skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: where does it say you're purchasing a license to read the book, and not a book? If it's buried in fine print, I'd say that's deceptive. If it says "buy this book" on Amazon, then customers have every right to expect they are buying books, not licenses.
What Startups and Space Rockets Have in Common
>Sync is opt-in.

https://www.epubor.com/whispersync-for-kindle.html

"And "Whispersync for Books" is enabled on Kindle Fire, Kindle devices and apps by default."

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/amazon-whispernet-work-58992...

"Whispersync is on by default in all new Kindles, but you can turn off the option on individual devices if you have multiple readers attached to your account."

https://ebookfriendly.com/how-to-disable-data-collection-kin...

"How to disable data collection on your Kindle or Fire device"
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Most of the areas where the fires are typically get a lot of moisture in the summer from the "marine layer" i.e. fog. Not sure if that was the case this year.
You're seeming to miss that it's a two-way street. All of those folks also want to be connected to the rich so that they can potentially get funding for whatever their idea/project is and get access to networks of the wealthy. These elite institutions provide an interconnection point between two different networks, the networks of the wealthy and the networks of the highly intelligent.

It is pretty much pre-ordained that those are intelligent and those who are rich will find ways to network with one another so that both of their causes are advanced. For the highly intelligent that might be getting funding for a startup idea. For the rich that might be having access to network effects to cement their political power base.

It's not that the current system is inevitable, it's that any deviations from the current system which may be possible are relatively minute when it comes to this particular facet. All of human history has told us so.
The article fails to explain and make a case of why it is worthwhile to read this long an article. The article seems more interested in weaving a narrative than reporting the salient facets in a succinct form.
From the article it didn’t seem like the arms dealing was illegal?
> Katrina used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event

uh, hurricanes have been hitting the southeast for hundreds of recorded years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurrican...
I think you might be over estimating how long things were shut down in Asia. Outside of Hubei, China had an extended Chinese New Year for a couple weeks (in February) and a longer post holiday ramp up. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan didn't shut down.

Pretty much any company that imports stuff from China would have already had additional supplies built up to cover the normal CNY shut down and ramp up so the supply chain issues were lower than if COVID had shut down China at a different time of the year.
FWIW, I gave your post an upvote, but I will nitpick this ever so slightly:

Wildfires make the news bc they are inconvenient, but largely impact rural areas.

The idea that wildifires are just "woods burning out in the middle of nowhere" is, if not inaccurate, at least incomplete. There is, in the United States, a substantial amount of what is called "Wildland / Urban Interface" zones where urban areas impinge on adjacent wildland areas. And homes and other structures being built in those interface zones are a huge problem when large scale wildfires break out. And while large-scale loss of life due to wildfires isn't commonplace, massive property damage is at times.

That said, I wouldn't classify wildfires as a "destabilizing" level problem. But the impact of wildfires should not be trivialized either.

Ref:

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildland%E2%80%93urban_interfa...

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314
I do agree about the tribalism issue and the fact if both sides would stfu, they'd realize how similar they are instead of desiring to split hairs.

But yes, there have been plenty of left wing terrorists. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez I think is the most famous one (Carlos the Jackal). Plenty of other ones, but he'd be the... Timothy McVeigh mixed with Bin Laden of left wing terrorism.

That and citing Vox is like citing Fox News. No. They're different sides of the same coin.

That and political science isn't a real science. Even the stuff I might agree with, it's all so warped in bias, I want to vomit.
But does it help you ship?
This[0] is a guide on exactly how to do it, but basically you install a Calibre extension[1], get your Kindle books (Calibre can automatically pull them from your Kindle, or you can download from Amazon.com), and import them. The plugin will strip the DRM as they are imported into Calibre.

[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/162994/how-to-strip-the-drm-from-y...

[1]: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-t...
There's more to shitty app behavior than just hardware-dependent data like location, and some of the enforcement can't really be done in software. Especially when it comes to workarounds/exploiting private APIs. Right now Apple can yank an app pretty much immediately if it's found to be doing that; if the app were in an alternate App Store, a much slower OS update would be Apple's only option.

Payments also come to mind: Apple has strict standards for what you have to explain to users before you take their money. (Granted they're not always perfectly enforced.) And some of the terms (like easy, clear cancellation) are enforced simply by the fact that you must use Apple's payment system. With another App Store, that goes out the window.
Agreed. I don't sneak up on the ant colony that's become too close to my house before I dispatch it.
> Specialization is a feature of global trade. Regions focus on specific industries to gain expertise and increase efficiency.

