skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> book will run $15-20

Everybody needs to get paid, and everybody needs to make a profit.

The folks that store the books (think Wholesale), the movers/couriers, the retail that has to pay rent/employees/etc _and_ make a profit.

The consider that (depending on the country) there is a VAT on that book. It slowly adds up.

I remember in Brighton back in the 90s I had found a second hand bookstore, that had 5x the books per sqm comparing to the Barnes & Noble in the center of London. B&N had wide corridors, the shelves on the perimeter were all the way to the ceiling, but the non-walled ones were 1.5m high. And considering that they wanted the books to look cool, they were nicely spaced.

Now when you compare this to the second hand bookstore, where presentation is not 'a thing'.. you got many-many more books per sqm, and the authors/publishers don't need to get paid again. But still.. a second hand book will always been 1/3 to 1/4 of a new book (from own experience).

EDIT: I sometimes think that if my life takes a very dark turn, and for whatever reason I end up poor and alone, I will find the smallest/cheapest possible village that has a public library back to my country of origin, and I will be spending max amount of hours in that library.. free wifi, free heating/cooling, and ALL the books I can read(hey, my name is Henry Bemis after all!!)
Soooo excited for this. I can't believe this one is the FIFTH already. This conference is doing GREAT! And love that the topic was crowdsourced this time around and the COMMUNITY voted in Platform Engineering! So apropos!!!

Can't wait! :)
Why is the USA sanctioning the citizens of North Korea?

It's not like theyre happy about a dictator running the country doing international crazy stuff and oppressing them.

I feel like we should be supporting any capitalistic effort they make so that they can build up resources to combat their dictator from within.
I mean, that shaky cam execution is not so great. It feels super unnatural.
Animation has been outsourced for decades, typically with in-house artists providing the key frames and outsourced animators doing the “in between” frames.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing_of_animation
More like ban/heavily regulate plastic production, at the source, instead of lazily (and cynically) regulating it at the points of use, which is the widest possible fan of responsibility focused at the people least likely to follow through (like me, who, even before I knew recycling plastic was a futile crapshoot, never bothers to because the demand is ridiculous -- either make stuff I can toss in the trash, make the trash facility sort it out, or don't make it at all).
They should rename it "Idiocracy." More untested, evidence-free sociological experimentation on kids with subjective grading geared towards increasing biases against merit and arbitrary grade inflation while lowering standards. This reeks of the stench of abolishing phonics all over again, but on both the input side of eliminating work and on the output side of putting thumbs on the scale of how grades are measured. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that universities will gradually refuse to accept under-prepared high school graduates who received substandard educations through no fault of their own, and/or will instead water down their own grading standards (greater breadth and depth than Ivy grade inflation) to keep their stats up, leading to a less prepared, less rigorous, and more ignorant demographic of college graduates. For over 60 years, California's state education apparatus has allowed arbitrary meddling by so-called "experts"; this should be forbidden and replaced with legitimate, evidence-based decision-making overseeing statewide standards and publishing best practices that demonstrably work.

PS: End NCLBA. It was an abject failure mandated by know-nothing, arrogant neocons who went on an ideological crusade to squander resources and harm education with their "help".
“People in Europe metabolize differently, that’s why they’re so skinny”
HN Discussion: [0] (283 points, 2 days ago, 108 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101290
I still do this by shooting fan mail to indie game developers after I finish a game that I particularly enjoyed. 100% response rate so far, and always a pleasant experience for both parties.
> Why are these two things even remotely related? It seems like you just stuck two completely different thoughts together.

I mean, they're both beverages that people consume which, to different extents, alter their perceptions? It's not like I was saying I was surprised by a lack of correlation between entirely different activities, like people playing less poker and eating more cookies. There's also an historical thread of people who are adamantly against (straight edge; sometimes contentious but here's the originator's take: youtube.com/watch?v=jRe54BpFdeE) or adjacent to drinking culture (mods, hackers, athletes, etc.) who are more into coffee/caffeine. Those folks may use it as a crutch, as a way to disambiguate themselves (I know people who do this) or just as an alternative. So, instead of going to a bar on a Friday night, they will go to a cafe. Therefore, my thinking was that if younger generations are not drinking as much, they may be gathering and consuming other beverages instead (i.e. coffee).
Wow. I didn't know that Seedship is available in browser.

Played it on Android long time ago.
My internet is operating at about 1/100 normal speed today. It feels a bit like I've been remoting into a machine on Mars.
Sucker for any news about the voyage of the Golden Record (almost but not quite a CS Lewis title)! For fun, I wrote a short story two years ago about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/
No one is dead on a hill.

If anything, not using VR makes you much more "alive".

