skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days, so long as the battery lasts all day (it does, using it as an ebook reader), that sufficient for a phone. Longer is better, but I always have a charger on me, a spare battery for emergencies when traveling, and a charging pad next to my bed at home.

> they might not get so much reading done on a phone due to the distractions that phones bring.

Short of notifications, there are no distractions on my phone when reading a book. No clock, no battery indicator, no nothing. If I really want to read, I can just go into DND mode, and even notifications have gone away.
Cognitive Uncertainty
Profit is a matter of accounting. The telcos specifically are incentivized to have as little calculated profit as possible.

Their subsidies and ability to charge different rates is partially based on their accounting. So they play Hollywood accounting tricks (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting).

They have been chastised on this repeatedly. For instance, "The FCC Had To Remind ISPs Not To Spend Taxpayer Subsidies On Booze, Trips To Disney World" (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151022/09232532594/fcc-h...) here, the $1,300,000 spent by an executive to buy a house for their children's use as college housing wasn't part of the profit. That's simply the cost of running business, as essential as keeping the lights on ... nothing wrong with the twice a week $96,000/year massages either, I'm sure that's got a lot to do with FTTH residential deployment. Oh wait, the taxpayers built that.

This has happened a few times, such as with verizon (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/are-the-salaries-of-veriz_b_9...) where the 4 top executive pay (without benefits) was $41 million ... which would have been fine if it was in their operating expense and they could afford it.

But they did this because it wasn't and they couldn't.

If the telcos make something called "Local Service" unprofitable when compared with "Corporate Operations Expense" (which includes jets, multiple homes, multi-million executive pay, etc) and technically run "at a loss" they can legally raise prices and reduce service.

Because they can make things look unprofitable, federal regulation permits them to raise prices to make up for it. It's an perverse incentive, an executive spends $100,000 a year on pet care to make sure local service becomes unprofitable and then they can use a legal procedure to raise prices. rinse, wash, and repeat.

So yes, it could be 1/4th the price but no, the free market is the most efficient allocator of goods, we're told. They do things the cheapest we're told, there is no alternative ... yeah, bullshit.

High speed internet is $7.67/month in Russia, $5.41 in Ukraine, $6.12 in Venezuela and $63.07 in the USA. Ah, the magic of trusting the market. Can you feel it!?
An alternative to "Never buy a book" that I think is more fair is buying a couple of copies after I'm finished with a book and sending them to others if I find I enjoy them. A $50 Tensorflow book may not be initially affordable for some people, but assuming you got an understanding of Tensorflow out of it, you'll be able to convert the knowledge to at least $50 pretty easily.
Exploring Calculus
Coral != 'millennial pink', the Pantone color of the year in 2016 was basically millennial pink though (it was actually two colors that year, the pink and a matching blue) I'm a big fan of soft pinks like that actually, but they are def overused
A Tool for Learning Japanese Efficiently
Great idea + great execution. Lots of people have made impressive fortunes from widely used everyday things like food packaging (eg Tetra Pak), ballpoint pens (Biro) or escalators (Kone).
I really doubt that Lyndon Johnson was thinking about how much he hates men when he signed the Fair Housing Act into law.
Safari Books Online (I think recently rebranded as O'Reilly Online) is a pretty decent value -- about $49 USD a month for access to most O'Reilly, PragProg, Manning, and quite a few other non-programmer focused publishing houses like Academic Press. Between that subscription, my scribd subscription (which has plenty of unauthorized titles in addition to its authorized titles), and PDFs I'm able to find elsewhere, I'm pretty set. (not affiliated with either OReilly or Scribd, just a happy user)

Despite this, I strongly prefer a physical copy. Except for some of the books on Safari which I use as a quick reference, I mostly use PDF copies as a sort of extended preview before purchasing (or not!) a physical copy

But the interviewee is spot on when he argues that a pirated download != a lost sale. The idea that it is is just pure silliness. Before I got into tech, if I couldn't find a PDF of a $70-120 book I simply wouldn't read it. Period.
Strip all the non-letter characters and hash that.
That is incredibly vague.
What effect and what policy?
If you're not already familiar with what OSM is, the copyright notice is really not going to be enough to alert the user to the fact that OSM works differently from commercial map data suppliers and can easily accept user contributions.
You sure? We tax payers have given it $Billions and AT&T hasn’t met its obligations for that money. I bet if one were to trace it, it was funneled to rich shareholders.
Also consider viabale options for Plan B: on the job training worked well for us even before Edition 2018 landed.

