skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even on the high end, there were only 11 books that sold more than 500,000 copies—which is paltry when you consider that the 10 best-performing Netflix films saw more than 68 million views.

Reading a book takes far longer than watching a movie. Assuming ten hours for a book, that's 5 million "read hours" compared to 102 million "watch hours" (assuming 90 min) for the top movies. Plus, movies can be watched in the background or socially in a group. I'm not saying reading is not a niche - it probably is far smaller than it used to be -, but it's not as niche as this statement makes it out to be.
Ericsson is very multinational. The core of its management is in Sweden, a lot of systems management and architecture are indeed controlled from there. There are development units in dozens of countries across all continents, albeit with a emphasis on Europe, the US and China. A lot of subcontractors from/in India are involved in product development, too, but mostly for systems operations and maintenance of “sunsetting” products.
All told, I am not aware of a single Ericsson product that is “led” from China or India, but I could certainly be wrong.
I had my first encounter with a PSD2 measure the other day. It was very straightforward with my bank. The shop redirected me to my bank's website where I logged in with MFA and clicked OK. Done.

A subsequent order worked by just entering my CC details.
This is my experience. I enjoy coding at home and at work, but I'm on a team that understands deadlines and that quality of code has real meaning (assuming nobody is aiming for academic or algorithmic perfection).
I think the causation here is kind of backwards. Those teams are good because they have the best players that shoot well in any range. But looking at Kawhi’s shot chart [1] indicates he should be shooting more 3’s as defenses still keep him to below 1 point expected per mid range shoot vs. more than 1 point in 3 range.

[1] - https://nbasavant.com/player.php?ddlYear=&ddlShotMade=&ddlTe...
I don't think so? I actually looked for such functionality recently and couldn't find anything. Kaspersky uses a hypervisor to hook syscalls[0] in order to provide such functionality. There's also DTrace for Windows[1], but that requires being enabled through bcdedit which is a bit... meh.

[0]: https://github.com/iPower/KasperskyHook

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
You're pretty sure? It should be easy to find a source for that claim then.
We have had helicopters for a while...
> The first thing that can reduce conversions is the higher rate of 3DS triggered user abandonment. Since many consumers are not familiar with the 3DS process, there is a higher chance of abandonment during the authentication process.

This would presumably go away once PSD2 is fully implemented and all purchases require it, which is a benefit of requiring it by law rather than letting merchants choose whether or not to require it. Requiring it is a common good in the sense that it reduces the economy's overall loss due to fraud.

Additionally, as the article mentions, using 3DS shifts liability for charge not authorized disputes from the merchant to the bank. Thus, the decreased rate of conversions must be compared against decreased losses due to chargebacks.
FWIW, the security researchers I talked to about I2P--such as the authors of the paper I link after this paragraph, which is an example that comes to mind readily--mostly had felt that there was no reason to write papers about it anymore as there had been so many attacks on it already and that none of them had been taken seriously (unlike the Tor people, who care deeply and fix things quickly) that it wasn't fun or pointful.

https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna/publications/2013_RAID_i2p....
what is PSD2?
Great movie. I'm seeding it's torrent since 2014 (available on popcorntime)
You misspelled cit<r>us, the same is in the blogpost.
What is the legal situation for implementing things from these kinds of papers? Am I allowed to use other's research papers to make features in my own products, or should I assume it's patented? I don't think copyright applies if I write the code myself, right? Or are neural net models copyrightable?

In this case you need specialized data from a lighting rig, but what about in general when you can use your own or open data to do the training, or in the cases when no machine learning is used?
Killing and murdering can be two different things, which is why we have separate words for the actions. You're conflating the two things as though they're always the same.

To kill is not inherently to murder. Typically from a legal and moral perspective killing someone in self-defense is not murder, for example.
>I'm not paying > $40 to read a single book over the course of multiple months

Me neither. Maybe I would buy the book in a presale, but that's it. This kind of selling just work for early adopters, the kind of people who stand in line for hours to buy a new product.
It is really great to see that eBPF is causing an industry wide change instead of just a Linux one!
wow yeah, meebo blast from past
Expose Database over Rest API with TypeORM and First-Class Entity
It isn't. Again, football is not like American Football or the NBA where, for different reasons, you can buy one player and win it all. It is very possible to produce a winning team (although not one that will likely win the league) composed only of specialist players: Fulham (got to the Europa League final), Bolton, Stoke (first-time with Pulis), Leicester...these are just teams in the recent past in one league.

The vast majority of teams that try to "buy the best players" don't succeed (usually there is only one or two players currently in the game who can win games by themselves, there is a substantially larger group of players who cost essentially the same and don't perform at all) because they pay too much/buy players randomly who don't fit their system/overestimate skill.

