skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About three years ago a buddy of mine suggested that listening to course lectures or general podcasts/audiobooks/Youtube tutorials saved him a massive amount of time counted in hours by simply putting the playback speed of everything he listened to as high as he could muster. At least 1.5x for Youtube videos, often time he listens to podcasts and books in 2x. I argued that this is tantamount to speed reading and that he’s losing half the comprehension anyway, may as well slow it. I’ve tried it and believe it’s about as successful as speed reading.
I question the premise that books are rarely impulse-bought. That's kind of the idea of Hudson Books, for instance.

Besides that, digital books are actually much more convenient in some important ways -- if I want to read a dense technical book on my way to work and a thick novel on my way back, I might not bother with the physical books because I don't want to lug them around. With the Kindle that's no problem.
YES! The DRM-free books are amazing. It feels so good to finally be able to _own_ a book and be sure of being able to read it for long into the future.
I’m in the RPG space myself. Ive basically bootstrapped up a small but profitable publishing company in that scene (http://shop.swordfishislands.com).

I also like how DriveThruRPG gives drm free PDFs. The watermark is up to the creator (I don’t). I wish they took a smaller cut on their market though. :p

There is also the Bundle of Holding, that does bundles of drm free rpg PDFs and content. It’s pretty great as well.

My personal take is that the ebook/pdf/digital book market is replacing the “cheap paperback/trade” market. I use Kickstarter to raise funds for pretty deluxe offset print runs and am then pretty liberal with the digital copies (buy a book get the digital free, charity bundles, bundles, free in person download codes, etc). This seems to have been beneficial because the “infinite digital” product serves as a gateway to the “limited, special, ‘deluxe’” version.

Paperbacks, even big ones are pretty cheap to produce, so I’d imagine there’d be more of a “sales cannibalism” between a paperback and ebook wing (e.g., I have the digital I don’t need the paperback) so downplaying the digital seems like it would make sense long term for books that don’t make sense to exist in some sort of “deluxe, you’ll want this for 50 years” format.
I suppose that would be called a fair turnaround.
The first example is of a network service which is what came to mind first for me. Traditionally the kernel logic handling sending/receiving the packets and the app run in different security contexts and there is a cost to hop back and forth. There has been a large amount of work over the years to optimize the data exchange for this use case but this eliminates the idea of a problem at all (while also being more minimal than any minimal normal OS could hope to be).
Which is why I own a F-150 and not a Ranger or Colorado

The point I was responding to was the person implied that Full Sized truck beds have some how gotten taller thus less usable from the side in the last 5-6 years, this is completely false
Is there a mechanism to submit fixes?

This is a wonderful resource, but the deeper I get, the more I find it needs a little proofreading. I'd be happy to open PRs/whatever with typo/grammatical fixes.

Also, thanks for writing this - I've had to deal with more and more of these concepts recently and this is the first resource I've found that has helped me understand how the parts fit together and why they exist.
Wow, now there's a name I haven't seen in a long long time... =)
This is what BOFH really is. It's that sick revenge fantasy you have where you brutally beat that reckless driver asshole who almost hit you while playing indy 500 on the highway, before your morning coffee, after running him off the road. In reality you sure as hell aren't running people off the road and beating them to within an inch of death with a tire iron. It's just a fantasy to release anger or deal with it.

BOFH is the psycho fantasy you have after dealing with the same idiot who yet again forgot their password and locked themselves out. Or that snippy idiot in the office who keeps insisting there is something wrong with their computer and its not as fast as the one they have at home or the "better" computer the person in the adjacent cubicle who also coincidentally can't stand them. But hey, it's still your problem to deal with. So screw em, why not delete their shittly work or their account for that matter? That'll show em.
Yet you nearly always blindly download and execute code when you browse, in overly complicated software in which dozen of vulns are found each month, with little hope of that slowing down.
Funnily enough, there's also a completely different book by the very same name, written by a German sleep researcher. And this one's actually really good (imo). [1]

[1] https://service.randomhouse.de/paperback/Why-We-Sleep/Albrec...
I really think manufacturers have really missed out on an opportunity with QR codes by handing them over to marketing. Most of the early QR codes in the US were just links to advertising. I'm not going out of my way to scan a QR code just to be advertised to.

On the other hand it could have been a great way to develop much better relationships with your customers. As a trivial example, I own a snowblower. It would be nice if there had been a QR code on the machine that identified that specific machine. I could have scanned it and immediately registered it with the manufacturer. Scanning the code could take you to a manufacturer page for your specific machine, where you could record routine maintenance like oil changes, get a copy of the manual, and order replacement parts. They could send you periodic reminders like, "it looks like it's been a while since an oil change", or "it's getting cold outside. Now's a good time to make sure everything is in shape".

