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My own opinion is that I don't have a problem with a textbook costing around $80. I started buying college textbooks even before I was in college, and I still do now, 10 years after graduating, often even for topics that are quite remote to my actual profession.

When I was into sailing, I bought meteorology textbooks, because I reckon "What the heck, I pay $100 for a weekend on the water. For an extra $60 I might as well be able to read the skies and the synoptic charts for added pleasure." I recently bought the standard textbook on equine hoofcare, because a visit by the farrier costs $200 a pop, happens every 6 weeks, and I reckon "What the heck. For an extra $100, I want to be able to tell the difference between a good farrier and a bad farrier."

I think college textbooks provide extremely good value for money. Working though one attentively, including doing exercises and checking the answers etc is pretty much as good value as actually doing the course at university (if it's a theoretical subject; obviously you can't learn surgery that way). This is also reflected in the way that they are now routinely being up-sold from mere books into online courses. The market for online courses hasn't quite equilibriated yet. But it's not uncommon for authors of textbooks to recycle the book into a slideset, play the slides on video at the same time as reading the book into the audio track. Throw in a meaningless certificate, and, bang, your $100 textbook is now a $1000 online course. People pay it because, often times, it's actually still worth it. (Although I prefer the bang-per-buck ratio of textbooks to online courses).
I'm not sure it's a bad deal. New car dealership owners are often pretty successful and politically connected small local businessmen. It is generally true though that distribution isn't a business that the auto manufacturers wanted to be in at the time the current system developed. It's not a wildly profitable business to be in but, like other types of franchises, it's a decent enough living for many of the owners.
> Intel has some fabs in Ireland (I don't really know why..)

Tax
A better question is Why Not? Is it really so inconceivable to try to apply energy conservation to computing as well?
> I these days use LCSC.com to buy all my generic parts. Great selection at a great price. It’s way cheaper than Digikey or Mouser.

That's a good one, thanks!
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What you need is a larger screen, and a pdf reader that has bookmarks and annotations
Physical books are expensive, ebooks can be pirated. That is a huge difference.
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I mean this is already true from my perspective, and not very surprising. Back in the early 90's when I was a C++ programmer I was making about what I make now in absolute numbers, but of course the dollars went a lot further back then. There were fewer gigs, but also fewer people qualified to do the work. Today most code is written at a significantly higher level of abstraction, there are more programmers and more projects, the money and perks are still good but the market is more competitive than it was back then. It's also _far_ more fragmented into tech silos, which should work against my theory I guess... but idk.

From my perspective its always a mistake to think you're safe and things will never change. The perceived rarity of any skill set should trend down over time if possessing the skill is valuable.
This is not correct; the weakest unit in Civilization is the militia, and the unit you get from gunpowder is the musketeer. There is no unit called "warrior".

How do I know we're talking about Civilization?

> Because of this Civ2 added health and firepower stats to units

I think it's unlikely Civ II added stats in response to feedback from Civ III.
What about the smell of new electronics?
I think it is technically possible to sign a binary and have reproducebility for the people who care, you might need a different binary/package then the current ones but it is technically possible.

We had to sign our applications to prevent scary warnings to appear and then we would have to train our users to ignore that.
If I remember correctly you need to make a donation to access some firmwares, but I cannot tell whether you can access the source after the donation.
What does he think Computer Science is, and what do you think it is?
When e-books came along, I can only assume publishers panicked and said "we have to protect these books from being copied somehow", so they crippled them with DRM, created their own standards, and so on. Years later, the only way to comfortably enjoy a purchased e-book from a major publisher (that uses DRM technology) is to:

* Pay for the crippled e-book and download it to some Adobe application that is only used to unlock your crippled e-book.

* Use a plugin for an open source application to strip the book of the DRM, creating a real e-book.

* Send your "pirated" and de-DRM'd e-book to your device of choice as it can now be easily converted.

The whole e-book market is backwards and is reminiscent of the way music was being sold around ~2005. You were forced to buy a CD so you could rip it to mp3 files and put them on your device. Sell mp3 files directly? Oh no, we can't do that, anyone can copy those! (Except you can, of course, copy the mp3 files created from the CD, so your guaranteed sale is one disc).

Then comes the argument about making piracy uncomfortable: "Sure, books can be copied, but if we at least make them annoying to copy, people will gravitate towards buying them through legitimate channels" -- except they won't, because the reason people aren't buying through legitimate channels in the first place is the same reason for e-books as for music: they suck. They create problems for the users, they are price-inflated and overpriced (to prop up the dying physical copy-part of the industry), so everybody hates them.

