skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also wrote about this topic at: https://andregarzia.com/2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.htm..., it might me interesting for people who enjoyed this post to also read mine.

The author has very good points but their assumption of a 10K advance is not what I have seen (or been paid) in the traditional industry. Most publishers I’ve worked with or approached were paying between 1K and 2K in advance depending on which terms you accept. You usually get some more money if you allow the book to be distributed to libraries or be placed in some all-you-can-eat services.

Regardless of the publishing route you chose — traditional or self-publishing — it is very hard to make money with a technical book. Most people who are financially successful are those with an established platform. The traditional publisher will do very little to push your book. As an example, I made much more money from my self-published books than my recent traditional published book even though they sold less because I keep all the money instead of getting a small royalty.

Publishing a book is not all about making money, each of us have their own reason to write and money is more of a side-effect than the primary cause. I hope posts like these inspire more people to publish.

Oh, I’ve also shipped a prototype ebook generator at https://little.webby.press that runs purely on the client-side, no accounts, no tracking, no state. I think people here might enjoy it.
It's because of racial differences in IQ, which are proven beyond a shadow of doubt. Even with racist policies that discriminate against non-blacks, black students perform worse, and it's not dependent on wealth levels or any other metric.
I have no problem with 2/3 of the codepoints being taken up by 3 languages. Right now we (rightly) bend over backwards to accompany handicapped users, often tripling or quadrupling our QA. CJK users are much more common than handicapped users, so the benefit-vs-cost ratio is even greater for CJK users than for handicapped users.
Plus, during the lead type era, using the '&' instead of 'et' saved the printer wear on often-heavily-worn 'e's and 't's in the font.
You might be interested to know that sometimes they show YOU that your comment is posted, but it isn't. No one else can see it.

So you're really just farting into the wind, because Hacker News thinks your time is free. Assholes.
> 3. Most of people are just not sensitive to such thing. I pointed it out to lots of people (when due to their setting, some glyphs are displayed wrong, like 门), and they can't care less.

I think its' because most people don't deal with it in big amounts. I heard a lot more complaints from people using android phones that didn't have jp fonts by default. At the third of fourth page they started to care, and once they noticed it frustration just stacked (it's just a matter of adding fonts, so not a big deal).

Otherwise writings are flexible enough for small variants to not be triggering (I mean, people can already read calligraphy...)
Tesla order could double to 200k Model 3s to satisfy deal with Uber
I need some resource that would convince me since this has taken a huge mental toll on me. Not to mention the fact that I'm researching this daily and my thoughts are focused around it, I also feel the pressure from government and all the people being against me. The feeling like I'm to blame for the pandemic is immense.

For example with the arguments that you made, I don't see how it's mathematically, statistically or in any way likely/possible, that heart inflammation rate is just 1 out of 100,000 or less.

The reason being I've seen reports of multiple people getting the diagnosis after the vaccine together, as one example in the video that I showed.

Back of the napkin math again:
Let's say we have 2 billions of vaccinated people.
And let's divide this into 2 groups of 1 bil, and let's say that for each person there's one other person in the other group that they are most connected or tied to, e.g. it could be said that they are partners or a couple. Because the way I've tried to understand how serious the issue could be is whether in those anecdotes I see both people having issues.

If the likelihood is 1 out of 100,000, then we would expect from group A
to end up with 1B/100K, I would expect to see 10,000 affected people over the world.

Now, for each of those 10,000 they have a partner from the group B. The chances for each of their partners to have this same issue should be 1/100,000.

So this comes to roughly there being only a chance of 10% (around 9.5% to be a bit more precise) for there to be any partners with long term issue. So we have this anecdotal video from YouTube. Is whoever sent the video doing a hoax? And the other anecdotal stories with couples/partners both having long term issues, are all of those hoaxes?

I'm in one of the age groups and genders having the highest chances of heart inflammation issues and one at the same time one of the lowest to have issues with covid.

I agree that long covid is a real danger, but just recently some study came out that vaccines may not reduce chances of long covid, just hospitalisations/deaths.

I mean there's too much data that doesn't make sense, the anecdotal stories I'm seeing don't make sense based on usual claims for all the rates and Pfizer studies and everything that I'm seeing.

How can I do anything, if none of this seems to make sense? I feel like I'm slowly going crazy.
Maybe that's the part I'm confused about. Aren't they talking about taxing unrealized capital gains, i.e. money that is being left locked up in a single stock, in order to avoid being taxed when it is moved? Wouldn't one of the effects of this tax be to incentive these effective/successful billionaires into moving their money into new investments, instead of being left parked in their already successful investment?

