skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On #1 “Signing with a publisher before you have leverage”, a bit from an episode[0] of Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Founder’s Field Guide podcast stuck with me.

> If you ask questions of an industry and they won't tell you the answer, that's always a good sign that someone's getting very wealthy. In publishing, if you ask an author, ask any author, how much did it cost to print the book? What are your COGS? They will not know. Ask any literary agent that question and they'll think you're off your rocker. Ask any publisher to give you that information transparently and they will rip up your contract.

> So call the printers in China, pick your favorite book, find out some print brokers here in the US, and say, "What did the printing of those books cost? Send me a spreadsheet." And when they do and you find out that a $50 retail book cost about $2 to print, and you're going to get 10% of [off?] cover price, they're requiring that you order 5,000 for your own list and they're going to give you a quarter of a million dollar advance, you realize that there's no way they've taken no risk at all.

Interestingly, the person speaking was in the restaurant business… There’s quite a bit of insight in that episode.

[0] https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/20135760/kokonas-know-...
Ex-radio engineer here. The secret sauce is certainly not the mic. All radio stations do have excellent mics already.

The NPR trick is no solid walls. Eg the Tiny desk room is no normal soundproof studio box, but a normal office room with lots of bookcases, non-empty tables, not many solid surfaces like walls or screens. Having less mics and natural lighting also helps a lot.

He didn't talk about the light. Glass windows are terrible. A normal studio box has a large window, which causes more reflections, more than normal windows at the side. In their case I think they just put some plants there.
The edit window for comments on HN is 2 hours, so I most certainly and provably did not do the thing you have accused me of doing.
If it's only that it would be pretty hard. Aggregated data would (probably?) be relatively safe.
Not an answer to your question but Sid Meier gave a talk at like GDC 1995 (+/1 4 yrs) on "How I almost ruined Civilization". One of his points was, "I almost ruined Civilization by making the game fun for the AI but not fun for the player" (or something like that). Basically, game devs, particular programming ones, imagine the algorithms that are running in their sim and they get enjoyment from seeing the results (the NPCs doing things, the economy running, the traffic flowing, etc...) but none of that is fun for the player. You have to design the game around interesting things for the player to do, not interesting things for the developers to develope
Simple Habits That Can Change Your Life for Good
Sounds like Capitalism Lab:

https://www.capitalismlab.com/
Agents act for the seller, not the buyer. It's the agent's job to manage a pool of prospective buyers and to negotiate the price up. The ideal is a bidding war between two keen buyers.

The last property I sold went for around 15% more than I would have asked for. The agent more than earned their fee there. (He then tried to pad the agreed fee, but that's another story.)

Agents do not act for buyers and they are not interested in selling to you at the lowest possible price. They are interested in selling to you, but obviously they qualify buyers based on market segment and keenness. If you're sort-of-thinking-about-moving you'll get less attention than someone who slaps a huge pile of cash on their desk and says they need something by the end of the day.
They now sell “NowLight”, which you pull on for a minute and it generates enough electricity for 15 minutes of talk time on a mobile phone (or 2 hours of light)

https://deciwatt.global/nowlight
Ask HN: How to harden a personal server systematically in 2021?
I'm setting up an AWS instance to self-host some sensitive data and would like to harden the OS (ubuntu 20.04) with a well known benchmark e.g. CIS level 1.

The only pre-hardened AMI's come from CIS and cost around $133 per year to run on a t2.micro instance.

I don't want to follow a random 'How to harden your server' article on Github and the free CIS level 1 benchmark PDF would take a week to implement manually and is prone to error.

Based on an afternoon of research all the configuration management tools I've found that implement hardening based on a well know standard e.g. CIS level 1 are only targeted and priced for enterprise customers (Puppet, CIS secureSuite, lockdown enterprise etc.)

Are you aware of any solutions?
Similarly, I love sewing!
This a very one linear way of looking at the world.

Sure, it might be about "power games" but feelings do matter and morals too and how one feels about it does give you the extra energy and drive to succeed at a (re)negotiation. So... how can one ignore all that?

The original debate was if it's unfair.

I think taking advantage too much during an initial negotiation is unfair but since the other side did agree it is a "fair" trade for the other party (based on the partial info they had).

Once extra information is revealed, the trade is not fair in retrospect. But new information should only apply to future trades: as such, negotiating or quitting is moral.

You might be sub-estimating how good people are at power games. Quitting out of spite is know to happen so people are willing to take a loss due to unfairness.

Assuming rationality and ignore feelings and morals while focusing only on the technicality of "power games" is super simplistic.
> it’s a fact that they chose politics over CO2 reduction

True but the timeline is:

2002 - Ban of construction of new nuclear reactors and limitations on the normal operating life of existing reactors to 32 years. Last shutdown ~ 2021.

