skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True and the equipment required to create the book in most cases is now down to about $200.

Access to the internet comes at a comparatively princely $60 a month. In a lot of first world nations education and health are gratis. Donations can be solicited to fund the creation of desirable works. I wonder if copyright went away people would still write books?
Serious question: how much more maintenance is required? Could I get away with unattended-upgrades and nginx+wsgi+PostgreSQL?

I ask because actual servers seem like dark magic to me so I want to try to build a product with them, but I can't find anywhere if it's possible to run a reasonably secure server without years of studying.
> Partnership/affiliation status is an almost automatic process

Emphasis on almost. It requires an application and approval. Most importantly, being an affiliate/partner is not appealing to some people, since you have to sign an exclusivity contract.
The soft-launch of service this year is only expected to cover northern Canada and the south of South America.
Personal income tax deductions are additionally capped at 50% of income (and maybe 30% for unearned income? I forget the specifics). So if Bezos' income is $1/year, basically none of this would be deductible if it came from his personal fortune.

That said, I think GP is expressing skepticism that the total $10B figure comes from Bezos' personal fortune rather than being a spending plan for AMZN's business. The article doesn't exactly make this clear.
To calculate (20 - 8 + 7) it was necessary to press the following keys [C] [2][0] [+ =] [8] [-=] [7] [+=]. Result: 5. To multiply the result, say by 3, the calculation could be continued by pressing the keys: [X] [3] [+=]. A [K] key was used for calculations with a constant.

When you design a product with a a committee of 27 engineers..

A group of 27 engineers were assigned to this complex problem. It was a huge project which involved: producing the drawings, circuit and patterns consisting of 144 thousand points required to fit a microprocessor with 3400 elements within a 5x5 mm crystal.
I don't see why it would take years to learn to write an app in Swift or Kotlin (or React Native or Flutter), even starting from zero. I'm not trying to be cute here.

There are probably 50 high quality end to end tutorial for building a video streaming app. I guess using Firebase is tying you in to a service, but so what? If it's for 4 friends it doesn't have to be infinitely scalable. Just by writing an iOS app you're tied to Apple, right? And surely an app isnt a failure just because it has dependencies?
And then you go another level deeper and see everything is actually just different ways of doing the same old Linux and/or Java. I feel especially in Ops people can see that all the time. For instance just today I saw someone debug a NO_PROXY topic in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is super cool and works different than the old LAMP stacks or even Openstack. But still they deal with NO_PROXY not being standardized problems. Also shows that the same, actually hard problems (like standardizing something that is "out there" for more than a decade already) are never really solved. Each shiny new tool comes with its own way of doing things, but what they do with your input is in the end always the same. Mounting, multiprocessing, sockets, string parsing, memory management, log searching, etc.

So yes, I think there's a way to become a chess master. You just need to go one level deeper and accept that there might be multiple topics that each will need half a decade to learn good enough to be useful.
Poor wording perhaps. I meant that there was no project that "officially" called itself a neural network library for Jax, not that Jax had "officially" chosen a neural network library.

I'm talking, of course, about Flax.
I don't think it's intellectually honest to label something as a conspiracy theory and brush it aside without discussion.
I think the way to think about this is that there are some people who figure out ways to do things or invent things that just wouldn't be figured out or discovered by other people.

So, it's not 10x or anything-X even, it's just that, if the stuff that can be uniquely provided by "10x" people is important to you, then you need someone like that. 10 1x developers aren't likely to give you that (except to the extent that you have 10 chances to discover that one of them is actually a 10xer on some dimension).
Does owning a car hurt your health? Evidence from China indicates yes
FFmpeg defaults to H.264 for .mp4.
This seems like a guaranteed recipe for overfitting. You’re searching over an enormous space of analytic functions and reporting fits without (as far as I can tell) any regularization penalty on model complexity or validation on holdout data. Your model will fit well to any data you throw at it under those conditions, and the result is very unlikely to generalize.

I’m sorry if I’ve grossly misunderstood what you’re doing here, but trying to sell this method in a GUI tool (making it usable by people without a background in statistics) seems almost negligent.
Glacier Deep Archive is $1/TB-month. Glacier is $4/TB-month, and both neither is cost effective for immediate or recurrent retrieval.
I think you missed the double negative in the title.
That might be the case in the EV space, but the ICE space is pretty well documented. All the major car brands are striving to increase the infotainment segment of their cars more and more. Compare a 2020 Camry to a 2008 one.

You almost can't buy a car without at least a 6" screen for the infotainment outside of the cars trying extra hard to appeal to the budget market.
An appropriate DPI is at least 300 at laptop distances which is the point when you start to not need subpixel antialiasing and font hinting which sacrifices letter shape for sharpness.

