skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s a tension in e-book pricing generally between consumer expectations that a digital file will be less expensive than a physical copy and the reality that very little of the cost of making a book is tied up in the physical format

There's more to this than the cost of making a book. As a consumer, a physical thing inherently has more value than a digital one because it keeps the value after I buy it. I can lend the book to someone legally after I'm done with it. I can sell it, trade it, or donate to a library.

With a digital book (or any other digital good) I lose all of that. Since I'm getting so much less, why should I pay the same price?

The digitization makes it impossible for businesses to control the distribution of their products, unless they go full DRM and effectively prevent people from owning the things they buy – but in that case, there should be no surprise that people don't want to pay quite as much.
The pixel-sized dots are cosmic rays, those are obviously artifacts as some of them can be seen in front of Saturn.

I'm referring to objects you can consistently see between different observations. E.g. this one around 1/2 a planet width from the pole you can't see observed from 2018-06-06 14:35:05 until 2018-06-06 14:46:35:

http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst-sl-server/servlet/data-action?R...

http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst-sl-server/servlet/data-action?R...

http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst-sl-server/servlet/data-action?R...

http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst-sl-server/servlet/data-action?R...

Although looking again perhaps that's a moon of Saturn's rather than a particularly bright star.

Not an astronomer, just an interested amateur. The few times I've been curious enough to look at the raw data behind these images I've found background celestial objects that are definitely edited out. That's understandable, the point is to show e.g. Saturn and not whatever background objects happened to be there at the time Hubble took the photo.

I'm just pointing out it's not all due to the light exposure.
See also https://avaloniaui.net/
It's really ironic that you adopted such a sneering tone in your post and then tried to gatekeep what does or does not belong on HN.
>"User XYZ just printed 7 pages," which would reasonably be 5kb per job

Actually (of course IMHO) that should reasonably be (including the percentage of ink covered/black and a validation hash) below 150 bytes.
Fortune Magazine is owned by the same family that owns CP Group, Thailand’s largest conglomerate. Their economic interests in China are clear.

Hear them boast on Wikipedia:

“When China opened up its economy in 1978, the CP Group was the very first foreign investor in the country and became the first foreign company registered in the special economic zone of Shenzhen, Guangdong. The company is the single largest investor in Mainland China today commanding over fifth of China's entire feed meal market.[5] The corporate registration number was "0001."

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charoen_Pokphand
It'll show the actual output size of the image, I'm not a 100% happy with this yet. The fact that you report it here (as a bug) is a good indicator that it needs to be changed.
Take a look at GDPR
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The game Arimaa attempted to do that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
I mean, 119 vs 121 is still impressive, if true. With China’s momentum, I wouldn’t be surprised if they pass the US soonish.

That said, any article that includes Taiwan as part of China immediately makes me think it’s a propaganda piece.
Yes, it's the perfect fit, I have someone else to thank for that as I'm horrible at naming things.
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Apologies - I wasn't focusing enough on my comment and wrote nonsense! ;-) Fixed now.
That explains what's happened for me.

I have a .me.uk domain, and I'd like the .uk. I attempted to register it, and I was charged, but then refunded a few days later. It's currently pointing to a 123-Reg parking page.
> "What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class in Java?"

This sort of question is quite common when interviewing for a dev. position. There may also be a short coding test to take during the interview, which will test both your reasoning skills and your dev. skills.

If the job is to develop in Java, for example, and since you put on your CV that you know Java (since you got a face to face interview) they will probably quiz you a bit to check to actual knowledge and experience of the language.

I would definitely prepare for this sort of relatively basic questions.
I think you had to zoom out the image (scale down with scroll wheel or multi-touch), maybe this needs to be more clear.
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As much as I dislike 123-reg, they weren't the only ones who did the 'auto-registration' thing. I don't feel like dropping my registrar in it but they did the same (only it was at the end of the .uk reservation period - I gained 2 domain names, both of which ought to belong to clients of mine). I haven't ever checked if they set them to auto-renew in fairness, my account settings are to NEVER auto-renew so I suspect they followed that.
The topics aren't perfect either, unfortunately. For example, Sublime Text, as we know it, was first released in 2008 while the topic trends data you linked shows it being the leader in 2004.
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Tree view and go to def plus basic autocompletion (through tags) are very much built into vim.
The rest can be done through plugins, these days very painlessly - but admittedly even a few years ago rather a hassle to set up.

