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Researching and writing help clarify your thoughts, which could pay dividends in other ways. I'm retired, don't need the money and am told old to care about fame, but I have several ideas for non-fiction books I'm working on. Now that I think about it, his blog post presents a strong case for not writing a non-fiction book for money. There are other ways to spend your time with a better chance of making money, unless you're clever self-promoter that is.

"A 98% drop in sales after the first year, Seventy percent of traditionally published titles fail to pay out a single dollar in royalties, Vanishingly few nonfiction books sell even five hundred copies"
> Things have gotten messy, haven’t they?

I have to give him credit though, his web page has zero javascript.
Awk, for example.
Anyone can get a compiler and develop free software. Unfortunately hardware takes way more knowledge to design and manufacture. The future of free computing will never be secure until we can make chips at home just like we can make software at home.
Getting a random value each time is trivially detectable. That's a better signal that what you're blocking if more people share your video card model than install the extension.
The format of the Permissions-Policy header is roughly <permission>=(<allowlist>). An empty list allows no origins (not even the current page), so the feature is turned off.
Nah. The key difference is that power tools are supposed to reshape matter. Like knives, circular saws are inherently dangerous. This is more like a fan: some designs are very dangerous, but it's possible to design versions that are both effective and reasonably safe.
Given the supply issues and the challenges with most OEMs placing AMD products in inferior packages with subpar support.
Wouldn't it make some amount of sense for AMD to focus on a preferred OEM who put their products in a premium package with dedicated focus?

Right now it seems that most OEMs are hesitant to commit to the product line given supply issues.
Thanks! Yes I love Mark and his videos. Huge inspiration for sure :)
GPU compute (things like particle systems, video decoders, etc), video playback, UI compositing, etc
Thanks a lot!! Really glad you enjoyed
Not enough. There is a ton of inertia in that system.
I appreciate your response and I would expect the new series to have those sorts of themes- not because I expect the series to be good, necessarily, but because I would expect hollywood writers to try to tell a story which is "the same but a little different".
Will do, thanks!!
Sounds like a great concept, but I'm just worried about Facebook tracking everything
I don't give up custody of my money by keeping it at a bank.
It is a work of human visual perception at work. Somehow you mind chooses how to interpret sensations from a retina, and shows you one of women. Then you mind chooses to switch interpretations and you see the other one. Both interpretation are somewhere in memory. So it may be connected with this research.

Like with those chords in a research. Mice hear one chord, and by association from memory it expects other chord. But instead it hears some third chord. Expected and unexpected chords have perpendicular representation, if I understood correctly.

Here you see a picture, and expects one interpretation or other. You have memory of both, but you get just one.

Possibly it doesn't apply, I do not know. I'm trying to understand it. The obvious step is to make a prediction from a theory, should interpretations oscillate, if it has something to do with perpendicularity of representation in neurons?

When I hear another chord instead of a predicted one, do prediction and sensations oscillate? I'm not quick enough to judge based on a subjective experience.
Can I get an ELI5 on how physical neurons, stuck in a measly 3 dimensions, can possibly form higher-dimensional connections on a large scale?

I understand higher dimensional connections in theory (such as in an abstract representation of neurons within a computer), but I can’t imagine how more highly-connected neurons could all physically fit together in meat space.
The point of the article is explaining how a goal of a living wage can be earned directly off nonfiction writing, in addition to two different reasons that are explicitly stated at the beginning of the article as being commonly suggested.

It also explicitly is calling out methods that do not require fame, nor does it espouse a goal of fortune (unless you treat a living wage as a fortune).
I don’t know anyone that uses Facebook anymore that likes it. Everyone I know who uses it says, “I’m thinking I should delete it soon”. Universally, the number one criticism is, “All I ever wanted to see are my friends’ posts and every update shows me less and less of those”.

Does anyone actually know people who avidly use and love Facebook? It seems like Facebook is like the Christian church where the church and everyone says they go every Sunday but it’s really more like once a year at this point.
By native I don't mean Electron. I don't want to run yet another browser in addition to my main one. Even WhatsApp is better at this level, at least you can open it in your existing browser.
There was a fun article in early March showing that the same is true for image recognition deep neural networks. They were able to identify nodes that corresponded with "Spider-Man", whether shown as a sketch, a cosplayer, or text involving the word "spider".

https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/
Big Tech Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious
I actially prefer reading the news from „the other side”.

I know very well news from „my” side from friends and the Facebook/twitter bubble, but I want to know the other viewpoints as well.

