skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post you are responding to is about Kindle Unlimited, and not regular Kindle ebooks. Kindle Unlimited, as stated in the post, is Amazon's subscription service where people pay a $10 monthly fee for access to all ebooks in the Kindle Unlimited library. (Or, as I explained it, "Netflix for ebooks.")

The "authors get paid per page read" model is only for Kindle Unlimited, not for regular Kindle ebook sales. When you buy a Kindle book for $6.99 or whatever, Amazon sends the money directly along to the author (or their publisher) after taking their cut, just like you'd expect.

But if you pay $10 a month for a Kindle Unlimited subscription, and read a dozen books by different authors, Amazon has to figure out how to split that fixed monthly subscription fee between all the authors that you read; paying authors based on page reads seems like the best way for your KU money to go to the authors/books that you actually read.
> As if it's courageous to be mean to people.

Was this person speaking directly to a victim? Was there some specific target of their statement that I somehow missed?

Because what I read was someone making a general statement.

Here's another mean, general statement. Consider that 100 IQ is by definition the average for the population. Then realize that implies a large percentage of people are dumber than that.

Was I just mean to someone? What if someone has an IQ of 80? Was the company or team that gave them the news mean? Am I mean for pointing out that's low?

My point here is this: You're so all in with these crusades that you misapplied it. If we cannot speak about this stuff, we cannot help others recognize it, and we will never improve the situation.

No one here attacked anyone else. Let it be.
Nope, it's happened frequently, which is why they ask.
Well, depends on what you want to achieve.
Doesn't work in FF mobile...
They don't have to serve the whole city to generate a benefit - they just have to offer competition so that the incumbents can't abuse their monopoly position.

Because they can reallocate satellite time to a new region quite cheaply, they could have approximately zero customers while forcing ISPs around the globe to behave sensibly.
This misses the elephant in the room. Every major tech company is already pushing hard towards renewable and/or zero carbon. The problem isn't tech, it's the other companies (chemical, oil, agriculture, etc).

https://sustainability.fb.com/sustainability-in-numbers/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

https://sustainability.google/environment/

https://news.microsoft.com/climate/
I wish there was a standardized or common methodology for classifying notifications. App developers could adopt this and consumers could take the pattern with them across all types of interfaces - desktop, smartphone, speakers, tv. Maybe someone knows if any government entity or force has a methodology for this?
I'm in a similar boat of TCL dislike. But that probably has a lot to do with my first introduction was through installing a program and having all types of difficulties doing so.

Being exposed to a language at first by trying to understand what it is doing in installing software is probably not a great introduction. I did get the software installed but my dislike remained

This was probably further increased by the fact that post that I had bad experiences with my supervisor that just soured everything about it. Even to this day where it would benefit me to use TCL, I try to avoid it in favor of languages like Python.
"I've never taken more than two tabs (200mg) of LSD"

If you took 200 mg of what you thought was LSD, it almost certainly was not LSD because that much LSD would have probably blown you in to outer space and possibly caused amnesia afterwards as well. Even 1/4 of that is considered a very high dose. If you meant 200 ug, then that would make more sense, and that would be a moderate dose.

The rest of your description of its effects also makes me suspect you might not have actually taken real LSD, or taken a pretty small dose (likely in the 50 to 100 ug range). But psychedelics affect different people differently, so who knows...

Did you actually test what you took to make sure it was pure LSD? And how did you know how much LSD was on each tab?
Broadly, CNBs are designed to intelligently turn sourcecode into images. The idea of buildpacks isn't new, Heroku pioneered it and it was picked up in other places too. What's new is taking full advantage of the OCI image and registry standards. For example, a buildpack can determine that a layer doesn't need to be rebuilt and just skip it. Or it can replace a layer. It can do this without triggering rebuilds of other layers. Finally, when updating an image in a registry, buildpacks can perform "layer rebasing", creating new images by stamping out a definition with a changed layer. If all your images are built with buildpacks, you reduce hours of docker builds to a few seconds of API calls.

This is a bit of a word soup, so I'll point you to https://buildpacks.io/ for more.
fuck xfinity. AT&T fiber at my apartment is 300+ mbps up for half the price of comcast's 75+ i've been using last 6 years
These arguments are way more nuanced with new tech. What about your fingerprint? your signature? Cadence of every syllable you say when you call the tech support or takeout? Any one can do any of these things over a single weekend. Tomorrow, Google could enable some feature on Android to recognize your face or voice on any phone in the world.
fight, command, obey, learn to shave ? In a world where life was short and brutal, yes certainly a 20 year old is a major thing. People develop differently, and some may find that a long-adolescence is conducive to advanced learning not available "on a battlefield"
True.