I would look more closely at what I said. I did not say that analytics hasn't been around for a long time (for some reason, the article you link fails to mention that Reep actually worked for clubs, and found some degree of success...but there is no Nash strategy, Bolton got to the Europa League playing long ball football...it is a fine strategy suggesting that it doesn't work on average means nothing because everything is conditional in football).

Btw, your model of salary cap=pay most for players is obviously flawed if you consider that the non-existence of a salary cap does not occur in a vacuum. Player salaries/transfer fees are a dynamic competition so the lack of salary cap means that most players are overpriced (because clubs are inherently overoptimistic...there are clubs who make money just by developing players and selling them to bigger clubs). The actual implication of salary caps (in combination with FFP) is that success is correlated to your ability to generate revenue. It isn't that the top clubs can pay more for players, it is that they can "lose" more overpaying than anyone else. As an example, Manchester United have rock-solid sponsorship revenue (iirc, they even have a "tractor partner"...they sponsors for literally everything) so they can overpay for almost every player, lose tons of money doing so, and end up doing okay. If a club lower down the table made deals as bad, they would get relegated. No salary caps just mean the rich clubs get richer.
Well, you got balls. My old friends would have tarred and feathered anyone who dared shake their body to the beat, unless it was from the neck up, or from the waist down.

They were good kids deep down. Don't judge them too harshly.

But I'm a blithering idiot and a senile old fool even. I wonder what will happen when I'm actually old and losing my mind.

Because I forgot the African metal scene:

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

African heavy metal refers to the heavy metal music scene in Africa, particularly in East African countries such as Kenya and Uganda, and Southern African countries including Namibia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

I spent some time digging through youtube videos of those folks, when I discovered them. Crazy, crazy people who go around in full leather attire in Kenya! I remember interviews with some who had found a very Christian like message of love and brother/sisterhood in metal, gods know where. Or maybe they're in a more pure, young phase of metal, like I was in high school, when I felt a connection with every other metalhead in the entire world (which went away after I actually met a few near at home ha ha).

The fans in that scene I believe go out and dance-dance, not just headbang and mosh, if they do that at all. I vaguely remember a video in a night club with people dancing and a black metal band (see what I did there) playing on stage. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Anyway, yeah, black people can totally dig metal en masse. There is no incompatibility. It's just the culture in some places in the world that stops it, I guess, places where black folk are not the majority. But where they are, they have no reason not to embrace metal.

Edit: also, that supports what I said above, that metal is the true music of the people. Take that, pop.

Edit 2: Actually, the scene I had seen before, with the black-leather clad fans, is the one in Botswana not Kenya. Here's some pics:

https://acidcow.com/pics/55608-the-heavy-metal-subculture-of...

I don't know why looking at those pictures fills me with such joy.
What situations would make people unable to upgrade to 12+?

In my personal experience: the organisation doesn't invest in a storage solution that offers snapshots/COW (e.g. ZFS or SAN or whatever). Then they wait to upgrade until their disks reach a usage that the upgrade has to be done in-place. Then they become like rabbits in the headlights and never upgrade.
A set of directives by the EU to make online payment transactions more secure and reduce fraud. Some of those directives impact UX, including 3DS requirements, which is a form of 2fa for payments.
In images they call that the difference between being "scene referred" vs "display referred".

There is no generally accepted theory of stereo sound, instead there are at least three theories:

(1) a method for mastering sound recordings intended to be played by two speakers that are right next to each other (two sides of a TV, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Retrieval_System for some theory)

(2) mastering sound records so that 'left means left' and 'right means right' which means your speakers are on opposite sides of the room and you're near the middle. That can cast sounds effectively to the left and right but falls down casting them to the middle

(3) Ambisonics, which doesn't really work because the coherence in natural sound sources badly damages the timbre of natural sounds and the concept of 'represent natural soundfield' doesn't really mix with 'record instruments individually in dead environments', 'add reverb', and 'repeat' which is how 'quality' sound in the judgement of the industry is attained.

One way to think about a 5.1 system with a modern layout (FL, FC, FR, R, and L, nothing in back) is that you put the FL and FR close to the FC, expect to play back type I content on the FL and FR, and play type 2 content on the L and R.

Often DVDs were mixed under the assumption that they couldn't trust the receiver (e.g. no center channel); blu-rays sound a lot better not just because they allocate more bits to sound, but because the mixing is more aggressive... they don't feel they have to copy dialog on the L and the R because they know many people don't have a working C.
I'd advise to give mypy yet another try but disable in config file error codes that are painful and # noqa or # type: ignore lines that can't be understood well by mypy.
If by Far East you mean China, I’m not aware of any outsourcing there at all. Ericsson has big R&D centers there but I believe they are all in-house operations, owned and controlled directly by Ericsson.

