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Ask HN: Affordable book printing/Bookbinding service in the US?
I usually read non-copyright material, mostly 19th century literature (whose copyright is expired even in the US). The trouble with buying these books from bookstore is that chances are they're really hard to find. Regardless, finding PDF online is always easier than finding the book in my bookstore. I prefer reading paperback books.

Are there any services that you know, that can print, bind and mail the book to me? How do services like these verify that what I'm printing is non-copyright, is it a lot of work to prove that?

I found some services through Google, but they're very expensive e.g. bookbaby.com quotes $90 for a 500 page book.

I live in Massachusetts, USA.
played a huge part in my programming evolution, too. learned OO from programming in it, and then learned C from hacking on the server and various offshoots of it
I'm kinda disappointed that I can't register an emoji handle. No diamond at hands dot kz for me, I suppose.
In a perfect word, this kind of refactor should be handled by the tooling (IDE/Language Server) though.
You clearly don't understand what is happening. The increase in CO2 causes wilder swings in weather, leading to more and more extremes. It also perturbed the Jet Stream, leading us to get in the USA what had been weather confined to the Arctic. This outcome is PRECISELY what had been predicted for the worst effects of climate change.

In fact, the amount of CO2 that we have already released has triggered the knock-on effects, which is the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of vast quantities of Methane gas, which is 84 times more damaging than CO2.

Unfortunately, climate is not simple. By definition it is a complicated effect. But the coldest February ever seen is 100% in agreement with the predictions in Climate change.
The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
Maybe not illegal but seriously crappy and amoral behavior.
Every auction has a time limit
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117 comments and Dato[0] isn't mentioned. Works great for me, I replaced the Fantastical menu bar with it 6 months ago. One-time cost.

[0] https://sindresorhus.com/dato
I would add this.

If anyone familiar with how Tailwind works lands on a new project, regardless of its age, this person can immediately understand the front-end code in a matter of seconds, without having to look through thousands of lines of code in a separate CSS folder.

I don't understand why Tailwind is "harder to read", as the OP wrote. It makes it much easier to read as what the code does is immediately understandable.
get a 15-yr mortgage. the 30-yr one is a scam. Buy a small condo, hopefully work remote from lower COL (Sacramento even). Live small for a few years, then upgrade incrementally over time. Most importantly, don't max out your budget, especially in rent/30-yr mortgage situation.

Don't have your MS? Get it.
That's pretty cool. Maybe this would actually be a good use for the failed Lytro cameras. Changing focus after the shot is taken was always a parlor trick with little use in regular photography, but for microscopy it could be game changing. Has anyone tried microscopy with a Lytro Illum? Seems like you can still buy them used.
This is a difference in what you are buying. When you are buying a dedicated server, there isn't exactly a good way to hide that the thing has just gone up in smokes.

When you buy a storage API, sure, failure rates go up, latency increases 100x, but after a few hours its probably back to normal.

Of course, with the increased abstraction, you get more problems. "Availability zones" are useless when most cloud outages are because of configuration or systemic issues that tend to bring the whole thing down, no matter which AZ you are. But apparently it's now considered "good enough" to just go "oh we are down because AWS is down".
If you stuck the processor behind the screen, you could get a lot more airflow.

Let the bottom be essentially be a battery, keyboard, mouse, and a docking station. And the lid be processor, memory, a m.2 for storage and an m.2 for wireless. Put a big, but thin fan on top of the processor and lots of venting on the side. Probably won't be very thin though.
Haha, usually, in the context of interviews, you don't think of gender as being a type of background.
Maybe in a “partnership” you don’t need to ask a “partner”.

But in marriage you don’t have “your money” - you are both on the same team, so all money are shared.
If you spend $1000 on something random, that sets your team, your family, back of its common goals - house down payment, vacation, etc.
I know the Air Force claims this makes it safer by avoiding the need for a range officer to make a time sensitive safety call but it’s not like there isn’t a precedent of software goofs in this area of software controlled termination

https://apnews.com/article/1d85f290e31cad8532636fcb576f4788
My biggest problem is components, I just need more than a utility class framework for my side project, I do not have the time to implement all the components myself.
I've ranted before about how tuition is rising because we keep pumping more money into the system in the form of student loans.

Our efforts to make higher education more available by giving more and more student loans have backfired again and again by driving up tuition costs. The more money students have to pay tuition, the higher tuition costs will go.

In many cases the increased funds are being spent by schools on things that are not directly related to education, like elaborate student centers and other upscale facilities designed to attract more students.

