skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few writers who publish a chapter or two a week on Patreon.

It can produce some strange incentives: For one thing, they start getting reader feedback after every single chapter, if they want it. Some writers develop really fast-paced styles.

For another, they often start releasing chapters as they are written - meaning they can't have an editor who reads chapter 20 advise them to go fix an inconsistency back in chapter 4.

Also, some writers realise the moment they bring the story to a conclusion, they stop getting paid. That's OK for comedy/slice-of-life/X-of-the-week content - The Simpsons has no need for character growth or overarching plot lines - but works poorly for other genres: What good is a romance where the characters can never kiss, or an epic fantasy where the one ring can never be thrown into mount doom?

Of course, some of these incentives are hardly new: Other media have been subject to them for years.
I really enjoyed this @ellegriffin and it's something I wrestled with about twelve years ago when I wrote my first novel. I had gotten some positive feedback from a few friends and started to wonder if it was "good enough to publish."

Luckily I moved very quickly from that question to "my" answer which was "no" and mirrors your thought:

> If I can spend two to three years writing a novel and my best case scenario is having it sell a couple hundred copies on Amazon, perhaps it’s time to face the music and realize that writing books—like knitting or playing the harp—is nothing more than a hobby. Something I can do for fun on the weekends but should never hope to earn a living from.

It seemed very obvious to me that I was neither a good enough writer nor a dedicated enough self-promoter to ever make it work. Twelve years and 16 novels later I am happily churning out 1-3 bad novels every year and loving every minute of it.

All the best as you continue to chase the dream!
It's interesting to think how the most flashy and repulsive wealthy people are often better for those around them than the simple, likable, wealthy people. The former spend their money, often all of it, and support people around them in the process, even if it wasn't their intention. The likable people often just hoard their wealth and spend very little. Note that this is a general observation--I have no comment on Bezos himself.
Two things: what age, and what's the alternative? Teens are quite a different group, and I agree that they should have greater privacy. But young children have friends too and they want to chat. While I agree it would be best to be screen free and meet IRL, circumstances make this very difficult.

That said, I wish it wasn't Facebook making this tool. I do not trust that company.
What I’ve never understood with this comic is if the author admires philosophers or is mocking them. They frankly come
off as a bit kooky and out of touch with reality. Like your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
So all this sounds good at first, but if the walls are too high, wouldn't kids simply end up treating it as a teacher/parent-infested app and start using something else (e.g. IRC) without you knowing?

I mean, when I was a kid I was all over IRC and Usenet instead of my school's censored e-mail/chat system, just saying ...
Actually, yes. I haven't done it with books, but there are a few shows I've rewatched. Usually it's something I enjoy having on in the background while I do other things, similar to having background music. It started as me just knowing I liked the show, and not needing to pay full attention to it to follow along. But I notice a lot of new things on subsequent viewing, and knowing the basic plot already I'm able to appreciate how the writers are setting things up, establishing the characters, etc. in ways that become very significant later. And the first-time through I just don't notice that kind of thing or appreciate it. It feels like getting more depth in the art of it rather than just experiencing more breadth from another artist.
> In computing, the relationship between structure and behavior, between program and process, is perplexing in itself. That this relationship so often can be subverted, allowing an untrusted data provider to preternaturally gain control over program execution, is disquieting. Why is this a common phenomenon in computer systems?

Mixing code and content leads to all the most common injection-style vulnerability classes: buffer overflows, XSS, SQLi, command injection, etc. Fundamentally, I believe this is at the heart of the problem. The paper does go on to address this:

> Another proposed theory blames John von Neumann's stored program concept [15] for the woes of arbitrary code execution; the fact that data and program in computers are stored on the same storage medium may allow an attacker to illegitimately modify the program rather than the intended data [10].

From there it provides ROP as a counterpoint to the "stored-program hypothesis." This makes sense because ROP allows one to achieve arbitrary code execution without necessarily modifying the code. Although, while I agree that mixing code and content may not be the highest level abstraction for concern here, I do think it's often a fundamental flaw from a practical perspective.
There is no requirement for a VM to use hardware virtualization features. It’s more efficient. But not a requirement.
That's great man, congratulations! People did not take my comment as the joke it was intended as.
In other words, as long as it’s the Facebook AND parents doing the surveillance, it’s okay? The concern is over the parents getting a cut of the data? My parents would never have snooped on me the way most parents try to these days, it would have freaked me out any time after turning 11 or so
If your programming routine is causing someone to go on short term disability because it has caused them significant mental impairment, why was there never a discussion about perhaps too much of a good thing is now damaging our workers? Like, nobody thought to themselves, this is causing actual damage to our workers, and maybe we should scale it back?
discussion probably better in the Show HN was posted a few mins later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107428
To me, "artificial" is going out of your way to make the job harder so you can have a more "handmade" feeling. By rejecting the "artificial" camera, you are coosing a more artificial photo shoot.

I like good pictures, so I find it more rewarding when a shot succeeds and I can move on to other shots or try a harder shot for a better picture. I can play video games when I need extra fake challenge because life is too easy.
You can probably assume that the very smart people researching supplements to maintain their health as they age are getting lots of exercise. Exercise, sleep, and diet are table stakes. The interesting questions are around what to do after that.
They are like gold sinks in video games, but for real life!
If you own your home, there are a great many places to hide valuables that are unlikely to be found by an average burglar. If you're being targeted by a sophisticated burglar, you've probably got other problems, anyway.

Garden beds, somewhere in your crawlspace, beneath a compost pile, etc are all fine places to stash things.

It might be time to go back the good ol' days of treasure maps (only half joking).
The average person isn't going to know how strong a deck, gazebo, walkway, bridge, or balcony is.

Why aren't habitable, potential gathering outdoor structures required to have maximum weight load + occupancy rating signs?
Fair enough. It does sound like you fall/fell on the more advanced side of the grad student curve though. +1 on 90% of papers having nothing much to say.
> Recently (in early 2021), CNCF projects have discovered that some existing dependencies they use have been relicensed by their licensors from Apache-2.0 to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, AGPL-3.0.

I wonder if this new policy is in response (and the line above is referencing) https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relic...

If Grafana is going to be removed from logmon stacks, that is going to be a painful component to replace.
I don't see how any of that wouldn't be worse than conventional warfare.

At that point where we're being attacked with pipelines exploded we'd be getting bombed.

It's a lot easier to fix a contaminated water treatment facility than a pile of rubble. Same for every other form of technology.

It's almost tautological, the system controls malfunctioning at worst can only destroy the system, conventional warfare defaults to destroying the system.
Because Amazon avoids taxes so there isn't money for those things.
Is Danmark's AP Degree Accepted for SWE Internships at Google?
Hey,

Does anyone know if the APD (Academy Profession Degree) from Denmark is accepted for Software Engineering Internships at Google, Facebook or other big companies?

A requirement for a SWE Internship at Google is "Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field" so that means the APD is not accepted right?
The value of re-reading will be low if you’re reading high noise to signal books that could be compressed into a blog post (e.g. anything by Adam Grant).

If you read more dense books of philosophy, literature, or otherwise you’ll get a lot more value out of re-reading since you likely have missed things upon first read. Same thing with tv shows that contain a complicated plot vs. ones that are churned out for quick consumption.
Yeah and another % to his accountant for bookkeeping, another % for repairing things when they break, another % for taxes, until there is nothing left.
They've moved webpages.

https://longnow.org/clock/
I'm the same for fiction; I can't read a fiction book twice. My SO can re-read the same fiction over and over. I just don't get it. Now, there are some movies I can watch again. But only once or twice and then I'm done for a very long time.
Expensive sailing yachts like this operate under power most of the time. The sails are mostly for show and are typically used when the guests "feel like it".
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While there are some that make meaningful amounts of money, all my experience suggests that writing non-fiction tech books for example, is overwhelmingly reputational.

I certainly still own--though I've gotten rid of a fair number--a lot of books but, no, I don't read a lot any longer. Maybe about 10 a year which is probably 20% of what I once did.
> This tells you nothing unless you also know the probability of (intelligent) life emerging on a planet

Life is not only probable, it's inevitable. Given the proper conditions, it's just a matter of time. And the same happens with intelligent life, it just needs more time without being hit by a meteor.
Hmmmm, I think you're looking at that table wrong. Ten titles sold between 500,000 and one million copies (not 5-10 million copies). And 267 titles sold between 100,000 and 500,000 copies, (not in the millions). That top line is the highest one.
I'm talking about personal choices not social level ones.
That's a very misleading summary. "Leading causes of death could be prevented by more perfect medical response" is a better summary.
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That would require a uniformity of purpose over billions of years, not only in our galaxy but in galaxies at cosmological distances (where we could detect K3 civilizations).
"last decade or so" ? The banking consolidation trend started in late 1980s and has been happening steadily ever since, it happened a lot with the 1990s fiscal policy and it happened a lot with 2000-2010 fiscal policy.
reason.com is a libertarian magazine that promotes a " gubberment always big, always bad" ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(magazine)
> I think I have an unspoken budget of “words read daily” that is consumed by work and my mobile devices.

I agree. Considering word count, I read more now than ever but I read a fraction of the books I used to read 15-20 years ago.
The usual problem are systems that are intentionally connected to both networks, and after compromise happily serve as points to enter the inner network.
> photography is artistic & creative in nature.

This is a pretty broad generalization. There is plenty of photography that is nothing but technical. Also, the technical side of photography is what drives the innovation to enable the creative side.
Do hobbyist landscape and portrait photographers need to be pouring over test data like this or even benefit in appreciable ways from these advances? Not likely. But the R&D that is done in optics begins with some of the most technical fields and trickles down.
Sure, but you achieve that by specifying I in a way you aren't really supposed to. You are effectively invoking undefined behavior.

The implications of this are well understood. You'd have similar vulnerabilities if you ran raw machine code on, say, an x86 processor. Enforcing checks and sanitization in such a way that the 'exploit' can't happen is the exact kind of job you'd have to do in order to write an operating system.
I see now from up thread, this is 2.6 million individual titles, not actual book sales. To me, this still seems low. Unfortunately, the bookstat website linked in the article won't load for me, but I wonder if that is only the total number of English language titles (sold online).
Fields of study often have very hazy demarcations. Venki Ramakrishnan got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, something he finds quite amusing because he has never worked on chemistry. He spends a bit of time explaining his background and his amusement in his book, "Gene Machine".
That's probably related to low humidity.
Today ours are called
Libraries. We need more of them.
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I wonder if any billionaires are going to buy and retrofit one of the dozens of mothballed cruise ships around the world.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33338/satellite-images...
I don't mind the foundation, but poetry gotta be placed pretty high on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Millions of people don't even have access to clean water yet.

If I were to start a foundation I would likely focus on something fundamental like water instead of poetry.
Incorrect.

Early automobiles killed so many people that it became a major public health issue.

The Printing Press essentially fueled the Reformation and the subsequent Wars of Religion.

Airplanes were used in bombing raids during WW1, just over a decade after the successful flight of the Wright Brothers.

All technologies have both positive and negative consequences.

Edit: here’s a nice quote illustrating this.

Serious debate was held in courtrooms and in editorials over whether the automobile was inherently evil. The state of Georgia's Court of Appeals wrote: "Automobiles are to be classed with ferocious animals and … the law relating to the duty of owners of such animals is to be applied ... . However, they are not to be classed with bad dogs, vicious bulls, evil disposed mules, and the like."
Very cool! I wrote Django SQL Explorer[0], and this looks very similar in spirit, but an emphasis on visualization that Explorer does not have (to the extent it has a focus, it's more on providing a reasonable way to write complex queries and re-use them).

These types of tools are extremely handy.

[0] https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer
It’s not basic imitation if they can communicate using the language of another species [1] nor is it that big of a stretch when they have larger brains than us.

[1] https://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/killer-whale-dolp...
How do you know when you have gone overboard? When your yacht has its own support yacht.
Remember you can insure a safety deposit box.
Half the battle, I think. Taxes only do so much good when we spend them on things which are just as useless. New guns for the Navy aren't an improvement of a super yacht in my book.
It's not hard to imagine why people who are trying to instill distrust in the government would harp on an unpopular and frequently unjust program.
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Entrepreneurship, taking care your parents, raising kids, passion (writing novels), working out, and so on.
I had no idea, this is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
In the 1700s a group of people got really upset that another group of people kept taking their things without asking - they had a motto 'no taxation without representation.'

That group then founded a culture around this odd distrust of monarchs, that in later generations became a distrust of governments in all forms - even going as far as to conjure fantastical secret societies like the 'illuminati' that maintain a strong thumb on the scales of justice.

It's just a part of the psyche that built the U.S.A. - it's a feature, not a bug
>The pandemic put new value on so-called explorer yachts, some of which can cruise for 9,000 nautical miles without needing to refuel, said Aino Grapin, chief executive officer of superyacht-interiors studio Winch Design. “Clients can enjoy life at sea for long periods of time without having to go mix with others,” she said.

eh, not enjoying the phrase 'having to go mix with others'....
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The previous climatic changes were to “cool” periods because of vulcanology, etc. Humans at that time may not have had the technological know how to counteract the change in climate: agriculture, grain silos, hybrid plants, synthetic materials, medicines, etc., etc.

