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Bookselling is truly a sui generis endeavor. A bookstore will typically have thousands of distinct items in inventory with most having only a single copy in stock. For better or for worse, non-book inventory has a much better rate of return for the bookseller than actual books. The trend you describe is not unique to Europe, but has been happening in the US as well. That said, while my local indie does have a lot of non-book inventory for sale, the bulk of their square footage is still books. It's been a while since I was in Europe, but when I was, the bookshops that I visited (mostly in Paris, but I think I may have looked into one in Bruges as well), were all well-stocked with books. Same with my visit to Prague and Vienna in 2008. What I have noticed is that the density of bookstores in the US has declined greatly over the last 30 years. I used to travel a lot to give workshops in LaTeX and I would pull out the pages in the hotel yellow pages to visit all the local bookstores wherever I was teaching¹. This would occupy my evenings for the whole week of my trip. On my last business trip, to Atlanta, about 6 years ago, there were only 6 bookstores I could find in the whole city and two were chain stores.

1. One memorable moment happened in Denver when I didn't realize that the bookstore I was visiting was an adult bookstore. I wandered the shelves wondering why I didn't recognize any of the authors. It wasn't until I returned to my rental car and looked back at the store that I realized what had happened.
I just found another bug while testing this bug:

1. Open Notepad

2. Type <space> then backspace. (asterisk shows in title bar - arguably a bug here, but ignoring that ...)

3. Open a new text file. Asterisk showing in the title bar (Expected: no asterisk) - Unless you move the mouse over the window (then the asterisk disappears).

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This reply starts by promoting specific methodologies, as though they fell from the sky. You may like them. They're still a matter of convention and choice.

There is no unambiguous cut-off - that does not mean the clusters don't exist or have descriptive value.

As long as one understands the choices one made (even if they are conventional choices) in the cutoffs were subjective, which is the issue here. Infinite examples I could use to point this out, but here's one: are all genes equally important?

Genetic maps tell us the Dutch and Greek person are more closely related than the Dutch and Japanese.

Of course, but that's a different issue. A closer issue would be the heuristic for deciding who is a Dutch or a Greek person.

Tell a clustering algorithm to find ~5 clusters in the human genome distribution, and those clusters will correspond to traditional races.

The phrase 'a clustering algorithm' is weird here. It makes it sound as though developing an algorithm is objective, when developing an algorithm is subject to many choices.
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Here's the press release. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-unveils-the-nex...
Probably very few. People use it for its ease not its stability or actual trading functionality. They have had massive issues for years with the app crashing during large trading periods and the vast majority of users don't care enough to move. Why would they care about this issue that realistically impacted very few?
Nothing says people aren't willing to work if they pay is good enough. Unemployment is effectively a 90% tax rate in the bottom bracket, making work pointless.
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Your privacy policy mentions fixlib.com which appears to be up for sale.

Curious: how did you get hold of all the manuals, and hope did you process them all?
Housing markets all over the world have significantly increased their value since the Boomer era. We should try to secure property even we resort to renting to own or similar to that, not just blindly renting throughout our whole life.
I have a FiiO X3 and its the only way I can properly hear music nowadays. I'm a freelancer musician from time to time I have to spend proper time with high quality audio files as folks who transcribe music sometimes eat notes for pleasure or mistake.

Also, thanks to a friend who was into whatcd, my entire entire CD collection was ripped in a great way. I moved abroad a few years ago and I'm thankful that I could donate the less rare ones to the local library and avoid shipping a bunch of boxes to my new place.

I still purchase the majority of albums I want from bandcamp and HDtracks and having a dedicated device that can take a profissional headphone is great for my study.
I do this in my own house w/powerline networking as the backhaul. Cable Modem is located at the main TV and connected to an Ethernet switch with local devices and powerline node. Three more power line nodes power two additional APs and an ethernet switch for wired connections in my home office.

It's not the most elegant solution, but it works and allows me to have Inet/WiFi access in and around my house.
Sounds more like you want to raise the subject but don't want anyone to challenge you on it so you'll "leave it at that."
>If only you could tell my bosses/architects that. They won't listen to me.

Then leave and go somewhere where they will. I wasted too much of my life trying to "change things from within", but I finally learned the lesson. If you have no authority but are held accountable, then GTFO.
Interesting that I never knew the “Find My” network has all my devices participating in finding other people’s devices, but I’m not surprised. Another reason I leave Bluetooth off by default.
That link says that it has the A10x fusion, doesn't seem to mention the A12 at all.
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Let's hope that Discord doesn't end up going the way of Slack. Since Slack got overconfident over Microsoft Teams and lost and got acquired by Salesforce.
But well, 98 years since they started their bike tour, an Indian's passport would be Indian and not British, and that would shut many borders (unless they can show enough financial stability to satisfy immigration authorities that they're not going to stay illegally), it would be hard to think they'd be hired for odd jobs in the western world or have the Pope welcome them, so my cheap conclusion would be, privileged Non-Westerners would also be able to do a world tour, but middle class ones?

