skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The best way to make money is to sell digital copies via leanpub/gumroad, as these sellers pay 80-90% royalty. Amazon will only pay you 30% if you price your book over $9.99, which let's be honest, most technical books will be.

Hmm... it seems to me that it would be better to have it in every marketplace. If someone's looking for a book on Amazon, you'll lose the sale entirely. 30% is better than 0%, yes?

While I may follow a link to gumroad or whatever from a blog post or something, I never go there if I'm just looking for a book on my own initiative. It's always Amazon. If your book isn't on Amazon, I likely won't even see it. Yes, that probably means I'm lazy. But I suspect I'm not the only one.
Zuck VR / AR strategy and One [pdf]
That is, yes, but jumping that hurdle doesn't really matter if the landing is propulsive or not.
The OP-Z is made of plastic. The OP-1 is all aluminum.
Adding on: the problem with vyvanse is that there's no way to mess around with the dosage to get it "just right."

It's like a more strict version of extended release (EX) and timed release formulations (there's a difference!).

Vyvanse is metabolized to d-amphetamine in your blood cells (the specific mechanism escapes me right now), unlike the regular non-prodrug versions which get "metabolized" first in your stomach and intestinal tract, and then your liver.

However, there is a set speed that vyvanse gets converted into free-circulating d-amphetamine, determined by how quickly (or slowly) your blood cells metabolize it. Unlike regular d-amphetamine, where the speed, and effect, can be "messed" with (or rather "tuned") on a variety of factors, such as:

0. Carbohydrate intake (regular, non-fructan and non-galactin, carbs get released into the bloodstream and trigger an insulin release response, which also happens to dull the effect of excitory neurotransmitters)

1. Stomach pH (acidicity == lesser effect, basicity == higher effect. E.g. drinking orange juice with d-amphetamine will lessen its effect, while taking tums will increase its effect, many times TOO much)

2. Certain liver enzyme inhibitors (mainly those in black pepper and grapefruit/pomegranate) will decrease the rate of amphetamine clearance, thereby intensify its effects

3. Caffeine (will potentiate amphetamine)

4. Personal physiology (not much you can do except play around with dosage and the aforementioned 4 factors)

Now, with the regular IR version, you can take more or less (1-5mg here and there) depending on your specific circumstances to get into the "right" spot where you're not overly or under stimulated, but just enough to be in that Goldilocks zone of flow.

However, with the ER version you lose the ability to get your "Goldilocks Dosage." You can still play around with the aforementioned factors, but this time you're restricted to a specific dosage now (say 5mg) and a specific dosage in some set amount of time later (say another 5mg, about 4-6 hours later).

Yet, with vyvanse you get even less of an ability to play around with the dosage. Take 60mg, and your body will slowly metabolize it to a set amount per hour, regardless of almost anything you can control. If that amount/hour rate doesn't coincide with your Goldilocks zone, you're shit out of luck -- and Vyvanse will not "work" for you.

There's so much more that goes into this, but I've frankly written way too much of an essay at this point.
Mailchimp founders' bonus to employees is a tiny fraction of their $12B
Mailchimp's ~1200 employees are getting emails with the "transaction bonus" from the company founders today, each of whom took in $6 billion from the Intuit deal. The general formula seems to be .10 x salary x tenure in years, meaning a senior engineer that has been with the company for ten years will get ~$200k.

Employees are furious in Blind because the founders have preached "profit sharing" for years, and the payouts seem to amount to less than 2% of their $12 billion profit from the sale.
Also "Facebook platform" which Chamath ran to the ground.
Alternate: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1453753924960219145
LOL? You mean AOL?
For some of us:

allodynia: “Allodynia is a type of neuropathic pain (nerve pain). People with allodynia are extremely sensitive to touch. Things that don't usually cause pain can be very painful. These may include cold temperatures, brushing hair or wearing a cotton t-shirt. Allodynia can result from several conditions.”

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21570-allodyn...
It seems to me that the Elephant in the room is not the racemic composition of meth, or purity, but composition and nature of the remaining impurities.

Do you know if these are well understood and tracked over time?
I have also gotten sick on occasion.

Seems like you are a person prone to live in fear. Surely once you recover from your illness, you will continue to live in fear because of climate change, and if that was ever somehow resolved to your satisfaction, you'd find something else to provide your fear fix.

Hopefully your young son will grow above and beyond this negative influence, and maybe even teach you that there is more to life than constant anxiety and anger about the End Times. Good luck.
They sell the Quest for $200, do you really think they're losing another $200 on each unit?
Not sure about the Plex flack here, 4k is fine if not transcoded and sits happily in its own library.
I look forward to that, since maybe I will then know what the hell the metaverse is supposed to be.
That's because America is defined by its cultural pluralism. When you have cultural pluralism, welfare does not work as well, because you are now taking money from members of one culture and giving it to another, and the cultures may be at odds with each other.

