skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zilla here (one of the Sad Bastard Cookbook authors). Thanks so much for your support ... I'm lowkey dropping "front page of Hacker News" when I talk to Amazon Service reps now, in the vague hope they have any power to actually help me. I think I've reached at least one real person, but in the days of AI voice chat, who can tell?

Many of you asked why we use Amazon as the exclusive printer/distributor of the print edition. Variations of this happened to basically every self-pub author I've met, so why didn't I use another platform?

1) Reach. As Ma8ee pointed out, there's literally dozens of people buying books online but not on Amazon. If I want readers to find it, I need to be on Amazon. Bonus, one of the most important controlling factors in new people finding your book is whether the Amazon promo algorithim suggests the book to them, so any sale off Amazon doesn't contribute to building an avalanche. The game's rigged, but it's the only game in town.

2) Money/quality. Last time I checked (few years back, things might have changed), Draft2Digital print books were bad quality. Ingram print books are decent quality but their calculation for printing fees and royalties means they usually don't pay out at nearly the same rate. I've not compared directly for the Cookbook, but for Instant Classic, it's the difference between making a couple dollars or a couple cents. We did it for Instant Classic as a service for people who despise Amazon, but the royalties from the Cookbook are a substantial factor in "eating" and "making rent" for one of the Cookbook team, so there's a limit to how much I want to give away the print edition of the Cookbook. Especially if "giving it away" involves the reader paying Ingram, just not us. If anyone knows a print-on-demand distributor who pays out enough in royalties for authors to make money, please respond to this.

3) Distribution. We're small fry self-pub, without a big publishing house behind us. I've looked around for places which will take us on self-pub books and distribute them, and the options are pretty limited. I'm convinced we'd sell in brick-and-mortar stores, but that's typically not an option for self-pub unless you approach the owner of an independent bookshop on an individual basis. (We approached a couple proper distributors who accept query letters from non-traditionally published books, but they focused on specific genres and we weren't the right fit.) Basically, if you're not traditionally published, you're looking at Amazon, Ingram, or Draft2Digital to print and distribute your books. If anyone knows of other printer/distributors which take self-pub books, PLEASE tell me.

ETA: people are informing me that Ingram can make money, and that Lulu exists. I am investigating.
Is that why 1/3 of industry is state owned? /s
I would be more surprised about being Linux/windows first there is a plethora of mac only notes apps.
Thanks (truly) for the feedback! I'll try to remember for future articles. It's easy to forget how much jargon we use after being in the field for so long.
> Could you please elaborate for the general HN public what TSMC is doing and how they are advancing too fast while Intel (also AMD?) are "stagnated"?

AMD hasn't stagnated, they've made some serious progress in the last years, and they've long ago gone fabless - they spun off GlobalFoundries in 2009, and mostly deal with TSMC. The biggest problem AMD has when compared to anything ARM is the instruction set - x86 carries a crapton of baggage with its 40-ish years of history and backwards compatibility, while ARM is relatively clean.

Intel stagnated because they messed up big with their node shrinking and for inner-political reasons couldn't say they go with TSMC as well so they were stuck with their old nodes.
reached usage cap
Kind of weird to hear it when the super wealth could be paying way more taxes if they wished right now.
You're still screwing Mondrian in this case and the training system would not exist without Mondrian.
Apple seems to be held up to much higher standards, perhaps due to volume or a simple product line up.

but most hardware makers have fuck ups equal to; or worse yet they seem much less talked about.

ask your IT person about recent XPS models desoldering themselves or cooking themselves in peoples backpacks when they should be a asleep for a very recent example
So far as I can find the last time Congress bothered to pass a budget was 2016 with the prior one in 2010.

The government has been funding itself instead with “continuing resolutions” which pretty much just continue spending as the prior year modulo marginal changes. Incidentally this is why federal deficits have exploded since 2010: the financial crisis “one time” trillion dollar stimulus has been continued every year since.
They’re calling this a business priority for the Republicans when it was a Republican House, Senate and President that passed this measure.

That’s a bit too “must make it seem bipartisan” when there is a clear partisan direction.

Even when this fix is passed, it will be voted for unanimously by Democrats and only a small fraction of Republicans will vote for it.

Explain again to me how that makes it a Republican priority as opposed to a priority of the endangered species that is the Pro Business Republicans?
Put up, or shut up.

If you want to pay more, the fucking pay more, you are free to give the IRS more. I don’t understand why anyone, ever, would be in favor of more or higher compulsory taxes.
That has already been done, but it's not really the point of this; the point is to put M1 chips (or M2, M3 etc) in a blade-like enclosure for non-standard workloads (like GitHub runners).

