skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how little Amazon have done to protect the customers of physical goods from getting garbage, I don’t think they would even bother looking for the metaphorical hammer let alone dropping it on garbage book writers filling the store with what is basically spam today and GPT nonsense tomorrow…

Case in point: You can find numerous instances of people (multiple people often do this for the same book leading to multiple entries) uploading public domain works of the US government such as NASA NTRS pdfs, or military history compilations that were done by government military historians and are thus also public domain… all uploaded to Amazon by someone hoping that their Amazon link shows up higher in the search results (or gets the top spot as a suggested shopping link) than the original free public domain PDF. Amazon seems ok with this.

Another case: Amazon happily allows multiple garbage grade copies of public domain books to coexist in the kindle store (last time I looked) there were plenty of old project Gutenberg text dumps run though some kind of txt2mobi pipeline and just left on the store as a dollar, or even if they bothered to try and have a nice cover art/jacket they usually set the price as a few dollars… all for a public domain book that should be free (and is since there’s also usually someone who has uploaded the same book and listed it for free)

I think the mantra at Amazon is “more books = bigger kindle store = more value for customers using the kindle ecosystem = more good” with zero consideration of how they could be slowly undermining the consumer trust in their platform. This feels to me like the same management playbook at work in the physical goods space where Amazon are facing a rising tide of counterfeit goods and they seem structurally incapable of solving these problems… if management cared something would be different. Why will this be different for ebooks?
The blog post might’ve been this one from Derek Sivers: https://sive.rs/1pct
> if you're smart enough to be reading this website, you're smart enough to create and sell a piece of software to 10 businesses.

I gave up a Software Engineering career to become a content creator (Instagram/Blog/YouTube/magazine articles/photography/speaking/books), so I can offer my first hand experience.

What you say is, more or less, on the money. I would absolutely be earning more cash if I stuck at my software career. I willingly put my hand in the air and said "I don't want more money, I want a different life."

I realized that sitting inside every day was not the life I wanted to live, so I changed it. I don't want "an easier" way to make money, I don't want to sit and write software. I learned that doesn't make me happy.

I'm passionate about exploring the world and telling stories about that, so that is what I do now, and I love it. Yes, I have a lot less money than I used to have, and I'm much happier. Monetizing this life has been an incredible learning experience, and I'm proud of what I have achieved to date.

For me personally, life is not about finding an "easier way" to make money. It's not about how comfortable my life is, and it's not about simply having more money. So I choose this life. And, well, also The Road Chose Me.
Ask HN: Are my spec enough for deep learning?
Hello! My daily laptop has the apple M1 max with 32 GB memory, will this be sufficient in running deep learning software or will I run into issues? This is my first mac, my last computer is a 2017 razor blade. Thank you!
The Hypercard > SuperCard > Macromedia Director > Flash > Air (side shout out to proce55ing) method of letting kids make art and learn code seems like it's become a dead branch on the evolutionary tree whose trunk is now web standards and (bewilderingly) javascript. It's gotten fragmented to the point where to do these kinds of things you need to get a ton of separate packages and knowledge of code. It's amazing that a 9 year old could do this back in 1989 or so.

What's really needed is a VM or just a compiler to web standards that gives this kind of open-ended creativity and focuses on the user experience for a broad spectrum from kids to creative professionals. And one that's open source, finally, and not locked to a hardware platform or a creative cloud subscription.
That used to be part of the expensive FSD package, and it was the only part I liked. Glad it's standard now.
Imports only happen once.

import mod

is the equivalent of

mod = sys.modules.get(name)

if not mod:

mod = sys.modules[name] = load_package(name)

It’s really low cost, as long as you’re not doing it in a hot loop, it’ll be very low to no impact.
Use both, that is immensely powerful.
Regarding Mosaic in particular, Wikipedia tells us that:

> Mosaic was the first browser to explore the concept of collaborative annotation in 1993 but never passed the test state.
I have done that but adb didn't work for me. I just a phone of the same model and moved the mainboard to the new phone. More expensive solution if others don't pan out.
It appears judges hands are tied by Washington law. Only individuals accused of capital offenses can be denied bail. I agree, this is lunacy.

