skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a total cheat for book writing: find a project where you can contribute a single chapter. It's an order of magnitude less work then writing a full book, and you get to add "author of a book on X" to your resume.

It's pretty much the other end of the scale in terms of overall benefit from what Martin is describing here, but it's worth remembering that it could be a much less stressful and time consuming opportunity.
But you buy it to use it they way you see fit (I assume), not they way the producer did.

I still amazes me that people don't have problem with computer hardware+software being closed, enforced, EULA driven.

And at the same time they expect to be able to e.g. use knife to open a box and not only cut bread (enforced by EULA).

This is similar to what is happening right now with the right to repair of tractors.
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As the author mentioned, it ended up on HN. Message received. I can scroll to the bottom of the article and feed the trackers bad data. Your argument is invalid because you can't make a foolproof algorithm that'll tell you correctly how the user used the site and if the page was finished reading if the user can simply feed you bogus data.

There's another (also brilliant site) linked at the bottom of the original article: https://www.mathwashing.com/

And here's the funny part - you assumed the author won't know, and that's precisely what he's talking about at mathwashing.com - these "algorithms" that are as faulty as people who come up with them.

I doubt you actually read the whole thing with full attention. The message got through to the people it was supposed to get through. I applaud the effort to go without all the tracking nonsense. And whenever I see tracking crap like medium.com uses, I feed it bad data on purpose. It's better to stand true to your message and create a cookieless / trackless site whose purpose is to convey the message rather than use this shitty argument about authors knowing whether they are reaching out to their audience. Precisely because of that thinking we've broken internet where in order to read 512 bytes of text I've to block 50 megabytes of tracking bloatware.
gee, if only there were a way to avoid that.
In other words, ITER is a jobs project.
Youtube actually does provide RSS feeds for any given channel.
Here is how to fix it: disable wifi on your Samsung “Smart” TV and buy an Apple TV, etc. no more ads. No more laggy Samsung UI.
> The robots were too efficient. They could bring items so quickly that the productivity expectations for workers more than doubled, according to a former senior operations manager who saw the transformation. And they kept climbing. At the most common kind of warehouse, workers called pickers – who previously had to grab and scan about 100 items an hour – were expected to hit rates of up to 400 an hour at robotic fulfillment centers.

The gist of the message above. It seems that robots made the process so efficient that workers were suffering from repetitive motion injuries.

It also would seemed to be a matter of time that the packing/picking will be fully replaced by robots. At which time Amazon will no longer have a safety issue, but an entire separate political issue.
> This is why the modern left is so awful.

That is a huge, unhelpful generalization. I am pretty far to the left and I consider immigration a perfectly reasonable topic to debate. Most everyone in my circle of friends feel the same way. The 'cancel culture', as it were, is just a subgroup of the left. And frankly, there is a cancel culture on the right, too.
That's kind of the point though isn't it? I imagine folks are rather more polite in a small town than a big city. I don't think having lots of privacy is a natural state for people. I think transparency is the ally of good and opaqueness the cover for evil. Mind you it only works if everyone is watching everyone (a la small town) rather than big brother watching you.

More or less I'm advocating a distributed social credit system instead of a centralized one. In fact I'd say "distributed social credit" is a pretty good term for the social conditions we have spent most of our time evolving in.
Antibody treatment reduces Covid-19 viral levels
Are they verified recipes? I’ve found that a lot of books just stole recipe and never tested similar to how online does it now. Also lots of recipes are needlessly complex
I had a contract to write a book about Google Wave. I was almost finished with it when Google decided to kill the project.

I got a kill fee (which was almost nothing) and a great story to tell, but it taught me a good lesson about how to balance an advance vs going for more residuals on the backend (this is true primarily for technical books. For traditional publishing, get as big of an advance as you can get).

The secondary lesson was to not sign contracts for books about Google products (only slightly joking), or really any upcoming product or language without understanding the risk you as the author take if the project is canceled or delayed or there is some other fundamental change.

I was 25 when I got the Wave book and it was a lot of work and research for nothing, but I can look back and laugh at the experience.

I’ve turned down technical books over the last few years, just because unless you sell 100,000 copies, it can be hard to make the economics work — unless I would be willing to take it on as a side-gig. That said, if it is a hit, the speaking fees/workshops/consulting options from that book can pay dividends, as I’ve seen from many of my friends.
The OpenBSD developers should be congratulated for the performance on this hardware.

I installed OpenBSD on an X270 laptop and everything worked incredibly smoothly and cohesively out of the box. Everything from power management to a sensibly-spec'd console font, without hundreds of helper daemons and dbus. The breadth of software in a Linux distribution means it will never be as cohesive as this.

Performance was not as good as Linux. I suspect OpenBSD is just not as heavily optimised in a multi-threaded environment, which is fine and expected.