And most entrepreneurs are not, nor will never be, billionaires who are subject to this extra tax. That being the case I wouldn't think that this will put a dent in overall entrepreneurship. It might have the opposite effect, where there are numerically more entrepreneurs making capital allocation decisions, which might be better for society than having fewer people (billionaires) controlling an ever increasing amount of capital.

I grant that tax changes like this have numerous conflicting effects, sometimes unpredictable. Perhaps their will be another art bubble...

I don't think that it's a good thing that we structure our society for the convenience of those who can amass money. I'm definitely not fond of kludgy taxes like this one, but I also don't understand why so many jump to the defense of so few billionaires.
That sounds like it works like that, but that is not always the case. They do try out promising could be medicines, especially since Covid costs enough as-is.

Can this system be improved? Definitely.
Playing 00's music on an 80's radio station isn't challenging someone's fondness of 80's music, it's just annoying.
>> a particular time in history when writing skills were spreading rapidly but the process of writing itself was cumbersome

I feel like I'm previewing the 22nd Century's review of "LOL", "WTF" and "THOT".
Don't know why you were downvoted. That is how separation of powers usually work.

That judges aren't also elected is sometimes a problem, even if they are bound by law. Different countries have different approaches here, the US has its juries, which is an unusual approach compared to other democracies.
What is the definition of Malware in this case? Which malware list does it use?
It's gotten a lot faster recently. What's still slow, though, is macOS's updates.
Everyday Noises Are Making Our Brains Noisier
Uh, didn't we know this like... more than a year ago?
I'm just stating a fact, it's slightly unnecessary to reply with your declaration of love for Go.

I prefer returning errors as a part of the function result myself, as you would in any decent language encouraging functional programming principles.

If anything, it shows that including a feature in a language (exceptions) will not lead to people misusing it if that misuse is not encouraged.
Useless Security #1: Email Hash Scanning
Actually, this exists already – there's U+E0001 (LANGUAGE TAG) and U+E007 (CANCEL TAG) and you can put a language code between those, e.g. "\uE0001ja-JP\ue007".

Its use is also deprecated and discouraged. According to [1] it's often not needed, and [2] states that it puts a lot of burden on implementations and best done at a higher level such as HTTP, HTML, etc.

I have no opinion on [1] as I don't speak these languages, but I do know I really hate working with these "invisible characters" in Unicode both as a user and developer. Copy an extra invisible LTR thingy or display variant codepoint and stuff can look and behave different, and it may not at all be obvious what the hell is going on (especially for those without a technical background).

[1]: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/ch05.pdf#G115...

[2]: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/ch23.pdf#G301...
Well limited colors can be a feature. I use the same 16 color palette for all my images, both for size, aesthetic identity, and to prevent freebooting.
It's quite possible meta stories are the most upvoted category of all. I posted an article about how HN was moderated and it netted more karma than anything else I've ever done on this site, by a wide margin.
You can be 99% confident

To be more precise without being too formal:

If there truly were no difference between them, you could be 99% confident that you would not get a result like this.
Why can't iPhone just accept payments via contactless (either when paying online or accepting payment from someone). That would be such an enabling tech.
The parent is trying to tell that off-topic is not welcomed by some users. I am the same opinion, I don't want to see on HN news about some non-technical political thing in LA or India , or see 3 days in a row someone toy Rust project.

You can try to change my mind that I should never use GOTO, some fanatic submitted such articles and comments using the "NEVER" and I will be happy to reply because is still on topic. But don't submit something like "God says vaccine is bad but hearth pills are good" since is obvious off topic , though I am curious about such illogical believes if I want to learn more there is a better forum for that.
Based on this bit the commenter's response, take a wild guess:

"with a possible exception for WW2"
Sounds cool. But a simpler possibility would be an option to do placement in part. E.g. select a bunch of components, then click a button and they're transferred to the layout, and then you manually place them. Then continue selecting other components, etc.
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/uds-psl/coq-library-complexity
It's beyond annoying. It's disrespectful as hell. Hacker News lets users waste time composing a question or answer, and THEN says they can't post when they try to submit it.
Euler equations explain the lift, but it can be still hard to grok.

Newton’s Laws of Motion gives the clearest correct explanation: If the wing stays in the air, there must be a force that is equal but opposite to the gravity.

If you divide the air around the wing into equal mass chunks of air (not equal volume) and visualize the velocity and acceleration of each chunk, you get very informative picture of where and when of the lift. If the wing stays in the air, air around the wing must be accelerating downwards.
$8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
Haha, yes, talk about Occams razor! :-D
Looks like a great alternative to NextDNS if you can do without any special configuration.