Yes, what California has done is you cannot set bail at an amount someone cannot post, but judges can deny bail for those deemed a public safety threat or those who have skipped bail. Individuals are assessed based on “risk to the community” and whether they get bail is based on that. Seems reasonable to me.
> * The testimonials use fake names + stock art

Wtf this is true. Reverse google image search the testimonials and you'll see the same. This blows my mind how sketchy it is. Just get your friends to put testimonials. If you have 3 users that you begged to use your product, get them to review. Fake reviews is beyond scummy.

That said, anyone know what template they use for their landing page? It's nice.
Evaporating water to cool servers seems like a pretty good thing to be doing. Much better than running air conditioners on electricity.
Most of the learning I'm talking about is like an hour of work. But the resistance doesn't even let people get to that point.
Why though? import already does the similar check internally. Your global check might actually be more inefficient because it would need to check more dicts instead.

E.g first the local dict, then the global and then the modules dict, instead of just the global+modules
And if more evaporates from the resevoir, less outflows to the ocean directly.
Yep, call pros to replace them every 3 years? Probably okay. Device becomes trash after 3 years because battery is DRM-protected and no longer produced?

EU should really f**k them hard about this behavior. It's 100% planned obsolescence.

Log the producer of parts is okay but intentionally make them non functional is not.
+1 for Raindrop.io
For real. I am going to have to look into this more. While it isn't by a global retail manufacturer, the price is like a fraction of most other RAM so I am curious. Does NewEgg or Amazon sell it directly, and if not why not?
> Is it really much of an issue?

Yes, because I don't want to wait seconds every time I change a typescript file and I don't want to world of complexity to make it have the same performance every other compiler has out of the box. My "solution" for this is to not use typescript. I'd like to, but it's just too painful.
> If the FBI messages you and says ‘hey… review this content and see if it’s violating your own policies,’ is that inherently an innocent request? I could see a world where ‘see if it violates your own policies’ is a code for extortion with plausible deniability.

While this is true, it is not necessary for twitter to resist requests from the government in order for this kind of contact to be effective state censorship. Twitter has seemed to be eager to do whatever the government says. Why wouldn't they be? It's a favor that the government owes them now, and additionally, they were charging the government for their time. It's a completely profitable interaction. With media consolidation, there are only a few dozen people who ultimately own all western media, and they got that way through good relationships with governments.

The real troubling question is why the FBI has a department of 80 people combing through tweets and tweeting in order to push or suppress policy. Thinking of Twitter as the victim entirely misses the point.
But a good or bad disruption? Are you arguing that the ecosystem is currently optimal? It seems unlikely. So there's interesting questions; what's an optimal ecosystem look like? How can it be achieved?
Do they heat it that much to evaporate a lot of it? I've read about one water cooled DC, don't remember which one exactly. But I do remember they were drawing water at around 15C and returning back to the river at 20C.
These aren't formed nodules like other seabed metals, this is mud with higher than normal amounts of rare earths present.

What isn't clear from the article is if they plan on dredging the top layer, which would entirely disrupt the ecosystem, or somehow pump up mud from under the seabed itself.

If it is the latter, the ecosystem is unlikely to have a dependency on the rare earths in the mud itself; at that depth you don't have plants with deep roots or anything transecting the layers. You will certainly have surface deformation which will be disruptive, but not so much as dredging would be.
The Dalles is also giving Google large property tax breaks to convince them to build there
From all we've learned in the last decades the best way to make money on their AI assistant for a company will be too allow advertisers to pay for being preferred in the AI's answers. ChatGPT is a beta experiment and very neutral it seems, but considering the cost to run it there is no way it will stay like that.
Or you could be getting Calvin’s dad kind of answers:

Calvin:how do they know the weight limit for a bridge?

