skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello HN!

A couple of months ago I got frustrated with always having to copy and paste the titles of books posted on Twitter to find them on my local Amazon, since authors usually only post the US Amazon link. I also want to add books to my Goodreads to-read bookshelf, so I have to search for it there too.

So I built something that could solve this problem!

https://boook.link is a web-based tool for creating one single link / landing page for a book, so your readers can choose from which store to buy your book.

It also automatically converts the Amazon link to the reader’s local Amazon store.

Take a look at a couple examples:

https://boook.link/Severance

https://boook.link/Fleishman

https://boook.link/TheIdiot

https://boook.link/Sourdough

Here’s how it works:

1. Copy and paste your books ISBN

2. We automatically fetch all the information for your book

3. We generate links to all major book retailers

4. Customize any links you want, add your personal website and Twitter account

5. Get a cool shortlink like https://boook.link/Sourdough

6. Make your readers happy and increase your sales

Right now we automatically support the following stores:

Amazon
IndieBound
Bookshop.org
Apple Books
Google Play Books
Barnes & Noble
Abe Books
Book Depository
Alibris
Indigo
Better World Books
WorldCat (for local libraries)
GoodReads

For Amazon we can also add your affiliate tag automatically for each country. There’s also a built-in automatic Amazon link converter (similar to what geniuslink does) if you run a website with a large amount of Amazon links and want to convert them for your visitors automatically.
People dislike electron because they are using apps where it is not implemented well. Javascript is single threaded and blocks rendering when it’s executing, just like most major UI frameworks. You have to run everything outside the main UI thread and marshal data back to the renderer. In JS the furthest most go is using promises with async/await, which lets you not block during a long-running request, but the continuation callback is still executing within the same thread. If you implemented an app using a web worker internally and kept the main thread just dispatching events and doing quick render updates, it would perform amazingly well. CSS and JS are crazy efficient, there is no reason that an electron app can’t refresh at 144hz. The limitations are purely architectural. Most other UI frameworks put all deferred callbacks into a separate execution context and force martialing (eg in WPF, having to use dispatcher.BeginInvoke). JS doesn’t force this but is possible.

The ram usage is going to be higher than a native app, and so is the exe size. Those issues can’t be comparable. but the performance of the electron itself is not so poor as people believe. And a well written electron app can easily use under 200mb of ram, which is not an outrageous amount on modern systems.
What would be a universal solution to this problem? The only thing I can really think of is platforms not allowing custom domains for connected email accounts, but that seems sub-optimal.
Usually if it's already local, you don't mind localhost connections. If you do, you can negotiate a shared cookie or other auth mechanism. Otherwise, you should at least check the host header to prevent DNS rebinding attacks.
Nvidia Cloud Gaming Service, GeForce Now, Comes to Chromebook
> They can socially engineer a way in but does that work? Do people break down and give up their passcode?

https://xkcd.com/538/

The border patrol isn't really known for it's humanitarian works.
csh (tcsh?) used to be my default shell, and the current directory was first in the path. That was really convenient. At the time, I didn't realise the risks.
I'm imagining a green-greenhouse which covers all of it's energy usage with these panels.

Edit: heck, what about auto-glass?
I said that's what ketamine is used for. I never said he was on drugs, as I do not know that. I only said that it's not normal to need a bunch of people to hold someone down.
But Americans were controlled using fear even before 9/11.
Thanks for sharing your story. I truly wonder through, how much was it about your skin color vs.:

1. The professional attire and the fact that you pulled over and apologized.

2. The cop being busy with something else that's more important than busting a random pothead.
> The number of drug-addled, violent, danger-to-themselves-and-others people encountered in the US is unusually high and increasing.

The police have increased their recruitment numbers in recent years, yes.
> I'm really struggling to understand what's offensive about that. It's a good idea to have representation of those groups.

I can't speak for women, but why exactly is it a good idea to have representation of LGBT for the sake of representation? You seem to be implying that LGBT are somehow different than straight people from a job performance perspective which comes off as discriminatory even though your intentions are clearly positive.

