skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can read a print book without wasting electricity every time you open it

This is generally true for ebooks as well, as I only have electric heating. Both probably require more electricity for lighting anyway.

> and the toxic materials used to produce a e-reader.

I assume an ebook reader uses more resources to produce than a book, but 1) I already have a reader, and 2) I have for example e-books I inherited from my dad - that's approximately a thousand books. Even just moving them into my apartment would require non-trivial resources.

> Reading print is still a much more enjoyable experience

I don't really agree. Especially not for technical books.

> I can't defend ebooks compared to the reading, sharing, and the later selling at a used book store my cast-off print books.

Agree that the Kindle/Amazon drm/marketplace is pretty bad. Not all books have draconic drm, though - and in such cases it's much easier to share a book with a friend that has moved over seas for example.

> I've even gotten O'Reilly books from a decade ago at used book stores that are great to read and look great on my shelf,

Sure, but in the event this is a problem - it's also a drm problem, not a problem inherent to ebooks.

As for books about "programing language x version y, with best practices as of year z" - I fully expect them to be mostly outdated after 5 to 10 years - maybe replaced by a new version.

> and I love finding some old novel by some forgotten author instead of whatever the latest Amazon bestseller is.

I've never discovered books from the AZ bestseller lists, but I've bought a few classics.

There are always going to be books that are hard to get - like the excellent:

Howard McCord book:
"The Man Who Walked to The Moon" which was self-published if I'm not mistaken. I found it in a thrift store in Berlin. As it happens, it's now available for the Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Moon-Novella/dp/092970...

> And I don't have to worry about the Orwellian deletion of my books from my e-reader

Again - a market/drm problem (and a real one for sure).

I really do hope we will see more diversity in ebook sales, sharing, re-sale and lending.
There are lots of alternatives out there looking for marksetshare. I've not personally used ClickUp but it looks fantastic just from their screenshots: https://clickup.com/features

https://clickup.com/blog/jira-alternatives/
> Congress has for far too long abdicated what it is supposed to be directly responsible for to unelected bureaucrats that exist in agencies that are overseen by the executive branch of government.

Yes, that's what the executive branch is for. That's how our government and basically every government in the history of the world has worked.

> When is the last time you've seen anyone from Congress campaign on any substantive issue?

Literally every campaign in my life that I've had any exposure to. Campaigning on real issues is not hard, the problem is getting into Congress and then being unwilling or unable to follow through.
I see you sell your books as ebooks (awesome BTW), but there's no print option. I've been looking into publishing methods for a book I've been writing, and having a print copy is very appealing (I'm a big physical book fan, personally). I see a lot of modern software books are digital only. Is this due to the margins on print being much lower than digital? Print on demand is a really neat concept to me, but seems to come at a cost.

Just curious to hear from someone who's been around the block with this.
If you want to argue "meant to", you must reference that to a time when the USA was about 17 states, all of roughly equal power, economy and population. 1803,
just before the Louisiana Purchase. There were 12 Constitutional amendments.

"supposed to" is in the same light. The system that worked pretty well for about 5 million people in the pre-industrial age (and assumed that everyone not male, white, and a land-owner was distinctly second-class) does not work so well 200 years later in a world power of 330 million people.
Absolute truth is not relevant because 99.99% of what you need to sustain yourself is physical. It’s practically 100%.

Maintaining BTC itself requires physical inputs and physical property rights. You need fiat to buy energy. Your house with mining rigs needs enforcement of property rights.
What power does the EU/its governments gain here?
Aren't they already the only identity provider (passports, ID cards, drivers license)?
I think you'll find the leftist position on marijuana is fairly similar to the leftist position on abortion, though.

I think that's true directionally, but not quantitatively. I haven't seen riots about marijuana, or claims that SCOTUS is corrupt.

And although I can't say this about any particular individual, I think that statistically, the left position regarding covid-19 vaccinations seems to be contrary to the "bodily autonomy" philosophy. Admittedly, there may be differences in scale of risk that lead to this difference. But the rhetoric we're hearing today seems to frame abortion rights as an absolute with no room for such finesse. And I think it is on them to explain how to draw that line.
So trade it!

Anyone who talks about market price action in the short/medium-term a priori doesn’t have alpha. People with Alpha trade it.
I thought he already was. He's not running for re-election this year, he announced that last October. He accepted membership in the Jan 6 House committee. That's heresy.
Exactly. At the point where the question is being asked, you already know the answer.
Does anyone else find it troubling that the simple act of scanning the pill would be a signal for who is consuming it? Even with reasonable amounts of PII removed from the stream to the validation service, they will know you have a cell phone and a general area where the scan is happening. It is more data and therefore, more marketing and very likely more price adjustments.
Oh, so totally not centralized if there is a central plan. Totally no central group of committers so no centralization, totally no lead developers speaking at conferences providing direction and leadership.

