skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. My non-fiction, niche book generated some income for almost 10 years even though it was outdated after the first 5 or so. I am guessing that in fiction they can earn for a lot longer. There are also other effects to take into consideration: Even a moderate hit will generate interest for previous books; books in a series or in a trilogy will boost each other’s sales. Not that getting the moderate hit is easy in any way.
BYU hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air
You're not. The FFT is just a particular way of implementing the DFT.
I’m waiting for the news that PETA activists have captured and euthanized Robin Hobb to end his suffering. After spaying him, of course.
By doing this we are conditioning kids to not have privacy, later when they grow up - they'll come to accept lack of privacy because it's something they grew up with, first it was their parents spying on them, now it's tech company and government and their advertisers spying on them
Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection seems to serve my needs out of the box enough that I see a ton of nags to "disable ad tracking" on various websites. Why install a third party add-on when the in box tools are sufficient?
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1351719699/roger-cicala-fi...
Oh yeah. I've been there multiple times. I meant the only realistically productive way.
Ever read Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson? Samuel Johnson was a poet, which was about as close as you could be to a rock star in terms of popular culture fame in the 18th century.
> Not to mention, an author would have to come out with one book a year to maintain that salary.

I wouldn't classify releasing one book per year as a full time job, at least not based upon on the data provided.

Turning a writing into a full time job means:

- Investing considerable time into promoting a book, in an effort to net more than 10,000 copies sold.

- Writing books that are heavily based upon research, in which case your book should be selling for more than $15 per copy.

- Publishing more than a book per year, most likely in forms other than books (unless you're an established author).

I'm not going to pretend that consistently writing 300 words of publication quality material per day is easy. Some of us are lucky if we can do as much one day in a year. On the other hand, it should not be easy. At the very least, an author is implicitly asking each reader to invest several hours of their life into the product of their labors. Authors need to be willing to put as much effort into writing as readers put into their livelihood.
Where else are you going to get photos of that one dude to go with every day's "the market is up or down" article?
> Nothing is happening "in the background".

Your IO is (that's why the library is called "async io")!

The entire reason the library exists is because all IO blocks at the lowest level, even so-called non-blocking IO, because computer science abstractions don't change physics, which is why sockets require buffers. At some point in the chain your process is asking the OS to do some IO, and at that point the process gets a choice between twiddling its thumbs or doing something else and coming back to check on the result later.

The mechanical difference between using coroutines vs threads for IO, under the hood, is the process polling sockets itself vs letting the OS do it. The OS allocating chunks of time to checking different threads that are spinning their wheels waiting for an IO response that may or may not have arrived yet on an OS socket buffer is fundamentally equivalent to the process allocating chunks of time to checking different coroutines that are spinning their wheels waiting for an IO response that may or may not have arrived yet on an OS socket buffer. The only difference is which layer does the spinning, the OS's schedule timer or the process's event loop timer (which of course itself runs at the whim of the OS's schedule timer). Are there performance differences between those approaches? Yes because creating OS threads has more overhead because they're fundamentally more powerful, but that's a technical detail that should be hidden, not exposed. Introducing an interface that requires new magic keywords and behavior in the underlying requests so that everything needs to be rewritten is terrible when the actual desire is _always_ some grammatical variation of "I don't want every IO request to prevent using the CPU until it completes".
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not a bad article, but title is clickbait.
The startup is asking for YOUR payroll login information to specific set of "gig economy" employers - like Lyft, Uber, and Starbucks. It's basically trying to build a profile for gig works so that gig works can have an easier time showing their earnings. I'm guessing they sell the data also.

The startup itself is actually trying to do a good thing it seems, and while handing out those login credentials isn't ideal, don't forget that Mint & Plaid straight up ask for your banking login and no one bats an eye.

IMHO, the real regulation that is needed is that anyone whom stores data on an individual should also make that data read accessible via an api with separate credentials. Could you imagine a world where you could easily decide how your own data is used?
To worker W it is worth $10 extra to work overtime. But to the solidarity S, this cheapens the labor by $100. Therefore the solidarity S can pay W $11 to not work, and it’s a win win.
Well, I’m not a particle physics guy (or a physics person in general. I’m more a math guy.), so it’s not as bad as if someone really in the field responded as I did.

I guess my confusion (which may be from ignorance of physics) is about how to handle depicting superpositions of whether or not the electron has been absorbed by the proton.

