skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The increasing sales on <a href="https://shockingtruereviews.com/auto-chat-profits-review/"> Auto Chat Profits Review</a> e-books in the past few years show that the demand is on the rise. This means that the market itself is a growing and the opportunity for sales of e-books is great.

Creating or writing an e-book only requires a small capital. The only things that you need to initially pay are the fees for your ISBN, costs for the cover page if you are not doing it on your own and expenses for research if there are any. This can even be lessened if you are not purchasing an ISBN. There are some platforms or publishers that do not require it.

More so, e-books may generally be sold at a cheap price but you continue to earn profits as long as people purchase them. The more interesting, timely and useful is your content, the more it attracts buyers. So make your e-books worth reading.

<a href="https://shockingtruereviews.com/auto-chat-profits-review/"> https://shockingtruereviews.com/auto-chat-profits-review/</a...
If an atmosphere were created one way or another on Mars, would it not be stripped away again by solar winds? I thought the lack of a magnetic field is the reason why Mars has so little atmosphere left.
I’m both impressed and have learned something new. Thank you :)
Wouldn't this be "weak encryption is used for offensive purposes as well"?
There’s a great book about exactly this - including an attempt to help you reboot it by giving people the Igor clues in the right order.

The knowledge, How to rebuild the world from scratch
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-How-Rebuild-World-Scratch...
The existence of huge numbers of wooden scooters called chukudu in Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda disproves this. Apparently they are made with simple woodworking tools, transport 500 pounds and last 2-3 years.
TL;DR Don't give your children access to your credit / bank cards. Seriously...
The things I wish I knew before I started using Golang with JSON (2018)
No longterm effect, one specialized bug with good conditions and that monoculture is dead. But that will give room for other species which would have a chance to root if it wasn't for the monocultures being so tightly planted
If you don't mind my asking, how do you plan for your retirement? How much money etc. needed?
> It's perfectly reasonable and wouldn't be noticed by the overwhelming majority of users.

Apple used to launch new phones/macs with these kinds of changes, and people used to buy them for these kinds of changes -- just a little bit thinner, just a little bit more battery. And suddenly people won't notice this. I am sure if it were the other way around, Apple would have claimed to have invented a new device and would have sold them as something new. And people would have gathered in queue to buy them.

And when you do the reverse, suddenly its okay.
How is it correlating that two devices on different networks (as far as it can see) are in the same house? I can understand device-level fingerprinting associating device@vpn <-> device@office, but I'm not seeing where deviceA@vpn <-> deviceB@home have anything in common to tie them together.
No, no. If you pay unskilled workers more, they will spend more and the overall economy benefits. There will be more jobs and everybody will be happy. This is called Spray Up Economics.
That is a depressingly accurate way to describe Atomic Rockets. But I can forgive it, because it introduced me to the NSWR. [0] And something that metal just deserves to be seen.

> The advantage of NSWR is that this is the only known propulsion system that combines high exhaust velocity with high thrust (in other words, it is a Torchship). The disadvantage is that it combines many of the worst problems of the Orion and Gas Core systems. For starters, using it for take-offs will leave a large crater that will glow blue for several hundred million years, as will everything downwind in the fallout area.

0: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php...
Focusing at the bottom end, a 20% wealth hit is a really big problem for poor people. And just because they're well-off compared to other countries or previous periods in history is meaningless if they have solvency issues in the present. Being flat broke in our advanced technological society is a serious hardship and can not be measured in simplistic absolutes.
"Hey honey, wanna order pizza?" ... and one Android device listens....
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
> The only Lisp which works is CCL

How about ABCL?

> I wouldn't have written what I have about SBCL and dismal support for Solaris

Unfortunately, a niche language implementation & OS combination.
>One of his most quoted, but least understood sentences concluded that religion is "the opium of the people". Look at your teenager this evening, glued to social media. Better still, look at yourself, twitching if you don't have your smartphone to hand. What is it stored in there, amid the circuitry, data, addictive material and astonishing engineering - if not the opium of the people?

Atleast religion could solve my existential dread :(
The trend reminds me of McLuhans literate and tribal man

https://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-mar...
I'm not saying it isn't ever possible, just that most of the time, whether you arrive at work at 8:00 or 8:01 doesn't have a meaningful knock-on effect in your life or anyone else's.
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley [video]
Since they mention education but only seem to have mostly bad things to say about audiobooks in that context (unless I missed something, I skimmed that part) I would like to add how this has changed dyslexics relationship with education and with books in general.
My brother is dyslexic and before I think he never read a book ever. This year he got a audio book he wanted as a Christmas gift and he was super happy. That the library of Audio books is expanding is a great thing. I do however agree with the article that the prevelent use of closed formats could be very bad in the long run though. I do think audible is a good deal but I don't like that they use closed formats. There are however still libraries and the increase in audio books can luckily be seen in their available stock as well.
That.

