skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An element of writing and publishing that's become increasingly interesting to me are writers who also ran presses themselves. Mark Twain comes to mind --- he'd been an assistant in his own brother's print shop, and (checking Wikipedia just now as I write this), one of his earliest photgraphs shows Twain holding a composing stick of hot-metal type.

Twain seems to me to know the physicality of words and language, as well as the full process from idea to composition to typesetting to printing to distribution. His professional life spanned the period over which telegraphy emerged as a dominant factor in long-distance communication, where printing increased in speed from perhaps 100 impressions an hour to a million or more, and where the typewriter replaced handwritten manuscripts and correspondence.

He also struggled with the economics of writing and publishing, contemplating suicide in San Francisco with a nickle and a revolver to his name, being bailed out by his father-in-law and a Standard Oil executive, and going through bankruptcy. This all by a man now considered among the very best authors the United States has produced. The market can very much be an ass.
These days? Please be specific, when was the NYPD not like this? Unless you're counting when the mob controlled the NYPD as separate from people with clout.

Here's a poster from 1887: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor...
The attitude and intent of the developers running the project has no bearing here?
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> [...] that the people who discovered them also, in some cases, held morally reprehensible views.

If people fail to understand that a person who lived 2300 years before our time must have held quite a range of views that we would today consider totally abhorrent, then that's not a failure in the teaching of mathematics but of history - or maybe even a failure to use common sense.
>possibly fraudulent

They used user funds to cover their losses. There is no possibility where this isn't fraudulent.

Also how did they even lose so much in the first place?
There is no wooosh in the comment, pal.

1. Knowing (or not knowing) that Chandler is a character on Friends has nothing to do with the comments here.

2. You are the woooshed. "Chauncey", "Bingaling", and "Miss [Chanandler] Bong" are all (semi-obscure) names that were used to refer to Chandler Bing at some point during the series. All suitable alternatives for a project codename. (Not that it matters, because, again whether one knows any of this has nothing to do with the issue being discussed. Your explanation is not exculpatory. It's not an affirmative defense. It's just... nothing. It's like a cow's opinion; it's moo.)

Try, like, reading or something.
Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move
Interesting discussion around what's next for data engineers.
This is an acceptable solution for those who are able and willing to put in the time and effort, but it entails essentially becoming a part-time sysadmin. Great if it’s a hobby; not great if it’s not.

We should have regulations so that everyone can enjoy this level of privacy easily.
It would be nice if the song titles history was listed so it is possible to figure out what song you just listened to. See Soma.fm for an example. Might be difficult if that info is not available digitally (though maybe you could use Shazam or something similar to identify them.)
FWIW I was a Wikipedia admin for ~15 years, contributor for ~20 years, and resigned last month citing use of funds as one of the key reasons.
It's 900km+ from nearest Russian positions.

Listed surface to surface mode for S300 is 120km.
they didn't have nukes.
didn't seem to work, I selected "first 30 people" and it showed a bunch of "big/medium" ones.
How about website/frontend design as an analogy?

It'd be great if that was made easier so that more folks could participate/make a living. Then again, I think that every time that was made simpler (eg. Flash, Dreamweaver/export to html, JQuery, ...) has resulted in a slew of crap.

So: the lower the barrier to entry, the more actual skill/artistry becomes important for a high quality result.

Phrased differently: once the drudge work becomes mechanised, the concept of quality is lifted to a new level. This highlights aspects that used to be stuck in the mud of the drudge work, enabling a more profound understanding... by those with the necessary skills to do so.
Elon didn't take down Twitter's ElonJet, yet
Slight correction: HipHop for PHP was cleanroom, including rewriting large families of native extensions to work with its C++ runtime, although it eventually developed workalikes for the PHP dev headers to ease development. Source: I worked on HHVM, its JIT successor that initially shared its source tree and runtime.
sure it is! it all went to fiat@, it's marked clearly in the excel spreadsheet and everything
> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler

I would rather have the hero text describe what the product is/does instead of it being an inspirational quote.
I held 0.001 BTC at FTX. I'm eagerly waiting for the Bahamian authorities' correspondence!
Such attitude would lead to a modern Russian driving culture. Should be zero tolerance to covering license place otherwise it a chaos.
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Inter Miami FC, the new MLS club owned by David Beckham, uses light pink as a primary color (the only other primary color is black).
And so why should we pay? What do we get over the thousands of free job boards?

The job suggestions I got do not match at all the filters I selected. I would feel ripped off if I had paid any cent to access them.

The fact that you have the audacity to ask money for terrible results makes me _angry_.
If possible, consider buying from DRM-free bookshops instead. Libreture maintains a list of them [1].

