claims that the company is floundering and desperate....they literally JUST closed a $33M round from A16Z...obviously they have a ways to go, but the claim that they are lost and helpless is simply absurd...here are pages upon pages of people begging for invites: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=super...

There's probably a healthy debate to be had about email tracking, but this comment is not contributing to that.
Worth mentioning that Carthage is actually a neighborhood close to Tunis. It's not a deserted area.
This might be a dumb question, but how did they know that marketing expenses drove more orders (rather than just eating into their margins)?
I find they don't want a phone number if you sign up to youtube and opt to create a new gmail address instead of providing an existing email addr. Whether this works consistently, though ...

edit: also didn't try it over tor
DRM isn't in and of itself the issue; copyright is. I have the copyright to my novel Kismet, for instance, and my publisher has the publishing rights in both print and ebook. You don't get to produce a "derivative work" from Kismet without my explicit approval and, because the contract with my publisher grants them exclusive rights to the novel in print and ebook form, a negotiated exception.

I suspect your argument is that you're only distributing the "patch files," and so that's not intrinsically a copyright violation. (This is distinct from VidAngel, which admitted that they did, in fact, have to have copyright-violating master copies of movies they were "patching" in order to stream the bowdlerized versions.) And...maybe? Yes, in that case, DRM would become more of an issue. But I'm not convinced that a publisher with sufficiently deep pockets who wanted to press the case couldn't successfully argue that the combination of your patch file plus the original work creates an unauthorized "derivative work."

Well, let me rephrase that: that combination absolutely creates an unauthorized derivative work. It's not clear to me that it's illegal, but the ethics strike me as dubious. For instance, using my own book again as an example: the book wouldn't be materially affected if the main character's penchant for swearing when she was stressed got toned down. But it would be materially affected if someone came through and edited out the parts that made it clear that she was pansexual, or that changed the non-binary character to no longer be so, or that changed a gay character to not mention his orientation at all, or that quieted the vocal politics of either the protagonist's socialist sister or her libertarian friend. And that's the real issue you'd run into: it's not just the potential for "you took out the R-rated parts, you prude," it's the potential for "you've made my text mean something it wasn't intended to."

If you made a firm commitment to work with authors and publishers and only release approved patch files, that would probably make this possible (again, setting aside the DRM for a moment). But without it...well, with respect, I'd definitely rather not see that.
Chinese scientists are hiding secret messages in whale sounds (2018)
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Brazil is the largest exporter of beef to the US, among other countries:

https://www.globalmeatnews.com/Article/2019/01/22/Largest-ev...
> Enlyte is a new cs/tech community. Right now tech-only content is pulled from HN.

We've let people do mashups, alternative UIs, and other cool experiments with HN data, but "pulling" (i.e. copying) HN's content wholesale in an attempt to start a separate community seems very different and, frankly, dodgy. Not to mention branding it as "a" Hacker News, like you have in the title above.

If you think you can make a better community than HN with different features, you're free to try, but not by mirroring and forking HN's discussions.
No doubt the Soviets had the same plan long term. And look how it turned out for them.
Sure you can. The question is: what do you want to do/see? Do you want to see old or different. What is interesting to you.

My point was that there is interesting sites to see beyond the popular ones. Either in Europe or elsewhere.
Can non-tesla cars use their superchargers (I thought payment was done through the car, so I wasn't sure how that would work)?
This NVidia stuff is getting ridiculous. Apple basically killed off any Deep Learning enthusiasts and nobody could do any serious computing-intense stuff on their platform. A polished toy.
We think both chat and navigational UIs have a time and place. This should really be an essay, but I'll try to keep it short.

Chat isn't being used to say we use chat. Chat allows us to easily use humans on the backend to interpret things that computers are just much, much slower at doing right now and would require a lot of engineering work for a wide breadth of user states that are currently unknown due to lack of data / users. I personally do believe the _ideal_ (golden/dream state) UI would be a "navigational" one that makes a lot of assumptions but states them all, asks a lot of certain dynamic questions, and presents information in different styles depending on context. Humans are quite good at this (most people love Slack'ing their assistant to book travel), but we really haven't found a UI that does this well for travel and don't believe it's the best way to start attacking the underlying problems.

However, I agree that some parts of the travel journey should be a navigational app though and not chat-based. For example, checking an itinerary is better done through navigational UI-- I don't want to reference a chat transcript for that. (TripIt is ok here and works off of your email, we might make something of our own later).
Because it's digital. In the west, we have a digital abstraction around our fiat money (credit cards / ACH bank transfers) to send our money easily (sorta).

In the emerging markets Libra is primarily targeting (Facebook's fastest growing market), many people have phones and internet (and FB/Whatsapp), but no banking. This doesn't need to beat our fiat, it just needs to beat fiat in Africa.

That said, Libra still has many of the benefits of other crypto for general consumers (ie. the grand majority of people who aren't very worried about the government seizing their accounts or freezing transactions):

- It's safer than a credit card, since payments happen by sending currency (like cash) rather than forking over bank or credit card credentials to a website (the equivalent of forking over private keys)

- Transaction fees are far lower
If you wanted to play games on a macbook it probably makes more sense to stream them from a desktop.
Sorry, no ill intent, I thought the technical meaning was common knowlwdge on HN, since the technical meaning is where the term originated. I was actually afraid I was being condescending by referencing the source.