I don’t mean that that isn’t a problem with a good (known?) solution, just I don’t know one.
It's been decades since I looked at it, but I remember Andrew User Interface System being another attempt at this.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/
It's not about "sheltering" children from the trials and tribulations of real life, what they have access to is manipulative and unhealthy.

Curious what your opinions are on the epidemic of pornography use in young children.
Various links to this topic were nuked yesterday within minutes. This one is 5 hours old with 7 comments.
Bots are heavily discouraged here. (Almost totally forbidden.)

Perhaps if the bot sends the page to the archive immediately but instead of posting the comment immediately waits a few days (until the last day comments are allowed), it will not so controversial because it will add no noise to the conversation.

It's better to send an email to the mods with the idea before implementing it, because the bot may get banned.
Who needs ads when you're giving parents an incentive to continue locking their children indoors?

It seems most of the replies that are positive about this service, focus on the way they've helped rear children during Covid.

That breaks my heart, since kids ought to be able to play with their friends in person anyway. Parents have been incredibly docile about lockdowns and have played along since there's been technology afoot to make it all go smoother.

But this only works for a portion of the population that has the money, time, knowledge, and resources to secure such things for their kid. This is a terrible idea in practice in the way it imposes further hierarchy and inequity among kids. In-person, children are on equitable grounds with one another, but this creates a void of separation where rich kids will be able to dominate over the poorer ones.
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Avoiding your parents as a child because they might abuse you is not a real option though.
Agreed. This is a particularly petty grievance but it boggles the mind that the landing page for ordinary users is some backend ticket management view and the thing users want is the cushy ticket requesting page with the view of their active tickets and so on which is unfortunately buried behind some unmemorable path and which is not linked to from the obscenely noisy landing page (or any of its network of pages that most users don't care about at all). If you're smart, you create a bookmark and move on with life, but I keep treating it like it's the last time I'll need that stupid link and of course that's entirely my fault. But still, designing software that requires individual users to manage bookmarks is insane.

So yeah, that was my petty grievance--no doubt I or the administrators could make this more pleasant. But I've never heard a single soul have anything favorable to say about SNOW. I don't know if SNOW's success is attributable to an unusually impoverished competitive landscape or if there are hidden factors (it appeals to IT's innate enmity toward the rest of the organization?), but it is surprising that SNOW survives at all.
Makes sense.

I went to a big public university where they had two freshman tracks, a "college within the university" where, if you knew to sign up, you'd be in a cohort of students to meet some general education requirements and would get access to faculty motivated to help you. The problem was that the kids who needed the least help tended to discover this program.

The "normal" path was being dumped into the University bureaucracy blind, and you had to learn to sink or swim. It was tough -- the registrar in those days was an experience like DMV. I'm pretty sure the system was devised as a funnel to disqualify people for popular majors like Business, Computer Science, etc.
I see your point. I have friends that put GPS trackers on their kids "just in case they get abducted by a sexual predator". It does happen that kids get taken, however it's more likely that they get hit by lightning... and a GPS tracker wont really protect them anyhow.
The absolute majority of abuse towards children are also done by people that are close to them (parents, relatives, teachers). I have put a lot of time and effort into building a relation with my kids where it's ok to talk about anything. My oldest have also been practicing self-defense for over 5 years now.
A rememberful person will also ask: "Wait, when did the FBI ever not undertake clearly illegal activity? What investigations are actually clean?"
I am going to try to dispel a few things about this. "Boot camp" or basic training results in a basically trained Soldier. While in times of a severe national emergency, it is possible that a basically trained soldier may be deployed, in usual circumstances, even during war this does not happen. Soldiers in basic training are selected into Military Occupational Specialties (or basically your job in the military) as an example, 11B is the infantry. After basic training, soldiers are sent to their units and/or specialist schools for additional training particular to their MOS. For some enlistment types, there are exceptions to this, officer and warrant officer candidates go to separate schools and for some MOS there is OSUT which allows a soldier to remain in the same unit from basic through ait. These schools can take anywhere from a few weeks to months depending on the specialty. During basic training, a soldier is expected to read and understand several documents, primary among them, the soldier Blue Book TP600-4 https://adminpubs.tradoc.army.mil/pamphlets/TP600-4.pdf After basic training and individual training, soldiers may have need to memorize and reference things from many manuals but they are not generally expected to memorize large manuals as part of basic.

The requirements are a bit different for officers and warrant officers. The training of officers and warrant officers is much more academically oriented. A 152F, Apache attack helicopter pilot is required to basically memorize the entire Technical Manual for their aircraft as well as many details about Army procedure for radios, weapon engagement, airspace management, etc. There are also joint publications, that are shared across the army, navy, airforce, marines, etc (sometimes with NATO allies) that folks in certain roles (pilots, FACs, officers) must be aware of.