But what an adventure, it's almost like the movie Forrest Gump, with them witnessing history and even meeting characters like Mussolini.
Private sessions are my solution for branching out. Still a pain, and shouldn't happen. Google Play Music did this really well and for me, even with its issues, was miles ahead of Spotify.
The conceit isn’t that there are no engineers or engineering disciplines just the focus for software development as a discipline was design rather than engineering.
You aren't crazy of course, but all indications are they are quite safe. Additionally, a lot of the excitement around mRNA techniques in general is that it is actually a much "lighter touch" than others in various ways -- e.g. not editing genes like CRISPR, using a much simpler delivery method (lipid delivery vehicle vs adenovirus delivery as in the other vaccines), etc.
I can see why they would relicense Grafana this way, but why Loki? It's a fairly immature product that needs the boost of a less restrictive license IMO. I'm worried this will harm the adoption of it compared to the ES ecosystem (OpenSearch in particular) and we won't see it used for anything beyond Grafana.
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Does anyone in this space? At least, that has any user facing affect (i.e., 99.9% uptime vs 99.99% uptime is not something users will be comparing). It's all network effect and business model.
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How much does the creator of this random website owe you?

If they got their prototype working on chrome, should they hold off on releasing it to the world because someone might want to use the site on an old build of Opera on Android?

This is a completely free site from appearances. No asking you for money, no sign ups, no donations, no (apparent) data collection, no ads, it doesn't even set any cookies.

Perhaps just find a way to run the site on chrome on desktop if you really want to visit the site. Or run it on your browser of choice but accept that it may not behave as intended. If you don't want to do that, then you can just continue with the rest of your life not using the site just like you have for every moment previous to this.
Of course they do.

See also:

https://grahamcluley.com/facebook-suffers-a-data-breach-abou...

Submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26877012
> I guess you could use OCR and object detection to identify books from their spines and link to Google Books or Goodreads.

Google has a patent on doing just that: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150371085A1/en
Exactly. I have an iPad Pro that is compatible with Checkrain. Being able to SSH into it and do stuff is a useful godsend. I've no idea why Apple won't let users actually use their devices -- and I write this on a rooted Android phone.
Recommend reading "Ghost Fleet" where even your toilet stops working when we go to war with a country that manufactures many of our electronic components.

When you get bored, list all of your connected home and personal items that rely on wired, cable, wifi, bluetooth, rfid, infrared, cellular, etc. Put them in a spreadsheet.

Then you will not be as surprised when your lighting system, refrigerator, or washer/dryer is hit with ransomware.
Putting that much power in a TV box doesn't make any sense to me. If it was for Apple Arcade, then they need to ship an actual controller by default. Apple is half-assing it with more and more products because people keep buying them anyway.
If you submit a change of address to the USPS, they sell that data to marketing companies. One workaround is to submit a 'temporary' address change for 6 months at a time instead.
Really? I've noticed a huge decline in the numbers of bookstores over the last 30 years. There was a stretch of about 3 blocks near DePaul University in Chicago that had about 8 bookstores in the 80s/90s and now I don't think there's a single bookstores there. 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica used to have about a dozen bookstores and now only has Barnes & Noble (plus an arts and architecture bookshop whose name I don't recall at the moment which used to be on the promenade but moved to Wilshire). Venice Blvd in Venice also had 3 or 4 bookstores which are all gone now.
And still no support for spatial audio with AirPods Pro?

I continue to be mystified why spatial audio only works for watching movies on iOS devices. I know the official explanation is that the host device needs an accelerometer and gyroscope... but Apple TV's tend to stay still, you know.

It baffles me why you can get amazing spatial audio watching a movie on a tiny screen... or regular stereo audio watching a movie on an amazing huge TV... but not together.

(And if you haven't tried spatial audio with content that supports it, you should -- it really is stunning, kind of like the difference in going from black-and-white movies to color movies, only for your ears.)
Every job requires some amount of on the job training. FTEs of all levels at Google are practically useless for at least 6 months after they join, often requiring hours of training and 1-1s. It's pretty standard.

Yeah I agree that it sounds like a good deal until they fire you after two years and don't allow you to move up like they used to. These terminations are arbitrary, unnecessary, and legitimely harmful to people's lives, so no I don't think it's fair or humane.

I don't see why their initial skill level when they were first hired really matters here, people deserve to have job security based on current performance regardless of their initial conditions.

