skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, it could work like pinboard or MetaFilter.

In general, I doubt that the network effect can be overcome for consumer platforms. People want to share their book reviews. Why should they limit themselves to people who pay? Paying only works for those who want social filtering.

To compete with Goodreads, the data would have to be free like Wikipedia, for other competitors to emerge so that it is not just a village but a country with many villages. But then, it's a rtf reader situation where it is difficult to survive as an app creating company.
Alot of blockchain services share that philosophy and have a decent revenue model with the tokens.

The only problem is that the consumers want to trade the tokens at a profit instead of as purchases.

But that isn’t really a problem for the service that sold them. It is revenue. But people have an uncomfortable relationship with other people making money when they can extrapolate how much and consider that a problem.

Many services now are completely client side and use the nearest node that you connect to as the backend. They store enough variables in their smart contracts on chain and do the rest of the calculations client side. So their web service isn’t tracking you. But if you reuse addresses other people are.
This is quite fun actually! Tried different philosopher combinations. Get Alcoholics Anonymous recommendations for quite a few until I add Schopenhauer. And if you are a Rand, Rowling reading techie, apparently, you should read more Eddo-Lodge, Baldwin and Chomsky... Brightened my day, thnx.

P.S. Are you sure this thing isn't pushing people from one echo chamber to another?
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Fantastic effort, thank you very much!
Perhaps what we're seeing here is that quantization errors for the non-amplified signal become larger than the noise introduced by the amplification?
That's good! I'd love to see something like that.

Would also like something similar but for _knowledge_. Take a look at my knowledge graph and interests, and fill in the gaps.

In the meantime, I always recommend The Quietus [0] for music recommendations—always 'out there', but always quality.

[0] https://thequietus.com/
Relative to other graphing calculators, I've always felt that Casio's offerings were a good value relative to TI- ever since TI captured the education market they stopped being cool and definitely stopped being a good value. I think that having Python is a neat feature. I have strong opinions about calculators in general, and have owned a wide range of Casio, HP, TI, and even some old/niche ones that only real calculator nerds will recognize (like the Sinclair Cambridge and Elektronika Mk52).

With that said, we really need to let calculators go- collectors can still get excited for them, but they are a waste of money at schools. You know what else can do calculations? The smartphones and computers that practically every student has access to. There may be some really poor communities where we can't assume that a student has access to a computer and it's either a $5 calculator or nothing. But other than those really poor communities, nobody spends ~$100 on a calculator without alread having access to a more powerful computer. Smartphone penetration is high even in "kind of poor" communities where most people don't own a computer. Learning Python on a calculator is less transferable than learning Python on anything else. You can get a Python environment on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, every flavor of Linux, and probably a dozen other things that I don't know about. Don't buy this calculator for any educational reason, buy it because you're the calculator equivalent of a sneakerhead.
A search engine which only lists sites which adhere to a set of rules / quality standards is the only answer I see here. The question is would people use it? I don't think so. They won't even use DuckDuckGo and similar which attempts to address the issue for themselves but at the same time provide a complete index. Not enough care / awareness.
Chris Voss is great. I find if you are having a conversation and you are asking the questions, getting long answers, and then asking related questions, you are doing things right.

The other person loves talking about themselves or their opinions. You are learning by paying attention enough ask more questions.

If you are negotiating silence can be your friend when the other party is feeling good talking about themselves
Why is the idea of government regulation of fitness for purpose the "least efficient" answer. That's one of the primary purposes of governments, to ensure the quality and safety of what citizens consume and how it is delivered.

Otherwise, why are there regulators for advertising or for food or government standards for anything?

I'm not talking about censorship or somehow evaluating the quality of content, I'm talking about if a company is delivering a service and I am paying for it, then the conditions under which they deliver that service should be regulated to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace.

Apple shouldn't be getting plaudits for making privacy a unique selling proposition.

All the other companies should be getting told that their business is unfair and exploitative. Privacy should be a right, the control of my personal information should be mine and consent to have it should be able to be withdrawn at any time.
I think a large fraction of what you’re paying for is the interface. Your phone can in theory do a lot more than a calculator, but having dedicated buttons for everything makes a calculator much better suited for its purpose.

Though maybe that’s just because nobody has come up with a great UI concept for a touchscreen calculator.
Hi, author here!

Would love to have a public API for readng but don't want supporting it slowing us down when we need to change something. It's just the three of us in our spare time at the moment, so we need the agility!

I really, really like that use case too! Right now all you could do would be to create a collection of books on your profile, but would be nice to have on the book page I think.