For me, NextDNS is still better. I can setup separate DNS zones for adults, children, IOT, etc. and it works across networks (unlike Pihole/AdguardHome). I can also setup DNS forwards for each zone.
I think this has always been present in KiCad? Most of my designs are multi-sheet. I don't care much about the hierarchy, though — I have a top-level "TOC" page, which apart from a description and release notes for all versions contains links to all the sheets.
Ask HN: Screen Recording Recommendations for macOS
I am interested in generating some course material, think Pluralsight/A Cloud Guru style. As such, I will need to record my screen and potentially webcam (shudder). I am looking for recommendations for screen recording apps on macOS.

OBS seems to be pretty popular, but it is keen to see what other options are in the market, especially if they're macOS native apps.
There's no source to suggest this is only HTML? Seems like it's in PHP. Is it open somewhere?
> ??? Is it common that people think he is Asian for some reason? What a strange paragraph to include...

Not just that, but for some time you could observe subthreads accusing him of being a chinese subversion of HN in china related discussions.
Check out Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman too. BDA and MLAPP are my go to resources for anything Bayesian.
For those that want a TL;DR explanation:

Almost all object that are airborne, stay so by pushing air in the opposite direction that they want to go. This is Newton's third law. Aeroplane wings take the air coming towards them (caused by the existing velocity of the aeroplane) and direct it down and backwards; this creates a resultant force that is forward and upwards.

It is really that simple
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I'm wondering whether I'm missing something, because whenever this topic comes up I think "the wing accelerates air downwards and the inertia of the air lifts the wing". What's incomplete or complicated about that?

I like searching for "downwash clouds" to see the effect :-)
For Chinese, the font can change the writing slightly. For example, 刃(blade) can be any of these (Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese). Actually I would consider the Japanese version in the article the traditional Chinese version:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E5%88%83+%E4%B9%A6%E6%B3%95&iax=i...

At least for Chinese, the difference is font, they are all valid writing for the character. Different writing style can cause these minor difference as well: http://qiyuan.chaziwang.com/pic/ziyuanimg/E58883.png

If you look at right side of above image, you can tell how the same character is written in different writing style

It is less a problem for Chinese. Our brain has trained to read them, I would recognize the Japanese version, Simplified Chinese version, and Traditional Chinese version without noticing the difference. But I can imagine it can be a problem for Japanese, and other people do not read Simplified Chinese. Having the locale explicitly set to a country and load the correct font make a lot sense here.
> (couldn't they know we'd have space to put zillions of characters in a font just a few years later?)

Representation matters. There should have been plenty of experts who understood that Han unification was problematic. It seems they were not in a position to do anything about it.
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"Dang" is still a common word in English though. It sounds like the article implies it's a common name or something, but Asia is a pretty big place
Yes, when was censoring legitimate business (banning them to advertise), treating people as sheep to be navigated by the morally purified to attend to their ego-centric misguided goals a bad idea?

This is the modus operandi of these "half-wits actors in grinning masks" (sic Tim Minchin).
Where does blockchain fit in with a login form?
Also: It's apparently not just an overpriced accessory, but a necessary cleaning tool for the Pro XDR display with nano surface: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-pro/clean-pro-display-xd...

Honestly, I clean my iPad Pro so often with lackluster results I might just buy Apple's cleaning cloth if it's actually better than other microfiber cloths.
Was going to add the same thing but wasn't sure if it was a Scottish specific or generic British thing.
The second page of the article seems to address this and calls it an incorrect lift theory.

> It is really that simple.

The whole point of the article is that it's not that simple:

> The real details of how an object generates lift are very complex and do not lend themselves to simplification.
I predict employees will increasingly make phone calls instead of sending an email.
There are some 8-bit and 7-bit encodings which have unified Latin and Greek, like 7-bit SMS encoding [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
What people think of as Paxos was not originally intended to be called Paxos by Lamport, but the leader election phase for what is now called Multi-Paxos (and he intended to call Paxos). So I don't think there's a difference for algorithmic heritage between Paxos and Multi-Paxos (perhaps you know this, but for those reading your comment it might help clarify).

I think it is anyway reasonable to say that most consensus algorithms derive concepts from Paxos, since (despite how terribly it was presented by Lamport) it is the consensus protocol that captured most attention. Most recent advances in distributed consensus derive from Paxos, not Viewstamped Replication. As far as I know all leaderless distributed consensus protocols derive from Paxos, and most protocol optimisations that have been developed apply to Paxos or one of its derivatives.