There is a ton of stuff around the house that I need to record information about but have to have my own system. If the manufacturer provided a way to do that they could offer their expertise with the product and a convenient way for you to record that information. I'd love to have a QR code on the side of my HVAC system, water heater, filtration system, etc.
Does it really though? In 100 years I think people will care more about Citizen Kane or Michael Jackson than Rich Dad, Poor Dad or Excel 95 for Dummies.
I'm not sure the field is mature enough yet for us to be splitting things up like that. I've worked in performance critical code, research science code, website optimization, ads infrastructure, browser testing, experimentation frameworks, dumbphone mobile payments, and other things, in C, C++, Python, JS, Bash, and Java. Most of my coworkers have a similarly wide range of experience.

These have a lot of core skills in common, both hard and soft, but it's such a mishmash of things that trying to impose precision via labels doesn't seem helpful to me.
A detailed overview of my first 100 days building HTTPS://wfh.team
Being quick on the keyboard is about reducing friction. The faster I can physically manipulate an idea in space and the more automatic it is, the less cognitive overhead I have to waste on the process. If you work with a keyboard you will be well served by mastering that tool.
I was not expecting such a Machiavelic answer, but yes, your explanation looks quite possible. Indeed, it is possible that the expertise ceiling that goes on a lot of companies is due to misaligned incentives (plus some dishonesty) for management. That seems worth taking a better look.

> It's quite believable to me that being seen to cut down a few tall poppies might have a positive impact on (mean) employee happiness in some cases.

This again... I dread to imagine going through the day around people that think like this. But people that think like this exist, and I imagine they concentrate somewhere. If some place makes them happy (and everybody else unhappy as a consequence), you'll probably find them there. This is really believable.
I gave up following the ref about 15 years ago - originally body was every Friday if I recall, but it dropped to irregularly a few times a year. The plots also went from short circuiting machines and deleting files to mass murder for no reason.
Summarizing the article; The stock bubble burst. The industry will continue to see retail growth as it carves into the black market. It is limited by fundamental demand towards marijuana in the population which is ok but not as pervasive as alcohol and tobacco.

I personally barely experience any impact of legal marijuana in my life besides smelling it on the street as it isn’t illegal any more. As the article states it isn’t like we became a nation of potheads. I only know 2 people amongst my friends who have made more than one purchase at a retailer.

They don’t even use it recreationally when they are out with us because we are all old enough that we have to drive, work, parent, etc.

My anecdote I think fits with the statistics and the economic availability the article lays out.

ps Future US border guards reading this comment may rejoice at how boring Canada remains. :)
Wondering if I'm a fraud because I can name about as many bones as bash commands.

chmod's connected to, access permissions

(Maybe I'll come up with the whole song if I ever teach CS in grade school.)
Medium link here:
https://medium.com/@saeedzti/from-0-to-15000-users-in-100-da...
Sounds like there's a lack of feature in the CLI tool. You will have to write your own, pick a language and it probably has enough of low level ffmpeg bindings to do this. The library supports streaming reads and writes very well, though you may have to provide a custom reader callback or use the old loop APIs.
How do you do that? Private browsing + cut ethernet?
Only in some business models.

You could brand yourself as the "one and done" dating site of you're really that good.

Or, come up with a payment model that's more like an a recruiter where you get paid when there's a match (assuming you can verify a successful relationship).

It's challenging but I don't think the industry is doomed towards conflicting interests for users and match makers.
Because it is unconstitutional for the federal government to but into commercial law that is not under it's purview?
Ok. So you need to move up your timetable. Contact your customers, explain the situation. If the service is as valuable to them as you say it is then they will be happy to pay. $25000 over 18 months works out to a shade under $1400/month. Divided by 300 active users works out to less than $5 / month for each. Call it $10 to build in some safety. Let them know that not charging for the product any longer is no longer an option, but that because they are the first 300 they will get a 40% discount on what everybody else will be paying from now on: $25.

If what you say is true then your problems will be solved, if you are making an error of assumption then it will surface and maybe you will be able to address it, or maybe not and then you will have the answer to your question.

Best of luck!
As okcupid becomes more like tinder I think there's a place now for more thoughtful dating site.
finished it a few months back - goes in to a lot of detail you may have missed in whatever history you may have read yourself. Nothing revolutionary but a lot of "oh, huh, never realised/knew that!" moments

I find people in our industry don't always know history of how things came to be, this is a good book to get some of the earliest networking history.
In a company like Facebook, who is directly responsible for the revenue? And who is working support roles?