Even if 70-90% of it is pure crap, I found that often „my” side is just as guilty of ommiting parts of information, and presenting things with sometimes extreme bias.
That is one spectacularly bad design.
The Windows sandbox infrastructure may well be more advanced than seccomp in the sense of being more complicated, but I would argue that makes it worse, not better. There are many sandbox escapes based on the insane complexity of Windows integrity levels. In contrast, there have been maybe 5 known Linux kernel bugs allowing a breakout from a strict seccomp policy in the last few years.
People will routinely set these up in their living rooms.
I believe Musk has mentioned that Starlink will IPO in order to fund SpaceX.
Yes, grid cells in the hippocampus [0] form a coordinate system that is used for 4D spatiotemporal navigation [1], as well as navigation in abstract high-dimensional "concept space" [2]

[0] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Grid_cells

[1] Time (and space) in the hippocampus https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28840180/

[2] Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6292/1464
Instead of mucking about to get Chrome to play various streaming formats - author could have launched VLC instead. VLC will play any URL you throw at it. I have completed the software of a Raspberry Pi radio project, I've been procrastinating on the hardware for months now (buttons, DAC/amp speaker and maybe tiny OLED screen?)
I would also say, people make more money doing stuff that's hard. (and of course the bar goes up)
To be fair, since this has been a while ago it's hard to tell what to do about this. Personally I find it hard to draw any conclusions from this just due to the time that has passed. I don't use Facebook, so maybe it's just my distance from it. But it has happened and it's worth stating that this is basically a psychological experiment and not a simple A/B test, but at a company that most likely at the time didn't have an ethics board to review this.

Other sources list a couple of principles behind the ethics of psychological research. The relevant ones being:

- Minimise the risk of harm
- Obtain informed consent

Some of them do state that the latter isn't always exactly possible, since that may influence the outcome.

But the fact of the matter is that Facebook did an A/B test that could inflect serious harm on the quality of life of the participants, who weren't aware of any research being conducted. The latter sounds like it'd be at least the minimum here.

So, I'm not a psychologist, but this does sound like it shouldn't have happened in this way. There were definitely more ethical ways in running this experiment that wouldn't have involved 700K unknowing and potentially unwilling participants.
As if Graphics card aren't already hard to get this is just another problem added to that list. Won't be surprised if they started getting really expensive just as they started getting cheaper :(
Fortunately for me, writing compilers is fun.
Careful, some apps seem to rely on those animations. Uber, I've found, has issues displaying the location of the vehicle if I set them all to 0.0. No problem if I set them to 0.5.
I don't follow. Who is the angel in lord of the rings? Gandalf? He's a wizard not an angel.

There might be something in the Silmarilion that backs up your interpretation but I don't think it's in Lord of the Rings.
Interesting, was expecting RL, but computer vision works too!
Having the right publisher is probably the most important.

I can recommend https://newline.co

I wrote a book with them and made enough to pay my rent for over a year with the money I made.
Europe doesn't have strong free speech laws so much as strong individual privacy laws.
It's not surprising that Stallman disagrees. He depends on copyright. The entire free software movement he started depends on copyright. The GPL depends on copyright.

Like all copyrighted works, free software suffers from the exact same infringement problems. People violate licenses every day. Nobody is gonna go to court over it. The best people can hope for is for some organization dedicated to GPL enforcement to do it for them. Resources are scarce so they're only gonna enforce the GPL strategically for important projects and against important violators.

I don't agree with Stallman on this subject. He depends on copyright but at the same time condemns the hardware features designed by the copyright industry to enforce copyright. I feel like I can't believe in both at the same time.
well.. I gotta say, being enslaved by good health care wouldn't be the worst problem to have
Counter anecdote, but I run the Ryzen 9 5950X on dedicated servers with Ubuntu 20.04, and they are as stable as they should be.
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8GB is fine for me but I do all my development natively - no Docker nor VMs.
Lawful Interception (LI); Inter LEMF Handover Interface
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"Anyone using facebook is a dumb fuck." - Mark Zuckerberg
> I mean, it is a chocolatey, because they allow multiple packaged for the same software.

I think this is more healthy then having one with maintainers refusing to do stuff you may need. The real thing would be for vendors releasing packages but we are far from that in Windows land. My hope for MS WinGet was that since it is backup from MS that vendors will adopt it, but since it sucks, this will probably not be the case.

> I meant that packages are often not updated by the maintainers.

Yeah, that was the problem far more before then today. I created AU to solve that issue [1].

[1]: https://github.com/majkinetor/au
No clearly, the message is, write self-help books for wannabe writers.
Oh, I mentioned it in case anyone wanted a better look at the buttons...
This will only create a niche platform for a handful of geeks. Technology does not solve social problems. Consumer boycott does not solve social problems. Political action does.
> LinkedIn is the only social media site with the possibility of return on time investment, which all suffer from the problems you mention. So why pick the one that can't possibly get you paid?

Do you think influencers go on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram because they aren't getting paid? They just like it?

