skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...whoever bought it at the discounted price may not be willing to sell at any reasonable price. At least if scalpers get the item you know that they have little incentive to keep it for themselves.

If they're more interested in keeping it for themselves than selling it at a price the prospective buyer is willing to pay, then obviously that's not a problem. They don't value it as much as it's actually worth to the current owners, ergo no more efficient market allocation is possible.

It's a weird, cargo cultish notion of markets where asking prices are only "reasonable" if the only value an item has to its owner is how much they think they can gouge others for, and people refusing to sell items at a price because they have more incentive to keep it for themselves is seen as a problem! The actual deadweight losses are incurred when the opposite takes place: scalpers don't enjoy the stock but do restrict others from enjoying it.

The only situation in which scalpers actually help you buy something you couldn't otherwise have made an acceptable offer for is if lots of people value something at more they can actually afford, and scalpers inserting themselves in the middle prevents them from getting their hands on it at a price they could afford. But that shift in allocation isn't pro-market, it's anti poor.

Otherwise, if you can't buy it, that's because you're the one that's not willing or able to pay what it's actually worth
So what. Gangs will pass messages no matter what you do. That looks like a prison administration problem and not a problem with the books.
I've "borrowed" books from archive.org that had their last borrower's date in the late 19th/early 20th century, similarly visible from the log affixed inside the cover --- which the archive.org scanners clearly preserved. When I come across such a book I also ponder who the last borrower was.
The article mentions that they have those. The e-readers charge prisoners 5 cents per minute to read most books, including public domain works. The prisoners are paid about $0.25/hr for working, so reading for an hour would take about four hours of labor.
Archive.org has a 2-to-1 donation matching thing going on atm: https://archive.org/donate/

They run the world's biggest online library, as well as the wayback machine.
Gitkraken has an undo button :)
>And when it is all over, nobody wishes they had spent more time working.

This is true. But I think it's also important for people to realize this on their own based on experiences in their own life, not just in theory. Sometimes the only way to really understand this is to overwork and burn-out at a job and realize it's not worth it.

If I was on my deathbed when I was 20, I'll bet one of my regrets would have been not working harder to contribute to science, make an impact, be recognized, be an entrepreneur, etc. I haven't been in my 20s for a while and my views on work have definitely changed to what I quoted from you above.
>Select a language to translate from:

>Armenian

>AWS

>Azerbaijani

Whole comment quoted by ksec sounded like some techno babble. I assume this was david's point.
My observations from reading news sources across Europe today is that many countries are now retesting samples from earlier in November to better understand the spread of the variant.

In Ireland, the Health Service are reviewing select positive cases from as far back as 1 November. https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1130/1263940-time-n...
I'm still waiting for one of those breakthroughs we've been hearing for 20 years to actually make it to market.

Specifically in the teeth recuperation department.
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The comment in question didn't make it to the submission URL: https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/1...
It's a bit confusing (this is commonly called playing the pronoun game, where pronouns are used without context on what they're referring to), but they mean that their friend is the one highlighting good parts in the book.
The "American prison system" is a pretty broad brush that includes county jails (people do end up there for months/years), state run facilities, federal facilities, etc. Pretty sure as a whole, most of the prison population can read.
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The initial pitch pre Ajit's decision was a private auction by the CBA. Ie, the corps behind these sats would themselves auction and keep the $81B.

Supposedly this would be "better" for the taxpayer, but I always thought that was bogus. In the US the taxpayer has rights already to this spectrum, we don't have to buy it back from these folks.

Anyways, thankfully that all fell apart, public auction generated $81B (a staggering sum showing the potential value of this spectrum for this use). Folks clearing spectrum still getting a massive windfall.

Technically, a 400Mhz guard band is ridiculous. That's guard in initial roll-out. If planes have issues with stuff 400Mhz away that is ridiculous.

Also ridiculous would be that they can't figure out their height using other means. Airports should report baro pressure for standard baro altimeters. They should look into GPS and RNAV style navigation used internationally - all this is common overseas. Idea that planes can't figure out there height seems bogus.

My understanding is even later in roll-out there will be 20Mhz guard band around the airplane frequencies - do these airplane systems have no clue about filtering? This is plenty in most applications.

This smells political or interagency related. This auction and use has been years and years in the making, and last minute we get this stuff.
Hopefully this will help:

Their friend checked out the proceedings (which are records of what goes on in Parliament, in this case the House of Lords (HoL), the body that legislates above the House of Commons) and then highlighted phrases inside the book they enjoyed (which were passages that were entertaining due to drama).
> Aren't the Zen3 instances still faster than Graviton 3?

Irrelevant.