The end result is that we are making students slaves to massive government debt but, for many of them, not providing any better education than they would have had if school were cheaper and the facilities maybe a little bit less nice.
Yes, deasync[0] for example, hooks into the Node.js event loop from c++ land

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/deasync
The replacement for a RISC workstation was an Intel one serving the same role for the same kind of customer. The mainframe doesn't have that sort of path.
Phishing Your Own Employees with Covid-19 Lures Is Evil
Continuing to Raise the Bar for Verifiable Security on Pixel
That's because the Jet Stream has moved South. The Arctic was much warmer, leading to melting of permafrost and the firing of the so-called methane clathrate gun, which releases vast amounts of tremendously-damaging methane gas.
They had a DIY water sprinkler system in a wood-based structure:

https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc... (posted in previous threads)
There are a lot of domains that are easy to type and memorable, and being “relevant” will come with name recognition. It seems pretty glib to just say cars are “practically” all the same; why does anybody pay 3 times as much as the cost of an economy car if the difference is so small?
> In a million-line codebase, you can add and remove classes from a specific element with 100% confidence that you are not breaking anything else

Isn't the flip side of this that it makes it almost impossible to keep styles (visually) consistent across the codebase?
See your sibling comment for another perspective! (EDIT: which, to be clear, doesn't invalidate your point. Though it's worth considering, I guess, whether "only assigned semantics by the host specified in the domain" prevents user-tracking systems from calling "foo+bar@gmail.com" the same user as "foo@gmail.com". After all - if they're being interpreted "as" user IDs, rather than as emails, does that really breach the RFC?)
I think this is an extension of pg’s advice he gives to YC startups when they describe themselves. For those who have looked a website or sat through a pitch deck and wondered what the hell the company actually does, this advice is crucial. I don’t believe he is talking about fictional literary works, but rather language for communications.

YC was probably the first proponent of the X for Y type of startup descriptions, because the analogies are simple and give you a starting point to begin understanding.
Is your name Alice? I'm pretty sure I posed the question in the third person.
Sending a video feed that you don't want to send is not okay, even if it doesn't put you out of a job. The excessive severity is just exacerbating something that would be a problem anyway.
>> I don't know much about rocketry

There you go.

You are welcome to try and disagree with decades of rocket launch practices.

The range safety officer can blow up the rocket if the rocket veers off and is in danger of overshooting the safe area.

Otherwise, you know the reason why we launch over water? Since it doesn't goddamn matter after it clears the tower and clears the danger zone. It either blows up over water, and who cares, it lands in the water, who cares, or it blows up in the upper atmosphere, and who cares.

Also, the rocket blowing itself up is a reference to the fact that if it is going off course, there is damn good chance it will destroy itself since aerodynamic forces are calculated to a specific launch window with upper weather. If not following a calculated path, good chance it will rip itself apart.

Also many abort modes are disabled for the first few seconds in flight so a dumb human or computer wont accidentally trigger a abort after flight starts and blow up the launch pad
So the main part of my comment was really at the end, discussing what is fuel waste and what is auxiliary waste. This is often a difficult conversation with nuclear. Most people don't realize how little the waste is. They then don't realize that only 3% of that tiny amount of waste is the concerning high level radioactive waste. The honest reason we don't invest more into breeder reactors or re-enrichment plants is because the fuel is cheap and we don't create enough waste to worry about it. America had and used the same technology as France, but gave it up because it was too expensive. But this tiny amount of waste is generally why many think you can just bury the waste from the plant on site and move on. Place the high level lowest, medium, then light waste (which is 90% of the material and 1% of the radiation) on top (or we could make a container this way). We're not talking about much physical material from a single plant. We're talking a coke can per person per year (total nuclear, not a single plant) where 3% of that coke can is concerning. Nuclear is already extremely expensive, why increase the cost? Cost is the only real argument against nuclear.
Make usb-c docking work...

I got an older dell xps that get's heart trouble on 3rd party usb-c chargers (short freezes under moderate load) and is throttled even through the expensive dell dock.

I got a lenovo with linux (maybe linux is at fault) where hdmi through usb-c causes all sorts of issues.

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allow to limit charging to 80% (dell can do it, should double battery life. Too bad my xps batteries die a bloaty death every 2 years anyways... :)
I used to swear by Open Source try to build an uptime monitoring but failed https://github.com/yeo/notyim and a few other thing.

Eventually one day I want to do email forwarding, I was thinking open source or not and pretty much chooese to go with close-source for now.

I can see myself open source in the future when I get enough customers and I have more time to cleanup the private stuff in our mono repository right now.

But for an early self-bootstrap self-funded I feel like focus too much on Open Source and I don't have time to focus on the growth or marketing.