We had a senior level Java developer learn Rust on the job and be very productive within a couple of weeks. I joined shortly after and was experience with Rust. This former Java dev and I shared knowledge equally: I learned the Diesel ORM and our PostgreSQL integration from him with a few short conversations, and I perhaps helped abbreviate his remaining Rust learning curve with maybe three 1-2 minute conversations.

Another person at that same company was primarily a React developer, and he picked up Rust in fairly short order as well, but I had less involvement there.

A third person was fresh out of an extended bootcamp-style co-op program, and knew Java and React & React-Native, but this her first position after graduating. Note that she came from a non-programming background prior: goods trading industry. Also English is her third or fourth language. I walked her through potentially tricky bits of syntax and semantics (such as descructuring-bind for Structs) in an afternoon. Edition 2018 had long-since landed by her arrival, so that helped.

Modifying existing Rust code and following the patterns worked well. She started small but progressed quickly. Within a few short months, she was adding back-end API endpoints (actix-web pre-1.0) for her front-end needs, and she was creating new .rs files with most PRs merged as-is.
> I don't know how to feel about it.

Don't feel bad at all. Intellectual Monopoly laws are morally wrong (and I would argue counterproductive if the goal is progress of the arts and sciences and/or economic growth). I hope that when the generation that grew up with the web is making the laws we'll get rid of these abysmal systems.

The author of the comment you referencing is wrong. Copying a book that has been released to the public is not stealing. It makes zero sense without complete bastardizing the definition of property (but I'll admit—that analogy has been an effective lie, other unscrupulous marketers should take notes!). Transistors are property. Telling me how I can arrange my transistors is almost the exact opposite of property.

Ideas published cannot be "stolen". Don't let anyone lie to you and tell you otherwise. The outrage of that comment is not justified. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. If anyone thinks their book is so amazing, let me ask how great it would be if it removed all ideas that were "stolen" from other books? How great would their book be if they couldn't steal from Leonardo Pisano's Liber Abici from 1202, the first sentence which is "The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1?"
For AI generated color profiles see http://colormind.io/
you should try offering three peer bonuses
> I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer)

The company overall is quite stingy and I doubt that they will do this part. I'm trying to figure out what other things that I can ask for other than financial compensation. Someone mentioned Promotion and a positive review is something to ask for, which makes some sense. The only problem is according to my review, I'm already exceeding expectations. So, this project doesn't buy me much.

Overall, they are fine, and kind of, want me to drive the project, essentially because there is no one else who can do that job.
That‘s because these companies, and the regulation itself don‘t have security in mind. It‘s really only about compliance and liability avoidance.

There is no incentive for change. Look what happened with Equifax.
and I really doubt the people pushing for this right now really cares what Johnson's original intents were. A sharp rock is a sharp rock.
create an actuated finger/mouse+keyboard combination which moves with realistic human speeds (e.g., signal speed and actuation speed). Have the AI output controls for this device (so the mouse has to be moved, rather than allow for precise x-y coordinate inputs like they have in the bot).
I’ve heard lots of substantive criticism of Enlightenment Now, but less of The Better Angels of Our Nature. Do you have sources to rebut the latter? I read Better Angels, and some associated reviews, and most of the critical reviews seemed to stipulate all the facts in the book and were left to express sour grapes, or a hang-up with the perceived idea of de Chardin-esque progress (which I don’t think Pinker was advocating; he was clear he believed in the factors, and that those factors were not inevitable or inexorable).
What should happen if you knock a potential-companion-but-current-enemy off a cliff in the middle of a battle?
It has already passed that point for me, given that Google is a) subject to censorship, on a per-country basis b) likes to return search results that don't have much to do with your query, apparently because that's what "most people" want c) records every query you make from your IP address, with no way to turn it off if you aren't logged in to a Google account d) the results I get from DDG are generally what I need.
Are modular nuclear reactors popular science's new flying car--one in every garage, arriving tomorrow?

Modular reactors have been on the horizon for at least 20-30 years. Large nuclear reactors aren't viable because of the immensely costly regulatory burden imposed by a fearful, democratic population. To focus on reducing costs without considering the reason for those costs seems naive. The fear is irrational. The population won't permit modular reactors anymore than they'd permit traditional reactors. Science, engineering, and reason don't matter. Necessity may matter, but the oceans may need to start boiling before people's fear of nuclear is overcome by other fears.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I knew about Scribd but didn't know O'Reilly had a subscription offering. Although, like you, I strongly prefer physical copies, and so not sure if it's worth $49 for digital which I read far less. I would probably pay $49/month for full digital access if it came with 1-2 physical books per month as well.
It is not that they want me to spend work time on it. They want me to transfer ownership of the project to them. That's the part that I do not wish to do.