That means about 4K for 15 inches.
The whole enterprise of grantwriting is demonstrably a wasteful activity. Grant award decisions are largely due to historical reputation, nepotism and other sorts of special interest. The idea of outsourcing writing research plans to people who don't understand them to generate meaningless pages of feel-goodery is everything that's wrong with science today.

People who talk about "the skill of grantwriting" perpetuate this cycle of wasted intellect. Faculty at the top 5 laugh at how many faculty elsewhere are tricked into pursuing this quixotic idea.
I spent a little over 3 years in USDS and it changed my life. If you are interested in working on high impact projects that affects hundreds of millions of Americans, I would strongly recommend that you give it a try.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of agreements in your organization?
Scenario: early stage start up. A few founders with equal ownership. We need to make decisions and have them in an easy to reference place.

Also while making the decisions it’s good to have a record of all concerns/comments/discussions.

Once a decision is made and recorded (I guess as a policy), it should be obvious if anybody alters the content.

What kind of solution do you use for such communication?
He Found Success After “Failing to Build a $1B Company” [pdf]
Image Recognition Explained: What is Image Tagging?
you can change the ssh port and use a ssh key instead of a password. Don't worry about a firewall or fail2ban. That's about all. Also run everything from root.

Repeat above steps once vps provider goes out of business (as someone else also pointed out)
Solar Power is Gaining Ground over Coal in India
I'm not sure what you want the correction to be. Just delete the note in parentheses? Or change the default to "hjkl"?
Why C-SPAN’s quirky call-in show “Washington Journal” has endured for 40 years
Also at an FO here, this is great. We started templating everything last year and it’s been a huge relief.
Project management in Asana we also turned into templates, things are simple but flow so much easier.
“Billionaire seems to be making better decisions.”

Don’t buy into that. Otherwise we’ll soon have a dictator who gets things “done”. Part of the problem with democratic governments not working well is that the system gets manipulated by rich guys pushing their personal agenda.
Yup. Netlify have nailed it.
Moyer's Law is legit. Thank you for coining it.

For some reason I've gravitated to printing since my earliest computing days and your law speaks to me deeply. I've recently been working on a source code printing app (yes, I'm nuts) and have been blown away by how bad printers are today. I thought the troubles I had at home were "just me".

Cheers to you!
Actually, I started out by just using the simplest saving method possible, which is downloading a new version of the HTML file on every save. It seems clunky but isn't that difficult to do.

I branched out to using the Tiddloid Lite [0] Android client, (Tiddloid and Tiddloid Lite are both free and open source, the Lite version just has a different feature set,) and I just uploaded my previous wiki into Google Drive and the app just worked... saving became completely automatic and it syncs to Drive without a hitch.

I'm looking into standing up a TiddlyServer [1] soon for my upcoming project, and I'm planning on eventually doing some modifications to do data storage in a database instead of on disk.

One thing's for sure: it's got a great gradual way to "get into" using it... it just isn't great at communicating those options in a way that isn't overwhelming.

[0]: https://github.com/donmor/TiddloidLite

[1]: https://github.com/Arlen22/TiddlyServer
Income tax deductions are limited to a fraction of income. I don't think that's a meaningful complaint there.

The perhaps more interesting complaint is that the fund is still ultimately controlled by Bezos; he can only spend it on some vaguely charitable things, but ultimately he can hire and pay cronies, choose to fund his choice of projects, etc, etc. It's both not his and still his money.
I wonder if there's a Wikipedia style news site?
The process is also rather arbitrary. If a streamer has barely any viewers but is a friend of a popular streamer, they'll get partnered almost immediately, but a "nobody" streamer that regularly has hundreds of viewers will get denied until they've been streaming for a long time. They'll also ban you if you tell anyone why you were denied.
Go for it. Just keep in mind that some forms of offsets are more effective than others.
It doesn't matter whether 10x programmers exist. Programming is not a sport and as such, competition will only lead to narrow thinking, useless optimization and hatred. What we should really strive for is making programming a more creative activity where people learn from and inspire each other, not a competition.

Oh and also, "finding the 10x engineer" feels like a hotspot to inject hidden bias into recruiting.
It's kinda interesting (although probably more of a simple slippery slope) to consider the intersection of this and the classic Reflections On Trusting Trust[1].

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Yeah, I can understand the "10x programmer" back when fizzbuzz was still being asked of CS graduates. Not anymore.
To this point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769156/
We should call it a backup. Calling it a cache puts people in mind of size/hit ratio tradeoffs; what's needed is zero tolerance for loss of mission critical code.
Based on the prices I've been hearing, yes. $100/month or less for a GB/s connection shared between dozens of houses or more. Or an astute entrepreneur will create a cybercafe or resell it. The small businessmen can also afford it (since they already have satellite TVs), and they stand to make the most from it financially. The possibilities are many.

