skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've switched from Paperwhite to Kobo (Aura I think?) and the highlighting feature is really making me miss my Paperwhite.

1. I can't highlight text across pages.

2. There's also an issue in which I navigate to some highlight and the text gets shown in a dark grey against black background, making it nearly impossible to read.

3. Since I can't highlight text properly (thanks to issue 1), I can't simply extract my highlights from a book, so I have to manually type it on a laptop, which is a painful experience thanks to issue #2.
It remains unclear what, exactly, NGS would do to justify its cost (even if it drove to nearly free). It's been sold as a health panacaea for decades and has proven to not be that, repeatedly. Some gene tests are useful but it's clear that most disease phenotypes require much deepeer analysis than we are currently able to apply.
I don't think they can - if they do this, Kindle would not be allowed in airplane cabin.
In the same way, though, that you can suggest I work somewhere else, I can suggest that you run your app business on another platform, so that doesn't seem to advance the argument very much? Plenty of folks make a living on the web or by selling Windows or Linux software.

Having choice about some things is better than not having one, all around. But some people choose (!) to delegate their choosing to others in certain fields. For example, the choice of whether to purchase safe meat or unsafe meat is a bad choice to have. It's doubly bad if you aren't skilled at determining the safety quality of meat. That's a choice I'm happy to outsource to a third party. Similarly, I'm happy to outsource a variety of choices about app terms of use to Apple.
TSMC is the center of the universe for chip fab. AMD, NVidia, Qualcomm, and Apple all rely on their manufacturing. Doesn't this create a systemic risk especially with Taiwan's ties to China?
Fire vs firestorms.

A slow moving, low fuel burn is very good for the forest. A fast moving, extremely hot firestorm will burn everything to bits and destroy the ecosystem for decades.

Redwoods, and other plants and trees cannot survive a firestorm. This is the problem with our forest fires these days. They are too hot because the fuel is both dry and overgrown and condensed into non-natural areas. When we build so many homes and cities in the forests, we change their natural make-up and put everything at risk.
It’s called the terms of service?
First thing that came to mind was the WKRP Turkey's Away incident.
As your previous link mentioned, not all of Africa is equally sunny. But really the difference is that people with darker skin need to spend more time in the sun to get enough Vitamin D. At least one source says folks with very dark skin need six times as much sunlight as those with very light skin. I've seen 3 hours daily recommended before as well. It's going to be challenging for an urban person at any latitude to get that much sunlight in a typical day.

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/articles/2018-07-18/how-m...
But if you are the only company in the world that can produce chips good enough for iPhone CPU's, you could have 600% margins and Apple would still buy from you rather than let someone else take the crown of fastest smartphone...
Twitter is much worse than HN or Reddit about this. The author hits the nail on the head that Twitter in any news- or article-sharing context is about dunking on headlines. Read the headline, tweet a one-liner reply or quote.

I don't think users are entirely to blame; this is what the app incentivizes. So for Twitter I don't think there's much hope in asking people to read articles. It's like wondering why people aren't reading your 8 paragraph Instagram caption- that's not why people use the app, and the app does not encourage using it in that way.

However I do empathize with authors who dedicate years of their life on academic work, only to have someone post it to Twitter with a 1 sentence jab and that be the most common level of familiarity with the work their "readers" have.
HCQTrial.com: Astroturf and disinformation about hydroxychloroquine and Covid-19
Rethinking the App Store
Don’t forget countless horrific things content moderators have to read and see so that you can enjoy your experience.
The point is, Asana has 300 people, but with a SaaS model, their clients need less IT staff than with an in-house server. If Asana has 10,000 customers, they’ve just reduced IT personnel costs across the industry with 300 Asana employees, which is almost guaranteed to be a net cost reduction for the industry.
One reason is value. They produce so many, the quality is decent and the price is subsidized so it's artificially low.

Why is it subsidized? Obviously to make it more fun to buy books, but also collecting valuable data on your reading habits. Obviously they know _what_ you're reading but it seems useful to them also to know what you bookmark etc.

They also have all the hardware they need for location history tracking by remembering wifi broadcasts seen. Is it known if that's being uploaded?
Cloud Solutions Reference Architectures
Thanks! I wasn't aware about it being a fraud.
Mengele was a monster that had no scientific ground for his 'experiments', they were just torture in disguise.

Medical ethics has evolved a lot in the last couple of decades after numerous cases came to light that retrospectively showed that harm was being done to people, in many cases without their consent or any level of transparency about what the experiment was about.
Looks super interesting. I'm curious how this can handle conditional logic like Helm supports?
Terraform takes a more infrastructure-centric approach and its strength is typically for provisioning infrastructure such as putting up a K8s cluster, etc. than for deploying apps (although you can). Whereas HyScale is aimed at defining higher-level entities in a language that developers understand intuitively without any extra learning curve.

