skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a fair amount of sarcasm across these comments, due to the ridiculous nature of this topic.
Maybe in an ideal world, but I think it would require way more coordination and upkeep than you are giving credit for in order to do that at the scale required. Way easier to maintain a couple dozen distributed nuke plants with wind and solar to handle daytime peaks and residential, personal use where appropriate.
The twitter thread and the accompanying website don't quite tell me what's going on besides 'not as much money as expected'. But I can't quite see what the 'Net Sales' problem is, it's just stated as "less money" for no reason? Although I am tired so maybe something just isn't clicking. I don't doubt that the terms of the deal are poor though.

I had wondered for a while how the credit system worked, and if the increase in sales made up for the 'deal' off audiobooks. I get $50-$60 audiobooks for $15, there's something mismatched there. Either the audiobook was priced at an extreme premium, or, it seems, Amazon just isn't paying the price I would expect.

Edit: I found one response from an author that I think makes a simple point, if not perhaps what the thread describes (still can't tell). It's impossible for authors to calculate their expected royalties as there are so many varieties of discounts and price points that customers can pay for a single book: https://twitter.com/AdamEcclesBooks/status/14933236569105489...

Which makes sense to me, as there's purchases and credits and various subscription tiers and audible unlimited and these are just the things I can think up off the top of my head. But again, I would buy a small fraction of the audiobooks I have purchased at full price.
The line

f/1;#/+

is parsed differently depending on the day. On Friday it's [ "f", "/1;#/", "+" ]
Other days it's parsed as [ "f", "/", "1", ";" ].

Perl is parsing /1;#/ is a regex based on whether f takes arguments. Otherwise it parses the slash as division and then the hash is a comment.

Another example could be:

foo() {
some_func / 1;#/; die "It died"
foo
}

Which depends on some_func to not halt. some_func could come from another file, set by whoever invokes the current file. Whatever, it's determed at runtime.

This leads to a proof that perl is a actually impossible to parse.

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393

Which means you can't do a lot of static tooling on perl because you just can't analyses the source accurately. (Compared to say python, which parses source before running it)
No, it is not. Never heard a Japanese person say "Huh?". They say "Ha?". Similar but not the same and used less often the English "Huh?" It's usually only used in a kind of extreme shock situation where as "Huh?" in English, or at least USA English, is way more common.

English

a) "Hello"

b) "huh?" (meaning I didn't hear you)

a) "I just said Hello"

Japanese

a) "I went to buy a car but I bought a camel"

b) "HA?" (WTF?)

a) "Yea, seriously. It drinks lots of water"
The question is, why can you chop down one tree at $100/tree?
Skimming it and it seems like a mixture of pop-sci and crankery. Ghosts, teleportation, and telepathy in the same book.
The suffering is the point. Microsoft depends on you being unable to find joy in computing.
The other day, I wanted to check if a text file's 100,000th word was being indexed, so I generated a text file with 99,999 lines containing "foo" and one line with "bar" with this line in bash

perl -e 'print "foo\n" for 1..99999; print "bar\n";' > foobar.txt
McCarthy's other brilliant book, Suttree, is like Faulkner on acid with incredible prose and a grotesque sense of humour (there's an infamous scene with a melon and a desperate man). I've never read a man describe trash and filth quite so beautifully.
imo if you with your experience is already questioning these issues after 1.5 weeks it stands to show that this company, without a vast overhaul, seems to be the issue instead of you, as an individual.

It doesn't seem like a high-risk career move if you were able to substantiate your claims to recruiters/hiring managers/whoever in the event that they were to discover this inconsistency in your resume.
Winning also helps. There were times when my side business was killing it. Emails from customers telling us how much they love the product and growing sales. I had endless energy.

Evolutionarily you are programmed to not expend energy unless you either have continuous progress/rewards or threat of harm if you don't keep at it. Perhaps these can be hacked but I haven't yet found a way.
>being able to invent and implement unique solutions to hard problems that you can’t just download a framework or library to fix.

