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This is why I love Manning Books. I actually ordered a book off of Amazon that I forgot was produced by Manning, and I went to cancel the order and get it from Manning instead. That way I got the print version, the digital version and even free digital of the older editions of it. They've won me as a customer in that I'll always order off them if they have a book I want even if it's available on AMZ.
There is definitely enough time to master a new programming language in a a year. This is not rocket science, programming languages are purposely designed to be easy to grasp. I'd say less than a month for most languages, perhaps only more if it's a family change.

Most people can learn to speak a new (human) language from the same "larger family" (e.g. french from english) in less than 25 weeks.
Tesla Superchargers in Europe already have CCS plugs because that is what the Model 3 uses here (no idea what connector they use in the US) and it is possible to order an adaptor for CCS from Tesla to be used on the Model S and X; unfortunately it requires a new socket on the car as well so it's not cheap.

So if other manufacturers wanted to use Tesla's chargers they just have to ask Tesla, pay their way, and help expand the network. At least that is what Tesla is rumoured to be willing to do.
Why PDF is not suitable for you?
Um, I much prefer physical books.
If a new janitorial shop opens up in your town it might drive down revenue for your janitor shop

If a new tech company is created they might compete with yours but they could also add more value (tools, products, technologies) to your tech company
Show HN: Implementing Kernel-Based Approaches for Sequence Modeling
You make an interesting (unsupported) assertion here. You, who find talking to an IRQ controller, real-time clock, etc. interesting, find Scheme boring, therefore others (who may not share your interests in such details) will also find it boring. Bit of a logical fallacy there...
All of my software is either ISC or GPLv3. Source code links are available on all of my download pages. I've had to remove the pre-compiled binaries for users.

Both Microsoft and Apple ban my specific class of software (emulators) in spite of unanimous court rulings establishing them as legal under fair use laws.
It is a great book but I honestly felt like nearly all the action in Rome could have been done without.
It doesn't, but that would be an interesting feature to develop. Is this something you've used in another editor (iso grid)?

Rust doesn't really have anything super mature in terms of UI, though druid[0] is the one I'm keeping an eye on. Since there's very little "UI" per se in rx, it's currently built directly on top of the graphics layer[1].

[0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/druid

[1]: https://github.com/cloudhead/rgx
Usually, the patient knows the most about their health history. The meaning of test results should be explained by the patient's health care provider until the patient understands. It is likely that anyone interested enough to request a copy of their medical records is also interested enough to Google for more information. In the worst case, the patient is as uninformed with the records as without. Out in the real world, it is not uncommon for a doctor to only make a cursory review of a patient's chart before entering the exam room and for the patient to have to verbally provide basic and important information about their health history.

Providing information is what doctor's do. Good doctor's focus on the patient making an informed decision. Witholding information is contrary to that good practice.
I suspect SMIC or another Chinese foundry will get there over the next 10-20 years. China justifyably considers it a strategic priority and a matter of national security and will put in as much money as it takes to pull people and IP out of Taiwan, South Korea, and the US to make it happen. The closest parallels are display fabrication, where BOE and CSOT have swallowed the LCD market and BOE is on track to compete with Samsung on OLED market share over the next five years. Similarly, there are a handful of fabs in China now starting to ramp DRAM and flash on competitive process nodes.
Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?
Lately I've been working toward keeping a logbook of what I've been up to throughout the day. I've been using things.app to record things as completed tasks, which has the advantage of being available on both computer and phone and seamlessly sync'ed up.

But I'm interested in being able to pull in more automation--for example, download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log, maybe add in entries for emails sent, phone calls made. The goal is to capture information passively enough that I can add context and commentary when I want to without spending more time on it than it's worth. I have an idea that it would be helpful for me to be able to look back and get a long term sense of things that I'm doing and interested about.

Do you know of any tools that might make that easier to accomplish? I struggled to find a general purpose app for the iPhone to write new records to a database, and I thought about using a google form but I don't want to have to manually record the time. I thought about sending emails to a specific address, but I couldn't come up with a simple way to do the kind of purchase integration that I'd like to do, and I have a hunch that the whole thing is really only going to be useable if it ends up in a database or spreadsheet form.

With all the personal data collection going on right now I think it would be interesting to start trying to use similar tactics to bring more of my attention to the decisions I'm making about how to spend my time and focus.
> Google has an undeniable monopoly on search

Google has a large share of search activity, but it's not at all clear that they have pricing power on search (the usual yardstock for a monopoly) or that search is even a market at all, since no one pays for it.

Search advertising is a different story, of course.
Apologies as the thread is long, but has anyone mentioned Vizio's creepy ACR tactics yet and how they got sued into submission?

I got a one for the bedroom about a year ago and although it was priced well for a 4K set, I had already heard about their adventures in getting viewing data on the sly and turned all that crap off as soon as I was able to do so.