If there is active discrimination against LGBT at a company, that needs to be immediately addressed. If you are making a product which is specifically catering to LGBT then you probably should have some on your team for design purposes and requirements generation. Otherwise, someone's sexual orientation has no bearing on job performance and really shouldn't be a factor for or against hiring them.
A decision 15 years ago contributed to Intel’s fall from grace today
From the abstract:

>up to +2.5% for basil and +35% for spinach

There's a reason for this: Spinach cannot tolerate mid-summer heat, and doesn't need full sunlight. Was told this by local organic farmers here in coastal SoCal -- and because my own backyard plantings turned yellow and died.
The common scenario is someone being arrested who is also is a state of excited/agitated delirium. Someone in that state will likely be combative but won't be able to comply with directions. Your only options would be to physically restrain the individual (which might be very difficult to virtually impossible depending on what you have on hand and how agitated the person is) or sedate them. The article implies that police are coercing paramedics into giving ketamine. I'm pretty skeptical of this. Any delirious person being treated by paramedics would be on the way to the ER for evaluation. The cops and the paramedics would be working together to ensure that the patient is safely restrained/sedated. But the paramedic would in essence be taking over control of the patient (likely with a police escort to the ER).
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Metaprogramming with Proxies
In my experience, it's http://localhost that is considered secure, but not http://127.0.0.1. This may have changed since I last checked.
They aren’t part of the UN force MINUSMA based in Mali though, afaik.
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minusma
> If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell
The vast majority of people in the US go throughout their entire lives having perfectly normal interactions with the police. This does not represent "normal" police behavior.

> The law doesn't exist at all.

This is just hyperbole. I bet you can find cases of police behaving poorly in any country.
Interdimensional Cable Box
Adblock is a far simpler and probably more effective solution than this, with a host of other benefits such as speeding up websites, whereass presumably this extension will slow down the browsing experience quite a bit. Given that, the only reason I can see for using this is if adblock was not doing a good enough job alone.
Well, we'll see when it's examined in court. I see no reason to assume that these particular cops overreacted, either, but yet here we are.

And for what it's worth, the reason could be that they overreacted--everything has a reason and I made no claims about what reasons that might be.
Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in new motion
A lot of that can be reduced by innovative designs, such as having a modular reactor when you can slide out the vessel(or some other sub set of the reactor, not a nuclear engineer here) with the spent fuel and slide in a new one. Then you can refuel the old vessel to be ready for the next swap. You can gain economics of scale if you build a lot of plants in a region with the same modular design and have a central refueling facility. (yes I know I switch from ships to plants, same benefits accrue though)
That’s a good point. I didn’t consider that, and now I’ll use this shortcut. If I had been at my computer I would have realized that immediately.
I'd argue about this but I think it's better if you watch the video I linked 2 comments up.
I've been looking at the infection rates in the US falling over the past few weeks, and I'm wondering if it's because we achieved herd immunity for the current r0, people changed their behavior when they saw cases rising, or fewer people are getting tested because with the lag in processing time, a positive result isn't actionable.
Apple proclaims to be on the side of consumers.

This behavior looks like anti-developer in many cases.

On one hand, Apple will lose some ability to say they are protecting consumer privacy if they open their phones to any software, android is proof of that. Someone else’s freedom is always someone else’s constraint.

I know many consumers benefit from being able to hand their grandparents a phone that will work smoothly and be updated for 5 years.
They're not liable for anything you tinker with. Same with gas cars which are just as dangerous
Individuals have more rights in the USA than almost every country on earth. EU is maybe stronger.
eh i don’t see anything wrong with this. some areas are beautiful and should remain that way. we have a ton of space in oregon and the us. tons of space that no one is ever going to care about. i think it’s ok for people to protect places that have interest and economic benefits
It wasn't the police who gave the med. It was paramedics.
This is the present day experience of wiping an iPhone and restoring it from iCloud. It’s really that simple, but in general it’s unencrypted
I don't know if you have actual experience with CAD design but machine time is definitely not free there.

Heh, actually I run a robotics company. There are multiple people working for me full time doing CAD design. I would argue that delays due to tedious input in an industrial fabrication context are more expensive as you are not just using human time but also blocking on supply chain and 'machine time' scheduling, and ultimately potentially all business expenses. For this reason I do not understand your point.
In france my country we drink lot of wine with our cheese !
At a minimum, I'm sure the the big paycheck and prestige would be enough to keep people's heads down and working, so they can focus on family and other things in life after work.
Many arguments for handling bad things often do not take into account the unintended consequences of that specific handling. This is one of them.

The lockdowns for Coronavirus is another. I don't know which way it actual falls (lockdowns still extended life expectancy or the reduced life expectancy) but I will be curious in a couple of years what the data will show us.

Some people are absolutely certain X will be the best way and either don't take into account the downsides or hand-wave away the concerns. I wish we could have actual debates to come to a solution instead of making it person or political ("YOU WANT TO KILL PEOPLE" vs "YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT PEOPLE"). But tis life I s'pose.
The Chinese Navy Just Transformed This Cargo Ship into an Helicopter Carrier
> 108,689 (95% posterior predictive interval [95% PPI]: 1,023 to 14,182,310)

So between 1000 and 14 million. Got it.
Your time is probably a bigger issue. Hard drives maybe average 200MB/s transfer speed, so a 10TB disk would take a little under 14 hours to image. I don't know about you, but I'm not too inclined to waste a day just to troll the CBP.
> "You can't make the games 20% cheaper and give 20% more to developers."

