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Ask HN: PDF as a Service Anyone?
Sometimes you just want a simple and quality PDF version of a book rather than contend with inane ebook platforms or fumble with a paperback. Personally I think Apple books or Kindle and such are great for novels but they are awful for textbooks or technical books.

The question is whether anyone here interested shares my sentiment and would like a service that allows a user to privately start an invite only “class” of 10 users to collectively buy a production quality ebook rendered from the paperback version at flat rate of around $25 per user?

I’m really just gauging whether the premise intrigues anyone here—the details of how it would work are less important at the moment. The service would not be large scale, just a hobby business really. I think making otherwise dry or neglected books more illustrated and fun to read is worth the money compared to the crap you find on torrents or online—books can be a large time investment and so the book you choose will determine your learning outcome.

Anyways I’m certainly not in it for the money, I would just enjoy the opportunity to refine my craft so to speak. If anyone here just likes the premise of a PDF as a Service I would be glad to hear your feedback. Thanks.
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How do you type 2?
If we're talking about a trend strong enough that most humans will have this trait in 80 years, then if natural selection is driving it, none of those advantages are great enough to explain that.

The most likely answer is that natural selection isn't directly driving this specific trait.
If there are violence, it is a civil war. Does apple like to meddle their hand in blood? Especially they are standing for the dictatorship, which does not put Apple in a good position even if they are going to get into the issue.
IIRC, each chargeback charges the merchant a nonrefundable $35 fee. So even if you get your $10 back, the person who took your money is out $45. If someone were to keep charging me after a chargeback was won in my favor, I’d just keep issuing more chargebacks to spite them. They also can only lose disputes so many times before Visa or MasterCard looks closer at them.
No they do not and actually in the G7 already 70% of product search starts on Amazon. Australia had a very fast adoption and most people installed the Amazon app within a year. Their app is the number one e-commerce app in all countries amazon operates on a country specific TLD . In other countries Ali express is the most popular app on App store.
I do not like this clickbait title. Just tell us what the experiment was. This seems designed to build a narrative about something rather than telling people about an interesting experiment.
It isn't.

That is, it's entirely dependent on what teams and groups you are in.

Famously, Conway's law says you ship your org chart...
Oooh, yes! I love the Bobiverse series. And especially how the narrator in the audio version got the voices just right :)

Space station!!!
Why is this garbage on Hacker News?
Outside of one-man projects, it's never going to be your product. If you start a company, you're going to want to scale. Now you have sales, product, and marketing to deal with. Not to mention more engineers, many of which you will not agree with. If your software turns into a slow buggy mess, you only have high level buttons to mash (or you turn into the micromanaging jerk). These buttons are laggy. Tell upper management that your website is slow dogshit and you might see improvements 6 months from now. Maybe. Assuming the product weenies don't ruin it all with a dozen A/B darts they throw at the wall in the meantime.
But there are some who will let you accrue your debt over the years and then send you to collections.
That's super interesting, thanks for sharing. Is the magic keyboard and trackpad considered to be ergonomic? I wonder what's the difference then in split keyboards and such.
Does this extend to all countries that the US sells weapons to? Are you happy about the use of US weapons by Saudi Arabia against Yemen, for example?
No. Not even remotely close. The 8086 was an 8 bit processor with some 16 bit extensions and segment registers. This is worlds different than 32 bit x86. They're worlds apart.

The PowerPC 601 is functionally quite similar to modern 32 bit PowerPC.
I have also enjoyed it. This is really good for accessibility. I suppose you use the "timeupdate" event and "scrollIntoView()" to sync text and audio but I would be interested to read more on how you have achieved this.
1. Supplementing helped me with grip. Specifically D3 and magnesium supplements.

2. Practice hanging from a pull-up bar. Calisthenics routines often include "passive and active hangs" and doing these for long holds is a good grip trainer.
Imagine if the human population halved over night. Would trawlers suddenly stop? Would the price at fish markets be so low that boats would stop going to sea? I doubt it somehow. The meat would still be sufficiently cheap and/or desirable.

Marine mammals die due to an inability and unwillingness to regulate fishing.
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I am pretty sure I havent touched that link for months, I don't know how that link can get there.

Thanks for letting me know
I very much disagree that it's a lost battle. It's not hard to put blue light filters on screen when it gets dark, and limit bright screen usage before bed. But I do agree that melatonin and magnesium is a great idea as part of a strategy to counteract artifical light messing with our natural melatonin production.
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If you had to do an analysis. What would you say is the difference between Balmer's and Nadela's Microsoft.
There doesn't need to be selection pressure for a mutation to spread, it just needs to be no disadvantage to develop it
Not a silly question, you just make routes where your body-weight is 80% on your feet (but that's always the goal), warmup your hands before 5min under really warm water. If it still hurts too much stabilize your hands looks like that:

https://frictionlabs.com/blog/taping-fingers-in-rock-climbin...

