skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an author of a non-fiction book. I self-published. My book has a 5-star rating to date even though it was published nearly 5 years ago. My book meets most of the criteria laid out in this book. I even had both a publisher and distributor approach me and I had plenty leverage. Despite all that, I didn't get the book sales I wanted nor the PR.

Everyone that reads my book is surprised to hear it's not topping the charts or plastered everywhere my audience hangs out. My book beat out all the competition when it came out in terms of reviews.

While the points in this post are valid, I don't believe they get to the bottom of what holds back sales.

Frankly, I don't know what the answer is -- I have a vague idea of what it could be but I haven't had a chance to try those things. Perhaps if my book had been in all airport bookstores a few years ago, it might have taken off (no pun intended) like Tim Ferriss' book but who knows.
MSIX I believe supports self-updating and is no longer bound to the store

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/non-store-deve...
I've been wanting a 5950x at MSRP since last December. This is the one time in recent history I'm not sure any of this really matters to AMD. They physically can't produce enough chips to meet demand. I'm even skeptical of any future damages this could cause by harming their brand image at this particular point in time; everybody wants AMD right now and this is further enhanced because "you can't have it".
You asked our permission so unfortunately this experiment is not comparable with Facebook’s.
Squad was an interesting search term in a disappointing way. The results are something related to soccer except for the far right. Searching Black Lives Matter produced mostly right leaning complaints, which I guess isn’t surprising.

I was having trouble thinking of things to search that didn’t produce unbalanced results.
The total Bitcoin supply doesn't inflate. And so your assets won't be inflated away.
This brings to mind Ted Kaczynski's manifesto in terms of the need for achievable, non-trivial goals and the inability of so-called 'surrogate' goals to really satisfy that need.
My joke was the cost of faking the moon landing was too high. 100% of GDP from 1960 to 1970. And then the estimated cost for the 'Kubrick Plan B' was too high. So they sent two air force test pilots up with home movie cameras to film each other on the moon.

Lame!
> It’s because Hemingway’s Boat is broadly “about” a topic, whereas The War of Art promises—and delivers—an outcome.

I certaintly don't know a damn thing about selling books. But I am an avid reader of nonfiction and this is exactly the opposite of how I shop for books myself.

Other than the odd "how-to", I'm skeptical of any book promising me anything other than the author's diligent study and incisive distillation of a topic. I've read many books which caused my mind to grow and really excited me about the world but I've never read a book that "solved my problem". Of which, I assure you, I have many.
But what's to stop someone putting up a website with instructions on accessing a Tor site or Discord server or an IRC channel?
That's how I used to play. For some reason strumming in both directions really threw my timing off. Damn did that hurt my arm for fast sections though (if it got too painful I would change to strumming both ways simply because the alternative of slowing down would end up with me missing more notes).
Just a note, I don’t think there are many Canadian small ISPs which buy internet access wholesale in order to resell it. There are many who lease “last-mile” connectivity from both as Bell, Rogers and Co as owners of the copper they are required to provide that, but it’s not in their interest to sell wholesale internet access to a competitor. You will hit an IP network device of your own ISP first and never be on on an internet routable segment of Bell/Rogers so its unlikely they would be able to block other kinds of encapsulated traffic (assuming the agreement even allows that, which also seems unlikely). If you are a small ISP, you have much better options for transit than Bell or Rogers at that point.
Could you trouble me with reasons? I for one just looked around what accessibility APIs are where and am thinking about a custom widget toolkit that would go from accessibility first down to typical graphical stuff. So if that's not a trouble for you, could you expand?
Pasting to an issue to get an easy image upload is a nice trick, thanks!
At the end of the day, modern x86 cores are essentially high performing RISC cores with a vdry intelligent CISC decoder. An ARM core just has to be a high performing RISC core.
I’m not a biggest fan, I’m not even much of a fan.

I’ve just been very skeptical of remakes ever since we now have something like 11 Spidermen from 3 reboots in like 20 years.

Edit: apparently it’s 8 movies, 3 remakes, 19 years, ignoring into the spider verse and including the one coming out in Dec 2021
I feel like the actual sandal here is that The Guardian is essentially doxing public employees, using "breached" (is this just a nice way of saying the data was maliciously acquired?) materials, because they have the wrong political opinions.

>The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, revealed the details of some donors who had previously attempted to conceal their identities using GiveSendGo’s anonymity feature, but whose identifying details the website preserved.

I've never heard of "Distributed Denial of Secrets", but if their modus oporandi is to do things like this I'm having a hard time understanding how they could be considered anything but a bad actor, especially in the current political environment.
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Are the only 2 kinds of people “creepy pickup artist” and “asshole”?
Windows is down to 75% desktop usage share worldwide and 60% usage share in the United States. Still a majority, but a far cry from the days where it held 90%+ usage share. It's usage share has gradually and very quietly eroded.