> Could I send readers to their choice of bookseller?

We would like to refer people to libraries and indies, but these are obviously fragmented so a bit difficult. I think allowing authors to set a preferred book seller probably makes sense.
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Agreed I would like to somehow do that. At the moment it's a bit tricky as some books we might classify as for children are more broadly enjoyed (e.g. The Little Prince). One way, I suppose, would be to use a dozen very explicitly children's books as "anchors" and assume other books that intersect a lot with those anchors must therefore be children's books as well. Then I can create a filter. Shall investigate :)
Our software development company CyberCraft https://cybercraftinc.com is based in Ukraine. Our marketing team is quite effficient. To prosper in marketing they read thematic books - from Buy.logy by Martin Lindstrom to Positioning by Al Ries & Jack Trout. Also, we try to visit different seminars related to our area. It helps to find out in what direction to move.
https://www.goodreads.com/api
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What an insane prank and a exploitative one at that. The rich can be such dicks sometimes.
I had NumWorks[1] calculator, which also has Python support. Based on STM32F4 series MCU. Had a decent battery life. Unfortunately it died some time ago, after a year of usage, and I have not been able to use it any more. Using quite common Sharp EL-W506XVL[2] on desk and HP-42S clone Free42[3] on the phone/PC nowadays.

[1] https://www.numworks.com/

[2] http://www.sharp-calculators.com/en/category/6-educational-c...

[3] https://thomasokken.com/free42/
Sounds crazy, but Unix does it and we don't bat an eyelid.

[true.c]
int main() { return 0; }

[false.c]
int main() { return 1; }
From the readme (https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl#what-is-usb-per-port-power-sw...):

sudo lsusb -v | grep wHubCharacteristic -A 3

If you see "Ganged power switching" or "Per-port power switching" it has a chance of working.
> And yet... road deaths are down over the same 20 years and mobility is up.

> Road traffic enforcement isn’t even in the top 1000 issues facing the UK today.

Road collisions are one of the biggest killers of young people in the UK. It's absolutely a big issue.
Some of this definitely comes across as "bending reality to fit the proposed worldview" - the definition of "upside risk" being an obvious case in point. Even in risk-based management systems, those would be referred to as "opportunities".

Viewing all activity through a single lens feels extremely reductive, and the language of risk is already understood in different contexts within business to mean something a bit different.
> Having two or three people you know give a decent review to a book.

I have a large amount of Goodreads friends, often IRL friends with whom I know I share hobbies and interests. And yet, when I use the Goodreads "See books in common" feature, we share almost no books. I think a real problem for media-rating websites today is this: the glut of readily accessible content on the internet makes it less and less likely that any two people will share any one item of content.

The same problem can be found on Last.fm, where there are so many bands out there today, so much free listening to do, that even ardent lovers of a particular genre might not have very overlapping tastes. Last.fm appears to have been forced to change their compatibility algorithm, so that now you are "Super compatibility" with another user by just sharing a handful of bands in common, whereas in the past you would have had to share a lot more bands and listens in order to be ranked as Super.
Better to say the 2nd law of thermodynamics is not universal than assume creation ex nihilo?

The problem with that, is that the second law is equivalent to saying that information cannot be destroyed: discarded bits correspond to heat, so heat death is when the hard drive of the universe is completely filled with spam. If the universe is infinitely old but not filled with spam, then:

1. At some point in time, information started to be created (why not just call this the beginning of the universe then?)

2. The universe periodically wipes the hard drive of all its spam. But how can information be destroyed?
I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. If instead, X is in maintenance mode but with no plans to drop support, to me that is not deprecated?

It sounds like perhaps X was in the earlier state of not being recommended for new projects?
They are usually tuned for the speed limit + 10% + 2mph, as that’s the national guideline for fines/prosecution.

Technically you can get caught for any speed over though.
I find their poor recommendations the most obvious issue here. They have so, so much reading data on me, even a massive list of books I'm interested in, but they are still so off.
When was the last time goodreads was redesigned?
Nice, my thinkpad dock actually support this! No I'll just need to glue together `adb shell dumpsys battery | grep level`, uhubctl and some udev magic to turn off phone charging above a certain threshold :)
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Here's one actual trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT04425850?view...

Here's an in-vitro study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...

Here's one from Iraq: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.26.20219345v... ; I've seen one from Egypt too, and I know one in Israel is ongoing but partial results are already statistically singificant (but I can only find reports in Hebrew right now - if you can read hebrew you can google it yourself).
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> Is linear regression programming?