I don't see why I need to give up any of my salary for these people have job security. I'm sure a small portion of the funds allocated to stock buybacks should do. And, for the record, I already give 1% of my total comp to the union, which was created to protect people in situations like these
> How do the champions of FOSS battle this?

"Podcasting 2.0" https://podcastindex.org/
Maybe...

Teams is utter garbage in my opinion, but I don't think acquiring Discord would solve that. Skype seems like a similar acquisition, and look how that turned out.
> There should be an option to turn off simple things like that: turn off podcasts, pause learning from my music for then next 30 minutes, etc.

They state that private listening 'may' not influence your music recommendations.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/private-listening/
Missing from this is the obnoxious and offensive "you're posting too fast" bullshit, with no explanation of how once per hour or so is "too fast."

Up yours for stealing from users, Hacker News.
Would have been nice to have an attachment hole on the device itself, rather than requiring you purchase accessories to attach to a set of keys, for example.
All of the most important software of our lifetime is going through this relicensing effort as the creators attempt to capture the value of what it enables. This is not some nefarious plan to screw over the community. It's a very measured and thoughtful way to ensure the long term progress and continuity of these projects. If the core companies maintaining them did not do this they would eventually die and these projects would slowly rot. Hopefully over time rather than having everyone choose their own licenses we end up with some form of standardisation.
...no, nowhere as much as you think. If you think so, go out and try to find it.

In the USA, most people only do sport in high school, and after those that do are usually on some kind of professional track. There are a few exceptions, like golf, but it was nothing like when I was a kid. Singing, nah; again, things like Christmas caroling or teaching music in lower grades have declined massively.
If only he were Oprah.

More like "Gwyneth Paltrow for bros".
What is the biggest fork of Granafa I can use that is non-share-alike?

Edited:

Oh, I can't say this... I leave it up for posterity and a note to myself then.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I'm pleasantly surprised these have user-replaceable standard button batteries, definitely wasn't expecting that.
I think they're just disturbing because every face has a forehead tumor.
VS Code will remove the unsaved mark if you undo the edit with the undo command (ctrl-z), but not if you for instance backspace to undo the character you entered manually.
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Oh no disagreement there. I usually end up there because of some odd error code from some code someone else wrote. If I am lucky I have the source code (not always). But 99% of the time whatever you are doing wrong is in the first 5 or so posts returned. But you get desperate sometimes :)
Thanks, this triggered my nepotism and got me to actually read the article :)
It will be interesting to see/do a teardown of this. I'm wondering if the UWB is separate from the Bluetooth (which I assume is 5.0), though it's probably in a single ASIC.

This claims the UWB is at 6 and 8 GHz, but they fail to show the antennas.

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-te...

Now we see that Apple patents slot antennas; what a load of shit:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/08/apple-p...
You’re making the point that GDP is not a perfect measure, without offering any that are better. It’s easy to wonder who economic growth helps when you are in the diminished marginal returns part of the curve.
It's privacy preserving with a rotating key scheme, there's a cool whitepaper about it that I'm having trouble finding right now, but here's an article: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
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I used one, once... for the hatchet fishes.
If I was evil and stuck these to ex-girlfriend/boyfriend car or something, illegal?

Edit: Downvoters. I am not doing this obviously. Am asking as this is the clear abuse I see. Tracking people without permission.

I see this as being a weird legal thing we hear about down the road.
Did you not read what I wrote? I said you could work during company time and that is why they do it. It's not just that. You can realistically only work a few hours a day properly so if you spend all your thinking power on hobbies there is little left for the guy who pays you
The holder accessories are as/more expensive as the tracker itself lol

> Apple-designed AirTag accessories include the Leather Key Ring in Saddle Brown, (PRODUCT)RED, and Baltic Blue for $35 (US); the Leather Loop in Saddle Brown and (PRODUCT)RED for $39 (US); and the Polyurethane Loop in White, Deep Navy, Sunflower, and Electric Orange for $29 (US).
I like the idea. The price is decent. However, I feel like I've hit a limit for the number of shiny electronic things I want in my life.
I was in school when they started charging for it, and then it kind of just fell off my radar until I remembered about it now.
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The entire advantage of Apple is supposed to be that they're one company and all of their products work together, but that's becoming less and less true over time. AirPods and HomePods barely work with Macs compared to how they work with iOS devices. Apple has boasted about how you can fit all of their products on a conference room table, yet they don't actually work together well. What else are they doing with their time?
I hear this a lot as if the groups and people talking about exploitative work situations aren't also pushing for things that would make these situations less exploitative and to make the consequences of not working less dire through socialized health care or similar programs... That's tough to do in the US system for a number of reasons so one thing that probably has to happen before the legislative solutions can happen is to get more people to realize they're being taken advantage of. (At the very least it should make it easier to address!)
The livestream just said the new iMac supports spatial audio.
"Amazon Announces Grafana Fork , Promises Amazing Things for the Community" (2021/05/08) [1]

On a more serious note: there is a bit of a trend in the licensing world. Mongo or ElasticSearch changes, or cool new projects like redpanda [2] launching with BSL.