However I did start to feel OpenBSD losing its way a little. I hoped such a slim system would be good for an automated install which could be used as VMs to run its smtpd, httpd etc. in the same cohesive environment.

But I found myself working against the installer's prompt-driven approach; really I just wanted some shell functions I could run to un-pack a system after partitioning it.

In the process I also discovered the whole "relink the kernel on every boot for security"; actually a blunt approach of shell scripts to rerun the final stage of compilation after booting and copy it into place for next time. 372Mb of disk space is used just for this and removing it requires modification of the OS. Not saying this is wrong, just not right for me at this time and it seemed a missed opportunity in a world of Alpine Linux and the like.
Except Epic has specifically stated they don't want a jury trial.

Also, I'm not sure why you think Apple v. Pepper is relevant here?
Excited to see what comes here. If we can build some sort of React-like thing with a Redux like model, I think I would be very pleased. I find web development quite pleasing these days.
Yes your comments suggests otherwise : The Americans had left.

And no, I do not always inspect the voltage selector, but I might when it comes from 120V territory.
Any chance that the Servo renderer could leveraged for cross-platform GUIs as an alternative to Electron?

I don't know if there would be any meaningful benefits over Electron, but I can see why it might be attractive to build everything in Rust. Seems like you could extend Servo with features required by your app, too.
Does he though? He valued one property as $200M that was then later valued at $18M. He has a well documented history of inflating value estimates. He even claimed Trump Tower had more floors than it does (something so easy to count). So I would not just take the valuations at face value.
The lines between the online world and the "real" world are always blurry. You might not care on HN, but you probably will care when you're trying to meet someone on a dating website and waste a bunch of time chatting with someone only to realize that they're a very convincing bot and that you've spent X hours that you could've been using to meet real people.

It seems like crowd-sourced moderation is probably the only thing that will work at scale. I've always wondered why Reddit doesn't rank comments by default according to someone's overall reputation inside of a subreddit and then by the relative merits of the comment on a particular subject. Getting the weighting right would be hard, but it seems like that would be the best way to dissuade low quality comments and outright trolling.
thanks fish contributors. just upgraded and even simple ls -la is snapper. so excited to have normal environment variable usage
I don't think this was posted as "I would submit a PR with this code for prod" but more of a "here's a cool one-liner for fun" approach.

I enjoy reading people's off-the-cuff code golf stuff and usually learn something.
This is probably an ideal case though. Regular expressions are a part of the JavaScript standard, so there's no excuse for someone that programs in JavaScript to not know at least the basics, and this is almost as basic as you can get.

The alternative is what, a simple tokenizing parser? I think that's actually a step squarely into territory of making it more complex and less readable than a simple regular expression is.
Meh... Products today have shorter life spans because we figured out how to build them that way, while being far cheaper and no less (often more) reliable for the intended lifetime.

It’s just basic mathematics: when reliability depends on hundreds of parts, their individual failure rates are amplified. You need either extremely tight tolerances (today), or design with so much excess that it raises mean time to failure far beyond your intended minimum.
Yes man-made nuclear fusion is quite "easy".

The hard part is getting more energy out than you put in.

The sun does this all the time, basically by having so much mass that hydrogen gets sucked in by gravity to collide with other particles. Keeping hydrogen close enough to smash into each other is hard, the sun is just so big that it can do that.

Hydrogen bombs do this by using other explosives to push hydrogen together. This isn't a good power source.

We can't use gravity to cause hydrogen to collide here on earth (we have no artificial gravity). But we have magnets, so we try to bounce hydrogen particles around super fast in a small space with magnets instead of using gravity.

Now getting more energy out is a bit like starting a fire. You need to apply heat for a while with a lighter before the fuel ignites, then the burning fuel keeps releasing energy.

Same basic idea with fusion. You put in energy to start fusing hydrogen. Once the hydrogen is releasing power, it will cause other hydrogen particles to bounce around super fast and continue fusing, releasing more energy.

The part that hasn't really been done yet is proving that the "fire" can stay lit, and that is what people are trying to do. It's hard for a bunch of reasons, but the theme is "making a tiny sun-like place on earth is challenging". When this article mentions "q" that is what it is referring to. q=2 means for every joule of energy put in you get 2 joules out.

(disclaimer: this is a quick version that omits a lot)
I tried to couch my reply as not assuming intent on your part specifically, but rather my attempt at pointing out a pattern I have seen other people engage in and be subject to.

When looking at this and your other reply to me elsewhere in this thread, it does not feel like you're engaging me in good faith.
Is there a way to always “read” as soon as you receive the email. Then you’ll be hiding in plain sight.
Trans athletes who are male and transitioned to female should not be allowed to participate in women sports because it is discriminatory to women.
Sure, VR doesn't have mostly any serious applications. Some very special games and "virtual camp fires" is all I can think of.