Now, India on the other hand...
Regardless of what type of book your wife is writing, if she uses Leanpub she needs to do the upload to KDP herself: Leanpub doesn't currently do anything here.

There are other companies like BookBaby which do the "publish to Amazon for you" type of thing; Leanpub currently does not do that. We are just a toolchain to make ebooks plus an optional storefront to sell them. You can sell the ebooks you produce using Leanpub on any storefront such as KDP; you own your work. We do not have many romance writers on Leanpub, and a simple look at our homepage will explain why: our storefront looks like a place for computer programming books, not romance novels.

Also, most romance novels are written in Word, not Markdown, and our Word support is a hidden feature, kind of like the secret menu at In-N-Out burger. The way our Word support works is that you write in a Dropbox folder (or using GitHub or Bitbucket), and you make your Book.txt file list one or more Word files (instead of Markdown files) as the manuscript content. Then when you click the button to preview or publish the ebook, we generate the PDF, EPUB and MOBI based on those Word files, and you can do whatever you want with them. It's actually pretty smooth once you set it up, but it sounds really complicated, and we don't market it at all: hence another reason we don't have many romance writers on Leanpub!

Anyway, if that sounds like a useful thing then we may be worth a shot. Leanpub book landing pages look nice and professional, but in terms of attracting an audience of readers for a romance novel, we are not going to be much help. This is why places like Wattpad do well in this regard. (Leanpub does help attract an audience for our computer programming books and similar types of books, of course, primarily through our weekly and monthly sale newsletters.)

Frankly, my recommendation for any aspiring first-time novelist with a small social media following would be to publish in-progress on Wattpad first to see if they get traction, and then to consider Substack and Amazon KDP for places to monetize if they do. Then once they've gotten to that point, if they're looking for tools to produce a nice ebook to sell on KDP, Leanpub is one of the options they can use as a toolchain.

(On the other hand, if they have a reasonable social media following, they could skip Wattpad and go directly to Substack, KDP or even Leanpub and point their followers at the appropriate landing page for their book...)
A lot of things wont work, but you still can't say Web and Internet are the same thing.

I also think it isn't fair to nitpick the article for it.
Don't most devices use just DHCP, which in turn in most cases just use the DNS settings of the Internet Provider (IP) that is being used (indirectly, as usually the local router is set like that) => if a local government asks the IPs to use specific root servers then the problem should be solved?

(or maybe I'm not understanding the core problem...)
Unless the pirate ship has hostages on board, then you might have to board it while shooting. Not a job I envy
That is illegal in the USA.
I updated the blog post :)
Trends serve a use, which is to remind us of exactly this fact. Whenever we paeans are told that we can't contribute a product idea, because the big ideas have to come from the big idea people, or that design concepts stem from "research," a trend comes along and reassures us that we're all equals after all.
Purely anecdotal but I have never had any problems with increased authentication for purchases. It feels safe to digitally sign every single purchase I make and with a good UX on the store front it can be a great experience.
Very interesting to hear about the impact of this regulation on industries many here work in but I have many questions that were answered…

What is PSD2?

What is 3DS?

Why do these exist and what did they solve?

Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone!
When you write types in Python, the interpretation of your type annotations are up to the type checker. Your annotations that you write for e.g. Pyre may not type check in mypy. The end result is that your type annotations are not "Python" type annotations, but "Pyre"/"mypy"/etc. type annotations.

In C, you ultimately care about what the compiler says. And this has also led to dialect-specific C code that works fine in one compiler but doesn't compile or runs incorrectly in another compiler.
Similarly: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...
Agreed! We don't do anything to help with that part of the process: you need to use that page either way :)
It's about 50% above average for the country, but HN tends to have a very coastal crowd, in particular a lot of SV talent where average pay is much higher. Experienced people easily break $200k, at my (non-FAANG) company the entry level package for Bay Area devs is more than $150k.
I disagree. The Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 is equivalent to a 50mm f3.4 on full frame.

For 150g on full-frame you can get a 50mm 1.8, at a cost of 150$ brand new. So on full frame at a similar weight and at the same price you get superior optics.

If you really care about the weight, the 40mm 2.8 has the same weight and the same price but superior optics again.

All modern FF cameras do distortion correction too. M4/3 lenses are not especially decided to trade-off distortion for sharpness anymore than full-frame.
Then make your service compelling enough for me to go through the motions of confirming the payment in my banking app.

Or integrate with Android Pay/Apple Pay.

Cry me a river, but I rather prefer to be in control about who gets to withdraw money from my card, and how much.
This sounds wonderful to me. 20% of would-be buyers were saved from mindlessly consuming and paying for stuff they don't need — by just a tiny little UI friction. Imagine what a mandatory essay about the reason for your purchase would accomplish.
> Just like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Way of Kings seems to get slower with each book as more subplots are developed and explored.