Got it.

Decentralized.
Podcast Interview: Dan Mantz CEO of Vex Robotics Competition
But that’s exactly what the Roe v Wade decision was - decide what policy you want, then have the court come up with an argument as to why that right exists.

It’s not supposed to work that way. The legislature makes laws, the court interprets under the framework of the Constitution.

Precedent is important, but it’s not supposed to create law out of thin air. It’s supposed to be based on a firm set of decisions that flow from the Constitution and law.
Americans love complaining harshly whenever someone mentions "contry-wide" ID like it's literally the thing of the Devil while ignoring that every other place illegally uses their SSN as an ID number
> Congress just needs to pass laws.

For so long as the American people respect the US Supreme Court, their laws can be nullified on the say-so of this Court and are thus worthless. That's the underlying point of this whole suite of rulings.

Congress can write laws, the Court can decide they don't mean what you thought they mean, and, apparently, you will cheerfully conclude that the Court is wise and you're foolish, perhaps only realising the danger when it is too late.
That, in the wake of energy shocks from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and everything-else shocks from the zero-covid policy in China, the author can still say with a straight face that free trade will solve our supply problems, can only be the product of motivated reasoning. It's one thing to supplement your domestic production with a bit of temporary outside help, but to allow whole industries to go overseas and have no substantive domestic production, in a nation as large as the USA, makes no sense. Free trade is what got us here. It's like the author slept through the last three years.
Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?
At this point it feels like the underlying sentiment is that the scrum framework is a huge pain and everyone hates using it. But it also seems like the majority of companies still use the scrum framework and the Atlassian suite to guide their product development. Do people secretly like it? Or is it time for a new methodology to arise?

Edit: I initially was asking about the agile methodology, but I was really referencing the scrum framework.
FYI ICE does a lot of good work too like fighting child sex trafficking in other countries. ICE does a lot more than just immigration enforcement within the US borders.
yeah, that did it. thanks!
"Wash trading." Real banking systems have laws making that a crime.
Github renders lots of text formats (though not in issues, pull requests), but it's surprisingly hard to find a complete list.

I know that POD (Plain Old Documentation from Perl) and asciidoc are supported, likely many more.
Except ONE of those sockets has the same memory ceiling as an M1 Studio Ultra. So while you need a lot of space to get the same bandwidth you still need a lot of space to get a high memory ceiling. DRAM chips are only so small.

Right now the Mac Pro has 2TB memory limit. Apple's either going to have to commit considerable board space to DRAM, use sockets or just completely obliterate the max amount of RAM a M* series Mac Pro can have.
Because its not provable. But it is still true.

Sticking our heads in the sand because theres still percentage points of doubt leads to disaster.
Well, see, that's exactly the question. How broad was the authority that Congress gave them?

"Congress gave them broad authority" != "they have authority over everything they can in any way claim relates (however loosely) to their mandate".
Of course.

People like to reduce it to 2 binary things as usual, but there is nothing simple or easy or cheap about maintaining your health. Its extremely hard.

You need to measure things yourself all the time, know a lot of theory, and experiment a lot, because due to bio-individuality you can extrapolate from other people findings in a limited manner.
The majority of justices on the current Supreme Court have been doing a good job of sticking to the law rather than attempting to enact policy. What you’re describing is a good criticism of the mid-20th century Supreme Court, but the current Court has done a good job of rolling back those excesses.
We’re mostly living better than our parents
It was the same with SourceForge. It worked great (for its time). You get stuff for free. It's convenient.

And then slowly they started changing policy, closing the source, adding ads to the platform, .. then one day you realized you've locked yourself into their ecosystem. It's a bunch of work to move away. It will be worse with Github since they bolted so many things on top of Git.
A feature is a data point to your model.
it can be as simple as the amount of a transaction (for a fraud detection model) or as complex as the avg_number_of_transactions_in_the_past_7_days_with_over_1k_in_amount_that_were_pending_review.
Since you have many features, and they constantly change and evolve and being consumed by many models you need a way to store them - thats how feature stores came to be.
I personalty never used.
Under that law, I could clear cut the forest, turn it into a meadow and put up a fence around it to prevent people from getting in.
Nothing is wrong with it, I'm just predicting that this isn't a sustainable state for a publicly traded company. I don't think aggressive antitrust is likely and I don't think it would change the above regardless.

Markets pull towards potential, and the potential of Atlassian is valued higher than it's stable state.
Reddit is one of the forums I was referring to in my comment. It's very easy to outrank because as it turns out it provides a poor UX and has a lot of noise.

But yes I too sometimes search out reddit results if I'm looking for different opinions for example
Why stop at “grow”? I don’t see why the federal government should have any say over in what chemicals I might want to purchase or manufacture.
> If congress disagreed with this interpretation, they could pass a law explicitly ruling it out.

