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Ask HN: Where do you buy audiobooks without DRM?
I love listening to podcasts. And would probably also love to listen to books. But where to buy those? Somehow I have the feeling that the user experience will be dismal and I will get problem ridden DRM monstrosities when I just sign up for the next onlineshop and buy a book.

Any recommendations where I can simply by books as MP3s and not be plagued with anything else?
They paid $7.5B to delete code repositories? What about all the other non github repository hosts, not forgetting self-hosted, torrents etc.
There’s probably a component of that. Probably some where DC and others AC at varying frequencies of input.
Right. That's the Development part of Research and Development.
Worse yet, they told them, “don’t print this number”! However thd vendor misunderstood and mistakenly printed them as the low value payout number, so 800,000 of them...

It’s almost like when in a high stress situation you tell someone “don’t press the red button” or on a tight rope “hey don’t look down and lose your balance”
First space tourists will face big risks
Parquet’s snappy and brotli compressors are quite ok. Not sure if blosc is even faster though.
There are several companies and even security companies that modify Windows 10 and remove unwanted programs.

A couple that come to mind are Malwarebytes "Adwcleaner" and FireEye's "commando-vm" (found on Github).

But I do see a problem with Ninjutsu OS offering an preconfigured Windows ISO as others have mentioned.

I think Ninjutsu OS will be allowed to continue if they just offer some tools and scripts to modify a "normal" Windows10 iso instead like FireEye does.

Also, I hads never heard of Ninjutsu OS until now.
I will be looking forward to playing with it.
(Streisand Effect)
Chris Schwartz (of Popular Woodworking fame) wrote and printed "The Anarchist's Tool Chest". Goes through building an actual tool chest and filling it with basic tools needed to accomplish most anything a hobbyist would be building. These are all hand tools and a great resource (it's one of a handful of books on my shop bookshelf). https://lostartpress.com/collections/books/products/the-anar...
Not at all. You're right that there are much worse behaviors than the one under discussion, but there's still a vast qualitative difference between "not as bad as it might be" and good.
It looks like the faces are drawn randomly from a pool (presumably of 100,000 images) as you scroll. Due to the birthday paradox, you only need to look at a few hundred faces before you see one twice with high probability.
Whats your issue with it? Asking as a noob to python package management. I've always used venv and pip and didn't even know pipenv existed until I read your post. Should it be avoided?
Qualified immunity only stops people from suing the individual police officers, and they don't even have enough money to pay out multi-million dollar settlements anyway. The big payouts come from suing the police department itself as an instituation and as I understand it they aren't protected by qualified immunity.
Ansible's pretend-declarative yaml doesn't add any value, while forcing you to use patterns that rarely match your use-case. It should have been a python library without all the yaml from the beginning.

That said, pyinfra seems to be making the same mistakes (being a tool instead of a library, prescribing a folder structure, not letting me create my own abstractions), so you are right that it provides no advantage over Ansible.
> But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

Trusted timestamping.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3161.txt

It also happens to be very widely deployed and supported by well-established companies, because it's an integral part of executable cross-signing. That is, this exists right now.
Did you have the UK switch on? The top result for me is the UK site: https://imgur.com/5F7nMRP
A lot of electronics sell for less than cost and break even/profit based on consumables. PS4s made a loss when they came out and Sony relied on games sales to correct that. The same was true of safety razors and blades 100 years ago and electric razors today.

Sadly this means products often arnt designed for you or me (I hate the idea of advertising built into Samsungs TV). But those are the economics in this situation...
> "A 100% open and free journal cannot achieve selectivity without having some judgement and bias applied."

Establishing reputation is the central challenge for a lot of the internet. Sorting spam from mail, sorting useful search results from SEO, sorting legit programs from malware on app stores.

"Let's just have a small handful of people manually review everything" is not a terrible first approach! It is the naive solution, and will work if you don't have to scale. It even worked for search for a couple years.

And you might argue that it's ok for journals to keep doing that because they don't have to scale. They don't have to review, rate, and publish everything good. They can have a very, very tiny output and it's ok.

But there is some cost to rate limiting scientific output.

So I'm surprised there hasn't at least been a good competitor incorporating what we've learned from other domains. It wouldn't be the same, but at least trying to use some things like citation counts and reader behavior for an initial guess at what deserves review.

All the arguments that "we need a small group of professionals curating these" lose a little weight in a replication crisis.

