skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never bought an ebook from Amazon, but I bought at least a dozen Audible audiobooks. Putting aside DRM, not-really-your-audiobook stuff the experience was very good. And I am living in a second world country (Poland). The entire process is just finding an audiobook, clicking pay (with my debit card) and a few minutes later I have the book downloaded to the app and I can start listening.

The only issue that I had with Audible is when I wanted to buy an audiobook in German (for language learning purposes). I bought the book via amazon.de and whoa the book does not show up in my audible because I was logged there using amazon.pl account. After logging to amazon.de account in Audible the book showed up. Now I remember to buy foreign audiobooks always using the same amazon site.

The process is as frictionless as downloading warez from a side like library genesis.

Most local providers in my country have more or less sh_tty systems, where you pay and a few hours later you get an email (sic!) with an audiobook as an attachment (usually you get both epub and mobi). They use a few watermarks techniques to identify your copy - so I am actually scared to share my ebooks with anyone. This year I simply had enough, since I moved to a bigger place I had more place for paper books so I switched to them again. I underestimated how quickly the volume needed by books will grow but I found it refreshing to ditch kindle for a year and be back to paper. Now about 70% of my original book storage is taken, maybe it's time to share my books with my friends?

Now my biggest problem when buying books online: often not even table of contents is available. I can use sites like goodreads to predict if I would like the book, but c'mon table of contents should be considered a must have for online book shops. I also noticed that Amazon book preview is deteriorating, now there is a lot of books when you can't even see a single page, only the cover. This is sad, maybe it's a sign that there is space for Amazon competitor?
> What?

This means you'll tend to look for reflections of your _personal_ gifts / lack of them, within government. "Gifts" is synonymous with your preferred perspectives on things. E.g. if you are attuned to watching for moral quality, you'll naturally develop gifts in that area and look for matching gifts/blindspots in that area on the part of your government.

Or if you are yourself a deep thinker, you'll bias yourself toward pointing out fluff--this phenomenon is generally independent of, and out of proportion to, others' perspectives, like even if they say "hey let's ask for clarity before throwing out critique" or whatever, you may tend to go "nah I just got a feeling" and make a judgment call because this feels right to you.

So to develop a circumspect (higher quality) POV on government & processees, you'll want to cover that blind spot by looking at objective measurements, for example. That could look like asking "how could I measure that," rather than rewarding subjective bias.

Then with subjective bias, working in parallel to the objective improvements, you also want to integrate subjective means for raising the quality level.

Please see profile--I lean toward not giving specifics / examples for this stuff anymore because it's a waste of my time & experience. I stare at relevant 3rd party data/charts which connect back to archetype (housing charts, broader national/intl economy, and so on) and make charts all day, and broader 1Y+ charts speak for themselves in a lot of cases (long-term cyclical reversion to mean for example). Accordingly, broader comments are intentionally broad and such comments will naturally seem fluffier.
Sigh...

Taking a few things for granted here, (that you're probably well-employed and capable in a comfortable work environment that pays you comfortably,) is it so terrible that you just accept and be grateful for that, and find fulfillment, novelty, and self discovery in your time outside of work? Heck, you can even use your skillset to find ways to minimize the time and energy you have to spend at your job in order to maximize what you have to give to those other pursuits. But why burn the bridges of stability and the benefits it brings?

The grass often seems greener elsewhere, and there's nothing stopping you from making a more definitive break with software engineering once you have built momentum on a side project or endeavor that's proven its value to you during dabbling.

Not to mention, do you have a spouse/kids? What would a sudden break mean for them? If you don't, has mid-upper 30s you thought about that timeline? It's a lot harder to handle the early years of your kids' childhood in your 40s struggling in a new career than comfortably in your 30s.
When we started a vulnerability disclosure program for Mastodon (funded by the EU through some start-up provider they had a contract with) the first rule they heavily encouraged was that we consider all DOS vulnerabilities out of scope. There are just so many easy ways to DOS a complex system by taking legitimate-but-costly actions that worrying about the small % of illegitimate actions that could also DOS a system just isn't worth it for most projects.