This is very comforting to regions that are specialized in high-cost, high-margin, high-technology products, and not very comforting to regions that specialize in low-cost, low-margin, low-technology products. The countries growing the bananas that go into your smoothies have specialized in growing bananas, but they aren't making any money from it.
If for example, the only one maker of particular brand of proprietary resist stripper

Is this an abstract example, or is this actually the case?
Russia fired missiles into Syria directly from Russia? That's wild. Would you point me to a source where I can read more about (and/or see) that?
I wouldn't be able to LIVE without the /reminder flow! I used to live in email and had a few tools that did this and was a power user! But now I work in a place that is all slack for internal comms so I was excited to port that over!
And now you're into subjective territory where it's easy to condemn due to inexperience with their propaganda. I'll point out your own by reminding you that you started off with an assertion that they did not have constitutions at all, as if constitutions are some magic thing that assures freedom.

My suggestion is that it's better to focus on the myths and failings of your own government, as they directly affect you.
> Why?

> If a bridge is built wrong and kills people when it collapses, someone must be at fault.

1. We mostly know how to build bridges that don't collapse. We do not know how to create software that doesn't contain bugs. Even with the most intense scrutiny.

2. Software exists along a gradient between casual to critical, whereas all structural/civil engineering is of critical importance. It simply makes no sense for society to force you to analyze your Excel formulas as intensely as a civil engineer analyzes a bridge.
> A good device just had an option "sync usage data to Amazon account"

The Kindle has an option to "sync last page", which you can turn off -- that sounds like it could be exactly what you're asking for, but more experimentation would be needed to know for sure.

I didn't see any mention of this config in the OP, aside from mentioning that the feature exists, so it's unclear whether the data being sent is used just for that feature, or whether less data is sent if the sync feature is turned off.
Likely because you haven't encountered it since junior high school. It's not uncommon notation in pre-algebra and occasionally beginning algebra.
Hey, 2k, that's a pretty good deal! :)
B/c in that case Apple would be doing what the haters erroneously claim they do now: making 100% arbitrary/capricious decisions when it comes to the App Store walled garden.

As those of us who target iOS know, they're not transparent, but it's not arbitrary. Thank god. We'd never hear the end of unsolicited opinions about the Touch Bar and HN's annual subscription to the year of desktop Linux.
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> I, too, am wondering how people are affording these houses.

They have normal middle-class jobs.

A pair of professional salaries almost anywhere should be able to afford a $250K mortgage.

I think most middle-class people wish their mortgage was only $250K.
Taking away and revoking are the same. The legal work is revoke, they're revoking Epic's license to use MacOS and iOS development tools. That was beyond the scope of the violation, which was an App Store rule violation. The goal of that move was to prevent Epic from even developing non-App Store content, which I don't think anyone could not foresee it affecting other developers, which I'm fairly sure was the intent. I think they overstepped their contractual recourse for the intent of trying to force epic back to the table, because Epic wouldn't want to lose all their iOS customers.
I'm not sure those are good examples. MySQL lives on with a different name (MariaDB). X11 is currently being replaced by GPL implementations of Wayland, in the form of Kwin and Mutter.

As far as I know there were never any serious attempts at making GPLed alternatives to Apache httpd, nginx and BIND.
I would imagine asking "When you approach a problem, do you apply any techniques to evaluate any cognitive biases that might be applicable" would elicit some sort of response without upsetting people.

I don't know how important this is for most line employees. As a code monkey, I rarely have some strong bias besides "Angular is my personal preference over React" which immediately leads to "Well, should we use React anyway because the team knows it better and blah blah."
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> And who do we have to thank for that turn? Apple's culture that "we know better" is a good part of that problem.

This culture did not start at Apple. It has been predominant tech culture since at least the early 2000s and is absolutely pervasive in the Linux Desktop community.
I wouldn't expect to start seeing evidence for a COVID baby bust, or the lack of one, for a good few months yet. Of obvious necessity, birth rate is about a nine-month trailing indicator.
this area of industry is perhaps the most interesting- the firms doing research and at the forefront of chipmanufacture, but in the lay tech press doesn't get a lot of fanfare. Are there good links to write-ups about how this industry is structured, etc? The only other company I know about is ASML who makes the EUV lithography machines...
MicroE is the sub-specialty that deals with IC production. EE has its own problems but there is far more opportunity than working in the shrinking number of fabs.
And here’s the repo: https://github.com/stewdio/handy.js
Fitbit launches a $330 Apple Watch competitor
In general the reason for migration as a lifestyle instead of being sedetary is because they can't stay in place. The "jet-set" or even "RV lifestyle" are deep anomalies of those who don't have that concern.