Debugging, while perfectly doable depending on language, is I'd say the one thing still rather awkward.
> very little of the cost of making a book is tied up in the physical format

Either that's bullshit, or the costs are entirely artificial. I really, really want "Concrete mathematics" by Donald Knuth. I really, really don't want to pay €80 for it. A good alternative for me would be the e-book, but it isn't any cheaper. I doubt if anyone will buy the ebook for that price while there are free copies available online.
> the compiler is not as good nor as clear as Elm's though

in the article, you mentioned:

> the compiler is one of the best compilers I’ve ever seen and will not compile if it detects that your code is not sound.

It seems like your're judging the entirety of the compiler just on it's user displayed error messages?
Thing is it can be very cheap to "waste" your time and become harder and harder to get out of. I'm kind of trying that at the moment.

I totally agree that society should make sure peoples basic needs are met, but don't see a reason why this should not involve trading in some of your time. So yeah, why not having to offer 20h/week to the gov to get all that? This kinda sets a minimum wage while offering everyone a way to fulfill their basic needs. What job/task the gov has/can find for you is another problem, but doesn't seem unsolvable to me.
My background in Electrical Engineering has really helped me as a developer. Too often we ignore the computer in computer science. If you are unfamiliar with how you get from silicon to transistors, to logic circuits, to CPUs, then it's worth reading up on.
Bad time to have bought beachfront property that’s for sure.
"suspect that some ICE engines in use are still variants of pre war designs the Chevy Small Block v8 is a little newer starting mid 1950's"

Perhaps, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. The only pieces that remain somewhat as they were would be the block, crank, and rods.

Overhead cams, variable valve timing, aluminum heads/blocks, electronic ignition, fuel injection, ECU, etc...are all newish.

If some other design (rotary engines, for example) were better and made economic sense, they would have likely won out.
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Smaller scale transformation won’t interact with global complex systems like the water cycle in the same way. You can’t make that comparison.
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But the cost of printing a book isn't exactly high. Most of the cost of a book is in the author, editorial staff, and other human services. The manufacturing is near nil.
Absolute numbers could be up, even if relative share is down. Intel reported growth in fortran compiler sales, but python does grow more, so relative numbers are what you expect.
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Is this a thing, or just something you're suggesting here?

I think I like it.
Under that definition of "native", it's pretty clear developers don't care very much about having "native" text editors/IDEs, wouldn't you agree? You can look at editor usage to see how they are voting.
It's 2. There is no way for cell/proteins to maintain a useful small scale quantum state.
I wonder what Ivan Pope's (I used to work with him at poptel) thoughts on this are and it does seem that Ofcom have been asleep at the wheel here.
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Maybe the cube shape is better for the intestines to effectively absorb water from the dry mass. Although this would require an explanation why a cube and not a very flat tube.
Zen mind, beginner's mind. It's the first book that I've read about Buddhism and found it quite insightful, will keep on reading more books on the topic.

It introduced me to Zen meditation, which I started practicing a few days ago and find useful.
Good. Nobody wants Facebook money. Countries like Germany and France have a better track record being trustworthy than a company like Facebook. Facebook has been proven several times over its very short lifetime to not be trusted.
I love Elm, but this tutorial is based on Elm 0.18, and 0.19 is out. There are some straighforwared but significant changes with how an application is set up.

If you're just starting out, find a 0.19 tutorial.
In a way, you are buying commercial. The Ardour people are selling downloads of their binary builds for $1 per download (or more, if you choose), along with some access to support I think.

It's also possible to, for example, 'apt-get install ardour' and get a similar version in Debian Buster. I presume there are lots of other operating systems that this is built for, so Ardour does make a significant contribution to free software.
Someone has actually just posted on github a request for Solenya to implement the RealWorld example app. I think that would be great idea, so people could directly compare Solenya with say React+Redux. Abstract reasoning is one thing, but it's always good to see side-by-side comparisons.

Note the inclusion of a state management library for an apples-to-apples comparison, since Solenya has intrinsic state management. Also note that I'm firmly NOT in the "all you need is the V in MVC" camp. Dealing with state is one of the trickiest aspects of writing scalable code that I've sought to address. There's an excellent video that discusses state management in large applications here (in the context of Angular, but the principles apply generally): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLTz8QRg4Q

My goal has been to deal with these issues in a way that works for both small and big apps. Previously, I dreaded having to make the decision at the start of an app: "is this app complex enough that I have to pay the tax of using a state manager?", where there's two very different ways of writing the application and I had to cross my fingers whether I'd made the right choice. The solution to this dilemma with Solenya, has been to make the tax of having state management so low that it's always on, whether the application is big or small.
In a capitalist society, politics is all about buying/renting other people. Don't think US/EU diplomats don't buy local politicians elsewhere.

