skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few content-creators get a fair royalty. DRM is mostly about publisher wealth, not creator wealth.

I think selling books for 25 cents etc. can result in massive sales. There is a middle-ground between selling overpriced editions with small changes in between, and outright piracy. Digital formats allow large-scale distribution, so pricing copies for under a dollar makes piracy not that attractive, when following the law and your conscience comes so cheap.

But somehow publishers want it all - the large scale distribution possibility of the digital medium, and the margins of the print medium.
I've updated it to "virtual private network" instead.
seL4 whitepaper (v1.0, 2020-05-25) [pdf]
Was the author reluctant to buying the book? He bought it. He just doesn't want to have to use Windows and a whole suite of awful software because of the DRM.
Short-term tests validate long-term estimates of climate change
I have this reminder in every `~/.z*` file:

# Load Order Interactive Interactive Script
# Startup Only login Always
# ------------- ----------- ----------- ------
# /etc/zshenv 1 1 1
# ~/.zshenv 2 2 2
# /etc/zprofile 3
# ~/.zprofile 4
# /etc/zshrc 5 3
# ~/.zshrc 6 4
# /etc/zlogin 7
# ~/.zlogin 8
#
# Shutdown
# ------------- ----------- ----------- ------
# ~/.zlogout 9
# /etc/zlogout 10
#
# Note: ZSH seems to read ~/.profile as well, if ~/.zshrc is not present.
This is a lovely (edit: having been in similar shoes, also terrifying-in-the-moment) example of a broader problem in teaching mathematics: the language we use to describe mathematical reasoning is a natural language, like English or Latin, and therefore full of the sorts of bizarre irregularities you'd find in a natural language. Mathematics is also a language about rigorously and precisely defined objects. The conceptual shear between those two things is murder for lots of students.

Just like Tacitus omits his verbs (!), when we describe fractions we often omit the implicit definition of the whole. Turns out that's a problem for many students.

It's a bit like trying to learn a context-dependent programming grammar with an inconsistent API, but worse, because it's your first "mathematical" language so you're also trying to learn what the abstract objects the language manipulates are.

Some other lovely examples:

3(5) means three times five. 3(x) means three times x. 35 means three times ten plus five. 3x means three times x. x(3) means that x is the name of a function taking, in this instance, 3 as its input.

x^{-1} means \frac{1}{x}, but f^{-1}(x) doesn't mean \frac{1}{f(x)}.

\sin{30}. Radians or degrees? Probably the writer means degrees, but there's no way to tell.

There are many more.
imagine loosing your aliases. just learn to type and enjoy life.
Often, such initiatives are about virtue-signaling rather than actually doing something against racism, sexism and homophobia.

Worse, and apparently also often, these initiatives are even worse: They introduce a mechanism legitimizing instant bans following a complaint against a user, with no detailed statement of the claims against them, no ability to respond to the accusations, no due process in handling the complaint, and no transparency vis-a-vis other users. This already poisons the community atmosphere - and of course, such mechanisms never fail to be misused, adding to the acrimony.
> I'd prefer if the mods just banned these discussions forever, because it's exhausting, and forever doomed to end up as a "diversity is bad" conversation.

Funny thing is, it looks the other way around from the other perspective.

Maybe what you're seeing is not a bias against race- and sex-based DIE initiatives, but your first taste of balance in discussions about them.

Maybe because you assume that your argument is correct, whenever you see the other side at all, you feel like there's an imbalance, when perhaps it's just that you have a warped view of the landscape of opinions on these matters.
Even if I take your description of them their not in the same category. Conspiracy theorist and someone who promotes their own site and books is in the same category? You might disagree with Ben Shapiro and that’s fine but he’s not purposefully pushing misinformation.
"the author states they never had issues with other service"

True, but then the author also says "So I bought it. For the first time in my life, I bought an ebook".