And it's not a problem of profitability for some, it's a problem of availability. Some could afford what their urban compatriots pay for internet, but that's simply not possible.
This may be the difference between an acquisition vs a homegrown product at Google
This was actually one of my most delightful experiences with Azure Functions and Microsoft's API Management solution - overhead does not make it the right fit for every serverless architecture, but it did make orchestrating functions in this way a lot easier
The equivalent comparison would be professional athletes at the top of their sport to other professional athletes in that sport working or playing in a lower league. Would the the top performers be 10x the other ones? Hard to quantify this, but I'd say no, more like 2x or at most 3x
> I say a niche tool because I've never really understood why someone would prefer a Window Manager that places a lot of constraints than one that lets you controls / customize the windows as you please and is thus "freer".

For maybe 90% of what I do, I have no need for in-depth control or customization of windows. When I work I use a browser, an email client, a couple of more or less permanent terminals and a bunch of transient terminal windows for short jobs. Sometimes I want a window to be slightly wider, I want to group some windows in a separate workspace or I want to temporarily focus on one window in full screen, but that's it. Most tiling window managers will have keyboard commands for achieving that level of control very easily while kicking every other aspect of window management out of my life.

There are cases where I think floating windows are more useful. Some software uses a lot of small windows to be able to maintain a customizable workspace for a good reason. For that, most tiling window managers will allow some windows to be floating.

> That even control freaks like Apple, who like to think only they know what's best for their consumers, doesn't use a tiling only WM in their OS is telling.

What is it telling of? I have no idea what motivated their choice of window management paradigm, but I guess it's easier, considering a large demographic with different backgrounds, to grasp floating windows intuitively. They afford flexibility for a wide range of applications with a minimal language of control gestures, but it's one-size-fits-all. I've been using computers all my life, though, and will probably continue doing it for long more, so I don't particularly need something to be intuitive from the get-go if it improves my workflow in the long term.
Can someone please provide practical advice on moving from a site hosted on Wordpress using all the plugins to a static hosted site? It seems unbelievably complicated.

My non-technical employees and partners like Wordpress. We like the plugins that make web development easy and not arcane.

But we don't like the fact that every page requires basically a database read. Yes, we use WP-SuperCache, and it's ok.

But why oh why is it so hard to do the editing on Wordpress and the publishing on a Static site? Anyone with some real guidance here?

We want the people who come to the site to get the static experience while the people who edit the site to get the Wordpress experience.
If you look at the original paper (going back to 1968) where the data for a 10x difference was first found, there are a ton of... issues.

I've covered this in detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gho89X72Xas
FWIW, mastodon.social has had frequent problems with the availability of Wasabi.
Spain bought out their coal miners recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/spain-to...

surprisingly not /that/ expensive considering the early retirement and training for newer miners
that is comical but doing what is described in this post in the 90s would have required load-balanced tower PCs strategically located all around the world, with another few computers acting as a load balancer, all maintaining copies of the website and cached server responses, and an expensive SSL certificate

we get all that for free now or 50 cents a month, just for static websites

there is almost no comparison, except for acknowledging that the plumbing sucks, all of which you can make better if you want.
This "single" central power is actually 250M potential voters, 130M actual voters, 20M workers, 90k, 50 states, and 20k cities / town / villages.

On the other side, 600 billionaires. Which because they figured out how to earn and keep a lot of money somehow makes them capable of fixing women's issues, racial conflicts, climate change, mass incarceration, homelessness, education, hunger, and healthcare problems. Somehow, they will do all that without influencing public policy, in a sustainable, ethical, morally justifiable and rightful way, so as long as we let them keep getting richer.
> Unix time is always seconds.

Then it is a complete non-starter for "just use ______". I work on software that requires millisecond precision (honestly it would benefit from even greater precision) at the transport layer. It's not even really doing anything spectacularly complex or unusual. Seconds simply aren't sufficient for tons and tons of use cases.
Oof, how does this comment garner a drive-by downvote?
I am a little worried that this initiative will only do things that don’t cost Bezos too much money. I feel the same when Silicon Valley guys push UBI. It often seems a way for them to keep their money while pretending to do something.

Maybe I am too cynical but these guys got to where they are by always looking out for themselves first.
It has no neural network. It is a simulated annealing search over a solution space of symbolic equations. The traditional strategy is to use a genetic algorithm to construct symbolic equations. I don't see any proof that this product provides any improvement over the open source tools that are available for free.
What's the word for this? Where you tell or get a generic story then fit it to specific objects or events?

They use it in Astrology all the time. So do Mind readers.