But that would be backwards and wrong (like a default-allow firewall rule).
The value of Slack Inc is their API, which is currently de-facto locked to their client. People would still pay for Slack if they could use alternative clients, because the client is not the value.
It only takes pip breaking once before "only free if your time has no value" becomes all too real.
There is a terrible trend in F1 amongst the fan, at least, to disregard so much.

Merc may have had a better engine but that same engine was in other cars too, their entire package was phenomenal. Same with their driver, if Hamilton isn't literally the very best then the differences are very very very tiny. It takes everything coming together to win championships, they had it, they had the driver, they had the engine, they had the chassis, they had the pit crew, the engineers, the strategies.

AN is amazing, he's designed a lot of winning cars and a lot of nearly won cars too. The genius of Christian Horner seems to be that he deflects any and all responsibility from the most potentially fragile elements of his team. AN is one of those, short of him saying a particular design or concept was crap, no one on the team will ever say anything of the sort.
What Is Distributed SQL?
...which can be interpreted as a turing machine... which can be used to... to...
I just used a Pico in a project a couple weeks ago and didn't need to do any level shifting at all. I'm kinda shit at circuit design, though, so maybe I did something wrong lol
Depends, is the coin a Democratic party establishment candidate and the predictor part of the liberal politico-media complex trying to prime an audience?
Congress has the powers to investigate, deliberate, and legislate. Not administrate. That power was explicitly granted to the executive branch.
I think if I had my own enterprise product with a lot more complexity, I would roll my own.

It’s possible I am using the product wrong, but I found it kind of hard to use the rules engine for granular access. What I did instead is make my own simple permissions engine and since my backend APIs verify against the firebase token, I then pass that into my rules engine before it writes any mutations.

I lock down firestore access by using my own api that then uses the admin sdk. Obviously this is a bit slower but it gives me the most confidence that only my backend services can make changes to the data.
True, but it is not unheard of for a software company. In fact, it's expected. Hence the valuations for software vendors compared to manufacturing, retail, etc.
> I’m waiting for the first lawsuit against the DEA. What in the constitution gives the right for the Fedwral Government to regulate what we voluntarily put in our bodies or grow in our back yards?

My bet? "Interstate commerce."
Youtube-dl is great. I just wanted to build it from scratch, and it was very simple once the underlying streaming tech was understood.
Don't put words in other peoples' mouths. Especially strawman words.

It's not honest, it's not nice, and it's against the site guidelines.
Considering that the ATF has incancerated over 1000 people over fake crimes[1], they should.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_fictional_sting_operations
Sort of like if you drop off a Monet at a thrift shop. Nobody would steal it.

Someone might buy it for 5 dollars.
Or you know they could delegate their authority to an agency staffed with experts.

I'm all for Congress actually doing its job but we all know they won't and that passing each regulation by hand isn't possible without some sort of parliamentary system where legislative and executive branches are combined
I've had a similar thought process. We had an implicit right to privacy for abortion, but not for practically anything else (a couple other things, but some of them were also bizarre. Like how can you have privacy over who you marry if you're required to get a license before hand and they can still ban some classes/conditions but not others). If it is a right, it should apply universally. If not, then we need to start creating those rights in the constitution (where it requires larger agreement and isn't as easy to overturn). But maybe I'm crazy.
Gold was based on trust. Trust that the next merchant you deal with will want it.

The same was true for salt, and many more local kinds of money that existed.

It's also the same trust you need for fiat money. This, and trust that your government won't create a huge lot of it in an instant (slow rates of money creation are fine). Turns out that governments have a lot of leverage to enforce the first, more relevant kind of trust, so the total trust required decreases.

The idea of cryptocoins was to remove the trust on nobody creating a lot of money very fast. But in doing so, they also lost the leverage to enforce that people will accept it.
Combine them - I often wear earplugs plus a pair of bose nc700s. They have better noise canceling for your conditioner noise compared to my airpod Max's
> Do people secretly like it?

No
https://archive.ph/S4sKt

Note that the article is more about people who anthropomorphize current trivial chatbots and avatars and the tendency and risk to do so - not about the more esoteric conversations about emerging AI sentience.

Half of it reads mostly like a fluff PR piece for a chat app startup. "Oh look our product is so good people believe it can think!"
They did by creating departments and delegating to them
Shh.. you're scaring all the people who think their computer science degree gives them exceptional insight into how money works.
Uh some of us here in the "real" embedded world read the RP2040's specs (dual Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 133 MHz, bare chip cost is $1) and go "uh there's a typo here, they put THREE digits in the clock speed hahaha".