(This is not to say that we wouldn't consider the very rare case where a trivial input could lock up the system for hours due to us missing a timeout or something important, or that we wouldn't consider e.g. rate limiting bypasses as vulnerabilities. I'm not speaking officially or completely here, we try to apply a lot of nuance and common sense to the way we review vulnerabilities when disclosed)
I read the primary study and admittedly skimmed the very long article. So far as I can tell the takeaway is: after baby is 6 months old there are no observed downsides to sleep training, is that correct?
1. don't use Kindle since it lock you to use a proprietary format made by Amazon. Use a Kobo for example
2. buy ebook in a open format like .epub
3. buy physical copies as an alternative

Remember that the important thing is to support book writers and publishers in their job to bring us stories and information. Doesn't matter if you use Amazon or other stores.
I tried it and I agree. (I've learned Greek and Hebrew via classroom instruction.)
I believe pretty much all epub DRM can be cracked nowadays.
Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions
Number of aspects to nonprofit models. Funding wise, options include: cash donations, in kind donations, grants, loans, endowments, government contracts, for profit activities, for profit partnerships, government subsidizes, etc.

Basically, much likely for profits, there patterns which provide insights into paths which are most likely to provide significant opportunities for impact.
I just don’t believe it’s fair to compare the Model Y to an iX, that costs nearly twice as much as the Model Y. Do not expect that number to continue growing at the same rate as the Model Y or ID.4.

Speaking of Norway, Model Y just broke the previous record this year there for most registrations of all time of any car:

https://insideevs.com/news/628187/tesla-modely-bestselling-c...
These projects look great for reading data (although there are times where I would prefer to transform the data server side, that's not a deal breaker). However, they always seem lacking to me for writing data if I need to add business logic (I don't want to do this with triggers).

Then if I am going to write an API for writing data, just adding some for reading data doesn't seem like much effort, although I see the value proposition as frontend development getting a very consistent API without having to ask the backend to develop APIs.
We use an app called Huckleberry for sleep training our first child and I am more than satisfied with the results after 13 months. Our daughter sleeps between 10-11 hours at night, has a daytime routine-ish for naps +- 1hr (until we're down to one), she eats great, and yes selfishly - we, the parents, are very happy about the overall schedule and predictability.
I am also interested. Buried in the article is a note that by age 6 there was no appreciable difference in children with sleep interventions and without.

While this article shreds a lot of studies on sleep training, it goes on to cite a lot of others without evidence of equally scrutiny, so who knows.
Don’t remember where I read it but this sums it up well:

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."
10's of thousands of cases (trafficking cases, not legal cases) and a handful of convictions of 'sponsors' show that the likelihood of coming out on top in such cases is very small.
PostgREST 11 is in pre-release too - Steve (the maintainer) wrote about some of the upcoming features here:

https://supabase.com/blog/postgrest-11-prerelease

(Disclosure: this points to the supabase blog and I work at supabase (as does Steve))

Some of the features include

- Spreading related tables - similar to a JS "..." spread operator to flatten a response

- Order by on related tables

- "Anti-Joins" - e.g. filter the rows where the related table is null.
A primary purpose of propaganda is to undermine one's own independent judgment regarding transpersonal (society at large) issues. [A pyschological phenomena: the individual subconsciously associates the megaphone of 1-n broadcasting with 'social consensus'. It works.]

It takes social courage, and more importantly courage of one's own convictions, to face the tide of conditioned and packaged social truths. "Truths" that will be repeated from friends, family, coworkers, such as "if you have nothing to hide .."

It is so much easier to go with the flow and takes not even a tiny bit of courage to do so.
Sort of. TSLA is a highly liquid instrument that many people and institutions want to own, FTT was not.
Absolutely.

I've bought several things specifically because they use esp32 and I can flash Tasmota or EspHome on them. In fact it's a far bigger factor than price.
I suspect OP meant cowardice in not fighting for what is right and even giving up with tepid resignation before the fight has even begun. Perhaps cowardice is not the best word but the meaning felt immediately intelligible to me.
What would have happened had they refused to work? They won't get whipped or beaten.

Arguably community service under threat of imprisonment is also compelled labour. If you agree that's a valid punishment for a crime, then we're not really talking about whether compelled labour is a problem in and of itself so much as the specific conditions under which labour can be legitimately compelled.
Try buying ebooks on Amazon for kindle app from another country (in my case Latin America), they essentially force you to get the book under their kindle unlimited crap and there's no easy way to remove its DRMif you buy it like that. Because I emphatically do remove DRM from ebooks I buy (they're mine now, I "bought" them, no?), this makes it a no-go.
They aren’t quite there yet from my North American perspective. Only Tesla has the charging infrastructure to make long trips practical (I estimate another year before this goes away).

