skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rare to get the 70% royalty, even if a Kindle book is priced under $9.99.

TFA's linked Amazon resource page notes "UK Delivery Costs" are £0.10/MB (it's $0.15/MB in the U.S.), so if a Kindle book has 5 MB of images - not unreasonable for a nonfiction or technical book - that's $0.75 deducted from the royalty, regardless of whether book is priced $2.99 or $9.99.

The idea that Amazon is still charging a "delivery cost" for data as if it's a 2007-era Kindle running on a built in 3G connection is ludicrous. Almost all Kindles use Wi-Fi now. There is no real cost to delivering the ebook data; Amazon never retired the "delivery fee" because it's pure profit on the backs of authors and publishers.

Speaking of publishers: If an author is working through a publisher, the royalty cut will be eroded further. Is your publisher using a distributor for the physical copies, to get into bookstores? Distributors typically take a cut of ebook sales as well, even though they add no value for ebook delivery or placement on Amazon.

Finally, when Apple was lauded for cutting the rate charged to indie developers for app store sales from 30% to 15% in 2020, indie publishers asked for a similar break from Apple for titles sold in Apple Books (formerly iBooks):

"While applauding Apple’s decision to grant a bigger share of its revenue to independent software developers, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), representing more than 3,600 independent publishing companies nationwide, calls on the company to extend the same benefits to authors, publishers, and other small businesses using Apple Books for Authors and other ebook publishing programs."

Apple did nothing. The company still takes 30% for any book sold on its platform.

Source: https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/541675/IBPA-Calls-on-Apple-...
Dopamine detox, I'm going to stop coca cola zero, open twitter/Reddit/HN 30 times.
Avoid being exposed to a recommendation system (youtube, Netflix etc ...)
The general usability impact matters slightly less than it looks here, in part because the `do_math` with references in the article has two extra &s, and in part because methods autoreference when called like x.f().

Performance-wise, if you're likely to touch every element in a type anyway, err on the side of copies. They are going to have to end up in registers eventually anyway, so you might as well let the caller find out the best way to put them there.
Two points:

1. Being a landlord has become a more attractive investment because in job-rich regions, cities don’t let developers build enough new homes. The lack of competition from new units allows landlords to raise rents on existing units. Let us be clear on a point of confusion: Developers DO NOT EQUAL landlords. Sometimes developers will rent the units they build, but often not. Developers are the good guys here. When they build shiny luxury towers, it gives the Amazon tech bro something to buy instead of coming into your neighborhood and bidding up the price of older units.

2. Financialization of homes as a personal investment is a BAD thing. It’s essentially a Ponzi scheme operating over decades where home buyers depend on people wealthier than themselves to buy their home at a higher price decades later. This is clearly unsustainable. Homes need to stop being seen as an investment, but rather a consumption, much like a car or other goods. The Atlantic had a good article exploring this topic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/12/home...

The solution to our housing crises will include A. State governments allow lots of new homes such that homes are no longer a scarce (thus expensive) commodity, and B. We put in better tenant protections or practices such as multi-year leases that can be broken without too much of a penalty. That is, a family can, say, sign a 10-15 year lease on a home and still break the lease if life events make it necessary.
YouTuber Warped Perception Goes 1,600 Miles in His Tesla Without Plugging In
Until her best friend says it does and she turns to you asking why you lied?...
One of my main resolutions is not to write a programming language for GPU compute shaders. I've written a bit more about my 2023 wishes here: https://raphlinus.github.io/personal/2022/12/31/raph-2023.ht...
What am I missing here. The linked page > demo page seems to consist on javascript only.
Sure, added the docs here https://github.com/divyenduz/backup-scheduler#restore

Basically, you can just manually call the sync command with s3 bucket and local directory arguments in reverse or use aws s3 cp --recursive
ML chat agents will pollute community forum spaces enough to start to turn humans away out of exhaustion they are the only person present
> Are these books useful reading for somebody who doesn't use FreeBSD?