If you laid off 90% of HR, how will that affect revenue? What about laying off 90% of the engineers?
The Pi 4 would be cool. I've always wanted to mess with a unikernel but they either seemed to be dead, barely started, or written in an unusual choice of language.

Anyone else have a unikernel recommendation besides IncludeOS + rpi 4?
Most doctors are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot shit. You think I couldn't diagnose that cold, or a machine?

Most lawyers are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot shit. You think I couldn't refer that case to another law firm, or a machine?

Most businessmen are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot shit. You think I couldn't randomly guess at the market, but not outperform it, nor a machine?
> Where?

It's just whatever the github.com servers choose to serve you. Isn't that the point? If you trust what they serve you then it's safe to run, and if you don't then it isn't. Which is exactly the same situation as the software itself in the main repo isn't it?

How is curling and running a script any different to cloning it and running it?

Are you thinking that the fact that the repo has a commit hash saves you? What are you verifying the commit hash against? What you see on the website? The website also served by github.com? And how do you know the commit hash isn't accurate it's just a hash of code that does indeed contain attacking code?

I'm not sure any of it makes any difference. github.com can serve you code containing attacks from either the repo or the installation script and in both vectors you're just as vulnerable.
Be aware that there are existing markets for a whole set of appliances which are very, very "dumb" indeed. Take a look at Lehman's, based out of Ohio Amish country: https://www.lehmans.com/

It's hard to install spyware on something that doesn't run off electricity.
Good point, the irrational exuberance took over but was tamed by the rollout/circumstance? Hard to sell a product and grow when you actually are not allowed/physically able to.
Overestimating? As in you didn't take on a project because you thought it was too big? If so plan to start things--starting isn't proportional to total effort. Or do you mean underestimated as in things took more time than expected? In which case you put too much on your list. Prioritize and remember Warren Buffet's 'two lists' top priorities and other priorities (aka. avoid at all cost) if you really mean to achieve your top priorities.
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You should be able to, for example, divide the slideshow into smaller segments, create those and then use the concatenate ability to join them back together. Maybe that's what you were already referring to by 'batching'? It's a completely valid approach.
I think there's something vital missing from this story.

I regularly use a laptop with 4GB RAM to generate videos using the sequential method listed there, with 4-8k sized frames, producing video files of hundreds of GB, without a crash. There can be hundreds of thousands of them as well.

No batching required.

The final command in my pipeline is a simple:

ffmpeg \
-threads "$threads" \
-y \
-start_number 0 \
-i 'build_frames'"$unique"'/%09d.png' \
-c:v libvpx-vp9 \
-lossless 1 \
-qscale:v 2 \
-r "$fps" \
build_tmp"$unique"/media.webm

But, if you really need to limit ffmpeg's memory consumption, you probably need to look at -max_alloc and -bits_per_raw_sample. It'll be highly specific to your own hardware.
My wife and I have a collection of several hundred physical books, and while the size of our collection is unusual among our friends, nearly all of them have a collection of some size, even if it’s just in the 10-20 book range. Pretty much everyone I know has at least one category of books they prefer printed, often textbooks and cookbooks, even if they generally use ebooks. We’re in Austin, currently, so we don’t have the mold problem you mention, but I grew up in coastal Mississippi and New Orleans and never had that problem unless the books were stored out in a shed or something. Several of our physical books are ~200 years old, and while I understand that an ebook will conceivably live for that long, I am suspicious that it would remain useful, given changing devices, formats, publishers, etc.
As long as Apple can run arbitrary code on your device, protocols do not matter.
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Context switching is expensive when you’re writing high-performance code. Conventional OSes require that you context switch to the kernel to perform I/O (disk or network), to say nothing of other processes vying for CPU time as well.

All this is well-documented and -understood. The overhead is in no way imaginary.

Unikernels don’t need to do context switches, by virtue of not having processes.
A migraine is not your body telling you something is wrong. Sometimes they just happen. Not all migraines are triggered. Even when they are triggered the brain is mistaken that something is wrong. Please don't spread misinformation.
I buy physical books whenever they're cheaper than the Kindle version. Publishers don't want to compete with remaindered or used physical books.
It's hard to give away print books, let alone resell them.
If only context switching were an imaginary cost then we wouldn't have cared about spectre/meltdown impact.
Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks.

Why is Chrome a monopoly? It doesn't even come pre-installed with Windows.
These days everyone have 4G internet, so there's no point to giving your WiFi password to everyone.
I've never understood why it seems meaningful that an automatic can get a tiny bit better mileage. There are a lot of ways to reduce fuel use and/or the overall environmental impact of car operation. Using public transport, biking or walking 1/n trips would accomplish the same goal, and n probably wouldn't have to be very low. There's also the life cycle considerations of manufacturing and disposal of cars. Blahdy blah.

