skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right to privacy is different from privacy itself.

I believe there should be due process and warrants before they can use data against you, and that people have a right to know how secure something is or isn't.

That doesn't mean I personally need to keep Google from knowing when I go to the store.
Sorry, typo. Processor is E5-2637.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
Did this with both my kids. The first one, probably not until 8 months old. The second we did earlier, at like 6 months.

Prior to sleep training the first one, I'd have to carry her around and sing to her for almost an hour before she'd go to sleep. It was rough sleep training her. Took less than a week, with the first 2 days being the worst (probably 3+ hours of repeatedly checking in).

Anyway, both kids adapted and turned out fine, and we got a lot of peace of mind and time back.
PSA: dark mode is kinda broken. I’ll work on it later today. The site respects system preferences so this is why it appears broken to some. Sorry about that.
Everyone saying it's your fault for not knowing about fraud detection and using multiple cards: I disagree. The issue here is simply that amazon has no cart for ebooks. Period. And that they did not reach out about the transactions before taking action (or even after blocking, who knows… they could have reversed the block).

Using Spendesk means generating a new card for each transaction. Having a single transaction to load "credit", and then use up that credit means more accounting work and simply adds friction, which is the original point of the post.
Well, guess I was wrong. There is a product in the making. [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/michael_vandi/status/1607422866416619520
It Took 4 Days from Elon Unplugging a Server for Twitter to Have a Outage
Seconded! That book is great.
I think you can integrate it with nginx, which would work well with postgrest.
It's fast and cheap, had the most active wallets of any blockchain, and when you actually measure it it's more decentralised than all the eth layer 2s. https://youtu.be/5NDs3Il2J3Q?list=RDCMUC9AdQPUe4BdVJ8M9X7wxH...
I slept with both my babies for maybe two nights. Nights where I slept an hour or less because I would wake with every little sound they made. Then I put them in their own rooms, with a baby monitor set to a reasonable threshold.

I got a solid 3-4 hours a night. The babies got fed, cleaned, cuddled etc. Win-win.
That would be as silly as a computer company getting a patent for a rectangle with rounded corners.
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This was my flow, except instead of PC I was using Mac. But then, that Mac died and I hadn't also happened to save the proper old version of Kindle for PC. And I migrated to a linux desktop instead of replacing the Mac.

I'm a bit uneasy about grabbing some version downloaded from a random website, even if I ran that in a VM I still have to present my Amazon account info.

So my replacement flow would include "get a macos vm running, install an old version of Kindle for Mac (known good since it's my copy) in the VM" and then do everything in the VM and transfer the converted epub out.

I keep hoping the de-drm plugin will be updated to understand how to de-drm the newer Kindle format. :)
> My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them. After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity

You're surprised that Amazon would suspend your account for using a different virtual credit card for each purchase?
Your first article is interesting, I'd like to point this[0] out to go along with it. It's not just data that can give away information about us but metadata as well.

[0] https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
The music is beyond frustrating and I can only assume this is deliberate. On my phone, if I search for music that I own and have downloaded, it still returns results from the store/streaming and not the specific song/artist I asked for.

I'm looking for something else to manage mp3's again, preferably with an easy way to backup storage -- and it shouldn't be a monthly service.
I'm more interested in the long-term psychological effects of sleep training and how it affects a child's perception of "secure attachment" [1]. We sleep trained our oldest and did not our youngest and their personalities couldn't be more different. Of course, this may be entirely unrelated, but it's still something my wife and I have wondered about as we've learned more about it.

[1] https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/what-is-secu...
Guessing that the virtual cards are only able to be used for a single purchase. And because there is no shopping cart on Kindle allowing books to be bought together, multiple cards were required for the individual purchases.
Yes and no.

If modern slavery has slaves picking fruit in the UK or working in brothels in Germany or washing cars in France, that's absolutely something those governments could crack down on, I agree.

On the other hand, if some lithium is mined by slaves and, after going through a complex supply chain spread across a bunch of countries, some of it ends up in devices that make their way to the Spain, or lowers world lithium prices benefiting Spanish consumers indirectly - the fact the slavery happened outside of Spain's jurisdiction makes it far more difficult for Spain to to throw the slavers in jail.
The making of Rapsittie Street Kids, the worst Christmas special of all time
Slavery is abolished on paper, but there are more than enough well-known instances where we still have slavery or slavery-like conditions... Italy is estimated to have 50k people in agriculture, mostly in tomato picking, and a further 95k in prostitution and domestic labor [1] as a result of a lot of undocumented immigrants being exploited, Spain's agriculture modern slavery is smaller but still existent [2] and known for at least a decade [3], even Germany has massive issues [4] with estimates going up to 167k people [5].

We may not have overt slavery any more in the Western world, but covert slavery and human trafficking? Absolutely.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy...

