jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hollywood makes franchise-based movies because the profitability is much more stable. Would you rather Hollywood produce more $100 Million movies that return only $10 Million?

The elitism in these sorts of discussions is cringeworthy. I absolutely hate superhero movies, but I'm not their audience. Seriously, people don't whine about teen-audience flicks so why whine about this?
I'm personally not a big fan of working from home at night. However, at times, I have to work from home due to personal reasons and hence the questions.

Thanks for sharing your current solutions.
True, but that word is pretty clearly gonna be Hologram. Augmented Reality isn't as fun to to as as Hologram or Kleenex.
I upgraded my five year used laptop just last month, and this would have been an ideal one.

However, lack of an AMD CPU is a kind of deal breaker for me, even if it means I wouldn't get USB 4.
> It's not clear if they can do an offering at inflated prices without running afoul of SEC.

To add to this, the SEC issued a statement in the middle of it all that seems to discourage Gamestop from offering more shares. It's unclear to me but that's my interpretation of the last sentence of this paragraph:

> In addition, we will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is prohibited by the federal securities laws. Market participants should be careful to avoid such activity. *Likewise, issuers must ensure compliance with the federal securities laws for any contemplated offers or sales of their own securities.*

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-ma...
Yeah, hard pass. If I'm gonna be a 1099 contractor my rate will need to be very high (roughly $500/hr). Otherwise I'm sticking with my FTE job. And I'd need to be able to pick up more than the 20 hours per week than this guy will give me too, so I'd need multiple clients.
I have the opposite problem. After many games of Mario Party, the analog stick would be very loose, flopping around without much friction.
This is great! And you just gave me an idea to try and implement/code up a more basic version into a matrix room. Basically, record a voice message and drop it into a person's matrix room. (I've been on matrix since the beginning, but am moving my family over to matrix now fully as our family comms platform.) Thanks, and kudos on this!
I've used a bunch of open source Japanese keyboards: Mozc[0] (might be related to Gboard? haven't used gboard but the app is based off the same source code that powers Google IME), nicoWnnG[1]. I'm not sure how well they fare compared to proprietary keyboards but they've been good enough for my occasional use of Japanese.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozc.android.inputmethod...
[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gorry.android.input.nico...
Maybe I misunderstood you message, but I was quite surprised to see Spanish as the second most spoken language in the world.

I just looked it up and the rankings are a little less black and white than I expected too.

A lot of the numbers seems to be from older rankings and the explosive growth of some languages in recent years makes them vary wildly.

All in all, it seems Chinese is first, with Spanish coming in just after Hindi+urdu, English, and Arabic.

Interesting stuff.
Getting connected the first time is cheap. It's the bill that comes for the second month for all those minutes that gets you!
It is useful for people like Wang Yi and Xi Jinping to pin the "clash of civilizations" terminology on American hawks and seemingly wash their hands of it, but the party media outlets still persist in implying that Chinese people and Americans (or is it "Western people"?) have fundamentally different values, and this is what I dispute.

I really think it's disingenuous to imply that in a country of over a billion people, with countless regional traditions, where many different languages are spoken, there is a singular unified set of values that is somehow unique to within the political borders, as compared to people who live just across the mountain, just across the river, or just across the strait.

It is a misunderstanding of American politics to imply that adopting socialism and intending to move toward communism is 180 degrees to their opposite. There are plenty of American politicians who admire socialism, and who call themselves socialists, and who would like to implement socialist policies - if not taking it all the way to communism. There are lots of grassroots communist publications in the US. Communism is discussed in school and universities, and it has champions in members of the public.

In any case, your claim was that the West as a whole had different values to China, not just the US. There is explicit Communist Party representation in the EU and other Western governments, so even if it were true that all Chinese have exactly the same political values as defined by the CCP, it is not true that no people in the West share those.

To get back on the actual topic, which is human rights, the UN has discussed human rights since the very beginning, and plenty of people from all around the world have agreed on some basic fundamentals, such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and so on. Personally, I find it hard to believe that one country's citizens are so unique that a definition of human rights coincidentally matching their current authoritarian government's ideology is merely a difference of opinion that should be immune to foreign criticism.

But also, personally, I do not think there is enough evidence to definitively call what is happening in Xinjiang "genocide". However, I also think that the words do not matter so much. The basic point is that it seems to be a universal human rights violation to imprison people solely because of their religious or cultural beliefs.
This guide saved my butt in school when I suddenly had to do C network programming with no relevant experience.
I feel like we all need to be more like this kid and actively seek out more dinosaurs in our lives. I especially enjoy listening to science-related podcasts and shows as part of my wind-down routine. For example I watch a lot of space documentaries to wind down at night to not thing about work and the state of the world by encouraging my curiosity.
I've been bitten by this as well. In general, having two types that are mostly, but not always, interchangeable, often leads to hard to debug problems. A similar situation that comes to mind was str and unicode types in Python 2.