But I only introduced it in my 4th comment in the debate, and clarified it in the next one, when I sensed there might be a misunderstanding. I didn't use it at the "beginning" of the debate.

The definition is central to the debate. I see now it's hard for us to discuss this, as disruptive vs. sustaining determines whether the incumbent (Oracle) or entrant (AWS) wins. The debate turns on the distinction.

"Disruption" is just a theory, doesn't have a perfect track record, and I sense you're not interested in it, but the original research on the hard disk drive market was pretty influential, about how some dramatic tech changes in e.g. the magnetic surface made no difference to who led the market ("sustaining"), while changes in form-factor (8", 5.25", 3.5" etc) "disrupted" the market by changing who bought them and why... and also changed who led the market. Wikipedia on "the innovator's dilemma" is a pretty good summary, IIRC.

It's a shame a misunderstanding has prevented you from participating in a discussion. I thought we were reaching the crux of the issue... oh well. It was interesting to me, at least.
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Self driving is to Tesla as StarLink is to SpaceX. Go where the margins are fat. The market for cars (which sit idle 90% of the time) is much smaller than that for total passenger transportation miles. The market for launches is much smaller than satellite broadband services.
May be because Apple would release ML hardware soon?
Does proton work on mac? I have been using it on linux for loads of AAA games like skyrim and age of empires and it has worked almost perfect.
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I hope this rule will be demolished in Europe as well. The driving side in the UK makes the cars dangerous at takeovers on the continent and vice versa. With video mirrors and a cam forward I could see ahead better regardless which side I sit.
May be because se Apple would release ML hardware soon?
What about helping disabled people use computers? Or environments that aren't conducive to using your hands like a factory? ...If the only use you can think of for software like this is "creepy," maybe it is not the technology that is creepy.
Tesla has offered to work with any automakers who want their vehicles to work at the charging stations. No one has taken the offer, because they are too far behind to even consider it since the majority of them have no EVs to sell yet.
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North Carolina State University white squirrel report:

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>World of Warcraft also used to run on one single (blade) server.

This is... kind of true, but not really. For a single realm, general game interactions in the open world might have been hosted on a single blade, but there are a lot of support systems that do as much work, or more, that were not. The databases with all of the character information, login servers, instance servers, etc. etc. etc.

But even if you look at just the game server portion, there was a blade for every realm - you can't say World of Warcraft as a monolithic entity ran on a single blade server.

(I'm also not sure if the general game servers for a realm were only on one blade - my understanding is that each "continent" was it's own blade - Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Northrend, Outland, etc.)
I mean, it is decentralized... The only difference is the member companies are publicized and we know who their CEOs are, whereas the mining pools that account for the grand majority of Bitcoin's hashrate, for example, are virtually nameless to the general public.
Are you sure this description of an American tourist didn't come from a 1990s newspaper cartoon? Fanny pack? Really?
OpenCL is what the rest of the world uses and will continue to use. All this means is many programs will drop mac support like they have already done and some will be created as mac exclusive because no one wants to support both.
Still writing Rails today, nothing seems to come close, except maybe Phoenix sortof
All this bombast and hubris is very unprofessional.
Records are set every year. A record just means no observation was previously recorded.

There's a catastrophe every generation that turns out to have been a false alarm by the time the next generation's catastrophe is fabricated.

For instance, my wife was told "no homework tonight since we'll all be dead tomorrow anyway." (Cuban Missile Crisis)

Around the time of the first Earth Day, the predictions of environmental apocalypse were legion, yet societies somehow seem to find ways to fix things that societies broke. They also seem to find ways to fix things that tyrants broke.

When you see dozens of such dire predictions over a
lifetime, you start to get skeptical. Skepticism is a good thing, btw. Without it, there wouldn't be any science.
You need responsive people especially when things go wrong - I use egencia at work and I’m fairly happy.
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These seem relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CBF318nBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxWlJ_muK0I

I've always found it curious how anti-corporate sentiment disappeared from the Deus Ex sequels.
Peculiar that eastdakota (Cloudflare's CEO) doesn't seem to be tweeting at the Cloudflare team responsible for this, telling them they should be ashamed and are guilty of malpractice.

When it was Verizon that took down the internet he felt it was appropriate to do that to the Verizon teams, after all.

edit: right after posting this comment, he did tweet the following: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1146196836035620864

> I'd say both we and Verizon deserve to be ashamed.

As well as this: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1146170209780113408

> Our team should be and is ashamed. And we deserve criticism. ...

I still don't think that publicly shaming anyone is a good leadership style nor is it a good way to motivate people to perform better in the future, but kudos for the self-awareness, at least.
They explicitly encourage crypto exchanges in the materials, actually!

They even designed/are developing a smart contract language called Move to facilitate DAO exchanges and the like.
I don't see why research is necessary for most destinations. The key factor is just wearing pants. Unless you're actually near a beach. That seems really hard for a lot of tourists, but I think just wearing jeans instead of cargo shorts or board shorts resolves most of the problem with tourist garb.