I'd have thought it would be self-evident from the phrasing that that two separate possible scenarios were being described.

> "Since the developers get to pick they will just keep that portion."

Being that HN is mostly developers, few here will regard that as anything other than a good thing. It's a particularly good thing among indie games developers, the majority nowadays, where the risk is high and the rewards usually slim.
Let's be real for a second. Climate change isn't going to destroy Oregon's wine-growing regions within our lifetimes. A solar farm will change it within months. You can support or oppose solar farm bans according to your liking, but you should do so on the basis of facts. The two forces aren't even close to equal in magnitude and timing.
They're very clearly not meaning an entirely different identity, but instead some sandboxed, non-personal phone space.
I saw this product earlier on HN. I use uptimerobot but it always looked a bit too simple to me.

So I just subscribed to the trial of pingr.io. It looks very complete. Also the early bird option is appealing.

There was a small bug and the founder already shipped a fix, on a Sunday. He definitely knows the hustle.

What's cool: it can also check for keywords and headers. I guess I could also use basic auth with it. Perfect to check on my backups, which are a behind a basic auth.
That statistic specifically refers to violent crime. The original poster is referring to mental illness and drug usage.

They are correct that occurrences of mental illness have increased over time: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190315110908.h...

As well as overall drug usage (one way to measure is via overdoses): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db329.htm
This was a common way to harvest 6-digit ICQ numbers back in the day. Hotmail, MSN etc. had expiring email addresses as well that you could register to reset the password to the ICQ number.
I’m not sure how you’re coming up with the development time estimates but personally I’ve found Qt to be fast to develop in, both Widgets (using designer) and QML. Hell, I mostly do React web UIs nowadays for various reasons, but I find QML a lot easier and faster than web UI’s, especially for layout (vs bootstrap style layouts as well as flexbox and css grid).
I believe soldiers have bullets with a lot more kinetic energy behind them than bullets fired by ordinary police guns; that said, I'm not a gun person, so maybe a police small arms shot is more effective against people than one fired by an assault rifle.

Besides, the policy I described is what (AFAIK) most of Europe implements at the moment (might be all of Europe even), including Germany. I don't quite see why stating that requires chutzpah.

That wasn't intended as a sanctimonious lecture at all, but since there already is a lot of "nothing less drastic could ever work" in the comments, I thought I'd give an example of another policy that works well. I'm well aware there is no police force or security apparatus without fault, they all get some things wrong (and some are outright atrocious, like in Belarus currently), not trying to make it sound like some EU police service is perfect. I don't know where the US police falls on that spectrum, though reading US news makes it seem like they do have some serious issues currently. This particular policy doesn't exactly help, either.
Trucking hell: Kid leaves dad in monster debt after buying vehicle on eBay
Isn't this almost universally the case for mobile data?
I think they got him confused with the officers that unloaded 20 rounds in a no-knock warrant, killing an EMT not involved in the investigation, and resulting in no evidence
> Ketamine is used in many places (the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Austria) by paramedics,

The original claim did not say anything about police. You interjected police. However, I searched for "australia paramedics using ketamine" in DDG. The first page was nothing but pages regarding Colorado. Page 2 returned a more relevant study of Australian paramedics using Special-K[0]. I then searched "canadian paramedics using ketamine", and again first page totally about CO with page 2 yielding relevant results[1].

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1742-6723.12...
[1] https://ajp.paramedics.org/index.php/ajp/article/view/763

Original claim seems accurate.
Why does discord even let users access dev tools? This is trivially easy to disable in prod builds. Seems odd. Is there a valid use case?
Covid-19 fatality rate “worst miscalculation in the history of humanity”
> "And compared to the music industry, 30% doesn’t seem that bad."

I don't really think pointing that other professions have it worse is a justification for abuses in our own.
> The vast majority of white people in the US go throughout their entire lives having perfectly normal interactions with the police.

FTFY.
1. If it is an inherent falsehood then striving for it will render its outcomes false.

2. Some ideas, some people, some foods, some air, some planets, some shoes, some economists, some...
I second wxWidgets. It can produce small executables, like 50K, that sport a complete modern UI. Just look for the AUX addition, that the more modern and customizable version.
Porn is to murder as romance is to self-defence.
Besides: nuclear power plants take up very little space. I really can't seriously people pushing solar, wind, and so on while they eschew nuclear power (and increasingly hydropower too).

Fake environmentalists: "We have an existential crisis! We must change our energy strategy to save humanity!"