Sometimes you end up with a stray value of a wrong type somewhere in a complicated data structure. It gets propagated down the line since most parts don't care if it's one type or the other. This makes it possible for the value to propagate far away from the original mistake that caused it to be of the wrong type in the first place. Finally when some code chokes up on it, it can be completely unrelated to the code that needs fixing.

Since it's hard to debug the original cause this is often fixed by just adding the type conversion at the place that choked up. But this is just kicking the can down the street, since the remaining type inconsistency will soon pop up a problem somewhere else.
I do not really understand why hospital workers and others that use masks daily for whole shift still use single-use N95 masks and not half-face respirators with reusable filters, like 3M 7500 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5zbj3_ezqE). They are more comfortable and fit much better.
I think the problem is more about buying masks from sellers on Aliexpress with KN95 printed on it which may or may not have actually been tested to meet those requirements. These are the same items that independent sellers on Amazon will end up selling. I'm sure the same happens with some N95/FFP2 masks but from my anecdotal experience this seems to be less common.
Its not just residents, its a complete violation of free market.

How are startups and family businesses meant to compete when the megacorps get special deals, pay no taxes and get bailouts? This is how you get monopolies and oligopolies.
> How many youtube subscribers did he have at the point he posted it?

I looked it up. He had all of 400 subscribers when the video was uploaded. He clearly wasn't trying to leverage his massive youtube fanbase at the time. His girlfriend testified in court that her boyfriend wasn't racist. They were both caught off guard by the video's popularity and the response it got from authorities.

She said "I know what kind of person he is. It is just not a very nice thing to say obviously. I didn't think about it being anything other than him annoying me, I didn't think it would have the effect that it did."

> He subsequently turned it into an "edgy" comedy career, career in politics, and ~1m youtube subscribers across his various channels. Pretty good return on investment.

I mean, on one hand he's got more youtube subscribers than ever, but on the other he lost his job and will struggle to get hired for the rest of his life because people will assume he's a racist because of a joke... I'm not sure I'd call that a win exactly, but I can't blame him from trying to make the best of the situation any way that he can. He seems genuinely interested in fighting against what happened to him so that it doesn't happen to others.

> This not an argument in his favor.

That was your theory, although I still can't imagine what you thought the end goal there was. He goes through all that trouble to manufacture and promote a viral video with a couple seconds of hitler in it but for what exactly? If he were a secret nazi and this was all some kind of master plan what is the pay off here?

If you're really without any evidence that the video wasn't just a joke that people took too seriously, why have you accused him of being a racist with a nefarious plan? What kind of evidence do you think a person should have before they make a claim like that about another person?
He is still banned by the way: https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1359610849674088449
I wonder if compression with just a preset dictionary (i.e. no learning from the plaintext) would produce reasonable compression ratio. That would be interesting because it would be entirely BREACH resistant.
Does it really smell/taste like bread when baked?
I can second your question. When you build an app with a dynamic frontent (i.e. javascript) and a "database" (I don't care what model) driven backend, then you need a way to pass data and commands (e.g. JSON) between the two.

Thus you end up with pages that handle requests and return data in a structured presentation-agnostic fashion. Isn't that already an API?
Looks like they just now changed their URL format to remove the year and month, and broke all existing links. Bleh. Looks like someone reported this at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1695431. For now, https://hacks.mozilla.org/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-w... works.
Take a look at Jim Collins’ How the Mighty Fall. https://www.amazon.com/How-Mighty-Fall-Companies-Never/dp/09...
Thanks for your support! The big question for all companies in the VC/DID ecosystem is of course timing. I think it's a fatal mistake to create products that require the coordination of multiple stakeholders from the outset, so we are avoiding these in the beginning. We are instead focusing on solving for use cases that are simpler to coordinate, such as a Shopify storefront offering discounts to influencers who prove they have over 10,000 Instagram followers on their public account.

As per monetization, we sell commercial tools that give the look and feel of SaaS management (uptime monitoring, data schema management, integrations with proprietary enterprise systems like ERPs) but allow customers to keep the workflows and sensitive data in their own clouds. It's still early for Spruce (we started full time around last fall), so we are still very hands-on with customers discovering and working through their pain points in implementing credentialing workflows.