Yes. They'll prepare you to switch over to FreeBSD. ;P

In all seriousness, the ZFS books would be helpful if you use ZFS on Linux. The FreeBSD-specific books probably not so much. Those are the only ones I've read.
~3 million estimated infections by the end of 2021 is a very low number for a country the size of Japan. Many other countries already had 5x to 10x more confirmed cases per capita at that point, and the reported numbers were usually assumed to be 2x to 3x too low.

50% of reported COVID deaths in Japan have occurred since April 2022. In most Western countries, the median death was about a year earlier. That difference suggests that whatever Japan did in 2020-2021, it helped them to avoid infections during that time. Differences in case mortality rates don't explain numbers like that.

Infectious diseases do not care about pandemics and other administrative classifications. Contact tracing works as long as the rate of new infections remains low enough. For example, most Nordic countries managed to enjoy a relatively normal summer 2020, because contact tracing was able to keep up with new infections for several months.
Things will get worse.
Agreed - and this applies in nearly every language: start simple, trust your compiler, and optimize only when performance becomes untenable.
It's the simplest one, not the easiest one
> In crypto it is common for one exchange to do all of these things, to run the exchange that matches trades and also the website that takes customer orders and also the bank that lends customers money and also the market maker that buys what customers are selling and sells what they’re buying.

One thing, well there are thousands, but one thing traditional finance does far better than crypto as the above quote points out, is separation of duties.

Exchanges, allow for trading.

Clearing houses handle settlement.

Back offices/prime brokers handle custody of assets and margin allocation for those that want to trade on margin

Government and self regulating agencies handle compliance and oversite.

This means that when there is a failure at one of these, the rest go on mostly unaffected.

FTX was handling trading, settlement, holding of customer funds, margin allocation/loans and regulation.

So when FTX failed/was found out as a fraud, the entire thing went belly up.

Crypto will get there with separation, its considered a best practice, but it takes time for people to realize why traditional finance is structured the way it is.

The one retort you may come up with is that the major sell side institutions do alot of these, but you'll also be aware that they are very securely firewalled away from each other.

Some sell side institutions own their own trading venues, but they are ran as arms length separate companies.

When Lehman went bankrupt no one who primed with them lost their shares held by Lehman as those were firewalled away from Lehman's trading business and Lehman couldn't touch them to cover its own losses.

In each collapse we learn new lessons. In this latest crypto crash we learned a few things:

1) that you can't give unsecured loans to even the most blue chip of names( 3AC in this case) as everyone can go bankrupt, defi has seemed to learn this lesson and weathered the storm well

2) everyone was essentially doing the same trade, either piling into USDT's 20% farming premium or in the case of sell side institutions like Celsius, just lending out customer deposits to the big hedge funds. And when those trades stopped working, everyone lost their money at the same time and tried to recall their loans at the same time.

3) Exchange tokens are garbage. They have value as long as the exchange is going well, but as soon as the exchange has even the tiniest bit of trouble, they go to zero. And every exchange will have troubles at some point, even if they are well run and in no way fraudulent.

Exchange tokens, not even once.

4) Crypto is big enough to be called its own asset class now. That's great, but just like traditional finance's asset classes, there is no such thing as diversification in a single asset class when the entire asset class is going down.

or put another way. You can't have a portfolio of crypto only holdings and say you are diversified as there is no such thing in a bear market. You need to diversify across multiple asset classes if you want to preserve wealth
> because it was primarily only losers who would drink at the time

What was the dynamic like at your high school where the losers would party with alcohol and the cool kids stayed sober?
We also need to eliminate the massive government incentives for owning a home, or adding similar incentives for renting.
For the lazy, like me: https://grapheneos.org/
Question: if you or I need a loan to buy a house the interest rate is 6% or so, currently. Does JPM have a source of far lower interest rate loans than that? Or are they simply creating the money out of thin air by creating credit, in effect, loaning money to themselves?
"Cops called on unattended child" doesn't actually happen very often. It makes the news in the U.S. specifically because it is rare.
Early investment, not critical mass, required to dominate scientific field
It’s Java written in Rust. :shrugs:
Another guess seperate from the sibling could be the Danish company PDC, they are also the developers of Turbo Pascal, and continue to develop it under its new name Visual Pascal.

https://www.visual-prolog.com/

https://www.pdc.com/

(edit: they were also the developers of turbo pascal but rebranded it)
Do you believe that the current pool of voters are any better or more considerate?

