skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it should show the website as well. Compare the results against Google's: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk014TPUTX_G1C5HLUIyT...
Well that's weird. Searching vkontakte gives a lot of results (in the realm of what you would expect). Maybe it's a command or something else is happening with that query?
> Frankly, Amazon snooping on users is to be expected

Snooping on users during e-commerce transactions, sure.

But recording user's detailed interactions with every ebook? I hope that's a big surprise to your average Kindle user.

It would be great to see a data request response and how much of this data is retained and for how long. It's clearly not anonymized at the request level.

Very easy to see a future where just reading certain books or reading certain books too many times could flag you as dangerous or be used to support a mental incompetence hearing resulting in loss of rights.
Compare doing the same search in Google. Even a link to vk.com would seem like a relevant thing to include if nothing else?
You cannot argue on one side that Linux's success was due to commercial happenstance, as you do in another comment, and on the other hand that Postgresql's success vs MySQL is entirely due to the license. In fact, before the Sun acquisition and following mismanagement, MySQL was the opensource rdbms, the M in LAMP. When opensource started to take off and the likes of Microsoft fired back hard with FUD and lawsuits, 3 out of 4 main tools in that stack were GPL and the other was GPL-compatible.

Obviously each project and field has a story; licensing and timing are both part of it.

I would also argue that we are eventually going to pay for the ecosystem refusal to adopt GPL3, which is effectively "closing" away the software at another layer.
Google returns: "About 782,000,000 results (0.45 seconds) "
As a developer, that is how _your dev team_ used the data. Can you confidently say that the metrics weren't also being accessed by the marketing department for different purposes? Or that it wasn't being shared with Amazon's business partners?
i wonder if fortnite could be wrapped into an unreal SDK so there is some example code and tutorial materials.

to wit fortnite code becomes part of the engine
I think the biggest issues with using ZFS as a linux user come down to

A) ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently.

B) The license issue, so you have to compile it as a separate module using DKMS, which means having a compiler, the linux headers, etc etc. No where near as low friction as just choosing ext4 or btrfs.
"In which basket did you put that exquisite marble figurine?" is perfectly good English. It sounds better to me that the "which ... in" version. (British English speaker.)
Right, and all the programs I referred to are also guaranteed promotion after Basic as well. But you'll still be an E-1 in Basic and so if you are looking at some outstanding scores on something posted for E-1s in Basic, well, it's possible those E-1s are people who enlisted with a guarantee of higher grade on successful completion of Basic, not starting at the bottom except insofar as everyone enlisting starts at the bottom in Basic.
Another long time florida man here

Katrina was 15 years ago. Prior to that crazy sequence of hurricanes, the previous major hurricane was Andrew in 92. Very few cat5 hurricanes make landfall in the US as cat5s (unfortunately that isn't true for the Caribbean islands). These major storms have been par for the course for as long as records have been kept. One of the major reasons the British lost the Revolutionary War was a fleet with reinforcements was wiped out from a major hurricane while en route.

The other large-scale events you mention aren't related to each other at all... COVID, politics, and California wild fires have nothing to do with hurricane formation... So I'm unsure how the presence of COVID and other stuff would increase the likelihood of a major hurricane this year...
Stop trying to pour gas on something with no flame. Compose individual, truly personal emails to each of the users who have signed up so far. Ask them what they were expecting to get, what they got, and what software-related problems they have. Open your heart to them - explain that you're committed to trying to understand and improve their daily work and would love 5 minutes of their time to chat.

This will take at least a month, maybe two or three. Don't submit anything else to HN or elsewhere until you've heard from them and adapted your site.

Start here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6g-how-to-talk-to-users, https://www.ycombinator.com/library/66-biggest-mistakes-firs.... Watch the other intro videos that basically boil down to: ask your users to tell your their problems, rather than forcing your solution on them. Everything else - money, user growth - comes after your product is thrilling 5, then 10, then 20 people. Go ask your users what would thrill them, then go thrill 5 of your existing users.
If I re-read books, I would have long ago switched to an alternative reader. But as it is, I’d actually like a "Remove everything I’ve read"-switch on my kindle. Books are purely a one-time thing for me, once I’ve read them, I’m done. Well, besides technical books, but those I buy on paper anyway.
In HFT (and often stat arb) the front and back office dichotomy doesn't apply as much. Basically anyone doing nontrivial engineering work has an opportunity to share in the profits of the firm at Jane Street. They don't need to be a quantitative researcher or trader.
> Unfortunately, in order to use a non-Kindle application, I have to buy DRM-Free books

No. All you have to do is own an old Kindle (buy one on ebay if necessary). Then you can download DRM protected Kindle files from Amazon for this old device, and Calibre and the appropriate plugin can un-DRM them, and transform them in any other format (epub, mobi, text, rtf...) for you to use on your app of choice.