A real misapplication of this metaphor.
Six beers AFTER happy hour?
Another benefit to paper books, in my experience, is it's a lot easier to remember the rough location of a particular passage (towards the front, middle, near the end, etc.) than with digital

A progress bar really doesn't replace the context of the stack of pages behind and ahead of your current page.
Each of those cells has ~7,000 synapses each of which is both doing some computation and sending information. Further, this needs to be reconfigurable as synaptic connections aren’t static so you can’t simply make a chip with hardwired connections.

You could ballpark that as that’s 400 * 7000 * 86 billion transistors to simulate a brain that can’t learn anything, though I don’t see the point. Reasonably equivalent real time brain emulation is likely much further I’d say 2070 on a cluster isn’t unrealistic, but we’re not getting there on a single chip using lithography.

What nobody talks about is the bandwidth requirements if this isn’t all in hardware. You basically need random access to 100 trillion values (+100t weights) ~100-1,000+ times a second. Which requires splitting things across multiple chips and some kind of 3D mesh of really high bandwidth connections.
It has already been cloned! It is called "Redz" [0]. If imitation is the purest form of flattery, Redz is pure flattery. Look at the UI images.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homyt.thex
If we are not careful, millions of people will have to resort to obtaining employment. Luckily we'll still have Twitch, Kick, playing the meme stock market, and gambling for them to fall back on.

Also illegal drug sales may taper off for a while but they'll find snap to be quite cozy again.
I could see this. Like obviously I live first person, and when I want to look up I pull my head back, to look down I push my head forward. Similarly I expect pushing my mouse forward (up) to look down and pulling my mouse back (down) to look up.
Thanks for asking the question I am perpetually too embarrassed to ask. As somebody who spends 95% of my time doing native mobile, I rarely have to think about this problem. I'm sure "runtime version manager" resolves to a specific idea for most people, but it was too general for me to know what it was referring to, even after reading the elevator pitch (my first thought was: like Docker?).

This happens to me all the time. I wasn't formally educated and didn't spend my formative years around computer people. So I have holes in my knowledge and misunderstand parlance if it's not specific to my personal 10% of the software world. E.g. in the beginning, it took me a few years to realize that when people say "frontend", they virtually always mean web frontend.
I still haven't fully recovered from the economic fallout of Vine shutting down.
I like your idea a lot. I think it's potentially a major missing piece to our systems.

I really hope you are able to map it out.

If you ever need a tester, let me know.
HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
How much of the population has access to well stocked libraries?
WikiGenGPT was created over one year ago. Wonkypedia seems to use the same approach.

https://github.com/mrconter1/WikiGenGPT
It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding.

How far in the future probably informed this decision.
No need for a plane, works that way for my head in real life too :) tilt your head back and you look up
Who says it has to be heavy? While I’m wishing I’ll wish for it to weigh the same as a regular pair of glasses…
From what I've seen, on average, with many exceptions, most games will lightly compress most data. Tile graphics and layouts only need to be decompressed whenever a scene/level/map is loaded. Games aren't doing streaming audio or anything, so song data can be decompressed and uploaded to the sound processor before a level starts too.

Likewise, text needs to be decompressed once immediately before it's displayed, so games will usually compress that - it's quick enough to decompress a few hundred bytes while the text box loads.

The only thing that I've seen that's usually stored uncompressed is sprite animation data - particularly for player characters with lots of different animations. There's not enough VRAM to load all of it at once, so it needs to be streamed in, and in that case the CPU often just doesn't have the muscle.
Interesting name. Might as well have called it COMRADES or MUNISM
There’s no reason. I just wanted to be cool and use neovim! Lol :)
> The very foundation of computer science was an attempt to emulate a human mind processing data.

The very foundation of computer science was an attempt to emulate a human mind mindlessly processing data. Fixed that for you.

And I'm still not sure I agree.

The foundation of computer science was at attempt to process data so that human minds didn't have to endure the drudgery of such mindless tasks.
Dude they already have a new grift, AI, why are they still pouring money in this failed project? Zuckerberg is trying so hard to not be Elon 2.0
once again, I feel very sorry for people who haven't enriched their lives with VR experiences and skills building. No different than people who poo-pooed computers and internet
And he didn't repeat each test case 5 or 9 times, and take the median (or even an average).

There will be operating system noise that can be in the multi-percent range. This is defined as various OS services that run "in the background" taking up cpu time, emptying cache lines (which may be most important), and flushing a few translate lookaside entries.

Once you recognize the variability from run to run, claiming "1%" becomes less credible. Depending on the noise level, of course.

Linux benchmarks like SPECcpu tend to be run in "single-user mode" meaning almost no background processes are running.
The anti straw campaign was proof that both sides engage in science denialism.
That was a point, for player to notice code.

Brut-forcing won't be fun.

To be honest I didn't notice glyphs at first.
Want to give this a try later but just wanted to say the artistic style is beautiful. Good work!
I didn't know, thanks for letting me know! Just found this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@callstack/react-native-vision...

