skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting to have a resale tax for used goods, on top of any negotiated price, that followed royalty payments for a new digital good.

As is, we're essentially artificially creating disposable goods, for the primary purpose of enriching distributors at a cost to consumers.
Provinces aren’t states. The powers of the Canadian provincial governments are delegated to them from the Canadian federal government, not the other way around. Canada does not have a constitution that constrains federal power, since it was not formed by the uniting of states wary of federal power, but rather the uniting of colonies which all considered themselves to be under the aegis of a single sovereignty (Britain).

Fun fact: rather than each province having a plain-old governor, Canada (as any Commonwealth country) has one Governor General for the whole country; and then each province has a Lieutenant Governor, also appointed by the Queen, to serve under the Governor General.
> That said, of course there are some people who just happen to fit exactly into the bucket of "right" or "left" as defined by colloquial usage.

Exactly, Unless @smitty1e knows the person personally, a generic response

> The whole left/right dichotomy is a bugaboo.

is invalid. since, as you noted, it does apply to some people.
Surprised this wasn’t mentioned in either jefftk (doctors) or luu (electrical engineers) posts

Doctor’s scale by spending less time with each patient giving a crappier experience for everyone

Software has very low design/reproduction cost vs chip manufacturers
Every growth-oriented startup with a popular product eventually ruins that product in the name of growth, which eventually kills the company and encourages somebody to start a new startup to build a product half as good as the original. The Silicon Valley circle of life.
One additional note that seemed important in case anyone reads this: I just tested GIMP's font rendering on macOS and it's completely different than on Linux. There's no "colorful" sub pixel rendering, and the results seem blurrier to me at the same font size, although the latter might be because this is on a high DPI screen with scaling.

So consider the above to only apply to the Linux version of GIMP.
That essentially means the launch date is subject to move, based on un-confirmed/un-reliable sources, etc - GO for Launch means there is publicly posted information from the launch service provider or some other first party source that confirms the date.

Most launches end up being No-GO until the week or so before.
“Think Little” – Wendell Berry (1969)
Average 4 books a year.

Compare that to tv and movies, by count or hours.
When I read the title, I was actually hoping for a video tour of one of their fully automated 300mm Fabs.

Unfortunately it seems that video material of cutting edge fabs on the web is scarce, and what is available does not really show the fab as a whole, but only details instead.

Well, I guess everybody is afraid of giving away IP...

Some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoOAOOMjHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaASEMAMCNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VIgU1hPok

Research labs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_PCQAJzHj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttD7JOwpNXo
> If the author still got a cut of the resale price, this might actually increase sales.

Historically, this idea hasn’t gone over well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine .
Those data on poverty are a joke! Read for example: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/4/27/200-years-to-end-...

It's basically the World Bank covering its ass for its own spectacular failure.
https://github.com/rxRust/rxRust

Many Rust projects are blah-rs where the rs is dropped in the crate name. So it would be normal to be confused and think Rx == RxRust. e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/futures-rs has crate name "futures".

>There's not that many good, short names.

There'd be loads if the Rust community (or.. the 'rust parliamentary community' (people who actually get involved in the RFC processes and see things through to the end (heroes, imo)) (cf PLP[0])) elected to use namespaces for crates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Labour_Party
We also stopped calling it the Internet and to just internet somewhere along the line.
Lecture: High-assurance crypto software [video]
This is also a very strange claim to make. I am pretty sure that you should be surprised - the anti-depressant/sleep thing is well known in part because it's so unique: I've never heard of even a single study finding sleep deprivation to be a striking temporary treatment for schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, psychopathy, etc, all of which are influenced by 'thousands and thousands of genes, filtered through [etc]', the way it is for depression to the point of being meta-analyzable. (And if they exist, I don't recall them being mentioned anywhere in the sleep/depression papers.) It's a really strange finding!
From the lecture description:

> This talk is meant as an introduction for a general audience, giving self-contained answers to the following questions: What are timing attacks? What is constant-time software? What are some examples of constant-time crypto? How can we be sure that code is constant-time? What do these reverse-engineering tools do? How does constant-time code help these tools? How do we get from reverse engineering to guaranteeing correctness?

> The talk will be given as a joint presentation by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange.
Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
eReaders are amazing. I have 3 books that I am reading at the same time that I literally carry everywhere I go because it is so easy. I never did that with physical books.

Additionally, my Kindle was $90. Between all the books I can get for free from Project Gutenberg and how ebooks are often cheaper than physical books (and should probably be even cheaper given their effectively $0 distribution costs), my kindle has already paid for itself and then some, so the fact that it will become obsolete isn't a big deal (I've had it for 5 years). I can buy a new one in a year or so (or tomorrow) and very easily it will pay for itself.

