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There seems to be a huge need for a boto3/django(or something) user interface that you could run locally to interface with AWS.
its not even that - the content on medium is largely spam
You adapt. Most tech jobs aren’t very technical.

Usually these folks are savvy, come in and latch on to someone’s work and pivot quickly into a more abstract role or management role. Sometimes they are even good at those roles.
I use Goodreads the way I use IMDB. To keep track of what I've read and what I want to read. I can't say I'm missing any features in that department. Not everything has to fancy. Search generally works well, and they have a pretty handy way of grouping books in a series -- which has led me to discover some that I'd missed.
India, which is currently stripping ethnic Bangladeshis of citizenship? That India?
> shark foundations

Characterizing the Gates foundation as sharks? Interesting.

> when it’s been a long time since we’ve known it has really bad effects and is the new cool way to prey on the poor.

What? source for that claim please. It's far from an obvious or widespread idea that making access to small amounts of capital easier leads to more problems for poor people.
What a stellar (!) idea. Thank you so much for posting.
It astounds me that after 20+ years of Amazon, nobody's come close to creating a good way to discover books. Amazon.com is particularly bad at it, but browsing the shelves of a library is still a better experience than what I can get from Goodreads.
Everybody needs regular food to avoid dying. Many need insulin or heart medication. Many need regular pills to keep their brains from going off the rails. Is this so different?
Well to be fair, it's a link to the whole is kinda generic, what discussion could it offer other than "isn't it terrible", right? I very much agree that it is, and I wish HN was less squeamish about the upstream provider of freedom to talk about intellectually interesting things, namely politics (as if animosity about that would spill over into technical discussions). But I didn't expect this to be discussed much, I just saw a documetary by them, thought "China Organ Harvest Research Center" sounded fake, turned out it's not and that their site wasn't posted here before. At least now it can be found in searches.
This is a bit off-topic, but one aspect (among many others) of HN that I really appreciate is that there aren't any snide remarks pointing out how this is a repost (I'm not suggesting that's what you're doing); no one here cares. If you've seen it before, great, perhaps you could contribute to the conversation in this current thread based off your learnings the last time around. If you haven't seen it before, here you go. I hope it always stays this way.
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I either staple papers, or use a binder clip. Paperclips may be perfect for their ductile wire design, but they're not perfect for clipping paper if you allow spring steel.
I travel a lot to Europe for work, and that's one of my least favorite aspects of getting a sandwich. I am not a large person at all, but I am never satisfied by a typical European sandwich that is more bread than meat.
I'm not a Goodreads user, but this is something you can definitely do with Librarything. For any user in the system with a public collection, you can find the intersection of your books and sort by the number of members who own them (as well many other things). The interface is a little wonky, but very powerful.
Is it worse than regular smoking? or how about the new IQOS type?

Obviously not smoking is the best option but assuming smokers will continue smoking even knowing the risks - which is the case unfortunately for a big majority, i believe the best thing to do is give them a way to get their fix that poses the smallest risk.
> the clear argument is that, because drawing a line is hard, we shouldn't call for any action against those who have stepped over it.

I think you're putting words in his mouth. He doesn't want to see no consequences whatsoever for those who were involved with Epstein, GP argues that people are drawing arbitrary boundaries with no clear repeatable definition and then taking action on them. He wants to understand what precisely being "tainted" entails and why a particular definition is deserving of the consequences such a label entails. In other words, he rejects arbitrary and subjective persecution for an objective approach to justice.
I guess that it's important to remember that any results
are highly coloured by the opinions of the person making up the servey.
Also, I don't see any explanation of how they acquired the results, just that it's different and better than other years.
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The day is slow, Friend, but the Decade will be fast

Spend less time adrift

Be kind when it matters

Be kinder when it does not matter

Time > Money, Spend it well

Everything will pass, just stay your course

Always Do or Learn new things

Forgive, Forget, or at least Let Go

Say "Thank You" thrice

The day is slow, Friend, but the decade will be fast
WeChat is a financial disaster for all we know. Tencent doesn’t share any financials. Internet chat has always been hugely popular. Building a profitable business out of Internet chat has not been so easy historically. Historically, successful free chat software have been loss leaders (FB messenger for FB, yahoo messenger, AIM for AOL). Snapchat has never made money. LINE is the only chat app I know of to really turn a profit from just their app, and it has come at the expense of active users and squeezing more advertising into the app.