Most voters are "the base", likely to be extreme in their politics, and mostly irrelevant to political outcomes (as they can safely be ignored, since they are voting for their team regardless).
In a few cases this is true, but usually people just want to achieve a specific task or answer a specific question, and if there's a button they could click to do it or a one-sentence answer, giving them that right now, vs. after a day of waiting, is almost always a better experiences.
Likewise, if the market price for housing and healthcare is unreasonably high, why would the populace continue to support capitalism?
Renting here too. :( Their stance seemed driven more by ethical considerations than affordability. literally being a landlord is immoral fullstop. Heard that from two complete unconnected people now - different countries
>Homes need to stop being seen as an investment, but rather a consumption, much like a car or other goods.

I'm a little skeptical that homes being disposable is a good idea.
There are no syscalls or equivalent operating system calls in the code paths measured. The architecture is also independent of the operating system, with exceptions in some languages for the calling convention (not in rust, afaik, or at least rust makes no guarantees there.)
Thank you!!
Indeed, it's really fun actually
I went treeplanting one time when I lost it. It was awesome. A lot like this story: https://bivouac.com/ExpPg.asp?ExpId=84
> So you want to punish developers building apartment complexes in high-demand cities

I don't know about the US but in other places you can actually buy an apartment which would solve that problem.
I don't know if I agree with your first point, but I definitely agree that it will become harder to ignore all the harm of the over-reaction to covid, but society will keep its head in the sand as much as possible and chastise anyone who points out any ongoing negative consequences as an anti-whatever or conspirationist
I looked at GrapheneOS too, but the author is philosophically opposed to letting users root their device.[1] I understand the security argument, I really do, but root is too useful to give up, and I don't want to be locked out of my own hardware. I'm informed of the risks and willing to accept the power/responsibility tradeoff.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/du23la/rooted_o...
What OKRs taught me about setting New Year’s resolutions
GPT-3 Powered Google Sheets Assistant
Can anyone explain certainly why this works?
Pardon me, but what is SCB? Googling didn't turn up anything relevant.
> At this point though, would anyone gain anything from a real smoking gun, other than poetic resolution?

Oh, maybe humanity could put a stop to gain of function research forever? That would be at least some compensation for this colossal error.

If only we took it as seriously as we take nuclear bombs, which are far less deadly in comparison.
I believe molten alumina does not separate naturally - you’d still need to electrolyze it. This can be done without cryolite although at higher temperature and correspondingly higher energy usage. Otherwise the aluminum and oxygen would remain bound while they evaporate.
Increasing inventory occurs by building more housing.

It wouldn't be linked to inflation, as the housing and renting market has historically been above inflation. So limiting to market rate would still be beyond inflation.

It would be balancing between having housing as a necessity vs a comodity.
As I said, I made exactly the same mistake ;) Teen comes from ten, it only makes sense that tweens comes from twenty. IMO we are right and everyone else is wrong ;)
Exactly. It shouldn't be an investment vehicle, rent on land causes rocketing costs on everything down the chain. Only big monopolies survive. Places that are well governed and cheap to live in are often creative hubs.

You might want to argue that monopoly is efficient, but it's only a temporary thing until they have built their moat.
As a matter of fact, there have been unofficial builds [1], so it's not like the newer Pixel hardware isn't supported at all. Although being Exynos-based likely doesn't help.