> Also, I'm still curious on how many recruiters have contacted you through Facebook and viewed your resume, as compared to LinkedIn.

To compare, the answer is 0 to both. I haven't been on Facebook since probably 2013, and I only had a LI at all because we were required to make one in college, which I logged into for the second time ever to deactivate also probably around 2013.
That's a great point. It's not just about I have a book. But that, especially if it's through a publisher (which has pros and cons), I have sufficient knowledge of the topic either acquired day-to-day or through research that I'm capable of laying down at least 250 pages or so of coherent writing on said topic. The last book I did I was definitely already familiar with the area but I was certainly more so my the time I was done.
Wow. Hope it gets fixed soon. I’d be livid about this even if I only used the machine in the off hours.
It's a bad comment because it totally misses the actual dynamics of the creative marketplace--that is, superstars-take-all. It has nothing to do with the "fun" of the work. The superstars in the creative industries are making 7-8 figures and everyone else is making 4-5 figures while trying to become a superstar.
It's not Okay to present truth to power.
The down votes will flood in because we're not allowed to call it that.
Totally agree. But I'm somewhat used to silly things about htop, like selecting a process to kill using the arrow keys, or a default refresh rate of less than 1 second.
I'm able to make what people call a "web app", yet I honestly have no idea what React and Redux are, besides buzzwords, and what they are supposed to solve.

But then there's also the problem of people relying on JavaScript at all for websites that would've been fine as a bunch of fully static HTML pages. It's as if these days you can't do software development without overengineering everything into oblivion.
How fascinating, I've experienced this myself to a large degree. I have a few songs that very vividly remind me of certain periods or points of my life. When I play them, I always feel like I'm scratching up the vinyl surface of the memory, and I lose a little bit each time. Rather disappointing :(
Again, that means if they just accepted the wisdom of the time, which was the ‘common worry that seeing friends post positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out’ and unilaterally limited positive content, they’d still possibly be creating more negative feelings and causing this ‘harm.’ But, you know, it’d be all ethical, since they didn’t look at the data or run an A/B test.
In somewhat related news, Gerrit has a new frontend and it's awesome! Google has a couple of UX people working on it now and it shows.

As a big fan of patch-based code review, I still can't stand GitHub PRs. It's very annoying to stack GitHub PRs, so the default is to create large PRs instead. This is sad, because smaller units of review result in better code! Gerrit solves this (and much more).

Example change on Gerrit (click on "Comments"):

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/303182

Reasons to use Gerrit in spite of the learning curve:

- Ability to review commit messages (they're part of the codebase!).

- Show diffs between different versions of a change, even across rebases, with inline comments.

- Inline comments aren't lost on rebases and will be ported.

- Changes can be easily stacked.

- Select code snippets for inline comments, not just lines.

- It's really fast and there's keyboard shortcuts for everything.

- Rebase and cherry pick to release branches from the UI.

Some projects like Go, Cue or SQLAlchemy use custom tooling or Copybara[1] to mirror PRs to Gerrit, which seems like the best of both worlds - simple PR workflow for drive-by contributions, patch workflow for core contributors who work with it all day.

[1]: https://github.com/google/copybara
Feel the same.

HN is exactly the same as Reddit, just a different crowd and less edge. It's nice to think that you can have a civil discussion on the HN platform but you can't. The whole internet karma/points is a flawed system.

For HN: You should have to give a reason to down votes. To give someone downvote permissions and then allow them to downvote on something they bias, isn't far.
Let's imagine hypothetically that sad, negative posts get more engagement by whatever metric Facebook uses, and Facebook was paying no attention to sentiments at all and ending up putting more sad posts on feeds. Would that have been unethical? I can't really see what would be so different.
fortunate son plays over the sound of helicopters

Narrator: we were In Country, 1972....
It’s a newsletter but you can look at their archive:

https://www.theflipside.io/archives
I spent an hour or so messing with Siri on a Mac Mini I have lying around from an old contract gig. Wondering how I would use it without much (or any) vision. It's directly hooked to a fairly fast lump of hardware and communicating with a potentially huge back-end.

Utterly maddening, barely useful, overly tied to Apple products, and it's a design problem I had never considered before. Kind of disappointing after watching some video of Tesla auto pilot do it's thing, perhaps natural language processing is harder.

Other people have gone down this road, but it would be interesting to think about how a purely audio and button based internet and phone system would act. It's a wonderful thought problem. It could well be that the solution is not in website redesign, but in the parsing and analysis of the website. How would you describe a banking site to a sightless person?
Good point, even more so because I use VLC myself because of the exact same reason, it plays anything. I just never thought of giving it URLs, only local files.