But ask your doctor how to stabilize your hand optimally.

And again start slow no weight on the hands, it's about moving them, not overload them (at least in the first 3 month..or more)

Oh and Gyroscopes are extremely good for warmup and for breaks at work.

And no painkillers when you do climbing/boulders.
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We didn't ban your account, but I've banned it now. Creating 4 new accounts to inundate this thread is obviously abusive, and your comments were crossing into harassment even before that.
Yeah I think I will, thanks for the help though! Don’t want to ruin her postdoc for a few months salary...
Great way to put this.
I used https://www.keybr.com/ which took ages but felt satisfying, slowly unlocking new letters
> It’s potentially easier to destroy or dump a returned product than re-preparing it for sale.

Why can't returned goods be resold as "open box" or "scratch and dent" products with missing or damaged packaging for a significant discount? Surely making some money is better than paying to dispose of it - not to mention the terrible optics when you get caught.
No it isn't, you can order clothes on Amazon and many women (and men) do.
It is, but due to a quirk in the law if you have a vehicle that takes diesel you can pump it yourself.
It's not as compact as Sony's old "compact" line.
You have to go beyond the title here. If you don't have product-market fit (as they say) and you're not communicating with customers (because that "doesn't scale") then you're only receiving deafening silence. You know nobody is using your product but you don't know why so you don't know what to improve. It's really "do things that help you learn from customers even if they don't scale".
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I am curious as to how missiles (or any weapon for that matter) could be used in "non-evil" way
New link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741444
Is the teacher supposed to pretend his job at IBM never happened?
Doesn't always shutoff! I was filling up one of my cars a year or two ago, watching the meter tick up and up and up so not watching the pump handle/nozzle itself, just cursing the price of a full tank etc.

Someone in the car behind actually jumped out and came over to let me know that my tank was overflowing and going all over the floor.

No wonder it seems to cost so much :)
Why does every site ask me first, if I want to subscribe to their newsletter, before even letting me read the first article there? I don't want to... noone wants to... even if i was the type of person, to subscribe to newsletters, I'd like to see the site first, to see if I even like the content at all?!
>i don't remember what it was exactly that he said after that but he explained to us the value of considering the ethics of the software you're writing prior to writing it, and it was one of the most impactful things i ever learned in school, period

How is the US having accurate weapons unethical? These hypocrites never seem all that concerned about the war-making capacity of China, Russia, Iran, or other rogue states.
Most people passion though is to do easy stuff that they like, not to build companies. All you have to do is look at women, they know a man will provide for them at some stage so they don't build companies, instead they pursue stuff they enjoy where you mainly have to talk to people rather than do any deep or hard work, even when they got the talent to do it.
It's fine, how often do you have to rebuild curl?
If everyone that is good had this mindset then the world would be ruled by the most vicious and authoritarian. The axis powers would've won WW2. Clearly some people need to work on weapons and history has shown that it can deliver net good in the world (allies victory in WW2 for example). A dose of pragmatism is sorely needed.
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Another design philosophy is that there should be one and only one exit point to a function whenever possible. Maybe that's fallen out of favor, or not important to most folks. But even if it's just a "nice-to-have," it's still a tradeoff here.

If every if block includes a return statement, you're basically writing a case switch or a series of elifs anyway. The readability of those structures is highly dependent on the language and how it expects serial conditionals to be most efficiently written.
To be fair this is an ebook. If everyone read it then there would be no comments for a day and this post would die
Black imported fire ants adapt tool use to avoid drowning
> Even if you are totally self funded you still are accountable to your customers

2 main differences:

1) your customer's requirements are pure (usually) - "please add a frammel button so I can manage my widgets better". Your boss's requirements are less so - "please satisfy corporate by attending this compliance training".

2) you can fire any customers who you don't like. Not so your boss.
I'd be ok with most wars if they took place in space with remote controlled toys.
I agree, science has become a club to beat people into submission with (justified or not).
> some customers that will only license Fortnite on iOS and/or will buy an additional license for iOS.

Just a heads up, Fortnite is free to play and makes its money through microtransactions, selling things like characters to play as, dances to show off during the game, things like that.
I found python multiprocessing to work well to parallelize deep learning data loading and preprocessing, because all I needed to communicate was a couple of tensors which are easy to allocate in shared memory. I didn't need complex data structures or synchronization.
I will agree that the split Address and Data registers are probably not the best architectural decision the desginers made. But in a pool of "be aware of these things", only having to deal with a half-dozen new concepts is a lot easier than the dozens of caveats and new concepts of many other processors. It is easier to teach "multiply is slow but this is how you do it" vs "here's a function you have to call, or need to write from scratch, to do a division."