Besides Graphene, there's also CalyxOS [2], which is basically like LineageOS with MicroG [3].

And for those who want GApps, they might like their Pixels on stock OS. In fact one of the more popular custom Android flavors these days is Pixel Experience, [4] trying to port these features to other devices.

1. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-raven-orio...

2. https://calyxos.org/

3. https://microg.org/

4. https://download.pixelexperience.org/
You might want to rethink the call to vote on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#ring
Not a bad point. On the other hand, If somebody is being paid solid money for coding around complex logistics problems should be able to solve this simple logistic problem really fast and cheaply, and move on with their lives.

Is a transition period for the company. Not all must be perfect. Leaving a well paid job because toilet paper seems very poor capability to deal with frustration in a reasonable way.
Professional:
(1) Understand more about what roles are best for me in this world. Start-ups? Big corp? Programming? Pre-sales? Data analytics. Doing well by most objective means but have long been anxious and indecisive about what matters in my career

Personal:
(1) Be a reliable communicator with my friends
(2) Consume much less alcohol
(3) Finally complete a side-project using either technology I've regularly used (Python, SQL) or something brand new
(4) Write regularly with no excuses instead of feeling like I need to deliver the perfect newsletter post
(5) Hit new PRs in my weight training regimen
Well, a hot war between Russia/US/China will last 30 minutes. So no need to stress over it.
> Are you comparing porn with cigarettes for real?

Well, technically speaking, it wasn't a comparison, it was a rhetorical parallel to indicate that perhaps just because something appears to be pleasurable, it doesn't mean that it's also good for you.

Were I to compare, it would be an apples/oranges thing, which isn't the right way to compare anything.

Not to mention that smoking affects only the user (and their environment, surely, and perhaps their insurance provider), while porn also affects the actors, to a degree that it must be paralleled to abuse.

You may like watching porn; but could you stomach going through that meat grinder as your career?
model-t didn't require a lot of zoning/permits/etc. at least, at that time.
You’re mixing up “your responsibility to solve” with “you created this problem in the first place”
The common translation of "survival of the fittest" in Dutch is "survival of the strongest", which is even worse!

I do think "fitness" is often misunderstood, as is evolution in general. Even though the basic principles aren't that hard it's kind of tricky to really "get" natural selection. It's like trying to "get" just how huge astronomical distances are, or how a river could have formed the grand canyon: it's so far outside of our regular every-day experiences it takes some effort.

I'm not sure if s/fittest/best adapted/ (or something along these lines) would help, but it might? Of course, good general education about evolution would help even more, but yeah, that's been controversial for 150 years now...
No, but I've skimmed. Lots of people got the higher probability things correct:

-crypto plunge
-queen dying
-ukraine full invasion
-etc
What's a "flat-squirrel eater"? I assume this is a translation from some foreign phrase that has a particular meaning?
Writing for Almost 2 Years
I had a similar conversation with some young relatives recently.

Their argument was “My landlord bought the house 20 years ago and it’s paid off. So they should charge me less/nothing because their expenses are zero.”

It was weirdly illogical to me as first, they thought the mortgage was the only expense and didn’t even know about taxes and insurance.

And second, the idea of markets didn’t seem to matter and they thought they should get very low/free rent because they lived there. And they hadn’t thought about how people would be able to rent if this is how the world worked.

I think maybe it’s because of virtualization where there’s not a clear cause and effect with digital goods so it all becomes very relative. Or something. But it made me not want to ever be a landlord as negotiating with people like that would be tough.
It has decreased my quality of life by virtue that it interferes with it. Binge-watching (including browsing) lowers your baseline dopamine levels. It may also interfere with sleep (I can attest to this - having images swimming in your head, usually from over-consumption, can make it impossible). Some people find it more addicting than others.

One I admire, writer of thelastpsychiatrist, said you should treat porn viewing like a heist - in and out in 10 minutes. That's been the intention for years, but the longer sessions creep back in.