The vast majority of applications running in the cloud are business applications that struggle to saturate the CPU and waste most of the CPU cycles idlying by in epoll/select loops. Unless you need HPC, you do not need the fastest CPU, either.

> create further lock-in opportunities

Don't like AWS/Graviton? Take your workload to the Oracle cloud and run it on Oracle ARM.

Don't like ARM? If your app is interpreted/JIT'd (e.g. Python/NodeJs) or byte code compiled (JVM), lift and shift it to the IBM cloud and run it on a POWER cloud instance – as long as IBM offers a price-performance ratio comparable to that of AWS/Graviton or you are willing to pay for it.
An issue is that for some it's not worth as much as for Twitter. If my local police department uses Twitter to send out notifications on a current event the blue check confirms authority. Without the mark one can't distinguish original from fake/parody within the platform, which hurts the platform.

But there certainly is a demography who would pay well. Question is where to draw the line.
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What is absurd is banning books because of a few unsubstantiated stories.
heck yes some wins for udp. gonna need these as we start implementing quic & http3.
This is an ad, not an informative article.
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the rising tide has stopped lifting all boats decades ago.
I've been working on something similar to this specifically for crowd-sourcing readings of the Bible available here: https://thereadbible.com/

It's super MVP and currently uses youtube for the recordings, but it works and is entirely hosted on GitHub Pages (including user-submitted data that runs through a github action).
I’m genuinely terrified of the American Prison system. I had a brief brush with the Law at one point in the past; but reading about what goes on in there and how it completely fucks over people is just incredible.

I sincerely believe that if there’s any one thing that will end the American experiment, it will be its Prison system. Generations of poor people being brutalized and radicalized, creating an incredibly violent culture both inside and out… it’s just not sustainable to keep imprisoning millions of people.

I don’t know what the solution is. I suspect we will need to invest massively in both keeping people out of prisons and creating conditions in society that make it less likely for people to fall into destitution.
> courts in Hamburg.

So they're like the East District of Texas of the EU?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...

* https://www.logikcull.com/blog/the-supreme-court-frees-paten...
>Every 7 years or so you will have some major upheaval in your routine, so you aren't stuck with the choices you make right now.

At least for me, the big realization is that a lot of the "important" decisions made in the past suddenly don't feel that important anymore. In hindsight all thought and stress about making the right decision wasn't worth it.
Wow you pretty much describe me ... except for me being a CEO, or a CxO, or even just an O. So I guess just my superiority over everyone else. I guess I will take it.
Checked to see:

- NYT has one 100px tall box, 4 pages below the fold

- WaPo has coronavirus, acai bowls, Biden, Sydney Powell above fold, Ghislaine 2 pages down

- CNN I don't see Maxwell or Ghislaine anywhere but one Epstein box bottom 1st page

- Fox has two boxes, both below fold
Fair enough. Maybe that was the point of confusion.
Ask HN: How do you feel about the current state of Firefox for Android?
I believe in Mozilla's mission of keeping the web open and trying to use Firefox as much as possible, but it's hard... Especially on Android, where it misses some basic features like adjusting font size per site and clearing cookies and data per site. Plus the only advantage they had over mobile chrome, namely add-ons, they crippled into oblivion. It's kind of funny, by trying to protect the avarage Joe from excessive battery drain they basically made Firefox for Android irrelevant. Advanced users have no more reasons to stay when they can just get Bromite, both a faster and feature richer (built-in ad blocking) FOSS browser, and normal users never even used Firefox because they don't even change their wallpaper let alone their browser...

I really want Mozilla and Firefox to succed, but my hope keeps shrinking. What do you think?
The way your browser can watch YT.
> a lot of the people in prison are some seriously bad dudes

And then we treat them like animals and take everything from them with no chance to improve themselves. Our prison system is broken and not based on outcomes but simply on incarceration. What if people needed to show an improvement in themselves instead?

https://www.skyetravels.com/finnish-prison/
Why are we so eager to treat people according to the worst of them? It’s always “some may misuse it: take it from all of them.” It’s an insane way to treat human beings.

I don’t know how someone can call this justice with a straight face.
It's really hard for me to accept such downtalking, the presumption that we should all have to compete & that since these are mere "toys" it's ok that we get charged 2x market rate, 4x what flagship gpu card prices were a couple years ago.

This is a sad drain on society. The way this is talked about, the justification for prices spiking, ignores so much sadness I feel for all the kids who will never have access to PC gaming ever again. Whole generations being cut off from the PC, in this one swoop.

