skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never got the sense that the manga community hated Mangadex and I’ve been following their Dev of V5 and the rise of other sites to use in their absence.

It’s seems weird to attribute Mangadex taking their site down for valid security concerns to the end of scandalization of certain series. That seems like entirely a Scan team problem if they decide not to upload via Cubari like other teams have done. And it doesn’t even matter since a series can get sniped at anytime.

It’s makes entire sense that if you’re going to rewrite the backend and API from scratch , you might as well do the front end too since it was a Goal from the beginning.
Ask HN: Any tips on overcoming fear of heights?
What is your criteria of success? Mere generation of profit is not mine. Solving societal issues (making them no longer issues with minimal entrenchment of other issues) is mine.

War can be profitable. Climate change can be profitable. Making unsafe airplanes can be profitable. Financial system brittleness can be profitable.

With allocation of capital being the primary incentive setter, and the Fed playing a role of removing the pain and sting of artificially inflated assets, I'm not convinced that Market reality even tracks well with reality anymore.

Where is the surge of investment in physical and supply chain investment in light of all of the logistical difficulty we've run into? Where is the funding of domestic manufacture? Where is the wage growth? Where is the transparency in medical cost reduction?

These are all signs that the economy, instead of focusing on getting real work done, is off chasing purely fiscal optimization rather than societal risk mitigation.

So... Beg your pardon, but I think your measures of success and mine are different enough that I can reasonably say that by my metrics, those "experts" are failing to deliver at anything except perpetuating the status quo that keeps them in a job.

That's just me though.
I think I found today what I am looking for. https://utreon.com/ looks to be a close contender to what I seek.
Ask HN: How to develop multiple interdependent Python packages in 2021?
What I'm looking for:
- Developing multiple Python packages in tandem
- The packages have interdependencies among themselves
- Will publish to PyPI (or Conda) for easy install
- All code is pure Python
- No complex build step for any of the packages
- Willing to use something like poetry as long as package users don't have to use poetry themselves
- Separate testing environments for the different packages

Any input/utorials/docs/blog posts/tools/sample repositories would be appreciated.
In Florida a sham candidate with the same surname as the real candidate paid to run to siphon off votes from the real candidate. Completely different. Not at all similar. Nothing in common. Nothing to see in Florida, move along please.
Which is a reasonable proof. Media shouldn't be shitting on stuff that might work.
Looks like inspired by France. AMA about the experience here.
I mean, I have Paramount, Hulu, and HBO subscriptions, but I'm far more likely to fly the black flag and watch it from my Plex server instead of their apps due to how painful those apps are to use.

If I was a little less honest, it would be easy to skip paying the subscription entirely. I generally use their apps now to find and try new shows, then download them to Plex once I know I like a show (so I'm not burning bandwidth fetching shows I'm not gonna watch).
Yup. Netflix doesn’t sell tech, it sells subscriptions to scripted drama. It uses tech to expedite its business, like everyone else.

Yes, they invent a little more technology than your typical small business spreadsheet. But tech is a commodity for them because the only strategy for tech is that “it has to be good”.
Why go with Bitcoin specifically? Why not use the Celo blockchain or Algorand instead and create their own stable coins on there? Both these networks are proof of work, transactions are very fast and cheap as well.

Bitcoin is slow to validate transactions, is environmentally costly, and its value fluctuate, so I'm not sure what they were thinking. I wonder what the 30$ they receive from the gov is worth today after the dip.
The last 18 months of embarrassing COVID interventions show just how un-intuitive exponential growth is.
Even WeWork called itself tech company. The term is widely used and abused.
The author says Netflix is not a tech company, but then does not give a definition of what is a tech company. At one point he seems to say anything that sells something online is not a tech company. I disagree, using SaaS companies as one set of counter-examples.

For me a tech company is any company that offers product that is computerized hardware, software, digital asset, or digital service that they have created (so not just a case of repackaging). Netflix meets that definition because it offers a viewing experience with recommendations, watch lists, etc. By my definition many of the companies online would be considered tech companies though.

I do think Areading314 is partially correct too. Most companies today are going to be using technology. Though not most will be creating it as a product.
They get plenty of takedown notices, but they mostly get to hide behind services like Cloudflare who won't take action regarding these notices anyway. From the publishers/creators side, there is simply no effective way to take scanlators down.
I agree that Protonmail has been dishonest in their marketing, but marketing =/= policies.

If you're storing any kind of information you'd rather keep private on a server you do not control and not diving into the policies and blog posts of said provider to make doubly sure they're all they say they are, it's no one's fault but your own when something inevitably happens. Either do your due diligence or blindly accept the risk. People took the second option and look what happened.