Finally, I think technologies like DECO (https://www.deco.works/) are truly going to change the game of verifiable data exports en masse, but I don't expect a production worthy implementation for at least another year or two. They could drastically simplify implementations of user-centric data workflows by reducing the requirement of coordinating multiple stakeholders to just one or two.
Well put. This goes to the essential unknowability of causality (Godel incompleteness) and the uncomputability of plans (Turing halting problem).

I bet on a stock and it went up, I sold it made money. Just because betting on a stock made me money does not mean that my reasoning was correct. Furthermore, there is no way to really know why the stock went up. Even if I repeat this across many many trials, there is no amount of verification which will prove me right.

McKinsey is a real world arbitrage on this but dressed up in expensive ivy league educations, $500/hr consulting fees and fancy gobbledegook which awes management.

Munger, FWIW, says they never ever hire management consulting firms.
Protonmail allows wildcard emails from 1 custom domain if you pay for the ~$5/mo plan. No maintaining a mail server, just point your MX records to their servers.
I feel your pain. I wanted to combine AngularJS and BabylonJS for a GUI heavy RPG but it proved impractical.
But is that substantially different from this?

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-andy-warhol-colored-mona-l...
> the advice I'm giving is directed to people in the outermost ring and maybe also the next-outermost

Sorry, where exactly did you do that direction? I have read it a couple times and can't find it.
No, why?

Thunderbird will display SJIS emails just fine. The problem with attachments is when some adds a ZIP with SJIS filenames, but then it's not Thunderbird's problem but whatever tool you use to decompress it.

Regarding Python, the default behaviour when decoding and invalid UTF-8 strings is to raise an exception. But your comment made me research it and I just found that there is a way to replace invalid bytes with U+FFFD, so I will try it.
I am surprised that your comment is the only one that seems to engage with the historical reality of suspend and hibernation on Linux. So many people seem to be ignorant of kernel history, and how things came to be the way they are.

I followed kernel development closely 10-15 years ago, paying particular attention to hibernation because, well, it was rather more useful back then! And one thing that gradually became clear over the years was that there was one person in the kernel community, with a lot of responsibility, who was completely and utterly incompetent to handle that position. That one person, in my opinion, set Linux hibernation back by more than a decade.
MIT "wrote" memories (the solution to a maze) into mice/rats using photons[0].

Neuralink in "write" mode could be engineered to do the same thing by introducing an EM current that changes over time. In the past, I've worked with "read-only", passive tetrodes, but the opposite is possible from a physics standpoint. Moving charges is just another way of saying "propagating photons". I think there's not only precedent, but there's proof that this can be done.

The hard part is figuring out the biology (for a given memory, you still need to calculate the correct I(t) that actually implants it), which is a relatively unexplored domain. Neuralink is centuries away from using "write" mode to turn everyone into Neo, but much simpler use-cases can still make a huge impact within the next couple decades.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/25/false-memory...
At least you could write a simple macro to do left to right evaluation with standard operators to get the same effect if you wanted.
If certain lucrative professions, like daytrading, could see an edge from this sort of thing, even of a modest amount, then it would happen no matter how invasive.
How does this compare to other projects (such as qemu)?
And yet, the majority of the auto industry decided they should cancel their chip orders as soon as the pandemic hit because it might be an economic downturn.

Apple alone spends more money on semiconductors than the ENTIRE auto industry. They played stupid games and won stupid prizes with this chip shortage.
there is also a web browser called ‘links’ that is completely in commandline ... i generally use it in live media during rescue if i need something
> Or avoid shuttling the data back and forth and go with a unified architecture like the M1.

AMD has been shipping unified architectures since August 2011. Nobody cares.

The problem is that while a small low power CPU and a small low power GPU living on the same die and sharing the same memory controller will happily share memory, a big honkin' CPU and a big honkin' GPU don't like to share a memory controller. Some of the big advancements in absolute performance in recent years stems from making the memory controller closer and closer to the relevant processor. In recent AMD systems, the pins on the CPU are directly wired to the pins on the RAM DIMMs. Relatively old mother boards shipped when DDRx memory was the standard, and were still compatible with DDR(x+1) CPUs and RAM when those became the new standard; the motherboard has no RAM logic. If you wanted a unified architecture, you're either going to make the CPU talk to RAM through the GPU, or the GPU talk to RAM through the CPU, or go back to the early 2000s and put a north bridge on the motherboard.

In addition to all that, the bottlenecks are different. The bottleneck on a GPU is always, 100% of the time, memory bandwidth. Latency is mostly irrelevant. The bottleneck on a CPU is usually (95%? 99%?) the memory latency. There's no such thing as RAM that will perform well for both a CPU and a GPU.
Something can be censorship and also free market. Don't create false dichotomies.
yeah, that's fair. I was also in middle school at the time which is probably a bit too young to be using reddit, but I think that it's important to recognize that a social media platform that gives you high level control of the kind of content you see won't completely solve the problem of unhealthy social media usage, it will just make it easy for your usage to be either very healthy or very unhealthy. And that those unhealthy users will end up causing problems for the healthy users.