Nevermind that the desktop/laptop OS market itself is no longer as important as it was in the 2000s.
> 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.

Because no one would ever lie or put noise in the "why I downvoted" field.
"management" is important.

It can't make it appear out of thin air. If you need 16GB of ram and only have 8GB, you will run out of memory.
I love that you actually made it press the buttons instead of wiring directly into the guitar. Get all that authentic clacking :) Looks really cool!
interesting idea, but implementation is all sorts of weird, the scale of left and right is unclear, and more importantly changes from one search to another, instead of having vague terms like leaning left and right, you could put logos of different medias on that scale, and let your readers compare different articles to each other, so you would get some fresh data
They have a huge customer base. A lot of them wouldnt use anything else. They’ll be around for the foreseeable future...
You should remove the .html otherwise the page won’t open and instead you get « AccessDeniedAccess »
you bring shame to the world of robots!
there are humans that can achieve 100% notes. mere, humans!
Mark Zuckerberg - They “trust me”. Dumb fucks.
Bullshit. The Ptolemies went to pot in Alexandria, but even so Cleopatra went down fighting. The (down-home) Macedonians had a lot of money, but they went down fighting. The Gauls lost a series of pitched battles before they were conquered, as did the Britons.

Tacitus was a remarkable writer, but he had an axe to grind. The degeneration through luxury he had in mind was back in Rome.

The Big Think? Here I want to quote G.K. Chesterton's friend, who heard what someone prefaced with a "A thought:", and said, "Good God, man, you call that a thought?"
> allowing applications to hook into the Windows update process or something

I really want this. I have several game launchers installed and it's a pain to want to play a game and realize there's a multi gig update you need to install because you haven't run the launcher in awhile. It would be nice if there was a central component that kept everything up to date but didn't require the software to live in the windows store.
It is the same thing in synth and guitar circles. Maybe now we have just discussed all of these things as nauseum for so long the only way to move the discussion forward is this extremeness.
Didn't they skip 4000 to fix exactly this?
looks similar to "Near-optimal rotation of colour space by zebrafish cones in vivo"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.26.356089v1

"Our findings reveal that the specific spectral tunings of the four cone types near optimally rotate the encoding of natural daylight in a principal component analysis (PCA)-like manner to yield one primary achromatic axis, two colour-opponent axes as well as a secondary UV-achromatic axis for prey capture."
It's technically correct but implies malicious intent. It's like saying "Pfizer deliberately injected a substance in people that kills them" to describe a failed drug trial.
Growing up, I knew a guy, friend of my Dad's, who had an incredibly elaborate train set in his basement. It's clear he had thousands of hours invested in it. I never got in to trains, but I do have a hobby video game coding project, and I'm struck by how similar it is to a model train hobby:

* I work on it exclusively in the evenings after the kids are asleep

* It relaxes me and gives me something to daydream about during work meetings

* It'll never make me any money and it'll never be done

The funny thing about my Dad's friend was, he hated showing off his trains. Very few people knew it existed, and even fewer had seen it; he only let me see it once, and my dad was his best friend for 40+ years.

Back then I thought he was secretive, or afraid I'd break something. Now that I have my own pointless hobby, I think I understand him better. It's embarrassing to put so much time and thought into something and to have someone see it and say, "Neat! So, anyway..." I guess it's more valuable as a private solace than as a conversation piece.
That’s a bit “How to Draw an Owl”.
> 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?

You can multiplex in frequency and time. I'm not sure if neurons do it, but it's certainly possible with computer networks.
Not sure about the neuroscience context, but if you have two large ("high-dimensional") vectors of variables that have a population correlation of zero ("independent"), then the dot product of a sample is likely to be close to zero ("orthogonal") due to the law of large numbers.
I kind of agree, but when I hear/read “on accident” it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Deindexing/blocking these sites is a reasonable step. Australia did so in 2018, resulting in a 5% increase to visits to legal sites:

https://www.mpa-apac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Australi...

It seems unreasonable to have websites openly flouting copyright law. Additionally, for software like games, the files are usually full of malware.
Unless a major anti fingerprinting solution uses the same list of GPUs as you doing this puts you in a tiny bucket and provides massive entropy to trackers, possibly even enough to exactly identify you given many webGL calls.
Over here in Russia, piracy is still the default for many people. Why would you go out of your way to pay for something if you could get the same exact thing for free and without DRM? Yes, some people do go out of their way to pay for streaming because they "want to support the author". The majority does not.
I always had two windows side by side on my 5:4 screen. On 16:9 I have three windows side by side, which isn't as useful, and I lose several lines of text. It's not a hipster thing. I've been saying widescreen is stupid for monitors since before everyone had them. I have widescreen in my living room, though.
I think the degree of left/right is influenced by the makers of the rating API and I don't like it. Notice how there are several sights near the "right" but very few beyond "skews left" (at least for the search term "Biden"). I would rather divide it evenly into 2 categories left / right and maybe add some further categories like establishment / non-establishment.

