skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then - they offer you a very low percentage if you sell your book anywhere else… and a not so terrible % if you go with them (not great, but not terrible).

Audible's network effects can only be dislodged by people not listing their books on Audible at all; so this shouldn't have much of an effect.

> For an individual seller it is worth taking that deal. So they do. But the consequence is that no other market can achieve comparable power.

Right; so the approach would be for BetterBooks, before launch, to talk privately to a large number of publishers, with an offer like, "You agree to drop Audible and only go with us for 3 years, if we can get 60% of publishers to agree to do the same." If Audible's deal is really as horrible as this person is making out, it should be easy for any individual publisher to agree to that; and easy to get 60% of publishers on board. Then when BetterBooks launches, they have loads of great titles which Audible is lacking.
Looks really good. I would love to be able to generate HCL palettes like https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/
In the context of “government agencies”, they can just order Microsoft to make it possible, if they care.

In the case of Windows for Warships[0], one of the arguments (if they absolutely had to use Windows and nothing else) might be something like “Dear Mr. Gates, if you don’t empower us to do our job, we can’t guarantee that North Korea won’t retarget our nukes at your face. Sincerely, the Royal Navy.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System
Think about talk with a real crew of people, your team maybe, and nobody keeps eyes contact with you. Who's listening?
You'd think that having 5 "waves", two of which easily infected 50% of the population, most waves while having vaccines available, lockdowns and ... would have proven beyond anyone's reasonable doubt that the measures (and heavy handed government enforcement) were totally ineffective. "Wrong" in other words.

Essentially all governments initially promised a lockdown with the express purpose of not having to deal with a long drawn-out epidemic. I can only say: Well done!

Then came the promises: okay, not short, but they'll keep vulnerable groups safe! Well, studies now say, most people vulnerable to covid ... died. Despite the measures.

So we have the worst of all possible worlds:

1) people who were sensitive to covid for some reason largely died (as proven by very comparable death rates between countries with vastly different measures, once you exclude the tiny, obviously lying (China, Russia, a bunch of others), islands other than Britain, or those that don't have any health care to effectively determine cause of death)

2) we had ENORMOUS negative impacts from ineffective measures to prevent 1.

But you can't talk with people who imagine they're disease free, and terrified of losing that "pure" status. It is very well known that any human's immune system is constantly fighting a few hundred battles with a few hundred different diseases, even in the cleanest human alive. And on top of that, fights with internal problems, like cancers, even the odd too enthousiastic immune system cell.

Of course, now that all measures have failed, people have generally decided to settle on the most hateful conclusion possible: that the spread of all waves was the fault of all these other people who don't agree with extreme measures ...
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It is, by design.

If you mean to say it's not deflationary because there's a limited amount of it that doesn't technically decrease, that doesn't help.

First, Bitcoin does lose coins over time. When wallet keys are lost, or "dust" happens, that means that money can't ever be spent again. This is independent of the USD value.

Second, the economy can grow. Eg, if the population grows, or a factory starts producing more goods, then there's now more stuff per unit of currency. That's still deflation.
I use the Nook for it's terrific screen. It is an absolute pleasure to read on. I even installed Anki on it (Ankidroid) to study.

Though I happen to be self-disciplined enough to concentrate on the task at hand, I recognize that not everybody is.
I would say that the law about enough eyeballs and shallow bugs, call it what you will, works remarkably well. It doesn't imply that bugs get fixed, only that they are shallow. Notice the vagueness of this statement.

When some eyeballs find excuses to not fix the bugs or find a more entertaining problem to bikeshed, other enterprising eyeballs are busy creating 0day exploits for bugs they shallow.
Do we count all Nobel laureates the same in that list?

i.e. is a Peace Laureate the same value in showing the superiority of a particular university as a Chemistry Laureate or even Literature Laureate?

The list looks very different if you take that into account.
Indeed, that is why even though I regulary rant about C or its influence in C++/Objective-C, I am not naive to think it is going to go away until we switch to something radically different in computing models (away from UNIX, quantum, whatever), hence why at the same time there is a very big value in achieving some improved security while using those languages, regardless that we still cannot make it 100%, 90% there is better than nothing.
Right…but OpenGL is being replaced across the industry by modern rendering APIs like Vulkan etc. Isn’t WebGL 2 still based on OpenGL?
Should probably be population, population density, and GDP/capita. Nobody knows the GDP of Mexico, but they might know it's about the same as Serbia per capita.
Not an attack vector per se, but largely used for fingerprinting.
Including Germany (one position higher).

Love that the Faroe Islands is at the top with one prize.
I am looking more into the exact nature of the multilingual data used by GPT-3 and it's a little hard. The main paper mostly focuses on the algorithms which is less interesting to me.

