skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never understand why publishers insist on DRM. It seems like it only harms readers and publishers and benefits Amazon. At the very least, why didn't publisher's insist on a more open DRM scheme? Frankly I think books are special enough that maybe some regulations should be created guaranteeing certain reader rights.

I'm basically locked to Amazon now, especially since their latest DRM hasn't been cracked yet (AFAIK). All the workarounds I know of result in a lower quality file.
Titles are usually based on area of responsibility, at a small company you may have a small number people or no people but still have the responsibility... it's just enough for one person to handle. So it's not bad to have a VP of Engineering only manage 4 ppl.... but if everyone things a VP of Engineering is the same at small or large companies that's uninformed of reality. Title inflation helps recruit... so add that on to this as well and it's confusing. Not saying it's right, but that's how it is.

Actually, there is immense title inflation at large companies as well, just depends which company and field. Have you seen the number of VPs in the Finance industry in NYC?
Businesses gonna business. Can’t really blame them for exploiting the artificial bottlenecks created by the lazy thoughtless corner-cutting geeks who (ostensibly) designed the thing. To copy-paste myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181707):

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HTTP hyperlinks FTF. Vannevar Bush hypothesized much a higher-level “mesh of associative trails”, with relationships formed directly and largely automatically. The closest today’s WWW has gotten to this is search engines, but again these are centralized, controlled, and first and foremost in service to vendor, not users.

However, I would argue a far greater problem was the early lack of editability; Berners-Lee originally conceived of his WWW as a network of editable documents, where every user could read and write with equal ease. His prototype web browser was, to use a desktop analogy, a “Word for the Web”; a true web editor, Opening and Saving documents stored online, just as Microsoft Word directly opens and saves documents stored locally.

But Tim got lazy and impatient, and shipped his first public browser as a cut-down web viewer. Which Mosaic then copied; and, before anyone knew any different, the web was recast as a read-only medium of the masses, with web editing the exclusive domain of technical and corporate elites only.

A single thoughtless corner-cutting mistake, creating an artificial bottleneck upon which trillion-dollar global empires have now been built. You can still see the remnants of the original direct interaction model in HTTP’s PUT and DELETE verbs, like the hindlimbs in a blue whale, rendered just as powerless from the ignorance and avarice of this new web’s Intelligent Design.

Tony Hoare named NULL his billion-dollar mistake, but that’s a rounding error on the scale of TBL’s fuckup.

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Which isn’t to say that had the web’s architects not completely FUBARed manual document editing/publishing and automated relationship-building that various self-interested parties wouldn’t have locked it up in other ways.

But look at SOAP and Dropbox and even Facebook; were the basic building blocks working as designed, none of those would exist because the key services they provide are just standard everyday operations that a correctly-functioning web would already provide to everyone for free. But they don’t, so again and again we end up with this instead:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect

Honestly, our modern “web” can make a Matryoshka doll blush, it’s so anything but.
Exactly how is that out of the reach of anyone but the wealthy?

Amortized over 30 years, it's barely over $110 per month and for most homes would bring the electric bill to near zero.
You couldn’t even use Google Sheets in Safari well before iOS 13. I don’t know about Google Docs.
I concede nothing other than your love of removing individual arguments from their context (in this case, the failure and unraveling of the ACA) to distract from your inability to provide a coherent or ethical defense of the status quo.

For example, please describe how denial of claims by ACA plans is unrelated to the continued medical bankruptcies I cited? Or, if it is related, what level of medical bankruptcies is permissible in your perspective?
Maybe it has something to do with the state ordering executions all the time.
I can't find any information for developers. Is Remarkable a closed ecosystem or can I create an app for it?
More accurately, users want easy above and beyond anything else. "Tech giants" are giants because users use them. https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...

Don't get me wrong: I agree with the rhetoric against tech giants. But in real life, looking at measurable behavior, no one cares.
I completely agree that those are important factors too (sometimes much more so than salaries), but good salaries, type of work and first-world benefits are usually the reasons why people emigrate in the first place (often leaving family and good weather behind), which is why I talked about those.
The more India closes the gap on these, the less incentive there is for people to move.
This might be helpful for you: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s...
Yes, that's right. You end up with a system of equations and solve it. So what does "by coordinates" mean? Is the original commenter simply saying that the machine will always be able to solve that system? He's right if that is what he means. Originally it sounded like "the machine can read the diagram accurately".
I would imagine it's not a particularly efficient market. The person offering the contract likely had no particular way to discover the correct price to pay, and there is a high risk in offering the contract (the recipient of the offer might go to the police) so he just aimed high.
10B is not the profit but the entire contract. There is less gravy than it first seems.
I feel like you're convincing yourself, try the reality once please.
That wouldn’t account for demand.
You can... the old fashioned way. Just bookmark a user's page and remind yourself to check it from time to time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom
...and the other devices continue to ring after you’ve answered the call :(
This is not correct. The duality is the fact that an elementary particle is point-like but requires wave mechanics to describe its motion. Another related discovery was that energy waves, too, consist of quanta, which in many respects behave as particles. Those are valuable physical insights (similar in its power to the idea that “everything consists of atoms”).
Envisioning and Designing the Floating Future
Management & no management is binary. If we used an indicator variable (1 for “has management” and 0 for “no management”) then there’d be no way to have any idea of “quality of management performed” along a different axis in the “no management” case.

