skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great pr/marketing piece. The reality is not so rosy. Still a fan, but they make harder and harder.

The new stores and redesigns may be portrayed as "inviting browsing"... But they are rather soulless racks of shelves, with little of the unique touches that differentiated Barnes. The new designs are uncomfortable, not quite sterile but just... Meh. In effect, in the effort to put the books up front, locations now look more like the pop-up calendar remainders shops that show up every Feb in US malls.

Gone are any nods to community: chairs are few so no sitting, comparing, or even quietly chatting to fellow book shoppers. Newer locations have no bathrooms. Some have food still, but fewer options with higher prices tell the story there. While newer stores have fewer "bestsellers", they also have fewer variety of books in total, as smaller footprints force out more niche categories.

Daunt is an amazing fellow, and he loves books. Some of his changes are great to see. And Waterstones are still a joy to visit. But B&N isn't quite Waterstones.

At the end of the day, B&N have chosen to ignore the power of scale and presence, and instead act like a local shop. But, I'd rather then go to a local shop. If the local shop doesn't have my unique need covered, I expect a bigger shop to do so. And up til a few years ago, B&N would have.

B&N owned the middle-to-largr size bookstore space. Amazon was infinite, my local was curated, but what was immediate, relatively vast, and had good open hours? Instead of playing to this strength, it tried to become Amazon, then the local "upscale" toy store (Learning Express et al), and a cd/record/DVD shop, a genre "collector's" shop, anything but leveraging the things that made them. And now, they try to copy the local bookstore.

It feels like the old cartoon images of the massive American football player in the ballerina tutu. Instead of trying on every costume in the shop, perhaps B&N should have played to its strengths instead of trying to find a new thing to copy.

All that being said, I will still keep visiting, hoping that we won't lose B&N in total. But I hope they recognize why I go, sooner rather than later.

Disclosure: worked at bn.com and the nook store for a few years.
Again, for North Americans on the whole. Maybe western Europeans if they didn't look too far over their shoulders.

I remember it as a very mixed time. Culturally optimistic here in North America, certainly. But I could certainly see the stormclouds.

When you say relative, you need to postfix that with "... to me."
Show HN: I'm writing a book – Cloudflare for Speed and Security
Hey HN,

I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently.

One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0].

From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book.

From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your caching policies. How to distribute videos globally. And a lot of other things, all of that while significantly reducing your cloud bill.

The book is far from ready, but I still wanted to release it as "Early Access".

Between writing, editing, and technical reviewing, it can take some time to complete a book. That's why I release my books before they are fully completed - so you can start learning before the book is 100% ready, provide feedback, and help me to refine the book's content. Rest assured, all future updates are free of charge.

The final publication date is set for mid-January 2024.

Bonuses: If you purchase Cloudflare for Speed and Security before November 4, 2023, you'll get my bestseller, Black Hat Rust [1], for free! Yes, you read it right, two books for less than the price of one!

Furthermore, all early-access supporters will receive the checklist that I use to quickly set up a new domain on Cloudflare, ensuring the right balance between security, performance, and user experience.

Finally, the price is likely to increase once the book transitions out of Early Access, so don't wait until it's too late to get your copy ;)

As always, the code accompanying the book will be freely available on GitHub [2]

Sylvain

[0] https://kerkour.com/what-do-you-want-to-learn-about-web-and-...

[1] https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust

[2] https://github.com/skerkour/cloudflare-for-speed-and-securit...
I was communicating with a co-worker the other day who put in their email signature: my energy levels are heavily impacted by long covid which results in my inability to respond quickly.

I need to come up with something because it was very clever.
I see your point that it's the role of governing bodies to find solutions to complex issues raised by the public. However, isn't there also some responsibility on the part of the protestors to articulate what specific changes they'd like to see, rather than resorting to extreme actions like property destruction? After all, clear demands can make it easier for those in power to act effectively.
YouTube has you covered. These are the first links I found about rammed earth construction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjyGOOtOFik

How to add a doorway/window...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EFWOXjvAU

How to add electrical and plumbing conduits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTfd2_MoNxI

Might not be the best videos, but there's plenty to choose from.
But then how is it possible to say "Hamas is the reason there is no Palestinian state"? The reason there is no Palestinian state is that Israel has done anything possible to prevent its creation, including supporting terrorists to then point to as the reason the Palestinian state cannot be allowed. If you remove Hamas, Israel will make up new excuses or create new terror groups. As I reported in my first comment, the original charter of Likud said it plain and clear:

"a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."

"From the river to the sea", indeed.
What do you mean he hasn't, I'd definitely classify community notes as a volunteer-based moderation.
Yes. Prompt Injection =/ SQL Injection. Solving it is not akin to patching a bug but solving alignment.
Western Australian robotics has been coming along since building a sheep shearing robot in the 1980s.
The quality at the end of the day may be a bit better, but overall it's the same system. You can only speak for specific country. I know someone from France that was pulled out of a car for having an Arab name.