> This is a full fork of [React Native] with changes needed to support visionOS.

Awesome.
I am fairly certain that most, if not all, mass market ebooks use DRM tied to the software. If the servers go, the books will be fine for as long as the software continues to work.

There are also authors and publishers who offer books without DRM.

Please note: I do not like DRM. I simply view disinformation as a good way to loose good will from those who would otherwise support a cause.
Well done, the aesthetic is excellent.
I feel very sorry for people who feel that way and have their identity tied to hating Facebook/Meta
Thank you for your kind words, we really appreciate it.
This sums up most of Jake's (and Bess') writing lately
I really liked art style!

Looks great with minimum textures :)

Great job!
I get that loosely thrown around buzzwords are annoying, that sentiment I sympathize with, but your examples seem to contain multiple category errors e.g. HUD is a type of AR device, using cloud(noun) is outsourcing(verb) but outsourcing is definitely not appropriate term for cloud tech stacks, and so on.

Digital computer technologies aren't continuously differentiable so made up terms for grouping each distinct tech stacks is unavoidable. AI is linear algebra but grouping up all AI/ML/RL/perceptron into "electronic linear algebra technology" is not helpful.
> We worked on py2wasm to fulfill our own needs first, as we want to accelerate Python execution to the maximum, so we can move our Python Django backend from Google Cloud into Wasmer Edge.

I was under the impression that Django was stateful and not meant to be run in a serverless/edge cloud. Is that not the case or are you planning to do a special setup to support that?
You're supposed to use McDonalds fries, and some light rock-throwing toward the opposing faction. Traditionally this is how murder-crows have been trained since at least 2013. Total process is a few weeks.

Source: https://imgur.com/f50IZJS
I recommend the Fujitsu Quaderno. Great for marking up textbooks on A4 size pages, and far lighter than a book itself.
"AI means the end of coding" didn't age well.

It turns out to get the most out of LLMs you need to program them.
The mainframe era in CERN (2004)
It was what resulted in Gnosticism, not the other way around.

You had this first century response to Epicureanism's naturalism as a foundation. In that paradigm, the Platonist demiurge recreating the physical world before it was an agent of salvation, liberating the copies from the certainty of death from the Epicurean original.

What happens is that Epicureanism falls from popularity over the second century, so in parallel to the increased resurgence of Platonism, Plato's forms becomes the foundation instead. For Plato, there was a perfect world of the blueprints of everything, the corrupted physical versions of those forms, and then the worst of all was the images of the physical. So the Thomasine salvation by being in the images of physical originals is through that lens corruptive.

So as the foundation shifted from the Epicurean original world of evolution (Lucretius straight up described survival of the fittest in book 5) to Plato's perfect forms, a demiurge creating a copy of what predated it shifted from being a good thing to trapping people in a corrupted copy.

For the first 50 years of the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, it was mistakenly thought to be Gnostic. This changed at the turn of the 21st century with the efforts of Michael Allen Williams and Karen King, and it's now labeled as "proto-Gnostic." It's absent a lot of the features typically associated with 'Gnosticism' though that term in general should be retired as it's turned out that there isn't any single set of beliefs to be considered 'Gnostic' in the first place (this was the chief realization of scholars over the past twenty years).
This is a good thing. What nations and governments, along with individuals have been to do with OSINT is pretty stunning.

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f...

That was just data Strava was releasing publicly.

The raw data collection from TikTok contains much more than that. Think in terms of all branches of military and government messaging each other perfectly blackmailable things and then automating analysis of that.

Byte Dance says that China doesn't have access to the data and that it hasn't been accessed, but from what I've read they have a party office at the company in China. I simply don't trust a foreign adversary with the amount of data that one of these social platforms generates. Neither does China which is why a large number of services operated in China are hosted on Chinese servers run by local subsidiaries, with vastly different and far more permissive laws when it comes to government/intelligence/law enforcement (all one and the same there) accessing that data.

Hopefully that critical thinking can transfer to what's being done by American companies and intelligence agencies with user data and we can get some actual data privacy legislation at some point and enshrine a law preventing from inserting backdoors in everything that moves.
I'm probably showing my age, but I'm just at awe what is possible in a browser in this day and age. Well done, OP. I'd love a hashed out, full length version of this, but with the same vector graphics.
We’ve already agreed to certain food standards. The fact that people don’t follow them is enough for me to say we need something more strict. Is it a headset? Maybe not. But periodic training and availability of PPE aren’t doing the job either. The shortage of labor at the low end of the market doesn’t help, either. What I’d rather have than a germophobic headset is for people to take pride in their work (whether you serve food or write code), but that also seems to be a lost cause. I’m lucky if I can get a restaurant to count the number of items in the bag before handing it to the delivery driver.
Merci Paul :) happy to see your comment!
Adventures in 8k
Reading through https://directpaynet.com/how-long-stripe-holds-funds-and-wha... that matches what people have reported on HN before. At least 90 days wait period and then best to work with/through a lawyer. It sucks of course. As you said nobody gets straights answers from the customer support. I'm not sure other payment providers are much better.