If you really wanted to try this, you might want to go after low hanging fruit. Someone should make a nutritional science journal, using purely algorithmic data to score proposals. Not much to lose there.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...
The emulator community developed .ips files to allow distribution of modifications to ROM files, without having to worry about the legal issues of distributing modified ROM files themselves. I'm surprised there aren't tools to use this or something similar with .ISOs.
Actually, it's not the academics who have adopted (or pushed) these metrics. They essentially came with the general trend of trying to make everything measurable (usually pushed by MBAs).
> They have gigantic capital stock that is dropping in value like a stone, the used car market will be fludded with insane amounts of old ICEs. These companies have thin margins already, and they will need to make huge investments in batteries and new product lines to compete. All of that with a stock market that doesn't make it easy for them to raise money.

Just want to point out that Toyota Motor Company's gross profit has been at about $50 billion per year. That's their profit.

Honda's gross profit has been about $30 billion per year.

Ford's annual gross profit has been teetering $20-25B per year.

Tesla's gross profit is $4B (and increasing).

This isn't to knock Tesla, I just want to make sure you're not under-estimating the competition. I think it's too early to say for sure who is going to win the electric automobile market.
have you looked at Pulumi ?

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/python/pulumi/

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/programming-the-cloud-with-pytho...
It is easy to pick up and do easy tasks. Like installing a package on ubuntu and setup ufw. Then you throw in a few centos hosts and have to write if-else in yaml. Then u try to provision docker and end up with more if-else blocks to install the required python packages. Then you get to the part where you want to provision a database with presistent storage inside a docker container and just give up.
unfortunately they seem to still be in the majority. companies are not interested in training and overestimate what it takes to learn a new stack. they also want people who can hit the ground running.
i see that kind of job offer frequently
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LinkedIn job hunting works outside of the tech bubble as well.

My friend is a medical lab technician, for quite some time she was job-hopping a lot and was able to leverage her contacts to find open positions which are hardly advertised anywhere. In that industry it is quite important to have good recommendations so keeping a network of people you once worked with helps a lot.
I can't see how that would be possible, unless every country is equally wealthy and all wars and conflicts cease.

What's anyone's incentive for staying in Syria, Iraq, Cuba, or Ukraine when bad things happen? What is going to keep people in their birth place, when they could earn orders of magnitude more in other countries?

Then again, the far reaching implications of extensive automation could lead to this. We'll see!
We can go back and forth with thinking each others' reasoning is naive, but reasoning isn't how we discover the truth. Frankly, to both sides of this argument, real-world evidence or GTFO.

There's plenty of totally reasonable hypotheses for why giving away content can be profitable OR unprofitable, and plenty of real-life examples of both as well. The fact is, with regards to this situation, we don't know, and this conversation shouldn't center around a problem that some people have only hypothesized exists.
Why is football such a big deal? It isn't worth it to give up your identity or privacy to see other people wrestle on the grass for a ball.
> I have had jobs where i was expected to know a particular programming language

Which falls under the same thing we are talking about. If you know one programming language, you can figure out them all. You'll probably fall down flat when it comes to idioms of an unfamiliar language, but the same can be said around the idioms of frameworks. Many programming languages even include their own frameworks out of the box as part of the standard library, muddying the lines further. As far as this discussion goes, there is no meaningful distinction to be made here.

> But if someone is hiring permanent employees on the basis of flavour of the month frameworks, they have no idea what they are doing

The ask isn't necessarily flavour of the month. I still see tons of jobs looking for people with experience in Rails, for example. It hasn't been popular for at least a decade. However, from the job seeker perspective only knowing Rails limits to only Rails jobs, even when one knows everything about web development and could just as easily develop a web application in bash if you asked.

> and i would advise against working for them.

It is not an unreasonable ask, to be honest. Gaining familiarity with idioms is unquestionably the hardest problem in computer science, even above what the familiar joke suggests. While you can start to write code in a new language/framework almost immediately, It can take years to gain the understanding necessary to write great code. That is why businesses shy away from great programmers who don't know the idioms of a particular system adopted within the business.
I have a strict process that I go through with any powertool that can get me quickly (not really worried about drills or sanding equipment).

* Never leave the tool running
* If I can't keep my fingers at least 6 inches away, I need a jig. Many tools I keep 12+ inches away.
* Clamps and wood scraps are your friends.
* Unplug every tool immediately after done using.
* Hand and body check immediately before turning on a tool.
* Again, jig everything that I can.
How do you know which ones receive input from standard input or how can you find out efficiently?
The Verge has been doing this for the EULAs of the products that they review, which I'm a huge fan of. Search for "agree to continue" on this page for example: https://www.theverge.com/21286687/motorola-moto-e-2020-g-fas...