The fact that it also has a legit serial number and macOS software license is a nice bonus, but if it was realistic to run ARM builds for iOS and macOS on other hardware, it would be done. AWS has the same thing, you can get bare metal Macs as much as you want.

As for running macOS itself; for server services that really doesn't make any sense, you'd be running Linux (like Apple does themselves for their services). That just leaves exactly why GitHub is doing what they are doing: you'll want a proven toolchain that can keep up with ecosystem changes, so your customers can run Xcode workloads and the likes.

There were some services that used (slightly) older Xcode builds on random x86 hardware, but neither the price nor performance was what the market wanted (I think) so they all disappeared without much of a trace. The only one left that does stuff like this is Corellium but that's not as much a build or device farm as it is a debug/reverse-engineering facility.
It's not FOSS, it's source-available[1].

[1] https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md
i'm not alt-right but this comment just makes me want to read alan watts more
There's a community that has experience doing analysis, design and coding with functional composition as an abnstraction. It's useful to reference that community so the viewer can get more information and more examples on applying it.

Also, sooner or later people will notice difficulties in communicating exceptional events up and down the chain and they would be greatly served by how Erlang/Elixir handles errors and process trees. Even if you want to stay in c# or f#, there's still wisdom to be gained by looking at how things work in functional languages and applying what you can in non functional languages.
Slippery slope arguments are considered a fallacy for a reason.
A strong leader at the same time can cause it to happen...
Indeed, the term doesn't describe any of the 3 countries it's most often applied to (the other being China and the USA).
Not affiliated with them, but https://www.productchart.com/monitors/ is pretty sweet for finding a monitor.
Honestly, I think we need an entirely different way of looking at "taxes". We need to find a way to calculate the externalities of a company and charge that as taxes.

I don't have a magic way to do that, nor am I convinced it is possible.

But I think that is the bare minimum we can agree government and regulations are for, to prevent and compensate for us hurting each other. Especially in ways that are hard for individuals to handle.
Just a friendly reminder - for Americans that think your taxes are too low, you can make a "gift to reduce the public debt" here:

https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454
It’s been ongoing since at least 2016, and I don’t think it will ever reach Elixir’s level of use. I’m glad it exists and people have more options, but don’t use it.

It doesn’t have macros, which are one of Elixir’s most important features. Even if you rarely write macros yourself in application code, the most popular libraries in the ecosystem (Ecto, Phoenix, Absinthe, etc) make heavy use of them. The popular DSLs they provide wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
All Google apps on iOS do this to try to push Chrome, and yes it’s incredibly annoying. The OS default browser setting exists for a reason.
Yes. They note things like being reliably informed salt makes (most) things better.
Plastic surgery only gets you so far. Likewise for AI generated content.
what happens if they become incapacitated?
You’re asking for the concrete number of people who are dead, but the folks in the system don’t know it?

And where there is a financial incentive for recipients to hide this fact?

That’s about as (actually) knowable as how many folks in LA are drug dealers.

We know some are, clearly, since they’ve been caught. But that is not going to be even close to correct in real terms, because they are of course going to work very hard to not get caught.

https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/fact-sheet-how-much-wast...

States “ According to the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General, in 2013 just over 1,500 deceased individuals in all age ranges were still receiving benefits. They account for only $15 million in improper benefit payments.”

And “According to the Social Security Administration, all improper payments, including payments to the deceased and the very old, are estimated at about $3 billion per year.”

That is in the US. And the SSA is really aggressive in trying to track down these issues. Most other pensions don’t have their resources or the type of political pressure they get.

I’ve personally overheard enough discussions among old folks to know that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg though, anymore than arresting Bob for possessing coke is ‘stopping drug trafficking’.
You describe a scenario where management didn't want to fire someone - that's why it was harder. In the U.S. only two things get in the way: A) venial corruption B) worrying about unemployment insurance (that's why HR makes you do paperwork documenting an issue).

In many European countries you have to file a ton of paperwork and justify it: ex. at Google, they're still working through _January 2023_ layoffs because you have to work with the government itself and there isn't a good* financial reason for it

* by European standards. "we need stonk to go up" doesn't fly if you're massively profitable
The Q/A immediately below the home page's video clip, it explains:

«Moonwalkers X are engineered for commercial applications, so they're particularly suitable for organizations with extensive premises where substantial walking is a routine part of employee workloads. That’s why these companies are excited to find that our robotic shoes are delivering productivity gains of 2X or more for them.»
See my edit above - I've got the hint and will change this way of posting.
You say that it is better to pay 90$ for 1000$ worth of goods than to pay nothing.
This is a false dilemma, there is a third choice that is paying only what you can afford.
Paying only 9% of a physical good wouldn't make anyone less of a robber.

A lot of people here would rather blame those who steal better than they do, than question the industry that allows artists work to be sold off.

