skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Royalties are the issue. I just published a book with a well-known editor and I’m making 10% per copy (ebook or print). The book is priced at more than 50$ and yet I’ll only make this amount by selling 10 copies (of course this is before tax).

Interestingly, if your editor has an affiliate program you can make as much money by advertising some link that leads to purchases. So as a writer, if you do both you end up getting 20% on these. It’s still not that much.

Recently, I wrote a small handbook about security and the mindset you need to care about security in your company (https://www.securityhandbook.io) and I self published it for 20$ using stripe checkout. Every purchase yields me a bit more than 19$, which feels amazing every time as I directly get the money. I actually made more money selling this self published book than with my big editing company.
Changing the "main character" from Big Bird to Elmo, and other re-structuring of the show, really did harm it a ton.

Sells merch better, though. And I dunno, maybe zero kids would still watch it in a world of smart phones and YouTube and other relatively frantic entertainment for pre-schoolers, if it were still as sedate as it once was. Maybe kids can't relate or look up to Big Bird like they can wacky, high-energy Elmo, anymore.
We're over 10 years into dealing with piracy in & around the gulf of Aden. Boarding ships happens more in peacetime than wartime.
Sure they do.

https://i.imgur.com/TqW6Ola.png
> minimum wage at Wendy's is also a supply and demand issue, but that job isn't sold as "do it for the love of the fast food industry"

That's a fallacy, no one goes to work at Wendy for the love of it. Some people do really want to work in video game for the love of it, they know that their salary will be lower, and they still do it.
I was pointing out that retail banks effectively control monetary policy through the fed, and they use it to benefit themselves primarily.

It's their beast and they use it to serve themselves. If other people happen to be able to eat as a result, they're okay with that.

>Having the post office offer banking services (for example) has nothing to do with "the Fed"'s ability to enact monetary policy.

Banks literally create money and loan it out at interest. The fed providing accounts allowing that would directly compete with their business. It's a conflict of interest to serve the public in any way that a bank does, and since they control the fed, they'll use it to block such things.

It's just basic self interest.
Trying to define or prescribe a standard sleep schedule for everyone is pointless. There are people sleeping 9pm-5am and others 2am-10am, sometimes in the same household. Some people sleep fewer hours at night and take naps during the day. No single habit is "correct".

Semi-related – I have had so many frustrating experiences with government websites which only operate during business hours.
In fluid pairing the driver and navigator are constantly switching roles and bouncing off each other. Based on another message above where you said:

> No, one person is doing things, and another is watching and talking while the other person is doing things.

I just don't think you're fully understanding the process, which I'm not surprised (and don't hold it against you) about because it's very nuanced.

In the piano context it's less "I'm going to explain to you what I'm playing right now" and more "What do you think of this chord, does it harmonise well with what you're doing?", "I think maybe changing it to a minor chord would help", "oh, can you show me what you mean?", "yes play the first few notes and I'll do the last one so we can see what it sounds like together". It's a back and forth to progress the whole.
Yes, in house
Alan Woodward seems to be the BBC's go-to person for scare quotes about the internet. In your article:

> "It's shocking," says Alan Woodward, a security expert based at the University of Surrey. "This is the Balkanisation of the internet happening in front of our eyes.

> "The US government has for a long time criticised other countries for controlling access to the internet… and now we see the Americans doing the same thing."

Previously, I saw Woodward giving bad information and engaging in unfounded speculation in an article about Signal -
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55412230.

> Alan Woodward, a professor of computer science at Surrey University, said Signal was "one of the most secure, if not the most secure, messenger service publicly available".

> "Signal employs end-to-end encryption, but goes further than apps like WhatsApp by obscuring metadata - who talked to who when and for how long," he explained.

> "Cellebrite seem to have been able to recover the decryption key, which seems extraordinary as they are usually very well protected on modern mobile devices."

> He added that if this was indeed true, it was no surprise Cellebrite would have altered its blog.

> "I suspect someone in authority told them to, or they realised they may have provided enough detail to allow others - who don't just supply to law-enforcement agencies - to achieve the same result."

A good rule of thumb might be, if you see Alan Woodward quoted in support of the article, assume the author doesn't know any genuine experts.
It seems like you can’t even imagine that someone might not be interested or willing to work at FAANG?

If those aren’t an option, then it might not be a lowball offer anymore. FAANG compensation is in an entirely separate category, from what I can tell.
That's definitely off the mark for the Bay Area.

The median software developer nationally, with a pool of 1.47 million developers, is $110,000 as of 2020 according to the BLS. That median developer is going to be in places like Atlanta, Des Moines or Pittsburgh.
Those would more accurately be described as "rocket packs".
Just to say, I'm not a shill for NordVPN - no affiliation with them. I was wanting to reiterate a hosted option vs self-install and it was the first one that came to mind. Noted they are not good!
I think it'd be nice if they settled on a standard as to what is a correctly typed program.