But yeah, I wish more reviewers would do this, especially now that DRM and EULAs are finding their way into what were previously dumb appliances.
In what possible sense could a building from 1567 be 'London's earliest theatre'? Has the journalist misunderstood something about it being the earliest of the Elizabethan era?
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This seems to be the mentioned paper (program name was in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23489882):

"Robust invisible watermarking of volume data using 3D DCT",
doi:10.1109/CGI.2001.934699 , https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3904386_Robust_invi...
You can link to edits. Why don't you show us some of the ones you're talking about?
Yes another 'glitch' and even funnier, because no one was harmed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
That's cool. I go through about two blades a week. I'm not sure either of those facts is relevant to the discussion.
I use power tools only during working hours and try to never go over a cumulative hour of use per day. In Berlin at least I think it's fine, this city has a DIY-ish culture, lots of apartments have homemade furniture, and the sound of electric tools is a common one.
> Many academics need publications in prestigious journals with "high impact factors"

It wouldn't surprise me if this is a massive part of the problem. Any new system to replace Elsevier may be perfect in lots of ways, but it doesn't count as prestigious, which means everybody will still want/need to publish with Elsevier. How do you magically grant a new publishing platform this 'prestige'?
> If so, I’m surprised they weren’t bought by one of the bigger brands by now.

From the S1

"As a public benefit corporation, we will be less attractive as a takeover target than a traditional company would be and, therefore, your ability to realize your investment through an acquisition may be limited. Under Delaware law, a public benefit corporation cannot merge or consolidate with another entity if, as a result of such merger or consolidation, the surviving entity's charter "does not contain the identical provisions identifying the public benefit or public benefits transaction receives approval from two-thirds of the target public benefit corporation's outstanding voting shares. Additionally, public benefit corporations may also not be attractive targets for activists or hedge fund investors because new directors would still have to consider and give appropriate weight to the public benefit"
You can apply that to literally every recreational activity/hobby.

Entertainment is subjective and I doubt you stare a blank wall all day so we could make fun of how you spend your time.

The football stadium is like the colosseum down here. It brings a lot of revenue to the towns and something to do.

Sports helps keeps kids out of trouble as well.
That is a great idea. I wish I had thought of that myself (even though I already do something similar with a USB powered cordless phone that stops charging when I sleep my system).

One of my use cases is to monitor my surveillance cameras, which drains my batteries quickly, but I have unused wemo switches that I could put on a schedule to just cycle power more frequently for intermittent charging.
Why is this a great idea, but Amazon delivering packages via drones crazy? Technologically, it's the exact same thing.
It wasn't cancelled, it was just moved to their app. When you scanned your card/phone you would get credits to "roll up". I only realized when I opened the app (instead of using mobile wallet) and saw I had 25 "roll ups" to use.
Agree. But we need to return to regenerative agriculture instead of plow, replant, and we get to keep our meat!
> you will notice that they are perfectly capable of managing a set of self-contradictory rules. It is actually an amazing power.

That's how life is, though—a jumble of rules that don't all agree and aren't all consistent. So you get used to juggling them all, making them work together as well as you can, so you can get your job done and move on.
It's easy to make this non-contradictory by making the rules apply only to future contracts, or only when the decision maker wants them to apply.
I love the idea of plaudit, it wold be interesting to tie into dlbp or semanticscholar. As it is now, I have to see if a researcher tweets paper recommendations. Are you working with either?

I am sure you are aware, posting for the wider audience.

Availability is the hard part, formats, indexing, a handle so that it can be referenced. We already have an awesome model for this with the e-print archives [2..=4].

As for what to read, this is what overlay journals are for! [1]. By splitting the mechanics of submission, serving, basic vetting, etc. any other group of people can create as many overlay journals as they deem necessary. Sorting, ranking and clustering of the research now is not coupled to getting the knowledge recorded.

This excellent article [5] linked from the wikipedia entry has the perfect description of the concept,

>>> The Open Journal of Astrophysics works in tandem with manuscripts posted on the pre-print server arXiv. Researchers submit their papers from arXiv directly to the journal, which evaluates them by conventional peer review. Accepted versions of the papers are then re-posted to arXiv and assigned a DOI, and the journal publishes links to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_journal

[2] https://arxiv.org/

[3] https://www.biorxiv.org/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eprint_archives

[5] https://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-...
>> For everybody who was saying "Wikipedia is complete, there's nothing left to write about"

What?!? This is one of the stupider things I’ve heard from this community.

Not only do I find it very suspect that ‘everything has an article’, but these people are aware of new things being discovered and invented, no?
> The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally.

In usa i found it weird that kids are only allowed to go to certain schools which fall in a geographic area.

Why can't they go to any school that they please. Isn't this much simpler problem to solve than getting rid of citizenship.
"Electronic copies are not exactly free."

What?
Fridges are one of those product categories for which the magic of the free market misses completely for me.