So I can't tell what is going on.
Buying books from fnac.com sounds like a bad experience. I've bought books from https://leanpub.com/ without any problems.
Well it works much better than the JVM one so they must be doing something right. I never saw processes GC lock up like JVM until I worked on a big Java project.
I'd wager there are far more fossil fuel vehicles on the road with regenerative braking than there are EVs.
I've gone this route for books, music, tv, and movies.

Either I buy it without DRM, or I don't buy it.

Almost there with spyware, too. Creative Cloud is next on my list to replace.
While electric cars will cost less over their lifespan (due to much less maintenance), they still cost a lot more initially, and I think that's the biggest hurdle right now.

A lot of people can't drop $40k on a car, but they can spend $25k up front and another $15k over the life of the car.

I think the major changeover will be when I can buy the equivalent of a Honda Accord, but fully electric, and for the same price.

The Tesla Model 3 was supposed to be that, but in reality, it still costs more.
A Nigerian fraud ring ‘Scattered Canary’ bilked WA unemployment system
Stockholm Won't Reach Herd Immunity in May, Sweden's Chief Epidemiologist Says
Couldn’t agree more
But if you look at recently companies are catching up by hiring tech talent since they know the real value of technology
You could have both. Let advanced users tag. But give less sophisticated users insight into what they're being charged for - without having to go through a 12 week boot camp.
Ah, cool! Thank you so much, didn't know about this parameter :D Will try it definitely.
The 4.6% you mention is not only small but also not useful here as it includes hybrids as well, not just pure EVs. Remove the hybrids and the number of pure EVs plummets

Let's face it, pure EV adoption is a lot slower than we'd like to and lying to ourselves about it doesn't help.
Because a catastrophic failure of a launch would be very bad.
Can anyone recommend websites where one can buy epubs without DRM? I only know of technical ones like No Starch or Mannings. What about fictions?
EBS is actually part of the EC2 service. It's not listed explicitly in the console service menu. So I did not add it. (same goes with loadbalancing, security groups etc)
No this is how the marketing industry works.

Hubspot gets bored of using the term "inbound marketing" for everything they do. So they pivot to "marketing flywheel" which they popularised a couple of years ago.

It results in a lot of mindshare and searches and so smaller players create their own marketing flywheel content in order to siphon away some of this traffic.

It's all very cynical and contrived.
I don't disagree, but I maintain that it isn't something that most of the best and brightest spend a lot of time thinking about.

The fact that the acquisition of lots of money is an end in and of itself pursued by a class of skilled "elite" white collar workers (like VCs) is basically a side effect of the "resource allocation" you mention run amok coupled with faulty wiring in our monkey brains.
you don't need the chinese website, you can use github instead...

https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google.
Most AI guys I know are just interested in playing around in pilot projects and learning stuff while they train to get a job at Google. It'll only be a few years before managers figure out there will be very little delivered.
Yep, I have plenty of books dating back to the seventies (some even older). They are all still perfectly functional.

Not heard of a 50 year old epub or pdf yet, wonder if it will ever happen ;)
Good advice - carefully observing the process, annotating successful (& failing) processes and installing post-hoc checks seem like sound practices. Do you have other such practices to recommend? Can you say anything about what your production and testing stack look like (esp the versions that work better)?
This is all correct, but is it an argument for never supporting DHCPv6 as an alternative in Android for those who want it and are prepared to deal with the brokenness (assuming it's broken for them)?

Note personally I also use SLAAC on my network.
That's good to know, thanks for answering.

> not having a default or preferred one, and you are instead required to pick one.

If you don't mind my asking: how well did NixOS work for you, as a desktop environment, out of the box? Did you have to do annoying IT work when you installed it (screen resolution, wifi, sound, maintenance mode...)? How often do you need to fix issues like that?
Tesla might be closer to Cobalt Free batteries than we previously
The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (1994)
Yeah. DRM sucks if you want to lend your bought content, or if you're hoping to have it around for long periods of time (e.g. 10 years+). When I buy electronic copies of Xbox games, I'm under no illusion that I will be able to play them in 10-20 years. I see them as long-term rentals. I've made my peace with that because I have an entire library of games, movies and music on media like floppy disks, VHS, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, that I never felt the need to use again and are cluttering up my basement. If I get nostalgic about some content, there's always an electronic copy around somewhere on the internet, usually legal and available for a few bucks.

