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Thanks, I use those subs as well.

I think it’s more of whatever you call that “programmer anxious subliminal minmaxing” feeling that I get knowing that goodreads has all that info from me, and should be able to automatically help.

I don’t have a shortage of books to read or anything and I have a system that works. But I suspect that there’s great books out there for me that I haven’t discovered yet and would like for technology to help with that.

I mainly find books through serendipitous interactions and recommendations from friends and I read more books found accidentally than when I consciously seek out new books.

It’s a problem with amazon and audible and my library too. They suck at recommending books. I think it’s just because they are happy if I just buy something, where I’m looking for five star books. So our incentives are different.

I’ve spend quite a few saturdays trying to hack something from goodreads data to just do it myself. But I can’t get a good data export.

I think if you just find people with at least 100 similar rating to me and then recommend books that they 5-star that would result in good stuff.

The main downside of amazon buying them is that I used to wish for a breach of all their customer ratings data so I could just do the analysis on the leaked data (after de identifying the customers of course). But amazon has much better security.

By the way, it seems like all the content companies are this way now. Netflix isn’t interested in me finding movies I love. Spotify is maybe the closest but I think they promote lots of stuff.

I’ve been trying to think of a business model that relies on finding awesome matches, but I think there’s more money in finding marginal matches that bring customers back again.

My current money is on getting local AI that I can train to serve me (instead of google, Microsoft, etc).
> And why pay a referral fee if people already want to ignore other options and go to Amazon to buy after finding on Goodreads?

Because if Amazon stopped paying those referral fees, then the website can stop posting links to Amazon, and instead post links solely to Amazon's competitors. Yes, people are hooked on Amazon and so even in the absence of a direct link they might browse over to Amazon and search for the product there, but that introduces a lot of friction and so Amazon would lose some business.
Meth Detector, Ha! Meth heads will just place a ziplock bag with a rubber band around just like all of the weed smokers in hotels. Never underestimate the "creativity" of a tweaker.
YT Channel looks awesome. Just subbed. Side question -- is algo trading worth it? Is there any edge that can be obtained? I'd guess that you'd be rich and on a beach if it did...but maybe I'm wrong
Should be noted that in the United States, iOS has the majority share ~59%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
Except they kicked fortnight off the store, so they are now getting 0%. And since Fortnight is free to buy, Apple would also get $0 if forced to allow non-IAP purchases.
I never thought of that. Thanks, I’ll try it. I currently just use “read,” “want to read,” and “abandoned.”
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You're not seeing more reporting because UK mass media keeps ignoring the case despite the extraordinary claims about it.

That your response to that is to question the reporting that does happen, instead of being outraged at how the media is ignoring the case says a lot.

It's clear the judge doesn't care about the claims he's being denied proper representation, as she keeps making rulings that makes the issue worse.
Electric cars are hardly a unproven technology at this point. Solar panels are significantly cheaper than fossil fuels on their own and cost less than nuclear when backed up by batteries. For perspective the fuel use on a natural gas generator on it’s own costs twice that of a solar panel.

The economics of single axis solar tracking is more expensive than fixed solar panels, but far cheaper than battery storage. They have a huge impact on the duck curve.

Now, the rate of which this stuff comes one line is an issue. But, any change of this magnitude takes time.
Slighty off topic, but how do these companies chose their upper level titles ?

Thought the article there’s mention of chiefs, coaches, managers, and I kinda wonder why for marketing it comes out to be a “head”.

Naively it feels like a head -> body image with a strong top down connotation, people below that role becoming string puppets to the “brain”.
On that topic, when I get fully set up after my move, I'll have more time to devote to my A2DP Opus mode.

I think it's actually not crazy to decode Opus on Bluetooth chipset DSPs, even all the way up to the maximum bitrates.

One nice thing about this as well is that adding surround sound modes shouldn't be that hard, I think it would be the first surround sound A2DP configuration.

That test is indeed laughable, I read their materials, and it looks like they crippled the Opus encoder, which was already on old release before they used it. Opus 1.3 at an ordinary complexity is doubtless better than LC3, and there are actual encoders and decoders that you can just download and port yourself.
I eventually shifted the models to S3, but thanks for the offer.
I live in the digital desert that is Germany.
What specifically do you take issue with?

A solar hot water heater or a gas water heater for example both just result in hot water on demand. We don’t use solar hot water heaters in the US even though their currently a cheaper alternative largely because of how houses are constructed and sold. People constructing sub divisions don’t care about your annual heating bills because home buyers don’t pay attention to that stuff.
The result seems pretty poor to me?