But there are plenty of proxy measures that show similar growth. For example the AppAnnie "active user" measure actually measures on device usage, and shows that 4 out of the top 5 most used apps world wide (or maybe ex-China? Unclear) are Facebook-owned (WhatsApp, Facebook, FB Messenger and Instagram. WeChat is number 4).

https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/market-data/state-of-mo...
> Billions of people, blocked from accessing the Internet due to lack of infrastructure or local greed or fraud related to same, are presently kept from participating in the global knowledge economy. Starlink will remedy this, to some extent.

Isn't covering the world in a blanket of satellites from a single company the epitome of a global Monopoly?

I'm worried about such a future controlled by SpaceX...
hitler is evil, they're just criminals.
external drive support - first time I've heard of this.

I generally have found it maddening that apple has set it up so that everyone has to "ask permission" before something is allowed on ipad/iphone/ipod. And they never let this happen before except to import from a camera (and the same camera adapter that worked on an ipad was not allowed on an iphone)
Starbucks’ Pickup-Only Store Is a Glimpse into the Future of Embedded Retail
I had suspected it was Swift but your idea makes more sense.
> The bad guys are the citizens who work to maintain their own ignorance and do nothing to maintain and uphold the rights they enjoy

>But I do judge those who stick their head in the sand, or sit on their laurels, and that includes myself

>I don't want to be part of generation of citizens whose children will say they learned nothing from history

Well you better start funneling funds to the frontlines because talk is cheap.Sounds like you have the technical know-how to do it without ending up on a list. If you were to end up on a list as a result of such contributions, at least it would be a list of the 'good guys' from your own assesment.

No one is going to do it for you so ...

https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=sidebar

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-4

https://donate.torproject.org/

https://riseuplabs.org/

https://donate.mozilla.org

You might even get a cool t-shirt :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling#Lithium_ion_...

Li-ion batteries are very poorly recycled if at all. There is poor financial incentive to recycle batteries, and in fact you lose more money than you get back for many components.

Pace of hydrogen fuel cell innovation is moving at warp speed: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/fuel-cell-powertrains-...

We could see FCEVs no more expensive than ICEVs.

> Hydrogen is pretty much DOA for cars. This is a good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/f7MzFfuNOtY

It's a nonsense youtube video, citing claims that are a decade out of date.
What you describe would be the “bull case” dozens of billions in valuation ago. Right now we are quite disconnected from that, in my analysis.

To justify their current valuation, the “bull case” is for them to dominate the entire automative industry (not just the EV segment) and do an Amazon-like turnaround of losses into profitability.

Anything short of that, their valuation is ludicrous.
This is a response to everyone kinda...

If I had a subscription with a book store that offered me N amount of books a month for a fee, the book store would still need to buy copies of said books from the publisher, who would pay the author whatever was worked out in their contract per sale, whether or not I read one page or the entire book. How is Amazon's model different than that?
Hey, nice one! I wanted to try out a modern stack and also building something with Prisma 1 and GraphQL as well. Agree that the client gen is awesome. How is Prisma2, can I migrate to v2 now or is it too early?
While Windows does not support replacing an open executable, it does support moving/renaming it, so you can get it out of the way and clean it up later.
Do journalists know less than they used to? (2019)
> Tesla's are the safest cars on the road now.

Eh, I imagine that depends on how actively you use the autopilot and auto unpark features. I know they don't want to cede the frontrunner status of that technology, but it still feels like a risky gambit for tesla and for its customers.
Buy why? People use those apps every day and fine with it. Why browser is bad? You'll still need to give your permission to do so anyway.
It’s not NTP.

The self description on that page is: Chromium OS fork of tlsdate (a secure parasitic rdate replacement)
I don't expect to be paid when I'm investing my time in my future, any more than I'd expect to pay the organization for giving me the opportunity to explore a future.

There's an equal give and take during the interview process - at least if two parties understand that they're interviewing each other. For those that don't - neither rhetoric, nor money can instill those values.
PACs have been a key part of the cannabis legalization movement. So it's not just that you make decriminalization more palatable for politicians, you aim for politicians who find decriminalization more palatable.

However, contributions to PACs are public.
>Connectivity will be the great equalizer in the future.

These words could have come from an article about: the internet, mobile phones, telephones, morse code

With minor modification also: automobiles, the printing press, the steel plow, airplanes, the cotton gin, antibiotics, etc.

None of them were true equalizers, they were incremental steps forward at best.
just wanted to add some context for the EU readers who I (perhaps mistakenly) assume have a bit more respect for government and for traffic laws in particular.

the US has a somewhat fraught history with traffic laws. by default, police are not really allowed to stop you for no reason and possibly search your vehicle/person. of course, this is very inconvenient for police, so over the years many traffic offenses have been created to remedy this. if a cop wants to (legally) pull over the most upstanding citizen in the country, all they have to do is follow them on the road for a mile and they'll have a reason.
Didn't get it.
Yes exactly. TCL is somehow even more weakly typed than conventional dynamically typed languages. For instance, in Python, len(3) is an error, but in TCL, llength 3 is 1.
Identification of two genes responsible for partial regeneration of axolotl tail
> "If that's off topic, then Assange and Snowden ought have been too."