When Floyd died paris pd changed policies and the police broke the law in order to protest. Lets not look at Europe through rose colored glasses. This can be quite hard to do on HN, because you are often silenced.
Amazon announces 2 new ways it's using robots
Random trivia. Woolworth's still exists. But all the stores are called Foot Locker now.
Eventually the spiral would have plateaued as people from other countries would become willing to take even heavy risks and rush to fill the jobs, regardless of the prospects of legal immigration. So the principle would have still held, though obviously deleterious to the average consumer in terms of pricing.
It's only a few pixels (vertically) between the title of the link and the "hide" button.
I'm not OP though:

In some countries for some age-groups it is implied that only children play with toys. Equating the use of it, to be someone who is a child.

While you can't control interpretation of the word, you're now aware of its connotations in certain cultures and how you can be interpreted. The burden of its possible misuse is now on you.
It would be pretty trivial to write an AST visitor that would treat each new indentation level as an “inside [function|while|if|etc]” … that’s going to handle your already syntactically correct code. Bit harder to deal with syntax errors and mixed indentation, but if there’s a way to tell a sighted user about it there’s a way to tell a not-sighted one.

Assuming you care enough about humans to do so, mind.
So, the Stroop Effect!
A former Nascar driver, Jeremy Mayfield, was charged with felonies for (supposedly) unknowingly selling stolen goods through his scrap yard.
I'm embarrassed for Musk. He overpays for Twitter, mismanages it to a lower value, and is now panhandling for dollar bills to make himself whole.
Tesla isnt the personal toy of Musk.
Man Travels Across Japan with GPS Tracker to Create 4k-Mile Marriage Proposal
From the article:

"The facets distinguishing successful entrepreneurs include a preference for variety, novelty and starting new things (openness to adventure), like being the center of attention (lower levels of modesty) and being exuberant (high activity levels)."

And a little further down:

'"Our findings clearly show there's not one ideal 'founder-type' personality," says Associate Professor Margaret (Peggy) Kern, senior author of the study from the University of Melbourne. "Instead, the Big Five personality traits of successful start-up founders, which we can break down further across 30 dimensions, reveal six distinct types: fighters, operators, accomplishers, leaders, engineers and developers."'
I think for the therapy group there’s also an aspect of wanting people to have some skin in the game. If you give something away for free, plenty of people will take it. But as soon as you put a mild obstacle in the way, even if it’s a small payment, you’ll weed out the people who don’t really want to be there.
You actually tagged it as a children’s book, and not adult satire, didn’t you?

Would be funny if this was your fault the whole time…
Considering Covid can cause brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment, that seems a more likely cause of issues:
https://nitter.net/_CatintheHat/status/1668577909836075008
So what are you doing to fix the problem aside from lament?
There are a whole lot of front-end UIs for Hackernews but I never wanted to litter my primary browser with extras unless in dire need. I usually browse Hackernews in my Primary Browser on a rather large monitor.

So, the first problem is that Hackernews is too spread out for comfort and I have a custom styles that forces the max-width within 960px (I know, OldSkool habit).

If this is something you are comfortable with, I just set the text to be a little darker than the default light gray.

FYI, `table#hnmain` where everything happens in HN. And one of the best articles to help you with this is at https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/custom-style-sheet-in-safa...

To set the text to a darker color;

:root {
/* besides the other variables */
--color-700: #374151;
}
table.fatitem .toptext {
color: var(--color-700) !important;
}
At my B&N they replaced the music and movies section with the larger toys section and added more writing products. They didn’t take away any space for books. Having the toy section is actually nice since the demise of Toys R Us.

I used to buy computer books there, but I mostly buy Manning ebooks now.
> When Israel declared independence, its military had already succeeded in depopulating Palestine’s largest cities of Jaffa and Haifa as well as Tiberias, Safad and Beisan.

Dude. I live next to Jaffa and it is 100% an Arab city. Not "depopulated". Neither is Haifa etc.

We can go back to 48 in which case we can start talking about the staggering amount of death dished out by both sides. It's tragic but doesn't help anyone. It also predates modern law and democracy in Israel. It predates human rights laws etc.

There was a large amount of immigration to Israel in the 40s as Jews fled the Holocaust. Once borders opened up they moved in and also fled Arab countries where they were quickly deemed the enemy. People lost everything there too. I'm not saying the Palestinians aren't a victim here, but don't pretend they weren't an aggressor either. This was a bad situation with victims and aggressors on both sides.

> Such things happen only by design.

This is nonsense and speculative. It's inconsistent with the facts that some communities remained whole while others were indeed chased away.

