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Assuming that it's the PI/senior author doing all of this shameless promotional work, I feel really REALLY bad for the grad student(s) on this paper... what a way to start your academic career :(

The paper is actually really nice work, but holy jesus someone on that author list is making a complete ass out of themselves.

Academia isn't startup world. The community is small, people have long memories, and I've rarely seen the strategy being deployed here work out. It does work sometimes, but more often it backfires. Especially for folks who aren't yet on a tenure track.
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Nice tool. I thought kindle files were mobi? Any difference?
I have an entire undergrad degree in complex systems theory, found it great and useful, yet in the instance of discussing this website I agree with you.
Google Closure's advanced optimizations require annotations throughout your codebase- in many codebases it may require significant effort to get this working. When you need that extra optimization it's great but can be a lot of effort otherwise.

I'm most excited about esbuild though and I'm curious how it'll fit into a larger codebase & ecosystem. The author is aggressive about keeping it simple (for good reason!!)- the focus on speed is awesome.
This is what sort of baffles me.

Ad spend is not going down. Yet publisher revenue is stagnant or worse. Look at every media outlet scaling back and/or crying poverty. This is the gateway to most of the worst of the advertising ecosystem. Nobody WANTS sleazy/creepy/loud/excessive ads on their sites, because it's their brand being ran down in the end. But it's seen as the only way to keep their heads above water.

I suspect the real story here is the growth of the middlemen and platforms. In 1990, when you called up your local newspaper and ordered a quarter-page ad for $50, the publisher got every cent of it. Now, you buy $50 of PPC ads, it gets routed through several layers of cross-selling and arbitrage, and $5 is actually distributed to publishers.

I'm surprised nobody's built a mutually owned co-op ad network. That would allow the participants to recapture most of the value lost to third party intermediaries. With so much less revenue leakage, they could offer tamer adds that paid as well as the current 82 banners, full tracking, and a chumbox design.
You're kinda proving the point here. The source article is about exactly the opposite problem: Maryland is widely distributing vaccines rather than micromanaging fairness, so there are a lot of random tricks available for people to get vaccines faster, and the author is frustrated about that. When there's no perfect strategy available, we can and should push for continual improvement, but there's a point where we have to accept people are doing their best instead of getting mad about it.
How do you keep this up to date though? That's the biggest problem with documentation. Having some kind of append-only format, like ADR, can help, since the documentation specifically is tied to a decision at a single point in time.

Still, those can drift from the actual implementation to the point where they are both misleading and confusing. Such is the entropic nature of software.
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Here is a good article that explains how drug approval is different in the US from Europe/UK [1]. Basically, the FDA has a reputation for being more thorough and for not taking the drug companies at their word and instead looking at the raw data from their trials. IDK if that is the best approach for approving the AstraZeneca vaccine but as this article explains, the FDAs approach did prevent thalidomide from being used in the US which was later found to cause birth defects in Europe and Canada.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/how-vaccine-ap...
I have heard people voice concerns similar to yours. Could you please provide some examples of mistakes and inaccurate info?
Unfortunately HN just shows them both as being “1 day ago” with no more detailed timestamp that I can see. I’m curious if one was posted during the time that Europe (and east coast North America, perhaps) were active, while the other was posted while the west coast (and so, Silicon Valley) was. Particularly when it comes to attitudes towards government there are notable differences.
That makes it Shell Friendly Interactive Shell which is redundant. Then there would be Shell Korn Shell, and Shell C shell. The 'sh' for Shell goes at the end as like a grammatical marker. It's postfix. Sh-FI-sh is awkward because it's prefix of the Shell -> 'sh' and also includes the 'sh' for Shell at the end making it a Shell X Shell sort of thing.
Arrival of this computer at MIT is a pivotal moment in the story told in Steven Levy’s “Hackers”.

Student hackers who had been fascinated by activities such as model railroad control equipment turn their attention to a digital computer for the first time. “Spacewar” comes only a couple of years later.
You are really about to start splitting hairs here I feel, but let's do this.

If a religion today promoted that a 50 year old can marry a 9 year old, would you ban it or not?

If a religion today claimed that the rapist of a woman who was single was forced to marry said woman, would you ban it or not?
I always just use ASCII art in code blocks.
Well yes, maybe I worded my question incorrectly. I work at a games studio and if we need to, we can get direct access to the engineers working directly on the Xbox firmware and ask them questions. It's possible.