Hopefully you find this helpful.
These stories always make me think of contracts, and how truly crazy some of them really are* (valid "across the universe"?!) that people get sucked into and what they end up signing away for a chance at stardom or wealth by trading their freedom of being not-famous.

* Exposing the Rupaul's Drag Race Contract
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700Nvfa4wHk
The forums for guitar players are often dominated by gear discussions unless carefully moderated. The good forums make efforts to sequester all the GAS discussions to their own corner.
No, that's not what I meant at all.... I don't want an officer explaining his 'fear for life' serving a simple seatbelt ticket, because we can't have $50 aliexpress drones flying to my window instead. I don't want no-knock raids to still be a thing in 2021 when you can easily scout the entire house with IR and know nobody can escape.

I want police to have access to simple technology without crappy paperwork. I want most influential civilian paper work like silencer tax stamps and the NFA to be invalidated, too. It makes no sense.
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Not they cannot. A DNS request in China is not targeting a European root but a local one. And that can affect a European citizen.
I purchase books as well. I have read numerous books on epub, but physical is better, easier to take notes on the side of the page.
Bayer is big, but they are not Cargill and the big farm chain companies. Cargill is into everything. You don't really work for Cargill, you work for a division that can operate totally differently than the rest of the company.
So they should be considered guilty until proven innocent? By this logic, the FBI should be allowed to seize a bank and every bank account holder would need to prove where each penny came from.
I've worked on these systems, they are separate.

They likely could have kept running the pipeline without incident.

I imagine when the government stepped in they decided to dial their procedures up to 10 and they plan on making an example out of this incident and the perpetrators.
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> That wrong. They tried this on the Falcon 9, not the Falcon 9.

What?
> Situational awareness is in fact a teachable/learnable skill and not just a "thing you have".

It's definitely both, I don't know why you're trying to knock that some people either by birth or through their experiences are just better at something than others. I had Marines who had excellent situational awareness that could spot trouble or issues far before they became a problem and I had others that would accidentally a whole truck. They were trained, for the most part, the same way.

I also disagree that situational awareness is a "soft skill". Having situational awareness, to me, means that you know a subject deeply enough to infer things about your environment from that knowledge. That would make it a very technical skill.
Is it written in FORTH?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

If you look at one of the earlier x-series servers- x3650-M1 I think, the BMC (IBM calls it an IMM) is daughter board with a PPC 405 chip. The artwork has "Proudly made in North Carolina" with a map of North Carolina in etch. You can just see it in the picture, under the "IBM":

https://admirestore.top/other/ibm-x3650-rsa-telecharger-pilo...

Anyway, I wonder if the code is related. I would have thought this all went to Lenovo.

What you really need for an open-source BMC, is one that works with the common Aspeed KVM chips (ARM-based I think, look at AST2300 and above). This would have the nice effect of avoiding having to pay AMI for their BMC code.

Edit: Actually here is the code, it supports Apseed:

https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc

What's new in LibreBMC is the hardware toolchain. Frankly, they should target RISC-V for this. Edit again: it does, using LiteX:

https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex

I'm not sure where Power fits in..
And Facebook entrenching itself reduces the chance of a non-profit vendor succeeding.
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Whatever exists inside the map lambda would have to exist inside the for loop as well. So if you're dealing with a confusing transformation, a loop doesnt offer you any extra tools for making that transformation more apparent to the reader. Loops have plenty of advantages (computer execution is more obvious, stack traces can be cleaner, easier concept for beginners to grasp), but I have never seen a loop be more readable than a well written functional composition.
Such a point of view is pretty much incongruous with contemporary physics. I'm not sure how one would go about even formulating the case.

Despite its central presence in physics 101 the notion of force is actually not all that clearly present in fundamental physics.

Newton's innovation might be said to be the representation of gravity as a force, but even in the Principia he doesn't commit to the idea because of an intuitive rejection of the non-locality implied by such a conception. So the idea that gravity is a force of the same sort as you pushing on a cart full of apples (whatever _that_ is) was never a particularly strongly held idea. I'm not an expert on the history of physics (I have read the Pricipia in translation, though) and I suspect Newton, if questioned appropriately, might have himself admitted there are issues with the conception that go beyond just non-locality.