Sounds like Samsung may well be trending in that direction.

We just bought a Q80 to go in our renovated basement and I'm starting to think about all of the small tweaks I'll need to make in order to minimize the data it collects.

Hard wired w/ Cat 6, Pi-Hole the ad servers, etc.
I logged in with google but am unable to see any profiles on the main page
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Glad to know Python also does it well, but the wiki page doesn't mention python at all. ;)

> without using other languages as a foil/invoking the Blub paradox

That page just shows some facts. The said language really behave as the way the page describes. No intention to foil any language.
I "self-trained" at coding before going to CS school. I don't have a citation for my claim (but it seems like a very reasonable theory to me).
> Books don't deteriorate into uselessness for decades

Depends on the type of book. Fiction / story books likely have many years (decades) of potential use.

Technical / education books are probably less so, depending on the topic. eg A book about software is likely only useful while that software (and maybe version) is in use. Whereas a book about (say) optics might be useful for decades as well.
> So why have eBooks failed so miserably, when other media such as movies and music now sell and rent so well online?

Well let's look at the technology involved:

Books have been around since writing and evolved from clay tablets which we can still "read" to this very day so long as the text is intact. Nothing other than your eyeballs and hands are needed to interface with a book. No batteries, headphones, passwords, or wires. Plus reading a book is quite a different experience as your mind is actively painting images and creating sounds. Video and audio can present some wonderful sensations but ultimately arent as personal as the creations of your minds eye (and ear). So books as they are work very well and do exactly what they were meant to do. Plus reading on a screen sucks and who wants to buy another electronic gizmo with a good screen like e ink which will become obsolete, fail, or have your book deleted after some DRM copyright spat? Please no.

Video and Audio NEED electronics. They are already hamstrung with a technological need so consuming via digital means is much more practical. And as far as physical media goes nowadays, it's less convenient than streaming. Though Music still enjoys a strong association with the medium being an art so it goes hand in hand with physical collecting which is why you still see tapes and vinyl. Like a book, you want to be able to hold it and also enjoy the art work. Some artists even release ultra limited handcrafted cases to house said physical media adding a more personal touch.
Apple users have no one to blame but themselves
An Opinion on “Examining YouTube's Rabbit Hole of Radicalization” Paper
I did wonder if Apple would build a fab; I mean what else do you do with all that cash you've got sloshing about, and they must use a fair chunk of output of a fab.
It’s easier to verify the CLI tool, since it wouldn’t be available in my distribution’s repositories if it contained phone-home code.
I don't think this is true at all, maybe you are in a USA bubble? People in other parts of the world do not seem have a problem adding each other on LINE or Facebook for example without using a phone number at all. Meanwhile one friend of mine has lived in France, the UK and Germany in the last few years and I have no idea what his current phone number(s) are or what country they are from. Many acquaintances who I have not spoken to for some time have most likely moved abroad at some point and I doubt any of the phone numbers I have for them are still correct.

In my experience, for reasons like this, people do not generally bother swapping phone numbers any more.

Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia recently, I was unable to sign up for Discord because they required verification with a phone number. My local phone number was rejected because it was prepay, not a contract. I wonder how many people in that part of the world have a phone contract? Does Signal also enforce that requirement? Should access to secure comminications really be linked to one's credit history in that way?
One point I haven't seen in the article is familiarity with the software system: The longer a developer works for you, the more implicit knowledge about this particular software system will they accumulate. This knowledge is specialized enough that keeping an individual may be cheaper and less disruptive than training new hires.
He was paid by the number of lines -- which actually does show by, for instance, the number of dialogues with Noirtier, a mute who mostly responds "yes" or "no."
> Also, as an indie I have the option to make my books available DRM-free.

It's worth pointing out that at least one big publisher doesn't use DRM: Tor.

Frankly, I don't get why the big publishers insist on DRM. All it really does is cement Amazon's dominance. Sell DRM-free formats and you aren't helping Amazon lock customers in to the Kindle ecosystem.
Apples to oranges. This is about processor security. Free operating systems or proprietary, they run on the same processors.
Most people with engineering titles are primarily busy creating whatever represents "glue code" for their particular field. Most white collar work is like the saying about dissertations in the humanities: The transfer of bones from one graveyard to another.
Tangential, but even movies and music are smaller than the games industry.

The entire, global music industry, for 2016, was worth $16 Billion.
The global movie box office total for 2016 was just over $38.6 Billion US dollars.
[...] Meanwhile PC games alone earned $34 Billion (including sales, DLC, subscriptions and in-game transactions).
Console games pulled in $30 Billion (including hardware, games and services).
and Mobile games topped $40 Billion (sales and in-game transactions).