Dad: they drive bigger and bigger trucks over it until it collapses, then they rebuild the bridge and put up the sign
The War on Drugs Has Unduly Biased Substance Use Research
It just means you need more granular contexts right?
I migrated to Raindrop.io recently for folders, better UX with previews, highlights, content type categorization, reader mode, free tier, among other options.
“Somewhat”
Science Hobbyist
Also even if it is beneficial to some or all organism, generally eco system are based on equilibrium. Disturbing that would have consequence which we generally don't understand and can't predict.
I have half a mind to study deep sea microbes and how the immune system might react when presented with them using AI/ML and see if that helps this any. Following you on Twitter.
Yeah definitely, the pendulum swings based on consumer satisfaction. Hopefully streaming can be federated in some way and we can get past this phase.
Sun was done in by the following mistakes from around 2002:

- Failure to license Solaris to Google (reportedly Sun wanted to have a license count, while Google considered the number of systems they ran a secret).

- The "termination" of Solaris on x86, which was really (or became) a pause in development for six months -- whichever the case, it was a disaster as it gave Linux a huge boost.

- The closing down of Sun Professional Services (presumably in order to preserve R&D). Compare to IBM, which did the opposite, and whose professional services division became hugely valuable to IBM. Professional services organizations sell their services and their parent companies other products and services. Losing the professional services organization meant losing sales.

That was all in 2002. Many more mistakes were made later (and before), but these are the ones that really killed Sun.

Other mistakes after 2002:

- Treating J2ME as a cash cow and thus failing to get it on competitors' handsets when iPhones came about. This failure being one of limited R&D and mispricing the product. Compare to Android essentially adopting Java not that much later.

- In general treating x86 as a second class citizen to protect SPARC. Now, this one is not very fair because after the cancellation of Solaris on x86 was reverse, internally x86 was a first class citizen, and Sun built a great systems group around x86, but Sun was quite the cash cow milker and put too much effort to keep SPARC from falling too far behind x86, and from the outside it probably looked like Sun just didn't really mean x86 support until around the time of the Oracle acquisition (at which time Sun had great x86 systems for its storage appliance). You have to know when the cash cow is dying and when it's beyond rebuilding, and Sun just didn't.

- The MySQL acquisition. $1bn out the window. There were others, like Cobalt.

Oracle too made mistakes, chiefly killing OpenSolaris in response to Greenbytes' shipping non-release OpenSolaris ZFS dedup code before Oracle. There were other ways to handle this. Oracle is a company built on mindshare, but it didn't understand that Solaris was now the underdog and needed to build mindshare, and the way to do it was to loss-lead. Friends of mine immediately told me they'd no longer run any new Solaris systems and would migrate from existing ones ASAP because of shades of the 2002 cancellation of Solaris on x86 -- they felt they could not trust Oracle.

This could be my bias because 2002 is when I joined Sun. Clearly there were other mistakes made before 2001. But the Solaris team at Sun did incredible things in the 00s with a smaller team than in the 90s.

The Sun culture that created ZFS, SMF, FMA, and other things in the 00s doesn't exist anywhere now. It was a culture of internal openness and skunkworks projects that paid off.
Funny, in my mind "business object" is the least important thing out of what I wrote. Imagine it's the 1990s and you are coding some hot thing to drop into cgi-bin. My list now changes to be:

* An HTTP request

* A perl script (or C binary)

* A database transaction

Things like DDD exist to assist humans, not computers.