[2] https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/26136/strawberry-picker...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/feb/07/spain-salad...

[4] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/moderne-lohnsklaven-in-...

[5] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/schneller-schlau/mode...
> In contrast to the author, I find joy in this.

As the author had a serious and mysterious chronic condition, I can understand her take on this.
https://archive.vn/E3aXH
I wish that when they included this line:

"Modern Mayan mothers, for example, expressed shock when they heard that in the US, babies were put to sleep in a separate room."

That they followed it up with why Mayan mothers prefer to sleep with the baby. Is it just a default cultural expectation or do they have their own reason for it?
The title might be overblown but I've come to fully expect every government agency is somehow influenced (to say the least) by some organization or another with an ulterior motive.

It appears this is just the way the system is set up. Everyone has something to gain from this influence (except the public of course). I've come to accept this as a fact of life and think for myself. Do my own research, consult professionals in matters that are important to me.
VV116 is noninferior to Paxlovid, with fewer safety concerns
> as long as it works well for the family?

It's easier for the family when the child is in the room with the parents. At least in the same way it is easier to have a master bathroom rather than one on the other side of the house.

> is it an "obsession" or simply a cultural difference?

It was an imposed cultural difference. American parents were told they would hurt their children if they slept in the same room with them, or attended to them too quickly when they cried. So they changed their behavior in order to conform.
The same happens regularly without sleep training too, so ymmv obviously.

One thing I will note - if the kid doesn’t sleep and wakes up
the adults for years, that impact pretty clearly ruins the adults, and has severe impacts on the kids too.
I mostly lived in south of Vietnam, but I never seen any hate to either Russia or US. After all people who stayed in Vietnam do think they won that war. And descendants of those who immigrated due to their anticommunist views are very much pro-american for obvious reasons.

There is a lot of hate to China though.
> the proceeds are distributed pro rata to authors based on the relative proportions of their content in all downloads?

That way we get the content farms we have already on Insta/YT/TikTok etc. Just flooding the platforms with random stuff with shit background music, shitty autocaptions and robot narrators until something sticks. Then produce more of the same.
I grabbed those old M.R.James Christmas Ghost Stories years ago (no idea where I downloaded them from but they were obviously rips from fairly recent BBC broadcasts). BBC used to have an online shop where you could buy things legitimately but they shut it down. No idea why.

Tractate Middoth adaptation is awful Gatiss tripe. (He's so hit-and-miss, and this is a miss for me). It's also on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5MlQgGu6nCU

My favorite of those M R.James adaptations, by far, is A View From A Hill. It's on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGh0ybk-xyk
Understand your point, though to my knowledge YC doesn’t release numbers related to counts of nonprofit applicants. Might easily be even more competitive than the for profit applicants since would only take 60 nonprofits per batch to be at least as competitive as the for profit applicant pool.

More importantly: Are there partners focused on nonprofits? Do the batches have enough nonprofits to cluster like nonprofits? Is there training that’s specific to nonprofits? Do they have a demo day specifically for nonprofits? Is there a nonprofit alumni network with 10,000+ members? Does YC have a significant brand within the nonprofit funding community? How many significant nonprofits have been a part of YC? Etc.
They haven't delivered nothing?!?

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem

Running containers on AWS?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/aws-firecracker/

What have you delivered in your top XVYZ language?
I'd argue it's not necessarily about the devices, it's about paying to rent electronic copies of books. I'm not poor, but I find that to be a prohibitively expensive way to do any appreciable amount of reading. Especially when there is a building down the street that can get me just about any book for free.
And SIDS.
I'm not defending Amazon, but I thought everyone already knew that Amazon owns the books and the "purchaser of the license" doesn't. Honestly, though, it's a little suspicious to an automated system for someone to create a new card for each book getting purchased. There is a lot of fraud involved with those cards. Try purchasing a google play card online from Walmart to see what I mean.
Recall that Kindle is Amazon's app or device. Kindle uses Amazon's DRM, and Kindle doesn't allow copying of the digital books out of the Amazon ecosystem. The truth is that you don't purchase a Kindle book. You purchase a license to read a Kindle ebook. That ebook gets updated on your device, which might remove your favorite passages. Also, when an author wants, your ebook can even be completely removed.

At one point I went into the web inteface to Manage Digital Items and selected several thousand ebooks to download onto my desktop device. Then, after they all downloaded to that device, I created local digital copies as backups of those ebooks, using Calibre.

Did you contact Amazon using their live chat in order to explain what happened? Or to ask them how to do what you want? I've found that the people on Amazon's live chat are extremely helpful and always resolve the issue (as long as what I purchased was on Prime or Kindle).
Ask HN: Would you (or your company) host your own document signing if you could?
Would you (or the company you work for) self-host a document signing solution if that were an option? I find it really weird, that there seems to be no obvious option to do so, in a space that so obviously has many reasons to.