I'll buy a book online if it lacks DRM, but only then. Humble Bundles are great for this. But, if you publish a book and you use crippling DRM technology because you're scared of being copied, you are making the book market a worse place for everyone, and you are contributing to the problem. Only an absolute fool would think that going back to physical copies of books is the right move here -- and if that turns out to be what happens, I will gladly dedicate my time to digitizing books made by these consumer-hating Luddites, and spreading them online against their will.

Find a new model, or die like the rest. Stop being scared of change, it's getting old.
What security systems do you need if it's the only thing running on the computer/vm/container?
Reading devices aside, you can copy an e-book and have the exact same ebook. You can back it up across a variety of mediums, and keep doing it so long as we have access to digital devices. The ebook containers (epub and mobi) are also remarkably future proof, consisting mostly of HTML and CSS.

I can also assure you that a lot of time, money and resources have gone into keeping the Gutenberg Bibles around; and it’s not as if your or I could pick one up and read it (unless it was copied into a digital format and distributed).
Nope, you can buy LTE capable dumb phones. My local Walmart has them.
The parent comment's whole point was that an already-skilled worker can start a competing business with minimal up-front investment, and that the main benefit an existing company provides is its existing brand and customer relationships. Please read before weighing in.
leetcode everyday for 2 hrs

increase my current comp by 30% minimum.

save 100k/yr into my index fund
The first amendment cannot be used as an excuse for aiding criminals hacking into computer systems. There is zero historical precedent for this, and it makes zero legal sense.

You are thinking of reporter's privilege, but massively overextending its scope (https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1146/reporter-s...).

Jorunalists are entitled to "protect" their sources in the extremely limited sense that they cannot, necessarily, be compelled to reveal information about them. They're not in any way entitled to shield their sources from law enforcement.
They don't have to remember it. They won't remember anything before about 5 anyway. The time with them is (in a way) a very private experience only you & your partner will remember. You're making memories- for yourself.

Or, to put it in different terms, they fly free until they turn 2. Get at it.
If anyone has tips on how to build privacy-preserving social media without being marked a Nazi, a terrorist, a pedophile or a totally regular suicide I'm listening.

Edit: I'm totally serious, even Signal barely manages to exist, is blocked from federating for reasons of the preservation of the developers' personal safety and has publically been compared to the KKK by FBI officials. It's not a fun or bright situation but it is how things are right now.
Between documentation, comments, issues, miscellaneous emails, and chat, I would be shocked if half the typing I do for a living is actual source code.

I can't imagine doing this job without fast and accurate typing, just like I can't imagine sharing this comment if it took me longer than 45 seconds to type it out.
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Also, law and health industries are heavily regulated, so there is an artificial restriction of competition, sometimes quite ridiculous. For example, to provide telemedicine service in Russia you should certify your call center as a clinic, with all the stuff like clean rooms and so on :)
it could just contain a url linking to a page with to content.
Sleep is great but I don't think it's ever been a factor for me when it comes to burnout. When I've been burned out, I was still getting a good night's sleep. After changing industries, I've worked some exceptionally long days and weeks (far longer than before), and it makes me physically exhausted but never burned out.
And discounting generally. New book sales used to be pretty much a list price operation. Publishers did a lot more gatekeeping and tended to provide more services for the authors they selected.

I've gone both the indie route and the traditional publisher route and I'm honestly not sure the publisher is worth the other tradeoffs. TBH, the biggest value of the publisher was that it still carries a certain (not entirely warranted) gravitas.
This sounds like something the EFF could take to court and clear up the ambiguity in one case than hundreds of defamation cases
Entirely temporary. I was rejected by google from 2006-2012 because I didn’t have a degree. Suddenly they need more programmers and they drop that requirement. Never mind I have formal CS training, they required a piece of paper.

I would not be surprised during the next recession that employers fall back to arbitrary demands like degrees or obscene amounts of experience.
> * Today, 4K screens are pretty common, and in the future, 144hz monitors will be more and more popular. If I want to render 2d graphics with no latency in those setups, access to the GPU makes things feasible

are those not feasible today ? due to vsync & al I still have less latency on apps that do software rendering than hardware, even on a 4K 120hz screen
There aren't a lot of areas left in CS where highly generic clever solutions are warranted. There are plenty of cases where a specific business has specific needs and the solution to those needs is more interesting than glue code.
We knew about Echelon. We didn't know how bad the infiltration and implant stuff was, though.

I mean, you just can't trust your computer any more. Even if its bought "brand new". NSA can put monitoring chips in it, mid-shipment.

That killed computing - and the Internet - for a lot of people, in my sphere.
Appreciate the question. The crux of this observation is that the easy opportunity Python affords to create class-based encapsulations introduces a tension between a world where data flow and state is hidden, implicit, and private- in service of attempting to define precise type-like abstractions- and a world where data flow and state is explicit and public.

