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Can you recommend primers, explainers, autobiographies, collection of war stories? Something accessible to laypersons like me?

After my own unsuccessful efforts, I started collecting books and articles about lawmaking (legislation). It'd be really great to have similar resources for investigative journalism.
I have found that in my own times of trouble and profound sadness that two books have helped me cope. The first one, which is admittedly hard to read when you are very close to a loss (better to inculcate yourself with it ahead of time if possible) is the Enchiridion of Epictetus [1]. The second is Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. What works for me will probably not work for you but I thought sharing my experiences with you might open a path of exploration.

You will overcome this. Your child will too. On a long enough timeline even the most profound grief reduces to an instance. Be well my friend.

[1] http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
Mine was something like 'Your Chromebook is in developer mode, press enter to start ChromeOS' along with some messaging about how dangerous developer mode is. Very easy to accidental press enter -- I know because I did it.
While I certainly hope you're right, I'm always hesitant to become complacent in areas related to censorship.
OP did not say it is a short term plan. Amazon could very well be accepting some amount of bad press around this if profits keep increasing.
Name one investigative report that was published against the wishes of the hierarchy.

Whereas stories like this are innumerable:

Whistleblowers punished for attempting to report unlawful rBGH in milk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre#Whistleblower_lawsui...
my technique for baguette conservation : in the freezer
You can store it for weeks up to a month I think.
After that, simply in a oven, 120° celsius for 12-16 minutes
Filament is really cheap. Basic pla is roughly 2-3c a gram. I couldn't see this being more than 500 grams, so maybe $10-20 for filament, maybe $30 if you use abs or something.

I'm guessing the rest of the price is paying to have it printed by a third party.
Amtrak is the only significant passenger train service in the US. And you didn’t mention that air travel is far faster and as cheap as rail travel, which makes a huge difference in a large country like the US, over dense little city states like Europe. Air travel is replacing train travel even in Europe and has for over 70 years.

And privatization isn’t a guarantee against bankruptcy, which is a useful part of the free market. The UK rail was bankrupt as a public entity, forcing taxpayers to pay the bill. privatization successfully increased ridership and customer service. And it’s still privatized, Railtrak was only one of the group of companies created from privatization.

So again, do you have any real example that shows privatization doesn’t work?
No, the system has not yet been perfected. CNN and Fox News both did things that were not perfectly politically expedient. We are seeing the beginning of that transformation, though.
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Good point.

Additionally, complexity also scales. A dictatorship relies more on the common sense of the dictator while a democracy relies on a set of written laws that grows with complexity over time. A single party does not need a contract while at least two parties must engage in a contract called a written body of law in order to come to an agreement. This "contract" is edited and amended over time with no limit to how complex it gets.

In fact, that complexity balloons to a point where only experts can understand the law (lawyers). It also grows to the point where the law is so complex that it can become internally inconsistent and develop loop holes that do not serve the original intended purpose of the law.

This allows for entities to exploit these loop holes. Of course only entities with enough money to afford the "experts" to find the loop holes and exploit them will be able bend the laws to their advantage thereby causing only the rich and elite to become more powerful.

The above is the basic theory about the anthropological progression of your typical democracy. Growth in complexity of a body of law to the point where only the elite can afford to hire specialists to take advantage of said law.

That is the main danger of democracy. Excess Complexity to the point where only people who can afford specialists to change the law can exploit it to their advantage. Complexity of law also leads to all kinds of other phenomena that niche experts and common people can take advantage of as well. For example constructors that take advantage of property law.

The scary thing about the theory above is that there is a TON evidence of this. Almost every modern democracy in the world suffers from ALL of the problems above. Literally find me one that doesn't.
Some ISPs intercepted DNS and redirect it. You might think you are using 1.1.1.1 or whatever, but you might not be.
Can second Kobo being good & much better than Kindle. One issue I have with them though is that their recent e-reader models have ~8 GB internal storage and no way to expand that, while older models had a normal micro SD slot.

Might not be a big problem for text only books, but for picture heavy content and complex PDFs its not a lot of space at all. I guess it's to push people to use their store more as they can easily re-download stuff from there.
Kobo. I have a Kobo Aura One from several years ago that does all of that. Book selection in their store is subjective but you can side-load any epub file very easily.
> “Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” WikiLeaks wrote on October 21, 2016. “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” WikiLeaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and WikiLeaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trump’s tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time “through the most biased source (e.g. NYT/MSNBC).”

> It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” WikiLeaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.” It then provided an email address and link where the Trump campaign could send the tax returns, and adds, “The same for any other negative stuff (documents, recordings) that you think has a decent chance of coming out. Let us put it out.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...
I'm the person who signed the NDA that I will not disclose the secret proprietary API for that ground station, so while others might substitute their own API, I would have to deliver things as a broken non-compilable project, which is sure to raise questions.