Disclaimer: I recently started Documenso.com
Prisma has pivoted to be “just” a Node.JS ORM a few years ago (I work there). You can still use it to build an API of course, but you will need some additional tool or libraries.
Well, your average Chromebook has a similar screen, more power, built-in battery, and can run Linux. And Ye olde Beaglebone or Android computer on an HDMI stick is more portable and more powerful. And if you want a new Mac, well, the Mini is an amazing machine in a tiny package, or there's also the Intel NUCs. Or for gaming, the Shuttle PCs, Razer Tomahawk, etc. Or just connect your iPad to a keyboard.

Don't get me wrong, I loved those old Macs too, having learned Logo and Hypercard on them. But most of that machine was the CRT monitor plus huge components. You can pack a lot more into a lot less these days. I do miss the "cute" factor though. They were loveable in a way that modern machines just aren't.
Another perhaps lesser known way is to "git add origin /path/to/repo".

For example works great on networked file share with no proper git server required.
omg, why didn't I think of that?

https://i.redd.it/5tqpouqebvp11.jpg

My whole post is about how I've been trying, have tried, and how I've failed.

I'm 33 now, I've quit many other addictive things but this one seems to rope me back.
SEC case again Avraham Eisenberg, who claimed his exploit was legal, code is law
Show HN: LazyReminder – Reminders for lazy people built by lazy people
tl;dr hear 'the chord' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkS57yCIk7E&t=216s
Yes, intelligence services spend a lot of time on traffic analysis for that very reason.

Metadata tends to be easily gathered. Much easier than the contents themselves and very amendable to network analysis. That's why each and every online provider would love to have access to your phone's contact list.

edit: fantastic article you linked by the way.
Are you sure our more normalized now? The back of magazines and comic books were also full of scams and sleaze when I was a kid. I am 40 and remember people forwarding letters around with a dollar in them for some kind of pyramid scheme.
How did the rest of the industry catch up exactly?

Model Y was the best selling car in November in all of Europe, beating out the VW Golf. Supercharger network is still best in class, and “recalls” are all typically addressed as simple OTA updates requiring no service visit.

Record sales, best and reliable charging network, and easy customer maintenance (https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...).
Modern Greek speaker here. No. The grammar and syntax are noticeably different, and the words are related but not the same.
The cashew preparation process often involves exploitative practices that scar the hands of workers who harvest and prepare them. It doesn't always involve these practices (though it's hard to tell which ones don't), and these practices aren't necessarily an order of magnitude worse than the inherent exploitation in the production of almost every other food item which is imported from third-world countries. Some vegans generally try to avoid cashews (and many other products) for this reason. Most don't because the list of things to avoid would leave them with very little to subside on.
The issue in the US is harm has to be done first and the compensation is based on the harm done.

You are only harmed when amazon loses rights to media you purchased and that harm is easily measured in terms of the monetary value of the thing they took from you (which, they'll likely refund if you start talking to lawyers because it's not worth it to them.)

What we need is to get corporations out of politics.
I have a wife. I have 10 programmers who code for me. I have a mother and father. I have a best friend. I have a guy who mows my lawn.

All of these examples are ‘have’ followed by a person, and none of them imply ownership.
Can you name some of the obscure 70s sci-fi? I would like to watch them. My downloads are TV series for Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, etc, but it’s limited and probably not too obscure and also… American besides the 70s Doctor Who saved Survivors (was that 80s?)
> now in low $$$$ MRR

Does this mean low thousands?
Sure, you can have access to my phone's contact list with all of my friends and family members numbers and names, some with addresses and birthdays, etc., to check if they are also on the service I just signed up for! How convenient!
I think society as a whole should have a long and in depth discussion on piracy in the first place. Piracy in the digital age is a weasel word used by vested interests. For instance datahoarding could be seen as a service to society.

There is no actual pirating going on when you copy a digital file. Now there could be a loss of income if it grows out of control and artists are not being compensated. So obviously the discussion should focus on that.

Steam already solved piracy for gaming. Make it easy to download and manage your games. Apparently the same hasn’t played out for movies and songs on the whole.
Why do you think tech companies shouldn't make the equivalent of a little green book available? Do you think they (or a third party) will get it wrong?
This is how digital goods are “sold” (leased is more accurate), it isn’t an Amazon issue or an e-book issue. You’re leasing access to digital goods, not owning them. It’s much larger and broader than that. That’s why it’s always a good idea to download digital goods and keep them on your own device and not in the cloud on a retailer’s server.
I turned on location services on Twitter just so Elon knew where I was at all times. I'm working on a bot that will upload all of my search queries and every bedroom conversation from my Alexa, then share it with him directly (since Twitter STILL lacks this feature)

Not that he cares, of course, but if it helps his bottom line, I figured "why not?"