2010 - Government wants to increase the limit of some newer reactors to ~2030-2035.

2011 - Fukushima. 77% of Germans are against a increase of the operating life of the remaining reactors, 48% want all turned off immediately. Government (in a election year) goes with the opinion of a vast majority of Germans.

So the current exit was planned since 1990-2000. Municipal power plants have planned for increase in demand and invested billions. The need for renewables increases spending & investment enormously (after our wise government killed of solar in the early aughts and handed technological leadership to China).

With this years election the Green party will probably be the second most powerful party in Germany. A party that was founded with the goal to end German reliance on nuclear power and bombs.
That's probably at least in part because Adobe has a history of buying and/or following their way to a lot of industry positions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Adob...

That said, I bit the bullet and invested the time to build competence in the big pillars of Adobe's client software suite. It's a competently run business, and I have little doubt that Adobe will be around for a long time.
Rome wasn't conquered by an outside force, the 'barbarians' were already either working as roman soldiers or completely romanized. The fall is romanticized, but it really marks a threshold in the decay of the centralization of power.
I can’t help notice that we always keep relying on closed-source for these kind of things, and then distrust providers because we don’t know what that secret code does.

Am I the only one noticing that the obvious solution is to stop using closed-source tools for such delicate infrastructure that’s meant to serve the general population?

I honestly can even grasp how we got into this mess in the first place: publicly funded software for public infrastructure that has such delicate security implications should obviously be open source only.
> YMMV but the only time I ever experienced the myth that "working over 40 hours a week is the norm" was when I started working at a US-based company.

Even in France, where the base legal hours are only 35 hours a week, intellectual/upper professions in a full-time position work an average of 43 hours a week.

That's the average which includes women, who work 10% less (in terms of number of hours worked) than men. If you only consider men, you reach an average week of 45 hours for those professions.
Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81
> Yes, and it’s vastly less than Bitcoin.

Where is it?
Recreating the macOS Genie Effect
The thing is that authors are too weak. They get maybe 10% of what is being made off of their work, probably much less. The publishing companies have strong leverage and can essentially extort money from the authors - they can say either you publish with us, or just put it back to your drawer and forget.
It is now a bit easier to self publish, but still you are going to get pittance.
In terms of music, as when artists realised to can just sidestep labels and publish themselves, the shops started using their advantage to take almost the whole pie - things like Spotify pay next to nothing for streams.
It's just that artists are somehow not able to get together and force fair terms on whatever it is in the upstream, because they don't have money and any power. All they can do is to pull out their art, but there is 10x artists believing they can make it despite being scammed and they sign up.
Gym treadmills probably can do without it, others might be close enough to the floor to prevent such accidents happening

The Peloton one seems to be higher and with ample space at the bottom for things to get sucked into
A travelling Russian bookshow came regularly to my medical school in Vellore.

They had great books on physics and electronics.
Introduction to the Bond Market
An article from my free newsletter introducing the bond market as a feature variable for fx. Future articles will discuss other concepts of algorithmic modelling for the financial markets, with a focus on forex. Subscribe for free if you're interested!
Boss-employee relationship goes both ways.

They pay me because of my work/because I am valuable. From the story, the poster was valuable (otherwise the boss would not have paid him/her out).

> Employees are not the top of the totem pole, there are always other factors that people making these decisions have to consider

And that is entirely his/her thing. If I was promised this and that for a given task, I should be getting it, even at the detriment of the company, his her own paycheck, whatever. I am not responsible for the well-being of a company, it’s not your “family”.

Of course, during unexpected events (like COVID), things like an
OPTIONAL temporary pay reduction for every employee (very much including the bosses themselves) is acceptable, and I think any employee planning to stay there will gladly accept such if the leadership is otherwise not exploitive/fair.
The mindset you should have (I know it's easy for me to say) is that you made the best decision with the data available at the time.

For every success story, there are many more failures, where after years of hard work, the company still doesn't succeed, where the managers that look like idiots are really idiots, and the stock options end up being totally worthless.
I switched my professional website to Plausible, and I am very happy with it. It gives me enough data to make business decisions, without tracking my users across websites. I also prefer its interface, which quickly lets me combine filters by clicking on things (visited this URL + triggered this event + came from this source).

It was satisfying to remove the cookie notice, and to update the privacy policy with "we do not collect any personal data". That's much more in line with how I want to operate a website.

On my personal blog, I got rid of analytics altogether. I don't care to know who visits my website.
Haha, I will google for that talk if it still exists, but I take your point and agree (and suffer from this)
VR, the Ultimate Skinner Box
What motivated you to rewrite it rather than fixing the debt in the old product?
Why Britain missed the link between the AstraZeneca jab and rare blood clots
If we are talking servers and IoT ARM is a generation ahead. Low energy, like 100x better.