And even without trendy 'blinkist' I used to take a similar approach by first reading some prepatory materials before investing time to read the book. Listening to an audiobook is just another way for me to complement but no replacement.

I would not say this is fool proof.

You will never be able to get the "key takeaways" of every book by reading some summary. Sometimes the key takeway might be the way a book is written, how something is repeated while other things are left out that are most valuable.

Likewise quotes that once meant nothing to you, you will only understand after studying material by the other in depth, etc.

just some thoughts.
The number one reason is that BBEdit’s search and replace is better.

I can select text, make it the search pattern, then modify the text and make it the replace pattern. Then I can do a full or partial search and replace without ever opening the Find window.

If I want, I can open the Find window and edit either string. The search string will already be properly escaped as a regular expression.

vim’s search and replace is just a lot less convenient.

Beyond that, BBEdit is a Mac app through and through, so it feels very natural to use.
See resources around the thread about precision manufacturing. Consider how Industrial Revolution started thanks to easy access to high-density energy sources like coal, and how we've mined and burned pretty much everything that's accessible by hand. Observe how modern mining requires huge amounts of energy and sophisticated technology. It's all intertwined.

Consider also the amount of people needed all across the industries and supply chains of any product you know. I don't have hard sources, but I fondly remember this essay by Charles Stross[0]. TL;DR: how many people does it take to maintain (not improve) current technology level of our civilization? Charlie puts it at 100 million to 1 billion.

And now think of the economies and infrastructure needed to just feed these people. We hit 1 billion around 1804[1], which is far in the industrialization process, and most of these people weren't working to support the technology levels anyway.

For some insights, I recommend tracking down and watching Connections[2]. It's an old show, from the era where TV shows actually made sense, and it drives home just how much our current technology is dependent on right combinations of social, economical and technological conditions.

EDIT: fixed site reference in [2].

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[0] - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_milestones

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series); I hear you can find it on a site that starts with "daily", and ends with "motion.com".
Using Microsoft Azure Functions with Cosmos DB as an Input Binding
You would get usb-C bootleg cables with missing features. Instead of having USB-C branding on them, they'll have generic 'works with any modern phone!' etc.

I mean cable with all the features is damn expensive if you compare it to the usual(shitty quality) USB2.0 cables. Most folks would buy cheaper one because difference in prices between USB2.0 and USB-C with all features would be too high. It would feel like a rip-off to them.
What do you think of this line of thought: This tool is not currently the best, but because of its design, it has the potential to become the best tool with some refinement (which may consist of improving the tool itself, your own understanding of it, or its integration into your development processes)—specifically, there exists some cutoff period T where, if you're using the tool for shorter than T, then the "current best practice" tool is better, but if you're using it for longer than T, then the payoffs from your favored tool exceed the costs of the refinement. Then it's a matter of (a) one's estimate of T and (b) one's planning horizon.

This generates the hypothesis that a developer's desired planning horizon may be "the rest of my career", which is likely to be longer than the planning horizon of whatever project the developer is being paid to work on.
In my personal experience.

There's a re:invent presentation of them having an in-house 1pb+ cluster. What they don't tell you is that 101 8xl nodes is half a million dollars a year in reserved instances, before you include any other costs associated with it; and that particular workflow (log scanning) is very nicely suited for any columnar store.

Operations are also a disaster with Redshift; anything where you have to touch the cluster itself at any scale past a handful of nodes typically requires a support ticket with "hey, when this breaks, please work your magic and fix it?" There's also the issue of tuning your queues, which is a whole extra layer that you, the customer, must tune. Their suggestion tools are getting better on that front though.

Just use something else if you have more than a few TB, or you have a ton of time and money to just throw around.
Auto-Scaling Azures SignalR Service via Powershell Function
Exactly. An observer in space can see a solar eclipse on the surface of the Earth just like we can see lunar eclipses. Like https://youtu.be/rwNc5aK3dBk
> Especially given that I'm a hostage, because a certain computer company whose computers generally suck the least, decided to show courage by moving to USB-C

Since when was USB-C such a major issue on Thinkpads?
Nice article as always. I don't think I fully grok this stuff (in other languages I've read about too). Perhaps you can help me have some clarity of thought.