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Video-Game-industry-bigger-than...
(Which isn't sourced, but the numbers seem consistent with this https://www.vanillaplus.com/2018/07/05/40093-video-games-mar...)

I don't know what the numbers are for ebooks; this link says 1 billion US dollars revenue in the US market.
If you don't mind my asking, what is your Myers-Briggs if you know it (Ex: INTJ)? I would guess it takes a rare personality type to leave behind the security of career to do what you have done.
What Makes Developers Bad at Business
Wait, search on Hipchat was worse than Slack's? I never used Hipchat but worse search than Slack is a high bar.
Woah - didn't expect to see this here - appreciate the OP sharing here.
Agreed. I don't see how you can leave out (among other things) databases, Big O notation, networking, and call it a computer science primer. Good for what it is, but misnamed.
You may have read me arguing the CCC side in other posts in this thread, but I'd also like to reach out to you and make clear that I very much give you the benefit of the doubt, particularly I'm not gonna assume you _intentionally_ did something.

What's driving my opinion is that an eviction at CCC doesn't just happen because a single person is offended by something you did. There's a whole bunch of people involved in the eviction, and presumably they agreed to some extent that something you did was inacceptable. Maybe there was something you didn't know, maybe drugs were involved, or maybe just something stupid happened. But somehow there was agreement that an eviction needs to happen.

Unfortunately, the CCC has a responsibility for what happens at a CCC event. The event is a representation of them, and so is what happens at the event and what they allow by their social rules. I hope you can retrospectively look at this with a clear head and find out what went wrong.
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210

On the "70% royalty option" (=30% commission), the retail price of the ebook must not exceed $9.99

If you write a college textbook that normally retails at $80, that $9.99 will be a joke to you.

This way they keep prices down (at the author's cost), or when there is real profit opportunity on the table, take the lion's share.
One day, if your eyesight gets worse, you may start to love ebooks just for the ability to set the font larger.
I do already have a YouTube - however maintaining the application is a full-enough part time gig. I plan on trying to grow the YouTube to the point I can hand it off and revenue share with a creator.
Shareholders typically don't vote on things like that directly, but they can vote for Directors who usually have the power to fire/hire CEO's who then make decisions like new locations.
History has shown that user experience is the most powerful force in computing, at least at the consumer level and increasingly in other areas too. People will trade privacy, security, cost, freedom, openness, and virtually any other quality for ease of use.

I hypothesize that the reason for this is time poverty, not lack of expertise or desire to learn. People are more time-poor today than even 20 years ago. Even people who know computers well and could figure out how to use more DIY systems do not have time to do so.

I have a rule of thumb when designing systems: each step required to install or use something halves the number of people who will try it. If 1000 people discover something with a 10-step install, only 1-2 of them will actually try it. Remove a few steps and that number doubles a few times. Most successful "viral" apps have three or fewer steps.

Decentralized, federated, and generally more open systems have been consistently unable to deliver anything close to the ease of use of vertically integrated systems.
I can't read this in incognito mode without registering, and I suspected I wasn't really all that interested, but it was an opportunity to try an experiment.

$ wget <URL>
$ wc -c the-tao-of-wifi

> 1367620 the-tao-of-wifi

So that's 1.3 MB, not including all the collateral that will get downloaded ... surely a long read.

$ lynx -force_html the-tao-of-wifi -dump | wc -c

> 18905

Hmm. Less than 19 KB.

Wait a minute, that will include the header links and tail links, and other stuff other than the main text. I wonder what the main text will be?

$ lynx -force_html the-tao-of-wifi -dump > x.txt
$ vim x.txt
...
$ wc -c x.txt

> 4636

Then I converted all the "smart" single and double quotation marks to ASCII quotes:

$ wc the-tao-of-wifi.txt
> 74 724 4494 the-tao-of-wifi.txt

Actual text, 74 lines, 724 words, less than 4500 bytes.

Not a long read after all.

Whether it's worth it is up to you.
> Not to mention some QRcode readers are sometimes just the regular camera app (E.G: modern iOS), which is very confusing.

You can use that if you wish, however there is an entirely separate and dedicated QR reader built into iOS that is accessible from control center. The icon to launch it is even a QR code which eliminates such “confusion”.
Β-Amyloid accumulation in the human brain after one night of sleep deprivation
The Type System of the Future
Yes, in both iOS and Android apps you can filter notifications to be only from your preferred locations or launch providers.
Whereas I genuinely think that everyone I know buys, owns and keep physical books. Some have only a few, some have hundreds and thousands, but all of them do.

I do live in a country comprised entirely of Oceanic and Subpolar Oceanic climate, though.

