skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were some shockers that came out in the PRH trial, including how little major publishers spend on marketing for the books and (related) stats describing the minuscule number of books that are sold.

The DOJ stated that of 58,000 trade titles published annually in the U.S., 1/2 sell fewer than 12 copies. Someone from NPD disputed the DOJ's claim, stating that of 45,571 frontlist ISBNs from the top 10 U.S. publishers, 15% (not 50%) sold less than 12 copies. Another 51% sold between 12 and 999 copies. Still not great. (https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...)

As for marketing, I can't find the figure now, but it transpired that these billion-dollar publishers devoted low-single digit portions of their revenue to marketing.
The real thing to do would be leveraging your owned home to buy stocks to bypass the limit on the mortgage interest deduction. (You have to do it this way - the IRS doesn't care that money is fungible)
I think neurotypical accurately describes people who don't have neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD, Schizophrenia, or Autism. There are distinct brain architectures involved here; autistics generally have statistically significant reduced brain activity in response to the human face compared to neurotypical people. This is a bit like arguing that because some people learn to read slower than others, or learn to read by sounding out the words vs memorizing consonants, that dyslexia shouldn't be differentiated from non-dyslexic people.

Of course you can be varied and neurotypical. There are neurotypical people who focus well and some who struggle with that a bit more. There are some people who struggle to read facial expressions and others that can accurately guess nuances. But that doesn't mean that they're not neurotypical, and that their internal experiences aren't more widely represented and reflected in the cultural norm.
I'd say application boundaries at a high-level. Your various environments should be completely isolated. For instance, you can split web services at the load balancer level.

Application boundaries tend to mirror org structure so that allows you to scope down team access.

To get a better idea of your architecture, you can create a dependency diagram and look for clusters of things.

As for connectivity, you could go over the internet, use VPC peering, use Transit Gateways, PrivateLinks, or follow a hub/spoke network architecture with a "network account"

If you're using managed services, you can also use things like SNS and SQS to create shareable communication channels for other accounts to use.
Thank you! The Vue support is the thing in Javalin I'm the most proud of. There are a hundred web frameworks for the JVM, but none of them have anything close to the Vue support Javalin has. Some people think it's trash, but for me it's perfect.
I just find it kind of worrisome that he finds meaning in work that other people are exploited for for a lack of better options. Why would a financially independent person choose to help enrich a large corporation over, say, voluntary work to help underprivileged people, animals or whatever else you can think of?
I loved the "silicon valley" show, where every single shitty startup was saying that they'd make the world a better place.
What I said is not what you claimed I said.

I did not say that it's okay, I stated a simple fact, that positive discrimination is discrimination too.

Then I tried to explain the likely consequence of one usual version of that, and then I explicitly said that it's not that simple, because looking at ethnic groups and deciding the fate of individuals, just because they belong to that ethnic group, is almost textbook racism, as you also pointed out.
> Did those PS3 supercomputers end up being a good investment? Probably not.

In our analysis at the time, it was an economical supercomputer that could hit our needs. It doesn't have to be the best investment, just a decent one at the time. You seem to entirely discount the fact that sometimes the journey is just as important.

In this case, half the purpose behind the grant proposal was education and outreach engagement. The novelty of using PS3s was enough to get some traction with local highschool students and introduce them to computing topics in new ways.

> The market has moved long past that. The OG Xbox had something to offer that you couldn’t easily get elsewhere, that’s not the case anymore.

And who's to say people experimenting with the PS5 won't be creating something new we'll be talking about in 10 years? These are powerful machines, why artificially restrict what they can do?

Homebrew alone gives people ways to play with hardware they wouldn't normally be able to experiment with.

> A handful of hardcore enthusiasts.

~5k active participants in the Insignia community is more than a handful. Sure, it's not hundreds of thousands but it's not exactly public yet either. And there are thousands in similar communities for the PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii to name a few. Either way, these communities directly demonstrate that jailbreaking hardware does indeed extend a console's lifetime.
This may not feel like a serious enough problem, but paying someone (like a therapist) to listen and advise can really help clarify one’s thinking. Lots of therapists meet virtually now too.
A PS4 isn't fast enough to emulate a PS3.
Yeah, I'm vaguely aware of this and mask fitting for asbestos removal is almost mandatory in many workplaces.

