skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a searchable collection of the books available to libraries from Rakuten Overdrive, the most popular digital lending system in the US (IIUC).

https://www.overdrive.com/explore

If you search for Charles Ross' Edward IV (https://archive.org/details/edwardiv00ross), you find:

https://www.overdrive.com/media/3099728/edward-iv

which lets you find if your library has a copy or to find a library that does. It's a trick. "There are no libraries with this title available that match your search criteria [my search criteria was 'all libraries']."

How about Sailors and Scholars: The centennial history of the U.S. Naval War College (https://archive.org/details/sailorsscholarsc00hatt)? It's not available from OverDrive. But then it's been donated to the IA and is freely available. But I'll bet the publishers want it deleted anyway.

Or Introduction to Information Retrieval? I would advise trying to borrow it as it's probably very out of date, but still kind of interesting. OverDrive lists it (https://www.overdrive.com/media/179471/introduction-to-infor...), but no libraries have it. Neither does the IA. Maybe I should scan and donate my copy.
From an economists point of view, the thing to compare to would be cost per prevented death. I don't have a current estimate for that, but it is presumably much lower.
I have a controversial opinion. But every living human should work. Otherwise it is a drain on the planet Earth.

Yes if they just live to live and consume, we're just speeding up our extinction, and the rest of the Earth with us.
"Are there any wireheading proponents in this crowd?"

I have never heard the term and this is my first introduction to the concept, at least framed in this manner ...

But ... aren't we all, already, "wireheads" ? Our tools and heuristics might be a little blunt, or ineffectual, but the quote you provide:

"Their primary state of consciousness cycles over a period of 24 hours. Here is their routine: They wake up and experience intense zest for life and work at full capacity making others happy and having fun. Then they go crazy creative in the afternoon, usually spending that time alone or with friends, and explore (and share) strange but always awesome psychedelic-like states of consciousness. Finally, at night they just relax to the max (the healthy and genetically encoded phenomenological equivalent of shooting heroin)."

... sounds a lot like the better days that I have - it's just that I accomplish it with Caffeine, meditation, intense exercise, good sleep hygiene and (sometimes) alcohol.

While I haven't formally explored my day to day life on a happiness maximization metric, I did not come to these tools accidently, or randomly - I've slowly tailored them, and my own habits, to achieve maximum happiness on a specific time horizon ...
> I'm not aware of parents that specifically believe learning music makes their kid more intelligent in non-musical areas.

It is all anecdotal evidence, but I am aware of some parents who "forced" their baby (and then little kid) to listen to classical music (specifically Mozart), because the kid would become a genius. Apparently, after some googling, it is called the "Mozart effect". Here are press articles about it:

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-b...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130107-can-mozart-boost...

Could it be a motivation for teaching music to little kids? That is what is suggested in the conclusions of the articles linked above, and which I quote below. Some parents might be receptive to these conclusions.

From the Scientific American article [1]:

> Rather than passively listening to music, Rauscher advocates putting an instrument into the hands of a youngster to raise intelligence. She cites a 1997 University of California, Los Angeles, study that found, among 25,000 students, those who had spent time involved in a musical pursuit tested higher on SATs and reading proficiency exams than those with no instruction in music.

From the BBC article [2]:

> There is a way in which music can make a difference to your IQ, though. Unfortunately it requires a bit more effort than putting on a CD. Learning to play a musical instrument can have a beneficial effect on your brain. Jessica Grahn, a cognitive scientist at Western University in London, Ontario says that a year of piano lessons, combined with regular practice can increase IQ by as much as three points.
> My complaints have more to do with the massive distortions that make medical goods/services a very opaque market

I agree it's a mess. I didn't comment on that, because I agree with it.

> creates the ability for profitable businesses to write off fake losses for tax advantages

I disagree with this part. It's not a fake loss. It's reconciling projected (fake if you want) income with real income. Any business filing taxes with accrual accounting that invoices with full price and accepts a discounted price on payment (or sends to collections at a discount) is going to have the same thing: recognizing the full invoice as income, and then taking a deduction for the discount when settled.

Why am I picking on this technical detail? For one, this is a technical forum (I'll show myself out). But importantly, a comment lamenting a real issue (opaque market) and normal accounting practices makes a confusing argument. Switching hospitals to cash accounting isn't going to make the market less opaque.
I think the best slice of who's migrating to Envoy can be observed via EnvoyCon talks[1][2]:

* Lyft (of course)

* Spotify

* Stripe

* Square

* eBay

* Yelp

* Pinterest

Plus the support from major cloud providers: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

[1] https://envoyconna18.sched.com/
[2] https://envoycon2019.sched.com/
>Stop trying to max your kids stats. It's incredibly dehumanizing. I get that we all want children to have the best opportunities, but maybe it'd be a more equitable situation if we stopped reducing ourselves to a numbers game.