And yes, I would say an order from Swiss courts that was unappealable is an extreme criminal case. Anything that could threaten Protonmail qualifies.
“Young men get little help, in part, because schools are focused on encouraging historically underrepresented students. Jerlando Jackson, department chair, Education Leadership and Policy Analysis, at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, said few campuses have been willing to spend limited funds on male underachievement that would also benefit white men, risking criticism for assisting those who have historically held the biggest educational advantages.”

So this is a direct result of the move away from color blind policies, to race based policies.

> Keith E. Smith, a mental-health counselor and men’s outreach coordinator at the University of Vermont, said that when he started working at the school in 2006 he found that men were much more likely to face consequences for the trouble they caused under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

This is exactly what black students report as racism in school.

Seems like evidence that race based policies are just racist.

> In 2008, Mr. Smith proposed a men’s center to help male students succeed. The proposal drew criticism from women who asked, “Why would you give more resources to the most privileged group on campus,” he said.
Funding wasn’t appropriated, he said, and the center was never built.

Obviously white men are not in fact privileged on university campuses.

“Female students in the U.S. benefit from a support system established decades ago, spanning a period when women struggled to gain a foothold on college campuses. There are more than 500 women’s centers at schools nationwide. Most centers host clubs and organizations that work to help female students succeed.”

Men are failing because it is the policy not to support them.
Author here. In all cases, most access is still RAM. The storage is only hit to stash or load overflowing pages.

I originally ran the benchmark with 1GB RAM instead of the final 2GB, but the start-of-disk test did not finish in the 9 hours I let it run. With 0GB, I don't doubt that you'd see the expected 1,000,000x latency difference between disk and DRAM.
> Also, Wouldn't people with a lot of debt welcome inflation. Don't poor people tend to have the most amount of debt relative to their networth?

This is only true if wages keep up with inflation. Many will claim they haven't.
There is no control because there was no experiment. There is no independent variable that was controlled. This is epidemiology, not a trial. At best it can show a link, not causation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28439946
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28439946
I agree. What most HN commenters seem to really mean when they say "technology" is "consumer software", or more cynically, "company is made of mostly software engineers".

There is an incredible amount of advanced technology being created and used by more "traditional" industries like manufacturing, aerospace, or animation.

Why should Facebook be considered a technology company but not Pixar, Ratheon, General Dynamics, Corning or TSMC? It makes zero sense and relies on a very self-serving definition of "technology".
"Tech company" used to be vendors/providers of technology components (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc) but today it is a label you slap on a stock, startup or IPO to mean "monopoly potential with very profitable operations / scalable revenue streams", so demand (and price) for said stock grow up.

This is all BS of course - Netflix is a media/content company, Stripe is a financial services company and Tesla is an automotive and clean energy company. The fact they leverage technology much better than their peers (little offshoring, lots of R&D, "built here" mentality) is more relevant to the how they do it than to what they do.
Did you get Firefox to actually issue those HTTPS RR requests? Or is it locked behind using DoH ?
It’s strange that all of the comments are looking for ways to dismiss this result (and this seems to happen generally with negative cannabis findings online).

Is it not entirely possible a drug and method of consumption which stresses the cardiovascular system increases odds of an adverse cardiovascular event?
When did the world become like this?

That people lose their jobs because they believe in something someone else disagrees with?

Disclaimer: the prolife argument is a valid one in this debate and a person shouldn't lose their job for a belief that babies have a right to live
Why does industrial help language at all? The idea that Netflix is regulated differently than Time Warner is a scam. It's bad for users. Everything was an insurance company for a while. Then everything was a finance company. Now it's tech. Why not break the cycle instead of just pushing it into the next field?

Basically every company just shifts their marketing language to whatever industry has most aggree-able regulations.

I kinda think a more important conversation is about what Netflix actually is. Subscribers are the livestock, not the customer. The customer are propagandists who wanna promote something with a documentary. So many of their docs have a clear influence peddling motive.

My favorite is Fear vs New York City...a mafia doc? Well it turned into a commercial for Giuliani that was hyper-targeted at New Yorkers when it looked like he was going to get charged by SDNY. You can argue that the content is compelling but the idea is that they interviewed Rudy and Michael Chertoff and a whole bunch of real corrupt villains and...i bet netflix paid them. That's where our subscription money actually goes.

We all agree they're not a tech company but what do ya'll think Netflix actually is?
Oh, this takes me back.