Make categories that are invariant to political alignment. This continuous line is not.
Yes, many things are deliberately over engineered and that is largely due to limited capabilities of a specific tool or technique.
I’ve run into a lot of people that mistake retro nostalgia for out of touch and out of date design.

I’ve heard half a dozen people say curve.fi has a problem for them because of the geocities-like site design

curve.fi one of the most respected and used application in its sector

It is confusing to use because of the interface, but its design is very intentional and is obviously retro nostalgia

but as far as dropping funds into it or not, the site design is completely benign in that decision making

just something to be aware of that there are a lot of older people who don't know stuff they are familiar with is retro enough to be nostalgic now
I read the abstract and don't really get it. How is this different from saying that a group of neurons A is responsible for memory storage and a group of neurons B is responsible for sensory processing, and A != B? I think I'm misunderstanding this "rotation" concept.
you said

> heir valuation punished when the economy recovers and the fed starts raising interest rates,

I said, when the economy crashes not recovers
>Marzari stated that she was not overriding Clark’s “freedom of thought and speech.”

>“It is only how he expresses those views privately to [Maxine] and publically to third parties that is affected.”

This does not compute.
I'm with you on logs. The recent trend of "machine-readable" logs, encapsulated as JSON structs, adds so much complexity to the process, and makes them unscannable to the human eye. And yet for general use cases you're not getting anything a regex couldn't parse out of the log prefix.

In 2010 I could search a terabyte of logs with grep -F in under a minute. With a "modern" setup you can't even see your logs until you have Elisticsearch up and running.
You know, a reasonable place to start would be to (for example) fire up a Mac, fire up Siri, turn off the monitor, try to get anything done at all.

Write some software, set up the machine differently, reboot it, turn off the monitor, try again.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
"it creates bad feelings"

If this is the hypothesis they are testing for, the problem is they subjected people to a psychological experiment without consenting to it, for the ultimate purpose of their own financial gain.

How is that not malicious intent?
I really never watched game streaming shows (I don't watch sports either)

But then I discovered "Let's Game It Out" with Josh and it has really made me laugh.
Parents warned to stop using Peloton Tread+ after child's death, other incidents
Biodegradable chewing gum is here to save our pavements
Everyone is “dim” about many, many things. It’s not a great thing to validate someone’s victimhood for simply being used by a scammer.
Except people have to give consent for drug trials
Also this site - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

Shows different headlines for the same stories
DaðI Freyr
"There was nothing wrong except for the lack of consent" is really rather missing the point... In other contexts that's the difference between acceptable behavior and a felony.
I wonder whether the same laws that legalized stock buybacks had anything to do with SPACs. (Buybacks were long considered insider trading.) Though I suspect spacs may just be too new.
I just bought your book based on the post above. Maybe it’s marketing? Your book is also aimed a small niche(I’m on your target market!), maybe that’s it?
Don’t waste your time or money on a CFA, unless you want a slow buy-side job or aim to become a financial advisor. The curriculum is out-of-date and in some parts wrong. It’s also missing the ‘tech’ in fin-tech. You are better off self-studying quantitative finance or learn about payments (stay away from asset allocation as this eventually leads to a high paying sales job as head of asset allocation).
thanks for the tip man. I think you are right. Rust data structures might do the job at first, specially for in-memory operations. But on-disk storage if definitely going to be a problem.
Thanks and apologies (I removed the .amp. and intended but forgot to test), I'll have another go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26847636
Nice! If you're looking for a follow-up project, you could pick up on this guy's work and build a Dance Dance Revolution bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DvlAb4eA4
(...and then challenge Boston Dynamics to a DDR duel ;))
You clearly read my comment wrong. I said that cash is better than crypto when it comes to privacy and anonymity, which you are agreeing with, so I am not sure why you prefixed your comment with "No".
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, defenders call attacks "genius" as a way of subverting accountability. What makes this particular incident pernicious is that it already had a built-in deflection of accountability --- the responsibility for ensuring that SolarWinds was fit for purpose was diffuse; hundreds of giant companies with large security teams all believed it was someone else's job to verify that SolarWinds could safely deliver its functionality.