The first step on this is really learning my algorithms and data structures, no?

I'm a 'needs frameworks' programmer at the moment and I often hate what I do because programming by scouring reddit for something that isn't well documented is beyond demoralizing. If I could just build what I need on the fly that would be luxurious.
Just want to point out that this challenge seems to be that the whole field / approach is unlikely to work. Perhaps. Still, presumably some of those challenging him specifically are in the field and they should be expected to explain why the math he carried out was wrong.
I struggle with it while focused intensely building my MVP which I am enjoying immensely. Take a walk with the dog often and be prepared and give yourself the time, when your body needs to shut down on periodic random days. It will let you know or else you will start getting sick more often (flu, common colds), etc.
Looks very Haskelly. My suspicion is that it will evolve into APL or J ;)
Just use Uncle Dave's Emacs videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39u8K12rXHE&list=UUDEtZ7AKmw...

Every other resource absolutely sucks.
I like it.

The only thing which bothered me is that it uses google as a search engine. Can Startpage be used instead of google? I try to avoid as many google products as possible, mainly their proprietary ones.
Supposedly this happened to a commuter rail line in Oregon; zero housing has been built around it because every land owner now wants top dollar.
Agreed.

One of my favorite books ever, and I personally love the writing style.
The examples for for-comprehension looks very compelling. But it's painful in practice. It is still way too clunky compared to line-by-line imperative* code.

something(a = effectfulA(), b = effectfulB())

This would be three lines in a for-comprehension. With noisy variable names.

---

> We can even combine things, so F could be CorrelationId => Promise<*>

And then you need to litter your code with `liftF` and whatnot.

---

*You are still doing imperative programming whether you use the language's built-in flow control or use an IO monad.
I used docusaurus for https://docs.graphjson.com/ and it's been super great. Everything is in markdown. The file system mimics the website paths. All SEO/Meta tags are just taken care of automagically. Highly recommend!
Well, go ahead, we're waiting.
What I would say to your assertion is this.

I am the last person, hired in 2000, that has stayed with our division/site within our company, who enjoys what they do (Oracle DBA).

Everyone hired since has been gone within 3 years.

We are hiring the wrong people, and I'm starting to quietly state that fact. We need to hire people with an appreciation of computing history, specifically with a desire to learn VMS and OS2200.

In the same way, education needs to hire the "dedicated long-haulers."

These people are probably not in their 20s. Maybe, but likely not.

They need to proselytize, and they need to be efficient.

I acknowledge that such people do not come cheap, but they are the point of the infrastructure.
use i.reddit.com (which redirects to the /.compact version of the urls).
> Ticking the 'dont ask again' option has no effect.

There is an option that can be set that has the effect. It is a horrible that the check box is still there after the option is set.
Canadians were told by the government that their money wasn't safe in the banks so now there's a silent bank run going on. Outages could be intentional or simply a side effect of a sudden large number of unusual and unexpected transactions.
Thanks! I can look into adding additional search engines. I've never heard of Startpage.
> Solar and wind seem, thus far, relatively immune to corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra?oldformat=true

> Solyndra executives misled federal officials to obtain $535 million in government-backed loans, with the help of former President Barack Obama's White House.

I haven't heard of much large scale wind projects. Most smaller scale corruption happens at the local level and rarely makes the news.
I’m kind of expecting snaps to be a fad on Ubuntu. They really don’t seem to buy much and have nontrivial overhead.
When conclusions are far outside reality, one must question the process and axioms from which it was generated. Reasoning from false premises can be strongly supported analytically.
99% feels like an exaggeration. I've talked to many developers from non-FAANG companies, and it isn't at all uncommon for them to be using GraphQL or serverless. I guess there is some selection bias since they are usually applying to a unicorn, so they are probably more likely to come from environments that fit the "1%".