Not really, but you get my point. For the kinds of devices the RP2040 competes with, it is not slow.
Relevant counterpoint from the same firm. The antidote to crypto phobia.

https://www.bvp.com/atlas/the-antidote-to-cryptophobia
Has anybody able to get access to the True Pill API?
See this 2013 article. https://news.mit.edu/2013/ionic-thrusters-0403 In the 2018 article this submission is based on, you’re seeing 5 years of progress.
The only philosophy I ever found useful was existentialism. Most other philosophies seem to be nothing but exercises in apologetics for the status quo, and that niche is already handily filled by economists.
> Wow, I really admire people who can turn C into useful, complex project

If you use any open source operating systems a significant portion of software you interact with are C (kernel, shell, utilities, sqlite etc).
I did the same! IIRC, I went off a design from the first edition of Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius[0]. Excellent book for the budding electronics hacker.

[0] https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Electronic-Gad...
But I have written code which is hosted on GitHub which other people have uploaded and I have signed no agreement to let them do so. Does this mean all open source projects older than GitHub need to stop using it?
The Barkley Marathons: the hellish 100-mile race with 15 finishers in 36 years
Much more likely to be the case, however sensationalism always makes a more viral story.
Are you implying that if one were to give school shooters a job with a good salary they will voluntarily give up on starting the shooting and just be content operating their robots without actually shooting kids as that would lose them their job?

I mean, the other interpretation is that school shooters use these robots to shoot the school up.
Indeed, the reaction to this from lawmakers is really perplexing. They're claiming that the Court is "rogue" or something, but if you actually read what they wrote they are returning power from the executive to congress (or making it clear that Congress always had this power, not the executive). The reaction makes me think there are many lawmakers who are rather uninterested in making laws, and instead actually do want to see unelected Judges and executive bureaucrats implement their preferred policy options instead of doing the (hard) work of writing and passing those policies themselves.
State of the Forge Federation
You say "just conceptual", but the contribution of senior engineers and (software) architects is usually a diagram, not a detailed blueprint. That's true for (real) architects as well—they'll certainly review the finished CAD drawings when that is necessary, but at the point when they actually work out a design detail or a strategy, it will be on paper, in a diagram or sketch.
I think the argument is that the EPA considered itself to have broad discretion and congress was silent on the matter, and more generally do the executive functions have whatever discretion they assume to have unless congress specifically limits them? Or rather, do they have only the permit that congress gives them?
Gold also has enough value as a material to both lift the value of it and complicate the making of things with it.

First silver, then gold, then platinum, now palladium and rhodium have ridiculous values associated with them.
Yeah it’s not a secret (it’s in my bio), I left to join Tlon at the start of this year but found urbit a couple of years ago. The comments here are similar to ones I’ve made on HN before (prior to working on it full time).
Yet all of them have minted millionaires and billionaires. This is the new game. Nobody cares about profits. Money has been made.
Fought weed legalization? The Republicans sponsored a bill to make it legal federally.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2021/11/15/republica...

A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to federally decriminalize and tax marijuana, adding an alternative to sweeping Democratic proposals for major marijuana reform and narrow GOP-backed efforts to deschedule the drug in the U.S.
> IMO it kinda speaks loudly that Gitea's development happens on github!

There's a bug for that:
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
Jack Daniels Running Formula sounds interesting maybe I could do that! (unless it's a different Jack Daniels).
He also made Fogbugz, which apparently still exists although I never hear anyone talk about it.
This is an experimental port and not about replacing clang.

That said, OpenBSD does introduce new stuff often. Over the years, they've periodically rewritten a handful of crusty old daemons for example.
If Congress is adhering to their oath and acting in good faith then they may not pass laws that violate the Constitution. The Supreme Court determines what the Constitution does or doesn't say, which impacts the laws Congress may or may not pass. Putting this together we conclude Congress can't do anything about Supreme Court rulings.
"who cares, america won't manufacture low end stuff like clothes, but we'll manufacture high end stuff like refrigerators."

"who cares, america won't manufacture low end stuff like refrigerators, but we'll manufacture high end stuff like TVs."

"who cares, america won't manufacture low end stuff like TVs but we'll manufacture high end stuff like computer chips."

"who cares, america won't manufacture low end stuff like computer chips but we'll manufacture high end stuff like bored ape NFTs."
> They make money from Co-Pilot? Great!

OK let me take your projects and make money from them and not give you anything in return, not even credit.

> They sell software to ICE? Good. Why wouldn’t they? I’m not interested in anti-immigration-enforcement politics.

ICE policies aside, you should be interested in immigration politics because they're important to people and businesses. Apathy is a bad thing here.

> They’re a closed-source for-profit company? Great! That’s why their product is high quality.

hahahaha, there are plenty of open-source not-for-profit companies with high quality products and many many many more closed-source for-profit companies with terrible products. See also Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
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