Open source is still a very young business model. One that has provided a tremendous amount of value over the past decades, but we still need to figure out how to build sustainable businesses with it. Be it open core, more restrictive licenses, copyleft, dual licensing, ...

I just really hope that we don't slide back into the world of proprietary closed source. The danger is certainly there, and it will hit smaller companies the most.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/

[2] https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
Orignal title was so much more better, or at least mention that it is for her incredible work at Youtube censoring videos...
Pretty much true. I-70 into the mountains is a parking lot on Friday and Saturday, and basically the same leaving the mountains on Sunday. Turns what should be a three to four drive to get to the western slope into six to seven some days.
Small decisions like this is what makes me despise their tactics. All of the crap about the environment and all is nothing but hot air.
Is there a specific conflict like ZFS-on-Linux that you want to avoid, or are you just asking "how can I most benefit from other people's work without letting anyone else benefit from mine?"
For what it's worth, if you click it but don't have enough karma, it is recorded and high-rep users can see how often people tried to up/downvote something and compare it to the actual votes. But the screen (I have enough rep to see it) seems to be more of a gimmick than actually used by anyone.
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I don't want to weigh in here with a huge value judgement on whether this is the right decision. However, I do want to say that what they're saying regarding SSPL vs AGPL is totally right. One of the biggest sticking points with SSPL is that it's not even really plausibly open source, and it tries to create restrictions that implicate software that is not even "linked" with the program that is licensed under it, which calls into question whether it's even legally enforceable.[1]

AGPL is somewhat controversial, but the reasoning for AGPL to exist is chiefly to protect the end user's rights, however misguided that may be in your opinion. In this case Grafana presumably retains the copyright to these programs, so presumably they are not beholden to these restrictions in any way. On the other hand, though, it does mean that other providers will have to distribute their patches back to the community, which is pretty much the entire goal of copyleft open source in the first place.

In any case, this is, in my opinion, a lot better than SSPL or the Timescale license.

[1]: https://www.processmechanics.com/2018/10/18/the-server-side-...

edit: wording regarding AGPL was changed, because the claim that considering AGPL as not open source is “somewhat controversial” isn’t quite accurate; it’s more correct to say the license itself is simply controversial.
Teams definitely feels like it was rushed to market to take advantage of the pandemic. I'm really sad our company moved us from Slack to Teams. It's so much worse, especially on Linux
>> Deep learning may fit in the prolog paradigm in terms of finding programs to compute the output from the input.

That's interesting, but my hunch is that you'd need two deep learning models to do what a single Prolog program could do: one model to map inputs to outputs and one to map outputs to inputs.

One way to describe deep neural nets is to say that they are function approximators. Now, functions have well-defined inputs and outputs, although I don't think that's actual mathematical terminology. Functions are basically mappings from the elements of one or more sets _to_ the elements of another (or more) sets. But a function mapping is uni-directional. If you have a function ƒ: X → Y, it maps elements of X to Y, but it doesn't map elements of Y to X.

So for instance, if you have a function that maps the set of integers from 1 to 24 to the set of letters in the English alphabet, you don't simultaneously have a function that maps letters to integers- you need another function. This is true both in mathematical terms and in programming terms.

Suppose for instance that you have a Pseudocode function with signature:

int_char(int: n) -> char: c

You can call int_char() as:

int_char(2)

And get out "b", but you can't call it the other way:

int_char("b")

And expect to get 2 in return.

In Prolog on the other hand there are no functions. Rather, every expression is a predicate, or in other words an n-ary relation. Now, the concept of relation is a generalisation of the concept of function, so in Prolog you could write int_char() above with the signature:

int_char(N,C).

And call it with either or both arguments instantiated... or none:

?- int_char(2,C).
C = b.

?- int_char(N,b).
N = 2.

?- int_char(2,b).
true.

?- int_char(N,C).
N = 1, C = a ;
N = 2, C = b ;
N = 3, C = c ;
% ... etc

Which you can't easily do with other languages. Well, you can do it in, say, C if you write a Prolog interpeter in C :-)

Anyway, deep learning learns functions, not relations, so its models can't go back-and-forth between sets in mappings. In theory anyway; deep neural net often don't really care about theory.
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