Whether this distinction is relevant to you depends on where you sit. If you are a startup selling developer tools, by all means think about the 99% developers, but also know that a lot of them are in environments that don't spend a lot on tools and are averse to exploring new technologies. If you are a developer in one of these environments, well, the standard advice on Hacker News is already "You're not Google."

I feel like some of this is a bit fatalistic. The 99% can follow a DevOps playbook if they realize its value, and it's cheaper to have DevOps than to not have DevOps, in the anything-more-than-short timeframe. The 99% can certainly have test coverage standards for new code. Somehow, we moved from a world where the 99% didn't use source control, and now they do! Some technologies and practices are so impactful, you should aspire to them no matter what you're environment is (e.g. code review, CI/CD).

The 99% concept also hides a lot of important details, as it's defined by exclusion. The choices you need to make for an early stage startup, a mature WordPress shop for small businesses, and a legacy mainframe team in a F50 are as different from each other as they are from FAANG.
Lumber is a great way to sequester carbon. Plant more trees!
I would just think of it as 1 global static SQLiteConnection instance. There's really not a whole lot to it. Like 4 lines in a class file to set this up.
I used to be super risk averse. One thing that helped me is to play games that punish being too risk averse. For me, that game was Poker. In Poker if you are too risk averse, since the game is naturally adversarial, you get crushed.

I would play online on PokerStars with free fake chips and over time I could actively feel myself becoming more risk seeking. I no longer always thought my opponent was better than me. I would bluff in crazy positions just to see what happens. Occasionally I would overstep my boundaries and become too risk seeking. Overall the game forces you to become more rational with how you perceive and act on risk. Would highly recommend!
Have they asked Audible to explain what numbers they have / for an explication?

I don’t feel like the twitter thread was detailed enough to be sure what is happening.
Please do. This is alarming
Nah, you just cheat a little and the error is small enough to handwave: https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-237.pdf
All you have to do is clear the local storage values.
You're going to be very disappointed to find out that physics is nothing at all like social sciences.
Mechanical/appliances alone can run more than the inflation adjusted Sears house
Lil Jordle – Lil Jon Wordle
If other people succeeding causes you discomfort the problem is not with them or the medium where they advertise their success. The problem is with you.

I suggest to chill out and be stoic about it.

It is unlikely there is only one way you could have reached happiness in your life and that you just missed it.
Or you could.
I had to fix tests that broke from 11pm-midnight because some assumptions that now() + 1 hour was the same local date.
I think the percentage could be relative size of countries instead. Still a hint and kinda intuitive.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Afosr)
In Praise of SWARMing (2018)
If your pizza is totally frozen or served on a metal plate, you might want to know why it either is working very slowly or is blowing up the house. :)
For the arrow hint to work at all, countries need to be a single point. I intuitively assumed the hull centre without really thinking about it.
Out of sincere curiosity: Why do you think GraphQL is so bad?

I've been using GraphQL for a little while now and I've had nothing but good experiences (although my use case might not be the most common) so I'm interested in knowing what makes you think so poorly of it.
I notice on the modify page, dragging the sliders, the color update lags. Is that intentional?
The company I work at runs a HA setup of Temporal on K8s, so Temporal atop k8s is a great recipe. I'd be curious to hear the reasoning for Temporal replacing K8s (or do you just mean replacing a piece of k8s?) Seeing as how as reconciliation is just a tool it uses for it's container orchestration, not sure Temporal would replace that but an interesting idea nonetheless.
Awesome, thanks! Well was worth a try.. Heh
No. It sounds like you're typing the name of your preferred search engine each time you want to use it instead of having a search bar. Almost no one types it out every time.