Regarding the stack processing, I mispoke; I was recalling a different CPU, whereby, given an address in the R(0), it is possible to execute an instruction at a different memory address than the one the PC is currently pointing at, effectively giving you a second PC, which was frequently used to execute a function without jumping to the function. The easiest way to describe that concept is a mix-in.
Can you point out any projects that have gone off the rails because of dependencies? I mean otherwise it's just "what if" syndrome.
I have procured a PDF of the paper. Ctrl+F race finds nothing in it. The authors treat e.g. these results equivalently:

* Adachi, B. (1928) Das Arteriensystem der Japaner. Kyoto, Japan (8.00%)

* Kodama, K. (2000) Arteries of the upper limb. Tokyo, Japan (8.2%)

* Henneberg, M. and George, B.J. (1992a) High incidence of the median artery of the forearm in a sample of recent South African cadavers (27.10%)

* Cheruiyot, I. et al. (2017) Prevalence and anatomical patterns of the median artery among adult black Kenyans (59.68%)

To me, a more plausible explanation is: "as time passes, anatomical studies cover more diverse humans".
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You've been breaking the site guidelines badly by using HN for ideological flamewar. We ban this sort of account, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> As a developer, I will take near instant compilation over optimisation any day.

Not if your technical marketing department publishes results from performance tests comparing it with the competition.

I remember from my use of Turbo Pascal (way back), that it was impressively fast (CP/M version on a Z80A!) and produced at least reasonable good code (better than the awful Small C compiler of that time, partly due to the different calling convention). Moving on to C and later C++, I never had such fast turn around times anymore, but didn't miss them much in a statically typed language either.
Great read. Loved it.
It is standard practice in the industry, and certainly any by any profitable retailer. In fact it was a story by an executive about how much money it was costing the company to manage returns, and it was far cheaper to just throw them away. It surprised me at first, but I came to learn that this is just how it is done.

I am disappointed by CBC making a click bait Amazon story, when it is actually the story of retail that our unconscious civilization ignores. CBC does mention this later in the article.
Men's sizes are only nominally dimensional; there are various sources of potential error, and correcting for them adds cost.
I've asked you to stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN
> If the only thing that should matter is skills, it wouldn't make sense in any realistic scenario that 75% of H1Bs are coming from a country with 15% of the population.

That's not really true. Skills the same, you would still see more people from SEA, Africa immigrating to the US than say people from EU, Australia, Canada. Most qualified people in developed countries can get the same or better standard of living staying in their home countries than people from countries like India.
Still play hard ball. Apple built the largest corporate entity on Earth guided by capitalism and the rule and spirit of American law.

In the absence of local rule of law, or local laws which are incompatible with the American moral outlook on human rights and civil liberties I would instruct my company to observe American laws. If Iran doesn't like that let Iran figure out a way to stop me locally. I am under no pressure to implement immoral company policies to support something which ultimately goes against the system which enabled my business to thrive.

Apple is big enough to completely disregard an authoritarian regimes wishes and get away with it.

Imagine a world where the big tech companies actually has morals that they upheld. The cost of doing business in China is they're going to steal your proprietary tech. Everyone accepts that cost and still does business with China. Imagine if American companies enforced human rights with the same viritol. The world would be positively incentivized to adopt legitimate democracy or fall by the technological wayside.
Fun anecdote about Unix groups: when I worked at Netscape, managers were shocked to discover that I was in both the frontend and backend groups, against the policy of allowing one person to take over the web site. (I worked on both sides, so had been granted access to do my work.)

But it gets even better ... I also had admin access to many databases. :)
I'd suggest checking movement of executives out of QNX and into Microsoft companies during that period. Extra points for people who left Microsoft to join QNX and then jumped back.
It's not just Amazon US which is terrible for that. Since moving to Spain I've stopped ordering on Amazon also. At least half the products I've received from them were either counterfeit, or clearly already used. Add to this their terrible delivery service and I don't understand how they're still in business here.
It can objectively be a waste of money but practical concerns require people to buy new phones. Users have no control over the fact that the OS and apps get ever more resource hungry despite marginal generally unimportant improvements in utility.
To blow up the evil people, of course.
User numbers don't matter if you're not making money off them. Telegram is privately funded by Pavel Durov. Twitter's yearly revenue is equal to Durov's entire net work. Twitter's market cap is 250 times higher than Telegram's.
To be fair, this piece is mostly arguing against just teaching Tensorflow or Pytorch and is in favor of more general skills (with data engineering being fairly general, though as you point out also something that can be taught via concrete assignments). And as to your last point, that's pretty much the conclusions of the piece itself:

"Based on the current state of machine learning courses it is clear that AI courses will get you through the door in your effort to perform cutting edge research or landing a machine learning job, but they won’t teach you everything you need to know. To fill in the knowledge gaps that remain you will have to put in outside effort on your own. "

I guess the question is whether the outside effort needs to be addressed by universities, or by other resources.
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I just asked you to stop posting crap comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24735720. Perhaps you didn't see that before posting this one.