I used to spread my swap out across all my disks on my system. When I had 2 disks. I put /boot, / and /var on one disk and /home on the other. When I had more disks, I moved /var onto its own disk, and had an extra drive that I symlinked into /home.

I put swap first on all the partitions. It's not like I did any benchmarking, there was just lore that swap should be close to the middle, followed by frequently accessed user data. At some point I got enough RAM that the swap wasn't really important, but I always provisioned it.

Now everything is SSD, and I feel like the whole idea of filesystem that you have to mount and keep consistent is kind old fashioned, but we have so much stuff built on the filesystem it will be with us a long time.
Hey thanks for the feedback.

> Did you code the engine from scratch…

We’re using Electron with all the UI done with HTML. The criticism against Electron is that you don’t need to bundle a fully functional web browser to distribute a your app but distributing a fully functional web browser is one of our goals! The other options were using CEF or actually recompiling Chromium. To have a sensible workflow with Chromium you would want to hook into it with a scripting language so you can develop the chrome [0] without recompiling. Electron already has done this with the BrowserView API accessible with javascript! We’ve already run into limitations of the Electron framework so we will be considering extending it or doing our own thing when it makes sense.

> What's your sustainability…

I really like the JetBrains perpetual fallback license so something like that at a price point of $50 makes sense. If we can provide some useful paid services that run on a server then we could make the browser free.

> Do you have any estimate on how long…

I’ll look into it! If it’s no harder than signing/notarizing the app for macOS distribution then the main work to be done is fix some bugs and make sure the windows play nicely with the host OS. This could be done in less than a month from now!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface#User_...
Financial sovereignty
Is your experience positive or negative?
Definitely. The title of OP should be 'Netflix is no longer a tech company' or so.
This whole argument seems a silly bit of semantics. Is a company's product is not "technology" a tech company?

For the vast majority of companies technology is tool, not the product, but whether you call them a "tech company" seems a silly game. I'd think pretty much all companies are "tech companies" and the better you are at using those tools can provide a competitive advantage.
The joke is made at the expense of people who are naively saying that you can't be forced to turn over something you don't have, as if that's a defense that will work. They can mandate that you collect the thing they want you to turn over, then put you in prison and seize your assets if you don't comply.
That's incorrect. The main use of diversity is in an antiracist fashion. I'd suggest you read one of Kendi's books. Stamped from the Beginning has clear and readable descriptions of the difference, but it's a relatively long work, so you might start with one of his shorter books.
> We do not share the opinion expressed in a recent tweet by the president of Tripwire, publisher of Chivalry 2. This perspective is not shared by our team, nor is it reflected in the games we create. The statement stands in opposition to what we believe about women’s rights.

Ok, first of all, this seems like marketing masquerading as virtue signalling.

"Our team, creators of Age of Heroes (now 40% off on Steam), does not agree with the widely-held yet controversial political opinion an employee of our publisher"

I swear, politicization of everything is going to destroy the US faster than climate change.
what an awful waste of energy. Each bitcoin transaction uses the energy equivalent the entire lifespan of a tree. Effectively, each bitcoin transaction is cutting down of tree... in this case, for a hamburger
> Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business.

"X makes money, therefore they are not a tech company" seems rather oversimplified in the same way "X is a tech company" is oversimplified. Actually, it seems oversimplified to the point of maybe not being so useful.

I think the way most people would define "tech company," if they were pressed to offer a definition, is that a tech company is one that derives the bulk of their revenue from selling technological goods and services, rather than using technology as the means to sell other goods and services. There's no way to keep that definition from being somewhat fuzzy, but if I say "Dell is a technology company and Cadbury is not," I don't think people will really object to that unless they're trying to be pedantically clever about it: Cadbury may use technology in all sorts of clever ways to manufacture chocolates and get them to retail shelves, but they're selling you chocolates.

There are obviously companies that complicate this by having multiple divisions with different kinds of revenue streams -- Amazon and Apple both come to mind immediately -- but Netflix really isn't one of them. What they do requires a lot of focus on their technology, and from the perspective of someone perusing their job listings it's very easy to think of them as "a tech company." But what they're ultimately selling is access to their content.
Maybe I am just getting older, but I would pay for a service that simply showed reruns of my favorite shows (including Frasier). That is 99% of what I watch anyway nowadays, just from my NAS.
I believe hardware acceleration is not enabled by default on firefox and require a flag in about:config [1]

[1]:https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acce...
And Codd's invention of RDBMS killed those very successfully... until we reinvented them , first with XML, second with NoSQL, and rediscovered, again, why the relational databases were such a huge success and adopted with such enthusiasm.
It's true they don't work that way because developed nations want to exploit developing nations rather than cooperate with them to maximize well being in the entire world.