People are switching to DDG from word of mouth.
Like the Wordle, the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you. How you enjoy it is all up to you. There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway.
I used to use Audible, then I got a few public library cards (they're easy to get), and now use Libby on mobile and desktop
The problem of using the word Genius with anybody is that, to make it proportional, forces you to establish the Church of von Neumann :-)
Lol. I worked at CEX.
Writing in the context of preceding comment. Landlords increase prices as much as they're able, they don't decline to increase when they could to maintain some fixed margin. I'm not saying they're generally unable to rise prices in general, but that they have no special additional capacity to raise prices in response to land taxes.
I think you mean hovering to get the widget to appear, going to click it and having it auto-hide as your cursor is on the way, then hover again, repeat 2 more times, then finally be able to click and drag the widget.
Very interesting. The current state of tray icons is one of the most painful aspects of desktop Linux, in my opinion. Where are these discussions happening, and what kinds of plans are in the works?
The site has more details in other articles. They're not worth reading. There's no substance just a lot of charged language. And I'm really annoyed at spending any time at all on reading this.

The narrators don't get paid by the retail price (and the contract doesn't suggest they would). Basically Audible splits the money spent on credits among the books that the credits were spent on in proportion to the number of credits spent on that book, but weighted by the retail price. I.e. a credit spent on a long expensive book pays the narrator more than the same credit spent on a medium length book, even though the credit cost the same to customer.

There's an undocumented revenue floor for price tranche of books. If the revenues per copy would end up lower than the floor in a billing period due to e.g. some promotion that flooded the economy with cheap credits, Audible makes up the difference and pays the narrator at least that minimum amount per copy. Apparently that floor is being hit every time, i.e. Audible is paying them more than they are actually required by the contract. The author thinks this is a smoking gun that proves how they're being cheated, which is an odd take.

Since the credits are far cheaper than the retail prices, it should hardly be surprising that the effective sales price is cheaper than the retail price.
The apologists always scream about how "cars will run us over if we're not loud enough to shake the teeth out of your skull!" but I've searched and not found one single study that supports that claim.
Canadians are so stupid that we have allowed raw logs to be sold to Chinese offshore lumber mill ships, to be sold back to us, instead of insisting that the value-added processes be kept on-shore so that we have good-paying jobs for our own citizens.
How would you implement caching, or looking up for the decryption key for some directory in a lookup table, if `Documents` and `documents` must both resolve to the same entry? Some kind of normalization would be needed, right? Then you need to introduce encoding, and [Unicode?] normalization. Shivers
Would that be a good use case for something like Userify, so that there's no need to store any keys in a base image/AMI where they can't be easily updated/removed? Then you don't need to give your private keys to a third party, either.
When did the funding from state dry up? In the 60's the cost of univerity was like ~$1500 which is ~$11,000 today, yet today people are in debt for up to 100's of 1000's. The higher education act was introduced in the 60's, and its been downhill from there.
That makes sense. I need to try U2F for SSH more thoroughly I guess.
I have been using LaTeX for decades, so it is very little effort for me
How do you manage profile pictures for your SaaS?
How exactly does it penalize people who paid off their loans? I'm not following that line of reasoning. If you could pay off your loans, then that's great. You should feel good about that accomplishment.
Best case scenario a publisher will get 40% of the sale. That seems extremely low.
I am confused. I spent a decent amount of time reading the thread and the linked article, and I see no proof, only an accusation that Amazon/Audible are manipulating their calculation of “Net Sales” in “shady ways”. Is the accusation that people are getting paid a percentage of an audible credit instead of a percentage of the retail price when a credit is used? Or that they don’t get paid when someone returns a purchase? Because those both seem very obviously how it should work and not at all a -gate situation. If someone has a better understanding of the root problem, I’d be very happy for a short explanation.
Those are themes for thought experiments more than things the author defends (as one would expect with a foreword from Martin Gardner who was a strong skeptic):

> This, finally, is the essence of synchronicity: the world we live in is filled with harmonies and coincidences that have no explanation in terms of cause and effect. It is fruitless to seek after hidden forces and occult powers. The world is a given — it is just as it is, full of cause and effect, full of synchronicity.
>
> Some people have taken these new developments to mean that such psychic feats as telepathy and psychokinesis are now firmly established scientific realities. This is not correct.
Check this out then, https://www.ovr.ai, uses the hexagon co-ordinate system to cover the surface of a sphere. My co-founder told me recently that this hexagon system has been in development in the academic world for about a decade.