In a weird way I actually think that the weird stuff twitter has been doing to try to make it look like they're doing something about unhealthy social media usage (all the "remember the human" stuff) would probably be more effective on a reddit-type social media platform.
I'm really surprised people working for wikileaks use gmail.
I think the problem is that if we start defining art, we quickly get into the territory of having lots of false negatives. There are lots of things that are now considered art, and are quite enjoyable, that would not have been art in the past. The dogmatic approach doesn't work. However, leaving it completely open lets people do the "lean two sticks together" thing. It can also be much much worse than that. I remember reading about an exhibit someone was doing where they were letting a dog starve over several weeks while on display. The dog died. Shocking? Yes. Art? No.

Here's a good working definition of art I like: "Art isn't art until it's sold. Until then it's an obsession and a storage problem." Not saying it has to be actually sold, but if it's something someone would buy, then yes it's art, at least to a first approximation.
"Worse yet, this is getting worse over time. CPM is down something like 5x since the 90s, and continues to decline. Meanwhile, the percentage of people using ad blockers continues to increase."

I hope that someday, the trend described above becomes so pronounced that it means the death of the ad-supported Internet. Perhaps there is a way to make good money on the web without resorting to such slimy tactics.
>Rattenborg found that ducks with a bird on either side of them put their entire brain to sleep and kept both eyes closed. "However, the ducks at the end of the row slept more with one half of the brain at a time," he says.

So it's better to sleep with two partners at a time? I've always maintained this to my spouse!

>When I park my semi truck in a truck parking lot in late afternoon or evening, if the space on either side is empty I leave my parking lights on, until both spaces are filled.

So, how do you deal with one driving off early while you're sleeping? Or does that not traditionally happen?
The hedge fund community isn't really homogenous that way. Basically all the long/short equity hedge funds with appreciable AUM lost significant money in January, because most of them were short the...well, obvious short candidates, like AMC, GME and BBBY. Other kinds of funds which trade on monentum or which shorted near the top tick made an absolute killing.

Personally I don't think it's unfair when any fund loses money - that's the game. I do think it's unfair Melvin in particular has outsized attention. The only reason Melvin is in the spotlight now is because the WSB zeitgeist just happened upon Melvin's public short and fixated on it without looking at other funds' 13Fs showing the same position. Melvin was far from the only fund short GME. This in turn led the media outlets to hyperfocus on Melvin, which has in turn led the mainstream lay community to hyperfocus on Melvin.
I like it!
It makes me wonder whether this is computer-generated art or human-generated doodles.
I think you should draw those on large pieces of paper, sign them, frame them (under your real name or an artist pseudonym), and sell them on Etsy.
Anyone interested in Asian American history or the Mississippi Delta Chinese and happens to be driving through the area should drop by the Chinese Heritage Museum in Cleveland where you can see the physical remnants of this history.[0] Unfortunately, most of these stores are long gone.

What does still remain though is Kim’s Chicken Cracklins. Despite the Korean sounding last name, they are definitely Delta Chinese that immigrated prior to the proliferation of Pinyin and even Wade Giles - hence the spelling.

I stop by to buy a whole box whenever I am passing through.

[0] https://chineseheritagemuseum.org/about/
[1] https://m.facebook.com/KimsProcessingPlantInc/reviews
Places like the US have wildly varying levels of humidity, seems like a good place to study that
I think it's rarely worth the effort, but eventually they're forced into it. I really hate the current mobile software ecosystem. Hope we get something like the xfce of mobile environments at some point where things don't really change for decades.
It's a stepping stone to create adoption.
That's right. However, the 20s delay only happens once during the first plot action in the fresh REPL. That's when Julia compiles all of the functions not present in the system image. All of the repeated plotting will not require recompilation of the "base" plotting libraries.
To add to your thinking: COVID infection is usually most dominant in the nasal passages. The lungs are less vulnerable to infection, but may get infected via the upper respiratory system via aspiration. This is a really interesting read:

https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/researchers-map-how-coronavirus...
But this article isn't doing that. It's pointing out that early research with extraordinary results get shared widely (especially when the results line up with an existing preconception, outlook, or agenda), and then when the claims are investigated in more detail and start to fall apart under rigorous scrutiny, the counterfactual doesn't get shared as widely because it goes against those preconceptions, outlooks, or agendas.

Also, vitamin D isn't 0 downside. Elevated levels can cause calcium buildup and kidney stones.