Other cars still have weird edge cases and bad cold weather performance (yes even worse than that Tesla charging incident a week back).
Ambient intelligence. Picture iterations on the Gorilla Glass concept video of a day in the life of the future, rewind retro on the architecture and interior decoration, the tech is invisible and the enduser is the Magi.
Sql lite if that counts :)
I don't get this argument. You can burn your house, but it doesn't mean you should live in a hotel.

The difference is that while I can do it by mistake, Amazon can do it intentionally.
Did your kids get sick a lot? Mine went to daycare, and picked up a virus literally every other week. We could not continue sleep training while she was sick and crying from congestions/fever/etc so we just coslept.

With the second, we decided beforehand not to bother with sleep training, since he is our last and we liked the feeling of sleeping with them.

They both sleep alone now, although we put them to sleep by cosleeping and then leave.
The thing that killed it imo is Tesla's focus on proprietary charging stations where most other players seem to be converging on shared infrastructure. The last thing we need is a network of charging stations that work with only one brand of car
To burn our precious time and distract ourselves from doing something meaningful.
My point wasn’t that they should, my point is that if the only reason you’re buying physical is to avoid feeling guilty for pirating then used bookstores might not be the best choice. There is no effect to the author buying or not.
> WireGuard supports TCP and UDP directly, which allows securing MQTT or AMQP directly without adding an extra layer of HTTP/QUIC.

MQTT over TLS is pretty standard, and supported out of the box by virtually all clients/brokers. I suspect the same is true for AMQP.

Some time ago I did a set of benchmarks of MQTT+TLS vs MQTT+WireGuard. Although I was rooting for WireGuard to blow TLS out of the water, the overall bandwidth requirements are quite similar. Under normal conditions WireGuard overhead is a bit higher than TLS, though various network pathologies can swing things the other way. The main one being roaming: if the client frequently switches networks, WG tends to handle this far more gracefully than TLS (not surprising given the underlying design and protocols).

In short, TLS can actually be made to work really well in a context like this - I jotted some notes on an optimal setup here: https://medium.com/p/b880285da526

Beyond this, there are some really interesting efforts to unify MQTT and QUIC - from an architectural perspective I feel like that’s the future for IoT comms. (https://www.emqx.com/en/blog/getting-started-with-mqtt-over-...)
There seems to be people in these comments that know, so: is there something similar to the ESP32 but for cellular networks? A small, cheap microcontroller that I can add a SIM to and get connectivity?

The only ones I've messed with before were from Adafruit, but they are all 3g which is, afaik, completely decom'd now.
Thanks, you’re the first person to mention my username :D

And thanks for reminding me of that; I always enjoy watching Martyn’s videos.
DRF (https://www.django-rest-framework.org/) provides a lot of functionality out of the box for REST views.
In addition, DRF braces (https://django-rest-framework-braces.readthedocs.io/en/lates...) helps share form and serializer objects reducing a lot of duplicate effort.
How to Monitor a Spring Boot App with Prometheus and Grafana
A step-by-step guide on how to set up monitoring for a Spring Boot app
Many Episcopalians are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony, a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person’s rib cage.

It’s natural for Episcopalians to sing in harmony. We are too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you’re singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it’s an emotionally fulfilling moment. By our joining in harmony, we somehow promise that we will not forsake each other.

garrison keillor
Could be a person testing out stolen cards with a low-value purchase, to verify that the cards are legitimate. They then can use them elsewhere for much larger purchases.
Yeah, yeah, I know. And language evolves. Is the best way to address the lack of a gender-neutral singular pronoun in English really to lazily adopt a word which is ambiguous in the vernacular? Be creative - make a new word!
It's totally a marketing gimmick. Some of the "plant-based" brands mixed real meat in with the plant stuff: https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2019/06/13/Tyson-u...

The marketers like "plant-based" because it's both in vogue and definitionally meaningless, much less precise than "vegan" (which itself is already imprecise, i.e., whether to include bugs killed in agriculture, or sugar processed with animal byproducts, etc.).
Because using technology to solve human problems rarely/never works. [1] was originally written for spam and bore mostly correct. Explain how replacing spam with “AI-generated spam” changes anything? You can try to fight this stuff but it will look more like AI to detect AI (similar to our current anti-spam tech). No reason to believe cryptography has some kind of magical bullet here as it’s an unrelated problem domain. And to the person claiming you get kicked off and that prevents you from coming back ignores a) we haven’t solved being able to tie disparate online personas for a unique offline one (despite Facebook ostensibly trying really hard) b) there are all sorts of secondary problems that pop up when you try to do that (eg ignores the concept of learning from your mistakes and redemption, key things that happen frequently with the young or anyone else testing boundaries).