Jordan Peterson does this a well. I think what he does in general is based in science, but his interpreting old stories is scientific nonsense, but entertaining.

It is funny how people rail up against the colonial past, but then still treat the natives like a different species exactly like the colonials. A mythical tribe who could keep stories alive longer than 3 generations.

Even in societies with writing, stories corrupt after a hundred years. Look at Grimm Fairy tales and the before and after versions we can find written. They also had oral as well as writing but still couldn't hold it together.
They'll also force you to play a certain amount of ads. I've watched some streamers who wouldn't show any ads because they were making enough money on subscriptions and donations that they didn't want to make anyone watch them. Within the past year though, they've said that twitch told them they need to start showing ads, so they'll tell everyone to take a bathroom break or turn on an adblocker for the next couple of minutes.
Zero-Point Energy
Communication overhead is expensive. All else being equal, it’s much better to build a small elite team that can operate successfully with less structure and process, rather than a large average one.
Which is the point of the tax deduction in the first place.
https://cloud.google.com/support/#support-plans

"Contact Sales"
Yes, you can absolutely do that, but shouting that message from the hilltops isn't a good business model in an industry with ADHD.
I'd argue today a team could be 10x. Yes it requires someone who knows the concepts and can effectively communicate them but also awesome project managers, designers and QA personnel. A great team (I am lucky to be part of one) functions like a well oiled machine churning out acceptably quality features and fixes the problems at a surprising rate.
On calculating a delta, isn't there the exact same problem with UTC timestamps? Unless one of the ends of your delta is the exact 23:59:60 moment, there's no way to account for possible leap seconds in the middle of your range without just having a list of them.
What about a DNS based approach on iOS? You don't need MDM, just a VPN extension. You could send push notifications when your DNS server detects a site to block and mimic the same UX you have with a browser extension.
I didn't vote on the comment but it came across to me as emblematic of what I feel is "wrong" with technology trends over the past decade. Where instead of solving business problems it's mostly building tools on top of tools or reinventing the wheel in the latest language/ecosystem. Programmers rarely produce anything of value anymore, but instead parade around their mastery of an increasingly complex toolchain that delivers the same end result.
No, circle goes from clean state to npm install, scss compile, drags content from contentful and then runs the Hugo build and upload to S3 in under 30 seconds for our site. Most of the time is npm flaffing about.
Keep in mind wasabi has a minimum retention perioid. So if you create a bucket and delete it you still have to keep paying.
This looks awesome. I've wanted to make something like this for a long time but keep putting it off. very cool
Climate change is an unstoppable force.
Yeah this is probably true, I've never actually had a nginx instance be overwhelmed myself. I just don't know how much I trust VPS providers that aren't charging a premium $5+/month to deliver quality reliable performance.

The best part of S3 + Route53 is your costs are basically constant. $.50 a month for the hosted zone and then you pay pennies on the dollar for GBs of data transfer. In theory your bill could balloon if you had a hefty static website or some big files left public in your buckets and someone constantly downloaded it.
What other companies do you expect will be impacted in a similar way?
True, but if you culled the bottom 30-50% of programmers, how much productivity have you lost?
Finally someone that gets it.

Feel free to complain about "tax loss" as in the government getting less money than they would otherwise, but it's definitely not a "tax dodge" - tax dodging only makes sense if you actually end up with more money than you would otherwise - i.e. you "earn" $100m but then you "dodge tax" to pay only $10m tax instead of $20m, and end up with $90m after-tax income rather than $80m. Multiple ways of doing that - the obvious one is moving your tax residence to a 0% tax haven, the less obvious one is to artificially inflate the value of an asset (e.g. a work of art) and then "donate it" and write off that from tax (e.g. buy it for $10k, donate it when it's "worth" $10m, write that off as a "loss" and pay only $10m tax instead of $20m).
Well, elected officials decided that very early in the US's history of personal income tax. It's not like we have direct democracy and 2020 society has voted to approve this policy. We didn't have a federal income tax before 1913, and the government added the charitable deduction during the 1917 WWI revenue act, which also raised the personal income tax rates.

As far as I know it's simply never been touched since 1917.

Some folks just object to that policy.
I'm really impressed at the level of attention paid to the data at each stage, to ensure that junk values weren't being propagated in the analysis. I wish ML papers aspired to this level of quality!
Seems like an internal wiki would do what you need.
I get mixed reactions from potential wealthy benefactors when I discuss these ideas. Some definitely shun them and would rather play a clean ballgame, but I have had exactly two who have asked who to make the check out to.

In front of the right audience, there is an appetite.
The same rules don't apply to top streamers. Smaller streamers will get banned for playing copyrighted music, but the most popular streamers can break the law, "accidentally" wear see-through pants on stream, etc., and they'll get a couple day ban at most.