(But the user interface in VLC sucks though...)
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If this was a small company, wouldn't regulator simply shut it down?
Consider three neurons all connected together. Now consider that each of them may have some 'voltage' anywhere between 0 and 1. Using three neurons you could describe boxes of different shapes in three dimensions. Add more and you get whatever large dimension you want.
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He does so dismissively, not treating them seriously: "you should therefore embrace your book’s predestined doom by reframing it as either passion project or calling card."
CGA displays had non-square (logical) pixels. The ratio for 320×200 resolution is 1.6, but it is shown on a 4:3 (1.333) screen.
Author of the post here. That's the style I try to go for, that balance of serious, shitpost and interesting side notes you'd get from DMing a particularly sarcastic coworker that means well on Slack. The Mara interludes add into this because it allows some blending in of the Socratic method to make some more complicated things something closer to a dialogue. I have plans to take this further though. If you have any suggestions on how I should skew these plans please let me know.
Its essentially a giant belt sander. Some belt Sanders are more dangerous than others.

I have a toddler in my household. Even thinking of them playing around any treadmill gives me an anxiety attack.

If you want a household item, it's like a stand mixer. Something that could break bones if not worse.
He doesn't seem to understand what a royalty is. He quotes himself saying "To compensate for their 85% share of the royalties, a publisher needs to sell at least 5x more copies for you to break even [compared to self-publishing]." As the lady on the tv says, that's not how any of this works. In trade publishing at least, the author's royalty is a percentage of the cover price of the book. In normal retail selling, the publisher gets maybe 50-55% of the cover price in revenue, out of which they have to pay you and also all of their costs of producing your book.
I noticed during the election that whenever I glanced at the fb "watch" video section, it was videos of guys getting into fist fights, or videos containing disturbing violence. I don't ever watch or search for videos like this, so it's not like it was selected based on my watch history or something.

At the time, I figured it was a psychological trick to suck me into viewing more ads since violence has that "can't look away" nature to it...but now that I think about it, they could have been intentionally stirring up angry emotions within the general population during the election cycle. Anyone else notice this?
Just wondering, do you think automatic machine guns are easy to acquire in the states?
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Agreed. At least put a “view demo” link.

Also took over the back button so I couldn’t get away.
US regulators warn Peloton users to stop using treadmill after child death
Yes, that is the alternative if one stubbornly choose to believe that the world can binarily partitioned into free and proprietary. — such paradoxes often derive from such a mentality.
Sure, but the neural activity is actually low-dimensional (see Extended Fig 5e). By day 4, the first two principal components of the neural activity explains 75% of the variance in response. ~3-4 dimensions is not particularly high dimensional.
I admit confusion. isn't unsolicited experimental psychological manipulation without consent just another word for most modern marketing?

I mean don't get me wrong, I dont like it and try to exclude it from my life and my families life, but there's pretty wide acceptance socially for this type of behaviour.

I would of thought the beauty industry would be an old perpetrator that should generally be investigated. going to shut down that?

and negatively instilling fear and distrust in a population without their consent for personal gain is about as old as politics itself?

isn't this practically mainstream media behaviour?

fomo? status anxiety? conspicuous consumption? I don't see why Facebook should be singled out for society-wide mandated and culturally supported practices.
It appears that your null hypothesis embraces the benevolence of tech companies. Is this a reasonable assumption? How, after all, do they make their money?
I’m less concerned about the prices and more concerned about their support. The L13v3 had a bad hinge. And there’s multiple reports of abysmal support for that, or basic things like batteries and chargers.

My current computer is a Lenovo X200s bought new. So that’s basically the baseline for my expectation of longevity for a linux daily driver
Perhaps "most" is an exaggeration, since I have one which doesn't and the comments here and images found online suggest that many others don't.

IMHO that video shows negligence on the part of the parents. There was a camera there but no physical presence. Exercise equipment is dangerous if not used correctly, and although I'm one who doesn't believe in "helicopter parenting", I certainly wouldn't let my kid play with a treadmill with only a camera watching.
I can't comment on the article but after a slow start this year, this HN Post has got me "reading" non-fiction audiobooks again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26206712

I am a member of goodreads, it's just hard to find stuff sometimes and cut through the dross. Thank you pizzicato.
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I wonder if excel could get cuda support...
"News media deliberately make people outraged. This ought to be the final straw".

I don't have issues with the study in general. You do want to know whether and how you can influence people in a positive or negative way, especially if you want to avoid it. There's really no other way to find out than to study it. They should've gotten clear consent for participation in that study, but that's about it from my point of view.
> My experience on MacOS was just as bad, with all of the 32-bit apps I used gone in the wind.

Were you forced to update to Catalina? I'm still on Mojave right now. My 32-bit apps still work, happily unaware of the fact that they're no longer supposed to.