Assange and Snowden have too many ardent fanboys for their stories to get flagged off the front page but Haspel (I actually had to look up the name to figure out why I was supposed to care about this individual.) doesn't. Mystery solved; case closed.
Genoa and the Baroque: The most spectacular art you’ve never heard of
Embracing Churn Based Programming
How to Change Your Life: 6 Steps to Become the Person You Want to Be
Interesting, I'll look into LXDs. Thanks for the pointer!
Is the optimism about being able to bypass censorship really valid? SpaceX may be resistant to the censorship demands of some governments, but a lot of other things need to happen to get someone online.

To begin with you need to acquire Starlink's receiver, which probably makes it inaccessible to North Koreans for example, and difficult to acquire for citizens of any country that has efficient import controls.

Then you have to use it without being detected. I have no idea whether that is easy or hard -- can you put the receiver in a covert location? Can the government drive a van around your neighborhood and detect signals going to and from the receiver, or triangulate it in some other way?

If it bypasses existing censorship infrastructure in a given country and Starlink refuses to comply with censorship, you can guarantee that country will make it illegal, and in some cases introduce some scary penalties for using it (i.e. prison).
Is your no vpn sample still on the same home network? Or are you comparing your mobile data or another network to your home network (through vpn)

If the former is true, that seems like quite a significant penalty to pay for using wg.
Our vision is evolutionarily adapted to sunlight, so it makes all the sense that sunlight should be perceived as neutral white.
It more becomes a problem when I don't even know the direct path to the answer and it becomes "Can you open this file, now open this file, can you console log this value, ok its none of that, check this file"

At some point it becomes easier for me to just go back to my computer and find the answer and come back but then I'm doing their work for them.
Two satellites in close shave over US city of Pittsburgh
This is an interesting opinion in the time of deepfakes.
Infographic and Heatmap of Coronavirus
I don't know if it's fair to say that it's moving away from decentralized installations. There were a lot of subsidies for home solar when solar wasn't competitive on its own. Now the subsidies are gone but the panels cost less.

In the new context a large solar installation connected to the grid is more cost effective if you need a grid for nighttime. The real question is whether batteries will make it so you don't need that. They're currently too expensive for that, but they're also declining in price. So if batteries get cheap enough that you can run your home from local panels and batteries without needing the grid, the cost of needing to keep the grid when you could otherwise not have it anymore makes the centralization lose its cost advantage.
Also, it's not that far from religion, which is constitutionally protected. Far more so than for cannabis, anyway. As I vaguely recall, that's already the case for peyote and ayahuasca, at least in some jurisdictions.
Great, yet another Google messaging service I can be disappointed about when they randomly decide to shut it down.
wasm is not less inspectable than minified JS.
They are not equalizers, they are amplifiers. The steel plow fed a man, the cotton gin clothed him, antibiotics cured his cough and an airplane took him from his old country to a new one where he learned how to drive so he could deliver the morning paper.

The goal should never be to lower the ceiling. The goal is to raise the floor.
I think the keys are a) uplevel (which might be very difficult to do in a compilable language?) and b) having a syntax that's a bit more traditional. It's not the fact that you're manipulating strings - indeed I'd very much like a TCL that allowed you to metaprogram with a more structured representation.
Parent comment contained no snide vilification.
Azure Revenue up 64% in 2019
RMS wrote about free software and open source (which is different):

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
How to Run a Startup Part-Time Without Working over Time
The "we're doomed" narrative has a whole different flavor if it's really "we're doomed, except we can prevent this with face masks and maybe-prevent and maybe-treat it with three different drugs that are all widely available and in mass production"

Remdesivir and Ritonavir make sense because they are HIV drugs, both HIV and coronavirus (and SARS) are retroviruses, and these drugs are antiretrovirals that were found to have significant effect against SARS.

Chloroquine is a malaria drug and that's a surprise, but kudos to somebody for being up on the literature because there it is in Pubmed, Chloroquine might do something on coronaviruses.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14592603-effects-of-chloroqu...

Also, no story about coronavirus drugs is complete without a shout-out to this legit researcher, whose story is "I gotta get to Wuhan to test these drug candidates before this outbreak is over."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00190-6
Do you use Whatsapp / Messenger regularly for social stuff? Coincidentally I was looking at my Digital Well-being settings in Android today and was told that I get over 170 notifications from Messenger a day.
I'll allow it... According to this 2018 article even a lot of "Unlimited" plans are actually around a 20 GB/month cap before they start throttling speeds. [0]

- Verizon’s Beyond Unlimited plan is capped at 22GB of high-speed 4G LTE data per month, while the Above Unlimited is curbed at 75GB.