For example, i am a conservative Catholic. You can tax me sure, and spend it on welfare for atheists who love abortion (or whatever other group... just making up a culture I have little in common with), but then I, and others like myself, will want to have opinions on how my money is spent. If you didn't take my money, I wouldn't care.

A lot of strife over welfare in this country is due to the fact that we hold several cultures that are at odds with each other. For example, the amish don't like war, yet they pay taxes. If you asked the amish, they'd vote against war, but conveniently, they are outnumbered, so their money is co-opted. If the amish believed in protesting, and making a big fuss, this would be a major issue. Luckily for the powers that be, they don't. Ultimately, the more government programs / spending one has in a pluralistic society, the more civic strife there will be. This is unavoidable
> How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

$200+ billion. They can't afford it. They couldn't get the manufacturing for it, either.
From the biographies I've read, it sounded like OCD was at the center - not dismissing persistent pain originating in multiple airplane crashes...
Conversely, the advertisers are becoming increasingly less hesitant about doing what they want: exploiting high-end products instead of low-end products. The fact that you just spent north of £1k on a TV is an unambiguous proof you're much more lucrative target for advertising than someone who only buys the cheapest things available.

This is why "pay XOR ads" is a pipe dream: vendors will always turn it into "pay AND ads", because selecting for people with disposable income makes ROI on advertising much better.
I don't think we need to be skeptical because of the lack of information given.

The article just says some future chip, with unknown memory, at some unspecified power level and cooling solution, will be able to eke out a benchmark win against the part Apple is shipping today in laptops.

Imagine if that wasn't true. THAT would be news.
Takeaways in the UK also do this after the Foods Standards Agency shuts them down.
I would be interested in hearing more about which fonts win the most tournaments.
Well in my grandparents case they never sold a house, they just bought new ones and then rented out the old ones which they still owned. I think it would be simple to solve though -- you can rent out any house you own in which you've lived at least five years.

So you have to be a member of the community and participate in it for a while before you can be a landlord there. I think that at least gets to what you are going for.
Perhaps this will help you.
https://blenderartists.org/t/would-you-like-the-colorful-2-7...
Maybe reasoning by analogy and learning from others are about the same thing?

How much you should rely on others' experience, and when you should consider it a positive example versus something to learn from by avoiding, is going to be a judgement call.
This is fucking awesome. I am super bullish on the metaverse. Besides, you don't bet against the Zuck.
Meta shares name and logo with Chan/Zuckerberg owned academic company
Meta Inc (formerly Sciencescape Inc) was purchase by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2017, suggesting that the rebrand has been some time in the works.
For those too lazy to follow the link:

"Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use. One reason is that the intense experience, which can be physically and mentally challenging, may cause people using psilocybin to limit their frequency of use."

"Another reason is that the human body quickly builds tolerance to psilocybin, such that people require much higher doses after only a few days of repeated use, making it extremely difficult to have any effect after more than four days of repeated usage."
What do you mean by marketing? Einstein didn't need much convincing, as he proposed experiments that would falsify or confirm general relativity. The theory is also not only mathematically sound but very elegant. Acutally, Hilbert arrived at the same equations using a competely different, more mathematical approach using the least action principle, which is another good sign it was correct. But the smoking gun was of course Edison's observation of gravitational lensing during an eclipse.

But of course the topic in this subthread is special relativity. And I think the speed of light being constant and a maximum speed is one of the most fundamental and most assured fact about the universe that we know, because it's more than just some speed of some particle. It's a geometric property of spacetime, a Lorentzian manifold. I doubt it will ever be looked upon as some sort of horrible blunder, just like no one ever thinks less of Newton just because he only found an approximately correct theory. I think it's foolish to doubt it just to be contrarian.

Could it be wrong? Sure, we look for violations of Lorentz invariance all the time. But the boundaries we have on it are extremely good. But if someone claims to have observed superluminal speeds, I'll doubt the experimenters more than I'll doubt special relativity, because of the strong priors we have on it. This happened by the way a few years ago, where some Italian lab claimed to have seen superluminal neutrinos. Most professional physicists didn't believe it. It turned out to be a faulty cable.
The Mental Health Parity and a Addiction Equity Act increased access to this kind of treatment. The first interim rules under the Act went into effect for new plan years starting on or after July 2010. Many insurance plans (particularly Medicare and Medicaid plans in certain states) dragged their feet in implementing the required changes. This was problematic because, despite being a federal law, state insurance regulators are the primary enforcers.

In 2016 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid finally started to crack down with their investigations and enforcement and issued compliance guidance and toolkits to help states fully implement the required coverage.