I finally release my first SaaS this year, make $78/month right now(don't laugh at me). https://hanami.run

I would say I'm not against opensource and it definetely work for others, but for me, by not going open source I can focus on the business itself. With that being, I contributed back such as a mail parser https://github.com/yeo/parsemail https://github.com/yeo/pix

I can imagine myself release a lite-version(our early prototype) where we can forward email using a config file, instead of a database with all the user, membership stuff that no one care about if you want to self-hosted my SaaS.
My point is that sawing off your hand is a false equivalency. tobacco ≠ meth ≠ alcohol ≠ weed ≠ sawing off hands. We are very derailed from the original conversation.

No, I don’t think tobacco and alcohol should be illegal. I do think addictively sawing off your hand should be illegal.
> They kept me in a 10x10 cubicle with a white board and small table for 6+ hours during which a parade of engineers came through to ask me puzzle questions.

Do you ever wonder whether it was all some kind of psychological experiment? That there really was no job. And the test was to see how long you'd sit there doing puzzles?

> None of the interviewers could answer simple questions like "What do you do?" or "What am I going to do?"

Only the control group was given that information. :P
> You seem to be backing up my point with your claims. Nuclear has consistently gotten more expensive over time.

And we're also building fewer nuclear plants over time. Let's revisit your point:

> Even worse, nuclear very clearly gets more expensive the more if it we build, not less expensive.

This is not only untrue, it is the opposite of true. The more of it is built, the less expensive it is. The less of it is built, the more expensive it is.

You're right that nuclear has gotten more expensive. But that's because we're building less of it. If what you said were true - that nuclear get more expensive the more we build it - then today's nuclear plants should be cheaper than the ones built in the 1970s and 1980s during the nuclear boom.

> Even if we build the AP1000 serially, do you think it could reach $3B/GW? That's a huge hike in reasoning, and I'm not sure where in the long long Wikipedia article for nuclear power it states that serially production of the same design could drop costs by a factor or 4 (or more).

It's not a huge hike in reasoning. It's based on the price history of previous plant construction. Click on those plants built in the 1970s and early 80s. Many were built at a cost of only $2B. AP1000s are fundamentally not much different than previous PWR designs. Iterative improvements extend life and generate a bit more power, but the overall layout is the same.

In short we did build nuclear plants at scale, and it was 4-5x cheaper. This is a claim based on demonstrable patterns in price history.
Forget laptops. Bring back the portable computer.
"I'm sorry let me refund the money you paid for this" must be the all time favorite answer for stubborn or impolite users of software that has been provided for free and with no strings attached.

My second favorite (would be first if not for the slightly snarky style) is "Please, go read the License". This is to say that the License typically states that "this software is provided AS-IS with no guarantees at all", but in a very indirect way that most people won't understand when told to them... but I still like that answer, FWIW :-)
This is semi off topic, but the sentence "housing in Munich has gone insane" struck me. Housing in my city in Greece has gone crazy too, a two-bedroom apartment costs significantly more than minimum wage, and I don't know who can afford to stay there.

Does anyone why housing everywhere seems to be going nuts? This can't be a good sign.
Thank you! For the reference, until I released version 3.0.0 (last November) the price was $3.50 (and all of it went to charity). The number of sales didn't take a hit - but it coincided with some publicity and major improvements to the app.
Apparently, this comes via her American publisher:

"(they) received a request from the US group Viking Books for the work to be carried out by a female activist with African-American origins"

per: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56340162

I guess I can see an argument that the perspective of the translator might have some bearing on the interpretation and choice of words. Still, it seems counter productive to reject a completed translation on the basis that it was not done by the right kind of person. I hope the person who completed the work will at least be paid for it.
I had the same reaction, but checked a different set of facts than you did. PKZIP 2.04g (which at the time was the standard) supported split archives, in January 1993. WinZip added support in version 8.1, in 2001.

Edit: I just found the page where you got your quote. Looks like ISO was deliberately defining a subset of ZIP.
This is more like the miseducation of America's would-be elites, whose parents are actually raising them to be sheep. If you're that dependent on the "right school" and on others' view of you, are you actually elite? Or are you just desperately trying to clothe yourselves in the trappings?

But this is very scary stuff. If people of this class won't stand up to this nonsense, who will? Perhaps the regular people will, having less far to fall if they get shunned by the "elites".
It's the same craze affecting smartphones. We get rid of useful features like headphone jacks just to save 0.25mm of thickness. Thickness that nobody would ever notice in a practical use case. We buy thin, fragile phones and then put them in big thick cases.
Discussion from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406945
These are all excellent
Its worth is measured in the degree to which it transfers money, resources, and power from people like you to people like the author, and words arranged like those that appear in this document have proven to be an effective tool for this.
Ask HN: Why is all web streaming only CD Quality at most?
Why are internet broadcasting sites only work in CD Quality at most (16bit/44.1kHz), or more likely, 320 kbps mp3?