Having said that, I do agree with the shitty ergonomics and usability of DRMed content. If someone went out of their way to pay for a book or a movie, they aren't the kind of people to go and pirate that - so don't punish them.
I think numeric ids should be allocated out of the same key space, other identifiers should be hierarchical and scoped to the tenant in the database.

The same query run across all databases should either return 1 query (for the valid tenant) and empty set for all other databases, OR it should return the same result set regardless.

I just realized what I am proposing, a hidden out of band column that is effectively the "database id" for that row.
I only "buy" (1) ebooks to read on the plane. You can't practically (2) loan ebooks and I like to share them with my friends.

(1) You don't actually buy them, you lease them.

(2) For example; Kindle books can only be loaned for 14 days. I guess if you vacationing on the beach, you could probably read it that quickly. Most people only have some weekend or evening time.
You don't need to solve every problem to make AI worth the investment, just a large enough handful of billion-dollar problems.
I never understood why the Missing Dollar Riddle ever confuses people. As soon as they say "Add the $2 to the $27" I say, "But why are you adding something someone has to a total that people paid?"

That, in turn, is like the "Age of the Shepherd" problem[0] ... people just add/subtract/multiply/divide things randomly without thinking about what they mean.

[0] https://mystudentvoices.com/how-old-is-the-shepherd-the-prob...
I don't understand why someone with such a pedigree feels the need to fake he just learned of DRM ebooks.

This is disingenuous and doesn't bring much food for thoughts at the table.

Is the outrage porn card being played to garner attention for something else ?
Dong Yaoqiong
Erlang. Specifically, Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong who designed Erlang for Ericisson. Whether or not Erlang is the right language for a particular distributed job, Erlang is a message passing system and messages are the logical construct by which any distributed system communicates among its parts. Whether they are called messages or not.

With a REPL and hot code swapping and remote launching Erlang is interactive at production scales and on a laptop.
You can do something similar with a shebang and chmod +x.
> it's probably because fiber wasn't available at your location

EV charging infrastructure in many countries is rarer than hen's teeth. It's also much more expensive compared to fuel infrastructure that's already paid for and in place for decades.

> fuel economy tends to be a very secondary concern anyway

Fleets of vehicles always have fuel consumption as a prominent concern. But the pollution might also be since legislation could very well start covering construction or industrial equipment.

> If electrics take the mass market

"Mass" never meant 100%. We are surrounded by outdated tech that is still around because it fills a need even if just in a niche. Despite people insisting the fixed phone and snail mail have been superseded by mobiles and email, both of those legacy options are still there. Even selling 10% of the current volumes of ICEs still justifies improving them.
I sometimes find myself buying a book and then downloading a pirated version through Libgen. It's ridiculous.
One third of one half, plus one third of the other half, is one third of the whole?
Real Artists Ship (1984)
A war story about Covid, cloud, and cost
China officials eager to find new uses for virus monitoring apps on phones
This may be shocking to hear, but sometimes with open source people re-use source code, which results in the useful parts existing in a new form that's different from the way it was originally published.
seems to be an ok choice. It's maintained by a very capable team that has a strong security focus, it's in use on the largest mobile platform (Android) and the motivations and focus behind its maintenance align well with Apple's.

What would you have chosen? And why?
A bunch of white people bashing devs in India and another group of wannabe NRIs sucking up to them.

Let me show the perspective of an Indian engineer. I don't want to work for remotely for a team with half a day of time zone difference. India has tons of interesting startups doing exciting work.