Mypy and Pyre are pretty similar, but Pytype has very different standards.
Yeah but we can afford to have them burn fossil fuels until the end of time, their population is relatively tiny.
Should the title of this submission be changed? It’s not the title of the original article, and the author doesn’t even seem to run a SaaS, it seems like it might be the experience of the OP?
Weird seeing this guy talking about Lego's after recently watching him speak at The Royal Institute about "There is No Algorithm for Truth"[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
Probably going to get downvoted for this, but I feel like MongoDB should get more love in these subs.

We use it all the time and their aggreations can get really advanced and perform well to the level where we run most analytics on demand. Sure we're not pushing to “big data” levels, max a few 100k records, but in reality I believe that's the average size of the majority of business datasets (Just an estimate, I have nothing to back this up)

Been building with it for 5 years now and it's been a breeze. Especially with Atlas. I think our team has not spent more that 3 days in total on DB dev ops. And with Atlas Lucene text search and data lakes, querying data from S3. What's not to love.
>Users may also choose to abandon a transaction simply because there are additional steps to complete, giving them more time to contemplate their purchase.

Good. Means you've manipulated people into spending their money very intensely if they will abandon the transaction once the first rational thought comes in. I would personally add a third factor for good measure.
A Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year”
Lazy Capitalism and Its Effects
Seth Godin did a good job riffing about the problem with capitalism, that when it goes unchecked, or rather optimizes for a single number, it leads to catastrophic results.
> There are actually clear answers to all your questions.

Strongly disagree. Conda, pipenv, pyenv, venv, poetry are all trying to solve the same problem (although conda tries to solve some other problems too).

Choice is not always good, this is why we have standards.

I would recommend pyenv. I understand why people are attracted to poetry, but pyenv arguably offers all of the same benefits that poetry has as well, and has better adoption.
Google, Duo, and Authy all seem to do fine even in low-data (1 bar non-lte 4g) scenarios, so that's probably a bank & facebook issue. They probably rely on the push notification to carry and push state to the user's device with no backup mechanism for when this fails.
> It's free software! Take it for what it is, appreciate it, and adopt it if it suits you?

I am really against the idea that just because something is "free", it is exempt of any judgment. We should always strive to improve everything, free or not.
That seems pretty reasonable. I'd hate to work at a place that "didn't enforce" something, but had it turn into a 15 pieces of flair type situation.
The cure is worse than the disease.

No matter how desperate I am for heart surgery, I won't go to the surgeon who kills all his patients.

The very first director of the FBI was J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI as a lawless private army for literally fifty years.

And there has been really no systematic reform since.

Systematically corrupt law enforcement is worse than no law enforcement at all.

Systemically broken organizations are unfixable, particular ones that have been broken for over a century.

If the US really needs the law enforcement that the FBI is supposed to provide and mostly doesn't, they should set up a new, non-corrupt, competent organization to do it, and fire everyone in the FBI.

They won't, of course. Accountability is not any sort of value in US government.
This is a very common thing in text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page
I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I find it striking that you’re making very emphatic, very confident statements about things they have experienced and you have not. It’s quite rude.

FWIW, I do have experience with pairing, and my experience is the same as theirs: the person not typing does a lot of design thinking. It leaves the person who is typing free to power ahead at full speed, without having to pause for thought.
January 2021?
https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-galaxy-smarttag-relea...
FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15
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No one said these things were mutually exclusive. Unless you're telling me that your sketches map exactly into the code you've written every time, then there is design emerging during the coding process.
Let me know if this looks any good (it's an experimental service I am building)

http://194.113.73.23:1234/?topics=cryptocurrency%0D%0Abitcoi...
"Vanity Press" means you spend money to get published. Modern self-publishing means that you're attempting to make an income, however meager, from your writing.
Well that test ran on EC2 against RDS in the same region. But the results were reproducible locally using docker.

What I actually found, is that the timings given by explain plan were quite different from the reality, no matter how much I factored in network latency.

Which makes me think there’s a massive overhead in actually sending the data.
Likely Windows ARM. It should prove to be a stout upgrade to the units MS currently uses in their ARM laptops.
Selection bias. People who see OP's books in the search results and conclude it's a shitty book/something is off/etc are not going to leave a review (on a book they didn't buy) to say so. People who spend $10 and 4hrs of their time are inclined to not want to feel like they just wasted that and so will positively review something to reinforce.
> What is 3DS?