Even at the level of Lagranian physics in the contemporary style (which despite that description is hundreds of years old) the idea of forces has an ad-hoc quality to it. The description of a completely closed system doesn't really contain forces unless you explicitly include them in the form of lagrange multipliers for the constraints, and then the forces that you calculate are, in a sense, provided "externally" by processes outside of the system itself.

For instance, the easiest way to represent the motion of two particles held together by a perfectly rigid rod doesn't mention the force exerted by the rod to maintain that constraint and yet simulates the motion perfectly. If we are interested in how much force the rod must exert to maintain the constraint, we can add in a largrange multiplier, but what that quantity tells us is in a sense a summary of the non-represented physics of the rod itself, which is still excluded from the system. A force then is a kind of interface between that which you are considering in detail and that which is assumed to be part of the external world. If everything in the world were simulated, then nothing would deviate from its expected motion, and thus there would be no forces at all, since all a force is is a description of how something deviates from the path it would ordinarily take if not for the intervention.

On this view Newton's first law is much more important and fundamental than his second: objects always move in straight lines but we must take great care in understanding what a straight line actually is for a given physical system. Really, the seed of general relativity and the geometric formulation of field theories is right there in the first law. This explains why the second law is of so much less importance in modern physics.

I'm not a professional, just an interested failed physicist, so standard equivocations apply to the above.

This video by an actual professional hits on some of these ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBlCu1zgD4Y
I’ve just been assuming that Sanderson will step up to finish those series when the original authors pass.
Temporary "production" companies are setup by Producers for the creation usually a single film or series. When filming is complete, these companies are sunset, and cannot have recurring revenue.

The Producer gets funding for their project from distribution company (Paramount, Disney, etc). The distribution company is the long-lived company that recurring revenue has to go to.

The distribution companies work as a cartel, whereby they have an existing revenue stream from all the product placements in existing films/tv that they want to protect. So as part of the Producer's contract with the distribution company, they must get the permission of the distribution company to include branded products in their films.
Thanks. This is great insight and one that is missing from most online discussions. I am really terrified of this situation because it will bring down my ROI. Also, I dont like to deal with contractors and related headaches. We will see how it pans out.
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Kids generate data in more ways than can be directly siphoned from the web service run by Facebook.

It can be to their benefit simply because it pushes more Facebook traffic through the ISPs and other major infrastructure. A quick win on the business side, and a whole new venture for further tech development on the product side.
When Bill Gates had his neighbors over for breakfast, I wonder if they were aware that their pancakes were being sorted by a man who had changed the course of human civilization.
"Going digital" is a continuous process, and while I hear what you're saying, SaaS vendors like ServiceNow have been pushing "digitizing processes" hard in the pandemic era, because most companies still have a long backlog of manual/paper processes left to "digitize".

To understand the popularity of ServiceNow, one need only look at the legacy products it displaced: BMC Remedy, HP Service Manager, CA Service Desk, etc. ServiceNow may not be sexy by modern standards, but gives large enterprises a level of flexibility and agility that was never possible with the legacy vendors.
Ok, cool story boomer. Now try that (the nuclear clock being the closest to midnight ever these days), but add thr slow, impending annihilation by climate change.

Maybe we should be teaching you?
The US Navy is the largest peace keeping and rescue organization in the world. Just one aircraft carrier is a disaster response super hero, complete with a hospital, food, clean water, and tents.
Yeah I digressed quite a bit, sorry.

> I'm seriously struggling to understand the complaint here

The complaint was trying to explain a parent commenter's point about journald "They’re really nice until everything on the node is completely broken. Then they are a massive obstruction to access and understanding what went wrong due to the opaqueness."

Point: Logs are really annoying to manage on systems with journald.

Counter-point: Ship your logs somewhere else / you probably don't have these problems in real life

Counter-Counter: If we're not supposed to use these tools on our hosts, exactly why are they installed?
> A thoughtful person will also ask: "Wait, when did the FBI begin undertaking clearly illegal activity? What other investigations have been tainted as a result?"

I don't think this matters at all. The FBI has been rife with controversy[1] and legally dubious actions[2] since just about their founding. Despite this, it's well out of the mainstream to ask if the FBI should exist and very few question whether people convicted by the FBI are actually guilty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies#Dome...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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This is how safe a flash bang is. [0] Warning graphic image.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-georgia-deputy-acqui...
I think the vault company was storing illicit gains in the boxes and acting like they belonged to other anon private individuals (customers) so the FBI took them all and are awaiting the legitimate and illegitimate customers to claim the boxes to has it all out. Seems legally dubious but were they just to let them continue hiding behind their "customers?"