But I'm also 100% certain that if someone sent a random letter to Microsoft offering advice on the design of their Xbox console, it wouldn't even make it to their engineers, much less actually get a response from anyone within the department.
I will not entertain that

"no public execution > public executions", or

"no street gay flogging > street gay floggings",

need to be rigorously justified from first principle.
Been using the same address for 8 years so I think maybe it's been in many email-dumps which are usually sold for email marketing campaigns.
It really shouldn't be called "meat". It should be called plant-based protein or meat-substitute. The definition of "meat" shouldn't change because you press some soy to look like a chicken leg.
Can I use this to change my purchased kindle books into ebooks for all devices?

I’m somewhat tech literate, but pretty ignorant about e-book file types.
That's a very good point - and it really motivates these kinds of computer searches.

The Nature paper has quite a lot of detail in its supplementary

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Table 3 inside also shows new conjectures for constants such as Catalan's and zeta(3).
These results do not seem to trivially arise from known knowledge.
You have my vote. Then again, I am the kind of person who sets up their phone in English because I dislike translations.
> “Businesses should be required to not discriminate because it would impede the other party’s freedoms.“

Being forced to do work they don’t want to do would impede the first party’s freedoms.
I always come back to this clip in situations like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw
Of course developers prefer faster build times. But what do the end-users who you write code for prefer? (Especially in a typical CI/CD environment where developers often don't need to monitor and wait for builds to finish)

2% sounds small. And it is, if your traffic is small. It's not small when you have millions of users.
it just hurts to see what they're doing with this awesome series
RSS is great. I think it might have suffered a bit due to its associations with the childish behavior of a group of supposed adults (one in particular) squabbling over credit and control over something as trivial as the RSS spec. Many so-called RSS feeds actually use the superior Atom specification, which was described early on by at least one of its authors as “RSS without the psychopaths”.
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The thing that holds me back from using RSS again is three things. First of all my workstations are geared towards content creation and I shut down all notifications. My tablet and phone are what I use to consume and discover content and these form factors or maybe the app implementations don’t really lend to RSS for me. Secondly, there is so much more content out there compared to 10-15 years ago. I used to follow some sites that would have posts every so often. But sites like hacker news and Twitter have so much content it is hard to keep up. Thirdly, I just have too many other responsibilities to keep track of it all anymore.
I found myself in a similar situation to yours... and then had a second child. If I had the time to track it, I'm sure the results would not be much better. After that much needed wake up call, what did you end up doing?
> how long time it takes doesn't really matter

It might be a bit of a red herring but build (and thus deploy) times absolutely do matter.

Going from a 30 second deploy to a 2 minute deploy to a 30 minute deploy has severe impact on your workflow, how atomic your changes can be and how immediate your feedback loop is.

I think (without data but from my own experience) it's one of the most massive underlooked productivity-sinks especially in web.
> "If I actually want to write anything serious, though, out will come my little computer, with its full keyboard. Of course, if I’m standing up it’s pretty impractical to try to balance the computer on one hand and type with the other."

Something I've not seen, but wondered about, is a chording keyboard on the back of a tablet device. Especially since he mentions chording keyboards earlier in the article, a tablet screen could have keys for one or both hands while holding it.

> "(I periodically try using drawing tablets but I don’t like the way they treat my whole screen as a canvas, rather than operating in a window that I can move around.)"

Bit surprised that a multimillionaire computer programmer can't get this solved when it seems like "only" a software problem?
> You’re assuming a lot here.

Actually, I am not. I am assuming only that, for an unstalled wing and a fixed flap setting at a given air density, lift increases with airspeed and also with angle of attack, plus Newtonian mechanics. Nothing here is contradicted by the video you linked to.

> It basically comes down to lift coefficient of the wings when a certain power magnitude of air is forced under them.

This appears to be gibberish.

> Power as P comes from lift and drag, you assume it’s from the wings, when it’s the thrust from the engine providing the compressed airflow (because we’re going fast) under and over those wings.

Ditto.

> I’ve been flying simulators and aircraft most my life as a hobby.

Well, I fly airplanes too. This just goes to show that you don't need to understand the physics of flight in order to learn how to pilot an airplane.
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Will there actually be basics of programming in there or is it just for cuteness?

Buying it either way but it might be a means to finally kindling an interest into it in my spouse. :P
So Mozilla VPN is wireguard, but won't let me use my own wireguard client?
That what I was hoping to do but I believe it's a manual process and would take some time. I Wish it was that simple using some extension or some other service.
That’s correct.

A lot of the year long boom in crypto has come from improvements of this technology.

Basically, the mere existence of it does not provide incentive for anyone but the issuer to create a liquidity pool. Different organizations started creating “yield farms” that pay out in an additional tertiary token to people that add to liquidity pools. This has really sparked the rise of it, as well as even more innovations/new services.
I'd think I'll stick with the tried and true `ebook-convert` tool from Calibre, and pandoc. There's no sense uploading your documents to a third party when that's not necessary.
The sheer volume of laws that exhort and the selective enforcement of such laws provide ample opportunity to harass people through the legal system under the guise of law and order and “but it’s the law” arguments, no?