Is it possible the upticks don’t represent a new group of addicts so much as they represent a new group of people who are eligible for affordable treatment? It doesn’t seem terribly far-fetched to me that CA would have implemented the required coverage in their Medicare & Medicaid plans fairly quickly while West Virginia’s plans would have waited as long as possible to comply.
This [1] has a good description of a jamacian student in Queens College in the 1700s.

[1] https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/people-glob...
This is why it's important, in the corporate world, to cultivate a VB programmer's or PHP programmer's mindset, no matter what language you're working in: your passion should be with the business and solving exactly the business problem at hand, and treating your programming tools strictly as tools in service of the business.
meta.com – used to be a Chan-Zuckerberg initiative to discover scientific papers. Now it's Facebook's corporate home. Hmm.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the info. Government intervention (trading something for nothing) is behind what I thought was a free market, as usual.
I wrote a bit about this here (understanding a codebase): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100
You're the only one.
This may come across as facetious and/or condescending, despite my intentions to be to give actual advice here... Learning TDD is what helped me get past this. It's surely not the only way to do it but it really made it click when I did.

In learning the craftsman style of TDD (i.e., the fluffy altruistic style) helped me to grok breaking down tasks, not because I wasn't able to have a detailed view of the big picture in my head, but because I simply didn't need to. It's also ok to change what you've already done. The guidelines for code modularity and separation are there to make this process of change and evolution easier, not just to make the system arch and code pretty, but because it should be expected to change and evolve your code as you develop the system - in both the short and long term.
For those in the EU that 8newsnow blocks:

https://archive.md/ZEG3D
Thanks, I hate when people try to blog on Twitter.
That makes way more sense too. Human brains are pretty complex devices, it’s easy to believe the machines didn’t figure out how to make something comparable and opted for human farming instead. On the other hand humans make very crappy batteries, how does that science even work.
The NXP LX2K stuff has lots of networking IO.

HoneyComb is a feature-rich Mini ITX platform [...] based on NXP’s [...] 16 core LX2160A Arm Cortex A72 (2GHz) offering up to 64GB DDR4 (dual channel) and up to 40GbE.

https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h...
I could have sworn the Zappos CEO died after being murdered by his personal assistant in New York. Who am I thinking of?
People were locked down so they stopped spending money on services (hotels, restaurants, travel, massage, etc) and instead bought more goods. This happened at the same time governments printed trillions and pumped it into the hands of consumers and businesses. The result was a 20% surge in container volumes, which our supply chain infra just wasn't ready for.
>What did people think would happen?

We thought that if we didn't do that we'd run a very real risk of the entire healthcare system collapsing. We were trying to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals could deal with an ongoing roar instead of being hit with a massive explosion.
It's not that money from government is less worthy. It's that money from government came from my wallet, thus I am entitled to an opinion. If you didn't take my money, I would have no interest in sharing my opinion with how one ought to spend it.
Having watched the downfall of MySpace, Orkut etc, I thought (hoped) same thing might happen to FaceBook. But now it feels like they are going to be around, for a long, long time. I don't know if anyone is even trying to take on them, Google seems to have given up on their social products. FB might not be fashionable anymore, people might even curse them, but they'll continue to use them at some level :( And they have enough money to keep buying other companies and stay at least somewhat relevant

It feels like only regulators can take on them, but that too is unlikely to happen, except some feeble attempts in Europe
Yeah, but if dark matter exists, it clearly is NOT non-interacting. It should certainly be easier to detect than a massless neutrino (which we can detect convincingly now).
> The days of needing a tower are over for most people. I'm all about space-saving while still having a full-power PC

If you want a powerful space saving device, get a powerful laptop. If you want power, cooling, adaptability and room you get a tower.

This mini desktop form factor is the worst of both worlds.

There are laptops with 16 threads, a 3080, 2x nvme and 2x ram slots and weigh 5lbs that run at 70C at full throttle, 40C idling - oh and integrated 3 hour UPS.

A tower otoh can fit 8+ disks, 2 or 3 gpus, plenty of quiet cooling and most importantly doesn't make you cuss every time you add/change a component because there is lots of room to get your hands in there.

You want a portable tower? Get one with handles on it. How often do you really move it anyway.
So I wonder if this is something you deeply investigated, considered the various ramifications of, or whether this was more of an emotional thing, like you see someone trip on the sidewalk and declare "No one should be allowed to wear high heels outside".