Odd title “cashing in” considering there’s no talk of the business behind WeChat...
> I know in Indiana, businesses do not pay it on most of the things they buy. So if an accounting firm buys printer paper, they pay no sales tax.

Actually the accounting firm would typically pay sales tax on all of their equipment and supplies like printer paper.

Each state has some different rules and exemptions, but the general principle is that items bought for resale are not taxed when the business buys them. This is both for items that are simply bought and sold (like a retailer) or materials that go into a finished product (like gold and gems that a jeweler will turn into jewelry). Instead, the business will collect sales tax (and forward it to the state) when the end user buys the product.

Indiana also has an exemption for equipment used in direct production.

So taking that jewelry example further:

1. Jeweler visits a trade show and buys materials and tools to be used in making jewelry. No tax.

2. Jeweler sells finished goods to a retail store for later resale. No tax.

3. Retail store sells the jewelry to a customer. Sales tax.

There are a few other exemptions, such as certain non-profit activities.

Here are the relevant parts of the Indiana sales tax exemption certificate:

[ ] Sales to a retailer, wholesaler, or manufacturer for resale only.

[ ] Sale of manufacturing machinery, tools, and equipment to be used directly in direct production.

https://forms.in.gov/Download.aspx?id=2717

https://www.in.gov/dor/5761.htm

https://www.in.gov/dor/reference/files/sib10.pdf
In sweden it really depends. You could move from a poor school in a big city to an excellent school in the country. Or the other way around.

Healthcare seems more or less equal but I have less knowledge about that.
I think the DE compositors should have an option to launch an application as background - full screen, always on the bottom. Wallpaper would just be an instance of an image viewer run this way. Animated wallpapers could just be ffmpeg or VLC playing a loop.
Are you an engineer?

I suspect you need to consider perfect mirrors that don't melt, a perfect vacuum, etc..
It's finally available: https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-fahy.pdf
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I agree, drug withdrawal is painful with opioids and unbearably hellish is GABAergics, and quitting can be very hard. But having purpose in life is what defines if one will stay clean forever or will relapse time after time. I can also add that some people no matter of their actual conditions just don't have any meaning in life and they don't have any drive to participate in the routine and maintain proper life because they either have poor chances for good life or simply because they never asked to be born. Probably the strongest urge to use a drug comes, in fact, from boredom. Some people just need to kill time. To get by from the morning till the evening, when they can go to bed and sleep.
Fulltext: https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-fahy.pdf
I don't draw any "consequences", whatever that's supposed to mean. I have been following the article's claim and explaining it in simpler terms, because there was a misunderstanding of the claim. Who do you think Callender is? Not me. Talk to the guy making the claim about your explicit objections. His email is both in this thread and trivially available. I don't care that you object to the claims he makes. That isn't a debate I'm participating in (if you even read the article, or the thread). Your opinion makes no difference to me (a random guy on the internet who can read english). Good luck with whatever.
The entire reading ecosystem at Amazon is stagnant. The kindle e-readers have had release after release of subpar hardware with features introduced by now-killed competitors a decade ago.

Read reviews of the brand new Oasis, a $300 product featuring a micro USB port.

Amazon does not care about readers, probably because they drive so few dollars and the market is won.

Reading does not drive prime subscriptions, and anyone with decent product management ability and influence is working on something more important.
> I've never looked at Azure, but since Microsoft has been the king of making up their own names for things, I expect it to be just as bad.

I use Azure and the naming is pretty straightforward. It's entirely unlike Amazon in that regard and also very unlike classic Microsoft.
Does this mean no more csrf tokens?
What exactly is Apple's role in the sale of digital goods? You made a comparison to selling via Walmart, which is a false equivalency.

The app store can easily work like podcasts aggregating RSS feeds from developers, it's just that Apple has forcefully inserted itself into the transaction
It screws everyone out of the know because it screws up the curve.
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1 in 8 households in America was food insecure in 2017 [1]. Do you think it's justified to spend 20 billion dollars on NASA when America can't even provide food security to each of its residents, and reports of crumbling infrastructure from all corners of the country, from collapsing bridges to cracking dams speak the sorrow tale of construction quality in what is supposed to be a 1st world country?