> People would respect Israel a lot more if it just admitted it's a Jewish ethno-state borne of conquest, instead of peddling excuses and rationalizations how they just want to ensure democracy, and expelling the previous inhabitants of what is now their land is just an unfortunate coincidence that is not their fault.

This is ridiculous. People would most certainly not respect Israel more if it made such a claim.

Why doesn't the USA make this exact claim for native Americans? Or really, any country that exists in the Americas? Australia? Hell, the UKs crown is German ruling over Danes.

If the unfortunate coincidence would have gone the other way it's a good chance that Jews would no longer exist. I'm sorry for the suffering of the Palestinian people. I truly am. But when that happened instead of talking to Israel the surrounding countries ganged up and attacked multiple times. The only reason Israel has these territories to begin with is that 3 armies surrounded Israel and attacked it together.
Great idea lol. If they then also added some remote people and/or a few entirely imaginary people on top of that and you had to work out who was present/real at all, even better.
Yep https://www.google.com/search?q=%22What%27s+20+degrees+Celsi...
Complexity as a kind of mold culture, growing on the substrate of code and code-like typing, suggests the importance of sterile practice and hygiene, like testing.
Portable in what dimensions? There's no portable way to describe how to build an archive containing C++ source code.
> Where even private individuals are willing to pay for attention

Twitter Blue is already this. When you get verified your replies and posts are boosted in others feeds. Just one of the reason the quality of the app has bottomed out but yes: I think there is an audience very willing to pay for that.
Summary: It sounds like the model is utter crap, based on loads of early-atomic-age hand-waves and politics, and extremely little data.

But between research expenses, and the politics and ideology around "nuclear" - prospects for getting a better model don't sound good.

Hmm...with all the current excitement about sending people to the moon & to Mars, maybe we could hide some decent research behind a bunch of "astronauts", "out in space", and "natural cosmic rays" smokescreens?
I doubt Starlink has the bandwidth needed to beat out an underwater cable, it's good as a backup option though.
I realize the rust evangelism strike force is a thing, but I can't help but think

5 | let scores = inputs().iter().map(|(a, b)| {
| ^^^^^^^^ creates a temporary which is freed while still in use

is easier to make accessibility tools for than

In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.6/algorithm:63:0,
from error_code.cpp:2:
/usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/stl_algo.h: In function ‘_RandomAccessIterator std::__find(_RandomAccessIterator, _RandomAccessIterator, const _Tp&,...
Why is there still no Dark Mode?

Sorry, it had to be said. :P
I'm sort of assuming this was an attempt to tap the cables that went badly.
Death is one of those events where thoughts of past and future are burned off in the intensity of the moment.
So far this observation is just based on the deaths of three canine family members, each one losing their spark of life as I held them, and also on my experience hunting and killing other animals, from deer all the way down to the ant in my kitchen (I try to relocate most arthropods we don't want in the house, but I don't know if that's always better than killing- house spiders, for example, may be invasive species outside of houses. We tend to leave the smaller spiders, anyway).
I guess Musk does not talk to Zuck
> Maybe this is why some cultures periodically set their homes on fire. Strengthens the walls

Well, the wikipedia link that you provided says that there is no evidence for that claim since the houses were destroyed in the burning. Two possible explanations on wikipedia for why it was done are recycling of building material and symbolic end of houses.
If you click the timestamp (permalink) of the post to open it in its own page, you'll see it in full contrast. This is the workaround for when you literally can't read it any more.
I second that. Didn't even realize I could do that, just copied

news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(95%) hue-rotate(200deg); background: white)

into My Filters section, refreshed the page and it worked. It's so simple.
I can easily imagine the area of a tennis court, far moreso than the size given (in square meters, no less! 
 I live in a country that uses Freedom Units! 
).

Then, in my head, I can imagine what this area would look like as a wall.
No. The BMI is more like an object file. It's not likely anyone would ship one.

The lib is still the lib. The header files are replaced with module interfaces. It's just that those are probably going to be shipped with some parsing instructions, like required preprocessor flags, the C++ version used, and that sort of thing.
Well except any country on the Eurasian landmass doesn't need submarine cables at all to have direct fiber optic links with the majority of the world's population.
David Hyde Pierce (Niles) and Jane Levees (Daphne) have both declined to return, and John Mahoney (Martin) passed away in 2018; the only returning member of the main cast is Peri Gilpin (Roz), who's only going to make a single guest appearance. Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith) is the only recurring cast member to commit to the new show, and only in a single guest appearance.
This is not true, and it's why we developed separate scales for wind chill (which factors in wind) and heat index (which factors humidity).

Looking at the wind chill chart[0] for frostbite times, there is nothing particularly special around the freezing point temperature, even at absurd wind speeds. Ironically, actually, the 0 point for Fahrenheit is far more relevant threshold for frostbite.