I also happen to think Paxos is pretty easy to implement correctly, particularly by comparison to the other protocols, in large part due to its active replication semantics, permitting that commands may be processed by replicas in any order. This means failover is much less complicated to negotiate, as the new leader does not expect to have a complete view of the log. Though of course membership changes remain complicated, and it may be beneficial for the leader to be able to assume it has a complete view of the log - but this is an optimisation rather than an inherent property for correct implementation.

> correctness unfortunately rapidly breaks down when physical disks are used, since these may misdirect reads and writes

What do you mean by "misdirect" here?
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. In my country's case, certified vaccination is required for in-doors entertainment (theatres, restaurants, bars). I don't know whose livelihood is being ruined there.

The only case I'm aware of where vaccination is mandatory for a job is that of healthcare workers. I won't waste my time arguing about that.
My thought whilst reading the article was that the Han unification would actually help screen readers. IIUC The meaning of the glyph is the same across all the languages, so the screen reader will get the correct meaning and can present it according to local settings. The problem with the European languages is that the different characters (letter variations, accent variations) can change the meaning of the word they're part of.

Or have I misunderstood?
I hadn't really given the phenomenon much thought. You're essentially saying to the kid: you need to respect the "ideals" of what Dad represents and what a "Dad" in the abstract would expect of you in this situation. Sort of asserting your dominance through an appeal to a concept of an authority figure instead of you as an individual. Why is "I need to sleep now" potentially less effective?
Not a fan of fungi but still very nice images.
Used to be kb. How times have changed.
Migrate to a M1 using Apple's migration assistant
Sony confirms possible TSMC partnership on Japan chip factory
This comment is very informative and interesting in its own right. If all that was written as a tongue-in-cheek answer, so much the better. :-D

"These long distances" with OP I took to mean "lightyears", not terrestrial distances.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748141
That's half of it. Lift is produced by airflow over both sides of an aeroplane wing not just the underside.
You can do this with gadget mode, the g_serial module.
Deflation is not a tax. It comes from economic growth, leading to the growth in the demand for the asset outpacing the growth in its supply.

Deflation does however accrue economic rent to currency holders, so is an economic inefficiency. Fortunately in a decentralized economy, multiple currencies can co-exist and seamlessly operate in parallel, allowing the growth of the total money supply to keep pace with the demand for currency.
Android has Japanese font.

Noto Sans is basically Source Han, one of the best free JCK fonts. Not sure what you mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Han_Sans
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Are you saying that screen readers don't know which language to interpret text as?
I remember showing that article to a colleague of mine who became Very. Angry. Indeed.

They said that all the articles and explanations that are being quoted then picked apart and shown to be inadequate are, were, and always have been simplifications intended to give the non-technical person some insight into what's going on, but have never been intended to "explain flight".

My colleague went on to say that starting with each of the simplified and incorrect descriptions, one can gradually refine each, then successively combine into a bigger picture, until one ends up with a description that "feels right" and agrees with all the numerical simulations.

But they've also stopped trying to be helpful pretty much exactly because of articles like this, that take half-truths as if they are intended to be complete explanations, then debunks them.

So don't read this article from Sci.Am. and believe it uncritically.
Yeah, I would also love to get NextDNS-style offering fro CloudFlare. I'm currently have multiple malware/spyware/adds/annoyances filters enabled and I need them on DNS level because having uBlock Origin in my browser doesn't help me, for example, to prevent spying by my smart TV or phone apps.
Airplanes can fly upside down. How do you explain that?
> It is. I personally used a virtual list

I've used virtual lists (outside the web). They often work well. They sometimes don't. I'm not refuting that they exist, I'm just refuting absolutist statements about their generalised perfection.

>> they are not performant in all cases

> Yes. On the web.

They are often very performant on the web (creating your own virtual list implementation is straightforward). They are often not performant in non-web environments. There is no major fundamental difference between web and non-web in this regard: it's just rendering content to a screen.

> asking for element sizes causes the browser to recalculate the layout

This isn't really the case as stated.

It's true if the layout has changed since last size read, as layout changes will trigger a layout flush, requiring recalc (which are done lazily). For Chrome, this is unfortunately a global flush, but for e.g. Firefox it's on a "frame" basis (an internal frame object, not HTML element). Recalc of dims, either eager or lazy, will be necessary for any drawing system (you're just looking at whether the request for a component size is an internal implementation detail or an application API).

> you can't batch-render anything

Not sure what this means? Why can't you batch-render on the web?
Yep ostree is doing delta updates by default. Flatpaks are alo stored as an ostree, so they do as well - even across all runtimes an flatpaks installed on a system! :)