And yes, I did eventually succeed in resolving the copyright violation. But it was still a lot of work for me which I could have avoided entirely by keeping my source code secret.
This doesn't seem like it actually solves the capture problem, though. The most egregious cases I can think of of third-party capture involve taking a project, bundling it with infrastructure, and offering it via a SaaS model (obviously thinking of Kafka, Elastichsearch, Postgres, MySQL, etc. via AWS). Only direct modifications to the project source are covered by the license, right? So the infrastructure code that make it easy to create instances of the product (but don't involve changes to the product code directly) aren't affected.
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It journalists were capable of objective reasoning they would’ve gone into tech instead.
$340 is more than the cost of the rest of the BOM, and it feels kind of crazy that the plastic housing would cost more than the electronics.

I get that the parts are 3D printed, but are they being printed on-demand or something? I wonder if the 3D printing files have been open sourced - would be interesting to hear from a 3D printing enthusiast here about the costs (it's HN, there's bound to be many!).
I've read that Amazon warehouses mix every vendor's products with the same UPC code into the same box. If that's true, then it's pot luck whether you receive a legitimate or fake product.
I recommend Zoho. Less expensive and great quality.
Having a mental structure either exogenously adopted or of one's own construction to apply rationality to temporarily irrational losses seemingly is a very good thing for ones mental well-being. I've found great comfort in Epictetus and in the Bible although I follow neither dogmatically.
Too true. Intellectual bullying can be insidious and is often overlooked because it doesn’t come with physical scars and bruises. Some of the worst bosses and coworkers I’ve encountered were those whose mentally abusive and toxic behavior was enabled or ignored simply because they were “intelligent” or technically indispensable.
You (well, at least I) can't actually down vote immediate replies to your own comments.

I wonder what our leadership would make of the book "Turn the ship around". I'm not sure how they'd go about defining responsibility - it seems to be all about passing the buck and CMA.
I'm still using a late `09 Mac Mini I bought new, so over 10 years old now and I still have no imperative reason to replace it. I've replace the HD and maxed out the RAM about six years ago and it's still all I need to get my work done. And a newer "faster" PC won't improve my productivity. I write code and use BBEdit to do that.

Back in the 80s and 90s the tech was changing so fast I had to purchase a new Mac every couple years to run the software I needed, but I've not done that for over 10 years now and I don't see any good reason at all why a new PC can't or shouldn't last ten years for the average user.

Aside from gaming and video editing, neither of which I do much of, there's really no compelling reason for me to want a new Mac.
for me personally - the multiple times in my life when i have been in the process of putting someone in the ground - this kind of comment was right at the top of the list of the least helpful things people said.
I don't know, the entire rocket industry is having to to re-orient itself around SpaceX's reusable rockets.

And given current usage, the gains in better rockets presumably pale in comparison to the potential savings / improvements that could be provided by new airframe designs.
Ocoee massacre
It's probably worthwhile to find an aluminum or hard plastic project case and 3D-print supports to integrate into that, instead.
> At 16:09 EDT on 04 Sep 2020 (about 26 hours ago), SalesForce (the owner of web hosting company Heroku) notified us that they had suspended the Ruqqus live and test server environments, with account termination to follow twenty-four hours later.

Assuming Ruqqus is in the EDT time zone, this means they got notified shortly after 4 PM on a Friday that their account would be terminated in 24 hours.

Does that mean that 23 of the 24 hours they would have to download all their data would be outside of normal work hours, with 16 hours of those 24 being on a weekend?

I can't think of any reasonable justification for such short notice. If it is a TOS violation that the hosting company is not willing to let them try to fix, account termination should be several business days after the immediate live environment suspension.
maybe https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ ? if that resolution is fine enough.
Have you looked at Planet.com? They likely have the capability and maybe already image the data you're looking for. Don't know what the pricing looks like lately from them, if not them directly, a partner company may have a more narrow product that fits the price.
I'd classify this as closer to a flying wing than a blended wing.
I'm sorry to hear of your family's struggles. Your advice is spot on and something I discovered during a 10-day Vipassana retreat. I wish I could say something to help your daughter or you. Maybe that beauty and happiness are possible in the smallest of everyday things even as we deal with horrific pain. It gets better somehow.
It's a feature that I learned to use in Python and one that I consistently now miss in other languages (rust, java, typescript, javascript).
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> It's so important to the function of our society to have an informed population, but we don't, and it's because of the consistent lying that is done by journalists that we don't.