(I just use the exmaple image that is already in the notebook)

Original: https://i.imgur.com/Q66mHTD.png
Result: https://i.imgur.com/4R6qn8e.png

There are lots of random spots on the image, and the brightness level changes totally.

Sure, 5232 kB to 124 kB is impressive, but people would probably prefer a badly compressed JPEG over this, since at least JPEG artifact is predictable (and if image isn't displayed in 100%, the artifact would be less obvious, unlike brightness change and spots in this result).

Edit: I just saw the result in https://hific.github.io/ for the same picture, but that one has none of these flaws (no brightness change, no weird spots here and there) with even smaller filesize. Why?
North America is unusual in that respect. For most, or at least a lot, of cities across Europe and Asia, there is good public transport.
> I just can't see how it can be a net harm for remote workers to cook themselves hot lunches every day

How is it not net harm to have to do a chore that you didn't have to do before?
Christopher Alexander has written a beautiful book about oriental carpets[1]. It really opened my eyes about the beauty and the depth of this art.

[1] https://archive.org/details/AForeshadowingOf21stCenturyArt
What about the whole composition? Or is that not what this is about?
That is very dangerous forcing bicycle and scooters/bikes to drive in the gutter.

When I used to ride a MB in London I did not hug the gutter that's asking to hit a grate or debris - I rode in the lane 1-2 feet from the kerb just like your supposed to.

oh and I didn't not undertake other vehicles that's just asking to be killed (90%) of bile deaths are undertaking related in London
It was a lie, of course they have all that, they just never speak to people. When was the last time you spoke to google support or manager? They collect notes and only when something escalates to a PR story or a high volume of complaints/failures/cancellations do they create some JIRA story and assign it to some engineer. A “business to consumer” internet giant will never let the consumers get passed the call center to talk to engineers directly, and engineers don’t want that either. It’s as much of a rule as that a business must be profitable. On the other hand, competent support is supposed to have tools to fix most issues.

I also had a bad issue with some unauthorized withdrawal via eBay, from my paypal, in about 2004, and spent hours on the phone with no result. I wished I could boycott them after this, but no one cares, I just learned no to trust them because they are a terribly run company on the consumer support side. And I think it is because they deal so much with fraud. I don’t think we can do anything about it, except promote these stories.
I think that, given the change we expect to see in human-computer interaction over the next few decades, you can't say never. The majority of the obstacles you outlined are not fundamental but rather implementation problems that can be solved by motivated parties with time and effort. Of course, saying this doesn't mean someone will solve them, just that someone can.

As an example, the censorship and immoral content dilemma is easily solved by letting the user "censor" their own feeds of content they themselves find objectionable. This is already trivially done via block lists and word filters, in the future thanks to ML there can be a much more sophisticated level of control exposed including fuzzy sentiment metrics. I wouldn't be surprised if tools like this are already being built. The key idea here being that the control is with the user rather than with some 3rd-party whom may or may not be taking the users own preferences into account.
Sounds like a private/religious university kind of thing; something a Mormon school like BYU might do.

As for 'should'.. well it seems obvious to me they shouldn't. But I think they do.
I hate to complain, but I hate the Goodread suggestions in my iPad Kindle app. I don’t want to be the target of marketing when reading. I don’t want to see badge alerts.

Poor customer experience. I have always bought a small percentage of my eBooks on Apple Books or Google Play Books, just to avoid my whole library being tied to one company.

Since the advertising annoyances in the Kindle app, I have been buying more from other vendors.
As the pandemic continues, my wife had me purchased a Cricut craft cutter, accessories and supplies to keep her and the kids occupied with crafts...since school was also closed for summer.

Literally every time she goes to use the laptop there’s an update...takes over an hour to get things started. Eventually she got tired of the updates and now back on the phone scrolling.
Couldn't have answered the question better/more succinctly myself.

When I'm working on the JavaScript (front end) side of an Elixir project, I repeatedly get into these positions where I'm thinking, "Man, I could express this so succinctly and elegantly in Elixir. There's no way in JavaScript that doesn't feel clunky in contrast."
When Apple rejects Epic from its App Store for violating its TOC, is that being 'anti-competitive' ?
I would instead say that the problem is political (or marketing) rather than technical: Facebook and Google were set up by an undergrad in his bedroom and three PhD students respectively. Building alternatives is easy, getting people to use them will be extremely difficult.
> Working on a laptop 8 hours a day is going to be terrible for your body long term.