Heh, now that's ironic, knowing what happened to the WoT: Jordan[1] died before he could finish it, and years later another author stepped in and finished it based on Jordan's notes. That other author was... Brandon Sanderson. So one would think he'd know the dangers of creating too big a sprawl.

(Also: Take heed, GRRM!)

___

[1]: Actually Oliver Rigney, IIRC.
I thought about writing books (technical stuff) but then realized there is nothing I can do about piracy, pdf/epub/etc are just a few clicks away. unlike music and movies that you have some leagues to enforce IP laws once a while, for books there is essentially none. It's hard to get motivations considering writing books are so demanding.
Ericsson has hired several thousand engineers per year in the past couple of years, globally.
You can see the history of their Wikipedia page for the nitty-gritty...
Well, and to convince you that the content pages aren't some made up BS as supported by real customer experiences, academic research, etc. I could probably summarize a lot of business books (e.g. Crossing the Chasm) in a few pages with a couple drawings. But it would be missing a lot of nuance and, yes, would probably lack the story to make it stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive?wpr...
Thats most of everything though. The hardest part of finishing your programming project is the last icky bit that you really didn't want to do yet, or bug fixing, or polishing. The last part of painting is the touch ups, and thats also the longest part. Its much easier to just come up with a sketch of a piece of art (or any project) than it is to get into the nitty gritty painstaking details that it requires before you can say its finished.
What type checker does PyCharm use? In-house?
A subtle distinction here:
The goal is not for the company to look diverse but rather for the product/service to appeal to a diverse customer/user base. This is a formidable design challenge. Depicting the full range of human life is not really possible with half a dozen images. The solution that everyone has landed on is to lower the fidelity of the representation. If we get rid of photorealism, 3d features, texture and other high resolution features, then a single illustration can encompass a much greater slice of humanity than a photograph could. I'm sure that there are other solutions to this design problem but I don't think that anything will replace the Memphis aesthetic until people understand the needs that led to its ubiquity. Any alternative aesthetic will need to satisfy the same basic business requirements.
I'm really glad my bank got FaceID 3DS right as PSD2 were introduced, it's really quite painless to do the 2FA (just tap the notification, look at your phone and put it back).

Previously you had to use an ancient SMS based SIM app on your phone or use a dongle to authenticate, took over a minute usually.

A way for retailers to "bypass" 3DS is to use Klarna or similar (free in-app invoice that needs to be paid within 14 days). Even though it's usually quite simple to use my debit card, it's still more of a hassle than paying whenever I want within 14 days, so that's what I choose when I'm in a hurry.
No, in this particular example, there's no real advantage. What I meant were situations where the TypeVar gets a little more complicated, compare the additional parameters on https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.TypeVar . Then importing TypeVars starts to pay off because you only have to define your bounds etc. once.
Why can’t Eritrea vacate Ethiopia
The thread explicitly states that it’s not about code reviews.
Ahh! So sorry. Fixed it.
The problem then is that if the industry pays above market wages, then there will be too many prospective game developers for the roles. Then the question is how do you choose who gets to be in this industry where you can do what you love and get paid well for it? Things have a way of balancing out, and labor organizers will see this surplus and capture an ever increasing portion of it through fees or other means. This leads to nepotism or favoritism as you see in some jobs that pay above market wages.
Who cares is the people who have to experience the design which doesn’t stand on its own (i.e. customers or users).
Which as far as I can tell is implemented by next to nothing. Logging single-line JSON events will give you far more support for downstream tools.
You are equating equations, Maxwell's equations, with the electromagnetic field. This is a folly akin to equating an image created in Photoshop _with_ Photoshop itself.

The wavefunction of the universe is the state of it, and all conscious observers _ever_ do, is measure states. Interaction is all there is, just relationships. The state is isomorphic to the reality. The only difference is the reality has some process running on it, to advance the arrow of time.

This is not confusing the map for the territory. Every physicist you ask will tell you that a particle is the matrix it is represented by. Now, we may not have those matrixes fully complete or accurate, but the backing of reality IS information. And no, information and numbers do not have to have a reality onto themselves - they are just the medium of comparison, otherwise any description is impossible. All descriptions that humans use are metaphors based on past experience.
Chicken and egg. If you're a company that isn't very diverse but is trying to change that, a good first step is to present diversity. If that's the ONLY step, then sure go ahead and drag them, but it's not bad on its face.
It is the Revised Payment Services Directive requirements for Strong Customer Authentication. An EU directive that applies to credit cards issued by EU merchant banks for transactions that occur within the European Economic Area.

Basically a popup that will request some extra form of security verification for relevant transactions.