I've worked with people who don't operate this way, and who take continuous flack from CIOs for spending resources on verification for COTS IT management tools. But those teams are, in my experience, very rare --- and the SolarWinds hack provides further evidence of that view.

It's not a perfect predictor, but a reasonable rule of thumb: if you've never heard of a vendor's security team, chances are they barely have one. That's obviously true of... most vendors! So you should be careful when you select one for a role as sensitive as fleetwide agent-based monitoring, where a vulnerability or a software supply chain fuckup is going to create mass compromise. This seems so clear to me that it barely counts as insight.
there are some audio clients with http interfaces - I know VLC does, for one. So depending on how fancy you want to get, there's quite a lot of buttons a dedicated app could push on an audio client to get it to do exactly what you want, just by sending some HTTP requests (although just plain command line may be fine).
What's up with the silent downvotes?
yeah has that sweet melodramatic progression.

wonder what kind of genre or sound this is called

saounds a bit like los amigos invisibles
When a movie makes the audience sad, it wins Oscars, we don't censor it. Why should the rules be different for Facebook?
I had trouble at first too until I noticed the ear looking a little suspicious. If you create a diagonal obstruction from the top of the hat, to the nose, you are left will only the mother-in-law; the ear has now become an eye.

Once I'd seen it once, the mother-in-law is now prominent. I can still see the wife if I concisely choose to, but the mother-in-law is now the default, strange huh?
I don't post to this specific list, so there might be weird issues I'm not aware of but...

Gmail has the plain text option behind the 3dot menu in the bottom right corner. Apple Mail deserves to die a fiery death and I refuse to support it but "Format" -> "Make plain text" *may* send a plain text message, or not depending on the OS X lottery. You can force Apple Mail with "Preferences" -> "Composing" -> "Message Format" -> "Plain Text" to compose plain text messages. Or you can use an actual mail client.
Linux does have some weirdness still where apps occasionally put files in the same directory not just under the same directory. You have the same separation in windows as in linux mostly (user data, app data, app binaries, settings, startup ...) but on windows all of those are directories per-app under the folder in question. Like %ProgramFiles\MyApp, %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\MyApp or %ProgramData%\MyApp for example.
> Looks like Pelotron wanted a nice clean look, so they left the guards off.

But...the guards are usually on the bottom, maybe an inch or two from the edge. For anyone standing or sitting near the treadmill they either won't be visible or will only be a little visible--and in the latter case you can still make them hard to spot by making them the same color as the belt.

Only people who lying down on the floor or who are standing or sitting far away in a big room should see them (and again, coloring them the same as the belt can make them harder to notice).

Unless I'm misunderstanding the geometry (I've never seen a Peloton treadmill in person), I don't see how wanting a clean look would lead them to leave off guards.
Except v0.2 is still only in preview, so it's 7 months late, on an 11 month old project
We have been using WordPress for 15 years and it's been wonderful and easy the whole time. Occasionally if a plug-in gets compromised, it's very easy to roll back and fix it. We now have a standard set of safe plugins anyways.
The assertion was "the US military can and will assassinate US citizens engaging in constitutionally protected activity in the middle of Manhattan."

It really diminishes your point when that is compared to an airstrike on foreign soil.
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CP/M wasn't that terrible. Some of my first paid development work circa 1985 was writing dBase II apps, with WordStar as an editor, on CP/M on a rather nice NEC PC. It did enough to allow small/medium sized businesses to start "computerising" their workflows for not staggering sums of money.
One thing I have found, is that buying stuff that is supposed to last for life, ends up making the possessions own me, instead of me own the possessions.

Especially with kids, when I have disposable objects, I don't have to worry if they trash it, or get it dirty. I don't have to worry about losing it(I can order a replacement on Amazon that will be here in 2 days). With long-lasting products that are for life, I find I worry about cleaning them, organizing them, and protecting them.

Maybe to total cost of ownership is less for the more durable product, but you only have to lose it once or damage it once for the savings to go away.
Are Microsoft the new Google?
To be fair, the article states that the study was designed by a data scientist. Not that that implies that any additional ethical considerations were taken into account.
OpenGL Back End for MXNet/TVM
I’ve been using Macports for years, trying Homebrew every now and then without finding a good reason to jump. From my point of view Homebrew would need a serious advantage to overlook the issues caused by its architecture. I also like the fact that Macports builds are (mostly) deterministic because they depend on as many tools from Macports as possible, and not moving target frameworks from the OS itself.

Homebrew was the cool new kid at the right time, when Macs popularity amongst webdevs was growing exponentially. OTOH, Macports is still working fine; there is room for two package managers on macOS.
Your stick of RAM is also stuck in 3 dimensions but it reifies a, say, 32-billion-dimensional vector over Z/2Z.
Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript
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