I don’t agree that separating this as a distinct inficator variable would actually be useful.
I quite like this list, there are a number of utilities here that I already use on a daily basis. There are also a few utilities that I like that weren't on this list, or some alternatives to what was shown. Some off the top of my head:

- nnn[0] (C) - A terminal file manager, similar to ranger. It allows you to navigate directories, manipulate files, analyze disk usage, and fuzzy open files.

- ncdu[1] (C) - ncurses disk analyzer. Similar to du -sh, but allows for directory navigation as well.

- z.lua[2] (Lua) - It's an alternative to the z utility mentioned in the article. I haven't done the benchmarks, but they claim to be faster than z. I'm mostly just including it because it's what I use.

[0] https://github.com/jarun/nnn
[1] https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
[2] https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua
The malicious links could be camouflaged behind a redirect.
With respect I simply disagree with Feynman that the double slit experiment contains everything... Maybe in suggestive outline?

As an example of how QM is weird, my go-to is a game that I call Betrayal. It is a challenge for a 3 person team. The teammates go through rounds where they are relativistically separated and unable to talk with each other; each such room has a big computer screen and two buttons labeled 0 and 1, and during each round each teammate has to press one or the other of these buttons; then their selections are summed up to a number that we call The Sum.

The reason we call this Betrayal is that we are trying to force one of the teammates to betray the other two. So 25% of the time we run a “control round” where we ask everyone to make The Sum even, and the team passes the round if The Sum is even. Or the rest of the time we secretly select one of the three at random to betray their colleagues: we tell the other two the true goal, make The Sum odd, and the team passes the round only if it is odd: but we lie to the traitor and tell them to make The Sum even, so they will work at cross purposes to the other two.

The key result is that there are 4 cases and classical strategies can only work for at most 3 of them, so your pass rate is limited to 75%. But quantum players who share a so-called “GHZ state” can pass 100% of trials in principle—albeit quantum computers have finite probabilities of simply failing, but if you could improve that to 90% fidelity then over the course of 100 rounds you will still score visibly ahead of the 75s, occasional 80s, and rare 85s produced by random chance.

The key is that quantum systems come out with these strange global correlations that cannot be explained classically. You also cannot see them locally; nobody knows the round succeeded until everyone comes back together to compare what bits everyone committed to.
Isn't Windows NT the poster child for a non-POSIX mainstream microkernel?
Just this week had a meeting discussing strategies on how to reduce the number of duplicate leads on the CRM system. The meeting ended up with a discovery,that the lead capture form on the website submits multiple records if pressed too quickly. I couldn't count the number of meetings and discussion on lead gen we had.Knowing now that this button renders most of the stats on leads to rubbish,makes me quite sad...
The obvious argument is they need to scan pages linked for malware and couldn't rely on a white/black list.

I'm sure if they're pulling data to do this analysis, it's not the only analysis they're doing.
I see no irony here.

First of all, they are probably doing both things today.

Second, not necessarily the same people that complains about adds complains about paywalls.

Also, If you don't live in the US, 99.99% of wsj' contents is irrelevant, excepting that one article you read once an year. So subscribing is not worth it.

Meanwhile it excludes a ridiculous amount of people of a very important subject for the whole world.

Please track the hell out of me but don't paywall on subjects that matter.
TUI for lobste.rs, Written in Rust
> I'm sure most people who run low-volume mail servers here have no problems sending to Gmail. I don't know why you think this is an extraordinary claim

Where are all these magical people with these magical abilities? How curious that not a single one of them is able to post any kind of evidence to support these incredulous claims. And funny how my comments on HN are getting downvoted and hidden when I ask for proof.
There was a story by Lem where a Machine built to solve a problem requested more parts, with which it built another machine to solve the problem, which...

I don't remember how it ended.
Why did the 5th hitman take that crap deal? He could have said no. Obviously he had "sell my lethal services for an exceedingly low sum" remorse or something like that..

Just say no and force the 4th hitman to follow through. Unlikely any other assassin would have taken that bad deal. Obviously glad he did and it worked out that no one was murdered, but still, he could have said no.
How do you know if they're malicious if you don't make HTTP requests to them?