We have full blown plans to survive a nuclear winter, so I think with respect to les anciens, we have a better chance of beating it, unlike the other humanistic subspecies who didn’t make it out.
I am in favor of that. Anything that provides more independent oversight of police since they can't seem to self-regulate.
This article is presenting some of this stuff as new when it has been used for years in sports. I haven't read the linked paper yet, so maybe there is some deeper insight there that I am missing in this article, but computer vision, statistical learning, and game theory are all well established in multiple sports.
According to Wikipedia, the Eos, which the OP says inspired Bezos's yacht, carries a crew of 21 including 9 deck crew. It has room for 16 guests.
Yes yes yes. The most direct discussions I have with my kid about social media is "there are adult male perverts who are going to pretend to be your friend because they want to have sex with you." It's a more explicit discussion than I'd like to have but there's no getting away from it.

It's also why I have the "I will monitor your internet usage at any time that I feel it's necessary" discussion. I don't like invading privacy - I wouldn't want my internet history explored and it's as vanilla as you can imagine but it's also a projection of my inner thoughts.

I knew a young girl who was lured into a sexual encounter with an adult after striking up a friendship on "Words with Friends". I don't trust/allow anything with private communication.
I think too often we make the mistake of thinking people have “fragile egos” when in reality they just don’t give a dump about what the other side wants or thinks.
I remember a class I took when I was studying for my BSEE. It had to do with the necessity of maintaining a lab notebook, of filling it out properly, and making sure to sign and date entries. The purpose was to maintain a documented history showing how efforts in the lab led from some basic principals to a patentable invention. The example was a few pages taken from Bardeen's notebook at the point where they finally were able to create a working transistor. Who knows when your work is going to change the world!
and currently pushing modern humans into extinction again
I agree with this perspective - the closest thing I've seen to this sort of "external enemy" approach in tech is engineers/SREs responding to an outage/critical issue. Good teams will get into a state of flow where people are subdividing work, prioritizing, working as a cohesive unit. In that case, there is a clear objective (get things back up and running) with a clear enemy (that DDoS/database/down payment gateway/datacenter power outage).
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While going through that process was probably stressful and
scary, it's honestly a bit refreshing to see that "the system" works as intended.

I think the average American takes the words "FDIC Insured" for granted, assuming that the worst (bank failure & closure) will never happen. It's nice to see some proof that things will be OK if/when that happens.
The article doesn't address a significant issue, when the FBI executed their warrants and shut down the private vault company, what should they have done with any stored boxes not named in the warrant? Left them in an unguarded building with no legal way for the owners to access them?
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Sun Fire V20z (AMD Opteron) servers are the same.
A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience
Not sure but today it would be...

An essay on why Java is harmful.

A link to some RFC draft that states user agents shouldn’t be changed.

A solution on how to change a user agent in another language/framework

A Mod closes the question as duplicate while linking to how change the UA in PHP.
No, technetium is still a natural product, it just takes a little processing. An organic miner dug up some raw uranium ore, then someone refined it, irradiated it, and isolated the resulting molybdenum-99, and finally a radiologist extracts the all-natural technetium from the decay process of that molybdenum.
This is absolutely false.
"forfeiture" has surpassed burglary; and most of that is criminal forfeiture, after a conviction, returning stolen property or paying a fine. The biggest single chunk is what Bernie Madoff stole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
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I work at AWS and even I admit that a new AWS feature doesn’t have as big of an impact as a Windows feature or an Office feature.

Andy Jassy, the CEO of AWS (and soon Amazon), has said repeatedly in public statements that only 4% of all enterprise IT spend is on any cloud provider.

Office is far more ubiquitous in the enterprise than AWS. Not to mention all of the home users who have Office 365 running on their computers and mobile devices.
Please read the article you linked.
"forfeiture" has surpassed burglary; and most of that is criminal forfeiture, after a conviction, returning stolen property or paying a fine. The biggest single chunk is what Bernie Madoff stole.
Do you produce a D ~object from c source which is then processed by dmd ?
Isn't it saying that ten titles each sold between 500,000 and one million copies? So collectively they sold 5-10 million copies?

(I really enjoyed the article, by the way, once it was past claims about this data-- the points about fanfic and story monetization are important ones)
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Related [1]: We regret ‘creating problems’, say Colonial petroleum Pipeline hackers

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0afb53f0-f382-442a-9a32-02824ce8b...
I loved coding for a short period of time before work stress made me hate it. I went from Developer for 4 years to Sales Engineer for the past 3. I'm now completely exhausted of joy for Sales Engineering and now want to get back into something purely technical, but not sure if my Development PTSD from my past company is done.

What can scratch a similar intellectual itch as coding that doesn't come with the same stress? Data Analysis? Technical Writing?
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