We also have plenty of storage mediums for digital data that last much, much longer than a paper book, so ebooks win on the "surviving a mass extinction event" front too. Hell, every book published today is starting out as an "ebook" anyway, given that they're all written digitally. Given that, it's even easier to distribute it digitally than physically.
This isn't a solution and is normally considered very early on in any discussion of the paradox.

A replicating machine intelligence can presumably be very patient, and an early civilisation evolved into that, or using it to seed colonies or just investigate could have populated the galaxy many times over by now.
Well IMO no ebook should be more than $9.99 in the first place, and no TextBook should be $80 either

The prices of TextBook has long been insane largely because they are "required" by the professors that write them or getting kickbacks from publishers

No Free Market will support $80 textbooks

I am sure we are not going to even come close to agreeing on this topic so....

as to 35% royalty, how do that compare to a standard publishing contract from a publisher? I have a feeling that is still more than what the Traditional Publishers give their Authors
I would suggest trying to get this associated with a community-driven open source foundation like Apache. I think you will struggle to convince developers or enterprises to use a data storage + analytics platform developed and maintained by GCHQ.
In its efforts to harden Android,[0] the Tor Project used a Nexus 6P. They note that only Google Nexus and Pixel models apparently support user-generated keys, which is necessary for using the hardened Copperhead build.

But anyway, they note that GPS on those models is device-only by default. I gather that for many phones, GPS is supplemented by WiFi-based geolocation, which requires using online data for AP locations.

So does avoiding that substantively reduce the risk of location leakage to third parties?

And is that substantively less of an issue on iOS devices?

They also note that Copperhead randomizes the device's MAC address, and also randomizes MAC addresses of APs acquired during scanning. It seems like that would prevent WiFi-based geolocation.

But does it, really? I recall reading that SSIDs and BSSIDs are used for that, not MAC addresses.

They also mention using the phone in airplane mode, with an external cellular or WiFi router for Internet access. That should entirely prevent WiFi-based geolocation.

But then there's the GPS itself. They note that wiping the cellular baseband (radio) firmware also disables GPS. That's not an issue, as long as you're using an external router for Internet connectivity. And it might entirely prevent geolocation. But it might also brick the phone.

Is that a workable option?

0) https://blog.torproject.org/mission-improbable-hardening-and...
This problem also occurs for "downloads" that are generated purely in javascript. I see this warning in the search console for BulkResizePhotos.com and (as the article mentions) even after having it reviewed and passing the review, the warning comes back within a week or two.

Dreading the day that Google decides to turn this warning into a search penalty. The other image resizing websites typically upload the images to their server and download the resized ones back again. That sucks for users, who have to wait for all that to happen and have the privacy of their images put at risk.
I'm sure it is easy. Space is so vast, thousands of civilizations could be traveling all over the damn milky way alone without being a blip on our radar. The vastness of it all is hard to overstate. We are like some random rock on the bottom of the ocean, unwatched by human eyes, for all eternity basically. No one cares.

Edit: life being abundant in the universe makes this even more likely. If there's life everywhere no one is going to care about it.
Cells: Live Coding Environment. Mix SuperCollider, Python, Node.js, etc.
I meant physically deteriorate. Contents getting old is as much a problem for e-books as it is for paper books.
"Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting" by Noël Janis-Norton was the most helpful parenting book for me. Includes the main principle to replace punishment with descriptive praise and teaches lots of other methods to improve relationships with your children.
You can be reasonably competent quite quickly but “mastery” is something else and takes much longer. I have done C# for a decade now but I still discover new stuff all the time or finally understand things I knew about but didn’t really get.

Same with languages. You can be conversational pretty quickly but to truly understand a language takes many years.
The Greatest Speech You've Never Heard (Words from a Roman Emperor))
There has to be a multi-pronged approach. The central prong is organized public will, without which neither laws nor appropriate tech will be adopted. Governments may violate people's privacy in spite of laws, but without such laws governments will absolutely do so with impunity. Visible evidence of a government breaking its own laws to harm its people draws more citizens to the fight and helps move regime change forward. That being said, everyone should still use the strongest encryprion available for all communications, including boring and unremarkable communication.
That's orthogonal to the topic of e-book vs. paper book life expectancy.
I would argue that reinforces the point. Car customers don't really have a relationship with a dealership until they're far into the process of selecting and buying a car. Even then the dealership doesn't own the relationship, there's lots of competition and the customer can play dealers against each other.

OTOH, a customer certainly has a relationship with the car manufacturer, through advertising and mental image.

When you shop for a car you choose the make and model first, then find a dealership that will sell it to you. If you get your media from Amazon, you go to Amazon to see what they have and choose from that. Amazon controls the relationship in a way the dealer does not.