Sadly, in many respects, the only way to have a child who is at the top echelons is to treat them like a character in a lifelong RPG who needs to be constantly trained and optimized for such a purpose.

It's not just sports either. Political & business dynasties exhibit this behavior, where a child's entire life is mapped out from years 0 to 22.
I expect so. Creating things are hard. Creating new things, even with little difference from the existing things, are also hard.

By the way, I'm curious about that. Won't people that have generous everything utilities will not just produce more babies? Or there is no correlation between UBI and population boom?
I just swapped from doing JSON schema to using TypeScript Interfaces for schema I'm working on. https://github.com/ellisgl/keyboard-schema
Alphabet reports first revenue decline in company history
Leetcode implies all of those, and just like in mathematics competitions, being able to solve these problems implies a high level of ability.
Magstripe readers were ubiquitous in the UK 15 years ago. The banks started issuing chip and PIN cards and terminals, then did the liability shift a couple of years later. That shift is what's needed to make retailers switch, and is what still hasn't happened in the US.
But it is true for Windows PCs that represent more than 90% of compromised devices.
Where did you work? CERN?
>The Board of Directors has also approved a four-for-one stock split to make the stock more accessible to a broader base of investors. Each Apple shareholder of record at the close of business on August 24, 2020 will receive three additional shares for every share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on August 31, 2020.
There’s no PoW Haskell chains I’m aware of, they’re POS chains which are far more energy efficient- therefore they reduce energy usage as people move over to them.
This:

> allows to apply the advanced techniques used in high integrity systems (i.e. aircraft flight control, medical devices, critical industrial control) to the smallest MCUs used by industry and hobbyists

But also this:

> M2OS implements one-shot non-preemptive scheduling policy

Uhm, what? Those two paragraphs cancel out each other pretty much.

> The STM32F4 board is based on the ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. The amount of memory available in this board does not justify the use of a small RTOS as M2OS, however we have decided to port M2OS to this board to explore its implementation on ARM microcontrollers.

STM32F4 is a controller family, not a board. Is this some GPT-3 output?

The list goes on ...

Seriously, what am I even looking at? Is this just some SEO optimized site with a bunch of buzzwords and some seemingly valid content?
Why do we need to signal agree disagree? If you disagree, reply. The reader doesnt need comments sorted by most popular sentiment, that just reinforces bubbles.

I don't upvote things I agree with, I upvote unique contributions to discussion that arent the platitudes spread everywhere else, even ones I disagree with.
>Is money really the only power? For all I know these companies depend on consumers’ attention and consumption.

Which doesn't translate to any great power for smaller developers, who don't command much of consumers attention anyway. Try getting Amazon Prime, or Spotify out of the App Store and there will be a riot. Some smaller app few care about? Not so much...

>Not only that, the people who run them depend on continuous growth of those to keep their positions.

The people who run them will get their bonuses and golden parachutes even if they burn the companies to the ground. And after that they can retire or easily find other positions in different companies soon enough.

It's lesser employees that depend on growth to keep their jobs...
A standardised data format for papers would help (beyond that of introduction > methodology etc, treat it like an insurance claim or something of that ilk), that way content could be distributed and compared and discovered far more easily than having to wade through papers written in different formats, with all the flowery academic language etc.

It'd probably make writing them easier too.
How does the OS <discover/gain access to/build/enumerate> the device tree?

Edit: Apparently the device tree is handled by the firmware (UEFI?), so that a RISC-V OS asks the firmware to provide the device tree and I suppose if it ever gets to desktops, it'd be firmware's job to figure out what CPU is plugged into the board. The current state seems to only cater to integrated systems, though?
Perhaps it's country specific? Or Brick-n-Mortal terminology?

Been in this (online) industry for a long, long time, never once heard of it referred that way. I'd think you'd need to quantify what "peak" you're talking about, as-in "Peak Sales" or something. And, not everyone's "peak" is at the same time, so it's odd to refer to it that way.
> Or are videogames evil?

I'll answer that when you give me a definition of the term.

Might want to start with defining "game" and then pare it down.

My point is, you can't say something is evil until you have a coherent definition of what that thing is.
Unless you're a teenage boy. Then the primary benefit of playing the instrument is the attention of teenage girls.
Notably, YouTube is absent from "Everyone else"
Anecdotally, our app spending is up a lot since the quarantine began—my kids (6 yo twins) got iPads for their birthday and we've probably spent at least $50 on apps for them alone (a mix of educational apps and games). I imagine there's a lot of educational app purchases happening in general.