You might as well ask why some people can't handle their liquor, drugs, or junk food. This goes back to self-medicating / emotional consumption from many years back, when easily available pirated porn was a complete novelty and I had no idea of what sort of impact it might have on me.
At the end of the year, someone will make a generic post on HN asking what my predictions for 2024 are.

And I will again wonder why it made it to the front page of HN.
> Let corporate land owners pay the higher tax on all value.

I'm curious as to who you think will pay the tax.. Wont it be the tenant?

Under your system rent will simply increase by the cost of the tax, which will fully be passed on to the tenant.

This is like applying an "import taxes" and claiming the foreign country "pays". - No they don't domestic consumption pays.
If you were manually updating said document, sure. The government can't compel your speech...

But if you had a script doing so, which is likely the case, you would have to modify it or direct it to stop updating, which would be a violation again.
From parent comment:

“Even luckier, there wasn't anything else there at that moment as I would have hit anything and everything. Ever since, I am super concious when I feel tired and sit behind the wheel.”
2022: A Retrospective
Many coastal towns are among the most deprived in the UK.
Yeah, I place that in the same time frame. It was a warm up for what was to come.
Linear types <- linear logic <- linear algebra. See here: See here: https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~drg/bll/steve.pdf

There's also "affine logic" which riffs on the same thing.
Many people consider not having election deniers in government to be a “real issue” in and of itself. Having people in office who sow discord and continue to promulgate a fantasy about election integrity actively takes focus away from more important things.

The winning at-all-costs attitude is what got us here in the first place: people so concerned with winning and having their people in office they don’t care if they actually won the election, and tell themselves increasingly nonsensical things to justify it.
> and it requires a bunch of conditions that don't always apply (eg, perfect information, commoditization, etc)

Not only this, but large parts of the current economy only function because the conditions don't apply.

E.g., we know that humans don't make perfectly rational decisions but are influenced by all kinds of biases, etc. And we have the entire advertising and marketing sector that does nothing else than exploit those biases.

Yet at the same time, whenever there is the risk of new regulation being introduced, the fantasy of the perfectly informed, fully rational consumer is pulled out of the box...
Expensive but spy agencies did it.
I think the same, that's why I settled on LineageOS+MicroG. No google spyware with near-perfect compatibility with the few non-Free apps I need to use. Slap an OS-wide content blocker for trackers and ads (AdAway) and a firewall in whitelist mode (AfWall+), and you're good to go! Great battery life and no spyware.
> Its bloody impact factor is 3.926.

I have no sense of scale for that. Is that high? Low? If it's high, does it necessarily mean it's influential too (e.g. it can be cited and then rebuked in other papers)?
Robert Virding's erlog as well: https://github.com/rvirding/erlog

(rvirding GOAT)
Here's the part you mean:

https://www.ndr.de/kultur/dinner_for_one/Dinner-for-One-Hein...

What to keep in mind: It is one of the few pieces of German television tradition that are shown entirely in English - without subtitles. The English is intentionally made so simple that many people without good language skills can understand it. In 1963, however, when the sketch was recorded, a great many Germans knew only a few scraps of English. The explanation is mainly meant to make sure that the following sketch is understood anyway.
Usable land is finite.
Pentiment for something very different than everything else. Also, the steamdeck is a game changer if you’re time constrained.
Who said anything about disposable? In fact, they could make attractive rental investments maintained and held over decades if not a century. See Vienna’s social or privately owned housing that is rented out.

Housing simply should not be seen as the primary personal investment vehicle for the average person.
By their own nature, they will never be disposable in the original sense of that word.
Wouldn't it make sense to introduce a prefix to the hash for 256 bit hashs? For exemple a non hexa letter like z, so it becomes future proof and you can differentiate with the prefix?
I use this root-only charge controller: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-root-4-0-battery-char...

My battery is over 5 years old and still holds a charge like it's brand new.