There's selection bias here; people tend to know people like themselves and people like each other. Be it people like themselves because they work together, or live near each other, or have similar hobbies, or are from the same family, or some other non-random selection bias, but however it happens, people tend to know people like themselves and people like each other. I have thousands of physical books and probably acquire a few dozen more each year; I tend to like people who like physical books, and presumably you do not.
Slightly off topic, but I often wonder why there is no backlash on print media regarding the environmental aspect of this whole publishing industry. Most books are mass-printed, shipped to warehouses, then shipped to local sellers (or e.g. Amazon, that ships a single book to a buyer) - and the (huge) non-sellable rests are either deeply discounted or completely dumped. If you see a pile of the latest "bestseller" at the local store, its almost guaranteed that only a fraction is sold, the rest will be disposed.

Moreover, most print books, magazines and newspapers aren't even fully read by the buyers, let alone multiple times. Its a huge industry producing, promoting and selling mostly single-use items.

And the used market for most books is virtually non-existent: I had to move a couple of times and the paper weight was one of the biggest hurdles. I dumped lots of books because I couldn't find a buyer on the used market (handling would far exceed the value of the books, some companies buy used books only based on weight and condition) and even libraries and social services like the Caritas declined to take used books.

So, I'm really wondering why we as a society aren't more demanding on the sustainable side of the publishing business, especially the environmental effects. Ebooks could perhaps be a much more environment-friendly alternative, but I agree that publishers and market places have done a lot to make them less attractive, affordable and available for most readers in comparison to printed alternatives.
It does. It includes all publishers and academic journals. I would wager a huge portion of that 27 billion is textbooks in k-12 & university, and journals; though, I haven't been able to find the raw data.

[0] https://www.bookstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BOOKSTA... (page 1, bottom)
My method is to torrent the ebook and buy the physical book (directly from the author where possible).

I feel like it gives me the best of both worlds.
Well, that's not all that surprising, is it? The reason the response is required is because people who use Photoshop frequently feel that it's just obvious to everyone that GIMP's interface is bad, and they need to be reminded that quite a few people find it more simple and intuitive.

Other parts of the complaint don't make a lot of sense either. For example the complaint about the icons -- I agree, the default icons are completely unintelligible. But GIMP ships with alternative icon sets, several of which are far easier for me to use and discern.

As someone who does use Photoshop sometimes, and still uses Lightroom as my primary tool for photography, I still prefer GIMP and its simple interface for quick edits.
Politics and Rationality: On the Uses and Limits of Science
For the New Year, Say No to Negativity
That's interesting. I wonder if subvocalisation has been studied in people death since birth.
But what if you want to connect something other than a phone to your network? I have a lot of laptop's that don't run iOS or Android. I guess I'm old fashioned like that.
About ten years ago I signed up for several dating sites. Okcupid was the best at matching but Match.com, despite inferior matching, was better for in person meetings. My guess is that this was because Match.com had a monthly subscription fee while Okcupid did not. The meter was running, so to speak, and people were more direct and wanted to meet up after a few email exchanges. On Okcupid there was no penalty for dragging things out other than the possibility of the other person giving up or getting into a relationship. I wonder if some of the dating services where the matching is done by humans rather than programs are successful simply because they're expensive which filters out the casual tire kickers.
There was an AMD 29000 Macintosh. But Apple execs were afraid that would piss off Motorola too much, and they still needed their parts.
So then there was an 88k Macintosh. Execs decided that Moro didn’t have the volume to compete with Intel, so they put them together with IBM to form AIM and develop PPC (they considered HPs Precision RISC as well) and went with that until it was clear even those two couldn’t keep up with Intel- or with Apples direction.
There is a small staff that voluntarily help source data, essentially as easy as watching Twitter. Not really possible to automate due to it being journalistic in general.
I love ebooks. I also hate drm so I only "buy" drmed ebooks if I can strip the drm and usually convert it to epub.

I do wish that the highlights I make were actually saved to the epub file rather than in a separate file that is difficult to transport to another device.
First of all, many books are not available in a PDF format.

Secondly, for something like a cookbook, I like putting post-it tabs, writing notes, etc.

Thirdly, some books are a larger form-factor than a typical tablet and the printing has a tactile dimension to it.

To be clear, I like eBooks and frequently buy them. But I don't find them a 1:1 substitute for printed books.
You are describing the derranged Tom amd Jerry boys in the 90s wished existed.
Yes, as you correctly point out, the economics behind that royalty structure became obsolete when the ebook came around. The new thing was the low unit costs. The other new thing was channel economics. The latter triumphed and gave Amazon the bargaining power they needed to make sure that none of the economic advantage of e-books would find their way into creators' pockets. That is what I'm lamenting.
This is the number one reason I don't buy physical books, I hate having to read super small fonts on crappy quality paper.
I've opened up the console and seen that it's just your Firebase quota being exceeded. Doesn't seem like a problem at all on client end