I’d argue not. Mostly. If you fit a model using lm() in R, and then apply that model it’s not the same as hand selecting the weights of a linear equation and coding that equation.

You could in theory select the same weights, and code it by hand. But no one ever does.
Ask HN: What is a modern alternative to WordPress?
Is there a much better way to replace the WordPress environment with a modern development approach? Assume I know nothing except WordPress.
This is the first I have heard of AssemblyScript, sounds interesting
You know what is really idiot proof? Cheap Nokia phones. They work very well for people not well-versed in technology. You can even buy a separate digital camera with the money saved.
I built an app for busy people that want to fight climate change
You say that like high-speed traffic isn't still causing a lot of pedestrian deaths.
The U.K. has that too! They just won’t usually do a traffic stop, you just get a letter though the post.
Not to give my age away, but I grew-up with a Ti-83, and I prefer it to any HP calculator I’ve tried. It’s possible that HP saw that entire cohorts of kids were growing up exposed only to Ti and Casio calculators with their own proprietary ways-of-doing-things - and commoditisation in general - and HP didn’t have a way to lock-in consumers the way that Apple did with ITMS when MP3 player competition peaked.
For websites that update irregularly. I don't read in the feeder though, I am fine with visiting the website itself.

If the websites have a lot of output, I dont add to RSS but rather visit manually.

Question: Why do you say "still use"? :)
Frictionless, permissionless large payments are illegal. The problem is that no one has worked out how to make micropayments costless, and that has nothing to do with AML/KYC and everything to do with the costs of running a payment system.

Bitcoin has turned out to be expensive to mine. Most other distributed ledger "currencies" have been launched to make money for the creators of the artificial scarcity.

Governments cannot give up control of the money supply but they are the only ones that can establish a form of electronic currency that works the same as cash does now.

Whether they're willing to make it as anonymous as cash or allow it to be exchanged for other government's electronic currency is part of the problem that needs to be solved.
To be honest, I think we already have the spam/quality issues[1], it's just that web spidering systems have to wade through and discard most of the presentation-layer cruft before they begin to determine the value of the content.

Allowing users to access information more directly and reducing the cost + complexity of content extraction seem like worthwhile goals.

[1] Edit: clarification: even in embedded semantic web data (microformats, etc)
As long as we are talking about a speeding ticket, you are correct. But since around 2017 it is a crime to conduct an illegal road race. This covers extreme cases of speeding with quite harsh punishments: impounding of the vehicle, high fines or jail time for the driver - and the owner if the owner could have reasonably suspected that the driver was about to do it.
Talk about being confused; show up to look at the results and there is just black burn marks all around... haha
>why the poor should exist.

That's an area of politics. You can create poverty by increasing living standards faster than people can increase their income. You can create poverty by allowing people to increase their income beyond someone else's income because poverty can always be relative. You can increase poverty by making it harder to get a job in the first place. There are so many reasons that have nothing with economics but politics.

Whether the coin flip game increases poverty or not is also purely about politics. If the one lucky guy cooperates with all the other players then everyone is better off. That cooperation can be implemented as a government policy.
Well, its paired with almost equally bad keypad, I so that sort of balances it out. Somehow I don't see writing any meaningful amount of Python on that being particularly comfortable.
I cannot stand the gas-lighting here. Your perception of capitalism is one that is framed as a winner takes all mentality that been sold to you by propagandists.

Capitalism is about free market trade. You provide something and people choose whether they want to buy it or use it. People add greed qualifier in there so they can frame it as something illicit going on.

The fact still remains that if people cared about their privacy (and there is no evidence they do), they wouldn't use these sites.

Before it was done online. Store cards used to track purchases and spending habits in store in the same way that sites do today (however at a much greater scale) and customers were given vouchers in return.

In much the same way. Almost all the local stores have dissapeared to be replaced by large corps that can provide everything in super stores and in much the same way that is the fault of the consumer by not supporting their local stores.

> For all benefits we yield from it, it's still fair to call it capitalistic greed and notice the ethical failures the market strongly encourages.

No the failing is on us and the users of the site for using these services when we were warned by many people that this would be the case. Pretending otherwise is passing the buck.
Thanks for the reference to Ways Of Seeing by John Berger, looks interesting.
This comparison shows nothing but they have a consistent UI, which probably isn't a bad thing to begin with.

And even that is a stretch, you can see there are plenty of adjustments in the layout, and the right one looks fine by today's standard.
Who ensures the auditors aren't fucking up then?