Such abuse happens today and would happen with company governments to (except with companies, anything against company interests instead of political party/politician interests would be the model).
> where food/housing/etc is gratis

Sweet, sweet child!
Why downvote criticisms of capitalism?
I have noticed an extreme bias as of late that Hacker News seems to downvote things that take a critical look at US established views of the word, specifically concerning negative views of the US's foreign interference in other nations as well as failures of capitalism associated with not just the US's bloody history, but in other countries as well. Is it kosher here to just downvote something you disagree with, or is the point of Hacker News to promote a certain viewpoint by downvoting anything that provides a thoughtful and novel critique of these subjects?
I was early in my career at the time, and remember looking at the datasheet and asking myself the same question. Reflecting back, I think the sibling post that mentions an upgrade of an older discrete TTL PLC system could be the bulk of the target market. So while it was unlikely someone would begin a clean new design with a 1-bit CPU, there were older systems that already had the 1-bit architecture that suited this device for a mid-life re-do.

Besides that, semi vendors have on occasion been known to manufacture a device that has no market success to due to poor product/market fit, or technology bypassing it by the time it was finished. Most devices were originally made as custom designs for some specific customer or application so perhaps there's a boatload of these in some 1970's car.
Back in 1926 when Monsanto was a chemical manufacturer they incorporated the village of Monsanto, Illinois (later renamed Sauget) and had a chemical plant constructed there. The village is less than 5 square miles but, strangely enough, now contains two Superfund sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauget,_Illinois
this has been my approach so far.
You forgot the /s and that may be confusing to many.

Frances Kelsey refused to approve the drug despite immense pressure to do so, and thus prevented releasing a drug causing birth defects.
Working on codebases where the compilation times can often be 30-60s, a 10x improvement makes a massive difference in development flow and is definitely worth a 2% regression in size. It's the difference between being multi-tasking while compiling and not.

Of course you could use esbuild for dev and terser for prod, but maintaining two may be a support headache.
Focusing a significant fraction of a billion dollars on exactly the jurisdictions required for one side to prevail.

Not “bipartisan”.
What do you mean by a "correct VPN" here? The traffic analysis obfuscation angle is also interesting, do you have links?
I completely agree. That's one area where europe is much better than the US, they tend to force stuff to be labeled what it is.
Could you use this to rough out a Koehler illumination?
I'm playing with UC2 (https://github.com/bionanoimaging/UC2-GIT) and one of the projects is to build a KI scope (https://github.com/bionanoimaging/UC2-GIT/tree/master/TheBOX...) leading up to abbe experiment.

I mainly want to be able to plug in different objective lens strengths and experiment with the overall system geometry.
I'm far more interested in cultured/clean meat grown from real cells.
There are a few "kindle formats"; the most basic of which are just mobi files. Generate a mobi file and any kindle should be able to load it fine.
Call it protein and move on?
I’d love to hear your reasoning and alternatives.
> If you're mostly worried about how quickly you can minify when you do minify, then you're worrying about the wrong thing.

You don't need to be 'mostly' worried about how quickly you can minify for esbuild to be the top choice- if you're only, say, 10% worried about build times and still 90% ('mostly') worried about size + execution speed, esbuild still comes out on top from these benchmarks.
you're basing your opinions of how it would turn out on dark fantasy fiction?

> Given what those games were envisioning

yeah, no doy. I can create fiction too that would envision worse. no basis for political decisions though.
If that is what happened, then I agree. My understanding is that the fact checking department exists, and that Mills was told he didn’t need to do his own fact checking. But it wasn’t clear to me that the fact checking department did the fact checking.

In this situation, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect Mills to be responsible for making sure the fact checking has been done before considering his work ready for publication even if he wasn’t the one doing it. Just like a release engineer may be responsible for making sure the release has been through QA.
Same here, simple works. I use this tool to help http://asciiflow.com/
The k8s project did this very well in the early days with their design docs. It made the codebase much more accessible than it ordinarily should have been. There are few projects that do this and I wish the JavaScript projects did this a lot more.

If anyone knows of other open source projects that do this, it would be particularly useful.
This essay was published as part of a book and I got an interview with Stephen setup by his publisher when it came out.

The interview was so much fun. We had an hour booked and ended up talking for much much longer until he had to leave to teach kids programming.

I spent some of the time quizzing him on whether he could answer things in his language and then him calculating the solution. He really likes what he does.

My read is that he has setup the type of life he really wants to have. Gathering and tracking productivity data is something he likes.