Engineers: "That's quite a problem. Here's a way to solve it. It's called fission. Here are some power plant designs."

Fake environmentalists: "Nooo! Not that plan! This existential problem can be solved using only those technologies that agree with my aesthetics!"

It gets old after a while. If carbon-induced anthropogenic climate is a problem --- and I think it is --- then we shouldn't disparage good solutions on weak grounds in favor of solutions with serious problems. We don't need to devote swaths of land to solar and wind if we just build nice compact nuclear power stations.
Only after public outcry. What do you think would have happened if there weren't anyone watching?
Being detained and missing your plane while they do that in a slow bumbling fashion will be less lovely
Thank you!

Indeed, it was a bug.

I work on this product every day, and bugs is like an alarm for me, these I try to fix ASAP.
Facebook is reportedly testing a 'virality circuit breaker'
If you deliver email to a customer and you notice that it bounces, any account security flows requiring access to that email should be disabled. Additionally, you should never show the full email address or phone number that is being used for an auth challenge. Nonetheless, those defenses will eventually be compromised.

Beyond that, it is not a company problem IMO. One of the most common uses for custom domains is custom email addresses. If a website prevented me from using it, as you propose, I would be flabbergasted.
Generally speaking, mapping out an area in high quality requires imagery that was captured not only relatively close to the subject (flying at a few thousand feet vs on orbit) as well as capturing objects from multiple oblique angles. This requires intensively flying a "waffle fries" pattern over a subject area of interest with a plane with a bunch of cameras on it pointing in multiple direction. E.g. https://www.sanborn.com/oblique-imagery/

So - many orders of magnitude more expensive than just capturing satellite imagery.
On the user-side, using private email relays (i.e. Apple's Hide My Email, AnonAddy, etc) mostly eliminates this issue.
I generally agree with the rule and the reasoning given for it. But I think the worry about the "Fake" suffix here is missing a crucial point.

This is test code. In test code, the "business" at hand is exercising the production code. To put it another way, test code doesn't have the same business domain as the application code.

Therefore, in test code "Fake" is a domain-specific term, and it is perfectly appropriate as part of a class name.
The amount of opioids on the streets of the US (and elsewhere) is staggering. Many people are on a cocktail of different street drugs (meth + heroine where I live). You don't want to be adding a benzo like valium to someone who has opioids in their system due to respiratory depression.
>getting people to ask what is the absolute least amount of work I can do to validate an idea

This is even a problem in the sciences! Everyone wants to kick the can (getting feedback on their pet hypothesis from reality) down the road & play with their shiny, awesome tech/math in the meantime.

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley
The way that the areas that are now most resilient are the same areas with high population density which were hit very hard early on (NY, NJ, for example) tells me that we have somehow hit herd immunity. There is some evidence coming out that other coronaviruses (which cause the common cold) could have causes immunity in some unknown percentage of the population, meaning the percentage of SARS-CoV-2 infection required to reach herd immunity is much lower than thought.
I'm not a person living in a 7 figure property neighborhood, and the cops definitly make this worse.

If you want to know about how great the RCMP, you should read how nice they are to help local police departments to give free one-way tours into the forest at night in the winter to minorities, by very helpfully shielding them from the evil bureaucrats.
I said nothing of equal validity, that’s a straw man. I am saying that the Objective position is not real, and better to assess the subjectivity for its usefulness for a given problem.
cronjob to regularly check if the domain is expired/up for sale? The service "has this domain changed owners in a way it's relevant for logins" could even be turned into a SAAS startup... later to be extended to individual accounts (someone deletes e-mail acct, cancels phone plan, etc. then a new person creates a new one with just that name) One could strike contracts with all the e-mail providers and phone networks to tell via API when this happens and then send the info to services that use those accounts.
Actual paper:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
It sounds like you're saying the limit infringes on constitutional or human rights, and should be reduced, which I agree with. Your original comment said there wasn't much conceptual difference between the two systems, which I disagree with. Neither system is acceptable, but that doesn't mean they are the same.
I was wondering that too, but it says metres, and I'm not one to claim that another is lying. :)
Nothing really goes thru their heads. They are rational, not emotional and strongly believing in missions is an emotional response. They are estimating probabilities of how this is going affect the market, Google and them personally, and plan their moves accordingly. I doubt they have any emotional attachment to the company, and given how much they are in demand, they would barely notice if the company folds one day. Same story for investors: those are even more detached as they make rational investments often in competing companies. So nobody really cares, as you see.
Quantifying the Meritocratic Delusion
Sorry, conservatives do hate the poor. That’s an objective fact born out by their behavior, not my bias.
Love this and use it constantly. There's a useful Alfred extension too