I want a basic fridge with maybe $200, tops (manufacturing & material cost) of improvements to things that actually matter (castors on drawers make a huge difference for the feel of fridge drawers, for example) + non-ugly exterior. Counter depth (so less material!). No ice maker, no water integrated, none of that stuff. Certainly no damn screens. Just a compressor with a cabinet. A good and useful layout, or "UX" if you prefer (this adds no cost, or very little, past the initial design, which can be re-used indefinitely). I will pay a $600-800 premium over the most basic model for this, retail. Call it $1500.

... but in fact the nice parts I want aren't available except on very "high-end" models that start at like $2.5k from a dent-n-ding outlet (let alone full retail) with tons of extra crap, and you pay significantly more for counter depth in most cases (I guess economies of scale make them solidly 10% more expensive, despite the savings in materials?). It sucks, I just want a basic fridge that looks & feels nice and doesn't stick out into my kitchen like some kind of menacing mechanical monster, but is not a rip-off. Pretty much doesn't exist.

[EDIT] actually it's fair to say that "nice, simple, and reasonably priced for the extras it takes to achieve 'nice'" is a category markets often fail to deliver for me. They seem to be great at delivering cheap and crappy, cheap and kinda OK (think: all non-Ikea flat-pack furniture for the former, Ikea for the latter), expensive and crappy, and expensive and actually good. There's a middle-market that seemingly never gets served and sends me looking for antiques, when possible. I suspect the reason for these outcomes boil down to information asymmetry, like lots of problems with markets.
Thank you very much for your feedback. This will the first important point to consider in the next release.
That's a timeless piece, no pun intended.

I have a small collection of watches dating from the 70s onwards, all of them are mechanical except for the F-91W which I bought during a moment of nostalgia, and it regularly gets worn.

I admit I feel like a hipster when I've got it on, but I struggle to care. Such a great design.
Is social media addiction really that serious?

My solution to all social media is treat it as a rolodex and not GAF about it the rest of the time.

Why do people blame these companies for being the problem when there's an element of personal responsibility involved?
The problem is china's problem is not contained within china. CCP will force Zoom or any other companies to give the data they collect in other countries and due to market forces those companies has to comply legally or otherwise. Now do you see the problem, why china's authority to censor the internet is not an isolated issue ?
In "counter to purpose when the goal is" kedean interpreted "when" as meaning "given" rather than meaning "if"
Electronic books are also not our future. Until there are ebooks with physical pages I can turn, I can’t be bothered with them and I am not alone. Ebooks will never be mainstream except for audio purposes and for reference material.
Hmm. We use an Amazon Fire Stick connected to a projector.

The projector is dumb. It has its own remote, but we don't need to use it; the recent Fire Stick remotes understand how to control the volume and how to turn it off, and that's all you need.

HDMI-CEC means the Fire Stick turns on the projector when you click on it, so you don't need to turn on multiple devices.
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> It's a more poverty-stricken area than some realize, nearly third world.

This is immensely true of Appalachia in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_economic_stratifica...). Having done quite a number of roadtrips up and down I-81, the amount of destitution I've seen has never failed to break my heart. Nothing's ever changed for these people, and the foundational building blocks (infrastructure, education, etc) that they'd need in order to really climb out of poverty have been consistently delayed or disregarded.

Luck plays more of a factor here than in many other parts of the United States at escaping this loop, so programs like this are heartwarming to see in that they aim to give back as part of a broader goal to advance the state of tech.

Drone infrastructure and 5G are probably the two easiest shortcuts to get much of Appalachia equipped with much of what they need to catch up.
The systems that needed that level of auditing were carefully controlled and I wasn't daft enough to modify those without CAB approval (in fact, I couldn't modify them).

One of the problems I have with these kind of processes is that it often applies the same level of process to all systems when some systems really don't need that level of control.
Thanks for the links, I appreciate the detailed reply.
> It isn't worth it to give up your identity or privacy

From the article:

>Three fans who attended the Rose Bowl game and spoke to OneZero said they didn’t remember seeing any notice that they were being surveilled.

It's unlikely that anyone knew enough to be able to make an informed decision.

Sadly, legally, "privacy" is something you're not generally entitled to when outside in public (in the US AFAIK).
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The CPU can pass state to the GPU. I imagine that a lot of that state (like the clip plane for the top of the water volume, including the normal which provides the "jiggle") was computed on the CPU, which can be updated by a simple spring model based on the object's velocity, which comes from the physics engine. In general, state like an object's velocity are commonly used for reprojection techniques like those used in temporal AA, so it's common to have around in the graphics system anyway.

It's likely the particles and foam density are all computed on the CPU by this model as well. No need to do everything on the GPU.
It was about 10 years ago and a former employer that I left 5 years ago.