It's certainly better to buy DRM-free books directly if you can find them, but the above solution works quite well.
It's not all that hard to find older generation pricing really... it's the same on every AWS product page. Many AWS products have thousands of older generation offerings which they don't want cluttering up the marketing pages.

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/previous-generation/

Also easy to see on the pricing calculator
> The page that he browser is hit with has ALL the content pre-rendered (sans CSS) in that first HTTP HTML response, and it behaves like a classical webpage henceforth until the moment that the interactivity bits are being hydrated which is deferred.

That is what Gatsby / Next.js do too. The issue is that deferring the hydration doesn't mean it is neither non-blocking nor quick. Once hydration is triggered, the browser gets blocked until it finishes. Of course, the speed of the process depends on the site and how much content it has. If you are building an e-commerce site, this will tend to be on the side of heavy (just the full menu structure, footers and such will be quite a lot already).

> but also doesn't take ages to become interactive.

The issue is that a regular old website can be interactive almost immediately. If you have a hydration process interactivity is inevitably delayed for any part that does require javascript to function... and also for the parts that don't, because the browser main thread is blocked for a while doing the hydration and won't respond to your inputs until it has finished.

If you don't believe me, open an incognito chrome window without any active extension, go to nuxt's own documentation site [1], run a lighthouse performance evaluation with the default settings (mobile/simulated) and see what scores you get.

In my laptop it is a 33 overall for performance, with 4.1s FCP, 9.2s TTI, 6.1s LCP and a total blocking time of 2.41s.

You can also test from https://web.dev/measure/, where I'm seeing a 57 overall (much better, but not good) with 3.5s FCP, 7.8s TTI, 4.9s LCP and a total blocking time of 500ms.

That is, the creators of this software have built a documentation site (i.e.: mostly text, very little interactivity) that doesn't get good performance scores. This, along with blogs, is the best use-case I can think of for the technology. And it doesn't perform good (according to Google's-defined objective metrics, not mine!).

[1] https://nuxtjs.org/guides/get-started/installation
Interestingly, ВК (vk in cyrillic) gives also 1 result.
I've been thinking about PII in this context.

If all data is secured by default, then the identification of PII is not about deciding to secure that data, it is about identifying where we might impose (and often this isn't required, but now we can consider it) additional UX burden or complexity in order to add _additional_ security.
I don’t think storm frequency is increasing, but the intensity of storms.
JWT Secured Authorization Response Mode for OAuth 2.0 (JARM)
I'm always amazed how inefficient cross industry pollination is. This was a major issue in aerospace for years (see Hudson River) and there are a number of solutions, one of the best being a high pulsing light on the wings. How has that not gotten pulled over to the wings of a wind turbine?
Yes! Even when I try to read the terms of service, I find them hard to understand. I feel bad because it’s sort of shame on me for agreeing to stuff blindly. User hostile is a good way of putting it.
Off the topic. I don't see many website using 3d transform feature of CSS. I think it should be explored more. Has much potential.
The reason is in the document, simply, because while the case is ongoing the judge wants to decrease, not increase, the difficulty in calculating damages.
The article's page had a terrible viewing experience. With js turned off, visiting the page shows content split across 12 columns with a single row that took up just a quarter of the screen's real estate. Given all this, and the nondescriptive title, I was not about to turn on js.
"standard" volumes are legacy. If you search for "previous generation" on a given service pricing page you'll usually find a link to the old stuff. In this case, https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/previous-generation/

Unless you're specifically looking for high-IOPS or massive HDD volume, you should just default to "gp2" SSD volumes these days.
Bit of a one-way thing though, you can't reduce the amount of storage allocated on an RDS instance without downtime (at least with Postgres)
Mine does not even have wifi. I prefer it that way.
What exactly is sane about figuring out how to make 200,000 contractors full-time employees inside of a week? I don't think there's a company in the world that could pull that off.