Furthermore, I would say that most people using Spotify and alike services do it only for convenience, but certainly not to "support the artists".
> opting for functional libraries like ktor, exposed etc.

KTor kind of relies on Kotlin serialization which uses code generation behind the scenes (which is why you need to apply a plugin on your build system).
Well, I don't know much about the way calculus is taught in the West, but I remember that Zorich's Mathematical Analysis (ch. 5 Differential Calculus and ch. 8 The Differential Calculus of Functions of Several Variables) was pretty clear about everything.
Phantom drain though supposedly means if you can't charge a Tesla's main battery in time it may damage the low-voltage battery:

> If you allow the Battery to discharge to 0%, other components may become damaged or require replacement (for example, the low voltage battery). In these cases, you are responsible for repair and/or transporting expenses. Discharge-related expenses are not covered by the warranty or under the Roadside Assistance policy.
Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...
You only get taxed on the revenue. So no, if you don't have revenue, you're not paying taxes. But all those businesses CAN deduct their expenses, and only pay taxes on profit.

Software is now in the unique position of being required to pay taxes on revenue instead of profit. If you spent $5M on development and raked in $100k, you'll be taxed on $100k (minus expenses, where the $5M must now be spread over 5 years). Of course, with those numbers, the company might want to spread costs over 5 years anyway (which they could already do).

So really, it's as if the tax code is specifically targeting bootstrapped companies that are reinvesting their profits back into the company. IMHO, the worst possible option of any that could have been chosen to milk software companies. Large established companies can afford it, VC companies were going to amortize anyway.

Yeah, you "eventually" can expense your costs. But that just means that it's a tax grab on the smaller companies that will be put out of business by this move. They pay all the tax this year, go out of business, and never get to reap the profit of the development work.
Could you please stop with the false niceness? If you want to be sarcastic you can just do that. Deception squicks me out.
Am I correct that if this does not get fixed, it's a huge boon for dev agencies as paying them is an immediate expense for the startup, while paying in-house devs is not?
Initially there were a lot of interest from Anka users to migrate to a more scalable and DX friendly tool. That’s why FAQ started with comparison. In a nutshell these tools are similar but taking different approaches for the same problems: OCI registries vs own implementation, CLI first vs REST oriented, Packer/VNC vs own scripting, etc.
AI should be a force multiplier. That's why I don't see it as a replacement for human workers, except for those that do the very basics. But then they should be empowered to do more.
No such thing is necessary. Capita are a "phenomenon" of their very own. The Fujitsu and Post Office managers probably learnt from Capita.
Ask HN: Alt in-house app distrib after Google Play account close for low usage?
Google intends to close our Google Play development account due to its underutilization for hosting our own applications. As it has been a valuable tool for app management, we find ourselves in a predicament. Could you please advise us on alternative options to handle our apps? It is imperative that we avoid the manual installation and updating of APK files by our team.
There's a hotlink at the bottom where it says "the undersigned."
They are being outcompeted by a megacorp selling bootleg derivatives of their work

Not being screwed looks like royalties for content that the machine derives its value from
Her name was Nina Sharanova
sklogic told us here that his strategy was to use two parsers: a fast, generated one by default; a separate one for good, error handling. If using that strategy, then we might be able to build some error handling in as part of the grammar. The generator ignores it for one engine and uses it for another.
Cork is one layer of some heat shields (and a sustainable insulator)

This is how the industry failed and bought steel instead.
Tart runs Linux virtual machines as well.

It is an excellent tool.
It still doesn't answer how they know that: 1) they were hacked by that exact group 2) that group is sponsored by the Russian government.

The only evidence I've seen before in cases like this one was that they found that the hacks happened during Russia's working hours (i.e. Moscow timezone), and that they found some word in Cyrillic in some of the shell scripts. Which is honestly not hard to pull off if you want to hide your true identity. Not saying Russia is not interested in those hacks, but a lot of far-reaching conclusions are often quickly made based on such weak assumptions.
Other brands get plenty of criticism. And often without folks rushing in to defend them using whataboutism.
That’s not quite right. All new smart meters have the ability to report electricity usage minute-by-minute.

You _currently_ have the choice to only report month-by-month, by kindly asking them to only do that. However, I agree with verisimi, and I believe that it’s only a matter of time before the government via energy suppliers can monitor your real time electricity usage.

It’ll be dressed up, of course, as being in your best interest, but you won’t have a choice. Smart meters were sold as being beneficial for customers, but in reality they take power away from people and consolidate it in energy suppliers.

At the most basic level this is a history of when you are at home or not.
They have no incentive to do anything unless it costs them enough money.
The main blocker (other than needing to buy new NICs, since everything I have already came with quad 1/1/10/10) is I'm heavily invested into the Ubiquiti ecosystem, and since they killed off the USW-Leaf (and the even more brief UDC-Leaf), they don't have anything that fits the bill.