Most of the bright engineers are happy with the jobs or have their own network of other bright engineers to help with job hunting. Very few good engineers sign for remote work.
I like having one DB and defining RLS rules (in postgresql) for the majority of my tables. I also have all 'business entity' tables relate back to one table called records, which has a tenant_id on it and timestamps on it. This way I can keep FK constraints without doing the silly polymorphic rails model stuff.
I have seen this in many communities, and my opinion is that it occurs from large growth and no monitoring trends in attrition with a coincidental "that's how the community voted; too bad, so sad" mentality that, unfortunately, generates a shout-down chamber, even if only on a limited set of topics.

This occurs, right now, here on HN, and IMHO it comes from the comments feed, a feature I find only useful to moderators and manipulators. Even the mention of certain topics from even a meta-discussion perspective receives down-votes, sometimes within seconds. This seems further amplified in communities where senior community members are granted super powers.
I think x(3) would more commonly mean x times 3. f(3) would be function application. Even more context dependence.
I’ll leave finding DRM-free ebooks as an exercise for the reader. There are a number of small publishers offering their books without DRM. Some genres are easier than others.

Tor went DRM-free many years ago. I know their catalog is on Amazon.
Hah, I don't remember the last time I set up any OS and didn't have to change settings on first boot.

Maybe OS X 10.4 worked for me out of the box.

The longer you use a computer, the more you expect certain behavior, and the less you get it out of the box.
How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong (2010)
Are you me? I could have written the exact same blog article! I have the same experience this month, I ended spending hours to be able to use an e-book I bought, and I also finally needed to convert it multiple times, install shady software, etc.

I didn't find an online shop meeting these criteria:

* really big catalogue (of the size of Fnac.com, etc.)

* EPUB with no DRM

I also sent an email to the (French) publisher/editor of the book to narrate the awful user-experience. Maybe you can do the same ;) If enough readers contact the publishers to say they won't buy ebook anymore with such a poor user experience, it might help.
"Fuel injection has been tried for 50yr, there's no way it will be commercially successful now"

-some guy in 1980.

History is littered with inventions that didn't gain widespread use initially then some little advancement(s) came along that make the inventions workable when revisited and tweaked. Repeating firearms and electric lightbulbs are two good examples.

I don't pretend to know which bucket this "new" engine advancement will fit into but I think your judgement is premature.
Even a cursory glance at the NSA ANT Catalog is enough to give one the impression, there's a whole other battlefield out there.

Every now and then, almost yearly now, the conspiracy theory scene pings one of my favourite theories: the Russkies have the electromagnetic spectrum well and truly under their grasp, and can disable any other military simply by flicking the off switch. They've discovered some way to do this, and it works every time.

Its a far-fetched and bizarre concept, and surely there are detractors and supporters of the theory - but for the sake of a thought experiment, imagine it were the case.

Would you use this capability, much?

Or, would you use it sparingly, in such a way as to avoid detection - say, introducing the odd power-cycle glitch here, maybe a spike there - just enough to keep your target occupied, but not enough that they'd wise up to so much sabotage.

I mean, you wouldn't just fly over a US destroyer/carrier fleet, and demonstrate it, overtly, naturally...

Would it instead be better for people to believe such capabilities are impossible - and if this is the case, how do we prevent a hundred years of Tesla's and Theremins' from stumbling onto the technique again, hmm...
Scientists compounds the peppertree that ‘disarm’ antibiotic-resistant bacteria
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/cramer-we-gotta-get-netflix-...

It was Cramer back in 2013 who coined the term. It was a term for stocks, although on HN and around the engineer-verse I always took it to mean "big tech" companies that pay really well.
thanks. Fixed the first one. About storage gateway: as far as I could see (haven't tested it) you get a iscsi path which you can connect to from your own device. It uses S3 as the backend store for files from and to this device. Will try and take some more time to look into it (never used this myself)
“How old is the shepherd?” – The problem that shook school mathematics
Also can be viewed here:

http://archive.md/SwHZN
> I never understood what people mean by being "more productive" with vim.