If a company says, "hey, we're a marketplace" and a court says, "actually, you're not" then the company has to figure out how to adapt. There's change and an emotional toll to the drivers in that scenario whether they become employees or not.
Are you arguing that users of MIT/BSD licensed software the world over are "at risk" of being sued by the copyright holder for patent infringement...? Big if true.
Another proof that Apple, by restricting use of alternative browsers, does not have a goal of security in mind but control.

> Does Apple permit iPhone users to set a browser other than Safari as the defaultbrowser?

> iPhone users cannot set another browser as the default browser. Safari is one of the apps that Apple believes defines the core user experience on iOS, with industry-leading security and privacy features.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web

Searching by putting region=Russia gives more results
That's the whole point --- to take away the top 5% power to buy their way into college via a fancier high school.
I love the term, "digital heirlooms".

Google Photos allows unlimited storage. As long as you elect to store the photos/videos at a slightly lesser quality. Which they still look great when browsing them.

Because of this, I've been able to index over 43,000 photos/videos of our family from the past 10 years. I tracked down every old laptop, phone, and external drive I could find, and grabbed the photos off of them to have them in one consolidated place.

With Facebook, you can even export your photos from FB to Google Photos directly. Here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/dtp/

Births, our wedding, soccer games, Christmas's, it's all there.

I'm hoping that the service lasts longer than my lifetime. :) And that I can pass down the URL to my kids.

P.S. The search for Google Photos is amazing - it recognizes faces, locations, events (e.g. concerts, weddings, etc), and even objects (e.g. red dress). It's everything that iOS Photos should be.

https://photos.google.com/
This is definitely an interesting project. I'll give it a shot with Chrome the next time I'm scouring Reddit or HN for information when I'm doing research for a project
https://personal-1094.web.app/gemrb.html

It's been ported to WebAssembly, too!
The images returned by the search look quite dodgy.
Higher extraction margin also means it is more worth DYI which creates another competitor long term. It is sort of an auction for the leading one. "Only one able to produce them at the same cost/with this delay." Change the cost and others may run their numbers and decide. "Get our rivals and backers on the phone and see if they are willing to fund a shared fab - together we can probably reduce our expenses fifty percent long term but we can't afford it on our own."
It is a popular site.

Atleast vk.com?
Harvard, Yale, etc. absolutely are claiming that they can separate the 2000th "best" student who gets in from the 2001st student who doesn't. If they wanted to fill their freshman classes entirely with valedictorians with perfect SAT scores, they have the applicant pool to do that.

My assertion is that there's no way for them to accurately make distinctions that fine. Much more honest to set some bar of "you must be at least this proficient to perform academically at Yale" and then pull names out of a hat containing everyone who meets that standard.

As it stands, the current admissions regime looks designed to reify class privileges in America.
React Unit testing components using Enzyme and Jest testing frameworks
Yeah, not a lawyer, yet I'm playing devil's advocate.

Your's is a fair statement of our state of affairs. All these content distributors rely on increasingly complex models of distributions that rely on people's lack of willingness (or ability) to comprehend what they are buying.
> COVID, politics

These two are intimately related, though none of them are related to hurricanes (well, wildfires and unusual hurricane behavior might have a common contributing cause in climate change, but that's pretty weak as a connection between specific individual events.)
This is covered in the terms of service (you read those before using the device, right?):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

That doc also includes instructions for how to opt-out of this collection:

> you may opt out of processing of your personal data relating to the use of your Kindle e-reader collected by the operating system of that device ("device usage data") for marketing and product improvement purposes via All Settings > Device Options > Advanced Options > Privacy. If you turn this setting off, we will stop processing this device usage data for the purposes of serving you customized marketing offers and improving our products and features. Turning this setting off will not affect... your ability to use features of the device, such as data syncing or backup features or Special Offers we display if you purchased a device that includes Special Offers, as we will continue to collect and process your data to deliver those features to you

I'm interested to see whether this sort of biometric/behavioural data will ever be thought of as Personal Data under GDPR (since I bet you can identify someone from their browsing behaviour, just like you can using walking gait and typing cadence). If that was the case you'd need to present an opt-in when you first booted the device, which I think would resolve the complaints from most folks in this thread.
I just tend to use non-Kindle applications/devices for this. It's always been extremely easy to get non-DRM ebooks into Apple's book reading app (formerly iBooks, now just Books, in Apple's ongoing quest to make most of their application names as boring as possible). Perhaps ironically this makes Books the "non-walled-garden" app for me.

The pitfall in all this, though, is that there are a lot of commercial books that are only available from publishers that use DRM, and personally I don't consider DRM a sufficient justification for piracy -- so that leaves me stuck with locked books regardless. Lately I've been buying them from Apple rather than Amazon, although if I actually jump through whatever hoops are required to set up DRM stripping with Calibre for Kindle books, assuming that's still possible, I may switch back.
How can epic develop the engine if they are banned form using Apple development tools.
Change region to Russia. There are lots of results.
Here's a mental model I've discovered that has been useful for me:

"Even if you have cleverly identified a second-order effect in the opposite direction, it doesn't mean it actually outweighs the magnitude of the first-order effect – you still have to check."
Cheapest house on the block is where the smartest people live.
A different one at that. But other 2-letter queries return normal sets of results.
The Elements of Style by Strunk & White offers similar advice: “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
The other reply to this covers it well. I'll just add one more thing. Some latest versions of the kindle app give you an edition of the ebook that can't so easily be stripped down with calibre. In these cases, a couple solutions exist: first, there's a certain plugin for calibre that does support DRM stripping, which can be installed to the calibre app (i'll try to find it and post here) and secondly (what I myself do), just download and install an old version of the kindle app for your desktop machine and download your purchases to that, they'll appear in their older format which can be DRM stripped via Calibre, and even converted to other formats like epub.

None of this by itself is promotion of piracy as far as I'm concerned, since we're just talking about gaining full control of the things we DID buy and paid for from Amazon, so I refuse to consider it "wrong" despite their tiresome efforts at DRM lock-in.
These results are not in the language I have my browser set to, so maybe it is filtering based on language.
Do you think the American government is able to defend Taiwan right now?

With China about 100 miles from Taiwan, I don't see how anyone could get close without mass casualties. China has the shorter and more secure supply lines. They could send an invasion force using numerous small water vessels in waters they could easily defend. In the end, the losing side would just destroy all the important places in Taiwan.
Monopoly laws are country based not global. Global market share means jackshit.
A couple months ago, this was happening for every search. Maybe this is similar.
MOST of the devices I buy the only SW that runs on it is from the manufacturer (either directly or indirectly).

The only devices I get SW from other sources is my computer, phone, and watch -- at least as far as I can recall. And while my computer is a Windows PC and my phone an iPhone - I have never once thought that I'd have access to more/better SW if the iPhone was more open like my PC.

I get what you're saying, but it is so far down the list of concerns for most consumers as to be a complete non-factor.
Presumably real large-scale events will also require a negative test result from participants in the near future. In that case, the study would be applicable.
What do the math or CS PhDs do at Jane Street? I don't know much about trading so I am curious.
If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.
>The fact that there’s no built-in element for things like dropdown menus is mind boggling to me.

You mean the select tag?
It would have been more of a victory if Apple followed through with the action, because repercussions would have hit far and wide.

Fortnite's entrapment move was powerful because Apple's actions are more exemplary than their threats.

Perhaps it's time for some major app makers to have a day or two where they pull their apps.
From the Kindle Store TOS:

> Upon your download or access of Kindle Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Kindle Content an unlimited number of times (for Subscription Content, only as long as you remain an active member of the underlying membership or subscription program), solely through a Kindle Application or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Supported Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider.

It's clickwrapped, of course. No doubt the argument would be that, whether you read this or not, you agreed to it as a legally binding contract when you "bought" a Kindle book.

I'd like to see it really tested in court, but I don't expect to. For that to happen would probably take a very high incidence of people's accounts and/or access to paid content being revoked for no reason, and as far as I know that doesn't happen anywhere near often enough to make it an issue under public consideration - not that it's other than wrong either way, but I would be surprised to see Amazon legal permit a tactical blunder that would risk the company being hauled into court and forced to behave as if they thought their customers deserved fair consideration.
Resonate with the meditation habit. Glad that meditation is becoming main stream and not something that only spiritual people do.

Everyone should try meditation atleast once.
You're retired as a CEO with plenty of investments by then
Their job is to plan for this kind of thing in advance. Just like Epic did with their weird video.
I spoke from experience, at my junior high school, a kid who was bullied mercilessly shot two of his tormentors and then himself. The administration overlooked the bullying issue at our school and has, ever since, worked very hard to pretend that such a thing never happened, despite the kid getting "swirlies" in toilets that had yet to be flushed. I heard the shots, watched the news crew vans pull up (our first clue that something had gone down), and so forth.

It's not a myth.
Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web

Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Because they use Yandex in Russia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/a7nl1v/duckduck...
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