The reason to drive a stick is to drive. Anyone who's never tried it, try it! You become an essential part of the experience, both hands and feet involved and synthesizing related tasks, while you look ahead, anticipate, plan, breathe. You don't need music or the phone or a fridge in the glove box. It doesn't have to be a sports car, anything with a stick will do.

We are in a privileged moment. How long ago was it that cars didn't even exist? How long since they have been really excellent, dynamic, safe(er), powerful, reliable? I'd argue late 80s to about now is the entire window. Already, 2/5 of our appendages are useless to the task, and soon it will be 5/5.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em!
Ozone is actually a useful disinfectant, just make sure to ventilate the room well after treatment. Obviously not the outcome anyone building an ioniser is after.
I do not trust Adobe, Microsoft, Google, or Mozilla for that matter.

Your idea that they are "trusted" is laughable, and it is also dangerous to our liberty and security to believe only these gilded companies should be authorized to say what software is allowed on a given platform

We have seen massive censorship as a result of this, with Apps being banned from various app stores not for security but for political reasons
Good luck!

Most dating apps try to answer the "who" and "where", but the OP is trying to answer the "how" as well which is brilliant.

Another twist I thought might be effective was suggesting a first date based on mutual interests.

Or, one person could lead with a blanket first date offer: 2 tickets to XYZ on MM/DD. Kind of like a timed auction where they select their date partner by a specified time.

I think it would be interesting to see the variety and creativity increase when you're showcasing a first date.
The thing is, there's a big gap between "mass-market software that can budget for the friction of an app-store release" and "niche software that only advanced, technical users know or care about". It's perfectly possible to have niche software that only, say, accountants care about; or niche software that only bee-keepers care about.

It would be really nice (in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense) if there were a way to distribute software tools to niche audiences without them necessarily needing to be technical audiences. Up until recently, the Open Web has been that system, but it seems Google can unilaterally disable it via their Safe Browsing feature.
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> One of my personal career goals is to stay as far away from simple glue code as I can. Unfortunately it makes up most of our field right now. But it seems like an especially precarious place to be.

Integration platforms are getting good. The API integrations that make up a lot of my work might be better done with them in not too long. It's already reached the point where some clients speak with me only after an integration platform hasn't met their use case.
Firefox uses Google's Safe Browsing service to flag websites and downloads, so that would not help me. Even if not, it would be a pretty bad idea to tell 70% of visitors trying to download my software to use another browser first.
I was a kid in the mid-late 90s and even wrote my senator about Echelon for a civics class project. It wasn't 'proven' but it was known. That senator, a few years later, was the only one to vote against the PATRIOT Act (Russ Feingold, WI).
I agree it's difficult to get right, starting with basic questions such as how to define a market.

Detailed regulation of specific markets often misses the mark or comes far too late. I think it's time for a radical rethink of competition policy.

For instance, I wonder what would happen if we were to ban all mergers and acquisitions involving companies above a certain size.

It's obviously a very blunt instrument and I can think of many good arguments against it.

But I think we need simpler rules that are less prone to policy mistakes, protectionism, arbitrary definitions and selective enforcement.
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No, I'm the first person to suggest that (multiple) people believed he was threatening others. Please read carefully :)

It doesn't matter whether he was intending to threaten, or ignorant about the rules, or just stupid. If he leaves the boundary of socially acceptable behaviour (yes this is subjective and established by the community) then he may full well get evicted, and with force if necessary.

On the legal side, a judge or jury would repeat that consideration, and establish whether his behaviour was beyond acceptable for the context he was in. Not by the judge's or jury's social standards, but by trying to understand the situation and determine whether the crowd acted "reasonable." Since there's quite a bunch of people involved in his getting kicked out video, I would wager a guess that there was consensus that his behaviour was inacceptable, and a judge/jury would side with that.

German law doesn't do "I spilled hot Starbucks, now I sue Starbucks for damages". You're expected to have a brain and some level of common sense (or be certified psychologically ill, if you prefer).

Relatedly, the "they should've called the police" argument is legally wrong in Germany too. The allies were pretty pissed off after WW2 and wanted to eliminate the "bystander" excuse for people who watched Jews getting gassed. That's where the "failure to render aid" law comes from. Of course, you're not expected to endanger yourself, but - say, there's an average guy assaulting someone, and you're travelling in a group of 5 reasonably muscular, capable guys... your excuse to not step in is gone.
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