1. What should I do when I want to make a data structure like a doubly linked list or a graph - ie one where multiple pointers point to the same object?

2. Memory is only one kind of resource where ownership needs to be tracked. Others include file handles, network sockets etc. Can you comment on whether the OB mechanism solves the problem in general, or is mainly for memory tracking?
The main reason I use vim is because I sometimes find myself working remotely on a foreign system. I know vim will always be available, that I am infinitely more productive with it, that it works with ssh, and that it requires modest resources.

If you don’t find yourself in the situation from time to time, the only reason I can imagine you might prefer to learn vim is the insane productivity boost. Being able to do a vast amount of work from home row is a big deal to me.

Is it your impression that your working life is somehow less effective than it would be if you used these tools? If not then you simply don’t need to pick up that particular skill.
Real/virtual is maybe not the best dichotomy, but it's explained in the original email. A lunar eclipse as described is the entire Moon in the Earth's shadow. There is no portion of the near side of the moon (the hemisphere that is always facing Earth) that is not experiencing the eclipse. A solar eclipse on Earth only affects a very localized region. Local/global might be a better dichotomy.
>Why can't a $1K general purpose computer efficiently decode a royalty-free codec

Well the Codec is Royalty Free but not Patents Free. You only get to use it as long as you don't engage in patent litigations against Google.

And Apple does not have an major stake in H.265 or H.264 or every H.26x codec. It has a very minor stake, in the an Open Codec, not closed. Comparatively Speaking every H.26x Codec is more open than VPx and even the new AV1 Standard [1] . So this is far from WMV or RMVB.

I wonder if Google will support EVC / MPEG-5 as it is Royalty Free.

[1] https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-abou...
My top dial-up speed was 46.6 kbps (not sure if kilobytes or kibibytes)
Why do you say there is no business model in a search niche? StackOverflow and pleny of listing sites (Tripadvisor, Yelp, Zillow, Capterra to name a few) have been successfully built in this exact premise and the user experience of searching for restaurants, real state or software on these sites is usually much better than searching directly on Google due to the availability of custom filters and the amount of domain-specific metadata that the global search engines cannot read. While it's true that most of these sites heavily rely on SEO to drive inbound traffic from the big G, there is no doubt that they are perfectly viable businesses.
'Unprecedented' Wildfires Burned Across the Arctic Circle in June
Do you have reason to disagree with any of the facts he presented?
Alan Turing, revealed as new face of British 50-pound note
While on the subject of books and Licklider. Here [1] is a great Licklider quote about paper (books) in a book [2], that I always loved.

[1] https://j11g.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Licklider.png

[2] http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider%20-%20Libraries%20of%20...
SATA SSDs also come in M.2 format.
Thinking back to a comment I read on HN months ago, while this adds up over a few millennia, it is actually rather insignificant on an annual basis and therefore easy to counter.
Azure DevOps Journey, One Project to Rule Them All
What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul?

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...
Mariner 1's $135M software bug was a “-”
The beginning is boring and that's why most people quit reading too. YMMV
The face of the new £50 note – the father of computer science, Alan Turing
I agree that the sentiment is really sweet but I don’t like the idea of this info being public.
Arch Linux and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. While it may be slower to use Windows, the difference hasn't been immediately obvious. I use Windows for gaming and browsing only and stay in Arch most of the time.
I'd probably ask the same about self-balancing electric transportation.

If the original Segway was more like a Uniscoot Hovercycle[1] I could see it selling quite a lot more.
Belgium. Here's an official explanation of the system: http://www.werk.belgie.be/defaultTab.aspx?id=42422# Unfortunately there isn't an English version (but you can toggle between dutch, french and german).

Also a wikipedia entry https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titre-service and a google search https://www.google.com/search?q=explication+titre-services
I think the most secure thing a JS platform could do is provide a decent vetted standard library, so that one doesn't have to bring in too many potentially insecure random developer github projects in the first place.
Drink cricket juice if you're thirsty! It has Water Molecules(tm)

Eat the shrimp AND the shell (bugs)!

Every time I read about something disgusting that is touted because it has 'antioxidants' I ask myself, can't we synthesize antioxidants in the laboratory? I'll take mine from a Pyrex beaker, thanks.
Alan Turing will be the face on the £50
> Feels like you're assigning probabilities out of thin air.

True, I did not run a probability study; however if one looks at the control that computers have on every facet of your existence and how often they fail--I'm pretty the odds would scare the fuck out of you.

> Not to mention there was nearly modern civilization before electronics were invented that we could fall back to.