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/
I totally agree that digital media isn't anywhere near as permanent as many people think. Here today, gone tomorrow.

But I've moved all my reading over to Kindle, even so. Because my old eyes can't handle paperbacks anymore. And reading glasses make me so very ill. That's a personal problem, yes, but it is 100% of why I buy eBooks now and why I'm glad they're an option.

I guess I could back up the Kindle books, right? They all claim to have no DRM, at the beginning of each book.
What is the context you think is missing, though? You haven't been specific at all, you're just vaguely trying to say I'm incorrect about something without saying exactly what it is.

Why must everything be called "partisan" to Americans when it involves your political circus?
Lawyers aren't afraid of court, not any more than a fish is afraid of water.
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Modern, post-XVI century, politics were born out of advertising. That's basically the advertiser's line, and they're right.

Gutenberg opened a huge can of worms. Day 1 bibles, day 2 pamphlets, and sooner than you know it, there's a whole internet popping cookies all over.

No, I don't like it much either, and maybe we should charge advertisers high fees for the privilege of messing with the collective mind, which is in none too good shape from all their ministrations. Perhaps that would dial it down.
The problem is stemming from undermining the subject of math as a thinking tool, logic and all that. It's being done by talking about things that are not really math, as if it were math.

> for example some pioneers of statistics supported eugenics, or some mathematicians had connections to the slave trade, racism or Nazism

That's really a form of history, maybe social history or science history. At best it's mixing subject matters and potentially depriving people of learning math, and at worse it's pushing this ideology that has to see everything through the lens of oppressor and oppressed (not saying it's never useful, but the ideology seems to pushing itself into every corner of society and distorting everything it comes across).
if you were anonymous, that search is broken rn -- create acct and it should get better!
Vouched your comment. I love how it got flagged for pointing out how that guy's been living in a cave for 17 years lol
I still use shared hosting, as it comes with many benefits apart from the hosting itself: email accounts (from a reputable server that doesn't get sent to spam), backups, (free) cPanel, etc.
Seems similar to civil disobedience. Violating the law as a statement that the law is stupid.
anonymous search is broken right now -- wondering if you created an acct? that search is different
When you do number 2 you know number 3. It’s not possibly fraudulent. It is fraudulent.
You'd be surprised at how ineffectual a lot of advertising is.

Billboards should be just wiped out, there isn't any real utility from them, and for the most part they just make things very ugly.

Having giant ads in public spaces is ridiculous.

You really notice it when you go to a place with not much in the way of regulation and they are everywhere.

Around Paris they have giant neon signs on top of residential buildings, which is really odd because they have more awareness of that stuff, it feels very cyberpunk to me, as far as I know they don't even have that in most of the US even where giant road signs exist.

A small icon on the exit sign is fine for practicality.

Paradoxically, there are ways to make digital ads much more efficient but the system is a giant cluster of a mess. It's hard to fathom but many big companies just throw money out the window and hope that it sticks even with 'great reporting' it's a lot of fuzz, and nobody wants to own up to it - the exec at the company, the agency, the ad buyers, and the marketplace, they are in a weird kind of systemic collusion about it all kind of 'pretending'. Of course some entities are very effective about it as well but the amount of 'bad dollars' out there actually makes efficient spending hard.

There are also very bad issues of scale, and a lot of small businesses just can't compete, in an ideal world there would be a 'locality' effect priced in. The 'invisible hand' just doesn't work very well with most kinds of ads.
anon search is broken rn
OW1 monetization was wildly better. While you could buy lootboxes, yes, the game was extremely generous in giving you free lootboxes, and you could easily earn a half dozen in an afternoon of play. That, and all content could be unlocked as a "free" player by merely playing the game which you purchased once.

In contrast you'd need to spend the full purchase price of OW1 several times over just to buy the skins that aren't even available in the battlepass.

Everyone I knew that actually played OW1 enjoyed blizzard's implementation of lootboxes, and afaict everyone dislikes the new monetization.
Well I hope you got over it! I never did, in truth.
And how are you going to report them if you can't read the plate?
So the universe is 1-bit, two's complement?
This is a really weird article for me. Ebooks are zip files with HTML pages (that is, text files) and images inside. That's about it.

These three technologies are some of the oldest and most robust we have when it comes to digital media at large. Being concerned about reading and displaying HTML pages in a zip file in a decade is absurd. They're both already over 30 years old themselves.