EDIT: in place of "database transaction" we might also say "reading from persistent durable storage" (like a file system).
US Navy is stationed closer than the Chinese navy. The US’s seventh fleet is permanently based out of Yokosuka Japan. Only US fleet not based out of somewhere in the US.
Savages. Dark Ages, indeed.
> the moment I use Object.entries ... the key has been widened to string

This is correct behavior though, and what you propose would be wrong. The type isn’t narrowed. Type U satisfies type T when the keys of U are a superset of the keys of T, so long as the keys map to the correct value-types in the intersection of (keyof T) and (keyof U)

This is because the only time extra keys are outlawed is when you instantiate an object of type T and explicitly declare it as a T. I can link if you need but this is an important subtlety which is why Object.entries returns string instead of keyof T, and it’s not borne of MS/TS developer laziness
Either a manufacturing defect in his car, or a defect in the supercharger stall he used.
> Repairability is orthogonal to reliability

This is clearly not true when we’re discussing user replaceable batteries or the like. It’s a trade off, like most things in engineering.

There are many extra ways things can go wrong by making components such as batteries easy to replace. Poor contacts, oxidation, mechanical breakage, battery compartment doors popping off, ingress of dust and fluids, looser tolerances for the batteries etc.

Nobody discussing this in good faith can deny that these issues exist.
Maybe you don't? Maybe you learn to live with an accurate valuation based on the company's record of innovation in batteries, motors, and castings? Not to mention heat pumps, aerodynamics, nearly flawless worldwide charging infrastructure, etc?

Is it really better to have a hyperinflated valuation based on vaporware that risks falling off a cliff when people get tired of the lies?
This meme needs to die.

Quoting from:
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/799/70...

> 1988: NSF sponsors a series of workshops at Harvard on the commercialization and privatization of the Internet.

> 1988: Kahn et al. write a paper "Towards a National Research Network." According to the Brief History, "This report was influential on then Senator Al Gore, and ushered in high speed networks that laid the networking foundation for the future information superhighway."

Gore was making speeches on the senate floor. In 1986, he said in a speech that is on the congressional record:

> America's highways transport people and materials across the country. Federal freeways connect with state highways which connect in turn with county roads and city streets. To transport data and ideas, we will need a telecommunications highway connecting users coast to coast, state to state, city to city. The study required in this amendment will identify the problems and opportunities the nation will face in establishing that highway.
True, but the chances of scrcpy being enabled on an Android device is limited and you also have to authenticate the computer connecting to the device from the device itself which most likely requires a touch screen. There may be a way to access the encrypted partition itself though using the hardware buttons, and then run a command to mount the encrypted partition.
No that's completely incorrect. It is not a solved problem. Those Tekmagic devices have very limited functionality and are not real smart watches or fitness trackers like the Garmin Descent series. A smart watch draws more power than a replaceable CR2025 coin cell battery can sustain. (I had a similar old Suunto wristwatch style dive computer with a replaceable battery so I am very familiar with the differences.)
> theres a good chance they’ll screw something up like the waterproofing seal or leave a loose connection that you won't notice until weeks later

You must be strongly opposed to right to repair, since repair shops are incompetent to even replace a battery in your view.
This article ended entirely too quickly. I was enjoying the displays of medieval cats in domestic situations. Interesting bit of history.
This incident is only a broader symptom of social media as a tool and weapon to grandstand and signal virtue to others. As the profession of science is highly social, especially in fields of little consequence to everyday lives such as astrophysics that has little external feedback, pathologies that lead to such incidents can develop.

In the end, it's little more than a high school cafeteria, replete with mean girls.

I'm suspicious of any scientist or researcher that has a very active Twitter account. It means their priorities are not straight.
Depends on what phone you get. Mid to high end phones usually have communities to maintain 3 party system patches for them after they are not maintained officially. You can still use it safely for a a few years if you even bother about it.

For example, my old sony xz3 is a 2018/08 phone with software update discontinued since 2020(?). But there are actually 3party roms that can update it android 12.
That isn’t what people mean when they say a Linux desktop.
Chinese reclamations are absurd, they want economic exclusive zone even in front of Malaysia, ~1500kms from their shores, it's basicslly a call for war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AMap_of_territorial_disp...
as a former temporal employee, its cool to see this, but how did you pitch YC on being essentially a Temporal wrapper? whats the moat?
Soft Launch: Joaquin OS – the working Natural Lang Filesystem interface for Mac
Merry festivus - joaquinos.com - check it out!