One of the things that phishers and others do is use link wrapping and other services to hide malicious links. So, I get something.wordpress.com/something-clean. I then put in an HTML or JS redirect on that page to something malicious. Given that browsers don't warn about HTTP, HTML, or JS redirects, it's an easy way for scammers to get around a list of malicious pages.

These kinds of attacks are very common in the email space.
The other day Bank of America saved $2 billion/year by rolling out their own cloud. Why isn't Pentagon saving tax payers money?
Can you show proof for these claims?
Here's one example of not clapping, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ine7xIlLxgc

> "An amazing thing took place at Carmel High School’s graduation. One of our students Jack Higgins was presented with his diploma. Jack graduated after 8 years. He is a wonderful member of our student community. Jack has autism and with that comes sensory issues. At graduation the student body and several thousand individuals were asked to not clap or cheer so Jack could participate. What followed was nothing short of a miracle. We shot for the moon but instead reached the stars." - Principal Lou Riolo
They were actually all acquitted by a lower court years ago and the prosecutor had to appeal to get a guilty verdict this year.

I believe there was some technicality that made proving intent difficult - the original contract was vague enough that the defence could argue that killing was never the plan and they only wanted to intimidate the victim enough to drive him out of town, and somehow the message got distorted down the chain of outsourcing to become a hit which was never carried out anyway.
National Weather Service: Thicker Layer of Smoke to Push into Bay Area Tonight
YouTube would decide that since you engage with that book, you want more books from that author and put those books at the top of the catalog for you.
The kind of problems I'm thinking of are those like 2 and 6 on this year's IMO.

You have a bunch of points, lines and circles in some configuration and you have to prove that some condition holds. So you assign symbols to represent the coordinates of each of these points and you represent each fact you are told about them by some equation. The condition you are trying to prove is also represented by some equation. After multiplying up to get rid of square roots each of these equations is setting a polynomial equal to 0. So you are just trying to prove that some polynomial must be 0 if a bunch of other polynomials are 0, which can be done algorithmically via Gröbner bases.
I don't believe you. Can you show proof?
Written on the WSJ site not a blog no less.
How do you check if a link is serving up something terrible without http requests to them?
Observation is what makes physics matter in the practical sense.
Hi, just adding my 2 cents onto your sentiment. The photographer and equipment reviewer Ken Rockwell has a similar aesthetic on his homepage: https://www.kenrockwell.com

While supported by pay product links, this site contains no ads other than all the copy. His content has no dumb pop ups or any janky junk, however it will still satisfy a startup chief-of-design's checkbox by loading extremely slowly (due to the many full size image examples on every page, in this case)

I love it when Noscript has little to do.
There was a great series of talks a few years ago called “is anything worth maximizing?”. Unfortunately, the videos seem to be down, but his medium post is still up: https://medium.com/what-to-build/is-anything-worth-maximizin...
I'm not certain it would be fundamentally better. It seems possible! But it will have new dynamics at scale, and our current predicament already suggests that we aren't great at predicting what will emerge from them.

But I wanted to follow on here because I think the Web's dynamics around cost/money apply a lot of selective pressure once most things grow bigger than a hobby until they're big enough to leverage network effects.
Google "UUOC" - it's famous.

Edit: Sorry downvoter, thought I was being helpful - no-one mentioned the acronym yet. There's a lot online about it, more than I'm qualified to explain. Entertaining reading too. I remember reading about the UUOC Awards years ago..
I was in the Kindle org when it was blowing up at Amazon. Started when there were a few dozen people in Seattle working on it, ended when there were a few thousand.

They're right that it could've been more. Back in the early days, after the launch of the second version, many people internally saw this. If this works for books, it should work for magazines! Newspapers! Websites! Crosswords! Apps of all sorts! Social networks! The possibilities were endless. Teams scaled up, rapid category expansion ensued, Amazon started grappling for dominance in eBooks and all these other categories.

Then the iPad came out. I remember going with my boss to the Apple Store on launch day and buying one; the future of the Kindle felt pretty clear. Our product was stuck with a shitty general-purpose display technology and a clunky SDK not suited to external developers. Then, Android launched. The writing was on the wall. eInk was going to be niche, the Kindle group pivoted to the Fire, we all know how that turned out.

The failure of Kindle as a better, more general purpose device is a great lesson in business strategy. Thousands of smart engineers and product people were dedicated to making it the next big computing device, but in the end they failed to build a platform, and the platform players ended up on top. They're still trying to get over this failure with the Alexa series of products, we'll see if they succeed.
Serverless has been around now for several years and it hasn't taken off yet... definitely not to the same degree containers have.