As an aside, we use new apps as a reward for various exceptional acts. My son looked at my phone not long after we started this and told me that I must have done a lot for my mom to have put so many icons on my phone.
In my experience, when a manager has a lot of reports, it usually ends up with team members playing all kinds of pathological controlling behavior (e.g mild to not-so-mild bullying). Conflicts arise, and team members who are the loudest usually win. The manager simply is too stretched to understand enough to manage these situations. He will usually cede to the people who he thinks are the "experts" in the team.

Essentially, you now have unofficial managers in the team. It's no longer de facto a flat hierarchy. And worse, there is little to no accountability.

People will try to "seize power" and carve out their niche. This is usually not intentional on the part of said people, but I think it is more or less the "natural" dynamic that arises.

I'm sure there are exceptions.

Having a manager who can assert authority and make decisions in conflict situations is great. He/she shouldn't do it often (i.e. micromanage), but a manager who has lots of reports (e.g. > 10) rarely makes good decisions in such situations.
In my opinion, and I know this is controversial, it is wrong. Of course it depends on your philosophy, but this is just mine.

I believe that we can't expect for humans to just exist without being productive and just being consumer and sustainable, for this Earth and the environment.
Organizations like to identify you by phone number, because it is the easiest way to prevent duplicate identities (Most users have one and only one number to receive SMS messages). Of course it also makes it easier to purchase and sell customer data.

For this reason I'd guess that many companies use SMS-2FA as an excuse to collect and confirm your mobile number.
When you start a company, you choose a "tax year" by filing a tax return. From then on out, you file your tax return the same month every year.

If it's a small business, you probably find it most convenient to have the tax year be the calendar year and match up with your personal filing.

Many businesses have some concept of a "selling season" that makes it really convenient to not use January through December. A retailer, for example, probably prefers not to close their books on December 31 every year because of all the post-Christmas gift returns. Walmart has a January fiscal year (February 1 through Jan 31).

If you sold stuff to schools, you might choose a June fiscal year; most universities use a June fiscal year so an entire school year stays in a single fiscal year.

I have no idea why Apple chose September, but it was probably a rational decision.
No. But there are some different (and new) approaches / alternatives to the VC surveillance capitalist cycle we see when it comes to building a business.

Be bootstrapped and profitable (Basecamp/Indie Hackers) or independent and ethical (Small Tech) [0].

You don't need to have the same goals as cancer to win in the tech space.

[0] https://small-tech.org/
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The Irrational Fear of Vulnerability
Amazon, Facebook and Apple thriving in lockdown
Thank you for sharing this - it was an interesting read. Would be interested to see how the book does if you end up sharing something similar a few months from now. I've released a few technical e-books this year to adapt to the lockdown situation - so it's nice to read on similar journeys.
Their press release is at https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24002529, merged hither)
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And with states having a cutoff period after which the undelivered votes will not be counts. If you can delay a significant number of votes beyond that period, you’ve managed to block someone’s votes.
Agreed. I run a product company in this area (internal threat/exploit detection) and the lack of any kind of visibilty most orgs have is concerning.

It’s partially the security industry’s fault for promoting ineffective and expensive methods as the go-to.
That's a novel way to look at 2FA/MFA, I like it.

I can't think of a way to "undo" in this scenario without some settlement pattern. You can do whatever you want, but it doesn't "commit" until some settlement clears. In this case, still leading back to some kind of "Are you sure[...]" question, except to review in batch, like someone reviewing a bank statement.

Some people like reviewing in batch, some progressively, depending upon their individual perception of the cognitive load involved for them.

Tough to economically prevent spoofing though, when you start dropping aspects of authentication, integrity and non-repudiation. I suspect we can't substantially move that "Are you sure[...]" question's boundary until wearables become implants like a neural lace-grade implant.
Why is everyone acting like Apple's App Store is this democratic place that should abide by some arbitrary rule of equality? They own the thing _and_ they make the rules that govern it. They can do whatever they like and really don't have to answer to anyone.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24002566.
What planet are we living on?

600 a week is 2400 a month, which way over any entry level salary in Europe.

How inflated are the salaries in US? Or are people used to some really abnormal level of living?
And those books are still sitting in the shelf. No one is taking them away.

Just because the library is closed doesn't mean you can run up the pirate flag. Piracy hurts artists.
I find it ironic that he should criticize Plantir and Facebook for creating a surveillance state, yet also crypto for allowing anonymous monetary transactions.
> So is there a CPUID-like instruction in the base RISC-V instruction set?

Yes.

> After a cursory search I couldn't find anything like it.