The key is, if you have aligned or parallel texts, then you can use structural similarities in the lexicon to bootstrap a mapping from one language to another without referring to substantive meaning (which I will maintain is how humans do translation), even if you don't have a dictionary as such. This is not surprising, but I would expect it to have severe limits.
I understand that, it's written in the article, but it doesn't seem to me as problematic as doing an MRI for example.
Power OK signals are used to prevent latch ups in silicon due to power glitches. The signals will route to power management ICs to ensure a full reset with proper bringing up of the power rails on any power glitch.
Show HN: Electric Shift – is carbon intensity lower tonight or tomorrow night?
It's interesting that Bezos basically left Amazon to have his mid-life crisis. He handed over the reigns for all the important stuff and went off to work on other stuff whilst he partied on yachts.

Facebook is so tied to Zuckerberg as a person that Zuckerberg's mid-life crisis is facebook's mid-life crisis. Facebook as a product has basically reached maturity, and it makes perfect sense that the company uses the cash they're throwing off to pursue other bets. But strategically refocusing the entire company on AR/VR is just bizarre. It damages the existing business which is still hugely valuable, it ties the new business to an existing reputation which is abysmal, and it makes the chances of success tiny - because you don't need to make something new that works, you need to make something new that justifies a trillion dollar market cap.
Fascinating person. This device really does feel ahead of it's time. What was his story for the period after the tree scam till his death?
I found with admin rules turned up I was getting the same. And you can’t have different rules per service, such as daily for email but every time for Admin console. So I did what I probably should’ve done, created two different accounts for myself.

The admin account I only need every so often, but my regular account with no admin privileges follows our regular user domain settings around MFA session times, etc. and I’m rarely prompted now and it is awesome.

I highly recommend this approach as a balance of practical security and quality of life.
Ads are not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is tracking.

The internet has not been broken by ads. It’s been broken by data harvesting and monopolies. Contextual ads are no problem IMO, and can sometimes be a helpful (economic) signal. Without ads how can challengers get some awareness?

So yes for targeted ads, but only if it does not require personal data. Contextual ads can be targeted without engaging in use of personal data.
Hmm, for my company it would be something like: Don’t upset the customer, so move slow and be careful.

But that’s only what is desired by the company. Individuals inside the company still push people to do things quickly at the expense of quality.

We also have leadership principles: ‘Play a team sport: so keep discussing everything with everyone until nobody disagrees (either through actual agreement or exhaustion)’.
There's a table with only scientific prizes taken into account there, too. Doesn't change much, Germany is still higher than the US.
Yes really.
We need a platform with ATTENTION ASSIST, like what provide from car manufacter for driving assistance..
It does look like HTML supports this via the <bdo> tag [0]:

data:text/html,<bdo>&%23x202E;reversed</bdo>&nbsp;not reversed

So I guess this should be used to wrap any user-supplied text that allows arbitrary unicode.

Or using Unicode:

data:text/html,&%23x2068;&%23x202E;reversed&%23x2069;&nbsp;not reversed

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bd...
Tree - единый AST чтобы править всеми
And that's why DDD doesn't just involve development teams. It explicitly calls for people who are competent in the domain and know the details that need attention to be involved in the design process.
Not at all. If you have two equally likely possibilities - malice and incompetence - you should assume incompetence.

I have another saying though: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”.
So?

Web technologies lag behind desktop technologies for good reasons.

WebGL 2 is based on OpenGL ES 3, which brings it to rough feature parity with a fairly common baseline for GPU APIs that dates back to 2007-2008-ish, the OpenGL 3 / DirectX 10 feature set. This is a pretty good feature set.
Disclaimer: I work for a small e-commerce firm named after a large river, opinions are my own. Writing in response since the company I work at is one whose values is quoted in the article.

My initial approach to the values was a similar "Who cares, these are bland corporatese" one. It wasn't until a 10+ year senior engineer on my team discussed the trade-offs between the values in an architecture meeting that I really understood the purpose. Take two of the values[1]:

"Dive deep" vs "Bias for action" - these have an inherent tension between the two. You can justify any action with either one, but it is about knowing when to apply what. You do not want to be Diving Deep as your first action when you are oncall and your alarms are going off in every direction, but it may need to be your third.

"Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit" has opposite ideas written into it! Having backbone is about being able to back up your position with as much data and research as you can. Disagree and Commit is about not being emotionally invested in your position and not taking things personally when the team chooses to go another way. It is recognizing the fact that you may be working in an area of ambiguity where no one side can be proven right before the fact.

Like most worthy things in life, there is a lot of nuance to these that cannot be expressed in a pithy 140 (or 280) character limit. But the idea that you should have "anti-values" is a very, very useful one. It allows you to think through different scenarios and explain what your team/organization/company would prioritize when there are competing priorities.