Libraries have computer workstations with proper ergonomics. Bring your laptop and a long HDMI cable. Push the workstation’s keyboard and mouse back. Plug your laptop into the monitor with the HDMI cable, then set the laptop down where the workstation’s keyboard was. Switch the input on the monitor to your laptop. (Ignore the laptop’s screen; don’t try to use it as a secondary display. It’s too low; you’ll hurt your neck.)

Since you’re not unplugging anything from the workstation, you won’t even have to ask permission from the library IT staff first to do this. It’s just like using a USB stick.

Alternately, bring one of those HDMI “compute sticks” and your own Bluetooth keyboard and mouse paired to it. You won’t get the same level of compute power that you’d get from your laptop, but you will get slightly better input ergonomics. Fine if your work is cloud-based.

Alternately, sign up for (or get your company to sign up for) a cloud Desktop-as-a-Service service, e.g. Amazon WorkSpaces. Then VNC/RDP into your workstation from any old library computer. Even the 10-year-old Dells with Celerons are powerful enough to support VNC streaming; and, given that you’re at a public library, relying on the wired Internet means you avoid the bottleneck of the single overloaded wi-fi AP everyone else is contending over.

Certainly, these workstations aren’t personalized; but they won’t kill your back/neck.

> Once you're able to tell people what work they should do, you have a lot of power to wield as you wish.

The simple difference between a manager and an executive assistant is that the manager hires the team, but the team hires the executive assistant.

It’s the same as the difference between monarchy and democracy: subjects live at the sufferance of their monarch, but a president commands at the sufferance of their people. If you can fire your boss, they’re not really your boss.
I think we'll find that not every company does need an office, or the expense of an office.

IMHO now is probably a good time to invest in meeting-place providers like Regus.
What alternative data structures do you have to use inside the kernel to provide good performance and satisfy the borrow checker without writing a lot of unsafe code?
Startups may not be running traditional TV ad campaigns, but a lot are running LIVESTREAMING ad campaigns on services such as YT and Twitch. Not just traditional ads either, sponsored streams that the streamer puts up the logo on the overlay for a few hours and plugs the product occasionally. Those are the new TV ads
Dynasm can be compiled with minilua.c (a single file), which can simply be embedded into the Erlang build.

https://corsix.github.io/dynasm-doc/tutorial.html
> Well yeah, because why would anyone contest this? If the lawyer says he hasn't bothered to visit his client, that's down to him and his client.

That's not what he said.
Re: contamination from use: If you look into it, you'll find the "contamination" is that with a sensitive enough test, you can tell it's there.

The six figures in damages tend to be self-inflicted. The NZ government spent hundreds of millions on "meth house" remediation that by any rational analysis didn't need to be done.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104287037/rental-met...

Agree that manufacture is a totally different story.
I guess I fall under the field of "Progress Studies" though I think I'm much less concerned with the replication crisis than most.

Most new social science research is wrong. But the research that survives over time will have a higher likelihood of being true. This is because a) it is more likely to have been replicated, b) its more likely to have been incorporated into prevailing theory, or even better, have survived a shift in theory, and c) is more likely to have informed practical applications or policy, with noticeable effect.

Physics and other hard sciences have a quick turnaround from publication to "established knowledge". But good social science is Lindy. So skip all the Malcolm Gladwell books and fancy psych findings, and prioritize findings that are still in use after 10 or 20 years.
There is a fork of the PulseAudio Bluetooth modules that supports LDAC, AAC, AptX, and AptX-HD. LDAC should be supportable upstream, I think it's coming.

On a side note, LDAC is so laughable. I have to imagine the engineers working on it had a lot of laughs. It has all the "high resolution audio" mumbo jumbo that Sony has marketed to audiophools for decades, and it is hilariously inefficient.
I haven't written a cheque in over twenty years, they don't exist any more in Norway.
I seem to remember that top gear did something on these vehicles you can drive them after you have been done for drink driving
You are correct. They also build cars that can do double the speed limit and sell this as a feature. I sometimes wonder Does the theory extend to the idea that the world would collapse if petroleum taxation vanished overnight?
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I once climbed some stairs with Jeff Bezos at a conference. We sat in the front row next to each other at a midnight Neil Gaiman reading and I got to witness the small talk between them. Bezos asked Neil if he had gotten the recent shipment of books and Neil responded that he had and that they were really thoughtful and he enjoyed them.

I thought that Bezos must have the best book recommendations. And that since he and Gaiman were friends he was able to pick perfect books that even Neil Gaiman didn’t know about.