I'd really like to see some kind of even modest go at empathy, some dawning cognition that something is lost here from those justifying the massive massive upswings in prices. So far I haven't seen the recognition of human good that seems clear to me, that we as a world have clearly lost now that this "market surplus" is eradicated & exploited. I'd just like to see some of the anti-market-surplus views at least acknowledge some of the human cost here, be willing to adopt some viewpoint that acknowledges trade-off. That doesn't assume from the start it's own correctness & properness.
So it's ok when the state does it?

The state(s) is just as complicit in all this crap as the private prisons are.
Any time there is an article on HN about prisons, most of the comments are kooky conspiracy theories. The concept that bad people intent on committing crime exist seems to be incomprehensible to many if not most in this audience for some reason.

The article itself is biased and not founded in any rational reasoning. It recognizes the potential for contraband for books coming from random sources then justifies it merely because "most contraband comes from guards anyway" or so it says.

The original source linked to in this article was a better and more objective read: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2021-04-29/iowa-sta...
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You can set that once on you.com and then it will keep that preference and show you reddit results whenever relevant.
"The paperback version of 1984 is about 330 pages. It will take a person who is able to read 30 pages per hour about 11 hours to read the novel. At the discounted $0.03/minute usage fee, 11 hours of reading a free book will cost a person about $19.80—and this is if you don’t stop to think or re-read."[1]

That's at the temporarily discounted 3 cents/minute rate.

Also, from the same source:

"For one, WVDCR will receive a 5% commission on gross revenue, including fees from video visitation."

Which explains the whole thing. That's 5% of gross revenue...not profits. Ouch.

[1] https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org/2019/11/20/how-much...
Well I would like to know which Linux distros I need to support and test for my GUI software to be consistently guaranteed to be ‘officially supported’ like Windows, and Mac.
The biggest challenge I have with this (because intimate partner abuse/violence is a real thing and shouldn't be lessened) is that even accounting for their secrecy, the relationship didn't develop until well after Theranos was on a path, and Holmes is claiming sexual harassment from Day 1 (or earlier, when it was "just an idea").

Who thinks repeatedly sexually harassing _your boss_, who can terminate your employment, is a move that's going to earn you career success??

There's also a lot of other evidence to say that she was quite comfortable with how things went in their relationship and at work.

Similarly, through all the buildup to where we're at now, not once was this floated, until trial. Holmes was a believer, still touting that we have her and Theranos all wrong, are all luddite naysayers. Day 1 of the trial? "Actually, Sunny made me do it all".

Let's not get into the sociopathic narcissism (and other apt phrases) that comes with "I just got the trial calendar for my federal court case that could see me get 20 years in jail. Oh look, in the midst of all that, I got pregnant with a due date that is just before the trial is set to wrap up". Yes, people fall in love, accidents happen, but my thoughts in this scenario have "have a kid" pretty damn far down the list of my priorities (that being said, the aforementioned narcissism and denial could genuinely have her believing "there's no way in hell anyone finds me guilty").
Presumably YouTube would be able to intervene to convince the court that this is a disproportionate response, given that YouTube already has a system in place for copyright holders to request individual videos to be taken down. Whether this defence against collateral damage is, on balance, good for web users is a more complicated strategic question.
These 'mislead the public for their own good' approaches have and will continue to backfire as people stop trusting these institutions. What could go wrong? Guess we'll have a front-row seat.
> It takes money out of the economy and puts it into the government where it is spent less efficiently.

Who do you think the government buys goods and services from?
Didn't Russia(KGB) try to block Telegram in the past and were unsuccessful? I feel like they are fairly safe and trustworthy. Of course, I like Signal best, but Telegram has so many nice features.
Are you using BEAM and does key-value work for your data? Use mnesia with disc_copies (side question: does your data fit in memory? The answer must be yes, but you can put a lot of memory in a machine and you can partition your data)

Otherwise, use Postgres or MySQL depending on what your team prefers or has experience with.

Done.
Internal documentation (2) …good luck finding it or finding something that is relevant still.

Documentation for customers (9) is usually clean, thorough and well maintained. Granted most of our customers are pharma, so heavily regulated.

It bothers me to no end that we can’t do for ourselves what we do for customers. It’s also short sited as many can waste significant hours piecing software, hardware and networking together because there’s nothing for them to start from. Someone tackling a problem or putting together a demo may go through the same frustration as someone did just a year ago.
Interesting comparison: for the Left, you choose the qualifier “dirtbag” which presumably is a very small fraction of that faction ... while comparing that unpleasant small minority with the entire other half of the political spectrum.

I can (sort of, but would rather not) see denying authentication to problematic nutcases of any kind, and can see that edge case not pedantically covered/excluded by “nobody but us”. Sure, we can chalk up fringe cases to inconsistent boundaries of enforcement. But lumping in a plurality of users with edge cases is willful blindness to the blue check exclusion being official from-the-top policy, not mere erratic enforcement of vague rules by underpaid contractors.