The way things work at this place, I'll probably end up maintaining the product until I leave my job.

The reason for not transferring over is that once I do that, they will essentially not let me create features that I think can be done better using my product, because they exist in some other product.
Probably the most common use case for such things is progressively-rendered/-loaded lists, where you know the number of items and the height of each item in the list, so that you can reserve all the space and provide a meaningful scrollbar, and have a limited number of children absolutely positioned on screen at any given time.

This gives a far better experience than infinite scrolling (which has no meaningful scrollbar, so you can’t jump to the end or an arbitrary point in the middle) or pagination (which is just generally painful once you want something not at the start).

We do this in Fastmail’s webmail, and have put in workarounds for overly-tall elements breaking browsers. https://github.com/fastmail/overture/blob/41cdf36f3e7c8f0dd1... lists them, including some values at which things break. (Actually, IE doesn’t allow containers anywhere near that tall, capping effective values much earlier, with the consequence that you can’t access things near the end of the list. But the problem was that once you get much larger still, it starts ignoring the values you specify altogether, which would break the entire technique.)

For us, the most common height of each email’s entry in the list is 51px; at that, 400,000 emails is enough to get to 20,400,000px high, which is enough to break both IE and Firefox (not sure about Chrome or Safari, I’ve never actually tested it; their failure mode may well just be different, limiting numbers instead of ignoring them).

400,000 emails in a mailbox isn’t all that common, but it does happen.
When has it been otherwise? I don’t have numbers, but I suspect print subscriptions typically only cover delivery and printing costs, with maybe a little surplus beyond that. Advertising has always been what paid the bills for print publications.
example? What modern tech is a delivery person to use to make their job more efficient? i can't believe they aren't already using a GPS to locate the destination. They are using barcode/scanners presumably (or electronic signatures).
SF is finally starting to get competitive between gigabit options from Sonic, MonkeyBrains and WebPass. There's also of course Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
No, the discharge is indicated to the verifier cryptographically. The user of a 3p-caveated macaroon has to request that discharge from the 3p before sending it to the server.
Ah I see. What is the mechanism by which I can convert my knowledge of Tensorflow into $50 cash in pocket?

If you mean "go work for someone," then certainly. But that involves working for someone. Almost everybody on HN works for someone; many are less well-off than they seem. Students, for example.

One reason this is true is that GCE offers $300 credit for new accounts, and TFRC emphasizes that you should sign up for a new account before activating TFRC. $300 ain't much. If that didn't matter, they certainly wouldn't bother mentioning it. Yet $50 is 1/6th of $300.

Of course, buy them if you can afford to. I probably didn't emphasize that enough.
> no one _was ashamed_ of the company or how it made money.

do you think the sentiment has changed since?

last time when the occulus VR targeted ads news broke, some prominent people defended them on twitter. that took me by surprise.

could it be that people from inside (or who have been inside) don't see things the way others do? kinda like a stockholm syndrome thing?

just curious...
The Magician of NFL Broadcasts
Which is why at a previous employer, everyone just stuffed all of it in a spreadsheet, with expiry dates, and last logged in times.
Also sugar.

I might call industrial food in general a drug -- the refined addictive parts of plants mostly like opiates, cocaine, etc
Not sure why this is getting so aggressively downvoted. A coordinate sanity check on entities is trivial to do, and at the very least should be logged.
You call them and ask them to consult with you about how to make your business or organization more efficient. If their recommendations concur with your already-held beliefs, you implement them. If they disagree with you, maybe you reconsider. That's what I would do, and it's what I assume these people are, for the most part, doing.
Ever since 4 years ago this has been a view that will apparently not instantly get you exiled any more.
Common practice to sue or appeal the decision to make sure your company didn’t get screwed out of it based on unfair terms. You can also find out where you went wrong on your RFP and make adjustments for the future. Knowing why Amazon lost to MS is just good business practice and understanding how to be better next time.
I'm torn on the topic myself. I buy books, because I'm fortunate enough to be in a financial position to buy the books I want to read.

But e-books are comparatively expensive. They were conceptually sold to us as a cheaper alternative to hardback and paperback books; but they cost as much as hardback editions quite often. For no reason other than "the market will bear it". The market may technically be bearing it, but it's caused a segmentation of that market with piracy on the other side of the line.

Technical books are even more ridiculous; $50 for a book is insane in this day and age. Especially when it's a distilling of topics and subjects easily found online for free. The act of distilling is not worth $50 to me. "Physically Based Rendering" is probably the only technical book I've purchased and felt good about purchasing; and that's because it feels like a full college course in the subject.