Are you sure it's that important to have an informed citizenry? I'd say we've never had one, anywhere. We've had some people being informed, sure, but the masses have never been informed well. They've been lead and entertained. If it's that important, how have we made it this far?

What's more important for a nation than the media informing people is the media being on the same page and projecting a similar image. Of course, you want them to not report that aliens have landed when they haven't, but you certainly don't want only half of them reporting it. I don't believe that the facts really matter that much overall. But if you lose the "shared reality", you're losing cohesion.
The main issue with techniques such as this, which are certainly easy to do, is that if it’s not in the type system and therefore not checked at compile time, you pay a run time cost for these abstractions.
I Got an Offer at Facebook, Turned It Down, and Moved On
The dark side of eventual consistency and how to triumph over it
The dark side of eventual consistency and how to triumph over it
https://medium.com/swlh/handling-eventual-consistency-11324324aec4
I was responding to my parent, which was about running Linux on Chromebooks, presumably to extend their life beyond the relatively short time that Google will provide updates. And that's not because schools want to, but because supply is tight right now. It sounds good in theory, but Google and/or the manufactures didn't make developer mode friendly enough -- you'd be better off converting low-end Windows laptops instead.
> I often think to myself, "ok, you've just taken half an hour to do what I could have done in less than a minute."

As a power user myself, this feels like a major exaggeration and mostly like a brag. A good IDE is way more powerful than any basic editor set up is going to ever be for productivity with regards to changing and understanding code. For working on an actually interesting problem no amount of editing prowess is going to matter at all.
Hi Neil.

Appreciate the writing. I wonder if everyone is senior at Bloomberg then how does the pay raise work?
Audible does. I believe it even syncs it with your Kindle books, if you purchased both versions.

I was surprised when I saw the Apple Books app didn't have that feature. Seems like a no-brainer to include.
API with NestJS #12. Introduction to Elasticsearch
"And if I think everything belongs to me,
How wrong I'll be, none of us have anything."
— Broadcast

Not trying to be a jackass. I think this short, sweet, spiritual song about the material world and after is poignant. All the more bittersweet considering the untimely death of the singer.
But journalists do not typically have that power. What stories reach readers and how it is presented is power of the editors and board, like the parent pointed out.

If your bosses don't want a story covered (in a specific way), it's not going in the newspaper.
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I'm surprised something that simple can be protected by copyright. But apparently it is: Wikipedia says so. (I wouldn't trust a BBC journalist to understand the difference between a copyright and a trade mark or even a patent.)

I wonder where the limit would be. If it had been just two coloured stripes, using standard flag colours, without the circle, would that be protected by copyright?
All jobs that I had where MySQL was used had some kind of issues. First time there was a database that one day just died and refused to start. When investigating, it turns that some tables got corrupted (fortunately, the scan tool that Congress with MySQL was able to fix it, but I also encountered databases which were FUBARed). After checking the machine, it had over 100 days off uptime (so it wasn't abrupt shutdown), the disk also had plenty of free space, so the corruption didn't happen because of disk being full. So MySQL just broke itself out of nowhere.

Another time (I think it was a MariaDB) the database get corrupted every few days. First we though it was hardware, so we replaced disks, then the entire machine. But it continued to happen. Eventually it turned out it was a bug and with specific pattern written to the disk, when MariaDB read that block back it incorrectly thought the block was encrypted and discarded it. Updating to a version that fixed it, responded the issue, but that's really a nasty bug that caused data corruption.

Postgresql on the other hand with my experience always was nice even in bad situations. When we had network issue (due to failed switch) one the problem was fixed the database reconnected back and trained replication, MySQL in similar situation required to tell it to reconnect again, some even setting up replication again (which requires restoring backup on slave and reconfiguring replication again, which required few hours).

In another instance we had main postgresql set up replication to a DR site. The database data was stored on filesystem provided by NetApp. A consultant had a task to deprecate filesystems that were no longer used, so he actually put them offline for 30 days, before deleting them. Around 20 days in we noticed that the master was running out of space. Turns out the disk was utilized by unshipped logs to the standby. Once filesystem at the DR site was put back online everything resolved all by itself.
Toasting bread from fridge has little difference than fresh unless you are talking artasinal breads meant to eat fresh. Otherwise freeze it and toast it, it will get 90% of the way there
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I recommend considering AirTable if the group is willing to try something new or check out:

Notes + PM -> notion.so

Word -> notion.so

PowerPoint -> slidebean.com or pitch.com

Excel/Access -> still AirTable

Outlook -> amazing email UX via hey.com for $99/year

I got many of these via alternativeto.net and producthunt.com
I'm not sure how to interpret what you have written but assuming good faith - there are things and states worse than death, particularly when analyzed from the point of view of the individual. It is widely considered humane to terminate the life of a suffering animal when no hope of recovery is possible. Such a thing could even be considered an act of love. Depending on a deeper analysis of free will and religion it is feasible that a God is both capable of controlling your death and simultaneously loving you. I'm not a serious believer so I will leave the free will discussion and points of doctrine to others.
There are a lot of other mediums that explain it differently. Not everything has to be written in a dry textbook flavour.
Not really a "stunt"... it's easy.
The point still applies though. After you've revived 4 or 5 peasants, you've probably gotten most of the information you were interested in. And now you have 4 or 5 peasants who are poorly adjusted to the world they now find themselves in, and you have to take care of them for a long time. How many would you revive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbZBpMW4Iw
> As the company behind a "time limit" licensed codebase, this means I won't get much from the community in terms of code contributions.

Which 'in my experience' is the situation for the __majority__ of commercially driven open source projects. Most commercial OSS projects receive few contributions, most often around the edges. In these cases it may well be rational to protect yourself from large competitors (e.g. cloud vendors) taking your code vs losing some small contributions.

It's true that:

> In short, this model may work for companies that want the branding aspect of open source while saying no to code contributions or even community governance models

Often it's not 'bad faith' that's driving these sorts of trade-offs in licenses. Rather, it's the harsh realities of trying to get open source business to work.

It probably won't be a "popular model" because there's lots of reasons for creating FOSS - from individual drivers to strategic - so by volume of projects etc. But, for someone trying to create an OSS business "time delayed" licenses are not bad.
"Meditating on death" and "premeditation of future ills" is a big theme in Stoicism (and the broader 'Hellenistic Philosophy'). Seneca's letters have many different exhortations on "preparing for death". Some choice quotes:

• "Many people grasp and hold on to life, like those caught by a flash flood who grasp at weeds and brambles. Most are tossed about between the fear of death and the torments of life: they do not want to live but do not know how to die. Cast off your solicitude for life, then, and in doing so make life enjoyable for yourself. No good thing benefits us while we have it unless we are mentally prepared for the loss of it." — Seneca

• "Epicurus says 'It is a fine thing to learn death thoroughly.' Perhaps you think it is a waste of time to learn something you will need to use only once. But that is the very reason we ought to rehearse: if we cannot test whether we know it, we should be learning it always." — Seneca riffing on Epicurus (not to be confused with Epictetus, a Stoic; he even has a discourse titled "Against Epicurus")

• "As the water clock does not empty out its last drop only but also whatever dripped through it before, so our last hour of existence is not the only time we die but just the only time we finish dying. Death is not one event; the death that takes us is our last." — Seneca

• "Years are not given out by quota. There's no way to know the point where death lies waiting for you, you must wait for death at every point." — Seneca

• "Let death be before your eyes every day, and you will never have a base thought or an excessive desire." — Marcus Aurelius

• "The torment we feel comes about through our own agency, because we become alarmed when we believe that death is close at hand. But isn't it close to everyone, ready in place and every moment?" — Seneca

• "Think about arranging the present as best as you can, with serene mind. All else is carried away as by a river." — Horace

•••

Sources for quotations: Seneca's 'Letters on Ethics' (full set of letters, excellently translated by Graver and Long); the others are from 'What is Ancient Philosophy?' by Pierre Hadot.
~In fact, your link is out of date~ (edit - see below). Here's the RSPCA specification from August 2017:

https://science.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494935/9042554/RSPCA...

Point E 5.3 specifies no more than 9 hens per square metre of indoor space. If I'm reading correctly, this applies to both free-range and barn hens. Free range hens also need outdoor space at a density of no more than 2500 birds per hectare, which works out to 4 square metres per bird (although 1 m2 is allowed for birds under 21 weeks old). That's also the EU rule for 'free range' eggs.

The RSPCA spec is about 100 pages of details about popholes, lighting, water, and so on. Whether it's effectively enforced, I can't tell, but it's not a joke.

Edit: My bad, the Guardian article also says 9 birds per square metre for free range eggs. Free-range chickens raised for meat can be kept at a higher density than laying hens: 13 per square metre indoors and 1 square metre outdoor space. But eggs are the topic here.
You are significantly underestimating the cost of producing molds. You could easily hit $100k for molds made in the USA, $10-20k made in China. That’s also assuming you get the molds right the first time and don’t have to go back and make new ones. Plus there is the setup and minimum production runs, you need a fairly large demand to make producing these viable. 2-3 of these ($680-$1020) doesn’t cover cost just to modify the design to work for injection molding.