Although Python does a lovely job in defining type-like protocols that classes can participate in- e.g. all the special dunder methods- most Python code in the wild that I see is not beautiful-in-the-large, well-developed, reusable, leverageable abstractions. It's just business logic, conditionals, utility code, scripts-turned-into-apps, etc. Plenty of reusable functions, very few reusable types.

Putting business logic mush into classes with some state and calling it a type is a straight line to unmaintainability. It becomes very difficult to extend such a system with new "types" or to modify behavior of existing types, because there is a lack of clarity about the semantics of the existing types.

Rather than trying to define types with state, much better to treat state as data- the difference is that the term state implies some special smart type-like semantics, while data is just dumb keys and values.

The comparison I drew was with Clojure, which doesn't make it so easy to make classes that hide state or create fake types. Instead it has graduated options for lightly packaging data elements together- start with maps/dicts and move onto records- and optimizes for just chaining functions that operate on those data blobs. "Simple", as Rich Hickey famously says. There is no spaghetti-inducing tension between keeping logic "encapsulated" vs coding it "in the open."

For regular line of business apps, the latter is so much better when it comes to maintainability, but the presence of classes provides a constant temptation to find reusability/encapsulation/abstraction where it doesn't actually exist. In Python, IMO, classes should only rarely be used.

Hope that helps?
Most books purchased are mass market paperbacks. Those have only rarely had market value after being purchased. I can’t even give most of mine away.
An estimated power use of 4 kWh per year -- only costs 4 Rupees in Mumbai? (around $0.05 USD) That's surprisingly cheap power. The US average is 10x higher. ($0.13/kWh)

Still a small cost ($0.52/yr in the US)
My experience has been different. Do you remember this highly upvoted comment on Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?:

> CS isn't a career. CS is part of all careers... [0]

It is true. It is also not novel. Students of different fields have been learning software on the side during their studies, some as a backup plan, some in order to make themselves more hireable in their primary field. Employers have started requesting some software development knowledge from new hires.

Graduate school of any STEM topic usually includes a non-significant amount of programming. I am a mechanical engineer, working in a very mechanical field, yet my colleagues and I spend a fair bit of time crafting and improving programs of various lengths and difficulties to help us do our mechanical calculations.

Some people go to STEM because they love their particular field of study; many do because they are pragmatic and STEM is a pragmatic field. They will have no qualms switching from civil engineering to tech if it means they will get paid 3 times as much. Many have, many more certainly will. Out of my graduating class, from those whom I have kept touch with, the number of people working in tech is just slightly lower than the number of people working as mechanical engineers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815428
I’ve learned that it’s best to take the time off as soon as you notice something is wrong. The longer you wait, the more time it takes.

After the last time it took me about two months to recover.
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Old concept in HPC world, most of ancient supercomputers had ability to compile compute tasks with unikernel and spawn over compute nodes. Few years ago concept of Xen bases unikernels circulated in xen mail lists, but look like there was little interest in community. Includeos can be a “fat lambda” for those who want to control everything, but how many of such tasks we have
That, plus the competition (Qwant, DDG, Bing, etc) doing a comparatively terrible job.
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I own a larger tablet--which I don't particularly care for because of the weight--and I've tried various software. YMMV but I still prefer physical books for certain uses.
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I'm afraid the explanation for the Fermi paradox starts more like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891968
Yes, emulators are legal, and you can use them to play homebrew that is FOSS, but the majority of people seem to use them to play non-free ROMs which are often obtained illegally. They are useless to most without these additional non-free binaries. The major software distributors understandably want nothing to do with this. And I'm saying this as a big fan of your work. I consider having working references in software for all those old chips to be important -- but I doubt anyone else has bothered to collect every single retro game cart in existence just to dump them and say they could play them legally on bsnes.
Or install it, and keep notifications off.
Since io_uring, this isn't the case for most IO on Linux anymore.
If we ask what was Spice Lisp based on, I don't know if it used sources from a prior Lisp. Though there was an earlier C-MU Lisp, which was based on UCI Lisp, Stanford LISP 1.6,... Generally Spice Lisp was in the Maclisp camp.
Are you advocating for the return of a "Choose your Browser" panel like that one that was forced onto Windows a few years back?
The infrastructure costs might be low, but transit performance back to Google is terrible for many ISPs (looking at you CenturyLink), so there might be 'quality' costs to consider as well.
A lot of the bigger/commercial BBSs became ISPs when the internet started to get more prominent. Of course, this changed when broadband arrived.
I would argue that this line is not thin at all, you are just mixing things.