That’s what I want. Unfortunately my plan to develop a relationship with Bezos to the extent that he buys me books has failed so far. So I look for more attainable methods.
It's very annoying. I worked at a shop that sold cigars online. No actual cubans, but brands that used the name cuba in it. Inadvertently every time it would get flagged.
There’s nothing wrong with the free market. They just unfortunately don’t give a crap about privacy.
My app is a quite smaller subset of what PhotoStructure seems to provide.

Unfortunately, I can't try it, but I believe that it can certainly replace my app, and I wouldn't have built it if PhotoStructure works as it promises.

In fact, my first idea was to build an app like that, with a nice UI, but it's simply too much effort, and I didn't had the required amount, I just needed something that worked for my use case to actually get my photo album.

The main difference right now is that you can use my app, and I don't know when PhotoStructure will be available, but I already signed up to the beta list.

Thanks for sharing.
Amazon's referral program is open to everybody to use. How could Amazon restrict GoodReads from being a part of it?
Darwinian fitness was never solely about “braun” but the ability to adapt. If these people cannot adapt, then maybe they weren’t the right people to hire for the job.

The hidden factors you mention are based upon conjecture. You are right remote work proves that you can hire anybody in the world. However, that doesn’t mean companies should pay a person that lives in another country a lower wage than the American counterpart.

The platitude of “you get what you pay for” really shines in this discussion. I have witnessed amazing talent from all across the globe that produced excellent results for the team and company. At the same time, I have also seen dog shit work produced by Americans and abroad. In the latter group, I noticed the individual was paid much lower than expected or in a bid for contracting companies the company took the lowest bid offered.

I have seen numerous projects fall significantly behind schedule due to buggy features or just constant re-work of terribly implemented features because someone at the project management level thought they could convince poorly paid people to push out quality work.
It’s not. But saying we’re better than China when we do many bad things comes off as virtue signaling. Just because we don’t do what they do doesn’t mean we’re better if we do things that are similar or even worse than they do.

Abducting protestors off the street in unmarked vans is very reminiscent of what’s happening in Hong Kong. Many people actively support the riots in Hong Kong, but demonize them when they happen here. The NSA spies on everyone, but we care more about when China does it. We have roughly a Social Credit system in the form of your Credit Report and algorithms that determine if you’ll jump bail.[0] Heck, we have a President who has suggested he won’t leave office if he loses in November and a very large chunk of the population supports it (I’ve seen some die-hard Republicans say he should run for a third term in 2024 if he wins 2020). The list goes on and on.

Basically, we may be better than China in some ways, but to say we’re overall better is debatable. I would even go as far as saying it’s disingenuous. We can’t be better if we don’t recognize our own shortcomings.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24425797
Helm is amazing in that you can add it to your workflow, read practically no documentation and get a significant boost to productivity and user experience. Its a must have for me.
Yeah, he might as well be rolling from his bedroom to his guest bedroom where he keeps his laptop.

...

In any case, if anyone else here has worked in a nice office setup (4 walls + door, no uptight manager, no long commute, and no army boot camp style communal bathrooms) then you'll know that the main problem with working from an office is those particulars. WFH is nice simply because everybody's house is nicer than a trash office build-out.
In February came out some statistics (https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019) showing that we added in 2019 as much CO2 to the atmosphere in energy generation than in 2018 (over the trend increasing it every year).

It was a somewhat good news, but it wasn't so much in the context that in the last years we invested a lot in clean energy generation, so it meant that the oil industry kept growing their emissions, at a rate that matched all what we did to lower it.

Leaving unchecked that loose end means that all our effort and investment will be wasted. And if all we did is only good enough to match the increasing of oil based energy generation we are still not dealing with the non-energy related emissions (like methane coming from the oil industry) or positive feedback loops in the environment increasing CO2 and methane in the atmosphere.
Most of those are good practices for a substantial cloud of servers that are already expected to have sophisticated configuration management. They're easy to set up in that situation, and a good idea too because large clouds of servers are an attractive target - they may be expected to have lots of private data that an attacker might want to steal and lots of resources to be exploited.

A single server run by an individual and serving minimal traffic would have different requirements. It's a much less attractive target, and much harder to do most of those things. For example, it's always easy and a good idea to run SSH with root login and password authentication disabled, run services on non-root accounts with minimum required permissions, and not allow things to listen on public interfaces that shouldn't be. Setting up VPNs, jumpboxes, 2FA, etc is kind of pointless on that kind of setup.
18 in the UK and in some us states CA I believe you need a full Bike licence for a 50cc.