- AT&T caps both unlimited plans at 22GB of data per billing cycle, after which it may slow your speeds down

- Sprint will throttle your speeds if you exceed more than 50GB of data in a month but, as you can see, your speeds are throttled from the get-go for most things anyway.

- T-Mobile One includes 50GB of high-speed 4G LTE data. Once you go above that, as with other carriers, T-Mobile can drop this to slower speeds.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/unlimited-data-plan-caps-ver...
NVR700W, IX2106 or 892J

(jk, interested in global options as well)
ug*, whoops. Never tested personally but the effect has been the same across multiple disconnected sources from different areas of the country over the years, so I'm pretty confident i've had real lsd. i've had tabs that claimed to be 100ug and some that claimed to be 150ug, and the relative dose seemed accurate at least. the most common synthetic is going to be a member of the nbome family that is not bioavailable in the intestine like real lsd, and my experiences certainly felt nothing like an amphetamine-derivative or anything like that (which I have other experiences with).
Building a TreeBase with 6.5M Files
For some years, I traveled more or less annually to Amsterdam to use Psilocybe. So did numerous others, from Germany, France, the UK, etc.

And eventually, it became illegal again, and tourists were stuck buying truffles. So just sayin'.
I dunno if this can be described as deep feelings but I clearly felt limerence ("falling in love") for girls of all the ages (from my age up to 20 years more old) since when I was 5. In fact I can't even say much has changed in me since then besides emotional (and, obviously, analytical too) intelligence growth and experience accumulation. I don't feel anything I couldn't feel when I was 5, I just understand the things more and know better what to do.
I would argue to the contrary that it’s such a large optimization that even accounting for all of that it’s still a big net win from a staffing perspective. It’s far easier to maintain a few Android experts on staff than an entire department of them.
Do you know of any examples when that has actually happened? Genuinely curious, because I can't think of any.
Implementation of a convolutional neural network with multiple memristor arrays
I agree with your assertion but this only stands at more advanced level for a niche audience, us. Overall, for what they are and for the wide audience they cater to, Ipads give a decent abstraction so one doesn't get bogged down by details. Yes, at the details part unfortunately sometimes it fails short and for that reason I personally have no real use for an Ipad, I can get by fine with just using a smartphone and a desktop/laptop for most of my uses. As stand alone devices, Ipads can be put to a lot of uses though.
It has evolved some. Initially, TCL used C strings, and there was no way at all to use any binary data with a null in it. No copying binary files, no non-trival sockets work, etc. And lists being runtime parsed strings of "{blah {blah}} {\{blah}" remains slow and cumbersome. In the 90's, I switched to Perl to get past some of these things.

Don't get me wrong, I love it too, but it has warts just like any other language.

Ousterhout is clearly an outlier thinker though. Not just the father of TCL and TK but log structured filesystems, RAFT consensus, and more. I'd be excited if he jumped back into a new language project based on his reflective experience. I imagine a more pragmatic Perl 6 or similar.
> Silent data corruption is not the typical failure mode for HDDs. Sure, it happens. Much more likely is that drive's internal ECC detects the bad sector, attempts to reread it several times, and if it fails, you get EIO back. Given this model, the various kinds of RAID know which drive had the erroneous sector, because it isn't silent.

Linux md will do the completely wrong thing with this: it will treat that as a drive error, and if you accumulate a lot in a short time (such as rebuilding an arrary) then it will conclude that this is a failed drive and kick it out of the array.
> It's possible to write a driver that doesn't use polling

Yup, definitely possible. It just doesn't give the PPS numbers as polling does. The project you linked to is really cool, but it is an academic project. It's not trying to compete with DPDK or anything.

IO is one of those things in computer science that forces us to make trade ofs. What is more important to you? Raw throughput? Latency? Overall resource usage? You can't optimize all three.

> it sounds like you might want to look at pinning cores to workloads, such that only one of your CPU cores is polling

Correct again. It may take more than one cpu (DPDK is commercial software running on 88+ cpu systems) but cpu pinning is definitely the recommended way to go. In the spirit of spending CPU to buy IO speed, dedicating physical cores to the task always gives you the best bang for your buck.
Apple Now Worth More Than Germany's Entire DAX Stock Index
Honestly I hope someone figures out how to shoot these down. I feel like the planet isn't getting a say. In fact only a few people are getting a say that this network should even exist. Astronomy is dead. A dark sky with just stars, yeah dead.
I think we all need to stop pretending that the infrastructure for advertising hasn’t existed forever. Yes, the ad is now on a website, great. It used to be on TV and a magazine. What are all these ‘new’ concerns that haven’t existed forever? Oh, that the ad might be bullshit? Lol.