There is a huge gradient between "using 'they' indiscriminately" and "I believe killing all jews is the way to go".

The point is not "do not tolerate ANY FORM of intolerance", just that tolerance should have clear limits.
On the other hand this is a single application running in its own VM, so it also makes isolation easier/lighter.
This posts seems to assume laws and government are separate.

In reality, government makes the laws. They're an expression and codification of the ruler's will.
I read it following one of the many HN threads mentioning it, and found it to be quite boring and long-winded.
So, it's ok to download binaries from Adobe.com since I know Adobe and know that they own Adobe.com
The rules and regulations are changing. More big companies need people to make more ADA compliant and GDPR compliant CRUD apps now, all these web apps will either be maintained or die, and another take it's place.
So until some major patterns are agreed upon by software vendors/browsers/frameworks or whatever, I don't think it will change much.
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The movie Enemy of the State[1] came out in 1998. It showed a kind of worst-case scenario of Echelon, taking real capabilities and stretching them beyond what was possible (there aren't surveillance cameras everywhere, even today, especially not that can be remotely accessed, though we're getting there; also, satellites or drones can't be retasked instantly[2])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDgIpSFtUos

[2] ETA: Agreed, Eyes in the Sky is a great book detailing Gorgon Stare, but that requires pre-deployment of drone(s) and only became operational this decade. I agree it's situational irony that people saw Enemy of the State as a roadmap rather than as a cautionary tale.
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Perhaps removing it from your watch history? There should be some ui somewhere on yt to do this, or at the very least there used to be.

Personally, Youtube seems to only recommend me mainstream media now (CNN, MSNBC, even The Daily Show). It's better than pushing me towards right wing independent media like Sargon and Ben Shapiro, which is what it used to do every chance it got, but I very much don't want to watch either option. As a Bernie Sanders supporter, I'm not exactly wanting what either of them are pushing. It's not that I want an echochamber, but it'd be nice to have political commentary which did not try to either obviously lie, or selectively tell the truth in order to paint a false narrative.
When my previous phone broke, I switched back to an old "dumbphone". It was quite lovely to charge it once a week and just forget about it for the most part.

Eventually I got a new smartphone though - especially when travelling they are a useful tool.
Comparing box office revenue to "sales, DLC, subscriptions, and in game transactions" is extremely disingenuous.

You should compare it to box office, streaming subscriptions, licensing/syndication revenue, concessions...
Treason against the United States shall consist in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, providing aid and comfort. It's in the Constitution.
All of them if any external party has access to that "only thing running".
Worse the latest gen kindles have firmware/DRM that can't be cracked (yet).

I was sorta OK with all their bullshit because I knew I could break it (for personal use/backup)

Might need to steal my mom's ancient kindle
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I didn't call them "Middle Class". I said they weren't elite. While elite people are in banking and elite people go to Phillips Exeter, it doesn't follow that everyone who does those things is elite.

You could argue a much lower threshold for elite, which is fine, but then it's quite a bait and switch to lead with Zuckerberg and Gates for that category.
> So long as Google can continue to plausibly claim it's women in their 30s-40s watching the nursery rhyme video (because that's who's logged in), they can continue to rake in the more expensive advertising associated with that demographic.

That stops working when the advertisers realize they aren’t making any sales from those ads.
Lol oh I did that, but it was to visit family. I had companion pass so we only needed to purchase one ticket and just went to different cities. Now we are beyond that free ticket age, and we value the experience as much as our time together that we want to wait until they do remember. So our first REAL family vacation is still three years away but I’ve already got our Paris adventure planned out!

One thing about traveling in general while children are young is that they become accustomed to it. Getting on a plane this weekend was a nothingburger for us, because it was like our 18th time going into the clouds. Same with 3 hour road trips, it becomes another facet of life
I would do it. I get cell service over WiFi. It has absolutely no downsides for me.
It was all the dinosaurs had, too, and then it was gone.
Depending on the behavior, you can get some fun out of it. I enjoy snooping around the house looking for leaks & thin spots in the insulation.
I agree with the thought here.

In 2016 I voted for Gary Johnson (Libertarian) after striking a deal with a left-leaning friend who also voted for Johnson. We both disliked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and both of us wanted third parties to be more influential.

But I don't really see a way for 3rd parties to gain a strong foothold in the US. I hope I'm wrong.
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For some uses. I have to recommend the commercial Honeywell units highly: they're excellent at pulling tobacco smoke and smell out of the air; and yes the area around them will catch all the other dust around too.
Pretty sure only people who know where you live can use your wifi network, and only then when they are in range - not the entire world.
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