You going down to the stream to fetch water when it no longer flows from your faucet?

> like every single piece of critical hardware in all major cities would somehow have to fail

Viruses could do it. People panic. Could you live a week without food or power? Please, I remember when Hurricane Sandy hit here in NY... it would not take much to turn society on its ear. Of course, I'm sure your right--after all Y2K never happened, and I mean who could foresee in 1983 that the future would actually be here in 17 LONG, LONG years.
It‘s a very good series! The shadow series of him is very great too.
That's the receiver and stock group for a Steyr AUG. There are complete examples in the top right corner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG
Yes but that happens over tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of years. It may be practical one day to stay ahead of it.
Exactly. You need pressure and necessity to deliver most inventions, especially at scale. Who's going to do all that work when horses were a hell of a lot easier?
Wait, why do I care about $270k / month revenue? Retail means lots of revenue that is totally independent of the amount of money you're making. How much of the $270k goes right back out buying the booze?
Tips for Productive Testing
> It just allows you to logically separate build time I/O from runtime I/O, which I find is nice for reproducibility of builds and maintainability of code.

You can get the same effect if you really need it with a pre-build command with dub (the package manager/build tool, and with other build tools such as reggae), but compilation is supposed to not change the state of the system other than produce build artefacts, you can read files at compile time with `import("filename")`, but you can't write to files, or open sockets etc.

Things like mixing in a data file is incredibly useful and not something I would want to use a rebuild step for at all.

> Is it compatible with 100% of the code that the current DMD release is compatible with? That’s all I ask for in alternate compiler implementations... but it seems like a lot, sometimes.

Not strictly.

It is usually pickier about what is deems valid (which is usually corner cases that DMD really ought to reject). They share the same frontend so there is very little difference.

It has some of its own bugs, though nothing too major.

It generally has way less bugs both due to its release cycle being based off of DMD stable and thus it lags one cycle behind (~six weeks), so new features aren't available immediately, and having all the backend and optimisation handled by LLVM, though we occasionally hit LLVM bugs that clang for some reason does not seem to trigger.

(I develop both DMD and LDC (the LLVM based D compiler))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWVH38jtQo
I’m not the person you asked, but I think they’re referring to ransomware
its good to donate it to the less fortunate and street children
https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/97519
Looks like a Steyr AUG
The board has no power over zuck. Not enough anyway.
Ah thanks, I see, it's just missing it's barrel
Google+ was never hacked, but there was a dodgy API endpoint that let you view profile data set to private.
Mice seem to have handled that fine for decades?
The anti-Chinese sentiment is too heavy handed nowadays. Every article everyday the media trying to paint Asians in a negative light.

Also, I recently found out that TheAtlantic is owned by the Emerson Collective which is headed my Mrs. Jobs (Steve Jobs wife) and her org is a huge supporter of DACA students. Does anyone else see the irony in turning away High achieving PhD students and instead pushing for DACA students?
Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8M Neurons, 100M Coming by 2020
Legal Tech and NewLaw Consolidation, Investment Continues into 2019
Given the mess they've made is the certification/trademark actually worth anything? If what cable works with what devices is going to be a crap shoot anyway then it's not like it's a meaningful seal of quality to end users.
Yeah, I love using VSC on my windows machine, but I'll stick to Sublime on macOS. It does also have a lot of weirdness/non-mac behavior, but it's a lot better (and doesn't kill performance)
NetEase Invests in Canadian Game Developer Behaviour Interactive
Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
How does that look like? Do I annotate it as @undead?
Tangentially related: Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba. I disagree with a lot of it but one cannot deny it is an eye-opening book.
C++ Mini Project ATM and Banking – Latest Gadgets Info
Does Reddit have money to buy all the competition?

I remember reading a while back that they didn't have a real way to make money.

The redesign seemed to me a lot like a last gasp to snag some ad money, but old.reddit.com has been available for quite a while now so that may not be true.
Many people decide they don't like audiobooks because they don't approach them correctly. For example, pair your audio with your expectations of how you'll listen. If you intend to listen while doing a cognitive task like working or driving in dense traffic, leaping headlong into a brand-new series is likely to make you lose track because you can't keep your focus on the words 100% of the time. For those scenarios sticking with a lighthearted podcast or a book you've read/listened to before is best, and save the new stuff for mowing the lawn or riding public transportation.

If you have a hard time getting through the beginning of some audiobooks as I have, I've found it useful to "prime the pump" by reading the first few chapters of a book and then switching to the audio version once I'm familiar with the names and setting.
China is also the biggest contributor to CO2 emission by a large margin.