I have bought a sound card that supports 24bit/192kHz sampling (E-MU Tracker Pre), and it is not exactly a new technology: this family of semi-pro sound cards is 10-15 years old. Why is this higher fidelity standard not supported by any website? Is it an underlying limitation of some web standard?
Don’t you think collectibles are more analogous to domain names than cars which are in bountiful supply? Nobody is paying more than the purchase price for a Camry.
Tra I Leoni: Revealing the Preferences Behind a Superstition
Uber and Lyft to swap data on banned drivers
Smartphones come with many physical sensors. Laptops are bigger and have more power, so they should have just as many.

- Very good quality cameras front and back, including IR, dot projector and flash

- Analog audio I/O

- GPS receiver

- 3D accelerometer and gyroscope

- Magnetometer

- Ambient light level and color temperature

- Ambient temperature, air pressure, hygrometer

- Radiation detector

- Wasn't there some research into a user-facing radar that could detect gestures?

- GPIO and SDR
This is how the surfacebook has been built. It's a problem because (1) you don't actually have more room on the top than the bottom, since these are the same size (2) the side vents are actually less surface area than simply having the bottom be fans. It doesn't work out well, there's just no way to have the airflow.
I'm applying to graduate programs this cycle; this tool helped give me a vague idea of a professor's research interests without reading through their papers. What do you think?
Basically, their answer is yes.

First, under this system, long-term speculation is not really viable, due to the high tax. So the buyer must have some reason for paying higher than the price you set, which you don't see, i.e. you under-utilize the asset. Google/Facebook ads work this way - every slot is always up for auction. Also similar dynamics in partnership agreement's "shotgun clauses", etc.

Second, you can always factor in your sentimentality into your price, then the buyer will buy your neighbor's house instead. But you have to pay for it in the form of a higher tax. This is like a penalty for obstructing economic efficiency.

Third, this system pretty much does away with the strict idea of private property, into what they call "partial common ownership". It's basically a way to have shared ownership (as in communism) without the central planning, i.e. in a way that might actually work. (In fact, it quite reduces the role of government.)

I'm not advocating for this system, but I think it's fun to think about.
Choice and parser have their own advantage and disadvantage. I do not think choice-based games are necessarily more interesting; it depends on the game. Different game engines will have different features, and different games are different, too.

I disagree with the part that says "I’ve argued in the past that for parser games to be penetrable to newcomers...The player’s scroll-back should be a stream of content, positively-reinforcing perfect playthrough." I would want the scroll-back to display everything, including errors if there are any.

About unknown verbs, what I have done is just to add a command which lists all of the valid verbs in the game. Some verbs are "system commands", such as "save", "restore", "quit", "undo", "script", etc; their implementation comes before a label called "EndSysCmd" in the source code. I then have a verb table, which links the vocabulary index numbers of each verb with the address of the function that implements it. The "verb" command then iterates through the verbs, displays the corresponding vocabulary word for each one, and adds an asterisk if its address is less than EndSysCmd.
We actually checked that- the day we went to get the laptop repaired we confirmed that it was active and backed up, and a week later the restore failed.

Backblaze eventually admitted that their dashboards aren't realtime, and they had a bug which was showing us (and their client) files that didn't exist.
This is why I'm so skeptical of climate alarmists. It wasn't that long ago the alarmism was centered around a "big freeze" (http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731203,00.html). I see it as a feeble attempt to acquire power and funnel money from hard-working citizens to the "scientific" community, without providing any tangible benefits. What do you guys think?
I think so. If someone sees enough value in what you provide to be willing to pay you, you shouldn't feel bad about it. It's not like you're pushing them to adopt k8s. They already did that.

It's like someone bought a Mercedes. Nobody needs a Mercedes, they could drive a Toyota. But now they need an oil change, and that's what you do, and they'll pay you for it.
Or wealthy people buy up a ton of land and get the law changed.
We both know there's about a 100% chance that whoever reads gnu.org and writes a browser extension to block JavaScript on a specific site is a male, so "he/him" is better in this case.
I've seen it occasionally as well, but I've also seen many cases where I had to probe folks interviewing (when i was the hiring manager) if they gave the candidate time to answer the question and gather data when it looked like they didn't. The issue too is that even when called out, the candidate doesn't get a plus for that area, instead it may be omitted where it could have been a strength to help balance areas where they were lacking.