1. The endpoint it hits is using my own GPT3 compute credentials, therefore besides Stripe's cut, I wanted to make it super affordable while bootstrapping financially both time and compute wise. Hopefully it's a fair price as it develops further! Will be raising it if demand increases enough, locking in early users at lower prices if bank account checks out.

2. Right now, as a shipping incentive, I've kept it simple with immediate typing functionality. Voice recognition works seamlessly pre-dist; I need to make a system that downloads FFMPEG if the user doesn't have it (cannot distribute with). I made this full-stack, and had a goal of shipping a MVP by Xmas, so here we are! Let's ship!

3. Soliciting feedback and user testing. Sourcing ideas and tips as we build the next generation of OS interface, while keeping a viable model to stay afloat while confident in current value add.

4. Be gentle, be merry, be well, be adventurous. All upcoming patrons will have access to future updates. Happy holidays!
Welcome to HN! And Happy Christmas!

Just wanted to say I’m sorry this happened, and hope you get a true, useful response in the end.
Presumably everything from asahi will get merged in to mainline Linux and distros will just work.

The end goal of the project is to not require their own distribution/repos.
So you are writing naked JS or what?

A lot of developers decided slow compiles - I don’t know what pathological case you stumbled on to make a single file take 3s tho - is far superior to needing to suss out runtime errors, and I find it hard to believe you made the choice to write naked JS instead of TS. If you picked a different language, fair enough I suppose, but I have to admit I’m not that sure why someone would tap JS/TS if another language is equally suitable. I am a front end guy after all, so I don’t particularly have a choice
Right, but there is an exception for carriers such as Twitter from being treated as publishers, responsible for the material they distribute and monetize from their website.

They aren’t treated like press, but they need to be.
The report from the MIT faculty working group on freedom of expression, who originally proposed this statement, touches on this topic:

"Recommendation 5: The chair of the MIT faculty should explore how to develop a
faculty-governed resource for the MIT community when contested matters of speech arise. "

The faculty-governed aspect seems to be a counterpoint to the administrators. Though in this proposal they clarify that this would just be a resource and wouldn't have "adjudicatory responsibilities".

Link to the full report and all their recommendations is here: https://facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/default/files/report...
Look at the users comment history, literally the whole first page is only him nonstop defending musk in different threads. Wish I could post that pic of weird nerds protecting elon and his companies from valid criticism
If continental drift were off by a factor of 10, it would be 500km from where it is now.

And given that Greenland is about ~2500km long North-South, even if it drifted Northward the whole time, it’d still be mostly in the Arctic circle.
I can assure you that at least in the theological circles I have traveled in you have it exactly backwards. In those traditions happiness is momentary and fleeting, but a contentedness with a state of being regardless of circumstances would be described as joy.
The Macan is a sports car first, luxury car second. A better comparison would be against against a Mercedes GLC and that absolutely stomps a Tesla Y. Anyone driving with passengers in the car probably doesn’t care about “unearthly acceleration” as much as a quiet, smooth ride, and abundant cameras and safety features. The Tesla Y is on par with a Honda Civic from a decade ago in ride quality.
Muchas gracias. Got distracted by Christmas day familial activities and didn't realise you'd replied.

ps: my sis uses Shopify to run her entire online biz and even though I'm the supposedly techie one she's the one that set it up, configured it, and runs it – she wouldn't know what a Ruby is!
OTOH I could imagine a hybrid situation where the AI Bot searches Google for you and restates the millions of results Google gives it
Your grandma is a big gamer, right? Or is she into deep learning stuff?

Trying to figure out how being easy enough for your grandma is related at all to nvidia gpus.
Same for me. If you use uOrigin you can select and hide the element, but I didn't even bothered. Now I now I won't be visiting this site anytime soon, at least not on mobile.