Over the long term it is quite foolish because a debt claim against a weaker country will turn out to be worthless.
I don't get the intent argument.

Closures are private by default while JS classes are public by default. If anything, closures have a more desirable default.

The issue is that private variables cause a ton of implementation complexity. The add more overhead when thinking about classes too.

In the end, they don't add very much of value except allowing Java or C# programmers to feel more comfortable. Meanwhile, it's giving them a giant footgun in the form of class syntax that looks like what they know, but operates on completely different underlying principles.

JS continues to be the only language that people commonly use without having actually bothered to learn properly.
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When I worked at Yahoo back in the mid-2000s one of the most depressing internal messages was the idea that "we're not a tech company, we're a media company" - while Google were running circles around us on basically every front.
“Although a similarly elevated odds of history of MI was observed across methods of recent cannabis consumption, only smoking as a primary method achieved statistical significance.“
I don't agree with your disclaimer.

The world became like this when people realized that simply shutting up and getting along is only acceptable in certain cases (eg taxation levels), not basic things like human rights and equal access to healthcare.

People should lose their jobs any time their employer doesn't want to work with them any longer. Freedom of association is important and powerful and everyone has the right to revoke consent at any time.
As a stoner from 16y onwards, I am thrilled to find out I actually survived this risk.
That will just lead to a debt crisis down the road.
I'm not a doctor, so please note that this is a genuine question, and not a rhetorical speculation: That said, smoking has always made my heart race. I'd be curious to know if this is common for people, and if it is common, then whether or not this could be a contributing factor.

>edit, sorry, that should have said "I'm not a doctor."
This 100-year-old productivity hack will save your day
You could probably use a VR headset to habitualize yourself to the sensation of height.
Another example would be the Le Corbusier’s modernist ghettoes.
I agree with all your points, my comment was mostly my confusion around many articles getting upset with the name "Tesla Autopilot" which seems like an honest description of the feature.

There are practical implications of having an autopilot in a driving context as you've mentioned and those are perfectly valid criticisms that Tesla needs to address. Also, it is perfectly valid to criticize the less honest name the feature goes by -- "Full Self Driving"
Nope. Bitcoin use and mining power are completely uncorrelated. By mining bitcoins, your earn as much as the computational fraction you are representing. So, indeed, there was a race to more and more mining power in the recent years but it can completely be reversed. For example if electricity prices rises.

Bitcoin could be used by the whole world with mining only happening on a laptop. That would not change anything for Bitcoin users.
It’s amazing how countries are wholeheartedly adopting this thing as an official currency that we have no idea who invented and for what purpose. I mean sure, there’s a white paper that says why it was invented, but why should anyone believe it?

If it does turn out to be malicious it’s going to make for one hell of a cautionary tale.
> When did the world become like this?

Thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Many animals will kick members out of their groups for bad behavior, especially other primates.
It just depends on the dimension you are talking about.

If you describe a company based on the product/service it provides, there is no such thing as a tech company. There are car companies, project management software companies, web search companies, entertainment companies, oil companies, etc.

If you describe a company based on their core competency, there are tech companies, product companies, brand companies etc.

You can choose any dimension you want. It's usually just helpful to then be consistent, ie Tesla is a car company and Netflix an entertainment company. Or both are technology companies.
I'll just copy and paste my response from before because this comes up often:

there is no real definition of a "tech company" or "tech industry", the word "tech" defines the operating model. This is the dirty little secret VCs don't like to tell you because it means they can call Tesla a tech company (its a car and battery manufacturer) to fetch tech-like valuations or Facebook a tech company (its a media company). Tech operating models typically net high gross margins (i.e. Facebook) which is one of its major defining characteristics.

I therefore posit there is no such thing as a "tech industry", but rather businesses that sit on a spectrum of operating models from:

- Back office IT supported

- Tech enabled

- Tech Led

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693634
Then you're not doing a fresh load of the page. There are over 30 images visible on the front page, so your measure doesn't pass the smell test, does it?
Now with the way the manga, Manghwa, and WEBTOON industry is tied up. But I believe that is their end goal eventually.
Wouldn't 4 years of work history be a better assessment?
> 3. If you modify Apache-2.0 software, you must make modified files carry "prominent notices" thating that you changed the files (in practice, this raises interesting questions regarding workflows centered around pull requests because PRs necessarily violate the license until merged).

Yeah, having to do this on each individual file is an unnecessary burden.

Edit: It seems, for example, gratuitous to insert a copyright line for yourself, if your patch is only a couple lines long.