Sure it’s boring if you’re not in the targeted plurality. It’s significant when Twitter is your only viable podium in the public town square, and anything you want to say that’s meaningfully & reasonably dissenting may get you kicked out because Twitter management is decidedly biased.
Oh, yeah, that does sound like a pain. My interaction is limited to signing into the tax system once a year and dropping my total amount of income and expenses.

Especially now that I’m not elligible for any startup discounts any more (and sole proprietor, so no employees) the thing has become almost automatic.
Your write this like it'd be a bad thing?

It's not only that others can grab your software for free, it's also the other way round - resulting in way fewer effort, cost, increased stability/quality etc for everyone.
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Err, she and her counsel are the ones who entered this into the _public record_ specifically to (attempt to) exonerate her.

There's very little "mean gossip" about it.
I doubt that other companies' supposedly "wider scope" actually exists or gives them advantages. Both Amazon and Google make their own SSDs and have the largest computer installations in the known universe. The fact that Samsung makes a lot of SSDs for laptops may not give them wider scope at all.
Any reason for the obfuscation?
Don't know why the author calls it an OS, then acknowledges in the article it's not an OS. It was a windowing system, based on X, running on top of DOS, much like Windows 3.1 did. Anyway it was cool, but strained common HW of the day. OS/2 was generally seen as the alternative. What do you call it when all the products from a particular moment are left behind?
Another thing to keep in mind is that every couple of years, an internal or external shift is going to change what you think is important and what's not worth the effort.

Maybe today you want to focus your time on learning different things and don't want to focus on your job. But then you turn 30 and you realize you want to focus on your career and spend less time learning random stuff. Just make the best decision you can at that moment with the feelings and data you have.
Does banning used books actually stop any of the communication between gang members? Do we have any idea how often books are used to incite violence versus how often they are just read? What percentage of prison violence comes from book encoding versus other means?

These seem questions you would have to answer before coming to the conclusion that banning books is the right answer here. "a lot of the people in prison are some seriously bad dudes" seems to imply that we can justify mistreatment of millions of Americans.

If there are problems with prison violence we should address those rather than just limiting access to books.
A kindle itself isn't acceptable. The batteries that it uses along with, well, not being clear cause problems.

https://laughingsquid.com/transparent-devices-used-in-us-pri...
Not parrot droppings
I am eager to read the Urteil.
Especially considering that this kind of liability was the norm in germany, at least always questioned.
Then, in 2017 there was a law to „fix“ that.
And now there is a ruling contradicting the idea of the law (§ 8 Telemediengesetz) as it seems.

Main problem with german law is that the courts have too much freedom because they know, the lawmakers produce low quality laws nowadays.

Just compare any old law with any of the newer ones…
Germany is losing it, sadly.
> Under normal circumstances, he would have travelled abroad to bring back treatments for Haoyang from specialist centres overseas, but China has largely closed its borders since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is complete BULLSHIT that these arbitrary Covid-19 travel regulations got in this father's way. In situations where what you're doing is really important, forget the stupid regulations! Don't blindly follow the orders of the UN beaurucrats 5000 miles away until your death.
I'll guess you're so sure of your worldview that it wasn't worth a google search. SMH

The stories of paper goods (including mail) being soaked is prevalent.
Personally I’m not a fan of the fugitive/magit style UI, ie learn a bunch of esoteric commands (:Git blah) so that you don’t need to remember the other set of original commands.

With lazygit/tig, at least there is a visual pager with shortcut letter I need to press along with a text hint about what it actually does.
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AFAIK Giphy is of little to no consequence, with no business case except through spying (ie generic signals value)

It sends mostly copywrong funny little animations along with text messages, on every service that cannot be thought to be very secure.

Facebook here is arguing correctly that for most of these 'people use it and it's somehow social' the only business cases come out of combined signals intelligence, or there may be investors that simply care about time spent with a service or total customer volume. Facebook's engagement stats etc. are thusly valueable that there is a business case at all. What value is it, if it weren't some sort of hedgemony being build?

"will also be required to reinstate the innovative advertising services that Giphy offered before the merger."

UK is very funny! It does not understand 'computer' that well yet, but now it commands what's probably the most exploitative/derogatory/negative component of Giphy to be reinstated! Such savvy government activities. Certainly, this will 'materially' impact the advertisement market, hahaha!
As someone with some genetic diseases, it’s feels unfortunate to be born too early
I can't see anybody seriously arguing that bad people intent on commiting crime exist; the questions, rather, is "how many people?", "how bad are they really?", "how serious the crime is?", and "is locking them up really the best way to deal with it?".

But even ignoring all that, there are clearly better ways to deal with contraband.