But also in pure CPU the latest aarch64 chips blow away Intel with its overly slow energy management, icache bloat and insecurity by design.
"Trouble is fun" is not something I'd heard before but makes a lot of sense. Need to think about that, what sort of trouble the economy can get into and how to alert the player and let them fix it...
on the page 90 there is visible a crossbar which prevents from pulling in under. You can also see it here https://www.treadmillreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/...

Most threadmills have it, and it is hard to imagine why a one wouldn't have it.
My Moral Code
> And how do you expose that function globally ?

Just like anything else. Put it in a package and just static import it from where-ever you need it.

Umm, cglib https://github.com/cglib/cglib is not reflection - its bytecode enhancement. You can inject, create types dynamically, modify types dynamically - all of it is possible. What you just stated is quite straightforward in Java actually and can be fully transparent to the consumer. It's by no means an "insane amount of work".

Now, if you bring up hot language features - sum types, etc - I agree that Java falls behind. But the stuff you offered as criticisms, Java actually excels.
For how much the idea of a dead toddler hurts, this is such a First World Problem.
Ideally recordings of old school retro static from the 1950's, instead the kind of modern high-tech static you get with cell phones and bluetooth and wifi and 5G networks polluting the spectrum.
Perhaps dealing with ongoing event? Like a pandemic? Political upheaval? Foreign incursion and so on.. Too many possibilities, and as the law/policymaker, the player can make decisions in the fly, changing parameters that force the NPCs to make hard choices. Some profit, some lose and that can be seem with the resources/buildings/neighbourhoods affecting in real-time or semi-real time.

It will definitely make things more complicated, but a morale mechanism will speed up visual feedback on other things.

I like your idea, and it is very enjoyable in games like Crusader Kings/Europa Universal is where player can technically put down buildings, but almost all interactions with the world are via policy making and event based interactions, and most of the actual world moves on via actions of NPCs.
$15 internet, $200 rent due to section 8.
Show HN: Altsear.ch - you can get by without using Google/Yahoo/Bing to search
> Disclosing any business information whether it is in the form of code, analytics, financial information, customer data, etc. sometimes makes sense but more than often, doesn't.

While I agree with the spirit of your comment, this is a very sweeping generalization. Many kinds of financial information are being shared regularly with the public and for publicly traded companies they're required by law. Many companies build their infrastructure on open source software, with proprietary glue being a small percent.

Knowing what you can or even should share (for marketing purposes) is crucial. Especially knowing that keeping information asymmetry forever is impossible.
I had someone tell me my architect’s fee was too expensive at 7% they said that thier previous architect had charged 3%. I need to remember to prempt this in my sales patter by working into the conversation what estate agents charge for taking some photos and showing a few people around.
If you read the memoir, Sid points out that the fun of games comes from making decisions. So you have to give the player something that requires constant decision making.

Perhaps setting the tax rate and the money supply? Choosing which businesses to nationalize, and which services the government will provide from tax dollars?
Only some of the Deaf have this strong opinion, although you might meet cliques that are all this way. I'm sorry you've encountered them, but it's something of a non sequitur. It's possible to get hearing and still be included.

As the article shows, everyone with impaired hearing, like you, could benefit from a space where sign language rules and where hearing is not needed or even expected. The Deaf enjoy these spaces and I guess it's to be expected that they want to keep these spaces numerous.

Corrective surgeries aren't bad in themselves, but they're bad insofar as they cause people to never become sign language natives, and won't partake in these safe spaces as they cannot fully be at home there.
There are a couple of terms here that I'm not familiar with.

What is "elevating code"? (I'm trying to work out of autocorrect has screwed up the word "deploying".)

What is an ASC?
In Australia Costco is the go for Brisket. Not cheap, expect to pay >$100.
Is this really mainstream thinking now in America? None of those things are free in Europe and I've yet to find people promoting these insane ideas here, while at least online I can read about these mysterious things Europeans get free for or have.
Or, we don’t live in a fictional world where infinite growth exists.

Useless energy expenditure is useless and objectively bad.
It seems to be abandoned and unavailable. They switched over to Early Access on Steam in 2019 or so, but it's now not possible to buy it there, and there's been no sign of the devs for a long time, now.
The common parlance is very problematic. Anyone can see it is in fact a conspiracy theory, but if it's true, you're not supposed to call it that? How would you know?

Using conspiracy theory as a derogaratory term is a form of doublespeak that shield the conspirators and their conspiracies.