And then there's the college textbook scam. I feel morally incapable of supporting that racket in any way, shape or form. It's an egregious abuse of a captive audience that forces purchases at prices which are based on what can be gotten from a college loan, not in the value the textbook may provide.
WeWork begs to differ - get the highly funded startup to purchase your own property/contracts to extract the value out of the startup and into your own pockets. Then when the economy/startup tanks, leave and let somebody else pick up the pieces.
“New version available.” Sizes: m, medium, MEDIUM, med. Colors: black, BLK.

Amazon is worthless.
Gloves Reviews Discord Server, I actually lol'd
So, the last 50-100 years? Ads paying for the news had been the standard for most of the 20th century.
Similar to books, growing up in India I discovered “Western” music because of pirated music. The one and only reason I heard of bands like Yes, Jethro Tul, Roxy Music, Steely Dan, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, or St. Martin in the Fields, etc. are the pirated copes moving from hand to hand among our school buddies. There was no way we could have afforded the orginal copies from the publishers.

Well the clocks ticked, I came here for graduate school and but the time I got my first job, over a period of time I had instinctively purchased all the original CDs and Box Sets of these and many other artists, about 1000 of them on my shelf. When I exchange notes with with my old buddies, some in Canada and some in England, they have more extensive collections than me. For one weak immitation of a Gibson lookalike guitar we had, we own a small stable of the real things by now :-)

The pirated copies that hooked us to the artists in the first place. I hate to steal from the artists I so much adore, but then shouldn’t there be a way to spread the music around.
There are places where the local population consents to new reactors and then the projects still end up years late and badly over budget. SMRs wouldn't necessarily help to make nuclear-hostile regions more welcoming of reactors, but they might help builders to actually meet their cost and schedule estimates after they start building in a friendly region.

See these projects to understand why utilities in Western Europe and North America aren't ordering additional reactors recently, even in locales where the population already accepts nuclear power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Gener...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

I live near an operating nuclear reactor. I much prefer it as my neighbor over a fossil generating station. But if it were put to a popular vote, I wouldn't support building a new reactor here because I don't want my electric rates to soar after the project ends up late and over budget.
Well, it's our job as technically literate people to educate our friends and family about such things.

Although the article talks about cities, the early installations will probably be remote industrial sites like mines, where they're currently trucking in diesel fuel for generators.
This is beyond stupid. What they're saying is that even if you target people who write "I love programming" on their fb page, it's still discriminatory towards women because men are more likely to write those words.
The factoring expands to meet the needs of the ever-expanding factoring.
I suspect that even after a nuclear war, Earth will still be far more inhabitable than either the Moon or Mars.
>So there's a startup right here in the US doing exactly what we accused a foreign government of doing during the 2016 election.

When it's done by a foreign government, it's an act of aggression. When it's done internally, it's an expression of camping financing.

Like brain cancer vs skin cancer I suppose.
> > We used promoter sequences centred around the transcription start site (TSS) (-499 to 100 bp of each promoter) in Humans (Homo sapiens) from the EPD as the data set of promoter sequences. [...] Briefly, as described previously, using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) v2.2.31 the promoter sequences were mapped to the single top hit in each species.

Measurement error should probably be modeled.
Woman takes 70k federal student loans in 2008, pays total of 60k, still owes 70k
And searching things that you can't search for at home or on your phone.

The kinds of things that people get put on watchlist for, like where to buy industrial quantities of hydrofluoric acid.
The state necessary to revoke JWTs is easier to manage than session state.

1. It's small (id per revoked, nonexpired JWT)

2. It isn't sensitive, nobody learns anything by seeing the list of revoked JWT ids.

3. It's monotonic. You just maintain a set that you add to. You can clean up expired tokens if you want but that's not necessary for correctness.

These three items make bugs less likely and make it easier to manage consistency when you can't afford to use transactions everywhere.
Interestingly while ALBs support serving HTTP2 client requests, they only proxy them to back ends using HTTP1.1. This breaks some use cases like gRPC unfortunately.

https://serverfault.com/questions/836568/terminate-http-2-on...
We had a password change rule at a company I worked at because QuickBooks required it. Because QuickBooks required it upper-management decided that ALL other passwords were required to be changed as well (email and desktop passwords, for most employees).

Because time is money, and the employees' time was all chargeable at about $250/hour, the IT guy was tasked with the job of changing everyone's password himself right before the 90 days were up. He just kept everyone's passwords in a password manager, and the "Notes" field contained the password change pattern the user wanted to follow.

Being the IT guy's manager I was able to exclude myself from these crazy shenanigans, but no one else was so lucky. In fact, many people asked for their passwords to be synced by the IT guy for other services they use at work!