I suppose, given all the fuss over COVID, I've been rather surprised by casualness over the approach to mask-wearing given that the warning were there on mask packets before the pandemic. I would have thought this would have alerted many to the fact come COVID but seemingly not.

BTW, my attention to detail seems to have paid off so far (I've not caught the disease as yet). Nevertheless, it would have been good to have been able to put some some figures to the practice rather than working anecdotally.
Plaid does none of that. They don't trick you. Having used plaid software before, it's pretty clear what's happening.
I got a refurbished thin client, a Fujitsu Futro S720 with 2GB RAM (expandable via 2 slots) from ebay for 20€. Havent had the need to upgrade the RAM, but I put a 512gb mSata in it. Works great.
Get in-stock alerts from here: https://rpilocator.com/?instock

There's some stock in the US usually on Wednesday mornings if you are quick...

I just sold a used Pi for 3 times what I paid for it
Some quick questions:
- are you using an already-existing HTTP engine, like Jetty or Tomcat?

- how do virtual threads fit into a web framework?

- do virtual threads make debugging more difficult? (A more general JVM question, I suppose)

- any performance / readability benefit, or just a coolness factor?
The first dependency is a "dependency", but in the same way that an RFC you have to read with your eyes is a dependency. Except in this case, the dependency is a definition, in formal language (extended-backus-naur form, a.k.a. "e-bnf"), of the SQL language, as defined in ISO/IEC 9075:2016[0] (the 2016 version of the SQL language specification). They then use this language definition as the input to a program which generates parsers (called a parser-generator[1]), so that they can quickly get to where they have a library which they can use to parse/validate/inspect the SQL being given to them.

Copying the BFN "from an external source" is a smart move, since it means they don't have to do lots of busy work slowly reading and transcribing the specification; someone's already done that step, so why would anyone expect the author to waste time?

Using a parser generator is also a smart move since they exist already and are used all over the place (nobody hand-writes parsers for large languages; that's just a needless source of tedium and bugs). The code that's spit out of the parser generator is novel; that's newly created code which isn't taken from someone else's Github/other repo.

Ultimately, I don't see how any of what the author's done constitutes "[relying] on a dependency" given that they're not using anyone elses Zig source code in their compiled binary, they're writing lots of code for themselves to use, just very quickly, and with powerful tools.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:2016

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler-compiler
I'm confused as to when this saves water. Are people turning the hot water on, then going to make a cup of coffee, checking hacker news, etc, and then returning some 10 minutes later to finally shower? Or is it turning the water off for half a second when you reach over to grab the shampoo bottle?
And the Supreme Court will probably gut those laws in the near future.
Do they buy it outright of pay a fraction of the cost upfront then overpay for it on expensive monthly contracts? I very much doubt most of the 50% US market aren't tied into 24 month contracts.
Any sort of useful sex ed was out of the question when I was in public high school in the late 90s in not-urban Texas. We got plenty of horror stories around premarital sex, but absolutely no information about birth control or the meaning of consent.

Shockingly, I have several classmates who were grandmothers before I became a mother.
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Privacy is not binary though. It's not "either you have complete privacy, or none".
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What an interesting question. In each case, the thing that is being looked up is different and has a different context.

You can not look up arrest history (or ask about it) because an arrest is not evidence of guilt. Despite not being evidence, arrests have been used as presumptive evidence of dishonesty by employers, lack of creditworthiness by banks, and for other off-label reasons by all manner of folks who would like to separate good people from bad. Since this (a) was more noise than signal, and (b) tended to revictimize marginalized people who had been past targets for police misconduct, it is being banned slowly.