But AR has significant serious applications!

I could imagine that there are quite some overlaps when it comes to parts of the core technology though, for example regarding VR / AR GUIs.
This works fine:

[...paragraph.matchAll(regex)].reduce((q,[kv, key, value]) => {
q[key] = (q[key] ? q[key] + `,`: ``) + value
return q
}, {})

https://pastebin.com/yb5QBCm6
Yeah I never use the lane assist features in a bmw... but this is a design flaw . Think similar to the Boeing issues of not having redundant systems. It’s fine to have software just don’t remove the manual override
Yeah, I think false-positive and false-negative aren't exactly the right construct to consider for some scenarios. It's more like "whose suffering bothers you more?" People in need or those whose contribution is wasted? The racially-profiled or those who may be harmed by criminals if we aren't diligent? Wrongly-accused rapists or rape victims?
Thanks for taking the time to answer!

> Secondly, your post getting flagged probably doesn't indicate that HN is "losing its soul".

My assumptions are possibly entirely incorrect and this is why I'm asking. Stack Overflow gives some hints as to why a question is closed. Here, I have nothing and I can only compare between the few threads about reaching Github stars milestones and my own thread on the same topic.

> I'm guessing that there was some difference between your original post and the ones you're comparing it to that is causing it to be perceived badly.

This is what I would be genuinely interested to understand, what did I do wrong and why is it badly perceived?
What's it take to make a chip with over a million Josephson junctions?
They'd get rid of their union 'problems' and face a whole other crisis. But that wouldn't really stop Amazon and I'm sure bad PR isn't as expensive as having to pay out workers who got injured because they couldn't keep up with 'supreme' robotic workers.
> I wouldn’t consider a toolkit “ready” for production use until it supported accessibility, and as far as I know there is nothing in the Rust space even starting to work on this.

Have you given much thought to the design of Druid's accessibility layer yet? I might be able to help with that and with a Windows UI Automation implementation in my spare time (a stable com-rs would help with that). I guess this isn't much of a priority though for your hero app (Runebender).
As do I. But we are not the target customers.
Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s Weakest Link?
> Funny; I thought it was "First they deplatformed Nazis, and I did not speak out because Nazis can get fucked."

The original quote which you're abusing begins "first they came for the Communists".

These were Communists in the era of Josef Stalin, to be clear. Mass-murdering totalitarians, exactly the sort of people you wouldn't want taking over your country.

It appears you missed both the lesson of Herr Niemoller, and a key part of the history of the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany.

Pity.
There are markers of tax fraud here.
Yep, sure looks that way. I'll still be dreaming of a Titan A!
New app to find if Facebook friends are on dating sites
Howdy folks - I just wanted to share a cool new app that can be used to find out if a facebook/instagram friend is on a dating website by using their profile photo.

It is a chrome extension that, when you hover over a profile photo a dialog appears containing all the dating websites that the user was found using.

check it out - https://www.hyde.ai or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hyde/glcpphddlppco...
The issue is, if we are writting from 2020, we may publishing in 2021 or 2022. In the meantime, there may be lot changes in the technology that we are working on. So we may have to change lot of things in the book content even we finish all the chapters. This happened to me always. The version of software framework (ROS) is changing and to keep up the new version I will keep on changing all the chapters ( mainly commands and all).

All the best for your new book :)
>Smartphones and Consoles are both universal computing platforms, but only consoles are also used as a universal device, while consoles are walled by design/purpose

This is a very loose concept that you are arguing should be law. Fine, smartphones are "universal computing" platforms. Tablets are mostly used for media consumption - is the iPad exempt? If a manufacturer releases a Windows PC and calls it a "Home Theater PC", are they now exempt from the "universal platform" rule? If Sony allows users to install other OSs on their PlayStation, the PlayStation now a "universal device"? If a developer releases a calendar application or Slack on the PS4, will the PS4 be converted to a "universal" device?

Or now that we have this carve out for "universal platforms" should Epic continue to pay the Apple 30% because it's a "gaming app"?

Your console carveout is completely arbitrary.
So, who has built a tool to help people build an ideal online persona, so that algorithms tell our employers, banks, insurances, etc.... that we are the perfect person they all want to deal with?
It is an unfortunate aspect of capitalism. Making investments is much easier than making actual things, so more people do it. Lucky there is a counter ballance in the system . If 100% of the population started investing only, the one person to start building would get all the investment. You can see it now with TSLA and NKLA. All these "professional investors" realized that sustainable transportation is a real thing and it is our future. At the end of the day Elon could be far richer than any investors.
I think that bias (perceived or real) is more of a factor of US higher-education tradition of than anything else. If you get a liberal arts degree, you'll take courses focused in nuanced discussions of arts, humanities, sociology, etc... and those courses are going to be taught by people who inherently thought those topics were important enough to dedicate their lives to.