I, for one, will not stop calling conspiracy theories conspiracy theories, regardless whether they are true. Actually, especially when they are true.
I created this site in about 2 hours from an idea I had. I like using alternative search engines but I often forget the names and don't get into the habit. I would also like to use them at work for coding related queries. So I built this simple page as a starting point to choose the various 'alt' search engines.

Happy to add your suggestions for more search engines.

This is designed for privacy focused people, and/or people who want to slowly become less reliant on big tech companies.

I still use Google for a hell of a lot of things, but this is one less thing I need to use Google for on a day to day basis.
Care to share your sources?

Naturally, a summation of the energy expenditure of all of the related components of the existing fiat system must be included, from the totality of all people operating the various functions that facilitate the existing fiat system; i.e. their commutes, aggregate expenditures due to needing to operate physical banks, power usage at these physical banks, etc. are all factored into this calculation... right? All the way to the minting of new currency (probably almost negligible in the aggregate), to all of the security apparatus that ensure that bills are legitimate, to major parts of the US Secret Service that verify that bills are legitimate (including all of their expenses scaled to the proportion of agents dedicated to this task force)... I honestly don't believe that the electricity usage of BTC is higher than fiat currency operation, in the aggregate.

Please share any sources if you have any information that contradicts this. It's an interesting area of open research + I'm curious if I've missed any publications recently.
This is fun, I'm enjoying reading the replies :) I'm certainly no expert, but attempting an explanation helps me exercise my personal understanding, so here goes. Corrections welcome.

The "connections" you mention aren't the issue, in my understanding of the biology. Neurons are already very strongly interconnected by numerous synapses, so they already do physically fit together in their available 3D space, and appear capable of representing high-dimensional concepts. (See caveat below.)

The "higher dimensions" here are not where the neurons exist, only what they're capable of representing. If we think about a representation of the concept of a "dog" for example, there are many dimensions. Size, colour, breed, temperament, barking, growling, panting, etc etc. Those attributes are dimensions.

Take two dog attributes: size and breed. You can plot a graph of dogs, each dog being a mark on the graph of size vs breed. Add a third dimension and turn the graph into a cube: temperament. You can probably imagine plotting dogs inside this three dimensional space.

It's very difficult to imagine that graph extending into 4th, 5th or further dimensions. And yet, you can easily imagine, say, a dog that's a large, black, friendly Labrador with a deep bark who growls only rarely. We could say that dog can be represented as a point in 6-dimensional space (or perhaps a 6-dimensional slice through a space with even more dimensions, just a slice through 3D space could produce a 2D graph).

The number of connections between neurons may be related to the number of dimensions they can represent. In honesty, I don't know, and I guess that if there is a relationship it may not be linear. So neurons might be capable of representing 4 dimensions with fewer than 4 synapses, for example, I don't know. Seems possible to me, though.

Caveat: I think my reasoning here may be fallacious: "the fact that neurons are capable of representing high-dimension concepts demonstrates that they have adequate synapses to do so". It seems akin to anthropocentrism, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's just a circular argument. I think it provides an adequate basis for an ELI5 though.

I look forward to further comments!
If you manage to pull of the holy grail of fully simulating a real town, I bet it could sell as sort-of a screensaver, with very little or no playing mechanisms and just watching the world.

Maybe allow players to build a scenario, then switch it on and watch it run.

Traffic is one real-life operation done from a position of somewhat centralized planning, so maybe allow players to build bus routes or subways.

Or just sell it to city planners. They are used to joylessly watching everything go awry.
Appreciate the attempt, but in this example the 4th axis is not independent since the motion along that axis can be achieved, with some complexity, by the motion along the other axes. Granted this is not very useful for a machinist because it will be very tedious to machine a part this way compared to the dedicated 4th rotating axis, but mathematically it is redundant.

I have found it easiest to think of a logical dimensions or configurations when thinking of higher dimensions. Physically it can be a row of bulbs (lighted or not) wherein N bulbs (dimensions) can represent 2^n states in total. The 2 here can be increased by having bulbs that can light up in many colours.
They might disagree about that though.

From the outside it looks like they operate more like VCs, publish lots of books, see what sticks.
I'd argue for making this mandatory in your onboarding. It can help so much more than random training sessions and seniors mentioning this in code review. It's a simple shift in thinking that most people should just get.
A good reminder that bitcoin is mined by 51% chinese miners and that it's not that decentralized, obviously.
I own a Mac mini 2018 and could see the difference between HDMI and Thunderbolt. There are threads on MacRumors complaining about it. It’s subtly but noticeable enough to be annoying.
After you pulling a resignation notice as an argument, an experienced boss would instantly know you would not be an asset he could rely on even mid-term, so his best option from a business perspective would be giving you no bonus at all (or the original one), and immediately starting to look for a replacement (and probably firing you).
Recursion Is Recursion