[1] - https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/principles
The competitions controller may be ignoring the F_FULLFSYNC. This is a known issue which is why apple have approved vendors for mac pro drives.
16ms is just longer than one AC cycle at 60Hz and less than one AC cycle at 50Hz.

I would has a guess that 16ms is the physical limit for most consumer hardware (and maybe commercial computing) to detect mains loss.

Of course there is industrial hardware that can detect quicker than this but it would add a LOT of cost for arguably little gain, or something that could be solved in another manner.
Is GNOME Builder intended to be usable as a general-purpose IDE, beyond just developing GNOME applications? It seems like with a bit of work it could be a very nice alternative to the usual picks.
The Court Says, Don’t Use Google Fonts
“How do you know if someone has disabled JavaScript? Don’t worry” the joke goes … “they’ll tell you”.

There’s always someone in a browser tech thread that has to proclaim their security high ground to the unwashed masses.

In my opinion, these comments do not add value to the discussion and should avoided.
As one that usually works in the 99% developer space, when we adopt stuff like GraphQL or serverless, is mostly because we are forced into it by new products, or they were the sales pitch to get new consulting gigs.
It isn't, because otherwise it would be showing the ~same performance with and without sync commands, as I showed in the thread. There is a significant performance loss for every drive, but Apple's is way worse.

There is no real excuse for a single sector write to take ~20ms to flush to NAND, all the while the NAND controller is generating some 10MB/s of DRAM traffic. This is a dumb firmware design issue.
Personally I don't feel a moral dilemma about not giving revenue to YouTube.

That said, if Person A buys an LTT water bottle and block all ads and Person B watches all ads and never buys anything, then Person B needs to watch thousands of ads to make up the same revenue from that single merchandise purchase.

I agree with Linus that skipping ads is piracy, but if you finance it in better ways should you care?

For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUxOnoWsFU
It is more a culture of searching then. Joking aside. Culture of writing usually includes the fact that people search by themselves for information and that information is stored in a central place. Otherwise we would call the Slack threads culture a culture of writing too.

The expression culture of writing is badly chosen for the tech world
if it was easy as you say… it would take a massive investment - and that’s a demonstration of a moat right there.

But it wouldn’t be that easy - because Amazon can afford to give better deals to the top 1% of popular authors and thus the cost to achieve what you’re saying would be far higher.
I bookmarked it in the Blockchain folder, just in case.
Carbon Ads: https://www.carbonads.net ?
I wonder if it's a sign of the HN crowd moving from startups to FAANGs.

So much for the "hacker" news...
Punctuality-maniac policy. Take your seat at 09:01 (or 08:59!) rather than at 09:00 precisely and you're fucked. A delegate from a partner company or an employment candidate who would arrive to an appointed meeting 10 minutes later or earlier is considered a dick and treated with lowest priority.
The case I have in mind where it would suddenly die around 30% would happen around that point regardless of load, even asleep, after following a sufficiently typically linear discharge curve up to that point. Maybe the power management system gets a fraction of a second’s notice, I don’t know; but it wasn’t a 30% plummeting to zero over the course of ten or thirty seconds, or even a “30%; no—0%; no—dead” case, which seem to be the much more common failure modes. As for the “pull the AC power and it instantly dies” cases, I’m a layman in battery matters, with no more than high school electronics, but I’d be surprised if there’s enough in there for it to do anything—those are cases where either it literally has no battery to draw on (because it’s electronically dead), or thinks it has a battery but discovers as soon as it tries to draw on it that it effectively doesn’t actually.
You're the second to misinterpret that, so I'll reformulate to make it clearer. I did project Euler exercises as a learning project.
Somewhere at NSA there must be an equivalent museum with the hardware that helps deciphering PX1000-Cr ciphertexts
But why are you "rotating" keys? Most of the reasons people give involve unnecessary exposure of the private key material, which is exactly what you're encouraging by having 1password keep these keys instead of them living on individual hardware.
This happened exactly. It had 5 upvotes yesterday (Liberia).
How Tech Can (and Can’t) Help You Fight Soaring Energy Bills
Both the top island nations have their one prize in economics, which is a fake Nobel prize, and shouldn't be on that list at all.
Well it is very easy to miss. ;) Thank you!
I’m still happily using uMatrix.
How about desktops that don't have anywhere to put status icons? i.e. what if I don't want to have any panels? Working as a normal window should be an option in all applications.
Personalizing ads per se does not need tracking or profiling. Doing it server-side and checking if the targeting works does.

the Mr Robot scandal for better or worse, was implemented almost like this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941302
"Human Resources" Department

I think that says enough about how company and it bosses think.
It may be interpreting it differently. You arent comparing apples to apples, quite literally.

Why not compare macOS and linux on approved x86 mac hardware. i.e. fusion drive or whatever.

Also, as suggested - try F_BARRIERFSYNC, which flushes anything before the barrier (used for WAL IIRC).
I use it exclusively, don't remember the last time I looked for the title bar.
A state of war is mostly a lose-lose situation.

It's not lose-lose though. The creator loses, but I don't. If I don't care about a specific creator (and I obviously don't if I don't pay them and I block their ads) then I'm only losing access to the content they produce, which I value at essentially zero. So, really, I'm not losing anything. I just move on to the next YouTube video/podcast/whatever.
You can see the result if you drag the map to your browsers address bar ("...images/countries/COUNTRY_CODE/vector.svg").

Edit: Removing solution and replacing it with COUNTRY_CODE.
There's definitely quite some room for improvement.
Thanks!
> I understand the author probably can't reveal exact numbers

I do :) Here they are: https://plausible.io/nslookup.io Last month was exactly 400 USD from Carbon Ads. It does depend a lot on ad placement and target demographic, so your mileage may vary.
mutation testing is one example: if you make random changes (random in terms of transforming valid code to different valid code) to the code being tested, you should expect that the test will then fail. If not, there is some part of the code's behaviour which is not being tested.
If there was a “report spam” button, companies would hire people to “report” anything that praises their competitors’ products.
Absolutely agreed. If we're going to be hyperbolic, the web itself is an attack vector. Better stay disconnected.
This sounds like my personal definition of hell.
> students should put in some amount of effort to determine the value of obtaining a degree. How are they supposed to do that?

Fine, i will answer that, even though it is irrelevant. Because no matter what the value that is determined by the student, the linchpin is the lenders' willingness to bet on the repayment.

A student can value the degree financially, by looking at the post-graduation salary, and potential career progression, discounted by some probability of not making it. Salary information is readily available for common professions.

A student can also value in part their interest and passion - a degree in history might not bring money in a career, but gives the student personal satisfaction. Therefore, the student would value the degree higher than the same degree being valued by a financial lender.
> A) amazon alone decides when to float credits and their price

Yes.

> B) authors are promised a certain rate (40%) of the price, but in reality this credit system destroys that %% completely

No. They are not promised a rate of the retail price. They are promised a share of the net sales of credits, proportional to how many of the credits were spent on their books. They should know the key parts of the business model here: Audible sell the credits for significantly cheaper than the retail price, and the narrators are being paid based on the actual amount spent on the credits not based on the retail price.

> C) in the end amazon makes always a >60% profit off each book, irrespective of the price sold.

No. The minimum revenue per-book guarantee is being hit every single month. So the narrators are being paid a bigger share than the contract promised, and Amazon is paying that difference from their cut.

> D) Their incentive is thus to sell as many units as they can,

And since the earlier points were incorrect, this conclusion doesn't actually follow.
Kind of, yes you are right, however sometimes it is possible to balance it wiht other senior skills that are technology agnostic.

So one might not get in due to lacking .NET skills, but the other enterprise architecture and soft skills will be just as relevant.

Then it is up to the person to sell themselves.

Source, I have been jumping across .NET, Java, C++, native and Web for almost 30 years now.
> Less political orgs: I’ve found that the companies without a culture of writing are the most political.

Hm, I do wonder what James Damore would have to say about that
That's because scrollwheels are way too clicky and not scrolly enough.

You feel every click, and it is translated to aproximately a three line scroll in the document.

It is a very discrete signal, instead of a continuous signal.

Touchpads have this right, the scroll is very smooth, and you can scroll by tiny amounts if you want.

In a way, it is a limitation of the 25+ years old technology. Why it has not been updated to something smoother is a mystery to me.
This is why minimum wage, that prohibits low-wage work, and minimum floor size ordinances, that prohibit micro-suites, are so harmful.

Fortunately the former has been mostly neutralized by the statutory minimum wage being reduced by inflation, but the latter is getting worse, with more such laws being implemented and reducing affordable housing.
These anti-privacy company will try every mean to violate privacy anyway. So your idea is to simply pretend the fact that every single website on internet has facebook/google tracker, instead of trying to set up a way that can regulate them?
Personally I have never used facebook, self-host almost everything and have a master degree in privacy, but I still find the work worth considering.
Negotiation is always better than nothing.
There sure is a lot of squinting going on in this thread.
Following the strategy of Facebook. I bought a Rift S at the time. VR can be amazing. But since then the device has to be regularly cleaned from dust and now sits inside a box that probably doesn't get opened very often.

The technology has still problems and is very anti-social. You would only use it if you are alone and you would also need enough space.

I believe it would have been much more successful if developers didn't close up their environments to the largest degree possible because you need the hobby developers to make interesting stuff. There are examples here and there, but I haven't seen too much of that.

Having Microsoft keeping you "safe" can be turned into a horror movie.
After reading this comment I’m not so sure about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30371181