HyScale also aims to reduce the amount of abstraction leakage by dealing with aspects of troubleshooting and runtime operations as well. So this application-centric abstraction enables self-service deployments as well as development on K8s with minimal IT/DevOps intervention.

For more, see: https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/wiki/App-centric-Abstract...
It's replaced with Kindle Create:
https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Create/b?ie=UTF8&node=18292298...
Yeah, every single academic conference has gone virtual for the entire year. I can't leave the state and come back without having to quarantine for two weeks. Long-distance travel is down.
The original architectures are based on Google's offering by many of them generalize well beyond GCP.
There's a whole body of thought around this under the concept of no-self in Buddhism. If the concept of self is an illusion, then trying to build an identity around it is futile.
Oh this is nice, have been looking at this project for a while as I love the IE games.
Totally worth it. I'm currently earning around four times a senior software engineer salary, and I've got plenty of free time. Overall my average earnings over the whole 15 year period have been double what I'd have been getting in a day job.
Prop-Driven Cardboard RC Car Doesn’t Skimp on Performance
Some time back I was looking at a commercial building/space for a personal music studio which would be only for myself, not teaching etc. I was shocked at the prices for even sub-par buildings. If you think homes are expensive, buying a commercial space is even higher in major cities.
Japanese Language Datasets for Machine Learning
Significant hurricanes are not rare. Significant hurricanes landing in places that expose massive vulnerabilities in American infrastructure (the levees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_levee_failures_in_Great...) are more rare and lead to catastrophes like Katrina.
Intel who? If you read comment from anonymous ex intel engineer it was kind of predictable anyway.
Agree. Opt out at the minimum. How did software and features ever get done before telemetry?

Efficiency is not always the best humanistic approach. So maybe they support unused features and maybe they let some features wither that lots of people like. Maybe it would make things cost a little more. I think people would be ok with some of those inefficiencies.
Covid is the only destabilizing event, and it looks as though the US system of decentralization resulted in a variety of outcomes, but overall non-destabilization.

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

Hurricanes are local events that cause damage, but US building codes largely prevent loss of life. Katrina is still a once in a lifetime event due to the flooding caused by failed levees.

Political tension is nothing more than the rise of news entertainment. The two political parties are extremely similar. In 4 months or 4 years, Trump will be out of office and the news entertainment business will manufacture other controversies.

The 3 big ‘problems’/destabilizing factors in the US are, student loans, massive prison pop, a great, but vastly overpriced health care system.
Not all fires are created equal. While fires are a natural part of many ecosystems, many of today’s fires are more powerful and become “ladder fires” where a build-up of fuel on the ground causes the fire to reach the crowns and cause severe damage to even fire-resistant species.
This, except unironically. I am just one person, who has no leverage whatsoever against companies using dark patterns and scamware. I like having someone with sufficient leverage fighting in my corner.

If you don't want that, that's totally fine: Android is right over there.
There are some features in software I rarely use. But those times I do use them they are utterly essential. If I find such feature has been removed I am incensed.

Usefulness is NOT the same as usage.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200825074518if_/https://cdn.web...
I think Apple thinks they're going to lose, so they tried to apply as much pressure as possible to get Epic to settle prematurely. I can't see why else they would have done it, it just strengthens Epic's case.
> TSMC is the center of the universe for chip fab. AMD, NVidia, Qualcomm, and Apple all rely on their manufacturing. Doesn't this create a systemic risk especially with Taiwan's ties to China?

It does, and that's not only TSMC, or even fabs as such.

Taiwan is a source for a many single vendor semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and consumables. Taiwan going down means the semiconductor industry as such, globally, going down for a few years at least.
Very different things.
Fair enough. How do I turn it off?
What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors
Our highest growing app was launched over 3 years ago so there wasn't much competition in that specific space. Lately we have had a lot of copy cats (even taking the exact same name).

Our goal is always to be improving the apps and adding features that the copy cats just can't do. We invest a significant amount of time in improving the apps.

No doubt we have lost some market share to the competition but it only motivates us more to keep on improving.
Comrade Detective was funny and might simulate that perspective.

"You don't become a good communist by going to meetings. Or memorizing the manifesto. You do it with your fist."

Comrade Detective: "You're telling me the purpose of the [Monopoly] game is to drive your fellow citizens into poverty, so you can get rich? It's diabolical."