This sort of dross is not what this site is for, and if you can't or won't use HN as intended, we're going to have to ban you.
Of course it will (temporarily) boost it when it's financed by debt created out of nothing.

Of and in itself it destroys wealth because it's simply consumption.

Are those writers malicious or merely clueless? Am i the only one who wonders why write about every new BI experiment when all the other ones before it failed and there's no reason, theoretical or practical, why it'd be different this time?
Yes but people often throw out empty criticism without offering solutions or alternatives and it gets annoying after a while and is just a complaint rather than a healthy critique. As programmers we've heard them all before I guarantee it, so why add another one to the pile?
How hard is it to get a licence in Illionois, if you have a licence in some other state already?
It seems you've made up your mind on what the narrative should be. So I'll just stop here for now.
>Basically, the industry needs some standards //

They futz with sizing because it's a part of their marketing. Fashion targeting older/ fatter people will have smaller sizing to flatter the customers.

I think buying clothes that don't fit just because you want to say it's a particular size is far more a part of female culture (in my social circles in the UK): womens' clothes are in "sizes", men's clothes are in measurements (inches/cms).

I don't think the industry, nor many of the customers for female fashion want accurate measurement-based sizing.
More stamina when composing romantic emails → greater chance of reproduction.
The U.S. selling weapons to Saudi Arabia doesn't harm U.S. interests in any way, but it's profitable and benefits the weapons industry, which is good from a self-defense perspective.
Can confim, my wife does this for me and herself.
But it is written: "unduly" concentrate.

The whole sentence is just yada-yada anyway. All "commitments" are constrained by some undefined or impossible exception. Defining "unduly" would be even considerably easy compared to finding a definition for what could be meant by "harm humanity" or be "for the benefit of all". The last constrain is nonsense in itself actually, or does "all" except Microsoft who would not benefit if they wouldn't got an exclusive contract? Not to mention all the people who will lose their jobs as those jobs will be replaced by AI eventually… They didn't say "all equally" which would make at least some little bit sense.
And here’s another video explaining the safety features: https://youtu.be/q3phjAQZdGg
If you're talking about a mutation that will increase the reproductive success of your children(or more likely grandchildren in the case of reduced chance of a heart attack), then the advantage would have to be even greater because of the high chance that your descendants don't have the same mutation.

I'm not saying there's no natural selection occurring, but that saying that heart disease is the #2 killer of Americans out of context likely overstates the selection pressure heart disease causes.
I was wondering if someone could come up with a POWER9-based accelerator board for PPC-based Macs.

Obviously niche, but most amusing. Imagine a 48-core 5 GHz MacPro G5.
Here's Sabine again stating things without further reasoning. I'm sorry but I have a hard time reconciling Laplacian determinism with quantum physics, I'd like to see more details.

Anyway, I don't think it matters really because as long as I can choose to do the opposite of what I want every time I feel like it just because I can, the philosophical debate about free will doesn't add too much to my own experience of it.
Well, it's what the article does, so I think that's a fine reason to have a title that promises that.
Why go for a esp32 if you can use i2c for reading many values and driving relays?

Serious, because I am building a complex product and trying to keep costs down.

Or are you referring to hobbyists?
Anti-ballistic missiles seem fairly non-evil.
The Mozilla Foundation really shot themselves in the foot. Non-profits don't do well when the emulate for-profit businesses and chase money.
I think he's referring to putting satellites into space for civilian use, but I could be mistaken.
Bingo. If anything it would speed up with the population bloom and given society has A: changed our selection priorities and B: made it easier to survive allowing dna to jump out of the local minima we might otherwise be stuck in. Being able to afford for a few steps up hill might find a new valley with a deeper minima.
I am currently working on a self-hosted analytics platform, and even though the space seems crowded, there are only a few good players. The thing is everyone started creating an "analytics platform", only that they just do it for money, thinking it's really easy to implement and don't care about the actual product, user experience or quality in general.

My point is, yes, the analytics market is crowded, but it's mostly crowded by low-effort players or archaic products. That being said, someone reading this will probably think it's a good idea to enter the market, thus leading to another below-average product.