IIRC, this is basically why car dealerships exist and you can't just order a car out of a catalog.
It's probably more accurate to say 'Whoever owns the numerically limited chokepoint will take the lion’s share of profit.'

There are many car dealerships. There are only a few car manufacturers. So the latter have forced the former into a bad deal.
The Microsoft store has allowed non-UWP apps for years.
Human Rights at a Global Crossroads – Robert Tibbo and Edward Snowden [video]
Perhaps this is due to the location where you work.
What's the problem here? Google is being honest. It's up to the publisher to convince the user that they are trustworthy enough to bypast Google's warning.

They can explain the issue on a web page gating the download page.

What alternative is there? Even if I trust you, how do I know a hacker hasn't cloned your site and added malware?
> Physical books are gone.

At least for art books, the physical version is much better than the electronic equivalent.

Examples:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cosmic-Motors-Daniel-Simon/dp/18485...

https://designstudiopress.com/product/abakan-2301/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-John-Harris/dp/1781168423

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Jim-Burns-Hyperluminal/dp/17811...

For those amazon ones, take a look at the reviewer comments. One of the reviewers has a video showing the contents of each so you can see the book in detail. Very nice. :)
Trump is just a puppet. As soon as he goes, the Republican party will replace him with someone equal.
PSA: This is the live streaming URL. An archived version will be available a few hours after the talk with the rest of the archived talks, on media.ccc.de [0]

All talks at 36C3 are live-translated between English and German, and into one additional language (in this case, French)) [1].

If you find any talks on the schedule [2] that seem interesting but are in a language you're not fluent in, use the 'native'/'translated' switcher in the video player.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/c/36c3

[1] https://c3lingo.org/

[2] https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/index.....
Prosecutor launches investigation into FinFisher for illegal export of spyware
I don’t think you can assume that what you see necessarily reflects the industry. Independent book stores are doing well in the small market where I am (New Zealand).
I think Silicon Valley - or the internet-using part of society at large - urgently needs to discuss what "neutral platform" should mean in the first place.

While freedom of speech and freedom of enterprise are important, we expect there to be clear responsibilities and basic safety rules in any other part of society. Yet, the "neutral platform" concept seems a tool designed to do away with responsibility altogether:

E.g., in case of disturbing videos available to minors, YouTube is not responsible because they are a neutral platform, users are not responsible because they are minors and uploaders, while responsible in theory, can easily stay anonymous and unreachable for anyone. It seems pretty clear to me that a system like this is easy to exploit.
The Day the World Didn't End
On the other side of that coin, sometimes when I buy a physical book I seek out a really good one because I want to own a good one. Paper that feels nice with printing done well (and in some cases smells nice - ever smell a No-starch Press book? I can pick them out of my bookcases blindfold, by the scent).

Expensive binding that will last; covers that are a pleasure just to hold. Nobody like to read super small fonts on crappy quality paper, but there's a real pleasure in seeking out and buying a really good quality book.

I've even done this with books that I've read in cheap paperbook format and enjoyed so much that I want to own one (or in some cases, more than one; usually when my search reveals something unusual - for example, when I went looking for a copy of Marisha Pessl‎'s "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" I found a hardback ARC print that came with some extra bit n' pieces - a little pack that must have been sent to a reviewer by the publisher). Sometimes the good printings sold out years before and I have to track down one second hand in perfect or near perfect condition.
Isn't the case that they cannot abandon him without losing face? As a European this what our news media tell us mostly.
Formality Language
Late-1980s Apple’s plan for architecting their own RISC CPU. Never made it to production Macs.
In addition to the health concerns, ozone attacks unprotected polymers causing them to quickly break-down and release additional toxins into the air. I run an ESD ionizer at my well ventilated re-work / soldering station and have had plastic storage bins on the bench crumble at the touch from the ozone exposure.
If you want people to check your project out, I’d advise you to put the documentation, license, and installation instructions prominently on the website and link to the source code.

I immediately passed on looking at your project because the website just wants me to download things.

Also, for the love of god, don’t document source code with PDFs.
Here’s what happens in the brain when we disagree
I'm not sure why you would need to use a server when you have your laptop, ffmpeg should be able to chew through this stuff faster than you could upload it.

Something is likely very off with how you are using ffmpeg. If you force more keyframes, use good quality settings etc. it should make short work of it.
A rant on Kaggle competition code and most research code
>lack of physicality

There was definitely some truth in that. When eBooks were relatively new there was a widespread trope that they "should" be a lot cheaper than physical books because they didn't have all the printing/distribution/return/etc. costs associated with dead tree versions. In fact, these costs were pretty trivial (maybe $2/copy as I recall).