But you understand why people plug a mouse into their laptop instead of using the touchpad, why they use Ctrl-C instead of copying with the mouse, why they autocomplete code in the IDE using keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking through menus and why they sometimes prefer a physical keyboard on their iPad instead of typing with two fingers on a non-tactile screen?

Sometimes it's not about being more productive but about turning the stuff you do every day from a chore riddled with tiny annoyances into a more enjoyable, coherent experience. With Vim I don't have to worry about annoying "smart" features, popups with suggestions I never asked for, no need to switch between mouse and keyboard all the time for little things like selecting some text or opening a file, and at the same time it has the most flexible system for custom keyboard shortcuts I have seen to date.
"If we reduce 2/6, we get 1/3, so 1/3 + 1/3 = 1/3, that seems weird, what did we do wrong?"
It’s important to add that Moog had a deeply psycho-spiritual view connected to the theremin; basically that it was manifesting creativity from the universe the way a flower manifests beauty from the sun.

(If people are interested I can try to find source links, but I’m the former Co Chair of the Bob Moog Foundation.
I also remember having constant confusion of what were assumed associations in written bigger formulas especially involving the functions and the practice of not writing the braces, and before that, if 3 1/5 meant three times 1/5 or 3 wholes and 1/5th.

I thought it was only on these low levels of educations that people settle on such confusing practices.

Later on the university I've discovered that it's the same on all levels. The notations used outside of programming are simply very context-dependent, and it's pity that that dependency is not made clear more often. Also, some practices directly come from some historical uses, and different paths to the current notations still end up to the similarly looking but different meanings.
The more I've taught math, the more convinced I am that getting people to "think about what they mean", and to think about what mathematical words mean is 90% of the project.

I remember reading long ago (I'd love to find it again) about a CS department that gave a quiz to incoming students that was very predictive of their success. The answers they wrote didn't matter; what mattered was whether their answers evinced consistent meaning applied to terms and operations.
And the "missing dollar riddle" can be exploited as the "change raising scam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uaw88H0AmE
Seems to me that all (major) ebook retailers try to lock down the files in one way or another. So yeah, if the chances of having a bad experience buying ebooks are high, I can see why "just download it and be done with it" is a compelling offer.

I'm all for finding ways of letting authors survive, or better yet thrive. But the current market seems to cater to the publishers, not the authors (cf: movie industry, music industry) so I don't even feel all that bad about that.

To stay in the allegory: if it was common practice and somehow widely acceptable for restaurants to use boatloads of laxatives during food preparation, but they only told you so after you asked to see the manager, would you judge the people who just outright refused to eat out any longer? The stress of finding a laxative free restaurant would simply outweigh the benefit from eating out.
Title needs an edit to clarify what kind of framework this is.
Yeah the writer didn't have the words "of one half" or "of the other half", therefore it seemed a lot more confusing than it should have.
Closely related I think are intuition and creativity. You can't always with your conscious mind put words on what you actually know.
there also was no introduction of yet another networking library rewrite, so I would assume the iOS12 solution continues to work with iOS13
Yeah but usually the bank just buys package solution with some customization for accessing the data & reporting, so they don't have to keep up the army of very narrowly specialized folks catching up with ever changing laws etc.
Is there a mastodon server that doesn't require email for signup? Throw away providers did not work for me, free email providers require a phone number. It's like signal, the benefits are contrasted against metadata exposure.
I dunno about you, but both my wife and I read books is much less than two weeks most of the time, and we both work full time and have other hobbies.
Bit of a contradiction here, since he also says (before mentioning GOG, No Starch, etc.):

“So I bought it. For the first time in my life, I bought an ebook, because it's 2020, so why not.”
Yeah, its just not something I believe I should be promoting, as a developer, as a solution to anything.

Its like .. Sure, meth might be fun, but I definitely don't think I wanna hang out when all the people in the room are doing it.