This was the first google result for "riscv cpuid feature instruction" for me (RISC-V Instruction Set Manual v1.7):

> The mcpuid register is an XLEN-bit read-only register containing information regarding the capabilities of the CPU implementation. This register must be readable in any implementation
> The misa CSR is a WARL read-write register reporting the ISA supported by the hart
[hart is a hardware thread]
- from the Privileged Architecture manual

However, I didn't see how a nonstandard extension such as this would be represented; this is concerned with representing up to 26 or so extensions, the ones with single letters assigned to them.
The members of Congress weren't trying to get answers from Facebook, they were trying to go viral on Facebook.
Personal opinions aside, it's amazing how little credit Zuckerberg gets as an executive. At least compared to Bezos, Gates, Jobs, Musk, even Larry&Sergei.

I think it's pretty hard to identify even a single major strategic decision that Zuckerberg didn't get right given enough hindsight.
Some hits for sure, but also a lot of duds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

The tbh acquisition was a complete waste of time and money. Time will tell how giphy works out...
"Quarterly results: Q2 Earnings" https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22quarterly+earnings%22 4.5 million results

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22quarterly+results%22 5.5 million results
It is not normal and it'll self-correct eventually. Do what you think is smart.

Do you need all that shit? Why? Why, exactly? Try to do without, indeed throw some PHP on a shared hosting. PHP is like assembly these days and you'll be amazed at the speed and grace of it (compared to the other BS). You don't need to containerize your bullshit little app. It's not that complex. You win nothing.

Less than 1K users? Throw it on a raspberry. I'm not even kidding. Kids these days sjeez.
How has Twitter's ad revenue gone? They made the policy to eschew political advertising, so they could serve as a (somewhat imperfect) control group. On the other hand, they also haven't had a high-profile advertiser pull-out like Facebook did either.
About 60% of product searches now start on Amazon

Now that's a big problem for Google. Product searches are Google's money machine.

Google's other big problem is being terrible at anything which needs repair or customer support. Their various attempts at becoming an internet service provider, via WiFi, fiber, or balloons, have not been successful. Buying up all the good robotics startups and running them into the ground benefited nobody. The self-driving car thing is a huge money drain that still hasn't produced a product. Anyone remember the Google Search Appliance?

Two other engineering-first companies blew it - Hewlett-Packard, and Westinghouse. Both were successful, profitable, and renowned for excellent engineering. It's useful to study what they did wrong.
mcedit is what use instead of nano. Similar to the editor in Far Manager and Norton Commander.
Factor 5 leiden. and Sjogrens.
Facebook quarterly revenue ($17.2 B) beat the expected revenue ($17.7 B) by just ~3%.

I imagine this is one of the reasons Facebook didn't want to drop political ads (like the competition) in an election year.
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Uh? They expected to have $4B in profit, said they may spend $4B on extra expenses this period -> but demand has SOARED and they already huge, so absolutely pumping out the $.

I know we've read about the major strikes by Amazon workers here repeatedly (supposedly all of them walking out etc). Doesn't seem to have affected the top line sales at least.
Or more realistically for that category of app, ask them to pay $14.99 instead of $9.99.
Why now is the time to be sending investors your pitch decks
Because Amazon is comparatively low-margin vs. other tech companies, improved revenue has a much greater effect on earnings. Amazon's revenue was $88.9B vs. $81.24B expected. That's each household spending about 10% more from Amazon, which is pretty reasonable with lockdown and nobody going to brick & mortar retail outlets. But with expenses at around $80B, that translates into earnings of $10.30/share vs. $1.51.
Can you name at least one scientist whose work is supported significantly by publishing royalties, from the publication of that actual work?
from: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article

"Many influenza experts, policy makers, and knowledgeable observers believe that a novel influenza A (H1N1) strain directly caused most deaths during the 1918–19 pandemic, often from a hemorrhagic pneumonitis that rapidly progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death (1–3). Not surprisingly, plans and resources to respond to the next influenza pandemic focus almost exclusively on the virus, i.e., preventive vaccines and antiviral treatment of infections with a novel influenza strain (4). However, healthcare providers, medical experts, and published data from the 1918 period suggest that most deaths were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonias (5–12); hemorrhagic pneumonitis that rapidly progressed to death was considered an alarming but uncommon clinical manifestation (8,11–13)."

The way I'm reading that, it doesn't seem that it's that clear that it was the flu that was to blame.

And it seems a pretty fair guess that the reason it spread was as a result of the end of WWI.
There should be a word for self-important pedantry that is somewhere between "groundless" and "wrong." Quarterly results include much more than earnings and the term is widespread.
> as mechanics don't really do routine oil changes

What's this now? Every single mechanic I've ever met is more than happy to do oil changes. Even my "BMW guy," who only works on BMWs and regularly works on $100k+ cars and fun projects like performance upgrades is more than happy to change the oil on my decidedly pedesterian BMW (12 year old entry-level 328xi, worth maybe $5-6k tops).