He and Google (who are Good) will notice me any day now!
So the author was “prescribed” a cocktail of 5 supplements, found they could eat more protein afterward, and then assumed that Boswelia was the solution? Did I miss something, or did they just assume 1 of the 5 supplements was the solution?

This entire post is a good example of how post-facto reasoning can take over in the space of anecdotal medical changes. The author doesn’t even seem to realize that Boswelia is a notable anti-microbial, which is a nontrivial factor when considering gut issues and potential microbiome changes. Several supplements are potent antimicrobials against the microbiome, some on par with prescription antibiotics. I wouldn’t be surprised if the combination of 5 supplements the doctor prescribed simply nuked their microbiome from orbit and it happened to come back in a somewhat healthier combination. There is precedent for this in controlled studies, but results are very mixed.

The SlimeTimeMoldTime blog they (rightly) criticize is another example of post-facto reasoning taking over at the intersection between “rationality blogging” and medicine: We’ve known for a long time that monotonous diets like potato diets result in weight loss. It’s not magic, it’s just that potatoes are boring and bland and you’re going to eat less food if much of your diet is potatoes. Yet the rationalist community has been doing mental backflips to try to come up with a more complicated explanation for why this might be the case.
When I meet someone like the author, I always ask them if I can search their house, after all they have nothing to hide. Somehow nobody ever accepted my offer.

When I see how authoritarian tendencies thrived under the COVID "episode" I'd rather go more private than ever!
> as it works well for the family

I understand the argument to be that it doesn't work well for the baby. That they experience a form of abandonment because their brains are wired to equate abandonment with the absence of close contact. They're very dependent on the proximity of a caregiver.
I am sure you have built things with your bare hands that you have been proud of or maybe someone close to you. if i compare theses events in my own life to the things i built as a dev i must say: something is off. and nobody is helped if we sugarcoat things like that. sw engineering is hard work and more often than not feels like a waste of time. i never aspired to stand out, all i want is build something i can be proud of.
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I think this could be good for birthdays...or new years resolutions or something.
i encourage those interested to seek out Athenaze (in italian) instead. i commend the effort put into this though
sorry, yes
Tell that to Newsom

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/23/california-seized-enough-f...
It's clearly stated in the OP:

>My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them.

Presumably Spendesk doesn't allow using the same virtual card multiple times?
I'm already experiencing Verification blindness
I think this was covered in 7 out of the 9 other comments in this thread already.
Right. How are your bathroom breaks going anyway? Plumbing all working well, I hope! Drinking enough water?
where do you buy them?
We sleep trained both our kids and their personalities are so different.
After writing 10 books for major publishers, I just self publish now. My newer eBooks are always available to read for free in my website [1]. I used to also provide free PDF downloads on my website but I was getting 1 book sale for every approximately 50 free downloads. Making people read for free via HTML pages is not as convenient for them but I now get about twice the paid for sales each month. This is a compromise that I am happy with.

[1] https://markwatson.com
> This could only have been naively said 12 years ago. To me, this is cowardice.

Exactly. This is 100% cowardice. It's the mentally of a broken man who's too beaten to fight anymore. Very depressing.
What are these sites?
On the alternative solution, it's worth stressing, that it does not have to be a cache service. Any key/value store would do.
Those listings are usually honest. Misleading, yes, but nowhere in them does it state you are buying anything other than a box. The even more misleading ones, helped by the product name, are selling x-box boxes.

I'd argue that the “buy now” when viewing a Kindle edition listing, or Audible edition, is noticeably less honest, especially as you are usually at most on click away from the dead-tree editions where buy actually does mean buy. I'd have that iphone box that I'd legally bought for as long as I choose to own it, the seller can not revoke access to it arbitrarily like Amazon can, will, and sometimes has (1984 being the most famous and somewhat ironic example) with ebooks and audiobooks.
I really don't understand why people buy Kobo. I bought a Pocketbook from 2007. It still works perfectly and does not need software updates (nor does it have internet). Transferring books or PDFs is as easy as plugging the device into my computer.
>Heaviest remaining stack trace that I’m digging into now: swift_allocObject. It’s always memory…

Reminds me of Kirk Pepperdine's "The Trouble with Memory" talk:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jvm-60-memory/

Quotes:

"Reduced allocation rates from 1.8 gigabytes per second to zero. (...) TPS jumped from 400,000 to 25 million."

"about 70% of all the applications I run into are bottlenecked by some sort of memory issue (...) not only are people bottlenecked on this issue, they don't actually realize it. They don't even see it. It's not even visible to them."

Then he goes on to enumerate some popular Java frameworks, and says: "If you use any of these, then you're very likely in the 70% of people that are suffering from memory issues."