I'm skeptical it will. To adopt serverless you need to be willing to rearchitect your product and retool your developers... that's expensive.
The Center of the Universe
Doesn't prevent a malicious/compromised third party from serving code other than what's in the source. I think an acceptable mitigation might be subresource integrity though, so you can lock it to a known-good version of a script?
Amazon will likely be suing, yeah?
Unlike social media, traditional media "generates" opinion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West#Democr...
Took me a minute to realize by "driving manuals" you meant driving a manual transmission car. At first I thought you meant the behavior you described was recommended by the drivers manual that the licensing test is based off of. :)

Seems like good advice.
Doesn't work that well when your databases are distributed and you're using microservices. You don't want to be doing join's across microservices and most setups wouldn't allow you to anyways. GraphQL provides that orchestration layer for you.
Gmail also occasionally blackholes mail.
> most US homes won't last 50

That's wild a claim. I live in a 115 year old US house made of "inexpensive" wood and it's doing just fine, like the rest of the neighborhood.
Oh, I forgot to mention that LESSPIPE is a mechanism to automatically pipe the contents of a file when opening in less, and that the linked LESSPIPE script has an option to use pigmentize for syntax highlighting.

It’s a tool for enhancing less & pygmentize, not replacing them.

Well, just providing info for everyone. I’m not trying to force you using that script :-)
What do we make of the remaining bidders? aws.. the employees would be fired if they revolted. Microsoft the employees didn't care to revolt.

The fact that google employees could revolt and change a big decision says something.

Tons of stories on why google is evil and microsoft and amazon are the toast of the town. I would rather have google in that position vs amazon/microsoft/oracle because there is a soul and heart at the core of google. The core of Microsoft is different same with Amazon.
> Usually people can't work effectively toward goals that far in the future.

I certainly agree that the scale and longevity of some defense projects can be difficult to justify, let alone comprehend. However, a project that may not seem pragmatic from the outside doesn't make it unnecessary.

FYSA, from this FY18 report[1] under Programmatics - Static Structural and Durability Testing:

ACTIVITY:
The program suspended testing of the F-35B ground test article (BH-1) after completing the second lifetime of testing in February 2017. Due to the significant amount of modifications and repairs to bulkheads and other structures, the program declared the F-35B ground test article no longer representative of the wing-carry-through structure in production aircraft, deemed it inadequate for further testing, and canceled the testing of the third lifetime with BH-1. The program secured funding to procure another ground test article, which will be production-representative of Lot 9 and later F-35B aircraft built with a re-designed wing-carry-through structure, but to date does not have the procurement of the test article on contract. The program has not completed durability testing of the aircraft with the new wing-carry-through structure to date.

ASSESSMENT:
Based on durability testing, the service life of early-production F-35B aircraft is well under the expected service life of 8,000 flight hours, and may be as low as 2,100 flight hours. Fleet F-35B aircraft are expected to start reaching their service life limit in CY26, based on design usage. The JPO will continue to use Individual Aircraft Tracking (IAT) of actual usage to help the Services project changes in timing for required repairs and modifications, and aid in Fleet Life Management.

Back of the envelope sanity check: assuming this was all technical labor at a conservative enterprise rate of $125/hr in FY20 dollars, that's roughly $12.5MM/yr or 50 unabused man-yrs per annum at face value--nevermind the time-value of money, infrastructure, materials, tooling, turnover, all the unknown unknowns spanning a period of performance in excess of a decade, etc.--for the Navy to purchase a quantifiable level of predictability still 13 years ahead of its time based on an execution plan that doesn't yet exist, using bespoke equipment and new methods that have yet to be developed, on arguably the most complex variant of the platform (at a unit cost which currently exceeds $100MM) whose tech integrations are effectively riding on the bleeding edge state of the art.

Given the limiting speed of government contracting and the high stakes on the table, 12 years doesn't strike me as unreasonable.

[1] https://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2018/pdf/dod/2018f35j...
My theory is that one way to reclaim the web is to place more emphasis on individuals and their contributions, and less emphasis on platforms and their opinions. Additionally, there needs to be sustainable business models where the end user's incentives are aligned with the platform's. People are willing to pay for things they want if there's real value for them.

I'd like to see platforms act as utilities, not systems for enforcing opinions or curating content. I want to be given the tools to decide for myself what type of content I see, who gets to contact me, and I don't want to be force fed ads.
Maybe it seems like this isn’t the best of all possible worlds, but are you sure there isn’t some rationalization that will let me continue to believe that better things really aren’t possible?
Subsidies always distort the marketplace and lead to unintended bad consequences. Elon has been able to keep Tesla going with extremely hard work, pushing his employees to edge of sanity, media showmanship, and exploiting subsidies to the max. Tesla will be in a rough spot when he leaves.
Does anyone know the situation for putting these tiles on one side of the roof but not the other? I live in northern Indiana and would gladly put these on my southern facing roof, but my northern roof is particularly complex (a lot of joints/edges) and obviously not really ever going to get any sun.