You now can look up records of police misconduct in NYC (not by law, but because the public defender has made their cache of public data available), where it had been secret information for a long time, and somewhat arcane where available. The secrecy of police disciplinary records allowed many police to commit serial violence against citizens with impunity in addition to other misconduct. Unlike general societal arrest records, there has not been a systematic abuse of recordmaking in order to discriminate against police--quite the opposite.

It would be fair to conclude that both initiatives are intended to reduce collateral damage caused by the criminal law system.
And there are dozens of youtubers doing 1000km+ trips with maybe a hour extra compared to ICE - while saving hundreds compared to gas/diesel.

The US charging infrastructure is really bad outside of few major thoroughfares.
Maybe, I suppose we'll see, but people have been saying this ever since the Google/Apple bust up over user data in Google Maps back in 2009. If we condemned everyone for things they might do one day we'd all be in jail for life.
Also the fact that the characters unsuccessful attempt to make fetch happen, made fetch happen is deliciously meta.
I met a young software developer who got a night job loading UPS trucks instead of joining a gym. It seemed to work for him, although it's probably not sustainable.
I agree, but under the present system of copyright, the work is infringing.
Meta is already doing this https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/conversio...

Matching the ad to the user is just more difficult as it requires more in the way of user signups, as opposed to e.g. cookie-based tracking which is more ubiquitous and requires less integration.
There's a fair amount of chaos/uncertainty in orbital mechanics, so perfection may be impossible. Also, the smaller "city killers" can be very hard to spot, especially if they're in the wrong position relative to the sun, but those aren't extinction level.

That said, I would think runaway climate change or nuclear war are much greater threats to civilization (though humanity would probably survive in some form), so those are probably where the effort should go if survival of human civilization is your thing.
Would you evaluate entrance to your roofing company based on a worker's ability to solder circuit boards?
Yup, thus the PS5 jailbreak being a cool thing. However, the steam deck is open by default, which is a much bigger deal in the console world and far more exciting IMO.
Yep, the guy never reflects on his privilege not needing this job. Bad on the blogger too for not prompting them on this - it could have been an interesting article..
> Google's questionable search results

This is exactly my point. This article spends a thousand words to say "google doesn't actually let you see every result from the billions it claims to have."

Okay cool, I'm not gonna read a billion search results anyways, that's why I ask google about a topic.

The writing is poor, the "findings" mundane, it's a marketing fluff piece that tries to convince you there's a problem and then plug their service as a means to solve it.
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The criticism is of the thing you built, not you. It's hard to separate those things, but you have to try to keep that in mind. I've built lots of things that were cool to me, but not to others, and that's ok.
> What this has proven is working at amazon warehouse sucks, and is not sustainable.

This person went from a 23-year career sitting at a desk to doing physical labor all day. Any physical labor is going to take a toll on someone in their 40s who hasn't been doing physical labor.

I have a lot of people in my extended social circle who are in physical labor jobs. Amazon Warehouse jobs are always viewed as the "easy" fallback option: Doesn't pay as well as the hard physical labor jobs, but it's also viewed as the safe, comfortable option. Obviously, someone coming from a 20-year desk job is going to have a different perspective when thrust into a job with any physical demands.
Just went to therapy because I was depressed. I was lucky to have a really good therapist.
There's no reason to do that. You do not want to create more methane, and the possibility of even a trickling of it getting into the atmosphere. This methane to methanol is purely to get rid of the methane we produce, and hopefully the methane stored in the atmosphere. We've got plenty of hydrogen, it's one of the most common elements (iirc) in the known universe, but to convert some into methane? Hydrogen is clean, and then make it toxic methane? It's much better to just use the hydrogen as fuel. I remember seeing an article one time about a method to convert hydrogen into fuel, and so it's much better to do it that way. Though how costly or doable on a mass scale either conversion is, we don't know yet.
Google search ads used to be in a separate box to the right of the search results.
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> nobody hand-writes parsers for large languages; that's just a needless source of tedium and bugs

That is absolutely not true! In fact, most major programming language implementations use handwritten parsers [0].

That said:

> Using a parser generator is also a smart move since they exist already

Jamie wrote the parser generator here too. So it's all the more "from scratch".