Of course if the commercial negotiation fails, there's always "intelligence" agencies and military to help overthrow that evil government that does not want to sell out. Contrary to our western powers and Russia, China is not doing that just yet.

Can't wait for a true democracy without middlemen selling our resources/interests to other middlemen for private profits. The world would be a much better place imo.
At least VS Code and TextMate are free and open-source software. Sublime is basically dead and there's no chance of a fork.
Most americans also belived in angels last I checked.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-b...

Hmm, yup, more than climate change.

(/s the implication is that CBS is not trustworthy 'news', not that americans are dumb)
>(Under capitalism) many costs of having PtLds are externalized.

I'd wager that at a societal level we roughly break even +/- a little bit in either direction. For every mega-corp abusing their legal status there's a few thousand small and medium businesses that do not have to worry (as much) about being sued into oblivion by some ambulance chaser over something that is not the result of malice. (I'm speaking about various private liability limiting corporate structures in general here.)
I didn't get why this was important until I started working on a remote cluster. The only environment was the shell. Being used to VS code, I had a rough time with vim.

Learning neo/vim has been interesting in many regards. I now have a more "portable" setup (up to plug-ins)
Elm has solved big problems with us, and for everything that can run in the "pure Elm" side of things, we have very few problems.
As a consumer, the digital e-book is inherently more valuable than a physical book.

I often re-read or consult books (or chapters) I've read on a whim. If I had to e.g. take my library on vacations to do the same thing I can trivially do on a Kindle I'd need to travel with a minivan full of books.

There's all sorts of other value, like search functions, not having to fill my house or storage box with books, and avoiding that awkward every-other-page-sucks while reading a book laying sideways in bed.
Your argument is "there were dialects and local variants". That was true everywhere until 1st WW and mass media.

Could we agree that Athens and Syracuse were more similar than Athens and Persepolis?

How about common myths and goods? Olympic games that paused wars? Delphi were in "center" of helenic world? And ancient debate if Macedonians are "true Greeks" or "barbarians"?
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Yes, you are right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volvo_engines

I thought they only produced the 2.0L 4 cylinder petrol in various configurations (turbo size, hybrid, non-hybrid). As it turns out they now also have a 3 cylinder engine.
>I refuse to engage in thing-as-a-service.

As a side note, whether one uses it or not, it should be called what it is: thing-as-a-monthly-subscrition (often automatically renewing itself).

Maybe it is just me, but to me something "as a service" is still something I pay "per use" and not something I pay a monthly or yearly fee in exchange for a given limited amount of something that I may or may not use.
I wonder if any 2-4 of the folks who’ve never had it crash would find it fun to join in a mob-debugging session where you screenshare, we all open an discord* channel, and we try and figure out the cause and solution.

——

(* IM could be discord, gitter, slack, or whatever.

I’d argue strongly against IRC because I think the lack of support for code blocks and especially newlines makes it harder to talk about code/stacktraces.)
Please don't spread lies about Elm. It's OK if it's too hard for you, or not your cup of tea.

But it's straightforward to interface JS from Elm. It's right in the tutorial under ports.
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What about immigrants? They are literally dying to get into the US and increase the worker/retiree proportion.
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> Reaper needs a mention, it is the best DAW in terms of functionality and power.

Could not agree more. I'm a voice actor, and Reaper is my secret weapon for speed and efficiency in non-music-based audio production. I love it.
Mine stopped working just after a year and a half. And replacing the printing head costs more than the printer.
Company profits are our culture
Those are properties of the e-reader rather than the e-book itself, in other words, not something you should be paying for when buying the book.
They'll do that under any system (you can find examples in basically all of recorded history). The people on top always try to use their power to put in rules to stay on top. I'm not convinced they somehow do it more or are more capable of doing it under capitalism than they were under the 18th century monarchies or socialism of the USSR and its satellite states or any of the other societal structures that have come and gone.
Sam Dastyari[0] is the first one, old news, and Gladys Liu[1] is the second one, recent news.

I'm more mad at the politicians whose positions exist for, and salaries are paid by the people they're supposed to represent.

We also have politicians retiring from politics and going straight into the private sector to leverage their inside knowledge of government policy for the purposes of getting the inside track on government contracts[2][3]. There are toothless and poorly enforced laws against this (that I don't think have ever been successfully used)

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-14/sam-dastyari-scandal-...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/gladys-liu-was-part-o...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-13/christopher-pyne-disc...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-05/julie-bishop-defends-...
Yeah, I completely agree. Not only these kind of posts, but 99.9% of self-help books too. The answer, in general, comes down to: get good rest, meditate, drink enough water, and get some damn work done. Coffee as needed.
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Low cost of entry maybe Ofcom should have to approve all .uk registrars.