American subversive: "It's just a game. Nowadays the West finds it as a useful tool to indoctrinate young children into the capitalist system."
I'm in New Jersey, not Texas, but I can attest that the storms have gotten worse. We're also getting more tornadoes here when that was unheard of 20-30 years ago.
I'd say that I'm less defending absolute monarchy, and more defending the rule of law against the Hobbesean state of nature, with all its caprice and cruelty.

For example, if Apple conducted plebiscites of its users and used those plebiscites in informing its collective bargaining with developers, I think that'd be fine. That would force Apple to articulate the value proposition of the positions it takes.
Nah, before it becomes real MMT we have to actually keep up the trend of taking the cheap money and spending it fiscally, not just giving out cheap loans. Right now we've got the HEROES Act stalled in the Senate and the CARES Act has largely run out, so we're back to Great Recession era "haha money printer go brrr".
Fastest News: Best Performing News Website
This statement - "None of these requests appear to be used for customer features like last read location." - bugs me, because it's fairly obviously false, and detracts from the real concerns.

To sync a "last read page" across devices, you need to send a location back to Amazon. It's also appropriate to tie a location to a device, so you can pick the appropriate device to sync your position from. And, when you highlight a word, the translation, definition, and wiki page is brought up, so of course it's being sent to bing and wikipedia.

There are valid concerns here (there's too much information being sent overall - the location data doesn't need to be sent with every page turn, for example), but these concerns are being buried behind FUD about none of this data needing to be transmitted.

EDIT: Can I also point out the ironic nature of griping about Amazon's analytics collection while running an analytics suite on the webpage yourself?

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They can, but they don't
Worked on something like this, a learning process of regional image identification some 15 years ago.

I’d be curious how well it would work with various shade of colors.
/PC
> I've had many free lunches myself

So the other part did not want anything from you, what was the purpose of the free lunch then?

Not sure why you are looking at download costs, how about the employee costs who develop IOS.

If you googled those business models you will understand that there is no free lunch, similarly there isnt one with IOS, you pay for it when you buy the device.

> Because Apple has to support the devices it says it supports & they don't run acceptably.

No that is not true, Apple has no problems when IOS does not run "acceptably", infact they make it a feature so that IOS runs slow on older phones so that people will buy new phones to pay for IOS. That is the kind of shady behaviour Apple has to do when IOS is not free.
I agree that experimenting on humans is unethical. Actually, let's put that a little more strongly... it's fucking evil.

That said, people are going to congregate in groups, including large groups, no matter what any government says or does. It's not something governments can realistically prevent. A varying but significant percentage of the population of any country will simply do as they wish regardless of the risk to themselves or others.

So if they're going to do it anyway, shouldn't we at least learn something from it?
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The bay area should be renamed Social Media Valley. Hardly anyone there cares about fabs.
Does the dictionary feature still work? It's the main reason I bought a Kindle.
Do you mean their potential for war with China? Yes.
Good answer, thanks
Whether you like it or not this collection does lead to better products - that is why you think every company does it because those that don’t usually die out. Understanding your users is vitally important.

Privacy LARPers are a tiny segment of the market, the average person doesn’t really care if their ‘usage of the highlighter function is tracked’
Only a matter of time before devices come with 5G data connections...
I don't believe the current administration are capable of mentally processing the prospect of losing, let alone that they want to lose.
Epic knowingly, intentionally, and publicly defied Apple's rules. In response Apple "threatened" exactly what they threaten every single other company doing the same -- to suspend or terminate your developer accounts if you don't remediate the issue. There is absolutely a basis for it, it certainly isn't "unrelated", and trying to attribute motives like spite or having a "temper tantrum" is baseless nonsense.

The court has blocked it because there could be greater harm in the short term (although that is grossly overblown -- the UE wouldn't stop working in the short or even medium term), but don't be confused into thinking this isn't a completely rote, normal response.

>The fact that fortnite is built on UE doesn't have any significance here.

You understand that Fortnite and UE are made by the same company, right? The canard that it has anything to do with what engine Fortnite uses is absurd noise.
ToS are effectively useless for this purpose.

If the industry moved to a standardized disclosure form (e.g. something like the HUD-1 [1] in real estate sales), people would stop complaining about this.

[1] https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/1.PDF
The Founder List
This filing looks like it has a ton of red flags about the way Asana is running their company. As an example, one of the images tries to highlight Asana's timeline and their achievements [1]. One of the things they mention is opening an international office with ~100 employees and <11k customers. Based on their current figures of 75,000 paying customers and revenue of $142,606,000, you would expect a revenue of ~$19 million for 11k customers. Why is a company with 100 employees & <$19 million in revenue opening international offices? Likewise, why is the company spending 74% of revenue on sales and 63% on R&D? How are they managing to lose 83% of revenue? It seems like the company has 0 responsibility with how they spend their cash and beyond that, it's unclear whether they even have a path towards profitability if they're spending 75 cents on the dollar just to make a sale and throwing almost $100 million at R&D every year. Despite substantial revenue growth y/y (~70%), they've managed to outpace it by growing losses twice as fast at ~140%. It seems like the company has a pretty good product and a great gross margin as well as good revenue growth, but I don't see them becoming profitable with their current management -- it seems like the folks in charge right now have no clue how to run a successful business and will just throw money away as soon as they're given it.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000119312520...