It's not that a private entity can't do it - I largely trust the TÜVs and UL and other NRTLs for example. It's that most auditors - especially once you leave the "ship a physical product with verifiable physical properties" sector - instead look like E&Y, which I trust less than most of the companies they have audited.

You eventually need to have someone who will be substantially at risk if the audit is insufficient - "skin in the game" to use the modern idiom - controlling the audit. In the case of UL that's insurances companies (which are highly regulated by... the government), for other NRTLs it's the government directly.
That's a completely different game. Academic publisher have little value add. They essentially steal and make money of the work of scientist while the scientist themselves have to pay them. This is not comparable to piracy in the consumer sense.
I don't understand why you should get all you want. Your demands are unreasonable.

And the fragmentation has already happened anyway; Most lucrative services are mostly web-only, including Amazon and new cloud gaming services.
It basically means being worse off than somebody else. There are fair and unfair ways to create poverty.
Really? They can require that in Germany? Imagine if they did that in the US, I suspect most drivers here are unable to read.
Aren’t they also accelerating the repatriation of the country ?
AML/KYC is not the problem.

Companies can issue gift cards that are entirely anonymous, paid for in cash, redeemed anonymously for cash.
Oh no, not at all, in fact for an entry level Mini of almost 10 years it's not bad at all.
This NumWorks is a beautiful piece of hardware. I recently got myself an HP-35s and it's delightful to use a physical calculator after all these years of firing up Python on the shell.
Why a solid state relay rather than a MOSFET?
Right, but which bit of those do you think makes this specifically a crime?
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Returned 0x0008 for me. Too bad, I had this idea of controlling my USB desklamp's power from a quick script via hotkey.
The API is good for general purpose book metadata. I found the Goodreads database a good source for series order; maybe I just didn’t look very hard.
I tried three authors:

Mary E. Lowd

Kyell Gold / Tim Susman

Rukis Croax

Does this database not have books from small/independent publishers?

edit: One of Kyell Gold's books pops up when I type his name in search after I clicked one of the examples. Still nothing on the others.
Could you please at least create an export button under https://beta.readng.co/settings so that we can migrate to readng.co without having similar concerns that made us to sign up for it today? And ofc it has to be machine-readable, e.g. JSON or XML but CSV should work too (for CSV ideally it would be in the same format as the one from GR to reduce fragmentation in this space). This is also a must under GDPR, so not going to be an effort wasted.
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Visa settles at the end of financials days with revocation possibly up to 80days out. Bitcoin settles every 10mins with revocation possible up to 1 hour out.

To keep the comparison accurate, you can transact many times within an “accounting block”. Bitcoin has the shorter accounting block and tier 2 systems laid on top of it seem to scale Bitcoin well beyond any accounting block maximum transaction cap.

The GP is probably not referring to speed of settlement though. Bitcoin solves KYC and trust and allows frictionless micro-payment.
Continuing here...Chernobyl was fantastic. I haven't seen Irréversible, will give that a chance.

I just finished Memories of Murders. It's a league above Zodiac. The ending had me scared, oh my god, the way it's shot. Just harrowing. Also really funny in parts. It never got slow, something that Zodiac suffered with. I have so many questions about the case though. It's so bizarre that the perpetrator was caught last year.
Lots of places in the world where speed limits are enforced automatically and strictly, and society seems to work just fine.
If you want to use Webots and ROS2 check out the following wiki page:
https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots_ros2/wiki
Not very many roads in the UK that have a clear line of sight that far!
I suspect Intel will in the future have separate processors which can less painfully take advantage of more decoders, perhaps with a restricted instruction set?
"Privacy" is a set of tradeoffs that different people/companies make differently. People who care about Apple's privacy choices can stick to their store, and forgo apps that aren't there. (Besides, Apple gives Chinese users' data to the CCP. There is no reason to believe that they aren't/won't do the same with other demographics. Apple has both supply and demand ties to the CCP.)
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Put some of my own favourite books (maths, business and Japanese fiction) onto the engine and got recommended african-american and feminist literature (and a cookbook.)

Then I sampled three of these recommendations and put them into the engine (Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou and Carol Anderson) and again got recommended feminist, african-american and anti-capitalist literature.

One does not simply escape the leftist bubble it seems.
> because we have now separated the data from the website

That is why microformats exists. With it the visual representation is at the same time semantic and parseable.
https://indieweb.org/microformats
Number plates are pretty low to the ground - I wonder if at 1500m the curvature of the earth actually obscures the plate?
"the right one looks fine by today's standard"

I disagree. It might be subjective, or a matter of taste.