[1] https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data
In terms of orbital mechanics the polar orbit around the moon isn't significantly more complicated than an equatorial one. A small midcourse correction after entering a flight path towards the moon is all that's needed to ensure capture into orbit around the poles (and a capture burn), without the need for a plane change (note that this is also based on experience from KSP).
don't today's students simply photograph the exams while they're taking them?
I don't know about the quality of Goodreads but I don't see a big problem with her two search examples.

In the first one she searches for "the confession" and another "the confession" title is shown, together with other way more popular titles with "confession" in their titles. I'm guessing most people want fuzzy google-like searches but sure, exact matches of more obscure books can be given more relevance or search options can be given.

The second example is even worse; she searches for "title" and complaints that a book with "title" and one with "title:subtitle" are ranked higher than her "title:some other subtitle"
Brakes squeal when they are wearing down. If I put a penny in the tread of my tires and see Abe Lincoln’s head I know they are bald. If my head lamps go out I’ll notice; if it’s a brake light I get a red indicator lamp on my dash that says I have a problem.

Let’s talk about liability when home routers make a revving engine sound when they push too many packets per second, or start playing a “buckle up” warning chime every 6 seconds if they see packets heading to a C2 server.
I don't find the console that frustrating, or when it is, I understand why. UIs are hard.

What I do find frustrating is how much of the docs are written in a console-first way. In most cases, the straightforward definitions of resources, attributes and the relationships between them are tucked away (or not present at all) in favor of "click this, then click that" style.

I am convinced that the best way to understand a cloud service is to understand its internal data model and semantics, but this is too often hidden behind procedural instructions.
The difference is in those places you have a lot more options to pivot to a new job. If the suburban office closes there are no jobs for you in the area and you’d have to relocate. Some people like remote work, but personally I don’t. I get a lot more done being able to run into people face to face and quickly hash through something in the hallway or at a desk or over lunch.

And you can live close to work in those cities. I live and work in LA and commute on public transport for 20 mins one way. The rents may be high in LA, but even minumum wage is nearly $14 now, and rents are pretty even across many parts of town barring some obvious exceptions.
Also see the documentary "Living on One Dollar," where a group of US students try living at the international poverty line for some months in Guatemala.
To be fair: there's lots of population movement everywhere, in every demographic. There's even an infographic that shows arrows pointing to quite diverse spots like Vegas and Orlando.

But the text of the article is all about white people moving to Boise (with a few other nods to similarly white destinations). And to write that, in 2019, without so much as a nod that maybe this isn't really representative and maybe there's a less wholesome motion afoot just sets my alarm bells off.

Seriously: that article is straight up about white flight. The data might not be, but the article absolutely is.
> the integrations with the kindle go a very long way towards cultivating engagement (when you start a book, kindle will update your profile by default, it'll add your rating, mark the book as finished, all through the normal ux of the kindle

Not in Germany though
It's handy for easter eggs, for example:

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For me personally, the ideal is the kind of good walkability and public transit you're talking about, but in a small town or city, somewhere in the 50k-500k range. Those are probably my favorite working arrangements. I like the smallness, less noise/congestion, and reasonable prices combined with the ability to still have a walkable downtown, and maybe hop on a train to get somewhere bigger a few hours away if I really need to. Easier to find those cities outside the USA though.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19853090
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As a website owner, I’m glad to hear this. But I’m still going to do CSRF tokens for the foreseeable future, because it’s going to take a long time before even half of all users are on a browser that is secure by default. And the ones who aren’t on the latest browser are also the least security aware and are most susceptible to cross site forgery.
Ready solution: make tests the only thing that matters.
Surely there are several ways to deliver nicotine that are far safer than electronic cigarettes. There is mounting evidence that these are worse than tobacco.
I don't see why you'd come up with something that so misaligns the interests of everyone except lawyers.

Instead, imagine the DDoS landscape if we had to pay a small price for bandwidth. There would be a natural disincentive to having a toaster saturating your bandwidth as part of a botnet because it would quickly show up on your bill. And something as simple as shipping an IoT product or Rasberry Pi with bad default username/password might suffer bad reviews like "1/5 stars, this product immediately raised my internet bill."

