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I'm always surprised when people talk about rereading books. I get absolutely nothing out of books I've already read. Do you also rewatch TV series?
Oops I skimmed the article and missed that - thanks.
Catching problems before things are written is definitely better and that's why it's often a good idea to mention how you intend to approach problems in your daily sync. If someone has concerns, they can bring it up.

But if that fails, it is definitely better to review and catch it after the code is written than to submit badly written code out of fear of wasted effort. In my experience the vast majority of tasks are easily addressed by a single person and most proficient programmers will usually produce perfectly adequate code which doesn't raise any concerns. Having reviews to catch the odd lapse in judgement or logical misstep doesn't usually add a lot of overhead (as opposed to allocating two programmers to every menial task) but saves a lot more time and effort in avoided bugs and issues than the cost of having to rewrite something every now and then.

Additionally, any single submit should be kept to a manageable size so that they're easier to review and issues are caught early. The only times I can remember having insisted someone rewrite something non-trivial have been when they misunderstood some fundamental issue, did not communicate progress as they should have, and did not follow guidelines of solving a single task per submit. That type of behaviour is in itself a pattern which needs to be addressed.
Twenty-five years of information extraction
Is the model reasonably different? The publisher doesn't get paid unless you spend a credit on their book.
Is it though? I highly doubt many self published authors are selling over 100k copies. That's a ton of logistics to deal with
There is a Enterprise Edition v2 that was released May 2019. Mentioned that yesterday when talking about whether Google supports things or not[1], & what role Flutter would play on the Linux desktop.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100630tv
This should be covered by most FOSS/OSS licenses.
Maybe it's just me, but I find marginal joy drops exponentially by repetition.
I joined a boutique software development consultancy where 90% time is spent doing pair programming. It works out well for them since they only take people who like the idea and process of it. I saw one guy leave after a short time because it wasn't for him and it's ok, this is why there is the probation period.
The company has been successful here - our clients like us, they say we are the only partners they have had who actually deliver what they promise, etc
they are comparing apples and orangs as total books sold is those sold online + those sold through bookstores.

That being said it points to not that writing books is not economical viable but that have someone else publish it is not economically viable!

My bias, I am self publishing my first book at the end of this year in flutter app dev with using paid article writing using Medium.com to pay the costs of setting up the LLC, and other costs such as purchasing a brand new mac laptop.

Note, since most people in tech do not buy 2nd screens just to read and use a book it's some skewed towards the 45k number in those niches, my own opinion. Most publisher advertising gets one to the 15k number which is why I am using a social-media and Medium article combined route to advertising the book.
I would agree but given that automatic transcriptions are cheaper, many people treat it as an alternative when manual transcriptions would be more appropriate.

Some tech conferences were pretty good about hiring actual people for live captioning, which was great, but with conferences mostly happening online via video streams at the moment, automated captions and transcriptions might seem like an obvious choice if you don't understand the limitations.
Sennheiser's headphone biz has been bought by hearing aid manufacturer Sonova
The hybrid workplace probably won’t last
Ask HN: How to optimise databases for latency rather than throughput?
Databases are fast for querying large amounts of data, but terrible at fetching small amounts of data quickly.

Databases perform terribly on benchmarks for getting single rows from small tables. In Oracle, fetching a 100x2 matrix of integers takes 500us, while fetching 1000x2 matrix takes 1000us. I get similar (worse) performance in MySQL and Postgres.

This is hundreds of times slower than a key value store. It's crazy that databases are so slow in 2020. It massively influences how we build applications, and I don't understand why they have to be so bad at being key-value stores.

As far as I understand, modern databases are quite complex bits of software. For example, Oracle performs a lot of IPC between listener, writer and log processes. Postgres has a single process per connection that has to be synchronised with other processes.

What are some of the techniques that people on Hacker News have used to mitigate this problem?
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I'd recommend reviewing the rules of specific DPA, in Poland you have to provide quite sensitive data in the request (e.g. your full name and address) and has to be digitally signed - you can't just e-mail them. All other electronic messages can be legally ignored.
Would you make the same line of comment on a anandtech chipset review, arguing it's ridiculously technical and doesn't take into account the art of progamming ?

I am pretty glad dpreview does these kind of technical reviews, it nicely completes other photographer reviews who'll dig more on the experience and real world impact side of things.
Amazon goes into “token” business for serial stories
Having property the feds can't easily seize sounds like something only criminals would want (after all, I'm an honest citizen- I got nothing to hide, surely a bank would be safer than my home) up until it happens to you.
It might be better to have a chair you sit on and use a joystick to maneuver instead of your arms. Let software manage the flight and stabilisation.
Wait, a squad is a bunch of people close to each other, working on different tasks over the same object. Pair programming is two people close to each other, working on the same task and same object.

Both have completely different problems and advantages. The different (often complementary) tasks make all the difference here.
At first glance the game seems pretty basic but after playing it for a while, it seems to go pretty deep. Looks cool and just wanted to share.
Re-reading Pop-Psy and Airport literature is not the recommended reading. How about reading Hayek, Strauss for second time? How about reading man's search for meaning for the third time?

You re-read great works, not NYT best shiller! (sic).
Treatments for Prolonged ICU Patients May Provide New Therapy Avenues for Me/CFS
> File formats that make you infer the schema (CSV) are on the way out.

Lol, good luck. People will continue using delimited text files for as long as they have eyeballs.
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. Fascinating story about an incredible entrepreneur.
> Most new books aren't very good

I don't know if this is true, but I do struggle with finding recent interesting books.

The choice is often "Do I take a chance with this thing published last year? Or do I just pick up one of the 'classics' that I haven't read yet?"

I usually end up going with the latter simply because I don't want to spend many hours reading something that ends up being "meh" and I assume that going with something considered a "classic" is safer. Though they do occasionally end up disappointing :)
As others have pointed out, I don't think we have all the right data to really make conclusions, especially in a historical context here. But if the trend is exactly what the title is implying, I wonder if social networks are a contributing factor here and amplifying virality: more of the people who read are sharing / discussing what they're reading, and that's influencing more people to then go and read the same thing. Fewer people going and browsing the entire selection to pick out something they want to read.

I'm reading (well, listening to audiobooks) more than ever, but indeed I'm selecting things that are already significant topics for conversation, or books that were already made into movies (and thus are also popular). Beyond that, I'm consuming podcasts, etc. and things with business models closer to that the author is suggesting.
Most of them don't think of it as murder, but (at worst) a dirty job that someone has to do.. and many of them think of themselves as performing a selfless service to their country. For others it's just a job, the family business, or a way out of a desperate situation.

Of course, as with any job with the power of life and death over others, there'll be some sadists who enjoy hurting or killing, sociopaths who care about nothing but themselves, and those who just want power. For others it's just a fun and exciting adventure (or so they expect before they experience it).

Being in an actual war and witnessing and/or participating in real-life violence up-close sometimes leads to massive guilt, PTSD, and disillusionment.. but others remain true believers their whole life.

Those who've never participated in combat (or at least not at close range) nor witnessed the long-term devastating impact of war on its victims are some of the truest believers of all.
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I know offhandedly that at one point it was possible to live on one's short fiction but now that's been entirely squeezed out. (Unless you're Ted Chiang.)
> Requirements always changing, not being allowed to go back and fix or improve things...

This resonates with me. Working in a startup environment is fun and scrapy, but when you're never able to go back and improve what you did because "we barely care about that feature anymore" it becomes pretty frustrating. Building features that only a handful of people use is also soul draining.
its more because only a very small subset of humans left Africa and populated the rest of the world.

There is more diversity in sub-saharan Africa than the ret of the world combined.
We used to use Alpine Linux but the build times are a real drag. We are a Python shop, so we just switched to python-slim for most of our builds. This writeup explains in detail the problem: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
Just a word about the Marine analogy in case some manager sees this and gets all excited:

Team work is much more natural if you are up against an external enemy in the broadest sense, like the military, farming, building an aircraft or a group of physicists taming nature.

It does NOT work for creative endeavours with a) a distinct amount of self-expression like programming or writing novels that b) also require enormous amounts of context in the working memory. This is why developers get into fights that easily.

(Please don't counter with "the humble programmer" and all that; we know, and Dijkstra himself wasn't humble.
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DPReview seems to have rather balanced reporting (I'm not a regular reader), so they do seem to be at least somewhat independent of being directly sponsored by whoever they're reviewing at the time. Compare this to pretty much every photo-vlogger/blogger/grammer out there, which have massive audiences while making unclear claims of independence and un-biasedness while shilling very hard.
Notes on using splice(2) from Go (2018)
>You’re probably better off just having. A fire safe box under your bed.

Not really. You're trading one threat (negligence on the part of the bank) for another (your home getting robbed/burgled).
It is really bad, but to compare the the standard screenning for HIV ends up with an about 50% false positive rate in the general population because the background rate is so low. I wouldn't throw out the result based on the tool being inaccurate, I would dig deeper.
A useful subset of SQL is not turing-complete and is suitable for meaningful computational tasks. Datalog is also not turing-complete and is similarly useful.
Yep. The only way this could work in a real-world sense would be for it to be the OS, and for the OS to be purpose-built to function this way from the start. Completely extensible, completely communicative between modules (and good luck with that), completely a security nightmare.
I’d expect team members to handle the truth. Pretending isn’t going to do anyone any favors.

Gaslighting your team could backfire in any number of ways.
I don't know what "substantial" means but, say, in a 3 day long ticket, surely all sorts of issues found in review can easily force another day or so of work.
The title is misleading. It should be something like "machine readable format". Since the law does not specify json.
The right to easily export your data still applies, Facebook has my messages on my phone storage and I should be able to easily export them without third party solutions.
One thing that has bound to affect new book sales, especially on the tail, is the increasing ease of buying used books online. It's kind of like the way that eBay altered the music store instrument business.

Pirated e-books probably have chiseled away some of the business.

Having said that, the book business looks to have been in a slow decline for some time. I don't doubt that social media and internet reading generally have made people less able to read long-form work. I'd add that it looks like authors have been falling down a slide of lessening language complexity over the decades.
I left my backpack at my office the other day. To confirm, I opened the "Find my" app and was happy to see that it was showing as " last seen 9 minutes ago". It's also interesting how my Macbook air also was able to check in over bluetooth 45 feet away from the street (Wifi router was off).
Building a new vector-based storage model
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This, from what I can see, makes Alpine rather less suitable to being a desktop OS than an embedded OS. I don't want to compile everything from source, and sometimes I can't (e.g. Steam, Dropbox).
Using 3D Printing to Solve the Wood Waste Problem
>These tests are done by infosec staff who don't know how to code or contribute anything useful to a company, great reason to fire the whole department and start over

The issue being that the replacement will be "infosec staff who don't know how to code or contribute anything useful to a company", you would likely spend some money on severance/whatever costs the firing carries and some money for the HR/headhunters/etc hiring the new people.
I can understand this. I've been enamored with good engineering many a time, and it has its place. Something that's well engineered often WANTS to be a good solution. But I also agree with the concept of starting with "where can I take the customer" rather "how can I present this awesome new technology".

Another variation on this concept was an article by Joel Spolsky in which he coined the term "Architecture Astronauts". He describes well the manner in which an architecture astronaut looks at something like Napster and generalizes to peer-to-peer messaging while missing the excitement of "search for song. find song.".

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
> As the going wisdom states: it only takes 1,000 true fans spending $100/year for a creator to earn a salary of $100,000/year—and there are 83,397 books every year that have at least 1,000 true fans. Theoretically then, an author could release a new chapter every week, charge subscribers $8 or $9 a month, and earn $100,000 a year—from only 1,000 readers.

She's basically proposing an episodic model for books, with each chapter being released individually.

I don't think this'll work. Authors tend to have phases of inspiration, and lulls in between. The pressure of the next episode would lead to 'phoned in' chapters. Or long delays. Episodic gaming was a big hype in the game industry for a while but it suffered really heavily from these issues and it's now pretty much defunct. A few companies like telltale made it work but even telltale is now out of business. The 'early access' model was also tried there but is failing for similar reasons: There is no incentive to ever finishing a game, in fact the incentive is to never finish it.

It also means you'd be spending $100 on a single book. In this model you pay $8-$9 a chapter, normally this is the price you'd pay for an entire book. I also wouldn't want to wait for the next chapter every time. I don't see this working out at all.

I don't know what the answer is. But I don't think this is it.

Edit: As many people have pointed out this model has been around much longer, even before the internet... I didn't know that and thanks for pointing it out! I still don't think it will work for me as a reader though. I view a book as a unit, and having reading sprints of a few hours per month will dilute the story for me.
Given Facebook's appalling track record with moderation I wouldn't want anyone under 13 (in my own care) near it. And that's before we've even gotten to privacy.
Second the recommendation for Tamron. I have their 70-200 f/2.8 with stabilization. It's amazing, especially for the price.

I shoot concerts with it on an A7ii. The lens is great. The camera body however is showing its age which is unfortunate, but I'll upgrade in a generation or two.
The think with an Anandtech chipset review is the faster chipset doesn't have big negatives unless power consumption is a major concern.

The excessive weight of these modern 50mm lens can be a real detriment to getting better photographs. It makes you less mobile, and you can only carry so much weight. If you're carring 10x more weight for your 50mm lens than an older design that is 95% as high quality you inevitably have to leave something else out of the pack.
If you had to spend $500M, what would you spend it on?

Me:solid beautiful stone buildings that would last for centuries as community centers.
The title was edited by the mods -- the original title simply stated "GDPR -- A Success Story".
Weather Surveillance Radar Data Shows 45M Insects Taking Flight Over City
The benefit of cryptocurrencies is that you can use a multisig solution so the compromise of one storage location doesn't cause your stash to become compromised.
> This was the early 90's, and Microsoft Windows was the dominant OS. In addition, Microsoft Office was also becoming the dominant office software.

Are both of these still not the case?
I was curious about the oft cited quote "x% of Americans never read another book after high school" and I found this interesting StackExchange post with links to older studies by the National Endowment of the Arts [1]. It shows that reading rate has droped 16.5% from 1982-2002 for high school graduates from 54.2% to 37.7%. The trend is higher education::more reading, but it is dropping across the board.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9446/do-33-of-h...
I thought Death's End was incredible myself, although The Dark Forest just edges it out.
Pardon the snark- it was not intended to be aggressive. I'm a microbiologist and have spent much of my life thinking about virus biology and pathogenesis. My perspective is skewed from general public but over the last year, the frequent casual comparisons between influenza, coronavirues, and other dramatically different viruses has heightened my sensitivity.
This is an introvert's nightmare.

The "fear of being vulnerable", or "showing my limitations as a human or engineer" are so secondary to the emotional drain of having to be that close to a person all day, every day at work, they don't even show up on the horizon of concerns.

Pairing is incredibly useful and valuable, but doing it all day would be hell.

If someone told me that they wanted me to pair for the majority of my day, or even the majority of code I wanted to write, the first thing I would pair on would be a letter of resignation.
Yea, haha, that was worded too strongly. Should have said "more folks are using Parquet for data workflows and adoption seems to be increasing". CSV is better when you need something mutable / human readable, so they'll always be around.
I was one of those square peg-round hole kids as far as the education system went, while I might have benefitted from the online, independent learning approach.

I know that I was in a distinct minority, and frankly - while I might have prospered more educationally, I would have left school with many many more rough edges socially.

School is more than just nuts and bolts knowledge, half of it is supposed to be society with training wheels where the normal rules of adulthood don't yet apply, so you can make mistakes without life altering consequences.
I know quite a few low profile streamers on twitch that are barely scraping a living (i.e. ~$1k a month), with average viewership at ~1-200 in niche topics (Geoguessr for instance).

There are a lot more youtubers making a living, but very few (probably less than 5%) make it to a reasonable income. So as others mentioned, it's best to do it as a hobby and switch to it full time when/if it takes off. If you're under pressure to deliver your content will be negatively impacted.
Higher-ed Instructor Here.

Because, and I am not exaggerating in the slightest, this is the worst idea I have ever seen directly related to my career. This concept is an idea that I am fighting all the time.

Teachers and students alike around me sort of blindly "get used to" these notifications flying around you and even begin to expect them even when they don't work.

Essentially, they become the equivalent of spam in your email that you ignore, except they're harder to ignore and people still have this wildly misguided faith that they can think for you.

As a first measure -- I'd love to remove all "notification" type services from higher-ed; after a bit of a learning curve, as in -- yes, you must visit this website or call this person or read the syllabus to get things done.

You develop your own system of remembering things, maybe it's paper, maybe you email yourself, whatever works for you
Why never reusing the same passwords is important
Why would you re-read them when you could read something new? Do you find you're actually getting a significant amount of value or joy from it the second time around?

I ask because I think a good portion of the reason I enjoy software development is the absolute and total hatred I have for repetition in my life.
Ask HN: Has anyone cured their RSI/carpal tunnel without an ergonomic keyboard?
I've been battling wrist pain from typing for the past year. I've used just about every commonly recommended ergonomic keyboard that's ever recommended on the internet, in addition to a variety of mechanical keyboards. The ergonomic ones either temporarily alleviated pain and then it returned, OR the pain got even worse. I currently use a Filco Majestouch 2 TKL with MX Brown switches and it seems to be okay for the most part but get occasional wrist pain.

I do hand/forearm/shoulder/neck stretches daily. Again, they temporarily make me feel better but some days I get sharp wrist pain and my forearms feel like they're on fire. Given that I get pain for almost every keyboard, I'm guessing the problem has more to do with my posture and desk ergonomics. I'm not sure what to do at this point besides seeing a doctor or chiro.
Clubhouse launches on Android as app downloads collapse
"The vast majority of the world’s chips are made in China, while the U.S. is the second biggest producer. "

I guess CNBC doesn't recognize Taiwan?
Wouldn’t have guessed! Thanks, and really interesting article :)
That one is super popular in my family. I wonder if it's related to allergies; I sometimes get stuffed up with a fan blowing on me overnight.
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