If there was a year round harvest they wouldn't be migrant workers. It brings to mind a "silly stopgap" solution mix of paying people in low wage countries to operate farming drones to subsitute for the AI in spite of the cost of building the body being higher and the infastructure and tools required to control a bot not corresponding with migrant farm worker origins.
Now if only the courts would apply the same "sanity" to, say, Uber threatening to fire all its drivers if they're subject to regulation. Not just in california, it's been a repeated thing, they used their employees as leverage when they were threatening to take their ball and go home if Dallas made them do background checks too.

The sad part is that Epic's tactics are nothing out of the ordinary for these silicon valley giants, they love using innocent parties as emotional leverage in a fight to pad their profit margins by another couple percent.
do you remember when he put a whole section at the end of The Dilbert Future that was basically The Secret? :D
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Firestorms are not the meandering fires that have long been a natural part of ecosystems.

Are you saying firestorms don’t happen naturally? I don’t know how to interpret your comment.
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I think lots of people believe that single family homes are bad due to increased dependence on cars, less public transit, and general wastefulness
i think someone figured out how to include their own javascript inside the website i got two alert boxes when i opened the page.
I remember reading that article too. When I saw the news about Katrina, I was blown away to learn that nobody had addressed any of the issues yet.
I do not know if it is very difficult to understand. Next food/ clothing delivery startup with a webpage and mobile app : Buy. Cutting edge Wall street firm : Build.
Lol. I am just reading a novel set in the future and where our current period is referred as such, because, at the end of this climate crisis and huge extinction event, humans decide to restore the biosphere to its last post-glacial state. The notion that the Anthropocene could end is interesting though, it may be a happy (like in the novel) or a scary end.
I hope so.

Old firefighting techniques have build up vast caches if flammable material that we cannot afford to remove by any other means than forest fires.

Changes in firefighting tactics should mean that once an area has burned, the next fire should be less severe, however the burns will take much longer to recover than they should.

Any time sequoias survive a fire is good news twice over. One, the danger for them in the next fire is diminished. Two, they now have space and the opportunity to reproduce, which is something we have been systemically denying them for generations.
I'm sick to death of being told what views and feelings I should hold because of the amount of melanin in my skin. Sweeping generalizations such as this are as racist as anything else.
Likewise. Been using ZFS for over 10 years. Been through intermittent controller faults, backplane faults, cabling faults on a variety of ZFS, ext, and NTFS systems.

The one time I lost data from a ZFS system (which was a faulty controller silently writing garbage to multiple disks in the array), ZFS told me exactly which few files were uncorrectable, and I was able to restore them from backup.

Not one single second of doubt as to which storage system I want my data on.
it ain't all butterflies and beehives in the state of Florida.
Sunda Pichai was a material engineer without a CS background and then joined Google as a product manager.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

So unless I’m missing something he does not have a CS background or software engineering experience, and, presumably, was yet able to acquire at least some understanding of computing.
>Depends on who you ask.

I mean, you can make the same argument with "the earth is flat... depends on who you ask". At least when it comes to the Taiwan (the island) I don't think there's any doubt that the ROC government has a monopoly on violence there. They also have their own military, police force, and collect their own taxes, independent of the PRC.
Right, that's the big change -- now the current platforms of both parties include nuclear energy
What If Technology Belonged to the People?
I was a software engineer, then I went into sales engineering for 8 years, then I went back to engineering.

The specific job role of a SE vary quite a bit by company. Some SEs are always tied to a salesperson, and some are given free rein to "sell". Another dimension that varies quite a bit is how much time you have in the office in preparation vs. meeting with customers.

(As an aside, I'm curious how Covid is impacting sales these days. I used to fly 6 plane segments a week as an SE.)

The biggest skills are speaking, listening, and thinking on your feet. Reading people and understanding whether points are landing is super important.

There's a performative aspect to sales which is quite different than a typical engineering job; it is somewhat akin to doing whiteboard interviews for a living.

The nice thing about sales is everything is tactical, and there's little long term planning. The downside is everything is about closing stuff for the quarter, and every new quarter is a clean slate.
> But “left wing extremism” isn’t on the top of the FBIs of list domestic terrorism threats.

Extremism (on either side) is absolutely on the top of the FBI's list of domestic terrorism threats.

This was from a hearing on August 4th;

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/us-attorney-erin-nealy-...

Watching what's been happening in Portland every night for ~90 days now, or even what's just happened in Kenosha, I would be surprised if it wasn't the top of the FBI's list.
Isn't this a case where the GDPR would come in handy?
She could demand a transcript of all data Amazon has collected on her. Under the GDPR Amazon can not refuse.
This data should contain the reason why her account was closed. If there is an error in the data, you can demand a correction. Under the GDPR Amazon can not refuse.
If the data does not give a valid reason for closing an account, it must be incomplete. A GDPR violation!
Punishment for GDPR violations are rather severe, I doubt any company would take the risk.
I’ll summarize the book in one sentence so you don’t have to read it:

‘When talking to customers, ask about their current behaviors rather than hypotheticals (e.g., ‘would you buy this’).’

I have 20 years of experience in conducting customer discovery interviews professionally, so I found the information in the book to be incredibly simplistic and sometimes misleading or incorrect. I get frustrated every time I see it recommended as some kind of bible for startup founders doing discovery...
Curious, what actual value do they contribute to society?
Cool investigation. Thanks for sharing. Have you analyzed what data Marvin collects in each session? Before switching I'd want to see a comparison.
Don't current laser systems require a pre-marked target and a stationary laser to be effective?
Indeed, just repeating what people say about an event may be factual, but without any concept of what is actually true, it can’t be considered objective.

If one side is lying, objective reporting would tell you which side it was.
> On the other hand wages in China have shot up and the huge pool of cheap rural labour is mostly tapped out.

I would have no problem with that if it didn't happen at the cost of American worker which it clearly did.

> Employment in the US and Europe was rising, and came close to 100% before the Pandemic.

You can thank the "nationalistic" trade policies of Trumps USA towards China for that. In Europe on the other hand (which had no such policies) unemployment especially in the periphery was and is still sky high and the situation was looking pretty grim also before the pandemic.
Something more similar to the Google or Bing search results for "VK"?
There’s never been an article or post or anything written about VK ever?
> I mean, we have Cold War studies of all of that

And I read much of them, and what I wrote above is a restatement of what I read.

> Your bombers can drop a single full payload, after which they will have no bases left where they can return to reload.

Yes, but even this will likely be enough to bomb biggest C3 centres, bases, stockpiles of food, ammo, and fuel. Just enough to ensure 1.) initial shock, and C3 paralysis, 2.) making sure that the adversary will be running on the leased time too.

Even at the height of cold war, each side had at most 10 strategic level stockpiles. Without them, the huge force would've ran out of supplies from regional bases in under 6 month.

> after being on the receiving end of a nuclear strike your ability to deploy and supply a massed overseas invasion is destroyed,

If you have your entire tank, and mechanised force on the go, and one leg on foreign soil already. It doesn't matter. The enemy will either have to nuke own cities captured by your force, or contest them with conventional force. Similarly, they will have to either set their equally diminished supplier on fire to deny them to invader, or have to contest them.

> All your soldiers and commanders know that if they invade and win, then their families and their homeland will die anyway.

Yes, it requires one to be a madman to accept such "victory." Especially if you already are a somehow major power, as you know that in today's free-for-all world, a third power will swoop in to claim spoils in no time. But think of it as a "counter-MAD," or "asymmetric MAD," or "madman's MAD"
It's frustrating that such an obvious solution to this problem exists. Logging will create jobs, stimulate the economies of rural towns, help the forest ecology.

Imagine this: what if we could create a biomachine that pulls CO2 out of the air and turns into carbon bricks. Now imagine that we not only have this biomachine but we have a use for all of these bricks. People want them really badly. So there is a huge incentive to speed up the process of pulling the CO2 out of the air.

We have that. The biomachines are trees, the bricks are wood, and the industry is logging. Why people who claim to care about the environment are opposed to it is baffling.
perhaps other pages that link to VK or are about VK in some way?
I disagree, I think there'll eventually be huge demand for these kinds of frameworks and wrappers compared to "plain old Kubernetes", much like how a high percentage of developers are hungry for something to use on top of plain JavaScript. I could even see the demand eventually surpassing demand for Kubernetes itself. Kubernetes offers a ton of modern advantages - even for pretty small projects - at the cost of a huge amount of complexity and required learning.

If you can get the advantages plus something simpler than Kubernetes or homebrewed solutions with Docker, then I suspect a gigantic market will form. I think it's just a question of if it'll end up being this particular implementation, or an alternative one, or a full-on standalone competitor to Kubernetes designed for simplicity. We're still in the very early days.
Be aware that by default it will be very aggressive about updates; after installing you immediately need to disable automatic update in settings, and be wary thereafter of surprise upgrade request prompts at startup and during usage.
Just for clarification -- is this something that actually turns off the collection itself?

I'm seeing conflicting things online that range from "just hit this toggle and you're good", to "you can disable some of it, but not all", to "this only opts out of data processing for ads/analytics".

If there really is an option to disable the collection entirely, then that would mitigate a large number of the problems I have with that practice. Of course I'd love for it to be opt-in, but just giving the option would still be better than many other devices like Smart TVs.
Root access used to be a concern for me, but it became much less useful when Xposed had to enter the cat-and-mouse game against SafetyNet. And now that unlocked bootloaders can't be hidden from SafetyNet, I don't even bother with root. And because of that I've been considering just switching to the next iPhone and going all in on Apple's ecosystem.