DRM, yes. DRM is a complete and utter pox on the digital media world. Almost as bad as trade-bound paperbacks which tend to fall apart after (sometimes during, grrr) a single read. Preserving trade paperbacks, however, takes more effort than removing ebook DRM, and both procedures are well documented with broadly available tools.
> all boilers must have a nameplate affixed with a bunch of not really useful information

Lest we forget why those nameplates and the standards they reflect matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

> Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,169 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
Planet Money did an episode on the "e-Book Wars" between libraries and publishers a week ago: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishe...

I learned a few things about digital library books that made me sad:

* Publishers only allow a certain number of "rentals" of digital library books, after which the eBook license expires.

* Publishers also put an expiration date on the license, so after maybe two years, the eBook license expires even if nobody borrows the book.

* Publishers have repeatedly put hard limits on the abilities for libraries to purchase eBook licenses, for example allowing only one copy per library for new releases.

* Publishers raised the prices of library eBooks to be far higher than a physical book. A $15 physical book might cost $60 as an eBook to a library.
I work in marketing.

A lot of ad-spending is waste, and it's one of the easiest cuts to make when facing a downturn.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make vis-a-vis personalization. Personalization is not actually a huge driver of ad effectiveness - but targeting is.
Authors that published 10+ years ago don't have bills to pay? This is a weird moral distinction to me.
Also very confusing, they misspelled "Bad" right at the outset. (Though I do find that can be a slightly useful signal about the sort of reasoning to be expected and how much attention to pay to it)
"Boilerplate" was in use in legal circles as early as 1865: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Advisory_Opinions_on... - well earlier than the 1895 this article claims.

This was 20 years before the invention of the linotype machine (1884) that this author claims it was named after.

In 1896 "The Typographical Journal" did use "boiler plate" to refer to the type of printing process, but not to it being a pro-forma piece of information: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Typographical_Jo...

"Boilerplate" also refers to the branding plates that were placed on boilers that contained repeated information on every boiler. I think it's more likely the term comes from that.

It's annoying the author isn't on twitter where this could be corrected!
Trade paperbacks will wear out in months or years. Zip files containing HTML documents... we'll be able to read them for a very long time.
I wonder if we're somehow talking about different things.

If you realize gains from BTC, it's because you sold it to someone else who bought your BTC, presumably with dollars, yes? The crazy stipulation of "token price monotonically increases" for some crypto currency implies that people are actually exchanging ever larger quantities of some other currency for that asset. Of course this means that the other currency is losing value.

When the dollar goes up against the pound, or vice versa, no one thinks it's because some magical process is creating net wealth.
That's just not how it works for many teams.

You said: "Not because I’m ambitious, but because things needed doing and I was the only one available to take care of them."

But this person doesn't always exist. Or that person might exist but might not want to "take care" of the team as they don't enjoy that or feel overwhelmed by it.

But in the end your team didn't self organize. You stepped up to organize it.

In many cases this only goes a certain distance, in many it doesn't and somebody needs to make the management decisions as a manager and understand what the team is struggling with.
true, they will definitely try FOMO tricks to get the sale instantly, and the above assumes there is research prior to going in and a desire to save $.

knowing that warranty can be purchased separately for brand itself is a great way to beat up the finance guy, as that may be where they expect to make the bulk of their profit (although nowadays it may be “market adjustment” and other BS fees)
It is because it is required to produce the wanted characters and is usually implemented by the OS / browser, not at the final application level which interferes with this process.
The easiest way to do this would be to train a bandit model to be a bidder, using this vector as part of the input features.

You would spend some time and money doing randomized exploration (maybe something more sophisticated with active learning, but just uniform random could work), then train a basic bidder to optimize whatever you are currently interested in.

The process of manually deciding which tags fit which ads is not long for this world.
Look up Paul Martin on linkedin for a thorough examination of H2 as a fuel, including round-trip efficiency.
Use a `Pin` type that doesn't include a generic. It's how I avoid this. Works out quite well! (Including for IO pins; I've seen some `Pin` abstractions that use 3+ layers of nested traits!)

Figure out which parts you like, and use them.

edit: Assumed you were referring to embedded GPIO pins. It seems this is something else.
You're talking about the end of the world. Pretty much everybody dying. All of the cultural products of our civilization: music, art, history, philosophy, architecture, math, writing... lost... perhaps for all time. For the survivors (if there are any): unimaginable horror and suffering compared to which virtually anything would be better. Most likely most of the survivors will just kill themselves.

It's horror on a scale that's just unimaginable to virtually anyone who hasn't been through a major war.. and it'll be infinitely worse than that.