Of course, it's completely reasonable for a sociology professor to think that social issues are important, just as much as we might expect a business or economics professor to believe that business or economics is important. And the things that people think are important influences a person's politics.

If you look at the academic disciplines that are interest groups that conservative politics align with, you'll find conservatives there: petroleum engineering, business, marketing, religious studies, etc. The thing is, there's just not that many academic focus areas that contemporary conservative politics prioritizes in their messaging.

In the end, I don't think the bias of individual professors at a university is a concern as much as institutional bias is. You can never really hire a professor who doesn't have an inherent interest in their own work. The important part is that we continue the western tradition of well-rounded study so that people are exposed to as many differing viewpoints as possible.
Oh yeah, for sure. And for instance, if it were to happen to 5% of people, then there will be twenty people like me for one person who is unfairly affected but for that person it will be a complete nightmare.

And societally it's not okay to create a complete nightmare for like 5% of people. So I totally get it.

Just that if you live in the First World and live a normative interface (my drug use doesn't leak into the professional environment, my illegal imports are on the quiet) you can get away with a lot.
ITER is much more complicated than SPARC. For example, the disruption mitigation system is similar to DIII-D's but with (I believe) much higher resolution in time and space. ITER has 80 MW of plasma heating but most Q targets only require ~50 MW. It is a platform to do science. It's a huge machine that is meant to demonstrate a tokamak reactor. Corners can't be cut to get there.

Making a tiny machine quickly, skimming over the hard engineering problems is more of a moonshot approach. It's halfway to a startup with actual MIT startups selling HTS coils. Be wary of anyone selling something.
How is this different from What3words?
I have yet to see a vegan substitute in Tesco/Sainsbury that's cheaper than the meat it's supposed to compare to. Found a few products that were nice but at £10-20 a kg it's not food it's a curiosity.
> Referer includes the site you came from, what am I missing?

I never claimed otherwise? There are two separate metrics in question here. One is the "visit" metric which the post specifies is based on the referrer. The other is quantifying which other sites sent traffic your way. The post conspicuously fails to define how that second metric is computed.

For that second metric, I noted that there is an obvious incentive to avoid using the referrer and that the current status quo is to rely on other methods. (In particular, fingerprinting combined with centralized analytics services that have vision into a vast amount of traffic. Note that Cloudflare easily qualifies here given the sheer number of assets and websites they host.)

If the entirety of this analytics service is based solely on referrers coupled with IP addresses then the author should unambiguously state that up front. Otherwise I'm going to assume the worst for the reasons given above.
Yeah, viruses need to coevolve with their prey. Which is why the computer virus in * Independence Day* was so silly.

And I think terrestrial immune systems can handle microorganisms, whether they're DNA based or not. It hunts based on shape, as I understand it.

I was thinking microorganisms, since anything big we can just kill on sight. But when you mention it, something insect size could be very hard to fight.
For me, anything "lab grown" is definitely less preferable to naturally grown foods. So, even though I'm vegetarian, I would absolutely prefer to be eating meat than fake food, with unknown genetic and cellular anomalies.

Just look at the chemical cocktail that's in any off- the- shelf "meat alternative" products. No way do I want that stuff in my body.

If Tesco, or any big retailer was honest about increasing sustainability, they'd be focusing on how to decentralize warehousing and shipping, and a simple solution is to support local farming.
Unfortunately, the world doesn't operate this way, and we're stuck with this need to purchase food from far flung parts of the world.
well the first thing that breaks is the little rubber from the swimmer. needed to replace a swimmer cause i could not get a good replacement rubber. was a no name swimmer. now the toilet refills way faster and flushes way nicer and also does not overfill caused by the broken rubber.
I don't know anyone still using CFLs (edit: meaning, still buying) them. We use LEDs now, which are better than either CFLs or incandescents.

Anyone who says differently either uses weird light bulbs, which is a valid excuse, or has a closet full of hoarded tungsten bulbs they wish they could sell, which isn't.
The Value of UX: Between Art and Science? –With Joel Marsh
Typically your royalty is calculated against the final sale price of the book -- after publisher and retailer have taken their cut. Usually the retailer takes the biggest cut.
Yep! I've got CUDA, so I still have to pay the green tax.
>Just don't connect it to the Internet.

Wait until they start including a cellular modem that can't be turned off.
Uh... no comparison with any other method?
I don't want to get into an argument about this, but:

> I once blew up a Next.

Me taking blame.

> The Americans had left the voltage selector on the power supply set to 120V

Me describing the problem.

So, enough.
Looks fixed now. Are you the owner of the site?