And ICANT should clampdown of some of the dodgy stuff they allow crappy registrars.
Even a resolution of the UN security council means nothing.

I wasn't talking about international law. Israel is willing to go to the mat on this, and apparently convinced this is a life-or-death issue. A lot of other countries, including the only superpower, NATO and the EU agree or at the very least don't want to let Israel be destroyed if Israel chose to stop Iran's nuclear program. As far as international consensus goes, that's pretty strong.

"Aggression" is quite an arbitrary definition. Iran has threatened Israel with annihilation for decades, and occasionally they tried. They do/did have a nuclear program, they certainly have chemical weapons. They keep attacking shipping and causing further armed conflict around the region...

"International Law", which today mainly consists of Russia and China sabotaging everyone else, is not going to stop Israel from defending itself.
Ah, memories of my youth: Create a Butterfly Garden, by L. Hugh Newman. Long out of print, but readily available used.

For a more modern resource, try Butterfly Conservation's site: https://butterfly-conservation.org/how-you-can-help/get-invo...
Hundreds of cryptocurrencies that aren't being operated by the most powerful social network corporation in the world.

it's such a small distinction I can see how you choose to overlook it ...
It's a shame English doesn't distinguish between non-inclusive-we (the writer and the writer's peers) and inclusive-we (the reader, the writer and the writer's peers).

Non-inclusive-we 'need' it because we want it and will make it ourselves. Inclusive-we do not because your individual needs were never and should never be the concern of a project that you have no investment in.
>Alongside that, they do try and find software fixes to improve the existing fleet,

I would be scared if a software engineer would make the OS to confirm that I want to brake
Its expensive because its good and the amount of engineering to make sure this doesn't drop a single sample in live performance costs time, expertise and cash.
Company profits indicate what is important to a culture.
Lol @ stem conferring social status. Most stem is just desk work. Its not some romantic mars mission for 99.999% of even the best engineers. The only thing buying status is the paycheck. Money empowers women. Its that simple.
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As I'm doing something very similar (but different) for my new product so I definitely checked it out.

What I like:

* Image orientation (from EXIF) support

* I like how intuitive it is

* I will absolutely use some minor ideas in my product that I have not considered using.

What I dislike:

* I have uploaded 10000 x 6672 image (this one https://unsplash.com/photos/2S4FDh3AtGw) and I see that you scale it down. My experience shows that both Firefox and Chrome handles such large image without problems.

* Delay between action and reaction is too high for my taste. It feels unnecessary sluggish. UPDATE: tested with Chromium and it feels response. Only Firefox is sluggish.

* Flip does not center around zoom

Anyway, awesome work as I know some pain points you might have experienced :)
Oh well that's all right then, as long as they learned the lesson about killing millions of their own people. Don't know what the fuss is all about if you ask me!
Ok, but then by that logic, Mexican and Canadian companies should count to the USA total. After all, the US is their largest export market and the USA frequently puts diplomatic and economic pressures on her neighbours.
Agree. My mistake, I asked wrong question. I'm much more interested in whether Google Captcha's script can access on-same-page form with already filled credentials, so they can link login with IP address. Password is another question.
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I use Ableton for many many years now.
Did this remix in one day on vacation just using the acapella and NO external plugins.

https://soundcloud.com/hit8run/happyathens-finetune/s-dWSSq

So you can achieve alot with the productive workflow of ableton. I also bought Logic but never finished a full song with it and always felt restricted by it's workflow.
there are so many ways a huge corp can commit crimes while individuals can all use the "plausible deniability" card. also often the crime is committed by the company as a whole, while no individual did something wrong.

> Then noone would invest.

i disagree, you just only invest in ethically sound endeavours. and thats exactly what im trying to achieve by my suggestions. starve bad-business from investment and/or people willing to take ownership. and make investors also do dilligence on the ethical side, instead of only an assessment of books+team+product+market.
"may" in the title, so it really means "will not".
Yes but the CCP doesn't run Taiwan. You could say China has control over Australia and the United States for the same reason but you wouldn't include them in China either.
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Seems like libraries should team up and combine their purchasing powers to get more equitable purchase agreements.
Medications can help temporarily, but then tolerance appears and you need to up the dose. I think they are mostly helpful in the range of a few months up to a year, as a crutch to help someone sort their life out (professionally and/or academically), and also in terms of setting up efficient organizational techniques, developing helpful practices for focusing (meditation, exercising, diet). It helped me a lot in this way, I was then able to quit ADHD meds while retaining a much improved focus ability.