[0] https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
> Fun fact: light travels a bit faster in space than in an optic cable.

Doesn't it have to travel farther, tho? Does that cancel it out?
I did pre-order one, but that involves accepting that the money might not end up being a waste.
I’m saying that all you’ve proven is that if you know a priori whether ZFC is consistent, you can construct a Turing machine that returns this value. If you consider that to be window dressing I don’t know what else I can tell you.
…and using their Starlink on a subscription plan which their plan is linked to their card numbers. Oh No /s

Time to cancel because Musk made lots of techies cry over a bird site.
Thousands of IT administrators are using 'admin' as their default password
U.S.-Mexico Border: An Israeli Tech Laboratory (2018)
I'm curious to know what is more expensive to roll out capacity for.

starlink launches are expensive but so is doing work under the sea.
YouTube wants to get you watching more news from 'authoritative sources'
I, for one, miss the old plain HTML look, with blue unvisited links and purple visited ones and a font of my choosing through my browser settings.

Let's return to Berners-Lee Chic.
Yup. I was viewing on my android tablet using chrome. It wasn't crashing but it was very jittery.
They basically all have substack newsletters, just move there
This is just plain laziness. There are millions of ways to advertise besides Amazon - Google, Facebook, relevant podcasts, direct outreach to relevant wwbsites for ads etc.

On the other hand, this was not a “children’s book” by any means
Sorry I’m not going to write a point by point rebuttal of a 250-line slam poem.

Sure: Henry George, Steven Pinker, Mustafa Suleyman off the top of my head.

What makes them better is pretty simple: they sound like thinkers who are engaging with the substance of a rather complicated topic, instead of like cult leaders who are making declarations of faith. Which, it should be obvious that the only reason anyone is engaging with this (and we have to) is because of the power held by the person saying it.

Also, listing people without their permission, especially posthumously, as if they’re co-signers on your manifesto is transparently intellectually dishonest. I honestly shudder to think of the calculus that would lead a serious thinker to believe that’s okay.

Marc is presumably a smart guy and I’m sure he’s perfectly friendly, but this stuff is starting to veer a little Kanye if you ask me. No one is immune to their own distorted reality, so I hope he has people he trusts who can (and do) provide pushback.
> It’s not the $1, it’s the identity linked to the charge. So now they can be blocked as well as traced back to the funding account.

Do people on HN actually think this will work? I'm genuinely curious. Knowing everything we know about the underground economy of sockpuppets, bots and carders - combined the (un)willingness of real people (especially in relatively poorer countries) to pop out their credit card during signup for a social media site - do folks really think this will produce a high-quality stream of new signups?
So it's a monitor, but on your face
Conan, Spack, Nix, vcpkg, not to mention the OS specific ones. All are actively maintained. Modern means different things to different people, so I expect some people will still be looking for more answers.
Why clean air is a luxury that many can't afford
In my understanding, in order to obtain results, data still needs to be sent to services like OpenAI and Azure... etc.

But they said "The prompts and data entered by the user are viewable only to that individual; they are not shared with LLM vendors, nor can the data be used to train those models."

How is that achieved?
There have been some great Demo Scene history books published over the last few years.

https://www.editions64k.fr/product/demoscene-the-logo-art/

https://www.editions64k.fr/product/demoscene-the-amiga-years...

etc. Very high quality books, great for a coffee table or a nostalgic read.
If anyone ever invents antigravity, "levity" would be a nicer name for it.
They are, credit card thieves will happily spend more than $1 to verify a credit card. Not acting on such transactions if how you get an angry call from VISA.
Except it does not.
Starlink uses wireless connections, be them laser or radio. That just cannot scale in the same way that fiber can. It's an apples and oranges comparison.
Do you have any reading on this? I'm curious because of

> they exhausted less quickly

In what situations? It seems like there'd be very different expectations of heavy labor based on gender.
The Southwold Waterstones was controversial when it opened: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/27/waterstones-ch...
Insurgencies have a recent track record of being quite effective. So, yes.

Also, I never said you'd survive such a scenario. Not everyone survived the first revolution. Did that make it a bad idea?

Also x2, why do people I speak to about this always get the impression that everyone in the military will unanimously agree that drone striking and nuking its land, resources, and people is a beneficial strategy? Not to mention the immorality of it. There will be splintering. It will be civil war. There's a great chance there will be two US armies, two presidents, etc. when the time comes.
It might cut down on anonymous harassment/abuse if people can't create anonymous accounts and hide behind VPNs and throwaway email addresses.

But it's not going to make any difference to anything if it doesn't apply to existing accounts.
Or the "great" world next that we have after the pandemic. I remember in the social networks and tv (spanish) said "saldremos mejores", well...
Year round. And it's just a pine tree. It's not decorated for Christmas or anything.