skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent points, people need to have perspective about high value traditional gear in a lot of cases today.

There's a lot of perspective lost on some of this ultra high end handheld digital camera gear these days.

A $500-1000 drone can easily be worth $50k worth of ground camera for landscape photography for example because it can erase massive amounts of effort and barriers to getting a shot. The expensive handheld gear can't get the shot period and can be wasted money.

I have a DJI Mini and it's a fantastic photo tool, in it's case it weighs less than a DSLR/Mirrorless body. A Smartphone or very light DSLR Body/Lens kit + the drone can outperform a much heavier & more expensive kit for outdoor photography.
> 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.

This is a pretty unhelpful comparison as I'm not aware of any major read as much as you want book subscription service that pays dividends to the author. What's the value in purchasing a book versus merely "viewing" a movie?
Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
I have one big issue with the book industry... many actually... but related to the article, all this whining is self imposed.

Literary books are marketed far heavier than genre. This is the equivalent to arthouse films vs what actually makes money as a movie/show.

Let's take one similar plot. A chemistry teacher is diagnosed with cancer, cant get treated and eventually dies. Literary and arthouse will do a discovery piece on how this person copes with death and cries with their family, then character dies. Genre... the dude builds a meth empire and everything the arthouse did, the genre adds in. Let's be serious about which was really going to be successful and why.

Entertainment is about escaping boring. You fail that, you fail in general. Most book lists are boring people with boring problems doing boring things.

The book industry did this to themselves by shitting on the genre writers. The publisher that does a marketing campaign, "to hell with boring literary books" and pushes mysteries, scifi, cozys, fantasy and others, they'll open up to the demographic that's not "regular readers". Thats about 70% of a population is an untapped market. Most people who dont read on a normal basis have been trained by school and the book media that fun books are "wrong". I have zero sympathy for the book industry in this regard and I'm an avid reader. I've converted more non-readers than any guilt tripping article regarding this problem.
dev.to covers a domain in which it is possible to be right (passes the unit test, is accepted by the customer) or wrong.

That makes it ring more hollow than Medium does, because much of Medium is rants and musings that could be right, wrong or "not even wrong" and it wouldn't matter.

I don't go to either dev.to or Medium if I can help it. Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore?
Certainly there may be loopholes ;-) Anything I've seen with things like wormholes would require massive amounts of energy and/or exotic matter, as well as difficulties in things like stability and actually traversing with non-negligible mass. No free lunches!
So their "solution" is to tell these operators to continue to run the protocol in the way it was designed since day one. For over 40 years.

Brilliant value being added there. A true benefit to all mankind :p
If Bill does face fallout over his Epstein connection, will the divorce play a role in shielding the BM Gates Foundation? Who gets custody?

The fascination with this somewhat trivial aspect of Gates's life is interesting, given the almost willful blindness towards controversial elements of his background.
My recollection is that hominids have been using fire and cooking for about 500k years. In which case if they wanted to reshape the landscape with fire it likely would have been long before 85k years ago.
I prefaced the opinion as likely being unpopular. It is something that I contemplate as a husband when affection is low and wits are at an end (with a toddler demanding much energy and attention from my wife and I). It has helped immensely in my attitude that disciplining myself to just love her has stirred up feelings of love inside. It is the virtuous opposite of the self-reinforcing cycle of despair and resentment.
What if you start a story that already has 400 chapters out and you get a new chapter every week? Because that's the kind of numbers you can run into.

At that many chapters it's like you're reading multiple books.
The popular, incorrect, narrative taught in schools also conveniently avoids introducing the concept of corruption via preferential treatment. I doubt there was a concerted effort in regards to that, but as a child I remember internalizing a concept of “we should resist external government force”, instead of the more apropos, “we have a duty to protest government corruption.”
Thanks for answering the most obvious question anyone would have about this phenomenon that was inexplicably totally missing from the article itself.
Maybe you can stick an Estimote UWB beacon on the back and build something yourself?

You probably won't lose your Kindle then, but not for technical reasons.
Bugsnag – Congrats on Acquisition
Last week, Bugsnag was acquired by Smartbear. I just wanted to post a congrats!

Founded by several YC alum, Bugsnag was an early entrant in the error monitoring space and particularly gave Sentry a run. Bugsnag was a great product that helped a ton of developers get their apps (server, web or mobile) up and running.

We hope them the best as part of Smartbear, which is becoming quite the QA, pre-production behemoth.

I put a quick analysis together if you'd like to understand the ramification to mobile apps. https://blog.embrace.io/bugsnag-acquisition/
I also read a few in undergrad, before I was a college grad.
Yes, that's what I observe in my locale as well. HR people are usually trained psychologists. Administering and interpreting psychological tests properly is one of the major topics of the profession.
Unless one wished to remarry (or if small children and possession issues are involved) there is no reason for a billionaire to get divorced.

I would bet there is some estate-planning or tax advantage behind it all. I admit I’m cynical... but, it seems silly for someone with access to, essentially, infinite wealth, to worry about getting some paperwork from a district judge.
I completely agree that modern analytics has made baseball more boring. More strikeouts, more pitching changes, less stolen bases, more walks, and more pitches per at bat all make the game more boring for sure.

But basketball seems the opposite to me. Analytics has shown that except in a few superstar cases, back to the basket isolation mid range jumpers while the rest of the team stands around and does nothing (IMO the most boring play in basektball), is a terrible play call.

Analytics has shown that the pick and roll is a fantastic play in terms of points expectancy and I find it to be a really enjoyable play to watch because it often results in dunks and nifty passes or acrobatic layup attempts.

Analytics has shown that faster pace, shooting earlier in the shot clock, and getting out in transition more often to be hugely valuable strategies, all strategies that I think are more enjoyable to watch.

The perceived value of 3-pointer shooting has caused offenses to spread the floor creating more driving lines and making it harder for defenses to pack the paint which has created more offense which I think most people enjoy seeing.

I'd love to hear what you think analytics has done to make modern basketball more boring.
Functions aren't always refactored to their perfect names, for multiple reasons.

getPrice might start up as something that just gets the price, after 5-10 years it might be a complex process accessing some ERP systems.
At the time it happened, I'd have been sympathetic to that phrasing. In the couple decades then, I'm grown much more sanguine about it.

The notion that users are being somehow kept hostage by not being able to pick and choose their own suite of document components is almost completely contrary to the history of consolidation within this industry and others. Picking a collection of best of breed software components is asking way, way, way too much of the vast majority of users, who mainly had a specific set of goals, one of the most important of which is to get on with the rest of life. About the best that can be achieved with this sort of software architecture is add on components that fill specific gaps in existing suites (and then likely get rolled into the suites themselves).
I dunno. I am pretty sure CZ.NIC is going to be OK with this legislation, given they already comply with pretty stringent rules we have now and they even run the actual CERT from the NIS 1.
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Attempt to identify the owners and return the boxes without opening them.
I didn't see anyone mention The Long Tail by Chris Anderson so figured I would.

Here's a summary:
https://fourminutebooks.com/the-long-tail-summary/

Sounds like being the aggregator of a bunch of niche products can be profitable, but I don't think it explains how the producers of that content actually make money off the situation while being part of the long tail.
The comment you responded too were talking about debug experience.
“It really boils my piss to be honest,” says Jack Hurley, a Leeds-based illustrator who says his main output is “daft seaside posters.”
Occam’s Razor also says all planets orbit the earth because we are God’s finest creation and what other way would it be?
Similar scenario for me. I told one friend who is a trooper about it, and they said this other guy sounds like a bad cop. I literally found blatant mistakes and misconduct with everyone we dealt with as part of the system (police, magistrates, judges, DA's office, clerks, etc).
Perhaps 6 - 7 years ago we provided some one U server for a client. Initially the server worked fine. Then we upgraded it's disks (originally 80 gigs or so) to 1TB each (in RAID1 configuration).

After the new disks were installed the server started to have multitudes of issues with disk performance and random read / write errors.

I think it took us several days to understand that the new spinners where much more sensitive than the original ones - And the large (very powerful) fan (located between the hdds) emitted too much vibration for the disks to operate properly.

We ended up swapping the chassis to one with radial fans. Problem solved.
These days I imagine it would be getting an email alert from the analysis system. Or maybe more realistically the unveil of the true result after doing blind analysis on both junk and real data, not sure what is what (as is becoming common in some areas of physics, to help prevent biases seeping in). Still some drama to be had :-)
I concur with all of this!

The way she uses perception, perspective, and cognitive biases are, as you say, shatteringly powerful. Particularly with her stream-of-consciousness writing style, where you so naturally get sucked into the character's mental framework. The final trilogy in particular that brings it all together, but even within the individual trilogies she's constantly doing it.

I started reading her books back when I was still in school, and they had a fundamental impact on my life. It fundamentally altered the way I see things, and the career path I eventually took. I couldn't even articulate exactly how, until I stumbled upon the concept of systems thinking[1] a few years ago and realized that was what she had given me an awareness of. Which then led me to these[2][3], which pretty much describe how I had started seeing and approaching things after reading Robin Hobb's books.

Not sure if it would have been as impactful if I hadn't read them at such an impressionable age, but I'm forever grateful that I did. And for that, Robin Hobb will always reign supreme on my favorite author list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory#Systems_thinkin...

[2] http://donellameadows.org/archives/dancing-with-systems/

[3] http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...
Yeah and even worse they disagree about type errors!

We really need a modern Python alternative. I don't know of any that don't give up the REPL / single file script features which are pretty huge advantages of Python to be honest.
Do they include people who opt out of Mozilla's user tracking? Because ubo users seem more likely to do just that.
> Isn't the best case scenario here that you are the top-selling author, selling over a million copies?

Pretty much not. The vast majority of best selling books are produced by the same few authors year after year. It's far more marketing than meritocracy. Some of those authors farm out ghostwriting duties to numerous authors who will get paid some fixed rate (not royalties) to do most of the writing.

Or, to put it a different way, the odds of becoming an author that sells more than 500,000 copies are probably similar to or less than the odds of becoming a successful Hollywood actor. And probably similar to creating a video game like Minecraft or being one of the founders of a unicorn.
We are alone doesn't necessarily imply that we are special, we could be the first.
service now has horrible defaults. access is so restricted you can’t see anyone’s name and no one can see your ticket but you. you can submit something and have it not move and have no idea who to talk to. then your communication tools become part of the service now workflow
I don't really do anything worth hiding from state-level attackers, but if I did I wouldn't do it over the internet at all.
ServiceNow is a classic Enterprise software play that I like to call "old, but new".

You take the same old software, with the same old processes, the same old salespeople and sales approach, and you make a new one that is a little shinier and (crucially) freshly made. Because you used your same old connections and investors to fund the development, you have a much better product than whatever cruft HP Service Manager, CA Service Desk or BMC Remedy have been pushing, simply because you haven't been fiddling with a product originally written in C++ in 1998 for 20 years.

Furthermore, your solution is comprehensive enough that it covers most of the existing functionality of the old products in the space, and it ticks all of the same compliance checkboxes too. So there's very little career risk associated to buying it. You even took the customer to the same old restaurant you used to take him when he was buying HP software from you!

Another popular example of this strategy is Zoom. What is Zoom? GoToMeeting/Webex, but new.

On the lower end of the market, there is more entertainment, because not everyone that had legacy products want to pay through the nose for the pleasure of dealing with an army of Service Now suits. This is where companies like Freshworks, Atlassian and ours (InvGate) come in.

Source: founder of InvGate, mid-market player in the same space
Sony already uses Linux in some of their TVs.

https://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux/TV/KD-43XE7000_v8902.htm...
I really don’t know how to count “best” either in hardware or software. Very difficult to define something like that. The promise of Apple apps early on was that they conformed to a particular UX style which definitely gave the user a feeling of safety.

The way I see it - his strategic decisions were based on all of the decades of experiences in the computer industry. The goal was to build a closed platform and to guard it by emphasizing quality as an ideal. And then to incentivize eager developers small and large to come to it and become dependent on it. I don’t think he would have pushed for “open technology” or running that software on anything but apple. It was the hallmark of his whole thing.

But he could have run and defended the whole thing in a completely different way. And this is why it would have been very interesting to see the guy live. Would he have enforced on all those quality related shortcomings that Apple stands accused for today? Would he have argued vehemently in their defense or would he respond differently? Or maybe perhaps he would have moved on to another “big thing” product-wise by now?
Holography: The Next Disruptive Technology (2017)
The foundation is a foundation... it's a seperate corporate person from BG. At worst, the foundation will have to change its name.
> a man who had changed the course of human civilization.