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten...
No, because stop-and-go gets the most benefit from regeneration. One full EV for one long commuter who also drives around town, or 7 PHEVs for people that commute shorter but also drive around town.

Long haul stuff should probably be transitioned last both with commuting and things like trucking (stop and go things like trash and delivery and bus service makes a lot more sense than targeting cross-country trucking first).
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Pretty much anything that can run Linux and has a network port would work. Most languages, libraries and well known software has been ported to work the same way on a lot of hardware. Save for low level hardware specific code, the rest is more or less standard.

The Orange Pi other users suggested is a good choice, as would be the very similar NanoPi, and many others.
However, although the scarcity hits more the popular boards such as the Raspberries, others also became somewhat harder to find, so I would suggest for example to take note of which board is supported by a well known distribution, then look for vendors offering it. A good start would be the Armbian and DietPI download sections in which you can easily find dozens of boards and devices with their support status.

https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported

https://dietpi.com/#download
Because a jailbroken PS4 doesn't stay jailbroken with a reboot. The system's secure boot hasn't been broken. So a system update that fixes the exploit and requiring that firmware to go online is all that's needed to keep jailbroken PS4s out of online multiplayer games.

Breaking this would require an exploit in the bootloader.
The browser will only remember the last 5 roles you’ve assumed, so it’s still a pain.
Incandescent bulbs that last longer run cooler and thus are less efficient. Long life bulbs are a bad deal except in situations where changing them is a problem.
How are you going to find the cure to cancer without great researchers and high quality equipment?
It's like questioning the existence of 10x NBA players or 10x chess players. The top super GMs are basically 10x better than most other GMs, who are themselves 10x better than most IMs. It seems strange that programming would be one of the fields that doesn't have a similar distribution of skill.

I think the actual pushback of the 10x programmer idea is that it's more often used to bully regular programmers into working longer hours, rather than actually identifying top performing programmers.
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I wonder what this guy's blood pressure level is.

Advice: Make an effort to slow down by 10-20%, and then take it from there.
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Wonder if these are the same forests going into the Kirkland toilet paper at Costco.
The "economy" corrupts science too.
Totally agree. Defense in depth, security in layers. You're not protecting against just the most elite hackers, you're protecting against mistakes. Mistakes and change are inevitable, they should be in the design.
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It's slow going for a number of months. But in a world with stack overflow never easier.

That said, I wouldn't change everything top-to-bottom or use completely different paradigms unless you are intending to learn something specific.
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> I can browse on my samsung S22 ultra random internet without being swarmed with ads and tracking (firefox and ublock origin, something Apple phones will clearly never have).

If you are ok with using Safari instead of Firefox, that’s something that has been possible since 2015 on iOS [1].

> instead of ridiculously shitty faceid which doesn't work with masks

It does since iOS 15.4 (March 2022 [2]); I use it every day.

> It often doesn't work even without masks, ie non-ideal light conditions like right now (evening and dimmer lights)

Light has nothing to do with this because FaceID works with infrared: I’m able to unlock my iPhone in the dark with no issue at all. You’re probably holding it wrong [3].

> But quality is just not there, the devices are worse, bigger in size with smaller screen, […] heavier

I fail to find an iPhone 13 that’s bigger than your Samsung S22 Ultra. The Pro Max is 0.2mm wider but 2.1mm less tall and 1.2mm thiner (163.3 x 77.9 x 8.9 mm [4] vs. 160.8 x 78.1 x 7.7 mm [5]). It does have a smaller screen-to-size ratio (87.4% vs. 90.2%) and is slightly heavier (240g vs. 228g -- not sure how noticeable this is).

> the devices are worse, […], uglier, […], software is meh

That part is highly subjective. I personally find the S22 Ultra very ugly but that’s an opinion, not a fact.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34173732

[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/face-id-with-mas...

[3]: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/13/how-iphone-x-face-id-wo...

[4]: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s22_ultra_5g-11251.p...

[5]: https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_13_pro_max-11089.php