If you have considered it a lot, what do you think the best case against this position is?
>enforcing digital scarcity in a federated metaverse

Until someone dumps it and reuploads whatever for free.
They don't plan to circulate the orbit, and instead the plan is to splash down in the Pacific after going 3/4th around the planet. So, I would call that suborbital.
I can't even watch the keynote without logging in. I don't have a Facebook account... ummmmm.
You know in the Matrix how human's are the batteries? Well "Meta" is powered in a similar way, except it is your basic humanity (emotions, attention, engagement, self perception) that they drain to keep the lights on.
Yeah, I'm a VR nerd but I now find that wearing a VR helment for too long creates a kind of existential loneliness that will be hard to solve with better technology.
If you look at the meta.org website, it is a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative property. So they already had it.

https://www.meta.org/
Here's the link with more information, from the linked blog at the bottom of the page: https://docs.codeamigo.dev/blog
But replace every instance of "Facebook" with "the Internet" in your message. Why not cancel the Internet as a whole?
No, it isn't a leak as the containers are empty but not garbage. It is very common to allocate extra memory that isn't used - in garbage collected languages you often need to fight the garbage collector for maximum performance in specific ways - which means you will have empty objects just waiting to be filled. You will get around to them eventually, but for now they are just taking up memory. If you allocate more of these objects than you have physical ram you will start swapping - but there is no leak, you will eventually either use them, or destroy them.

If you don't worth in latency senstive applications you might not have encountered a situation where you need to apply the above tricks.
I am surprised how many comments here never heard of Han Unification. The problem is not new, and some of us have been ranting about it for more than a decade. From the UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto in 2012 on HN [1], And a search [2] on HN dates back to 2010.

I am also surprised at the support this problem now has. At least on this thread. Generally speaking Han Unification problem dont get much if any support on HN. Not even empathy. In the name of having Unicode becomes king they would much rather sacrifice the CJK language.

The answer or replies were always, it is "glyph" problem, not "code" problem. Stop asking Unicode to solve it.

patio11 aka Patrick McKenzie from Stripe has been the most vocal critics of Han Unification. Sums it up far better than I could, quote [3]:

>Reason the Han unification debate in Unicode got so acrimonious, and why lots of Japanese people carry a chip on their shoulder about it to this day.

>"Sorry, grandma, I know you've been sort of attached to your name for the last 80 years, but the white folks find it inconvenient for their computer systems. Don't worry, they promise they'll make something close for you."

>Many of the clients of my ex-day job are married to legacy encodings like Shift-JIS precisely because they do think that their customers and students have a "right" to having their names written correctly.

As mentioned in my other reply, Adobe gets lots of stick for its subscription and malware like Creative Cloud. But they do [4] spend huge amount of resources on CJK fonts, layout and encoding ( They have their own separate Encoding for each CJK language instead of using Unicode ). Part of the reason why I like PDF.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906253

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=8&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438749

[4] https://ken-lunde.medium.com/my-28-years-of-adobelife-e97e70...
I have -- quite a few times in quite a few different jobs. There actually is a lot more science to it than we usually take credit for. There have been studies that our typical interview process gives us 17% predictability of how they will perform, but if we do a contract-to-hire (of just one week) that improves to 80%.

We have proven time and time again that certain times of interview questions are not helpful.

If you look at the best investors, their job is similar, I would say that most notably as YC being crazy successful and found similarly in my own hiring is that passion for a given space is one of the best predictors of success.
This sounds like googles strategy to dominate social networking with Wave…
I dislike FB, but I think it is very cool that Zuck has the guts to radically change the company's identity around a vision that may be arbitrarily far (see: Oculus/Magic Leap's promise vs progress). Most big companies are petrified to make changes that kill the dying golden goose.
> Our European visitors are important to us.

> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

I wonder if sites will ever stop lying about this.
Fusion industry predicts electricity generation by the 2030s – Physics World
The TX Winter Storm and Big Freeze did more damage to the TX economy than the shutdowns. Try again.
>> I’ve been playing MUDs, MMOs since their very beginnings

You’re old :) I don’t fully get it either. I don’t understand why kids want to watch concerts in Fortnite and spend loads of money on in game items that only impact aesthetics but it seems clear there’s lots of opportunity there. The interest in NFT’s, crypto etc among younger people is massive too. Lots of opportunity. What isn’t clear is exactly what “the metaverse” will look like. There are a lot of buzzwords being thrown around in big tech companies rather than concrete long term ideas but I think it’ll figure itself out with time and different ideas take shape and come together.
You and the other comment mentioned sales tax, which does hit poor people hard. That is something I missed in my statement, apologies.

Poor people don’t have property to have property tax, though.
I don't get why they can't switch to GNU which and put it in whatever package it harmonizes with. Throwing out deprecation notices for core utilities is irresponsible.
Someone will own it, every option involves human owners…
> It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men

I feel like the opposite. Zuck is the only one to believe in the metaverse and as a result people who worked on the communication did it badly without a lot of conviction. He is in a pretty comfortable position, one of the richest people on earth doing 20% of growth every year. And still he wants to make a big risky bet like this one. I'm not really in favor of the metaverse but history has shown us that Zuck is pretty successful at things he wants to do