If you were hoping Stripe employees read messages here then I'm pessimistic. There's been cases where a story hits the frontpage and an employee comments but that has been a long time ago. Most Stripe complains go unnoticed.
personally Cricket and Table Tennis. But, you could also pick Baseball, Golf, and Boxing.

Cricket, TT and Golf have none of the subscription bullshit.
I have several reasons for my custom make + stow + shell scripts:

* git status only shows me changes to config. Similarly it is easy to determine if I've forgotten to add something when adding a new config.

* accidentally adding giant directory trees to the repo is much, much harder - absentmindedly "cd .."ing one too many times and committing a bunch of proprietary work code causes a lot more work to cleanup than a lifetime of extra character strokes in "cd dotfiles/repo/dir && git commit -a".

* it allows me to have some goodies for the heterogeneous environments I compute in. Depending on if I'm on a mac or linux, if the machine is at home or work, a server or desktop, etc. I can tailor the subset of configs and details thereof. The net result is ironically a more consistent personal compute environment across systems.

* it allows me to store examples, notes, documentation, etc in my dotfiles repo without cluttering up my homedir

* i don't have to remember if config live in .prog, .prog/config, .config/prog/, etc

* it lets me store system setup scripts in my repo too. I can log onto (or install) a new machine and run my initialization script (os appropriate) and be 95% or moreready to go in a few moments. [note: things like vim + plugins, fontconfig, etc that need extra commands to set up are all automated in these], without always having those commands in my ~/bin path.

Overall, for me it boils down to: I get more control over my environment on multiple, different machines by using a bit of scripting in my dotfiles repo.
amazing work, I could not stop playing. I wish there was more after the warp.
I've noticed that pathfinding works on mobile mode!

I was impressed that it is present there. I would expect camer to fly directly to target location.
How about "One size doesn't fit all." ?
Only bug I've noticed -- you can move through doors before they fully opened. (using keyboard and mouse mode)
Myth of the 10x Developer [video]
Migrate to the cloud has specific meanings. How would you even adequately define it using "outsourcing"? That's just one part of it.
Looking at your login, you probably gone through a lot more before cgi-bin. Nice.
More details as refer to in the articles here:

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/002/cern-computing

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30

http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30-last

Those were the days my friend …

Written in 1990s

“ Will people stop programming, either because every possible program has been written or because neural networks will replace programmable circuits? ”

And the bet about Fortran:

“ In 30 years time the CERN Computing School will celebrate its 50th anniversary. If I had to pick one thing likely to still be alive 30 years from now I would choose FORTRAN. It is as safe a bet as to predict that everything else is going to change.”

I always associated cern with World Wide Web (www) and Next Computer used there. But it must have a lot of innovation and helping the developing of IT world at large.
Apple Hugs: Human Gaussian Splats (CVPR 2024)
I classify skimming as a "distracting" activity. I always ask myself: What information do I need? And then it's very easy to get to the relevant passage. And outlines are there for a reason (PDF Expert can edit them) so navigating between the same file is not that cumbersome for me. I do agree that the experience is more pleasant with a paper book, but in a focused session, the result is pretty much the same.

Skimming is great for building a mental map, but that is a separate activity than reading to learn. And it can be done digitally too, just differently.
Ask HN: What do you do while eating?
> If you want a DRM free e-book collection you will need a book scanner or send it to a scanning service.

Well, technically there's a third option...
Orthographic?
Termius?

idk, daily driving postmarketOS makes those kinds of things easy
Flight MH370 and the Sea Creatures That Opened a New Mystery
I've been happy with box.com -- works great for me.
> You distribute books all over the country? Amazon can do it better and cheaper.

That just makes it Easter for publishers. The major problem with Amazon is monopsony, not easier distribution.

> You print books? Well we have e-books now.

Which have to be purchased ultimately from the publishers, so again, they’re still there making money, they just don’t need to bother printing books anymore. You’ll note they’re not any cheaper.

> You do marketing? Authors now have their own followings on social media and can reach them directly.

I think this is confusing cause and effect. Authors turned to social media because publishers weren’t doing a great job marketing, not because it makes publishers unnecessary.
IMO there are still quality publishers, but they are small and tend to focus on specific topics. Two that I'm aware of, although I'm sure there are more out there:

- https://lostartpress.com

- https://tinhouse.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitable_medium

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/excitable-m...

Steve Mould on traveling flames https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhXQUzVMlQ
The Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect