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Ask HN: Are there any great examples of web books?
I'm looking for examples of books that have been written as webpages, perhaps implementing some of the web's multimedia or interactive capabilities to enrich the story. Are there any great examples of novel-length storytelling using the web as the intended medium?
And, do not forget, a lot of people died during racetrack tests due to lack of man assistance. Elio De Angelis and Michele Arboreto for example, but I’m sure there are a lot more.... (both of them would be alive if there was someone to take their bodies from the vehicles in time)
My 2013 1Password license ($19.99) proved to be a valuable investment.

Unfortunately I'll have to migrate to their subscription sooner or later, I already don't have access to their Safari extension.
Oh, yeah, I heard a podcast about this on Planet money, really scummy business practice...
Me too. I've uploaded the same website to pretty much every static host listed, and anecdotally, Vercel seems to get me pages noticeably faster.

I'd love to know whether that's because of my specific geography and whether it holds up globally.
So you start out by saying people never say "murder of crows", yet it's very important for you that they stop?

Sounds like a bad case of OCD by proxy. Most people seem to think this is a quaint feature of the English language that is fun to think about, if you don't agree just ignore it. As you say, you can easily avoid hearing the phrases spoken.
Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread
Oh right, sorry! I'll look again. Thanks for your great work.
No manufacturer can take that kind of hit.

California has a huge economy but that doesn't translate directly to the number of cars sold. Sales of cars is proportionate to population size more than economy size in wealthy Western countries.

Honda will obviously have many EVs on the market for Californians (and other Americans, and Europeans, and Asians, and every other market that's banning petrol and diesel cars) to buy, but they're also going to continue to make and sell fossil fuel powered cars for long time in countries that don't have the electrical infrastructure to support electrification of civilian vehicles.
On the other hand, I dont think victim-blaming is an excuse for rampant and continuous ignorance either. At some point, after getting abused again and again, users are to blame. All this shouldn't suprise any of them, it's in the ToS after all. Some users read the ToS and made an educated choice, some didn't read them and decided to not participate in any business with a company that obfuscates its goals in a 50-page wall of legal damage control, and some just ignore it and use the service. The ones that ignore the ToS and that get caught by suprise later are absolutely to blame for their own neglectance of the contract conditions.
No really, LTO are the only tapes you should use, the drives are backward compatible and quite cheap if they are from an older generation. Cerns CASTOR system mainly relies on LTO-Drives/Tapes
> One case where timer-based scheduling is needed is when implementing a web browser. The JavaScript standard has a function called setTimeout which asks the browser to call a JavaScript function some number of milliseconds later. Chromium uses timers (mostly WaitForSingleObject with timeouts rather than Sleep) to implement this and other functionality. This often requires raising the timer interrupt frequency.

Why does it require that? Timeouts should normally be on the order of minutes. Why does Chrome need timer interrupts to happen many times per second?
This magical mushroom needs to be distributed to people, right? And they need to be grown, right?

Unless they are grown in Narnia and transported via teleportation, they are going to cause CO2 emissions, for dubious gains. His argument was - it made me believe in unity with nature, ergo it will work on everyone. Also here is an unverified study.
How to Cover a Sick Old Man
So what about all the bad people becoming peaceful after a weekend with some mushrooms/ayahuasca/san pedro? Are we just going ignore people who had a complete personality flip?

Although.. some truth lies here. These plants and experiences can help attune you to your real nature. In your heart you might be softy, but a meanie in usual life. The plants can maybe help you express your softy side better and become more attuned to that nature, until it is your dominant expression. Which means the person might have had a false meanie personality expression for some reason (coping/defence mechanisms to trauma/abuse/hard life).

I think maybe the whole point to these plants/experiences are to teach us it is impossible to get clear cut black/white answers that our brains so easily digest and accept. It might help us accept that we won't have good answers for certain things and to accept certain things for what they are (broken family, disability etc).

I like the word "attune" when it comes to this stuff. I feel that we have an internal nature/essence that wants to be expressed. We can attune our minds to resonate or be on the same channel as the inner state (or soul or god being or whatever you want to call it). The first thing I like to do when relaxing (without any substances (or with them)) is to try and shake off my personality and step into the attuned state - step into the shoes of the inner child/being and feel it's energy, and try and have a conversation with it, ask it how it is, does it need anything, is it happy, and tell it that you love it with all your heart and thank it for giving you energy and love. In that moment I/you can become fully attuned with it and feel your power and creativity as cosmic being. While you are at it, imagine you and this being are made of light and that you are travelling through the cosmos together at light speed, that you feel the energy/intent of the universe flowing over and into you and it makes you happy. While sitting, raise your hand and feel the cosmic wind through your fingers and feel them grasp through the fabric of reality...

Sounds silly, I know. But do it the next time while under the influence, and see what you feel. It might change your life to commune with your inner being.

fyi I'm not relgious, it's just fun thought experiments that might feel nice.
I believe Germany is also supposed to switch in 2035, and the UK committed to 2040 but are looking into the possibility of moving it forward to '35. Nordic countries will probably do it before the end of this decade too. It's finally happening, we probably have the emission scandal to thank for it.

Not that this has any real link with the current announcement, it's a fig leaf over a classic Japanese move: in bad times, cut all non-essential items related to foreign markets, and regroup at home. F1 is largely an expensive promotional activity targeted at Europe.
WOW. that's all I have got to say. I wish my country's universities had such educational quality, help guiding students properly and would encourage students to work on such projects.
If you grant no permissions ever, by default... you don't even have to worry about anything other than the permissions you gave. The challenges to doing this are three fold
1. Operating Systems like Linux, Windows, etc... aren't designed to do this, and can't without a design change.
2. Applications need to be reworked a bit so that they are given file handles instead of telling the OS what files to open. It can looks the same to the user if done correctly.
3. The adoption curve is long on this one.... but systems like Genode are getting there... I look forward to using it sometime in the next year for experimenting.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client...
The races may be more or less interesting depending on preference, but everything else you've written here is false.

Cars still visibly improve each season, as demonstrated by the fact track records continue to fall each year.

Drivers are still international celebrities, and it's still a very dangerous sport (the fact there are far fewer deaths is a triumph, but it still occurs - Jules Bianchi died from a crash in 2014 and last year in F2 Anthoine Hubert succumb to a hideous incident). If your issue is that too few drivers are dying, then I really don't know what to say because mitigating that risk is a hugely positive thing.

Fans still fill the track grandstands (with the exception of some of the newest venues which may not sell out as easily). Just look at Monza 2019, with the sea of Tifosi under the podium. That passion is still there for a big number of fans, and as the sport is evolving (and more interesting young drivers come through) the fanbase is changing and growing more diverse.
Honestly, any acquisition by a dominant player in any given market that costs over $100 million should probably be reviewed for antitrust.

We'd do much better preventing monopolies from forming instead of trying to break them up 15 years later, after 99% of the damage was already done, consumers and customers have already suffered for it, and now you also have to deal with the break-up aftermath.

It would maintain a healthier market with many more smaller players. Plus, if these companies have billions and billions of dollars to throw away at buying smaller competitors, surely they have enough money to create their own competitor. Not to mention this would actually create a new competitor in various markets rather than take one away from said market, which is what happens through an acquisition.

Also remember that large companies/monopolies also hurt the jobs market - the fewer players that dominate an economy, the riskier that economy is and you have to bail them out, and also it puts downwards pressure on salaries for workers, because people have fewer options when switching jobs. It's only conglomerates with which you have little margin to negotiate your salary, too.
Near vs. Ethereum 2.0: What is the Future?
It's not bullshit though since it's an actual feature of the language, if not very commonly used.

The benefit might be small, but on the other hand there is no downside at all so it's net positive.
Well, two things. First, this was summary judgment in favor of Apple, not the CTO. Summary judgment was not granted in the case against him, although since it has been 6 years and Hooked is defunct, I’m going to assume that was settled in some way. Regardless, this case was about Hooked’s claims against Apple, not the CTO.

Second, from reading some more of the filings, there appears to be legitimate disputes about whether or what kind of material information the CTO had on his personal laptop. Apple cooperated and did a forensics data retrieval of the CTOs laptop (and spent $92,000 to do so from a vendor and then charged the plaintiff for that, which the appellate court admitted was probably too high but was also out of scope for them to judge) and then the lawyers stopped sifting through that data when it came across some communications that were protected by attorney-client privilege. Apple wouldn’t globally waive privilege in the case, but said it would do it on a document by document basis, but the lawyer’s for Hooked claimed it didn’t want access to anything privileged. The appellate court ruled that there was no proof or argument that had the lower court ruled another way regarding some of the access to those privileged materials (that the plaintiff said it didn’t want anyway), that the decision would have been any different.

That’s pretty different from the Waymo situation, where the evidence suggested that significant effort was taken to backup proprietary data surreptitiously.

The other thing is that as far as I can gather, the laptop of the CTO was always his personal laptop. It didn’t belong to the company and there wasn’t any MDM solution or other provisions to protect/separate his personal data from the business data. Now, obviously this is incredibly common in startups, but it does make the burden or proving that proprietary data was “stolen,” let alone taken and used at Apple, much higher.

Levandowski’s high pay at Google might also change things because there might have been much more explicit provisions in his employment contract. I just don’t know. There’s also the whole thing about how he lied to his lawyers, wouldn’t cooperate, and that Uber fired him.
As I remember it, what happened on Digg was that there was a kind of friendly rivalry between Reddit and Digg. So everybody on Digg was already aware of Reddit. Then when the redesign hit, a meme spread that "This redesign sucks, try reddit". And so people did. And what they found was a much better community (Digg was more like a news website with a comment section).

The cautionary tail for Reddit is that what keeps people locked into a social network is community. And if they replace community with cat pictures, the whole thing will fall apart.
Btw, if alternative stores like F-Droid are not going to do it for you, you can always get your own phone whitelisted: https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/

Google is mainly concerned about uncertified phones being distributed at a large scale. For individual tinkerers, this feature is offered to get individual phones permitted.
> In a few years battery electric vehicles will get to the performance levels of current F1 hybrids, but by that time the mantle of the pinnacle of auto-racing will have been taken by FormulaE

I strongly doubt that Formula E will be a drop-in replacement for Formula 1. It's a completely different (and unfortunately so far very boring) replacement for Formula 1. If anything my guess is that once they figured out the battery problem so they can go on bigger courses, they will introduce electric vehicles in the Formula 1 and start phasing out Formula E.
People still race horses, just saying. I don't think the entertainment value of driving loud and exciting cars will massively change but it's rapidly becoming a nostalgic thing.

What is changing is that ICE based car racing is becoming merely an expensive hobby rather than a business relevant thing for engine manufacturers to be spending money on. The money is solidly in the EV market. That's where essentially all of the money and profits are.

Now that even super cars are electric and generally outperforming their ICE predecessors on things like horse power, torque, 0-60 acceleration, etc. the glamour kind of is evaporating rapidly for F1 racing. Yes the range of these things sucks. But then their petrol equivalents were never known for their range either. The point is raw performance for however long the engines, tires, and fuel last. Electric at this point is superior on pretty much all fronts.
Many people are unwilling to sign CLA. I wanted to submit patch fixing blatant and ugly typo in README. After I got notification about requirement to sign pages of legalese I switched to doing something else and decided to never contribute to this project in any way.
NB:

(a) The original title of this article is 'Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders' -- I edited it to fit within the HN character limit

(b) The actual article is published in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/29/scie...

(c) This is a large study on 500k people in India. The researchers found that 71% of infected individuals did not infect any of their contacts, while a mere 8% of infected individuals accounted for 60% of new infections -- providing evidence for so-called 'superspreaders'. Regarding children, the researchers found that 'These patterns of enhanced transmission risk in similar-age pairs were strongest among children ages 0-14 years and among adults ages ≥65 years',
and that they 'identif[ied] high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of cases around their own age' -- something that was also true in adults.

The overall case-to-fatality ratio was between 0.05% at ages 5-17 years to 16.6% at ages ≥85 years.
is it the same Dave Keenan, who is the co-author of Sagittal microtonal notation [1]? (upd: oh, actually it's him, nice)

[1] http://sagittal.org
Sure, call Pluto a planet. But don't simultaneously claim there are 9 planets in the Solar system just like they taught in the elementary school.
github pages had IPv6 sometime on 2017[1]. they removed after changing the IPs to one of their own.

They have been dragging their feet on enabling IPv6 even on github.com and continues to be headache when working on a IPv6 only server.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/354
I disable mob griefing in minecraft because some mods caused creepers to explode on their own and they also had bigger explosions so there were holes everywhere. Creeper explosions don't drop all destroyed blocks so you will never have enough material to fill the holes even if you wanted to. Finally, because they very rarely destroy my own structures and I don't want that.

It's not like there is any point in killing creepers in modded minecraft. The vast majority of monster loot in minecraft is worthless.

If it is annoying then turn it off. It's just pointless busywork. I've played a lot of games where adding a few tweaks here and there would have made it ten times more enjoyable.
PyJobs is a blessing for the Brazilian Python community. I know a handful of people who got jobs thanks to PyJobs.

If you don't mind my feedback I think it has a lot of potential for growth. You should invest more on it. Trying marketing it more on events, and online groups. Your product creates value, so don't be ashamed of spreading the word.
Perhaps too much an aside, from the about page of the blog:

...Influencer, Oxford comma enthusiast and Thought Leader Colm MacCárthaigh.

Yikes! One assumes then that he's a Thought leader when it comes to Oxford comma enthusiasts? This is doing my head in.

"Welcome to the very serious blog of Senior Principal Engineer, Keynote presenter, Touring Musician and producer, Cryptography Person, Open Source enthusiast, Philosopher, Influencer, Oxford comma enthusiast and Thought Leader Colm MacCárthaigh."

https://veryseriousblog.com/about
I clicked on that link (in Australia) and got "Sorry! Yikes! That story doesn’t exist on Gizmodo Australia, but we have plenty of other great content you can check out here. If you’re still hellbent on that particular story, you can access the US version of Gizmodo here." – I was automatically redirected to

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from...

No, not still hellbent thanks Gizmodo, just wanted to go to the link I clicked on, geez, if that's OK. Although after that weird experience, I don't. I thought the story had been deleted, for a moment!
That would be really cool. Especially if they expanded the system outside of 10 or so blocks around downtown
Well said! Now do "an historic".
Better kinetic harvesting seems like the main thing to be gained.
But the price you pay is having input values that are a lot wider than you need, so you waste random input bits. Generating those can be costly, too.
It's probably a heavily modified fork that integrates more deeply into the operating system. It wouldn't make sense to completely redo all Anbox does for dispatching Java calls and emulating Android device behaviour, but to turn Anbox into a product that natively scales in the cloud probably requires extensive modification of the Anbox codebase.
> how could amazon _do this to me_?

This is the main complain IMHO.

Most people trust amazon to be around in 10 years, and do not mind to be bound to a specific company. It would be fine if there was a recourse when getting kicked out of the platform.

This is similar to mail data on gmail, people are aware of the limitations, but are still pissed off when Google shuts down their account without any explanation.

Your point about DRM-free is another form of having a way out of the platform in case of dispute, but there could be other solutions as well I guess.
I think you've already found the best resource out there.

For fun I'm making a language that's a superset of Lox and Monkey, the language from the book by Thorsten Ball.
It came to the same conclusion but had a different rationale or might have disagreed with some aspects of the majority opinion. Or perhaps the judge wanted to add something that wasn’t included.
Yeah, I've tried it once, but I couldn't get it to work quickly. Easier to just not buy books for Kindle.
The problem here is also the research costs.

Things, that were only in racing cars years ago, appear now in production cars. Basically, Mercedes can afford to try new things in racing, because it will bring them money in the long run, by selling those new features in their "normal" (road) sports cars. Even if we limit the research costs, some other Mercedes team will work with (eg.) engine optimizations for their production sports cars, and those findings will also find their way to racing.

Even with mainstream car makers (which most of the companies there are), it's easier to develop racing stuff, if you then sell a bunch of very expensive, very fast street-legal cars, than if you sell mostly "normal, working people cars".
The usual shameless self promotion.

rust wrappers for GraphBLAS
https://github.com/fabianmurariu/rustgraphblas

Java wrappers for GraphBLAS
https://github.com/fabianmurariu/graphblas-java-native/

JNI bindings are only built for Linux, if you need MacOS or Win feel free to raise an issue.
Hmm I also have that in my Dutch contract. I really don't like the way my current employer handles their market and I'm eager to do it right myself (I feel that with the right technologies I could really build something nice myself.) This part of my contract has kept me from it (the "we own what you make at any time of the day"-clause). I do understand the clause though, it's just to easy to claim you made up some valuable IP outside of office hours. Maybe I should keep a log regarding the actual dev work...

With respect to the non-compete clause, it says in my contract that they can keep me from going to a competitor for a year, but they'll pay me for that year. I wonder if they'd ever enforce this.
> So you start out by saying people never say "murder of crows", yet it's very important for you that they stop?

People never say "murder of crows" etc. when they are actually talking about groups of crows. But they do say "did you know that a group of crows is called a 'murder'? Haha" or "Question 3: What is the collective noun for a group of crows?"

Hope that makes sense!
Also relevant for its adoption,

> Adoption of Linux in production environments, rather than being used only by hobbyists, started to take off first in the mid-1990s in the supercomputing community, where organizations such as NASA started to replace their increasingly expensive machines with clusters of inexpensive commodity computers running Linux. Commercial use began when Dell and IBM, followed by Hewlett-Packard, started offering Linux support to escape Microsoft's monopoly in the desktop operating system market.[50]

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Commercial_and_popular_u...
I think there's more to it than the carbon-free tech for Honda(or any other manufacturer for that matter). F1 is getting eaten from the inside with politics and corruption. It takes a lot of effort to stay out in front. For the past half a decade no one has managed to give Mercedes a run for their money and expecting something to change with the new regulations is a huge leap of faith. Meanwhile costs and complexity is through the roof. Remember when a year or two ago Porsche was considering to supply engines for F1? Sure, they don't have a good record as far as F1 goes, but let's not fool ourselves - the engineers at Porsche are absolute gods when it comes to making small capacity, high power engines and hybrid systems. And realistically the main reason why they decided not to move forward was the huge leap of faith considering the exact complexity and costs I mentioned earlier. So there's a good chance the whole thing isn't paying off for Honda.