3DS stands for 3 Domain Secure. Payment processing requires a lot of service providers to co-ordinate; card issuer, merchant acquirer, card network to name a few.

The three domains in 3D refers to the domains of Issuer (the bank that issued the your card), Acquirer (the bank that the merchant has their account in), and the Network (Visa, Mastercard etc., which connects Issuing banks and Acquiring banks).

I'm vastly simplifying because now a days there are new entities which are difficult to typecast into one of Issuer/Acquirer/Network because depending on the scenario they can act as any or all three.

Unlike the Internet which has reasonably well defined protocols/services to provide end user services (HTTP, SMTP, DNS etc.,) online payment processing has evolved by monkey-patching systems as newer challenges have arose. There are no well defined protocols or standards so you have these vast network of systems that somehow work-together to process online payments. Once in a while it fails exposing its innards like how people came to learn about T + 2 settlement during Gameshop saga.

> Why do these exist and what did they solve?

3DS is kind of a protocol that'll enable a card holder to authorise a payment while minimising the number of service providers that have access to their card details. A typical implementation of 3DS requires card holder to authorise a payment through PIN. Another is through second factor auth such as SMS OTP, or RSA tokens, Apple's Face ID.

> What is PSD2?

This is a European specific regulation to make payments more secure. 3DS is one of its requirements.
For me it opens the bank app which shows amount, seller, subject line and asks me to confirm with pin or fingerprint, taking all of 2 seconds. No more entering bank card numbers. Not sure what bank youi are using but this seems like bad implementation not bad idea.
And the Galaxy Book S was already announced with ARM in August 2019.

1 year before Apple's announcement with the ARM six.

Edit:
And a Samsung Chromebook with a Rokchip ARM is in the market since January 2017...
Unfortunately I've been completely out of the loop on the draid stuff.
At StackPulse we've been using gRPC for all of our backend (https://stackpulse.com/blog/grpc-in-practice-directory-struc...) and frontend (https://stackpulse.com/blog/grpc-web-using-grpc-in-your-fron...) service communications.

With the number of services rising and the frontend application needing to do dozens of gRPC calls per page, we decided to tackle the challenge of designing an API gateway solution for gRPC.

As with everything gRPC this is very much uncharted territory. While we are still a young startup we keep on taking these challenges because of all the benefits gRPC gives us in building our application.
I'd need to know more than I do about Ethereum in order to have a solid opinion. My current impression is that Ethereum tries to provide some value or innovation in the form of distributed computation, which is good, but also that there is no useful program being run on the distributed computation layer.

I haven't looked too much into it, so maybe I'm wrong about the useful program thing, but to my knowledge smart contracts are mainly used for creating digital tokens and things like that. Maybe Ethereum could be a useful way to conduct raffles, lotteries, or sports betting.

If you know more about Ethereum could you point out any useful applications that use it?
Wildbow is amazing. Her "Worm" series is literally 20 full novels sized, and works like this are (or was? read it many years ago) free competition to any would-be writer who would want to require - as the article suggests - $5 per chapter of an unfinished novel. I mean, all these Patreon examples illustrate that it definitely can work, but IMHO it's more accurate to treat it as "patron" sponsorship/charity/support out of goodwill, instead of as actual economic sales of scarce product.
In the craziness of NFTs, a builders’ culture emerges on the blockchain
Yeah, I largely agree. You as the developer know if you have leverage, and seniority generally means you have more leverage. This is true in any field. But, if there are more jobs available, then you need less leverage to walk at a bad offer.

So yeah, of course all the guys leaving Blizzard are getting snatched up, and there is a lot of demand to fill their shoes, but those roles need to be filled by equally competent people, not just anyone off the street.

It seems that in games, you either have leverage to negotiate, or you don't. There doesn't seem to be a credible middle-ground like in other software disciplines where warm bodies capable of writing for loops are all that's required to build the product.
3DS should do the exact opposite, away with SMS.
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They're not artificially hamstrung. USPS makes its money by delivering physical mail. Physical mail has been in decline for 20 years: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/first-class...

Despite the US population practically doubling, the amount of mail sent is back down to ~1976 levels.

This isn't artificial.
>It is impossible to build any website that cannot be taken down

This is becoming less true each day, especially with the advent of IPFS and Ethereum. Uniswap's website will never go down. uniswap.org might be seized but uniswap.eth cannot be altered by anyone.