Here is the part of the interview that made it 'on air' https://www.se-radio.net/2019/12/episode-392-stephen-wolfram...
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Kindle has jumped around in formats over the years. It's been AZW (which is basically mobi), AZW3, and now KFX. I assume that KFX is what this tool is calling "Kindle".
Yeah violating ethics is something that happens when you get caught doing something others don't like and like any non-critical error a cat can just walk away from that or spend their time reprogramming the short-circuited device.
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See the anti-legalization effort that just passed in Idaho.
>But it's not good at all in distributing things.

Maybe if you micro-benchmark it, but capitalism tends to have the food to distribute in the first place.
RSS is nice as far as it goes, but we should think about enabling more than that. ActivityStreams is essentially RSS on steroids (for use cases beyond simple syndicated content) and is generally more appropriate for the "social" use cases that are quite popular nowadays. For example, it's essentially the underlying data format behind the Fediverse.
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Same with money laundering.

If you do anything illegal, and there was any kind of economic transaction involved, you almost certainly committed money laundering.
The difference is that there are many communications options, ranging from ancient (letters) to present-day (SMS, Internet chat) to futuristic (community mesh, etc.).

For land and housing ownership, there is only one option in a given location. You either like the local government owned by the business, or you have to move to another state or even country.
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The ones with DRM are .azw, basically an encrypted .mobi. Calibre is your friend. https://calibre-ebook.com/
Cows and livestock eat plants and convert into meat. It’s natural and organic and proven process that’s been around for thousands of years.

Ground up plants with food colorings and odd shapes are not meat.
Are there any commercial products and has anyone tried it? I do recall some video somewhere of a US restaurant and people said it was reasonable but that could have been plant based.
It currently does AZW3 for kindle, but I will add in the sub option to choose from those three formats.
Should I believe that the Republic of Ireland's wikipedia entry had an issue with how it talked about taxes, but now wikipedia has corrected that issue?
I don’t understand the negativity here. I think this is a pretty cool site (when browsing on my iPhone at least).
Look I am not saying they are right. My point is these are not your average stupid uneducated person. The two families in question, the one parent has multiple PhDs from Columbia and Princeton, the other took their undergrad at Caltech. You don't get those degrees by believing any random crazy thing that crosses your path. Plus they have a first hand experience with their child that for some reason makes them believe the vaccine was responsible. If it were any other topic their background and experience would lend their viewpoint more credence than dismissal as "nutjobs". What makes this topic different? Why would they have any incentive to blame the vaccine besides some sort of convincing first hand experience? Why should we in this one instance distrust their rational capacities that have allowed them to acquire intellectual credentials the vast majority of the earth's population don't have the capacity to acquire?
> A file with the .MOBI file extension is used for storing eBooks. It was originally a Mobipocket Reader format but has since been adopted by several different readers as well. Amazon purchased Mobipocket in 2005, and later discontinued the MOBI format in 2011.

> The current Kindle formats (AZW3, KF8, and KFX) are based on MOBI and is a proprietary format exclusively used on Kindle devices. And, in fact, you can still open files with the MOBI format directly on your Kindle

https://www.howtogeek.com/360419/what-is-a-mobi-file/

If you want to write a Kindle book, checkout my book, Publish Your eBook by Joel Dare.

https://www.amazon.com/Publish-Kindle-write-ebook-software-e...
I would encourage people to have one ARCHITECTURE file per directory of source code files. Don't duplicate documentation in these files - if there is a well documented header file for some module, just link to that.

In a big project, when I'm hunting for code that does something and I have no familiarity of the codebase, I want to be able to follow a chain of ARCHITECTURE documents from the root of the project to the implementation of the feature I'm looking for.

If your documentation is poor enough that I resort to finding a string used in the feature and grepping the whole source tree for it, then your codebase will be tricky for someone new to get started on.
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Yup, very true. Just recently German chocolate producer "RitterSport" made a new chocolate product but were disallowed to call it chocolate because it doesn't contain any sugar (they used some substitute), which according to the definition a chocolate product has to contain to be called chocolate.
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Search for "Apprentice Alf" for a DRM stripping plugin for Calibre. This is how I liberated my kindle library. Once you've stripped the DRM, you can freely convert them to epub.
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When it comes to serious diseases I don't think we are ever in the 'realm of fairness'.

In an ideal world, we would vaccinate every single person at the same time. But we can't do that so we have to prioritize based on varying strategies.

The EU and the US have both been entirely inept when dealing with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. The rollout has to happen FAST on a planetary scale. Mutations happen as we speak and if we are in bad luck, one of those will knock-out the vaccines and get us back to square one.

We need to vaccinate countries that we usually just don't give a shit about because they may be a mutation source in the future.