I'm not entirely opposed to getting a Mikrotik or something and it just being the oddball out, but it's nice to have everything centrally managed.

EDIT: They do have the PRO-Aggregation, but there are only 4x 25G ports. Technically it _would_ meet my needs for Ceph, and Ceph only.
For people of a certain age, all the education about these things that worked was delivered almost unintentionally, and all the attempts to impart it deliberately were ridiculous.

Your parents read to you, and you developed a love of books? Probably you know pretty well how to imagine another person's emotions in a hypothetical situation. And that different characters could feel very differently about otherwise-similar situations. You can probably name three to five different ways a person might feel about, say, having their work usurped.

On the other hand, a decade or two ago attempts to teach this sort of thing used exercises like dividing people into four quadrants, named things like 'plants' and 'stars' as if the very idea that different people are different was a shocking revelation they needed to spend several weeks introducing.

Perhaps our techniques for teaching this stuff have improved in the past few years? The way it used to be taught was something of a waste of time.
Perhaps not as straight forward, outsourcing is generally lot cheaper.
I read the Wikipedia article about the crime and I found it surprising he got convicted as it seemed like they didn't have any actual evidence against him. Could anyone who's familiar with the case shed some light as to why the jury found him guilty?

We do know that he did do it, I am just curious as to how it was proven.
I'm not saying you have to like the guy (I don't), but the request for credit was reasonable, and if they did work then they deserve to be credited, even if a horrible person is the one pointing it out.
1. That was months ago and i have also had some problems with qt6 version of qBittorrent on that system.
2. I will wait. It really looks promising. As long as you can disable that huge first capital leter, or make it only 2 lines high.
Two Minutes of the Simpsons [video]
I am so happy that I don't run mac farms for building a teams ios apps anymore.

Everything about dealing with apples developer ecosystem was an absolutely miserable experience, from not being able to virtualize for ci builds to having to appeal half of our (we made 250-300 apps a year for events that were based on the same template, so near clones with different assets) apps rejected and allowed on appeals sort of things.

Android was the polar opposite.

Absolutely ridiculous that I would need an entire mac mini/studio to run ONE CI job at a time. Always felt like Apple didn't WANT us to make apps.

This was 2014ish though. Is it a lot different now?
I've been working on a parser that parses while typing and gives type and syntax errors as soon as possible but never any false positives. I didn't expect it to be that difficult. I still haven't really grokked it and any bugfix usually ends in a game of whack a mole over integration tests. Any hints?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sM29zGxeo
Moreover, calling upon bible's genesis as an analogy for creation makes for a very weak, backward argument.
Transcript (actual letter) here: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster...
Or we can stop trying to have the government solve every problem there is and stop taxing people at every instance of money transfer. If you’re an average person your income is taxed, your spending is taxed and any investments you make are then taxed. If you give someone a gift it’s taxed ffs. The end result is a government that spends more than it makes so think tanks can push the idea we need to find more ways and people to tax.

Anyone who stops for a second and thinks about it knows that if we taxed the “super rich” to the gills the end result would be an increase in government spending, not a reduction of our deficit.
if you think musicians should be paid for their work then you shouldn’t be using music streaming at all
This whole story reminds me of the movie Brazil.
I mean no offence, but you are literally just guessing and not talking about technologies that people have in their houses.

Hilarious that I’m sending your own words back to you.

I worked at an energy supplier. I saw minutely energy readings from customers with my own eyes. It was a lot of data!
That's not how you're supposed to use lego. You're supposed to stack them up using the bumpy bits to maintain good alignment -- I wouldn't expect the fit on hand-made snow bricks to be sufficiently tight and the material to be sufficiently elastic to enable them to stick to each other (though you could get them to stick by getting some ice to form).

But it looks like the bricks themselves aren't hollow like they're supposed to be, and that they can't even be stacked to build a structure that's even remotely level or structurally sound.

Clearly this is "lego" in name only.
Try SquareX's disposable browser - works for me in China and is basically Remote Browser Isolation but for consumers. It seems free right now - https://www.sqrx.com
Maybe now I can play CS:GO/CS2 in peace.
And those who don’t install Chrome on their own will be pushed to do so by aggressive marketing by Google and by devs who want to test against a single browser engine only. Bits will be stolen away by similar efforts from other Chrome-clone browser vendors (MS chiefly).

It would be a pleasant surprise if Firefox for iOS got a marketshare bump large enough to move the needle, but I wouldn’t bet on it because the odds are against that happening.
Why only voice chat?
How do I find an artist’s mailing address? And what is a check?