In our spare time, our team had been discussing on an ideal way to lay some form of "grid" over Earth so we can co-ordinate Climate actions & results between providers and buyers. We wanted a system that has been done before and we can build on top of it.
these days, research papers have figures and tables that automatically generated with knitr/R or similar systems. that is the future. can spreadsheets do that?
Practical Quantization in PyTorch
My reading of it is that it's easiest to program if they just ask google maps the latlon of the country and use that. It's a lot more work to base it off the closest border.
A Twisted Maze of Dependencies
The password is not a dictionary word, it’s randomly generated though?
SMS is not strong enough, especially for protecting ALL of your 2FA codes + passwords. SIM swapping attacks frequently occur, and it doesn't even have to be with your carrier.
> His book is mostly about the signalling and human capital models of education. The vast majority of post-secondary students say they attend post-secondary education in order to increase their future earnings

So what about the partying, making friends for life, and learning to be an adult?

What about care-free student life as a carrot to incentivise young adults to go into careers that might not be good for them personally, but good for society?

Or how about letting people have careers that are personally fulfilling, but not economically productive?

Taking a year abroad to study in the middle of whatever university education you're in is a financially stupid decision. And yet, one I recommend every single student to do, because it's fun.

A million years ago when I was nearing the end of high school, we all talked about which university educations were financially the best, and worst. Which educations "paid for themselves", and which ones didn't. Everyone knew. And then we all picked whatever we personally liked and thought we would enjoy working with in the future.

Caplan might be 100% right. And also 100% irrelevant.
How do you implement this using a stateless stack (eg PHP)?
Mixing services particularly on ETH chain like Tornoda Cash (https://tornado.cash/) are perfect feature for scammers/hackers to wash their money/coins.

That is why recently the majority of scammers/hackers have started taking ransom via ETH or ERC-20 tokens to wash it through these mixing services. Compared to the other method of using Privacy coins like Monero/Dash/Zcash etc.

Do not that these stuff is not a bug but a 'feature'.
libAdwaita is an attempt at providing a consistent framework for making GUI applications in Linux.

People commenting on MacOS UX often forget that people creating Mac GUI applications aren't magically better at doing UX than Linux users. It's orders of magnitude easier to make ok looking GUI applications on a mac.

Besides the fact that cocoa on mac has evolved over a decade(when linux people were busy constantly reinventing gtk themeing engines and display servers), cocoa had more books on building gui applications in ~2010 than the entire history of gtk and gnome together.

And while the gnome team is busy constantly tweaking small visual details, glib is still a nightmare to work with.

It's also full of ticks in places you'd think should be fixed by now. For over a decade selecting folders in gtk/gnome has been broken by design:

- open folder selection dialog

- click a folder by mistake without double clicking it

- clicking the select folder button now enters the folder instead of selecting the current folder

- there no way to unselect the selection. -> you have to enter the folder, then go a level up and then select the folder

Kirigami looks promising, but it doesn't look anywhere near production quality polish.
I agree, except as I am not in the VC rat race I am more than happy to suggest people keep it simple.
> not sufficiently held accountable for borrowers who couldn't repay loans

What is the gold standard for accountability here? Does a large state university track repayment ability for longer periods?
Negative,I am a Metamates
-Bruce Willis The 5th element
Got it in 4!
Mask wearing was the one thing I hoped would stay. A lot less people spreading droplets as they cough in public and with the abuse of facial recognition I like that everyone had the ability to wear a mask and cover their face. I know other forms of tracking are very possible like gait recognition but taking one layer of their tracking away seemed like a win.