I know it's not perfect and most of us have a bad taste in our mouth from paying out the wazoo when bandwidth is priced per Gb, but it can be a fair system if priced well that fights against our botnet reality where we basically have zero insight when our networked devices our compromised.

I can also imagine better tooling provided by our ISPs in this world where they help us track down and itemize our bandwidth costs. "Honey, why is SmartToaster89 costing us $24 in network fees?"

It's impressive how poorly our current system equips everyone except malicious actors. How many ISPs don't even filter spoofed outbound packets?

It's hard to complain about everyone centralizing around Cloudflare with the state of cheap DDoS muscle.
Or let's take 0.01% from the military budget instead?
I looked a bit at the ranking weights in the interactive tool. The biggest factor is IEEEXplore, the repository of all of their journals. R and Matlab are used a lot in science, whereas no one is going to do a signal denoising algorithm prototype in JavaScript for example.
I build search engines for a living. While I appreciate the hacker spirit of your project with Solr, I also see this as a huge problem that leads to bad search experiences. Tuning boosts in Solr is not even close to a reasonable way to solve problems like this. Arguably not even for an underfunded library, but certainly not for a high web traffic consumer website.

For one, you need disciplined acceptance criteria in the form of both qualitative standards (things a non-technical manager can look at and say yes or no) as well as various relevancy measurements like mean reciprocal rank and normalized discounted cumulative gain (via acquiring human annotated data if needed).

When people only focus on qualitative feedback on top of boosts and hacks in an off the shelf tool, they usually end up with some weird witches’ brew of bizarre boosts and time-decay weighting that is extremely fragile and can’t be robustly changed or even understood without the qualitative performance going haywire. You need disciplined study of quantitative ranking metrics to know the drivers of performance, fall off as you move down the ranking position, and to make search index updates reproducible and make incremental improvement measurable.

Meanwhile if you only focus on quantitative metrics, you might miss obvious red flags. The relevance score used for NDCG might be biased some way. You might surface highly relevant results to only one context or sense of the words in a query (like only showing fruit for “apple” and never tech gadgets). You need people who make the subjective appraisal of quality for users to be looped in.

Here’s the point. When this is all missing, you will lose credibility with people making the decisions. They’ll hear some engineer babble about NDCG but then say the darn thing doesn’t work in the QA testing. Or they’ll say the qualitative results look OK and get angry when weird counter-examples pop up in the second or third results pages, which might have been measured with quantitative metrics.

When this happens, executives and managers just want to punt. They want the “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” equivalent for search, and that’s how you end up with Confluence still only supporting exact title matching and having no ability for actual content relevancy search.

In this sense, the little projects showing “look what us non-specialists could cook up by hacking some boosts in Solr!” do a lot of harm and should not be considered as the plucky success stories they are often painted to be.
Well, academically speaking, the reason students learn to write papers the way they do, is probably to prep them best for academia - not the professional world (though many jobs are not mutually exclusive from what you do in academia - i.e research)
> You asked how Epstein’s wealth and connections got him off. Here’s how: he knew powerful people who were willing to minimize or ignore his transgressions. That’s it. It’s how he escaped with such a lenient sentence legally, and it’s how he was able to continue working with organizations like MIT Media Lab professionally. You’re acting like these are entirely separate issues, when really they’re just two sides of the same coin.

I am very interested in exactly how "knowing powerful people" translates into a plea deal. That process is what I would like to focus on, and I am not willing to take it on faith that this is the result of a general kind of apathy or a sense that Epstein was beyond punishment.
I took a pay cut to work remotely in Asheville, NC (about the most remote, stable, infrastructure-enabled city I could find next to Chattanooga, TN) and while the community was great and living costs were much cheaper, this kind of plan was still wishful thinking because unless...

1. you stay remote (read: can handle work != social structure)

2. your spouse's employment situation is also accommodating

3. your community doesn't decline due to the brain drain / job drain problem of areas outside major metro centers

So you need to be resistant and resilient to the downsides of living away from so many techies.
Looks like you are right, you may be able to join the farm to help ( i have not tested as I am away from my computer at the moment )

https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm/blob/master/worker/README...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454440