It's just sheer insanity that we're getting so close to that and some people are just egging us on to total destruction.
Additionally "boilerplate" was used in legal circles before the invention of the linotype ("boiler plate") machine, so the linked article is almost certainly wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617106
The NYPD arrests people for avoiding a $3 subway fare, but does nothing about defaced license plates which avoid much higher fines and tolls. It's lazy or corrupt (probably both) and actions like this are one way to draw attention to the situation.
this was a big realization when I jumped from a scrappy startup to FAANG for two years. Was it all ice cream and unicorn farts? Absolutely not. Everything company has bullshit. It's your job to figure out if it's bs you can tolerate, or if it's not how changing jobs will alleviate it.
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Yeah, the title originally had the "Show HN" prefix. Looks like it's been updated since.
Billboards are unique in my opinion. They're public and cannot be avoided the same way television commercials, magazine ads, or website banners can.

If you drive down this street, or live near that intersection, you're advertised to and that's that.

Some places do ban billboards, and they look really nice to my eye. Whereas a magazine can decide to have or not have ads, and a video provider can choose to be ad-free or ad-supported, so too should the public be able to decide if billboards are allowed in their town or state.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
> Advertising is a blight.

You do realize that you’re an enthusiastic and active participant in what is the marketing and advertising project of a VC firm, right?

I think what you mean to say is that the advertising you like isn’t a blight and the advertising you don’t like is a blight.
That's how everything works these days.
So what compounds would be common to all of tobacco smoke, e-cigarette "smoke", and cannabis smoke?
Gotta support those $50 million salaries...
How long ago was that?

I was under the impression they made huge improvement once they made Fornite and extracted a lot of code back to Unreal.
There is a Sydney team in the Australian cricket competition that is bright pink.
Correct.

Why do you think this is relevant to the topic of whether it's okay to use the name "Chandler" after having already been used for another personal information management tool?
I store everything in Google Drive, every document I have: tax documents, financials, passport, birth certificate, everything. All unencrypted.

I back it up to a USB drive every six months, via Takeout, simply protected via password in MacOS.
"lit review on condensed matter physics"

...

The most common state of matter at room temperature is solid, but the solid state is only one of many. There are liquid, gas, and plasma states, and the liquid and gas states are further subdivided into the liquid crystal, the superfluid, the superconductor, and so on.

...

I may not be a condensed matter physicist, but even I know that's not quite right...
Digital books are a scam. I never bought (and will never buy) one.

Every hoop is taken to make them like real books whether it makes sense or not, except for the time when you actually want to lend or give them to someone else. Then it gets complicated, depends on the vendor, or is simply impossible.

I have no need for that.

Imagine 200 years in the future, all license servers are disabled and we cannot read our own (digital) books anymore.
When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers
The other problematic aspect is that the customers of SpaceX (which probably don't pick launch providers from Twitter ads) include the US govt, so it's essentially a transfer of taxpayer money to Twitter.
The larger the company the more likely it is to have authoritarians and narcissists in positions of power. They will inevitably poison the culture and usually destroy profitability - although that may not be obvious for a while.

In fact they can create the illusion of doing the opposite. Occasionally they actually manage it for real, but more usually they create a boom/bust cycle where everything looks splendid until suddenly it doesn't.

I strongly suspect pathology is related to personality disorders. The less disordered the management team and employees are, the less political drama, time wasting, power playing, and passive aggressive incompetence you get.
>Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well.

No, it worked terribly because they hadn't been stored well and were covered in mold (even the ones from only 70 years ago) or otherwise falling apart. I couldn't search them for specific phrases I remembered my grandfather reading me as a child, and I didn't have the physical space of my own to store them all either anyway. Even making a stab at indexing them all was enormously labor intensive. I was the only one in the family interested in even trying. It really sucked.

>Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience.

Yes, it was excellent, since naturally it was DRM-free or I wouldn't have paid for it. I have digital stuff from the 80s, still perfectly preserved, that I can call up as I wish, when I wish, anywhere I wish anywhere in the world.

I'm 100% onboard with the correct argument that modern copyright and DRM go against the core bargain of IP (societal agreement for public benefit) and could use major reform. But I don't think this piece does a very good job of making that argument, the entire comparison and pretending that books don't require any sort of preservation and so on really distracts from the core issues.
Care to cite any numbers?
“My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk”

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15894149585086914...
The NYPD union has negotiated an exemption from the requirements that most city employees have to live in the city (along with teachers and firefighters IIRC.)

I think this should be revisited in the next contract negotiation.
If you understand the problem well enough that you know that the frequency of errors is stable and won’t blow up on out-of-sample data, then it seems like you’ve fully modeled what’s happening? That’s not any easier than solving the problem because it is solving the problem.

If don’t have good reasons to be confident that the error rate is stable, then you’re just guessing that you solved the problem, because it seems to work.