He learned how to do self-promotion from his friend Steve Jobs.
But things I cannot resell I would pay less for. For certain items the amount I'm willing to pay is a function also including what I can sell it for when I'm done with it.
There is a definite policy among some paleontological research groups to intentionally not excavate a site fully, understanding that techniques and technologies will improve with time, and they understand that current methods may limit futures researchers ability to do their work.
> I'm not aware of any major read as much as you want book subscription service ...

Kindle Unlimited

> ... that pays dividends to the author.

I'd like to learn whether KU does this, pretends to do this, or does nothing at all.
The example from folk medicine I like is Ergot. It comes from a fungus, was used by midwives for hundreds of years, and scientists investigating its derivatives in the late 30s / early 40s is what lead to LSD's discovery.
> Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore?

Sometimes. If you disable cookies for medium.com it annoys you much less.
If memory serves, Gore Vidal said something like "a famous writer will be like a famous ceramicist".

Ah, here we go: https://www.npr.org/2012/08/01/157696354/gore-vidal-american...
No, multiple checkers will drive you crazy because one type checker will support one feature while another will report errors for it.
Yup. As well as the decentralization and diversity of the technical operations of each pool. Operational diversity can be as important or even more important than technical diversity since humans tend to be the weakest links in technical chains :p
I'm not saying this *isn't* expensive, but it's way more affordable than I'd imagine.
Reminds me of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc
Sorry about the military reference. I seem to have banged a couple of sore spots.

I'm not a vet (but my parents are planted in Arlington), but I've spent most of my adult life surrounded by them, so I've heard a lot of stories, and they are very practical, pithy applicable stories.

They often spring to mind, when I think about my work.

And we developers may not be thinking in military terms, but the chances are better than even, that the Corner Office is trying on a jacket covered in medals.
So funny to see people complain about ServiceNow.

ServiceNow covers a wide array of our business needs without having to buy into a number of different SaaS platforms.

From what I've seen, it's much more feature complete and advanced than the competition. (Specifically, procurement)

Is it a PITA to use? Yes. But it forces best practices and the main people who interact with it will be power users anyways.
If OP said "cacti is also accepted" I would agree. Instead OP said "cactuses is wrong" which is what I take issue with.
Honestly? Probably. I flag a huge amount of medium posts too. Currently the top few are pretty obviously spam, though. I do vouch them out of spam also.

above-the-fold of domain=dev.to, page 1:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe has been posting nothing but stepsize (paid service) and referral links in blog posts for them for two years.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions

The vast majority of the other posts are basically non-interesting or barely-technical stolen content from stackoverflow, spam blogs, amazon affiliate links hidden in a blog post, undisclosed + no "show hn" self promotion.
I disagree with your assessment. "Verifiably false" typically means "Corporate media says it's false."
Yeah, with all due respect to the developers (because getting as far as they have is a huge accomplishment!) the biggest feature of DFly I can identify is HAMMER, which is most interesting if you don't want to use ZFS for license reasons.

I remember some of the old goals were things like process snapshotting and transferring, as in saving a process state and transferring it to another machine. It seems most of these ambitions ended up discarded, which is a shame, since it's increasingly becoming a "FreeBSD, but with fewer features, more incompatibilities, and marginally worse performance" :(
Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
It depends a lot on what books. Many technical books age extremely quickly. You definitely don't want a 30 years old C++ book except for some sort of historical research purpose.

But even in literature there is timing, themes, references and fashion. You'd have a hard time writing Don Quixote today, because hardly anyone reads chivalric romances anymore, so the vast majority of people wouldn't know what you're even parodying. And I suspect most modern readers of Don Quixote don't really get it, excluding those with an education in european medieval literature.

Even without going that far, there are fads and fashions. If you want to write about wizards or vampires there probably are better and worse times to do it.

Even playing your cards right, how likely are you to get a hit? Because there's really no lack of good books on most any subject at this point, and it takes a very dedicated reader to exhaust the existing catalog, and the easiest way for a reader is to find out what's popular and try that, rather than giving a new author a chance.
Fair enough. Maybe I didn't come across that at the time or perhaps it's been since revised. Even still, it's a poor substitution for the more familiar / intuitive `class Foo[T]:` / `def foo[T](...)` style.
yeah captcha's are so user hostile
Graph-tool: Efficent network analysis with Python
> However, if I use pipelining, I see 1000 lookups performed in 4.725ms (i.e 0.0047ms per lookup).

To be clear, that's over a single connection, not a parallel test.