And pre-Amazon, in 1990s dollars, B&N 25% discounts on bestsellers was a big deal when non-discounted $25 hardcovers was the norm. (Mainstream eBooks came a bit later of course but the basic point that the cost of providing a physical book was a lot less of the cover price than most people assumed it was.)
Console #15: Spying Tools and Risk Sharing
> Is ad blocking software blocking google’s ad server can be categorized as unwanted now?

Obviously not. The UWS policy has been around for a long time and adblockers haven't been swept up in them.
In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been the best year ever
I think marmoset hexels[0] has an isometric grid, haven't used it myself. I have used the iso(axonometric) grid in Inkscape.

[0]:https://marmoset.co/hexels/
He didn’t refuse to publish anything on Trump.
These are Republican policies, not Trump policies.
As soon as Trump is gone, some other Republican will replace him.
I mean it’s true. I’m honestly not even that good of a coder (I didn’t do CS in college and I tend to “hack” a lot) but I’ve been living and breathing code for hobby projects and then work for the last 25 years, and I’m 35. I spend entire days coding nonstop (working on a side project after my job) and I’m still constantly learning. Boot camps or even college degrees are no substitute for this experience.
How do they ship code?

How do they make decisions and include remote workers?

How do they do meetings? Daily standups using camera or just a slackbot? No meetings at all? Weekly meetings? Figure out what you like and filter from there.

One thing you must look out for and ask about it remote culture. I've worked at companies where on-premises engineers had more say than remote engineers. If leadership doesn't stomp that behavior out immediately, the company will skew towards that. Leadership must make a conscious effort to create and encourage remote working culture.
Month of what, though? How much time is that in actual activity-hours?
make.sh is included in the source release [0]. Download that, not the binary release. The binary release is only needed for either bootstrapping or for a compatible binary installation. (Evidently your glibc isn’t compatible with the binary release; building from source should be as easy as I suggest above.)

Once you install it, you can uninstall your system-provided SBCL.

[0] It’s linked at the top of http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html
Thank you for asking. I’ve had success using the Challenger Sale model, otherwise known as Insight Selling.

This gives a logical framework for presenting people with new information - starting with a 10,000 foot view of how ‘the world has changed’ and gradually going into more detail about how this change will impact them before providing a solution. [1]

Where it really excels is enabling you to ‘bundle’ ideas into a larger trend, which others may not have seen as connected in the past. Depending on your background, using a sales framework may seem ‘icky’ but it’s a fairly tried and true method of presenting information.

In terms of books, other than Challenger Sale and Challenger Customer I can recommend To Sell is Human by Dan Pink, Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath and How to Deliver a Ted Talk.

An area where you can get a huge leg up over others is in use of PowerPoint / Google Slides. Most people are terrible at it, so if you can deliver a presentation which is 15% better than most you will be at a huge advantage also. The key here is not to see PowerPoint as a tool for conveying information, but as a tool for creating pitches. If you treat every new idea you present as a ‘pitch’ it will transform your effectiveness.

In the same way as gift wrapping a gift ‘elevates’ the gift, wrapping an idea or proposal in a presentation means it’s automatically taken more seriously.

[1] https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/insight-selling-better-pitch
Pretty sure Geoffrey James is a dumbass.

I’d love to hear some tales of Y2K fixes.
Ironic considering the forceful removal of people who simply share opposing views on some matters.

Is being pro free speech really being a fascist? Sounds like a lame excuse to me.
Rclone – Rsync for Cloud Storage
What does "cross-browser" mean? Do you test any browsers other than Firefox and Chrome?
The Steamentry Beginner's Guide
I have as much beef with textbook prices as anyone else, but they have their own screwy economics.

I'd be 110% in favor of mandating open source textbooks, where available, for any course taken by a student receiving government educational grants.

Essentially, you get to have (a) high textbook costs, or (b) monopolies over categories (e.g. one single mathematics textbook publisher).

Legacy / static topics (intro linear algebra) and evolving topics (intro biology) also have very different economic models.
Perkeep: Personal Storage System - Permanently Keep Your Stuff, For Life
If you want to do business in, or travel to, the EU, then you obey their laws.

You’re free to ignore the GDPR but don’t be surprised if they arrest you if you ever visit.
Read it in a private/incognito window?
The headline itself demonstrates ignorance as to what matters to an investor putting money on the table.
1. Sell-side analyst forecasts do not drive the investment decisions of the more sophisticated investors. The sell-side is just a big marketing machine and the value-add of the analysis is very low at an individual stock level.
2. The model ‘beats’ the consensus forecast on a limited sample of names. By definition, the consensus forecast is an averaging out which leads to dilution of any one analyst’s alpha - hence it is not an appropriate benchmark.

It is a naive approach and study, but typical of academics who unfortunately have little exposure to real-world investing/trading strategies.

The use of ‘alternative data’ is not new and is definitely leading to alpha generation for some firms, but as mentioned by others such data-driven strategies will usually have limited shelf-life.