In a few decades it will be normal for websites to be decentralized and permanent. It's actually quite needed for the robustness of critical internet architecture.
Sweden has adapted something similar, Swish[1]. Co-owned by banks and so far without any fees for private entities. The adaption rate has been really incredible. Already 75% of the population has signed up for it and, in 2020, made over 600 million transactions.
Cryptocurrency Is Now Worth More Than All U.S. Currency in Circulation
This is commonish in translation community. There are sites like wuxia world and woopread that have a lot of translations of east asian web novels that you can pay to see chapters earlier. Some do it as pay per chapter others as a subscription model for early access. I do also see a few self published fantasies/romances that do this on tapas but would guess few do well enough. Normal model here is short chapters of about 5ish pages sold for l0-20ish cents per chapter. This leads to many series having massive chapter counts. 1000 chapter stories are pretty common here and longest popularish one I know is like close to 4k chapters.
One of the features I like about Aerospike is the user defined functions (UDF), which are Lua functions that run directly in the cluster. Compared to pulling the data to my servers and performing the computation, UDFs are much more efficient.

Does RonDB have a similar capability?

Aerospike Community Edition is limited to 5TB per cluster, and I wonder if RonDB has a similar limitation?

Last, how does one compute RAM allocation per machine for RonDB? I assume it varies depending on the number of indexes that are defined? I assume you do not hold all data in memory, and you can take advantage of SSD or NVMe disks?

I'm asking because we utilize Aerospike heavily, and RonDB seems like an interesting alternative.
JWT should not be your default for sessions
There's a 100 things called Lightstep. Which one is this?
You actually have a point. I think 3-D Secure both fulfills it's purpose to increase consumer protections when paying online, while at the same time, as you suggest, it's acts as a soft obstacle reminding the consumer to maybe re-evaluate their purchase.

I'm not saying it's frictionless nor perfect, but things were worse earlier. Card and identity fraud is increasing, and will continue to be a valuable target, not least because we're moving towards a cashless society (some say).
It's like they're reading the situation, evaluating their options, then printing their results in the form of actions.

But that's the case for a lot of things. REPL and OODA fall into that category of philosophies that are simple once presented, but we needed someone to recognize as existing. And there is a benefit to recognizing these patterns as they allow us to optimize them.

Also, things that get independently discovered in several places are more likely to be correct as they seem to be naturally emergent.
Priceline acquires travel startup Flyiin
Well...if they use the internet to shop online a mobile app should not be that hard to deal with given it's installed/configured by the bank clerk. All the mobile phones are "smart phones" now anyway.
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I've met a lot of people who have this sort of personality. The article is accurate when they describe it like a sport. I fully believe many of them when they choose to avoid leisurely activities on a plane.
> because no working (in any practical sense) OpenDoc anything ever shipped with MacOS

Well, beyond that -- almost no OpenDoc software shipped at all. The first significant release was Apple's CyberDog web browser in 1996, and the OpenDoc project was cancelled in 1997.

Mac OS never really embraced OpenDoc wholeheartedly, either. It wasn't included in the default install of Mac OS, so most users were never exposed to it.
Of those three, I've never had an issue -- and I pretty regularly wander around with 1 bar non-lte quality service.
My understanding is that most of the history there really wasn't whole lot more to grow. At least on marginal effort. Most of the history it was pretty tough and slim margins, at least outside certain areas.
I've worked in many software companies. We had lunch time/after hours boardgames at every single one. OK, I was the one organising it, but still.

Plus we got paid well. Win/win :]
This has an interesting tie to Nick Szabo's essays on "collectibles", which he paints as proto-money which coevolved with homo sapiens itself.

There's more to be found at his blog (http://unenumerated.blogspot.com), this essay in particular is a good introduction:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
> This is not an honest reading of the article, which itself is of course slanted.

> The warrant allowed the "nests" of boxes to be siezed, but not their contents.

By omitting the part of the article that very clearly discusses this aspect, just one sentence below that, I put it to you that you are the dishonest one here.

"In court filings, however, Gluck and other attorneys representing anonymous plaintiffs argue that the seizure of the nests "does not appear to be the government's true purpose here."

"A reasonable person could easily conclude that taking and searching the contents of the boxes was the true purpose of the USPV seizure, not just an unintended but unavoidable byproduct as the government seeks to portray and justify it," they write.

Do they think we are stupid? "We want to seize these useless shelves, because we don't have the legal authority to search the boxes. Oh, now we've moved the shelves, we get to look into the boxes! What a surprise!"

They got a subpoena for something with _no informational value_ because they knew they could _abuse_ the law to look into and take things they had no right to take.
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No, I held out for another right woman after breaking up with the right woman. There were long periods of drought in my sex life.
Kind of a side point, but I think it could be argued that some transaction friction is a good thing at a societal level. (So long as the friction is agnostic to demographic or income level.)

My spending, consumption and general wasteful consumerism is healthier when I don't have Amazon Prime. I'm more thoughtful about what I need and will batch up purchases, often removing a portion of the cart.