[1] https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...
No, I am not your servant.

What work? I told you how to look up trademarks and patents. I can do it again: If you want to look up trademarks and patents you can use the search function on the uspto website.

You are the one who is desperately trying to make a point without putting any work into it despite, as seen in the other comments in this thread and on mastodon, that the problem we are discussing is exactly the problem they face. lmao
The shady part to me is Pixelfed vaguely mentions that Meta is "threatening legal action," and then they ask for money immediately after. This paints a David and Goliath tale, where Instagram sees a small startup taking away their users, and is trying to sue them into oblivion, and our donations will directly help. Instead, a later follow-up posts reveals "Well it's just due to the filter names."

I'm sure Pixelfed is a much better alternative to Instagram (I use neither), but the immediate segue from "Meta is threatening legal action" to "Please donate" implies that donations will be used to cover legal costs, when it sounds like the problem is pretty easily solved.
Maybe because you don’t understand their position?

He’s not saying he wants to spam the world with every private detail while giving away anything of value to anyone who asks, he’s saying he’s not going to let fear of private details escaping keep him from living the way he wants to.

I also don’t have the privacy obsession. But I wouldn’t get anything of value from handing my phone to someone I don’t trust, especially if they’re a zealot who mistakenly thinks that action is necessary to justify my choice of email provider.
They seem to very much recognize that having nothing to hide is a privilege and are not arguing against the right to privacy, just arguing that it's really convenient to make use of that privilege personally.

Hardly anyone besides an accessory to the abuse would argue that someone shouldn't have ready access to privacy from their abuser.

The problem with spying is when you don't have a choice in the matter.
Yeah, the human being behind the counter will probably ask "why the hell are you ringing up each book on a new credit card," to which the OP would presumably answer "I'm buying books for work and this is how they make me do expense reports," and both would continue to go about their day. Perhaps part of the OP's point is that the efficiency gains of Amazon over B&M retailers (from the POV of the company owners and investors, at least) come at a very real cost to the customer experience.
Homo sapiens is something like 100 to 300 thousand years old from the latest estimates I’ve seen. Agriculture is maybe six to twelve thousand years old. I don’t think there’s a strong evolutionary argument that humans are meant to primarily eat plants, but rather quite the opposite.

And then there’s the amusing observation that cows are entirely plant-based.
I have a can of bug spray that is "plant-based" (eucalyptus oil).

Ricin is "plant-based," as is cyanide.
Russian troops fighting in Ukraine can freeze their sperm for free
From Darwins point of view, klingy children slept besides their parents, were not eaten by sabre tooth tigers, and passed on the klingy gene. Babies that slept alone were eaten by Sabre tooth tigers, and did not pass their “can sleep in isolation” gene across.

So why fight nature, accept it as part of life. Sleeping together bonds parents and children.
I refuse to go with the narrative from Verge - they have a ‘use Elon and his companies to get more clicks’ attitude and outright lie in their articles to fit their narrative.
Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop?
I would love to be able to run GPT / ChatGPT on my desktop and remove some of the length limits on text.

How can I do that, and where can I download it from?
If you can make your own AI that scams people, there will be easier ways for you to make money.
Are you implying humans evolved to only eat plants? Every documentary and paper on early humans I see points to otherwise, and that our large brain was directly a result of access to extra protein from hunting meat.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/eating-meat-l...
So there are 403,000 living in the conditions of slaver, with a ratio of 1.3 per 1,000.

That is not > 1m as previously stated.
Show HN: GUI for making animated webcomics
They also want a steady stream of cookies and iPad games and to be able to climb on high dangerous objects but maybe we shouldn’t indulge every want of a child.
Could refactoring have prevented Southwest's meltdown with flight delays?
Haven't used it, but I've heard good things about Nordic's nRF9160 platform.

e.g.: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4753
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And when you get banned because someone stole your key - that's going to be awesome.
Ah so bean counting treated IT as a cost center and cut CapEx to the bone. Running things with no reserved capacity, crew wise and system wise, is just asking for a catastrophic fall off the cliff style shutdown.

Edit: a simple queue theory can explain why no reserved capacity leads to system breakdown.
Tangential but it is already the case that if you don’t give up privacy (by opting to have your financial transactions tracked by credit agencies) you’ll be regarded with suspicion by banks and some employers (because your credit score will not be very good). Plus you have to give your PII up to these credit agencies who will completely halfass securing it.
NIH SenNet Consortium to map senescent cells throughout the human lifespan