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional investor and I'm not familiar with Asana's business
The most successful creative mobile app ever, Procreate (the #1 paid app in the iOS App Store) employs about 20 people. Adobe employs over 20,000.

You can say more individual developers are making money (at the expense of individual companies), but with the way things are going, we'll never see industry transforming apps like Illustrator, Ableton Live, After Effects emerge from this model.

The main impact the pricing race to the bottom has had on powerful software is that its shifted from a “one-time price charge to and individual” model, to a “subscription price charged to a company” model, e.g., Adobe CS, Figma, Notion, Office, etc...

I suppose there are people who think this is all well and dandy, but to me it’s the biggest step backwards for innovation in our industry since I started my career.
They also should be blasted for forbidding competing browsers all this time.
I really don't think it is a problem of "being difficult for non-techies".

I think that techies gave up on it. Even techies want to chase metrics, taking whatever shortcuts they can to build an audience, "growth hacking" and that includes playing the game by the rules of Big Tech.

As an example: I am working a lot with the blockchain/web3 community the past years and every company/project uses medium for writing their articles, have a strong Twitter presence and rely on Reddit for forum announcements. Nowadays it's getting worse that a lot of projects are adopting Discord for group chat. If even the uber-techies and supposedly defenders of decentralized are giving up on fundamentals of the web, why would the non-techies?
What irks me about it is that Amazon doesn't give me access to that data.
I had to look up the "heads up" phrase a few years ago and IIRC it is a warning from baseball.
It's slightly misleading to say that there were better yields for 5nm than 7nm because according to the graph in the article the yields have been almost exactly the same, maybe slightly lower. The article's assertion that the defect rate is a key metric seems dubious since it seems to have been roughly the same for the last three generations of chips and thus kind of a nonfactor. But in fact low yield rates were the reason Intel famously had to delay its 7nm processes. The fact that defect rates have been kept roughly constant seems to suggest they can go even further into 3nm processes, but this is the problem with extrapolating from graphs with too little data - at 3nm they'd run into very challenging physical limits and it's not clear we'll ever get a 3nm chip.

It is amazing to me that we can achieve such low defect rates on projects so complicated as highly brain-insecure sticks of meat that evolved to hunt and forage. Under the principle of radical skepticism the true defect rates could be much higher.
Shot by cops, thwarted by judges and geography
How many stores are allowed on Apple's ecosystem?
Sorry to hear that. I hope this helps you, as I know how scary and frustrating that is. How many IUs were you taking? I seem to be fine on <= 1000IU taken periodically, but 5000IU daily was too much for me.
Will this make a place like Hawaii that relies on tourism more affordable or less?
I’m a synthetic biologist and here’s my review of ‘Biohackers’ on Netflix
That's a sensible approach, but sadly Kobo probably does something similar for those who are less savvy than you:

> We collect Personal Information when you use or otherwise interact with the Kobo Services. For example, we collect information about how you use the Kobo Services, such as pages you view, the rate at which you consume e-content (how often and for how long), genres, authors or subject matter you prefer and searches you make or share, the ebooks or audiobooks you have liked, comments you have left and also websites you have viewed through links in the comments. [1]

It's depressing that the market will not stomach the true cost of "dumb" hardware anymore, so it's becoming harder and harder to find. Everything that can be subsidised with hoovering up data, or pushing content, is. If this is the thin end of the wedge, I dread to think where we're heading.

I have an 2010 Kindle Keyboard and naively thought that we wouldn't end up here. The closer we got the less likely I am to "upgrade".

[1] https://authorize.kobo.com/terms/privacypolicy
> The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white

E-ink Kaleido with 4096 colors at 100 ppi are available commercially since past few weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiCOheb1jo
Ask HN: How do I get Facebook to unblock my website url?
Whenever I try to share my URL on a FB post ,I am told that

"my URL goes against our Community Standards on spam" and

FB don't allow people to post certain URLs on Facebook.
This includes things like:
• Websites with spammy pop-ups
• Websites that pretend to be well-known brands
• Misleading websites
• URLs previously posted by suspicious accounts

I just bought this domain a few months ago and don't know about the previous ownership. Just by looking at the URL pattern they decided it is spam and there is absolutely no way to appeal.